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4 THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24,2016 CHANCELLOR SPEAKS SUBMITTED PHOTO Elizabeth City State University Chancellor Thomas Conway spoke this month to the Hertford Rotary Club. The club meets weekly on Tuesday morning at Captain Bob’s. Ducks Unlimited to hold ‘Greenwing Day’ on Sept. 17 From Staff Reports The Jim “Catfish” Hunter chapter of Ducks Unlimited will hold its fourth annual Greenwing Day on Sept. 17 at Camp Cale. The event is designed to introduce youth age 5 through 15 to outdoor ac tivities. They will be able to spend the afternoon shooting rifles, shotguns, bow and arrows and learning about conserva tion and outdoor recre ation. The day starts with registration at 10:30 a.m. and lunch at noon. The activities take place from 1 p.m. until 4 p.m. The registration fee is $20 and includes a DU Greenwing membership, lunch, a t-shirt, duck call and other gifts. The first 75 people who register will be guar anteed a t-shirt and and duck call. For more information, call 312-6252 or 337-5195. Checks may be made payable to Perquimans County Ducks Unlimited and mailed to Diane Stall ings, 104 Carolina St., Hertford, NC, 27944. Junior Greenwings are age 5-10 and senior Greenwings are age 11- 15. Food Bank meeting is set From Staff Reports The Food Bank of the Albemarle is hosting a sec ond team captain’s meeting Thursday for the 33rd an nual Walk for Hunger. The meeting will begin at 5:30 p.m. at the Hugh Cale Com munity Center, 524 S. Road St. in Elizabeth City. The Walk for Hunger is a 4.1 mile walk through the Riverside area, and is the Food Bank’s single largest fundraising event of the year. Businesses, churches and individuals are encouraged to put together teams for the walk. Teams should register by Sept. 15 to guarantee an event T-shirt. It is asked that represen tation to Thursday’s meeting be limited to two members per team. Light refreshments will be served. RSVP with Carolyn Anderson, at 335- 4035, ext. 111 or by e-mailing HYPERLINK“mailto:carand- erson@feedingamerica.org” \t “—blank” caranderson@ feedingamerica.org. NUTRITION Continued from 1 bacon cheeseburger, or a meal of chicken and waffles to the menu may be part of the solution, but Pelletier has even more sweeping ideas. She took over the school’s child nutrition program this summer and she’s prepared to make major changes to what is served; how it’s served and how it’s mar keted. Pelletier spent 20 years working with a health de partment with the Women Infant and Children (WIC) feeding program and then 10 years with the child nu trition program for Wash ington County Schools. Winning back the stu dents who qualify for a free meal is key even for someone without kids. The USDA reimburses the school system $3.14 for a “free” lunch if a child eats it. School nutrition budgets are supposed to be self- sustaining, and if they’re not that siphons away local money that could be used in the classroom. “My goal is to grow that (number of students eating school food) by 5 percent a year. It’s not about putting money in the bank for the school; it’s about students getting a meal that they don’t throw out. It’s doable. I’ve done it in the past and it can be done here.” Some of it’s rebranding. It’s no longer called a “caf eteria.” It’s a “cafe.” The school staff will be wearing chefs coats or chefs shirts, not the hospi tal scrubs that they have been wearing. CULLIPHER “We’re rebranding the whole child nutrition program,” Pelle tier said. “Children eat with their eyes. If it looks nice they’ll maybe like the way it tastes. They might be will ing to try something differ ent.” The school system is also looking into “alternative feeding models” where stu dents may be able to grab an item at breakfast and not have to eat it then and there. Instead they can snack on it when they get a break. PELLETIER There are some things Pel letier can’t change. The full price of a meal isn’t going up, it’s still $2.60 for lunch and $1.35 for breakfast. The food will continue to come from the same sources. The school system buys its food from a regional 13-county co-op as well as a statewide food program. The staff of 16 is the same. The rules on nutrition that come down from the USDA are also the same. But Pelletier is changing the things she can change. “What you’ll see is more scratch made and home cooked meals, like ham burger steak and chicken and broccoli bakes.” The school system changed the lunch menus last year to allow high school students to get some items, like chicken wings, that aren’t on the menu for younger grades. If cheese burgers make the list, it may not be for all grades. While some new menu items will be added, like chicken and waffles, some old staples will appear less often — things like chicken nuggets and pizza. School systems no longer fry food, and school menu nuggets are baked and kids don’t like them. School pizza is made with whole-wheat flour, and students don’t like that either. Kim Cullipher, Pelletier’s administrative assistant, said parents might be more inclined to steer their child to a school lunch if they know it’s a healthy meal. Cullipher hopes that some of what she does can migrate home with the stu dent. “If the student hasn’t eat en a kiwi before and kiwi is on our (lunch) line and they try it, they might con vince Mom ‘let’s try this at home.’” Parents will also have the opportunity this year to see what their children are eating. The school system is rolling out an on-line sys tem that allows parents to deposit money directly into their child’s food account. The system also tracks what students spend it on, so parents can know. SCHOOLS Continued from 1 “Our old address was a mouthful,” Beardsley said. The old web site address was HYPERLINK “http://www. pcs.kl2.nc.us/” http://www. pcs.kl2.nc.us/ “We wanted to make it more easily acceptable, more updated and more modern. People who know Perqui mans County know the ab breviation PQ.” The school system has 25 new staff members, up from 17 last year. Both numbers