THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY
Volume M, No.* USPS 428-0*0 Hertford, Perquimans County, N.C.Thursday, February 11, 1988 ? .
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Tigers win conference
see pg. 8
4-H camp scheduled
see pg. 2
Drug workshop set
see pg. 5
Jamboree
scheduled
Joe's Place will come alive this
Sunday with the sounds of "In
truder", "Albemarle Sounds", and
the "Cms in Coyotes" during the an
nual Perquimans County Jaycees
Valentines Day Jamboree.
'? The jamboree will begin at 3:06
p.m. and will feature barbecued
chicken and all the rutins, and an af
ternoon of good music.
Tickets for the jamboree are (8.00
per person, and can be purchased
from any member of the jaycees or
at Joe's Place in Hertford.
Hardison to
visit Hertford
On Febrary 16th Perquimans
County will play host to Mrs. Arleen
Hardison.
Mrs. Hardision is the wife of Sen
ator Harold Hardison, who is running
for Lt. Governor of North Carolina.
Local "Friends for Hardison" will
be hosting a luncheon in her honor
from 12:00 until 2:00 p.m. at the Albe
marle Commission Building.
For more information on the lun
cheon contact Jean Humphlett at 426
5374.
Winslow attends
federal NBA
conference
Seventeen North Carolina school
board members were participants in
the National School Boards Associa
tion (NSBA) Federal Relations Net
work (FRN) 15th annual conference
held in Washington, D.C., January
Si-February 2.
Clifford Winslow of Perquimans
County school board was among
those attending. All are members of
the FRN and the North Carolina
School Boards Association, which is
an affiliate organization of the NSBA.
In addition to attending seminars
designed to improve the board mem
bers' legislative awareness and im
pact, the confA-ees met with their
representativies and senators to dis
cuss federal issues that affect local
school districts.
The NSBA Federal Relations Net
work consists of up to three local
school board members in each of the
43$ Congressional districts across the
United States. Network members are
selected by their state school boards
association to follow federal legis
lative issues and serve as advocates
for the needs of local school districts.
Throughout the year, members of
the Federal Relations Network keep
their representatives and senators
informed on issues from educational
funding programs to tax laws that
may affect school districts. Each
winter, they attend a three-day con
ference that includes in-depth brief
ings on current legislative issues as _
well as an opportunity to meet with *
members of Congress.
The NSBA is an organization of
more than 96,000 local school board
members nationwide is more than
15,000 local school districts. The pri
mary mission of the NSBA is the ad
vancement of education through lo
cal' citizen control of -and
accountability for -the nation's public
schools. Only in North America is ed
ucation policy decided by local school
board members directly accountable
to the community.
Tbe North Carolina School Boards
Association, headquartered in Ra
leigh, is composed of 140 local boards
of education. The association serves
it's. 901 local school board members
with traingin workshops and semi
nars,' school board policy devel
opfftent, representation of school
board interest before the General As
sembly and state and federal agen
ctm, and with various publications.
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The stated purpose of the NCSBA is
to initiate and augment positive edu
cational Improvements.
Perquimans host for Quiz Bowl!
Members of the Perquimans County Quiz Bowl team took second place last Wednesday in the
district competition. Above members of the team are seen during their match with Plymouth
High School. Perquimans defeated Plymouth in the first round of competition.
Perquimans hosts quiz bowl Wednesday
Do you know who the 14th president
of the United States was? Do you
know the chemical symbol for
tunston? Well these were just some of
the many questions asked at the dis
trict quiz bowl last week.
This year's district quiz bowl was
held at Perquimans High School on
Wednesday, and competition in
cluded teams from Columbia High
School, Creswell High School, John
A. Holmes High School, Perquimans
High School, and Plymouth High
School.
This year John A. Holmes High
School of Edenton won the competi
tion, but Perquimans High School
gave them a run for their money tak
ing second in the competition.
The quiz bowl is an annual event,
which is sponsored each year by the
Pettigrew Regional Library system,
and consists of round robin type of
competition between the participat
ing teams. Matches consist of three
rounds, and a team must lose two
matches to be eliminated from the
competition.
Perquimans did well on Wednes
day. In the first round of competition,
the team did well defeating Plym
outh High School by a wide margin,
the Perquimans team advanced to
the final round of competition by de
feating John A. Holmes, but Edenton
beat Perquimans twice in the final
round of tough competition for their
quiz bowl victory.
Officials for this year's quiz bowl
included: moderator, Frank Rob
erts, Perquimans County, Judges:
Sylvia Brobst, Washington County,
Jean Humphlett, Perquimans
County, ana Sarah Tynch, Chowan
County. The quiz bowl moderator for
this year's competition was Maria
Hoffman, Perquimans County li
braian.
Awards for the quiz bowl were pre
sented to the teams by N.C. State
Representative, R.M. "Pete"
Thompson of the first district.
