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Book drive puts literature in children’s hands

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BY BRIAN WUDKWYCHThe Daily Reector

With the holiday seasonunofcially underway, arst-year partnership be-tween Pitt County Schoolsand Barnes & Noble is help-ing give donated books tolocal children in need.

Greenville Barnes &Noble customers canchoose to donate SterlingClassic books — which are$6.95 but can cost as lowas $4.99 with promotionaloffers — or they canchoose a childhood fa-vorite of their own.

The book drive startedyesterday and runs until

Dec. 31, when the bookswill be distributed to stu-dents around the county bythe school system.

The Sterling Classics in-clude “Adventures ofHuckleberry Finn,” “Gul-

liver’s Travels,” “PeterPan,” and more, all ofwhich are displayed be-hind the checkout counter.Customers are asked ifthey would like to donateduring checkout, and are

able to select which bookthey prefer to give.

Jessica Lawrence,Barnes & Noble commu-nity business developmentmanager, said the classiccollections are timeless andwell known, which makesthem ideal for book drives.Though this year’s bookdrive is geared towardschildren aged eight to 12,Lawrence said the booksare good for kids of all ages.

“The great things aboutclassics is the story nevergets old and the older sib-lings, once they learn howto read it, can read them to

Accessible classics

Police report mostly mellow crowds for Halloween

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BY BRIAN WUDKWYCHThe Daily Reector

MOLLY MATHIS/THE DAILY REFLECTORPolice ride down Fifth Street on bicycles Tuesday night.

An uneventful Halloween nightwas a welcome sign for the GreenvillePolice Department, and it admittedlyhad the calendar to thank.

Though downtown Greenville wasbarricaded with more than 100 policeofcers roaming the streets and vet-ting people in on Tuesday night, thesafety measures proved to be more ofa precaution than a necessity.

Most of the expected Halloweenmadness happened over the week-end, according to GPD Captain ChrisIvey.

“Generally speaking, when Hal-loween falls during a weekday, it typi-cally doesn’t have the same crowdthat it’ll have on a Friday or Saturdaynight,” Ivey said.

Though no ofcial count wastaken, Ivey estimated that about 1,000people gathered downtown for the

holiday. The crowd was expectedlysmaller than previous Halloweens,some of which fell on the weekend,and that resulted in fewer incidents.

GPD partnered with UptownGreenville to bring in a handful of lo-cal food trucks to serve hungry pa-trons in the hopes of creating a morerelaxed “festival-like” atmosphere.

Ivey said there was only one inci-dent that ofcers had to deal withTuesday night, which was a byprod-uct of disorderly conduct. He said theincident was not Halloween-related.

Away from downtown, though,

InsideThanks to some Vidant employees, hospital-ized children joined in on Halloween fun,Page A4

Greenville businesssells $4 millionscratch-off ticket

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BY GINGER LIVINGSTONThe Daily Reector

Shingleton’s win on$20 ticket has beentalk of Red Oak Grilland Grocery.

A Greenville businesssold a $4 million lotteryticket to a Snow Hill man,the N.C. Education Lot-tery announced.

Edward Shingletonwon the top prize of $4million in the $4,000,000Platinum Payout scratch-off game after purchasingthe $20 ticket at the RedOak Grill and Grocery,

1500 S.W. GreenvilleBlvd. He claimed theprize at lottery headquar-ters in Raleigh on Mon-day, according to thenews release.

“It’s the rst timesomething like this hasever happened in thisstore, that someone wonthat large amount,” saidYasser Eid, who hasworked at the store forfour years. “We usuallyget like $5,000, $1,000winners but nothing thatmajor. “I’m just gladsomeone won somethingat our store.”

FILE PHOTO/THE DAILY REFLECTORAccess East health insurance navigator Juan Allen,left, provided help to a consumer seeking coverageduring last year’s enrollment period.

Open enrollmentunderway for healthcare marketplace

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BY MICHAEL ABRAMOWITZThe Daily Reector

The Affordable Care Act remains the law, and thehealth care marketplace open enrollment period hasbegun after Congress was unable to agree on a planto repeal and replace it.

The ACA’s fth — and shortest — open-enroll-ment period began yesterday. Qualied consumerswill have until midnight on Dec. 15 to enroll in 2018coverage through the health insurance marketplace.The 45-day window is half the length of past enroll-ment periods.

“The most important message for consumers: “Donot delay,” Jennifer Simmons, director of the NC

PHOTOS BY JULIETTE COOKE/THE DAILY REFLECTORMike Ernest places classic childrens books on the shelves behind the registers for customers to purchase anddonate to Pitt County Schools during a book drive at Barnes & Noble on Wednesday. Below: Some of theclassic children’s books line the shelves behind the registers that can be bought by customers and donated.

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HALLOWEENContinued from A1

there were a pair of armedrobberies on the grid.

