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THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY Volume II, No.27 USPS 42?-(H0 Hertford, Perquimans County, N.C. Thursday, July 6, 1989 30 < Farm Extension service holds day camp page 7 Feature Highlights of July 4th festivities page 10 Community Community happenings page 3 Local Briefs Schools to offer new program The Perquimans County school system is very excited about the new Parent-Preschool Program which will begin in August 1989. The program will be established in a small setting in Perquimans High School. Approximately 10-15 adults who did not graduate from high school and who have a four year old child will be selected to enroll. The parents and children will be involved in separate educational activities during the morning ses sion and will be in a joint session for the purpose of parent-child bonding during the afternoon. The program will be staffed by one early childhood teacher, an early childhood assistant and one adult education teacher. These in dividuals will function as a team and will plan appropriate activ ities. There are two major goals of the Parent-Preschool Program. One is to raise the educational level of parents of preschool children through instruction in basic skills and child care; the second is to pro vide a preschool program for four year ofds. The issues of economics and par ent education demonstrate needs that could be addressed more ef fectively if addressed simulta neously. The family must be strengthened as an economic unit and as an educational support sys tem that provides a positive envi ronment for its young. Many first time parents need to be better prepared to assume their roles as parents. The (rid chiche "when we become parents, the in structions come with the baby," is not necessarily true. When to feed, when to change, obtaining check-ups and appropri ate immunizations are the tip of the iceberg when it comes to begin ning the long road to parenthood. Parents, as well as their chil dren, will benefit when afforded the opportunity to gain skills and knowledge that they need to be come more effective parents and teachers of their young children. The program is designed to meet the needs of parents and children by addressing the following: 1. to increase academic skills by working toward acquiring a GED (Graduate Equivalent Di ploma) and to increase job related skills necessary to obtain employ ment. 2. to enhance parent-child bonding and communication. 3. to increase parent skills in coping with the stresses of child care. 4. to increase the awareness of other appropriate agencies. 5. to increase parental knowl edge about home and child man agement. 6. to reduce family isolation and increase peer support. Lack of basic education has a profound effect on the ability of the members of a family to cope with the problems and stresses of mod ern society. Inadequate literacy skills affect the individual's ability to budget and keep a Job in today's world and these same individuals will need more skills to be able to compete in the world of the future. - Illiteracy and poverty contribute to other serious problems in so ciety such as Juvenile delinquency, teenjaregnancy, drug use and poor Local star to open concert Barbara Jean and the Band of Gold will open WCMS Radio's 35th birthday party to be held Sunday, July 9 at Town Point Park in Nor folk, Virginia beginning at 12:00 noon. The band, along with DJ Eric Stevens from WCMS, will be front ing the show for singfer-soogwriter Lee Greenwood. Barbara Jean is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Layden of Belvidere. Aerobics Happy Birthday , America! Annual 4th Fest is success in Perquimans The Perquimans County Jaycees sponsored one of the most success ful fourth of July celebrations in the history of Perquimans County Tuesday. The day was filled with fun for all ages. The festival began with a flag raising ceremony. The Hertford Fifes and Drums served as color guard for the occasion. Those gath ered recited the pledge of alle giance and sang the Star Spangled Banner. After that, members of three fire departments, Bethel, Hertford and Winfall, participated in a competi tion. The first phase was a relay race to see how fast three contes tants from each department could put on full turn-out gear.The three teams tied in that event. Next, three members from each department entered a four-legged race. All three firefighters on each team were tied together and raced down the track and back. In the final contest, two mem bers from each team competed in the "wedding" race. The two com petitors left the starting line to gether. One then got in a wheelbar row, while the other navigated it through a series of cones. They were hit by a "rain shower" (bucket of water) on their way to the wedding dinner, which consis ted of two raw hot dogs for each. After their delicious meal, the happy couples again started on their iourney through another se ries of cones. One more time, they hit a rain