Local News
Perquimans quilts to be featured
in national magazine feature story
" Quiltmaking in eastern North Car
olina, focusing on the North Carolina
Quilt Project, will be featured in the
August-September issue of the na
tional magazine, Lady's Circle
Patchwork Quilts. Published six
times a year, each issue features a
different section of the country.
In preparation for the feature, Car
ter Houck, Editorial Director of the
magazine, Myron Miller, photogra
pher of the magazine, Karen
O'Dowd, editorial assistant, and
Ruth H. Roberson, Director of the
North Carolina Quilt Project were in
Hertford on Friday, April 10th.
The visitors were on hand to visit
with the Perquimans County Quilters
Club at a potluck luncheon, and to se
lect, photograph, and document
quilts which will be used from the
county in the magazine's feature
story.
Approximately ten quilts were cho
sen by the magazine, and were photo
graphed for the feature at several lo
cations in the county including the
New bold-White House, and the home
of Lucille Winskw.
Following their visit in Hertford
the group was to make several other
stops along the coast of North Caro
lina, including Cape Hatteras for a
quilt documentation day before re
turning to New York.
For more information on the fea
ture story, the North Carolina Quilt
Project or the Perquimans Quilters
Club contact Mrs. Effie Harris at 335
4190 or the Perquimans County Ex
tension Office.
Albemarle nurses working
towards May 2nd homecoming
College of The Albemarle's Asso
ciate Degree Nursing Program is
sponsoring a homecoming for its 13
graduate classes. All nurses who
have graduated from the program
will be welcomed back to their alma
mater for an educational and infor
mative program.
Wilma Harris, director of the nurs
ihg program at C.O.A. said that she is
hoping for a big turnout at the May 2
homecoming. Already, graduates
should have received an invitation to
the event and a registration form, in
material mailed in March.
" A seminar on the topic of the im
paired nurse will be one focal point of
the program. Taught by a case spe
cialist with the state board of nurs
ing, Donna Mooney, the two-hour lec
ture can be used by attendees to gain
credit toward continuing education
credits, demonstrating updated
knowledge in the field, in order to
continue practicing.
Other parts of the homeccoming
program, including theme devel
opment give-aways and promotion
are subcomitted to chairpersons who
are graduates. Most are registered
nurses working at Albemarle Hospi
tal or in Elizabeth City. Jo Ann Talk
ington, Pat Sterritt and Ramona Cur
rie are three of the chairpersons
from Albemarle Hospital.
Currie notes that many of C.O.A.'s
graduate registered nurses are em
ployed at Albemarle Hospital. "W
have more C.O.A. graduates by far,
than graduats from any other pro
gram," she said.
The theme selected for the pro
gram in May is "Up and Away with
C.O.A." It will be developed in the
literature developed for the home
coming and in decorations used at
C.O.A., in the parts of the campus in
volved in the homcoming.
The homecoming even! will span
lunch, and Harris has planned to
cater the meal from the food service
of a local church. A $5.00 fee, to cover
the cost of the food is being asked
from each attendee. Pre- registration
will help to organize the ordering of
meals and other phases of planning,
Harris said. Pre- registration forms
were included in the March mailing
to graduates.
"I think it will be enjoyable. I also
think it will be meaningful in an edu
cational kind of way," Harris said of
the May event.
But, even with educational events,
timely information for nurses and
good food, the high point of the home
coming for many will be the opportu
nity to renew old friendships.
"I haven't seen some of my class
mates since graduation, and I'm dy
ing to know what they're all doing,"
Currie said.
For more information about the
homecoming, please call Wilma Har
ris at C.O.A., 335-0821
Public health week scheduled
Did you know that in North Caro
lina there is a public health facility in
every county? How about the fact
that public health efforts have given
North Carolina one of the highest per
centages of school children immu
nized in the nation? a whooping 98
percent(!)? While there are hun
dreds of special observances pro
claimed in North Carolina each year,
hone is more meaningful than Public
Health Week which is being observed
this week, April 12-18. The purpose of
this special week is to let individual
citizens and the community know
jost what the Chowan County Health
Department is doing to promote
healthy living.