The robberies hap-pened at 12:30 and 12:40Wednesday morning onEast First Street and the100 block of North JarvisStreet, respectively.

In both incidents, wal-lets and cellphones werestolen by a person whobrandished a gun. Ivey

said the investigation isongoing, but there havebeen no arrests made andGPD is unsure if the rob-beries are related.

Ivey said ofcers wereon patrol throughout thecity, monitoring off-cam-pus housing complexesand residential neighbor-hoods. Like downtown,Ivey said he thinkspartiers got the Hal-loween spirit out of theirsystem over the week-end, when GPD re-

sponded to more than500 incidents.

“We really didn’t haveany major issues with par-ties either,” Ivey said. “Ithink people enjoyed theirfestivities on Saturdaynight. Saturday night wasmuch busier than last night,which was pretty normal.”

Contact Brian Wud-kwych at bwudkwych@re-ector.com or 252-329-9567 and follow @brian-wudkwych on Twitter.

LOTTERYContinued from A1

Since news of the winbroke, lots of people havingbeen coming in and talkingabout the ticket, Eid said. Afew unfamiliar facesstopped in Tuesday morn-ing and purchased tickets,he said.

“I sold a lot more thismorning than I normallydo,” he said. “They are buy-ing the $20 tickets mostly.”

The $4,000,000 PlatinumPayout game began inSeptember 2016 with threeprizes of $4 million and ve$1 million prizes. One $4million prize and two $1million prizes remain, therelease said.

Shingleton had thechoice of taking a $4 mil-lion annuity that has 20 pay-ments of $200,000 a year, ora lump sum of $2.4 million.He chose the lump sum.After required state andfederal tax withholdings, hetook home $1.67 million.

The owner of Red OakGrill also will receive a$10,000 incentive, a lotteryspokesman said. The incen-tive award is available forinstant games that have atop prize of $1 million orgreater.

Eid said he hopes thebenet of the sale extendsbetween the award.

“I’m hoping business willpick up. Right now they aretrying to put a light next toour store because of the caraccidents going on,” Eidsaid. “I hope business willpick up better because

they’ve blocked one of theentrances of our store.”

Pitt County governmenthas directly received$22,926,375 from the lotterysince 2009, said MichaelEmory, Pitt Countyspokesman. That includes$1.6 million received duringscal year 2016. The moneyhas been used to fund con-struction projects for PittCounty Schools and PittCommunity College.

Along with funding forschool construction, PittCounty education pro-grams received an addi-tional $7 million in lotteryfunds as directed by theGeneral Assembly.

This included nearly $4.9million for non-instruc-tional support, which in-cludes support staff such asofce assistants, custodi-ans and substitute teachers,according to the N.C. Edu-cation Lottery webisite.Nearly $1.46 million in lot-tery money was used toprovide pre-kindergartenprogramming for 277 PittCounty children.

More than 600 studentsreceived college scholar-ships funded by $684,531.

Another $245,958 inlottery money was used tofund grants that covered thecosts of attending a UNCSystem school. Last year,1,290 Pitt County studentsreceived grants, accordingto the lottery website.

Contact Ginger Liv-ingston at glivingston@re-ector.com or 252-329-9570. Follow her on Twit-ter @GingerLGDR.

BOOKSContinued from A1

their younger siblings,”Lawrence said.

Though Barnes & Noblehas held holiday bookdrives for at least the last20 years, according toLawrence, this marks therst for PCS’s partnership.

Last year, the book re-tailer partnered withUnited Way and more than9,000 books catered to chil-dren ve and younger weredonated to kindergarten li-braries.

This year, the books willgo straight to children andtheir families, helping tobuild book collections athome and improve on valu-able skills that translate

outside of the classroomsetting.

“You can’t learn to readwithout having the books,”Lawrence said. “Booksopen up the world to you.When you learn to love toread, you also learn to loveeducating yourself, so youcan become a lifelonglearner and that helps thecommunity because it pre-pares them as citizens.”

The idea to partner di-rectly with Barnes & Noblecame straight from the topof the Pitt County Schoolssystem. SuperintendentEthan Lenker servedalongside Lawrence on theLiteracy Coalition of PittCounty and saw the drive’ssuccess last year. Thistime, however, he wantedto branch out to a different

set of students.“During a networking

event (the coalition) hadfor members, he inquiredabout our success with lastyear’s book drive,”Lawrence said. “We juststarted talking about howwe could spread thewealth to an older set ofkids.”

Lawrence, who hashelped organize the bookdrives for ve years, saidthat the response from thecommunity has alwaysbeen overwhelming —even by the company’s na-tionwide standards.

“We’re lucky to be in oneof the most giving commu-nities nationwide,” shesaid “Every year our com-munity gives pretty muchthe most books in the com-

pany. So I would say the re-sponse is extremely posi-tive.”

