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School: PCHS announces fourth six weeks I'tt V Briefs Board off Education - The regularly scheduled April 6 meeting of the Perqui mans Board of Education will be held at 6:30 p.m. The meeting wtil open with an executive ses sion to discuss a real estate transaction. Open session will foUow at 7 p.m. NAACP Youth Council “Reclaim our Youth. Each one Reach one!" will be the theme of the Perquimans County NAACP Youth Council rap session on Thursday April 9. at 7 p.m. at First Baptist Church. Sign-ups In progress Registration for girls softball and T-Ball has begun at the Perquimans Co. Recreation De partment. All interested youth 'ages 5-8 for T-ball and 9-15 for , girls softball should come by or call the recreation department at 426-5695 to register. The cost for T-ball is $5 and for softball is $7. Recycling awareness - ■ College of The Albemarle will V hold a Recycling Awareness seminar at 10 a.m. on Friday, | April 3 in the Lecture Audito rium, room B-202. The seminar yrtll include a quiz on recycling and tips on how everyone can "reduce, reuse and recycle." The seminar is free of charge and * open to the public. I jpancsr support group * "T The Cancer Support 'Group' ’ *Will meet bn Tuesday, April 14 at 7:30 p.m. at Albemarle Hospi . tal in the Education Center. The -group is for cancer patients and :their families. Kay Stallings will present a Look Good ana Feel Better program. For more infor mation call American Cancer So ciety office at 482-7299, or Albemarle Hospital’s Public Re lations Department at 331-4416. Bab# Ruth bssoball Babe Ruth try-outs for the 13-15-year-old league will be held Sunday. April 5 from 1 ■3:30 p.m. at Perquimans Middle School. Registration begins at 12:45. Senior league sign-ups {or the 16-18-year-old teams is 'in progress. For more informa tion on Babe Ruth baseball, contact Roger Morgan or An thony Downing. ^ Nutrition monus Nutrition site menus for the week of April 6-10 are as fol lows: '• Monday: Ham slice, boiled potatoes, steamed cabbage, bis cuit. margarine, orange/pi meapple Juice and milk. * Tuesday: Chicken salad -1/2 hard boiled egg. potato salad, lime jello with fruit, crackers, margarine, sugar cookie and milk. . %• >, Wednesday: Cheeseburger on •bun, coleslaw, baked beans, margarine, iced carrot cake, and milk. I - Thursday: Barbecued. :chicken. Add peas with snaps. ' ■sweet potato patties, rolls, mar garine. fresh orange, and milk. ’ Friday: Battered fish with ■tartar sauce, seasoned turnip ."greens, stewed potatoes, corn bread, margarine, sliced peaches, and milk. T r.n&i Immimmmm mm* $ f.# aw, „, fM IP li Downtown Hertford loses a business •Management closes Eagle's on short notice Shock waves reverberated through downtown Hertford late last week when Variety Whole salers, Inc. announced that Ea gle's would close Saturday afternoon. According to company em ployees, the Raleigh chain oper ation's board of directors made the decision to close the store. Employees were notified on Wednesday that Saturday would be the store's last day of busi ness. Hertford Town Manager W.D. “Bill’' Cox said he was dismayed at the news. "I hate it,” Cox said. "It’s one more of our established bust nesses that are closing. It will >#: felt by the rest of the mer chants downtown. "It's very disappointing when you're working on trying to up grade your business district to have something like this hap pen. We're going to miss it" Cox said he telephoned Phil Pope, a company official, upon receiving word that the store would dose. Cox said he asked if there was anything the town could do to reverse the decision. Pope replied that the action was a board decision and was final. Although Pope admitted that the store was making a profit, he dubbed the financial perfor mance "marginal."and added that the company was dosing 16 small stores. Merchandise from the Hertford operation and the other 15 stores will be shipped to larger stores. Perquimans County Cham ber of Commerce president Tommy Harrell was shocked when he heard Eagle's was clos ing. “That's one of the footholds of downtown Hertford," HarTell said. "We hate to lose busi nesses when we're trying to gain. "This will have several neg ative effects on the Ideal econ omy.” Harrell added./“Jobs will be lost, other merchants will lose traffic generated by Eagle's. This is definitely bad news for Perquimans County." Store manager Lois Biyant locked the front door at the dose of business Saturday for the final time. Employees are working this week to inventory merchandise and pack it.for shipping to other Variety Wholesalers outlets. This 1989 Chrysler operated by Joseph Brownridge sustained approximately $6,000 In dam ages Friday when It was struck by a 1990 Ford Thunderbird operated by Michele Arena of Elizabeth City. (Photo by Susan Harris) £h$'m% S»+ur<l*j <2.Woys £** ** Up *-+ So'p**' h *ft*r The notice on the front door of Eagle’s went up Thursday, just two days prior to the store’s closing. Company officials told town manager W.D. “Bill” Cox that the decision to close is final. Cars damaged in a Friday crash •No serious injuries A two-car collision at the in tersection of U.S. Highway 17 Business and N.C. 37 in Winfall Friday afternoon resulted in the estimated $6,000 in damages to both vehicles, according to Win fall Police Chief Dale Vanscoy. Vanscoy said that Michele Arena of Elizabeth City was stopped on N.C. 37 waiting to make a left hand turn onto to U.S. Highway 17 North around 3 p.m. A car traveling north on U.S. 17 turned left onto N.C. 37 in hunt of her. Arena pulled the 1990 Ford Thunderbird she was driving into the intersection and into the path of a 1989 Chrysler traveling south on U.S. Highway 17. The Chrysler, operated by Joseph Brownridge, struck the Ford on the driver’s side, send ing It across the northbound ___ Wolf man Jack pected \‘howling at reading The Perquimans County aiy is gearing up for National sijibS&tiy- Week, the annual, cde ftiration of libraries and the 1m ict their efforts have 00 the jmraunities. they serve. Four plights of special programming sftre planned to highlight the |seek, ' / .