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he banners are in and Oriental’s public works crew began festooning Broad and Hodges Street with them late this week

One of the first ones up, near the bank and Pamlico News on Broad Street.

The banners are the brainchild of Oriental resident Art Tierney who wanted to adorn the main streets of town proclaiming Oriental as the “Sailing Capital of North Carolina.” A call went out for donations this summer, and residents and businesses came through.

One of the first half dozen banners to go up.

The banners cost $90 and the bracket sets – to secure them to the phone poles – cost another $90. 24 banners were ordered from a Raleigh company. Town Manager Wyatt Cutler says all but about $700 has been raised to pay for the banners.

We’re not yet the biking capital, but per capita, probably use more bikes than most towns..

As of Friday, the town’s Public Works crew had put up a half dozen of the banners. Wyatt Cutler says the rest will be put in place after the threat of a hurricane passes. The plan is to keep them up year-round, except around the Christmas holiday, when other banners will take their place.

On Broad Street near Body Balance and Mariner Realty.

A list of contributors and more photos follow…

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Contributors who made the Oriental: Sailing Capital of NC banners possible.

Oriental Dinghy Club
Sailing Club of Oriental
Sally & Ken Belangia
Marsha’s Cottage
Oriental Screen Print
Jennifer & Frank Roe
Mariner Realty
Marsha’s Cottage
Bow to Stern Yachts Services Inc
Garland Fulcher Seafood
Michelle Fodrey
Art Tierney
Gordon Kellog
Joseph Sevage
Leslie Evans
Pamlico Sound Realty
Maxwell & Thelma Godfrey
Helga Collier
R L Osmun
Coldwell Banker (Willis Smith Co.)
Jean & David White
The Pamlico News
James Woodall
Oriental Dental
Stephen Leech
Sandra Evans
Kenneth & Sandra Van Hook
The Khouris
Robert & Marsha Luhrs
Nancy Simpson
George and Sherri Hommé
Gerald & Edith Wright
The Hurleys
Tidewater Real Estate & Carol Wright
Sailcraft Services
Doug Sligh – Mary Ann Parham
Barbara Venturi
Douglas Brenner
Triton Yacht Sales
Croakertown
Gerald Dasson
B & B Canvas (Downeast Canvas)
The Oriental Trading Co (The General Store)
David & Carol Wright
Deaton Yacht Service Inc
Deaton Enterprises, LLC
Harbor Yachts
John & Ellen Chappell
Mackie Spruill
Bob & Marlene Miller
Judy Wayland & Dick Creighton
Errands Plus

No Wake Zone.

If you’d like to contribute, checks should be made to the Town Of Oriental, with a note that it goes toward the banner fund.

A logging crew hauls pine trunks down Wall Street on Friday, a throwback to an earlier time. Before Oriental was the Sailing Capital of NC, it was a lumber town.

Posted Saturday August 30, 2008 by Melinda Penkava