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Carolers Will Boat Door-To-Door
Sunday Along Holden Beach Canals
(’arolcrs will be going door-to-door at Holden
Beach Sunday—by boat.
On their third annual Waterway Christinas Carol
ing venture, the singing boaters are planning stops at
Harbor Acres, Heritage Harbor and Holden Beach
Harbor Canals at the beach, Sea-Aire Canals, con
cluding with carols on the waterway at the Holden
Beach Bridge.
Residents of the canal areas are asked to turn on
their canal-side lights if they would like the small
flotilla of carolers to stop, said spokesman Martin
Feldt.
Harbor Aerp.s h the first stop, from about5;30 p.m.
to 6:10 p.m., followeed by Heritage Harbor, 6:20
p.m.-6:50 p.m.; Holden Beach Harbor, 7 p.m.-7:45
p.m.; Sea-Aire Canals, 7:55 p.m.- 8:10 p.m.
Their last stop, at the bridge, should begin at ap
proximately 8:25 p.m. and will last about 25 minutes.
Times may vary by 15 minutes to 20 minutes.
According to Feldt, the best sites for viewing and
listening near the bridge will be Holden Beach Marina,
Captain Pete’s and the Holden Beach public parking
lot.
Santa will be throwing candy to children along the
route.
County ABC Stores Sold More
Than 500,OCX) Bottles In 86-87
BY SUSAN USHER
Liquor sales were big business in
Brunswick County again in fiscal
year 86-87.
The county’s nine Alcoholic
Beverage Control i ABC) boards sold
474,94.3 regular bottles of liquor last
year, along with 53,876 mini-bottles
and another 28,306 in bottles for mix
ed drinks.
Those sales yielded profits before
distribution of from 3.2W> at Sunset
Beach to 1.3.27% at Ocean Isle Beach.
As in past years, the Shallotte ABC
Board chalked up the greatest
volume of busine.ss, selling 99,.384
regular bottles and 15.030 mini
bottles from .lulv 1986 through ,lune
1987.
rtu- store reported a 9.62% profit
before distributions, a net profit of
$73,766. It's operating expeases of
$104,836 were the highest of the nine
boards. I'he board distributed $93,500
to municipal and county agencies, in
e.xce.ss of its income for the year.
Several boards distributed their
entire net profits, such as Southport
and Ixing Beach, while others retain
ed earnings as at Sunset Beach.
The board there has asked to be
temporarily relieved of some local
distributions. It wants to set aside
money for redoing the store, which
last year showed the lowest percent
profit of any in the county, though ac
tual sales were lower at Boiling Spr
ing I.akes. Sunset Beach showed a
continued decline in percent of pro
fits, from 4.89% to 3.82%.
Also making no distributions this
year was Boiling Spring I.akcs,
which is recovering from a period in
which the board operated in the red.
Five stores increased their percen-
EMC Upholds Oyster Bay Penalty
UV K:\UN ADAMS
Vl.e vililily company lhal serx’c.s a
Brunswick County condominium
development and golf cour.se must
pay a fine foi wastewater treatment
violations—the penalty upheld last
week by the N.C. Environmental
.Management Commission in
Raleigh.
.According to E.MC spokesperson
Bryson .Jenkins, the commLssion last
Thursday gave Oyster Bay Utilities
Inc. of Wilmington 30 days to pay a
civil penalty of S4.211.12 for viola
tions at its wastewater treatment
plant at Bonaparte l.anding.
•Ms. .Jenkins said Oyster Bay can
not appeal the commission decision,
.since the company waived its right to
an administrative hearing by re
questing mitigation i reduction i of
the penalty
The waiver stipulated that there
were "no factual or legal issues in
dLspute" m the case, said Ms.
Jenkins.
Oy.ster Bay Utilities operates a
40,000-gallon wastewater treatment
plant and provides sewer service to
the Oy.ster Bay Plantation con
dominium development, golf course
and clutihouse tnciUty on N.C. 179
near Uie .Atlantic Intracoastal Water-
ivay.
On .Aug. 10, tlie .N.C. Department of
.Natural Resources and Community
Development notified Oyster Bay-
Utilities President Tripp Sloane that
the company had been fined for fail
ing to adequately operate and main
tain its treatment plant on three oc
casions, and for failing to retain one
of two required monitoring wells at
the wastewater plant.
The DEM said breaks were found
in pipes in the wastewater system’s
disposal field during inspections on
.March ‘26, April 24 and June 15.
In a letter dated .Aug. 31, Sloane re-
que.sted mitigation of the civil penal
ty, calling the penalty “excessive”
because the company had made
"earnest attempts" to correct pro
blems at the plant, said Ms. Jenkins.
He also said the company was
operating on a "tight budget” and
was not in a position to pay the fine,
said Ms. Jenkins.
West Concert
Is Tonight
A “Night of Christmas Music" will
be provided by the West Brunswick
High School Chorus and Band today
iThunsdayi at 7 p.m.
The public is invited to the concert,
which will be given in the high
school’s multipurpose room (No.
123).
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Student Drivers Get A Reprieve;
But Local Replacement Continues
BY SUSAN USHER
Though the federal Department of
Labor has agreed to allow North
Carolina schools to use 17-ycar-old
bus drivers at least through the end
of the school year, soon most, if not
all, of Brunswick County’s drivers
will be adults.
County schools began the transi
tion to an all-adult force with passage
of a policy by the school board in
August 1985. That same month the
board hired William Gurganio'as as
transportation supervisor.
Even with the county policy, he
said, the l.abor Department action
"has taken the pressure off" of
recruiting and training efforts.
