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HERTFORD NC 27944-1306
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WEEKLY
"News from Next Door" WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2017
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Two men injured in shooting on Dobbs Street
BY WILLIAM WEST
The Daily Advance
One of two men shot this
weekend in the Dobbs Street
area of Hertford remains hos
pitalized while the other has
been treated and released,
state authorities said.
Al Ortiz, 41, and Chris
topher Mansfield, 26, were
injured in the incident, N.C.
State Bureau of Investigation
spokeswoman Patty McQuil
lan said on Monday.
Citing security reasons,
McQuillan said the SBI can’t
be more specific about which
man remains hospitalized
and where and which man
was treated and released.
Hertford town officials
have said town police offi
cers at approximately 12:26
a.m. on Sunday were dis
patched to the area of 225
Dobbs Street in response
to two people being shot.
The town officials said one
was transported to Vidant
Chowan Hospital in Eden
ton and the other to Sentara
Albemarle Medical Center in
Elizabeth City.
Town Manager Brandon
Shoaf, in a news release Sun
day, said the initial probe by
town police indicated the
shootings weren’t a random
act and that the residence
was specifically targeted.
Shoaf said although there
weren’t any suspects, a dark-
colored, possibly black ve
hicle was seen leaving the
area.
Hertford police Chief
Douglas Freeman referred
further questions about the
case to the N.C. State Bureau
of Investigation.
Other than providing the
victim’s names, SBI spokes
woman McQuillan declined
to release further informa
tion on Monday beyond the
town of Hertford’s press re
lease, other than to say no
one has been arrested and
the probe is continuing.
Election
season
starts
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
Voters in Hertford and
Winfall can start casting bal
lots on Oct. 19.
Only the two incumbents
are on the ballot in Winfall,
but both incumbents and
two challengers are on the
ballot in Hertford.
One stop voting for Per
quimans County’s munici
pal elections will start Oct.
19 and run through Nov. 5.
The hours are Oct. 19-Nov. 1
from 8 a.m, until 5 p.m. Nov.
2-3 from 8 a.m. until 7 p.m.
and Nov. 4 from 9 a.m. until
1 p.m.
Election day is Nov. 7.
Hours are 6:30 a.m. until
7:30 p.m. A canvass will be
held Nov. 17 at 11 a.m. All
early voting takes place at
the county’s election office,
601S. Edenton Road St.
The deadline for voters
to register is Oct. 13. Voters
who are not registered in the
county by that deadline may
register to vote during one-
stop voting only and will be
required to provide docu
mentation of their identity
and residency.
There will be a change in
one precinct location start
ing this election. West Hert
ford voters will now cast
ballots at Louise’s Event
Center, 1132 Don Juan
Road, not Hertford Gram
mar School.
See ELECTION, 2
Man, 57,
dies from
accident
From Staff Reports
A 57-year-old Elizabeth
City man died after acci
dentally being shot on Sun
day afternoon by his young
grandson near the Pasquo
tank County-Perquimans
County line, the Pasquotank
sheriff said.
Danny Robin Patrick and
the grandson had been off
Sandy Road, on what’s re
ferred to as South Desert
Road, when the grandson,
who is 4 years old, inad
vertently discharged a rifle,
Sheriff Randy Cartwright
said.
According to Cartwright,
Patrick and the grandson
had been out together with
the rifle engaging in target
practice prior to the acci
dent. Cartwright said the
rifle is believed to be a .22
caliber.
Perquimans County Sher
iff Shelby White said his
deputies first responded to
See ACCIDENT, 4
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STAFF PHOTO BY PETER WILLIAMS
Johnnie Brown (right) shows off a bowl at Saturday's the Perquimans Arts League arts and crafts show at the
Perquimans County Recreation Center.
TOPS founder remembered
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
The woman who founded a sup
port group to help people lose
weight and keep it off was honored
last week with a ceremony at the
Perquimans County Senior Center.
A tree was planted in her honor.
Clementine Fel
ton founded the
TOPS (Take Off
Pounds Sensibly)
chapter in Hertford
in 2002. Chapter
0675 still meets
each Thursday
from 10 a.m. until
11 a.m. at the se
nior center.
