QUINTANS
EEKLY
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Perquimans’
Thach named The
Daily Advance’s
Player of the Year in
baseball
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Remember
ing 9/11 and
the challenges
Americans still
face
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Brother of
Hertford Town
Council candi
date charged in
shooting
Campaign underway to raise $100K for grandstand
Foundation hopes to have facility ready
by start of Perquimans’ baseball season
From staff reports
Talks were already underway during Per
quimans County High School’s successful
run to the state baseball championship tins
year about the Pirates’ need for more fan
seating.
Perquimans County Schools Foundation
officials say overflow and standing-room
crowds for Pirate home games at Jim “Cat-
fish” Hunter Field in 2021 showed the need.
Fan support for the Pirates in fact was so
enthusiastic, even one of the coaches of the
team the Pirates ended up defeating in the
state championship took note.
“I’ve never seen this amount of support
from baseball fans for a 1A school district.
It is amazing the following the Perquimans
Pirates had throughout the 2021 season,”
the coach said.
Now a campaign is underway to turn Pi
rates fans’ need into reality.
The schools foundation last week an
nounced the kickoff of a $100,000 fundrais
ing campaign to build a new 470-seat grand
stand at PCHS’ Hunter Field. Officials hope
to raise the $100,000 before Nov. 1.
If the campaign is successful, the new
grandstand, which will be handicap-acces
sible, will be completed prior to the Pirates’
first home game on Feb. 19, foundation of
ficials said.
The campaign already has been given a
solid jumpstart.
See GRANDSTAND, A2
SUBMITTED GRAPHIC
This image shows an artist’s design for the new 470-seat baseball grandstand
the Perquimans County Schools Foundation hopes to raise $200,000 to build at
Perquimans County High School’s Jim “Catfish” Hunter Field. Two county residents
have pledged to give $100,000 to the campaign if the foundation can raise
$100,000 through a public campaign.
STILL UNBEATEN
Perquimans board
ANDRE' ALFRED/THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY
Perquimans County High School extended its early-season unbeaten streak to six matches with a straight-set win
over South Creek Thursday, Sept. 2. The Lady Pirates rolled to victory with a three-set sweep: 25-3, 25-9 and 25-1.
The volleyball team will return to action today in a home match against Washington County. First serve is set for
5 p.m.
reverses course,
now requiring masks
Policy will expire each
month, require COVID review
BY JULIAN EURE
The Daily Advance
Citing rising COVID-19
cases, .the Perquimans
County Board of Educa
tion voted unanimously last
week to make masks man
datory for students, staff
and visitors, reversing the
district’s former policy that
made mask wearing option
al.
But under a compromise
struck with three members
of the board who previous
ly voted against mandat
ing masks, the board also
agreed to have the new
policy expire at the end of
each month when school
officials provide an update
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on local
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trends.
The
mask
mandate
could then
continue,
but only if
four mem
bers of
the six-member board vote
in the affirmative. If that
doesn’t happen, the district
would default to the previ
ous policy that made mask
wearing optional.
The board’s 6-0 decision
Tuesday, Aug. 31, to require
masks came at the recom
mendation of Superinten
dent Tanya Turner, who in
dicated a mask requirement
Native sets national record in archery
See BOARD, A3
SUBMITTED PHOTO
Jewel Winslow speaks at a conference in this
submitted photo. Winslow, director of the Perquimans
Center of NC Cooperative Extension since 2014,
retired last week after a 33-year career in Extension.
Gardner fell short in bid to qualify
for Paralympics Games in Tokyo
BY REGGIE PONDER
Staff Writer
Perquimans County native Wendy
Gardner has set a new national record
in compound bow women’s archery.
Gardner won the National Cham
pionship in the Women’s Compound
Open category at the USA Archery
Target Nationals in Richmond, Virgin
ia, on Aug. 19-21.
In the two-day event Gardner tied
the single day scoring record at 654
and set a new two-day scoring record
of 1,291.
Gardner had also hoped to compete
in the Paralympic Games in Tokyo this
summer but fell short during qualify
ing events held in the Czech Republic.
In July, Gardner competed in the
CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
Wendy Gardner and
her husband Gary are
shown after she won
a championship in
adaptive archery. Gardner
fell short in her recent
bid to compete in the
Paralympic Games in
Tokyo. However, she did
set a world record when
she won the National
Championship in the
Women’s Compound
Open category at the USA
Archery Target Nationals
in Richmond, Virginia, on
Aug. 19-21.
Winslow retires
from Cooperative
Extension Service
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Buckeye Classic Ohio, and then it was
on to the Target Nationals in Rich
mond.
Gardner said that indoor season
will be starting soon and she may com
pete in a few local events. She does
not plan to travel for competition this
fall or winter.
Outdoor competition is slated to re
sume in spring 2022 and she will start
looking at which events she may com
pete in closer to that time.
Gardner, 47, suffered a major stroke
during the birth of a child two decades
ago and since then has not been able
to use one arm and has had limited use
of her legs.
Gardner spent most of her child
hood in Perquimans County. She later
moved to Chowan County but gradu
ated from Perquimans County High
School.
After trying unsuccessfully . for
years to find a form of recreation that
was well-suited to her physical chal
lenges, Gardner finally found — and
See ARCHERY, A3
Director since 2014, Winslow
enjoyed advising seniors
BY REGGIE PONDER
Staff Writer
Jewel Winslow’s long ca
reer of helping families —
and especially older adults
— make informed and pru
dent decisions ended last
week.
But Winslow, who retired
from her post as director of
Perquimans County Cooper
ative Extension Aug. 31, will
still find ways to be of ser
vice in the community.
Prior to her retirement,
Winslow had been county
Extension director since
June 2014 and had served
in Cooperative Extension
since April 1988. .
She said she has eryoyed
interacting with people in
the community.
“That’s what I am going to
miss,” she said.
Now that she is retired
she plans to spend time writ
ing. She also looks forward
to traveling and spending
time with family. She is car
ing for her parents, who are
See WINSLOW, A3