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* ?> Rescue squad visits schools .1 see pg. 14 FEAtUttE Magic show held for students see pg. 15 Immunity Harrell award to be given see pg. 2 THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY Volume 58, No. 40 USPS 428-080 Hertford, Perquimans County, N.C. Thursday, October 6, 1988 30 CENTS Local students to represent N.C. in tournament Perquimans County Special Olympics received the honor of be ing invited to represent the State of North Carolina at the Third Annual McKesson Invitational Soccer Tournament to be held this week end in Memphis, Tennessee. Some of the athletes going will leave Thursday night on American Air lines and the rest will leave on Fri day and fly on a Burlington Indus tries Corporate Jet. The Perquimans County team has won the state championship in soccer for the past two years at the State Summer Games. Students going from Perquimans County include: Tyrone Johnson, Clinton Brother, Maurice Brinkley, Tracy Cohen and Jackie Ward. The i guys are in for the time of their liv es.. ..flying in an airplane, staying in a hotel, eating in restaurants and playing soccer, soccer and still more soccer (hopefully winning gold). After Saturday's Tourna ment, they will travel to "Mud Is land" a giant historical park full of interesting museums, then back to the hotel for an Awards Banquet. After an exhausting 3 days "Team North Carolina" will fly home and because Monday is a Teacher's 1 Workday, probably sleep all day! Way to go guys, we're proud of you! Good Luck! ! ! Clean-up scheduled The Hertford Grammar PTA will sponsor a clean-up day, October 8th beginning at 8 a.m. at the .school. Parents and children are urged to come out for a day of fun and work. Bring rakes, hoes, shov els, pine straw, etc. Pack a bag lunch, drinks will be provided. Pirates beaten by Knights " Once again the Pirates had a tough time on Friday evening as Charles Lee of Currituck scored a touchdown and kicked a field goal leading the Knights to 12-0 win over Perquimans. Strong defensive play by the Knights limited the Pirates to 46 yards in total offense, all on the ground, including just three yards total offense in the second half. Currituck scored early in the first half when Lee kicked a 33 yard field goal making the score 3 0. The score remained 3-0 through out the first quarter and the first half. Currituck went to the locker room with a 3-0 lead. Despite a rousing half-time talk by Coach White, the Pirates just couldn't seem to come together Friday, and Currituck scored a touchdown early in the third quar ter. Once again, it was Lee who scored for the Knights, on a 51 yard drive into the end-zone, carrying the score to 9-0. A good extra point kicked by Lee took the score to 10-0. Currituck captured the game early in the fourth quarter when Tommy Schuster, defensive end for the Knights, sacked Perqui mans quarterback Derrick Rogers in the end zone for a safety. The Pirates seemed to be flat on Friday evening, and according to Coach White he felt the team lacked intensity. "The team was extremely flat," said Coach White. "We played with zero intensity, zero emotion, and zero enthusiasm, and you can't win that way," said White. Fall festival planned The Perquimans Central School PTA's anniial Fall Fun Festival will be held on Saturday, October IS, 1968 on the school grounds. The activities of the festival will begin Saturday morning at 10:00 a.m. and will end at 3:00 p.m. on Saturday afternoon. The festival will feature all kinds of fun and activities for the kids, everything from face-painting to pony rides. There will be lots of items for sale, and again this year the festival will feature a haunted house. Area craftsmen w'll also bring their many talents to the festival, and everyone will have an opportu nity to do some early Christmas shopping. So on Saturday, October 15th, no matter what your interests, the Perquimans Central School's Fall Fun Festival will offer something for your enjoyment. So mark you calendars and make plans to attend. Members of the Perquimans County band are seen as they march in the Peanut Festival parade on Saturday. Richard O'Neal of the drumlineis seen in the foreground. "Marching Pirates" take third in Peanut Festival band competition The "Marching Pirates" once again represented our country with an outstanding performance at the Edenton Peanut Festival Satur day, October 1. They received 5 awards for their performance. In Class AA, they won 3rd place band. Auxiliary awards were presented in 3 catego ries with the "Marching Pirates" placing in each. First place was awarded to the percussion line for their skilled performance. The Color Guard with their el egant array of colors and pcrcis sion came in 3rd place. Third place was given to Christy Waters in the Drum Major cat agory. They were also awarded a plaque for their performance in the parade. This makes the second straight contest in which the Marching Pi rates received awards in all cat agories that they entered. The band alos received a standing ovation for their pre-game perfor mance at Currituck High School Friday night. They will be performing at seve ral of the home games in the future and the next contest will be at In dian River High School at Chesa peake, Virginia, in the Tidewater Festival of Marching Bands, Satur day, October 15. Becky Perry is seen with her display of feed sack dresses. Becky will be participating in the festival for the first time this year. Festival of Skills to begin on Friday The annual Festival of Skills, sponsored by the Perquimans County Extension Komemakers will begin this Friday. The craft show and sale will be held on Friday and Saturday at the old FCX building on Grubb Street extended in Hertford. On Friday the festival will kick-off at 12 noon and will continue until 6:00 p.m., and on Saturday the show and sale will run from 10:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m.. This year's festival will feature some old and new