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PERQUIMANS COUNTY LIBRARY
110 W ACADEMY ST
HERTFORD NC £7944
October 1,1999
Vol. 67, No. 38 Hertford, North Carolina 27944
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Hertford gets azaleas for town park
From Staff Reports
Volunteer efforts combined
with those of town officials are
paying off for the Hertford
town park.
The town was one of only
145 non-profit organizations
across North Carolina recently
chosen to receive a special
award from Keep North
Carolina Clean & Beautiful,
Inc. The award will provide 50
azaleas to frame the new tennis
courts in the town’s park on
Academy Square.
The award came after the
town applied for assistance
through the KNCCB 1999
Azalea Celebration for the
landscape project at the park.
The project is chaired by vol
unteer Jo Ann Morris.
The park is almost complete
ly free of vegetation after sev
eral large, old oak trees had to
be cut down due to disease.
Morris and other Hertford res
idents requested that the town
take action to replace the trees.
As a result, council appointed
Morris to head a committee to
restore the park’s greenery
In addition to the azaleas.
SUBMITTED PHOTO
The now-bare Hertford park on Academy Square will glow with color
this spring as 50 azaleas from the Keep North Carolina Clean 8c Beautiful,
Inc. Azalea Celebration program bloom. Landscape renovation commit
tee coordinators are seeking donations of trees, needed materials and
labor to upgrade the landscaping in the park.
committee members hope the
park will become home to a
variety of trees. Donations
from individuals and groups in
honor or in memory of some
one are being accepted. Each
tree will be marked by a plaque
indicating in whose honor it
has been donated. The town is
also seeking donations of
funds to buy mulch, fertilizer
and other planting needs. In
addition, volunteers, either
individuals or groups, are
being sought to help nurse the
young plants along.
Hardy species indigenous to
the area have been suggested
for planting by horticulturists
and others familiar with native
plants. A list of species and
prices is available at the town
office from town manager
John Christensen ar 426-1969
or Morris (426-5309). The con
tacts will also accept cash
donations and sign up volun
teers to help with planting
and/or maintenance.
About 11,000 plants were
awarded this year to 145
schools, churches, youth
groups, garden clubs, scouts
and civic groups across North
Carolina that work to enhance
their cities, parks, and road
ways for everyone’s enjoy
ment. The Annual Azalea
Celebration is administered by
KNCCB, sponsored by WRAL-
TV 5 and MIX 101.5 FM Radio,
and funded in part by the A.J.
Fletcher Foundation.
The one-gallon azaleas avail
able through the program were
grown from cuttings taken
from the WRAL-TV gardens in
Raleigh 3 years ago. The gar
dens are a special project creat
ed by the late A.J. Fletcher, for
mer president of Capitol
Broadcasting Company and
founder of WRAL. About
135,000 plants have been award
ed to non-profits during the
last 14 years of the Azalea
Celebration.
Because the town received
the award this year, it wUl be
eligible to compete for the
Fletcher award which will be
given in 2002. This award goes
to the non-profit that main
tains its project best over the
next 3 years. First place carries
a $500 cash award and another
100 azaleas. Second place is
$250 cash and 50 azaleas, and
third place awards $50 and 25
azaleas.
The oldest of the state’s
environmental education non
profit organizations. Keep
North Carolina Clean &
Beautiful, Inc. was founded by
Governor and Mrs. Dan K.
Moore in 1966.
For more information, write
KNCCB, P.O. Box 12943,
Raleigh, NC 27605-2943.
Hertford house
up for restoration
Another historic structure
in Perquimans County is avail
able for restoration through
Preservation North Carolina.
Preservation North
Carolina has an option to pur
chase the Darien P. Daughtrey
House (ca. 1866) on the corner
of West Academy and Grubb
streets. The imposing two-
story structure has served as
the headquarters of the
William Paul StaUings Post No.
126 of The American Legion
Since the mid- to late 1960s.
The house is located in the
Hertford Historic District of
the National Register of
Historic Places. Because it has
been deemed to contribute to
the historic significance of the
district, a purchaser of the
property may be eligible for
state and federal income tax
credits based on a percentage
of the purchaser’s actual reha
bilitation costs.
“The preservation of the
Darien P. Daughtrey House in
Hertford will highlight the
advantages of the town having
a Historic District on the
National Register,’’ Rascoe
said. “Hopefully many more
restorations in the new district
wUl follow as credits against
income taxes are a definite
advantage!”
