Special Events, Activities
Abound In Month Of May
BY BILL DKARMAN, EXECUTIVE VICE-PRESIDENT
South Brunswick Islands Chamber Of Commerce
This month is Tilled with spccial events and activities. Wc celebrated
National Tourism Week May 3-8. May 5 was Nation
al Tourism Day.
Tourism is very important to the South Bruns
wick Islands area. Each year the number of tourism
dollars spent in Brunswick County increases. As
these dollars grow, the number of jobs in the county
will continue to grow, and this growth will stimulate
additional jobs in other sectors of our economy.
The tourist season is coming, and in just the past
few weeks wc have noticed an increase in traffic in
the area. Each week more and more people come to
enjoy the warm weather, the beaches and our lovely dearman
golf courses. Area restaurants arc becoming busy again, and those closed
for the winter arc beginning to reopen as weekend visitors return in num
bers. The islands' sleepy winter pace is beginning to quicken as the ap
peal of the area again lures visitors.
This month wc also celebrate Small Business Week. On Tuesday
May 11, wc attended the Seventh Annual Small Business Awards Dinner.
This annual event grows larger and more important each year as more
and more small businesses begin and thrive in Brunswick County. It is a
spccial treat to participate with Brunswick Community College, The
Southport Oak Island Chamber and the North Brunswick Chamber to
recognize small businesses that arc making a difference in Brunswick
County.
Don't forget the fifth annual South Brunswick Islands Chamber Golf
Tournament scheduled for Saturday May 22, at Brierwood Golf Club.
Charlie Webster is chairing the event for us this year, and it promises to
be the biggest and best ever. Everyone is invited to play.
We will have a women's, men's and mixed division this year. Also,
wc will have an exciting auction, and tickets to the luncheon arc only five
dollars for non-golfers. Come out and have a day of fun and fellowship
with us at our fifth annual golf tournament. The tournament is filling up,
: so don't wait until the last minute?call 754-6644 and sign up today.
iallahan Named Brunswick
lusiness Person Of Year
Clark S. Callahan, owner of
iabash Nautical Gifts in Calabash,
Brunswick County's 1993 Small
usincss Person of the Year.
He was recognized Tuesday night
at the seventh annual Small
usincss Awards Banquet, along
ilh six Brunswick County busi
sses.
The event was held at St. James
lantation and was co-sponsored by
runswick Community College and
e South Brunswick Islands, North
runswick and Soulhport-Oak
land chambers of commerce.
Callahan was one of the mcr
, chants instrumental in organizing
other Calabash businesses in a series
of promotional campaigns and is a
past South Brunswick Islands
Chamber of Commerce board mem
ber. Calabash Nautical Gifts began
with three employees in 1978 and
has grown to employ more than 62
people during the tourist season.
Businesses were also recognized
is six categories, as follows: Custo
mer Satisfaction: Coastal Paint Cen
ter, Ocean Isle Beach: Coastal
Development & Realty of Holden
! Beach, Appearance; Dorothy Esscy
& Associates Inc. of Long Beach,
^Community Service; Brunswick
Surveying, Holden Beach, lnnov
ion; Oak Island Jewelers, South
rt. Employee Relations; and Com
lcte Cleaning Service, Brown's
ding. Family-owned Business.
Awards were presented by Velva
Jenkins, BCC's business and indus
try director, and Eleanor Potter
Smith of Southport, the 1992
Brunswick County Small Business
Person of the Year.
Outstanding Brunswick County
businesses were judged by SCORE
(SErvice Corps of Retired Exe
cutives) of Wilmington, after having
been nominated by their peers, em
ployees and/or customers.
In addition to the awards, the pro
gram included music by BCC
Visiting Artist Jon Thornton and
soloist Gayc Fulford, and a keynote
address by Mary Tate Blake, a moti
vational speaker and trainer. Other
participants included W. Michael
Reaves, BCC president; Bobby
Davis, Brunswick Electric Member
ship Corp.'s manager of economic
development; and Johnnie Simpson,
BCC vice president for instruction.
Two Join CHHC Staff
Comprehensive Home Health
Care Inc. has recently hired two new
nurse aides for its Brunswick
County office in Supply, said Amy
Lemaster, personnel assistant.
They arc Bessie L. Bellamy of
Supply and Glenda Evans of Ash.
Bellamy attended Cape Fear Com
munity College and has been a nurs
ing assistant for approximately six
years. Evans, who has been a nurs
ing assistant for two years, attended
Brunswick Community College.
