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Design Is Excellent
Overall excellence of design caught the eye of the Carolina Shores Garden Club in bestowing Yard of
the Month honors for June on the yard of Dean and iMura Spatholt, 2 Mashie Court, The Acreage.
Existing trees, well-planned landscape garden areas featuring red hibiscus and complementary shrubs.
Ferry Tourguides Answer Questions
Four college students will serve
as tourguides this summer aboard
the Southport-Fort Fisher Ferry, of
fering information on local points of
interest as well as general informa
tion about the state.
This year's guides will be Tom
my Whittington and Amy Matthews
of UNC-Wilmington; Shannon
Maullsby of Peace College; and
Lisa Faulk of Cape Fear Commun
ity College.
From June through August the
students will provide passengers in
formation and free brochures on
what to see and do in the vicinity, as
well as information on restaurants
and motel accommodations, said
Brenda Marshburn, assistant man
ager at Brunswick Town State His
toric Site.
The guide program is adminis
tered by the Department of Cultural
Resources, as are Brunswick Town
and Fort Fisher.
? Ferry rides, one-way, arc 50 cents
for pedestrians, cars, S3, bicycles,
SI, and vehicles longer than 20 feet,
S6. Passengers may board at docks
outside Southport and near Fort
Fisher at Kure Beach in New Han
over County.
Summer Ferry Schedule
Leaves Southport Leaves Fort Fisher
8:00 AM 8:50 AM
8:50 AM 9:40 AM
9:40 AM 10:30 AM
10:30 AM 11:20 AM
11:20 AM 12:10 PM
12:10 PM 1:00 PM
1:00 PM 1:50 PM
1:50 PM 2:40 PM
2:40 PM 3:30 PM
3:30 PM 4:20 PM
4:20 PM 5:10 PM
5:10 PM 6:00 PM
6:00 PM 6:50 PM
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VOLUNTEERS from the South Brunswick Interchurch Council and Brunswick Adult Day Care Cen
ter board of directors are renovating a former house/business on Al Street into an adult day care cen
ter. Atop the ladders are David Carmichael and Ewell Evans. On the ground (from left) are Sky B ram
ley, R.C. Eaton, Don Pringle and Art Stoveken.
Center Preparing For First Clients
A small crew of men, all volunte
ers, arc busy painting, hanging sheet
rock, cleaning out gutters and spruc
ing up the future Shallotte center for
Brunswick Adult Day Care Inc.
Locatcd at 106 Al Street, the
brick structure was once a residence
and later a lighting center for Shal
lotte Electric. Its owners, Mr. and
Mrs. Alton Milliken Sr., are leasing
the building to the non-profit orga
nization and arc assisting with the
renovation work.
Once it opens ? possibly in early
July, but the date depends on sched
uling of a state inspector ? the cen
ter will serve up to eight persons
each day initially, drawing from a
larger pool of registered clients.
Pointing to the heated, insulated
double garage, though, volunteer
R.C. Eaton said last week that the
center will have plenty of room to
expand and serve additional clients
in the future.
Eaton had tackled the job of tear
ing out the doorway to the bath
room and widening it to accommo
date a wheelchair.
For safety reasons wood paneling
in the house is being covered with
fire-resistant shcetrock and the fire
place covered up or enclosed.
In general, however, volunteer
Don Pringle said the house is in good
shape and not in need of elaborate re
working before it is put into use.
While sprucing up both the interi
or and exterior, board members are
also putting together a "wish list" of
furniture and other items the center
will need before it opens, and re
cruiting clients.
Desired items range from a mi
crowave and refrigerator to reclin
crs, sofas, lables and chairs for ac
tivity areas, bookcase and books,
puzzles and the like, and rockers
and other furniture for a glassed
sun room that will be transformed
into a screened porch.
"And we'd like a pool table to go
in the garage," said Pringle.
Curtains and other, more decora
tive touches will also be needed for
the interior.
As for clients, the Shallottc Cen
ter will serve the same group of in
dividuals served by its counterpart
in Southport: adults age 60 or older
who arc mobile or semi-mobile.
Pringle said the center's services
arc expected to be increasingly in de
mand as Brunswick County's popu
lation continues its rapid growth, es
pecially in the senior sector.
The center offers its clients phys
ical and mental stimulation and fel
lowship through planned activities
that includc community scrvicc,
such as making iray favors for local
hospitals or tags for "Angel Trees"
at Christmas.
Clients can avail themselves of
the center's services daily or on an
irregular basis.
For clients' families, the center
can provide an occasional respite or
break from the daily care routine,
providing time for caregivers to
handle other business, or even an
opportunity for a family member to
take daytime work.
In many cases where home care
is no longer feasible, use of the cen
ter can avoid or delay admission of
an elderly family member to a nurs
ing home.
Cost is S20 per day, Pringle said.
For information on how to refer a
client or to donate services or mate
rials for the center interested per
sons may call Jean Marshall, 919
457-0400, or Percy Bray, 579-3447.
