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THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY,THURSDAY, JUNE 9,2022 A3 From the FRONT PAGE CHAMPS Continued from Al keeping the Pirates’ 3-1 ad vantage the same. In the bottom of the fifth, Macon Winslow got his second hit of the day as he launched a one-hopper off the left-center field fence for a one-out double. With runners on the cor ners, Meads, once again, had a one-run single to build the Pirates’ lead to 4-1. “(Meads) showed the toughness of a champion,” Roberson said. “That’s the guy I want with me if I’m going to war. That’s the guy. He was willing to do what ever it took: come pitch, go play left (field), give me an at-bat. Whatever it was, ‘Coach, I’m ready. I’m going to bring you home.’ Hats off to that kid today for his mental toughness.” “There’s no better feeling in the world than that adren aline rush you get in games like this,” Meads added lat ¬ BUDGET Continued from Al If the budget proposal by interim Town Manager Janice Cole is approved, the owner of a $100,000 home would pay $95 more in prop erty taxes but pay about $120 less for electricity. “For a resident whose home is worth the medi an property value for the Town of Hertford, which is $132,400, the rise in their annual property tax pay ment will be offset by their monthly savings in their electric bill,” Cole said. told town councilors in the budget message at tached to the recommended budget. “It will have a cost lier impact on those whose homes are of higher value and energy efficient, but this is an equitable solution.” The recommended bud get would increase the property tax rate from 55.5 cents per $100 of valuation to 65 cents. Electric rates, meanwhile, would fall from 12.17 cents per kilowatt JUNETEENTH Continued from Al A freedom march will take place around 11:20 am., be ginning at the Colored Union Soldiers Monument at the in tersection of King Street and Hyde Park, and ending at Cen tral Park. Obakunie Akinlana, a storyteller who uses drums, shekeres, and other African musical instruments to pres ent African folktales, also will be featured during the event. The shekere is a West African percussion instrument con sisting of a dried gourd with beads or cowries woven into a net covering the gourd. Akinlana’s appearance is being sponsored by the N.C. Association of Black Storytell ers Inc. Since 1985, Akinlana has performed as a storytell er. “There’s nothing like it in this world I can ever com pare the feeling of going up there and successfully get ting a hit to get a run to help your team out.” Jackson Russell added a one-run single immediately after and an error on an at tempted double play of Eli Gregory forced in another run to make it 6-1 Perquim ans after five. Maddux Thach came in to pitch the top of the sixth. After a walk and a couple of errors loaded the bases for the Ironmen, Roberson brought Thach’s older brother Tanner, then playing first base, back in to pitch. Tanner Thach’s first pitch resulted in a Huss one-out single. A ground- out to second in the next at-bat made the score 6-3, but Thach got out of the jam after that. With three outs to go for a second straight champi onship, Thach got the next two outs relatively quickly hour to 11.17 cents per kWh. “That will then put Hert ford’s electric rate more in line with what is charged in Elizabeth City and Eden ton and less than what is charged by Albemarle Elec tric,” Cole’s budget message states. The budget message notes that those who live in public housing or rent their homes and use the average amount of electricity, which is 1,000 kWh a month, will save about 10 percent or roughly $120 a year on their electric bill. A public hearing on Hert ford’s recommended bud get for 2022-23 will be held Wednesday at 6 p.m. Under state law, town council must adopt a balanced budget by June 30. Cole’s proposed budget doesn’t recommend increas ing water or sewer rates. However, rate increases adopted last year but never implemented would go into effect July 1 under the plan. Cole’s budget message explains that the water and sewer rate hikes were not er, lecturer and percussionist throughout the United States and West Africa He travels annually to West Africa to learn traditional stories and to observe and perform with African griots and musicians. His programs focus on the arts and folklore of the Yoruba people of south western Nigeria, a culture he has studied for more than three decades. Akinlana performs at fes tivals, colleges, universities, community centers, libraries, schools, and other events. Juneteenth is a federal hol iday in the U.S., commemo rating June 19, 1865, the date when enslaved people in Tex as finally learned the Confed eracy had lost the Civil War. Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee had surrendered at Ap pomattox Court House two months earlier, ending slavery but an infield single and walk used up his legal pitch count. So back to the mound came Meads. Meads threw 14 pitch es in Game 2 earlier in the day and made 70 in his 4.1-inning Game 3 start. He struck out six, allowed five hits and even caught a line drive to the mound that was highlight-reel worthy. A couple of pitches into Meads’ second Game 3 ap pearance, a Tobias Miller fly ball to center field was caught by Jackson Russell, allowing Meads to finish what he started, and the championship celebration began. It was the exact kind of response to the Game 2 loss that Roberson was looking for from his players. “I just told them, ‘Hey look, man, we’ve been to gether this long, just leave it on the field, go back to having fun. Just be loose and play your game, play for each other, be there for each other, love each oth implemented this fiscal year because of a computer soft ware limitation. The recommended bud get increases funding for Hertford’s Street Depart ment and Planning Depart ment, which Cole noted reflects the town council's strategic goal of pursuing a town appearance that resi dents can be proud of. “These increases will allow us to do more to im prove our roadways and act on the vacant, abandoned and neglected houses,” Cole’s message states. The recommended bud get increases funding for capital improvements in wastewater treatment. It also includes a 3% cost-of- living increase for town em ployees. The budget message ex plains that the recommend ed budget also discontinues the practice of transferring excess revenue from the town’s electric fund to the general fund to offset some of the cost of town opera tions. “If there is excess money across the South and in bor der states. Slavery did not end in Texas, however, until U.S. Gen. Gor don Granger arrived in Galves ton and publicly announced General Orders No. 3, which state: “The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free.” Juneteenth was first cele brated in Texas on June 19, 1866, a year after Granger ar rived with the news that both the war and slavery had end ed. Its celebration then spread across the country. The Hertford celebration is being sponsored by the town of Hertford in part nership with the N.C. Arts Council and Perquimans Arts League. The free event will also feature vendors and food trucks. er,’” Roberson said, “and they did that. “They played for each other, what a team win. Ev- eiybody contributed. Just an amazing, amazing expe- . rience,” he said. It was a fitting way for the nine seniors who started playing together well before high school to go out. Ty Nixon, Jackson Rus sell, Eli Gregory, Colby Brown, Jakob Meads, Ma son Byrum, Jett Winslow, Trent Byrum and Tanner Thach finished their high school careers helping lead the program to back-to- back championships. They did one better than the 1964 Perquimans Pirates who also reached the final round for a second year in a row, but couldn’t complete a repeat of their 1963 cham pionship. That team featured the late Jim “Catfish” Hunter, the great uncle of Roberson, and Wayne Winslow, Jett Winslow’s grandfather. “It feels great to do what in this fund that can be trans ferred outto the General Fund then it means that the electric rate that we are charging our residents is higher than it needs to be to support the Electric Department oper ations and maintenance,” Cole’s budget message states. “Now there is nothing illegal about this practice (of trans- fening electric revenue). The courts have upheld it, but just because it is legal does not mean that it is equitable.” The budget message also cites, in support of the elec tric rate reduction, a state ment in the town’s Strategic Plan that “we must always maintain the public trust by speaking truth, being trans parent, and listening always.” “We are not speaking truth if we impose a higher than necessary rate on our residents causing them to carry a burden that should be elsewhere,” Cole’s bud get message states. RA I SE THE ROOF With the Power of a Home Equity Line of Credit! he did and' even more and set school history for sure,” Jett Winslow, one of the 2022 team’s most vocal lead ers, said. Winslow, Meads and Thach all mentioned after the game how the same group of guys have played baseball with each other ever since they were much younger. It’s an end of an era and even more so for some as Meads noted he’s done with baseball after Saturday’s championship celebration. (Perquimans baseball’s) meant everything to me since I was 8 or 9 years old,” Meads said. “We were grown up in Pirate baseball. It means a lot and I was raised basically off of it. It’s something I’ll always have inside of me.” For someone like Thach, lus baseball career seems far from over. He’s set to play for UNC-Wilmington next spring, and even the “We always welcome new patients.” COMFORT • QUALITY • EXPERIENCE Modern Dentistry in a relaxed environment for tne entire family. DR. CHRIS KOPPELMAN^ DDS DR. ETHAN NELSON, bDS 482-5131 103 Mark Dr. Edenton, NC (behind Chowan Hospital) ALBEMARLE DENTAL ASSOCIATES Ceneta/ and Cosmetic Zdientisen^ Edenton Steamers tlus sum mer. An illustrious high school baseball career saw the lefty dominate on the mound time after time this season. He also belted 12 home runs at the plate. Thach is not only a back- to-back champion; he’s also a back-to-back state cham pionship most valuable player thanks in large part to his one-hitter complete game in Game 1 Friday night. Asked about the accom plishment, Thach said he cared far more about the team’s historic achievement than the individual acco lade. “It feels so awesome,” Thach said. “Dream come true. I’ve been playing with these guys my whole life. Not every high school se nior gets to go out with tears of joy, so that’s what we were looking for and we got it.” Perquimans County Schools Federal Grants Review EVERY STUDENT SUCCEEDS ACT OF 2015 PUBLIC PARTICIPATION NOTICE The Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Title III requires that each local education agency submit a Title III application to receive