STAJF PHOTO BY SUSAN USHt*
J.V. AND AVA LEE CARLISLE (right) of the H olden Beach area are among local residents taking ad
vantage of free income tax assistance offered through American Association of Retired Persons Tax
Aide Program volunteers like John Arnold.
Trained Volunteers Provide
Help Preparing Tax Returns
Sixteen volunteers trained by the Internal Revenue
Service are offering free income tax assistance at tlircc
locations across Brunswick County.
They arc volunteers in the Tax Aide Program spon
sored by the American Association of Retired Persons
(AARP).
Local program coordinator Dan Beddard said free
assistance was provided to 610 county residents last year
in the form of answering questions, checking returns
prepared by individuals and complete preparation of in
dividual returns.
While helping the elderly is the program's top prior
ity, said Beddard, "We arc instructed to help anybody
who comes in the door."
So far turnout has been "real good" this year, but
volunteers could be even busier.
Volunteers arc available according to this schedule:
?Shallotte National Guard Annory: Tuesdays and
Thursdays, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.;
?Brunswick Community College Campus Interagency
Building: Wednesdays, 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m., by appoint
ment only. Call Debbie Bryant, 754-69(X), Ext. 4<X); and
?Southport Public Library: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9
a.m.-l p.m. and Saturdays, 9 a.m.-l 1:30 a.m.
Persons wishing to use this free service should bring
with them copies of their previous year's federal and
state returns and forms for the current tax year, includ
ing W-Zs and other relevant records and materials show
ing income for the year.
For more information contact Beddard at 919-278
4242 or Larry Nielsen at 845-2121.
WRECK REPORT
Driver Charged In Single
Vehicle Accident Saturday
A driver involved in a one-vehicle
accident early Saturday near Holden
Beach was chargcd with a stop sign
violation, driving while impaired
and driving while his liccnse was re
voked, according to the N.C. High
way Patrol office in Wilmington.
Gary Dean Small, 27, of Shal
lotte, was driving a 1983 Datsun
truck on Boone's Neck Road (S.R.
1137) 4.7 miles west of Holden
Beach Saturday at 12:04 a.m. when
he ran a stop sign and crossed Sea
shore Road (S.R. 1139) and struck a
ditchbank on the far side, according
to the report filed by Trooper C.E.
Ward.
Damage to the truck was estimat
ed at SI,400.
Small was injured but did not
seek medical treatment.
In another onc-vchiclc accident
Saturday, a vehicle lost the boat and
trailer it was towing, with property
damage in excess of S35.000. No in
juries were reported and no charges
were filed in the incident, which was
investigated by Trooper R.L. Mur
ray.
At approximately 12:45 p.m.
James Alien Golden, 43, of Wilm
ington was driving a 1976 Chevrolet
truck, towing a boat and trailer, on
N.C. 133 about 2.9 miles north of
Yaupon Beach. The trailer came
loose from the vehicle, rolled off the
road onto the right shoulder and into
the ditch. T'e boat then came off the
trailer, slid across a driveway and
struck a utility pole, Murray report
ed.
Multiple injuries were reported in
a two-car accident that happened
Monday Feb. 22, at 8:20 p.m. west
of Grissettown on N. 904 at its inter
section with Etheridge Road (S.R.
1308).
James Stevenson, 36, of Route 2,
Supply, was driving west on N.C.
904 in a 1983 Nissan when he at
tempted to turn left onto Etheridge
Road, failing to yield the right of
way to an eastbound 1984 Ford sta
tion wagon operated by Donna
Byro, 26, of Shallotte, reported
Trooper J.H. Kerr. Byro's car struck
Stevenson's car in the right passen
ger door.
Stevenson's Nissan overturned in
the southeast comer of the interscc
lion, while Byro's car spun around
and then camc to rest in the road
way.
Damages to the Stevenson auto
were estimated at $3,900, and to the
Byro car, S5,(XX).
Stevenson complained of injuries,
and a passenger in his vehicle, Nath
aniel Mitchell, 47, of Supply, was
seriously injured and transported to
The Brunswick Hospital at Supply.
Mrs. Byro was listed as receiving
serious, non-incapacitating injuries,
as were her three passengers, James
Byro, 33; Stephanie Byro, 4; and
Brittany Byro, 3, all of Shalloue.
