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December 4,1997
The Perquimans Weekly
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Vol. 65, No. 48
The only newspaper for and about Perquimans County people
Hertford, North Carolina 27944
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Perquimans County
an
All of Us
Community
December’s theme:
Celebrate
community,
family and
friends.
Business after hours
PHOTO BY SUSAN HARRIS
Chamber of Commerce members gathered at the offices of Rhonda Gregory, CPA for a
Business After Hours recentiy. During the evening, those who attended had the opportunity
to see the Chamber of Commerce web site.
Food Lion collects donations
for Albemarle Manna bank
Albemarle Manna will
receive donations collected
during Food Lion’s 1997
Consumer Sharing Checkout
Donation program FOOD FOR
ALL: Fighting Hunger in Our
Neighborhood and Around the
World. The campaign is part of
the company’s participation in
the 12th annual Food industry
Crusade Against Hunger
(FICAH).
The company’s FOOD FOR
ALL checkout donation pro
gram enables customers to
contribute to the crusade as
they pass through the check
out lanes of each Food Lion
store. By selecting a “FICAH
Donation Slip” at the register,
customers can have their
selected donation amount
scanned and automatically
added to their grocery order.
The donation slips will be in
stores from Oct. 26 through
Jan. 3,1998.
“Albemarle Manna staff,
volunteers and the individuals
and families who receive our
support are grateful to food
Lion for its participation in
this important program,” said
Cindy Wagner, Executive
Director. “We encourage peo
ple in Northeastern North
Carolina to support Food
Lion’s FOOD FOR ALL check
out donation program, because
it is efforts like this one which
will impact on the hungry peo
ple right here in our communi
ty.”
By uniting members of the
food industry, FICAH works to
alleviate hunger world wide
and in local communities by
helping hungry people build
their capabilities to feed them
selves. In 1997, FICAH hopes to
raise $1.5 million to fund
hunger relief programs.
Food Lion’s Consumer
Sharing Checkout Donation
program has contributed more
than $727,600 to FICAH pro
grams since 1991. Fifty-five
percent of the funds collected
in Food Lion stores will be
donated to Second Harvest
member food banks through
out the chain’s 11-state operat
ing area, while the remaining
45 percent wUl assist FICAH’s
efforts around the world.
The funds Albemarle
Manna receives from Food
Lion’s efforts will be used to
help provide over 600,000
meals to the hungry men,
women and children in
Northeastern North Carolina.
Santa
alert!
Santa Claus will visit Hertford
Saturday when the Chamber of
Commerce sponsors the annual
Perquimans County Christmas
parade. The theme of this year’s
holiday kick-off is “All I want for
Christmas is...”
Participants will leave
Perquimans High School at 2 p.m.
sharp. All entries should be lined
up by 1 p.m. in order to be judged.
Entries will continue to be accept
ed until Saturday morning.
Santa will stop downtown to
hear the Christmas wishes of
children.
For more information, contact
the Chamber at 426-5657.
Barrett
expands
eatery
By SUSAN R. HARRIS
Editor
' When Tommy Barrett
launched Tommy’s Pizza and
Subs in 1992, he offered just
what the name of his restau
rant said—pizza and subs at
lunch and dinner.
So popular was his business
that Barrett expanded his
kitchen and opened a second
dining area in 1994. The menu
also broadened to include
Italian dinners and salads
• ’ 'Two years later, Barrett saw
a need to make more changes,
in 1996, more kitchen space
and a third dining area was
added. The third dining area
^es double duty as a banquet
room and overflow seating
area for meals. Barrett also
changed the name of the
eatery to Tommy’s Family
Restaurant, reflecting the
greatly expanded menu which
now includes steaks, chicken,
dhops, sandwiches, even,
believe it or not, chitterlings
The Chamber of Commerce recently held a ribbon cutting to signify the expansion of Tommy’s
Family Restaurant. The eastery now serves breakfast, lunch and dinner and is open seven days
each week.
on occasion.
Last month, the restauran-
teur took another step, open
ing for breakfast. The
Perquimans County Chamber
of Commerce held a ribbon
cutting to note the change in
Barrett’s business.
Opening for breakfast is not
the last step Barrett plans to
take to expand his business.
