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THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 2023 $1.50 ‘'News from Next Door” © SCAN ME PAGE A6 Pirates lose Border Clash matchup with N’hampton, Va. PAGE Bl State finalizes purchase of Hayes Farm in Edenton PAGE B3 Dunlow pursues baking passion at Corner Baking Co. * £ 5= cel i CO Remembering King Goodwin of ENC donates $125K to Open Door PHOTOS BY JOHN F0LEY/THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY A motorcade of vehicles led by Perquimans County Sheriff Shelby White crosses the new S-Bridge in Hertford, Monday, en route to Winfall Landing Park for a Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. program. Residents honor civil rights leader’s legacy with motorcade, program Leigh: ‘Uncuff’ yourself in fight for civil, voting rights BY JOHN FOLEY The Perquimans Weekly WINFALL — As Keith Rouse rode across the new S-Bridge en route to a Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. event on Monday, he remembered hearing as a boy how King himself crossed the bridge that it replaced more than half a century ago. King was on his way to speak at the National Guard Library to mark Black History Month Cole, Brown, Sanford, Rouse to speak at Feb. 1 event BY JOHN FOLEY Staff Writer To celebrate Black Histo ry Month, the Friends of the Perquimans County Library has invited four Perquimans County community leaders to talk about their favor ite books at an event next month. Hertford Mayor Earnell Armory in Edenton in 1966, one of two trips the civil rights leader would make to the region in the 1960s, and just two years before he would be assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. “I thought of this today as I came over the new bridge,” Rouse said. “Today my mind went back 51 years ago when Dr. King came through Hertford on the old bridge. And I thought, what would Dr. King think today if he was here driving across See KING, A3 BROWN COLE Brown, interim Hertford Town Manager Janice Cole, visual artist Ed Sanford and storyteller-musician Keith Rouse will attend the event Fondeila Leigh, a former county commissioner in Perquimans, speaks at the Perquimans County NAACP’s annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day service at Winfall Landing Park, Monday. Leigh urged the audience to “uncuff" themselves in the continuing struggle for civil rights. Hertford officials mull financing for ‘demo’ fire truck INSIDE Hyde’s 1968-69 school protest remembered; Page Bl. race in Hertford. She is ROUSE SANFORD at the library scheduled for Wednesday, Feb. 1, at 3 p.m. Brown made history in 2019 when she became the first woman to win a mayor’s retired from a 38-year career with the federal government and now lives on Front Street. Brown’s daily agenda includes See HISTORY, A3 With grant, food pantry closer to starting renovations BY CHRIS DAY The Daily Advance The Open Door Food Pantry of Perquimans and Food Bank of the Albe marle are among the 33 North Carolina nonprofits and service organizations scheduled to receive a to tal of $1.5 million in grants from Goodwill Industries of Eastern North Carolina. Food Bank of the Al bemarle’s share of the money is $25,000, while Open Door Food Pantry in Winfall has been award ed $125,000, according to Goodwill spokesman Mar ston Roue. See GOODWILL, A3 IMAGE COURTESY THE OPEN DOOR FOOD PANTRY Shown is an artist’s rendering of what The Open Door Food Pantry of Perquimans County envisions its renovated facility will look like once renovations are complete. Town expects to have financing plan to buy track in year BY REGGIE PONDER Staff Writer Hertford Town Council plans to take the next few months exploring financ ing options for the pur chase of a new fire truck about a year from now. Interim Town Manag er Janice Cole reminded councilors at their Jan. 9 meeting that the fire de partment expressed inter est last year in acquiring GIENC announced the grants in a news release Thursday. “Our goal is to provide opportunities that trans form lives throughout the local and regional com munities we serve,” said GIENC President and CEO Christopher Hash. “These grants will act as a mission multiplier, providing need ed resources to organiza tions and allowing them to expand their scope of ser vice for the various popu lations they serve.” The $1.5 million was shared among 33 nonprof its and service organiza tions in 51 of the state’s 100 counties. The Open Door Food a “demo truck” as a new truck for the department. “There was a demo truck that was available, and we hustled initially to see if it would be feasible to purchase that for our fire department,” Cole said. Another department was prepared to move more quickly than Hert ford was, but Cole said the company has informed the town that it’s already building another demo truck for sale. See TRUCK, A3 Hertford seeking ideas for biz, events at forum ‘Everyone Has a Voice’ will be held at HHA Jan. 25 From staff reports Have some ideas about town? If so, town officials want to hear from you. They’re hosting a public forum Wednesday, Jan. 25, they’re calling “Everyone Has a Voice in the Town of how things in Hertford Hertford.” could be done better? “We want to share town How about the types of products and services that should be offered in 6 1 89076 47144 Vol. 88, No. 03 WWW.PerquimansWeekly.com @2021 Perquimans Weekly All Rights Reserved accomplishments and hear ideas for making Hertford the place we are proud to call home,” said Mayor Earnell Brown. 2 The forum will be from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and be held in the conference See FORUM, A3 Harbor Towns buys better dinner boat Eagle 1 will accommodate 140 passengers when service begins BY TYLER NEWMAN Chowan Herald EDENTON — The bad news is Harbor Towns, Inc. officials weren’t able to purchase the Anticipation V dinner-excursion boat from its Mary land-based owner. The good news is they were able to purchase a different dinner-excur sion vessel that’s even more luxuri ous than the Anticipation V. Nick Didow, who heads the Harbor Towns nonprofit, announced Wednes day the group was able to purchase the Eagle 1, a vessel he said will offer an “even more welcoming, spacious and enjoyable” experience on the water. The Eagle 1 has a maximum draft of six feet and will have a signifi- PHOTO COURTESY HARBOR TOWNS PROJECT The Harbor Towns Project recently purchased the Eagle 1 to serve as a dinner-excursion vessel on the Albemarle Sound. cantly larger guest capacity for both dinner and excursion cruises. It can accommodate up to 140 guests. “Today has been a very good day indeed for the Albemarle Sound re gion in general and for the town of Edenton in particular,” Didow told the Chowan Herald in announcing the boat’s purchase. Eagle 1 will spend the next few months in a New Jersey shipyard un dergoing upgrades and renovations, Didow says. By late April or early May, Eagle 1 is expected to be in service cruising the Albemarle Sound. The vessel’s See BOAT, A3
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