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r Twenty fifth Yeor. Number More Than L.I //CTf sJIIUIIL There will be plenty of cnterta over 100 units will be featured in t Tlie parade starts at 10 a.m. at down U.S. 17 and end at Hill's-Jone. town. To allow parade units to line t block off two roads to all but p. Stovall. They are N.C. 179 (Villagi U.S. 17 and Bluke Street from U.S Then, at 9:30 a.m., the parade end stoplight to the Smith Avenue traitic and vehicles rerouted aionj Officers will be stationed at i flow of traffic during the parade. "We look forward to the publ wilt enjoy the parade again this y< Following the parade, Santa v away candy and the Brunswick Coi sent awards for its pet costiune co Participants entered in the pa nine beauty queens; 12 fire and res troops: the South and West Brum saddle clubs; ponvpom and baton various businesses; skateboarders A talking school bus and sever be featured and the Cedar Grove G ing float". Town and county elected offici Commiss Will Disci BY SUSAN USHER Seven projects recommended for county water line extensions at a total cost of $9-15,100 will be considered by Brunswick County Commissi ners in a joint meeting with the UtlUtio.. Ononitiop Hoard on Tuesday. bee.at 7:30 p.in. Commissioners delayed action on t!;c item at their meeting Monday night, when reorganization was the 'first item of business on a lengthy agenda. v?. .1 ?iu.|ui. i.i-i..ij i.uuiuiii, commissioners elected District 5 member Grace lieasley as the board's first woman chairman. She was the current vice-chairman. Then, on a motion by outgoing Chairman Chris Ciiappell, commissioners named I.udlum vice-chairman. Both were unanimously approved. "It's a respoasbility 1 don't take lightly," said Beasley, adding, "It's my first adventure into chairmanship. You'll just have to be patient will) me." She and Chappell changed places Holden Boc Annexatior BY ETTA SMITH Holden Beach commissioners voted Monday tu meet joint!) witli Uie town's planning and zoning hoard at a.m. Monday, Dee. 8, to discuss an annexation information study the latter board conducted recently. The study is designed to give commissioners a suggested area should they ever decide to annex the causeway area north of Holden Beach, according to Town Administrator R.W. Buck. Buck said the town has no intention at this time of annexing the area. The study is not to recommend annexation, or to not recommend it, said Buck, hut to provide information should the question come up. He was not certain of the precise area targeted by the study. The question of annexation came Combinati IiY ETTA SMITH A combination of astronomical tides and nolo force winds temporarily closed the Sunset Beach Bridge and at least one street Tuesday and caused erosion along the beaches in Brunswick County. The high tides, common to the area during late Novcmhor and early December, were given an extra pusli 100 Unite >fte Parade inment for everyone Saturday when he Shallotte Christmas Parade. Shallotte Middle School and will turn s Shopping Center on Ihe north end of jp, at 8:30 u.nt. Shallotte Police will [trade participants, said Chief Don e Point Road) from Sellers Drive to . 17 to N.C. 179. route itself?U.S. 17 front the south stoplight?will be closed to through | back roads. ill ntajor intersections to direct the ic's cooperation and hope everyone :ar," said Stovnll. fill be at the shopping center to give uiij munuii nciiuiviAJUguc winpro ntest rade as of Tuesday morning include cue squads; Brownie and Boy Scouts iwick High School marching bands; twirling squads; mud track trucks; ; roller skaters and old cars, i professionally decorated floats will ospel Choir will return with its "singials also will ride in the parade. ioners, Utilijss Water P at the dais, but after a trial fitting, kept their same swivel chairs. Board members voluntarily retained their current board and coimnittee assignments. Water Projects Robert Nubel, iiewly-olected chairman of the utilities board, presented the list of recommended projects to commissioners Monday night, as had been requested. Commissioners took no action, instead asking for the joint meeting. The utilities board also recommended the county require man utiiuij iiuur*u|? in me ureas served and that property owners be asked to pay their assessments in full within tiO days after water service is available to them. In this way the funds could l>e replaced in Uie revolving fund quickly for use in other projects. Commissioners Jim Poole and Prankie Habon spoke out against mandatory hook-ups. while t'happell said he didn't like the idea, but that the system had to be paid for. jrds Will Disci 1 Study Of Ca up approximately four montlis ago when some residents of the causeway area asked Hep. E. David "Butch" Hedwine to introduce a bill in the June 1986 legislative session to form a new town called North llolden Beach in that area. Hedwine said he introduced the bill, but dropped it after considerable controversy arose concerning the move. Following that move, some residents of the area asked about the possibility of annexation