THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY
Volume U. No. 41 USPS 42I-0M
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Rebecca Spivey, art teacher at
College of the Albemarle (far
left) and students Phyllis Young
and Beverly Stallings, work on
the wall of the Hertford Hard
ware building.
Perquimans celebrates lunch week
The Perquimans County Schools
are celebrating National School
Lunch Week like other schools
throughout the nation and their
special emphasis is "Eat Well, Your
Body can Tell."
This theme ties right in with the
philosophy of the School Food Ser
vice program in Perquimans County
where the name of the game is get
ting the children to eat, according to
LaClaire Rogerson, Child Nutrition
Director.
"We have to get these children to
eat,"she said. More people are eating
she said, with 1300 lunches being
served during the month of Sep
tember. Last year 85 to 90 percent of
the student enrollment was fed in the
lunchrooms, according to Rogerson.
The school foods program is the
only unfunded program in the
Perquimans system, according to
Rogerson. Food, supplies, salaries
and equipment are paid for from
federal reimbursments and funds
generated by lunch sales. The county
also has an allotment of 10 cents per
plate for USDA commodity foods.
Approximately 77 percent of the
students are receiving free or
reduced meals which means that the
county is reimbursed for what the
students don't pay. Current prices for
school lunches are 40 cents for
reduced lunch, M cents for kin
dergarten through sixth grade; 90
cents for grades 7 through 12 and $1.25
for adults.
Central Grammar School is on the
Type A food system which means
that they get aU five of the food en
trees with no choice. The other
schools, Hertford Grammar,
Perquimans Union and Perquimans
High operated on the "offer versus
serve" plan in which students can
choose any three, fonr or five food
items being offered.
Students can also purchase sup
plemental items such as cinnamon
rolls, peanut butter cake, juice,
drinks, desserts and chefs salads.
For breakfast, students are offered
choices everyday. Choices of a
bread, fruit and milk are offered
are very attractive said Rogerson.
The staff also takes great care in
making the foods attractive becausc
if it doesn't look good, the students
won't eat it, according to Rogerson.
Rogerson encourages parents to
visit the school lunchrooms to see
how the school foods system has
changed over the years. Mrs.
Rogerson and the school food staff
does everything they can to provide
good attractive meals for the
students each day to keep the
customers coming back !
Feeding North Carolina's children
lunch and breakfast at school is one
of the larger business enterprises
across the nation.
Some 2,016 schools serve lunches
and 1,599 schools serve breakfast too.
About 180,150 young customers (27
per cent) eat their breakfast at
school each day. Some 742,797
students (73 per cent) eat a
nutricious lunch daily. All these
meals keep about 12,000 employees
busy daily.
Nearly 48 per cent of our students
pay for their lunch, about 8 per cent
receive a reduced-price -lunch, and 44
per cent eat this meal without
paying. Breakfast appears to be a
really needed meal, especially by the
82 per cent who eat it at no charge as
well as the 6 per cent who receive
their breakfast at a reduced-price,
and the 12 percent of the students
who purchase their breakfast. The
average cost per plate last year for
breakfast was 61 cents; average cost
per platefor lunch was $1.09. The
total cost of the two programs was
almost $100 million.
Breakfasts have been served in
North Carolina schools since 1968-69
when the first 84 pilot program
schools began serving 11,110 children
daily. When a school breakfast
program is initiated, the simplest
menus which meet federal
requirements are usually ac
customed to the program, menus
broaden to choices within the bread
cereal and fruit-vegetable or juice
components. Most schools serve
unfavored milk at the breakfast
m?M. Meat or neat alternate items
are ti eluded about twice a week. 1
The school lunch program began in
North Carolina in 1946. The pattern
for a lunch lequre* 2 ounces of meat
or meat alternate, * cup of fruit or
vegetable or juice, bread or
equivalent to total ? servings per
>roek, art H pint of fluid milk.
of the
ended dally dietary
requirements for chidren aged 9 - 12
(about 4th - 7th grades). Portion
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Voters to decide fate
of recreation program
I By VAL SHORT
Perquimans County voters will
have the opportunity to deride the
fate of the county recreation
program on election day. November
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On the ballot is the Perquimans
County Parks and Recreation Tax
Referendum asking voters to vote for
or against a county funded super
vised recreation program
If the referendum passes, the
county will fund the recreation
program, according to County
Commissioner Welly White, but if it
is voted down. "I don't see any way
that we can fund it," White said.
White, who supports recreation,
said the county is now funding about
$30,000 of the recreation budget The
town is providing $10,000. which could
mean, according to White. " If the
budget stays like it is, an extra penny
could be added to the tax rate "
The purpose of the tax referendum
said Board of Commissioners
Chairman Joe Nowell is to "more or
less get feelers from the people."
"I personally feel that the people
? will pass it. I think that recreation
has been good for the county and I
| certainly am in favor of it." Nowell
said. He continued that recreation is
I a part of the continued growth of the
county and he is not in favor of en
ding the program.
Members of the recreation com
mittee are concerned that the wor
ding of the ballot is misleading.
They contend that the referendum.
if passed, will not give the com
missioners any more power than
they already have and that the real
issue on the ballot is whether or not
the people want a county recreation
program.
"There's nothing you can do about
the ballot now, but mark yes on it,"
commented Mary Ruth Smith, a
member of the recreation committee
and an avid supporter of the county
recreation program.
