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Hartman:
Don’t heed the
tempters: God
will supply all
you need
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Ash
Wednesday
Storm still
remembered
Championship bling
Races set for
commissioner,
school board
PHOTOS BY ANDRE ALFRED/THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY
Perquimans baseball players and coaches, as well as four members of the team who graduated, line up on
Jim “Catfish” Hunter Field, Friday, before receiving their 1A 2021 NCHSAA state championship rings. The ring
ceremony preceded the Pirates’ home game against J.H. Rose High School at Perquimans County High School,
which Perquimans won, 6-1.
Pirates receive state title rings
Ceremony held before
team’s 6-1 win over J.H. Rose
BY DAVID GOUGH
The Daily Advance
Before the Perquim
ans baseball team won its
home game against de
fending 3A NCHSAA state
champion J.H. Rose 6-1 on
Friday night, the Pirates got
to celebrate their own 2021
1A title one more time.
All coaches and 17
players from the team,
including four who gradu
ated — Dylan Cox, Avery
PCRA to reconstruct Plank House
Carter discussed Quaker
ties to Great Dismal Swamp
BY JOHN FOLEY
Correspondent
There’s a barn raising in
Hertford’s future this sum
mer.
If you enjoyed playing
with Lincoln Logs as
a child, this summer
could bring back a lot of
memories, according to
Sandy Stevenson, president
of the Perquimans County
See PCRA, A3
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Pirates beat Rampants in show-
down of state champs. Page A6.
Biggs, Landon Gregory
and Bryson Sawyer —
that defeated East Surry
in two games last June in
the state championship
series, received their state
championship rings at Jim
“Catfish” Hunter Field in a
pregame ceremony held in
front of friends and family.
See PIRATES, A3
Perquimans
Pirate Colby
Brown holds
up his state
championship
ring at Jim
“Catfish"
Hunter Field
at Perquimans
County High
School, Friday.
JOHN FOLEY PHOTO
IVlax L. Carter, who retired
in 2015 as the William R.
Rogers Director of Friends
Center and Quaker
Studies at Guilford
College in Greensboro,
was the keynote speaker
at the Perquimans County
Restoration Association's
annual meeting in
Hertford Saturday. Carter,
an 11th generation
Quaker, discussed the
350-year history of the
North Carolina Quaker
community and its
connections to the Great
Dismal Swamp.
Dem Nowell, unaffiliated
Corprew join commissioner race
BY JULIAN EURE
Staff Writer
The races for Perquimans
Board of Commissioners
and Board of Education will
be the most competitive in a
number of election cycles.
Five candidates, includ
ing two incumbents, have
filed for the three open
seats on the Perquimans
Board of Commissioners
that will be up for election
in November. Two unaffili
ated candidates, including
one who’s already gathered
enough signatures to qualify
for the ballot, will also be in
the mix.
Six candidates, including
one incumbent, are seek
ing three open seats on the
county Board of Educa
tion that will be decided in
the May 17 election. They
: include incumbent Anne
White and candidates Matt
One Libertarian
applies for board
vacancy thus far
Deadline for applying for
consideration is Monday
BY JULIAN EURE
Staff Writer
The Perquimans County
manager’s office has re
ceived only one application
so far from a county Liber
tarian voter for the commis
sioner vacancy created by
Alan Lennon’s resignation
last month.
According to County
Manager Frank Heath, he’s
received “several phone
calls” from voters about the
vacancy but only one letter
of interest from a registered
Libertarian.
Thelma Finch-Copeland,
who described herself as
a “life-long resident” of the
Winslow, Dave Silva, Kristy
Corprew, Brenda Hud
dleston and Gracie Felton.
Incumbent board members
Amy Spaugh and Matt Peel
er did not seek re-election.
In the race for commis
sioner, Keith M. Nowell, a
Democrat, filed his candi
dacy during the final week
before the March 4 filing
deadline. He joined incum
bents Wallace Nelson, a
Republican, and Fondella
Leigh, a Democrat, who
filed for re-election; Quen
tin Jackson, a Democrat
who formerly served on the
Hertford Town Council; and
See FILING, A3
county, told Heath in a letter
that she’s interested in being
considered for the vacancy.
“I am a retired public
school teacher with the Per
quimans County School Sys
tem where I built and have
maintained many positive
and fulfilling relationships
with parents and children in
the community,” she said in
the letter.
Finch-Copeland said she
currently works as direc
tor of a nonprofit agency
that serves underprivileged
children and their families.
She’s also a member of the
Albemarle Electric Mem
bership Corp. Board of Di
rectors.
“As an educator I have a
great passion for ensuring
See LIBERTARIAN, A2
Pack 150 eyes funds, recruits with pancake breakfast
Breakfast will be at UMC
Saturday, 7 a.m. to 11 a.m.
BY JOHN FOLEY
Correspondent
If your son has eyes on becom
ing a celebrity chef on the Food
Network, he may want to join
Hertford’s Cub Scout Pack 150.
While Scout membership is
down across the country and
Scout meetings have become es-
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Members of Cub Scout Pack 150 hold up cars they used in
the Pinewood Derby at United Methodist Church in Hertford on
Saturday.
IMAGE COURTESY DONNIE DENNY
The cooking merit badge ranked
as the number ten most-popular
badge out of 120 possible
achievements in Scouting in
2020.
sentially nonexistent since the
COVID-19 pandemic began, there
has been an unprecedented rise
in the popularify of merit badges
that can be earned at home, often
with the help of a Scout’s family.
The cooking merit badge ranked
as the number ten most-popular
badge out of 120 possible achieve
ments in 2020. Family Life led the
list at number one.
Locally, Cub Scout Pack 150
is hosting a pancake breakfast
Saturday at the United Methodist
Church. Pack members will be
assisting Pack leaders and volun
teers with the cooking:
Cubmaster Donnie Denny is
hoping for a good turnout. Besides
being a fundraiser for the Pack,
he’s hoping the breakfast will also
serve as a recruiting tool. The
Pack’s membership is back up af
ter dipping to five at one time.
“The pandemic presented some
real challenges for the Pack over the
past year and three of our Webelos
moved up to Boy Scouts, so we have
some openings in the Den,” he said.
Scouting begins as early as kin
dergarten with Lion Cubs and pro
gresses to Webelos in fourth and
fifth grades.
Denny is most proud of his
team who help recruit members
and do the “heavy lifting” for Pack
150. Donald Bowling is assistant
cubmaster and his wife, Nicole, is a
See SCOUTS, A3