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Never forget
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Denny
PERQUIMANS WEEKLY PHOTOS BY CATHY WILSON
Art Bunch, scoutmaster of Boy Scout Troop 150, presents American Legion Post 126 a large framed coat patch that displays a memorial to U,S. servicemen and
women who have died in combat, at a Veterans Day ceremony last week.The patch reads, “The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten."
Ceremony honors WWI veterans
By Cathy Wilson
Stajf Writer
Ken Rominger choked back tears as he
remembered the special flag that hung in
the window of his childhood home.
He was only five years old at the time,
but the War Mothers Flag displayed in his
home years ago was defended diligently
by his mother out of respect for those who
paid the price defending this country dur
ing times of war.
“My father had been a World War I
Doughboy,” Rominger said. “Even at the
young age of five, I knew that people with
these flags in their windows were special
for some reason. And, one such memory
was seeing my mother defend that flag
and its meaning with broomstick in hand
as anti-war people would try to play small
record players, or deliver phamplets or ser
mons about the evils of war.”
The unique flag was first flown over
the nation’s capital on Armistice Day,
now known as Veterans Day, Nov. 11,1926,
Rominger said. The flag flew again at
the nation’s capital on Veterans Day last
Wednesday, remembering the Americans
who served and died in World War I.
“My sister stfll has mother’s flag,”
Rominger added. “Mother was a three Blue
Star mother in WWII, Korea, and Viet
nam.”
Blue stars represented those who served
while gold stars represented those who
died in war.
Last week’s local Veteran’s Day commem
oration was dedicated to those who served
in World War 1. The crowd that attended
was smaller than usual after inclement
weather forced it inside at the county com
munity center rather than on the historic
courthouse green. But the patriotism dis
played wasn’t diminished in any way
Art Bunch, scoutmaster of Boy Scout
Troop 150, helped teach patriotism to his
See VETERANS on Page 8 Veteran Bill Ferguson salutes the colors.
Weekend
Weather
Thursday
High: 68 Low: 56
Rain
Friday
High: 66 Low: 49
Few Showers
Saturday
High: 60 Low: 47
Few Showers
Historic dugout boat at Newbold
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By Cathy Wilson
Staff Writer
A Locklear two-log dugout
boat, believed to have been
buried for at least 150 years
or longer, wfll be on exhibit
at the Newbold-White House
this spring.
Site Manager Glenda May
nard stated in a press release
that the historic boat is cur
rently at the Perquimans
County Restoration Associa
tion’s (PCRA) Visitors Center
located on the NWH campus.
“We expect that it wfll gen
erate much interest among
historians on the eastern sea
board,” she wrote.
The “trap boat” relic was
SUBMIHED PHOTO
A Locklear two-log dugout boat, believed to have been buried for at least 150 years,
will be on display at the Newbold-White House this spring. It is currently at the Perqui-
See BOAT on Page 8 mans County Restoration Association’s Visitors Center located on the NWH campus.
Denny
is karaoke
runner-up
Hertford plumber takes home $100K ^'
By Toby Tate
The Daily Advance
SOUTH MILLS - Donnie
Denny didn’t win Oprah Win
frey’s “Karaoke ChaUenge,”
but the Hertford plumber’s
brush with fame has made him
$100,000 richer.
Denny walked away with the
prize money after finishing
runner-up in “The Oprah Win
frey Show’s” first-ever karaoke
singing contest on Friday.
Abraham McDonald, of Los Angeles, won
the Karaoke Challenge as weU as the contest’s
$250,000 top prize.
Rob Weddle of Orlando, Fla., came in third,
netting $50,000 from the show.
Denny’s father, WiUiam Denny of Chesa
peake, Va., said he was happy with his son’s
showing.
“He did good,” he said. “He won anyway”
William Denny was among the singer’s 30
friends, relatives and feUow church mem
bers who gathered at South Mflis Church of
Christ on Friday for the second day in row
for a taping of “The Oprah Winfrey Show.”
See DENNY on Page 8
70,000 gallons
of waste spills
during rainfall
By Cathy Wilson
Staff Writer *
Over 70;000 gaUons of wastewater spiUed
from a pump station in WinfaU Thursday dur
ing excessive rainfaU.
According to a press release provided by the
town, 70,210 gaUons spflled out at Pump Station
#1 located on West Main Street. Mayor Fred
Yates said the spfll occurred when excessive
water ran into a manhole, which is located in
a ditch.
“The pump station was pumping wide open,”
said Yates, “but it just couldn’t handle that
much water from the rainfall.”
The spfll was discovered when town employ
ees checked the pump station around 7 a.m. and
the spfll ended around 4 p.m., he said.
“There was no actual raw sewage that got into
See WASTE on Page 8
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Storm brings heavy
rain, wind, flooding
By Cathy Wilson
Staff Writer
Heavy rainfall and stiff winds from last
week’s Nor’easter caused power outages,
andf drenched area roads with high water.
Several accidents were reported during the
inclement weather that started last Wednes
day and ended on Saturday
Chris Powell with Albemarle Electric
Membership Cooperative (AEMC) said
about 1,200 residences in the Holiday Is
land, Snug Harbor and Albemaqrle Planta
tion areas lost power last Thursday around
6:30 a.m. when a tree fell onto a Dojninion
Resorces power line that feeds electricity
to the AEMC substation located on Harvey
Point Road. Power was restored by noon
See STORM on Page 8
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