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“News from Next Door" THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2022 $1.50 @ SCAN ME ^ PAGE A2 Toys for Tots hopes to aid 555, to offer 14 drop-off sites PAGE A6 Pirates’ unlikely playoff run ends with 42-26 loss PAGE Bl Some churches seek split from United Methodist Church Let’s Give Thanks Hertford meets state deadline for filing audit JOHN FOLEY/THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY Cira Brothers helps organize collards in a box of Thanksgiving meal ingredients during Good Works Community Church’s annual “Let’s Give Thanks” food giveaway event at the church at 113 Deep Creek, Hertford, Saturday. The church gave away Thanksgiving meals to more than 150 local families Saturday. Good Works gives away 150 meals Church gave away meal boxes of turkey, fixins’ Saturday BY JOHN FOLEY Staff Writer Good Works Communi ty Church members lived up to the church’s name on Saturday as members of the congregation gave away Turkey Drop to benefit at least 158 Donors give turkeys, meal fixins’ to Thanksgiving effort BY JOHN FOLEY Staff Writer , Thanks to the generosity of Perquimans County resi dents, at least 158 local fam ilies are celebrating a tradi tional Thanksgiving meal this week. Open Door Food Pantry Director Dina Hurdle said 158 frozen turkeys had been donated to the pantry’s 9th annual Thanksgiving Day ingredients for a complete Thanksgiving meal to more than 150 local residents. The smiles on recipients’ faces were almost as wide as the bunches of collard greens that sprouted from boxes that also included a whole turkey, a package of cornbread stuffing, vegeta bles, and a bonus box or two of macaroni and cheese. Turkey Drop project as of Saturday afternoon. Hurdle hadn’t calculated exactly how many pounds of turkey that represented but her husband, Don, who had been transporting the turkeys since Friday morn ing, said it was a lot. Over the past eight years the Turkey Drop has col lected donated food items — frozen turkeys, canned vegetables, stuffing mix and other fixins’ — to provide a complete Thanksgiving See DOOR, A3 Church volunteers had been working for weeks through its “Let’s Give Thanks” campaign to sur pass the number of families — 130 — it helped feed for Thanksgiving last year. The church surpassed that goal and then some. “We are blessed with all of these wonderful dona tions,” said Good Works Community’s founding pas tor, Apostle Edna Lawrence, stepping out of a truck load ed with collards. “We have been working for weeks to organize this event. Look at how beautiful this is.” The church, located at 113 Deep Creek Road, Hert ford, launched its first “Let’s See MEALS, A3 JOHN FOLEY/THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY Troop 150 Scouts (l-r) Lidetu Silva, Teamir Silva and John Potter pose with frozen turkeys donated to The Open Door Food Pantry’s ninth annual Turkey Drop Saturday. Town had missed deadline last 3 previous fiscal years BY REGGIE PONDER Staff Writer For the first time in at least three fiscal years, the audit for the town of Hert ford has been completed by the state’s deadline. Interim Town Manager Janice M. Cole attributed the timeliness of this year’s audit report to “determina tion and a strong financial team.” Mayor pro tern Ashley Hodges said he was de lighted this year’s audit met the deadline set by the N.C. Local Government Commission. When the town received its fiscal year 2020-21 audit in June, it was some six months late. But that audit report was not as late as the re port for the fiscal year Storage units added as special use in Hertford Resident sees prostitution; sheriff says no reports of it BY REGGIE PONDER Staff Writer The town of Hertford will allow commercial storage units as a use by special permit in the C-2 commercial zoning dis trict. Hertford Town Council agreed last week to a zon ing text amendment that makes storage facilities a special use requiring a permit from the Hertford Planning Board. The motion by Coun cilor Ashley Hodges, the council’s mayor pro tern, to approve the text amend ment passed unanimously. No one from the public COLE that end ed June 30, 2020, however. The re port for the 2019- 20 fiscal year was not pre sented to Hertford Town Council un til September 2021. Town staff explained in June that a number of factors contributed to the delays in getting the fiscal year 2020-21 audit com pleted. Town Council also dis cussed the prospect of borrowing about $200,000 to perform much-needed work at a pump station in a town cemetery. Hertford officials rec ognize the town has ex tensive sewer infrastruc ture needs, but at last See AUDIT, A3 spoke during a public hearing held before the vote. The change had been recommended unani mously by the town Plan ning Board. In another matter, a citi zen of Hertford said during the public comment period that he’s concerned about prostitution and drug-re lated crime in the town. Mark Christian told councilors he believes prostitution is taking place in town, basing his asser tion on what he described as unusual things he’s seen. He acknowledged he did not have evidence to prove his contention. “That’s what it looks like,” he said. See ZONING, A3 Marching Pirates Band to lead Christmas Parade Parade gets underway at high school Dec. 3 at 2 p.m. . \ From staff reports When the Perquimans County High School March ing Band marches in next weekend’s Perquimans County Christmas Parade, it’ll do so as grand marshal. The Perquimans Cham ber of Commerce an nounced last week that the 6 1 89076 47144 Vol. 87, No. 47 WWW.PerquimansWeekly.com @2021 Perquimans Weekly All Rights Reserved PCHS band had been select ed to lead the parade which begins at the high school Saturday, Dec. 3, at 2p.m. and proceeds downtown. Also participating in the parade will be local' dig nitaries, the Perquimans Sheriff’s Office, local fire departments, Perquimans Emergency Medical Ser vices, the N.C. Forestry Ser vice, antique cars and trac tors, motorcycles, race cars, and floats featuring local churches and PCHS athletes, FEA, and theater group, among 2 others. Downtown businesses, churches and local Boy Scouts See PARADE, A3 PQ’s Winslow signs with Duke baseball All-state catcher helped . Pirates to 2 state titles BY DAVID GOUGH The Daily Advance What Macon Winslow knew as early as three years ago became official on Nov. 9 and was celebrat ed by Winslow’s Perquim ans family and friends in the high school gym lobby on Thursday, Nov. 17. The two-time state champion catcher for the Perquimans Pirates official ly signed to play baseball for the Duke Blue Devils. Winslow had been ver bally committed to the Blue Devils since October 2019 — his freshman year. “Great academic school,” Winslow said Thursday. “The baseball program has been on the rise the past 10 years. Coach (Chris Pol lard), he’s building a dynas ty with the guys over there. Just feel like I can benefit the most in both baseball and academically there, playing in the ACC.” The all-state catcher was actually in Mexico when he made his signing with Duke official. Winslow, besides helping the Pirates to two straight state titles, has continued to find success on the base- ball diamond elsewhere. Through his involvement with the Pro5 Baseball Academy in Apex, Winslow got to play in two different See WINSLOW, A3 DAVID GOUGH/THE DAILY ADVANCE Perquimans High School’s Macon Winslow (second from left) poses Thursday, Nov. 17, for a photo with his mother Allison Winslow (left), brother Nixon Winslow (second from right) and father Leary Winslow (right) during a signing ceremony in the Perquimans gym lobby.
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