craftsman for the show. Celia Copeland of Tyner will of fer an abundance of handmade items including pillows, aprons, tree ornaments and wreaths. Dallas Jethro and Wilber Jordan from Chowan County will have woodwork booths including chil dren's toys, magazine racks, stools, planters and shelves. Charlie and Marie Hurdle of Hertford will offer hand-painted landscapes and seascapes. One of the new craiters to this year's festival will be Becky Perry. Becky's display will feature aprons, hand-sewn items, and chil drens clothing with a nostalgic ap peal. Becky loves history, and her unique dresses have a very un usual country flair. In addition to having a unique homespun style, the dresses are also made of a most unusual fab ric, feed sacks. Becky obtained the feed sacks quite by accident, they were in the bottom of a box her husband, Pete, brought home from an auction sale, but after laundering them, and with encouragement from her v 4 - v ' husband, she began turning the feed sacks into lovely garments. The feed sacks feature a wide va riety of vibrant colors, and unique patterns perfect for the long-sleeve smock type dress Becky makes. Becky loves the country look she has chosen in patterning her dresses, and she feels that her country looking pattern gives the "total look" to a feed bag dress. These are not the first dresses Becky has made using the country look, but they are the first ones she has made from feed sacks, and each one is unique, featuring care fully chosen buttons, and coordi nating trim carefully chosen by Becky. In the past Becky has made her dresses from calico prints and perma press fabrics, but these dresses are the first she's made from the 100 percent cotton feed sacks. "I think that the pattern I've cho sen and the feed sacks give the to tal look to the feed sack dress," says Terry. Feed sack dresses were common in the "old days" according to Perry, and she remembers wear ing feed sack dresses carefully made for her by her grandmother. While most people may remem ber feed sacks being white, Perry says it was not unusaual for the sacks to be printed. Feed sacks were often recycled by farm fami lies. The families used them for making sheets, pillow cases, dresses and more. Becky is particuarily proud of her dresses. "I've made these dresses to look the way I'd like to see little girls dressed, and the way I dressed my girte," Becky says. Each of the dresses has a look all its own. Many feature hand made piping, antique buttons, and some feature white feed sack collars and cuffs. Becky loves to sew and it is evi dent in her dresses. She first learned to sew from her grand mothers, and when she was a little girl she would sit on her grand mother's lap, pulling pins from material, and sewing scraps for quilts and other odds and ends. After she was married, Becky began sewing for her children, she continues to sew for her two daugh ters today. She claims she has made everything from E ton suits for boys to a wedding dress for one of her daughters, and you can tell by looking at her dresses, that each one has been a labor of love. The dresses are extremely unique, and are reminisicent of Laura Ashley dresses, which fea ture the country look, calico prints, and a variety of styles. Besides be ing unique the dresses are also very rare. "Finding all of these feed sacks was a once in a lifetime thing," says Becky. Becky's dresses will feature prices ranging from $25.00 to $50.00, but considering the time in volved in making them, and their unique style and charm, their price is a bargain. Becky's other items, such as cup towels and aprons, will be less expensive, and available for anyone who would just like to have something made from the old feed sacks. For more information on the fes tival contact the Perquimans County Extension office at 426 5428. Perquimans EMS set to begin serving county Paid rescue sqaud members are on call in Perquimans County to day as county commissioners com pleted the final steps to set up the squad on Monday. Commissioners approved the hiring of two full-time emergency medical technicians; Darlene Per kins Phelps of Perquimans County and George Lassiter of Chowan County. County Manager Paul Gregory said the paid squad began opera tion on Monday morning. Commis sioners decided several months ago to hire paid rescue squad members to answer calls during the daytime. Volunteer squad members told commissioners that they no longer had the manpower to continue an swering daytime calls, but the vol unteer squad will continue to an swer calls from 6 p.m. -6 a.m. during the week and on weekends and holidays. Last month, commissioners hired the coordinator for the paid squad, Milton Dail. Along with the two other full-time paid members, commissioners approved the hir ing for six part-time squad mem bers. Gregory said there will be no ex tra cost to the county for profes sional liability insurance because the present policy used for the vol unteer squad will also cover the paid squad members. Commissioners agreed several months ago to begin charging all patients for use of the rescue serv ice, including calls for the volun teer squad. Volunteers told com missioners that many residents have abused the service in the past by using the squad in non-emer gency situations. Commissioners agreed that if they did not charge for the service at night and on weekends when the volunteers are staffing the squad, the abuse would continue. Gregory said the basic fee will be $50, with additional charges de pending on if the vehicle left the county limits, if squad members have to wait at a location, and if oxygen is used. "We are just looking to recoup half of our costs, and that may be optimistic," Gregory said. Mobile Home Park Ordinance: A developer of a mobile home park in Woodville asked commissioners to consider several changes in the mobile home park ordinance. H.V. Cole, who is the owner of the Long View Estates Mobile Home Park, said he developed 25 lots three years ago and is now in