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SEPTEMBER 3, 2014 - SEPTEMBER 9, 2014
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Teen dies in moped accident, vigil held
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
A 14-year-old Perquimans
County teen was killed and
a 17-year-old seriously in
jured Saturday when the
moped they were on was
struck by a car on Edenton
Road Street.
The school system was
planning to have counsel
ors and ministers at both
Perquimans County Middle
School and Perquimans
County High School Tues
day for students who need
to talk. Killed was Mustafa
Holley of Stokes Drive, a
freshman at PCHS. The
driver of the moped, Trevon
Narshell Moore, of Harvey
Point Road, is a senior at the
high school.
The driver of the car was
Latrenda Dillard Hunter, 27,
of Gatesville.
About 100 students didn’t
wait to show their grief.
They gathered at Missing
Mill Park for a vigil on Sun
day night. Some carried
flowers and some candles,
said Teresa Beardsley, a
spokesperson for the school
system.
“I saw a post of Facebook
and then more and more of
the posts,” she said.
She drove by the park
and said it was packed with
students and young adults.
“It’s was amazing to see
the kids come together like
that,” she said.
From the park, the crowd
marched to Holley’s home
and laid candles there. The
Hertford Police Department
provided an escort, accord
ing to Police Chief Douglas
Freeman.
The fatal accident hap
pened about 3 p.m. on Sat
urday in the area of Eden
ton Road Street and Wynne
Fork Road.
Chief Freeman said
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PHOTO
Friends
gather
Sunday night
at Missing
Mill Park
to honor
students
involved in
Saturday
afternoons
moped
accident.
Group
wants
more
study
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
Some Perquimans Coun
ty residents are asking the
N.C. Department of Trans
portation to take a deeper
look at plans to build an
other swing-span bridge
to replace the S-Bridge in
Hertford.
A swing-span option
known as Alternative B was
among the three finalists af
ter several years of study.
In the end the Town of
Hertford and many resi
dents favored Alternative
D-Mod, a 33-foot-high fixed
structure that would ex
tend off Church Street and
bridge the area between
Hertford and an area near
Larry’s Drive in on the Win
fall side.
Alternative B would
closely follow the current
path of the S-Bridge and
causeway and would also
require the demolition of a
home on Phelps Street.
D-Mod was the least ex
pensive of the three final
options at $19.3 million and
would mean the link be
tween Hertford and Winfall
might be closed for just six
months or less, not years
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Long-time Commissioner Dies
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Charles Ward is sworn in recently as a member of the board of trustees at College of The Albemarle.
Ward remembered for fiscal policy
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
Charles Ward, a 20-year
veteran of the Perquimans
County Commission, died
Monday at Sentra Norfolk
General Hospital.
Ward, 76, served as
chairman of the county
board for four years and
was vice chair twice.
“Charles served and
gave of himself and we are
deeply saddened by his
death,” said Janice McK
enzie Cole, the chairman
of the county commission.
“We are grateful for the
progress the county has
made under his leader
ship.”
He also served as the
Perquimans County repre
sentative on the board of
trustees at College of The
Albemarle.
Ward as appointed to
the COA board in 2009 and
reappointed to another
four-year term in 2013.
“The college has lost a
true advocate and friend
in Charles Ward,” said
COA President Dr. Kandi
Deitemeyer. “He was
dedicated, loyal, and ex
tremely passionate about
his service to College of
The Albemarle. His tal
ents and contributions
over the years made us a
better institution.
“I will be forever 'grate
ful to him for his pro
fessional support of me
during the past four-plus
years. I’ll miss him - and
his wisdom. My thoughts
and prayers are with his
wife, Alice Jeanne, and the
entire Ward family.”
Ward also dedicated
much of his time represent
ing the county in a variety
of functions, including on
the regional jail authority,
the landfill authority and
the Northeast partnership.
