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■■ mmiE/Mwr mm PLAYOFFS SPORTS PIRATE BASKETBALL TEAMS' HOST PLAYOFF GAMES 8 ■^'w-^ 1 ' ^ ■***■*1 Jeep o^^ff WWW.CAROLINACHRYSLER.COM 1252-335-0724 11001 HALSTEAD BLVD. ELIZABETH CITY Department wears Red, 2 ”Ne>vs from Next Door" Junior WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017 Baseball Jamboree DECT 50 cents Agent golf league starting BY PETER WILLIAMS News Editor Albemarle Plantation is hoping to spark the next generation of top golfers. , The Plantation is bring ing PGA Junior League Golf to the area. It’s de signed for boys and girls age seven to 13. “It’s a great way to grow the game,” said Kenny Saunders, the golf pro at The Plantation. Player registration is open now and the kick off meeting is set for April 15. Last year PGA Junior League Golf featured a record-setting 36,000 par ticipants across 2,900 teams nationwide. Some 2,000 PGA and LPGA pro fessionals served as cap tains. The growth represents a 300 percent increase from the 9,000 kids who par ticipated just three years before. “It started as a pilot pro gram in 2012 and in the bigger cities it took off and has done really well,” Saunders said. “The PGA is trying to get leagues pow all over the country Jnd we just thought it was a great thing to start.” Saunders hopes to get regional support for the program. “It’s not going to be easy and we are reaching out to Edenton and Eliza beth City We can’t make it work without that.” Cahoon Plantation in Chesapeake has been run ning the Junior League for a while and pro Michelle Holmes said it’s been a big success. “We’ve been doing it four years, and we started with just one team and now we have five teams,” she said. “We’re growing each year.” Two of the teams are in Virginia Beach and the oth er three in Chesapeake. See GOLF, 2 STAFF PHO.TO BY PETER WILLIAMS Andrew Tyson pitches for Perquimans County High School in a Jamboree held Saturday at the high school with other area teams. The Pirates are scheduled to open their regular season Feb. 27 on the road against First Flight and will host their first home game Feb. 28 against Manteo. STAFF PHOTO BY PETER WILLIAMS Perquimans County High School’s Chase Ward is able to make the catch before a Edenton player makes it to third base on Saturday during a Jamboree, held at PCHS. Program highlights Black league baseball BY PETER WILLIAMS News Editor A collection of artifacts from the time when black and white baseball players had to play in separate leagues will be on display to the public Friday at Hertford Grammar School. Derrick C. Jones, 62, said he started the collection more than 10 years ago. The Wilm ington native spent his career in education, but always loved baseball. He now lives in Vir ginia Beach. There will be an event Friday during the day for students and then at 6 p.m. the display will be open to the gen eral public. “My program is very interac tive,” Jones said. “Remember prior to 1947, black men were not allowed to play in the Mqjor Leagues. My collection is not to find fdult with the society and the system, but to educate.” In finding things for his col lection, dubbed the “Traveling Museum of Artifacts from the Negro Leagues Era and Play ers” Jones connected with Sid Eley. Eley is the director of the Perquimans County Chamber of Commerce and the curator of the Jim “Catfish” Hunter Mu seum there. “He wanted some informa tion and asked if I knew about a picture of Satchel Paige and Jimmy,” Eley said of the con versation. “I told him we had a copy of the picture.” The image shows a 19-year- old Hunter sitting on the lap of Paige with the tag line “Now listen here, young man.” At the time the photo was taken Paige See PROGRAM, 2 embraces new post BY PETER WILLIAMS News Editor His formal education may be over, but Dylan Lil ley knows there will always be plenty to learn when it comes to agriculture. Lilley, 24, has been Per quimans County’s new field crops agent for about six months. The Gates County native graduated from North Carolina State University in May of 2015 with a Bachelor of Science in Plant and Soil Science. After college, Lilley spent a year in Ghana as a vol unteer with AgriCorps, an organization that reaches out to undeveloped areas to teach people who to gen erate more food with less land. It was during a break back home, he learned the posi tion in Perquimans County would be open, Lilley ap plied for the job, but he had See AGENT, 2 SUBMITTED PHOTO A 19-year-old Jim “Catfish” Hunter sits on the lap of 59-year-old LeRoy “Satchel” Paige in this photo from 1965. Grants to bring Aladdin to town From Staff Reports The students and staff of Hertford Grammar School may not get everything they wish for on March 16 but they will get to experience three wishes — that’s ac cording to the script as The Hurrah Players entertain them in a two-hour perfor mance of Aladdin. From the producer of The Lion King comes the story of Aladdin, a new produc- 89076 47144 6 2 tion filled with beauty, mag ic, comedy where one lamp and three wishes make the possibilities infinite. More than 500 students will be transported to the high school for an afternoon performance of Aladdin thanks to Arene Contract ing, LLC and a grant from the Albemarle EMC’s “Al bemarle Community Trust’s Round Up program.” Following the courtesy performance for students, there will be an evening per formance beginning at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are available to the public at a reduced price of $10 per seat. See ALADDIN, 2 ri Former sheriff Tilley gets his deer SUBMITTED PHOTO Former Perquimans County Sheriff Eric Tilley was able to down a 16- point buck with a primative bow and arrow as part of a trip he got to take to Texas. BY PETER WILLIAMS News Editor Eric Tilley got to take down his biggest deer of his life this month courtesy of the sponsors of an outdoors TV show. As a surprise retirement gift, the former Perquimans County Sheriff got a trip to Star S Ranch in Texas. It was his first time to the Lone Star State and nothing like hunting in North Carolina. “You don’t hunt from trees,” he said. “There are scrub oaks and cactus but no real trees. Basically you’re hunting from portable blinds.” Tilley will be featured on the show “The Journey” on The Outdoor Channel. “I think he enjoyed it,” said Executive Pro ducer Dave Watson. “He seemed very thank ful for the trip.” Watson’s job is to surprise deserving peo ple with ultimate outdoors adventures. Last week Watson was preparing to take a man See DEER, 2
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