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BY SUSAN USHER r
Brunswick County's fast-growing r
south end may soon have another a
volunteer fire department, which t
would serve the Grissettown- d
Longwood area.
A second meeting to gauge interest <j
in the department will be held tonight c
(Thursday, Aug. 8) at 8 p.m. at the I
Alcoholics Anonymous Building at d
Grissettown. t
"We're in real need of one (a fire I
department,)" said spokesman
Malcolm Grissett. "We're in a little
dead area, a circle." \
The area he referred to lies within 1
no specific fire department's rated (
uisii lei, ne saia. r ire aepartmenis at f
Sunset Beach, Ocean Isle, Shallotte.
Waccamaw and Calabash all respond c
to calls in the area. r
"Sometimes we call one, ?
sometimes another?anybody who \
can get there the fastest. They all
respond," said Grissett. "Tliey do a c
fantastic job." f
But, he said, those who favor a fire i
department hope it would speed r
Beach Access
Aimed At Lo:
BY BILL MCGOWAN C
Seasonal visitors may not have any c
trouble finding the town of Holden v
Beach. But finding their way to the <
water and strand once on the island is 1
another matter entirely. !
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Action taken by the town's com- t
missioners Monday night, however. <
should clear up the situation, at least
for those out-of-town vistors who rent i
cottages, apartments or con- <
i dominiums. s
Upon the recommendation of |
Mayor Kenner Amos and a motion by <
Commissioner Hal Stanley, the body (
voted unanimously to allocate $400 ,
from the fiscal 1985-86 operating (
budget to have public accessway
maps designed and printed. Commis- |
sioner Jim Griffin was not present at |
the meeting. \
The maps, which will list street |
names, also will Include the locations
of all public accessways to the ocean |
on Holden Beach. i
According to Mayor Amos, the !
maps wilf be distributed to all
realtors. When someone checks in i
and picks up the key to a cottage, he |
said, the realtor can hand that person
a map with the appropriate ae- <
cessway for that particular rental \
clearly marked. i
"New renters are not told where <
their accessway is when they come in |
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esponse times and lower insurance
ates. With such rapid growth in the
irca, he added, people are beginning
o acknowledge the need for another
lepartment.
District 1 presently includes fire
lepartments at Calabash, Wac:amaw.
Ocean Isle Beach and Sunset
leach. The county has 17 established
lepartments and two in the organizaional
stages. Northwest and
Javassa.
An initial organizational meeting
ras held last Thursday, involving ony
Grissettown area residents and
bounty Commissioners Chris Chaplell
and Herman Love.
"We got some good response. We
:ould see a lot of interest there,"
loted Grissett. "If response is as
;wu iruin nit" ixjngwooa community,
re'll be in good shape."
Longwood area residents have
liscussed the possibility of their own
ire department for a year or longer.
V fire department was on a list of
leeds established by the non-profit
iway Maps
st Tourists
in Saturday and Sunday," Amos told
ommissioners He said that many
isitors are unaware of where the aclessways
are or even that they exist.
l'he problems occur when tourists,
ind residents of the area, do not have
his information and end up cutting
hrough yards and lots to get to the
trand, he said.
In addition, many visitors and local
esidents alike are unaware that
.tate law prohibits access to the
itrand over dunes not covered by a
joardwalk. Vacant lots, on which
lunes are usually uncovered, are
jftcn inviting parking lots for those
mfamiliar with state and local orlinances.
According to town Administrator
Sob Buck, the map will be designed
jy Satilla Planning Associates of
Woodbine. Ga., the same firm which
prepares the town's land vise plan
Buck said 1,000 mapswiU bet
printed. The estimated cost of
designing and printing the maps is
H00.
"I think this will help a great
deal," Amos said immediately
following passage of the measure.
While commissioners discussed
distributing the maps to tourists
through local realtors, no mention
was made of how to reach visitors
who do not rent or live on Holden
Beach.
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>d Discuss
Tonight
Longwood Community Improvement
Association, which meets monthly at
Flowers' Store.
