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THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY Volume 62, No. 21 Hertford, Perquimans County, N.C., Thursday, July 8,1993 35 Cents Community, James ‘Pat’ Harrell / ;■ g turns in his books after 32 years: Pages 5 J«Si •A'' • 1 *» ■ M wr Sports: 1| Perquimans jatWetes ■ 1 perform well in State Games, Junior Olympics: pages e,7 Hertford, Winfall council seats open By SUSAN R. HARRIS Editor _ Election day and cooler weather seem like a long way off in the heat of July, but the tiling period for November’s municipal elections opened Friday at noon. Seats are open on the town councils in both Hertford and Wlnfall. Hertford will fill two council seats, the two now held by Sid Eley and Erie Haste. Vot ers in Winfall will elect a mayor and two council persons. Elbert “Bert” Hayes is currently serving as acting mayor due to the leave of absence of mayor Wiliam Bar tlett. William Ray Miller and Fred Yates hold the council seats. Eley was the first candidate to fUe, filling out his forms and paying his filing fee Tuesday around noon. He was elected in November 1991 to fill the unex pired term of John Beers, who resigned to run for mayor. Haste, who has served a total of 20 years on the Hertford council, said he intends to file. Hayes said Friday he will not resign his council seat to run for mayor of Wlnfall. He said he has enjoyed serving in that capacity on an Interim basis, but is not interested in holding it for a long term. Miller and Yates told The Da lly Advance they will probably run again. Yates was appointed to fill the unexpired term of his wife, Shirley, who resigned to run for county commissioner. Hertford council persons are elected for four-year terms. Win fall for two years. The filing period will close Aug. 6 at noon. Voter registration deadline is Oct. 11. The election will be held on Nov. 9. Officials fight, keep license office open By SUSAN R. HARRIS Editor_ • Hertford officials drove through red tape and kept the lo cal driver license office, open. “We were real happy about that,” said Hertford mayor John Bears. North Carolina Department of Transportation officials anounced late last month plans to close the Hertford office effec tive July 1. In a new release dated June 22, DOT stated that closing the office would enable the department to “provide more effective computerized service to the public and allow for more ef ficiency In the full service of fices.” But local officials disagreed with the state’s decision and took Immediate action, contacting dis trict and state DOT officials to °***§eers *said the town needs the local service, and that the town 1ms provided space and uti lities for the driver license office for many years. Chamber of Commerce presi dent Sherry Harrell said she un derstood had the Hertford service shut down, the Elizabeth Cily of fice would have gotten a new computer and an additional em ployee. Harrell said she could not see how that move could not see how that move could save money. . Although the local office is open only on Wednesdays, both Beers and Harrell said closing It could create a hardship for county residents who would have been forced to go out of town for service.PBeers said he hopes : people will use the Hertford office to justify its continued operation. "It would be painful (for tire v office to dose),” Harrell said. “I §§ would hate it. It would be one;; ^ more strike against us.” , ,. ^ . 4 S \ r;r .’It H / -j '■ , V7, -"W Champs Hertford (above) finished 'first in the Perquimans Youth League 9- and 10 year-old competition by defeating Bethel (left) in a play-off game last Fri day evening. For a review of last week’s Perqui mans Youth League com petition, please see page 7. (Photos by Susan Har ris) Rescue and law enforcement personnel work to get two people in|ured in a wreck Friday out of their vehicles. All four passengers In the ve hides were transported to the hospital. Three were admitted. (Photo by Susan Harris) Four people injured in two-car collision Four people were injured Fri day morning in a two-vehicle col lision at the intersection of U.S. Highway 17 Bypass and N.C. Highway 37 Business. Keith Weatherly. 34, of Eliza beth City and Judy Spence. Trina Boyce and De'Entle Boyce, all of South Mills, were trans ported to Albemarle Hospital by Perquimans EMS. Trina ana De’Entle Boyce to transferred Sentara Norfolk General Hospital and Kings Daughter Hospital, re spectively, later in the day. Weatherly was admitted to Albemarle Hospital and was re leased on Sunday. Spence was treated and released. Trina Boyce was listed In stable condition at Sentara Norfolk General on Tuesday morning. De’Entle Boyce had been released from Kings Daughters by Tuesday. No other Information on her condi tion was available. Winfall Police Chief David Lane said witnesses reported that Weatherly was travelling east on N.C. 37 Business In a 1983 Chevrolet van. Lane was told that Weatherly foiled to stop at the stop sign at the intersec tion of N.C. 37 and ILS. 17. The ; van hit a 1985 Cadillac driven by. Spence. 38, In the front passen & V,'". 'V-4 ger side of the Cadillac. The van came to rest heading west (to ward Winfall) in the southbound lan* of U.S. 17. The Cadillac ended up in die median. Both Weatherly and Trlna Boyce were removed from their vehicles by first responders with the Hertford Fire Department Lane said Friday afternoon that- no charges had been filed pending further investigation. Pesonnel from the Hertford Police Department. N.C. Highway Patrol and the Winfall Fire De partment responded in addition to Lane, Perquimans EMS and the Hertford Fire Department H.P.D: wilt help with community V..?' V crime program • ' \J ■'% r . ‘ '4 ■ ■ S** ;T • ,v • s * S- £ ■ By SUSAN R. HARRIS^ Editor _' Hertford residents must involved If communities In the town want to set up a Commu nity Watch Program, Hertford Po . lice Chief Aubrey Sample Jr. said recently. Sample said some residents who attended a public hearing in May expressed interest in form ing a Community Watch Pro gram, the police department is V' v> ^ - ■ ' ^ '’ . ’ v V"' • 1 ' ' poised to assist communities who want to implement the pro gram. , Sample explained a little about the program. ? "It’s not going to be like a vig ilante group, its going to be where people look out Tor each other,” Sample said. Under a Community Watch Program, the town would be di vided into districts with a volun teer captain designated in each ■>. ■ ... ?