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PHOTO BY BUL FAVf * DAFFODILS are a welcome sign of spring and bring back memories for many of us. 'Dances With The Daffodils' BY BILL FAVKR daffodils have the distinctive trumpet, which gives One of my fondest childhood memories is that of them the name of "trumpet narcissus" in some parts of early spring when the daffodils the world. covered the hillside behind our ^ ? j-i in i iu a u junise Daffodds are early flowering luilbs and can be I i .1 i . i planted in rose beds, lawns, or other areas where early Ordinarily the slope leading fiowcri wj? no( in(crfcre with othcr plants. niev down to the stream was covered *n . ,. J- . . . , . , ... , , . . . should be planted in late summer and tall and placed grass and assorted weeds and re- . . ? ? u i i , . u c . . . ? about six inches deep and ft to inches apart. Since quirct r*.},u ar mowings. u in (hCy arc |css formal looking than hyacinths and tulips. spring line ? ore le ^r.tss s ar e ^ can be randomly planted and made to look like growing we had these beautiful . 1 . ? ,, ,, . .. thev have come up spontaneously. yellow (lowers to welcome the new J 11 3 season. These flowers can be planted in shady areas, around h\\kR Daffodils have always been one trees, along borders and anywhere you like some of my favorites and each time I read William spring color. With little care they will tlower for many Wordsworth's poem I think of that hillside: years, though you can separate the "offsets" from the / wandered lonely as a cloud 'mother bulb" U? share with friends or plant elsewhere. Thai floats on high o er vales and hills, Al,cr flowering, the tops should be left to die back on When all at once I saw a crowd. their own before the> are cut. A host of golden daffodils. Perhaps you have some memories of daffodils and Daffodils are one group of the narcissus, one of the cac'' sPf'n8 'hey 'irm^ '1UC^ '',osc memories as you see ... . . ? ? t ?, i . r lni*m If so von fan iharn the uw ni W'^d^WQrth: Oldest kiiowii piaius which gicw wiiu iii aicas oi '1 ? ?? J southern Spain and Portugal. They have been devel- And then my heart with pleasure fdls, oped into many different varieties and colors, but most And dances with the daffodils. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Blame Irresponsible Pet Owners To the editor: I have just read the article in the March 17 Brunswick Beacon about (Brunswick County) Animal Control selling cat carcasses to a research center. I will agree that it is better than carrying them to the landfill. My point is this: Who is to blame for the death of these animals? It surely isn't the ones at Animal Control. It is the unconcerned pet owners. They get kittens to amuse their kids, to play with, to keep rats away from their homes and to eat the scraps from the table. Yet when the cat is grown and starts to multiply, they are ready to carry it to the pound to get someone else to do their murdering. It's that "old cat" having kittens three times a year, and the owners don't know that to do with the kit tens. Animals do not understand birth control; they only follow na ture. Therefore, it is the pel owner's fault. There are low-cost spay and neuter programs that could eliminate this problem. I have lost my pets by illness, but 1 give them a decent burial and plant flowers on their grave to enjoy the loving memory of the love and plea sure they gave to me while they lived. I know the image of the pound is bad to all animal lovers, but the ones who work there have a job to do. They try to adopt pets to keep from putting them to death. That is aii they can do. It is the unconcerned pel owners who should get all the blame. Wake up, pet owners. Stop this murdering innocent animals. How would you like to be killed just be cause you get old? Have your animals neutered or spayed to cut the pet population. Some 5,575 cats and dogs were car ried to the pound last year, and only 10 percent were adopted. This is a disgrace to this county. Pet owners, arc you guilty? Think about it. I would like to add that due to the leash law, the demand for large dogs is very low, and puppies will be hard to place in homes. Spaying is the an swer; if they are never horn, they don't go to the pound. Alma Tolson Shallotte Faculty, Students Excited About Plans To the editor: The building, grounds, climate and safety committee ot Union Ele mentary School is grateful to the parents who responded to the sur veys sent out by the PTO. We are excited about the positive support of our school improvement plan and making it a priority for the fund-raiser. I understand the fund raisei is going well, thanks to friends and family members who took time out of their busy lives to sell candy. The faculty and students are ex cited about