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Wednesday, August 2,2006
Hoke government copes with turnover
Sheriff’s department, Social Services lead list with numerous staff changes
By Victoriana Summers
Staff writer
Hoke County government has
seen numerous personnel changes
in 2006, mostly in two departments,
the sheriffs office and the Depart
ment of Social Services. On a list
of inactive employees provided by
Hoke Human Resources director Ed
Crutchfield, 52 employees have left
Hoke government.
Since January 2006, Sheriff
Hubert Peterkin has fired five
deputies and three jailers. He has
also accepted resignations from
nine employees. Thirteen of those
17 employees left the department
after April, following then-Hoke
chief deputy Troy McDuffie, who
accepted a position as police chief
in Red Springs.
Fourteen people left Hoke’s De
partment of Social Services — two
terminated, 11 resigned and one
retired — since January.
In other county departments,
three employees were dismissed and
16 resignations have been accepted
as of January, with two whose job
assignations merely ended. Crutch
field cites military spouses moving,
salaries that are more competitive
offered in Cumberland County, and
retirements as typical causes.
(See TURNOVER, page 8A)
McDuffie
quits job
to campaign
By Victoriana Summers
Staff writer
Red Springs Police Chief
Troy McDuffie says he is
“continuing on,” waging a
write in campaign as a can
didate in the Hoke sheriffs
race to challenge Democratic
nominee-elect Hoke Sheriff
Hubert Peterkin, a colleague
for 15 years.
After less than three
months on the job, McDuffie
submitted a resignation letter
last Wednesday afternoon to
the Red Springs police depart
ment effective August 18. The
42-year-old McDuffie plans
to devote the next 90 days
full time to campaigning for
sheriff. As former Hoke chief
deputy and second-in-com-
mand to Peterkin, McDuffie
resigned in May to accept the
position in Red Springs.
Red Springs town man-
(See MCDUFFIE,
page 4A)
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Public Record
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National Night Out sends message to criminals
Citizens, politicians meet at park, proclaim intent to ‘t^e community back’
Mother Evelyn Price greets Congressional candidate Larry Kissel.
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By Ken MacDonald
Publisher
“ You want that bridge two lanes or
four?” -Genie*
1 do not understand the thinking of
women. My son and I were outside
last week admiring his handiwork as
he ripped shingles off an out-build
ing. We spotted two 50-gallon plastic
pickle barrels left over from a project
to store water and conserve heat in the
greenhouse.
“Think of the subwoofer you could
make with those babies,” 1 said to
him.
In his teenage years he had used two
five-gal Ion paint buckets as enclosures
for massive speakers that turned his
uncool station wagon into a jamming
traveling noise ordinance violation.
We began to muse about our male
need for stage-sound quality in our
musical experience, whether at home
or in our vehicles. The speakers’
frequency response needs to be 16 to
(See OTHER STUFF, page 5A)
By Pat Allen Wilson
Editor
Community leaders gathered in
Raeford City Park last night to send
a message to criminals — that their
activities will not be tolerated, and
neighborhoods and law enforce
ment are working together toward
this end.
It was the seventh such event for
Raeford, and community advocates
were on hand to offer encourage
ment to an audience of adults and
children of all ages. Raeford Mayor
Cold murder
By Victoriana Summers
Staff writer
A cold murder case is being re
vived by the Hoke Sheriffs Office
and may soon be solved, according
to Hoke Sheriff Hubert Peterkin.
After being brutally beaten to
death in October 2001, Scurlock
resident David Cherry Jr. is buried at
Rockhill Missionary Baptist Church.
John K. McNeill read a proclamation
for National Night Out event, which
is marked August 1 throughout the
nation. Mary Fowler proclaimed the
purpose of NNO.
Kelly Breeden, pastor of Minis
try Beyond the Walls, which meets
in the park every third Saturday,
told those gathered for speeches,
entertainment, games, hot dogs and
hamburgers, “This is about taking
ourcommunity back—about taking
back what belongs to us.
(See NIGHT OUT, page 7A)
case revived
However, his
family says the
memory of his
“cruel” murder
and the killers
roaming free is
haunting their
minds, accord-
(See CASE,
page 6A)
David Cherry
Major shopping center coining?
By Victoriana Summers
Staff writer
Hoke County could soon be
in high cotton with its first major
commercial .store possibly locating
at the intersection of US. 401 and
Wayside Road.
Re-Max real estate firm in Fay
etteville has sold 38 acres of the
commercial-zoned land adjoining
the BP service station and conve
nience store. The site is connected
to the U.S. 401 corridor’s interceptor
sewer project. A “for sale” sign has
been covered with a large “sold”
designation.
The land is owned by Wil-
(See SHOPPING, page)