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"News from Next Door" WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2015
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Boaters ‘Sail to the Sun’, stop at Plantation
SUBMITTED PHOTO
More than a dozen
sailboats heading
for Florida made a
stop at Albemarle
Plantation last
weekend.
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
More than a dozen boats sail
ing from Virginia to Miami, Fla.
made a stop last weekend at Al
bemarle Plantation.
The event was part of “Sail
To The Sun” sponsored by the
Waterway Guide — a 68-year-
old publication that produces
annual guides for boaters. One
of the guides covers the Intra
coastal Waterway (ICW) that
runs through the Albemarle
Sound.
Ed Tillett, the editor and gen
eral manager of the publication,
was making the trip — at least
part of it. He’s going as far as
Belhaven.
The flotilla of boats visited
Elizabeth City on Friday and
the Plantation on Saturday and
Sunday. They were scheduled
to be in Belhaven by Tuesday
and Beaufort this Saturday.
The goal trips ends near Miami
on Dec. 15.
Albemarle Plantation and the
Osprey Yacht Club welcomed
the boaters with a “Docktails”
party Saturday evening. The
Plantation was also prepared to
host a Sunday service, a brunch
and an oyster roast, but weath
er prompted the boats to leave
a little early Sunday.
It’s the first time the publica
tion has sponsored a “Sail To
The Sun” rally, and Tillett said it
might be an annual event. Each
boat paid $500 to take part.
“There are some folks who
have done the ICW many times
before, and some that this is
See BOATERS, 5
New jobs
could
fuel
funding
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
Attracting a new busi
ness that would create 75
new jobs should be enough
to get state and federal
funding for the first phase
of the Perquimans Marine
Industrial Park, a county
official told a crowd last
week.
A more ambitious plan
to create a 2,100-foot
long boat basin may be
too ambitious, said Dave
Goss, the economic de
velopment consultant for
Perquimans County. Goss
was addressing a crowd
attending a monthly Per
quimans County Chamber
“Conversations Over Cof
fee” event.
Goss laid out the history
of how the commerce park
came to be and what needs
to happen to move it for
ward.
The county was looking
for a place to build a rec
reation center and needed
land.
A farmer had 400 acres
that straddled Harvey
Point Road but wanted to
See FUNDING, 4
STAFF PHOTO BY PETER WILLIAMS
STAFF PHOTO BY
PETER WILLIAMS
Doug Layden
talks to a
customer
in Layden’s
Supermarket
Saturday during
the annual
Belvidere Day
event.
Visitors stop to take a look at old
photographs of Belvidere in the Ruritan
Club building Saturday.
Four
officials
decide
not to run
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
The current chairs of both
the Perquimans County
Commission and the Perqui
mans County School Board
and at least two other elect
ed officials say they won’t
run again when the filing pe
riod opens in December.
County commission chair
Janice Cole has served on
the county commission
since 2010. School board
chair Susan Cox has been
on that body since 2008.
Commissioner Matt Peel
er also said he won’t seek
office and school board
member Steve Magaro can’t
run because of a change in a
state law.
That leaves Commission
er Kyle Jones, who said he’s
“99.999 percent sure” he’ll
run and school board mem
ber Arlene Yates who said
last week she’s undecided.
Normally candidates for
county offices in even-num
bered years have until Feb
ruary that year to file their
intentions to run. But the
General Assembly moved
all 2016 primaries to March
See ELECTIONS, 4
Friends of child go
“bald” to support cause
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
Aleah Sawyer has been
bald for longer than most 6-
year-olds.
But then soon after birth,
Aleah also had a tumor in
her brain the size of a grape-
fruit.
However for one day this
month it was Aleah who had
the hair and the staff at Lau
ra’s United Hair-Lines that
was bald was part of a “Be
Bold, Be Bald” fundraising
event the salon put on.
Laura Spruill, her staff
and Aleah’s mother, Sarah
Sawyer wore caps over
their heads that covered
their hair and gave the look
of being bald.
Aleah was there was well
and she was smiling.
So was Sarah.
Sarah worked at the
Hertford salon at the time
her daughter was born. It
quickly was clear something
wasn’t right.
“At the age of 5 weeks,
they determined she had a
glioblastoma,” Sarah said.
“That was unheard of for a
child her age. The doctors
at Kings Daughter’s pretty
much told me that they
didn’t know what to do.”
See EVENT, 4
STAFF PHOTO BY
PETER WILLIAMS
Aleah Sawyer
(front, center)
poses with
mother Sarah
Sawyer (left),
Laura Spruill,
Marcia Evans,
Samantha Martin
and Sara Rowe
during a ‘Be Bold,
Be Bald’ event
at Laura’s United
Hair-Lines, salon
in Hertford earlier
this month.
Veteran’s Day to be
observed on Nov. 11
From Staff Reports
Hertford American Le
gion Post 126 will hold their
annual Perquimans County
Veterans Day observance
Nov. 11 on the Perquimans
County Courthouse lawn
at the Veterans Monument.
The event will begin at 11
a.m. In case of inclement
Older PW issues now on-line to view
weather, it will be moved
to the County Recreation
Center off Harvey Point
Road in Hertford.
“Veterans Day, while
deceased veterans are also
remembered, is the day set
aside to thank and honor
veterans who have served
honorably in the military
in wartime or peacetime,”
said Post 126 Commander
John Spear. “But, begin
ning with the Persian Gulf
War, Iraq and Afghanistan
and maybe Vietnam, there
See VET’S DAY, 5
DIGITALNC.ORG
A copy of the
Dec. 12,1941
edition of the
Perquimans
Weekly
includes a
story about
how Germany
is expected to
follow Japan
with a war
declaration
against the
United States.
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
Computer users won’t be able to
go “Back to the Future” but they will
be able to go “Back to the Past” as of
this week.
The N.C. Digital Heritage Center
has converted old issues of The Per
quimans Weekly into digital files that
can be searched on-line. The system
went live on Tuesday. Computer us
ers can go to http://www.digitalnc.
org/newspapers/the-perquimans-
weekly-hertford-n-c/ or go to www.
digitalnc.org and then click on “news
papers” to find the link.
Lisa Gregory, the interim program
coordinator and digital projects
See NEWSPAPERS, 5