Rural Fundr
Employees and volunteers who
work with nonprofit agencies can
leam belter ways of raising money
for those organizations at a one-day
Duke University class offered June
3 at Southeastern Community Col
lege in Whitevillc.
"Fundraising Strategics for Rural
Nonprofits" will be offered from
9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Room M-123
at SCC. Course leaders will be H.
Hall Powell Jr., executive director of
the New Hanover Regional Medical
Center Foundation, and Susan
Larson, Triad coordinator for Duke
University's Certificate Program in
Nonprofit Management and director
aising Focus
of corporate and foundation rela
tions at the University of North
Carolina at Greensboro.
To enroll, contact Annette Powell
at SCC, 919-642-7141, for a regis
tration form or register directly with
Duke Continuing Education, 1-919
684-6259. Cost is S45 and includes
lunch. Participants will cam four
hours of continuing education credit,
which can be applied toward a Duke
University Certificate in Nonprofit
Management.
Registration must be completed
by May 28 to insure lunch and mate
rials for all participants.
BANK NOTICE
Application of First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company, Raleigh,
Wake County, North Carolina, for authority to establish a branch at
4646 Main Street, Shallotte, Brunswick County, North Carolina,
has been filed with the Commissioner of Banks to be processed in
accordance with Rule 4 NCAC 3C.0201 and the Regional Director
of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
The public is invited to submit written comments on this
application to the Commissioner of Banks, Post Office Box 29512,
Raleigh, North Carolina 27626-0512. The comment period on this
application will end 14 days from date of publication. The
Commissioner of Banks will consider comments, received within
the comment period.
Also, any person wishing to comment on this application may
file his or her comments in writing with Mr. Lyle V. Helgerson,
Regional Director of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation at
its Regional Office located at 245 Peachtree Center Avenue, N.E.,
Suite 1200, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, before processing the
application has been completed. Processing will be completed no
earlier than the 15th day following either the date of the last
required publication or the date of receipt of the application by the
FDIC, whichever is later. The period may be extended by the the
Regional Director for good cause. The nonconfidential portion of
the application file is available for inspection within one day
following the request for such file. It may be inspected in the
Corporation's Regional Office during regular business hours.
Photocopies of information in the nonconfidential portion of the
application file will be made available upon request. A schedule of
charges for such copies can be obtained from the Regional Office.
William T. Graham, Commissioner of Banks
Retired Newcomers Want, Need
More Medical Facilities: Professor
Retired newcomers to Brunswick County rep
resent a good business opportunity for the med
ical community, says a geography professor at the
University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
In a study of seven South AUantic coastal
counties?including Brunswick?which experi
enced rapid growth in the number of transplanted
retirees during the 1970s and '80s, Dr. D. Gordon
Bennett says these retirees called "inadequate
specialized medical services and facilities" as
their major qualily-of-lifc problem.
The study was funded by a $52,042 grant
from the Economic Development Administration
of the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Brunswick and Carteret were the North Car
olina counties included in the study. The others
arc Horry and Beaufort in South Carolina, Glynn
in Georgia, and Flagler and Indian River in Flor
ida.
Bennett recently presented a paper about the
study at the annual meeting of the Association of
American Geographers in Atlanta.
During the 1980s, the 65-and-older popula
tion in Brunswick County grew by 95 percent; in
Carteret, by 58 percent. North Carolina's 65-and
older population grew by 33 percent.
In these counties, Bennett said, the demand
exists for a range of medical services, including
general practitioners, cardiologists and life-care
communities. With a third or more of retirees in
Brunswick and Carteret counties over 70 and an
other third of the men in their late 60s, the de
mand for medical care will increase, he adds.
"(Transplanted
retirees) are a
benefit way
- - beyond cash."
?Dr. D. Gordon
Bennett
"Many of these retired newcomers have good
health insurance and Medicare, so they represent
a good business opportunity for the medical com
munity," Bennett concludes.
In Beaufort County, S.C., a group of retirees
decided to explore the feasibility of developing
their own life-care facility. "That shows the de
mand," Bennett said.
Vcro Beach, in Indian River County, Fla., had
the best medical facilities, he said, partly because
it has the longest history of transplanted retirees
among the counties he studied.
The influx of retirees also has created a range
of other demands, from the need for social ser
vices to retail outlets and rcstaurariu other than
those sought by tourists.
"The retired newcomers arc providing social
scrviccs...for the indigenous retirees," Bennett
said. Many newcomers were volunteers before re
tiring, and they continue to be active in their new
communities, serving on boards, tutoring students
and working with civic organizations.
"They're a benefit way beyond cash," he said.
