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"News from Next Door"
WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 2018
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Nearly $40,000 raised in sheriff’s race
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
Republican challenger
Jim Bray has raised nearly
$20,000 in his race for Per
quimans County sheriff
so far. He’s spent roughly
$16,100.
Sheriff Shelby White has
raised about $18,200 since
the campaign started. He’s
spent $16,200 of that.
WHITE BRAY
Campaign reports were
posted last week by the N.C.
Board of Elections. It up
dates the period from April
22 through June 30.
The two men will be at
tending at “Meet The Sheriff
Candidates” event at 6:30
p.m. tonight at the Holiday
Island Clubhouse.
This is the first election
for both men. White was ap
pointed to the post by the
Perquimans County Com
mission after former Sheriff
Eric Tilley stepped down in
the middle of his term.
Bray retired earlier this
year as a sergeant on the
N.C. Highway Patrol. If he
wins, it will be the first time
a Republican has held the
sheriffs job in Perquimans.
Bray’s campaign report
shows during the period
from April through June he
took in $6,446 and spent
$10,056. He received $500
donations from Steven
Bembridge, Tim Corprew,
D.A. Lane and Stephen Mc
Donald during that period.
White’s campaign report
shows receipts of $4,439
during the same period and
expenses of $4,423.
White’s largest donor this
period was Robin Copeland
who gave $250,
Both men have largely
spent their money on signs,
either yard signs or bill
boards.
White’s report shows two
“in kind” contributions of
$234 from Cooke Communi
cations, the parent company
of the Perquimans Weekly.
White clarified that it was
an “in kind” contribution
because he paid for the ads
out of his own pocket, not
the campaign. Cooke Com-
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ROCK AUTISM CONCERT coming Aug. 4
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
The second annual Rock
Autism Musical Festival
is coming to the Crawfish
Shack outside of Hertford
on Aug. 4.
The event starts at noon
and the music will continue
until 10 .m.
The effort started by the
parents with a young autis
tic son named Jagger
“We set out to use the
platform of music to create
an annual music festival to
educate, advocate, and raise
money for the cause near
and dear to us,” said DiAnna
Jordan. Her husband, Dan
iel Jordan, came up with the
idea of the concert. He plays
in one of the bands that will
be performing.
Despite a heavy down
pour of rain, last year’s
concert still drew about 500
people and raised $10,000.
This year Jordan hopes
they can double those fig
ures.
Last year, the money went
to the group Autism Speaks.
This year, proceeds will go
to another group.
“The Autism Society of
North Carolina regularly do
nates 89 cents of every dol
lar directly to help families
affected by Autism,” Jordan
said.
Jagger was diagnosed
with Autism at age two,
Jordan said. He will turn 6-
years-old in December.
He worked with special
ists with the Children’s De ¬
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PHOTOS BY BEVERLY
PRITCHETT
Top, Daniel Jordan
kisses his son Jagger
during last year’s
Rock Autism event
at The Crawfish
Shack. Right, people
play in the water at
The Crawfish Shack
during last year's
Rock Autism event.
Local man
arrested
for stabbing
From Staff Reports
A 31-year-old Perquimans County
man with a prior criminal record that
includes violence has been charged
in the stabbing of a Hertford man last
month.
Larry Eugene
White, of the 1800
block of Harvey
Point Road, is
charged with first-
degree attempted
murder in the June
9 knife attack on
Cleveland Sutton.
According to a
Perquimans magis ¬
WHITE
trate’s warrant, White is accused of
stabbing Sutton in the chest with a
knife. The warrant states Sutton suf
fered a collapsed lung as a result of
the attack.
Interim Hertford Town Manager
Pamela Hurdle told The Perquimans
Weekly Sutton was stabbed at 1:48
am. in the 100 block of Wynne Fork
Court. Sutton was treated at Vidant
Health in Greenville, Hurdle said. A
check for an update on his condition
indicated Vidant has no record of
Sutton as a patient.