State Health Director Ronald Le
vine states that "North Carolilna has
an excellent public health system
that serves thousands of children and
adults each year through dental
screenings, prenatal checkups, im
munizations against infectious dis
eases, family planning services,
health education and more. How
ever, even with all of our advanced
technology the real key to living hap
pier, healthier lives is still preven
tion."
To find out bow important preven
tion and healthy living is just talk to
some of the Perquimans county em
ployees who filled out a health risk
appraisal on themselves. Better yet,
talk to the ones who didn't and find
out why they didn't. The employees
who participated received back a
computer printout listing their
healthy and unhealthy habits with
suggestions for ways to improve
those unhealthy things.
During Public Health Week take
the time to find out how your health
department can help you become a
healthier person. Pasquotank-Per
quimans -Camden-Chowan operates
as a district so that we can provide a
wide variety of services. Call 426-5488
for information.
Employees volunteer to pick
litter up from area roads
Elizabeth City? Carolina Tele
phone employees have volunteered to
pick up litter from the shoulders of
highways in this area, it was an
nounced last week by T.F. Daniels,
the company's district commerical
manager.
During April, local Carolina Tele
phone employee volunteers will join
hundreds of their co-workers at other
locations in the company's 50-county
service area in the statewide road
side cleanup campaign dubbed
"Clean Sweep" by Gov. Jim Martin
and First Lady Dot tie Martin.
N.C. Department of Transporta
tion crews, Department of Correction
inmates, and volunteers citizens
groups traditionally pick up roadside
litter in spring and fall campaigns.
Also participating will be individuals
who are first offenders or convicted
of driving while impaired.
Included among the Carolina Tele
phone volunteers, who are participat
ing on their own time, are members
of the company's Pioneer organiza
tion made up of veteran employees
and retirees, the company's Commu
nity Relations Teams and other vol
unteering employees and family
members.
Daniels said, "Our company is
proud that our employees participate
in this cleanup campaign on their
own time. This program will reduce
the excessive and ugly litter on our
highways, and hopefully will help re
mind motorists not to throw litter
from their vehicles. It also saves our
state a lot of money, which otherwise
would be spent for highway cleanup,
and this benefits all taxpayers."
Carolina Telephone employees can
be recognized by the words, "Caro
lina Telephone Volunteer" on their T
shirts, given the employees espe
cially for this and other volunteer
projects.
Mrs. Martin said that nearly 30,000
volunteers helped clean up the state
in 1986. The Department of Transpor
tation spends approximately 12 mil
lion annually to clean litter from
roadsides, and it would cost much
more if the time given by volunteer
groups were paid for.
Pictured left are area 4-hers
as they practice grooming
and showmanship skills this
past week. They are busily
preparing for the upcoming
livestock show the end of
April.
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Pictured above are members of the Perquimans Quilters club along with Carter Houck of the
magazine, Ladies Circle Patchwork Quilts. Ms. Houck is shown here as she selects for their
upcoming feature story.
Vision tips for elderly citizens
"Most people will agree that visual
quality of life should be at the top of
the list for assuring happy retire
ment years," observes Sidney L. Gul
ledge, III, M.D., Chairman of the
Medical Advisory Board of the Na
tional Society to Prevent Blindness
North Carolina Affiliate. "They're
depending on their eyes to help them
enjoy life to the fullest.
"Yet, when it comes to getting that
recommended eye checkup as a
prime defense against vision disor
ders of tha aging eye, many are
gripped with a do-nothing paralysis
because they remember 'the way it
was,"' Dr. Gulledge points out.
Today's older Americans who grew
up in the Buck Rogers' era, may not
know what was science fiction then is
medical reality today. The space age
has spun off a new arsenal of weap
ons against blindness, and now the
computer revolution is contributing
to a further explosion of high-tech,
state-of-the art diagnostic and surgi
cal devices and procedures to detect
and correct ocular disorders.
The normal aging process plays a
major role in these leading causes of
blindness: glaucoma; cataract; di
abetic retinopathy, a vision-destroy
ing threat to long-term diabetics, and
age-related macular degeneration, a
loss of sharp central vision caused by
damage to blood vessels supplying
that part of the retina. Heredity may
also play some role in all these dis
eases. One of the most significant
changes in dealing with eye disease
has been in cataract surgery; and in
glaucoma treatment was introduced
a century ago.
