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4 “News from Next Door" THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 2022 $1.50 @ SCAN ME PAGE 2 Beauchamp among new vendors at Spring Garden Show PAGE 3 Byrum, Modlin among PCHS’ scholarship winners PAGE 7 Perquimans, NHS end com petitive match with scoreless tie School hopefuls weigh in on improving academics From staff reports Six candidates are seek ing three open seats on the Perquimans Board of Edu cation in the May 17 prima ry election. The Perquimans Weekly is asking candidates Kristy Corprew, Matt Winslow, Dave Silva, Brenda Hud dleston, Anne White and Gracie Felton a series of questions in the run-up to the start of early voting on April 28. All but Felton responded to this week’s question. TPW: In all school dis tricts the COVID-19 pan demic has been disrup tive in various ways. The CORPREW FELTON HUDDLESTON SILVA WHITE WINSLOW worst of the pandemic appears to be over. As things return to normal, how can the schools pro mote academic achieve ment and do everything possible to overcome any losses that occurred over the past two years? Corprew: "Schools are still doing what schools have always done — edu cating students. While the methods and strategies change to meet the needs of students, the teaching and learning remains the same. Academic achievement is still the top priority of the teachers and staff at each school. “The teachers and staff of Perquimans County Schools meet students where they are and use benchmark and state test ing data to further ‘grow’ their students. In addition, teachers build relation ships with them and are able identify losses more quickly and foster growth in areas that testing cannot measure. “Teachers never stopped educating and advocating for their students, in spite of the pandemic. We just ad justed the way in which we went about it.” Winslow: “Tire COVID-19 pandemic reshaped the way our kids received instruc tion over nearly a 2-year pe riod where the instruction occurred remotely followed by a mix of remote and face- to-face. Speaking as a father with two boys in our school system, I can say that their ability to learn and compre hend during remote instruc tion was no comparison to what they receive face-to- face. “Going back to in-person instruction also eliminated isolation at home. The abil ity for our kids to socially interact with their peers and to participate in sports and other extracurricular activities is critical to their emotional well-being and self-confidence. “The school board’s first priority is always the edu cational welfare of the stu dents in this school system. I believe academic achieve ment is best promoted through in-person instruc tion and the success of our students academically and See SCHOOL, A6 Designing Woman Carpenter designed hats, then solar home Carpenter, who turns 101 May 1, also now comhole champ BY JOHN FOLEY Correspondent Hertford resident Cecilie Carpenter turns 101 on Sun day, May 1. And while that may seem like a great mile stone to many, it’s just one of many in the life of this true Renaissance woman. The centenarian recently shared some stories from her life after a 90-minute workout at the Perquim ans County Senior Center, which she attends three days a week. Born in Williamstown, Vermont, Carpenter hails from a large family and at tended a one-room school house as a child. “You didn’t learn very much because books were scarce back then. You learned from each other. Compared to today, it was a big zero;” says Carpenter, whose mother taught her to sew and knit mittens be fore she was old enough to attend school. Those lessons would come in handy later in life and prove to be an import ant thread to shaping her JOHN FOLEV PHOTO Hertford resident Cecille Carpenter, shown here recently at the Perquimans County Senior Center, turns 101 on Sunday, May 1. While that may seem like a great milestone to many, it’s just one of many in the life of this true Renaissance woman. career. At 17, Carpenter moved to New York where she was hired by a White Plains milliner who realized her talents for designing and selling hats. “I changed the hat styles to fit the face, or suggested a different style. Sales went up and the owner said I had a knack for hats,” she recalls. Carpenter credits her mother’s seamstress abili ty and talent for designing outfits for her success in her first job. “I used to watch my mother take my father’s old clothes and make them into other things for the kids to wear. I learned a lot,” she said. After a one-year stint at Little Millinery, the store that launched her career, the owner suggested Car penter apply for the ad vertised hat trimmer posi tion at Saks Fifth Avenue, See CARPENTER, A2 Drill highlighted cohesion, need for radio upgrades Report on Feb. exercise: ‘Communication difficult’ BY REGGIE PONDER Staff Writer A follow-up report on February’s active shoot er drill at the Perquimans County Courthouse noted good cooperation among agencies but also a need for radio communication up- grades. The review noted prob lems exist with electronic communications — espe ¬ Candidates forum, meet-greet May 3 From staff reports HERTFORD — The Perquimans County Farm Bureau will host a public meet-and-greet and forum next month for candidates seeking county and state office in the May 17 primary. The Tuesday, May 3 event at Bagley Swamp Wesley an Church at 402 Bagley Swamp Road, Hertford, will begin with the meet-and- greet at 6:30 p.m., followed by the forum at 7 p.m. Invited are candidates for state Senate, state House, Superior Court judge, dis trict attorney, Perquimans cially in some older build ings. “Communication was difficult and at points was nonexistent,” the report states. Perquimans County Emergency Services Direc tor Jonathan Nixon said county officials are discuss ing the need to move fire departments and emergen cy medical services to the VIPER radio system that is used by law enforcement agencies. See DRILL, A6 County Board of Commis sioners, Perquimans County Board of Education, Perqui mans sheriff and Perquim ans clerk of court. Early voting for the elec tion gets underway at the Perquimans Board of Elec tions Office at 601 South Edenton Road St., Hertford, on Thursday, April 28. For more information about the meet-and-greet and forum, contact Edward Winslow at 252-331-3673 or by email at ed.winslow@ hotmail.com, or Brooke Winslow at 252-426-5636 or by email at brooke. winslow@ncfbssc.com. Pasquotank Plank house showcases 18th century workmanship Construction more like cabinet making than house building BY PENNY BYRD AND LYN WINSLOW Special to The Perquimans Weekly Editor’s note: The following is the first of a four-part, series on the history of the Pasquotank Plank House, its travels and final 89076 47144 2 Vol. 87, No. 16 WWW.PerquimansWeekly.com @2021 Perquimans Weekly All Rights Reserved return to Perquimans County. If you lived in this area in the early 1700s it was a hard life. You had to grow your own crops, kill animals for meat, haul water in a bucket, make your own bricks and build your own house. On the plus side, it was private and quiet and the quality of the workmanship in the budding of your house would’ve been de scribed as “exhibiting a highly developed level of log craftsman ship, with full dovetail cornering reinforced by an interior vertical corner locking post to which each plank is pegged.” This abbreviated description is taken from the book, “The His toric Architecture of Perquimans County, North Carolina,” but it actually refers to the Pasquotank Log House, which is also called a plank house. The house was originally con structed in Pasquotank County in the early 1700s; the exact date is unknown because records have been lost due to a fire at the first courthouse. It stood on land near the pres ent-day Northeastern High School. Sometime before the school was constructed in the 1970s, the house was moved across U.S. Highway 17 to a location just south of the current BP gas station on the left as you enter Elizabeth City. The house belonged to Guy See HOUSE, A6 IMAGE COURTESY PENNY BYRD This scanned photo from the book, “The Historic Architecture of Perquimans County, North Carolina,” shows the Pasquotank Plank House, originally constructed in Pasquotank County in the early 1700s and moved to Perquimans in the 1970s.
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