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Opinion Page THE BRUNSWICK&BEACON riuwiifu Swfalt and Carolyn H. Sweat! Publishers Edward M. Sweat!, Editor Susan Usher .Vetcs Editor Terry Pope Staff Writer Johnny Craig Sport* Editor Mary Potts Office Manager Cecelia Core Advertising Representative Tnmmie Galloway Typesetter Sieve Anderson Pressman Hill McGowan Photo Technician Clyde and .Mottle Stout, Jim Ballon Circulation l?af{?' 4-A Thursday. April 11.1985 Any Delay County's Loss To the dismay of some local residents and the delight of others, the State of North Carolina has decided that a Rocky Mount company, Autumn Corp., should be allowed to build a nursing home in Brunswick County. Autumn was chosen over Beverly Enterprises, whose plan had been recommended by popular vote of a regional health planning agency's board. The health planning agency's staff had initially recommended Autumn, but a wellorganized show of public support for Beverly and/or a Supply location apparently swayed the board and earlier, its review committee. Beverly has vowed?as is absolutely within its rights?to appeal that decision, to "tie up" the case as long as is necessary for its cause to prevail. That's too bad. Tying up this decision will only hurt the people who count most. While these two companies are slugging it out in Raleigh, perhaps even in the state appeals court, the real losers will be back home in Brunswick County. Why ? Because the state estimates an appeal will bike not 30 to 00 days, but one to two years to resolve?especially if the case winds up in the courts. In the meantime, no one will be allowed to build a nursing home in this county. Brunswick County people will continue waiting for a nursing home to he built somewhere?most don't care exactly where?within the county. Some patients arc in private residences in situations that are depleting family resources of time, energy and money; others have l>een forced to take space as it becomes available in nursing homes a good distance from family and friends, also a hardship. Nursing home ownership and management apparently is a lucrative business?so lucrative companies are willing to make sizeable expenditures on community organizing, public relations and legal battles to secure the certificate of need necessary to build a nursing home. Lucrative enough to make a drawn-out fight worthwhile. However, bath Beverly and Autumn are nrofessional hi'iiltli cure providers, so it seems they would be concerned about the people they serve. If so, it should be obvious to Beverly that a speedy settlement is in Brunswick County's best interest. So why not let the building begin? Write Us The Beacon welcomes letters to the editor. All letter! must bo signed and include the writer's address. Under no cir eumstances will unsigned letters be printed. I-etters should bt legible. The Beacon reserves the right to edit libelous com incnts. Address letters to The Brunswick Beacon, P.O. Bo: 470, Shallotte, N.C. 28459. The Answer May Be "Carrying Capacity"! One of the important principles of ecology governing the interrelationships of plants and animals and the ?j| environment is that of "carping capacity -the ability of an environ- j Dill ment to provide food and shelter to snpport a species jBfhjj^SrA rOVGT Carrying capacity is easier to uiHterstand in relation to a forest community Hie plants in the forest provide food for plant-eating insects important. Predators depend upo which, in turn, provide food for birds "surplus" individuals for their foo I no number oi birds tn tlx* lorest will and to establish their place in th depend upon the availability of in- food chain When too many predator sects, trees ami shrubs for nesting, move tn because of an abundance < and predators. When all Is In food, the food supply ts quick) "balance", each species of bird will diminished and the balance i usually find a territory and will fight broken Hits causes the predators t off bints of the same species, but will cither move on to another arra whet be content to nest beside birds of a food Is available or to become weal different species. Since they are not susceptible to disease, aixl to penal tn competition. they pose no threat Ttus same ooix-epl can be appltc even itxxieh they may all eat insects to the Kthiopian hunger crisis I aixl even feed on Uw same tree Africa With the continued increase Some species spcclaUre. such as tn population and the overuse of Ian the woodpeckers who dig into the the environment there has exceed* tiark of trees for insect larvae They its carrying capacity In strictly no pose no threat to the warblers who humanitarian tenns. nature's sol! ar*? urultlx In wnhn IKm K?rl ?'