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Lockwood Folly To Build Own
BY R.AHN ADAMS
Brunswick (,'ounty Commissioners
won’t have to deviate from previous
water ser\’ice policies after all in sup
plying water to the Lockwood F'olly
subdivision.
At Monday’s regular board
meeting, conunissioners unanimoius-
ly approved a plan to split the cost of
running a 1.6 mile main line to the en
trance of Ix)ckwood Folly, the same
way a water line was approved for
construction on NiC. 904 in June.
tions M(vini Chairman Robert Nubel
reatl commissioners a letter from
Channel Side .Secretary-Treasurer
Mason Anderson which stated that
the company wished to have a
master water meter installed at the
development entrance on Brown’s
I binding Road .so that Lockwood Fol
ly could purchase water from the
county and operate its own water
svstem.
At meetings last month, commis
sioners considered a proposal by
which the county would have, in ef
fect. subsidized the entire water pro
ject by allowing tlie developer to
reclaim its costs through free con
nections within the subdivision.
Commissioners learned Monday
that Ix>ckwood Folly’s developer.
Channel Side Corp.. intends to build
its own water distribution system
within the subdivision, which is
located in the Holden Beach-
Varnumtown area.
Brunswick County Utility Opera-
The subdivision’s water system
would be regulated by the State
Utilities Comini.ssion, said Nubel.
He added that the developer was
not requesting any reimbursement
for constniction casts from the coun-
1>-
In effect, the county will
•’oversize" the trunk extension to
IxKkwood Folly with a I’i-inch water
lino. The developer will pay wluit
construction of a six-inch line would
cost; the county will pay the remain
ing amount.
Also at Monday’s meeting, com
missioners unaniinously adopted
Brunswick County’s unified major
thoroughfare plan.
According to Planning Director
.lohn Har\ey, the thoroughfare plan,
which has been in the works since
.April 1981. is "another first" for
Brunswick County, in that Brunswick
is the first non-metropolitan county
to prepare a unified plan of this sort.
ilar.cy ;;a:;i that as of .Monday,
seven local municipalities had
adopted the plan; five others are ex-
fH'ctcd to adopt it this month.
The county’s thoroughfare plan
will be forwarded to the N.C. Dept, of
Transportation for official adoption,
Harvey said. :ind copies of it w ill also
be sent to tlie U.S. Dept, of Transpor
tation by the state .so that the plan
will be used ;it all levels of govern
ment
In other action, commissioners en-
ilorsed ;i plan by Brunswick
reclinical I'ollege (Bl'i'i to change
its iwnie to Brunswick ('omniunity
College.
College Trustee .'iin Rabon ex
plained that the purpose of the name
change is to give the .school "more
prestiue." and that technical pro
grams at BTC would not be affected
by the change.
Interim President Michabl Reaves
said the new name would "better ex
emplify what we’re all about,” in
reference to the college’s desire to
serve the community.
Witli the commission’s endorse
ment, the college’s request will now
be sent to the State Department of
Conununity Colleges in Raleigh for
review.
In another matter, commissioners
approved a measure to take $11,978
from the county’s capital reserve to
fund a 12-foot by 50-foot addition to
the Maco Community Center.
Total cost of the project was listed
at $17,695.
Superintendent of Buildings and
C.rounds R.C. Dixon told board
membei-s that the addition should be
completed in six to seven weeks,
weather permitting.
He said his staff is handling all
phases of the project, except for in
stallation of a new septic tank.
In other business at Monday’s
regular meeting, commissioners:
‘Heard a brief presentation from
Gloria Smith of the Cape F'ear Area
United Way.
•Approved a $1 per test charge for
public cholesterol screenings to be
done at four locations later this
month by the Brunswick County
Health Department.
•Approved bid specifications for
purchase of a new hydraulic ex
cavator by the county’s operation
services department.
•Approved the re-advertisement
for bids on two county vehicle
packages.
•Instructed County Manager John
Smith to compile all county employee
reclassification proposals for con
sideration at the commission’s next
meeting.
•Authorized the “buy-back" by the
original owner of two lots in the Boil
ing Spring I.akes area that had been
foreclosed by the county, if no upset
bid is filed.
•Set a public hearing for Nov. 16 at
5:30 p.m. in Bolivia to re-adopt
Brunswick County’s sales taxes, to
include an adjustment factor that
would increase sales tax allocations
to the county from the state.
•Approved an agreement with the
N.C. Department of Natural
Resources and Community Develop
ment to participate in a land records
management program, which will
make u.se of a $10,000 matching state
grant awarded the county.
•Reappointed Rex Gore to sen-e on
the Southeastern Mental Health
Board.
•Scheduled a joint meeting with
Brunswick County Public Schools of
ficials and county recreation officials
for Oct. 8 at 5:30 p.m. in Bolivia, to
discuss a $75,000 county budget
allocation for maintaining and im
proving athletic facilities at county
.schools.