include bus drivers, maintenance personnel, clerical staff as Labor Day Holiday Advertising Deadlines THE DAILY ADVANCE PUBLICATION DATE DEADLINE TIME DEADLINE DATE RETAIL AND CLASSIFIED DISPLAY ADS SUN, SEPT 4 10A.M. WED, AUG 31 MON, SEPT 5 10A.M. THUR, SEPT 1 TUE, SEPT 6 2 P.M. THUR, SEPT 1 WED, SEPT 7 10A.M. FRI, SEPT 2 CLASSIFIED LINE ADS TUE, SEPT 6 11 A.M. FRI, SEPT 2 TUE, SEPT 6 LEGAL ADS 12 P.M. THUR, SEPT 1 ALBEMARLE: W URGENT CARE NO Appointment Necessary • Walk-In On-Site Lab & X-rays • Sports & DOT Physicals Open 7 Days A Week Most Insurance Plans Welcome Mon - Fri Sam - 7pm • Sat - Sun Sam - 4pm 252.482.6100 709 N Broad Street, Edenton www.albemarleurgentcare.com CHOWAN HERALD, PERQUIMANS WEEKLY PUBLICATION DATE DEADLINE TIME DEADLINE DATE RETAIL AND CLASSIFIED DISPLAY ADS WED, SEPT 7 5 P.M. THUR, SEPT. 1 CLASSIFIED LINE ADS WED, SEPT 7 11 A.M. FRI, SEPT 2 LEGAL ADS WED, SEPT 7 5 P.M. THUR, SEPT 1 The Daily Advance, The Chowan Herald and The Perquimans Weekly offices will be closed on Monday, SEPT 5 in observance of Labor Day. We will reopen on Tuesday, SEPT 6. Have a safe and happy holiday. well as teachers. There will be no teaching vacancies when school opens, but one position, that of school Psychologist will become vacant in a few months and the school system is work ing to find a replacement. There will be new programs. The middle school is adopt ing a STEM class as well as biotechnology and agricul ture. At Perquimans Central there will be a new class that incorporates STEM subject as well as art. The school system held convocation Monday. At that time Amy Parker, a teacher at Hertford Grammar School was named the school sys tem’s Teacher of the Year. In dividual school winners were Tina Mathis from PCHS, Holly Winslow from PCS and Rhon da Meadows from PCMS. School staff has been working to make some im provements to the schools over the summer. All the hallways at the middle school have been repainted and the roof over the auditorium is being replaced. That part of the building was constructed in the 1920s and it was the only roof that wasn’t under warranty. Holidays are Sept. 5, Nov. 11, Nov. 24-25, Dec. 23,25-26, Jan. 2, Jan. 16, April 14 and May 29. Annual leave days are Dec. 21-22, Dec. 28-30 and April 17-21. If you plan to DIG on Saturday, CALL 811 on Tuesday. You can prevent the possibility of disrupted service, expensive repairs, and even personal injury by calling 811 at least three business days before you dig (this does not include weekends and/or holidays). 811 is available ■ North Carolina 811 (NC811) is a corporation formed and funded by participating utility companies and municipalities. Any buried facilities in your path will be staked or marked at no cost to you." weekdays between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. - call before you start to dig. •If the utility companies serving your community are not members of NC811, contact them on an individual basis. piedmontng.com 1.800.752.7504 fAWl Piedmont lulu Natural Gas Energy that shows. STUDY Continued from 1 were Sentara Albemarle Medical Center, Vidant Bertie Hospital, Vidant Chowan Hospital, Vi dant Roanoke — Chow an and The Outer Banks Hospital. The region also in cludes Pasquotank, Camden, Chowan, Cur rituck, Bertie and Gates counties. This Community Health Assessment is intended to describe the current health status of the community and as sess what indicators are needed to improve the health of the communi ty. The process involved the collection and anal ysis of a large range of data including demo graphic, socioeconomic and health statistics, environmental data, and public and professional opinion. The document is a summary of all the avail able evidence and serves as a resource to the communities. Together, these can be used as a guide for program planning, policy devel opment, budgets, and other efforts directed at addressing community health issues. The State of the County Health Report is conducted during the years that a CHA is not completed and gives an update on what is be ing accomplished with the communities to ad dress issues identified during the CHA process and are available on the ARHS webpage, www. arhs-nc.org. YOUTH Continued from 1 Development Board. “The program was designed to show how to navigate the real world,” Aples said. Participants start by decid ing what level of education they want to achieve, and based on that they’re assigned a “job” and will be given the equivalent of one month’s sal ary. “I’m praying the young people learn a lot about what it really takes to operate in the real world. We want them to make better career choices and learn to be self-sufficient. “From there they navigate from booth to booth to obtain things like housing, electricity, insurance and spend money on entertainment or clothes. What they may find out is “wait a minute, I do need more than a high school degree or maybe being an artist isn’t for me.” The four mini-workshops will look at banking, bud geting, insurance and social skills. The last part includes writing a resume. The young adults aren’t given a safety net when they participate in the exercise. “We don’t given subsidized housing, food stamps or subsi dized child care. There is noth ing wrong with those services, but we don’t think they were intended to be a lifestyle.” Aples is looking for busi nesses or organizations in terested in helping. To spon sor a booth, donate funds or supplies or to be a volunteer, contact Aples at 333-5782 or e-mail HYPERLINK “mailto: lapels@accog. org” lapels@ accog.org by Sept. 2. A volun teer luncheon will be held on Sept. 7. The program is open to a 10 county area, and so far five school systems, including Per quimans, as well as River City Youth Build have signed up to send participants. Aples said Camp Cale offered the use of their facilities for the day-long event. “We debated on the loca tion and we considered doing one on the north side of the sound and one on the south side, and we may do that in the future.”
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