THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY
Volume 59, No.43
USPS 428-080
Hertford, Perquimans County, N.C., Thursday, October 25,1990
30 cent:
Feature: Youth
.learn important lessons
through 4-H activities: Page g
Sports: Lady Piratds
end season with loss
to powerful Lejeunei page s
Briefs
Chapter 1 PAC
meeting planned
The Perquimans County Schools
Chapter 1 Parent Advisory Council
will be having their first district
meeting of the 1990-91 school year
on Thursday, Oct. 25 at 1 p.m. in the
Board of Education building on
Edenton Road Street. Dorothy Hon
eyblue will be the new district
chairperson for PAC.
-The presenter for Thursday’s
meeting will be Anne White, Voca
tional Director for the Perquimans
County Schools. Mrs. White will
talk about Parent Involvement.
Chris Barber, Chapter 1 Director,
will provide an update on the
Chapter l program. If you are in
terested in attending either of these
meetings and do not have transpor
tation, please contact Estell Felton,
parent Advisory Council Coordina
tor, at 426-5741.
farm Bureau to meet
"The Perquimans County Farm
ljhireau will hold it’s annual meet
ing Oct. 30 at 7 p.m. at the ARPDC
Building in Hertford.
'Ann Cohen, of North Carolina
Farm Bureau, will be the guest
speaker for the meeting. Her topic
will be based on the county’s reeva
luations.
- Other areas of discussion will in
clude updating the resolutions on
commodities such as peanuts, cot
ton, livestock, poultry, Held crops
and horticulture.
Refreshments will be served af- "
ter the meeting.
All Farm Bureau Members are
encouraged to attend.
Turkey shoot set
There will be a Turkey Shoot on
Saturday, Oct. 27 at 7 p.m. at Per
quimans Middle School. Proceeds
will benefit the Middle School Ath
letic Department.
Auxiliary organizing
The Ladies Auxiliary Committee
for the Belvidere-Chappell Hill Vol
unteer Fire Department is cur
rently enrolling new members. If
interested please call Vicky at 297
2796 or Jennifer at 297-2901.
Arrests made
The Perquimans County Sheriff’s
■; Department made the following ar
rests:
- On Oct. 10, Charlie Rufus Spel
lman, 25, of Wynne Fork Courts,
Whs arrested and charged with one
count of failure to appear on a Pas
quotank County warrant. He was
placed at Albemarle District Jail in
lieu of a $200 secured bond.
‘ On Oct. 17, Khan Delaware
Hunter, 25, of Route 1, Box 402, Bel
' videre, was arrested and charged
■ with one count of misdemeanor lar
- ceny. He was placed in Albemarle
- District Jail in lieu of a $200 se
cured bond.
On Oct. 17, Renee Toon, 34, of
v Route 2, Box 87B, was arrested and
charged with misdemeanor com
municating threats. She was re
leased on a written promise to
: appear.
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Central School festival is success
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Photo by Susan Harris
One of the highlights of the Fun Fall Festival was this pony cart driven by Central School parent
Michael Rucker. Rucker and the pony made numerous trips around the school grounds, much to the
delight of children from a few months old to teenagers. Festival chairmen tagged the event a huge
success.
The annual Central School
PTA Fun Fall Festival was a
success, according to co-chair
men Chris Kraelvic, Lynn Las
siter, and Randy Lassiter. The
sunny autumn day was perfect
for outdoor fun and games, the
chairmen said.
The children spent the day
munching on popcorn, riding
on the pony cart, and playing a
wide variety of games. Adults
Preferred to browse in the
ooths to find one-of-a-kind
bargains. Soccer players were
transported back ana forth be
tween the four games sched
uled at Perquimans Middle
School and the Fun Fall Festi
val.
Before the festival officially
opened at 10 a.m., festival
goers were scoping out the food
and wares on tne school’s front
lawn.
Grand prize winner for the
raffle was Mimi Weeks, who
won a quarter side of beef. The
winning ticket was drawn dur
ing the closing minutes of the
festival.
