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Vol. 75, No. 20 Hertford, North Carolltra 27944
Perquimans
Weekly
Spring
weekend
is here
Southern
hospitality
highlighted
SUSAN HARRIS
Hertford’s small-town
charm and Southern hos
pitality will he showcased
during the annual Spring
Weekend May 18-20.
The mouth-watering
aroma of pork cooking on
the griU Eastern North
Carolina style will bring
diners to the courthouse
lawn on Friday during
Pig Out On The Green.
Meals featuring the bar
becue and all the fixings
will be served 11:30 a.m.-2
p.m. and 5-7 p.m. Tickets
are $6 each and may be
purchased at the Visitors
Center, Woodard’s
Pharmacy, Simply
Southern or any Historic
Hertford, Inc. member.
Tables and chairs will
grace the courthouse
green to allow al fresco
dining. Drinks and home
made desserts will be
sold on site. Music will
play in the background.
A 50-50 raffle is also on
tap for the day.
Two historic Front
Street homes and the
beautiful Perquimans
River will provide the
backdrops for the annual
Spring Garden Party
sponsored by the
Perquimans County
Restoration Association
Saturday evening.
Ladies and gentlemen
in their Sunday best will
enjoy fresh asparagus
with lemon sauce, Danish
shrimp with blue cheese,
ham biscuits (Is there
anything more
Southern?), tomato dill
sandwiches, bacon-
wrapped apricots, salmon
mousse cups, chicken flo-
rentine en croute, caviar
pie, a chocolate fountain
with fruit, assorted
sweets and the table wine
of the South, iced tea on
the lawns of Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Stokes and Mr. and
Mrs. Wallace Reed.
Beginning at 5:30, the
party will also feature a
cash bar with cham
pagne, mint juleps, wine
and beer.
A musical program
will be provided by the
Outer Bahks Chorale.
Tickets are $30 and are
available by calling 426-
7567.
On Sunday, the week
end will wrap up as the
famed Albemarle Chorale
presents “Springtime
Celebration,” at 7 p.m. at
the high school.
The Albemarle
Chorale is directed by
Lynwood Winslow and is
composed of 60 experi
enced singers from
across the Albemarle.
Jacqueline Copeland wiU
accompany the group.
The Chorale is spon
sored by The College of
The Albemarle.
Admission will be free.
Donations will be grate
fully accepted.
On thn ivild side
Licensed wildlife rehabilitator Elizabeth Hanrahan of
Edenton released three turtles in the mar$h beside the
"s" bridge in Hertford last Thursday. Hanrahan rescued
the turtles and 34 pigeons from 329 Market Street
when Hertford Police officers removed nine pit bulls
from the house and charged Shelma Miller Jr. with
training and fighting the dogs. The case is still pending.
Hanrahan got the pigeons adopted and nurtured the
turtles, who were a combined weight of 694 grams in
October and weighed 888 grams at release.
PHOTO BY SUSAN HARRIS
No drugs
found at
schools
SUSAN HARRIS
The Sheriff’s Department put its
new drug dog to the test at both the
middle and high schools.
Following up on reports from
school administrators and the
resource officers at bbth schools that
some students were in possession of
drugs on campus. Investigator
Shelby White took Boz, a yellow lab,
into the middle school on Friday and
the high school on Monday for ran
dom searches.
Tilley said Boz and White checked
out random lockers and classrooms
at both schools, and also sniffed
around some cars at the high school.
There was an indication at the mid
dle school that drugs may have been
stored in an area searched at one
time, but nothing was found at either
site.
Boz is the latest addition to the
sheriff’s force, and was procured
through a canine school in
Greenville.
“I felt like we needed a certified
canine in the county since we don’t
have one,” Tilley said.
Boz and White have both received
training, Boz in sniffing out nar
cotics and White as a canine handler.
“You go to school to be trained as
a handler just like you do to operate
radar,” Tilley said. “The officer and
the dog take tests to be certified. You
have to have the paperwork to back
that up, to show that the dog does
have training in narcotics. Both the
handler and the dog should be certi
fied.”
Tilley said having certification
helps to validate evidence at trial.
NCSU faculty coming to Winfall
Perquimans
Central School will
get a visit from 35 fac
ulty members and
administrators of
N.C. State University
Friday.
The visit is part of
a bus tour to connect
faculty and staff at
N.C. State with people across
North Carolina.
Through the “Connecting in
North Carolina” tour, businesses
and industries important to the
state’s economy will be toured to
learn more about the state from cit
izens, business and community
leaders. The program’s goal is so
show the faculty and staff how
NC STAT
their classroom and
outreach activities
continue to serve
the state reflective
of N.C. State’s role
as a land grant uni
versity. They also
will look for further
opportunities to
apply N.C. State
research in impacting the overall
quality of life.
The stop at Central School is to
look at the IMPACT Center.
Perquimans Central School earned
a prestigious IMPACT grant to
facilitate learning and teaching
through effective use of technolo
gy. In 2003, N.C. State’s Friday
Institute was selected to evaluate
the effectiveness of the IMPACT
model for North Carolina schools.
The team will seek to gain an
appreciation for a pre-K through
second grade exemplary public
school; be exposed to tjie intergra-
tion, utilization and impact of
technology throughout the learnng
environment; and better under
stand the nature and importance of
the relationship with the N.C. State
College of Education.
The h5q)othesis that the team
will be looking to validate is that
the implementation of the IMPACT
model of integrating technology
into teaching and learning will
make a significant difference in
student achievement based on
North Carolina End-of-Grace and
End-of-Course test scores.
Connecting in North Carolina is
a faculty-staff development pro
gram jointly sponsored by the
University’s Provost Office, the
Office of Research and Graduate
Studies, and the Office of
Extension, Engagment, and
Economic Development with coor
dination by the McKimmon Center
for Extension and Continuing
Education. The tour will cover
about 1,000 miles across 32 coun
ties and more than a dozen cities
and towns.
It is also hoped that the tour will
increase faculty/staff awareness
of where N.C. State students come
from and return to from the uni
versity setting.
Peterson’s venture into Winfall retail market
SUSAN HARRIS
Whether you’re in the
market for a shrimp basket
or a hanging flower basket,
you can find it at Winfall
Market and Deli.
Steve and Patty Peterson
purchased the convenience
store on April 1, and last
week celebrated their new
business venture with a
Chamber of Commerce-
'sponsored ribbon cutting.
Steve Peterson has a full
time job with the mainte
nance department in the
school system, but he’s
never been one to sit still,
always looking for business
opportunities. The conven
ience store and deli is his
Steve and Patti Peterson recently purchased the con
venience store on Winfall Boulevard, renaming it
Winfall Market and Deli.
project to help educate his
grandchildren.
"I’m not doing this for
me,” Peterson said. “It’s for
them.”
Customer service is the
focus at the Winfall store.
“We want to make every
body happy,” he said., “We
want to be more convenient
to our customers than to
ourselves.”
And providing top cus
tomer service means to
Peterson that the deli does
n’t close — in fact, the fry
ers don’t even get turned
off — until the last cus
tomer leaves the store and
the doors are locked.
Good products and servi
ces, fair prices and.respect
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Weather
I Thursday
High: 65, Low: 54
Showers
Friday
High: 69, Low: 53
Partly Cloudy
Saturday
High: 74, Low: 59
Sunny