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THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY Votumo 5t Ho. 41 USPS 42t-0t0 Hfttord, Porquimant Comity, N.C., Thursday, Octobor 34. IMS 25 CENTS Library \ System Celebrates Anniversary Celebrating a 30-year heri tage of service, Board members of the Pettigrew Regional Library System were recently honored during a luncheon held at Missing Mill Park. Host ing the affair was the Per quimans County Library, the youngest member of the region. The Honorable Representative Charles Evans of Nags Head was the keynote speaker for the event. (Photos by Jane B. Williams.) Festival of Skills to offer y unique selection of crafts By JANE B. WILLIAMS There are only 52 shopping days left until Christmas, and as many of us begin our prepara tions for the largest gift-giving day of the year, the occurance of the annual Festival of Skills should provide us with adequate motivation to get into the shop ) ping spirit. The festival will offer a host of skillful creations in more than 15 displays. Individuals and groups throughout the area will partici pate in the event, bringing back many of the "old favorites" and adding new items to this year's selection. Among the craftsmen partici pating will be: Tasy Penner of Virginia Beach with stuffed dolls and animals, pillows, bibs, potholders, and wooden toys. Long's Country Crafts display ing wooden lamps, lampshades, folk art amimals, peg towel racks, and stencil towels. Belvidere Extension Home makers will offer miscellaneous crafts . Municipal voters 9 to decide city races By JANE B. WILLIAMS Voters in the newly annexed areas of the Town of Hertford will get there first taste of munic ipal politics as they head for the polls on November 5 during the city's Municipal Election. 0 The new voters will join in the decision of the city's voters to j elect two members to the Hert ford Town Council. T. Erie Haste, Jr., former town council member, and the Rev. John H. London, Jr. have Joined incum This ' Week ... Autumn la here and it's time to turn back the hands of time as we bid farewell to Daylight Savings Time. Clocks should bo sot back one how before you retire on Saturday night as we re-oat^. Eastern Stan dard Time at t:M a.m. M Sooday. bents John Beers and Joe Towe White, Jr. in their bids for elec tion to the two available seats on the council. According to the chairman of the Perquimans County Board of Elections, W. L. Tilley, Jr., vot ers in the town of Hertford will cast their ballots at the Perqui mans County Couthouse, with the assistance of Registrar Carol Baker. Winfall voters will decide a mayorial contest between two term Mayor Lloyd Ray Morgan ? and political newcomer C.W. "Bill" Barlett. Incumbent Councilmen Wil liam Wray Miller and Jack Sy mons face no apposition in their bids for re-election. Registrar Evelyn Ann Smith will oversee the ballot casting at the Winfall Community Building. Polls for the November 5 Mu nicipal Election will open at ?:? >.m. and will ck?e at 7:30 p.m. AJ1 registered voters residing in the respective townships will be eligible to vote in this election. Celia N. Copeland of Hertford will present pillows, tree orna ments and moss wreaths. Poole's Grove Extension Homemakers of Hertford will bring wreaths, baskets, dolls, or naments, and purse pillows. Nancy Madre of Hertford will offer crocheted baskets, angels, and snowflakes. Geneva Elliott will have ink drawings, note paper, and Cab bage Patch dolls. A miscellaneous offering of crafts will be presented by the Holiday Island Extension Home makers . Baked and canned goods, can dies, pickles, jams, and jellies will be presented by Bethel Ex tension Homemakers and Snug Harbor Civic League. Cabbage Patch Dolls, towel holders, and door stops will be of fered by Midge Stuller of Hert ford. Elvis Perry of Hertford will display handmade brooms. Gardner Senior Village of Edenton will offer assorted Christinas crafts, cake decora tions, beadwork, crochet items, wood blocks, useful towels, pom porc animals. Various tables, wind mills, toys will be shown by Merlin Kingston of Elizabeth City. Elizabeth S. Thach of Hertford will present items in cross stitch and Scherenschnitte. Various craft items will be of fered by Memory Lane Senior Citizens Club of Hartford. The Festival, sponsored by the Perquimans County Extension Homemakers, will be held to morrow (Friday) at the Albe marle Commission Building\on Church Street Extended in Hert ford. The day will get underway at 10:00 a.m. with a host of local crafts to select from. Admission is $1.00 for adults, 50-cents for 1 aiii J - ^ 21 |lMim A students, ana dMam unaer o will be admitted free. Asbestos discovery halts work on PCHS renovation By SUSAN HARRIS Progress has been halted on the high school construction-ren ovation project due to the discov ery of asbestos insulation at the site, according to Perquimans County Schools Superintendent Pat HarreU Harrell told the Board of Edu cation in special session Monday night that Nance, Inc., sub-con tracted by project general con tractor Comanco, Inc. to demol ish the wings of the circa 1928 building, found asbestos on the pipes under the stage area and in the boiler room behind the gyn masium. The company has dis continued demolition efforts until the asbestos is removed. The asbestos poses no hazard to students or personnel at the high school; however, Nance and Comanco refuse to take the risk of having their employees come in contact with the substance. Harrell received informal bids for the removal of the asbestos from four companies: Southeast ern Shelter; South Insulation; Nance, Inc.; and Harris, Hum phrey and Moore. The bids ranged from $27,700.00 to $69,000.00. In