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Students chosen for conference Pages Award nominees sought Pages Spring sports begin Page 6 March 12, 2003 VoL 71, No. 11 Hertford, North Carolina 27944 PERQUIMANS COUNTY LIBRARY 110 W ACADEMY ST HERTFORD, NC 27944-1306 Perquimans Weekly 3 Central School gets $1.35 mill grant SUSAN R. HARRIS Talk about an IMPACT. Perquimans Central School learned last Thursday that the State Board of Education gave its approval of the school’s application for a $1.35 mil lion IMPACT Model School Grant. The school will get $450,000 per year for three years to fund personnel, resources, access to infor mation resources and the internet, computer hard ware/software, profession al development and student instruction to produce technologically literate stu dents. Based on studies and on-site experience with the Perquimans County Schools Technology Coordinator Victor Eure, and Central School media coordinator Melissa Fields, technology facilitator Cynthia Stallings, principal Billy Stallings and teacher Tracy Gregory are interviewed by an out-of-state team for the $1.35 million IMPACT grant. school’s limited technology resources at present, the school system expects to raise student achievement across the board as well as to help close the achieve ment gap between sub groups of students. The grant was developed to aligp with the 2000 North Carolina Educational Technology Plan and IMPACT: Guidelines for Media and Technology Programs in North Carolina. It is funded in conjunction with the feder al No-Child Left Behind Act of 2002. Central is one of only 11 schools in the state to receive funding. Thirty- nine applications for fund ing were received. All grant applications were reviewed by three dif ferent out-of-state review ers who evaluated the pro posals and assigned them numeric scores. Sixteen finalist schools were identi fied and notified. The SouthEast Initiatives Regional Technology in Education Consortium staff conduct ed 70-minute interviews with each of the 16 finalist schools over a three-day - period, with each school asked the same questions. Eleven grant award nom inees were then forwarded to the state board for approval at their March 6 meeting. Representing Perquimans at the inter view were school sys- temtechnology coordinator Victor Eure and Central School principal Billy Stallings, media coordina tor Melissa Fields, technol ogy facilitator Cynthia StaUings and teacher Tracy Gregory. The grant will allow the school to purchase hard ware and software, as weU as provide funding for per sonnel and professional development to help class room teachers and support staff learn to integrate more technology into the curriculum. Continued on page 6 Officers Pirate hoopsters compete for state crown nabbing speeders [ SUSAN R. HARRIS One month after being directed by the town coun cil to enforce speed limits within a 3—5 mile toler ance, the Hertford Police Department has issued 13 speeding tickets. “We are enforcing the speed limits as council has directed us to do,” said Hertford Police Chief Dale Vanscoy. . At its Feb. 10 meeting, ' council approved the motion to crack down on those not observing speed limits. The motion includ- led a provision to give . warning tickets for 10 days, then to begin writ- ‘ ing citations. Vanscoy said officers are also watching for those who are illegally parked. To date the increased attention to those speed ing and violating parking ordinances has resulted in the following citations: ' Speeding: Cynthia Anne Rios, Aaron Quinn Foster, Scott Michael Freese, Mary Jones Skinner, Webb Darden Jones Jr. and John E. Nowell. Exceeding posted speed: Andre Blanchard, Allan Bernard Harris, Norman Leroy Warden Jr, Louis Eason, Sharon Lynn Jethro. Cynthia Perry and Dana Denise Duncan. Parking violations; Juanita B. Loggins, PV Holding Corp., Francis L. Shipman Jr, and Elizabeth G. Winslow, f Other violations; Failure to produce regis- -tration card/no license plate, Roberto Torruco Carrillo; reckless driving, Russell James Sullivan; failure to give the right of way, William Christopher Fox; and driving while - license revoked, Robert" Lee White Jr Vanscoy said officers will continue to enforce j Continued on page 6 SUSAN R. HARRIS Perquimans is packing for Raleigh. The Pirates clicked on all cylinders Saturday to become the North Carolina High School Athletic Association 1-A East Regional Champions with a decisive 70-52 win over Wallace-Rose Hill High School. The win advances Perquimans to the state championship game to be played at N.C. State University’s Reynolds Coliseum Saturday at 2:30 p.m., where they will face Thomasville. “I’d like to congratulate my team,” Pirates