•Held fir.st reading of an ordinance
to name “Industrial Boulevard” the
main road into both the county’s in
dustrial park and Ixiland Industrial
Park. A public hearing on the road
name ordinance was set for Nov. 2 at
7 p.m.
Bandsman
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Willard Scott from Rockefeller
Plaza. Then it will march in the
Chicago Charity Christmas Parade
and perform in Orchestra Hall, home
of the Chicago Symphony. Then it’s
home for the Shallotte Christmas
Parade with the South Brunswick
High Band before heading west over
the Christmas holidays. .After the
Fiesta Bowl in Tempe, Ariz. on New-
Year’s Day, the band heads to the
Tournament of Roses in Pasadena,
Calif.
Over spring break, the band
regroups in Washington, D.C., for a
week of special appearances.
“I put all my heart into it," Flythe
said of his efforts to make the band.
"I was hoping. I felt I had a good
chance of making it. I.ast year I beat
out a guy in the state auditions who
had made McDonald’s the year
before.”
Both he 2nd first clsrinst pls'-’^'r
Amy Yount were nominated by
Skillman for the national band; both
pursued selection, sending in audi
tion tapes and resumes as nonunces
from South Brunswick have each of
the past 12 years.
"There was quite a bit of work in
volved," said Skillman. For instance
the tape had to include specific
scales, several “very difficult”
pieces selected by McDonald’s and
some pieces of the student’s own
choosing. Flythe’s favorite was
Mozart’s “Horn Concerto" for
French horn transposed by Skillman
for the tuba.
Persistance paid off with Flythe’s
section; but he didn’t come by the
honor without effort of his own.
He studied piano for three years
under Debbie Skillman and continues
to play for his church. Friendship
Baptist in Southport. In band he
started out on trumpet, playing it for
one year before switching to tuba 5‘s
years ago. Since then he’s made third
and then first chair in the all-North
Carolina Senior High Band as well as
first chair in the state Junior High
Band.
In saying \es to most siu'h oppor
tunities. he aibiiitted, "Tve given up
most of my social life."
Flythe’s parents. William ami
Beatrice Flythe of .Southport,
recognized his commitment last spr
ing when they bought not just any
tuba, but a $^1,000 rotary four-valve
tuba. "I don’t think I could have
made the .McDonald’s band without
it." said Flythe.
In turn, making the .McDonald’s
band could bo a turning point, offer
ing a chance to audition for the
20-seat McDonald’s Jazz Band, addi
tional scholarship opportunities and
a prestigious addition to his resume
that could open other doors. Flythe is
applying to several schools, hoping to
major either in instrumenUil music
performance and .sound engineering
at UNC-Greensboro, or instrumenUil
music performance and conununica-
tion.s at UNC-Chapel Mill
"The McDonald’s selection could
make the difference," he noted.
But to his sdioolmaU's al South
Brunswick High .School, he'll .still he
the honor student they’ve nicknamed
“Mr. .McDonald."
Re-Establishing Cawcaw
District Said First Step In
Solving Drainage Problem
SI Air PMOIO by SUSAN USHiR
HICKMAN’S CROSSROADS
FARMER Kendall Bellamy warns
officials the main Cawcaw Drainage
District canal must be maintained to
avoid unnecessary damage to homes
and property in southwestern
Rruaswick County. “It’s going to be
unfortunate for a lot of people if we
keep neglecting it,” he said.
First Bypass Contract
On DOT Agenda Friday
Music consumes a great deal of
Flythe’s free time. In addition to
competitions and performances with
school band over the past six years,
he is a member of the UNC-
Wilmington Wind Ensemble and the
Brunswick County Band. While
fellow .students relax evenings and
weekends, Flythe is likely to lx; on
the road with his tuba at a fe.stival,
competition or grand opening.
AT WINNABOW
BRING HOMf
THE^BEACON
On Sale At
WINNABOW MINI-MART
A contract for construction of the
initial phase of the Shallotte bypass Is
among $8.9 million in highway con
tracts to be considered Friday when
the state Transportation Board
meets in Raleigh.
The project is part of the proposed
four-laning of U.S. 17 to the South
Carolina line.
The meeting begins at 9 a.m. in
Room 150 of the Highway Building,
located at the corner of Wilmington
and .Morgan streets.
Of .seven bidders Vecellio & (irogan
Inc. of Beckley, W.Va., submitted the
apparent low bid, $1.52 million. The
work includes grading, drainage,
fencing and culverts along 2.32 miles
at the south end of the project, from
west of S.R. 1316 (Old Shallotte
Road) to west of S.R. 1348 (Mulberry
Road). It is to be completed bv Nov.
1. 1988.
