P The ERQUIMANS Weekly "News from Next Door" lOU Girls Are State Champs! TRUEBLOOD tM’, V A SUBMITTED PHOTOS Celebrating a state championship! The lOU Perquimans Girls Softball All-Stars celebrate after winning the Tarheel League state championship over the weekend in Morganton. Game-5 rally keeps them alive By CATHY WILSON Sta/jf Writer U nbelievable! The lOU Perqui mans Girls Softball All Stars heard that word said so many times during tournament play over the weekend, they adopted it as their motto. Unbelievable... that a team from a small county that selects all-stars from a pool of about 40 players could travel nearly 350 miles one way to play against teams that select all-stars from rosters holding as many as 200 players. Unbelievable... that the Perquimans team that lost one of its lead ing hitters to a broken leg ended up having to play in a state tourna ment without her. Unbelievable... that the local ladies who were down 5-0 in game 5, in the final inning, in their last bat and waiting for the last out to send them The lOU Perquimans All-Stars began every game with prayer. home, would make a come-from-behind rally, scoring 6 runs to win that game. Unbelievable... that the Perquimans team lost only one game out of seven, and went on to win the state championship in the Tarheel League. “They were throw ing their gloves in the air, jumping for joy and crying at the same time,” said Beth Chappell, a parent who made the trip with the team. “It really was unbelievable how the team worked together.” Head coach Ricky Trueblood said the girls started tournament ball See CHAMPS, 2 Fire destroys home on Chapanoke Red Cross puts 12 in hotel for 4 nights By CATHY WILSON Staff Writer Officials say nine chil dren and a mother were at home Thursday after noon when fire destroyed their home on Chapanoke Road. Perquimans County Sheriff Eric Tilley said everyone managed to get out of the house located at 820 Chapanoke Road. Firefighters from three 89076 A 7144 Perquimans County de partments responded around 3:30 p.m. and fought the hot afternoon blaze that destroyed the single-story frame house that featured a storage area above the living space, officials said. Firefighters responded immediately when the first alarm sounded after reports first indicated two children were trapped in side the burning home. Firefighters arrived on the scene within minutes and reported everyone was outside of the house. Tilley, who went to the BRETT A. CURK/THE DAILY ADVANCE A home on Chapanoke Road was destroyed by fire Thurs day afternoon. Nine children and a mother were at home when the fire started, the sheriff said. scene, said a child smelled something burning, then went outside the home and saw fire coming from the top of the house. The child returned inside and alerted the rest of the fam ily to get out, Tilley said. Tilley said he believes the fire started in a stor age area upstairs. According to county records, the home located at 820 Chapanoke Road See FIRE, 2 KECEW Residents have fun at Friday Night Stroii, 7 - JULY 20, 2011 - JULY 26, 2011 JUL 2 0 LiiVi 50 cents STAFF PHOTO BY CATHY WILSON Holiday Island property owners .line up to enter a meeting at the subdivision’s clubhouse, Saturday. Owners voted Saturday to re ject two proposals that would have paid for closing the wastewa ter treatment plant that serves the subdivision’s camping areas. Residents say they won’t pay to close plant Holiday Island association votes not to use $25K in reserve funds By CATHY WILSON Staff Writer Members of the Holiday Island Property Owners Association voted Satur day not to seek voluntary contributions or use up to $25,000 from the group’s capital reserve fund to close the subdivision’s ag ing wastewater treatment plant. While both votes failed to pass during the stand ing-room-only meeting, it does not mean the sewer plant won’t close. Leaders of the property owners group say if they don’t fund the closure, the state may take over, close the plant, and send the owners group the bUl. Barbara Bostwick, secre tary of the property own ers association, said the no vote means residents of Holiday Island’s residen tial and camping sections do not wish to give volun tary contributions. “We have to notify the state now, and they will teU us what to do,” she said. “We’U have to go from there.” Association leaders say the state indicates the plant is “unsafe” and that the subdivision may be fined $25,000 a day if some thing is not done to correct it now. Affected residents say ‘the vote didn’t include an option to keep the plant open. The vote ballot given to lot-owning members in cluded two questions for approval: • seek voluntary contri butions from residents to abandon service and close the plant; • borrow up to $25,000 from the association’s re serve fund to help pay for it if enough voluntary con tributions aren’t received. “If you vote yes, you are voting to close the plant,” said Clay Helms, plant op erator who also owns prop erty in the camping areas See RESIDENTS, 2 BRETT A. ClARK/THE DAILY ADVANCE Firefighters from three departments work to save a large metal garage adjacent to a vacant house on Old U.S. Highway 17 that was destroyed by fire Saturday evening. Vacant house on Old US 17 burns By CATHY WILSON Staff Writer A small abandoned house located adjacent to a large metal building with garage entrances burned to the ground Sat-' urday evening on Old U.S. Highway 17. Three fire departments responded to the scene and discovered the building totally engulfed in flames. Firefighters froip Inter county, Durants Neck and Winfall fire departments managed to save the metal building and prevent the fire from spreading. Eric Boyce, captain with Intercounty Fire De partment, said the prop erty owner was burning trash when flames got away from him. No one had lived in the house for years, he said. The roof had fallen in prior to be ing destroyed by flames. See VACANT, 2

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