STAFF PHOTO BY PETER WILLIAMS
Friends and family of the late Clementine Felton gather at the
Perquimans County Senior Center around a tree dedicated in her honor
last week.
Joe Felton, her husband, recalled
how it happened.
They moved back to Hertford in
2001 from New York. He was raised
in Hertford and she was raised in
Gates County. In her working life,
Clem was a supervisor at Abraham
& Straus, a department store in
Brooklyn, N.Y.
“Clem” as she was known saw
where there was a TOPS Chapter
in Elizabeth City. Friend and TOPS
member Janet Spencer said Clem
didn’t want to have to drive to Eliza
beth City for the program, so she
called and found out what it would
take to get one in Hertford.
Then Felton met with Delphine
Madre, the director of the Perqui
mans County Senior Center. It was
then located on Grubb Street.
Spencer said Felton explained she
wanted a place to meet, and Madre
asked how many people were in the
group.
“Well it’s just me right now,” Clem
told Madre, Spencer said.
Madre said that’s pretty much how
the conversation went.
“She (Clem) was always so up-
beat. You know how you meet peo
ple and you just click? That’s the way
we were.”
Clem Felton died Oct. 19,2016.
Joe Felton said he appreciates
how his wife of 51 years was remem
bered last Thursday.
“I didn’t expect this much,” Felton
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Relief supplies help small town in Florida
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
The small Florida com
munity that received more
than 20 tons of supplies
from a Perquimans County
effort last month will have a
ways to go before it recov
ers from Hurricane Irma,
predicts a relief coordinator
on the ground there.
Steve Adams, a disaster
coordinator from Michigan,
was on the ground in Alva,
about two days after the hur
ricane passed through. He’s
a volunteer with “Poured
Out” a non-profit relief orga
nization.
When he’s not helping
disaster victims, Adams
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works as a heavy equipment
operator hauling gravel. His
employer gives him a leave
of absence to do the volun
teer work.
Adams expects he’ll re
main on the ground in Alva
until sometime in Novem
ber.
The relief effort was start
ed by Bagley Swamp Wes
leyan Church, but Pastor
James Spaugh was quick to
say the vast majority of the
donations came from others
outside his church.
The supplies from Perqui
mans went to Countryside
Wesleyan Church. At first
Adams parked in the lot of
an empty strip mall. Tliere
was no way to get to the
church because of all the
fallen trees.
Adams knew a truck from
North Carolina was coming,
but he didn’t appreciate just
how much was coming until
it got there.
The 52-foot trailer pro
vided by Michael Stallings
of Stallings Farms Trucking
was packed to the gills, he
said. Even with a skid load
er, Adams said it took him
three hours to unload it.
“I’m not exaggerating the
thing was double-stacked
overweight and we had 30
pallets on the ground or
more,” he said.
“It was crazy,” Adams
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Students
plan
prayer
event
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
Perquimans County stu
dents will gather together
Sunday at the high school
football field to pray, share
their religious beliefs and
challenge their peers to fol
low Jesus Christ.
In the U.S., school-spon
sored prayers in public
schools
has been
found un
constitu
tional, but
prayers or
ganized by
students
them
selves are COPELAND
allowed
and protected by free speech
rights. And that is what
is happening in the local
school sys
tem, said
Lynette
Baker, a
science
teacher at
the coun
ty’s high
school.
The lo
cal obser ¬
vance of the 14th annual na
tional “Fields of Faith” event
was started by the Fellow-
ship of Christian Athletes
(FCA). Some adults will
speak, but the event is be
ing planned and organized
by students, Baker said. The
event starts at 5 p.m.
Students like Alli Cope
land and Morgan Decastillia
say sharing their Christian
faith is something they be
lieve in.
“FCA is important to me,
because it is a way for me
to share my faith with my
peers. It is also a way to
teach my peers about God
and a way to help them de
velop their own relationship
with him,” Decastillia said
last week.
On Sunday students will
invite their classmates and
teammates to hear other
See PRAYER, 4
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Volunteers including Pastor James Spaugh and his wife,
Amy, sit on the back of a truck as it was being loaded
for the Florida trip.