Members of the Perquimans
County quiz bowl team include: Cal
vin Hobbs, captain, Kathy Ayscue,
Molli Fehrman, and Stuart Rayburn,
alternates for the team are Troy
Boyce, Tripp Brown, Ernie Hobbs,
and Leonard Mansfield.
The team sponsor is Carroll M.
Harrell. Congratulations to the team
for their performance.
Vocational education week observed
Each year during National Voca
tional Education Week, the Perqui
mans County Schools Vocational De
partment has displayed and
exhibited students' work. Vocational
Education Week will be observed
February 20-13, 1988. "This year
more than ever we need to exhibit
Student Work and inform the general
public how vocational tax dollars are
spent," stated Kenneth L. Stalls, di
rector of Vocational Education for
Perquimans County Schools.
Student exhibits, activities and
practical demonstrations will be con
ducted in the Southgate Mall, in Eliz
abeth City, beginning on Wednesday,
February 10, through 6:00 p.m. Sat
urday, February 13.
Stalls also outlined the offerings in
the Perquimans County Schools,
which include Business and Office
Education, with a model program in
Computer Science, Automotive Me
chanics, Home Economics, Indus
trial Arts, Agriculture, Welding,
Drafting and a Occupational Explo
rational Program in the junior high
school.
The purpose of the Fair is to inform
the general public of extensive and
comprehensive vocational programs
in the schools offered to students that
desire and need vocational training
in order to continue their education
or compete in the labor market.
The Theme of the Exhibit is, Voca
tional Education - "Learning a liv
ing." Approximately 35 programs
will be on display representing ap
proximately 10 counties.
Director and
students attend
band clinic
Over the weekend, six of local band
students, and David Ziemba, our lo
cal band director had the honor of
participating in the North Carolina
Bandmasters All Eastern District
band clinic.
Students, from throughout junior
and senior high schools in Eastern
North Carolina, cho6en to participate
gathered this weekend at East Caro
lina University's music school for the
clinic and concert, which ended the
clinic on Saturday evening.
Ziemba participated this weekend
in the clinic, and directed the junior
concert district band on Saturday
evening, during their concert at
Wright Auditorium. Ziemba was cho
sen last year from directors through
out the district, during the clinic, for
his expertise and knowledge, and
was asked to return this year to di
rect the junior concert band during
their performance.
Ziemba and the students who at
tended the clinic participated in
David Ziemba directed the ail-eastern district band this
weekend at the eastern district band clinic. Above Ziemba
conducts the junior high concert band as they prepare for
their concert on Saturday evening.
classes from 9:00 ntil 4:00 on Friday
and Saturday. The students chosen
from Perquimans County for the dis
trict band included: Machete Davis
and Trade Brown, senior high school
concert band, Matt Matthews, junior
high school symphonic band, Renee'
Turner, Kacee Keyser, and Sean Vail
junior high school concert band.
Nelson appointed to state pharmacy
board during recent winter meeting
Eden ton ?Chowan Hospital's Di
rector of Pharmacy Wallace E. Nel
son Was installed on Thursday, Feb
ranr 4, as a member of the board of
drtctnrs of the North Carolina So
ciety of Hospital Pharmacists during
its animal winter meetly in Winston
Salem. the six-member board is
efccted by the more than 900 mem
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its fiscal and policy matters.
tMson has been the pharmacy di
lector at Chowan Hospital Kince 19U,
?rr-T'l that position after serving
as Staff pharmacist there for four
yati*. He received his Bachelor of
Science Degree in Pharmacy from
the University of North Carolina -
Chapel Hill in 1976. An active mem
ber of the North Carolina Pharma
ceutical Association, he is also past
president of the Northeastern Caro
tins Pharmaceutical Association, he
has served as secretary-treasurer of
the North Carolina Graduate Chapter
of Kappa Psi Pharmaceutical Fra
ternity since 1977.
A native of Hertford, Nelson is ac
tive in several civic organisations,
and most recently was appointed to
the College of the Albemarle Founda
tion'! Board of Directors this year.
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He was named to the COA Board of
Trustees by Governor James Martin
in 1987. Nelson also received Martin's
appointment to the Governor's Coun
cil on Alcohol k Drug Abuse Among
Children k Youth. He is a member of
the Hertford Lions Club, the Ameri
can Lung Association, the Bethel Hu
rt tan Club, and the Hertford Baptist
Church.
He and his wife, Freda Godwin Nel
son, a teacher in Perquimans County
Schools, are the parents of a son,
Ethan Blake, age 5, and a daughter,
Lauren Elisabeth, age 13 months.
Wallace E. Nelson
Power outage leaves
county in the dark
Many residents of Perquimans
County found themselves in the dark
Saturday, when a problem at North
Carolina Power's Winfall sub-station
caused a power outage for mo6t of
the county.
