Pamlico County High School IWFA Plans Fishing Tournament See Page A10 ...go to page A8 Vol. 51 No. 36, 16 Pages The Pamlico News Wednesday, September 4, 2019 Your County News Source Since 1968 www.thepamliconews.com | 50 Cents PCHS Teacher Juanita Riggins: Arrested Living With Hurricane Florence District Attorney Scott Thomas All Hands and Heart said Kara Ann Walton, 33, of Pamlico County has been charged with Felony Sex Act With A Student One of the groups of volun- teers in Pamlico County that and Felony Indecent Liberties With is helping victims of hurri- A Student. The warrant alleges the cane Florence is All Hands date of offense to be March 24, 2019 and Heart. It operates com- through June 11, 2019. The warrant pletely by volunteers and runs was issued on August 19, 2019 and on donations. It has been in Walton turned herself in to be served Pamlico County working with with the warrant on August 23, 2019. victims of hurricane Florence since early June. At this point, they are running one program in Pamlico Walton appeared in Pamlico County County and two in Texas one in Puerto Rico and one While Mr. Albert Gibbs of last week was some- Court on August 23, 2019 for her in Florida. Two in Mexico and two or three about to what a success story, that is not the case with all first appearance. The next court begin in Nepal. And by the end of this year we will stories dealing with Hurricane Florence. Many date is September 6, 2019. At the open a school rebuilding in Mozambique and Peru. victims of Hurricane Florence are still living in time of the alleged conduct, Walton All Hands and Heart began about two years ago, their dilapidated homes, or with family or friends was a teacher and coach at Pamlico in 2017. “It was a merger of two different organiza- tions of volunteers, All Hands Volunteers and Happy because their homes are uninhabitable. One County High School and the victim Hearts Fund. And both of those started in the wake and all their fishing boats had been destroyed. And such person is Mrs. Juanita Riggins who lives in was a student at the school. Walton of the 2004 southeast Asian tsunami so that would it just so happened that one of the spontaneous so the Grantsboro area. is no longer employed with Pamlico be a little over fifteen years ago. The one, All Hands called unskilled laborers knew how to build boats. When riding by her Volunteers was started by this guy David Campbell County Schools. And so David set out to buy materials to build boats house, all looks nor- a retired internet businessman and he had been District Attorney Thomas said, and spent several months preparing and rebuilding traveling in Thailand and met a friend for lunch and mal; but when you “ Pamlico County Schools notified fishing boats for this community. They named the while came back to the US. Then a few days later, he are invited inside Sheriff Chris Davis in June 2019 of boats after people who had donated money to them got a call from the friend he had lunch with to told the house as I was, or whatnot of family members who had been lost possible activity involving a teacher/ him that everyone he had lunch with that day in the in the tsunami. So he went back to the states and you see devastation coach and a student. Sheriff Davis and restaurant was dead. The same restaurant they had thought it was all done. Then came along Katrina everywhere. All Hands and Hearts have been in his investigators initiated an investi- just eaten in. The flood waters had come through and he decided to do the same thing and he went to and have begun helping Mrs. Riggins with her and destroyed the place and he was really touched gation and worked closely with my New Orleans and that is when he founded All Hands home, but there is a lot left to do. I’ll let her tell and decided to go back to see if he could help. When office during the course of the inves- Volunteers. It became this volunteer power orga- he got there he found these big organizations the you some of what happened herself. “Well, we left tigation. Pamlico County Schools nization to go to communities after a disaster and Red Cross, and others and they all turned him away, the night of the storm, we were scared, we left. just start inquiring what to do. and over the next cooperated with the investigation. saying, “We don’t want you. You don’t have the My daughter and all of us we packed up and we fifteen years has developed into an organization with Based upon the evidence obtained skills.” He was a businessman not an architect or a more structure . So that is All Hands Volunteers. went up to my son’s house and stayed up there. during the course of the investiga- doctor. He was a good Samaritan but did not have One half of the organization we have today.” He lives in New Bern. Derby Park Avenue. So expertise to help, so what he did was set up a web site tion, we have charged Walton with The second half of that merger was Happy Hearts we stayed up there for that whole night when it where he called for donations and all his business the Felony Sex Act With A Student Fund. “The other half was the Happy Hearts Fund was really, really bad raining and all. The lights connections called for volunteers who were like him, and Felony Indecent Liberties With which came out of the same disaster. And was not skilled to come to Thailand. A group of about cut out and everything. It was just terrible. I’m A Student. We will be submitting founded by this woman named Petra Nemcova who 20 or 30 people came and they started asking what scared to death of storms and I’m scared here of was a super model of the Chech republic . and she Bills of Indictment on these charges kinds of help were needed and they found this vil- the trees falling. But I’m still in a trailer, I’m still was in Thailand at the time of the tsunami who had to the Pamlico County Grand Jury in lage where the entire livelihood was based on fishing her fiancé at her fashion event sometime or another scared and we come out you know because it is the near future. Due to the nature of Continued on Page A3 scary and we stayed there and then from there we the charges and the status as a pend- came back home the next day when it was over and ing case, we will not make further everything was quiet we came back and the cabinet comment on this case at this time.” was down, the water was all on the walls, dripping down on the walls, everything was wet and soaked. Hurricane Dorian I knew to go, I knew to go. Because I’m scared of the trees because a tree fell here and a tree fell here It’s That Time of Year Again: Hurricane Season where I was in the back, but like I said, it missed With many families still dealing with Hurricane the houses, it missed the houses, what we were Florence from last year, the thought of a hurricane worried about. If we were asleep in the middle of coming through the area this year is a nightmare. AmeriCorps NCCC So many families in Pamlico County have not got- the night and something hit you and I have stayed, Team is Serving with All Hands and ten their houses back in order, many are not even living up front here I did stay in this house when Hearts-Smart Response living in their homes, and some are living in their they had a storm, but no trees were here. That was ARAPAHOE, N.C. – All Hands and homes but with a lot of damage which still has not years ago. Hearts' mission is to effectively and been repaired. Just what we need at this time of our “Our yard was full of water. It didn’t come up efficiently address the immediate lives, Hurricane Dorian. For a while, it looked like in the yard, but the ditches was so full. They were and long-term needs of communi- it was going across Florida, but now, it is coming up overloaded. And they were all coming up but ties impacted by natural disasters. the east coast, threatening eastern North Carolina area. All preparations should be complete. Evacuate nothing like you couldn’t step in it to get out of it. immediately if so ordered. An AmeriCorps National Civilian including the us and the Outer Banks. It wasn’t no flood water or nothing like that. The We hear of a Hurricane Watch and a Hurricane The 2019 Atlantic hurricane season is an ongoing Community Corps (NCCC) team is water came from the top. I guess from the edges Warning. What is the difference? Both are serious. event in the annual formation of tropical cyclones engaging in debris removal, mucking Hurricane Watch means (sustained winds of 74 mph in the Northern Hemisphere. The season officially or whatever. And it was like the wind lifted it, the and gutting, and sanitizing homes or greater) are possible in your area.