The house is a three-bay,
two-story house with attached
hip roof porch buUt during the
third quarter of the 19th cen
tury. The porch was formerly
of double tier form. Although
many changes have occurred
to the exterios and particularly
the interior of the house, it fea
tures may intersting sylistic
characteristics such as door
and window detailing with
sidelights and symmetrical
surrounds.
Other Preservation North
Carolina historic properties
restored in Hertford are the
George Major Carriage House
at 104 Dobbs Street and the
Winslow-Elliott-Dozier House
at 128 Market Street.
For information, contact
Peter Rascoe or Claudia
Deviney at PNC’s Northeast
Regional Office, 420 EUiott St.,
Edenton, NC 27932, 482-7455.
Perquimans Still Perfect
PHOTO BY JOHN E. ABERNATHY
Perquimans County junior Ashley Copeland delivers a spike during the Lady Pirates' four-set
Northeastern-Albemarle Conference win over Williamston Wednesday. Perquimans' raised its unbeaten
record to 10-0. .v ^ i
Marching Pirates win trophies
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PHOTO BY SUSAN HARRIS
The PCHS Marching Pirates collected seven trophies at the Peanut Festival in Edenton Saturday. Drum
majors and senior captains proudly show off awards for first place parade, third place band in Class 3-
A, first place drum majors, first place percussion, second place horn line and second place color guard.
Perquimans also earned the Marvin Shaw award for overall high scorer in both the parade and field com
petitions. The band will travel to Jacksonville Saturday and to Snow Hill on Oct. 23.
Farmers may qualify
for crop loss funds
From Staff Reports
First it was dry, then it was
wet. And local farmers suf
fered for it.
Perquimans farmers may
qualify for both drought and
flood disaster relief through
programs administered by the
Farm Service Agency.
On Aug. 25, the Secretary of
Agriculture declared a major
disaster area in North
Carolina due to damages and
losses caused by drought,
which occurred March 1-
September 11. All counties in
the state are eligible for assis
tance.
Farmers in Pasquotank,
Currituck, Camden,
Perquimans, Chowan and
Gates counties may apply for
emergency loans for physical
Board
hires
writing
facilitator
for HGS
LEAH ALLEN
Correspondent
The Perquimans County
School Board unanimously
voted to hire a full time writ
ing facilitator for Hertford
Grammar School in regular
session on Sept. 27.
The position replaces the
Spanish teacher whose tenure
had ended; therefore, the posi
tion does not require more
money out of the school's bud
get.
“This position came about
in lieu of the low writing
scores,” said Hertford
Grammar principal Edward J.
Williams. Less than 39 percent
of fourth graders tested on or
above grade level on the state
end-of-course writing test last
year. “The whole county is
pushing writing,” said
Williams.
The goal is for 50 percent of
fourth graders to test on or
above grade level on this year's
test.
“We're trying to meet the
needs of our present students
with our current resources,”
WUliams said.
Linda Hawes filled the posi
tion two weeks prior to the
board meeting. Hawes previ
ously taught fifth grade in
Pasquotank County Schools,
and completed the Principal
Fellows Program. She also
taught first grade for many
years in the Pasquotank sys
tem.
As writing facilitator,
Hawes teaches the students in
six-day intervals with large
and small groups.
“We feel that if we have
more large and smaller group
instruction in writing, it
should help our scores
improve,” stated Williams;
however, this is not a program
for teaching the test. Hawes is
giving the students holistic
instruction in writing. She is
teaching the writing process,
and, though the fourth graders
wUl be tested on the narrative
only, she is also teaching the
other three domains of writ
ing.
“The point is an educated
and happy child,” said Hawes.
“It (writing) is one of the most
valuable tools in the child's
education toolbox. “It also has
a profound cathartic value.”
and production losses through
April 25, 2000.
President Clinton declared
66 of the state’s counties a
major disaster area due to
damages and losses caused by
Hurricane Floyd. Perquimans
is among those counties.
Farmers may apply for
Farm Service Agency emer
gency loans for hurricane
damage losses until May 16,
2000.
Kent Sawyer is the contact
person for information about
emergency loans for both
declared disasters. He is head
quartered at the Farm Service
Agency office at 512 South
Church Street, Hertford, in the
Albemarle Commission
Building. The phone number
is 426-5802.
Weekend
Weather
Thursday
High: 60s
Low: 40s
Mostly Sunny
Friday
High: 60s
Low: 40s
Mostly Sunny
Saturday
High: 60s
Low: 40s
Mostly Sunny