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THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY
Volume 36, No. 20
USPS 428 080
Hertford, Perquimans County, N.C., Thursday, May 15, 1980
20 CENTS
, Time for a 'Fling! '
A rip-roaring celebration of
the arts called Spring Fling is
only two days away, and the
Perquimans County Arts
Council in cooperation with
the county recreation
department, has organized an
event that can best be
described in one three letter
^ word ? FUN.
The two day event kicks off
on Saturday, with an
American Legion fish fry.
Council chairman Billy
Wooten said he hopes that fish
fry fans will take their dinners
across the street to the
Academy Street park and
participate in or watch races
? endgames for youngsters.
The fish fry is scheduled
from 4:30 to 6:30 and the races
from 6:30 to 8:30. Then, as
darkness falls over the park,
get out the lawn chairs and
blankets for sit-in (as opposed
to drive-in) movies.
If you've never had the
chance to have your funny
bone tickled by the Three
Stooges, here's your big
chance, as the projector starts
rolling with HAVE ROCKET
WILL TRAVEL.
Anyone who has seen the
trio in action knows how funny
their fumbling, bumbling
antics can be.
The mood will shift abruptly
for the next film, and only the
stout-hearted are advised to
stick around for Vincent
Price's HOUSE OF WAX, a
classic horror film guaranteed
to provide late night chills and
thrills. Just keep telling
yourselfs it's only a movie.
Sunday, though, is the big
day, as an Albemarle-wide
collection of some 20 artists
and craftsmen are expected to
converge on Hertford to
display and demonstrate their
talents from 1 to 6 p.m., as
well as offer the products of
their efforts for sale to the
public.
The performing arts will
also make their presence felt,
with entertainment on the
hour throughout the day.
Groups appearing will in
clude: Claymon Sawyer and
the Carolina Cut-ups, a blue
grass band from Elizabeth
City; school bands; the high
school chorus; and area
School request up
The Perquimans County
Board of Education, in its
, tentative working budget, is
seeking increases of some 22
percent in local funding for the
1980-81 fiscal year.
Schools superintendent Pat
Harrell said that the board's
joint current expense-capital
outlay working budget totals
some 1950,000, a (165,000 in
crease over the $785,000 1979
1980 fiscal year budget.
f The board of education and
the county commissioners
discussed the request at a
meeting last Tuesday night.
"Our budgetary needs were
reviewed and discussed with
the commissioners without
speeific decisions being
reached as to funding levels
for a 1980-81 fiscal year
budget," Harrell said.
? The next step, he said, is for
the commissioners to take the
schools budget request and
those of other county agencies
to arrive at a total county
budget.
Harrell described the
current expense portion if the
budget as "basically hold the
line."
? He said the request, ad
justed 18 per cent for inflation,
would essentially fund the
same level of operation as the
current year's budget.
Major increases in the
current expense portion of the
budget are raises of 12.5 per
cent for certified and 10 per
cent for non-certificated in
structors funded locally, and
projected jumps in the
system's fuel oil and elec
tricity bills.
Salary increases are tied to
action by the General
Assembly, as the school
system is required to pay
locally funded positions on the
same scale as state funded
positions.
Increases of 12.5 per cent for
certified teachers are being
sought on the state level, but
the figure is expected to be
.trimmed down to 10 per cent
by the General Assembly.
Under the capital outlay
portion of the budget, the
board of education is seeking
funding for several facility
improvements, with increases
totaling some 26 per cent.
Projects include a, new
fieldhouse and restrooms at
ther Perquimans High School
athletic complex, a new
vocational shop to begin a
construction program at the
high school, and a rennovated
science laboratory.
At Perquimans Union,
funding to enlarge the kitchen
cafeteria area is included. The
Application in
for rec grant
The Perquimans County
Recreation Department has
applied for a $41,652 Young
Adult Conservation Corps
grant that would get work
underway on a recreational
complex iB the Parkville
Township near Winfall.
s If approved, the grant would
Vfty for four young adult
workers between the ages of
16 and 23 and a supervisor,
along with some supplies and
equipment. The grant
requires no local match.
Workers would be
responsible for clearing the
picnic-playground and
parking areas, as well as
j&aking out and laying off the
' oftball fields, said recreation
director Billy Wooten.
Heritage Conservation
funds that may have paid for
fencing, and lighting of the
complex, however, are
currently frozen, and could
delay the project, Wooten
?aid.
governing bodies.
Perquimans County donated
a 13.8 acre tract of land for
construction of a recreational
complex in November. In an
October meeting, Wooten had
told the county board of
commissioners that the land
could probably be used as a
match for state and federal
grant monies.
Tbe facility was projected to
include two lighted softball
fields with portable fences
that could be moved for
football and soccer games,
and a refreshment stand
restroom building.
Drawings recently com
pleted by the Regional
Development Institute at East
Carolina University in
Greenville show a playground
area, and a picnic area by a
board is also seeking funding
to continue energy con
servation measures at all of
the system's four schools.
In the area of furnishing and
equipment, some new fur
niture is included at each
school (worn out furniture is
replaced at all of the schools
each year), along with in
structional equipment for the
school bands and music
departments, new bleachers
at the high school, and a boiler
at the King Street building.
