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"News from Next Door"
WEDNESDAY, MAY 30, 2018
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Gazzolo rallies to win Biggs Classic
BY MALCOLM SHIELDS
The Daily Advance
For those who were wit
ness to David Gazzolo’s tee
shot on the 18th green dur
ing the final round of the
2018 Biggs Golf Classic,
some might say it ranks as
one the best shots in the
tournament’s five-year histo
ry on The Sound Golf Links
at Albemarle Plantation.
Gazzolo’s tee shot on the
343-yard par-4 hole maneu
vered past the Albemarle
Sound to the right and came
to a stop on the green within
a few feet of the hole.
All Gazzolo had remain
ing was a manageable eagle
putt to cap an improbable
third and final round for the
Riverside, Calif, native.
Gazzolo shot 6-under-par
65 during the final round to
win the Biggs Classic at 14-
under-par.
He edged out second-
round leader Drew Weaver
who completed the tourna
ment at 13-under-par.
Gazzolo, who began the
final round at 8-under par
and three shots behind
Weaver, shot under par dur
ing all three rounds of the
Classic.
“I was driving the ball
well,” Gazzolo said. “My ball
strike was pretty good. Put
ting was a lot better (Satur
day) than the last two days.
I got pretty hot with my
putter. I just managed the
course pretty well.”
He added that he was ag
gressive on the holes that he
wanted to be aggressive on
and laid back on others.
Gazzolo held a one-shot
lead over Weaver at 13-un-
der after completing the
15th. He ran into some trou
ble on the next two holes.
On the 16th, which is a
par-4, Gazzolo bogeyed and
on 17, his tee shot was left
of the fairway past the cart
path and in the rough.
Gazzolo punched it over
the green and eventually
had to settle for par on the
par-5 hole.
When Gazzolo arrived to
the 18th tee, he decided to
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PHOTO BY MALCOLM SHIELDS/THE DAILY ADVANCE
David Gazzolo chips on the 17th green during the third
and final round of the Biggs Golf Classic, Saturday at
The Sound Golf Links at Albemarle Plantation. Gazzolo
won the tournament at 14-under-par.
Grammar
school
principal
leaving
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
Jason Griffin, a 2017 Na
tional Distinguished Prin
cipal and North Carolina’s
2017 Principal of the Year,
will be leaving Hertford
Grammar School to take a
position with the Craven
County Schools.
Griffin,
39, will be
come the
director
of elemen
tary edu
cation in
Craven on
July 2.
STAFF PHOTO BY PETER WILLIAMS
The crowd stands while the color guard carries the flags to the podium at a Memorial Day service
Monday.
Bundy: Make U.S. worth dying for
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
America can honor those servicemen who
died by working together to make the country
one worth dying for, a speaker told a crowd of
150 people Monday.
Sgt. First Class Carroll Bundy, N.C. National
Guard, (Ret) addressed the annual Memorial Day
gathering. The event was moved from the court-
house green to the Perquimans County Recre
ation Center because of the threat of rain.
Bundy addressed the reoccurring question
“how do we honor those that died for us?”
He said our debt to them could never truly be
repaid except to make the nation something they
would be proud of.
“These men and women didn’t die for us as in
dividuals,” Bundy said. “They died for the ideals
that make us a country, a country most of them
thought worth risking their lives for.
“If we want to honor them, we must find ways
to put aside our individual feelings for the great
er good of the country. We must pull together
to continue to make this country worth risking
death, and dying for.
“We hear all the time, ‘May God bless America.’
If we truly want America to be blessed, we must
become the blessing.
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STAFF PHOTO BY PETER WILLIAMS
Carroll Bundy addresses the crowd at a Memorial Day
service Monday at the Perquimans County Recreation
Center.
GRIFFIN He said
he’s always
aspired to become a school
superintendent and he sees
the Craven job as his next
step.
Craven is much larger
school system with 23,000
students and 25 schools.
Griffin will oversee the 15
elementary schools.
Perquimans has four
schools and about 1,600 stu
dents.
