TH i%m ia u* 31/99 lt*PO SPRINGPOF'T MI d'3284 ^ ?????? ? ? ? ???? Thirty-Second Yeor, Number 13 Ol*?4 m< atUNSVMCK KAC ON Shallolte, North Carolino, Thursday, January 27, 1994 50pinion> 4-5A people In The News 6A int Doctor 3B >rts 7-I2B ievision 4-5B Misty Morning A soft mist rising from the marsh along the intracoastal waterway gives an unearthly glow to this early morning view from the Holden Beach Bridge. Sunset Residents Question Sewer Fees, Environmental Impact Manager Cancels Landfill Siting Work For Internal Study' BY SUSAN USHER He said he would like to see the A Tuesday night meeting of a siting committee have at least one committee charged with recom- more public meeting before reach mending the site of a new county ing a decision. landfill was called off last week and "I intend to have the whole corn committee activity suspended by munity at the next meeting?at the Brunswick County Manager Wyman last one I had 50," said Burney. Yelton. He and another local property Yelton's action raised concerns owner, Anthony Clemmons, said from people living near one poten- they anticipated at least 500 people tial site about how and when the lo- were prepared to attend the Jan. 25 cation will be decided, as well as meeting before its cancelation, up i|uestions about whether the county from the more than 125 people who can stay on track to meet a January turned out for the Jan. 11 meeting. 1998 deadline for opening an artifi- "We see a pattern of the county cially lined county landfill. locating landfills in disadvantaged "I just want us to have more time neighborhoods," said Burney and to look at the information internally Clemmons. while more wealthy before we go back to the commit- population centers generate a major tee." said Yelton of his decision at ity of the waste. They're also not mid-week to cancel the meeting. "I convinced the "people" factor has think we need to back (iff a while been taken into account or given and do a little homework so we can high priority by the interagency task provide commissioners as much in- force or siting committee. The edge formation as possible." of the proposed site in their commu The siting committee was to make nity, for instance, comes up to Little its recommendation to the commis- Macedonia Baptist Church?so sioners. who will make the final sit- close, suggested Burney. that con ing decision. gregating gulls might interfere with Yelton said he particularly wants worship. to look at information from a state Clemmons suggested siting the interagency task force that County landfill in a more remote area away Engineer Robert Tucker and siting from residential communities, point committee members received at a ing on a map to a possible site in the publicmeetingheldJan.il. Winnabow/Town Creek area north The decision to cancel the Jan. 25 of U.S. 17. meeting came too late to announce Landfill siting committee member through local newspapers last week; Major White, who was county land an announcement was posted on the fill director for 10 years, wants the door at the Brunswick County committee to consider yet another Public Assembly Building and an alternative: not opening the landfill advertisement taken out in the at a new location, but expanding at Sunday edition of a daily newspaper, the existing location. It would cost Royal Oak resident William substantially less, he suggested, be Burnev, who owns some of the cause an access road exists, scales property targeted in a site recom- are on site and sufficient paper com mended as "second-best suited" lor pany-owned land is available for ex the landfill, is one of several com- pansion. munity leaders jointly organizing "Just because a site's best in the opposition in the Supply/Bolivia state's opinion doesn't mean it is area. He was trying late last week to best for Brunswick County," he said get word out through churches and fellow leaders of the cancellation. (See LANDFILL, Page 2-A) BY DOUG RUTTER AND LYNN CARLSON Questions about monthly charges for cus lomcrs uiiu cuiuuicut^ .Mj|ipouiri^ iSk nccJ tor an environmentally-friendly sewer system dominated a hearing Tuesday night at Sunset Beach. Approximately KM) people turned out as the Sunset Beach Town Council held a public hearing on amendments to the Southwest Brunswick 201 Facilities Plan for the Calabash/Sunset Beach planning area. The South Brunswick Water & Sewer Authority is planning to construct and operate a S34.9 million sewer system that will serve Sun:;et Beach, downtown Cnl.ihnsh and some unincorporated areas in between. As proposed, the system will he financed with $8.8 million in loans and S26.1 million in authority-issued revenue bonds. Construction is expected to begin in September with com pletion scheduled for the end of 1996. Most of the 14 speakers who attended Tuesday's hearing at the Jones/Byrd Pavilion indicated Ihev are in favor of a sewer system. However, they asked questions about how much it will them cost each month and voiced concerns about how the sewer system could impact the environment if a stormwater runoff system isn't included as part of the