White was arrested by Elizabeth
City police on the Perquimans Coun
ty warrant on July 5 and transported
to Albemarle District Jail where he
was held without bond. Besides the
attempted murder charge, White was
also charged with misdemeanor first-
degree trespassing.
On July 11 White appeared before
District Judge Meader Harriss III,
who set a $750,000 secured bond
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Extension rolls out ‘Master Food’ program
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
The N.C. Master Gardener’s
program created in 1979 went
on to train a statewide cadre of
volunteers that can help people
with garden issues.
The Extension Master Food
Volunteer program aims to do
the same thing, but with food
and cooking.
Currituck acted as a pilot
county for the program in 2016-
17 and now N.C. Cooperative
Extension is reaching out to
residents in Pasquotank, Perqui
mans and Chowan counties to
participate starting Sept. 4.
“We’re building off the success
of Master Gardener’s,” said Jew
el Winslow the extension direc
tor in Perquimans County. “It’s a
well respected program and the
Master Food Volunteer will be a
cousin to that program.”
Like the Master’s Gardener’s
program, participants in the
food program will be trained,
but asked to volunteer an equal
number of hours the following
year.
To apply for the 2018 class,
register online at the Perqui
mans Cooperative Extension
Website at perquimans.ces.
ncsu.edu or contact Winslow at
Jewel—Winslow@ncsu.edu, or
call 426-5428. There is a $50 fee
for the class.
Sue Mitchell, a Perquimans
County resident, went through
the program in Currituck in 2016
and will be helping put on the
upcoming program.
Winslow said anytime she’s
mentioned the new program,
people have been eager to sign
up. The application process is
now open to residents of Chow
an, Perquimans, Pasquotank
counties.
The deadline to sign up is Aug.
15, but spots are limited.
Volunteers with the EMFV
program will receive a core cur
riculum of 30 hours of training
and will then shadow the Fam-
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SUBMITTED PHOTO
Sue Mitchell demonstrates a dish
recently.
Vidant Chowan Hospital working on program to be ‘Dementia Friendly’
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
Vidant Chowan Hospi
tal should be a “Dementia
Friendly Hospital” by the
end of this year.
That means everybody
from the doctors on down to
the custodians will get train
ing on how help people in
their care who have Demen
tia. Dementia is an umbrella
term to include things like
Alzheimer’s. The chance of
having it increases with age.
The region already has a
large number of people age
65 and over and 85 and over.
“We are in the process of
phasing it in right now,” said
Jean Bunch, a registered
nurse at the Edenton hospi
tal. “There are environmental
and cultural changes that will
be need to be made. We’ve
been working since Decem
ber and 2018 is our goal to
complete the project in 2018.
It really is trailblazing.”
By August, the hospital
will be training all the nurses
in the emergency depart
ment, including simulations.
“It’s very rigorous train
ing.
Bunch went through train
ing herself last year. And
training doesn’t stop with
the hospital.
“We are in the wakening
stage right now,” she said.
“Our attempt is to awake
the community on Dementia
and what it is. It is to increase
awareness.”
Vidant Chowan’s main cov
erage area includes not only
Chowan and Perquimans
counties, but also Tyrrell and
Washington counties.
“Our affirmation is we be
lieve that while we fight to
find a cure, our best hope is
to improve Dementia best
care practices,” Bunch said.
“We know there is no cure
for Dementia, but while there
is no cure, our cure is care.”
A Sentara Albemarle Med
ical Center spokesman could
not be reached for comment
on their status on the De
mentia Friendly program.
Marjorie Rayburn, who
has been holding the month
ly Alzheimer/Dementia Sup
port Group for caregivers
and family members since
2010, welcomes any efforts
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UPCOMING HOME GAMES
Historic Hicks Field
FMI Call 252-482-4080
www.edentonsteamers.com
SATURDAY JULY 21 @ 7 PM
VS MOREHEAD CITY MARLINS
PERQUIMANS COUNTY NIGHT
STRIKE OUT ALS FUNDRAISER, LIVE PREGAME MUSIC
KIDS RUN THE BASES