? i? * ? " ? *" ? r. ??. ?? uw u nBiw-surraum, qiw?s must pick off Injects from the leaves and death until the balance ami branches of tree* reached once *?ain Carrying capacity also applies to We do not need much una?inaU< oceans and marshes We can expect to apply Uu> same idea of carry u only the number 0/ fish or crabs or capant> to our island beaches Sw* clams that the food supply and the %rr can only take care" of so mat conditions of the environment will people without affecting the heal support Since all species, in order to and quality of life of everyone. \i insure survival, must reproduce need to determine the carryu more oft span* than could ever sur- capacity " of th'.s specialired e vtve In an environment, the role of vironment for birds, plants, mat the predator becomes increasingly ma Is. and the ewrprcsent humans l ? Playing " Somebody is just stopping by the side of the road and lighting them," said Brunswick County Emergency Management Coordinator Cecil Ix>gan last Thursday afternoon. It tiad been Sunday since Ixtgan had managed to get a full night's sleep, joining numerous county volunteers who have been fighting set woods fires for more than a week. "Supply (Volunteer Fire Department) has been out every night since Sunday," he added. "They've had a hard week to go through." Ix>gan was back in his office monitoring the N.C. Forestry Service's radio that gave reports of spotting another wildfire near Maco. He looked tired, he even said he was tired and was planning to go home and get some rest. With luck, there would be no more fires to battle, no more homes to worry about, for at least eight hours of the warm, spring night. Unfortunately, it appears that most of the fires that have been scorching Brunswick County's wooaianus Those LittU and plowed the little patch of garden behind the house this week. Sounds simple, doesn't it? But it wasn't. It's amazing hoy complicated little things can get. He almost didn't do it. I'd promised to be home Thursday night. Uliucia'taiiuciuiy, he took that to mean "on time" as in 5:30 p.m. I straggled in at closer to6:30 p.m., driving the Beacon von because mv car was at the shop and Eddie had given me a ride to the office and loaned me the van. After waiting nearly an hour, Thorfoorne was ready to leave?the tiller clearly in view in the back of his truck. The garden was also clearly in view and it loooked just like it had that morning weedy and flat. He obviously had no plans to till unless I was there to appreciate ii. Jennifer and Kelly, my nieces, had scribbled a note and stuck it in the door: "We came to see you but you were not here so we went home. Mother wus sick so we went home." Yep, the girls and their Dad had 5 5 Re j Wrii ; Disc Buy Maki Pay 5e < n d f s y is You can cc ?. Consumer lnf< aloa to turn v n Ideas that he! i lems and t world. r>? The Catalog li: " federal public; ? for Many are and they cov topics. The C ih ^ ] A pubic* O y/JBJ ft. \J U S G<n? With Fire's for the past couple of weeks have been deliberately set. Two fires were deliberately set along N.C. 211 near Supply on Wednesday night and another one on Camp Branch Roau was ruled deliberately set Thursday, Ix>gan said. Another fire was getting ready to blaze on Stone Chimney Road Thursday night while 1 was on my way to the county 4-H talent and fashion show in Bolivia. I stopped and put it out with a piece of cardboard I had in the trunk of my car and my size eight tennis shoes. 1 The strange thing about the whole i incident is that 1 had just spent 3 Things Ad Susan V;- $ Usher had to turn around and take Carol home because she was sick. j Well, these folks had been promised supper in exchange for the long- I delayed tilling?cither lasagne or i pastisto, the only casseroles that | didn't require another trip to the grocery store While the ingredients for pastisto < are as simple as can be. it takes a 2 while to assemble the casserole and I then bake it. You have to boil < noodics, brown meat and onions auu < make a custard sauce, layer the stuff I and bake it 45 minutes. It should I stand another 10 minutes before serv- < ing. Well, before the noodles were cook- 1 ed, Thorborne had finished the tillHow to sa' Fix your car. Q Choose life insuran< elect a home comput :move mildew. Shape te a resume ^e, over parks. surplus lane e a job chang for an educat lect a mortgagt " Ihoose a lawyer. ^ Check for breast ca Cut down