The development of the laser has
revolutionized glaucoma therapy.
Laser treatment is painless, may re
quire only topical eye drop anesthe
sia, and an hour or two in the eye doc
tor's office. In diabetic retinopathy is
proving to be an effective vision
preservation tool in retarding or
stopping the progress of blood-vessel
damage in the retina.
Laser treatment can also help a
small number of patients with on
form of age-related macular degen
eration (AMD), a commo cause of vi
sion loss ib the later years for which
there is still no cure. Only an ophthal
mologist can detrmine whether a
particular case of AMD is treatable
with laser therapy, and it must be de
tected early before irreversible dam
age occurs.
People can be alerted to a possible
AMD problem by testing themselves
or helping test friends with a simple
diagnostic chart called the Amsler
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The chart is part of a brochure on
AMD which you can obtain without
charge from NSPB's North Carolina
Affiliate simply by sending a self-ad
dressed, stamped, business-size en
velope. Although people who develop
AMD may eventually find it difficult
to read, sew, or drive a car, most can
keep their lives rich and full with the
help of optical devices and other low
vision aids and large-print reading
materials.
Since 55 percent of new cases of
blindness occcur in persons 55 and
over, the effective treatment of age
related eye disorders such as cat
aract is a major challenge. As medi
cal advances lengthen the human
lifespan, most of us may develop cat
aracts in one or both eyes. But for the
average person over 65, who is alert
and in good mental and physical
health, cataract surgery today rarely
presents a problem. In more than 95
out of 100 cases, it results in success
ful recovery of vision.
With the latest development in mi
crosurgical techniques and instru
mentation, most cataract pateints
now ago home the same day or after
an overnight stay in the hospital. For
older people the choice is increas
ingly an intraocular lens implant
(IOL) in which a clear, inert, tiny
plastic lens is placed permanently in
side the eye to replace the clouded
cataract lens. For some people, ex
tended wear, soft, gas permeable
lenses that need to be removed for
cleaning every three months are an
option. And for those whom the IOL
may be contraindicated and contact
lenses hard to manipulate, cataract
glasses may still be the best solution.
For a free copy of the Society's bro
chure, "AMD (Age-related Macular
Degeneration)," send a stamped,
self-addressed business-sized enve
lope to NSPB? North Carolina Affil
iate, 1033 Wade Avenue, Suite 126,
Raleigh, North Carolina 27605.
The National Society to Prevent
Blindness, founded in 1906, is the old"
est voluntary health agency nation
ally engaged in preventing blindness
through a comprehensive program of
community services, public and pro
fessional educational and research.
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April 17 ? 7:30 P.M.
Good Friday Service
' 'Shadows of The Cross"
April 19 ? Sunrise Service - 6:00 A.M.
Houle Jones' Farm ? Albemarle
Sound ? Durants Neck
10:00 AM Children Musical
"To See A Miracle"
1 1 :00 A.M. Worship Service
Message "And the Day Came"
Dr. A.F.Downum
OPTOMETRIST
DETACHED RETINA
If you've been having any problems with your vision, you should have
your eyes examined to see if there is a serious problem that should be
treated. One of the most serious is a detached retina. A delicate structure
located at the back of the eye. the retina is responsible for sending visual
images to the brain. The retina also makes it possible for you to see colors
and to see well in different levels of light.
A detached or torn retina can result from a blow to the eye. a cxyst or
tumor, or a hemorrhage. It can also be caused by infection or some other
disease of the eye. It does not couse pain in its early stages but it does
result In their symptoms, such as visual loss, or spots before the eyes and
light flashes. These last two symptoms con hove mony other couses, how
ever, and not all of them are serious.
Your best protection of your ability to see well and avoid serious eye
problems is to have regular eye examinations. The eortier a problem is
diccovered, the better the chances for treating it successfully.
Dr.A.F. DOWNUM
103 W. Ed?n St.
Ed?nton, N.C.
Phone: 482-8444