Chiropractic Center
of Shallotte/Ocean Isle
Hwy. 179, Ocean Isle. 579-3502
Dr. H.J. "Skip" Davis
Most Insurances Accepted
Mon.-Fri. 8:30-12 & 1:30-5:30, Thurs. 8:30-12
Hwy
Sunset.
Beach
904
4 Mile
Hwy. 179
Rd.
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Ocun Isle
Nematodes Not
Always The Bad Guys
There are good nematodes and
bad nematodes.
"Bad" nematodes feed on plants.
"Good" nematodes feed on in
sects and may help gardeners re
duce traditional insecticide use.
Insect control for cultivated
plants is in the midst of a revolu
tion. Traditional chemical insecti
cides are still being developed, but
biological insecticides are taking on
a new credibility. Numerous small
companies are evaluating novel ap
proaches to controlling common
gardening pests.
Last week I had the pleasure of as
sisting Rick Brandenburg, Ph.D., an
extension entomologist at N.C. State
University, in establishing mole
cricket control demonstration plots.
The tawny mole cricket is a ma
jor pest of turf in the southern
coastal plains of North Carolina.
This native South American insect
is unusually destructive to most
species of turf grass.
Traditional insecticides often do
not provide the level of control nec
essary to prevent the loss of the
grass stand. 1 have witnessed home
lawns and acres of turf on golf
courses that have been nearly de
stroyed by late autumn or early
spring mole cricket activity.
The mole cricket has the ability
to move in the ground. Not only can
the mole cricket move from one
place to another, adult mole crickets
have been known to burrow up to
four feet deep in the soil. Birds,
C.BRUCE
WILLIAMS
Extension Area
Turf Specialist
THE
PLANT
DOCTOR
moles, mice and other animals will
feed on mole crickets but evidently
the mole cricket is able to tolerate
or evade most of its enemies.
Brandenburg is evaluating in
demonstration turf plots the effec
tiveness of a biological control for
mole crickets. In its native land
mole cricket populations are partial
ly kept in check by a parasitic ne
matode.
A company by the name of
Biosys picked up on this fact and is
now cuituring and marketing insect
specific parasite nematodes. These
nematodes only attack mole crickets
or closely allied insect pests.
The nematodes can be sprayed
onto the soil with conventional
spray equipment They are attracted
to the carbon dioxide gas insects ex
hale. Once the nematodes penetrate
the insect, a natural bacterium is re
leased by the nematode that quickly
kills the insect. Insects infected with
the nematode will usually die in 24
to 36 hours. The nematodes cannot
survive in the soil without an insect
host so nematodes do not have the
residual activity of other biological
control measures such as milky
spore disease.
Randy Martin, Ph.D., an entomol
ogist working for Biosys, is excited
about the potential and future of bio
logical control measures for insects.
New Methods have been developed
for culturing nematodes that allow
them to be grown on a special nutri
ent media in large tanks.
The technology to grow the insect
parasitic nematodes is perhaps the
single most important obstacle in the
way of large scale biological control.
For home gardeners an insect
parasitic nematode product called
BioSafc that claims to control grubs
and immature larval insects is now
commercially available.
(Send your gardening questions
to The Plant Doctor, P.O. Box 109.
Bolivia. N.C. 28422.)
Class Of '71 Makes
20th Reunion Plans
The Southport-Brunswick High
School Gass of 1971 will hold its
20th-year class reunion July 26-28.
Class members who have not re
ceived information arc asked to
contact one of the following per
sons: Richard Faulk, Regina W.
Alexander, Nat Parker, Ethel Zach
ariadis, Debra J. Swain and Betty J.
Cowans, said Mrs. Alexander, who
can be reached after business hours
at 919-457-6040.
Society
Raises
$4,200
The Brunswick County Unit of
the American Cancer Society raised
54,200 with its jail-a-thon last
Thursday at the National Guard
Armory in Shallotte.
Officers "arrested" approximately
15 people, who were given a tele
phone and asked to get pledges for
the cancer society as bail money.
Herbie Ward, chairman of the an
nual fund drive, had hoped to raise
$5,000 in pledges and contributions
to support the American Cancer
Society's programs in research, edu
cation, patient services and rehabili
tation.
"Even though we didn't reach the
goal, we're pleased with the turnout
and the results," Ward said.
Ward said members of the South
Brunswick Isles Civitan Club vol
unteered as judges and jailers.
Atlantic Telephone Membership
Corp. also provided free phone ser
vice for the "prisoners."
STAFF PHOTO BY SUSAN USHER
SHALLOTTE POUCEMAN Keith Croom slaps handcuffs on
Brunswick Beacon staff writer Doug Rutter before taking him to
jail last Thursday during the American Cancer Society Jail-A
Thon.
We are pleased to announce
the association of
Leonard E. Reaves HI, M.D.
in the practice of
Internal Medicine,
Gastroenterology & Geriatrics
with
Lee Langston, M.D.
and
Jon Langston, P.A.C.
at 341 Whiteville Road, Shallotte
Accepting appointments beginning
July 8, 1991
754-8731