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IX)CAL ARTISTS focus on animals in a juried exhibit this month at Franklin Square Gallery in
Southport. The opening reception is Saturday, April 6, from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. The show was coordinat
ed by BCC Visiting Artist Emily Weinstein, whose own interest in animals is reflected in the oil on
wood above, "Man's Best Friend <6 Other Animals We Eat".
'Animals In Art' Juried Show
Opens At Gallery In Southport
From more than 1 ,000 entries re
ccivced, approximately 250 works
arc on display this month in the
Animals in Art juried show, which
opened Tuesday at Franklin Square
Gallery in Southport.
Most, 200, are works by students.
About 50 are by adults. The picccs
vary in tone from serious to whim
sical and are executed in media
ranging from crayons to 3-D. "They
arc wonderful," said Emily Wein
stein, visiting artist at Brunswick
Community College and coordina
tor of the show.
Entries were judged Sunday, with
winners receiving plaques designed
by Miss Wcinstcin and lettered by
volunteer Jeff McGinnis.
The opening reception for the
show is Saturday, April 6, from 4
p.m. to 6 p.m.
Winners are as follows, with first,
second and third place entries listed
in that order in each category:
Adult Division
Watercolor: Ellen Jones, Long
Beach, "Spot"; Tollic Davis, South
port, "Egrets at Dutchman Creek";
and B.J. Wagers, Long Beach,
"What's for Dinner?"
Oils and Acrylics: Nellie Har
vcll, Bolivia, 'Nest Mates"; Mary
Foniana, Caswell Beach, "Hare
Salon"; and Ken Buckner, Shallotte,
"First Spring".__
Mixed Media: Georgia Newton,
Wilmington, "Macaws"; Joann Wil
son. Long Beach, "Joyous Potpour
ri"; and Martha Vaughn, Southport,
"Cats Play".
3-Dimensional: Joanna Kricgcl,
Boiling Spring Lakes, "Tea for
Two"; Pat Simpson, Long Beach,
"Pelican"; and Jinx Rideout, South
port, "Giraffe Herd".
Honorable Mentions: Jean
Hight, Carolina Beach, "Sitting
Pretty"; Arthur Jones, Long Beach,
"Pigs is Pigs"; Harry Love, Myrtle
Beach, S.C., "Rinnic"; Cathy John
son, Bolivia, "Big Buck"; Jane
Lynch, Long Beach, "Sea Lion";
Joyce Martz, Southport, "And there
came a 1000 years of pcacc"; Bar
bara Hinkson, Long Beach, "Prog
eny"; Betsy Jones, Boiling Spring
Lakes, "Out on a Limb"; and Mcd
rith Nuttle, Calabash, "Pelican".
Youth Division
Drawing: James Johnson, 12,
Shallotte Middle, "Field Mouse";
Victor Hcenan, 7, Southport Ele
mentary, "Growling Soft"; and
Mark Hardy, 13, Shallotte Middle,
"Butterfly".
Painting: Jessica Walshaw, 9,
Southport Elementary, "Princess";
Jamie Lee Watts, 5, Southport Ele
mentary, "Jungle Animals"; and
Courtney Harrclson, 10, Southport
Elementary, 10, "A Digging Dog".
Crayon: Christy Haik, 10, South
port Elementary, "Princess"; Jack
Fairlcy, 5, Southport Elementary,
"Tiger"; and Tiffany English, 10,
South port Elementary, 'Toucan".
Pastel: Elizabeth Dctrie, 13, Shal
lotte Middle, "Ruff"; Josh Baker, 13,
Shallottc Middle, "I Need a Good
Home"; and Sandra Dewitt, 12,
Shallottc Middle, "Tender Love".
Honorable Mention: Amanda
Jessen, 15, West Brunswick High,
"Refuge"; Josh Baker, 12, Shallottc
Middle, "FurTy Little Critter";
Jamie Tolliver, 13, Shallottc Mid
dle, 'Tiger"; Dara Bison, 8, South
port Elementary, "Springer"; Mike
Worley, 10, Southport Elementary,
"Bird Watches Cat"; Jamie Sharp,
10, Southport Elementary, "Alask'n
Penguins"; Scott Lewis, 16, West
Brunswick High, "Wolf's View";
Cole Keylor, 7, Union Primary,
"Circus"; Kelsie Keylor, 7, Union
Primary, "Hound"; Rcnee Clewis, 8,
Union Primary, "Woodpecker"; and
Brandon Hardee, 8, Union Primary,
"Cardinal".
