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1 * * I ^-^WICK BKACON. Thiirsilay. OcliibiT 15. 1987—Pase 5-A C^etting Passport Was Toughest Part Of Trip To Ireland BY KDDIK.SWKATT I've been tryinK to not around to WTitinj; about our trip to Ireland ever since iny wife, Carolyn, and I (>ot back two weeks ufjo. but have been unable to do so because of a chronic case of jct-lat> and trying to catch up at the office to pay for the few days I was away. For a fellow who vowed not to travel south of (Jri.ssettown or north of Supply unless absolutely necessary. f>oing to Ireland was un thinkable. Some folks who know me well still don’t believe I went. Be assured, the trip was nece.s.sary. I here just had to be some coverage in the Beacon whirn someone from Brunswick County competed for the World Oyster Opening Champion ship! When we found out that no one from the chamber was Koinj; to Galway, Irela.nd, with our local, state and national champion, Cathy Carli sle, there was no other choice. We had planned earlier to a.sk whoever went to snap a few pictures and make some notes for a story. At first I thmutht about sending so meone else on the staff. But I figured if 1 spent all that money for someone to make the trip and they didn’t come back with some pictures, 1 would have had to fire them if I didn’t kill ’em first. The decision to make the journey was made about ten days before the plane was scheduled to take off. Get- tinj* Hirlinc ticketif, rp*;('r\,'a- lions in Ireland and a rental car were a breeze, thanks to the efficient folks at the travel agency here in Shallotte. What was difficult was Kettint; per mission to leave this free country in which we are all blessed to live. Passports were required, and naturally since one is not needed to travel to Supply or Gris.settown, 1 have never had one. But even before one >tets a pa.ssport, one has to have a birth cer tificate. Problem was, I had never had a copy of my birth certificate, and wasn’t positive in which state my birth was registered. I was born so long ago that when I grew up it was not necessary to produce a birth cer tificate to enroll in school and such. Back then folks just took your word about when and where you were born. My shame for not having a birth certificate gave Carolyn a chance to crow since she had this pretty gold- sealed certificate from the hospital showing she was, in fact, bom. I got the last laugh, however, when she learned that the fancy document was no substitute for a legal birth cer tificate and .she was no better off than I. To make a very long story as short as possible, a life-.saver of a young lady, Judy Bentley, a staff assistant in Congressman Charlie Rose’s office in Wilmington, accomplished the im possible. She not only helped us get passports processed in one week, but she helped us get copies of birth cer tificates, too. Our friend and neighbor Sybil Anderson, who lives iti Cary when she is not at Holden Beach, saved the day by picking up my birth cer tificate and express mailing it just in the nick of time. Would you believe the pa.ssports came in Wednesday afternoon, the day before our flight out of Wibn- ington. Now that’s cutting it close. The trip was exciting and, for the PHOtOBY Bill »AV{R BIUDS need space to look for food and to rear their young. The Need For Space One of the obserx-ations easily seen in nature is how each species lias its particular need for space. Plants need a place to gain a foothold and room to grow. They need space for sunlight to roach them and soil space for roots to spread. Likewise, animals need space to live, to forage for food, to look for a mate, and to rear offspring. .Much of an animal's time may be spent defending his .space. He sets his boundaries according to the habitat he needs for survival and defends his space from intruders. In birds the defense of space Ls very apparent during the breeding .season and even the young birds are often fought off when they are considered to be old enough to lx.* on their own. Most often space is detemiined by the carrying capacity of a portion of the habitat. .Since only .so many birds or animals can find food, nesting sites, and roaming room in an area, any increase in numbers would mean that all would be unable to survive. Birds and animals seem instinctively to know this and fight off any violators of their space. Sometimes space will be occupied by several species that are not in competition with each other and they live together in harmony. The egrets and herons are gool examples for they all use the .same general habitat, but each has its own way of feeding BUI Faver and seldom competes witli the other species. Man, too, has his need for space. Some require more space than others, both physically and s>Tn- bolically. Some feel uncomfortable in large crowds and would rather be in small groups. Observ’e people at any gathering and see how some are com fortable in close contact as they con verse face to face and how others re quire much greater distances. There are limes when each of us may feel the need to "get away’’—to gain .some space to react and reflect to what life brings us. Henry David Thoreau was one of those who needed space—who needed to be uncrowded. That he chose a simple life and uncluttered space is evident in most of his writings. One of thase writings that illustrates his need for space Ls this: "Id rather sit alone on a pum pkin and have it all to myself tlian be crowded on a velvet cushion." YOU CAN GET THE LATEST IN FASHIONS AT WHOLESALE PRICES BY Fritzi»You Babes»My Michelle Fashion Accessories Jewlery* Belts* Purses ^oj,Stop by and check out our bargains Pretty Things HWY. 179, V> MILE SOUTH OF OCEIN ISLE CAUSEWAY OPENTHURSDkT-StTURDinO-S 679-I3H IVrl/ IMI BRUTISH*' BEACON PUBLISHERS Carolyn and Eddie Sweatt. with Cathy Carlisle (eenten at the World Oyster Opening Championship in Galway. Ireland. most part, pleasant, except for a cou ple of exchanges. One was with that car rental com pany that claims to try harder because they’re Number 2. They wouldn’t take the keys to the car at the desk in the airline terminal, in sisting instead that the car be driven to some shed clear across the field, despite the fact that I had a very short time to catch the plane back home. I blew my stack. I had suffered enough embarra.ssment in that little tin can with the steering wheel on the wrong side. Being set in my ways, it was tough to remember to ride on the