2 THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31,2014
Theater’s dream comes true with concert
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
i
In less than three years,
Carolina Moon Theater
Group has gone from just
' $ dream without a home to
producing sold out perfor
mances in 2013 and again
-this year.
J* And now the group has a
permanent location on Grubb
■Street and bigger plans for
how to use it. One example
' was a two-night musical per-
formance by Joel Taylor held
TOURNAMENT
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; favor is that Web.Com is
^holding a tournament in
Raleigh at the same week
The Plantation is hosting
its tournament. It could be
golfers who try and qualify
for the Web.Com tourna
ment and don’t make the
first cut will make the drive
t,o Perquimans County.
, Another big attraction
could be the money.
For his win in June, Ken
Looper, a 25-year-old from
Louisiana, came away with
a $5,000 check. Thomas
Hay, who set a new course
record with a score of 64
but tied for third, won
$1,750.
David Siegel, president
and tour director for eGolf,
estimates that the winner
of the May tournament Will
walk away with $30,000.
That’s based on a field of
156 golfers. Based on those
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The Perquimans County Planning Board will
; hold its regular monthly meeting on Tuesday,
i January 13,2015 at 7:00 PM in the Commissioners’
; Meeting Room on the 1 st floor of the Perquimans
County Courthouse Annex Building located at
110 North Church Street, Hertford, to consider
i Conditional Use Permit Application No CUP-
14-08, by Debra Talmadge, to reopen a Nursing
I & Convalescent Home and Caretaker’s Residence
■ at 114 and 116 Nursing Home Road (SR 1330),
respectively, between Old US 17 Road (SR 1367)
and Gregory’s Lane (SR 1330).
Property owners, residents and other interested
I parties may review these items during normal
business hours before the public meeting at the
Perquimans County Planning & Zoning Office,
104 Dobbs Street, Hertford, NC, or call 252-426-
2027 or email dgodfrey(a>perquimanscountync.
gov for more information. You may make
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The Perquimans County Board of County Commission
ers will hold a Public Hearing on Monday, January 5,
2015 at 6:45 PM in the Commissioners' Meeting Room on
the 1st floor of the Perquimans County Courthouse Annex
Building located at 110 North Church Street, Hertford, NC,
to consider the following:
(A) Parent-to-Child Deed of Gift No. NZV-14-07 for a
one-acre Lot proposed by Alma Riddick Woodard and other
family members, for their son/nephew/cousin, located on
the south side Bay Branch Road (SR 1213), about 100 feet
west of Louis Spivey Road (SR 1214).
(B) Administrative Text Amendment No. TXT-
14-02 to amend the Zoning Ordinance regarding
Telecommunications Infrastructure to establish certain
tower types at various heights and thereby eliminate or at
least minimize future visual impacts, especially for towers
199 feet or less.
(C) Administrative Text Amendment No. TXT-14-
01SR to amend the Subdivision Regulations to exclude
from the definition of "subdivision" the recombination
of existing lots of record where the resulting number of
lots is not increased and a deed of combination is used to
acknowledge the intent of the property owner(s).
Property owners, residents and other interested parties
may review this item during normal business hours before
the Public Hearing at the Perquimans County Planning &
Zoning Office, 104 Dobbs Street, Hertford, NC, or call 252-
426-2027 or email dgodfrey@perquimanscountync.gov for
more information. You may make comments at the Hearing
and/or provide written comments. If you are unable to
attend the Public Hearing but wish to make comments
for the Board's consideration, please do so in writing if
possible by 4:00 PM the Friday before the Public Hearing.
this month.
“Carolina Moon has far ex
ceeded what I had anticipat
ed,” said Ray Saywer, one of
the founders and the author
of both of the first two plays.
The first play, “A Time to
Remember” looked at the
period in Hertford from 1937
through 1946. The second
one, “Times are Changing in
Hertford” traced the period
from 1946 through 1957.
The first play was per
formed at the American Le
gion building in Hertford. The
numbers, someone who fin
ished sixth or seventh will
earn as much as Looper did
for his first place finish in
the last tournament.
“I think we’ll put on a
good showing,” Siegel said.
The Plantation will be a
big one for eGolf as well.
It holds about 20 tourna
ments a year, and four of
them this year come with
the $200,000 purse. The
Plantation will be one of
those. The other three have
yet to be announced, but
two of the big tournaments
are held on the west coast
and two on the east coast.
The tournament will in
clude a Pro-Am event on
May 26. The cost is $1,000
per team or $333 per play
er. A maximum of 50 teams
will be allowed.
Saunders said the Planta
tion hopes to host about 70
or 80 golfers with Planta
tion residents. If there are
more, arrangements will be
made for a host hotel.
second was at the permanent
new home in a building that
once housed the Perquimans
Seniors Center on Grubb
Street.
“It’s a wonderful theater
for Hertford and there are so
many things we could use it
for,” Sawyer said.
That includes conferenc
es. The theater can seat 100
people if they aren’t dining.
“We’re very thankful to
the community for support
ing Carolina Moon Theater,”
Sawyer said.
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Professional golf is scheduled to return to Albemarle Plantation in May for what
should be a far larger tournament with a $200,000 purse.
COUNTY
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Commission got a new/old
member in Wallace Nelson.
Nelson had served on the
county board before from
2000 until 2004 in between
two stints totally 16 years
on the school board.
Also sworn in in De
cember were Ed Muzzulin,
who won a second four-
year term on the board and
Fondella Leigh who sought
office for the first time.
