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“News from Next Door” THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 2022 $1.50 ^ SCAN ME ^ PAGE 3 Manager: SECU seeing ‘constant increase’ in fraud attempts PAGE 8 Seniors Thach, DeWeese, Brown awarded top scholarships PAGE 9 Ives, Bruins knock off unbeaten Pirates in Easter tourney Board of Education candidates address school safety Voters to fill 3 of school board’s 6 seats May 17 From staff reports With early voting for the May 17 election starting to day, Perquimans voters will begin going to the polls to elect three members to the county Board of Education. The six candidates for those three seats include Barbara Huddleston, Dave Silva, Matt Winslow, Gracie Felton, Kristy Corprew and CORPREW FELTON HUDDLESTON SILVA WHITE Anne White. The Perquimans Weekly recently asked all six can didates a series of ques tions about education and schools. All but Felton re sponded. Their answers to this week’s question about school safety, edited for space, follow. TPW: The Perquim ¬ WINSLOW INSIDE Congressional District 1 candidate Q&A. Pages A6-7 ans County Schools has taken significant steps, many of them in part nership with a local non- profit called K.E.Y.S. to improve safety. Is there anything else you believe needs to be done to im prove or enhance school safety? Huddleston: “School safety is a top priority for Perquimans County Schools. I was happy to hear about the new benefit of acquiring cameras for all of our schools. Cameras are an essential security tool for students and faculty. We should also discuss their thoughts on cameras in all classrooms for additional protection with our teach ers. The extra funds provided to our schools through the KE.Y.S. local nonprofit is a great benefit and resource See BOARD, A10 Chamber board majority resigns in Perquimans Getting a Smart Start Group’s accounting, plans for building sale questioned BY REGGIE PONDER Staff Writer A majority of the direc tors on the Perquimans Chamber of Commerce board resigned last week after raising questions about the business group’s accounting practices and planned sale of its building in downtown Hertford. Steven Young, who was treasurer of the board and is among those who re signed, reportedly asked questions about the or ¬ Early voting begins today for election Voters can cast ballots one-stop through May 14 From staff reports Perquimans County vot ers will have roughly two full weeks, including one day of Saturday voting, in which to cast their ballot for the May 17 primary. Early voting for the pri mary election begins today at the Perquimans Board of Election office at 601 South Edenton St., Hert ford, and will continue weekdays from 8 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. through Friday, May 13. Early voting will also be held on Saturday, May 14, ganization’s accounting dining the board’s April 18 meeting. But Young and the oth er board members who wanted answers about what was going on were completely shut down at the meeting, according to then aasoatt of tire .mee t ing which was shared with The Daily Advance and The Perquimans Weekly on Monday. The following day, April 19, Young and fellow board members Melanie Metzler, Erin Brabble, Brittany Taylor and Lisa See BOARD, A10 INSIDE See sample ballots for Repub lican and Democratic voters in Perquimans. Page A7 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Residents who have not yet registered may do so and vote the same day during the 13-day one-stop voting period. They won’t have to show a photo ID to register and vote but they will be required to provide proof of residency. The deadlines to change political parties and regis ter to vote on election day, See ELECTION, A2 JOHN FOLEY PHOTO Karelle Harrell pets several kittens at the petting zoo at Saturday’s 14th annual Smart Start Children’s Festival and Safe Kids Day. Nearly 500 adults and children attended the AVa-hour event at the Perquimans County Recreation Center. 500 attend event for kids, families Annual event brings together parents, service providers BY JOHN FOLEY Correspondent Raising a child may not always be all fun and games but you wouldn’t have known that from Saturday’s Smart Start Children’s Festi val and Safe Kids Day. Nearly 500 adults and children attended the 4'A hour event at the Perqui mans County Recreation Center. The Chowan/Perquim- ans Smart Start Partnership has sponsored the event for the past 14 years, bringing families and service pro viders together to promote a safe and smart start to child rearing. The CPSSP is one of 75 local Smart Start partnerships across North Carolina. Besides a wealth of games and fun activities for kids, Saturday’s event also featured a wide variety of information about services and programs for both chil dren and families. Families who lined up in their veliicles in the rec center parking lot for the petting zoo were treated to swag bags filled with fruit, juices and snacks. The petting zoo was a popular attraction at the Children’s Festival and Safe Kids Day. Children received instruction on how to ap proach, pet and handle an animal. Spencer Stone of Hert ford got to play with an other popular attraction at Saturday’s event: building blocks. A hand and eye co- ordination task, building blocks are frequently used as educational tools for chil dren. Stone busily built a See CHILDREN, A2 How the Plank House moved to Perquimans and then left House moved to Bethania after windstorm damaged it BY PENNY BYRD & BEN HOBBS Special to The Perquimans Weekly Editor’s note: This story is the second in a four-part series on the history of the Pasquotank Plank House, its travels and 6 ' 89076 47144 2 Vol. 87, No. 17 WWW.PerquimansWeekly.com @2021 Perquimans Weekly All Rights Reserved final return . to Perquimans County. When someone endeavors to tell the stoiy about a house that is close to 300 years old, they have to expect that the information they acquire from various sources will be like putting two different puz zles together and wondering if the pieces will ever congeal. I recently had the enjoyable privilege of sitting down with Ben Hobbs in his sawdusty workshop along with a student from Roa noke, Virginia, who listened and kibbitzed along with us. I asked Ben how and where he found the plank house and he said that very early houses were easy to spot be cause they had much steeper roof lines. Ben saw the plank house sit ting roadside off U.S. Highway 17 North as you enter Elizabeth City. Back then life was slower and if you saw something of interest you just knocked on the clos est door and that person could tell you who owned it. Turns out Guy Wood (one of the house’s two co-owners mentioned in part one of this story) lived just about where U.S. 17 forks left and right at the City Grille. The details of their chat were not shared (or even perhaps re membered —it was that long ago), but Ben then contacted Worth Hare, a housemoving company then on Mexico Road in Edenton (it’s no longer in business) and the house was moved in one piece on a trailer. Ben had laid out a number of pillars of loose cement block (without mortar) and the house was lowered onto them. As Ben and his wife Jackie did not move back to Perquimans County full- time until 1973, the closest we can get to the date when the house was moved was “in the 70s.” A book about architecture in Perquimans “The Historic Archi tecture of. Perquimans County, North Carolina,” was printed in 1982 and Ben still had the house then. At some point after that a strong windstorm came through the area and the house was knocked off its loose foundation. By that time, Ben had acquired a number of other old buildings that he saved, restored and con verted to lodging he called the Beechtree Inn. He also had a lot of other restoration projects (there are now 17 old structures on Ben’s property) and three sons to raise, so when the plank house was damaged by wind he shared the news with his friend, Ned Hipp of Bethania. Ned was a well-known furni ture restorer at Old Salem Village and the MESDA, Museum of Ear ly Southern Decorative Arts, and he, like Ben, also loved old struc- See HOUSE, A10
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