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THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 2022
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Hartman: How
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Perquimans
10U girls team
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softball title
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Perquimans’ Thach elects to play college ball first
PQ standout declines Giants’
offer, will attend LINC-W
BY DAVID GOUGH
The Daily Advance
Late afternoon Tuesday,
July 19, Tanner Thach re
ceived a phone call he was
not expecting.
On the other end was San
Francisco Giants scout D.J.
Jauss. The purpose of the
call was to inform Thach
that he was the 556th pick
of the 2022 Mqjor League
Baseball Draft, but the last
pick of the 18th round was
far from a guarantee to sign
with the team.
The Perquimans graduate
had already declined an of
fers from the San Diego Pa
dres that would have made
him the 180th pick in the
sixth round the day before,
and the 330th selection in
the 11th round earlier that
Tuesday.
Thach knew the Giants
selecting him was in the
realm of possibility, though
not a given, after talking to
Jauss the day before the
official selection. But the
UNC-Wilmington commit,
who was on the college’s
campus taking summer
classes when he tobk the'
scout’s call, still didn’t see
that moment coming.
“I was very surprised,”
Thach said this week. “I
had no idea that it was hap
pening. (I) just got back to
my apartment from lifting
weights and (Jauss) called
me. He told me he drafted
me and that he’d, support
whatever decisional chose,
but he felt like I could
one day play in the mqjor
leagues. He was very excit
ed; I was very excited but
also very surprised at the
same time.”
After nearly two weeks
of waiting on a final signing
bonus offer from the Giants
— Thach declined to dis
close the amount he was of
fered — the two-time most
valuable player of the state
championship series made
his final decision earlier this
week.
“I am going to go to col
lege,” Thach told The Daily
Advance.
See THACH, A2
THE DAILY ADVANCE
Tanner Thach, shown here hitting a home run against
Camden in April as a member of the Perquimans
County High School baseball team, has elected to stick
with his UNC-Wilmington commitment after being
selected in the 2022 Major League Baseball Draft by
the San Francisco Giants in July.
US Senate hopeful stumps
Cangemi is new
Chamber director
U.S. Senate candidate Cheri Beasley chats with Church Street Antiques owner Beverly Brickhouse during the
Democratic hopeful’s campaign stop in Hertford, Wednesday, Aug. 3. Beasley also visited Currituck, Camden,
Chowan and Bertie counties during the campaign swing. •
Beasley: NC voters oppose ending Roe
Beasley visits Camden,
Hertford, Edenton, Windsor
BY PAUL NIELSEN
AND JOHN FOLEY
Adams Publishing Group
Kansas voters creat
ed a political earthquake
last week when they over
whelming defeated an an
ti-abortion constitutional
amendment that would
have removed protections
for abortion rights in the
state.
Democratic U.S. Senate
candidate Cheri Beasley
said Wednesday, Aug. 3, she
is hearing similar rumblings
across North Carolina in the
wake of the U.S. Supreme
Court’s decision in June to
overturn its Roe v. Wade rul
ing guaranteeing women the
right to have an abortion.
Beasley, who supports a
women’s right to an abor
tion, is facing off against
Republican U.S. Rep Ted
Budd in the November gen
eral election for an open
U.S. Senate seat. Last week,
she made campaign stops
in Currituck, Camden, Hert
ford, Edenton and Windsor.
Unlike Kansas, North
Carolina has no such bal
lot proposal in November.
However, Beasley told
around 50 supporters at
the Camden Community
Park that she believes the
state’s voters overwhelming
disagree with the Supreme
Court’s decision.
Beasley, a former chief
justice of the N.C. Supreme
Court, noted that for almost
50 years Roe was clear that
the constitution gave wom
en the right to make their
own reproductive deci
sions. A majority of the Su
preme Court has now taken
that right away, and voters
aren’t happy, she said.
See BEASLEY, A2
Helping draw more visitors
off 17 one of director’s goals
From staff reports
The new director of the
Perquimans County Cham
ber of Commerce says one
of the ways to help local
businesses grow is to get
more visitors to stop in the
county on their way some
where else.
Diane Cangemi, a Hert
ford resident who took
over the reins at the Per
quimans Chamber on Aug.
1, said she hopes to help
draw more visitors in her
new role.
“I want to bring a broad
public awareness to our
Hertford awarded
$90K to fight flooding
Work to focus on Jennie’s
Gut, Lakers Creek, biz district
From staff reports
The town of Hertford’s
efforts to become more
resilient in the wake of
flood waters has gotten a
$90,000 boost from Golden
LEAF.
The nonprofit founda
tion recently announced
that it’s awarding the town
a grant through its Flood
Mitigation Program.
According to a press re
lease from Golden LEAF,
the funding will enable
Hertford “to collect field
data, perform modeling of
existing watersheds, map
the location and condi ¬
CANGEMI
beautiful
county and
small-town
businesses
by encour
aging peo
ple visiting
the Outer
Banks and
Edenton
to visit our
county and all it has to of
fer in history and charm,"
Cangemi said in a Cham
ber press release.
Cangemi said attracting
travelers from U.S. High
way 17 who “do not know
we exist except as a high
way to some other desti
nation” will boost tourism
See CANGEMI, A3
tion of stormwater assets,
and develop and prioritize
concept plans to address
flooded streets that occur
during heavy rain events
that prevent access to pub
lic and private property
and create high inflows at
the wastewater treatment
facility due to inflow and
infiltration.”
Interim Town Manag
er Janice M. Cole said the
work will focus on three
“sub-watershed” areas in
town: the sub-watershed
that drains into Jennie’s
Gut, Lakers Creek on the
southern end of town,
and an area near the cen
tral business district that
drains into the Perquimans
See HERTFORD, A3
PAL posts banner promoting Lewis’ artwork donation
Exhibit features 16 oil
paintings artist donated to PAL
BY JOHN FOLEY
Correspondent
Visitors to the Perquimans Arts
League’s Gallery will notice some
thing new on the front window of
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the arts group’s building on Church
Street
A large banner promoting the
works of local artist Katherine L.
Lewis now hangs there. The white
banner with blue accents features
Lewis’ name, the phrase “unending
... pursuit of spirit,” and an image of
Lewis working on a painting.
“I wanted the gallery to resemble
MOMA, said PAL President Vaneeda
Bennett said as she recently unrolled
the banner, referring to the Museum
of Modem Art in New York City.
The new banner promotes an ex
hibit of 16 oil paintings Lewis recent
ly donated to PAL. The 16 are part
of the 60 Lewis donated to PAL that
will be auctioned off as a fundraiser
for the arts group on Feb. 4.
Bennett said she was ecstatic
about Lewis’ donation and could not
believe the artist’s generosity.
“Katherine donated the paintings
from a collection of work she has
done over the years,” said Bennett
Lewis is the recipient of
numerous awards, and her
work hangs in corporations and
private homes throughout the
world. Her paintings have also
been presented in galleries in
Carmel, California; Bay Head
and Manasquan, New Jersey;
Hilton Head, South Carolina;
Portsmouth, Virginia and most
See EXHIBIT, A2
JOHN FOLEY PHOTO
Perquimans Arts League President Vaneeda Bennett stands in
front of some of the 16 works by Katherine L. Lewis that the artist
recently donated to PAL. Lewis donated 60 works but only 16 are
currently on display.