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The only newspaper for and about Perquimans County and its people Byrum sprinting at Barton Page 7 Local volunteers honor Page 2 Schools celebrate 1 i NOVt 0 9 1939 Red Ribbon Week j Page 7 > The tr iWlO/2000 *CZV iZ Library PERQUIMANS UUUNi 110 W ACftDEMY ST HFRTFORn wr. yT5ilA ] November 11,1999 Vol. 67, No. 43 Hertford, North Carolina 27944 Weekly Winfall may have misused Powell Bill funds Audit will tell if state Powell Bill funds misused : / JEREMY DESPOSITO •■v' 1, _ The Daily Advance * • . An audit of the town’s finances for fiscal year 1998-99 should determine whether Winfall officials misused state rhdhies appropriated to buM, improve and maintain town Holiday events planned SUSAN R. HARRIS Editor The Chamber of Commerce selected “Pitching a Perfect Christmas” as the theme of the parade which wUl move through Hertford on Dec. 4. The parade is dedicated to the memory of Jim “Catfish” Hunter. His family wiU serve as grand marshaUs. The theme was chosen after being submitted for considera tion anonymously. A note with the submission requested that if it was chosen the funds be donated to Hunter’s ALS Foundation. Parade entry forms are available at the Chamber office, and should be submit ted by Nov. 26. CaU 426-5657 for information or to volunteer. During the parade, booths in a courthouse green food court will be available to church, business and civic organizations. Call Gay Murray at Chimney Masters at 426-1426 for information. After the parade, the BPW/hertford Christmas tree will, be lit on the courthouse green. Dozier’s Florist has forms to purchase lights for $1 each in honor or in memory of a loved one. Deadline for light purchase is Nov. 30. The annual Extension Homemaker Christmas Ramble is set for Thursday, Def;.*2, 6:30-9 p.m. The tour will feature the homes of Ralph ari^ Lisa HoUoweU, Todd and Anna Winslow, Thomas and Dihda Morris (Blue Door Gallery), and Jane McMahon’s CcFvent Garden Inn, as well as tlip- Belvidere Community ^hiding, where refreshments ‘will be served. :*»^ihkets are available in adyithce and at all homes on thertuur. For information, call 426-7697. A shuttle van wOl be avail able. For information, caU the Senior Center at 426-5404. ■ji-The Newbold-White House will host an open house on Dec. 16, 6-8 p.m. The house will belled with 18th century dec orations, music and treats. A tree in the visitor’s center wiU be adorned with ornaments made by fourth graders. The event is free. Dates for school programs are: HGS, Dec. 2; Central, Dec. 9; PCHS, Dec. 12; and PCMS, Dec. 16. PCHS principal Elaine Pritchard also reminds par ents that exams will be given Dec. 15-17 this year. streets. The audit, being conducted by Mason L. Spruill, an accounting firm based in Elizabeth City, is stUl not com plete, Winfall officials said. SpruUl was not available for comment last week. Questions about Winfall’s use of state Powell Bill monies arose in April when then town attorney Melanie James resigned. “One issue needs to be addressed by your new attor ney immediately,” James’ res ignation letter, dated April 20th, states. “The discussion during the April (Town) Council meetings suggests that Powell Bill funds may have been spent in an impermissi ble manner. ’’...The Powell Bill (law) con tains restrictions on what the funds may be used for. Your new attorney needs to careful ly review the records to deter mine if the statutory restric tions have been violated.” Reached for comment, James refused to say why she had included the warning in her resignation letter. Current Winfall Attorney Hackney High also declined to comment on James’ warning or the prospect that PoweU Bill monies might have been mis spent. But High did say Winfall’s policies are “in disar ray,” and that he is in the process of organizing them. Under state law, each town and city in North Carolina receives monies each year from the N.C. Department of Transportation’s Program State runners-up It was a teary, disappointing loss when the Lady Pirates feU in three games, 15-1,15-10,15-6, in the state 1-A championship match Saturday at Reynolds Coliseum. “It was our only loss of the season. Unfortunately it had to come today,” Perquimans coach Carolyn Rogers said after the game. “Our play today wasn’t really indicative of how we played all season long. This is our first time here, and I think we were a little nervous in the beginning.” The drama of playing in the N.C. State gym in the biggest game of their careers had the Lady Pirates obviously ner vous. They played tentatively early on, and were over whelmed with the play of three-time state MVP Molly Pyles, whose kids traveled over the net like bullets. “I think we just feU apart when we saw how hard she hit the ball,” said senior Mindy Roberson. “We’ve never faced anyone like her, so we couldn’t practice for her. (Losing) 15-1 in game one) surprised us a lit tle bit, but I think we settled down some after that.” Indeed, Perquimans put up a good fight in game two, own ing an 8-5 lead until Pyles turned her blistering kiU into a bruising serve and led her team to a 10-15 advantage. Even when Hendersonville had a 14- 9 lead, the Lady Pirates refused to bend, forcing the ‘Cats to lose the serve three times before finally claiming that final point. In