THE BRUNSWICK&BEACON Edward M. Sural! and Carolyn II. Sweaii Vublither* Edward M. Sweatl. Editor Susan Usher.. JMMt *ew? Editor K'. Terry Pope S**ff ?Wrer Johnny Craig Sport? Editor m.c u_.._ /!//: u.. iTMiry rora. ? . . mv. ? ? . . . ir*anag*rr 1 .'hrryl Stanley & Cindy Morrin. .Adveriisin# Representatives Tsmnile Gslio?ay Typesetter Steve Anderson Pressman Clyde and Maltie Stout. Jim Bailou ClrcuJstior, 11sWHHBBHMBBMBBPIHMWRJIMbRMBIMBHBBBBBBHSI Page 4-A Thursday, January 24,1985 County's Already Won The Gold Rush Of '85 The gold rush of '85 will soon be history. Six firms nave been prospecting in Brunswick County, eagerly seeking permission to build 105-bed nursing homes here. One will soon strike gold. Still in the running are Beverly Enterprises, with regional headquarters in Maryland, and Autumn Corp. of Rocky Mount. One the national giant of trie industry, the other a North r-y 11 i 1 r: a._ i i. p. ?i.. 1.1 ^aronna-uaseu iinn; one warning 10 lueaie 111 ouppiy, me other in Shallotte. One with corporate ties to the firm that leases the Brunswick Hospital, the other without. Both with excellent reputations in their field. The N.C. Division of Facility Services will decide who gets 'mining rights,' based in part on a recommendation from the regional health planning board. Several months of work developing community support paid off for Beverly last week with a stack of endorsements, while Autumn has just intensified its efforts. l>ast Wednesday, because there was evidence of ' widespread community support from a!! over the county." a majority of Cardinal's project evaluation committee supported Beverly over Autumn, the firm recommended by the health professionals on the Cardinal staff. The questions boiled down to one: Shallotte or Supply? With a split vote on record and a minority report due Wednesday, Beverly's position at the top of the heap was precarious going into the meeting, just as Autumn's had been a week earlier. Cardinul was faced with making a tough choice; a close vote was predicted. Regardless of which company Cardinal recommends, Brunswick County already lias won. It is one of only three counties allocated iongterm care beds in the suite medical plan after a moratorium on nursing homes development was lifted July 1, 1984. It was allocated the most beds, 100, clear recognition of the increasing proportion of senior citizens who live here and of the number of nursing home patients forced to seek care outside the county. We're going to get the beds and they're going to be near most of the people?give or take six tniies in one direction or the other?not up on Juniper Creek or over near Dark Branch or In Wilmington or WhiteviUe. And several ways have also been identified for Southport to gain some of the skilled care ucun vei y ttiuCu iiccviC'u in that community. It's an all-win situation tor Brunswick County?as long as the competing factions keep it fair and friendly. Di iilrlinr\e An/Vt CCn^tTUCtiCTi ii; JinlcVuvH PllttinO number and site of bedrooms may get residents to at least seriously consider the pollution problem. Bedroom lunitations and lot coverage will not hurt the beach, if anything it will temporarily help. However, town officials should not give up on discussing the longterm solutions. The time may come sooner than expected when Founder's tears become a reality, and the town receives a disturbing message from the health department concerning now Kanvn COT^lT''CtlOTj s I'll Never Although I grew up surrounded by soybeans, corn fields and wooded areas in a county (Brunswick) loaded with hunters, I've never had the desire to join those who find pleasure in .shooting deer or other animals. For me, there has been no middle ground in trying to understand the "game" or "sport" of hunting, although I tried hard to find it as a youngster. I've found that either you hunt and enjoy it, or else you dislike hunting and grow