The problem occurred at approxi
mately 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, when
according to North Carolina Power
officials a faulty insulator knocked
out the transformer causing resi
dents in Hertford, Winfall, and a few
in Perquimans County to be without
power.
Later that afternoon at approxi
mately 5:15 p.m., utility workers
from N.C. Power tried to transfer the
electric load to the second trans
former at the Winfall sub-station, but
it also went out under the additional
load, causing many more residents of
Perquimans County to lose power as
well as northern parts of Chowan
County.
Power was restored to most resi
dents of the county at around 9:00
p.m. on Saturday evening, and by
11:30 p.m. everyone except the resi
dents of Hertford, and a few resi
dents of Winfall served by the tiltiy
lines from the Hertford utility plant
had power restored.
Repairs were finally completed
early Sunday morning in Hertford,
and by 8:00 a.m. everyone had
power.
According to Mayor Bill Cox of
Hertford, the problems at the Hert
ford uitility plant were directly
caused by the problems with the Win
fall sub-station. Cox added that the
problems which caused Hertford to
be without power for so long were not
in the town's lines
According to town officials, county
officials, and law enforcement offi
cers in the area, no significant prob
lems resulted from the black-out.
Most businesses closed when the
power outage occurred, and accord
ing to local officials, people just
stayed at home and waited for the
lights to come on.
CoostructioJJ^<Jiew
b?iW.n?
Members of the Perquimans
County School board learned last
Tuesday that the new school adminis
tration building may be completed as
early as July.
Superintendent Pat Harrell told
board members at at a special board
meeting last Tuesday evening that
all the contracts totaling $215,450.00
have been signed, and that the gen
eral contractor, Rick Gardner of
Elizabeth City, N.C. may begin work
ing on the project as early as the end
of this month.
The project is expected to be com
pleted in six months if all goes well,
and there are no unexpected prob
lems
The school board had hoped to have
the project already underway, but
bids for the project came in over the
alotted budget, and school board offi
cials had to make several changes in
the building plans before work on the
project could begin.
The new administration building
will be constructed on a lot adjacent
to the high school just off of Edenton
Road Street in Hertford.
School board officals also learned
Tuesday evening that federal regula
tions have changed regarding asbes
tos removal from school facilities.
New regulations adopted earlier
this year by the Environmental Pro
tection Agency are requiring that all
buildings used as school facilities
must be inspected for asbestos by a
licensed and E.P.A. approved inspec
tor.
Sperintendent Harrell told mem
bers of the board that regardless of
what school systems had done in the
past regarding asbestos removal, the
buildings would have to be inspected
for any form of asbestos. In the past
schools were only required to look for
and remove "friable" asbestos, but
Harrell told members of the board on
Tuesday that the new regulations re
quire that all forms of asbestos be
checked for in the buildings.
Harrell went on to tell board mem
bers that the new regulations state
that all the buildings must be in
spected, and a plan adopted planning
for it's removal by October of this
year. The new regulations also state
that the plan must be implemented
by the school systems by October of
1989.
Harrell told board members Tues
day that the new regulations
shouldn't really cause the school sys
tem any major problems, and that
there should be no cause for great
concern because any asbestos found
in the building could be dealt with
through an approved maintenance
plan. For example, years ago floor
tile used in schools contained asbes
tos, according to Harrell the new reg
ulations would not require removal of
the tile, but there are certain mainte
nance procedures for dealing with
that tile.
Employees who work for the
schools doing any kind of mainte
nance work would also be trained in
the new maintenance procedures out
lined in the plan.
Harrell stated that he had no idea
what these new regulations would
cost the county, but stated that school
systems throughout North Carolina
feel that the work involved will be
quite expensive.
In other business, the board of edu
cation took the following action:
members of the board approved the
purchase of a stage curtain for the
Perquimans Middle School in Win
fall, the board voted to purchase an
all-risk insurance policy being of
fered by the North Carolina Board of
Education. The new policy will cover
fire, lightening, and will also offer
coverage for theft and vandalism.
The board learned Tuesday, that
work will begin soon on the roof at the
high school administration building.
Harrell told members of the board
Tuesday that an inspection done by
an independant engineering firm had
confirmed that the roof was not put
on the building properly. A copy of
the engineering report, pictures, and
a letter stating that the board will go
to court if necessary will be sent to
Coley Roofing Company, Inc. of Con
necticut. Coley has been contacted on
several occasions by the board and
refuses to work with school officals
regarding the roofing problem. The
roof, which was installed just over
eight years ago, is covered under a 10
year warranty. According to the in
dependant study, it has been deter
mined that Coley is responsible for
the repair work to be done on the
building. Harrell told members of the
board that he would keep them
abreast of the situation regarding the
roof, and Coley 's response to their
latest letter.
There being no further business,
the board meeting was adjourned.
Weather forecasters are predict
ing cool clear weather for the re
mainder of the week.
Temperatures will feature highs
in the 30s and 40s with lows in
the 20s and 30s.