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Perquimans
September 28, 2000
Vol. 68, No. 39 Hertford, North Carolina 27944
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Two arrested on cocaine trafficking charges
Officers nab 30
grams of coke
SUSAN R. HARRIS
Editor
Two people were arrested in
Perquimans County on drug
trafficking charges early
Saturday morning.
Kathy Lamh Bail, 44, of 1323
Beech Springs Rd., Tyner, and
George Nathan Felton, 38, of
1342 Paradise Road, Edenton,
were both charged with traf
ficking cocaine. Bail was also
charged with maintaining a
dwelling for the purpose of
selling/manufacturing cocaine
and possession of drug para
phernalia.
Bail’s bond was set at $51,000
secured; Felton’s at $50,000
secured. Both posted bail.
Based on information
received by the Perquimans
County Sheriff’s Bepartment,
Investigator Nathan Zachary
secured a search warrant for
Bail’s mobile home, which is in
Perquimans Cotmty. Beputies
from Perquimans and Gates
counties and officers from the
Elizabeth City-Pasquotank
Brug Task Force executed the
warrant and found 30 grams of
cocaine, a gun and drug para
phernalia. They took over $800
in cash from Felton, who was
at Bail’s home at the time of
the raid. Bail may face addi
tional charges for the weapon
found in her home.
Had there been less than 28
grams of cocaine found. Bail
and Felton would have been
charged with possession of
cocaine, rather than the more
serious offense of trafficking.
Felton is presently on proba
tion for a past drug conviction.
He has been under investiga
tion for quite some time,
according to the sheriff’s
department.
The pair was scheduled for a
first appearance in
Perquimans County Bistrict
Court on Sept. 27.
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Law officers raided this Beech Springs Road home early Saturday, confiscating 30 grams of
cocaine. The raid led to the arrest of two people on drug trafficking charges.
Hertford
may get
visitor’s
center
SUSAN R. HARRIS
Editor
Tourists in Hertford may
soon find several agencies wel
coming them to the area at a
shared visitor’s center.
The town of Hertford
applied for a $25,000 Rural
Tourism Bevelopment Grant
to turn a downtown building
into a visitor’s center. The
building, which is owned by
Robert Earl and Chris Lane at
no West Market Street, for-
iherly served as Lane’s med
ical practice.
; The Lanes wrote a letter last
month, stating their intent to
give the office to be used to
house a visitor center, cham
ber office. Main Street
Program office, arts headquar
ters and other purposes relat
ed to the development of her
itage tourism in the county.
Until such time as the building
is deeded to a non-profit orga
nization, the Lanes offered the
building rent-free for those
purposes.
Backed by the Lane’s dona
tion of the building, the town
applied for the grant to fur
nish the lobby, purchase need
ed equipment, furnish a con
ference/board room, purchase
signage and lights for the front
of the building, and renovate
areas inside and outside.
' The building already hous
e's the Main Street Program,
and the chamber board has
discussed moving to the
Market Street location.
If funded. Main Street
Program Birector Belinda
Washlesky will serve as pro
ject coordinator for the reno
vation. She and Bivision of
Tourism, Film and Sports
Bevelopment local
Bevelopment Officer LuAnne
Pendergraft worked jointly to
write the grant proposal.
Washlesky said a visitor’s
center is an important compo-
hent of heritage tourism
development. Having a staffed
office for tourists to visit to get
information on local attrac
tions, including shops, eater
ies, bed and breakfasts and
historic places, is imperative
fp the successful development
of the county as a heritage
four ism destination.
Walking to D’Feet ALS
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The rain did not deter over 300 walkers from participating in the Walk to D'Feet ALS in Hertford Saturday morning. The
Hertford walk, coordinated by the Jim "Catfish" Hunter ALS Foundation in cooperation with the ALS Association North
Carolina Chapter, was the first of several ALS walk-a-thons planned statewide. About $40,000 was raised.
West
Academy
now
one-way
street
SUSAN R. HARRIS
Editor
West Academy Street is offi
cially one-way.
Town maintenance employ
ees installed the one-way signs
at the ends of the one-block
long street last week. Parking
places have been painted on
both sides of the street.
West Academy is the street
that runs in front of the coun
ty library and the American
Legion Post 126 building. It
runs into Grubb Street on the
north and Market Street on the
south. Traffic can now run
north to south on the street.
Vehicles may turn onto West
Academy Street from Grubb
Street and exit via Market
Street.
The change had been
approved by the Hertford
Town Council in May. Council
members agreed that the
street was too narrow for park
ing on both sides and two-way
traffic.
ALS walk nets $40K
Si/S!
SUSAN R. HARRIS
Editor
Spirits were high Saturday
as over 300 participants
strolled through Hertford in
the rain to raise money for
ALS Foundation North
Carolina Chapter.
And raise money, they did,
to the tune of about $40,000,
according to Helen Hunter,
widow of Jim “Catfish”
Hunter. Jim Hunter died in
September 1999 from complica
tions of ALS.
About 2 dozen of Jim
Hunter’s family members
joined friends, ALS patients,
and families of others with
ALS in the walk.
Helen Hunter said a
Hertford County man recently
diagnosed with ALS walked
part of the 3-mile route. His
family and friends raised over
$5,000 of the $40,000 raised
with the walk-a-thon. Another
family from the Hampton
Roads area who lost a loved one
to ALS also participated.
Helen Hunter; her children,
Todd, Kim and Paul; in-laws,
Joanna and Larry; and grand
son, Taylor were among those
walking to help raise funds to
cure the cruel disease.
ALS, also commonly known
as Lou Gehrig’s disease, is
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis,
a progressive disease that
attacks nerve cells called
motor neurons which control
the movement of voluntary
muscles. The muscles receive
no nourishment, causing a
wasting away of muscle. The
disease also attacks nerve cells
in the brain and spinal cord.
At present, researchers do
not know what causes ALS,
nor is there a cure, although
scientific breakthroughs over
the last few years have led to
new drugs which slow the pro
gression of the disease. The
disease progressively takes
more and more muscle from its
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The Jim "Catfish"
Hunter ALS Softball
Tournament that was
rained out last
weekend will pick up
Saturday at 9 a.m. at
the county softball
fields in Winfall.
victims, but does not affect the
brain. Most patients live 3 to 5
years after diagnosis, although
there are documented cases of
long-term survival.
Helen Hunter and her fami
ly watched as their loved one, a
national hero due in part to
his physical prowess, lose the
ability to hunt, fish, drive his
truck around his farm, teach
his first grandchild to pitch —
do those things which he loved.
And they and their friends
want to help find a way to keep
others from watching a loved
one suffer from ALS.
For information on ALS and
the Jim “Catfish” Hunter ALS
Foundation, log onto the web
site at
www.catfishhunterals.org. The
site contains information
about the disease, treatment
options, links to other ALS
sites and more. Ways to donate
to the Foundation can also be
found on the site.
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