Next, he would like to go into
frozen meals that could be pur
chased in grocery stores or
directly from the restaurant.
He envisions single-serving
dinners as well as family por
tions. Barrett said he’s experi
menting now with cooking and
packaging methods to make
Goose Nest
residents
thankful for
county water
Project nearly
complete eight
years after first
request for water
By SUSAN R. HARRIS
Editor
Residents of Goose Nest
Lane were thankful for what
most people take for granted
this Thanksgiving: decent
drinking water.
“We have water at Goose
Nest Lane ... We had a very,
very, very happy
Thanksgiving as a result of
that,” Goose Nest resident
Vern Hammons told county
commissioners Monday.
Hammons thanked every
one who worked to expand the
county water lines to the com-
mvmity.
Goose Nest residents began
lobbying county officials in
1989 when they submitted a
petition to the commisioners
requesting county water.
Because almost half of the
water lines would be installed
on private property and due to
the cost, the commissioners
never approved the request.
In August 1996, Bill Beck
and other Goose Nest Lane res
idents again submitted a peti
tion to the county, a petition
which contained the signa
tures of 23 of the 26 Goose Nest
Lane property owners.
Beck told the county com
missioners last February that
he received a letter from coun
ty manager Paul Gregory in
September 1996 stating that
the county had insufficient
funds in its water department
fund to put down water lines
at that time. Beck said
Gregory stated the matter
would be revisisted in January
or February 1987.
In February, the commis
sioners agreed to consider nm-
ning the water line on a 50-50
cost share progrzun the county
had offered other communi
ties.
Hammons appeared before
the commissioners on behalf
of the Goose Nest Lane resi
dents in April, reporting that
the residents were ready to
accept the county’s 50-50 offer.
With a project estimate of
$35,000, the residents had to
come up with $17,500 in cash
before the project could begin.
Hammons said that 11 proper
ty owners had committed
$1,000 to help pay for the water
line installation at a meeting,
four other property owners
had indicated that they would
pay, and out-of-town owners
had been sent certified letters
asking them to participate.
Commissioners told the res
idents that Bill Diehl, the engi
neer the county contracts with
for water department work,
would update the cost esti
mates of the project. In addi
tion to paying 50 percent of the
cost of installing the water
lines, each property owner had
to pay a $450 tap fee.
The county gave the resi
dents until May 5 to present a
check to the county or the 50-
50 offer would be void.
Although the cost estimate
rose to $37,500, the property
owners met the deadline.
The project is currently
being completed, Gregory told
commissioners Monday.
Gregory said he anticipates
returning money to the resi
dents at project completion,
possibly as much as $9,000.
The residents provided their
own engineer, which cut the
cost of the project, as did the
county water department
employees’ share of the work.
The Goose Nest Lane pro
ject would have been signifi
cantly more expensive for resi
dents had the group not been
able to meet the county’s May
5 deadline. In April, the com
missioners adopted a new poli
cy regarding the extension of
county water lines. As of May
6, the county will pay 50 per
cent of the total costs of
extending water lines to estab
lished subdivisions platted
and recorded prior to Oct. 2,
1978, not including tap fees,
but will not pay for any lines
on private property.
The October 1978 date was
placed in the policy because it
was the effective date of the
revised subdivision regula
tions adopted by the commis
sioners. The regulations
address the installation of
water lines to residential
developments.
Had the new policy gone
into effect before the Goose
Nest Lane residents raised
their share of the funds need
ed, the residents would have
had to pay significantly more
for the project. Under the
terms of the policy, the resi
dents would have been respon
sible for 100 percent of the cost
of installing the water lines on
the 4,245 feet of private proper
ty in the subdivision, plus any
related requirements such as
hydrants, if deemed necessary
by the cotmty’s engineer. The
county would have shared
equally the cost of installing
the 6,510 feet of line not on pri
vate property.
Hammons said that 23 of the
26 Goose Nest property owners
contributed to the project.
Outside
sure those who purchase
Tommy’s frozen meals will get
the same quality of food they
get when they visit the restau
rant.
Tommy’s is open 6 a.m.-9
p.m., Monday—Wednesday; 6
a.m .- 10 p.m. Thursday—
Saturday: and 7 a.m.—8 p.m.
Sunday. Delivery is available.
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