According to Smith, the committee
is launching a campaign to inform
the public about the recreation
program and to make them aware of
w hat the ballot really means.
Recreation supporter Wayne
Winslow said the county recreation
program is a necessary function
within the commuriity and said it
"helps entice industry to the com
munity."
"I don't feel the voting will be a fair
measure of whether or not they need
the recreation program because
most of those who benefit cannot
vote." Winslow said.
Hertford Mayor Bill Cox also
supports a county funded supervised
recreation program. "Recreation
department brings people into our
town and community and has a
definite effect on our economy." he
said
"1 think we especially need this in
Perquimans County where there is
not a great deal of commercial
recreation, like theatres, skating
rinks and pools," he continued.
County commissioner Lester
Simpson supports recreation but is
against county taxpayers having to
foot the bill. He feels participants in
the recreation programs should pay
for them.
"I think it's a good thing to have
the people vote to find out how they
really feel. We've always had it
(recreation) and I think we'll always
have it," Simpson commented.
In addition to providing athletic
programs and events like youth and
adult basketball, baseball, football
and volley ball, the program
provides programs in arts and crafts,
gymnastics, tennis lessons and
tournaments, T-ball for children
from 5 to 8 years old, special events
and activites and programs for
senior citizens. These events are
open to all county residents.
According to statistics provided by
the recreation department, 64 per
cent of the total participation in
Recreation Department events from
September 1980 to February 1982 were
county residents. Thirty-six percent
were Hertford residents.
Breaking down the figures, for
senior citizens events 59 percent of
the participants were county
residents; in adult events, 66 percent
were county residents; and for the
children's events 65 percent live
outside of town.
Recreation committee members
fear that voter participation will be
down because this is an off-year
election and are urging everyone to
vote.
Council supports recreation
By VAL SHORT
The Hertford Town Council voted
unanimously to support a county
supervised recreation program and
went on record in support of a "yes"
vote in the upcoming referendum
"I feel it should bo county funded,
lock, stock, and barrel." commented
councilman Jesse Lee Harris.
The action came during the
council meeting Monday night.
The referendum will be part of the
upcoming election November 2.
which will give voters a chance to
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vole for or against a county-funded
recreation program.
in other business the council re
appointed John London to the ARPD
C Board and appointed Joe Towe
White to the 503 committee of the
Albemarle Development Authority.
The council also approved the
purchase of a personal liability in
surance policy covering elected
officials. police personnel and
volunteer firemen. The policy will
cos! $1,419 for $1 million dollars of
coverage.
Councilmen also approved the
purchase of a flow meter for the
Waste Treatment Plant for $4,000.
The council approved $100 for the
Newbold-White House and voted to
run underground electrical service to
the site manager's trailer at no cost.
In other business, the council:
?discussed the new parking or
dinance, which would make a
parking violation a civil penalty.
?passed a resolution in support of
the Coastal Resource Commission.
?discussed annexation of areas
surrounding the town and directed
Mayor Bill Cox and town attorney
William Bentley to investigate.
Receiving a kiss of approval
from little Anna Snort of
Hertford, is "Annie," who
will be on sale with her other
doll friends at the Festival of
Skills October 22 and 23.
Miriam Haskett is making
the dolls for her booth at the
Festival, which will be one of
thirty booths on display.
(Photo by Val Short)
Annual F estival of Skills in near future
The Second Annual Festival of
Skills will be held in the old White's
Boarding House building on Church
Street in Hertford On Friday and
Saturday, October a and S, the old
boarding bowse will come alive with a
variety of craft items.
Over thirty craftsmen and
organisations have respoaded to aa
invitation issued by The Perquimans
County extension Homemakers
Association to Join in this year's
festival.
The doors will he opeo from M a.m.
10 1 p.m. on Friday to a woadirhanai
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wood craft, ceramics, dolls,
macrame. basketry, smocking,
quilting, cross stitch, dough art and
much, much more. The Festival will
continue on Saturday from 10 a.m. to
Sp.m.
Craftsmen who will demonstrate
and sell their wares are as follows :
Mrs. Bain North will again
demonstrate her talents with pontage
stamp aft.
Khrta Ferry will he selling his
homemade hearth brooms
Nmty lehha will have a variety of
machine embroidered skirts.
Margie ud Aniie Wood will
demonstrate how to make thier
smocked items and pillows.
At Behridere-Chappell Hill Fire
Department Ladies Auxiliary will be
selling a variety of canned goods
such as pickles, relish, jellies.jams,
beets and preserves.
LMnt B. Barber will have
sconces, clocks, book-ends, recipe &
pencil holders, children's TV stool,
puaxies. candle holders, and many
more typea of woodcraft lor sale.
Kahgr Stanley will demonstrate her
skill at crocheting and will be selling
sweaters, vert, hats, and scarfs
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Ann White and Miriam Haskett will
again be selling their adorable dolls.
Sonny Fletcher will be selling and
demonstrating bis pottery.
Joyce Hobtw will have a display of
her handmade baskets for sell and
will show you how to make your own.
Louise Knight and Patricia Benton
will have felt ornaments and
crocheted items, Christmas and fall
decorations.
Kmma Burke will have a variety of
crafts including macrame,
grapevine wreaths, stuffed items and
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