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"News from Next Door"
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2018
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Two students detained over school threats
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
A 15-year-old student at
Perquimans County Middle
School and an 8-year-old stu
dent from Hertford Gram
mar School were placed in
juvenile custody after mak
ing threats last week.
The Perquimans County
Sheriff’s Office took the
older student into custody
on Thursday. Perquimans
County Sheriff Shelby White
said the student had made
a threat in class about gun
violence.
The second student was
taken into custody Friday
after making similar threats
on the playground.
In both cases, a judge
ruled to keep the students
in juvenile custody. The
older student was taken to
Greenville and the younger
student was taken to But
ner, a state facility near
Raleigh. A hearing on both
cases was scheduled for
Tuesday morning in Curri
tuck County.
White said the schools
were not locked down be
cause of the incidents, but
the school system sent
out an automated phone
message to all parents. No
weapons were found.
“We’re not going to take
it lightly and we’re going to
go ahead,” White said after
Thursday’s incident. “Maybe
this will deter anybody else
from doing it.”
After Thursday’s inci
dent, law enforcement had
a show of force when stu
dents came back to school
on Friday.
White was at PCMS along
with the school resource of
ficer, the chief deputy and
two NC Wildlife agents. At
Hertford Grammar there
were two police officers
and at Central there was
an SRO. At the high school
there was a school resource
officer, another deputy and
a wildlife officer.
The charge of “false re
port of mass violence on
educational property” is a
Class H felony.
Lisa Lane, a spokeswom
an for the school system,
said the PCMS student was
in class and for a period of
See THREATS, 2
Camp Cale plans new bunkhouse
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
Camp Cale hopes to break
ground soon on a new bunkhouse
that will sleep 48 people and fea
ture creature comforts like heat
ing and air conditioning. That will
open up the possibility of making
the facility a year-round venue
instead of a rustic venue for chil
dren.
The Perquimans County Plan
ning Board signed off on a condi
tional use permit for the project
Monday night. The county com
mission will also have to approve
the plan.
Camp Cale was developed on
the shores of the Perquimans
River in the early 1960s when the
Chowan Baptist Association iden
tified a need for an outdoor camp
ing facility. The Cale family heard
about the need and donated 50
acres along the river. They added
another 26 acres later.
The first campers began arriv
ing in 1963. Through the years
Cale has expanded both in land,
buildings, and the number of
campers it can serve.
Cale gained 24 more acres from
a donation from the McNair-Carl
Estate, bringing the total size to
100 acres.
The rectangular-shaped bunk-
house is divided by a wall down
the middle so 24 boys can be
housed on one side and 24 girls
on the other. Eventually the camp
plans two such structures.
Construction will be handled
by A.R. Chesson and the cost of
the first bunkhouse is estimated
at $700,000. About $500,000 has
been raised so far, and camp di
rector Matt Thomas said financ
ing has been arranged to cover
SUBMITTED PHOTOS
A drawing shows the proposed new bunkhouse at Camp Cale from the both directions.
the rest,
The bunkhouse will be the first
major improvement since 2013
when a new conference center
was completed.
Thomas said the bunkhouse
isn’t expected to be complete for
the start of this year’s camping
season, but should be finished this
summer. Camping season starts in
early June. Usually between 360
and 500 children participate each
summer.
The bunkhouse will mean Cale
can be marketed as a year-round
meeting location, Thomas said.
Groups and businesses can rent
both the bunkhouse and the con
ference center for meetings and
retreats.
The original bunkhouses built
in the 1960s and 1970s will remain
after the new bunkhouse is com
plete. They are smaller, sleeping
between 20 and 16 campers.
An aerial photo looking down on Camp Cale shows the area where
the new bunkhouse will be built. It will be on the other side of the
parking lot from where the conference center is located.
Judge:
Jackson
violated
probation
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
A Hertford town council
man already facing a 10-day
jail sentence for resisting a
police officer during a traffic
stop has been sentenced to
more than
a year of
supervised
probation
for having
a handgun
while on
probation
for an ear
lier convic
tion.
