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V QUIMANS EEKLY "News from Next Door" SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23,2023 $1.50 ^ SCAN ME Page 2 Perquimans volley- ball suffers first loss of season Page 6 More than 70 artists to show work at Arts on Perquimans Inside Our quarterly magazine fea tures pump kins, ghosts, fall events Town to explore historic district for West Hertford Va. firm hired to conduct study for historic status REGGIE PONDER Staff Writer HERTFORD — Hertford town officials are exploring a pos sible historic district designation for an area in West Hertford. Hertford Town Council voted unanimously last week to accept a proposal from Landmark Preservation Associates to per form the work needed to secure the designation. Town Manager Janice Cole rec ommended the Lexington, Virgin ia-based firm conduct a study in preparation for applying for an offi cial historic district designation. Landmark’s work would cost the town between $24,000 and $26,000, with the final amount to be determined in negotiation with the town. Cole said she had been told to expect a fee of530,000, so she was pleased with the proposed amount. Dan Pezzoni of Landmark Pres ervation Associates states on his website that he “provides archi tectural history and preservation consulting services”and has done work “from the East Coast to the Mountain West in states as diverse as Nevada and North Carolina, Kansas and West Virginia.” According to the website, the firm’s clients include homeown ers and municipalities seeking assistance with historic designa tions like the National Register of Historic Places, which is what the town of Hertford is hiring Land mark Preservation Associates to help with. Other clients include “business owners planning the rehabilitation of a historic building; historical organizations in need of research and editing for their architectural history; and archaeologists and architects in need of an architec tural historian as a team member.” In another matter, the town council approved a preliminary resolution for financing the pur chase of a new fire truck. Cole said the town has been try ing to buy a new fire truck and has identified one at a price of 5650,000. She recalled that the council had indicated it plans to take half the cost of the truck from fund balance and seek a loan for the remainder. More DISTRICT | A9 All in the toss Jones not seeking reelection in ’24 to Corprew crowned cornhole champion REGGIE PONDER Staff Writer HERTFORD — Hert ford resident Wayne Cor prew is a senior division world champion in corn- hole. Corprew won the senior singles world championship this summer at the Amer ican Cornhole Organiza tion World Championships in Owensboro, Kentucky, during the last week of July, “It gets bigger every year,” he said recently of the world championship tournament, noting that the senior sin gles category this year drew 97 contestants from all over the United States. Corprew said he plays cornhole as often as he can. “I play most weekends,” Corprew said. And he also participates in a weekly cornhole event at Kin’Folk Axe Throwing in Elizabeth City. The event at Kin’Folk Axe Throwing in fact has led to an increase in the number REGGIE PONDER/THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY World champion cornhole competitor Wayne Corprew of Hertford demonstrates a motion used in the sport. Corprew won the senior singles world championship this summer at the American Cornhole Organization World Championships in Owensboro, Kentucky, during the last week of July. Perquimans board of good players in the area, he said. Corprew said cornhole continues to become more and more competitive. “It has gotten harder every year,” Corprew said. “Everybody is getting good. Cornhole is getting very popular.” MoreCHAMP | A9 REGGIE PONDER Staff Writer HERTFORD — Call- ing his 12 years’service as a Perquimans County com missioner “a privilege,” Kyle Jones has announced he will not be seeking re-election next year. “I knew almost immedi ately after I won (re-elec tion) in 2020 that this third four-year term would be my last,’’Jones said in a statement last week. “Years ago in a political campaign strategy class,! heard a speaker point out the fact that we can always get more money and more resources, but the one thing we can never get more of is time. It’s the one thing that, because it is so finite and fleeting, we have to be sure to use wisely, so I’m trying to do that.” Jones has served as vice chairman and chairman Perquimans deputy resigns after arrest for DWI, reckless driving ofthe six-mem ber board at vari ous times during his ten ure. He said heappre- ciated the work that county commissioners who served before him did to keep the county on sound financial footing. Jones said he has sought during his own 12-year tenure to avoid microman agement and to practice “good boardsmanship.” I “If it wasn’t for the peo ple that helped me, I would’ve been a lousy com missioner,’’Jones said. “I thought about thank ing everyone by name, but I knew I’d inadvertently leave someone out.” More JONES | A9 Citizen calls for animal welfare rules REGGIE PONDER Staff Writer HERTFORD—A local resident has written a letter to Perquimans County offi cials urging the adoption of rules to protect animal wel fare in the county. 6 "89076 47144 Vol. 88, No. 38 WWW.PerquimansWeekly.com @2021 Perquimans Weekly All Rights Reserved Mary Vidaurri sent a let ter to the Perquimans Board of Commissioners follow ing the board’s work ses sion last month on the topic of animal welfare.The letter was included in the agenda packet for the commission ers’Sept. 5 meeting. “The current ordi-^ nance is totally inad equate and does not address animal wel fare,” Vidaurri’s letter states. Vidaurri noted that Hertford and other towns and counties in North Carolina have adopted animal welfare regulations. She mentioned in partic ular a provision some com munities have adopted that addresses animals “being left outside to suffer in extreme heat and cold” as an example ofthe kind of regulation that should be included. “Perquimans County must join this movement,” she said. The town of Hertford has regulations pertaining to dogs, and they include the following provisions dealing with the humane treatment of dogs: “The owners of dogs shall provide humane and sanitary shelter from heat, cold, rain, wind and snow and shall pro vide food and water adequate to keep the animals in good health and comfort. All dogs shall be given opportunity for vigorous daily exercises and shall be provided by their owners with veterinary care when needed to prevent suf fering. No person shall poi son or maim a dog nor may a dog be abandoned.” More RULES | A9 JULIAN EURE Managing Editor HERTFORD — A Per quimans County sher iff’s deputy who crashed his personal pickup truck into two parked vehicles while off duty has resigned following his arrest on charges that included driv ing while impaired. Deputy Spencer Tyler Wentz resigned on Sept. 12, three days after his arrest by the N.C. High way Patrol on charges of DWI and reckless driving to endanger, a county offi cial confirmed last week. Wentz, 23, ofthe 700 block of Lake Road, Hertford, was arrested Sat urday, Sept. 9, following an accident in which his pickup struck two parked vehicles on Grubb Street in Hertford. Neither vehicle was occupied at the time, and Wentz wasn’t injured in the accident. According to a diagram ofthe accident in a High way Patrol report, Wentz’s 2021 Ford pickup truck was traveling about 35 mph north on West Grubb Street when it went left of the center line shortly after 5 a.m. and struck the right rear of a van parked on the other side ofthe road. * More DEPUTY | A9
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