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WiNFALL HOSTING FIREWORKS SATURDAY
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
The Town of Winfall will
host a fireworks display on
Saturday in honor of de
pendence Day.
The town has also
named Saturday as “^eresa
Blanchard Day.” Blanchard
is a teacher at Perquimans
County Middle School and a
Winfall native.
The town is also
helping underwrite
the cost of the fire
works. Blanchard
is helping provide
all the other events
including a bouncy
house for kids,
dancing and food.
The event runs
BLANCHARD
tions.
In the past, the
Perquimans County
Chamber of Com
merce played a role,
but backed away.
Mayor Fred Yates
said the idea is to
collect enough to
put on the display
from 4 p.m. until 9 p.m. at and then have enough left
Winfall Landing. The fire- over to provide the deposit
works depend on dona- for the event the next year.
Checks can be mailed to
Perquimans County Fire
works Committee, 104 Car
olina St., Hertford, 27944.
“This is not a Hertford-
WinfaU thing, this is a Per
quimans County thing,”
Yates said of the event Sat
urday.
The Town of Hertford
will be bringing in portable
toUets and setting them
up in Missing Mill Park for
people that want to view the
fireworks firom there.
Hertford Town Manager
Brandon Shoaf said the
event is usually well at
tended.
“It wouldn’t surprise me
if there were 100 to 150
people out there on the wa
ter watching from boats, not
counting the people who
watch it on the land,” Shoaf
said.
Blanchard — this year’s
Rotary Teacher of the Year
— didn’t start off in educa
tion.
“I’m a career switcher,”
she said.
She earned a degree
in computers and was in
business. Later she moved
back to Perquimans Coun
ty friends talked her into
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This photograph titled ‘Marina in the Mist’ was submitted by Peter McDermott for his late wife Susan and was the winner in a photography contest sponsored by the Social
Committee at Albemarle Plantation. Of a total of 48 images entered 12 were selected to appear in the first-ever Albemarle Plantation calendar for the year 2014. The
entries are on display in the Albemarle Plantation clubhouse.
Seniors, kids work together
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
Take a group of seniors,
add 8-year-olds and iPods
and mix well for a few
days.
That’s the recipe Up Riv
er Friends used last week
at a Vacation Bible School.
Children paired with
seniors and the kids and
adults worked on solving
problems together using
the technology.
Pastor Richard Wilcox
said it clicked.
“It worked surprising
well,” he said last week. “I
say surprisingly because
some of the older members
had reservations about
working with iPods, and
they did (show reserva
tions) at first.
“But when you’re paired
a
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Children pair with seniors to help them solve problems using today’s new technology.
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up with an 8-year-old and
having them talk you
through it, I think it disarms
some of those reserva
tions.”
’The theme of Bible
school was “neighbors
helping your neighbors.”
“For the older members
we wanted to impress
that these 8-year-olds are
also their neighbors,” Wil
cox said. “I know in some
churches they tend to get
kind of cliquish about our
generations.”
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GOP now controls
election boards
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
Political parties play a
role in getting appointed.
But the way Keith ’Throck
morton views it, once he’s
sworn in on July 16, poli
tics shouldn’t play any role
in how he performs as the
newest member of the Per
quimans County Board of
Elections.
“The most important
thing you can be in this posi-
tiori is neutral,” 'Throckmor
ton ^d last week.
For the first time in 20
years), county boards of
election across North Caro
lina will have more Repub
licans than Democrats. The
switch from democratically
controlled election boards
to boards dominated by Re
publicans was finalized last
week by the State Board of
Elections. It comes as a re
sult of Republican Gov. Pat
McCrory’s election victory
last November.
Under state law, majori
ties on both the state and lo
cal boards of election have
to be made up of appointees
of the governor’s party. In
the case of the five-member
state Board of Elections,
that means three members
are now registered Republi
cans and two are registered
Democrats.
Throckmorton, a Re
publican, replaces L. Paul
Smith Jr.
Chuck White, a Republi
can, remains on the board
as well as Vera Murrill, a
Democrat.
'Throckmorton spent his
career in law enforcement
in Virginia and moved to
Perquimans County in 2002.
His career taught him a lot.
“When you’ve had 40
years in law enforcement, if
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