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Miss Eunice Tillett singing strong at 90 Page 4 School Page 5 Subscriber of the Week: Jenny Adams March 5, 2008 board: »>(-■ Vol. 76, No. 10 Hertford, North Carolina 27944 " DOOT '' 35 cents HiimiiTEi % ^5. choices From staff reports Five people have filed to run on their party’s ticket for seats on the county’s board of commissioners in the May 6 primary. According to Gail Danek- er, assistant to the direc tor of the county’s Board of Elections, Democrats Shirley Wiggins, Neil True- blood. Mack Nixon and Tommy Lyn Riddick, as well as Republican Sue Wei mar have filed to fill three county commissioner seats up for grabs in November. Wiggins, Trueblood, Nixon and Riddick wiU all appear on the Democratic ballot in May. Each person who votes on a Democratic ballot will be able to choose one candidate. The top three vote-takers will then be candidates in November’^ general election. Weimar, the lone Repub lication running, will au tomatically make it to the November ballot. In November, all voters will be able to choose one candidate. The three with the most votes will earn seats. Filing for the three avail able seats on the nonparti san county board of educa tion were incumbent Gail Hfil, and newcomers Di anne Layden, Lula Eason, Susan Cox, Arlene Yates, Amy Spaugh, and 'Pam Modlin-Hurdle. However, Tuesday morn ing, Layden withdrew from the race, citing health rea sons. .The school board election is not a primary. The top three vote-takers on May 6 will be seated in June. Each voter will be able to vote for one candidate. The county commission er seats currently held by Nixon, Wiggins, and Wei mar are up for election this year, as are the board of education seats currently held by Hill, Helen Shaw, and William Byrum. Shaw and Byrum did not file to seek re-election. County Register of Deeds Deborah Reed, a Democrat, was the only one to file for that post. Deadline to register is April 11. You may register to change parties or regis ter to vote. You must be 18 by the general election in order to register. To register to vote, pick up an application at the elections office, at any pub lic assistance agency, or at the public library. You can also print out the applica tion on the Perquimans County website, or on the State Board of Elections’ website. Just fiU out the ap plication and man it in. One-stop voting wiU be gin on April 17 and end on May 3. Details on where bal lots will be available will appear in a later issue of this newspaper. PI I j II Perquimans Weekly photo by CATHY WIILSON A MURAL DEPICTING THE historic relationship between lo cal Quakers and the Underground Railroad was unveiled Friday night at the Newbold-White House (above). The mural was painted by fifth graders at Hertford Grammar School and will hang in the school. The art project was led by Tunde Afolayan as part of his Underground Railroad Mural project. Also on hand for the unveiling were teacher Corrie Kemp and Superintendent Dwayne Stallings. Photo courtesy PiRQUIMANS COUNTY SCHOOLS AFOLAYAN TEACHES STUDENTS THE art of mural painting (right). Art brings history to life m CATHY WILSON Staff Writer Fifth grader Joy Spitler painted the tops of trees, leaves, and some of the cypress nuts in the trees. Lexis Saunders helped paint the sky and the slave’s shirt. Trevon Moore dabbed color into the woman’s dress. They, along with the rest of Hertford Grammar School’s fifth graders in Corrie Kemp’s class, painted a wall mural depicting local history of the Quakers’ involvement in the Underground Railroad in ob servance of Black History Month. The mural, under the direction of artist Tunde Afolayan, was unveiled Friday night at the Newbold-White House, a historic 1730 Quaker home stead. The brightly colored mural de picts two Quakers standing near the house at the river’s edge, greeting two black slaves traveling the road to freedom. “It was fun to paint,” said Spitler. “I learned that slavery was not al ways such a bad time for the Quak ers. They helped the slaves.” Fifth grader Ashley Ginn said painting was relatively easy after Afolavan showed them how. Moore agreed, adding he draws inspiration from the vibrant colors. Saunders excitedly added she would like to paint the mural all over again! Afolayan, who was born in Ni geria, first began the Underground Railroad Mural project in 2004 dur ing an Art in Education residency at Trigg Community School in Eliza beth City. There, he led students to paint a mural about the Great Dis mal Swamp’s connection to the un derground railroad. The local elementary students kicked off Black History Month by visiting Newbold-White, and learned from various speakers the local con nection between the ^luakers and the underground railroad. “Integrating arts with curricu lum is something I take very seri ously,” said Afolayan, adding the students in HGS were great to work with. “They pooled their energies to gether. I give the kids a lot of credit for being able to