P11/C11******CAR-RT LOT**C 001 A0027 ,|l,, l"'h l,l l l i , T , MIHIiliii^^^ PERQUIMANS COUNTY LIBRARY 110 WACADEMY ST HERTFORD NC 27944-1306 IMANS WEEKLY "News from Next Door" WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2017 Car show, 8 OCT 1 1 W 50 cents 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 89076 47144 2 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 See TOPS, 2 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 PAL HOSTS CRAFTS Fair 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 See RELIEF, 4 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 SUBMITTED PHOTO 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.

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