project. Fielding their questions were engineers Joe Tombro and Jim Billups of Powell Associates of North Myrtle Beach. Inc., who were hired to prepare the 201 Facilities Plan. Based on Sunset Beach water usage records, the engineers reported that three Fourths of the permanent residents use less than 5.0 ns?rin/l $50. of their campaign funding and ex- JC// IflC JJfZt LL/tl Both N.C. State Representatives penditures. Contestants in all local ? -?2]' Dewey Hill and David Redwine races were told to submit their first OetWeen JllMg ana gave $ 100 each to the Hewett elec disclosures within 10 days of filing. . -tic lion effort. The reports indicate that before ID. Hewett's expense report shows filing, most candidates had done his campaign spent more than little more than to establish a cam- $3,000 on signs and nearly $7.000 paign treasurer. Most simply donated enough of their on posters, stickers, pens and other advertising during own money to their campaigns to pay filing fees. 1993. All of Hewett's campaign money was spent in Only in the sheriff's race was there any significant Brunswick County. fund raising activity during the year leading up to what The North Carolina Campaign Reporting Act specifi is likely to be a hotly contested election season. cally prohibits anonymous or "pass-the-hat" contnbu Chief Deputy John Marlow gave his campaign $ I,1900 tions to candidates for public office. Donations can be and collected one $50 donation during 1993. His only accepted only from known individuals and registered reported expenditure was the $532 tiling fee. political committees. Long Beach Police Sgt Bill Sisk gave his campaign None of the Brunswick County candidates reported $1,200 and collected two $50 donations. He has spent any contributions from political committees. $1.117 of that on print advertisements, bumper stickers. Under the law, all contributions must be recorded and an Easter Seals donation and his filing fee. reported. No individual or committee may give a candi Former N.C. Highway Patrolman Jeiry Dove collect- date. |X)litical parly or political committee more than ed $1,210 in donations, with only one exceeding $100. $4.(HH) during an election cycle. He spent about $700 on campaign buttons and stickers The next campaign finance disclosure, a pre-primary last year. report, will lx- due April 22. In it, all candidates must list Meanwhile, Hewett's campaign began raising money their contributions and expenditures lor the period be last January and collected nearly 200 individual contri- tween tiling and April 15. hiawes Seeking Rural Seat On School Board A former civil officer with the Brunswick County Sheriff's Depart ment is the latest candidate to file for election to public office. Liston Hawes of Ash, who recently retired as deputy lieutenant in the civil division of the sheriff's department, filed as a Democratic candidate for the District 4 seat on the Brunswick County Board of Education. Hawes presently faces no primary opposition for the seat; incumbent Donna Baxter of Boiling Spring l^ikes has not filed for re-election. Pat Purvis Brown, who announced icctiiiiy as a Republican candidate fr?r 'he seat, is also rrom Asn. As the county's largest electoral district in terms of land size. District 4 encompasses most of the county's rural area from Ash to Winnabow. In other filing activity, Shallotte attorney Wayne Long filed Jan. 18 wish the N.C. Board of Elections office as a candidate for district court judge. (See related story elsewhere in this issue). These candidates filed earlier for nomination to county or district of fices: ? Board of Education: incumbent Thurman Gause and challenger Olaf "Bud" Thorsen, Democrats, District 1; George F. Wilson, Democrat District 2; incumbent Bill Fairley, Republican, District 3, Pat Purvis Brown, Republican, District 4; incumbent Yvonne Lewis Bright, Re publican, and Glenda C. Browning, Democrat District 5; ? Board of Commissioners: incumbent Don Wa.ren, Democrat, and Frances Ludlum Babson, Republican, District 1; incumbent Jerry Jones, Republican, and W.A. "Alfonzo" Roach. Democrat, District 2; incumbent Wayland Vereen, Democrat, District 3; incumbent Tom Rabon, Democrat, District 4; incumbent Donald Shaw and S. L. Doty, Republicans, and Michael A. Ballard, Dan Davis, W.M. (Bill) Sue, Democrats. District 5; ? Sheriff: N.C. Highway Patrolman Jerry Dove; Chief Deputy John Marlow; Deputy Lt. Ronald Hewett; and Long Beach Police Sgt. Bill Sisk, Democrats; and Southport businessman James Brown, Republican; ? Clerk of Superior Court: incumbent Diana Morgan, Democrat; ?District Judge, 13th Judicial District: G. Phillip David, Democrat, Whiteville; ? Superior Court Judge, 13th Judicial District: incumbents Chief Judge William C. Gore Jr. and D. Jack Hooks Jr.. Democrats. ? N.C. House of Representatives: E. David Redwine, Ocean Isle, and Dewey Hill, Lake Waccamaw, Democrat, 14th District (2 seats); Thomas E. Wright Jr., Wilmington, Democrat, 98th District; and ? State Senate: Ron Taylor, Bladen County. 18th District. Candidates have until noon Monday, Feb. 7. to file for office.