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V CARPENTERTOOLS Dr. Wallace Phillips encourages people to be themseivses. A7 SMALLTOWNGIRL Leslie Beachboard says some careers need extra compassion. A4 BERTIETENNIS Bertie High School’s tennis team downs Tarboro. A8 (H^ SCAN ME Volume 118: No. 4a Bertie Ledffer-Advance ^ Thursday • October 14,2021 980 S. Academy St. Ahoskie,NC 27910 Heating & Air Conditioning 252.209.0223 00 ♦♦ 00 5 Si Z ^ 2 t/i 1 ^ Z Ssl :e S ASKEWVILLE ^ AULANDER > COLERAIN > KELFORD ♦ LEWISTON WOODVILLE lERRY HILL ♦ POWELLSViLLE ♦ ROXOBEL ♦ WINDSOR One-Stop Voting begins this morning BY THADD WHITE Group Editor WINDSOR - One-Stop Voting for the Windsor municipal election begins today (Thursday). One-Stop Voting will be held at the Bertie County Board of Elec tions office at 210 West Watson St. in Windsor. It opened at 8:30 am. this morning and will continue through 3 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 30. The only town to offer One- Stop Voting in Bertie County is the county seat - Wmdsor. There are two seats up for the Windsor Board of Commissioners and the mayor’s office is on the ballot. Three people are seeking the two seats on the town board. They include incumbent Commissioner Randy K Whitaker along with for mer Bertie County Commissioner L.C. Hoggard and retired insur ance agent David Bunch, who is seeking his first elective office. Incumbent Windsor Commis sioner David Overton is retiring and did not seek an additional term in office. Also retiring is current Windsor Mayor Jim Hoggard. He declined to seek another term. The lone candidate for Mayor is Windsor/Bertie Chamber of Com merce executive Lewis Hoggard, who will be seeking his first elec tive office. Voting is open from 8:30 am. until 5 p.m. each weekday firom today until Friday, Oct. 29. The only Saturday for One-Stop Voting will be Oct. 30, when the office is open from 8 am. until 3 p.m. For more information, call the Bertie County Board of Elections at 252-794-5306. Thadd White can be reached via email at twhite@ncweeklies. com. MARGARET JOHNSON The American Red Cross will hold a blood drive amid a massive shortage on Tuesday, Oct. 19 at the Windsor Community Buiiding. ARC: Blood donations are needed BY LESLIE BEACHBOARD Managing Editor , WINDSOR - Help is need ed. The American Red Cross continues to experi ence an emergency blood and platelet short^e that has caused the blood sup ply to drop to the lowest post-summer level in at least six years. With less than a day’s supply of certain blood types in recent weeks, the American Red Cross asks donors of all blood types, especially TVpe 0, to make an appointment to give blood or platelets as soon as possible to ensure patients can receive the lifesaving transfusions on which they rely. TlTose wanting to give in Bertie County will have an opportunity at an Amer ican Red Cross blood drive from 1 - 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 19 at the Windsor Community Building, 201 South Queen St. in Wind sor. Other local blood drives will be held in Martin and Hertford counties. In Martin County, an American Red Cross blood drive will be held from 8:30 am. — 2 p.m. Monday, Oct. 18 at the Martin Coun ty Auditorium/Riverside High School, 1260 Godwin Ave. in WiUiamston. In Hertford County, the American Red Cross wdU host a blood drive from 3-7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 25 at Winton Baptist Church, 204 Main St. in Winton. Fan is typically the time of year when the blood supply rebounds fi’om summer blood shortages, but a surge in COVID-19 cases across the United States due to the Delta variant has contributed to the lowest donor turnout for the year. To shore up inventory, the American Red Cross must collect 10,000 addi tional blood products each week this month to meet patient and hospital needs. During Breast Cancer Awareness Month in the month of Cctober, the See DONATIONS, A5 Two COVID-19 related deaths reported BY LESLIE BEACHBOARD Managing Editor WINDSOR - For the second week in a row, there have been 10 new COVID-19 related deaths in the Al bemarle Regional Health Services district, including two in Bertie County. Albemarle Regional Health Services (ARHS) issued its current regional COVID-19 update on Fri day, Oct. 8. The updates are released on Friday each week, shotving the updat ed information on vac cines, active cases, fatali ties and facility outbreaks. The report includes Bertie County, and seven other counties, which are part of ARHS, including Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Gates, Hertford, Pasquotank and Perquimans counties. According to the re port, there have been 2,386 lab confirmed cases of COVID-19 for Bertie County, with 2,306 of those cases considered recov ered. There were 29 active COVID-19 cases reported. Sadly, there have been 51 deaths due to the virus. Bertie County had two new See COVID-19, A5 John C.R Tyler remembered for his love of people BY THADD WHITE Group Editor WINDSOR - He was the walking embodiment of public service. John C.P. Tyier, or “Mr. Bow Tie’’ as some preferred, passed away on Tuesday, Oct. 5 leaving behind a leg acy of service to God, his family and his fellow man. Today, as he is honored at a memorial, he is being remembered as a man who gave his all to lus fellow cit izens, loved his family and made Bertie County a better place. He served the people of Bertie County as Clerk of Superior Court from 1984 until his retirement 29 years later. “Mr. lyier (was) a truly southern gentleman and a great leader with a big heart,” said Bertie Clerk of Superior Court Vasti F. James, his hand-chosen successor. “He had a heart FILE PHOTO John Tyier during his retirement ceremony in 2014. that cared for all people, especially the people of Bertie County. He treated See TYLER, A5 Flu shots are now available at BGHD BY LESLIE BEACHBDARD Managing Editor WINDSOR - The time to get a flu shot is now. The Albemarle Region al Health Services (ARHS) health department locations are now offering flu vac cines to community mem bers by appointment. “Getting a flu vaccine is something easy people can do to protect themselves and their loved ones and to help reduce the spread of the flu this fall and winter. October is a good time to get vaccinated, but as long as flu viruses are circulating, vaccination can continue - even in January or later,” said ARHS Healffi Director R. Battle Betts Jr., MPA. State supplied flu vac cines are available to chil dren six months to 18 years of age who are eligible for the Vaccine for Children program, Medicaid and un insured pregnant women being served by the local health department in any ca pacity and clients enrolled in the Be Smart Family Planning program receiving See SHOTS, A9 In this edition (aOOV morning, Darnell Bazemore OF Leiviston WoomoE Thank rat RTR subscrumnu! Find us on FacebDDk www.bertieledgeradvance.com Business A6 A Church & Faith A7 Classified Aio Obituaries A2 Opinion A4 Sports A8 *. 0 11711 35906 6 iTiimiii A emergence SERVICES Bertie County , Non-Emergency Transports 252-794-5334 • 252-325-2460 Family Helping Family «!>-
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