by llolden Beach rather than creating a new town. It was at this time, said Buck, that the planning and zoning board began considering the study in case the town was ever asked to make such a move. The study will determine exactly what area would be feasible for an on of Wind, to the coast by two strong pressure systems located both north and south of the shite, according to the National Weather Service. Ocean Isle Beach Mayor IjiDane Bnllington said erosion returned conditions on the east end to where they were Ix-fore the town's most recent efforts at erosion control. In recent i years the town has installed a series Shollotle. North Carolina. Tl Corn mi \A$I v irui^>"i i BY SUSAN USHER Water sales will account for less tlian a third of a revised water system budget of $7.68 million approved by Brunswick County Commissioners Monday. Most of the budget will be made up by a $5.2 million subsidy from the general $25.1,000 from prior years. The primary source of general fund revenues is county property tax revenue. Commissioners adopted the budget and a new rate structure Monday night after returning to open session shortly before midnight following a two-hour closed door session. The executive session was requested by the county attorney and county manager to discuss a broad range of items-property acquisition, litigation. attorney-client matters and personnel. The county anticipates $2.1 million fy Board rejects Selection of the seven projects, narrowed from a list of more than 100 communities grouped by engineering feasibility, was based on a ranking system that look into account the average cost of installation, the number of structures, and the number of parcels served. Seasonal and permanent homes were counted equally. Only projects that were situated within short distance of a rnnntv trunk lino u*nr?? I'niiciHnnul in this first round of projects, said Nuhel. Any requiring trunk line extensions, elevated towers or pumping stations were omitted. In its ranking system, the utlilities board eliminated from consideration petitions or letters requesting water for a particular community because they were of such "varying character." Nubel said. However, public opinion is expected at the hearings required on the projects before their adoption. Listed in order of priority, the communities and estimated project costs (See SELECTED, Page 2-A) JSS useway nexntion, the services Hint would be made available by the town, the cost to the town, and revenues the town could expect to receive from such a move, according to Mayor John Tandy. "The commissioners asked the planning and /.oiling board to do this study after a number of people said they didn't want to lie annexed. Hut if they are, they want to be annexed by the Town of Holden Beach," continued Tandy. "Then, of course, there are some that don't want to be annexed at all." According to Buck, if the study demonstrates tluit it's not advisable for the town to proceed with annexation, the idea will be dropped. "But," he added, "if the town ever wanted to annex, we would liavc to liave the study anyway." High Tides ( (?f wooden-piling groins at angles along the beach on the east end, plus had the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers pump dredge spoil on the beach. Hay Street was underwater, she said, and a few boats flip|>cd over. On lloldcn Heueh, several oecanfront boardwalks were upturned, and there was noticnhlo erosion on the ICKil uirsday, December 4. 1906 ssioners Budaet B ? ? iii water sales, based on sales at its current rate through November, and after higher rates go into effect this month. Expenditures include $2 million in repayment of general obligation and revenue bond principal and $4.1 million in interest payments, plus $2.03 million in operation and maintenance costs. The budget reflects a delay in the start-up of the Northwest Treatment Plant and a delay in the start-up of Congcntrix's new plant at Southport from spring to fall 1987. Suit Settled The county had operated the water system under interim budgets .since July 1, pending the settlement in October of a federal utility rate discrimination suit filed by Pfizer Inc. against the county in 1985. Following months of complex negotiations, the two have signed a new 10-page contract that continues # kmt\ fa&sffliiti * i.-- "" CA1JIRASH is Retting ready for the ti the Calabash Christmas Boat Par; Above, Bill George and Rnb Gross Veterans of Foreign Wars bring out th to decorate the town's "Tree of Giv Hunger Walk A walk against hunger has been added to the line-up of activities featured in the Calabash Christinas Boat Parade, scheduled Sunday from noon until 4 p.m. Volunteers will walk from the Thomasboro Crossroads to Calabash Sunday, Dec. 7, beginning at 1 p.m. The cntrv fee is $25 per person, with proceeds going to help feed needy area children over the holidays. Walkers may pay their own entry fee or sign up sponsors. The person who collects the mast money will receive a free boat ride in the boat parade, as well as other prizes. More information' is available from the Bruaswick County