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By PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
Delphine Barr will soon
have something she’s not had
in the nearly 20 years she’s
worked at the Perquimans
County Senior Center —room
to move.
The county is finishing up
work on a new senior center
on Harvey Point Road that
wUl replace the building at
300 Grubb St.
The extra space wUl mean
a designated exercise room
— complete with showers —
something the current build
ing does not have. There win
be an arts and crafts room, a
dining area, kitchen and a
games room.
Barr, the manager of the
center, admits she’s happy
and sad at the same time. In
July she’U mark her 20th year
with the senior center.
“Fm thrilled for the se
niors,” she said last week.
“The parking will be so much
better too. We have problems
with parking, especially park
ing for the handicapped. But I
will miss this building. After
aU I’ve been here for almost 20
years.”
You name it, and the senior
center probably offers it. But
the staff of the center on
Grubb Street is constantly set
ting up tables for one activity
only to tear then down hours
later so the same room can ac-
See SENIORS, 2
STAFF PHOTO
BY PETER WILLIAMS
A pickup truck
is parked
next to a new
awning built
at the main
entrance of the
new Perqui
mans County
Senior Center
on Harvey
Point Road.
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STAFF PHOTOS BY PETER WILLIAMS
With a Hertford Fire Department
truck providing an escort, Hert
ford Mayor Horace Reid (top)
leads a march Saturday across
the S-Bridge in honor of Martin
Luther King Jr. and Black History
Month. Both the Perquimans
County Sheriff’s Office and the
Hertford Police Department
provided escorts from the start
of the caravan from Perquimans
County Middle School to Perqui
mans County High School.
savings
By PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
AU the low hanging
fruit has been picked. Now
the Perquimans County
Schools is looking for oth
er ways it can shrink its
energy footprint and save
more energy and money.
Jonathan Nixon, the di
rector of maintenance for
the school system, briefed
the Perquimans County
Board of Commissioners
on the energy plan eaiTier
this month. On Monday
night Nixon and the school
system were honored by
N.C. State University for
their efforts at a school
board meeting.
In the past three years,
the school system has in
vested $211,945 in energy
savings projects and man
aged to avoid about $1.1
miUion in energy expens
es.
The next steps involve
using the money saved by
what has been done so far
and pay for other energy ef
ficiency projects that may
be more costly and have a
longer payback period.
In a sense the county
commission was asked
to continue funding the
school’s energy budget at
the levels it has done so in
the past with a marginal
increase every year to re
flect inflation and let the
schools take any unused
money to pay for energy
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Students to get taste of hunger
By PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
A half a dozen local
students wiU get a taste
of what hunger feels like
next month in the hopes
that one elsewhere in the
world won’t have to this
year.
Youth at Hertford Unit
ed Methodist Church will
be participating in a 30-
hour “famine” on March
15-16. They’ll eat lunch at
school on that Friday just
as they normally would.
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but they won’t eat again
until 6 p.m. the next day.
Stephanie Fuller did a
similar program in 2003
and the church did anoth
er one about five years ago.
The purpose is twb-fold.
One is educate children
about what hunger feels
like. The second is raise
money for World Vision, a
group them helps feed the
world’s hungry.
The number of students
signed up is small, just
six vs. the 25 that partici
pated when Fuller did the
program a decade ago. But
she thinks the lesson it
teaches is a large.
“I personally think a
lot of teenagers Want to
help but we just don’t give
them the opportunities,”
Fuller said on Monday.
The students, who are
in middle and high school
students, will be able to
drink water and fruit
juice during the “famine”
but thqy won’t eat. They’ll
be divided up into “tribes”
to represent areas of the
world that are in need
of food and watch DVDs
about the problem. Before
that they’re being asked to
find sponsors in hopes of
raising $350 they set as a
team goal.
Fuller admits the goal
isn’t large, but she want
ed something that was
attainable.
See STUDENTS, 2
Blood Donors Needed
SUBMITTED PHOTO
Donors turned out last month during a Red Cross Blood Drive at Perquimans Central School.
Even more donors are needed this Thursday for a public blood drive at the Perquimans County
Recreation Center, 310 Granby St.The event will be from 2 p.m. until 7 p.m.
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