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August 2008 • Vol. 5, No. 2 A Shoreline Community, Pine Knoll Shores, N.C. Town Hall 247-4353
Well-Qualified Trio Fills
Critical Posts for PKS
By Bill White
When town officials launched searches
for candidates to fill three important
positions in recent months they quickly
discovered they didn't have far to look.
Two of the eventual choices were literally
right on the doorstep, and the third was
just down the road a piece.
Sonny Cunningham
The appointment of Sonny Cunningham
to serve as chief operator of the town's
water supply system was pretty much
a foregone conclusion. Cunningham is
just about the only chief operator, or
responsible operator in charge as he
puts it, the system has ever had, serving
in that capacity for the past 30 years for
successive owners.
Sonny, that's his given name as it was
his father's, grew up in the Hoffman Beach
area by Salter Path. When he graduated
from West Carteret High School back in
1978, he was recruited to train to become a
water system operator by A.C. Davis, who
he remembers fondly as a "good boss."
Davis, an official of Southern Gulf Utilities,
which then owned the water system,
arranged for Sonny to pursue courses
through which he learned everything
there was to know about water system
operations.
But the budding water system expert
didn't stop there. He went on to develop
expertise in wastewater collection and
management and now holds top state
certifications in those areas as well as in
the water supply field. Over the years
as an employee of Carolina Water, a
successor to Southern Gulf, Cunningham
has overseen the operation of not only
the PKS water supply system but water
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Three Veteran Rookies
The Ranks are Growing - This year's July 4 parade was a far cry from the
first one more than a decade ago when Kim Riley of Yaupon Drive got a
handful of families together to celebrate by decorating bikes, baby strollers
and what have you and marching through the town to the blare of patriotic
songs emanating from a boom box. As this year's photo shows, the handful
has grown into hundreds. Mrs Riley still leads the way.
Drawing a Line in the Sand
By Phyllis Makuck
"Static Vegetation Line" refers to the
first line of stable natural vegetation on
the oceanfront before any large-scale
beach restoration project takes place.
The NC Division of Coastal Management
established a Static Vegetation Line for our
beach in 2001 just prior to the first beach
nourishment project. That project covered
a seven-mile stretch in Pine Knoll Shores,
Indian Beach, and Salter Path and was to
add more than the minimum amount of
sand (more than 200,000 cubic yards at
an average distribution rate of 50 cubic
yards per linear foot) required at the time
to establish a static line.
The term "static" indicates the intent
that this line of stable natural vegetation
function in perpetuity as a baseline for
oceanfront setbacks. Since 1979, North
Carolina's setback standard for oceanfront
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