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P The ERQUIMANS .Weekly "News from Next Door" MAY 28, 2014-JUNE 3, 2014 MAY 2 8 RETO 50 cents Dozens seek disaster relief BY PETER WILLIAMS News Editor Federal and state disaster groups and non-profit agen cies wrapped up a week of outreach in Perquimans County on Thursday. The temporary Small Business Administration of fice in Hertford took infor mation from 64 individuals seeking help as a result of the tornadoes that hit the area on April 25. Eighteen of the residents live in Chowan County. The SBA set up a service center at the Albemarle Commission in Hertford to serve both Perquimans and Chowan counties. Another center was set up in Eliza beth City to serve Pasquo tank County. While the cen ters have closed, residents have until July 14 to apply for help Perquimans County Emergency Management Director Jarvis Winslow said he was disappointed that more people didn’t seek help. The SBA can pro vide loans to victims and the state can provide some grants, but homeowners and renters can’t get the benefits unless they apply. “I’ve got a feeling when the checks start coming in there will be people who upset,” Winslow said. While the county had little time to promote the disas ter center before it opened, Winslow said there was a strong outreach effort made to it known it was available. “We sent out informa tion in reverse-911 and the school system did it to, and it was on TV and in the newspaper. One of the state guys went out to some of the effected areas and passed out fliers and we had infor mation out at the Food Lion and the pharmacy. I don’t know what more we could have done.” For Nigel Commock and Martin McKinley, staffing the SBA center in Hertford See DISASTER, 2 STAFF PHOTO BY PETER WILLIAMS An honor guard walks away Monday after delivering honors at a veteran’s monument during a Memorial Day service on the courthouse green in Hertford. Pictured are (front, l-r)) Paul Goins, Jimmy Riddick, Al Lott and Jay Martin and (back row) Bill Hale and Jim Tepper. More than 200 people attended the program. BY PETER WILLIAMS News Editor T he heroes who sacrificed their lives in military service to the United States will never truly die so long as we as a nation remember them, a speaker told an audience of more than 200 people Monday in Hertford. The Rev. Bill Masciangelo, (USMC, retired) referenced the short poem on the World War I battle at Flanders Field that was credited with making the poppy the symbol of remembrance. “We cherish the poppy fed, that grows on fields where valor led, it seems to single to the skies, that blood of heroes never dies.” Masciangelo is the pastor of Moyock United Methodist Church but he took a roundabout way of becoming a Methodist minister. He grew up in a household remember ing Kate Smith singing God Bless America, John Wayne and his father’s Life Magazine coffee table book on World War II. In October 1962 while attend ing Admiral Farragut Academy, he joined the Marine Corps. “I am proud to say that I never looked back until I retired in 1986,” he said. After retiring as a lieutenant colonel, he served roles in the hotel industry and then went to work for what was then Blackwater, a secu rity firm in Moyock. Yet Masciangelo made a promise to God in a foxhole in Vietnam in 1967. Rockets and artillery was rain ing down on the position near the * demilitarized zone in South Viet nam. Nearby was a French Catholic PETER WILLIAMS/THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY The Rev. Bill Masciangelo, pastor of Moyock United Methodist Church, speaks Monday during a Memorial Day service on the courthouse lawn in Hertford. Also pictured is William Turner, the service officer of American Legion Post 126. church. “I prayed to God to save me and my men and he did, then I would serve him. He did spare us that night and 40 plus years later he called me to honor my promise right out of a small rural United Methodist Church, about the same size as that French Catholic church. He got a physical reminder of that battle recently when someone who was visiting Vietnam mailed him a piece of the foundation of that abandoned Catholic church. Monday’s serviced included a first for American Legion Post 126. It will offer a scholarship to a member of the Perquimans County High School band as an appreciation for their service during Memorial Day and Veteran’s Day events. The first winner was Courtney See FALLEN, 4 Grant decision coming BY PETER WILLIAMS News Editor As a June 5 decision looms, Perquimans County remains in the running for two grants totaling $1.2 mil; lion from Golden LEAF. Originally 20 counties were eligible to apply for the $10 million that was available. In the latest round of cuts, it was