Griffin earns $71,322 in
Perquimans. His Craven
County salary is presently
being negotiated.
He said “everything hap
pened really quickly.”
He said Craven contacted
him on May 15, and he told
them he would take the job.
He told his staff the very
next day.
Griffin said he would do
as much as he can to help
ease the transition for HGS.
“As much as Craven
County would like me to
start tomorrow, we still have
a lot of work to do here. I’d
like to help the next (HGS)
principal get acclimated.”
End of year testing start
ed last Friday and the last
day of school is June 8.
Local school officials
wished Griffin well
“The Superintendent and
Perquimans County Schools
Board of Education would
like to thank Mr. Jason Grif
fin for his service as a teach
er, instructional facilitator,
and Hertford Grammar
School principal,” said Lisa
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Perquimans football coach steps down
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
Ian Rapanick has
stepped down as head foot
ball coach at Perquimans
County High School.
The coach made the an
nouncement last week. Ra
panick resigned on Wednes
day.
RAPANICK
“For the
last seven
years,
I have
worked
towards
my goal
of becom
ing a head
football coach. Perquimans
gave me an opportunity to
achieve that goal and for
that, I am forever thankful,”
Rapanick said. “I would
like to thank the people
of Perquimans County for
treating my family like we
were born and raised here.
I would like to thank the ad
ministration and Board of
Education of Perquimans
County Schools for giving
me this opportunity.
“To Coach (Tommy)
Johnson and Coach (Kris
tie) Thach, thank you for
making every day so fun
and giving me a lifelong
friendship. Most important
ly, I’d like to thank Megan
and Justin Roberson. Y’all
made me love being a Pi
rate and love going to work
Mother
still
wants
answers
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
BOSTA
Three years after Karen
Bosta went missing, her
mother, Arlene Murin is still
waiting for answers
“I just
want
somebody
to tell me
where she
is and what
happened
to her,”
Murin said
last week.
Bosta
was 39, when she disap
peared in Edenton on May
30. She was last seen at the
Walgreens there.
■ In October 2017, Thomas
Edward White Sr., 62, was
charged on by the Perqui
mans County Sheriff’s Of
fice with obtaining property
by false pretense and at
tempting to obtain property
by false pretense.
He is accused of using
Murin’s credit card, which
she loaned to her daughter
so she could buy cigarettes
at the Edenton Food Lion.
White appeared in court
in Hertford in May, but the
case has been continued un
til perhaps September.
Murin said White was
going to plead guilty to the
credit card theft, but “he
changed has mind at the last
minute.”
Investigators in the case
say surveillance video alleg
edly caught White using the
card a day after Bosta dis
appeared. Footage showed
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everyday. I cannot put into
words how thankful I am
for our friendship and ev
erything you have done for
my family and I. Thank you
to all of you for giving a 24-
year-old kid a chance to live
his dream.”
Rapanick isn’t sure what
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Hurdle named interim manager
Whedbee leaves Winfall council
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
Pam Hurdle has been
named interim town man
ager in Hertford.
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She fills
the va
cancy left
by the res
ignation
of Town
Manager
Brandon
Shoaf who
took a
HURDLE
county planner position in
Chowan County.
She started working for
the town 19 years ago as
a secretary and about 15
years ago was promoted to
the position of executive as
sistant. She also serves as
deputy town clerk.
Hurdle is originally from
Gatesville. She graduated
from Elizabeth City State
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BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
Winfall Town Coun
cil member Debbie Jean
Whedbee has stepped
down from office because
she is moving outside to
the town to another place
in Perquimans County.
Whedbee last won an
election in November.
Both she
and Ken
Rominger
were
the only
names on
the ballot.
In all, she’s
won three
elections
WHEDBEE
for the town board seat.
Mayor Fred Yates said
Whedbee would be missed
“She has been a blessing
to the town,” Yates said.
“I can’t say enough good
things about her.”
Whedbee’s - resignation
took effect earlier this
month. She could not be
reached for comment
Rominger agrees Whed-
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