head coach Donald Stepney said after the game. “They had to pick an MVP, but to me all these guys are great. We came up short last year and we worked hard and did what we had to do (this year). “We’re actually going to Raleigh,” Stepney contin ued, surrounded by his son, tournament MVP Titus Stepney, and All- Tournament players, J’Sean Wilkins, Terrell Woodard, Shavoris Lewis and Jerrell Foreman. “Words can’t even express what I feel right now. It’s such a numb feeling. This is a special group.” And it was a total team effort that led to the Pirates victory. Stepney, as he has all year, c ame up big in the big game, scoring a gamehigh 18 points, grabbing seven steals and coming up with four rebounds. Lewis dumped in 14 points, while dishing out three assists and tallying four rebounds and two steals. Wilkins poured in 13 points, with nine rebounds, three steals and two blocks. Foreman scored 10 and added 11 rebounds and five blocks to his performance. Woodard hit for nine points, with seven rebounds. The contest was close in the beginning, with Perquimans taking a slim 14-8 lead after the first quarter. WaUace-Rose Hill puUed within two on an old-fash ioned three-point play by Jeremy Perkins at the 5- Continued on page 6 Jerrell Foreman will try to handle Thomasville in the middle during Saturday's state championship game. • Advance tickets to Saturday's 1-A men's state championship game are available at PCHS for $7. Gate price is $8. • The school system has contracted with Fun Tours to offer bus transportation to the game for PCHS students ONLY. The cost is $15 and includes admission to the game. • Videotapes of the game may be reserved for S20 by calling Athletic Director Susan Cox at 426-5778. Search uncovers no leads in case of missing county man BEN DECK The Daily Advance A team of 35 volunteers combed a swath of Gates County Sunday but found no trace of a Perquimans man who has been missing since July 2002. “We ended up back where we started at,” said Rex Meads, a private inves tigator hired by the mother of the missing man. Searchers walked nearly shoulder-to-shoulder through wooded areas and others used all-terrain vehicles to check fields as they combed 200 to 300 acres of southern Gates County near the Gates- Perquimans line. Meads said. They were looking for any trace of 45-year-old Kevin Fields, whose truck was found in the area on Sept. 28, 2002. Marjorie Fields of Wilmington, the mother of the missing man, hired Meads after efforts by law enforcement came up dry Fields believes law enforce ment investigators “did what they could,” but she wants to see the case taken further, she said. Perquimans Sheriff Eric Tthey, whose department is handling the official inves tigation into Fields' disap pearance, said he believes someone from the commu nity will need to come for ward with information in order for a significant break to come in the case. Kevin Fields was living out of his white Ford truck in Perquimans County, and his ceU phone records indi cate he went missing some time after July 6, 2002. His truck was eventually found in Gates County, but there was no sign of violence in the vehicle, Tilley said. Many of Fields' belong ings, including his wallet and ceU phone, were found in the truck, however. Fields said her son suf fered from schizophrenia and it's likely that he wasn't taking his medication when he vanished. Sheriffs departments in Gates and Perquimans counties conducted an ini tial search in the area, but no evidence of Kevin's whereabouts was discov number of the Center for Missing Persons: 1-877-838- 7852. The Fields family is offering a reward to anyone with information about the man's whereabouts. “AU of us hope (Fields) is alive,” Meads said. “Whether he is or not, the investigation will reveal that.” Daily Advance photo Volunteers combed 200-300 acres of south Gates County Sunday, looking for any trace of Kevin Fields, a Perquimans County man missing since July. ered. Later searches with dogs, including two ani mals trained to find cadav ers, also turned up no leads. Meads said he is “pretty sure” Fields is not in the area where his truck was found. He also held out hope that Fields may not have met with foul play. “AU of us hope (Fields) is alive,” Meads said. “Whether he is or not, the investigation will reveal that.” Kevin Fields was last known to be 6 feet 2 inches taU and 150 pounds, and he had brown hair and eyes. Anyone with information about his disappearance may call the local law enforcement or the toU-free Weekend IAIcatiicd THURSDAY High: 59 Low: 40 Showers Friday High:62 Low: 39 Partly Cloudy Saturday High: 61 Low: 41 Partly Cloudy
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