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December 27, 2006
Vol. 74, No, 52 Hertford, North Carolina 27944
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Crack cocaine seized in Winfaii
MARGARET FISHER
Iii a Winfall chase, police
clocked a man driving
more than 30 miles over the
speed limit and later
retrieved a quantity of
crack cocaine valued at
about $450.
Winfall Police Chief
David Shaffer attempted to
stop a vehicle on Tuesday
at about 4:45 p.m. The vehi
cle was traveling at 52 miles
per hour in a 35-mile-per-
hour zone on Winfall
Boulevard. It pulled into
Layden’s Supermarket and
the driver threw a plastic
bag out of the window onto
the parking lot, Shaffer
said. The car immediately
took off.
Shaffer chased the car —
clocking it at 56 miles per
hour in a 25-mile-per-hour
zone — and was able to stop
it on White Street.
The driver fled from the
car, but the passenger,
Andrew Devon White, 23,
remained in the car. The
officer searched the
vehicle and White, who
resides at 661 Sandy
Cross Road in Belvidere.
He found a small amount
of marijuana in the vehi
cle. White told police he
didn’t know the driver of
the car, Shaffer said.
White was charged
with possession of mari
juana less than half an
ounce and resisting a pub
lic officer. He was placed on
a $1,000 secured bond,
taken to Albemarle District
Larry Hunter Andrew White
Jail and later released.
Hertford Police
Department, Perquimans
County Sheriff’s Office and
the N.C. Highway Patrol
assisted. The bag, contain
ing 11.5 grams of crack,
was retrieved from the
parking lot.
Shaffer, who said he rec
ognized who the driver is,
put out a wanted person
notice on Larry Donnell
Hunter, 22. Hunter, who
doesn’t have a permanent
address, but gave the
address of 105 King Ave.,
surrendered himself on
Wednesday.
Hunter was charged
with three felony counts -
possession with intent to
sell and deliver cocaine,
maintaining a vehicle for
drug sales and felony flee to
elude arrest with a motor
vehicle. Other charges
include speeding, reckless
driving, resisting arrest,
littering, possession of
marijuana less than half
an ounce.
Hunter was released on a
$23,000 secured bond. His
first appearance at
Perquimans ' County
District Court is set on Jan.
3.
MARGARET FISHER
The N.C. Board of
Transportation has award
ed Perquimans County
nearly $682,000 to widen
and resurface Holiday
Island Road.
Barnhill Contracting
will begin the work in,.
March with a completion
date around June.
The N.C. Department of
Transportation maintains
a list of priority roads rec
ommended by each county.
Woodville and Nqw Hope
roads are also top on the
list, said County Manager
Bobby Darden. But the
final determination was
selected based on the time
it takes to complete the job,
not requiring any signifi
cant environmental issues
and funding availability,
said Barry Hobbs, DOT
division project manager
for Division I.
The project is part of
N.C. Moving Ahead!, a $700
million transportation ini-'
tiative for highway mainte
nance and modernization
throughout the state. The
initiative became available
2003 and was supposed to
be a two-year project.
When the project slowed
down past the deadline,
DOT requested an exten
sion, said Stan White,
board member who repre
sents Perquimans in Nags
Head.
“We tried to do some
thing for every county -
what’s most important in
each county,” White said.
Plans are to redo
Holiday Island Road from
Pender Road down to
where Holiday Lane
begins, Hobbs said.
In addition to Holiday
Island Road, the Moving
Ahead project included
work on a bridge that bor
ders Perquimans and
Chowan counties. Another
bridge located on old U.S.
Highway 17 in Woodville is
planned to be redone, as
well, if funding becomes
available.
Season of sharing
A collective effort between FFA, SURGE and SADD netted lots of canned goods, toys and dollars which were
donated to the Open Door in time for Christmas, The effort was spearheaded by agriculture teacher and
FFA advisor Angel White nd Carolyn Rogers, SURGE/SADD Advisor.
Hayes is Bearer of Mace at ECSU
MARGARET FISHER
Lindsey K. D. Hayes, a
Hertford resident, was hon
ored to be the Bearer of the
Mace at Elizabeth City
State University’s 143rd
Commencement on Dec. 9.
The bearer of the mace
is the non-transfer graduat
ing senior who holds the
highest cumulative grade
point average. Hayes, 22,
earned a G.P.A. of 3.9 and
met the requirement of
earning all her college cred
its at ECSU.
Carrying the mace is a
prestigious event for one
graduate at each com
mencement. In 1996, Alexis
Joyner, an ECSU art profes
sor, designed the mace, a 6-
foot pole made of black wal
nut. The mace depicts a
bronze-cast viking, the
school’s mascot, with rays
that symbolize enlighten
ment emanating from it. In
Ghana, a spokesman for the
chief used a similar type of
staff, Joyner said. It was
first used at graduation in
1999.
“I was just really proud -
all the work I put in,” Hayes
said about bearing the
mace. “This is what I
worked for. It was kind of
cool.”
With her father being in
the U.S. Coast Guard, her
family moved around.
Seven years ago, they came
Lindsey Hayes was bestowed with the honor of being
the Bearer of the Mace when she graduated from
Elizabeth City State University.
to Hertford from Miami,
Fla. Hayes graduated from
Perquimans County High
School in 2002.
Hayes earned her
Bachelor of Science degree
in biology and plans to
work towards getting a
master’s degree in nutri
tion. She hasn’t made a
final decision where she
will attend college, but
she’s considering Florida
State University in
Tallahassee.
She’s thinking about
becoming a dietician and
eventually working for a
food company.
Understanding how the
human body works is her
link to understanding what
foods do to the body and
how to make healthier
foods.
“I’ve always been really
interested in the human
body”, she said.
Food manufacturers
have the power to make
foods that can help people
to be healthier. However,
large numbers of them are
instead producing
unhealthy foods because
they can use less expensive
ingredients and make more
money, she said. .
“I think Americans eat
too much junk food. There’s
not enough fiber, healthy
fat and essential vitamins,”
Hayes said.
, Food companies use such
cheap ingredients as high
fructose corn syrup, hydro
genated oils and bleached
flour in their products, but
they are unhealthy, she
said. For example, studies
have shown that consuming
quantities of high fructose
corn syrup can lead to dia
betes, she said.
Hayes would like to find
alternative sources of
sugar and oil that are
healthier and create nutri
tious foods that Americans
will enjoy eating.
Hayes, a member of the
Tri Beta Biological Honor
Society, is a waitress at
Cypress Creek Grill in
Elizabeth City. Although
she worked part time while
attending ECSU full time,
she found time to study
“I studied a lot,” she
said. “I put a lot of time
into my school work and
made it a priority in my
life.”
over
Jenny’s
Gut
MARGARET FISHER
The outdoor educational
wetland laboratory at
Jenny’s Gut on the
Perquimans County High
School campus is getting a
new bridge constructed.
The former cement
bridge had started to settle
and was impeding water
flow, said Dwayne
Stallings, assistant super
intendent.
The project, now in
Phase II, includes creating
a 40-foot wooden arched
walkway across the pond
to adjoin King Street to the
main campus. The new
bridge is being constructed
during the holiday break.
The two acres next to the
school, once a deteriorated
wetland, is now a laborato
ry for students to collect
water samples, study water
quality and analyze plant
and animal life for environ
mental study.
“The science and agri
culture classes have all
along been taking water
quality samples,” he said.
“Hopefully, in the spring,
the agriculture depart
ment will help with the
plantings and trees.”
A monitoring station, or
deck, has been built out
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