federal funds. The federal funds are used to provide instructional activities and services to help English Language Learners meet high standards. A meeting will be held Thursday, June 16th, 2022 at 4:00pm in person at the Perquimans County Central Office, for the purpose of sharing information with the public concerning the programs and give participants an opportunity to provide input for planning and implementation. In addition, the ESSA Title III application is open to public review and for comments during the week of June 13- June 17,2022 in the office of Dr. Kanika Griffin, Chief Academic Officer of Student Services at Perquimans County Schools Central Office, which is located at 411 Edenton Road Street, Hertford, NC 27944. Please contact Mrs. Crystal Hall, Administrative Assistant, at 252- 426-5741 ext. 234 to schedule an appointment. Abierto para revision TODOS LOS ESTUDIANTES EXITAN LA LEY DE 2015 AVISO DE PARTICIPACION PUBLICA El Titulo III de la Ley de Education Primaria y Secundaria (ESEA) requiere que cada agencia de education local presente una solicitud de Titulo III para reci- bir fondos federales. Los fondos federales se utilizan para proportionar actividades y servicios educativos para ayudar a los estudiantes del idioma Inglis a cumplir con altos est^ndares. Se Ilevara a cabo una reunion el miticoles 16 de junio de 2022 a las 4:00 pm cornel propOsito de compartir information con el publico sobre los programas y brindar a los participantes la oportunidad de brindar information para la-planificaciOn y la implementaciOn. AdemOs, la solicitud del Titulo III de la ESSA esta abierta a revision publica y comentarios durante la semana del 13 al 17 de junio de 2022 en la oficina de la Dra. Kanika Griffin, Di- rectora AcadOmica de Servicios Estudiantiles, en la Oficina Central de las Escuelas del Condado de Perquimans, que se encuentra en 411 Edenton Road Street, Hertford, NC 27944. Comuntquese con la Sra. Crystal Hall, Asistente Administrativa, al 252-426-5741 ext 234 para programar una cita. Title I and Title II Federal Grant Review Perquimans County Public Schools is in the process of amending Federal grants including Title I and Title II for the 2022-23 school year. The projects describe the special programs that Perquimans County Schools proposes for Federal funding for the 2022-23 school year. A meeting will.be held Wednesday, June 16th, 2022 at 4:00pm in person at the Perquimans County Central Office, for the purpose of sharing information with the public concerning the programs and give participants an opportunity to provide input for planning and implementation. Interested persons are encouraged to review amendments to the project and make comments concerning the implementation of the programs under these Federal Programs. All comments will be considered prior to submission of the amended Project to the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction in Raleigh, North Carolina. The Title I and Title II plans are open to the public for review and comments during the week of June 13 - June17,2022. in the office of Mr. James Bunch, Assistant Superintendent, at Perquimans County Schools Central Office, which is located at 411 Edenton Road Street, Hertford, NC 27944. Please contact Mrs. Shatasha Miller, Youth Development Coordinator, at 252- 426-5741 ext. 239 to schedule an appointment. Revision de las subvenciones federales del Titulo I y del Titulo II Las Escuelas Publicas del Condado de Perquimans estin en proceso de enmendar las subvenciones federales, incluidos el Titulo I y el Titulo II, para el ano escolar 2022-23. Los proyectos describen los programas especiales que las Escuelas del Condado de Perquimans proponen para el financiamiento federal para el ano escolar 2022-23. Se I levari a cabo una reunion el miticoles 16 de junio de 2022 a las 4:00 pm en persona en la Oficina Central del Condado de Perquimans, con el propOsito de compartir information con el publico sobre los programas y brindarles a los participantes la oportunidad de brindar infor- macidn para la planificacibn y la implementaciOn. Se anima a las personas a revisar las enmiendas al proyecto y hacer comentarios sobre la implementaciOn de los programas bajo estos Programas Federales. Todos los comentarios serin considerados antes de la presentation del Proyecto enmendado al Departa- mento de Instruction Publica de Carolina del Norte en Raleigh, Carolina del Norte. Los planes de Titulo I y Titulo II estan abiertos al publico para revision y comentarios durante la semana del 13 de junio al 17 de junio de 2021. en la oficina del Sr. James Bunch, Asistente del Superintendente, en la Oficina Central de las Escuelas del Condado de Perquimans, que se encuentra en 411 Edenton Road Street, Hertford, NC 27944. Comuniquese con la Sra. Shatasha Miller, Coordinadora de Desarrollo Juvenil, al 252-426-5741 ext 239 para programar una cita. The power is in your hands with fixed rates that protect you from rising interest rates. Interest Only Payments First 2 Years 2 QQ% ■ APR ■ 7-YEAR No Closing Costs • Fast Approvals PERSONAL » BUSINESS BANKING •APR - Annual Percentage Rate. APRs are fixed rates based on approved credit with an LTV of 80% to 100%, and will not increase during the life of the loan. .Available to members with qualifying credit. Some restrictions may ' apply. Closing costs will be applied If the loan is closed within the first two years. 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