Stevenson was charged by Kerr
with driving while impaired, care
less and reckless driving and posses
sion of drug paraphernalia.
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Sunset Chips In To Determine
Value of Carolina Blythe Plant
BY LYNN CARLSON
Sunset Bcach Town Council has
unanimously agreed to pay its half
of the S3,(XM) tab for a Raleigh pub
lic accountant to determine the dol
lar value of the Carolina Blythe sew
er system to the newly-formed
South Brunswick Water and Sewer
Authority.
However, Sunset Bcach officials
will not be asked to approve a nego
tiating contract shot down by the
Calabash town board last week alter
the same accountant was accused of
having overcharged the towns for an
earlier study.
Purchase of the Carolina Blythe
system, whose owners arc asking
$4.5 million, is crucial to the first
phase of the proposed joint sewer
project for Sunset Beach and
Calabash.
"Wc feel it is best to drop the ne
gotiating and let (accountant George
Denis) procecd with the value of the
plant," said engineer Jim Billups.
Billups defended an earlier Denis
study which cost the two towns
$9,000 to establish how much a pri
vate utility might pay for Carolina
Blythe, the Florence, S.C., company
which currently provides central
sewer service to Carolina Shores
and other areas near Calabash.
Jack Brady, former Carolina
Shores Property Owners Associa
tion, last week criticized die Denis
report before the Calabash Board of
Commissioners, claiming that nearly
all the information in Denis' recent
rate-base analysis of the Carolina
Blythe sewage treatment company
was pulled direcdy from reports
available from the N.C. Public
Utilities Company.
"Mr. Brady made assumptions
that can't be borne out by fact,"
Billups told the Sunset Beach board.
Denis had asked for a negotiating
contract under which he would have
received a commission of three per
cent of the difference between the fi
nal negotiated purchase price and
Carolina Blythc's initial asking price
of S4.5 million.
The Calabash board last week re
fused to authorize Denis to negotiate
a purchase or to approve his request
ed commission.
The Denis rate-base analysis de
termined that the sewer system
would be worth about SI.5 million
lo another private utility company.
However, the engineers say Carolina
Blythc would be worth more to a
public entity such as the joint sewer
authority formed by Sunset Beach
and Calabash.
Under public ownership, the au
thority would not have lo pay taxes
or make a profit. It would probably
cost the towns much more to build
its own initial system than to pur
chase Carolina Blythc, the engineers
say.
One citizen at the Sunset Beach
board meeting urged the engineers
to hurry up with substantiation of
their estimated SIS monthly per
household and SI,(XX) hookup cost
for the sewer system.
Minnie Hunt, a former council
member and an officer of the Sunset
Beach Taxpayers Association, said,
"I want to know that there's a true
economic basis for that figure."
Billups did not say when the doc
umentation would be released.
However, Mayor Mason Barber said,
"You'll get it as soon as we get it."
Hunt criticized council for turning
her questions over to the engineers.
"I'd like lo think my council mem
bers understand this, and not just
their consultants."
SIX HEARINGS SET
Six public hearings will be on the
agenda for ihc Sunset Beach Town
Council at a special meeting Mon
day, March 15.
On that date, the board will hear
comment on the town's proposed
Coastal Area Management Act land
use plan update and five proposed
is. ? i.>tuii.-> uiiu ^utniivuuvnn ui uiv
town's subdivision and zoning ordi
nances.
The ordinance changes set forth
site development plan requirements
for commercial or professional prop
erty in some zones, define the "sight
visibility triangle" required at street
intersections, set minimum parking
requirements for businesses, clarify
stormwatcr control regulations for
parcels of less than one acre and
state the permitted commercial uses
of golf courses.
Winnabow VFD
To Serve Barbecue
Winnabow Volunteer Fire De
partment will be serving barbccuc
on Saturday, March 6, from 11 a.m.
until 5 p.m.
Plates will consist of pork barbe
cue, potato salad, coleslaw and hush
puppies. Cost will be S3 per plate, or
S4.50 for a "super plate."
The department is on Governor's
Road off U.S. 17 in Winnabow.
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'92 Geo Storm
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'92 APV '87 Astro CL
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