>• district The people in each dis trict would report suspicious or illegal activities in their district either to the captain or to the po lice department Sample said. “The program requires that people are going to become in volved and participate,*' Sample said. The chief added that people must be willing to follow through on the legal process in order to make the program work. Inci dents must he called in immedl ately so that police can Investigate as soon as possible. Sample said he needs to know if people are interested in forming Community Watches so that he can help set up districts and give out information on how the program works. He said res idents who want to help imple ment the program in their neighborhoods should call the police department at 426-5587. Authority inks $60 million waste deal By SUSAN R. HARRIS and JULIAN EURE News staff _ Perquimans County officials won’t be talking trash so often anymore, thanks to the solid waste deal signed by the Albe marle Regional Solid Waste Au thority and Addington Environmental Inc. The authority, the largest governmental body in North Car olina, ended months of negotia tions last Thursday when the 20 year deal, with an estimated va lue of $60 million, was finalized. Under the terms of the con tract, solid waste from seven northeast counties - Perquimans, Dare, Currituck, Gates. Hyde, Tyrrell and Chowan - will be transported to a high-tech land fill Addington is ready to build in Bertie County. Addington will re ceive about $3 million per year from fees charged to the author ity. Addington is an Ashland. Ky.-based waste disposal com pany. Company officials estimate it will take 90 days to construct the Bertie landfill. Perquimans will pay $40.64 per ton of waste transferred to Addington, which covers the flat waste dumping charge of $31.25 per toil a»dJtransportation. There will also be a $2 per ton transfer fee. The county can ex pect to pay over $255,000 per year for the 6,000 tons of gar bage estimated to be generated in the county. Waste Industries has sub contracted with Addington to build and operate transfer sta tions and haul the authority's waste to the landfill. Perquimans County manager Paul Gregory said Friday that the transfer sta tion for Perquimans, Gates and Chowan will be located at the site of the present tri-county landfill. Gregory said that resi dents around the landfill should see a decrease in traffic at the landfill because Gates and Cho wan counties will haul part of their trash straight to Bertie County, and the town of Edenton will haul all its garbage to Add ington. In addition, Gregory said the big compactors at the conve nience centers means less loads must be hauled to the landfill. After Oct. 1, the only trash that will be buried at the tri county site will be demolition materials and yard waste. The authority also got some monetary gain out of the landfill deal. Addington agreed to pay the authority $1 for every ton of waste disposed of in the landfill by a customer with a shorter term contract with Addington. The authority can anticipate re ceiving at least $30,000 a year from the 30,000 Pasquotank County proposes to dump at the landfill. Pasquotank signed a separate contract with Add ington several weeks ago for only 7 years. Gregory said the $1 per ton payback was a concession by Addington to make ' the long term deal more attractive to the authority. Authority regional director Jerry Park said the authority Concerned Citizens happy with decision The Concerned Citizens group formed to fight build ing a high-tech landfill in Perquimans County to re ceive solid waste from coun ties in the Albemarle Regional Solid Waste Au thority is rejoicing over the 20-year deal with Addington Environmental Inc. Doug Layden, one of the committee's founders, said Tuesday the group Is happy with the decision made by the authority to sign with Addington rather than con struct a landfill near the Perquimans River, a move the group argued could have a grave environmental impact on the county. While Layden said he did not think the group's ef forts had been the deciding factor in the Addington deal, he said he felt the committee had played a role in the' decision-making process. In addition. Layden said the group let the Perqui mans commissioners know that residents are con cerned about issues in the county. “I hope we bettered the relationshp between the county ana the commis sioners,” Layden said. He said the committee let com missioners know that al though residents do not attend meetings on a regu lar basis, they are con cerned about issues and the future of the county. hopes to use the payback to fi nance the administration of the authority. Bertie County will have the option to take over the landfill if Addington defaults on its agreement to operate the landfill for 20 years. The authority will then have the option of contract ing with Bertie. Gregory said the sealed deal ended about six years of study, planning and negotiating. He said counties in the region first met to look at the waste manage ment needs in the region in the winter of 1987. The first contact with Addington was made two years ago.
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