Save $184 with the coupons inside today! The Wilson Times WEEKEND EDITION Online Daily • Printed Tuesdays and Fridays | MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER — A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION SINCE 1896 | wilsontimes.com | Friday, July 23, 2021 | $2 Sister to be 2-time organ donor By Brie Handgraaf Jersey man learned he would [email protected] need a transplant, his sister | 252-265-7821 volunteered. But that required finding a team of doctors who A Wilson mother of four will would perform the surgery soon join an elite group of few- knowing Stephanie Allen do- er than 100 people in the last nated a kidney to their sister, 27 years who have donated two Lisa Ball, in 2006. organs to two people. “I don’t feel any different at “Right now, she is the sun- all. Lisa says I am, but I don’t shine in my world,” Eric Allen feel any different,” Stephanie said of his sister, 54-year-old Allen said with a shrug. “I Stephanie Allen. think the heroes are the ones I On Tuesday, surgeons will read about who donate anony- take part of Stephanie Allen’s mously. To me, those are real liver and transplant it into her heroes.” Stephanie Allen, left, is pictured with her sister, Lisa brother, whose liver is failing Just 91 people have donated Primary sclerosing cholangitis and Crohn’s disease Ball, who received one of Allen’s kidneys in 2006. On after two years of battling pri- two organs to two people since caused Eric Allen’s liver to begin failing and led to Tuesday, she will join an elite group of double donors mary sclerosing cholangitis and April 1994, according to the severe weight loss, shown in the contrast above. His by giving her brother, Eric Allen, part of her liver. Crohn’s disease. road to recovery begins with a Tuesday surgery as he Contributed photo When the 45-year-old New See DONOR, Page 2A receives part of his sister’s liver. Contributed photos More Lucama town records unearthed By Drew C. Wilson [email protected] | 252-265-7818 LUCAMA — One year after officials retrieved town public records that were buried un- derground, another batch of documents was unearthed on property the town leases. “There was a public records request by The Wilson Times, and we knew there were more records buried with those dates,” said Town Administrator Teresa Whitehead. “The truth is owed to the people of the town, whether good or bad. It’s their personal information.” Whitehead said confidential personal information won’t be included in any documents pro- vided to the newspaper. The Times filed a July 12 re- quest for copies of town records created from 2007-17. White- head notified the Lucama Board of Commissioners of the request the day she received it. On Wednesday, officials dug up records including sales in- voices to the town of Lucama, local government purchase orders from the town, U.S. postage statements, disburse- ments from the mayor’s office, monthly wage reports and re- Lucama Commissioner Patricia Uzzell walks among municipal records that were recovered this week after being buried on town-leased property. tirement account information Drew C. Wilson | Times for town employees including Social Security numbers, a and records of service shutoffs, account details, balance sheets, other Wilson County towns, A pending federal lawsuit was billing register showing each records for law enforcement of- copies of employee tax forms Heritage Bank records for the widened when records were account in town by name and ficers only, shipping orders, re- including 10-99 and W-2 forms, town, payroll checks, voided found buried exactly a year ago. address, which residents were pair orders, bills, sales tax cou- returned checks, canceled checks and many other docu- charged for electricity and water pons, town of Lucama monthly checks, correspondence with ments detailing town business. See RECORDS, Page 6A Barton bistro to feature Starbucks café By Drew C. Wilson location housed boilers for the house-made pastries, breakfast [email protected] campus. sandwiches and perhaps some | 252-265-7818 Tranisha Anderson, resident grab-and-go items like fruit food service manager on cam- cups to go with the coffee. Starbucks coffee will be part pus with AVI Food Systems, said Anderson said everyone is ex- of the new BC Bistro opening the coffee vendor is part of the cited about the new bistro. in August on Barton College’s “We Proudly Serve” program at “It is highly anticipated,” An- campus. Starbucks, which is similar to derson said. “There aren’t many It’s the first Starbucks café in the Starbucks currently operat- coffee options on campus, so the downtown Wilson area. ing inside Wilson’s Target