A2 THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY, SATURDAY, APRIL 15,2023
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Perquimans seeks $500K for splash pad at rec center
PARTF grant would pay
half of project’s $1M cost
BY REGGIE PONDER
Staff Writer
HERTFORD — Perqui
mans County officials are
seeking state grant funding
for a proposed splash pad
and other amenities at the
county recreation center.
The Perquimans County
Board of Commissioners
voted unanimously Monday
night to approve an appli
cation for a $500,000 grant
from the N.C. Parks and
Recreation Trust Fund.
Howard Williams, the
county’s parks and recreation
director, explained that the
estimated total cost for the
project is just over $1 million.
The motion by Commis
sioner Joseph Hoffler stated
that moving forward with
the project would be contin
gent on Perquimans receiv
ing the grant funding.
The county is current
ly nearing completion of a
PARTF-funded project at
the recreation center that
includes tennis courts and
pickle ball courts.
In addition to the splash
pad, the project as planned
would include an additional
ball field and an additional
parking lot with 60 parking
spaces.
“All three of these will be
a great addition to the rec
center,” Williams said.
Williams said the addition
al field will make it more fea
sible for Perquimans County
to host tournaments.
The centerpiece of the
proposed project is the
splash pad, which would be
34 feet by 46 feet, along with
a 20-foot by 2-foot covered
pavilion with picnic tables
for family members of chil
dren using the splash pad.
Williams said the splash
pad is the main project in
the plan.
“We don’t have anything
like that in Perquimans
County,” Williams said.
He noted that the splash
pad would use a water recy
cling system to save water
and money.
In response to Commis
sioner Tim Corprew’s ques
tion about whether the recy
cled water would be healthy
and sanitary, Williams ex
plained that the recycling
system is designed to clean
and sanitize the water.
Staff will have to be
trained on how to operate
the system effectively, Wil
liams added.
Williams also said the
splash pad is being de
signed with buttons that
will be pushed to activate
the spray, so that the system
will not operate when it’s
not being used.
Commissioners also
agreed to have the coun
ty apply for two grants of
$150,000 each for water
and sewer system improve
ments. The proposed proj
ects are relocating the Win
fall wastewater discharge
and building a line across
the Perquimans River to
connect the two sides of the
water system.
If awarded, the grants
would cover preliminary en
gineering costs.
Much more planning, in
cluding planning for financ
ing, would be necessary
before actually moving for
ward with constructing the
improvements.
Durants Neck Ruritans gear up for annual auction
April 22 event to be preceded
by preview of donated items
BY TYLER NEWMAN
Staff Writer
HERTFORD — The Du
rants Neck Ruritan Club
is gearing up for its annual
fundraising auction next
weekend.
The club, located at 2151
New Hope Road, will hold
the event on Saturday, April
22. A preview of items to
be auctioned will be held at
11 a.m., followed by the auc
tion at 1 p.m.
The auction will be con
ducted by Spencer and Me-
lyssa of Corner Market Auc
tions in Pasquotank County.
The pair offer to conduct
the club auction each year
for free as a way give back
to the community.
This year, the club will be
auctioning approximately
200 items including genera
tors, lawn care equipment,
power tools, bicycles, kay
aks, furniture, storage cab
inets, a Barbie collection,
small appliances, a utility
trailer, oriental carpets, jew
elry and more.
According to organizers,
the club will use proceeds
from the auction to provide
scholarships to deserving lo
cal college-bound students.
In addition to scholarships,
club members also support
the Durants Neck Volunteer
Fire Department, Project
Patriot, the Open-Door Food
Bank of Perquimans County,
and Senior Bingo.
The club also provides
the joy of Christmas to sev
eral families in the area, do
nating them a holiday meal
and gifts for their children.
Club members also collect
more than 200 toys for do
nation to the Perquimans
County Sheriff’s office for
the annual Toys for Tots
campaign.
For additional informa
tion about the auction or the
club’s community outreach
work, contact Dan Trevors
at dantrevors@gmail.com.
PERQUIMANS OUT & ABOUT
In Loving Memory of
TODAY
Perquimans Dems
The Perquimans County
Democratic Party will hold its
County Convention at the
Perquimans County Courthouse
at 10 a.m. U.S. Rep. Don Davis,
D-N.C., will be the speaker.
TarWheel Event
The TarWheel Cycling Event
will be held from 7 a.m. to
5 p.m. with route options of
33 miles, 62 miles and 100
miles. Ride starts at Riverside
Avenue and Water Street in
downtown Elizabeth City.
