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"News from Next Door
WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 2016
Holiday
Celebrations
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STAFF PHOTO BY PETER WILLIAMS
PHOTO BY CHUCK PAGELS
Members of Bethel Baptist Church march in Hertford’s
parade on Saturday. See more photos on page 2.
Fireworks expode over the
Perquimans River Saturday
during the annual Fourth of
July celebration.
PHOTO BY CHUCK PAGELS
Ginney Branham, 8, peaks down the street to see if the
parade is getting close in Hertford on Saturday.
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Lawmen
injured
in arrest
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
Winfall Police Chief David Shaffer was
taken to the hospital Saturday night after
a fight with a man he was trying to arrest
and a Perquimans County Sheriff’s Deputy
responding to help was also injured when
he crashed his patrol car into a pole.
Both Shaffer and Deputy Chris Murray
have since been released from the hos
pital, according to Perquimans County
Sheriff Eric Tilley.
Shaffer said he was patrolling Winfall at
about 10:30 p.m. following the fireworks
that night and he saw a car pull up to a
house “that is known for drug sales.”
“I pulled up, turned the blue lights on
and he took off,” Shaffer said. “He never
was speeding he just refused to stop.”
The driver of the car, Rodney Gordon,
50, pulled into a driveway in the 600 block
See INJURIES, 3
No date set
yet for wind
program
BY REGGIE PONDER
Chowan Herald
Although Chowan County staff has
talked about holding an informational
meeting next week to explain to the pub
lic the process for considering the condi
tional use permit application for the Tim
bermill Wind Project, the date for such a
meeting had not been set as of Tuesday
morning,
The Chowan Board of Commissioners
was slated to meet Tuesday night and ac
tions at that meeting could have an effect
on the timetable for conducting the infor
mational meeting.
See WIND, 3
Doctor wraps up long teaching career after 45 years
SUBMITTED PHOTO
Dr. Hubert Burden
(center) stands with
Dr. Don Fletcher (left)
and Dr. Randy Renegar
last month during a
pig pickinO held to
celebrate Burdends
retirement. Dr. Burden
is holding a placard that
resembles what will
soon be installed outside
the gross anatomy
lab in his honor. Both
other doctors have
worked at East Carolina
University’s Brody School
of Medicine since the
1980s.
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
Dr. Hubert Burden, a Winfall
native who went on to become a
founding member of the staff of the
new medical school at East Caro
lina University in the 1970s retired
last week after 45 years.
“It’s been a quick trip, but I have
been very fortunate,” Burden said
Thursday. “I can honestly say I en
joyed going to work every day.”
There were some that fought the
creation of the Brody School of
Medicine from the start.
In the early 1960s there was only
one public university in North Car
olina that offered a medical degree
- UNC Chapel Hill - and some law
makers liked it that way.
However the General Assembly
agreed under pressure to allow
ECU to teach the first year of medi
cal school in Greenville provided
the students then transfer to Cha
pel Hill to finish their medical edu
cation.
“It was an experiment and some
didn’t want us to go forward,” Bur
den recalls.
Operating funds weren’t provided
until 1971 and first class of 20 stu
dents didn’t arrive until a year later.
At first Burden taught anatomy
in a double-wide trailer near Chris-
tenbury Gym. Forty-five years later,
new ECU students will study their
gross anatomy in a lab that was
named in honor of Burden. The cer-
See BURDEN, 3
Groups support Schools
Foundation, swimming program
Car Wreck
From Staff Reports
The Perquimans County
Schools Foundation re
ceived the largest grant,
$5,000, when two regional
philanthropic groups an
nounced the awards during
an event held recently at
Arts of the Albemarle’s Ma
guire Theatre.
According to PCSF Exec-
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utive Direc
tor Brenda
Lassiter,
the funding
will help
pay for
swimming
lessons
for kinder
garten stu
LASSITER
dents attending Perquimans
County Schools next school
year.
Through a collaborative
effort with the YMCA known'
as “The All Kids Swim” pro
gram, all kindergarten stu
dents in Perquimans County
for the past five years have
participated in two-weeks
of free swim lessons at the
YMCA.
The $2,000 grant from the
Northern Albemarle Com
munity Foundation coupled
with a $7,500 Vidant grant
also secured by the Founda
tion, will ensure the contin
uation of the swim program
for students in Perquimans
County for another year.
A $2,000 grant was also
awarded by The Women Giv
ers of Northeastern North
See PROGRAMS, 3
PHOTO BY CHUCK PAGELS
The driver of a car in the 1700 block of Harvey Point Road lost control and hit
a power pole and flipped over into a driveway Monday about 4 p.m. The N.C.
Highway Patrol responded to the scene and the driver of the vehicle was arrested.