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STAFF PHOTO BY PETER WILLIAMS
An office cubicle wall was placed between where
Hertford Councilman Sid Eley (left) and Mayor Pro Tern
Quentin Jackson would be to comply with a judge’s
order. Jackson would sit on the other side of Mayor
Horace Reid (right).
Special meeting cut short
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
A special meeting of the
Hertford Town Board to
discuss policies started late
and ended after just four
minutes when one board
member said he wanted to
make sure other members
had a chance to fully review
the documents and made
the motion to table the is
sues.
Some of the dozen resi
dents who came out for the
meeting were not pleased.
“We come here with sin
cerity and we are were pre
pared,” said Muriel Hannon.
“To call us out to a special
meeting and it adorned in
four minutes?”
The meeting was sup
posed to start at 6 p.m. but
it was 6:18 p.m. before it
got underway. By 6:22 pm.
Council Member Frank Nor
man had made the motion
to table the only two items
on the special agenda and
the meeting was closed. The
regular meeting was sched
uled to start at 7:30 p.m.
Harmon wasn’t the only
member of the public who
was upset.
“Can you check with
council before you waste
our time,” Connie Brothers
asked Norman.
Missing from the special
meeting was Mayor Pro Tern
Quentin Jackson. He did at
tend the regular meeting.
On Thursday, Chief Su
perior Court Judge Jerry R.
Tillett found Jackson was
in violation of his pre-trial
release conditions for being
in contact with Councilman
Sid Eley. The order said
Jackson was to have “no
contact, direct or indirect”
with Eley.
Jackson was found guilty
in District Court in January
for assault on a government
official for hitting Eley in the
head with a closed fist after
a town meeting in October.
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Memorial
Day event
planned
From Staff Reports
The Perquimans County
annual Memorial Day obser
vance will be held May 27
on the courthouse green in
Hertford starting at 11 a.m.
The effort is held by Hert
ford American Legion Post
126 with participation from
American Legion Post 362.
In case of inclement
weather, the observance
will be moved to the Per-
quimans County Recreation
Center.
GRASTY
retired from
Retired
U.S. Ma
rine Corps
Chief War
rant Of
ficer Phil
R. Grasty
will be
the guest
speaker.
Grasty
the Marine
Corps in June 2000. He is
currently employed by the
Department of Defense’s
Security Forces Training
Company, to oversee range
operations, at their training
facility at Northwest Annex
in Chesapeake, VA.
Grasty’s military service
included duty tours in Bei
rut, Lebanon, and southeast
Asia during Operation Des
ert Storm.
Grasty enlisted in the
Marine Corps in May 1980.
Upon completion of his
training he was assigned
to Golf Battery, 3rd Battal
ion, 10th Marines as a field
artillery batteryman and
deployed to Lebanon from
October 1982 until March
1983.
From Lebanon, he was
transferred to a Weapons
Training Battalion, Camp
Lejeune as senior noncom
missioned officer in charge
of a weapons range. Shortly
thereafter he was trans
ferred to Headquarters,
10th Marines, as an artil
lery instructor. In 1985 he
was transferred to the Basic
Cannoneer School, Ft. Sill,
OK, with principal duties
as a weapons instructor. In
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STAFF PHOTOS BY PETER
WILLIAMS
Master Gardener Tom
Abbott answers a quest
and the garden show
held at the Perquimans
County Recreation Center.
The show provides a way
for buyers to learn more
and raises money for a
scholarship for a high
school student in Chowan,
Perquimans or Gates that
wants to study at N.C.
State University in the
field of plant sciences.
Top, a man picks up a
Petunia at the Master
Gardener’s show in
Hertford.
STAFF PHOTO BY
PETER WILLIAMS
A seller
displaces
decorated
gourds at
the Master
Gardener
garden show
held at the
Perquimans
County
Recreation
Center.
Garden show draws 650
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
The ninth annual Master Garden
ers’ show May 4 drew a near record
crowd of people to the Perquimans
County Recreation Center.
