THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY
Volume 61, No. 11
Hertford, Perquimans County, N.C., Thursday, March 12,1992
35 Cents
Special:
Home improvement
section offers tips
on sprucing up: Page 9
Sports:
Pirates take fall
in first tourney round;
girls in semis: Page e
Business:
Murphy to open
consignment shop at
Morgan site: Page 3
Briefs
Work day planned
There will be no school for
Perquimans County High School
students on Friday, March 13.
This will be a work day for tea
chers and staff. This applies to
high school students only.
Safety course offered
There will be a free Hunter's
Safety Course on March 30,
March 31 and April 1 from 6:30
10 p.m. at the Perquimans
County Agriculture Building.
For more information contact
Raymond May at 426-4998.
Board to meet
Elizabeth City State Univer
sity's Board of Trustees will con
vene on Thursday. March 12 for
its annual spring meeting begin
ning at 11 a.m. in the Board
Room of the University's G.R.
Little Library.
Library board to meet
The Pettigrew Regional Li
brary Board will meet on Mon
day, March 16 at 8 p.m. at the
Washington County Library In
Plymouth.
Floral arrangements
The cemetery committee re
quests that all Christmas ar
rangements and decorations be
removed from Cedarwood Ceme
tery.
Homemakers host guest
v^i'^ffhe Bethel Extension Home
makers will host an Information
nal meeting on March 16 at 7
p.m. at the Snug Harbor Club
house. The topic of the meeting
will be Solid Waste Management
and Recycling. Jerry Parks, solid
waste management director of
the 'M-County Landfill, will be
the guest speaker.
Memory Lane to meet
The Memory Lane Senior
Club will hold Its monthly meet
ing on Monday. March 16 at
11:30 a.m. at Tuck’s Restaurant
In Elizabeth City.
Town seeks Input
Town councilmen announced
Monday night that they will ini
tiate an Adopt-a-Clty-Street Pro
gram. The town Is looking for
volunteers willing to sit on a
committee to oversee the pro
gram.
Museum plans program
The monthly preschool pro
gram at the Museum of the Al
bemarle will be held on
Thursday, March 19 at 10 a.m.
- This program Is for children
ages 3 and 4 and serves as an
Introduction to the museum.
This month the program will be
"The Wind.” The children will
hear a story and make a plnw
heel. The program Is free but
reservations are required. Call
the museum at 335-1453 for
more information or to register.
Bake sale planned
The Clover Patch 4-H Club
will hold a bake sale on Satur
day. March 14 in front of Dar
den’s Department Store. It Is
scheduled to begin at 9 a.m.
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Photo by Susan Hams
Huck Finn adventures
The mighty Mississippi is a long way off, but Brett Vaug- along the shores of the Perquimans River. They were spied
han (left) and John Sareo seem to be able to play just fine enjoying the spring weather Monday afternoon after school.
OM teams perform well at regional meet
Forty-nine enthusiastic students from
Perquimans Central School. Perquimans
Middle School and Perquimans High School
traveled to Greenville Saturday to compete
in the Coastal Regional Odyssey of the Mind
Competition at East Carolina University. A
total of 100 teams participated in the five
problem areas in three grade-level divisions.
"Needless to say, the Perquimans teams
represented the school system well and dis
played a lot of creativity and motivation."
said Jeanie Umphlett, Community Schools
Coordinator and a member of the Coastal
Region OM committee. “All of the students
worked together cooperatively, displaying
team effort, which is part of the OM philos
ophy. The coaches and parents were very
supportive of the students, providing en
couragement and cheering them on as they
did their best.”
Three of the teams earned the right to
compete at the state level next month. The
team from each of the three local schools
that chose the “Atlas" problem, which in
volved building a weight-bearing structure
out of a few grams of balsa wood, took first
K' e. The middle school “Alice in Omer
” team captured second. They wrote
creative plays centered around adventures
In the mythical Omerland, a spin- off of
Wonderland.
A team from Central School and a team
from the middle school entered the "Omu
ment" competition, requiring the teams to
build a momument to a person, place or
thing and write an original play to tell why
their choice should be memorialized. Central
School's "Hybrid Relay" team was charged
with building five vehicles that would travel
down a track and pop a balloon at the end.
All of the teams competed in a sponta
neous section. In this segment of the com
petition, five members from each team enter
a room with only the judges. They are given
a problem involving words or building sim
ple structures, and a specific amount of
time to complete the task assigned. Answers
are scored according to their creativity.
"We are very proud of all of our OM
team members and coaches who have
worked together diligently in preparation for
the competition.*' Umphlett said. “We wish
four of our teams well as they advance to
the sate OM competition to be held on April
13 at Western Carolina University.
"All of the team members and coaches
have proven that they hare that special
something that it takes to be a life-long
problem solver and winner."
Teams
Central School
Atlas - Sarah Harris. Keith Cullipher.
Wendell Thomas. Alan Lewis. Amber Eure.
Dayton Caddy, and Neil Eure. Coaches:
Johnnie Caddy. Dale Harris and Burt Eure.
Omument - Courtney Harris. Eric By
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rum. Blair Winslow. Andrew Harris. Lauren
Piontka. Adam Swindell, and David Byrum.
Coaches: Suzy Swindell and Phil and Susan
Harris.
Hybrid relays - Ben Godfrey. Tony Over
ton. Fatina Woodward, Jessica White. Je
remy Davenport, Jamie Layden and Chay
White. Coaches: Linda and Terry Godfrey
and Sonia Davenport.