Other Bruaswick County items on
the agenda include requests for the
following:
•$60 Ofin in urban construction
funds for improvements to the in
tersection of U.S. 17 and N.C. 130 in
Shallotte, $60,000, and $2,500 to adjust
manholes and valve boxes on U.S. 17
in Shallotte.
•$.’10,000 in additional urban ( (in
struction funds for improvements to
N.C. 87 at S.R. 1541 (Southern Area
.School Road) in Boiling Spring
I-akes. Previously $:i5,000 had been
approved.
•$‘25,000 in urban construction
funds for drainage improvements to
S.R. 1104 (Ocean Drive) in Yaupon
Beach.
•approval to grade, drain, stabilize
S.R. 1163 (Old Georgetown Road)
from N.C. 179 to N.C. 904, at an
estimated cost of $40,000.
•approval for an increase in
$30,0000 for countywide spot
stabilization funds.
•addition of Meares Street and
Bayview Drive and Longview Drive
in Dutchman Acres to the state road
svstem.
BY SUSAN USHER
A public hearing next month could
determine the fate of more than 16
miles of overgrown, neglected canals
in what was once the Cawcaw
Drainage District.
I-ast Thursday morning, local,
state and federal conservation of
ficials, Brunswick County Commis
sioner Chris Chappell and officials
from Carolina Shores subdivision
met at the Calabash Town Hall for
two hours to take a second look at
how the canals came to be abandoned
and how to go about restoring them.
On the recommendation of both the
county commissioners and a special
deputy attorney general, the group
agreed that the first step in any iong-
term solution is re-establishing the
district.
"1 Uiink that’s a terrific first step,"
said Dick Gallo, assistant state con-
serv'ationist with the U.SDA’s Soil
Conservation Service. Earlier Gallo
had said that a lawsuit to force the
maintenance of the canals was a
possible “last resort” by the agency.
Of 30 such districts in the state, he
noted, “the need in Brunswick Coun
ty is probably the greatest in the
state and the maintenance is pro
bably the least.”
James Bellamy, longtime chair
man of the Brunswick County Soil
and Water Conservation District,
which sponsored the original water
shed project, agreed with Chappell
that the commissioners should join
the conservation board in petitioning
the Brunswick County Clerk of Court
to re-establish the inoperative
district.
That proposal will be the subject of
a hearing scheduled Monday by
county commissioners for Thursday,
Nov. 5, at 6:30 p.m. at the Calabash
Fire Station.
At last Thursday’s meeting, Com
missioner Cliappcll advised the 20 to
25 people present that the only way
the commissioners would support the
Cawcaw drainage project for
maintenance would be through refor
mation of the district.
noted at Thursday’s
The district was first established in
1959, with watershed im
provements—16.5 miles of canals or
ditches to drain approximately 16,000
acres of potential farmlands—begun
in 1963 and completed in 1967.
In 1976 a county board of commis
sioners agreed to take over
maintenance of the canals and paid
off $5,988 in debts owed by the district
for maintenance work. The clerk of
court then uissulvc-u the district; an
action the state Attorney General’s
office questions was legal.
The next board of commissioners
did not honor the 1976 agreement.
Since the district’s dissolution, the
only maintenance of the canals has
been through the efforts of several
private property owners, W.J.
McLamb
meeting.
While the nature of the area has
changed—from primarily
agricultural to residential and ur
banizing—the need for the canals has
increased, not diminished, speakers
noted, as development above the
drainage area and ditching draining
into the canals has increased the
stormwater r"iioff the canals are ex
pected to carry away.
If the district is re-established and
drainage commissioners appointed
by the clerk of court, residents of the
district can determine what happens
next, with several available options.
The.se include .seeking financial
iieip II Oil! Liic cOuiitj iiii restoration
of the canals; seeking dissolution of
the district by lcgi.slativc action and
possible creation of a sers-ice or
special assessment district in its
place; or realigning the boundaries
of the existing district and coming up
with a better system of assessing
re.sidents.
Cooler Weather To Continue
are
the
Below normal temperatures
expected to continue through
weekend, according to Shallotte
Point meteorologist Jackson Canady.
Canady said the outlook for the
Shallotte area is for average nightly
low temperatures to be in the mid
50s, with average daily high
temperatures in the mid 70s.
Precipitation should be near nor
mal or around one-half inch, he said.
For the period of Sept. 29 through
Oct. 5, Canady recorded a maximum
high temperature of 84 degrees on
Sept. 29. The mercury dipped into the
30s for a minimum low temperature
of 38 degrees on both Oct. 4 and 5.
The average daily high
temperature for the period was 76
degrees; the average nightly low, 51
degrees.
Canady said the average daily
temperature for the period was 63
degrees, wliich was six degrees
below normal.
Rainfall for the peritxl measured
.15 of an inch, he said.
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