The gallery is loeated behind
Franklin Square Park. Hours arc
10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays
through Saturdays. Admission is free.
Twenty-five percent of all sales,
as well as any donations received at
the show, will go to the Brunswick
County Animal Welfare League to
help subsidize its neutering and
spaying program.
Owners can arrange for a low
cost spaying or neutering of a pet by
contacting Jewel or Jack Perry at
754-4896.
1 1 ATTEND CONFFRFNrF
ROCAME Picks Bowl Teams
The West Brunswick Area RO
CAME chaptcr selected junior and
senior high teams for the upcoming
county quiz bowl at its March 18
meeting at Waccamaw Elementary
School.
Members competed for slots on
the two teams that will represent the
local chaptcr of Region O Council
for the Advancement of Minorities
in Engineering (ROCAME) at the
county competition. The contest is
Landscape Art
Outing Slated
A landscape art workshop will be
offered on two consecutive Satur
days, April 13 and 20, by Bruns
wick Community College Visiting
Artist Emily Weinstein.
Participants will meet at the BCC
campus north of Supply at 9:30 a.m.,
in front of the Vocational Building.
Miss Weinstein said participants
are encouraged to work in whatever
medium they are most comfortable
using.
She is willing to do a painung or
drawing demonstration in a chosen
medium if participants request one
in advance by calling her at 842
3304 so she will pack appropriate
supplies.
Orton Plantation may be the site
of the first outing; participants arc
encouraged to offer other sugges
tions.
The sessions are open to children
and adults. However, children under
10 must be accompanied by an
adult, said the artist, "unless they
are of the nature to be fully en
grossed in their art work."
On campus, work resumes next
week on a mural that has been
dubbed, "Campus Life". It involves
eight full-sized human cut-outs
standing around chatting. Miss
Weinstein said. Volunteers work on
the project Tuesdays, Wednesdays
and Thursdays from 1 p.m. to 6
p.m. in the art room in the Voca
tional Building; interested artists are
welcome.
Over 300 Herb Plants
SHELTON
HERB FARM
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^ off Hwy. 17
On Goodman Rd. (SR 1414)
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set April 18 at Leland Middle
School.
Willie Gore, Amy Grissctt, Pcrty
Grisscu and Lonnie Mitchell make
up the senior high team. The junior
high team features Corey Bowens,
Shalana King, Tiffanc Marlowe and
Felicia Morgan.
Adviser Sybil Mitchell-Simmons
said 17 students, five parents and
three advisers attended the chapter
meeting, which was the first joint
meeting of the year.
Attend Conference
Eleven Brunswick County RO
CAME delegates recently attended
the eighth annual statewide confer
ence of the N.C. Council for Minor
ities in Science, Mathematics and
Engineering.
Forty-eight ROCAME students
from five area school systems com
peted with students from three other
organizations located in the Faycttc
ville, Greenville and Roanoke Rap
ids areas. All attendees participated
in writing, math and construction
competitions. In all 24 four-member
teams participated in the various
contests on the junior and senior
high levels.
The local team of Julian Bryant,
Pcrty Grissctt, Tamara Johnson and
Terri Smith won third place for air
plane construction at the senior high
level.
Smith also was a member of an
all-star ROCAME team that won
the state championship qui/, bowl
for senior high delegates.
The theme of the March 14-15
event at East Carolina University in
Greenville was "Matching Talents
to Ambitions."
Local delegates were Tikila Mor
gan and Grissctt of West Brunswick
High; David Bowcns and Corey
Bowens of Waccamaw Elementary;
Madonna Gausc of Shallotte Mid
dle; Chakinnah Brewington, Smith
and Johnson of South Brunswick
High; and Christine Lloyd, Charity
Dclts and Bryant of North Bruns
wick High.