wrong side of the road. Even tougher was trying to shift gears with my left hand. It had been a couple of decades since I had driven a car with a manual transmission and I never had driven one with the gears on the wrong side. Completely devoid as I am of a sense of direction, driving a weird lit tle car on narrow little paths they call roads in Ireland, trying to read strange road signs to get from .Shan non to Galway .md back—the 60-mile trip both ways was ,Vly dear wife was a lot of help. Although she kept my ego pumped up by assuring me that she could not have possibly driven under those con ditions, she had no difficulty telling me how to do it. The other time someone got under my skin was when I tipped a sky-cap at JFK in New York a buck for haul ing our luggage atxut 100 feet from the Inunigration checkpoint to the Piedmont pickup location. He took one di.sgusted look at the dollar bill, shook his head and, loudly declared to the entire airport that a dollar is nothing. Instead of taking the bill back, as I should have, I quickly let him intimidate me into dropping another buck in his hand. .My parting shot wasn’t great, either, when I managed to mumble that I would like to have a job like his. The rest of the travel was okay, even for a stay-at-home like me. The flights were all on schedule going and coming, thank goodness, since we left Thursday at 2 p.m. from Wilm ington and got back to Wilmington at midnight Sunday. Of the four days we were gone, we spent two of them in the air. We lost five hours on the trip over because of the difference in time zones, but pick- i»H thorn haoU lipSiiiidiiv. It hr*rcl to tell if it was jet-lag or just tiredness that kept us out of tune for a week or so. The two days in Galway were delightful. It was a lot of fun covering the oyster festival there, where our own Cathy Carlisle was such a celebrity. Thase folks take the oyster festival very seriou.sly. and really pul the emphiisis on the world oyster "opening" competition. They don't call it "shucking" o> .stvl .s over there as we do here. One of the new.spaper accounts of the fe.stival .sent to me by a publisher I met describes Cathy as an oyster ".shuckler" from the USA. There are a lot of other differences in the oyster festivals here and there. To attend all the various events there, including two dinners, a recep tion and the oyster opening competi tion, costs about $250 per person. riie final dinner and dance, where the oyster opening prizes are award ed. is a black-tie affair. I had some trouble reconciling my.self to wear ing a tuxedo at an oyster festival, when jeans or shorts are about as dressed up as wc get here. But the objectives of the two festivals thou.sands of miles apart are the same, to extend the fall tourism sea.son and sort of gel together locally to celebrate after a busy summer. Galway is a charming city on the west coast of Ireland, tucked away in a bay with hills on each side, and dozens of quaint little shops on nar row streets. The population. I guess, is about 20,000. We were not there long enough to find out for sure. Too little time to explore Galway and surrounding area is the only rncinof «••«« #»!«»*•» V4 ip. 4>4«v« now that Cathy won the state title again this year means she has two more trips to .Maryland to try for the national title. Perhaps she will go to Ireland again and. perhaps, we may- go. too. But don’t bet on it. Duffer Plays Golf 'On The Fringe' I’ve never professed to be a good golfer, but hitting the links in the South Brunswick Lslands has given new meaning to my golf “handicap.” Over the past few years. I’ve managed to play a round of golf every now and then—often enough to know which end of the golf club to hold anyway. I’ve always enjoyed the sport more for the chance to he outdoors than for the “thrill of victory," since I hold the distinction of having never outscored my playing partners. That’s probably why my father-in- law, who introtiuced me to the game, drags me onto the course whenever he comes for a visit. Actually he’s a pretty patient fellow, since he usually ends up help ing me hunt for my lost balls in some of the most embarrassing places. One time he helped me save face by Rahn Adams retrieving my errant tee shot from among a group of lady golfers—on an adjoining green. I guess that's the price he has to pay to Ix-at me. A couple of weekends ago he was in the area on business, so wo decided to spend Sunday afternoon hitting a few balls on a local course. But he had to talk me into it first—I was still sulk ing over the pro football strike and didn’t feel like adding insult to injury by losing at golf. All I actually intended to do that afternoon was pound out my frustra tions on the course’s driving range while my father-in-law played nine holes by himself, so the only clubs I took with me were a driver and a cou ple of irons. But Ix'fore 1 knew what was hap pening, I was motoring toward the back nine in a cart, with my three lonely clubs rattling in a golf bag bor rowed from the cUibliou.se. The clubhouse attendant must have thought I was either extremely ' good and needed only three clubs to play, or that I was l^rry, Darrell and Darrell’s other brother and had just gotten off the pumpkin truck. Despite my obvious "handicap," I managed to play fairly well-for me anyway. Since 1 usually three- or four-putt every hole, it didn’t matter that I had to use my father-in-law’s putter, one of those new-fangled models that looks like its head was run over by a train. Heading toward the 18th hole, I was "one under par," which means I’d lost one less ball than the number 1 normally sink in water hazards. As far as my total number of lost bails is concerned, suffice it to say I have no trouble buying a golf ball with niy uulials already on it from the pro shop’s used ball bin after T ve played the couise a couple tunes. I figure It would be more cast effective to take up S’f’UB.A diving :ind fish out my own golf balls than to keep buying them back every time I play. But on the final hole,'ll wasn't the water that cost me my -lowest score” ever—it was the little boy who retrieved my tee shot from his backyard and then charged me 50 cents for my ball. But I really didn't mind. In the pro shop, they charge a dollar. EAT YOUR HEART OUT with our nightly specials $3.75 & up! WEDNESDAY Homburger SteoV 2 ’vegeiobies, Roiis Dessert SEAFOOD SPECIAL 10°. 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