"If they had kept it in force, we had
15 or 20 buses that wouldn’t have run
on the highway (on Jan. 4),’’ he
estimated. Gurganious added he pro
bably could have double-routed some
drivers or persuaded some certified
adults who liave chosen not to take a
bus to work on a temporary basis.
A month ago, Gurganious said, ap
proximately 40 drivers in the system
would have been affected by the
Ijibor Department ruling. But this
week, the number had dropped to 25,
as more adult drivers are hired and
teens phased out.
“We’ve got about eight more
replacements going on in the first
weeks of January,” he added.
Gurganious said there are “some
outstanding” teen drivers in the
ABC
ABC Board Revenues 1986-87
Bottles Percent Net Operation
County/
Municipal
Board
iRejt.l Sold
Profit
Profit
Kipetues
UUIrlbuUaiu
Shallotte
99.384
9.62
73.766.
104,836.
93,760.
Belville
82.631
10.33
69.213.
78.022.
60,213.
Southport
69.i:i
11 04
59.869.
74.439.
59.869.
('al.3b.i5h
M.331
7.14
30.130.
76,828.
16.129.
lx>nR Beach
46.666
8 98
40.977.
70.722.
40.977.
Otvan Isle
42.674
13.27
61.318
47.623.
39.301.
Yaupon Beach
36.118
8 90
38.116.
47.747.
24.716
•Sunset Beach
27.186
3.82
9.815
49,923.
None
Boiling SprinK I.ake.s
16,642
6.81
7.316.
21,948.
None
Two Road Accidents Send 12
To Hospital Emergency Rooms
tage of profits in the past year, while
four showed a decline. Belville went
from 8.68%, to 10.32%, and Boiling
Spring I.akes from 2.72% to 5.81%
and Calabash from 1.30% to 7.14%.
SLx of the nine boards were involv
ed with sale of alcohol for mixed-
drink operations: Calabash, Ocean
Isle Beach, Sunset Beach, Southport,
I.ong Beach and Yaupon Beach.
Statewide, boards with mixed
beverages reported an average profit
percentage of 13.09%, compared to an
average 9.16%, for those boards
witliout mixed beverages.
Oyster Bay’s $4,200 assessment
was 10 percent of the maximum
penalty authorized by law, she said.
.Ms. Jenkins said the DE.M staff
recommended that the EMC uphold
the penalty against Oyster Bay, since
the company’s request for reduction
of the fine did not present sufficient
new information which should have
been considered by the DEM prior to
assessment. Also, Oyster Bay did not
sufficiently demonstrate an inability
to pay the fine.
Two 2-vehicle accidents on
Brunswick County roads last week
sent 12 people to hospitals for ex
amination and/or treatment.
Five persons were injured Thurs
day 9.5 miles west of Belville when a
northbound 1984 Datsun operated by
Andrew lycndon Jenkins pulled out of
N.C. 87 onto U.S. 74 in front of a west
bound 1979 Dodge operated by Mar
vin McAllister Miller. 38, of
Evergreen, reported N.C. Highway
Patrol spokesman Ruby Oakley.
In the 5:35 p.m. accident. Trooper
B.C. Jones charged Miller with
failure to yield the right-of-way.
Damages to each veliicle were
estimated at $4,(XI0.
Miller and throe passengers in his
car were transported to the hospital
with Class B or moderate injuries.
The passengers were James Pridgen
of Whiteville, Bob Steele Jones of
Chadboum and Amos Strickland of
Nichols, S.C.
In the second auto, Jenkins com
plained of injury.
Three persons were seriously in
jured and four others moderately in
jured in a two-car accident that liap-
pened at 9:15 p.m. Friday on U.S. 17
about 11 miles south of Shallotte.
Joseph J. Golly, 19, of (’herrv
Point, was charged by Trooper B.I..
Wilkes with driving left of center.
Driving south on U.S. 17, he passed a
vehicle and pulled back in behind a
slower-moving vehicle, reported
Wilkes. When Golly braked, his 1981
Chevrolet slid into the northbound
lane, striking a 1987 Oldsmobile
operated by Unda Piver Chappell,
37, of Ash.
Piver was also charged, with not
wearing a seat belt and having allow
ed her vehicle registration to expire.
Golly was uninjured.
Three other passengers in the
Piver auto were transported to The
Bruaswick Hospital in Supply with
serious or Class A injuries. They
were Donna Piver, 26, and
Marcelanc Formyduval, 56, both of
Ash, and Sharon Miller, 25, of
Shallotte.
Damage was estimated at $4,000 to
the Golly vehicle and $7,000 to the
Piver auto.
During the Christmas holidays,
Oakley said Tuesday, patrolling
troopers will be “on the look-out for
drunk drivers as they try to keep the
highways safe.”
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system ttiat he would like to keep. As
is, he hopes they will stay on as
substitutes.
“It’s board policy to phase them
out, but we’re going to lose some real
good drivers,” he said.
Brunswick County operates a fleet
of approximately buses.
The U.S. Department of Labor had
ordered the state to stop using
drivers under age 18 by Jan. 1. Last
Thursday, after intensive lobbying
by state officials, it relented, allow
ing the youths to continue driving
through the school year.
The state legislature ended use of
16-year-old drivers with action taken
last summer, leaving only 17-year-
olds affected by the policy.
School bus drivers are recruited by
the principal and staff of each school
in the system as needed, Gurganious
said, not by his office or by bus driver
trainer Vicki Jenrette.
However, if drivers are needed in
particular areas, he said he’s likely
to ask prospects from other areas if
they know potential drivers in the
target neighborhoods.
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