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PERQUIMANS COUNTY LIBRARY
110 W ACADEMY ST
HERTFORD, NC 27944-1306
May 29, 2002
Vol. 70, No. 22 Hertford, North Carolina 27944
Weekly
Hertford man dies in wreck
slash
library
hours
SUSAN R. HARRIS
State budget cuts direct
ly affected service and
slashed paychecks at the
Perquimans County
Library.
Librarian Jeri Oltman
said budget holdbacks
caused the library to close
its doors three Fridays in
May, and cut employee pay-
checks for that month by 20
percent.
And it’s the third time
the state has taken back
money from the library this
fiscal year. Oltman said the
Pettigrew Regional Library,
of which Perquimans is a
member, was notified that 3
percent of its appropriation
would be cut, then later told
that another 4 percent
would be sliced. In early
May, news came from
Raleigh that another
$54,000 of the regional sys
tem’s money would be with
held, representing pay
ments for May and June.
“At this point in the year,
we’ve bought books, we’ve
ordered videos, we’ve paid
for magazine subscrip
tions,” Oltman said.
Continued on page 6
ROBERT SMILES
The Daily Advance
A Perquimans County
man died Monday of
injuries he sustained in a
one-vehicle accident on
New Hope Road.
John Wesley Vaughan,
18, of 127 Red Maple Ave.,
Hertford, was pronounced
dead at the scene of the
accident that occurred at
approximately 1:15 p.m.
Monday.
According to Trooper
J.H. Blizzard of the N.C.
Highway Patrol, Vaughan
was traveling north on New
Hope Road in a 1984
Chevrolet Blazer, when he
entered a curve too fast.
ran off the right side of the
road, and struck a ditch
and driveway culvert.
The Blazer, Blizzard
said, overturned several
times, ejecting Vaughan
who was not wearing a seat
belt.
Blizzard estimates
Vaughan was traveling
between 55 mph and 60
mph, a speed he said
exceeds the safe speed
when entering a curve.
“This is a good example
of what can happen when
one doesn’t wear a seat
belt,” Blizzard said. “Never
once in my 17-year career
have 1 gone to a vehicle
overturned in a ditch and
pulled someone out alive
who was not wearing a seat
belt.”
Personnel from the
Perquimans County
Sheriff’s Department,
Rescue Squad, the Durants
Neck Volunteer Fire
Department were on the
scene shortly after the acci
dent occurred. Blizzard
said.
V
Welcome!
Dixon appointed
to Winfall Council
The Town of Hertford and Perquimans County Visitors Center now has an inviting
seating area thanks to the efforts of the Albemarle Plantation Women's Club and
Town of Hertford maintenance staff. The landscape project includes a bench made
by town employees with materials purchased by the Women's Club. The Visitors
Center is at 118 W. Market Street, and houses both the Main Street Program and
the Chamber of Commerce.
Winfall Town Council
filled its vacant seat earlier
this month.
Bertha B. Dixon was
tapped to fill the unexpired
term of Morris Mitchell,
who resigned in April for
personal reasons.
Mayor Fred Yates said
the town advertised the
vacancy, and received three
resumes by the deadline. A
committee composed of
Yates, Mayor Pro Tern Ken
Rominger and councilman
Cliff Towe interviewed the
candidates.
Yates said Rominger and
Towe asked Dixon several
questions during her inter
view.
“She stood out above all
of them,” Yates said.
A native , of Winfall,
Dixon retired from the New
York City Department of
Social Services after over
31 years of service. She
served as a case worker and
case manager. She also was
a supervisor in the New
Bertha B. Dixon
i
York City Home Care
System. She graduated
from Perquimans Union
School and earned a B.S. in
Business Education from
Elizabeth City State
University.
Since returning to
Winfall, Dixon has been a
member of the Town
Advisory Committee to
Council, and active in the
community.
Billboards on causeway
may be thing of past
WmfaU adopts
new logo, motto
ALICE BREWIN
Often while going down
the road, both drivers and
passengers alike become
interested or distracted
(and occasionally disgust
ed) by billboards. Anyone
who has ever made the trip
to South Carolina on
Highway 17 has been bom
barded with bright fluores
cent signs trying to sell fire
works, cigarettes and other
novelties. According to
experts at the Hartman
Center for Sales,
Advertising & Marketing
History, billboards are the
oldest form of advertising,
dating back to Egyptian
times, when sales were
chiseled in stone tablets
along roadways.
Two billboards, which
aren’t quite that old, may
not be around much longer.
Continued on page 6
Supporting Cole
COA President Dr. Sylvester McKay (in blue blazer)
looks around the renovated Hertford Training Center
with other COA officials last Thursday during an open
house at the site at Missing Mill Park.
Open house held for COA
Hertford Training Center
SUSAN R. HARRIS
Perquimans County
came one step closer to hav
ing a College of The
Albemarle campus here
with the opening of the
Hertford Training Center
at Missing Mill Park.
The training center is a
joint project between COA,
the town of Hertford,
Perquimans County and
the Perquimans (bounty
Schools. Officials on hand
last Thursday for a celebra
tion of the center’s opening
said they hope it is a pre
cursor to a Perquimans
County Center affiliated
with COA. The college is
working with county offi
cials to develop a center,
similar to the one in
Chowan County, in the
Perquimans Commerce
Centre.
Continued on page 6
Carl Terranova enjoys a light moment with Janice Cole,
Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, at a recep
tion at Albemarle Plantation last week. About 75 peo
ple attended the event, hosted by Carl and Cathy
Terranova, Pat and Carroll Harrell, Gary and Evelyn
Stubbins and Michael and Mary Lindsey Hare.
SUSAN R. HARRIS
A tiny acorn, with the
right environment, grows
into a mighty oak.
Winfall Town Council
sees the town of Winfall as
a small town with great
potential.
With that in mind.
Council adopted a new logo
at its May meeting. The
logo is a giant tree growing
from an acorn, which town
officials say depicts some
thing small, yet solid,
which is growing into
greatness while enhancing
the lives of the people sur
rounding it.
A new motto, “Forward
With Integrity,” was incor
porated into the logo.
Winfall Mayor Fred
Yates said adopting thell-
ogo and motto was the
result of strategic plan
ning sessions held by the
town over the past months.
“We decided the town
needed some identity,”
Yates said.
A committee was
formed, and town officials
put an article in the town’s
newsletter inviting resi
dents to participate in the
process.
Eventually Tosh Towe
was commissioned to
design a logo. Towe, the son
of Winfall councilman Cliff
Towe, studied art at East
Carolina University and
continuesto draw as a
hobby.
While the logo and
motto are concrete exam
ples of the town’s push for
progress, Yates said public
hearings, the formation of
the Advisory Committee to
Council, meetings with the
business community, and
Continued on page 6
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