the process of adding 16 more lots. He said he was unaware that the new lots would have to meet the stan dards of the county ordinance until he was recently contacted by Gre gory. Cole said two regulations in the ordinance are too restrictive; the requirement that all streets be built according to state standards and a requirement that a concrete slab be placed under every mobile He said he could build a road (or one-third of the cost if it did not have to meet state standards, and half the cost if it merely had to be ^"in have to build these roads the way you want them to be built, the lot rent would have to be $140 a month, and that is not affordable, Cole said. . Cole also said no other county in the state requires that concrete "pads" be placed under every mo bile home, and he said it causes a problem if one mobile home is moved out and a another mobile home of a different size is moved in. He also said there was no way to anchor a mobile home if it is placed on the concrete pad, but Gregory said that was not true. Commissioners Thomas Nixon, William Wray Chappell and I Dur ward Heed said they believed Cole had some legitimate complaints, and they asked Gregory to have the planning board review these areas of concern and come back before the commissioners with a recom mendation. Chairman Lester Simpson warned against making any changes to the ordinance, which was adopted last year. This would be the first mobile home park de velopment that would come under the jurisdiction of the new ordi nance, Gregory said. 4 'The purpose of this ordinance is to provide good roads for the peo ple. We worked long and hard to get this ordinance, and if we start varying from what we have, we haven't got anything," Simpson said Gregory said he hopes the com missioners do not change the ordi nance. "It is a good ordinance and if developers put in good roads to begin with, we won't have the prob lems with pot holes." Emergency medical services rep named: Milton Dail was named as the emergency medical services rep resentative for the Albemarle Commission regional EMS council Nursing home advisory committed Five members were re-appointed to the Nursing Home Advisory Committee. They are; Raymond Needham, Estelle Felton, Clara Schofield, Helen Mae Murray, and Joyce Riddick. Winslow hired: Tommy Winslow was hired as the county buildings and grounds su pervisor. Road forwarded to NCDOT : Commissioners agreed to forward a request to the Department of Transportation from residents on Tuscarora Trail to have the road added to the state system. The road is located in the Little River Shores are of the New Hope Town ship. School board discusses school facility standards Local school board members met Monday evening with Bill Meekins, a member of the State Board of Education, to express their concerns over newly passed school facility standards, and pro posed equimpment standards for the North Carolina schools in the future. The newly approved facility standards, which were passed by the state board of education in June, were developed for the state board of education by the North Carolina Department of Public In struction's division of school plan ning under the direction of Daryl Spencer, and are extremely spe cific. According to Perquimans County School Superintendent Dr. Mary Jo Martin, she and the local board had a great number of con cerns after reviewing the stan dards, as did other school officials in North Carolina, these concerns prompted them to invite Meekins to speak to the board Monday. Meekins told the board on Mon day that the legislature had man dated during the last session that the board adopt facility and equip ment standards, and that after careful consideration of many fac tors by Daryl Spencer, director of school planning, Spencer had taken the bull by the horns and developed the adopted facility standards, and the proposed equipment standards. Meekins stated Spencer had con ducted numerous public hearings on the issue, reviewed other states' standards, and completed draft upon draft before the standards were presented to the board for their adoption. "The standards are pretty self-explanatory," said Meekins. ''The standards were adopted knowing that they would not be ev erything to all people and school systems," said Meekins. "Our im mediate concern was to pass the standards, and to ensure that in the future school facility problems, such as the ones in Pasquotank County would not develop through out the state. The local school board voiced concerns jointly about such issues as lack of teacher workspace, and questioned Meekins about some if any flexability in the standards. The board stated that they felt the new standards would be ex tremely tough for a system such as Perquimans to meet due to limited funds. The local board also stated that concerns that in order to pro vide a good quality program are all of the things specified in the stan dards necessary. The board members stated that these standards are supposed to be the minimum yet they feel they are excessive. Using an example of a dance studio which must have a dance floor in addition to 26 desks, Dr. Martin pointed out that she felt that there were some unneeded items in both sets of standards Meekins told the board that due to the comments and feelings being voiced around the state from local superintendents and boards of edu cation that the standards, both ap proved and proposed are to be re viewed by the state board again. Local boards have until October 17th to submit in writing to Raleigh their concerns, and on November 1, 1988, the state board of education will hold a public hearing in Ra leigh. Following Monday's meeting Meekins stated that none of the standards are set in stone, and that there is a good possibility that they may be revised, but he added that the local board must make their feelings known, so that they will be taken into consideration if changes in the standards are made. l
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