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Hodges elected Hertford mayor; Rouse, Waters win seats
White elected Winfall
mayor; Cunningham,
Ormond win seats
FROM STAFF REPORTS
HERTFORD — Ashley
Hodges won his bid for mayor
in Hertford on Tuesday while
Preston White won his mayoral
bid in Winfall.
Hodges, a sitting Hertford
town councilor who serves as
the council’s mayor pro tern,
defeated first-time candidate
Reginald White 313 votes to
192 votes, or 61.61% to 37.8%,
Cunningham Hodges Ormond Rouse Waters White
according to unofficial results.
Preston White, the mayor pro
tern of the Winfall Town Coun
cil, defeated first-time candi
date Jimmie D. Ritter Jr. 121
votes to 51 votes, or 69.54% to
29.31%.
Meanwhile, first-time candi
dates Keith Rouse and Rhonda
Waters finished first and sec
ond for two open council seats
in Hertford, outpacing former
town councilor Gracie Felton,
who finished third, and first-
time candidate Virginia Harvey,
who finished fourth.
According to unofficial
results, Rouse garnered 343
votes, or 34.3%. Waters col
lected 300 votes, or 30.03%.
Felton finished with 200 votes
or 20%, while Harvey had 155
votes, or 15.52%.
In the race for two seats on
Winfall Town Council, incum
bent Christopher Richard
son lost his bid for election,
finishing third behind first-
time candidate Arnetta
Ormond and incumbent Cyn
thia Gale White Cunningham.
According to unofficial
results, Ormond collected 103
votes, or 31.9%, while Cun-,
ningham garnered 102 votes,
or 31.68%. Richardson finished
with 77 votes, or 23.91%. There
were also 40 write-in votes cast
in the race, which was 12.42% of
the total.
Total turnout in Perquim
ans County for the two elections
was 40.51%, according to the
N.C. State Board ofElections
website.
Community champions
Hertford group
wants police dept.,
Community Watch
PHOTOS BY REGGIE PONDER/THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY
The Albemarle District Ruritan Convention on Nov. 4 recognized members who have 50 or more years of service through
their Ruritan clubs. Pictured (l-r) are Don Gregory of the Gates Club; Ambrose Staples, South Mills Club; William Chappell,
Durants Neck Club; Carlton Smith, Shawboro Club; James Burnham Jr., South Mills Club; Barbara Snowden on behalf of
the late Wilson Snowden, Currituck Club; Walton Carter, Coinjock Club; Richard Williams Jr., Newland-Providence Club;
Sam Casey, Currituck Club; Donald Madre, Bethel Club; Roy Chappell Jr., Bethel Club; and Harvey Roberts, Shawboro Club.
REGGIE PONDER
Staff Writer
HERTFORD — Three
successive days of gun-
fire in the town ofHert-
ford — including shots
that entered houses and
struck vehicles — has
spurred a group of cit
izens already concerned
about crime and violence
to seek restoration ofthe
town’s police department
and creation of a Commu
nity Watch program.
Vera Riddick organized
a Stop the Violence rally
Saturday in the park at the
intersection
of Hyde
Park and
King Street,
not far from
where some
ofthe gun-
fire has
White occurred.
“There has
been a lot going on in our
community,” Riddick said
in comments at the rally.
“There have been a lot of
shootings going on. There
have been a lot of things
that shouldn’t be going on.”
More HERTFORD | A7
Ruritans’ charitable work celebrated
Phyllis Lewter,
2012 Ruritan
National
president and
an officer in the
Great Bridge
Ruritan Club in
Chesapeake,
Virginia,
addresses the
Albemarle
District Ruritan
Convention at
Hertford Baptist
Church, Saturday,
Nov. 4. The district
includes Ruritan
clubs from six
area counties.
REGGIE PONDER
Staff Writer
The Albemarle District
Ruritan Convention Sat
urday night celebrated the
charitable work being done
by Ruritan Clubs in six area
counties.
Phyllis Lewter, the 2012
Ruritan National presi
dent, said in her address to
the convention in Hertford
that Ruritan clubs address
important issues such as
hunger, health care, and
veterans in need.
Lewter talked about some
ofthe desperate situations
many veterans face, includ
ing homelessness and var
ious challenges related to
health care and housing. She
mentioned veterans endur
ing hardships such as living
in their cars.
“These things are happen
ing right here in the Albe
marle District,” Lewter said.
Ruritans are confronting
those situations by help
ing veterans with housing
deposits, rental payment
deposits and other assis
tance, she said.
More RURITANS | A3
Courts going to
e-records system
REGGIE PONDER
Staff Writer
Area counties will
transition to searchable
electronic court records
— and electronic fil
ing of court documents
by attorneys — early next
year.
Courts in 12 North
Carolina counties —
including the District
1 counties of Camden,
Chowan, Currituck,
Dare, Gates, Pasquotank
Tilley
and Per
quim
ans — are
upgrad
ing to a
new digital
case man ¬
agement system on Feb.
5. The counties are listed
by state court officials
as “Track 3” ofthe state
wide implementation.
More COURT | A7
Thach: Lady Pirates have no reason to hang their heads
CHRIS DAY
Multimedia Editor
Perquimans’ Lady Pirates
volleyball team finished the
season 26-4 overall after
falling 3-2 to the Falls Lake
Firebirds in the N.C. High
School Athletic Associa
tion’s 1A state playoffs east
regional championship,
Tuesday, Oct. 31.
The Pirates, who ran
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through the regular sea
son by posting an unde
feated 12-0 Four Rivers
conference record, entered
this year’s playoffs as the
region’s No. 3 seeded team.
They played host in their
first four playoff matches
but traveled to Creedmore
to face No. 1 Falls Lake in
the regional championship.
Falls Lake advanced to last
Saturday’s 1A state cham
pionship but lost 3-0
to west region champ
Polk County, the No.
2 1 seed from Colum
bus.
Falls Lake opened
the match by beat
ing the Lady Pirates
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25-17 in the first set. Per
quimans responded by
winning the second and
third sets 25-21 and 25-23.
A 25-22 winning effort by
Falls Lake in the fourth set
forced a fifth set, which the
Firebirds won 15-10.
Perquimans head coach
Kristie Thach described
the match as a “true east
regional championship”
that “lived up to the hype”
ofboth teams’ fans. It was
an intense match in which
the players on both sides
“gave everything they had,”
she said.
Thach said her team sim
ply got outplayed in the
first set.
“We didn’t play our game
and really weren’t in it,” she
said.
In the second set, senior
Lady Pirate Mary Wood
ard made about 14 con
secutive serves to help the
team win, Thach said. The
Pirates were able to carry
that momentum into the
third set.
More VOLLEYBALL | A7
CHRIS DAY/THE DAILY ADVANCE
Perquimans'Daven Brabble (13) watches the ball after hitting
it over the net during the Lady Pirates'3-0 win over Pamlico
County in an N.C. High School Athletic Association third round
playoffs match at Perquimans,Thursday, Oct. 26.