the final game, when the Lady Bearcats came out hot and went up 9-1, it would have been easy for the exhausted underdogs to roll over and play dead. But that wasn’t what the Lady Pirates did. Instead, they went on one final roU, adding five to the scoreboard before HendersonvUle turned on the power again. Development Branch known as Powell BiU funds. The allocations are made to help municipalities pay for the construction and upkeep of their streets and are based on a town’s population and the number of miles of road it maintains. If a town decides to accept Powell BUI funds, it must abide by several restrictions on their use. For example, PoweU BUI funds can be used to pay for mowing along and within street rights-of-way but not for. say, mowing around a town hall building or town-owned cemetery. The funds can also be used to remove “snow, sand, soil or debris resulting from natural causes” such as storms or natural disasters, but can not be used to pay for the nor mal collection of garbage, refuse or debris. According to Winfall town records recently obtained by The DaUy Advance, there have been occasions during the past Please see Powell Bill, page 9 Chesson tapped to lead Hunter ALS Foundation ' Daily Advance photo The scene was heartwrenching Saturday as the Lady Pirates realized that their dream sea son was coming to a disappointing end. The awesome Perquimans squad was defeated by a bigger, more experienced Hendersonville team in three sets. Lady Pirates are 2nd in state For HendersonvUle, it was the third straight state title, and the fifth in this decade. For Perquimans, it was a new standard in high school volleybaU. The match was the first time a Lady Pirates team has made it to the state finals. After losing four starters from last season’s regional runner- up team, Perquimans didn’t get much pre-season attention. But once the team took the court, it wasn’t long before the hard-working crew had lots of attention. A second consecu tive \mdefeated regular season led to the team’s first confer ence tournament title. From there, the Lady Pirates simply dominated the first four rounds of the state playoffs. “Nobody, not even people at our school, expected us to get this far,” Roberson said. “It just goes to show how hard we’ve worked to get here. I think we even surprised our selves.” From Staff Reports Perquimans native Parker Chesson was tapped last month as president of the Jim “Catfish” Hunter ALS Foundation. Joining Chesson on the executive committee are vice president Tommy Harrell, treasurer Charles Woodard, secretary Bill Newbern, Hunter’s widow, Helen, Wa5me Howell, Mark Reiman and David Finley. Other members of the Foundation’s Board of Directors are Ben Berry, Jack Brinn, Reggie Jackson, BiUy Nixon, Jim Pagliaroni, Jeffrey Rosenfeld, George Steinbrenner, and Keith Vaughan. The board is a mix of Hunter’s friends and baseball associates, as well as those he met after his diagnosis with ALS, amyotrophic lateral scle rosis. Chesson, chairman of the Employment Security Commission of North Carolina, was former College of The Albemarle president and a state administrator with the community college system. Fellow officers Harrell and Woodard are childhood friends of Hunter’s who remain close family friends. Harrell is a farmer in Perquimans County, while Woodard owns and oper ates Woodard’s Pharmacy. Newbern is a neighbor of Hunter’s who grew up watch ing his pitching magic on TV Members of the executive board have varied ties to the Hunter family. HoweU is also a local farmer and long-time friend of Hunter and his fami ly. Reiman is an ALS patient from Everett, Wash. To pro mote awareness of the disease, he sang the national anthem in aU 30 major league baU parks in 1998. Finley is the son of the late Charles Finley, former owner of the Kansas City and Oakland Athletics who signed Hunter to the big leagues straight out of Perquimans High School in 1964. Berry is a county native and chief executive officer of Gateway Bank in Elizabeth City Brinn. is also a county native, the son of a former teacher of Hunter’s. He is presently a physician and administrator at the East Carolina University School of Medicine. Jackson, a HaU of Fame baseball player, was a teammate of Hunter’s both in Oakland and New York. Nixon, a county native, is a physician Parker Chesson in Wilmington whose son plays for the Boston Red Sox. Pagliaroni hails from California and caught Hunter’s perfect game in 1968. Rosenfeld is a physician in Charlotte who heads the ALS Center at Carolinas Medical Center. Steinbrenner is owner of the New York Yankees and Hunter’s former boss. Vaughan is pastor of the Hunter family’s church, Hertford Baptist, and was a childhood fan of Hunter’s who grew close to him personally after moving to Hertford. One of the board’s first offi cial actions was to adopt a mis sion statement: Through advo cacy, education, fund raising, and philanthropy, the Foundation will urgently work to bring an end to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and pro vide support to those who are stricken with this brutal dis ease. Please see ALS, page 9 Weekend Weather Thursday High: 69 Low: 44 Partly Cloudy Friday High: 67 Low: 49 Partly Cloudy Saturday High: 68 Low: 49 Partly Cloudy
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