Volunteer and Information Center, co-sponsor of the four-mile walk. The boat parade itself will l>cgin at 4 p.m., instead of 5 p.m. as previously announced, according to organizer Sonin Stcveas. A $5 or larger entry donation per l>ont is required, with a plaque to be awurded to the bestdecoratcd boat in each of two Causes Floo east end of the island. (.'aswell Reach Road on Caswell Reach was covered with tide waters, forcing relocation on Monday night of an N.C. Symphony concert scheduled in Hatch Audotiriim and temporary closing of the road on high tide. Mnnscll Bennett, maintenance supervisor for the state Department of Transportation, said Caswell 25c Por Copy Will Sub y $5.2 A/ through June 3ft. 2020 and supercedes I'fizer's 1973 contract. Under the term* (if llie neu- rnn. tract and the settlement, which Pfizer Plant Manager Robert Nubcl said was a compromise among the parties involved, the county's water operation is recognized as a single, unified system. Previously rfi/ei had contended Phase I/I-A and Phase II were separate entities ami that its contractual obligations extended only to Phase I and 1-A. At the same time, however, the county's rate structure was determined to have been discriminatory as regards its varying contracts with wholesale water users such as Pfizer. Also, the county is obligated to furnish water that meets Pfizcr's standards of purity as spelled out in the new contract and to adjust pH with specified chemicals. Pfizer had previously been under contract to buy a certain quantity of olidays?and (or Kleetrie Membc ade ou Sunday. Tuesday inornin of the Calabash week. George to| c lights and bells year ago. Ing." Brunswick Added To Cala classes?up to20 feet aiul 21 feet to 40 feet. Registration forms are available at Moore's Grocery, Simmons Beverage Mart, Randy's Pork Center. Inlet View Marina, Sheffield's Marina, Ocean Isle Marina and the South Brunswick Islands Chamber of Commerce office in Shallotte. Beginning at noon, a variety of booths will offer Uarhceue. hotdogs, popcorn and other snack foods as well as arts and crafts, bingo, bake sale and cake walks. Live entertainment will include afternoon performances by The Stanleys, a rock band from Shallotte. festival for a 4 p.m. drawing for a videocassette recorder, color television, 10-spced bicycle and a microwave oven. On Saturday, Nov. 6, at 7 p.m., at the Calabash Volunteer Fire IX'partnient, a Little Miss Reindeer and a little .Miss Fawn will be chosen. Santa Glaus is expected to attend. ding, Erosic Reach Road received no structural damage although it was covered by about two feet of water. A lot of sand washed onto the road, he said, and the water made it impassable fur about two hours Tuesday morning. Bridge operator Tom Hewitt said the Sunset Beach Bridge was also closed because of high water levels on high tides both Monday and Tucs\ 30 Pages Plus Supplements sidize Million water per month regardless of whether it was used, in effect under writing part of the cost of Phase I. As ol this month, all customers will only pay for water actually consumed. Customers that do not use county water exclusively can also he hilled an "availability charge." According to letters to municipal officials from County Attorney David Clegg. this method of rate assessment is equitable and nondiscriminatory. He adds; ' It places the Brunswick County Water System on firm legal footing for the anticipated growth of the retail and wholesale market due to completion of the Northwest Water Treatment Plant and accompanying transmission lines." I wo rates will apply. A wholesale rate of $1.20 per 100 gallons will be paid bv all municipalities and industries. said Clegg. (See WATER, Page 2-AI ^ !f- ' ' * ... jfe. rship Corp. helped string the lights g for lighting sometime during the |ipcd the tree with a cross he made a bash Festival Admission to the pageant is $2.50 per person. Each queen will receive a $50 gift certificate, crown, bouquet and portrait. First rumicr-up in the Little Miss Reindeer pageant will receive a $25 gift certificate and a doll; second runner-up. a $25 gift certificate; and third runner-up. a $10 record cer Fawn's first nmuor-up will get a bathing suit of her choice and a doll: the second runner-up, a FJo gut certificate; and third runner-up. a $10 gift certificate and a Teddy bear. There will be prizes for all who enter tlie pageant, said Ms. Stevens. The prizes have been donated by local inerctiants and banks. Contributions to the Feed the Hungry Children fund can be sent by mail to United Carolina Bank, Calabash Branch, P.O. Box 308. Calabash, NC 28450. The parade, in its second year, is a joint effort of the Town of Calalvash and local merchants and civic organizations. >n Damage day. Hewitt said Hie water was about one foot above normal, and almost completely covering Ute fenders, the system on the bridge that keeps the boats from sliiking the bridge. Two to three feet of erosion per year is average for North Carolina beaches, said Spencer Rogers, a (SeeFLOODING. Page2-A) i r
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