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i P The ^ ERQUIMANS [\KWkkkt.v "News front Next Door" Rotary students announced, 3 Softball team gets first 4 Rivers win, 6 APRIL 3, 2013 - APRIL 9, 2013 50 cents Students debate gun coltrol While lawmakers de bate the future of guns in American, 125 Perquimans County students voiced their views last week. Social studies students under teacher Mike Castle, and math students taught by Robert Spruill, formed teams to make arguments Tourney to benefit for or against gun control. “I think they got a deep er understanding of how big an is^ue gun control is,” Castle said. “You had some who were against it and some were in favor of it, but for the peo ple who were on the fence, I think it really was an eye opening experience.” Thestudentsrangedfrom freshman to seniors. They were grouped in teams of four with two students coming from the math side and two students from the social studies side. It was the second such cross dis cipline effort. Last fall stu dents studied the federal deficit. Castle estimates the largest segment was made up of students who really didn’t have a firm stance on the gun issue. The re mainder were pretty much equally divided between those who were in favor of or opposed to gim control. Members of the commu nity, including Sheriff Eric TiUey and staff from the central school office came in to judge the presenta tions. Students themselves also judged their peers and were encouraged to ask questions. “One of the more unusu al things I heard was there a place in Georgia, a sub urb of Atlanta, where there is a requirement that you have to have a gun in the home,” Castle said. “After they did that, they had a 89 percent decrease in crime. Another group argued that the leading cause of death in the U.S. is obesity. They By PETER WILUAMS News Editor Afiatch of sugar cookies isn’t a batch of sugar cook ies to Joan Hunter. Neither is a bottle of catsup. Hunter sees much more. She sees them as a way to a cure Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. She’s the niece of base ball great Jimmy Hunter and brother of Gary Hunt er. The two men share two things. They both died of ALS and they both loved to play ball. Gary Hvmter died at age 42 in 2006. He’d worked for United Parcel Service for about 20 years and was a native of Perquimans County and graduate of Perquimans County High School. He later went on to play baseball at Chowan College. He left behind his wife Sherry and two sons, Ryan and Wayne. Joan Hunter can’t change their fate, but she is working on a men’s soft- ball tournament later this month that she hopes will raise money to find a cure for the disease known to many as Lou Gehrig’s Dis ease. The event April 27-28 is a one-pitch men’s softball tournament at the Jimmy Catfish Hunter Complex in Winfall. There has been a tourna ment each fall for the past 14 years to honor Jimmy Hunter, but the one this month is named for Gary One fundraiser associated with the fall tournament is a golf ball drop. It’s be ing moved to event this month. Joan Hunter has no il lusions that the new event will ever come close to the success of the September event. But she’s hopeful. “This September for the Catfish ALS tournament will be our 15th. This one for Gary, my brother, isn’t going to be as large. We know that. Last year we raised $21,000 at Jimmy’s tournament. If we raise $5,000 or $6,000 or $10,000 we’d be very happy for Gary’s tournament.” And that’s where the sugar cookies and catsup See TOURNAMENT, 2 STAFF PHOTOS BY PETER WILLIAMS Pastor Larry Bowden reads the passage for the first station of the cross Friday during a ceremony near Hertford United Methodist Church. Mark Rossnagel carries the cross during a Stations of the Cross event down King Street in Hertford, Friday. made the argument that gun death made up only a small percentage.” A team with Grant Walker, Scotty Collins, Jes sie Howard and Sam Ter- ranoya looked at among other things the cases of gun violence in Canada. The neighbor to the north in many ways has gun See DEBATE, 2 Auction could drag on By PETER WILLIAMS News Editor Last week’s foreclosure auction of more than 1,500 acres in and around Albe marle Plantation didn’t close the books on the sale. That chapter might not be written until next week or perhaps sometime this spring. Some 54 residential lots and 1,500 acres of unde veloped property went for sale. But the sale is subject to a 10-day period where bids can be raised; The clock started Monday when Perquimans County received the notice of sale. Clerk of Court Todd TU- ley said the process can take time. “Every time there is an upset bid, the clock starts again,” Tilley said. “I’ve seen these things go oh for six or eight months oii more. It doesn’t happen often, but it does seldom! happen.” ; The new bids will have to be 5 percent more than the original bid or $750, which ever is more. If a property sold originally for $20,000, and somebody bids $21,000, the clock starts again. Tom Mclnnis, the auc tioneer last week, said some people are already ready to bid mdre. “They’re already chomp ing at the bit,” Mclnnis said Monday from his of fice in Rockingham. Charlie Ward, a former county commissioner, bought five parcels last See AUCTION, 2 Higher prices may boister cotton crop Browsing for Eggs 89076 47144 By PETER WILLIAMS News Editor Perquimans County farmers may be plant ing more cotton than the projections show because prices are rising, accord ing to Lewis Smith. Statewide the USDA is projecting there will be 23 percent fewer acres of cotton planted in the state this year. Smith, the extension agent serving Perquimans County, had heard the’ figure would be lower. But he said the local farmers he’s been talking to are more bull ish now on cotton. “A month ago cotton prices started climbing back. I’d heard that cot ton was going to be down as much as 35 percent, but the latest figure I’ve heard is 20 percent.” Across the U.S., cotton acreage is projected to be down 19 percent from 12.3 million acres to 10 mil lion. Soybeans, the top crop in Perquimans, is expect ed to be stable nationally and down only slightly in North Carolina. Soy beans represent about 30,000 to 32,000 acres in Perquimans. Corn, the number two local crop, is thought to be stable in the U.S. and See COnON, 2 PHOTO BY CHUCK PAGELS Aniya Lyons, Luke Smith and Alex Engnell race to find eggs Saturday during an Easter Egg hunt at The Brian Center in Hertford, About 25 children participated in the hunt. mi .cjaar,« w Aiiriinnc. & Auctions, LLC 252-426-1380 • www.forbesuc.com Gorgeous Views of Albemarle Sound 218Sa|£idwardLnJier^^ Master Bedrooms S Kitcteis on Both Floors Featured Property of the Week www.forbesuc.com 252-426-1380
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