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THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10,2016 3
What’s Happening
Aerial spraying business fined
TODAY
■ Story Time
The Perquimans County Libraiy will offer preschool
story time each Wednesday at 11 a.m. Call 426-5319.
THURSDAY
■ Golf Tournament
The Perquimans County Schools Foundation is host
ing an annual fundraising golf tournament on Aug. 11
at the Sound Golf Links at Albemarle Plantation. Call
Teresa Beardsley at 426-5741 for more information.
■ Photo Class
The Perquimans Arts League will hold a program “Be
ginning Digital Photography “Focus on Composition”
with Shirley Whitenack at the HHI Building, 300 Grubb
St on Thursday from 8 a.m. until 2 p.m. Cost is $50 for
PAL members and $60 for non-members. Class size is
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
An aerial spraying busi
ness in Hertford has agreed
to pay a $3,000 fine for two
violations of pesticide
rules.
The N.C. Pesticide Board
recently approved settle
ment agreements with nine
individuals, according to
Tuesday’s press release.
Bryson J. Cooper, owner
of Craft Air Services in
Hertford, agreed to pay the
fine for instances of drift
in Bertie and Currituck
counties, according to Pat
Jones, a spokesman with
the N.C. Pesticide Board.
Both incidents happened in
the summer of 2014, Jones
said.
N.C. law states no per
son should apply pesticides
under such conditions that
drift from pesticide par
ticles or vapors results in
adverse effects.
The incident in Shaw-
boro involved a product
known as Quilt Xcel, a fun
gicide used on corn. The in ¬
cident happened within 25
feet of a road and 100 feet
from a residence.
The incident in Merry
Hill in Bertie County ex
posed N.C. Department of
Transportation workers
with the chemical Dipel
ES, a biological insecticide.
The plane was spraying a
tobacco field at the time.
Among the other penal
ties Tony Godwin of White
ville agreed to pay $600 for
damages to a cotton field
caused by drift from a pes
ticide application to a pas ¬
ture adjacent to the field.
Samuel C. Boney Jr. of
Wallace agreed to pay $600
for damage to grapevines
caused by drift from a pes
ticide application to a soy
bean field adjacent to the
vineyard.
William Allen, pesticide
applicator and respon
sible licensee for Jack Al
len Farms of Winterville,
agreed to pay $600 for
damage to trees on a neigh
boring property caused by
drift from a pesticide appli
cation to cotton fields.
limited to 10. For more, visit www.perquimansarts.org
■ Bingo
American Legion Post 126 hosts bingo on Thursdays
at 6:45 p.m. at their building at 111 W. Academy St.
■ Movies at the Library
• Every third Thursday of the month, the Perquimans
County Libraiy will offer a movie geared toward adults
at 10 a.m.
■ Weight loss
Take Off Pounds Sensibly (TOPS) holds weekly sup
port group meetings on Thursdays from 10 a.m. until
11 a.m. at the Perquimans County Senior Center. Call
426-2022 or visit www.tops.org.
FRIDAY
■ Children’s matinee
TRUCK
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Woodard said,
No fire department in
Perquimans County has a
75-foot long ladder truck,
Woodard said. In the past
Hertford has had to call
in crews from neighboring
departments like Edenton
and Elizabeth City when a
ladder truck was required.
The plan agreed to
Wednesday involves using
$200,000 from the town’s
reserves as the town pay
ment. The USDA will pro
vide a $50,000 grant and
agree to loan the town the
other $386,000. The 20-year
loan is based on a fixed in
terest rate of 2.75 percent.
Monica Thornton, a
USDA representative at
the meeting, said the in
terest rate could actually
be lower if rates drop be
tween now and the time
the loan is closed on. She
said the agreement means
the rate will not be higher
than 2.75 percent.
The board had to act
quickly, Thornton said, to
ensure that it could get the
loan now. She thanked the
board for agreeing to hold
a special Wednesday morn
ing meeting, and explained
if the loan were going to
get processed in this round
of funding, she’d need to
file the paperwork by Aug.
5.
“We have to hit the but
ton by 5 p.m. tomorrow or
it will probably be April
(before the money is avail
able),” Thornton said.
The truck the town is
buying is a demonstration
model and will cost about
$40,000 less than a model
fresh off the factory floor.