“Charles Ward was
well known in Perqui
mans County and across
northeast North Carolina
for his years of service to
the community, serving
on many boards as a rep-
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Festival
kicks off
Friday
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
The 33rd annual Indian
Summer Festival will kick
off Friday with what will
be the last Hertford festival
performance of the Origi
nal Rhondels, at least for a
while.
The group is set to hit
the stage on the courthouse
green at 7 p.m. Friday for a
street dance.
Lynne Raymond, the
president of Historic Hert
ford, Inc., said the perfor
mance will be their last for
now.
“They prefer not to per-
form more than three times
in a row at any given event,”
she said.
Warming up the crowd
for the Rhondels will be D. J.
Cowboy, who performed
at the event last year. That
starts at 6 p.m.
There will be no parking
along Church and Market
Streets starting at 3:30 p.m.
Friday to allow vendors
time to set up shop.
Raymond said there will
be even more vendors than
last year because of a last
minute surge.
“We were getting them as
last as yesterday,” she said
last week.
One new wrinkle in the
festival this year will be
a parade of cars at Satur
day morning. The event is
scheduled to start at 9 a.m.
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Relay For Life considering changes this year, moving forward
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
The days of the 24-hour
Relay For Life event may be
numbered.
Or maybe not.
That’s what the American
Cancer Society is trying to
let communities decide and
it’s scheduled a meeting for
Sept. 8 in Edenton to talk
about it. It’s set for 7 p.m. in
the Pembroke Room of Vi
dant Chowan Hospital.
The Relay in Edenton is
a two-county effort and in
cludes Perquimans.
Next year will mark the
30th anniversary of Relay.
It started off as a 24-hour
event where people would
walk around a track to raise
money for cancer preven
tion efforts.
Times change, and the
demands on volunteers to
staff a 24-hour event have
become great, said April
Smith, a Cancer Society
spokesperson in Greenville.
“The Cancer Society has
realized that not everybody
is able to stay overnight,”
Smith said. “We wanted to
give each community a vote
on the duration of the event.
It could be six hours, 12
hours or they could keep it
at 24 hours.”
The Chowan-Perquimans
event already scaled back to
run from 6 p.m. that Friday
through noon on Saturday.
That’s still 18 hours. Be
tween 150 and 200 people
are involved each year.
Kathryn Brabble,-a Chow
an County resident, has
been involved in Relay for
about eight years. She cur
rently chairs the event.
She’s seen the evening
numbers dwindle.
“Over the years I’ve no
ticed fewer and fewer peo
ple spending the night out
there,” she said. “When you
look at the age of the gen
eral population, that might
be part of it.”
If you went out to the foot
ball field at John A. Holmes
High School at 3 a.m., she
suspects you might see one
walker out on the track.
“Realistically for me it
should be six hours,” Brab
ble said. “I think you’d get
more people involved and
more teams than you would ,
staying out there all night.”
The local event is held
on the third weekend
in May. Last year there
were 21 teams involved
See RELAY, 2
Ticket sales prompt
additional performance
Habitat dedicates another Hertford home
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
Tickets for the upcom
ing Carolina Moon Dinner
Theater production sold
so fast the group is adding
a fifth performance.
“I thought we’d still
have tickets to sell at the
Indian Summer Festival,
but we didn’t,” said Lynne
Raymond, the president
of Historic Hertford, Inc.
The festival is this Friday
and Saturday.
“I honestly though it
would take two weeks to
sell out,” Raymond said.
Tickets are being sold
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Sharra Lee
holds a Bible
and the keys
to her new
Habitat for
Humanity
house outside
the home on
Dobbs Street
on Saturday.
From staff reports
Sharra Lee became a homeowner last
month.
Lee accepted the keys Aug. 23 to the
13th home built by the Chowan-Perqui
mans Habitat for Humanity.
The home on Dobbs Street did not come
without effort. Lee had to play an active
part in building it.
“I look forward to telling my grandchil
dren that this is the house that grandma
built”, Lee said.
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