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February 9, 2005
Vol. 73, No. 6 Hertford, North Carolina 27944
PERQUIMANS COUNTY LIBRARY
110 W ACADEMY ST
HERTFORD, NC 27944-1306
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Weekly
Chanoke man missing since Jan. 27
CHRIS WHIPPLE
The Daily Advance
The car driven by a
Chapanoke man missing
since Jan. 27 was found
abandoned in Elizabeth
City Sunday, his wife said.
The white 1998
Oldsmobile Regal that
Corey Sylvester was last
seen driving was found
Sunday morning in the
parking lot on Water Street
beside First South Bank.
Inside, investigators dis
covered the keys still in the
ignition and an untouched
fast-food restaurant sand
wich on the seat, according
to Sylvester’s wife Pamika.
Pamika Sylvester said
last week that her husband
failed to come home after
what was supposed to be a
brief trip to Elizabeth City
Corey Sylvester was sup
posed to pick up the
youngest of the couple’s
three children from a day
care center on his way
home, but he never made it
there, his wife said.
When he still hadn’t
arrived home by 10 a.m. the
next morning, Pamika said
she called authorities.
The Perquimans County
Sheriff’s Office is handling
the investigation, but
Sheriff Eric Tilley and
Deputy Marlow Reel, who
is heading up the investiga
tion, could not be reached
for comment Monday
Capt. G.F. Koch of the
Elizabeth City Police
Giving out smiles
Dental
staff
polishes
smiles
ERIN RICKERT
Eleven year-old Shaleek
SheUbee was able to make
his first trip to the dentist
Friday through the help of
an annual program initiat
ed by the American Dental
Association.
Give Kids a Smile Day, a
program focused on provid
ing free oral health care to
thousands of low-income
children across the country,
was taken on locally by
Jack L. Boone’s dental
office on Ainsley Avenue
four years ago.
Though the office is typi
cally closed Fridays, doors
were open from 8 a.m.- 1
p.m. to 32 area school chil
dren aged 5-18 in need of
assistance.
A team of four assistants
and newly graduated den
tists Alison Boone-Heyder,
Boone’s daughter, and her
husband Markus Heyder,
had the task of repairing
Dr. Alison Boone-Heyer provides free dental care at the practice of her father. Dr.
Jack Boone in Hertford, during Friday's Give Kids A Smile Day. For the fourth year,
Boone and his staff volunteered their time to offer dental care to children as they
participated in the national Give Kids A Smile program.
these neglected smiles.
The two, who graduated
from the University of
North Carolina at Chapel
HiU last year, are currently
practicing in Fayetteville,
but drove the more than
three hours to Hertford to
help.
‘They [the Heyder’s] are
newly graduated and see
ing it fast and hard today,”
said Andrea Boone, Jack’s
wife and the office manager
of the practice.
While several of the stu
dents were visiting for
Continued on page 10
Department Confirmed
Monday that the car
Sylvester was driving has
been found. But he deferred
aU other questions to Tilley.
Sylvester’s co-workers,
friends, wife and family
have said it is not like
Sylvester to disappear.
Some of the fear the worst.
Sylvester picked up his
paycheck at Furniture Lion
the morning he disap
peared, said his boss,
Archie Garrett. He had
worked at the furniture
store for about five months
as a delivery man, Garrett
said.
Information about Corey
Sylvester’s whereabouts
should be reported to the
Perquimans County
Sheriff’s office at 426-5615.
Grant provides
radios for the deaf
PHOTO BY ERIN RICKERT
ERIN RICKERT
Thanks to $500,000 in
grant money, many of the
deaf and hard of hearing
residing in North Carolina
will be alerted to severe
weather conditions with a
specialized NOAA weather
radio.
With the money from
both a state and federal
grant, the North Carolina
Division of Emergency'
Management purchased
3,500 of these specialized
radios meant for statewide
distribution through
February.
Ed Jenkins, natural haz
ards planner for the North
Carolina Division of
Emergency Management,
said the radios were pur
chased to ensure aU state
residents could take the
protective action necessary
during times of potential
disaster.
“It’s an outgrowth of
lessons learned during
Hurricane Floyd,” Jenkins
said. “A study was done
around that time that deter
mined not enough radios
were available for the deaf
and hard of hearing. We
discovered area grant
money could be used to
help solve this problem.”
Special radios for the
hearing impaired alert
them to impending
severe weather.
Jenkins said the
Division of Services for the
Deaf and Hard of Hearing
maintain a list of North
Carolina residents that
require special equipment
and they were able to desig
nate the number of radios
each county would receive
based on the list.
Six of these radios,
which alert the hearing
impaired through pillow
vibrations, text messages
and strobing light, were
presented to Perquimans
County.
Harry Winslow, coordi
nator for emergency man
agement in Perquimans
County, said he received
the units in December 2004,
but was forced to wait for
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Joyners
enjoy 65
years
together
ERIN RICKERT
Elizabeth and Clarence
Joyner have spent what
many would call a lifetime
together.
Known by friends and
family as Peggy and
Truman, the couple will
celebrate their 65th wed
ding anniversary this year,
just days before lovers
across the country shower
their sweethearts with
candy and flowers for
Valentine’s Day.
“We have had a loving
relationship all these
years,” Truman said. “I
look back over the time and
I wouldn’t change any of
it.”
As youth, the two met in
1939 after their families
decided to take a fishing
trip to Harrison’s Fishing
Pier.
Truman said at that time
you could rent a small row
boat for 50 cents and fish all
Mortons enjoy love a second time
day if you wanted.
Yet that afternoon, the
only thing Truman could
think of doing aU day was
to look at Peggy sitting in
the boat just across the
water from his own.
Truman said once the
Erin Rickert
Most would agree those
lucky enough to find that
person who knows and
loves aU your quirks even
once in a lifetime is an
incalculable blessing.
Yet despite the odds,
Perquimans County resi
dents Grover and Audrey
Morton were lucky enough
to find this kind of love a
second time.
Longtime acquain
tances, Audrey, 76, and
Grover, 73, were married
late in life nearly 20 years
ago in Burgess Baptist
Church after each lost their
first spouse to iUness.
The two knew each other
through church where
Audrey and her first hus
band, Joe, and Grover and
his first wife, Ruth, used to
share a pew each Sunday.
Grover even worked for
Audrey’s husband at the
Harvey Point Military
Elizabeth and Clarence Joyner will celebrate their 65th
wedding anniversary this week.
two of them were on dry
land he made sure they
became more acquainted
and they soon found them
selves saying, “I do” less
than a year later on Feb. 10,
1940.
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Base until sudden heart
complications ended
Audrey’s 28-year marriage
to Joe.
It was then, Audrey said
she decided never to find
someone else to share her
life after her first husband.
For close to 10 years she
stuck by that decision and
remained a widow.
Around the same time,
Grover was accepting life
Continued on page 10
Audrey and Grover Morton lost their first spouses to
death, but found love again with each other.
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Thursday
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