to dislike it more everyday. I even went as lar as to get a .410-uauge shotgun for Christmas one year, which I have rarely used since then except for target shooting in the backyard. There were opportunities to use the gun, but I could never gain whatever it takes for the hunter to null the trigger and declare the kill a "sport." Neither could I find an authority to tell me that hunting was wrong, or else the right thing to do if you were an able-bodied male living in tbe country. The desire to hunt seemed to derive from one's genes, and I didn't seem to possess a particular trait for hunting. Instead, for one full summer, I H tf B Worker* were uu?y Sum week 5cuS span* in place for Ocean Isle Beach' _J__ >1. -T-U ~ I (At: ? |????* i ttai < ui tuf^t a m npa barge on (he Atlantic Intracoasta! Wi week, were hoisted onto tractor tre quick trip up the causeway. ^ Once I nVatU foncr??!c yUlur*. U|?* UHOa w?*?* 1^ nmma^rnrnJ* I ?~7* I BE Calendar Thursday, Jan. 24 PEACH TREKS ordered in May I Agricultural Extension Service can hour public meeting on peach tr Brunswick County Extension Office unclaimed ones will nut be stored. .M OTION AND COVERED-DISH DP munlty Watch Association, at the ment, 6 30 p.m. TIMBER OWNERS MEETING spons Woodlot Committee to discuss sellu Agriculture BuiUlinit. Brunswick Ci Friday, Jan. 25 BRUNSWICK COUNTV EXTENSION night program, public assembly bu Center, 6:tS p m Reservations nee GAME NIGHT at the American leeior US. 17. R p m Snhirrtsv .Inn. 26 v T HtKRKCt'F. PIATKS will he sold by merit 11 a m to 6 p.m., $3.50 pee p coeds (to to the department OPES AUDITIONS continue today ? . Show. 3 p.m. to 6 pm at the school, fee u chanted GAME NIGHT resumes at the Calabt day, Keb. 1. (t 8 pro and continues notice Monday, Jan. 28 CAUUSI TOWN rot Ntlt. meets I pm BRUNSWICK COUNTY BOARD OK sesstcn at the social services depar Center. J 30 p m Wydsssdsy, Jan. JO BRUNSWICK TO ASTM.VSTV.RS. CU Restaurant. Snu'hport. 7 a :r. J a iess, jTo-SCua vs ese-2353 Understaric F I /* ) spent my afternoons walking to a ' soybean Feld behind my parents' house in Maco. It wasn't hunting I season then and every afternoon, in 1 one corner of the field, several deer i would come to eat. There were a i buck with a huge rack of antlers, a 1 doe, and several fawns. ! it was like watching a family. I'd ' walk around the edge of the field and i the deer would often stop to stare at me. Although I was within shooting I range, they didn't seem to bother, < and would only run if I tried to get too I close. i Eventually, we began to wonder i wny me uog wouiu Dars ai nigni ana < we found deer tracks behind the < house within 100 feet of the dog pen. The deer had started to wander into i my father's garden to feast on field ' SSSht f TY // Bridge Spans Arrive ng the concrete ihe trucks by craoc s new 65-ft. high workers atop the co ? I-.J? ? I j- anfurnj* j u siarr fhoios by viMv fori c c . . li s lauuvei uua guinea in piaee i;y ncrcte pillars (below). The action *<. .? ? l.. ?u~ _*??a ni nun ui poaatri aruj wiw hiuppvu C Saturday to view the moment, le bridge and a similar one at -hcduled for completion in early II ti U MMBMBBm b BHHI w HjBjpHBHBnBng li v KmSS 11 S5S| a< I f( L-J "" ' a Commissione With Departr Brunswick County Commissioners } were to begin meeting individually ; with county department heads ( Wednesday at 1 p.m., beginning with | County Manager Billy Carter. j Commissioners had asked that the ] appointments be scheduled back to ' back through the remainder of the J day. "as long as it takes." The purpose of the sessions is to establish ! lines of nnthnritv and ' tion. to discuss mutual expectations ' and to acquaint commissioners with ' the responsibilities of each department. At one-hour intervals, the last of the IS sessions would have begun at 6 am Thursday However. Chairman Chns Chappell said the toard would meet with as many department heads as time ? -J tl* - a J... It _ 11 a CUIVWIM nruiiccstn;. u au wtit ir.n j seen, interviews would be reschedul- | ed. Department beads were to be "on standby " to meet with the cocncius- | .doners | t_ - < JI>1 - a? rt?a? *?