Pitt County's Relay for Life events received a national award for raising the third highest amount per capita nationally among communities with populations between 150,000 and 249,000 in 2011. Pitt County raised nearly $500,000 total through three Relay for Life events. While fundraising was down across the nation for Relay for Life due to the economy, over 300,000 more participants walked than three years ago. Locally, a 16-year-old student was charged with assaulting a J.H. Rose High School assistant principal after attempting to break up a fight between the student and another.

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Pitt County’s Relay for Life gets national award
By Kim Grizzard Relay raised about $7,500
The Daily Reflector “If you are in less than the previous
year’s event and more than
Pitt County’s Relay for the top three $25,000 less than the 2009
Life events have walked nationwide per totals.
away with a national fund- Across much of the
raising award. capita, you did nation, the story is the
Pitt County ranked something right.” same. Relay for Life, which
third in the nation in 2011 provides 80 percent of the
in per-capita fundrais- Bethann Wilkie American Cancer Society’s
ing among communities community manager funding, saw its U.S.
with populations between income drop from $409
150,000 and 249,000. lay in our area will win million in 2008 to $385
Three local events — Re- a division award,” said aIleen DelvIn/The DaIly RefleCToR million last year.
lay of Life of Pitt County, Bethann Wilkie, commu- pitt County’s Relay for life, ranked third in the nation in 2011 in per-capita fundraising “The good news is
Relay for Life of ECU and nity manager for the ACS among communities with populations between 150,000 and 249,000. that there are more than
Relay for Life of Farmville South Atlantic Division. 300,000 additional par-
—raised a combined total “This year we actually won fifth in the nation in last year, bringing in more suffered a blow to their ticipants walking the track
of nearly half a million a national award, which is per-capita fundraising than $107,000. morale last year when Pitt than three years ago,”
dollars for the American really impressive.” for college events. ECU Wilkie hopes the recog- County’s Relay fell $15,000 Reuel Johnson, national
Cancer Society. East Carolina Univer- ranked second in the state nition will serve as a pat on shy of its $340,000 fund-
“A lot of times a Re- sity’s Relay event placed among college Relay events the back to volunteers, who raising goal. Last year’s Pitt See rElAy, B3
WeeKly Crime map: Jan. 19-27 Items detailed below offer a
sampling of the week’s crimes. Assistant
aGGravated principal
assaulted
assault
arson
Kristin zaChary
BurGlary
The Daily Reflector
homiCide A 16-year-old was
charged in an assault on
a J.H. Rose High School
larCeny assistant principal on the
campus on Thursday.
vehiCle At the time of the inci-
theft dent, Assistant Principal
Janard Cannon was at-
roBBery
tempting to break up a
fight between the defen-
sexual
dant, Nautica Ebron, and
assault
another student, according
to the arrest warrant.
interaCtive: Ebron, 1107 Douglas
Ave., was charged with as-
go to reflector. sault on a school employee
com for an interac- after she ran up behind
tive map of crime Cannon, struck him in the
reports from Regional left eye and scratched him,
analysis and Infor- the warrant said.
mation Data Sharing Officials with Pitt Coun-
(RaIDS) and the City ty School System would not
of greenville. confirm if Ebron is a stu-
dent at the high school.
Pokie Noland, director of
student services, did say an
LArCeny BurgLAry roBBery AssAuLT assault on a school employ-
ee by a student could result
Crime: Misdemeanor larceny Crime: Breaking/entering and Crime: Common law robbery Crime: Assault with a deadly in a 10-day suspension with
larceny weapon a recommendation for long-
Date: Jan. 24 Time: 5 p.m. Date: Jan. 25 Time: noon
Date: Jan. 25 Time: noon Date: Jan. 19 Time: 9:30 p.m.
term suspension, according
Location: Department/ discount Location: Highway or street to the school system’s code
store Location: Home of victim Address: 700 block Bradley Location: Home of victim of conduct.
Address: 3600 block South Address: 300 block Glenwood Street Address: 2600 block East 10th Ebron was placed under
Memorial Drive Avenue Agency: Greenville Police Street a $3,000 secured bond at
Agency: Greenville Police Agency: Greenville Police Agency: Greenville Police the Pitt County Detention
Center.
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hen I met my of college wait- video games while they wait. steep premium. than 30 years later, she tracked
wife, she was ing tables.” We really should have seen I don’t like this development. him down to thank him. No
working her way Not so fast. this coming. The line between Not only will millions more computer will ever do that.
through college Recent news full-service restaurants and fast- jobs disappear, so will a lot of My daughters don’t believe
waiting tables at a Mexican from the food joints has been blurring for communication skills. me when I tell them we used to
restaurant. I ate there so many technology decades. We have already produced stay in the car while a man with
times I knew I was going to front indicates First came salad bars, where a generation of people who do a rag in his pocket pumped our
either win her affection or start that restaurant everyone shares one set of tongs not know how to conduct a con- gas, washed the windshield and
my own mariachi band. MaRk waiters and and countless diseases. Then versation over the telephone or checked the oil.
I could tell she liked me by RuTleDge waitresses came the all-you-can-eat buf- read a road map. Do we really Their children won’t believe
the way she brought out extra might be as fets, at which many of us still tip want our children to grow up them when they recall a quaint
chips and salsa before I was plentiful as full-service gas the server just for bringing extra looking to Google for instruc- time when half the restaurant
even running low. As good as stations when my girls go to napkins and asking if the food tions on how to obtain a refill? staff would come clapping over
I would have looked in silver- college. is sufficiently over cooked. It saddens me to think of all to the table on your birthday, set
studded pants and a giant som- Some restaurants have Now we must confront a the human experiences that down a flaming cupcake and
brero, I’m glad we got together. already eliminated the need for world in which dining out will would have been lost if this had sing a silly song.
All these years later, when I’m waiters and waitresses in favor be even further detached from happened before my father’s OK, so that’s one thing I’m
wondering out loud about how of something similar to an iPad. human interaction. time. He made a habit of engag- not going to miss — except
in the world we will ever put Instead of placing food orders I can already envision that a ing waitresses and waiters. when there’s a mariachi band.
our three daughters through through a human, patrons use few finer restaurants will shun Along with a tip, he once left
college, Sharon tells me not to tabletop computer tablets to the new technology and retain a handwritten poem of encour- Contact Mark Rutledge at
worry. “They can always wait scan the menu, order, swipe their human wait staffs, for agement for a young waitress mrutledge@reflector.com or 252-
tables,” she says. “I paid for a lot their credit cards and even play which their patrons will pay a who was having a bad day. More 329-9575.