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idl at,if i3. m i ri 1 i t2 X'ii ‘J tii The ERQUIMAN^ Inside today: UPSTYLEi JOOMERS Weekly "News from Next Door" APRIL 24, 2013 - APRIL 30, 2013 APR 2 4 m 50 cents IWo families displaced by house fires By PETER WILLIAMS News Editor Faulty wiring may have led to two fires last week that displaced seven people in Perquimans County The first fire involved a mobile home in New Hope on Thursday, according to Perquimans County Sher iff Eric Tilley The second fire on Fri- "In April we had nine house fires and since July 1 we have 54 different disasters to deal with and spent $40,000, which is a lot of money to us." Carolyn Self Executive Director, Greater Albemarle Area Chapter of the American Red Cross day happened on Catherine Street in WinfaU. Winfall Police Chief David Shaffer said he doesn’t expect foul play Four adults were dis placed from the Catherine Street residence and two adults and an infant were displaced from the White Hat Road residence, said Carolyn Self, executive di rector of the Greater Albe marle Area Chapter of the American Red Cross. Perquimans County Emergency Management Director Jarvis Winslow said the Catherine Street resident was a frame house built in 1953. The one in New Hope appar ently didn’t have electrical service to it and was using an extension cord running from a nearby property Winslow said that the Catherine Street house was totally engxdfed by the fire when he arrived and wind was a factor. Brandon Roberson, who is chief of the WinfaU fire fighters, told The Daily Ad vance that firefighters got the fire under control in approximately 15 minutes. In both cases, the Red Cross provided the resi dents with a voucher worth four nights in a motel because it was approach ing the weekend. It also See DISPLACED, 4 A Different View in woods From staff reports STAFF PHOTO BY PETER WILLIAMS Ryleigh Watson lies in a pool of colored balls and takes in the scenes during the annual Week of the Young Child children’s festival at the Perquimans County Recreation Center on Saturday. Hundreds of children participated in the (event, which included a fishing tournament, fire trucks, fossils and a live alligator. The program is sponsored by the Chowan/Perquimans Smart Start Partnership. For more photos, please see page 8. A person found dead in the woods last week in the Bethel area may have shot himself and been there since Novem ber or December, according to Perquimans County Sheriff Eric TiUey The body was found Thurs day morning around 10:30 a.m. near the intersection of Burnt MiU Road and HopeweU Road. It was about 100 yards into the woods and a quarter mUe from the nearest home, TiUey said. The discovery was made by two people with a timber com pany who were scouting the woods for trees. They in turn notified the sheriffs office. Initially not even the gender or race of the person could be determined based on decom position. TiUey said based on infor mation received Monday by the medical examiner, it ap pears it was a male who died of a single gunshot wound. A .22 caliber rifle was found un derneath the body. See BODY, 4 Young hunters carry on tradition By PETER WILLIAMS News Editor They don’t have local taxpayer funding, expensive equipment or fancy practice facUities. This year they’ve even been forced to cut back on practice because of rising prices and a national shortage of ammunition. But what the Perquimans County Hunter Safety Team does have is a solid track record of success in state and national competition. And this Saturday, they hope to do it again at the annual state meet in Richmond CoLmty. Hunter Safety Teams have been around in North Carolina since the 1970s. They include a rifle competition plus archery, shotgun, orienteering, and wildlife skiUs. Middle and high school students compete, but it’s not a sport sanctioned by the North Carolina High School Athletic Association. Instead the state meet is underwritten by the N.C. Wildlife Commission and safety is the focus. “The fastest way to get kicked off our team is to have an inci dent in school — any incident STAFF PHOTO BY PETER WILLIAMS District 1 Rifle Champions Drake Trueblood, Brian Winslow and Thomas Story from Perquimans Middle practice marksmanship in New Hope on April 13 in preparation for the 2013 State Championship Tournament this weekend. 89076 4 7144 — not a gun-related one,” said Brad Kime, the local rifle coach for the past 17 years. “We don’t take any chances. Not a day goes by that we don’t stress safety. That’s the premise behind the whole thing.” Kime remembers there was a time when the Perquimans County group was chided as “the Walmart team” when they went to large competitions. He admits the early equip ment was lacking. In 2001 one team member used a .22 caliber rifle that had been run over with a lawnmower. It was patched back up, and the broken wooden stock repaired with duct tape. Another rifle had been run over and smashed by a truck in the driveway. Yet despite aU that, the team started winning. Perquimans has produced 13 state rifle See HUNTERS, 2 Schools report on progress to county By PETER WILLIAMS News Editor School officials laid out how they’ve spent the money they had and plans for the future in a joint meeting with the Per quimans County Commission Monday night. It was the second such work shop this year and part of a larger effort by the county to, get input from the agencies and departments it funds. The school system is .expected to make the formal budget pre sentation to the county on May 13. For the most part the county leaders just listened Monday night. In the end Commission er Matthew Peeler praised the school system for using in-house labor for most of the improvements this year. “I appreciate that,” Peeler said. Chairwoman Janice Cole of fered her encouragement. See SCHOOLS, 4
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