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FEB 1 8 REED P The ERQUIMANS ..[ Weekly Members of God’s Anointed Singers sing at library, 5 ’Weirs from Next Door" FEBRUARY 18, 2015 - FEBRUARY 24, 2015 50 cents Pair arrested for string of burglaries BY PETER WILLIAMS News Editor A tip from a neighbor in Woodville helped law enforcement capture two Elizabeth City men wanted for breaking into homes across a three county area and stealing televisions and jewelry. On Thursday Pasquotank County deputies arrested Rodney Randall Wentz, 34 of the 1700 Nixonton Road and Lester Ur- banske- Donnelly 29 of the WENTZ URBANSKE- DONNELLY 900 block North Poindexter Street outside a pawn shop in Elizabeth City. Per quimans County Sheriff Eric Tilley said the pair were also charged with three burglaries in Perqui ¬ mans County. Two were in the Woodville area on Feb. 11 and one was in Parkville Feb. 8. “Pasquotank deputies were checking the pawn shops.” Tilley said. “They noticed one individual walk ing toward them and when he saw the deputies he went away, back to a vehicle that matched the description of one used in the one of the Woodville burglaries.” Tilley said a neighbor in Woodville saw the men breaking into a house there, but instead of calling law enforcement, they called the homeowner. “That delayed law en forcement getting there,” Tilley said. Sheriff Cartwright said Pasquotank lawmen al ready suspected Wentz and Urbanske-Donnelly were involved with the rash of crimes and the vehicle iden tification was part of the solution. “We had some informa tion already,” Cartwright said. Tilley said the men appar ently just knocked on doors of homes and if nobody an swered, they forced their way inside. Mostly they took See BURGLARIES, 2 Jordan to head crisis agency BY PETER WILLIAMS News Editor A Perquimans County native has been named the new executive director of Albemarle Hopeline, a six-county crisis response agency. Melanie Jordan, the daughter of Rudolph and Shir ley Perry, grew up in a house on Goodwin Mill Road. JORDAN “It wasn’t downtown Belvidere,” she joked. “We were about two or three miles from Layden’s Store.” Jordan’smotherhadroots in Chowan County and her father had farmland there so Jordan attended schools in Chowan. From there she earned bachelor’s degrees in history and psychology from Meredith College. “I guess I just sort of morphed into it,” she said of her job. “I started with the judicial system as a pro bation officer in 1987,” She then worked for the District Attorney’s office for years doing child abuse cases. Hopeline staff provides preventative services to victims of family violence, sexual assault, and teen dat ing violence for Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Gates, Pasquotank and Perqui mans counties. The agen cy also runs a shelter for women and children who have left abusive homes and need temporary shelter to rebuild their lives. The group was formed 33 years ago and for 32 of those years, was headed by Patricia Youngblood. Youngblood recently re tired. Over the last 26 years, Jor dan worked as an adult pro bation officer, a child abuse coordinator in the District See HOPELINE, 2 PHOTO BY CHUCK PAGELS Sarah Marriner (left) hugs father Tommy Marriner while mother Candy cheers after scoring her 1,000th point in a game against Gates County. Perquimans pair top 1,000 From staff reports O ut of the four area basketball players who have topped the 1,000-point career mark this season, two are from Perquimans County High School. Talyee Elliott hit the 1,000-mark in January in a game against John A. Holmes. Sarah Marriner reached that mark last week in a game against Gates County. The last female Perqui mans player to hit 1,000 points was Quinyotta Pettaway who did it in 2009 as ajunior. She went on to play at Clemson University and graduated in 2014. The last male player was Mikel Harvey who hit 1,000 points in January 2012 playing Northside. PHOTO BY CHUCK PAGELS Tahjee Elliott was honored recently at a Perquimans County High School basketball game for reaching 1,000 career points. Pictured are his brother Drevon Riddick, father Andre Riddick, Tahjee Elliott, brother Nahjee Elliott and mother Lokita Elliott. Lady Pirates coach Brandon Young, has seen all of this year’s 1,000-point players and offense and defense, notes their similarities in running the floor well on See 1,000, 7 Storm brings trouble BY PETER WILLIAMS News Editor The first major storm of the winter brought many Perquimans County activi ties to a halt Tuesday. The storm brought a mix of snow and ice to the area starting Monday night and continuing through Tues day. Chris Powell, a spokes man for Albemarle Electric Membership Corp, said they were dealing with a few hundred outages scat tered around its service area. The company serves about 12,500 customers in Chowan, Perquimans, Pas quotank, Camden and Cur rituck counties. “Most of the outages are due to tree limbs weighed down with ice falling on lines,” Powell said. Dominion Power re ported 3,000 customers in northeastern North Caroli na were without electricity. According to Bonita Har ris, a Dominion spokes woman, the Albemarle area escaped a lot of the prob lems. Tuesday morning Harris reported one outage in Perquimans, 16 in Cam den, eight in Chowan, 13 in Currituck and six in Pas quotank. The trouble spots includ ed Williamston, N.C. High way 94, James, Columbia and Creswell. “We have crews working to make repairs and more bucket trucks on the way,” Harris said. The Red Cross was urg ing donors to donate blood. Three blood drives had to be canceled because of the weather. The next event in Perquimans County is March 5 from 2-7 p.m. at the Perquimans County Recre ation Center. Perquimans County Emergency Management Director Jonathan Nixon said the county brought in a third EMS crew Monday afternoon in anticipation of ice and snow. Nixon said the N.C. DOT See WEATHER, 2 At 86, Roberts is still playing BY PETER WILLIAMS News Editor Frank Roberts’ musical program doesn’t have the reach it once did. When he worked at one radio station in Texas, the broadcast signal could be heard all the way from Mex ico to Canada. 89076 47144 2 Now his Friday afternoon program reaches about half a block in downtown Hert ford. That doesn’t bother Rob erts, an 86-year-old veteran of radio, television and print journalism. He just likes to be working again. “I hate retirement,” Rob erts said. “I hate it.” The current effort is col laboration between Roberts and Steve Lane, the owner of Inteliport. It’s an Internet service provider with an of fice on Church Street next door to Woodard’s Phar ¬ macy. Robert’s “studio” is a chair in the front window of Inteliport. The sound equipment is a computer prograin. Instead of a trans mitting tower, the program goes out over a few speak ers mounted under the aw nings in front of the two businesses. In some ways, the musical program is a throwback to a time long ago when some radio stations had studios that were visible to anybody See ROBERTS, 2 STAFF PHOTO BY PETER WILLIAMS Frank Roberts looks out onto Church Street from his “studio” at Inteliport. Roberts does a weekly musical program from the location.
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