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June 29,1995 ‘1 1 The Perquimans Weekly 350 Vol. 63, No. 26 The only newspaper for and about Perquimans County people Hertford, North Carolina 27944 STATE GAMES WINNERS/Silver and gold r>: A'/ \7 'A 'V/J 7 ■ it 8 23 11 J* 16 IS r 10 7 PHOTO BY SUSAN HARRIS The Perquimans Middle School Lady Tigers softball team played almost flawlessly this weekend in the North Carolina Amateur Sports Association’s State Games competition in Raleigh. The team went 4-0 and earned the gold medal. A. " The Perquimans 14/15-year- old baseball team earned the county’s first baseball medal in State Games competition, coming up with silver in the medal round on Sunday. j Perquimans teams grab medals PCMS softball team wins gold; 14/15 baseball squad takes silver By SUSAN R. HARRIS Editor Perquimans County ath letes competed against some of the best baseball and soft- ball teams in the state last week at the North Carolina Amateur Sports Association’s annual State Games, bringing home the county’s first-ever gold and silver medals. The middle school softball team showed no mercy, knocking off four teams to claim the double-elimination tournament championship in the 14-year-old and under division. The Lady Tigers’ solid hit ting and aggressive base-run ning proved too much for their opponents. Perquimans defeated Northeast Guilford, 10-0, in five innings in round one. The Lady Tigers took an 8-0 lead and held on to beat Fuquay-Varina, 9-8, in game two. On Sunday, Perquimans took on Charlotte Latin, the only other remaining unde feated team, winning 13-2 in five innings Charlotte Latin won its next game to move up from the loser’s bracket and play for the gold. Perquimans took that game, 11-7. “Our girls played super ball,” said Tigers head coach Sid Eley. “By the medal round, even the off-duty offi cials who had seen them play earlier were pulling for them. They said they had never seen a team hit the ball so weU up and down the line up, and they were shocked at how weU our girls ran bases and slid.” The Lady Tigers collected 56 hits in foirr games to finish with a .436 team average. There were nine teams from across the state in the tour nament. While the Lady Tigers played for the gold, another Perquimans team was a few miles away battling to grab the number one spot. The 14/15-year-old baseball team earned the silver medal instead, coming in second place out of 16 teams. Perquimans started the tournament off on the right foot, as Paul Hunter went all PlEASESBEMBD^ page12B Flag Day on TV Thach steps down A recap of the recent Flag Day ceremonies in Hertford will be televised on July 4 at 7:30 p.m. on North Carolina NOW. The UNC feature will appear on channel 2, channel 12 cable. There will be recaps of Flag Day and World War H com memorative ceremonies across the state run each Monday evening in July and August. Postal fire destroys mail Vandals set fire to the col lection box outside the Hertford Post Office on Sunday at around 4 p.m. Postmaster Billie Stewart said all mail dropped in the box between 4:30 p.m. Saturday and the time of the fire was destroyed. An investigation into the incident continues. Contact Stewart if you had used the outside collection box. Will serve as AD, but not head coach Perquimans County Schools athletic director and head foot ball coach Harrell Thach has given up his football assign ment, but will remain the high school athletic director. Thach said the decision came after an all-day meeting with administrators when the entire schools’ athletic pro gram was evaluated. Sid Eley, whose former title was assis tant athletic director, will serve as athletic director at 4th of July events start Saturday Downtown merchants to kick off celebration The Downtown Merchants Association will kick off Perquimans County’s Independence Day celebration on Saturday, July 1 with enter tainment and food downtown. The Hertford Fife and Drum Corps, guitarist Bill Darrow, County Line Cloggers, square dancers and others will begin performing downtown at 11 a.m. and continue until 4 p.m. Hot dogs and baked goods will add to the carnival atmos phere. The 4th of July fireworks committee will continue the celebration on Tuesday with entertainment at Missing Mill Park beginning at 5 p.m. Jon Strother and Keith Vaughan will begin that day’s festivi ties. Disc jockey Mickey Phelps will offer dance music starting at 8 o’clock. Fireworks will light up the night sky around 9 p.m. The dance will continue after the fireworks until 11. There will be hamburgers, hotdogs and drinks on sale in the park. Diane StaUings, treasurer of the fireworks committee, said the group is still short of its fundraising goal and contin ues to accept donations.Contributions have come from businesses, individ uals and governments. Severed businesses have run special promotions benefitting the fireworks fund. Contributions may be sent to Fireworks Fund, c/o NationsBank, P.O. Box 46, Hertford, N.C. 27944. Hertford may sue meat market Bi-Rite Market ordered to stop cutting meat at current location By GINGER LIVINGSTON The Dafly Advance The Hertford Town Council is taking civil action against the owners of Stancil’s Bi-Rite Market. The council made the deci sion during an unannounced meeting Friday afternoon. The exact nature of the action is unclear. Town Attorney Walter Edwards refused to discuss the meeting during a telephone inter view Monday afternoon. According to an audio tape recording of the council meeting, the council directed Edwards to pursue a restraining order forc ing Bi-Rite’s owners to shut down their meat cutting operations at their Market Street location. However, the council also direct ed Edwards to see if he could obtain a consent judgement from the Davenport family, which owns the market, asking them to stop operations within a specific period of time or face a retroac tive fine of $50 a day. Eugene Davenport, Bi-Rite’s co-owner, said the family was try ing to open a new market at Harris Shopping Center on Grubb Street but was running into building inspection compli cations. He said he could end his Market Street operation by Aug. 30 if he could make progress with the building inspections. A 60-day' consent judgment did not satisfy Marge Ambrose and Don Morris, two neighbors of the Market Street store who have complained for a year about the smell and noise caused by the meat cutting operations. It was through their complaints that the council learned the area was not zoned for meat processing but for convenience store sales. Ambrose and Morris had threatened to sue the town if they did not force the Davenports to close. Last week the Davenports were sent a letter stating if the store did not stop meat cutting operations by midnight June 17 legal action would be taken. “We let them know 60 days for a consent judgement would be imacceptable,” Morris said. Ambrose said she was wait ing for a second meeting of the council this week before com menting. Town Manager John Christensen said Monday the council had discussed meeting with Edwards this week but did not say when it would occur. Davenport would not com ment on Friday’s meeting, saying he wanted to see what action the town council took. Paper closes for holiday The Perquimans Weekly will be closed on Tuesday, July 4th in observance of Independence Day. News and advertising dead lines for the July 6 edition are Friday, June 30 at 12 noon. Have a seife and happy holi day, and remember not to drive after drinking. Perquimans Middle School. PCHS principal Elaine Pritchard said the realignment will give the athletic director more responsibility and accountability, and will enhance the overall program. According to a news release prepared by the school system, Thach’s top priority will be recommending a new head football coach for 1995. Thach will also concentrate on imple menting procedures for adding and deleting sports, budgeting by sport, performance evalua tions for coaches and other program enhancements. Outside SATURDAY 4 u High: Low: 80s 70s CHANCE OF RAIN High: Low: High: Low: 80s 70s 80s 70s CHANCE OF RAIN CHANCE OF RAIN w/Mm
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