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"News front Next Door"
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 2011 - TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 2011
Staff, hours cut at Newbold White home
By CATHY WILSON
Staff Writer
The Perquimans County Res
toration Association is taking
financial steps to not only stay
afloat now in tough economic
times, but to ensure financial
stability in the future.
During their annual meeting
Saturday night, PCRA members
approved a budget that elimi
nates the paid site manager at
the Newbold White House and
depends on volunteers running
the historic facility instead.
In addition, hours of operation
for the historic Quaker home
stead have been cut, its open
season has been trimmed, less-
popular events have been dis
continued, and the small Newby
Cottage, once the home’s opera-
“We had just
about made it
when the economy
turned and things
began to head into
the red again. ”
Lyn Winslow
Former PCRA president
tional center, has been closed in
an effort to save money on utili
ties. The office will be moved into
the Visitor’s Center instead.
The good news is, PCRS has
begun the process of creating an
endowment fund for investment
contributions to help insure fi-
nancial security in the future.
In addition, Peggy Birkemeier
with the North Carolina Com
munity Foundation, said a sec
ond endowment fund, the Henry
and Elizabeth Stokes Charitable
Endowment Fund will also help
to ^upport the historic home in
STAFF PHOTO BY CATHY WILSON
Peggy Birkemeier (left) with the
North Carolina Community Founda
tion, is seen with new PCRA officers
(l-r) Phil McMullan, president; Dee
Ponte, treasurer: Ed Ritzman, vice .
president, and Phil How, secretaiy.
the future.
As many other non-profits,
businesses, and local and state
governments have experienced
during this economic down turn,
PCRA members say they made
difficult but necessary financial
decisions for the upcoming year.
This year marks the 30th anni
versary for the Colonial Quaker
Homestead that opened in 1981.
“Throughout the last three
See PCRA, 4
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BREn A. CLARK/THE DAILY ADVANCE
Members of the band The Fun’ Raisers (above, below) perform Saturday at Perquimans County High School to help raise money for the family of Lesley Bell, a
Hertford Grammar School teacher who died earlier this year.
Concert benefits family of Lesley Bell
From staff reports
T hey didn’t just tap their
feet and clap their hands.
Supporters who turned
out Saturday night to help
the Lesley BeU family rose to
their feet and moved to the
music of the Fun’Raisers
in concert at Perquimans
County High School.
In addition to playing the
iconic music of the 70’s and
80’s, the talented group also
performed skits and comedy
in their effort to help the fam
ily pay medical bills associ
ated with Bell’s fight against
cancer.
BeU, a Hertford Grammar
School teacher who died in
January, was a former nation-
aUy board certified teacher,
teacher of the year, and
instructional specialist. She
taught fifth grade and worked
in the school system for over
12 years.
Funds raised wUl assist
the famUy which includes
her husband, James, and two
young daughters.
By CATHY WILSON
Staff Writer
Doziers Florist in Hert
ford was damaged during a
late Friday afternoon fire.
Hertford Fire Chief
Todd TUley said heavy
smoke was coming from
the back of the building
when firefighters arrived
on the scene just after 5
p.m. When firefighters first
entered the local business,
they discovered extensive
fire and smoke inside the
left side of the budding
which formerly housed the
original florist shop before
expansion.
Firefighters from Hert
ford, WinfaU, and Bethel
fire departments attacked
the blaze and managed to
keep it from spreading;
however, the rest of the
one-story metal building
suffered extensive smoke
and water damage.
“It pretty much gutted
the left side of the buUd-
ing,” said TUley “The
cause of the fire is under
investigation by Hertford
Police Department, but we
suspect it was electrical in
nature.”
Employees had just left
the building for the day,
and no one was inside at
the time of the fire, added
Hertford Police Chief Joe
Amos who is looking into
the cause of the fire which
was brought under control
within 20 minutes.
TUley said flowers
See FLORIST, 2
Weekend
Weather
Friday
High: 59 Low: 39
Partly Cloudy
Saturday
High: 66 Low: 46
Mostly Sunny
Sunday
High: 64 Low: 40
Sunny
Census; County and
towns grew in numbers
89076 4
7144
By CATHY WILSON
Staff Writer
The number of people
in Perquimans County has
grown just over 18 percent
in the last 10 years accord
ing to figures released last
week by the 2010 US Cen
sus Bureau.
Figures show that 13,453
people live in the county
now, compared with 11,368
in 2000, an increase of
2,085 or 18.3 percent.
Populations in Hertford
and WinfaU grew as weU.
Census figures show that
Hertford grew by 3.53 per
cent with a new popiUation
count of 2,143, whUe Win
faU increased to 594 or 7.22
percent.
County Manager Bobby
Darden said the increase
in population wiU help
the county in funding per
capita.
A breakdown of the
new figures shows that
the county’s population
is made up of 72.1 percent
whites, 24.9 percent blacks,
2.1 percent Hispanic, and
See CENSUS, 7
Heritage part of Wagon Train
By CATHY WILSON
Staff Writer
Teresa Thompson
Arcangel would like to
take part in next week’s
Friends to Freedom Wag
on Train that reenacts the
Quakers’ Great Migration
out of Perquimans Coun
ty to the west back in the
1800’s.
Her great-great-grand-
father, Wyke EUiott, left
Perquimans in a covered
wagon and headed west
decades ago with his fam
ily to help free slaves, on a
path much like the one to
be traveUed March 17-20
by the local wagon train.
file photo
The Friends to Freedom Wagon Train will ride through Perqui
mans County March 17-20.
Her great-great-great- both Quakers, she said,
grandparents were Caleb Problem is, she lives in
Elliott and Huldah Newby
of Perquimans County, See WAGON, 4