The chairmen praised the
parents and teachers for their
hard work and cooperation on
the first PTA project under
taken since the school reorga
nization. The festival took in
over $4,000. Profits will be used
to enhance the educational and
physical environment at Cen
tral School.
Photo by Susan Harris
Fourth grade students line up behind the starting flagduring the
fourth grade bicycle safety rodeo held at Central School last week.
Bike safety promoted
Riddle: What has two wheels, is
considered a vehicle and can be
driven by almost anyone??? A bi
cycle!
fourth grade teachers Karen Fer
rell, Cheryl Green, Brenda Holley,
Beverly Kimber (substitute), Katie
Lightfoot, Betty Morris and Vir
ginia Whedbee and approximately
160 students at Perquimans Central
School have recently been involved
in a 4-H School Enrichment Pro
gram on Bicycle Safety. During
each session, students have been
learning safety skills and rules for
riding their bicycles on town and
rural roads.
Video tapes, worksheets, project
books and a bicycle skill rodeo have
been used to promote bicycle
safety. All students will receive a
certificate and ribbon once all ac
tivities have been completed.
Awards will be presented to two
students in each class having the
highest test scores on the bicycle
safety test anf for the two best pro
jectbooks per class. Hardees of
Hertford also provided coupons for
a free hamburger for the 160 stu
dents involved in the program.
School enrichment programs like
Bicycle Safety do not take place of
school work, but serve to enrich
reading, science, and language arts
skills.
PCHS Marching Pirates sweep band competition
The Perquimans County High
School Marching Pirates wowed
audiences in Washington Saturday
at the first annual Colonial Band
Festival The Pirates took first
place in class AA, competing
against five bands.
The unit also earned first place in
horn line, drum line, color guard,
and place marching and maneuver
ing, and third place drum major.
Second place class AA band went
to Havelock High School. Raleigh
Sanderson High captured third
place honors.
The competition will be featured
on WITN-TV channel 7 on Sunday,
Nov. 4 at 6 p.m.
The Marching Pirates will per
form on Nov. 2 at the PCHS home
coming and on Nov. 3 at the
Eastern North Carolina Band Fes
tival in Roanoke Rapids.
Band director David Ziemba,
color guard instructor John Merrit
and PCHS principal William By
rum congratulated the students on
their fine performance.
Bethel firemen
win contest
Bethel Fire Department took
first place in the water bucket slide
and second place in. the water bar
ture first pkceKjjH^ Albemarle
Firefighters Associaion competi
tion on Oct. 13.
The Hertford Department took
first {dace in the fire hose soccer
contest.
In the water bucket slide, fire
fighters slid buckets down a wire
suspended twelve feet off the
ground. The water barrel fill saw
firefighters dip water from a pool
with 10 guart pails, then pass the
pails up the ladder to team mem
bers on a high stage. Enough water
to fill a 55-gallon barrel was passed
up the ladder. Firefighters used
fire hose streams to direct the ball
in the soccer event
Photo courtesy of Linda Bundy
The PCHS Marching Pirates swept the first annual Colonial Band Festival in Washington Saturday,
earning first place in class AA.
' Photo courtesy of Peoples Bank
Audry Bunch (left) and Becky Winslow (right) were recently honored
with 20- and 10-year service awards, respectively from Peoples Bank
& Trust Company. Rick Tobin, City Executive, was on hand for the
presentation.
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PCHS prints
newspaper
"The Pirate Press,” the newspa
per published by Perquimans High
School students, has hit the stands.
For several years, there was no
school newspaper at Perquimans
High. Seeing the need for a publica
tion, faculty and administrators de
veloped a class with the purpose of
producing a student publication.
The publication goes beyond the
scope of many high school newspa
pers, offering timely news briefs,
club news, student interviews,
sports, book and video reviews, fea
tures and an editorial.
