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"News from Next Door" SEPTEMBER 5, 2012 - SEPTEMBER 11, 2012 50 cents
Fest’s entertainment line-up fills two stages
By CATHY WILSON
Staff Writer
The historic county
courthouse green will be
home to two stages featur
ing a variety of entertain
ment during this year’s In
dian Summer Festival.
On Friday evening,
Master of Ceremonies DJ
Cowboy (a.k.a Adam Ev
ans) will start the festival
at 6 p.m. with a variety of
music as opening act for
the Original Rhondels who
will provide live music for
the free street dance on
Church Street from 7-10
p.m.
Evans, from Edenton,
has over 15 years in the
business specializing in
wedding receptions, pri
vate party and night club
events and offers all music
genres.
The Original Rhondels
will perform their famous
Top 10 hit recordings “May
I”, “I’ve Been Hurt”, and
“What Kind of Fool Do You
Think I Am?” when they
take the stage.
From Virginia Beach,
the Original Rhondels have
performed their hit record
ings in almost every major
city in the United States.
In 1969, Bill Deal and the
Rhondels began a record
ing career that would take
them to Madison Square
Garden and across the
country. They delight their
audiences with outstand
ing vocals, powerful brass
and exciting showman
ship.
The unexpected passing
of Bill Deal in 2003 was a
great loss to the music in
dustry; however, the Origi
nal Rhondels continue to
perform the great music
that earned them a star on
the Legends Wall of Fame.
The band features Brian
Bleakley on vocals and
trumpet, Peter Pope on
keys and vocals, Steve Am
brose on sax and vocals,
Dean Englert on trombone
and vocals, Gary Hardy
and Rollie Ligart on trum
pet and vocals, Bruce Har
low on guitar and vocals,
Wayne Kessinger on bari
tone sax and vocals, and
Sonny Morris on drums
and vocals.
A beer and wine gar
den will be open during
the dance at the corner
of Church and Market
streets. Food and craft
vendors will line both
Church and Market streets
during both the Friday
night dance and day-long
festival on Saturday
On Saturday, the day-long
See ENTERTAINMENT, 3
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The band Another Zone will be performing during the festival.
Man
lights
himself
on fire
Incident occurs
on Market Street
By CATHY WILSON
Staff Writer
A 26-year-old Hertford
man tried to commit sui
cide last Wednesday eve
ning by dousing himself
with kerosene and lighting
himself on fire in the mid
dle of Market Street.
Police say the unem
ployed young man appar
ently changed his mind
after his clothes began
burning. He managed to
get out of his burning
clothes in the middle of the
300-block of Market Street.
A nearby resident saw the
man burning in the street
and helped the victim into
his house where he placed
the victim in a bathtub and
ran cool water over the
victim’s severely-burned
legs.
Hertford Police Officer
P.G. Hohenstein responded
to the scene, extinguished
the burning clothes, and
called for emergency medi
cal personnel.
Perquimans EMS re
sponded and transport
ed the victim to Vidant
Chowan Hospital in Eden
ton where he was decon
taminated for kerosene,
stabilized, and flown by
EastCare medical helicop
ter to the NC Jaycee Burn
Center at UNC Hospitals
in Chapel Hill.
Tom Hughes, spokesper
son for the hospital, said
the victim was listed in
fair condition on Friday.
According to police re
ports, the man first poured
kerosene on himself at
his Edenton Road Street
home after telling family
members he wanted to die.
Family members called po
lice who responded to the
scene and found that the
man had left the home and
walked towards Market
Street.
Police travelled to Market
Marching Pirates
Entertain at the game
STAFF PHOTOS BY BRETT A. CLARK
Perquimans County High School band members perform during the football game against Currituck High School on Friday
night.
Bonus annual leave
for state employees
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By CATHY WILSON
Staff Writer
Local eligible state em
ployees will receive five
bonus annual leave days
this fiscal year, thanks to
action taken by the state
legislature earlier this
summer.
The one-time bonus
annual leave days were
approved during the 2012-
2013 fiscal state budget.
Since school instruc
tional personnel can not
take annual leave days
while school is in session,
officials with the Perqui
mans County Schools
chose to designate Easter
break as the system-wide
bonus annual leave days.
That way, employees will
have the time off from
school while school is
closed for Easter break
and not use their normal
annual leave days to do
it.
“The big bonus for in
structional personnel is
that the bonus annual
leave days will enalfle
them to roll over their
normal annual leave days
to help when they retire
or leave the school sys
tem,” explained Brenda
Lassiter, the school sys
tem’s public information
officer.
Non-instructional
school personnel may
take annual leave while
students are in school,
See BONUS, 3
School
system
receives
grant
Grant worth $10,000
for science programs
By staff reports
Thanks to the support of
the local farming commu
nity, Perquimans County
Schools has received a
$10,000 grant from the
Monsanto Fund.
The school district ap
plied for and won the
money through the Amer
ica’s Farmers Grow Rural
Education program of the
MOnsanto Fund. Once
the application was made,
the local farming commu
nity nominated the local
school system that was
one of more than 1,000
applications submitted in
the process.
The fund is providing
$2.3 million to 176 of them
including four in North
Carolina.
The Perquimans school
district will use the funds
to provide system-wide
science fairs and science
and math competitions
in grades 3-12. Of that,
$4,000 will go for salaries
of teachers putting on the
fairs, $4,000 will be used
for technology including
buying iPads, iPods and
See GRANT, 2
Blue Moon
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A blue moon was photographed over the high-rise bridge in Hertford by local photog
rapher Edward Leicester Friday night. While blue moons are seldom blue in color, the
phrase simply means the second full moon to occur in a calendar month.
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CRAFTS, FOOD, ENTERTAINMENT, Beer Garden & MORE Sept. 7th, 6 tO 10 p.m.
Free Street Dance Friday Night -The Rhondels Sept. Sth, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.