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2 THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY, WEDNESDAY, JULY 13,2016 School staff attend culinary institute From Staff Reports Child nutrition managers Geri Layden and Robin Wil liams and Child Nutrition Administrative Assistant Kim Cullipher recently participat ed in a K-12 Culinary Institute regional workshop with nu trition managers from across the state at First Flight High School in Dare County. The N.C. K-12 Culinary Institute is designed to en hance nutrition offerings and is funded by a U.S. De partment of Agriculture HYPERLINK “http://www. fns.usda.gov/school-meals/ professional-standards” pro fessional standards training grant received by the North Carolina Department of Pub lic Instruction School Nutri tion Section. “The K-12 Culinary Insti tute is a unique opportunity for our school nutrition pro fessionals to enhance culi nary skills and glean tools and information critical to their important roles in provid ing quality, nutritious school meals,” Cullipher said. “I am excited to incorporate a fresh new look into our child nutri tion program throughout our school district.” The face to face and virtu al institute was developed by the NCDPI, School Nutrition Section, and Chef Cyndie Story’s K-12 Culinary Team, in order to meet five core ob jectives: • Improve student health, well-being and academic success through nutritious, appealing meals at school, • Increase participation in high quality, enticing school nutrition programs, • Expand capacity of local school nutrition pro grams to purchase, prepare and serve fresh, locally grown produce, • Increase consumption of fruits, vegetables and whole grain-rich foods, and • Provide continuing education opportunities for school nutrition personnel. The menus and recipes developed for the K-12 Cu linary Institute include: • Scratch, convenience, and modified scratch prod ucts and techniques, • Instructions written for production amounts con sistent with pack or pan sizes commonly available in school kitchens, and • Nutritional analysis files for easy import into software programs and adjustments for standard ization in Local Education Agencies. SUBMITTED PHOTO Susan Thompson of the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction Safe and Healthy Schools Support Division School Nutrition Services Section poses with Geri Layden, Andy Montero, Kim Cullipher, Robin Williams and Chef Cyndie Story at the North Carolina K-12 Culinary Institute at First Flight High School. CHOWAN Continued from 1 Most planners in the the state use an expert for re viewing permit applications for wind energy projects, she said. One of the issues that the county attorney’s discussion with the board addressed was whether the county had cast the net wide enough in looking for a firm to assist with the CUP review. Arizaga-Womble told the board that county staff had done a lot of legwork in try ing to find an expert to assist in the review of the CUP ap plication. She said that Eliz abeth Bryant, the county’s planning director, had con tacted five companies in the search. Wind energy is a very spe cialized area and the search has focused on finding a firm with expertise in that area, she said. County Manager Kevin Howard pointed out that the county was not required to advertise this contract since it is a service. Howard also acknowl edged the challenge of find ing a neutral consultant giv en that most firms involved in wind energy are either building wind projects or opposing them. The county has received proposals from a firm that historically has built windmills and another firm that historically has provided expert testimony against wind energy, How ard said. Responding to a question about whether a solicitation for proposals had been post ed on the county website, Arizaga-Womble said that on a project such as this firms aren’t looking at the county website. In this kind of case it’s necessary for county staff to reach out to firms, she said. She told the board that Bryant had consulted with the Southeast Wind Coali tion and other resources in seeking firms to reach out to. Kehayes said not only is it difficult to find a firm that’s truly neutral, but it’s even hard to find a genuinely ob jective recommendation of firms to look at For instance, Kehayes said, the chairman of the board for the Southeast Wind Coalition is the lead counsel for Apex. Kehayes said he believes it is important to have inde pendent experts on different aspects of the permit to pro vide guidance in evaluating the application. Noting that the section of the applicatiofi dealing with sound is very technical, Ke- hayes said he would love to have an acoustical expert look at that section and give independent information on it Arizaga-Womble said there is a limit to what the expert review of the applica tion can get into. In terms of sound, for instance, if an expert were retained by the county to re view the application that ex pert could determine wheth er the sound study included in the application actually says what it purports to say. She emphasized that the burden of proof in a CUP process is on the applicant. It is not the county’s role to prove or disprove anything regarding any item in the or dinance, she said. The