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Catholic Social Ministries Turns 30,.. page 4 New feature: Glance Back...page 9 Local Sports Pages 13 and 14 Subscriber of the Week: Elsie Crowson The n 4 uij) Str G ' 2007 September 5,2007 Vol. 75, No. 37 Hertford, North Carolina 27944 "News from Next Door" 35 cents Festivals set for Saturday Pack up the kids and the lawn chairs this Satur day and head to Hertford’s Indian Summer Festival featuring fun, food, music, history, crafts, and much, much more. It all gets underway at 9 a.m. in the downtown area with musical entertain ment, food vendors, craft vendors, tractor puU, car show, and fun activities for children. The musical entertain ment will be on stage on the courthouse lawn while craft vendors will be found on Church Street. The food court will be just around the corner on Market Street. The State Line Pullers will host a lawn tractor pull at 1 p.m. until 4 p.m. on Clark Street just past Miss ing Mill Park. Registration is from 11 a.m. till 1 p.m. The car show will be held from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. featuring vintage ve hicles and sports cars, mo torcycles or bone shakers. Register early at Missing Mill Park since space is limited. Relax in your own lawn chair and listen to the va riety of entertainment planned throughout the day on the courthouse lawn. After enjoying a spell downtown, jump on a shut tle bus and enjoy a trip through time visiting the Hearth & Harvest Festi val at the Newbold -White House, held in conjunction with the downtown events. Beginning at 10 a.m., the Hearth & Harvest Festival will offer guests tradition al 18th Century activities, presentations, book sign ing, period costumed in terpreters, colonial craft- ers, artists and tradesmen, as well as activities for the young and young at heart. Company requests annexation CATHY WILSON Staff Writer Greenville Timberline has asked the town of Hert ford to annex 87.15 acres of land located near the inter section of U.S. 17 and Har vey Point Road. Hertford Town Council members wiU hold a pub lic hearing on the request Sept. 10 at 7:30 p.m. Part of Greenville Tim berline’s property is already located within the town’s boundary, so annexing the remaining 87.15 acres lo cated outside would incor porate the entire parcel. Hertford Town Manag er John Christensen said Greenville Timberline is considering developing residential properties on the plot with possible com mercial sites facing U.S. 17. The town’s moratorium on de\feloping subdivisions expires in October. Phone caUs to GreenviUe Timberline were not re turned. « Truck Crashes into U.S. 17 house Home Occupants escape injury CATHY WILSON Staff Writer Fana Ifeula watched Tuesday morning as a pick-up truck puUing a work trailer crashed into the back of her house lo cated on U.S. 17 just south of town. She was standing on her front porch in the quiet of the morning when she saw the truck travel across 500-1000 ft. of passy area and miss a utility pole sup porting a transformer. She leaned over the railing of her porch and watched the truck travel across a cou ple of ditches, miss several parked cars, and plow into her laundry room. “I saw him coming, and I thought. Oh, my God, and I began to pray,” recalls Ifeula. “It missed the pole and the parked cars, and then I thought about the gas tank.” Luckily the truck missed the gas tank as well. According to Trooper T. J. Langley with the N. C. Highway Patrol, the 2000 F-150 was driven by 45- year-old Rodney Perry of Edenton. Witnesses at the scene said the truck was travel ing north on U.S. 17 when it veered across the south bound lane, ran off the left side of the road, and crossed the grassy area into the house. Witnesses said the driver apparently suffered from a medical condition. Members of Perquimans Rescue re sponded and transported him to a local hospital. Ifeula’s 33-year-old daughter was inside the house in the upstairs show er at the time of the acci dent. No one in the house was injured. Ifeula said it appears only the laundry room of the house was impacted; however, the extent of the damage won’t be assess able until after the truck is removed. Members of Hertford Fire Department respond ed as well as the Perqui mans County Sheriff’s De partment. Perquimans Weekly Photo by CATHY WILSON A PICK-UP TRUCK, DRIVEN by Rodney Perry of Eden ton, plowed into the back of Fana Ifeula's home lo cated on U.S. 17 south early Tuesday morning. Wit nesses said the truck was traveling north on U.S. 17 when it crossed the southbound lane, veered off the left side of the road, travelled across 500-1,000 ft. of grassy area missing a utility pole and several parked cars before plowing into the back of the house. The driver was transported to a local hospital. Perquimans SAT scores down from 2006 Locals lag behind state, national average CATHY WILSON Staff Writer Scores for Perquimans County High School se niors taking SAT tests last school year declined slight ly from the previous year. Local scores continue to average less than the state and national numbers. The number of seniors taking the tests dropped as well. According to the North Carolina Department of Instruction, local seniors averaged 1358 on the three tests in 2007, down slightly from the 1377 averaged by seniors in 2006. Seniors scored 485 in math, 440 in critical read ing, and 433 in writing in 2007 compared with 486 in math, 448 in critical read ing, and 443 in writing in 2006. Statewide, seniors av eraged scoring 1486 on the tests, including 509 in math, 495 in critical read ing, and 482 in writing. Across the nation, se niors averaged 1511 on the tests, including 515 in math, 502 in critical read ing, and 494 in writing. Each test is graded on a point scale from 200-800. Both North Carolina and the nation include public school students and non- »public school students in their figures. Local figures only include those attend ing PCHS. Sixty-two or 52.5 percent of seniors at PCHS last year took the battery of tests used for college admission, down six from 68 or 53.5 percent who took the tests in 2006. Seventy-one per cent of seniors in the state took the tests while only 48 percent did so nationwide. Brenda Lassiter, pub lic information officer for Perquimans County Schools, noted the above SAT results reflect scores Burning ban in effect $100 fines issued to those who burn openly From Staff Reports The statewide open burning ban remains in ef fect until further notice. According to the North Carolina Division of For est Resources (NCDFR), the ban is due to dry weather conditions and an increase of fire activity statewide. The ban prohibits all open burning, and all burning permits issued earlier have been cancelled. Permits will not be issued again until the ban is lifted. The NCDFR is now is suing $100 fines instead of warning tickets to anyone violating the open burn ing ban. In addition to the fine, persons found in vio lation of the open burning ban will have to pay court costs as weU. Wildlife officers with the North Carolina Wild life Resources Commis sion will be on the lookout for violations. Local fire departments and law en forcement officers are also assisting the NCDFR to en force the burn ban. “We advise sportsmen and other outdoorsmen to not build campfires and for everyone to be cautious with any open flame, in cluding cigarettes,” said Col. Kenneth Everhart, chief of the Division of Law Enforcement for the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission. “The poten tial for accidentally caus ing a disastrous wildfire is too great to risk.” The bum ban does not apply to cooking fires, such as grills or outdoor cook ers. Open burning does include burning leaves, branches and other plant niaterial. It is always ille gal to burn trash, lumber, tires, newspapers, plastics or other non-vegetative materials. of seniors only. The great est numbers of students at PCHS take the SATs as ju niors since PCHS ensures students have already ap plied to colleges and are awaiting acceptance deci sions from those colleges at the beginning of their senior year. “Graduate data indi cates the aggressive at titude of Principal James Bunch and other school administrators in prepar ing students for education beyond high school,” said Dwajme Stallings, superin tendent. “Out of 116 gradu ates in 2007, 48 headed to four-year colleges, 45 head ed to CONTINUED on page 2 Weekend Weather Thursday High: 88 Low: 69 Sunny Football Friday High: 87 Low: 68 Mostly Sunny Festival Saturday High: 86 Low: 71 Partly Cloudy
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