They're an economic benefit, too. Retirees
who move into these communities have average
annual incomes of about S40,(XX), and because
most own their homes, have good private health
insurance and have no major debts, they can
spend thcil incomes as they want.
But they often have few places to spend that
money, Bennett said, because some communities
lack the retail outlets they want. So they're forced
to drive to neighboring communities or counties
to shop, he added.
"The retail outlets haven't kept up with the
demand," Bennett said. "They (retirees) arc used
to having the finer things in life, and that's what
most of them still want."
The initial economic impact of most retirees
was the purchase of a home, usually a nice one,
Bennett said. More than a fourth of the retirees in
Brunswick, and nearly half in Carteret, had
homes worth SI50,000 or more. Most paid cash.
Other facts about transplanted retirees in
Brunswick and Carteret counties from Bennett's
study include these:
?30 percent moved from within North Carolina;
?60 percent moved from the northern United
Slates;
?65 percent of retirees in Brunswick and 77 per
cent in Carteret had retired from managerial or
professional occupations.
BEMC PHOTO BY PHILIP MORGAN
IN THE DISPATCH CENTER of the BEMC Operations Depart
ment in Supply, Operations Manager Bobby Gore and Judy G.
Russ check an outage report created by the co-op's new automated
system.
New Automated Phone System
Will Help In Reporting Outages
When the power goes off, who do cords and print a trouble report,
you call? Touch-tone telephone phone users
Starting May 17, Brunswick will have the option of leaving a
Electric Membership Corp. mem- brief voice message, while callers
bers will be calling a new automated with rotary telephones can only
phone system to report outages. leave only voice messages.
According to General Manager Once the outage report is re
David Batten, 'The automated ceived, dispatchers will relay the lo
phone system should make it easier cation to the crews on duty.
to report outages and speed up re- Once an outage area has been
pairs. We will be able to handle identified, callers may receive a
more calls in less time. We will recorded message listing the areas
know our members have called." previously reported. If the caller's
Members can report an outage 24 location is on the list, he or she will
hours a day by dialing toll-free 1- know BEMC is already working to
800-682-5309. A recorded message restore power there and won't need
will answer the call and ask callers to make a report
with touch-tone telephones to enter To support use of the new system,
their home phone number by press- BEMC member customers will re
ing the phone buttons. Based on the ceive forms in their next electric
telephone number, the computer will power bills asking for their tele
locate the appropriate account re- phone numbers.
RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, the Town of Ocean Isle Beach
approved the Crouse Subdivision on November 10,
1992, the map of which was recorded in Map Cabinet
X at page 91 of the Brunswick County Registry; and
WHEREAS, the map shows that Lot #24 of said
Subdivision was dedicated for parking only and the
Town anticipates the general public utilizing said lot
for public parking to gain access to the Atlantic Ocean
across the 8ft. wide public access easement shown
on said map; and
WHEREAS, the developer has requested that the
Town of Ocean Isle Beach close and release any
interest in said parking area and has offered to
dedicate two 25 ft. by 100 ft. parking areas on land
contiguous to the Crouse Subdivision within walking
distance of the public walkway noted above;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE !T RESOLVED BY THE
TOWN OF OCEAN ISLE BEACH, that the town close
and release any interest in the parking lot shown on
that map recorded in Map Cabinet X at page 91 of the
Brunswick County Registry, provided same is re
placed by those two parking lots shown on the map of
the Summerplace Subdivision that has been recorded
in Map Cabinet X at page 272 of the Brunswick
County Registry. A public hearing on this matter shall
be held at 8:45 a.m. on June 8, 1993, immediately
prior to the June regularly scheduled town meeting.
This the 11th day of May, 1993.
Betty Williamson, Mayor
Building Totals $3.55 Million
February residential construction S99.695.
authorizations in Brunswick County Non-residential permits totalled
were valued at $2.84 million, ac- 23 with a valuation of S684.095.
cording to a report from the N.C. Three non-residential additions and
Department of Labor Research and alternations were valued at S29.590.
Statistics Division. Combined residential and non
Figures compiled by the U.S. residential construction for the
Department of Commerce indicate month totalled S3.55 million.
that 32 single-family units were au
thorized at a value of almost $2.5
million.
Two multi-family units were au
thorized at a value of S263.688.
* Twenty-eight renovations and alter
ations were authorized totalling
RO ATS
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NOTICE FOR BIDS
The Region O Area Agency on Aging of the Cape Fear Council of Governments
is receiving sealed bids for Aging Services in Brunswick County.
Bids may be picked up Wednesday. May 12. 1993 after 12:00 noon and are to be
returned on Wednesday. May 26.1993. by 12:00 noon.