county doesn’t go out and get its own evidence, she said. “The burden of convinc ing the board that these re quirements in the ordinance have been met is on the ap plicant,” she said. The question before the board will be whether the application meets the re quirements of the ordinance, she said. Winborne asked if sound and shadow flicker — two of the issues that arise in regard to wind energy proj ects — wouldn’t be looked at by various state or federal agencies. But Howard said he was not sure sound, flicker or property values would be in cluded in the environmental agencies’ review. Mitchener said one ques tion he and many others have concerns the effect the project would have on prop erty values. Howard said he was not ready to recommend a firm because both the companies the staff has received pro posals from have a history on one side of the issue or tile other. Arizaga-Womble said that based on her latest conver sation with Bryant it was her understanding that HDR was Bryant’s recommendation. “We have looked at this extensively,” Howard said, adding staff has tried to stay in the middle of the road. Howard told the board it could interview the firms if it wished to. He reiterated that neither firm should assess “right or wrong” when looking at the application, because that’s not part of the staff review. Staff review is focused on the completeness of the ap plication, Howard said. Winborne questioned the usefulness of interviewing the firms. “I can’t see what inter viewing them would do,” Winborne said. WIND Continued from 1 Both the county and op- ponents for the project have hired outside legal help. Opponents have engaged the services of Chad Essick, an attorney with the law firm of Poyner & Spruill. The firm has offices in Char lotte, Raleigh, Rocky Mount, and Southern Pines. Essick earned his law degree from Campbell University. Essick declined to corn- ment for this story. However according to the law firm’s website, Essick primarily represents landowners and developers before local gov erning boards on matters related to zoning, permitting, variances, annexations, spe cial use permits, site plans, subdivisions and road clos ings. In the past, residents have expressed concerns about the potential health impacts of wind turbines, the aesthet ics and their fear of the im pact they’ll have on property values. The county has retained the services of Douglas Han na of the firm Graebe Hanna & Sullivan in Raleigh. Hanna referred all questions to Per quimans County Manager Frank Heath. According to his com pany’s website, Hanna has experience in areas of insur ance, shareholder disputes, business contracts, employ ment and personal injury. He graduated from Wake Forest University’s School of Law in 1991. When the issue comes to the county commission level, it will be in the form of a quasi-judicial proceeding. That means it will be han dled more like a court, case in which evidence is presented. Supporters of the wind project point to the econom ic benefits. It would generate revenue to property owners leasing land for the project It would also generate tax revenue to the county. Apex officials have estimated Tim bermill would produce about $250,000 a year in taxes to Perquimans County and a like amount to Chowan County. In a letter to the editor in today’s issue of The Perqui mans Weekly, Tommy Stoke- ly argues money shouldn’t be the issue. “If this continues, the promise of money for the county will now supersede any will of the people who live in the affected commu nities,” he wrote. “Democ racy is being trampled under the feet of “procedure’, and the freedom that was in our voice is muffled by the “prog ress’ crammed down our throats.” Leary Winslow, another resident, expressed a similar concern in another letter to the editor. “There is no amount of tax revenue from this project that should be placed ahead of our health, safety, wel fare and property values,” Winslow wrote. “These are 599-foot wind turbines in our back yard. Do we really want these changing the landscape of Perquimans County?” TRIAL Continued from 1 suicide attempts. ; In her defense for the var ied stories, the sister said “it’s hard to keep up when you’re dealing with six at one time.’In her opening com- ments, Karpowicz spoke of the special bond between older brothers and their Younger sisters. She said the Jackson brothers abused that trust and instead of protect ing their sister, she actually needed protection from the brothers. . The District Attorney’s office asked Tillett to clear the courtroom of everybody W E NIXON ELDING & HARDWARE, INC. “YOUR ONE STOP HARDWARE SHOP AND MORE!” Carhartt Hard at work since 1889. 