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Perquimans’ Winslow drawing MLB scouts’ attention
Pirates’ catcher selected
for two big scouting events
BY DAVID GOUGH
The Daily Advance
While former Pirate Tan
ner Thach mulls his future
after being selected in last
month’s Mgjor League Base
ball draft, a current Pirate is
on what he hopes will be his
own path to the MLB draft.
Macon Winslow, a rising
senior at Perquimans who,
along with Thach, helped
lead the Pirates to a second
straight state title in June,
has been playing a lot of
baseball this summer out
side of Hertford.
He’s a member of the
Canes National team from
the Perfect Game organi
zation and Prob Academy.
Both teams can be closely
watched by MLB scouts.
And this summer, it seems
to have paid off for the all-
North Carolina catcher.
August will be a big
month for Winslow. He has
been selected to perform at
the East Coast Pro Show
case this week and will
play in the Perfect Game
All-American Classic later in
the month. Only so many of
the nation’s top high school
players get to participate in
the two events.
“It’s a sense of gratitude
because I’ve really worked
my butt off,” Winslow said.
“To see that paying off,
it’s amazing. I feel like I’m
probably one of the hardest
workers out there. I work
my butt off day in and day
out to be recognized like
that.”
The East Coast Pro event
begins today. Winslow is
in Hoover, Alabama, along
with 179 other top high
school players from the
East Coast.
Players only get to par
ticipate if a Mgjor League
scout sees them play and
invites them to try out.
For Winslow, it was Los
Angeles Dodgers scout Jo
nah Rosenthal who had him
try out on the campus of
UNC-Greensboro on June
27.
He officially got the East
Coast Pro invite a couple
See WINSLOW, A4
PHOTO COURTESY JAMES GILBERT
Macon Winslow (34) high-fives his third base coach
after hitting a home run at Tropicana Field, the home of
the Tampa Bay Rays, on July 21 during a Perfect Game
national showcase event, in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Splish Splash
Hertford awarded
$14.9M for water,
sewer upgrades
JOHN FOLEY PHOTO
Kamron Hightower (center) performs a handstand for the crowd while his pals look on in awe during the mobile
splash pad event hosted by Seeds of Success on East Academy Street on Saturday. The Hertford Fire Department
provided the controlled spray for the splash pad. About 40 kids and adults took advantage of the opportunity to
cool down during the three-hour event.
40 cool down at mobile splash pad
Seeds of Success sponsored
event, VFD provided the water
BY JOHN FOLEY
Correspondent
Nearly 40 kids and adults
got a respite from the heat
Saturday after Hertford’s
Volunteer Fire Department
transformed East Academy
Street into a neighborhood
mobile splash pad.
Firefighters raised the
ladder on Engine #3140 feet
in the air and opened its dis
charge supply hose, spray
ing neighborhood children,
parents, and volunteers
from Seeds of Success.
“It has been so hot, I
could hardly breathe these
last few days and thought
this would be a great way
to have some fun and bring
people together,” said May
or Earnell Brown, who
leads the volunteer organi
zation that organized Satur
day’s event.
Happy kids and adults
frolicked, skipped and
danced in the fire hose’s
controlled spray during the
three-hour event. Kamron
Hightower performed hand-
stands for the crowd while
his pals looked on in awe.
Although the heat wasn’t
as stifling as it was earlier in
the week, temperatures on
Saturday still hovered in the
mid-90s.
Brown, a self-proclaimed
“water person” joined in on
the fun, as did most parents,
and emerged cooler and
very wet.
“It was a very successful,
happy day for the youth,”
the mayor said. “Hertford
is without a splash pad or
pool, so today the Hertford
See SPLASH, A4
Funding to pay for water line,
water treatment upgrade
From staff reports
The town of Hertford
has been awarded $14.9
million in infrastructure
grants for water and waste-
water projects from the
program that administers
American Rescue Plan Act
funding for the state, the
town said Tuesday.
According to the release,
the town netted more than
$9 million for a waterline
replacement project from
the State Fiscal Recovery
Program, another $3.67
million for wastewater
collection improvements,
Stoop named new
director at ARHS
Agency planning chief to
take director’s role Aug. 15
From staff reports
The Albemarle Region
al Health Services Board
of Health has promoted
ARHS Director of Policy
and Planning — and Per
quimans County resident
— Ashley Stoop to be the serve ARHS and our com-
agency’s next health direc
tor.
Stoop, 41, will assume
her new duties on Aug.
15, taking over for R. Bat
tle Betts Jr., who recently
and $2.1
million
for water
treatment
system
improve-
m e n t s .
The town
partnered
COLE with With
ers Rav
enel Engineering to apply
for the funds.
Interim Town Manager
Janice Cole noted that the
maximum award allowed
under the program was $15
million.
“So we are especially
pleased that we were able
to demonstrate our needs
See WATER, A2
retired,
ARHS said
in a press
release
Friday.
“This is
a tremen
dous op
portunity
STOOP and I am
honored
to be able to continue to
munities,” Stoop said in the
release. “I look forward to
working with our board,
staff, and our partners to
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Leigh named to NC African-American Heritage panel
Commissioner tapped by
Moore to fill unexpired term
BY REGGIE PONDER
Staff Writer
Perquimans County Com
missioner Fondella Leigh
has named to the North
Carolina African-American
Heritage Commission.
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Leigh was informed by
N.C. Speaker of the House
Tim Moore in a July 8 letter
that she had been appointed
to fill the unexpired term of
Lisa Matthews on the com
mission.
The term ends Sept. 30,
2023.
“Thank you for your will
ingness to serve in this ca
pacity,” Moore, R-Cleveland,
said in the letter. “I
am confident you will
have much to offer
2 the African-American
Heritage Commission
and will be effective
and diligent in your
service to our state.”
In addition to her
service on
the Per
quimans
County
Board of
Commis
sioners,
Leigh is
presiding
LEIGH elder of
the Eden
ton District of the AME
Zion Church and pastor of
Porter’s Chapel AME Zion
Church in the Chapanoke
community.
Leigh explained that she
got to know state Rep. Ed
Goodwin, R-Chowan, as they
both were working on resto
ration of the historic Kadesh
AME Zion Church in Edenton.
The Edenton District includes
19 churches in Chowan, Per
quimans, Tirrell, Washington
and Martin counties.
Leigh noted that Good
win was instrumental in se
curing $2 million in funding
for the Kadesh restoration.
She said as they were work
ing on the restoration proj
ect he told her he planned to
recommend her for a spot
on the African-American
Heritage Commission.
She said she didn’t hear
anything right away and had
actually forgotten about the
potential appointment until
she received the letter from
Moore a few weeks ago.
“I am brand new to this,”
Leigh said of her service on
the African-American Heri
tage Commission.
She attended her first
meeting as a member of the
heritage panel last week.
Leigh said she is excited
about work the commis
sion is doing in areas such
as Rosenwald Schools and
historical markers honoring
African-American contribu
tions to the state’s history.
“I am still learning my
role on the commission,”
Leigh said.
One contribution she
plans to make is keeping the
rest of the panel aware of
the extensive African-Amer
ican heritage in northeast
ern North Carolina, in
cluding Kadesh and other
historic churches, the Col
ored Union Soldiers mon
ument in Hertford, Rosen
wald Schools, and Elizabeth
City State University.
Leigh said she mentioned
the Colored Union Soldiers
Monument at the meeting
last week.
Leigh is serving her sec
ond term on the Perquimans
Board of Commissioners
and is seeking reelection in
November. She is the first
woman to serve as a pre
siding elder within the Al
bemarle Conference of the
AME Zion Church.