May 2005 The Shoreline Page 3
A Red Letter Day For Red Hat Ladies
April was a busy month for the Red Hat Ladies. On the first day of the month, April Fool’s Day, the ladies of the Pine Knoll Shores Chapter of the Red Hat Society
met (above) at the Bountiful Bagel for their monthly gathering to enjoy a luncheon spiced by fun, games, prizes and those obvious big red lips.
Then, on April 12 at the Board of Commissioners meeting (photo at right), Mayor Lamson presented to Pauly Brown, queen mother of the Pine Knoll Shores Red Hat
Ladies, a proclamation officially designating April 25 as Red Hat Society Day in PKS. Queen Mother Brown, in turn, presented Mayor Lamson with a red hat and honorary
membership in the Pine Knoll Shores Chapter.
Members cherish the spirit of the Red Hat Society, which has more than 37,000 chapters worldwide. All of the chapters celebrated Red Hat Society Day on April 25 with
appropriate proclamations by governmental units in their area.
George W. Smith
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Beach, Smith was a key player in this
project, which eventually led to construction
of the road and making Salter Path more
accessible to the outside world.
George Smith was awarded a contract
to transport eight high school students from
Salter Path to the Morehead City School for
the sum of $40 per month. Smith was a
Justice of the Peace, a local leader in the
Democratic Party and also known for his
quiet generosity to those in need. He was
known by everyone as “Uncle George” or
“Captain George”.
Charles M. Smith, George’s grandson,
will soon be petitioning the N.C. Department
of Transportation to erect dedication signage
in front of Days Inn in Atlantic Beach and
at the town-limits of Pine Knoll Shores and
Indian Beach designating that portion of
Highway 58 on Bogue Banks as the “George
W. Smith Memorial Highway”. The
proposal will not cause any renaming of the
highway within the various municipalities.
On April 4 the Carteret County Board
of Commissioners wholeheartedly endorsed
this dedication. Earlier support was received
from Pine Knoll Shores, Atlantic Beach
and Indian Beach. The Pine Knoll Shores
Board of Commissioners Resolution was
adopted on March 8
Ronnie Smith said, “My grandfather
was a Lewis and Clark type, a guy ahead of
his time.”
Life at Town Hall
What dya know?
By Mayor Joan Lamson
George W. Smith was 87 when this photo
was taken in 1969
There is a popular Public Radio program
called “What d’ya know?” hosted by Michael
Feldman. On the program, the host asks topical
questions of the participants. Most of the
questions refer to items in the recent national
news and with lots of good humor, participants
attempt to answer the questions from muUiple
choice or “just plain answers.”
My question for you is: what do vou know,
and how do you happen to know it?
Calls or emails come into Town Hall every
so often with a question or a concern about
something someone has heard. Often the
question will have something to do with a
decision the town has made about this or that,
or that something has been done and the caller
wonders why. We get calls about changes in
ordinances, zoning questions, personnel
changes, meeting schedules, waste pick-up
changes, changes in the tax rate, revaluation
schedule, policies, procedures, and practices
and “why did you do it that way?.”
First of all, we welcome the questions. (My
home phone is 240-3110.) We want to know
what you want to know. We want to hear what
your concerns are and we want to know if you
feel you might not have the whole story...or
that you think you have heard the whole story
and you disagree with us. Everyone on the
staff at Town Hall can answer many of your
questions and he, or she, will be happy to
forward your call if you need more information.
In this day of high-tech communication,
we not only get our information from the
newspaper, whether it be the Carteret News-
Times, the J’Ville Daily, the News and
Observer, the Gam, People Magazine, the
Purple Page, the Yellow Sheet, the Mullet
Wrapper, the Diffuser, or the Obfuscator, the
radio, the back fence, or observing a town
meeting, we also get it from TV, radio, the
Internet, voice mail, email, and the local pub.
Many of our citizens are retired (or still
involved) from positions where they have
learned to analyze data and turn it into
information. A lot of our citizens have superb
intuition skills. This is the good news. The
other side of the coin is that sometimes
assumptions are made about a situation that is
just not so, or that enough background
information is not available to lend a full
understanding to the issue. This is from whence
rumors are born.
If you have a question about an issue, if you
have heard that something is “by golly” so, if
you wonder why we made the decision we
made (which we might not have made yet),
please check it out. If you did not hear “pros”
as well as “cons”, you probably did not hear the
full story. Call us.