Volunteers who have completed
the four-month training programs
put on the show. The money raised
from the show in turn goes to pay for
scholarships to students in Chowan,
Perquimans and Gates counties who
want to go to college to study agri
culture, horticulture or similar fields.
The $1,000 scholarships can be re
newed for up to four years.
Katy Shook, the extension direc
tor who created the local Master
Gardener program, said attendance
this month topped 650 people. That
was second only to the total last year
of 750 people.
“The Master Gardeners put a lot of
hard work into it, and the attendance
is a direct result of that,” Shook said.
With nine shows now under their
belt, the public knows what to ex
pect and it shows, she said.
“The program supports the com
munity and the community supports
the program,” Shook said. “It’s free
and that’s important to us and it’s im
portant for the education part of it.”
There were local vendors present
as well as some from the Hampton
Roads area and one from Wilming-
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Relay for
Life set
for Friday
The Chowan Herald
The annual Chowan-Per
quimans Relay for Life will
take place at John A. Holmes
High School in Edenton start
ing at 6 p.m. Friday and con
tinuing until midnight.
“We encourage folks to
come out, have some fun,
participate for this worthy
cause that benefits so many,”
said Frances Hammer, the
event chair for Relay for Life.
“Every family is touched by
cancer in one way or anoth
er.”
Friday’s opening ceremony
will be followed by the tradi
tional survivors lap, a caregiv
ers lap and then the team lap.
A kid’s walk is planned at 7:30
p.m. There will be kids games
starting at 5:30 p.m. and face
painting starting at 6:45 p.m.
and teams will be selling
food. There will be a gift bas
ket silent auction that will
be between 7 p.m. and 10:30
p.m. The luminaria sale will
between 4 p.m. and 7 p.m.
Twenty teams are currently
signed up to participate and
more would be welcome. To
sign up a team or for more in
formation, contact Hammer
at 312-7968.
Cancer has a major im
pact on society in the United
States and across the world.
According to the National
Cancer Institute:
In 2018, an estimated
1,735,350 new cases of can
cer will be diagnosed in the
United States and 609,640
people will die from the dis
ease.
The most common can
cers (listed in descending
order according to estimated
new cases in 2018) are breast
cancer, lung and bronchus
cancer, prostate cancer,
colon and rectum cancer,
melanoma of the skin, blad
der cancer, non-Hodgkin
lymphoma, kidney and renal
pelvis cancer, endometrial
cancer, leukemia, pancreatic
cancer, thyroid cancer, and
liver cancer.
The number of new cases
of cancer (cancer incidence)
is 439.2 per 100,000 men and
women per year (based on
2011-15 cases). .
People gather for Day of Prayer
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
Eight speakers asked for
prayer for specifics seg
ments of society earlier this
month at an annual cer
emony on the Perquimans
County courthouse lawn.
The annual Day of Prayer
is a national movement held
on the first Thursday of
May. It was designated by
the United States Congress,
when people are asked “to
turn to God in prayer and
meditation.”
Winfall Mayor Fred Yates,
a retired U.S. Marine, prayed
for the military.
“Our father I ask for your
blessings on veterans who
are returning home and
those who have not returned
home,” Yates said.
Carroll Bundy, the pas
tor of New Hope United
Methodist Church, asked
for blessings for the nation.
He pointed out the vast ex ¬
panse of America
“I think about how great
our nation is and could be,”
Bundy said. “Lord you have
blessed us with so much,
but our nation isn’t just ge
ography, it’s about people.”
Apostle Gwayland Mc-
Cleney of All For His Glory
Church, prayed to heal fami
lies.
“Teach the children your
word and call the absent
fathers to come back unto
them,” McCleney said.
Hertford Grammar
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STAFF PHOTO BY PETER WILLIAMS
People bow their heads and pray during the National Day of Prayer event outside the
old Perquimans County Courthouse this month.