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2 THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6,2018 SUBMITTED PHOTO Sheriff Shelby White (second from the left) and his Chief Deputy Tom Reid (left) talk with Elizabeth City lawmen who are donating their old laptop computers to Perquimans County. I flmm IWKWI CO ttt Mwuvtu.£. *£Kt*M4 w^ .THEPERQUIMANS WEEKLY ^^LHLh?^ Explosions Rock Hertford ► 1 VXAXMYM MMUA to *»»»>« b*W*4 to 1 I - TeratlAy in era in a to f:r»l ret ““ ^*f? tt «‘ to *• «»» Td »»a »«*•*» mA to Pernio» el Mart te 9Mtoa.Hi c.o r*^: ■. over to mat* »«••». 1*84*4011 to Xker t» oa« torus af »t'ar rtor tot to> &>■«»«»* .» toon s ts DONATION Continued from 1 at no cost to Perquimans County. Toughbooks are not the same as a laptop a student might get in school or a person might buy for home use. Toughbook is a registered trademarked brand name owned by Panasonic Corpo ration for a brand of rugged computers. They are used in a wide variety of industries, including construction, de fense, emergency services, government, healthcare, law enforcement, manufac turing, oil, gas, telecom, and utilities. White said Buffaloe told him he’d send the first of the computers over to Hertford as soon as he could, and White said he said no, he wanted to go in person and shake everybody’s hand. Having the laptops means deputies will have instant access to the NCAWARE system and DMV license information. Arrest warrant are filed electronically now, and until now if one was issued, a deputy may not know right away. “If somebody walks into the Dare County magistrate’s office and gets a warrant on somebody in Perquimans County, they (deputies) will be able to see it in their cars while they are on patrol,” White said.. Deputies responding to a call will also be able to pull up the previous history of other calls at that same lo cation. The shift to laptops in patrol cars won’t totally be without cost. 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Duty •teals.. De »«w«a»w is tin fMxn Correction Primary includes six local offices is noted Dma DaimU tne tou Mr WM» it. (WArt tote MM tow M**M»*» a «*rt*M* UMM U ten war* Mam. *( **•■*« to* Matora i«« MAKkt »ttk IB* mjadwww - HU kt«4«rto» vm M^to teat vto* vim to H atort OMkf at AA*ter*Cto to Per SUBMITTED PHOTO Perquimans County has received a grant to help property owners clean up and recycle old mobile homes. «Mewmtto*r The front page of the Jan. 12 1978, issue of The Perquimans Weekly talks about the explosions and fire as a result of the Winslow Oil Company fire that week. A rtMH Irt» Ux XC ))«*••» Fural r*«t*4 UI A**#! «lto« FILE PHOTO TRAILER Continued from 1 taking things like steel to a recycle center. That keeps the price lower, he said. Swanner said there is about seven tons of steel in some mobile homes. If the county is successful during the first year, it can reapply for funds next year. Swanner said the issue is to get rid of an old mobile home, not just hide it. “You can’t shove it back into the woods and say it’s cleaned up.” The county’s grant will only be part of the cost of removal. The tipping fee paid at a landfill can run $500 for a small trailer on up to $2,000. When it comes to the overall cost, “nobody gets out for less than (paying) $1,000,” he said. Not doing anything may cost a property owner even more. If the county takes action to remove a mobile home, the property owner will be billed for the work, and if the bill isn’t paid then a lien can be placed on the prop erty. Anyone interested in the program should contact Swanner at 426-8283, Ext. 232, or by e-mail at eswan- ner@perquimanscountync. gov. The e-mail address is protected from spambots. You need JavaScript en abled to view it. BRICKS Continued from 1 veterans, may be picked up from the Perquimans County Veterans Service Of fice, the County Manager’s Clerk’s Office, or American Legion Post 126. Veterans eligible for a brick at the Perquimans County Veterans Memorial are: (1) a veteran who is a na tive of the county, regardless of where he currently resides or if buried elsewhere; or (2) currently a permanent resi dent of Perquimans County. Merchant Marine veteran eligibility is limited to those who served during the period Dec. 71941-Aug. 15,1945. A memorial brick costs $50. Bricks can be pur chased in person or by mail. In addition, an individual may purchase and donate a brick for an eligible veteran. If the person wishes to send a card informing