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Meet Me at the Pole, 9
"News from Next Door"
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2018
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FILE PHOTO
Corbin Cherry, a decorated Army chaplain who was
wounded in Vietnam, speaks to a Memorial Day
audience in 2016 in Hertford.
Cherry leaves his mark
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
Corbin Cherry, a deco
rated Vietnam War chaplain,
died like he lived — on his
own terms, his daughter
said.
Cherry lost part of his left
leg to a landmine in Vietnam
while trying to help a fellow
soldier. He recovered and
then sought to help veterans
who were damaged by war
as well as the children of
Vietnam who have suffered
the same fate he did from
old landmines and bombs
that don’t care which side of
the war you’re on.
Donna Adams said her
father never talked about
the war much. He and her
mother divorced when he
decided he join the Army
and be a chaplain in Viet
nam.
“When he lived in Cali
fornia, I’d go there for sum
mers I would talk with him
weekly on the phone.”
Adams knows her father
lost his leg to a landmine
in the A Shau Valley near
Hue during the war. He was
awarded two purple hearts,
a Silver Star, and the Viet
namese Cross of Gallantry.
Once he recovered he
remained an Army chap
lain and ministered to the
wounded at VA hospitals in
California.
After his first stroke in
2016, Adams, a nurse her
self, said it was always her
goal to keep her father at
home near the Perquimans
River he loved so much for
as long as she could. She
kept him at her home for a
time and then they moved
together back to Hertford in
July 2017. That is where he
died on Oct. 13.
“I wanted to keep him
here so long as it was safe.”
He also suffered from
See CHERRY, 4
Hundreds
vote early
From Staff Reports
Nearly 1,000 Perquimans
County voters took advan
tage of early voting during
the first four days.
Elections Director Holly
Hunter said at the close of
Monday’s voting, the four-
day total was 944. Of that,
231 voted on Monday. On
the very first day, 271 Per
quimans voters went to the
polls.
Early voting runs through
Nov. 3.
Voters can go to the elec
tions office between 8 am.
and 5 p.m. and cast a ballot.
On the final Saturday, they
can vote between 8 am. and
1 p.m. There is no Sunday ;
voting in Perquimans Coun- I
See VOTE, 4
County,
schools seek
funding
From Staff Reports
Both Perquimans County
and the school system re
main in the running for a
share of $11 million from
the Golden LEAF Founda
tion.
Both submitted prelimi
nary requests this summer.
If Golden LEAF found the
projects had merit, they
would ask for a formal ap
plication. County Manager
Frank Heath said the dead
line for that is Nov. 9. A de
cision is expected by Febru-
See FUNDING, 4
FILE PHOTO
Crowds applaud a performance at the Belvidere Day
celebration last year.
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
It started off just as an
event to get people to visit
Layden’s Country Store.
But over the last five years
Belvidere Day has grown in
size and scope to the point
last year the crowds were
estimated at between 1,500
and 2,000. The sixth annual
event is coming back this
Strides For Scholars
STAFF PHOTO BY PETER
WILLIAMS
Top, colored chalk
is tossed into the
air Saturday at the
start of the Strides
For Scholars 5K run
at the Perquimans
County Recreation
Center. The event by
the Junior Women’s
Club of Perquimans
County raises money
for scholarships. Right,
adults and kids run
along the paths at the
Perquimans County
Recreation Center
Saturday during the
annual Strides For
Scholars 5K run.
Belvidere Day returns on Saturday
Saturday and could be even
larger.
“If we have a pretty day,
this will be the biggest one
ever,” Doug Layden said.
“The first year it was just
a weekend of specials at
the store,” Laden said. “The
next year we were asked if
they could do a wagon train
here.”
About 100 people partici
pated in that event.
Every year more and
more events have been
added
“This year the parade will
be bigger and there will be
more for the smaller kids,”
Layden said.
For $3, a child can get a
wristband and bounce all
day long. Layden said the
festival will have at least
five blow-up items this year,
three of them from Camp
Pot
sickens 4
students
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
Four Perquimans County
High School students got
sick Monday after eating
homemade cereal bars
laced with marijuana. One
of the students has been
charged.
Sheriff Shelby White said
they complained of nausea-
like symptoms. He said at
least one of them was back
at school on Tuesday and
none suffered serious prob
lems.
White said it’s possible the
three students did not know
what they were eating. They
ranged in age from 14-years-
old to 18-years-old and they
have not been charged with
a crime.
A 14-year-old female
student has been charged
with three counts of pos
session with intent to sell/
deliver a Schedule VI con
trolled substance and three
counts of sale or delivery of
a Scheduled VI controlled
substance. The students in
gested what Superintendent
Matthew Cheeseman said
was “like a Captain Crunch
bar dipped in some type of
maryuana.”
Cheeseman said he will
be meeting with the senior
class and the junior class
on Wednesday and will be
meeting with sophomores
and freshmen on Thursday
to discuss what happened
and how serious it was.
“We’ll talk about the dan
gers of eating unpackaged
foods and we will talk about
See POT, 4
Cale.
There will be live music
all day, including the Perqui
mans Middle School Band,
violin players, country mu
sic and a lot of gospel.
The event runs from 8
am. until 4 p.m.
The event centers around
the area of Layden’s Country
Store, 1478 Belvidere Road.
See BELVIDERE, 4
Coach reflects on ‘scrappy’ Lady Pirates
Halloween Fun
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
As the state volleyball
playoff season starts, Coach
Kristie Thach can reflect
on the 10 seasons that have
gone on before and the
athletes that created those
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Thach said.
memories.
“Look
ing back
it’s really
cool to
see them
become
women,
some with
children of
their own,”
TEN SEASONS of the
Lady Pirates. 2
Thach is only the second
varsity volleyball coach
Perquimans County High
School has had. She was
coaching at Perquimans
County Middle School when
Carolyn Rodgers stepped
down after 20 years and
Thach took over at the high
school.
That means some of the
same girls Thach started
See COACH, 4
STAFF PHOTO BY PETER
WILLIAMS
Scarecrows for Carolina
Trophy and “Bout Time”
Kitchen stand in front
of the Hall Of Fame
building on Church Street
last week. The Historic
Hertford Inc. project will
move to the courthouse
green on Halloween where
kids can get their pictures
taken with all of them.
Downtown merchants
will be handing out candy
from 3-5 p.m. on Oct. 31.