• a ; Back by popular demand Kill be Woifman Jack, who will ,Jead on Wednesday at 7 p.nt. ‘ fas part of the third annual fftght of a Thousand Stars lijtyent. Celebrities all across the ' .unity will visit libraries to id from.selected works, K; ■■ , The Woifman held his audi ence spellbound last, year with Jtts reading of Join Seiesska’s; feild;-fsbook The True Story1; iol •: -. c Little Pigs by A, |Wu.if, lie captivated and gc§H -s- ' ihe sudseir-ie with ids iMnwViSd'bwi and kept a room-. Rat' of ehikir-n jpesnMSfasd, with S|ti3 sn-kklic. gri*’/d»y voice, |il There wlSi’be a very special liidf ,!■: to the ffeflanM library., elefeifoh this year. On v. srntt Tlvdtfitlay eve- • t ?, thffe'kbrury wlft host .ur'% nisht featuring■ ■ pro IDet ;T!^* have played a very special part in the Big Book Program, which was funded through a Sew-Write grant from Apricot Inc., owned by the Ttrrano vas. il Two groups of young au- : thors will be guests at the M* J twraiy, one group on each of Ore author's nights. "It is hoped that this night will be long remembered oy | these young children making their literary debuts.” said county librarian Shelley * Feam. Tuesday night will be can didates night Political hope- , fuls running for seats on the hoards of commissioners and education will read selected works. A question and answer ,' session will follow the read tags. .v .. ... |» Also during the week, the semi-annual book sale will be held at the library. Hie man- - ies front the book series^, supplement government fund ing for the library, and allow the library to provide pro- > grams and purchase equip ment that it could not otherwise afford. The goal for this money is to help fund a computerized magazine Index. similar to'"'thfel one on trtsl loan now at the llbraiy, , t Niitico-’d Library Week Is :: Mil every year to spotlight the s-.ter irtatwV ef kfoi’erfsa - pub lic.' and academic - and V. flafssmnoe Its the pubSe's Tift?'.' ierqUlteans County' U bia.ry would be considered . tsewiM bv ; toy.. rtattassil stan?. .fom. Hcweeta;,' tits degree M . which si tt used by tha com-' mucity fa la no -x&y ucwo* ased, ste'vsjrdiftgfo Fffisrrs, ^_—-— ffolfman Jack " . There are now 2.505 citi zens to ‘Perquimans County who Tegisterjy use-their-■ library" cards, In jhc 35 days on wliieh 'the library was open to Feb*. rusary, 3.151S bootes, 5T bosk$ on tape, 47$ vteieocaasettes. and 57 magazines were checked 'out., 'Use number of people using 'the Library now averages over *G0 per day.-, baeblnenth the stattsstica aferf;' growth itt every area mea sured, Feam said. , “Libraries are used in every* , community, and proportiona tely Perquimans County Li brary is used more than many," Fearn said. f' j - AH *Nd&nal Library Week programs are free and open to the public. For more Informa tion, call the library ad 426 53)9, ' 1 * ® mm ' ■ \ < -■* ’tt ' V * lane and causing It to make a 180 degree turn before landing in a ditch by Larry's Drive-In. The Chrysler came to rest in the center of the intersection. Brownridge and a passenger in his vehicle were transported by Perquimans County EMS to Chowan Hospital, where they were treated and released for abrasions to the head and shoulder. Ajuvenile in Arena's car was taken by family mem bers to Dr. R.E. Lane’s office, where she was treated and re leased. Arena was charged with fail ing to see before starting, stop ping or turning that such movement could be made safely. Vanscoy said. i He estlmateddamages in ex cess of $6,000 to both vehicles. Researchers will meet Professional geneaologist Charlotte R. Carrere of Gamer will be the speaker for the April 5 meeting of Family Research Society of Northeastern North Carolina. The meeting will be held at the Senior Center at 3 p.m. Ms. Carrere has been lec turing and teaching genealogical research since 1976 in North Carolina community colleges and at Meredith College. She is the author of nine books. Among these are a book on mili tary records and a genealogical research textbook. She serves as the president of the Wake County Genealogi cal Society, and is also a mem ber of Caswell-Nash DAR Chapter, Capt. Samuel A. Ashe Chapter UDC and South CAro lina Huguenot Society. How to research the North Carolina archives will be the topic of her talk. Family research exchange and refreshments will follow the meeting. ; Meetings are open to the public and there is no charge. Reminder: * Set your docks ahead one hour at 2 AM. on April 5. And whenever you chan*e your docks, change the batteries in four smoke detectors. It could save your Me. Agwfeic nrrtri —n» *«■ tm
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