THE SHORELINE- Volume V Issue 2 Editor's Comer Jim and I both hope that your holidays were exactly as you hoped they would l)e. Since last time we have experienced the most depressing weather, oh for a solid week of sun! How About Those Cowboys! January is over and Heart Month is here, Ground Hog Day. St. Valentine’s Day, Abraham Lincoln's Birthday, George Washington's Birthday and Jim Peirce's Birthday. Jim told me one time that good people are bom on George Washington's Birthday, George and people named Jim. Happy Birthday Darling! Love Ellen February 1993 ♦♦♦ 2nd Notice! Yard Waste Pickup Beginning January 1,1993, the restrictions placed on depositing yard waste in the sanitary land fill will become effective. Waste Industries, the contractor that collects for the Town, will be allowed to continue accepting yard waste after that date but it will be collected on the last Tuesday of the month. Yard waste cannot be mixed with any other type of gartiage nor can it be in any type of disposable trash bag or box. It can be deposited in trash cans or left on the ground near the street where it can be collected by the Town's contractor. Yard waste is defined as solid waste consisting of vegetative matter resulting from landscaping maintenance such as pine needles, grass, limbs and trimmings. Limbs and similar items will be accepted only if bundling and in lengths of four feet or less. Major lot clean up and brushing will not be collected by the Town's contractor and will require arrangements between the property owner and his or her contractor. R. L Blanchard Streets & Public HAPPY HEART MONTH! ^ The Retired Senior Volunteer Program ^ ^ (RSVP) ^ ^ of Carteret County cordially invites you to ^ M All Proceeds will go to the ^ Retired Senior Volunteer Program attend the 5th Annual RSVP -AFFAIRS OF THE HEARr Fund Raiser Dinner Dance Dance to the "Southemaires” Catered by "Creative Cafe & Catering" of Havelock BYOB Silent & Live Auction Social Hour - 6:00PM-7:00PM Dinner - 7:00PM Dancing-8:00PM-10:00PM $15.00 Each Call 2474366 Pine Knoll Shores Accomplishments in 1992 1. Solving the stonn waters drainage problems on the East end of PKS by having T.A. Loving Company on stand-by to assist in pumping storm water away from the homes when needed in an emergency with pemiission from DEM. 2. Getting legislators. State and Federal, to introduce a bill and to pass the bill, to address the correction of the Department of Interior Rood maps enx)r. Error has been made on the ma^)s in 1990 that restricts Federal Flood Insurance in areas which were otherwise designated protected areas. 3. Carolina Water Service Company final rate increase of 3.8% rather than the original rate hike of over 23%. 4. Resolution sent to Carolina Water Service Company requesting that reasonable steps be taken to bring the water quality into compliance with ERA regulations. IT ¥ ^ 5. Pine Knoll Shores to be included in the ^ county preliminary study of water and ^ sewer. Service District to include Cape ^ Carteret and all of Bogue Banks, except Atlantic Beach. 6. CRS certification and a 5% decrease in Flood Insurance premiums. 7. Reflective street name signs and sub divisions in cooperation with the county Emergency 911 program. 8. Organization of a Municipal Reference Library using the conference room with various pamphlets, books, brochures, relating to State and Federal Agencies, code and ordnances, and other interests

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