Middle school
Omument - Crystal Owens. Stephanie Ham
mer. Kristie Roberson, Joey Lothian, Dianna
Luke, and Toby Crandall. Coaches: Dianne
Owens and Pat Lambert.
Alice in Omerland - Kristen Cox. Cindy
Rayburn. Mark Clinkscales, Mark Swindell.
Adam Ward. Niliah Chobot. and Matt Tun
nell. Coaches: Pat and A1 Phillips.
Atlas - Stacy Sowner. Ingrid Higgins.
Carson Stallings. Jackie Downer. Kim Culli
pher. Aaron Phelps and Kenneth Nordstrom.
Coaches: Craig Downer and Mary Cullipher.
High school
Atlas - Michael Clinkscales. Michael Wil
liams. Adrian Frierson, D'Ani Bines, Tanya
Everett. Matt Byrum. and Christopher Gre
gory. Coaches: Bob and Kathleen
Clinkscales and Roy Reed.
Fire chief
presents
report
Hertford Fire Chief Edgar
Roberson presented the depart
ment’s annual report to the
town council in regular session
Monday night.
Roberson told the council
that one of the department's
goals for 1992 is to complete
Ere-incidence surveys on all
usinesses and public buildings
in the corporate limits of the
town. The chief said the dev
astating fire in Hamlet last year
heightened the volunteer depart
ment's awareness of the impor
tance of the surveys. A review of
their records indicated that an
update was in order.
Members of the department
will survey buildings and note
how they might proceed in case
of fire. A diagram of each build
ing. along with potential haz
ards. disposition of fire hydrants
and other information vital to
fighting fire will be noted. Rober
son said in an interview. He
stressed that the department is
surveying for information pur
poses. The visits to the busi
nesses and public buildings. are
not fire inspections by a certified
fire inspector, nor will the infor
mation learned be used to-for
mulate a fire fighting plan.
Firefighters need to know build
ing lay-out and other infoftn,#
tion in order to respond
efficiently and effectively to a fire
call.
Roberson did tell council
that he will contact building
owners if he and the survey
team have any questions or con
cerns about fire safety in the
buildings, but they have no au
thority to require changes. The
information will be provided as a
courtesy only.
The department responded
to 86 calls last year, including
28 mutual aid calls from other
departments in the county. The
Hertford Department houses the
county fire fighting equipment
and responds automatically to
all structure fires and to any
other type of fire at which their
assistance is requested. Ten of
the calls were answered by the
response team, a unit trained to
answer calls in which hazardous
materials are a threat or a per
son is involved in an accident
requiring extrication.
The department has 25
members at present.
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Photo by Sumo Hants
Burst of color
Tulip trees and cameiies are blooming throughout Per
quimans. The delicate cream, pink and lavender of the
tulip trees Is complimented by the deep color of the
camel las. These colorful bk*oma beautify the lawn of Mr.
and Mrs. Crafton Mathews on Grubb Street Cooler tem
peratures at the end of the week may damage early
blooming plants. c ■ '■* - ■ '
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Councilmen upset over county policy
Differences of opinion over
the county building inspector’s
realm of responsibility has put
a bee in the bonnet of Hertford
Town councilmen and some
constituents who feel they are
paying twice for the same serv
ices.
Because the town wants to
proceed with condemnation
cases in progress for some
time, they must have access to
the services of a qualified build
ing inspector. The county has a
building inspector who inspects
to make sure all new buildings ,
meet state codes and restric
tions. buildings both Inside and
outside the city limits of Hert
ford. Hertford pays the county
19 percent (about $7,700 in this
fiscal year) of the total building
inspection department budget,
according to city manager W.D.
“Bill” Cox. But county officials
want over $4,500 more to allow
the building Inspector to assist
the town with the condemna
tion. a move which has some
councilmen seeing red.
“This Just isn't right," coun
cilman Billy Winslow com
mented. “I sit here and I fed
like at times the town of Hert
ford is being taken advantage of.
And in this instance 1 know
we're being taken advantage
of...I don't fed like we're getting
any cooperation whatsoever from
the county board.*
“This (building inspector policy) just isn’t right. I
sit here and I feel like at times the town of Hertford
is being taken advantage of. And in this instance I
know we’re being taken advantage of...l don’t feel
like we’re getting any coopertion whatsoever from
the county.”
Billy Winslow
Hertford Town Councilman
Winslow said he thought the
council should ask the county
government to reconsider their
decision.
"We cannot force the county
to provide the town with a
building Inspector." Cox said.
“We have some better op
tions than what we’re talking
about here tonight." councilman
Erie Haste said. “We don’t have
any choice (but to pay to go
ahead with condemnation) right
now. We've got to do It But we
should certainly look into other
options."
Haste said that the town
. could take the money presently
paid to the county for services
and perhaps train a town em
ployee to perform inspection du
des.
The town requested that the
county revise its policy pbout
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one year ago. The two boards
could' not reach an agreement
and Hertford lost the services of
an inspector to enforce town
building ordinances and codes.
But the council wants to; try
again. £
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“Let’s go talk to them fage to
face about this as a board,"2Cox
told the commissioners, whb at
first asked that Cox and n&yor
John Beers represent the txjjrd.
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The council will requet^ an
appointment with the corgpiis
sioners during regular se$k>n
Monday night at 7:30 ajjSthe
courthouse annex. 3
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