storm. Finally, they reached their destination and jumped into a bed full of flour. The Bethel Department won the overall competition, with Hertford and Winfall tying for second place. Each department was presented Peoples Bank and Trust Com pany Monday honored their cus tomers with a Customer Appre ciation Day. A banner high across Church Street thanked the bank's customers for their patronage. On the parking lot, Becky Winslow, bank em ployee, serves Coke to thirsty customers. Rogers awarded two Citadel scholarships A 1989 Perquimans High School graduate has accepted two schol arships from the Citadel, a mili tary university in Charleston, S.C. Derek Rogers impressed Citadel baseball coach Chal Port, who of fered him an athletic scholarship of over $5,000 per year. Rogers will be catching, and Port has hinted that he has a very good chance of being on the starting roster for the 1990 season. Port had spoken with Rogers several times about playing on his team, and even traveled to Green ville to watch him play in the American Legion league. After Port's visit, Rogers visited the school, which is near his grandnpa rents' homes, and Port offered the scholarship. Rogers accepted. Most valuable player and lead ing hitter awards were earned by Rogers this past season at Perqui mans. He was named to the all-con ference and all-Albemarle teams. Other colleges, Mt. Olive and At lantic Christian, offered Rogers athletic funds, but Rogers chose the Citadel over them. Rogers also received the Leigh WinsTow, Sr. Scholarship worth $3,000. Leigh Winslow, Jr., a Cita del alumnus, set up the schol arship. It is awarded to Citadel stu dents only. Winslow had wanted the funds to go to a Perquimans student for years, but Rogers is the first in many years to attend the prestigious military school. An honor student, Rogers grad uated fourth in his class and was nominated for the John Morehead Scholarship. He made it to the sec ond round of competition for that honor. Although Rogers says he real ized his choice means attending a very strict, regimented school, he feels it will be a positive experi ence. He will be required to wear uniforms to class, follow stringent rules, cut his hair, participate in marching drills and leave campus only on week-ends during his fresh man year. He will also join the Air Force ROTC upon his admission. Graduation from the Citadel does not include an obligation to enter the military, although it does provide the training and skills nec essary to excel if graduates choo seto enter military service. Rogers plans to major in civil en gineering. He is the son of Clarence and Carolyn Rogers of Hertford. "Just for Kids 1-99" was a huge success at the 4th of July celebration. Here, oostumed dancers invite children in the fudience to participate in the show. f with a $25 donation for participat ing, while Bethel took the $100 win ner's prize also. Twenty dollars was raised for the N.C. Boys and Girls Homes in the horseshoe pitching competi tion. The winning team was Curtis Trueblood and Laura Dixon. Children's games, including a Huck Finn Fishing Contest were held after the Fire Department Competition. Several youngsters lined the riverbank trying to catch fish, but the fish were not cooperat ing. To the children's disappoint ment, no fish were caught. Other tames included a clothespin drop, alloon stomp, bat spin, baseball throw and balloon-between-the knee relay races. The children's games were capped off with a pa rade around the park with the chil dren playing kazoos and carrying balloons. The Spirited Truth Gospel Sing ers entertained the crowd with a fine performance of religious tunes. After their songs, the Rev. Raymond Wittman of Hertford United Methodist Church spoke. The pie-in-the-face auction was next, and raised almost $700 for the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Cen ter. Parker Newbern, Bill Cox, Y.Z. Newberry, Larry Swindell, Joe Lothian, Joe Tunnell, Georgia Stallings, Sara Winslow, Carolyn Rogers, Edgar Roberson, Wayne Layden, Pete Riddick, Roger Whit ley , Ray Wittman and Erie Haste were the great sports who took the plates of whipped cream in the face for charity. The bids ran high, with Joe Tun nell and Y.Z. Newberry raising the most money at $132 and $115 re spectively. A band from Virginia Beach, Phoenix, played for the street dance. The group played some thing for everyone. They enter tained both before and after the fireworks "Just for Kids 1-99" performed during the band's first break. Clowns, animals, even Alf and ET were on hand during their perfor mance produced and sponsored by Betty Bright of One Stop Auto Parts. The group pantomined and danced with the children who were delighted with the show. To introduce the fireworks, the group brought in "Uncle Sam" (Brandon Hurdle) and "Miss Lib erty" (Lisa Ward), while dancing and singing to a medley of patriotic songs. Then came the fireworks. Al though rain had showered the crowd gathered to watch the an nual show, that didn't stop them for sticking around