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cenes from Oriental on Wednesday August 31.

A welcome four-letter word. The Village Food Emporium put out the OPEN sign Wednesday morning at 8, along with a single, handwritten sheet of paper outlining the scaled-back menu. Owner Bama Lutes Deal, seen in the door’s reflection, says she was awaiting a delivery of food today but was happy to be open in the meantime

Bama Lutes Deal flicks of a piece of Irene leaf debris from the door of her Village Food Emporium. She opened for business Wednesday morning at 8 for the first time since last Friday.

Farther down Broad Street, Brantley Norman was anxious to reopen his Village Restaurant, but couldn’t because there was still no electricity from Progress Energy. It’s the longest he’s been closed, he says, in all the years he’s run the restaurant since 1978. He was looking to be open to feed customers over the upcoming Labor Day weekend. He’s thrown all his food away he says but could get a delivery within a day.

Brantley and Sil Norman at the kitchen door of their Village Restaurant which remains closed because it’s not yet back on the grid. They’ve been running generators to their cooling equipment as per health department guidelines. SIl said she wanted CP&L to get the power back on. Brantley reminded her that it’s now called, Progress Energy. Sil allowed that there were other names, too. Brantley said that he was sure they were working on it as best they could.

Brantley Norman waits. He says his restaurant did not get any water in it during Irene. He’s still closed though because he has no electric power from Progress Energy yet.

Brantley’s Village Restaurant and the official sign from the county that kept it and other restaurants closed while the electric power was off.

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Posted Wednesday August 31, 2011 by Melinda Penkava