trimmed to 10 counties and 13 projects. Last week Dan Gerlach, the executive director of Golden LEAF, said some of those projects have also been trimmed since the third round of funding was announced in February. Gerlach was traveling at the time he spoke, and said he couldn’t provide specifics, but he said Perquimans re mains in the running for the full $1.2 million. “We eliminated some projects,” Gerlach said. “A lot of the good projects are the ones that are left. They appear to be the best match es with what the locals want to do and they have a chance for short-term and long-term gains.” Most of the $1.2 million— $864,000 — would go to the Perquimans County Schools to provide computers. The school system wants to put a tablet computer in the hands of every student from the third grade through the end of high school. The school system has agreed to provide a $173,000 match. The remaining—$308,000 — would go to Perquimans County to help build an in dustrial-sized boat ramp on land the county owns at the Perquimans County Marine Industrial Park. A grant from a wildlife agency would pay the rest of the cost and the county would provide the land. County Manager Frank Heath said the boat ramp would be a tangible step to ward attracting boat build ers to the area. The ramp would allow companies a place to put move conuner- cial boats in and out of the river. : See DECISION, 2 Methodist church embraces Winfall addition BY PETER WILLIAMS News Editor Two Hertford churches may no longer be neighbors but they can now say they are part of the same family. Spirit and Truth Ministries, a small predominately black non-denominational Christian church, was located in a rented building at 228 Dobbs St. On the other end of the block is Hertford United Methodist. Like the vast majority of UMC churches, Hertford UMC’s con gregation of 150 members each Sunday is almost exclusively white. But through a cooperation between the two churches and the blessing of state Methodist officials, Spirit & Truth is now Spirit & Truth United Method ist Church and located across the river in Winfall in a sanctu ary that once housed Epworth United Methodist Church. Epworth closed its doors in December 2012 after its mem bership dropped to six people. “We had a building there and we were getting calls from folks who wanted to buy it,” said Gil Wise, the district superinten dent. “I kept praying and God was saying something differ ent. We could have easily sold the property or leashed it.” In a sense, the UMC is giving it away. Spirit and Truth gets the use of the former Epworth sanctuary for $1 a year and gets out from under the $500 a month rent they were paying for the Dobbs Street location. If they can grow to about 125 members, they’re eligible to get full benefits of being a UMC church and title to the building. And Wise said they get a lot more. As the newest church in the Beacon District, Spirit and Truth also gets the ability to tap into the financial and educa tional resources that are avail able to UMC congregations, including grants from the Duke Endowment. State Methodist officials approved the agreement last Wednesday. “There are some incedible resources that wouldn’t have been available if we’d just given See CHURCH, 4 lAl&All^ SUBMITTEDJPHOTO Arthur Manigault preaches at the new Spirit and Truth United Methodist Church in Winfall. Edenton to host historic document Construction starts on new SECU BY PETER WILLIAMS News Editor Edenton has been chosen as the first of six sites for a traveling tour for the document that ended slavery in the United States. 6 89076 47144 2 The 13th Amendment signed by President Abraham Lincoln and ratified by Congress on Dec. 6, 1865 ended the practice. It wasn’t how ever until June 19 that many African-Americans learned they were free. North Carolina’s copy of the document is stored in a climate-con trolled vault of the State Archives of North Caro lina. The fragile docu ment will travel to six state historic sites from June 5 through June 21, and will be at each ven ue for one day only. It will be the first time the document has traveled outside of Raleigh. The document will be on display June 5 at the historic Edenton Court house from 11 a.m. until 7 p.m. See DOCUMENT, 2 SUBMITTED PHOTO The new State Employees Credit Union building in Hertford should closely resemble this branch office. 4 BY PETER WILLIAMS News Editor The State Employees’ Cred it Union has broken ground on a permanent home in Hertford and the possibility of a few more jobs. The organization opened a branch in Hertford in 2008 in a 4,000-square-foot space in a leased building in a shopping center off Church Street. The See CREDIT UNION, 2 $
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