respohd and stay motivated. The students were pre pared every day and ready to go.” The students thanked Afolayan by giving him a booklet containing writings by the students detailing their experience while working on the project. Ken Henshaw with Page Develop ment Company gave Kemp a plaque naming aU the students who worked on the project. The mural project was funded in part by the Perquimans Arts Leagues Grassroots Grant provided by the North Carolina Arts Coun cil. Additional funding came from Page Development Company and the Perquimans County Restoration Association. PAL remembers Haste with gallery dedication CATHY WILSON Staff Writer Perquimans Arts League will dedicate its gallery area to the late Suzanne Towe Haste this Friday night. “She wasn’t an artist, but she loved the arts,” said Brenda Russell, who will dedicate the gallery area during a reception sched uled at the downtown shop 6—8 p.m. The area that will be dedicated to the late lo cal businesswoman is the gallery area where the lat est exhibits are showcased. “She was a board mem ber and everyone loved her,” added Russell. “She is very much missed and her death has left a void. She loved music and the arts very much. She was an amazing lady.” SUZANNE TOWE HASTE WAS a lover of the arts, and a major worker with the Perquimans Arts League. The gallery area at the PAL gallery will be dedicated to Haste this Friday night. Haste’s husband, Erie, said his late wife was al ways a lover of the arts, and before they married, would spend months in Paris en joying the arts there. She even commissioned a paint ing of herself and one of her mother done in the city where inany artists dream of studying. When Haste died, do nations in her memory streamed into the PAL and that money has been used to spruce up the gallery area as weU as create schol arships that wiU be given to local high school students who will focus on the arts in college. The Suzanne T. Haste Merit Award will honor two high school se niors who will major either in music or art in college. The student’s work will also. be exhibited in the PAL gal lery. The scholarships will be given without regard to financial need. “We wanted to honor her by giving a gift that wiU keep on giving every year,” Russell explained. In addition to her sup port of the arts. Haste was co-owner with her hus band of Hertford Hard ware in historic downtown Hertford, and often volun teered to help with commu nity and business events in her hometown. The dedication will be held in conjunction with the opening of the 13th an nual PAL Members Show; which will hang in the gal lery through April 2. The juried show features the work of PAL artists, whose media and styles are as unique as the artists themselves. Charcoal, pen and ink, oils and pastels depict images of life and the imagination, and hang beside photographs, fabric art, sculpture, carving and more. Schools beef recalled CATHY WILSON Staff Writer Students at three of the county’s four schools may have consumed some of the beef listed in a nationwide beef recall that began last month. According to Brenda Lassiter, public informa tion officer for the county schools, Perquimans Cen tral, Hertford Grammar and Perquimans High School received beef crumbles that have been recalled by the United States Department of Agriculture. The crum bles, used in soups, chilli, spaghetti and beefaroni, were provided to the school system from the North Car olina Department of Agri culture and Consumer Ser vices for use in the school lunch program. Fifteen cases of the recalled product were received by the school system’s Child Nutrition department on Nov. .8, 2007 with an additional 15 cases received Jan. 18. Lassister said seven and a half cases (between 20-40 pounds) of the crumbles were used by the schools before the product was recalled. Most of the beef crumbles (22.5 cases) remain in inventory and have been identified and marked to be picked up by the USDA. No illnesses have been reported with any of the re called beef products so far, Lassiter said. Child Nutrition Director Donna Harris was notified of the recall by email last Wednesday morning and immediately took appropri ate steps to puU the recalled beef crumbles from the school system’s inventory by contacting aU principals and child nutrition man agers at each school. The recalled beef product was marked for discontinued use. Beef products made from cattle slaughtered at HaU- mark/Westland Meat Pack ing Co. in California were recalled back in February after the USDA determined the slaughter house slaugh tered cows that appeared sick or unable to move on their own without notify ing a public health veteri narian. The recalled beef is labeled as a Class II recall, meaning a potential health hazard situation in which there is a remote probabil ity of adverse he^th con sequences from eating the food. Parents with questions may contact Child Nutri tion Services at 426-5741. 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