Several routes will cross into
ODYSSEY
Continued from Al
critical thinking and prob
lem-solving skills, engineer
ing design methods, artistic
creativity, public speaking
and performance skills to
solve the problem.
The problems teams are
tasked with solving may re
quire students to work to
gether to build things such as
structures or vehicles, put on
dramatic performances, pr
design art displays. The more
“outside of the box” answers a
team provides, the better their
overall team score.
The D.F. Walker team —
one of four teams from the
Edenton-Chowan Public
Schools participating in this
year’s competition—selected
to solve the vehicular-based
Perquimans County.
SUNDAY
Safe Haven Quartet
The Safe Haven Gospel
Quartet will perform a
concert at Burgess Baptist
Church, 1850 Harvey Point
Road, Hertford, Sunday at
6 p.m. The service is free
but a love offering will be
taken. Refreshments will
follow the service.
MONDAY
School board to meet
The Perquimans Board of
Education will meet with the
monster, producing their own
pirate flag, and creating and
performing a song as part of a
scripted performance.
“All four of our teams made
it to state, but this team made
second place and so now they
get to move onto Michigan,”
said Odyssey of the Mind
coach Christy Stevens.
But to get to the Michigan
State University campus, the
team needs to raise money to
pay for the trip, she said.
“Six-thousand dollars is
what we need to get them all
there,” Stevens said.
A fundraising effort called
the Business, Family &
Friends Fund Drive to help
the team pay for the trip is
currently underway, she said.
May 19 — or until the goal is
met — is the final day of the
fundraiser. The Odyssey of
the Mind World Finals are
Perquimans Board of
Commissioners for a joint
budget work session in the
boardroom at the Central
Office in Hertford, at 6:30 p.m.
THURSDAY
Albemarle Commission
The Albemarle Commission
Board of Delegates will meet
at the commission office in
Hertford at 6 p.m.
NW Development board
The Northeastern
Workforce Development
Consortium will meet at the
Albemarle Commission
Office in Hertford at 5 p.m.
Friends Fund Drive not only
will help raise funds for our
seven team members to travel
to Michigan State, but it also
will give students the oppor
tunity to experience a college
campus, exhibit their re-engi
neered and improved product
and production, while also
demonstrating spontaneous,
quick, on-the-spot thinking,”
Stevens said.
Some elements of the
group’s Odyssey of the Mind
product were on display
when a reporter recently vis
ited the team during an after-
school practice. Each student
was hard at work painting,
constructing or brainstorming
how to improve the team’s
product, and many team
members expressed confi
dence they’ll win first place at
the World Finals.
The D.F. Walker team isn’t
Contact: 252-404-7093.
FRIDAY
Open Door fundraiser
A fundraiser for the Open
Door of Perquimans County’s
new building will be held in the
parking lot of Hertford Baptist
Church on Market Street from
4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Cost is $10.
Tickets available by calling
331-3724 or 334-7152.
UPCOMING
15th Children’s Festival
The Chowan/Perquimans
Smart Start Partnership will
host the 15th annual Week
the Mind World Finals. Eden
ton-Chowan Schools has
participated in Odyssey of
the Mind for decades; the last
team from the district to make
it to the World Finals was in
2008.
“Achieving this status is
quite an accomplishment
and one these students have
worked countless hours pre
paring and practicing for,” Ste
vens said. “However, (making
it to the) World Finals will not
be possible without the sup
port of local businesses, fam
ily members and friends, who
we are asking to provide any
amount of monetary dona
tions so that we can support
our Odyssey of the Mind par
ticipants.”
Stevens asked that anyone
interested in donating to the
team’s trip to Michigan State
to contact her at (252) 287-
of the Young Child Children’s
Festival at the Perquimans
Recreation Center, Saturday,
April 22, from 10 a.m. to
12:30 p.m. Event will
include petting zoo, games,
car seat checks. Contact:
482-3035.
Dine Drink & Dance
Historic Hertford Inc. and
the Hertford Rotary Club will
host the annual Dine Drink
& Dance event on the
marine dock in Hertford
Saturday, April 22, from
6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Purchase
tickets at www.
historichertfordinc.org.
terested can mail donations to
the following: Edenton-Chow
an Schools Odyssey of the
Minds, Team 1 Problem 1:
Pirates and the Treasure, D.F.
Walker Elementary School,
125 Sandy Ridge Road, Eden
ton, NC 27932. Stevens asks
that all checks be made pay
able to D.F. Walker Elementa-
ry-AIG.
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