to catch the pyro technics which lighted the night sky over the Perquimans River. New to the fourth festivities this year in addition to the firemen's competition were kiddie rides, a booth set up by Chowan Hospital, snow cones, popcorn and appear ances by a friendly turtle and alli gator. Loads of hot dogs, hamburgers and soft drinks were consumed during the day, keeping Jaycee concession stand workers busy. Chris Peckham, overall chair man of the festivities was very pleased with the outcome. "I think everybody enjoyed the different types of entertainment, especially the pie auction and firemen's com petition," Peckham commented after a long day in Missing Mill Park. "The pie auction went su per," he added. The Fourth Fest is an annual event sponsored by the Perqui mans County Jaycees in Missing Mill Park. Study says no one personal trait indicates work absenteeism By: Carlos Bonilla If the conventional wisdom is that a single major personal trait such as gender, age or race will in dicate how often an employee is likely to miss work, the conventio nal wisdom is wrong. In fact, most major personal tra its - including marital status and education or such lifestyle consid erations as use of alcohol or to bacco - fail to reliably predict indi vidual employee absenteeism, according to a study we at the Na tional Chamber Foundation (NCF) recently released. Simply because an individual is a member of a group - women, mi norities, consumers of alcohol, con sumers of tobacco - looking at the average incidence of absence among those groups will tell you nothing about the particular be havior of individuals. The Foundation study analyzed a target population of 33,000 adult jobholders drawn from the Na tional Center for Health Statistics' 1983 and 1985 Health Interview sur veys. The study focused on personal traits and characteristics that are easily observable or easily learned by an employer when evaluating a job applicant. The major traits were gender, age, race, education, family income and marital status. Lifestyle characteristics measured were use of alcohol, use of tobacco and physical activity. When all the traits were ana lyzed simultaneously in the NCF study, the groups defied objective comparison. What was "true" for a group when one and two traits were compared - for example, women who are married or men who are young - became shrouded in qualifying statements as additiu nal traits and characteristics were added and analyzed. Moreover, when shifting the fo cus to individuals, only an individu al's physical fitness or relatively high income were found to corre late with markedly lower rates of absenteeism. However, family in come is of limited value as an indi cator of absenteeism because job openings tend to attract men and women with similar income histo ries. The study found there was no as sociation between alcohol and to bacco use and work loss. More than two-thirds of the peo ple in the sample described them selves as consumers of alcohoj products. The more universally a trait is held, the less predictive power it is likely to have in identi fying an individual with high or low absenteeism. The insignificance of smoking was surprising. Smoking has re ceived widespread public disap proval in recent years, has come under widespread attack and has ceased to be publicly acceptable in many circumstances. Notwithstanding this, smoking has no statistically significant effect on work loss. Clearly, employee absenteeism is related to a company's effi ciency and financial well-being. As most personal traits and lifestyle characteristics fail as reliable pre dictors of absenteeism, what should guide an employer in hiring, if the goal is to reduce absente eism? Each job applicant should be evaluated as an individual. If pos sible, the individual's prior work record should be reviewed. In this way, an employer not only will have an improved chance of reduc ing absenteeism, but of hiring the best person for the job. Hospital laboratory accredited The Laboratory at Albemarle Hospital has been awarded a two year accreditation by The Com mission on Laboratory Accredita tion of the College of American Pathologists (CAP), based on re sults of a recent on-site inspection. The laboratory's director, Dr. Jerry C. Pickrel, was advised of this national recognition and con gratulated for the "excellence of the services being provided." Albe marle Hospital is one of the more than 4,000 CAP -accredited labo ratories nati^iwide The CAP Laboratory Accredita tion Program, begun in the early 1960s, is recognized by the federal government as being equal to or more stringent than the govern ment's own inspection program. Inspectors examine the records and quality control of the labo ratory for the preceding two years, as well as the education and qual ifications of the total staff, the ad equacy of the facilities, the equip ment, laboratory safety, and laboratory management, to dater mine bow well the laboratory is
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