on sodii Control your bl Help your kic Protect yo Lose somi Grow tor Keep re Get bei >unt on the jw,. ormation Cat- j&KpS ou on to new r\ caK/o r?rr?K_ righten your sts more than 200 itions you can send free, all are helpful, er a wide variety of onsumer Information jrvoe Ot this cuHckW ire trm momviei^ Center o* tr* ' iU-?K Not Coo!, I Thursday evening in I<ogan's office alking about what kind of sick perion would start a fire that would hreaten lives or homes. Three hours ater, I came within a minute of passng one deranged person who ap>arently had set the fire on Stone Jhimney Koad. At first I couldn't believe I was ac.uallv seeing flames shooting up rom the brush and straw across the iitchbank. I stopped, looked for soneone who may have been burning iff thoir nronortv saw no one. and igured I'd better put the flame out. Even with a burning ban in effect, ;he first thing that crossed my mind ivas tliat somebody was out burning )ff their property. When a burning jan was issued during a previous ash of wildfires last month, residents continued burning off projerty, gardens or trash piles, taking 10 notice to the warnings. The fire along Stone Chimney Road liad apparently just started burning?it was only about a yard wide which makes me think I was just a d Up Fast ing. By the time the sauce was done he had loaded the tiller. We sat in the living room for another 45 minutes, Kelly worrying all the while about the homework she'd left in Winnabow and Thorborne thinking about all the Dther things he had to do. Jenniier, on tlie other hand, was having a great time. No homework, no responsibilities, she was enjoying TV. But like Kelly, she was worried about her Mom. So they called Carol (probably waking her up), only to be told she was "doing just fine". Would a mother ever fib to a child over the phone? When the pastLsto came out of the 3ven, there was no waiting for it to settle. We dug in like starving hoboes. And what with everything ?lse, it figured: After that long wait, jiic of us didn't like it I -ittle Kelly sat there pushing her fork around and finally ate some jello and cottage :heese. But the tilling was done?and in lime for Easter weekend planting. Thanks, Thorborne. ve. Jog. uit smoking. :e. Get a patent. ;er. Apply for credit -u>. Buy a telephone i \Reduce choleste ^ Void drug reacti< ^ntrol cockroacl \ Choose a ho V" V T Prevent sunbt \nrtf a rnn ir \yv> v. u wii jvj .^-g-small business incer. Buy an IRA. im. Save energy, ood pressure. Is to study, ur house, i weight, natoes. cords, lefits. ?Center of the Services A ?"'P puts the Cat ~ ii*** quarterly to n get the most formation. So send for a c< some light on your free for the asking. Just write? Consumer Irtformati Department LB Pueblo, Colorado 8' But Sick minute away from passing an arsonist. It had started across the ditch in a patch of heavy undergrowth and straw, about 15 yards from the roadside which makes me think it had been set rather than from a cigarette. Especially since it was in the same area where others had been set on Wednesday night. It made me about five minutes late for the 4-H program, where I wandered in with smoky tennis shoes and still bearing a sweaty forehead. A fire about a yard wide had made me so nervous, so fearful that someone might confuse me for the arsonist as 1 was putting out the flames and yet so mad that someone had done such a thing. I began thinking of what I should do. who should I call or report the incident to. Hopefully, Cecil I>ogan was Hv nmi* at hie hnmo fast aslppn. at last getting a break from all of the fires. The arsonist, I'm sure, had already learned of the outcome of his deed and had swallowed at least one defeat in the name of humanity. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Players Applaud Beacon Coverage To the editor: The Board of the Brunswick Players wishes to thank you for all the fine and complimentary coverage you gave 1 Annie Get Your Gun" in The Brunswick Beacon. Because of your publicity we had large audiences both nights and your kind remarks following the play made the entire company know that they were appreciated by the community. Tricia Foy, SecretaryBrunswick Players Good Coverage To the editor: See enclosed check for annual subscription. We enjoy your newspaper's good coverage of all concerns in your area. Mrs. John M. Williams Charlotte e. rol. ?ns. hes. use. jrn. b. U.S. General (imiriiQtratinn alog together nake sure you up-to-date inDpy and shed problems. It's ion Center >009 I
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