- -* ? u: MttUUl U> IC1 , V-AOt uue io meet with commissioners were David Cleu. county attorney; Rr-gma White, clerk to the bcwrd, Robert .Smith, cafeteria manager. Nancy Moore, tax collector, Perns Price, public bousing. Regtna l r's Mind f; ehards, the movement has expand 1 to include thousands of people who irass hunters and scare away atential game. Some blare tapes in le woods. Others spring animal aps or spray scent to confuse Jgs." Last fall, when authorities anaunced plans to implement a lottery i award 800 permits for deer hunting 1 a Florida wildlife refuge, such iti-huriting groups mailed in hunreds of permit applications. When le hunt had ended, only two deer ad been killed. In response to such tactics, one .o.ior ronlipd in the February 1985 sue of "Omni," "Hunting is a leans of caring for animals as well s putting food on the table. Surely iere aie ytfupie wuu give limiting a ad name, but this is true of any acvity. "My advice to these do-gooder nti-hunters is to stay out of my neck [ the woods where I am hunting gal'v I might mistake one of them >r a ten-point buck." How nice and how horrible of an atluue iu take. There may be no midle ground, and I may never undersinu the mind of the hunter. ETTER TO THE EDITOR Marooned, Yes; Abandoned, No o the editor: As a permanent resident of Sunset each, I simply must thank the many ersons who saw to the prompt jpair of our bridge. From the Department of Transporition workers who helped me haul roceries and my two-year-oia from le mainland to the island, to Town lanager Wallace Martin who phond to advise us about school transporitioh for my son, everyone was ourteous and so helpful that, Ithough we were marooned here at le beach, we certainly didn't feel bandoned. Brunswick County Emergency oordinator Cecil Logan and the eparuueni 01 transportation otriais handled tiu* entire sihmiinn in way that assured us and our eighbcrs that we were protected ad tiiat complete and speedy at tenon would be given should any ledical or emergency, need se. Of course, thanks are in order to P le many who volunteered their me. their boats and assistance to le people living here. The Sunset each Volunteer Fire Department, 'aecamaw Rescue Squad and many idividuais whs worked throughout le chilly weather to give us rides cross the waterway and keep us in)rmed. certainly illustrated what eally meant. Since moving here last April from ietroit, my family and 1 have enjyed tlie friendliness and hospitality f Brunswick County. During Huricane Diana and this bridge indent, we imve found iiie spii it of Cuttr s*ir?rlvH ??rv 1 ser%*iee here a these times of need. We're certainy glad to have made our home here mong you Anne Marie Schettini Sunset Beach >rs To Meet I rient Heads ilcKeithan, data processing; Dan ! ihields, engineer; Kenneth Hewett, vater plant supervisor; John larvey, plamung director; Ellouise tuss, housekeeping supervisor; Maor White, landfill director; Darry _ j iomersett, mosquito control direcor; Bobby Jones, parks and recrea- H An T rt? 1 - ? - - ?' - ?? ? lervice officer; Cecil Logan, irnergency management coorlir.ator: and R.C. Diion, building tnd grounds superintendent I \/cr> ! bCIUI IVJ V I u Sets Barbecue 1 Leland Volunteer Fire Department grill hold a barbecue dinner Satur- j| say. Jan 26, from 11 am to6 pm at the department, located on old U.S. 14-76. ? Spokesman Jack Spencer said each (3 plate mil include chopped pork I barbecue, coleslaw, potato salad and hushpuppies and a choice of tea or coffeeTakeouts are available. Orders of five or more plates wiQ be delivered anywhere in the county, sold ? Spencer, by calling 371-7TZ7 Proceeds go to the fire department | I