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P The ERQUIMANS [\KWkkkt.v "News front Next Door” APRIL 17, 2013 - APRIL 23, 2013 M MM? APR 1 7 REC'D 50 cents Schools hoping for help with safety, mental health By PETER WILLIAMS News Editor Perquimans school offi cials are hopeful that state and federal measures to in crease school security will open a financial pipeline that can sustain efforts that are already underway. State officials, includ ing top officials of the N.C. Department of Public In struction, met in Edenton last week with local lead ers to discuss school secu rity Perquimans Superinten dent Dwayne Stallings was one of those who attended. “We really appreciate that the folks from Raleigh are inteterested in com ments from all the stake holders,” Stallings said. Perquimans has a stake in what’s decided in Ra leigh and Washington D.C. Some state and federal lawmakers have proposed spending money to beef up school security and im prove psychiatric services in schools. Perquimans is a step ahead of them. The school system hired a second school resource officer this year but had to take the money from a re serve account to pay for it. That’s not something the system can afford to do if wants to keep the cop there next school year. Perquimans is also a step ahead when it comes to psychiatric services in the schools. Thanks to grants from the Kate B. Reynolds Children Learn About 'Snooty Fruit' Trust and Eastern Caro lina Behavorial Health. An $185,000 grant from ECBH is at the end of its three-year cycle and can’t be renewed. It has paid for a staff psychologist. The school system got a second See SCHOOLS, 2 STAFF PHOTO BY PETER WILLIAMS Master Gardener Elaine Grosjean teaches children about “snooty fruit” and seeds Saturday dur ing a garden show at the Perquimans County Recreation Center. Hundreds of visitors and dozens of ven dors attended the event. Auction climbs to $4.1M By PETER WILLIAMS News Editor The bidding war continues in earnest for 1,500 acres of prop erty in and around Albemarle Plantation. As of Monday, the total price was at $4.1 mfilion. The original auction held in March garnered about $2 million and started a 10- day upset bid process. And upsets continue. At about 10 a.m. Monday Hank Griffin was in town to raise the bid on a number of the parcels. Griffin is a native of Perquimans County who lives in Manteo now. He was bidding on behalf of Thomas Mfiler, another Perqui mans County native who lives in West Palm Beach, Fla. Earlier in the day Griffin had been turkey himting and came straight from the fields to the courthouse. Griffin acted as the agent for Miller last year on another auc tion for 586 acres on the other side of the Perquimans River. See AUCTION, 2 SUBMITTED PHOTO A young boy takes a close look at replica snakes on display at last year’s Week Of The Young Child event in Hertford. This year’s event is Saturday. Partnership celebrates young child this Saturday T |he Chowan/Perquimans Smart Start Partnership will host its annual Children’s Festival on Saturday to celebrate the Week of the Young Child. The event wfil take place at the Perquimans County Recreation Center from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and there is no admittance fee. Activities will take place inside the gym and the surrounding grounds. Co-hosts this year will be Safe Kids Chowan Coimty More than 30 educational, health and safety instruction booths are currently confirmed. Parents and their children can visit and get in formation about first aid, fire safety, children’s health insurance, asthma. See YOUNG CHILD, 3 Illness keeps Gill from Marathon From staff reports If Jerry Gill’s doctor hadn’t advised him to sit out this year’s Boston Mar athon, the 72-year-old very easily could have been among the large group of runners trying to finish the race Monday when two bombs exploded, killing three people and injuring more than 130. GiU, of Hertford, had qualified for Monday’s Boston Marathon, com pleted the paperwork for entering the race and was all set to make the trip to Boston when he got a call from his physician about 10 days ago. “He told me I had colitis and that my blood pres sure was elevated,” Gfil said. “He said, ‘You can’t run like that.’” So instead of competing in his fourth Boston Mara thon — he previously com peted in the 26.2-mile race in 1995,1996 and 1999—GUI decided to stay home. He was obviously dis appointed. And then he "I almost took it personally. I know what it's like to be out there. ...It was just so sad." Jerry Gill Who has run in 3 Boston Marathons and had planned to run in Monday's event switched on the news Mon day afternoon. Gill said he was in shock as he watched video foot' age of the twin blasts near the race’s finish line. He saw runners he likely would have been sharing the course with lying or( the ground, many screamr ing in agony. He saw the huge crowds on hand td cheer on the competitors, screaming And running from the fingh line, terror! ized by what they had jus£ wftnesfed. -i. “I almost took ■. See marathon;^ TWo students to attend NC math and science school By PETER WILLIAMS News Editor Two Perquimans County teens wUl take an uncon ventional step when class- 47144 es resume this summer. Both have been accepted to the N.C. School of Sci ence and Math in Durham. Gywn Phelps is taking the traditional route and wUl be living on campus. KeUy Hoeltzel was accept ed to an on-line program that wUl aUow her to re main in Hertford and stUl do advanced coursework Phelps Hoeltzel and make regular visits to Durham. AnnuaUy about 1,200 high school sophomores in North Carolina apply to the residential school and about 350 are accepted. The school was established in 1980 to serve the best and brightest science and math students. The on-line com ponent was added in 2008. The ones who are accept ed are in a pipeline that has produced some top schol ars in the state. Sixty-three NCSSM students, from the 30 graduating classes since the school’s inception, have won the Morehead- Cain Scholarship at UNC- Chapel HUl. Fifty students have been named Park Scholars at N.C. State Uni versity since the program began 15 years ago. The : j*. median SAT score fornstu* dents in Durhaih is 1,360! ^ Phelps learned of her aq; ceptance in the most mun* dane way Last week sh4 went on-line to the school’l web site to check her sta*^ tus. It had changed from “applicant” to “finalist.” ^ Phelps got interested iij Forbes i jCountry Realty A y Xr Aiirtinn«. Albemarle Plantation & Auctions, I LLC 3 Bedrooms, 2.5 Baths Large Dining Room Wrap Around Porch Walk-in Storage First Floor Master Suite iGreat Room w/Built-ins & Fpl. Listed at $310,000 See NC MATH, ^ - Featured Property of the Week lwww.forbesuc.com, 252-426-1380
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