Harrell said that the budget
is too tenuous at present to
reyeal project by project
costs.
"In reality, we won't be able
to do all those things," he said.
"We realize we may not be
able to initiate all of the
projects we'd like to. You take
what you'd like to have and
what you can agree on and
prioritize," said Harrell of the
budget making process."
square dance groups.
Perquimans High School art
classes and the art club, under
the direction of John Lavezzo,
will also display their work.
The Perquimans County
Rescue Squad will sell
homemade ice cream and
take blood pressure, and the
Memory Lane Senior Citizens
Club will hold a bake sale, and
open the senior center to in
terested persons.
Hie Arts Council will staff
an information booth that will
provide a history of the
organization and sign up new
members, and will have
concessions for sale.
According to Wooten, the
Spring Fling is the initial "big
event" of the young council,
which has been in existance
for about a year and a half.
All events are free, and the
public is cordially invited to
attend.
Tugo'
war
Friday's Field Day at
Perquimans Central
Elementary School in
Winfall generated en
thusiasm for both students
and teachers alike. Here
student teams pull for all
they are worth in the Tug of
War portion of the com
petition. But the teachers
also got a chance to get in
on the act, and as they
struggled through running,
walking, frisbee tossing
and the like, their students
cheered wildly on the
sidelines. The annual
event, coordinated by
physical education in
structor Billy Stallings, is
one that is eagarly an
ticpated at the school.
(Photos by Mike
McLaughlin)
Bike-a-thon
Pedal power
rides again
The Perquimans County
Jaycees' second annual Bike
A-Thon for cystic fibrosis will
get rolling on Sunday, June 1,
with registration beginning at
1 p.m. at Harris Shopping
Center in Hertford.
Registration forms are now
available at all Perquimans
County schools, the Bank of
N.C., and Peoples Bank.
Prizes for the event will
include a ten-speed bicycle for
whoever nets the most money;
a 9-inch black and white
television for second place; a
watch for third; and cash for
fourth and fifth places.
All entrants riding at least
$25 worth will recieve a free t
shirt.
Last year's Bike-A-Thon
netted more money per capita
than any other county in the
state.
Proceeds from the funding
effort will go not only toward
helping to eliminate cystic
fibrosis, but also toward the
Heart Fund, the Cancer
Society, and the March of
Dimes.
A rain date is set for June 22.
County eyes alternative ed project
The Perquimans County
School System, in conjunction
with Gates County and
Edenton? Chowan Schools, is
seeking $851,679 in federal
funding far a two-year project
designed to aid students who
are prone to failure in regular
academic settings.
The proposal, entitled "Tri
County Project CONCERNS.''
(aa acronym for Cooperative
Organisation to meet the
Needs of Children
Educationally and Render
Necessary Services) seeks to
offer a combination of the
alternative approaches that
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CONCERNS coo tact person,
the three-county cooperation
is necessary in order to realize
a comprehensive program
that would otherwise be
economically unfeasible
within one small school
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At present, each county
otters a different program
geared toward motivating
potential failures or drop-oats.
Under Project CONCERNS,
each of these programs would
be available to students
between the ages of 12 and II,
and implemented in all three
One of these programs,
presently in operation in
Perquimans County, la
Positive Growth Counseling,
munication and social skills,
and improved atademic
performance for grades six
through nine. The counseling
seeks to foster positive per
sonal, social, and academic
growth before the experience
of prolonged failure leads to a
crisis situation.
Another program, presently
in operation in Gates County,
is called Shaping Positive
Attitodes Challenges
Everyone (for grades 8
through 12). SPACE is
essentially an in-school
suspension designed to
minimise non-productive
social behavior through the
pro vlsie? of an alternative
environment for temporary
placement. Its purpose is not
to punish, hot to help those
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that could possibly result in
suspensions.
Another program, presently
underway in Chowan County,
is an Alternative School for 7
through 12th graders who are
current or potential failures
not only academically, but
socially as well. This program
is designed for those who have
been determined as unsuitable
for the traditional educational
process, and for which an
alternatiave setting is the only
appropriate means for
mainstreaming them into
society. An alternative ap
proach would include the
creation of a night school for
those students who find it
necessary to work during
traditional school hours.
In addttion to the im*
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piemeniauuo ui owse existing
programs in all three coun
ties, Project CONCERNS
fvould provide School
Psychological Services, Staff
Development and Retraining
Services, and Business
Industry Coordination, which
would assist working-age
pupils in securing em
ployment and on-the-job
training.
A goals statement prepared
by the Project CONCERNS
committee proposes that 24
months after implementation
in the three counties, a 25
percent reduction would occur
in the following area*: un
derachievement, negative
attitudes, lack of career
preparation, lumber of ab
senteeism and truancy,
number ^^^eBSio>>'
of non-promotions, and the
number of juvenile court
cases.
Kornegay admitted that
such goals may be considered
"lofty," but he added that an
implementation of such
alternatives was a very
necessary addition to the
present school system.
"There are many kids who
have problems at home, are
forced to work, and that find
for many reasons it is difficult
to attted a structured school,"
said Kornegay, "and so one of
the things we're striving for is
a program to decrease drop
outs, truancy, expulsion, and
things of thi* nature."
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