Other activities at the annual con
ference included a banquet, dance
and enrichment tours of a T-shirt
print design company and the uni
versity's sports mcdicinc complex.
Brunswick County coordinators
who attended the conference were
Beatrice and William Flythe and
Mrs. Mitchell-Simmons.
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PEOPLE IN THE NEWS
Hospice Names Gibble Medical Director
Dr. Timothy P. Gibblc of Holdcn
Bcach has been elected medical di
rector for Lower Cape Fear Hospice
in Brunswick County.
He assumes responsibility for the
medical component of the hospice
patient care program and serves as a
member of the interdisciplinary
team, providing or supervising the
care and services offered by Hos
pice.
The Richmond, Ind., native earned
a bachelor's degree from Manchester
College in North Manchester, Ind.,
and graduated from the Indiana
University School of Medicine in
Indianapolis. His residency in inter
nal medicine was at Moses H. Cone
Memorial Hospital, Greensboro.
Gibblc serves as chicf of staff at
The Brunswick Hospital. He is a
member of the Brunswick County
Medical Society, the American So
ciety of Internal Medicine and the
N.C. Society of Internal Medicine.
He serves on the Comprehensive
Home Health Care advisory board
and the Brunswick County Adult
Day Care Inc. board of directors.
Hospice provides a medically-di
rcctcd program of care for patients
with limited life expectancies. The
not-for-profit organization serves
patients and their families in Bruns
wick, Bladen, Columbus, New Han
over, Onslow and Pender counties.
Lincoln Cites Students
Lincoln Primary School students
of the month for March arc as fol
lows:
Kindergarten: Joy McLean, Tim
my Lenhart, Nathan Child, Barach
iah McBean, Chance Carroll, Jason
Oxcndinc and Briltar.y Grainger;
First grade: Alex Stacbcll, Jessica
Miller, Tcah Paul. Rcbecca Poller,
Jeri Harless, Danielle Simpson and
Kaiheryn King;
Second grade: Crystal Davis,
Kelly Tabor, Nicholas Nichols, Joey
Hcrkcr, Christopher Hall, Robin
Callihan and Kristen Marteney; and
Third grade: Crystal Blake, Glen
Browning, April Thomasson, Tina
Nelson, Andrew Everett, Kenny
Phillips and Jesse Savichas.
Each student was selected by his
or her student to represent her class.
Selection is based on citizenship
and/or academic perfotmance. The
students receive special privileges
and arc treated to a popcorn and
video party.
Receives Scholarship
Christopher Leon Russ, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Phillip W. Russ of
Shalloltc, has
been awarded a
Grayson Schol
arship to attend
Mars Hill Col
lege.
Russ is a se
nior at West
Brunswick High
School, where
he is president
of the National
Honor Society and has served as
secretary, president and advisor of
the FFA Club.
Grayson Scholarships arc award
ed to students "with outstanding
academic skills and extraordinary
capacity for leadership," according
to a news release. The initial award
is worth S2.500 and is renewable
annually, increasing in value by
S500 each year, bringing the total
value for four years to SI 3,000.
HILL BLANKENSHIP
Two Chosen For Tour
Two Brunswick Counly high
school juniors arc among four area
tccn-agcrs choscn to participate in
the annual Rural Electric Youth Tour
to Washington, D C., June 15-21.
They arc Bridget Hill, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Hill ol
Shallottc, and Sherman Blankcn
ship, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alan
Shirley of Southport. Other win
ners, from Columbus County, were
Stacy Glenn Nobles of Chadbourn
and Katrina Lynn Parker of Bolton.
The four will join approximately
l.OCX) other delegates from 30
states. They will attend seminars on
government, rural electrification
and cooperatives, meet with mem
bers of their congressional delega
tion and go sight-seeing. A high
light will be Rural Electric Youth
Day, which includes an "Energy
Battle" bowl competition, speeches
by government and rural electric of
ficials. Delegates will also name a
committee of teen-agers to take part
in activities sponsored during the
year by the National Elcctric Coop
erative Association.
Two North Carolina Youth Tour
delegates will be selected to receive
scholarships.
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