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THE QUIMANS EEKLY ‘'News from Next Door” THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2022 $1.50 @ SCAN ME PAGE Bl Santa comes to town early: Record 180 kids attend annual breakfast PAGE B2 With endow ment, Nixon scholarship award could grow PAGE B3 Sound side celebration features holiday market, parade ‘You’ll shoot your eye out’ Jackson facing new charge; bond nearly doubled REGGIE P0NDER/THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY Perquimans County High School theater students rehearse a scene from the play, “A Christmas Story," which is based on the popular 1980s movie of the same name. Students will perform the play Dec. 8-9 in the PCHS auditorium at 7 p.m. both nights. PCHS presents ‘A Christmas Story’ Students to perform play based on popular movie Dec. S-9 BY REGGIE PONDER Staff Writer A play based on the pop ular 1980s holiday comedy, “A Christmas Story,” will be performed by the Perqui mans County High School Theater Department next Residents turn out on Shop Small Saturday Downtown biz saw customers taking advantage of promotion BY JOHN FOLEY Staff Writer Shop Small Saturday is a national campaign designed to spur support for local mer chants the day after Black Fri day, and it seemed to do just that for Hertford’s downtown retailers this past weekend ■ Locals and visitors alike strolled downtown stores and browsed nooks and cran nies packed with holiday in ventory on Saturday. Thomas Waller’s Hert ford Mercantile store was dressed up with Christmas decorations for the occasion, its shelves full of holiday week. Shows are Dec. 8 and 9 at 7p.m. both nights and will be held in the Perquimans County High School Audi torium. Tickets are $5 for students, $10 for adults and are available at the door be ginning one hour before the show. The run of the play, direct ed by PCHS theater teacher Grace Jones, coincides with INSIDE McKecuens prep courthouse for Friday’s Grand Illumination. Page A3. gifts and its old-fashioned glass-enclosed candy counter filled with an abundant selec tion of stocking stuffer-style confections. “Business has been very steady today,” said Waller, who opened the store in 2021. “A lot of locals have been in. Yesterday was good too.” Hertford resident Lourin- da Zies was enjoying brows ing the Hertford Mercan tile’s aisles. See SHOP, A2 the theatrical run of a new movie, “A Christmas Story Christmas.” A perennial favorite, “A Christmas Story” is a come dy, which suits Olive Ferris — a senior who plays Moth er —just fine. “I’m naturally good at comedy,” Ferris said. Ferris said the comedy is front and center in this show. JOHN FOLEY/THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY Hertford resident Lourinda Zies browses the aisles at the Hertford Mercantile store in downtown Hertford during the Shop Small Saturday event on Saturday. “I think (the audience) will think it’s funny,” Ferris said. “There’s a lot of good jokes in it. I think it’s the delivery that we use that makes them funny.” Zoey Hash, a senior who narrates the play as the adult Ralphie, enjoys being on stage and is looking for ward to the show. See PLAY, A3 Father of alleged victim says Jackson took pix of daughter BY REGGIE PONDER AND JULIAN EURE Staff Writers HERTFORD — Former Hertford Town Council man Quentin Jackson is back in jail on an addition al charge — and under an increased secured bond —just days after being re leased on bond. An official at Albemarle District Jail confirmed last week that Jackson was be ing held at the jail in lieu of $1,975,000 secured bond. Jackson, who initially was jailed Nov. 3 in lieu of a $1 million secured bond after his arrest on nine child-sex charges, was re leased on bond Nov. 11. A court official said a bail bonding company typical ly pays between 10% and 20% of a bond’s cost to get a client released from jail. Sowders to urge healthy eating in Extension role Family, consumer agent planning programs in new year BY JOHN FOLEY Staff Wrirter It’s been sometime since Perquimans County has had a full-time family and consumer agent. That changed earlier this month when Sarah Sowders was hired to that position at the Perquimans Center of N.C. Cooperative Extension. Sowders earned a bach elor’s degree in sustainable agriculture and marketing at Appalachian State Uni versity and close to com pleting her master’s degree at NC State University in parks, recreation, sport and tourism management. She’s also working on earn ing a master’s certificate in geospatial information sys- JACKSON Jack- son was s u b s e - quently arrested Nov. 16 on an ad ditional charge of taking indecent liberties with a child. According to an official with the Halifax County Sheriff’s Office, Jackson turned himself in and was released after posting a $25,000 secured bond. Jackson apparently turned himself in in Halifax be cause his attorney, Jamal Summey, has an office in Scotland Neck, which is in the county. A voicemail message left for Summey last week was not immediately returned. An official with the Pasquotank Clerk of Su perior Court’s Office said See JACKSON, A2 SOWDERS terns. She has a back ground in edu cation, teaching in the ca reer and technical education program at Green Hope High School in Cary. Her husband is in the U.S. Coast Guard and the cou ple have two boys. As a family and consum er science agent, one of Sowders’ main jobs is to develop community-based educational programs on topics like nutrition, health, food safety, food preservation, and local food systems. “As an agent, I will al ways be evaluating what See SOWDERS, A2 AG awards Cole Dogwood Award Recipients make communities ‘safer, stronger, healthier 1 From staff reports Hertford’s interim town manager is among the 38 recipients of this year’s 89076 47144 Vol. 87, No. 48 Dogwood Awards presented by N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein. Janice Cole will re ceive COLE 6 WWW.PerquimansWeekly.com @2021 Perquimans Weekly All Rights Reserved one of the awards pre- 2 sented to state res ¬ idents recognized for their efforts “to help to make their See COLE, A3 Folwell: $1.4M unclaimed by 19K residents Treasurer urges residents to check out NCCash.com site BY JOHN FOLEY Staff Writer If your last name is Leary, Cherry, Windsor or White and you live in Perquim ans County, you may want to visit NCCash.com and check out the Unclaimed Cash Account. As a matter of fact, ev eryone should check the site, and here’s why. Currently, there are 19,032 people who live in Perquimans or once lived in the county who are owed more than $1.4 million in uncashed checks, forgotten bank accounts and other abandoned funds. That’s just a fraction of the $120 million in un claimed property and cash that the N.C. Treasurer’s Office, which oversees the NCCash.com site, is on track to return from state coffers to state residents, local governments and or ganizations this year, says state Treasurer Dale Fol- well. That’s more than the $105 million returned in 2021, he said. “You have to let the peo ple of Perquimans County know about this,” Folwell See RETURN, A3 THE DAILY REFLECTOR State Treasurer Dale R. Folwell (left) and state Sen. Don Davis, D-Greene, present a check to Scott Francis, president of the ECU Alumni Association and associate vice chancellor for alumni relations, and Caroline Tait, director for alumni marketing and communications in November 2020.
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