addition to hiring a contrac tor to remove the asbestos, the law requires that an industrial hygienist be employed to insure that the substance is removed and disposed of in compliance with state and federal regula tions. Two hygienists submitted bids. The Board approved the bid of ELB and Associates of Chapel Hill. The company charges $500.00 per day to supervise the project, 25-cents per mile for travel, and $25.00 for each sod sample taken in the affected After discussion of the removal bids and the procedures pro posed by the bidders, the Board authorized Harrell to negotiate with low bidder Harris, Hum phrey and Moore. The costs of removing the as bestos were not included in the original construction-renovation proposal. Chris Barber and Paul Ward updated the Board on the Career Development Plan. The Board approved a project policy which lists the following goals: l)to fol low an on-going process of identi fying the degrees of effectiveness of teachers, 2)to provide teach ers feedback and assistance which will help them develop professionally, 3) to accumulate information which will help the principals and the evaluator de termine if participating teachers will proceed onto particular lev els of the Career Ladder. The plan calls for four unan nounced visits by the evaluator, and four by the school principal, be made to each teacher's class room during the school year. Ob servation records are kept by both Barber and the principal. In addition, a minimum of two formal visits, one of which must be announced, will be made by Barber and the principal. These visits must be preceded by a pre conference, and followed by a post-conference. Records of these sessions will also be kept. Assistance will be offered to tea chers by the principal as needed throughout the process. The cumulative observations will be analyzed by the evaluator and the principal. Teachers must earn at least a "satisfactory" rating in all performance areas in order to progress up the lad der. The four differentiation levels include a two-year initial period, a one-year provisional period, and a minimum of three years each in first Career Status I, then II. A level III is being studied. Salary will increase one or two steps on the state-established schedule as participants move up the ladder. Further pay increments may be awarded for advanced de grees and certificates, for addi tional responsibilities.and an ex tended school year. Once the program is imple mented state wide, all new em ployees must participate; how ever, participation in the pilot programs is by choice. There are plans to include non-certified personnel in the program after its state-wide implementation for certified employees. Commissioners change policy By JANE B. WILLIAMS An additional item and an am mendment were added to the county's personnel policy by the Perquimans County Board of Commissioners on Monday night during their regular business meeting. County employees will now be eligible for up to 30-day coverage on their hospitilization insur ance, paid by the county, in the event that they are absent with out pay. Under the recently ad ministered county personnel pol icy no provision had been made to handle insurance premiums for personnel on leave. Under the additional item a county em ployee on leave will have their insurance premium paid by the county for the first 30-day period. After that period if the individual desires to continue their insur ance coverage they will be re quired to pay the premium them selves. An ammendment to the cur rent policy will allow county em ployees up to three days paid sick leave in the event of sickness or death of an immediate family member. The county deems im mediate family as those individu als who reside in the employee's household. Originally scheduled for the meeting was a discussion with Senator Marc Basnight regard ing the issues brought up in the last General Assembly that af fect county governments. Sen ator Basnight had to cancel his appearance due to illness. The Board, upon the request of Perquimans County Tax Super visor Keith Haskett, established a $10.00 accessment fee against anyone presenting worthless checks to the county in payment of their tax bills or water bills. A notice will be posted in the Tax Department. In a discussion of old business the Board appointed Walter Humphlett to fill the unexpired term of R.S. Monds, Jr. on the Albemarle Commission Board. Minnie B. Taylor was appointed to fill Monds' term on the Albe marle Commission's Aging Advi sory Council, a group that deals with nutrition for the elderly. Commissioner Chairman W. W. White, Jr. was appointed to fill Mond's term on the College of the Albemarle Advisory Committee. A motion was made and car ried to change the third Monday night meeting time of the Board to 7:00 p.m. beginning with the November 18 meeting, due to the ending of daylight savings time this week-end. Woman of the Year Mrs. J. Emmett (Lucille) Winslow was hon ored at ? reception on Sunday by the Hert ford Basinets and Professional Women's Club as the BPW Woman of the Year. Among those who spoke of Mrs. Winslow's outstanding qualifications for that honow were the Honorable Charles Evans and Ver non James, members of the N.C. House of Representatives; W. W. White, Chairman of the Perquimans Ceutaty Commissioners; Hertford Mayor, W.D. Cox; and R. L. Ste phenson, city executive of Peoples Bank and Trust in Hertford. Those who spoke of Mrs. Wlnslow and her contributions, not only to Perquimans County, but to the entire area, also added personal glimpses into the woman that has had such an impact in this community. (Photo by Jane Williams.)
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