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SATURDAY, MAY 13, 2023 ‘'News from Next Door” $1.50 @ SCAN ME PAGE 2 Inter-County Fire District fire rating improves to 5/9E PAGE 3 Perquimans spring volleyball, soccer champs, runners-up PAGE 4 Milot: Rep. Cotham showed courage to leave Dems. Will others? 7,600 attend Graham visit in Edenton Sunday High school grieves student’s death, honors his memory PHOTOS COURTESY BILLY GRAHAM EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION Evangelist Franklin Graham addresses a crowd estimated at 7,600 at the American Legion Post 40 Fairgrounds in Edenton Sunday afternoon. Graham’s Edenton visit was the final stop on his six-city “God Loves You Tidewater Tour.” According to the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, more than 135 churches across the Albemarle Sound region worked to help organize Graham’s local appearance. FCA to host ‘18 Days for 18’ prayer services for Winslow BY REGGIE PONDER Staff Writer Family suffered a trag ic loss this past Friday with the passing of Collin Winslow,” PCHS Princi pal Mickey Drew posted on the school’s Facebook HERTFORD — Perqui mans County High School and the entire Perquimans page over the weekend. “Collin was a Freshman at Perquimans County High School and he was also the community have been cop ing as best they can with son of Mrs. Holly Winslow who is the Assistant Prin- the tragic death of 15-year- old Collin Winslow, a fresh man at PCHS and catcher on the school baseball team, according to school and community leaders. cipal at Perquimans Cen tral School. Collin was a member of the football, baseball and hunter safety teams at PCHS.” Drew noted that the “As you may have al ready heard, the Pirate See MEMORIAL, A6 REGGIE PONDER/THE DAILY ADVANCE A hundred or so people, mostly Perquimans County High School students, teachers and school staff, gather in a circle on the baseball field at the high school before the start of classes Tuesday for the first of “18 Days for 18” prayer services for Collin Winslow, a 15-year-old student and catcher on the baseball team who died in a hunting accident Friday. Winslow wore No. 18 on his baseball jersey. Evangelist spoke at Post 40 Fairgrounds Edenton final stop on ‘God Loves You Tidewater Tour’ BY PAUL NIELSEN Staff Writer EDENTON — The Rev. Franklin Graham ended Graham visit draws busloads from churches Several hundred accept Graham’s offer to accept Christ BY VERNON FUESTON Staff Writer EDENTON — Franklin Graham came to Chowan County Sunday, bringing his trademark message of Christian salvation and a big dose of showmanship that kept more than 6,000 people his “God Loves You Tide water Tour” in Edenton Sunday where he invited people to surrender their lives to Jesus Christ at the end of a passionate sermon before a crowd of 7,600 at American Legion Post 40. enthralled for two hours. Graham, one of Amer ica’s premier evangelists, is also familiar to many as a frequent commentator on national news channels and the head of Samaritan’s Purse, a worldwide disaster relief agency. Most of the people at Sun day’s final leg of Graham’s “God Loves You Tidewater Tour” came from Chowan and surrounding counties, A large crowd filled most of the fairgrounds over two hours before the 4p.m. start for an event that also included live mu sic by the contemporary Christian music band the Newsboys and musicians Marcos Witt and Dennis but the signs on church buses in the parking lot in dicated many had traveled from across eastern North Carolina. The atmosphere was electric compared to most religious services. Four art ists played music for the crowd, including bluegrass, Spanish gospel music, and contemporary songs. The musical highlight of the evening was a performance Agajanian. Graham told the crowd that one of the most im portant messages they will ever hear is that “God loves you.” Several hundred peo ple later accepted Graham’s See GRAHAM, A6 by the Newsboys, whose thumping, upbeat, gospel rock sound brought many in the crowd to their feet. Many stood, arms out stretched in a gesture of spiritual rapture. Others reclined on lawn chairs, taking the message in. The crowd was diverse, with both young adults and se nior citizens standing and See FANS, A6 Hertford woman charged with murder in husband’s death Sheriff: Knife used in Coke’s May 3 death on Stokes St. From staff reports HERTFORD — A Per quimans County woman has been charged with murder after her husband was found dead following what the county sheriff said may have been a “do mestic” incident. Shaunell Miller, 44, of the 300 block of Stokes St., Hertford, was arrest ed Wednesday, May 3, and charged with second-de gree murder in the death of her husband, Ronnie Coke. She remained at Albemar- MILLER Ie District Jail this week in lieu of a $450,000 secured bond. A c - cording to a press re ¬ lease, the Perquimans County 911 Center received a call for a “well-being check” in the 300 block of Stokes Street, Hertford, at 12:16a.m. Wednesday. When depu ties responded they found Coke deceased at the res idence, the release states. See MILLER, A7 Fueston to report for both Herald, Weekly. Cole offers tips on restoring fiscal health From staff reports A former reporter for the Chowan Herald has re turned to take over reporter duties for both the Chowan Herald and The Perquimans Weekly, according to Pub lisher David Prizer. Vernon Fueston officially began his new duties with both publications on Mon day, May 1. 6 " 89076 47144 Vol. 88, No. 19 WWW.PerquimansWeekly.com @2021 Perquimans Weekly All Rights Reserved Fueston has more than 15 years ex perience as a journal ist^ He has written for The Daily FUESTON Advance, Our State Magazine, the Virginian Pi lot, The Perquimans Week ly, the Williamston Enterprise, and The Daily Reflector. He 2 has also been a long- time contributor to Eastern Living Mag azine and is a former See FUESTON, A7 Hertford manager addressed other towns on LGC watchlist BY REGGIE PONDER Staff Writer HERTFORD — Hertford Town Manager Janice M. Cole told a group of lead ers from other towns on the N.C. Local Government Commission’s watchlist last week that a dual focus on people and processes had enabled her town to make great strides in getting its fiscal house in order. In a keynote address at a gathering of towns on the LGC’s Unit Assistance List held in Williamston, Cole began by recalling the dys functional shape of town government in Hertford in COLE the years immedi ately prior to her be coming in terim town manager in January 2022. Meet- ings were lasting into the early hours of the morning, yet noth ing got accomplished, Cole said. Because of conflicts on the council, the town administration was in dis array and “everybody was doing their own thing,” she said. “So one of the first things I had to do was kind of bring everybody in: ‘Only one person can talk for the town of Hertford, and right now that’s me,”’ she said. At times citing entries from a diary she had kept during her early days as in terim town manager, Cole — whose “interim” tag was dropped by Hertford Town Council a couple of months ago — recalled the feeling of coming into the office the first time and beginning to comprehend the magni tude of the task before her. Cole said you eat an ele phant one bite at a time, but she had a lot of elephants on her plate when she start ed the job. The first task was to get the town’s finances in order, she said, and several part- time accounting profes sionals were brought in to get on top of record-keep ing and other critical tasks. “We had no documenta tion,” Cole said. One key development that helped was the No vember 2021 election. “I’ve had a very, very good council to work with,” Cole said; noting new coun cilors had been elected in November 2021 and they have supported the chang es that needed to be made. Cole said the town coun cil now works cooperative ly. Council members don’t simply rubber stamp her recommendations, but they trust her to do her home work and present careful recommendations backed by accurate data, she said. “It has really been a plea sure working for them,” she See COLE, A6
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