The September-October edition
was well-written, well-edited, and
artfully designed. The November
issue is scheduled to go to press
Monday.
Anyone wishing to obtain a copy
of the newest publication in Perqui
mans County may contact any
member of the staff.
Area ministers
plan crusade
The Rev. Hank Williams was in
Perquimans County recently to set
the stage for the Hank Williams
Youth Crusade scheduled for May
5-S in Hertford.
The Perquimans County Ministe
rial Association is involved in what
ministers hope will be a spiritual
awakening and revival for youth in
the Albemarle Area. The Rev. Ray
mond Needham is the general
chairman for the crusade which
will be held at Memorial Field.
“We are concerned about the
young people and ministering to
them,” Needham said of the Asso
ciation’s decision to invite Williams
to the county.
Williams, a native of Indiana,
was saved at the age of seven and
called by God to preach at nine. He
has served as a minister of music,
youth pastor, and senior pastor. He
and his wife, Mary Ann, served
with the Billy Graham Evangelistic
Association as workers at Amster
dam ’86, a conference for itinerant
evangelists from all over the world.
The Williams believe that they
have been called to minister to
youth. Williams said that the youth
are the pace-setters for the church
today. The 31-year-old evangelist
challenges young people and adults
to face life’s problems and pres
sures with an eye on the gospel.
Over the past four years, Wil
liams has preached over 200 youth
and church revivals, traveling over
150,000 miles. He has held over 40
campaigns, conventions, and cru
sades, preaching over 1500 times
across the country to many denomi
nations. Williams led a very suc
cessful crusade in Lincolnton, N.C.
in September.
Williams will return to Hertford
on Feb. 28 to lead a kick-off banquet
at Perquimans High School.
Local committee chairpersons
are Needham; Samuel R. Swinney,
executive secretary; William
Clements, prayer chairman; Gene
Boyce, finance chairman; Donald
Crowder, counseling-follow-up
chairman; Ray Wittman, program
chairman; John London, atten
dance chairman; Wayne Winslow,
special activities chairman; Wayne
Nixon, facilities chairman; and Su
san Harris, publicity chairman.
Child safety
seats recalled
The recall of Evenflo child safety
seats by the manufacturer has
prompted the National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration to
urge owners of several Evenflo
models to install new buckle assem
blies on the seats.
The Evenflo recall involves more
than three million safety seats
made between April 15, 1985, and
April 22,1990.
The recall was issued after it was
discovered that the seats posed a
danger t<; small children in vehicle
accidents. The seats sometimes fail
to latch while appearing to be secu
rely buckled.
“This can give users a false sense
of security that the child is pro
tected,” said NHTSA Administra
tor Jerry Ralph Curry. “However,
if the buckle is not completely
latched, it can release during a
crash and substantially reduce the
protection provided to the child. ’ ’
Evenflo is providing buckle as
sembly repair Kits free of charge.
Curry said owners of safety seats
involved in the recall campaign
should promptly call Evenflo for
the repair kit at 1-800-837-8926. Own
ers also can write Evenflo at 1801
Commerce Drive, Piqua, Ohio
45356.
me manufacturer needs tne
model number and the manufactur
ing date to determine if the buckle
assembly needs replacement. The
information is found on a label at
tached to the side or back of the
seat.
The recall includes infant-only
seats with model numbers 441,442,
443, 444, 445, 456, 458, 201, and 202;
convertible (infant-toddler) car
seats with model numbers 401, 402,
403, 404, 405, 406, 407, 408, 409, 411,
412. 413, 415, 416, 417, 453, 454, 221,
and 228; and booster seats with
model numbers 470,471 and 242.
Curry said consumers should
continue to use safety seats until
they install the repair kits.
“After buckling in a child, ensure
that the buckle is fully engaged by
vigorously pulling on the crotch
strap,” Curry said.
Qustions about this campaign or
any other safety recall campaign
should be made to NHTSA’s toll
free Auto Safety Hotline at 1-800
424-9393.
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