2 THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5,2015
WHIDBEE
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Esbenshade Professor of
the Practice of Visual Arts
at Duke University.
McIver, who was travel
ing in France last week,
said the son of Lewis and
Gloria Whidbee has been
one of her best students.
Whidbee recently had
his first solo exhibit called
“Diary of a Wretched Man”
at The Carrack in Durham
in July. This month Whid
bee will be doing a solo
exhibit at the Nicholson
Gallery at The Arts Center
in Carrboro.
Whidbee said he finds
inspiration in his spiritual
ity as a Christian, a black
male and music, and likes
to portray how he strug
gles with it.
Gloria Whidbee said her
son has always been inter
ested in art.
“Even when he was
little he’d doodle. I still
have some. I knew he had
a little talent.”
Gloria Whidbee said she
always tried to impress
on her son that athletics
shouldn’t be his only fo
cus.
“A lot of kids focus on
SUBMITTED PHOTOS
Artist Lamar Whidbee leans against a fence with two pieces of his artwork. Whidbee (right photo), was an all-conference football player and
track star at Perquimans County High School and played football at both Winston-Salem State University and N.C. Central University.
basketball and football,
but what if that doesn’t
work out? You always
need to have a backup.”
Lamar Whidbee did suf
fer some injuries in col
lege, but said that alone
wasn’t the reason he fo
cused on something else.
“I still consider myself
an athlete,” he said.
“He epjoys what he
does,” his mother said.
“I’m so thankful he got to
do that, but he’s moving
on with his talents.”
As well as he performed
in high school, Whidbee
wishes not he had ap
plied himself more in both
sports and academics.
“I wish I had learned a
little more while in high
school,” he said. “It was
fun, and it is a small town,
but I wish I had developed
more as an athlete.”
He found the same thing
to be true in his art stud
ies.
“I wish kids were ex
posed more to modern art
in high school,” he said.
“When I got to college I
found some of the stuff
I had to learn other stu
dents had learned in high
school. I’m grateful for my
gift, but I could have gone
further.”
Whidbee said he’d like
to return to Hertford at
some point, even if it’s a
visit.
“Even if I never moved
back there, but I’d really
like to come back home
and do a show,” he said.
“I’d like to give back to
the school and give back
to the community.
I’d like to inspire some
kids.”
While grateful for what
he was able to get in high
school, Whidbee would
like to see more offered.
“I feel like kids in high
school and middle school
should be exposed more.
If children don’t have an
outlet, let them know
there is more than just
playing sports. They need
to see there are options.”
LAND
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bridge,” Nielsen wrote. “I
have owned this property
for many years, and while
in the historic district, the
home itself is actually of
no historic value. Although
I lived at 103 Phelps St. for
many years, it is now a sec
ondary residence for me.
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Route 17 is indeed a tricky
area. It is my wish that the
new bridge and access be
safe and maintainable at
a responsible cost for the
residents of Hertford and
surrounding areas.”
Twelve months later the
home was purchased by
Nancy Theodore and her
husband.
Theodore, who has op
posed DOT plans, said she
was totally unaware of the
Nielsen letter.
“ I’m so angry with the
real estate agent for his
estate for not disclosing
what Ned and his fam
ily knew about the bridge
project,” she said. “Our
agent said there was talk
about replacing the bridge
for years but nothing was
in the works at the time we
were looking at the house
— spring of 2009.”
She said she is consider
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is to reach out more to John
A. Holmes and Perquimans
County high schools to get
them involved with COA
He’s already reached out
to people in Perquimans
County.
He has been active in the
Perquimans and Edenton
communities as a board
member and volunteer with
the Chowan/Perquimans
Habitat for Humanity. He
was also the project man
ager and volunteer builder
for an outdoor classroom at
Hertford Grammar School.
“He was instrumental in
coordinating the labor and
materials for the sundial at
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participate today,” Cau
sey said. “There are five
other organizations in
Perquimans County that
do it, but Forestburg is the
oldest and longest serv
ing. We’d like to get more
groups active like this.”
Currently the Hertford
Rotary Club, Heritage
Shores Plantation, Island
Christian Fellowship,
Deep Creek Shores and
the Inter-County Ruritan
Club also participate.
DOT provides gloves
and trash bags and loans
mission.
Gresham, who was cop
ied in the 2008 letter, ex
plained last week that at
the time DOT didn’t know
just how it was going to
proceed with replacing the
S-Bridge.
