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Lady Tigers to
play Camden Lady
Cubs for title today
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Senior,center
participants
go zip lining in
Fayetteville
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Colington
Yacht Club wins
2nd straight
Challenge Cup
Walkers help Open Door Food Pantry exceed $20K goal
Students, churches helped
swell Walk for Hunger’s ranks
BY JOHN FOLEY
Staff Writer
Some 250 Perquimans
County residents kicked it
into high gear Saturday for
the Open Door Food Pan
try’s 1.5-mile Walk for Hun
ger.
Although totals are not
complete yet, Walk for Hun
ger Chair Dina Hurdle ex
pects donations to the fund
raiser for the food pantry
will exceed its $20,000 goal.
Bobby Layden emceed
Saturday’s event and got the
crowd fired up. Pastor Gene
Tyson of Hertford United
Methodist Church then led
walkers in a prayer before
they set off.
Holding the Open Door
Food Pantry banner, the
Perquimans County High
School Pirate football team
led the way from the Perqui
mans County Library, down
Church Street toward the
new S-Bridge, and back.
“It’s a beautiful morning
for a walk,” said Albemarle
Soundings publisher Julia
Stapleton, who was walking
with her puppy, Sunshine.
“This is a wonderful com
munity event.”
While previous Walks for
Hunger focused on Hert
ford, this year’s event was
the first to seek countywide
participation.
“I am still so excited
about Saturday’s partici
pation, especially from the
schools and the communi
ty in general,” Hurdle said.
“What wonderful commu
nity support. Having the
football team wearing their
jerseys, lead us off and to
have so many students,
school staff, churches, indi
viduals and the excitement
of everyone was beyond our
expectations.”
Following up on the suc
cess of Saturday’s Walk for
Hunger, Hurdle said she’s
already thinking about the
Open Door’s next event, the
annual Turkey Drop next
month.
Funds raised from the
Walker for Hunger help sup
port the Open Door Food
See HUNGER, A3
JOHN FOLEY/THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY
Walkers sign up for the Open Door Food Pantry’s Walk
for Hunger in Perquimans County, Saturday. More than
250 people participated in the walk, helping the food
bank exceed its $20,000 fundraising goal.
A-mazing
PHOTOS BY JOHN FOLEY/THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY
Bailey Sawyer (left), Megan Sawyer (center) and Paisley Sawyer are shown at the entrance to the corn maze at
Bagley Swamp Wesleyan Church's Fall Festival, Sunday. More than 350 people attended the annual event, which
included a corn maze.
Budd: Inflation
raising ranks of
‘persuadables’
Republican Senate candidate
campaigned in Edenton Oct 13
BY REGGIE PONDER
Staff. Writer
EDENTON — U.S. Rep.
Ted Budd said during a
visit to Chowan County
last week that rising infla
tion is making more voters
“persuadable” who might
not previously have con
sidered voting for him.
“I’m for an economy
that helps everybody,”
Budd said.
The Republican can
didate for U.S. Senate
blamed policies of Presi
dent Joe Biden for severe
inflation,
and said
his Dem
ocratic
opponent
Cheri
Beasley
would
vote “in
BUDD lock-
step” with
Biden.
Beasley, a former chief
justice of the N.C. Supreme
Court, and Budd, a North
Carolina congressman and
close ally of former Presi
dent Donald Trump, are in
what most observers con
sider a tight race for the
See BUDD, A3
Schools get $211K
to buy 2 new buses
Hundreds attend Bagley Swamp’s Fall Festival
Event featured corn maze,
pumpkin carving, games
BY JON FOLEY
Staff Writer
More than 350 people
attended Bagley Swamp
Wesleyan Church’s Fall Fes
tival on Sunday, and many
of them ended up winding
their way through tunnels
of corn stalks at the event’s
corn maze.
The Corn Palace in Mitch ¬
ell, South Dakota, pales in
comparison to the church’s
masterful creation in a
cornfield on Bagley Swamp
Road.
Maps were provided for
those adventurous enough
to step inside the giant puz
zle, and kids who entered
with looks of apprehension
on their face exited with
beaming smiles of joy.
Beside the maze, the
event also featured pumpkin
See MAZE, A3
The
pumpkin
carving
and
painting
table at
Bagley
Swamp
Wesleyan
Church’s
Fall
Festival
Sunday
was a
popular
attraction.
Grants part of settlement with
Volkswagen in emissions case
BY JOHN FOLEY
Staff Writer
The Perquimans County
Schools will receive more
than $200,000 in grant
funding from the N.C.
Volkswagen Settlement
Program to purchase two
replacement diesel buses
for the district.
According to Superin
tendent of Schools Tan
ya Turner, the district
will spend its $211,500
in grant monies from the
N.C. Phase 2 Volkswagen
Mitigation Program pur
chasing two new school
activity buses to transport
students on field trips,
athletic competitions and
other extracurricular ac
tivities.
“We are thankful to re
ceive these much needed
funds for updated trans
portation,” she said in a
press release.
The funds are part of
the $30.1 million the N.C.
Department of Environ
mental Quality is awarding
to public schools, charter
See BUS, A3
Edmundson-Fox Monument to be rededicated on Sunday
Monument honors Quakers’
first visit to county in 1672
From staff reports
A monument marking the first
visits by Quaker missionaries to
Perquimans County 350 years ago
will be rededicated at a special
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ceremony in^Hertford this week-
end.
The Edmundson-Fox Monu
ment will be rededicated at the
corner of Church and Newby
streets Sunday at 3 p.m.
According to organizers, the
rededication marks the 350th an
niversary of Quakers William Ed
mundson and George Fox’s visit
to Perquimans in the spring and
fall of 1672, as well as the reset
ting of the monument as part of
the new S-Bridge project.
Edmundson, accompanied by a
guide and one or two companions,
traveled from Virginia through the
Great Dismal Swamp in May 1672
to the home of Henry and Hannah
Phelps, who lived on the banks of
the Perquimans River.
■ Edmundson gathered local
English settlers and held the first
recorded service of Christian wor
ship in what was then the English
colony of North Carolina, accord
ing to a press release.
“From this work the Religious
Society of Friends, known as
Quakers, grew and became the
leading Christian denomination in
the colony through the first part
of the 18th century,” the release
states.
“Friends controlled the Colo
nial government during that time,”
See QUAKERS, A3
PHOTO COURTESY
LYNWOOD WINSLOW
The Edmundson-
Fox Monument
will be
rededicated
at the corner
of Church and
Newby streets
Sunday at 3 p.m.
The monument
commemorates
the first visits
by Quaker
missionaries
to Perquimans
County in the
17th century.