3036 ROCKY HOCK RD., 221-4348 EDENTON, NC 27932 221-8343 Notice of Public Hearing The Town of Hertford Planning and Zoning Board of Adjustments will hold a public hearing on July 18, 2016, 7:00 PM. The meeting will be held in the Municipal Building located at 114 W. Grubb Street. The following items are on the agenda: • Consideration of an application for a Conditional Use Permit to operate a Sand Mining Operation by River Farms, LLC near the corner of Ocean Hwy. S. and Harvey Point Rd. Any information regarding this may be obtained from Town Manager Brandon Shoaf, at the Municipal Building, or by calling 426-1969 x. 9. You may also submit comments regarding this by mail no later than 5:00 PM Friday, July 15th. except the jury when the victim spoke. After consid eration, Tillett said the two members of the news media that were present could stay. Also allowed to remain were Benjamin Jackson, one of the alleged abusers who is sched uled to testify later. Donahue’s wife, who was taking notes for him, was also allowed to remain. The alleged victim testified she didn’t speak out about the abuse outside of telling her parents because of fear. The family was deeply religious, she said. “I was told I would go to hell, and I really don’t want to go to hell,” she testified. After a time, she admitted to not putting up much of a fight when her brothers came for her. “My parents didn’t care and there was no point in fighting it anymore,” she testified. At one point Donahue pointed out that one of the places where abuse was al leged to have happened was a dry-docked boat on the property. It required climbing a ladder to get to and Dona hue asked the victim if she was forced up the ladder. She said she wasn’t “If I refused to do it, it would be worse, ‘so, yes’ I walked up the ladder,” sire said as she choked back tears. She said brother Eric had her go up to the attic where he abused her. Afterwards “he said what he had done to me was wrong, and he would explain it to me when I got older,” she said. She said abuse stopped af ter she was baptized. “I believe they considered TSE Perquimans Weekly (USPS428-080) Vol. 84 No. 29 Published each Wednesday. A publication of Cooke Communications North Carolina, LLC Established 1934 111 W. Market St., Hertford, NC 27944 Mike Goodman Publisher Peter Williams News Editor Bev Alexander Advertising Representative Phone 252-426-5728 • Fax 252-426-4625 Email: perquimansweekly@ncweeklies.com Subscription Rates In Daily Advance home delivery area $25.25* All other continental U.S $31.50* ♦Plus applicable sales tax. Activation fee of $1.99 will be collected with all new subscriptions. Deactivation fees may apply for early cancellation. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to * The Perquimans Weekly, Hertford, NC 27944 “My parents didn't care and there was no point in fighting it anymore." Victim in Aaron Jackson’s sexual abuse trial, testifying about the years of sexual abuse she endured at the hands of her six brothers. me as ‘God’s kid” she said. But the lull in abuse didn’t last for long. When challenged about why she couldn’t say who abused her on which certain date, she said between cry ing “after a while you learn whose hands are on you,” she said, considering she said she had six brothers abusing her. The victim talked about growing up in a family where the children were home schooled. “My Dad did everything he could find,” she said about his employment Her mother was a “so called “stay-at-home home school Mom,” she said/ “We really didn’t do school,” she said. She said her mother only taught her words up to the ones with four letters. The victim said her little brother didn’t learn to read until he was 12-years- old. They did go to church “all over the place” meaning sev eral locations. Some of the questions Kar powicz asked were about the age difference between Aar on Jackson and the victim. State law makes a distinc tion if the guilty party is older than the victim. In the case this week Aaron Jackson turned 16 in May of 2011 and the victim didn’t turn 14 until August The alleged victim also said some of her brothers liked to THEFT Continued from 1 Investigations was re quested to assist in the investigation,” Freeman said. The Hertford Police De partment is offering a re ward to anyone who pro vides information leading to the arrest and convic do sex acts in certain places. Benjamin liked it out in the sheds on the property. Natha- niai preferred old cars on the 5-acre lot Matthew, she said, liked the “Chicken Library.” The structure was built as a chicken coop, but she said it was determined far too nice for that, so her mother started keeping books in it. Aaron, the brother on trial didn’t have a special place, she said. In his opening remarks Donahue claims the alleged victim in 2013 first started saying the sex acts only in volved “touching.” Later she talked of other things includ ing intercourse. Daniel Jackson, a half- brother of the victim, also testified. He lives in Colorado and he and his wife have watched over the girl for sev- eralyears. The alleged victim gradu ated high school in May, the first she said to do so from her family. tion of the suspect(s). Information can be passed on by contacting the Hertford Police Depart ment at (252) 426-5587. Also last weekend win dows were broken out of Crossroads, a fuel compa ny on U.S. 17, according to Sheriff Eric Tilley. He said no entry to the business was obtained and nothing was taken. After forty wonderful years, Dr. Kenneth P. Manning, Sr. and staff will close their Edenton office effective July 31, 2016. Dr. Kenneth P. Manning, Sr., PA Orthodontist (not retiring, just consolidating) Washington: (252) 946-6162 Greenville: (252) 830-1181 1401N. Bridge St. 2245 Stantonsburg Rd. Washington, NC 27889 Greenville, NC 27834 Toll Free: l-888-Molar80
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