“We can’t just buy prop
erty preemptively,” Gresh
am said. “We couldn’t have
taken him (Nielsen) up on
the offer at the time. The
property had been for sale
for a couple of years at that
point.”
Gresham said the first
meeting with local officials
was in September 2007.
“We didn’t come to the
Hertford Grammar School,”
said Teresa Beardsley, the
school system’s spokesman
and a former HGS teacher.
“He had his architectural
students create the sun dial
size as well as the placement
of the sundial using a special
solar tool. After the cement
slab was installed by one of
Mr. Purser’s contacts through
Purser Design Build. Two of
Amy Craddock’s students
from PCHS worked with Mr.
Purser in laying out the tem
plate for the sundial.”
Purser’s wife, Carole is a
teacher at HGS and headed
up the project.
COAs president, Kandi
Deitemeyer, said she wel
comes Purser to his new
position.
“I am quite excited about
safety vests to groups that
sign contracts for road
side cleanup. They have to
commit to cleaning a two-
mile stretch of road four
times a year.
DOT says over the past
20 years, the Forestburg
Club has picked up more
than 21,000 pounds of lit
ter over a two-mile stretch
of New Hope Road, Wood
land Church Road and
White Hat Road. The club
picks up on both sides of
the roads and over the
years collected 1,550 bags
of litter.
Keith Matheson, the co
ordinator for Forestburg,
said the club can usually
public with alternatives
until April 2010.”
“When we received
the letter we didn’t have
a preferred alternative se
lected.”
DOT reached that deci
sion in December 2014. It
wants to build a 33-foot-
tall fixed bridge that would
extend off Church Street
where the Theodore prop
erty is now and link up
with Winfall Boulevard in
an area near Larry’s Drive
In.
The Coast Guard docu
ment released in July in
cludes portions of peti
tions from various sides,
Charles joining the leader
ship team,” Deitemeyer said.
“We are looking forward to
his contributions as Dean of
the Edenton-Chowan Cam
pus and know that his com
mitment to students’ success
will be invaluable as we con
tinue to build the campus
and college opportunities.”
“During the coming months,
he will be focused on engag
ing members of the commu
nity and our K-12 partners to
ensure a seamless transition
around many of the initia
tives that are strong points
on the campus, as well as
those that are showing great
promise,” Deitemeyer said.
For 19 years, Lynn Hur-
dle-Wmslow served as dean
at the Chowan Campus. She
stepped down a year ago to
musters eight volunteers.
“Sometimes we get 11 or
12. We try and do it in the
spring, in both April and
May before it gets hot and
then pick it up against in
September and October.
If you look at our group,
we’re not getting any
younger. I don’t know if
we’ll make it to 30 years
or not.”
The club has fewer than
40 members.
Matheson said the club’s
single day record was 24
bags of trash.
Once the trash is
bagged, DOT takes care of
the rest.
“DOT is really good,”
as well as resolutions from
local town boards and the
Perquimans County Com
mission.
In October 2013 the
Hertford Town Council
passed a resolution sup
porting Alternative D with
an opening as wide and tail
as the current Highway 17
Bypass bridge.
In September 2014 the
town rescinded the 2013
resolution and support to
the swing-span option —
the most expensive of the
final three. In December
2014, county commission
also went in support Alter
native B.
take a job as vice president
of student success and en
rollment management at
, COA^ main campus. Aman
da Hodges was named inter
im dean. She stepped down
in February.
Purser said he’s looking
forward to the challenge.
“I feel that I can make a
difference at the Edenton-
Chowan campus and help
grow our students and the
facility,” Purser said. “Stu
dents bring their hopes and
dreams to COA and it is our
job to do what we can to
help them reach their goals.
As a community college
graduate, I am honored and
proud to have the opportu
nity to make a difference
in our seven-county service
area.”
Matheson said. “I call on
a Saturday and the follow
ing Monday they’re out
there to pick up the bags.”
Adopting a highway is
free but requires a four-
year agreement between
NCDOT and the Adopt-A-
Highway volunteers.
Anyone interested in
learning more about the
program can call 1-800-
331-5864 or the local DOT
office at 331-4737.
“Our they can go on-line
and register and they don’t
have to talk to anybody at
all,” Causey said.
The state website is
http://www.ncdot.gov/pro-
grams/aah/.
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