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Dozens of golfers to attend tourney
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
A golf tournament with a
$200,000 purse is expected
to draw at least 120 young
professional golfers to the
Biggs Cadillac Buick GMC
Classic at Albemarle Planta
tion next week.
As of Thursday 40 players
had booked rooms to stay
with residents at the Plan
tation according to Tom
Loughlin, one of the volun
teers for the event and Ken
ny Saunders, the golf pro.
As of Monday, the director
of the e-Golf tour said 120
golfers had signed up.
The event starts May 25
and runs through May 31.
The player response has
been fight years away from
the number of golfers at
tending an NGA tournament
last year at the Plantation.
Just 13 NGA golfers came.
Saunders said some of
those golfers who played in
the NGA event last year will
be back for this year’s e-Golf
tour tournament.
“They told me they had a.
great time,” Saunders said.
Another reason could be
the money. The winner of
the 2014 NGA event walked
away with $5,000. The eGolf
tournament has a purse of
$200,000 and the winner
should get between $35,000
to $40,000.
The deadline to sign up to
play in the tournament was
Monday but players can still
sign up, said David Siegel,
the director of the e-Golf
tour.
“We’ve run events with
over 200 players and we’ve
also run events with 60 play
ers before,” Siegel said last
week. “But I think this is go
ing to be the best event any
developmental tour runs all
year. The course is in great
shape it’s going to be a great
week for our players.”
Siegel played basketball
at Colgate University and
started playing in develop
mental tours in 1996. In 11
years, he earned 20 wins. He
founded the Tarheel Tom
in 2002 and served as vice
president until 2007 when
he started as president of
the eGolf tom.
“We’ve done a pretty good
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Relay For Life held
suspects
arrested
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
State and area lawmen
completed the roundup of
11 suspects wanted in an
undercover prescription
drug, operation dubbed
“Operation Take As Di
rected.”
The Perquimans County
Sheriff’s Office and the
State Bureau of Investi
gation started the probe
about six months ago.
The investigation re
sulted in the seizure of 47
doses of oxycodone and 35
dosage units of hydroco
done, the SBI said. Undis
closed amounts of subox-
one and fentanyl were also
seized.
Officers started round
ing up suspects about 7:30
a.m. May 12 and the last
suspect was arrested about
9:30 p.m. that night.
All of the charges involve
the possession and sale of
over-the-counter narcotics.
The suspects were jailed
under bonds ranging from
$6,000 to $40,000.
Eight of the suspects
were listed as Perquimans
County residents. Two
were from Edenton and
one listed an address in
Creswell. Perquimans Sher
iff Eric Tilley said Ivory
Jean Talmadge had recent
ly moved to Washington
County from Snug Harbor.
Tilley said Talmadge, 25,
was arrested with another
one of the suspects in the
same car. In addition to the
one count of Possession
With Intent to Manufacture
Sell/Deliver (PWIMSD) a
Schedule II drug, and one
count of sale and delivery,
Tilley said she will face ad
ditional charges because
she had drugs in her pos
session when she was
arrested. She was jailed
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Members of the Vidant Chowan Hospital Relay for Life team smile and laugh as they walk around the track
at John A. Holmes High School Friday evening during the opening ceremony for Chowan-Perquimans Relay for
Life 2015. See full story on Page 2.
Area student is Disney bound
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
J essica Cartwright knows about
beating the odds. ■
In 2010 she underwent a
dangerous surgery at a Greenville
hospital to remove numerous large
tumors from her abdomen. At first
doctors suspected appendicitis, but
instead they found massive growths.
Her parents, Kevin and Lori Cart
wright were warned that if it was
cancer, their course of action would
be to just sew Jessica back up and
try and make her as comfortable as
possible until she died.
The surgery went well, but Jessica
said one of the tumors was the size
of a volleyball.
Another was the size of a softball.
Given her situation the threat of
cancer remained and Cartwright was
told she needed to be rechecked at
least every six months.
Earlier this month her doctor
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SUBMITTED PHOTO
Jessica
Cartwright
shows off her
diploma from
the University
of North *
Carolina’s
School of
the Arts this
month while
wearing a
mortarboard
complete
with Mickey
Mouse ears.
Cartwright
will start work
with Disney
in Florida this
month.
Power
savings
expected
From staff reports
Hertford and Edenton
should see a big decrease in
electrical rates in the early
stages of a deal to sell four
electrical power plants back
to Duke Energy Progress,
elected officials were told
last week.
Over the life of the 20-year
agreement, the long-term sav
ings will amount to between
3 and 4 percent.
Graham Edwards, chief
executive officer of Electrici
ties, shared the information
on the projected cost savings
during a joint presentation in
Edenton to the mayors and
town councils of Hertford
and Edenton.
ElectriCities is the adminis
trative arm for the NCEMPA.
Edenton, Hertford, Elizabeth
Gity and 29 other municipali
ties are members of the pow
er agency.
The initial savings may be
as high as 16 percent. Ed
wards said it would be up to
the individual towns how to
translate that wholesale sav
ings into rate refief for then-
own customers.
Hertford will take up the
issue June 8, according to
Town Manager Brandon
Shoaf. The town intends to
hire a company, Utility Fi
nancial Solutions, to do a rate
study
“We don’t want to go out
willy nilly and do this,” he
said.
Shoaf said his goal is to be
competitive.
“The main thing is we
want to be competitive with
our neighbors and provide
the best value we can for our
customers.”
Value includes providing
reliable service.
Utility officials caution that
when electric bills are rolled
back — for an example 10
percent—that does not mean
the total utility bill will be
See SAVINGS, 2
Memorial Day to be observed on Monday at courthouse
From staff reports
American Legion Post 126
will conduct the Pequimans
County annual Memorial
Day Observance Monday at
the Veterans
Monument on the county
courthouse green.
Hertford’s American Le
gion Post 362 will assist in
this observance which will
begin at 11 a.m. In the event
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of inclement weather the
observance will be moved
to the Perquimans County
Recreation Center off Har
vey Point Road.
Post Commander Mike
Ellis will conduct the pro
gram which will include the
traditional roll call of Per
quimans Comity veterans
who have passed since last
Memorial Day.
Wreath presentations
will be made by the County,
Post Commander 126 Ellis
and Post 362 Commander
William Modlin. Any other
organization wishing to lay
See OBSERVANCE, 2
Retired Navy captain to speak at service
From staff reports
Retired U.S. Navy Cap
tain Guy J. Simmons of
Hertford, will be the guest
speaker at the Perquimans
County annual Memorial
Day observance Monday.
The event is sponsored
by Hertford American Le
gion Post 126. Simmons
is a Vietnam veteran (1966-
67) and served 27 years in
the U.S. Navy, retiring in
1992.
Following graduation
from Columbia University
he was commissioned an
Ensign in the
Navy and was assigned
as an engineer officer as
signed to the USS Sutter
County (LST 1150), a unit
of the naval forces in Viet
nam.
Subsequently, his active
duty included an assign
ment on the USS Charles
F. Adams (DDG 2), a guid
ed missile destroyer with
the Atlantic Fleet. He also
served as personnel officer
at Naval Station Brooklyn,
N.Y. , and was an instruc
tor in the Naval Reserve
Officers Training Corps at
Columbia University, his
alma mater.
His service in the Na
val Reserve included the
command of four units,
including a Naval Inshore
Undersea Warfare Unit. He
has served as an officer in
the Massachusetts State
Guard, the Coast Guard
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Guy Simmons