Grissett said tentative limits for
the fire district would extend along
Old Shallotte Road to Grissettown
and out to the Thomasboro area,
along N.C. 904 from Sea Village
development in the south into the
Longwood community and to a
mobile home development on Four I
Mile Road.
Final lines won't be drawn until a ?
housing count is received from the
Brunswick County Planning Department.
Grissett said the service area boundaries
will probably exceed the fiveroad-miles
limit for insurance rating
purposes, which means that all
residents of the proposed district
might not qualify for reductions in
fire insurance premiums once the
department is established.
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Organizers are also looking into
sources of funding, possible sites for
a fire station, and incorporation as a
non-profit organization, all of which
could take six months or longer,
Grissett projected.
Interested persons who can't attend
tonight's meeting or who want
more information are asked to contact
Grissett at 754-8565 (days) or
579-6599 (nights).
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Hurricane Bob had its influence on i
area weather in July, giving 1
Brunswick County one of the wettest I
months so far this year, the National I
Weather Service in Wilmington I
reported. 1
Total rainfall for July reached '
10.34 inches at the New Hanover
County Airport, or 2.9 inches above I
the normal amount, but still well 1
below the wettest July on record
which is 21.12 inches in 1886.
There were 15 days in July with
Key Volunteers
Koy Mintz of Shallotte and 1-arry
Boyer of Yaupon Beach were key
alumni volunteers who helped the
N.C. State University Alumni
Association raise almost )1.5 million
during the association's fiscal year
just ended, according to a news
release from the university.
Book Honors Long
To honor Sally I-ong for her support
of the I.eland branch of the
Brunswick County Library, an
anonymous friends has donated
"Above Ixindon" to the book collection.
With Alistair Cooke's learned commentary
and Robert Cameron's
splendid aerial photographs, "Above
l.ondon" Is a birds-eye view for
tourists and armchair travelers
alike, said library Director Maurice
Taylor.
"Above London" may be reserved
by calling the Iceland Branch library
Wednesday through Saturday.
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at Holden Beach. Apparently someone
street sign is missing from Its pole. 1
doubt, by some jokester.
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mcaau!tauiu tullllilll mill live luiys
luui over one inch of rain. Most of the
heavier rains fell during the latter
part of the month with 2.47 inches the
greatest amount in a 24-hour period
an the 24th und 25th, the monthly
report states.
"July was also hot. The highest
temperature was 98 degrees on the
tenth which tied the record in 1926,"
the NWS report states. There were 1
hIso 17 days when the temperature
reached 90 degrees or above.
Average temperature for the
month wan B\.A degrees, or
degrees above normal, with the
lowest temperature of 66 degrees
recorded on the 19th.
During July, there were only two
clear days, 13 partly cloudy days and
16 cloudy days. The average wind
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speed was 7.8 mph. with Die fastest
one-minute wind speed 20 mph
recorded from the south on the 23th
and a gust of 41 mph recorded on the
same day.
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Girl's Condition
Said 'Fair'
A six-year-old West Columbia,
S.C.. girl who fell from a pickup truck
at Ocean Isle Beach last week was
reported in "fair" condition Tuesday
at New Hanover Memorial Hospital.
"She's on the mend," said Public
Information Officer Robert McClure.
Ashley Nichole Wooten was
transferred to New Hanover from
Brunswick Hospital last Tuesday
night, her condition listed as critical.
She and her family were vacationing
at Ocean Isle at the time of the
afternoon accident, when she fell
from the rear of pickup truck
operating on Second Street.
Equal
Employment
Workshop
Topic
An equal employment supervisor
will conduct a workshop on equal
employment Wednesday. Sept. 11,
from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. at the public
assembly building, Brunswick County
Government Center.
"Everyone interested In equal
employment practices and equal
employment treatment are asked
and urged to be present," said
spokesman Jesse Bryant.
Bryant said the event is sponsored
by a group of concerned citizens in
the county.
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through the Carolines.
"However, it managed to produce
strong winds and very heavy rains in
.southeast North Carolina," the NWS
report states. "Early Thursday morning,
the wind gustcd to over 80 rnph
along the Brunswick County
beaches."
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