With all the movement,
Perquimans County saw
some veteran elected offi
cials leave office.
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Pender to give an indepen
dent opinion.
Just how far rates may
go down isn’t known. Duke
hopes to finalize the deal by
July, but Shoaf thinks that is
doubtful.
One estimate by Electric-
CORRECTION
A photo caption in the Dec. 24 issue of The Perquimans Weekly incorrectly identified
Holy Trinity Episcopal Church. The church participated in the holiday home tour and
dinner.
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Sawyer estimates it took
him a year each time he
wrote one the first two plays.
He’s working on another
original production for this
fall but in the meanwhile the
group plans to perform a pre
viously released play on May
1-3.
“Over The River And
Through The Woods” was
written by New Jersey native
Joe DiPetro.
. Ticket information is not
yet available and Sawyer
said the cast required to put
Waiter Leigh opted to
step down after serving the
school board since 1990, a
period of 24 years, five of
them as chairman and nine
as vice chairman.
Also bowing out were
Ben Hobbs who served
on the county commission
for 16 years and Tammy
Miller-White who served
for 12.
When it came to trans
portation projects, area
residents got some good
news-bad news when it
came to the replacement
of the S-Bridge in Hertford.
The replacement project
was included in DOT’s 10-
year improvement plan,
ites said the typical munic-
pal power customer now
pays $136 a month for elec
tricity. The same customer
on the Duke Power system
pays $104.
The towns collectively
own 18.33 percent of both
nuclear reactors at the
Brunswick power plant and
16.17 percent of the reac
tor at the Harris nuclear
it on is much smaller, about
six people.
The play looks at Nick,
a single, Italian-American
guy from New Jersey whose
parents retired and moved
to Florida. Nick still sees his
grandparents every Sunday
for dinner but he eventually
gets offered his dream job.
The job will take him away,
and the play centers on ef
forts to keep Nick around.
DiPetro wrote the play in
1998, two years after writ
ing “I Love You, You’re Per
but not at a level high
enough to pay for building
another swing-span like
some residents want. The
$22 is also not enough to
build a replacement bridge
extending off Edenton
Road Street.
There is enough in the
state Transportation Im
provement Plan (TIP)
to build a new high-rise
bridge that would extend
off Church Street and link
up with Winfall Boulevard
on the other side of the
river.
The TIP also included
money to widened Wood
ville Road and New Hope
Road.
plant in southwestern Wake
County. They also own por
tions of two coal-burning
units at the Roxboro and
Mayo power plants.
If a deal is reached those
shares would be sold back
and the cities and towns
would enter long-term
agreements with Duke to
buy all of their power from
Duke.
fect, Now Change.” “Now
Change” ran for 12 years off-
Broadway at the Westside
Theatre.
He also wrote “Nice Work
If You Can Get It”, a re-imag
ining of a Gershwin musical,
starring Matthew Broderick
and Kelli O’Hara. It opened
at Broadway’s Imperial The
atre in 2012. The show, and
DiPietro’s book, were nomi
nated for Tony Awards in
2012, and DiPietro won the
Drama Desk Award for Best
Book of a Musical.
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doing what the citizens have
tasked them to do. They
want to flip on a light switch
and have that light go on.”
Critics point to the weak
link with solar — it only
works when the sun is shin
ing. Skeptics use the same
argument with wind tur
bines. They only work when
the wind blows.
Marshall doesn’t try to
whitewash those flaws and
has referred to them as the
‘Achilles heel’ of the solar
industry.
Marshall agrees that solar
doesn’t work at night, but he
points out that it does work
during the time of day when
people are using the most
electricity. Plants that use
coal and nuclear tend to be
referred to as “base load”
generators because they run
24 hours. Base load plants
may generate the bulk of the
power, but during periods of
high demand, other assets,
like combustion turbines
are fired up to meet the peak
load.
“Solar gets zero credit
for being a peak (supplier),”
Marshall said. “There no
credit give to us for ben
efiting in the most expensive
time of day.
Better batteries that can
store that power during the
day and release it at night
will be the deal changer,
and Marshall thinks that will
happen within the next five
years.
The solar projects being
built in Perquimans County
each fall under 5 megawatts
of generating capacity. Com
bined that’s enough to power
about 230 homes.
FLS isn’t the only utility
looking at building in Per
quimans County, but so far
it’s the only developer that’s
actually doing it.
Marshall can’t say if the
FLS projects being devel
oped in Perquimans now are
the last they’ll build here or
simply the first.
“I don’t know right now,”
Marshall said. “I hate to be
ambiguous, but we’ve got
maybe 400 megawatt hours
in our pipeline and we’re
working on about 35 mega
watts worth of projects.
As we go through this
process we’re doing our due
diligence. There are about
2,000 to 3,000 checks we go
through and right up until
to the final closing we don’t
know what projects are go
ing into what bundle. I don’t
know of any (Perquimans)
projects right now, but that
could change tomorrow.”
Where new solar projects
go depends a lot on the local
energy costs. The higher the
cost, the better alternative
power looks.
PERQUIMANS COUNTY PUBLIC NOTICE
Except for the Sheriff’s Department,
Dispatch Office and Emergency Med
ical Services, all County Offices in the
Perquimans County Courthouse,
Courthouse Annex, Social Services,
Agricultural Extension Service,
Perquimans County Library and
the Perquimans County Recreation
Department will be closed on Thursday,
January 1, 2015, for New Year’s Day.
The Water Department will be closed
but emergencies may be reported to the
Dispatch Office by calling 426-5751.
Frank Heath
County Manager
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