Shoreli
Seeing Red
The
February 2005 • Vol. 1, No. 7 A Shoreline Community, Pine Knoll Shores, NC
Seek Better House
Number Displays
Because of concerns about finding street
addresses, the Pine Knoll Shores Safety Com
mittee is calling on residents to put up some
new house numbers so their property can be
easily located in an emergency. The safety
group is comprised of representatives of the
police, fire and EMS departments, adminis
tration and other officials, and is headed by
Bruce Flynt.
The committee points out that a town
ordinance requires that house numbers be
posted on homes, but many cannot be seen
from the street and the location of others can
lead to confusion.
As an example, it is noted that the ad
dress of a property can be on one street and
the driveway and mail box around the comer
on another street.
A suggested number display (shown be
low) has been presented, and the committee
is calling on residents to post such displays in
front of their property on the street desig
nated in the address of the location. Any
questions should be directed to Police Chief
Joey Culpepper.
This view of the garnet-colored sand at Fort Macon State Park was captured
Dec. 22 by the camera ofCap’n Jim Willis.
Garnet Tinges Stretch of Beach
Strollers on the beach at Fort Macon
State Park just before Christmas were
treated to a rare spectacle when they came
across a stretch of sand sparkling with a
red sheen.
One of the
observers, Cap’n
Jim Willis, took
photos of the phe
nomenon, which
he said covered a
patch no more than
about 30 by 200
feet. “No where on
all the adjacent
beach did I see
anything like it,”
Cap’n Jim reported, adding: “This is the
first and only time in my life that I have
ever seen a beach of this color.”
The concensus among those who
deal in things geological seems to be that
the red sheen was produced by crystals of
garnet, a mineral apparently not all that
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uncommon on North Carolina Beaches.
When wind and waves are just right,
minerals like garnet can be separated out
and concentrated on the surface, produc
ing a sheen of color that can be black, red
f] and green.
Whatever
the cause, the red
beach was the talk
of the town for
sometime. The
close-up photo of
the gamet-colored
sand that accompa
nies this article was
taken by Atlantic
Beach Councilman
Tom Doe.
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New Personnel,
And a Milestone
The Town welcomed two new munici
pal employees in January, and Town Clerk
Ronda Lambert marked a significant mile
stone in professional education.
Joining the municipal family were Wil
liam C. Matthias as a fulltime firefighter, and
Anne Blackwell, who will serve as a
parttime office assistant at Town Hall.
A retired Marine master sergeant,
Matthias makes his home in Hubert and for
the last five years had been employed as a
firefighter in Jacksonville. He has also served
as a volunteer fireman in Swansboro. He
assumes the post vacated when Art Taylor
moved out of the area.
Mrs. Blackwell has been a fulltime resi
dent of PKS for 12 years. She and her hus
band, Ray, have owned their home here since
1982, spending weekends at the beach before
taking up fulltime residence. A former Ra
leigh resident, Mrs. Blackwell also brings a
great deal of experience to her new post. She
worked in the past for the N.C. Department of
Transportation and the Wake County Depart
ment of Social Services, as well as in the
insurance industry.
On the professional education front, Mrs.
Lambert started off the new year by achiev
ing membership in the Master Municipal
Clerk Academy of the Intemational Institute
of Municipal Clerks (IIMC). Only about 15
percent of the 10,300 IIMC members around
the world have attained membership in the
academy.
As a member of the academy, Mrs. Lam
bert, who holds Certified Municipal Clerk
status, may now pursue prescribed studies
and activities leading to qualification as a
Master Municipal Clerk. Mrs. Lambert joined
the PKS staff in 1997 and was named town
clerk in 2000.
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