Place: 1480 Harbour Drive
Wilmington, N.C. 28401
(919)395-4553
Services will operate from July 1, 1993 to June 30, 1994. All conditions,
stipulations and specifications relevant to the bid may be obtained by contacting
Carolyn Soders at (919)395-4553.
PUBLIC NOTICE
Public notice is hereby given that the Area Agency on Aging of the Cape Fear
Council of Governments will conduct public hearings to provide an opportunity for
members of the public to comment on the proposed use and distribution of aging
funds during the state fiscal year, July 1, 1993 June 30, 1994. The public
hearings will be held for each county:
Brunswick County
Tuesday. June 8, 1993, 9:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
Public Assembly Building
Brunswick County Government Complex, Bolivia. NC 28422
Columbus County
Wednesday. May 19, 1993, 9:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
Columbus County Senior Center
Whiteville, NC 28472. 640-6602
New Hanover County
Tuesday, June 8, 1993. 1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m.
New Hanover County Senior Center, Classroom #3
2222 South College Road, Wilmington. NC 28401, 452-6400
Pender County
Wednesday, June 9, 1993, 10:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
Senior Citizens Services of Pender, Inc.
312 W. Williams Street, Burgaw, NC 28425, 259-9119
PUBLIC NOTICE
The Brunswick County Board of Commissioners shall conduct a Public Hearing
on May 17, 1993 at 6:00 p.m. in the Public Assembly Building, Government
Center, Bolivia, North Carolina to receive input on the following proposed
amendments to the Brunswick County Zoning Ordinance and Partial
Development Code:
SECTION A
I. Section 4.101 (B) is amended by addition as follows:
28. Cabinet Shops
II. Section 4.101(C) is amended by addition as follows:
7. The restoring, building and as ancillary use to such activity, selling of parts
for special vehicles such as those of historic interest, antique vintage, special
use, such as race cars and special function or design such as vehicles used
primarily in parades and for educational purposes, as long as the entire activity is
screened from the public view.
III. Section 4.102(G) is amended by deletion of one hundred feet minimum lot
width when no public or community water or sewer service is available and the
addition in lieu thereof of seventy-five feet.
IV. Section 4.103(G) is amended by deletion of one hundred feet minimum lot
width when no public or community water or sewer service is available and the
addition in lieu thereof of sixty feet.
SECTION B
I. Zoning Map Sheet 90 for tax parcel identifier number 90000010, for the
southern 250 foot deep strip of parcel 90000012 lying immediately contiguous to
the northern boundary of Exum Road NW (SR 1340), for the northern 250 ft.
deep strip of parcel 9000009 lying immediately contiguous to the southern
boundary of said Exum Road NW, and for the north 250 feet deep strip of parcel
90000011 lying immediately contiguous and on the south side of said Exum
Road NW from RU, Rural Zoning District to C-LD. Commercial Low Density
Zoning District.
II. Zoning Map Sheet 112 for tax parcel identifiers number 112000073 and
112000074, generally the southeast and southwest corners of the intersection of
George II Highway (NC 87) with Mill Creek Road SE (SR 1514) and Old Mill
Creek Road SE (SR 1515) from C-LD. Commercial Low Density Zoning District,
to RU, Rural Zoning District.
III. On Zoning Map Sheets 166 and 182, the entirety of Sanders Forest
Subdivision, the entirety of Green Bay Village Subdivision, and tax parcel
identifier numbers 16600003, 16600004, 6400004. 1820004203. 1820007701,
18200078, 18200081, 1820008102, 1820008105. 18200083, 1820008301,
1820008302, 1820008304, 1820008305, 18200084. 1820008401, 1820008402.
1820008403. 18200086 and 18200087, as to those portions in the R-7500, Low
Density Residential Zoning District to R-6000 , Medium Density Residential
Zoning District.
IV. On Zoning Map Sheets 97 and 111, for a depth of 250 ft. on either side of
U.S. 17 for tax parcel identifier 97000031 and a depth of 250 ft. along the
southern side of U.S. 17 for parcel 11100020 and for the entirety of parcel
1110001408, from RU, Rural Mixed Zoning District, to C-LD, Commercial Low
Density Zoning District.
V. On Zoning Map Sheet 211, for tax identifier parcels number 21100039,
2110004002, 2110004003, 2110004005, 2110004006 and 2110004011, from R
7500, Low Density Residential Zoning District, to C-LD. Commercial Low Density
Zoning District.
This the 3rd day of May 1993.
Brunswick County Board of Commissioners
By: Kelly S. Barefoot. Clerk