Contact Brian Wud-kwych at bwudkwych@re-ector.com or 252-329-9567 and follow @brian-wudkwych on Twitter.

Wreck involves Fire-Rescue vehicle

BY GINGER LIVINGSTONThe Daily Reector

Pair of SUVs collide atintersection of MemorialDrive and ArlingtonBoulevard.

Greenville police still arelooking into what led to aWednesday wreck be-tween two SUVs, onedriven by a Greenville Fire-

Rescue shift supervisor.The incident happened

about 1 p.m. at the inter-section of Memorial Driveand Arlington Boulevard,said Greenville PoliceDepartment spokeswomanKristen Hunter.

A shift supervisor withBattalion 1 was travelingwest on Arlington Boule-vard responding to a recall in the area of BriarcliffDrive, according to police

and re ofcials. At the in-tersection with MemorialDrive, the re-rescue vehi-cle collided with a sportutility vehicle travelingsouth on Memorial Drive.

The SUV driver and re-ghter were transported toVidant Medical Center withnon-life-threatening in-juries, police said. The shiftsupervisor was cleared andback on duty later in theday, said Greenville Fire-

Rescue spokeswoman Re-bekah Thurston.

Debris from the wreckalso damaged a carstopped at the intersection.That person was not in-jured, police said.

Westbound trafc on Ar-lington continued to travelfreely after the wreck, buteastbound Arlington trafcwas rerouted through thegas station parking lot forabout 45 minutes.

JULIETTE COOKE/THE DAILY REFLECTORA damaged SUV is towed away after a collision with a Greenville Fire-Rescue SUV at the intersection ofArlington Boulevard and Memorial Drive on Wednesday.

MARKETPLACEContinued from A1

Navigator Consortium, thestate’s largest and onlystatewide navigator group,said. “Given the shortenedenrollment period, it’smore important than everfor consumers to act now.”

Analysis of governmentdata by the nonpartisanKaiser Family Foundationruns counter to the percep-tion of staggering across-the-board increases incosts for consumers underthe Affordable Care Act,the AP reported. The studyfound that in 1,540 coun-ties a hypothetical 40-year-old making $25,000 a yearcan get a basic “bronze”plan under the ACA nextyear for zero monthly pre-mium.

It’s partly a result of ad-ministration actions thatraised the underlying costof insurance, leading tohigher federal spending forpremium subsidies.

On Oct. 12 Trump signedan executive order thatshut off government subsi-

dies to insurers for provid-ing lower copays and de-ductibles to people withmodest incomes. But in-surers have raised premi-ums, which also are subsi-dized.

Think of pushing downon one end of a see-sawand the other end goes up.

Because consumers canuse their premium subsidyto buy any level of cover-age, that money can beenough to cover the fullprice of a lower-costbronze plan. This year,consumers in some areashad access to zero-pre-mium bronze plans, butGary Claxton, a co-authorof the report, said that for2018 the plan will be avail-able to many more people.

“Because of the way thatpremiums are set this year,people have to shoparound to make sure theyare getting a plan thatmakes sense for them,”Claxton said. “Telling peo-ple that the choice is to paya penalty (for being unin-sured) or take a free plan,is a pretty attractive propo-sition.”

Bronze plans are not foreverybody, since they typi-cally have annual de-ductibles of $6,000 ormore, according to the APreport. But they may ap-peal to younger people orthose who expect to havejust a few doctor visits in ayear.

Rising premium subsi-dies also can make “gold”plans more affordable.Those offer a higher levelof coverage, comparable towhat employers provide.

Financial assistance stillis available to consumersto help pay their premi-ums. When the cost of pre-miums goes up, so doesthe amount of nancial as-sistance available. Allplans still cover essentialhealth benets — fromhospital visits to long-termwellness care.

North Carolina’s Afford-able Care Act navigatorsare geared up for the startof the enrollment period.The NC Navigator Consor-tium issued a statementthat it is receiving$2,444,703 in federal fund-ing to provide outreach,

education and enrollmentassistance during the openenrollment period. TheU.S.Centers for Medicareand Medicaid Servicesawarded the grant to con-sortium leader Legal Aid ofNorth Carolina.

In Greenville, nonprotAccess East, Inc., foundonline at AccessEast.org,offers Marketplace HealthInsurance enrollment as-sistance across the samecoverage area. Those need-ing coverage can call 847-3027 or call toll-free at 1-855-733-3711 with ques-tions or to schedule an ap-pointment with a naviga-tor. Consumers can alsoschedule appointmentswith a navigator online atGetCoveredAmerica.org.

“It’s important for con-sumers to... start the enroll-ment process early,” saidMark Van Arnam, consor-tium outreach director.“Comparing plans, apply-ing for nancial help andcompleting enrollment canbe a multi-step process. Ifyou have questions, con-nect with a navigator assoon as possible.”