a veteran or the family of the veteran of their donation, an ac knowledgment card is part of the application form. Those interested should complete the application form and along with the $50 take to the County Manager’s Office, located in the old courthouse. If re turning the application by mail, the address is Perqui mans County, PO Box 45, Hertford, NC 27944. Checks should be made payable to Perquimans County Veter ans Monument. FIRE Continued from 1 been for that, and the cold, it would have probably burned too.” No homes were destroyed and damage was pretty much limited to the Winslow Oil site. The oil company lost three transport trucks, three delivery trucks, cash in the office and all their records. Back then firefighters did not have two-way radios like they do now. “We depended pretty heavily on the (warning) si rens. Now we have one, but back then we had maybe four. We had just started to get pagers.” Tire Hertford Fire Depart ment, which might have numbered 21 to 22 men along with their three pumpers, one a 1940 Ford, but they did not fight the fire alone. Every volunteer fire department in Perquimans County and units from Edenton, Eliza beth City and South Mills and Virginia came to help. In all, there were an estimated 125 firefighters on the scene. The U.S. Coast Guard dis patched two boats to help SUBMITTED PHOTO A plume of black smoke rises over Winslow Oil Company during the fire in 1978. contain the 16,000 to 17,000 gallons of oil that got into the Perquimans River. Leicester retired from the fire department after he got his 20 years in. Even today, Winslow remains his biggest blaze. “I would probably be ly ing if I said anything else. It was the largest and it was the scariest.” Currituck ferry service suspended until August From Staff Reports The N.C. Department of Transportation will tem porarily suspend service on the Currituck-Knotts Is land Ferry later this month to perform major repair and renovation work to the terminals at both ends of the ferry route. The 40-minute ferry route, which crosses the Currituck Sound between Knotts Island and the mainland, is scheduled to suspend service June 9. Service will resume on Aug. 6. Crews plan to rebuild the piling and fender sys tem that the ferry uses to tie up on both sides. Main tenance also will be per formed on the ramps that vehicles use to board the ferry. PCHS Continued from 1 It’s his goal for next year is 10 members of the Class of 2019 will be graduating with an associate’s degree by that point. He said that’s never happened in Perqui mans before. Each graduate gets 15 tickets for graduation Fri day. Four of tickets are good for both the outside ceremony as well as a seat inside the gym to watch the actual graduation if it has to be moved there. The 11 white tickets are good for outside, but if rain drives the ceremony into the gym instead of outside, holders of white tickets will have to watch the ceremony view closed circuit TV in either the auditorium or the lunchroom. “We have to make safety a priority,” Price said. “The fir^marshal only allows us so many people inside the gym.” Once you add the gradu ates, the teachers, the band, the board of education and some dignitaries, there is enough space for the 488 people holding a gold tick et.” “If we had issued five gold tickets, it would be closer to 600.” As much as he’d like to be there Friday, Price will be in Columbia He was working in Tyr rell County when he took the PCHS job last year. “I have four kids and three of them are here in Perquimans, but being that this year was my daughter’s senior year, she wanted to finish there.” On Friday Elizabeth Price will graduate from Columbia High School as valedictorian. “I hate it that I will miss it (PCHS graduation) but I have to be there.” Elizabeth graduated a month ago from Beaufort Community College with an associate in arts degree. She is moving on to UNC Chapel Hill. There were 30 PCHS grads this year that had a grade point average of 3.5 or higher. They were Hailey Chappell, Kaitlyn Chris tian, Alexzander Cinelli, Ahmad Tyrique Cowell, Gabrielle Corprew, Alexis Davenport, Lance Decker, Cabrisha Downing, Destiny Evans, James Fairchild, Da- Raegan Workman. Top academic students in the junior class will serve as marshals Friday. They in clude: Tony Cook, Braeden A publication of Cooke Communications North Carolina, LLC Established 1934 111 W. 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