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8 THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7,2015 School Menus Regional Farm Tour Visits Perquimans Perquimans Schools ■ TODAY: Breakfast: Assorted muffins. Lunch: Orange chicken with brown rice, baked cheese sand wich, steamed broccoli, corn, baked cherries, pine apple tidbits, milk. ■ THURSDAY: Breakfast: Super donut. Lunch: BBQ sandwich with slaw, chicken fillet sandwich, black-eyed peas, cheesy potatoes, apple slices, pears, milk. ■ FRIDAY: Breakfast: Pancake on a stick. Lunch: Pizza sticks with marinara sauce, fish nuggets/corn muffin, sweet potato fries, green beans, peaches, ba nana, milk. ■ MONDAY: Breakfast: Banana bread. Lunch: Chicken nuggets/biscuit, pepperoni pizza, French fries, steamed broccoli, applesauce cup, fruit cock tail, milk. ■ TUESDAY: Breakfast: Sausage biscuit. Lunch: Meatball sub, chicken fillet sandwich, glazed carrot coins, green limas, Mandarin orange slices, baked apples, milk. ■ WEDNESDAY: Breakfast: Breakfast bagel. Lunch: Ham slice/whole grain roll, cheeseburger, mashed potatoes, green peas, strawberry cup, pine apple tidbits, milk. SUBMITTED PHOTO Nearly 30 agronomists from across the state visited Perquimans County Sept. 22 for a regional farm tour. NC Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services Regional Agronomist Adam Lassiter helped organize the visit. The tour was let by A.O. Roberts, president of Eure Seed Farms, Inc. and his son, plant manager Kevin Roberts. MORATORIUM Continued from 1 180 days because of the Christmas and New Years holidays. “I don’t want to take time away from my family I know and I don’t want others to have to,” Lennon said. “But I will say, this board listens to county residents.” Tommy Harrell, another Bear Swamp community resident, said he was happy to get a moratorium so the board could do more re search. Harrell is seeking a one-mile setback between turbines and other property owners, an escrow account in case soil and environ mental issues crop up plus a decommissioning bond. He also asked the commis sion to prohibit anybody who wasn’t a Perquimans resident from speaking Monday since it was a “pub lic hearing” and they are not members of the Perquimans “public.” The board however opened up discussion to non-residents as well. Kevin Chandler, the Apex public relations manager for the project, said Tues day wind energy remains a good thing. “Wind energy has a proven track record. There are wind farms in 39 states, and these facilities provide enough electricity to power 18 million homes. Wind pro vides clean electricity, new, predictable revenue for communities, and addition al income for landowners. Wind does this while emit ting no air pollution and us ing no water. “We now have the op portunity to spend the next 120 days working with the community to look closely at the benefits associated with the responsible siting of wind power projects in Perquimans County.” Normally county com mission meetings are held in a first-floor conference room in the Perquimans County Courthouse Annex. It seats about 45. But Mon day’s meeting as well as one other county commis sion meeting and a planning board meeting was held upstairs in a courtroom that can seat more than 140. Monday there were also a dozen folding chairs brought in. Commission Chair Janice Cole accepted comments from every resident who signed up to speak, but lim ited them to three minutes and asked them to not re peat the same things others had said before them. Cole cautioned, “this is not a performance, we’re here to hear your com ments.” Some of the speakers Monday said the prospects of 100 or so wind turbines, some 600-feet-tall to the tip to the turbine blade, would hurt the county. Burt Eure, an agriculture business owner in New Hope with property else where, said wind turbines represented “the most inva sive project in the history of Perquimans County.” The Apex project would straddle the Perquimans- Chowan line and according to the company’s web site, includes 100 to 150 tur bines. Both officials in Per quimans and Pasquotank County have said that the Iberdrola project will be the single largest taxpayer in both counties once com pleted. Both the Iberdrola and Apex projects would also allow virtually all of the property capable of grow ing trees or crops and pro vide property owners who have leases to the property owners that lease land. Chandler said Apex has followed all the rules in place on the Timbermill project. “Apex believes the exist ing 2010 ordinance lays out the proper rules for protect ing public health, safety, and welfare while allowing for responsible wind energy in Perquimans County. The existing ordinance is mod eled on recommendations by stakeholders and sub ject matter experts, and it is consistent with neighboring ordinances. It was strong and thorough enough for the county to approve the first wind farm in the South- eastern United States under its guidelines.” LAWSUIT Continued from 1 petitions that were dis missed by the court,” Copie man said. “The project has all the local, state and fed eral permits needed thanks to years of scientific study evaluating the site and a rig orous review process.” He said the Owens-Bi- dawi home is nearly a mile from the southern-most tur bine in the project. “In all we have six homes that are about a half a mile from the closest turbine,” he said. Engstrom said DNER is sued a letter in March say ing the project was subject to new state standards and then a month later sent out another letter saying “never mind, no it’s not.” The Federal Aviation Ad ministration issued a ruling in June 2011 that the pro posed project did not pose a hazard to aircraft, but that expired on Dec. 29, 2012. In June 2014 Iberdrola submit ted a new set of applications to the FAA The plans differed in two ways. The towers were 499 feet tall, 13 feet higher than the original plan and some of the towers are in differ ent locations. Iberdrola has already be gun building access roads for the project. The com pany plans to pour concrete foundations for 104 tur bines early next year and be finished by December 2016. The Department of Envi ronmental Quality conclud ed in April that the project is not subject to another review. 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