Quentin
JACKSON
Jackson was
found guilty of violating his
probation and sentenced
to 18 months of supervised
probation by Superior Court
Judge Jerry Tillett during a
hearing in Dare County on
Feb. 19.
Jackson was initially sen
tenced to probation follow
ing his conviction in Dare
County in 2016 on a charge
of accessing a computer
without proper authority.
As a condition of that pro
bation, Jackson is not sup
posed to have a handgun in
his possession.
However, during Jack-
son’s trial in Perquimans
See JACKSON, 2
School nutrition program honored
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
Perquimans County
Schools have been hon
ored for efforts to provide
a healthy breakfast to stu
dents.
This month HGS was
one of nine North Carolina
schools recognized for the
largest growth in breakfast
participation based on data
for the period from October
2016 through October 2017.
The award came from No
Kid Hungry North Carolina.
The school system start
ed offering free breakfast to
every HGS student last year.
In December, the offer was
rolled out to the other three
schools in the district.
Shirley Pelletier, the di
rector of child nutrition for
the district, admits it was a
gamble. The USDA will re
imburse the cost of break-
fast to schools system if
they can get 70 to 75 percent
of students to take it.
“Since we started we
have trended steadily high
er,” Pelletier said.
Participation is still only
about 30 percent at the high
school, but Pelletier said by
the time students get there
if they aren’t used to eating
school food, they are less
inclined to do so.
Pelletier is encouraged
because the younger stu
dents are embracing not
only school breakfast, but
school lunch.
“We’re pleased because
we’re raising a generation
where eating in the cafete
ria is a normal thing. By high
See NUTRITION, 2
SUBMITTED PHOTO
Hertford Grammar School principal Jason Griffin (right)
and nutrition director Shirley Pelletier, attend an awards
ceremony in February.
Three file for commissiori
PAL planning art-related bus trip
From Staff Reports
Three candidates had
signed up as of Tuesday
morning for the three open
seats on the Perquimans
County Commission.
The deadline to file is noon
today.
Chairman Wallace Nelson
and Vice Chairman Fondella
Leigh have announced plans
to run. Also in the race is
Alan Lennon. He filed Friday
as a libertarian candidate.
Lennon ran unsuccessfully
two years ago as a Republi
can.
Incumbent Ed Muzzulin,
74, announced this week he
will not seek another term for
health reasons. He’s served
for two four-year terms.
“I’m little sad about it be
cause I feel I made a differ-
See COMMISSION, 2
From Staff Reports
The Perquimans Arts League is
sponsoring an art-related bus trip
on March 13.
The participants this year will at
tend Kinston, which bills itself as
the “art-happening capital of East
ern, NC.”
This year PAL has arranged for
two pickup sites. Those who live
closer to Elizabeth City can board
the bus there in the Walmart park
ing lot at 7:30 a.m. The Hertford
group will board in the Perquimans
County Recreation Center’s parking
lot at 8 a.m.
Upon arrival in Kinston the group
will first visit the Community Coun
cil for the Arts Gallery, which is cur
rently hosting a national, exhibition
of juried and judged paintings. Fol
lowing a tour of this Historic Reg
ister building, the participants will
have a lunch catered by the Queen
Street Deli. After lunch there will
be time to go next door to view an
entire building refocused to house
25 individual artist studios. Many of
the artists will be present to display
their work. The group will then re-
board the bus to have a docent-led
tour of other art installations within
the town as well as other commer
cial shops, restaurants, and historic
buildings.
Additional information and appli
cations are available from the Coun
cil of the Arts building in Elizabeth
City, the PAL Gallery in the Hall of
Fame building on Church Street in
Hertford or the Chowan Arts Coun
cil, South Broad Street in Edenton.
Reservations are $30 for PAL mem
bers and $35 for non-members.
The catered lunch will be an ad
ditional fee of $13, but participants
may bring their own brown-bagged
lunch and beverage, if they want.
See PAL, 2
American Legion Post 126
Spring Fling Cash Raffle
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Drawing will be held on May 18, 2018,10:00am •111 W. Academy St, Hertford, NC 27944 • (252) 426-1679