The Perquimans County Library will hold a children’s
matinee every Friday at 2 p.m. until school begins. Chil
dren under 10 must be accompanied by an adult and those
who attend should bring their own snacks and drinks.
SATURDAY
■ Farmer’s Market
Perquimans County High School’s FFA program will
hold a fanner’s market every Saturday through Sept. 24
at Missing Mill Park from 8 a.m. until noon.
TUESDAY
■ Weight Watchers
Weight Watchers will meet on Tuesdays at 5:30 p.m.
at Hertford United Methodist Church’s Fellowship Hall.
Call 331-5426.
PHONES
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quickly fixed.
“We figured since it was
the weekend, OK, they’ll get
to it,” Hines said.
But then the problem
continued.
Scott Novak said he had
to drive somewhere to get
phone service and he tried
to call technical support a
number of times.
“Finally a tech admitted
they’d have over 100 calls
from my zip code and he es
calated it to the engineers.”
The timing of the outage
couldn’t have been worse
for Novak. He’d just started
a new job as head of mainte
nance for the Bryan Center
in Hertford.
“I’ve got to be on call 24/7
and the first weekend of my
job, the phone was out. That
doesn’t give a very good first
impression.”
He said when he moved
to the area in 2009 he chose
Verizon because it was the
only phone service that of ¬
fered any real service to the
area. He said “99.999 per
cent” of the time he’s had no
problems.
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AUG. 16
■ Rotary Speaker
Elizabeth City State University Chancellor Thomas
Conway will be the guest speaker at the weekly meet
ing of the Hertford Rotary Club Aug. 16. The public is
invited to attend. The club meets at Captain Bob’s Res
taurant starting at 6:45 a.m.
AUG. 18
■ Library Movie
The Perquimans County Library will hold an adult
movie feature on Aug. 18 at 10 a.m.
AUG. 24
■ Open House
The Perquimans County Schools will hold a floating
open house Aug. 24 from 4 p.m. until 6 p.m.
AUG. 26
GRANT
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rolled in COA classes.
“The three high school
partners involved currently
have a combined COA en
rollment of 120 students,”
said Dean Roughton, COA’s
academic dean of arts and
sciences and secondary
education. “These students
could be among the first
impacted as we work to
onboard courses taught in
this mode as soon as fea
sible.
“In addition, we will now
be able to provide more op
portunities at our own four
campuses. Classes that
might not have run in the
past due to low enrollment
can be combined across
campuses in this format to
create cost-efficient cours
es that increase the variety
of offerings at multiple lo
cations.”
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MARKET
■ Watercolor Class
The Perquimans Arts League will hold a watercolor
workshop with Carol Mann at the Perquimans County
Recreation Center on Aug. 26 from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m.
The class is designed for students with some knowl
edge of watercolor painting. Cost is $60 for PAL mem
bers and $65 for non-members. The instructor will send
supply list after sign-up. For more, visit www.perqui-
mansarts.org
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day at HYPERLINK “mailto:
awhite@pqschools.org”
awhite@pqschools.org or by
calling 339-3764.
The market is sched
uled to run every Saturday
through Sept. 24.
PROJECT
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value the economic impact
for our small business own
ers and contractors.
“However, it has been
my position from the start
of Apex’s application that
Perquimans County has
one wind energy project
currently underway which
should be operational soon.
Let’s wait and see the im
pact of the existing project
before approving another.
Let’s actually experience
the pros and cons of such a
huge project rather than go
on assumptions.”
Lassiter was referring to
the Amazon Wind Farms
East project currently un
der construction in both
Pasquotank and Perqui
mans counties. It’s set to
go operational by Decem
ber. The Amazon project
was designed by Iberdrola,
which has since changed
its name to Avangrid Re
newables.
But Lassiter and fellow
board members Paul Kahl,
Donald Manley and Lewis
Smith did vote in favor of
three of the findings for the
Apex project.
The other three are:
- That the CUP will not
materially enhance the
public health or safety if lo
cated according to the plan
submitted and approved.
That the use meets the
required conditions and
specifications.
- That the use will not
substantially injure the val
ue of adjoining or abutting
property or that the use is a
public necessity.
I hope the
County Zoning Board
realizes that they
have signed the
Death Certificate for
Perquimans County for
30 Pieces of Silver.
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