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^ WEDNESDAY • MARCH 28,2018
Bertie
baseball
wins pair
Sports I B1
Four considered for school board
THADD WHITE
Bertie Ledger-Advance
WINDSOR - Four people will
be interviewed for the va
cant seat on the Bertie Coun
ty Board of Education.
The remaining four mem
bers of the school board will
host the four candidates for
the District 4 seat tomorrow
(Thursday) beginning at 3
p.m.
The seat is vacant follow
ing the untimely death of the
late Barry McGlone, who was
in his first term, and served
as Vice Chair of the board.
McGlone was elected four
years ago and was up for re-
election this winter.
All four candidates have
long histories with Bertie
County Schools.
The four candidates are Al
ton H. Parker, Fannie Pugh,
Norman Cherry Sr. and Viv
ian Saunders.
Parker served two terms
on the Bertie County Board
of Education representing
District 4. He served twice as
Vice Chairman of the board.
Pugh taught in Bertie
County Schools and was
named the district’s Teacher
of the Year in 2006-2007.
Cherry was a 30-plus
year veteran educator who
served as principal of Aul
ander Elementary School,
C.G. White, Southwestern
and Bertie High School. He
See FOUR, A3
Relay
kicks
25th event
slated for
this May
LESLIE BEACHBOARD
Bertie Ledger-Advance
WINDSOR - It will be the
25th year of celebrat
ing, remembering and
walking.
The Bertie County Re
lay For Life is scheduled
for 6 p.m. until midnight
Friday, May 18 at the
Roy L. Bond Jr. Stadi
um.
This is the event’s
25th anniversary, and
it will be a night packed
full of events and enter
tainment.
“This is a special year
for Bertie County Relay
for Life. We are celebrat
ing 25 years and we are
the oldest celebration
in the state. We were
the first Relay for Life
in North Carolina,” said
Chairman Joanne Jor
dan.
According to Relay for
Life Coordinator Bobbie
Parker, this year’s guest
speaker will be the Ber
tie County Schools Su
perintendent Dr. Cath
erine Edmonds.
See RELAY, A5
XATIONAL
WOMEN’S
HISTORY MONTI I
Dreams
Lorie Beth Thomas followed her heart
“She is clothed with strength and dignity, and
she laughs without fear of the future.”
Proverbs 31:25
THADD WHITE
Bertie Ledger-Advance
T wo dresses.
It was a modest start to a lifelong dream.
Years later that dream lives - both in a
storefront in her hometown and through
an online presence which reaches nationwide.
As a child, Lorie Beth Thomas used to travel
around her neighborhood selling items and enjoy
ing the feeling of being an entrepreneur. It lit a fire
that still burns.
When Thomas graduated from Bethel Assembly
Christian Academy she did the smart thing. She
went to East Carolina University in Greenville,
earned a Bachelor of Science degree in nursing
and took a job as a nurse in the Emergency De
partments of Vidant Bertie Hospital and Vidant
Roanoke Chowan Hospital.
It was the smart decision, she said, to earn
a living in a career which provided stability
and a way to be part of the medical pro
fession with which she had always been
intrigued.
While she worked and built her life p-
with her husband, Jason, she still
held on to her dream of owning her
own business - something she had
wanted since her childhood.
Then she found out she was preg
nant, and the impending birth of her
daughter - Kaley - was the catalyst
which led her to pursuing her dream.
“When 1 had Kaley, 1 didn’t want to
go back to work fulltime, but like all families, we
couldn’t just go without me working,” she said. “Ja
son knew what 1 wanted to do and pushed me to
take the chance.”
H A
See THOMAS, A6
New
terms
Teacher
contracts
set by BCS
LESLIE BEACHBOARD
Bertie Ledger-Advance
WINDSOR - Bertie Coun
ty Board of Education
has selected a new op
tion for teacher con
tracts.
As of June 30, teachers
no longer will be offered
one-year contracts. The
contracts will be on one,
two or four years.
The Bertie County
Board of Education was
given four options from
which to choose.
These include:
Option one would
be individual decisions
based on evaluation
dates. This option was
allow for an 1 individual
decision for each teach
er;
* Option two would
be a one two-year con
tract and the option of
four-year contracts. A
teacher’s first contract
would be for two years,
then the options for
four-year contracts;
* Option three would
See CONTRACTS, A5
Bertie Arts Council hosts basket-weaving class
LESLIE BEACHBOARD
Bertie Ledger-Advance
WINDSOR - Basket
weaving came to town.
The Bertie County
Arts Council hosted
Nancy Basket as the
March artist in resi-
In this edition
dence.
Nancy Basket learned
pine needle basketry
from her friend, Judy
Arledge in 1981.
A contemporary bas
ket maker and fiber
artist. Basket takes
her name from the
work she does, as well
as from her Cherokee
grandmother.
Later Basket met a
Cherokee man in Ya
kima, Washington at a
bead store.
He shared his fam
ily collection of pine
needle baskets and the
stories behind them
with her.
After offering to buy
the collection, he told
her,” your job isn’t to
buy these baskets. Your
job is to make them.”
Basket remembered
what he had told her,
and to get more instruc
tion she helped form
the first basketry guild
in the United States.
Basket moved to Illi
nois where she helped
form another basketry
guild. She experiment
ed with cattail leaves,
as no pine needles grew
in that part of Illinois.
When Basket was
teaching her skill at the
national basketry con
ventions, she found that
See BASKET, A5
RELAY
FOR LIFE
Obituaries A2
Out & About A2
Opinion A4
Sports B1
Church & Faith B3
Classified B4
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