de- this is going to be huge for stu- The 1,100-square-foot BC partment store. dents, faculty and staff.” Bistro is near the intersection of Most regular Starbucks bever- Anderson said Barton is plan- Atlantic Christian College Drive ages will be available, but An- ning a grand opening by the and Gold Street on the campus’ derson said it will be a smaller first day of classes, which is northwest side and will offer operation because it’s housed Aug. 23. a variety of menu items from within another business. “It is going to be the place pulled pork sandwiches to flat- “We will not have the food to be on campus,” Anderson breads. that Starbucks serves, but we said. “I am really excited. There The site had been the campus will have our own food made in- aren’t a lot of things within Tranisha Anderson stands behind the new BC Bistro’s counter on the post office and bookstore in house,” Anderson said. Barton College campus. The bistro will include a Starbucks coffee shop. previous years. Prior to that, the The BC Bistro will carry See BISTRO, Page 2A Drew C. Wilson | Times Weathercast With Albert Thomas Jr. Preview of FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY the week posted Tuesdays. Preview of the weekend Mostly sunny Sunny Sunny posted Saturdays. wilsontimes.com HI 86 LO 68 HI 87 LO 68 HI 89 LO 71 2A THE WILSON TIMES | wilsontimes.com Friday, July 23, 2021 Good... # "!## Police: Car strikes, kills pedestrian /bZSOabbVOb¸abVSe]`RT`][bVS"!%`SORS`a]TbVSEWZa]\BW[Sa By Olivia Neeley according to the report. She was subse- ...to the last word [email protected] | 252-265-7879 quently struck by the vehicle, which was traveling north on U.S. 301, the report Police say a 75-year-old woman died stated. after she was struck by a vehicle Sunday The Wilson Police Department’s Stra- night. tegic Traffic Enforcement Patrol is inves- Authorities responded to a the 2800 tigating the crash. block of U.S. 301 South at 9:10 p.m. re- This is the second Wilson road fatality garding a vehicle hitting a pedestrian, that happened last weekend. Police are according to Sgt. Eric Kearney. also investigating a crash that killed a Kearney said the pedestrian, who was bicyclist in the 400 block of Hines Street identified as Shirley Jean Reid of Wilson, South on Friday, July 16. died from her injuries at the scene. Po- Police identified the bicyclist as lice identified the driver as 21-year-old 61-year-old Charles Barnes of Wilson, Destiny Tyshae Bullock. who died after medics took him from the Reid was attempting to cross over U.S. scene for emergency care, officials said. 301, which was poorly lit, according to a Anyone with information on either Wilson Police Department crash report. crash is asked to call the Wilson Police Reid, who was wearing dark clothing, Department at 252-399-2323 or Crime was not in the pedestrian crossing area, Stoppers at 252-243-2255. Donor: ‘She’d do whatever she had to do’ continued from page 1A Becoming a donor United Network for Organ Sharing, with 86 of those In addition to giving blood or plasma every few months, donors giving up a kidney becoming a living donor is a way to save others’ lives. and part of their liver. More than 3,000 people statewide are awaiting an organ transplant, according to Donate Life North Carolina. Visit SAVING GRACE www.donatelifenc.org for more details on becoming a living donor or to register to have your organs donated after death. Lisa Ball was 23 when “I don’t think people really get that this is life and death,” said she was diagnosed with Lisa Ball, who first received a kidney from a car crash victim. gestational hypertension, The transplant failed after five years, but Ball received but after two months of another kidney from her sister, who is donating part of her bed rest, she thought the liver to their brother on Tuesday. issue was resolved with the birth of her first son. A family history of hyper- tension manifested with of his own health crisis, Stephanie with frequent minor symptoms — fluid Ball was stunned. follow-up appoint- retention and tiredness — “I was shocked because ments. Meanwhile, Ball 12 years later as doctors my brother is very active,” volunteered to care for determined she was in the 57-year-old woman Stephanie Allen, who has end-stage renal disease. said. “He did construc- to stay in New York for She underwent dialysis tion work and was always a month during her own three times a week for busy, but to see that come recovery. a year while raising her to a halt was really hard.” “I’ll have to really watch sons until Ball received it,” Stephanie Allen said, a transplant from a car DOUBLE DONOR noting she’ll be out of crash victim.