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Askewville • Aulander • Colerain • Kelford • Lewiston Woodville • Merry Hill • Poweilsville • Roxobel • Windsor B —JUMr- wS P52/C12**********5_diqit 27892 IVIUUF0008293- MCC LIBRARY 1161 KEHUKEE PARK RD WILLIAMSTON NC 27892-8307 AOOOl Falcon track :ompetes Sports I B1 980 S. Academy St. Ahoskie,NC 27910 MASTMRS JLWJL Heating & Air Conditioning 252209.0223 WPD,WRC thwart prison contraband SARAH HODGES STALLS/ Bertie Ledger-Advance Anthony Mabine, a Bertie High School junior, put on quite a show during' the softball throw competition. Day of Champions Bertie County holds Special Olympics THADD WHITE Bertie Ledger-Advance WINDSOR - Attempts to smuggle contraband into Bertie Correction al Institute failed yet again. Windsor Police Chief Justin Jackson said his officers worked with N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission Officer Rodney Jack to thwart an attempt to smuggle cell phones and tobac co into the prison. Officer Jack found a suspicious vehicle parked near the prison on April 17 and con tacted the Windsor Po lice Department. While checking on the unoc cupied vehicle, Officer Jack found the plates being displayed were fictitious and also saw opened cell phone pack ages inside the car. After receiving the call, Windsor Police Lt. Frank Ratzlaff and Offi cer Jessie Mizelle went to the prison to see if they could locate the owners of the vehicle. Officer Mizelle locat ed two suspects walk ing near the vehicle both of whom were wearing backpacks. See CONTRABAND, A5 V Participants at the Bertie County Special Olympics took to the field for group warm-ups before the competitions began on Thursday. SARAH HODGES STALLS Bertie Ledger-Advance rowds began filing into Roy L. Bond Jr. Sta dium Thursday morning as it if it were Friday night and time for football. However, the sun was shining and there was a very different type of competition. It was time for Bertie County’s Special Olym pians to take the fieid. Isaiah Jones, a recent graduate, kicked off the festivities by reciting the Special Olympics oath from the podium. “Let me win, if I can not win, let me be brave in the attempt.” Bertie High School See CHAMPIONS, A5 Commission approves deputy raises SARAH HODGES STALLS Bertie Ledger-Advance WINDSOR - May pay- checks will reflect a positive change for cer tified deputies with the Bertie County Sheriff’s Office. “The Board has tak en a fairly bold step,” County Manager Scott Sauer said. On April 16, Bertie County Commissioners held a special called meeting and went di rectly into closed ses sion. Once the meeting re convened in open ses sion, Comrnissioner Ronald D. Wesson made a motion to increase certified deputy sher iff position base pay to $40,000. The change would go into effect, based on the motion, with the May 2019 pay- check. Wesson included within this motion to eliminate the $2,500 signing bonus and in cluded that five of the existing vacant deputy sheriff positions be “frozen immediately,” per the county manag- See RAISES, A5 Bond, Peele will assist limited-resource, minority farms THADD WHITE Bertie Ledger-Advance GREENSBORO - Two Bertie County men will lend their time and efforts to helping limited-resource and minor ity small farms. Carl Bond, a retired farm er and member of the State Farm Bureau board, and James Peele, a retired Ex- In this edition — tension agent, will serve on the new panel announced recently by the Cooperative Extension at N.C. A&T State University. The task force is com prised of 13 people - county officials, extension person nel, farmers and retired farmers - who will provide assistance to the limited- resource and minority farm- .ers seeking new strategies to keep their farms viable, it is designed to promote and encourage the use of Coop erative Extension resources and strengthen rural com munities and their families within targeted areas in North Carolina. “Small farms are the back bone of our state’s $87 bil lion agriculture industry,” said Dr. Rosalind Dale, Co operative Extension Admin istrator and associate dean of the College of Agriculture and Consumer Sciences. “More than 80 percent of our state’s 50,000 farms are small. With the creation of this task force, we are seek ing to improve the quality of life and their farms’ sustain ability.” Bond joins a host of others from neighboring counties on the task force, including Byron Horton and Moses Matthews of Williamston, David Rouson Jr. of Plym outh and Cecil Sumner of Ahoskie. Other task force members include Beverly Bowens of See FARMS, A5 RELAY FORUFE Church & Faith B3 Classified B4 Obituaries A2 Opinion A4 Sports B1 C Gocm> Bboie County Snmffs OfncE Thank you for subscribing! Find us on Facebook Volume 121: No. 17 11711 35906 6 Visitpnuts.iiettoseeoiiri !. ' agriculture J.
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