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®®CSIVE; P I The OK 2 ERQUIMANS Girl wants Santa to help sick kids, Santa Letters Role players help keep Pirates hot, 7 "News front Next Door" DECEMBER 22, 2010 - DECEMBER 28, 2010 Hertford man rescued from burning home By CATHY WILSON Sta/jf Writer A Hertford man is in critical condition at a Norfolk hospital after be ing pulled from a burn ing home early Tuesday morning. Burrel Roary Jr., 64, was burned when his home located at 325 N. Market Street caught fire around midnight, police, said. Hertford Police Officer Allen Peterson first ar- Design eyed for athletic complex Boards to discuss hiring design firm By CATHY WILSON Staff Writer Board of Education members and county com missioners will hold a joint meeting next month to discuss hiring a design firm for the school sys tem’s proposed new athlet ic complex at Perquimans County High School. A proposal submitted by Albemarle and Associates, LTD of Elizabeth City was ranked earlier this month at the top of a list of three firms that sought the job. AA has indicated the firm will do the design work in 5-6 months for $33,900. “We have reviewed the projected scope for the project and the work re quired to develop a set of viable conceptual de sign documents for this endeavor, one that can be supported by the com munity,” wrote James L. Overton, Sr., president of AA in a letter to board members. “Our initial efforts will be directed and concen trated on achieving the highest and best utiliza tion of the project site to fulfill the recreational requirements, provide conformity with govern mental regulations, and to present cost-effective See DESIGN, 4 Weekend Weather Friday High: 44 Low: 36 Mostly Sunny Saturday High: 45 Low: 30 Showers Sunday High: 38 Low: 29 Partly Cloudy 89076 4 7144 University Health Systems Chvmn Hospital, rived on the scene and tried to enter the home but was driven back by heavy smoke. Hertford firefighters arrived within minutes and heard Roary scream ing from inside the home. Through an open front door, firefighters saw Roary lying on a hall floor surrounded by flames. Hertford Fire Chief Bob Reed said firefight ers Brian Chappell, Rob Holmier, and Robbie Reed rushed into the burning house and dragged Roary to safety. “That’s their job,” Reed said of his firefighters’ he roic efforts. “That’s what they are trained to do.” Members of Perquimans EMS transported Roary to Albemarle Hospital in Elizabeth City where they were met by a Nightingale helicopter and flown to Sentara Norfolk General Hospital’s burn trauma unit. Amos Reed said there was heavy fire and smoke showing when the first fire units ar rived on the scene. The fire was brought under control with 20 minutes. Hertford and Winfall fire fighters fought the blaze in frigid temperatures. Hertford Police Chief Joe Amos, who investi gated, determined that the fire was caused by an over turned space heater in the bathroom. The heater’s exposed wires were lying against a section of PVC pipe leading to the bath room sink, Amos said. The cause of the fire has been determined acciden tal, caused by the space heater being left on in the bathroom, he added. According to Perqui mans County tax records, the two-story frame house was built in 1966 and is owned by Riverview In vestments, Inc. of Hert ford. Reed urged residents to be extremely careful when using space heaters. This makes the third fire in the area in the last few weeks in homes where space heaters were being used. A fire destroyed a See FIRE, 2 Baking fresh cookies STAFF PHOTO BY CATHY WILSON Daniel Pierce, 5, cuts up with his sister, Della, while the pair make Christmas cookies at the Perquimans center of the Cooperative Extension Service, Monday. Baking cookies a Christmas tradition By CATHY WILSON Staff Writer T hey may not have had visions of sugar plums dancing in their heads, hut the children who learned the holiday tradition of baking Christmas cookies Monday morning certainly engaged in the Christmas spirit. Little ones, age 5-8, took part in a Christmas cookie/cupcake decorating workshop hosted by the Perquimans Extension Service. The smell of sugar cookies baking in the oven fiUed the building as children learned hotv to roU out the dough, cut out various shapes, and deco rate with frosting after cooling. “I love making cookies,” squealed five-year-old Daniel Pierce, who attended the work shop alongside his 6-year-old sister, Della. He rolled the cookie dough between his little hands as if shaping a blob of Play Dough. Instead of rolling out the dough with a roUer, the chil dren mashed the dough into pa per plates, then cut out shapes using shiny cookie cutters, Little Daniel selected a star cookie cutter, and worked dili gently to make his the perfect shape. Often times, however, he’d joke with his sister, and even managed to carry on a con versation with other children attending the workshop taught by Jennifer Ferrell, Extension Agent. The children shared Santa tales, and talked about enjoy ing their experiences in 4-H. “Don’t eat the dough,” See COOKIES, 2 Amos asks SBl to probe missing cocaine Cocaine missing from evidence room By CATHY WILSON Staff Writer Hertford Police Chief Joe Amos has requested a state probe after the disap pearance of a pound and a half of cocaine from his de partment’s evidence room forced the delay recently of a drug trafficking trial. District Attorney Frank Parrish said last week that X Carlton Simpson’s drug trafficking case was contin ued in Perquimans Superi or Court after prosecutors discovered that the cocaine needed for their case is missing. Hertford police seized the three quarters of a kilo of cocaine when Simpson was arrested in December 2006 on three counts of traf ficking cocaine. Parrish said prosecutors in his ofiice discovered that the cocaine was missing about two weeks ago. The case has been contin ued while law enforcement tries to locate the evidence. Amos said he has asked the State Bureau of Inves tigation to investigate the matter since most of the em ployees who were involved in handling the evidence in • Simpson’s drug case are no longer employed by his de partment. “They’re not under my jurisdiction anymore,” he said. “My internal inves tigation can only go so far because of that.” According to the Dec. 13, 2006 edition of the Perqui mans Weekly, Simpson was one of two men arrested during a traffic stop on U.S. Highway 17 by then police officer Jeff Thomas. Simp son, who at the time was from Elizabeth City, was driving a rental vehicle, and gave police a fictitious name and address when he was stopped. Both Simpson and a passenger in the vehicle, Wfilie Garcia Warren, ran from police. Both men were ..-iH A P PY H O LIDAY£v FROM OUR FAMILY TO YOURS! captured by Thomas and of ficer Kevin Worster, now a sergeant with the Hertford Police Department. Prior to capturing Simp son, police saw him throw a bag into nearby bushes. Po lice later found the bag to contain 784 grams — more than three-quarters of a kUo — of cocaine. Police also confiscated nearly $10,000 in cash from two men. Police charged See COCAINE, 4 252.482.8451 vyww.uhseast.com/chowan
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