the plan. Upon comple tion. the courtyard will not only beautiful our school grounds, but will provide three outdoor instruc tional areas. The stage area will be used for musical productions, plays, class presentations and guest speakers. The meteorological area will be used for weather units, class obser vation of the sundial and time units, and for other whole language activi ties. The mini-forest area lends itself to a variety of instructional themes. It will be used as a realistic setting for literature selections, science in struction, art instruction, foreign lan guage instruction and, again, the matic units involving whole lan guage. The building, grounds, climate and safety committee is busy gather ing materials list, estimates and making contacts for volunteer help. 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That was pretty clear last week as the Coastal Future Committee met in Southpnrt to deliberate the past and future of North Carolina's coastal management program. For us living here on the coast those words are going to be heard many more times over the next few years as we strive to hold on to the very thing that draws or keeps most of us here in the first place: the area's natural beauty and richness of resources. We had it all?clean water, clean beaches, clean air. all the shrimp and oysters you could eat, a beautiful view of the marshes, oceans and hundreds of species of birds. Some how we blew it. Our children and grandchildren won't enjoy those things unless we make some changes. In our personal lives we're con stantly called on to balance use of our resources. To budget our time, our energy, our money. Ideally we do that in a way that reflects our pri orities in life and our values. We're told to plan ahead, to look to our fu ture. When we fudge on the equation there are always consequences. It may be as simple as coming into work tired, being ill-tempered with a spouse, or running short on money for something important. Other times the "fudging" is more critical and the consequences more serious, disrupting families, workplaces or communities. Take the ideas of a resource bud get and "fudging" on it and apply those on a larger scale and you'll have what the concern is when it comes to our state. Can you protect natural elements and have a healthy, diversified economy? If so, how? Can you have either one without the other? In our area, how do you ex pand tourism without destroying the natural beauty that created the in dustry is the first place? When the economy isn't good most people consider concern for anything other than basic needs (tood, shelter, etc.) as a trill, some thing to which they have neither The Beacon Has The Real Estate Listings You're Looking For! 'Strike A Balance' by our past mistakes. For example, she'll like the state l<> work to re store the commercial fishery in North Carolina, rather than writing it off as history, as some have suggest ed. During the Coastal futures meet ing last week, other parties asked I he Mate lo lake min account the "cost" of protecting natural re sources, saying that some environ timc. money nor energy to devote. mental conservation measures are When the economy is good, we "luxuries" rather than necessities, tend to give more attention to caring with the implication we can't afford for the environment, hut we also them. Maybe. Then again, maybe place a new set of demands on it. we can't afford not to take those And we still don't want it to "cost" us in terms of convenience or . . , ? . ... stewardship ethic, something laws g pr,tcs and regulations can hint at but can't It's a polarizing subject. There are make happen. many who believe that fine line be- What do I mean by stewardship tween economic development and ethic? A shared sense that the Earth natural resource conservation is im- isn't really ours, that we are bonded possible to establish; others who caretakers with a short-term lease, don't see the value of it. At the end of our tenure, we're ex Some, like marine biologist Mary pected to hand the place over to the Jo Burkholder of the Marine Fish- owner and to stand accountable for cries Commission and Coastal its use and condition. Futures Committee, believe that If we used a stewardship ethic as compromise must fall on the side of our plumb line, "striking a balance" fragile lesourccs already endangered wouldn't be nearly so difficult. measures. What I think is needed most is a South Brunswick Medical Group Gary D. Ross, M.D. Board Certified in Internal Medicine Samuel W. Kirtley, M.D. Board Certified in Family Practice For complete outpatient medical care and routine health maintenance. Walk-in service and extended office hours convenient for u) or Icing families. 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