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Page 8 The Shoreline August 2009 Get Ready for 2010 Census By Phyllis Makuck Throughout the United States, preparations are underway for the 2010 Census. All states have opened regional and local offices. Officially, April 1 is Census Day. That means new census figures will represent the number of people residing in the U.S. as of April 1,2010. The cotmt will include all citizens and non-citizens of all ages, races and ethnic groups in 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and area islands. For each residence, one person wiU complete one questiormaire, list all the people living/sleeping at the address as of April 1,2010, and provide all census data for those individuals—age; date of birth; gender; race; Hispanic origins, if any; other residence locations, if any; and whether or not the personis related to the person completing the questiormaire. Completed questionnaires are to be mailed to the U.S. Census Bureau's National Processing Center. Since spring of this year, regional census workers have been verifying addresses. The remainder of the process will be as follows: • Fall 2009 - Recruit applicants to be census-takers in 2010. • February-March2010 - Mail or deliver census questionnaires to households. • April-July 2010 - Visit addresses that did not return a questiormaire by mail. / New Customer Specials ^ for Pine Knoll Shores Residents 559*5 Basic Tank Installation (Normally $125.00) 25% Discounts On In Stock Appliances $35 Customer Referral Rewards i (Existing Customers - refer a neighbor or friend ^ .1 and receive a S35.00 credit to your account) OTHER BENEFITS OF AMERICAS CUSTOMERS: • Senior Citizens Discounts • Automatic Delivery • Easy Payment Plans • Appliance Financing • 24 Hour Live Emergency Services • COD and Credit Accounts Available • Natural Gas Appliances Available for Order AmenGe». America’s Propane Company 961 Hwy. 70 E ‘Trent East Crossing Check Us Out At... New Bern, NC 28560 www.ameri^as.com 252-637-3903 Must present this ad. Some exclusions apply. See store for details. Coastal Poetry By Barbara Milhaven • December 2010-Deliver population counts to the President. By law, this is when census data used to apportion seats in the U.S. House of Representatives must be ready. • March 2011 - Deliver data for state redistricting decisions. Date set by law. In addition to serving as the basis for apportionment and redistricting, census data will affect other functional areas of state and local govenunent. Census numbers determine the annual allotment of more than $300 billion of federal and state funding to communities. The numbers also influence many commxmity decisions. As the National Census Bureau states: "The census is like a snapshot that helps define who we are as a nation. Data about changes in your community are crucial to many planning decisions, such as where to provide services for the elderly, where to build newroadsandschools,or where to locate job training centers." There has been a U.S. census every ten years since 1790, when the population count, taken by census workers traveling on horseback, was 3.5 million. At last count, in 2000, the U.S. population was over 281 million. Completing a census form takes only about ten minutes and is not just a good thing to do, it is required by law. Your confidentiality is protected by the same law: "All Census Bureau employees have taken an oath to protect confidentiality and are subject to a jail term, a fine - or both - for disclosing anyinformationthatcould identify a respondent or household." If you would like to work as a census taker, want more information about the 2010 Census, or would like to see a copy of the 2010 questionnaire, go to http://2010.census.gov/ 2010census/. You may also contact a local Census Office in Greenville or Fayetteville. "Peter Makuck's poems are as beautiful and well-made as the best poems of his contemporaries. What sets them apart from and above virtually all of them, however, is their ethos, their attentiveness to the world outside the self and their capacity to love: people, creatures, landscape. Makuck's poetry shows us not only how to see but how to live." - Jonathan Holden Peter Makuck has achieved acclaim and awards for his literary work: poetry, short stories and essays. Among these honors are a nomination for the Pen/ Faulkner Award in 2002, honorable mention in Best American Short Stories, having his story "Filling the Igloo" selected for The Best of The Southern Review and another, "The Trouble with Smitty," listed in The Best Essays of2000. Peter seems to specialize, though, in writing inspiring poetry. Many of his poems are devoted to nature and life in and around Pine Knoll Shores and eastern North Carolina—some from his own life's experiences. Especially applicable to residents of Pine Knoll Shores are two of his published books of poetry Off-Season in the Promised Land and Against Distance. That walk along Bogue Sound or to the ocean beach will take on an entirely new picture vocabulary after seeing it though Peter's words. Peter Makuck was bom and raised in New London, Cormecticut, another coastal town. He studied at I'Universite Laval in Quebec and received his B.A. from St. Francis College, majoring in French and English. Peter indicated that immersing himself in French while in Canada enabled him to teach French successfully for two years before going on to graduate school where he took a PhD in American literature from Kent State University. In 1974-75, Peter was a Fulbright Exchange Professor at Universite de Savoie in Chambery, France. He was also a Visiting Writer at Brigham Yotmg University in 2000 and was foimding editor of Tar River Poetry. Since 1976 imtil his recent retirement, he was a professor of American literature at East Carolina University. Peter took part in the poetry readings in this year's Spoleto Festival in Charleston, S.C., and will be featured in the Carteret Coimty Public Library's planned month long Celebration of Poetry in April 2010, pending a positive response to a grant for this special event. His poetry books are available at Carteret County libraries, the gift shop at the Beaufort Historic Site in Beaufort and Beach Book Mart in Atlantic Beach. Reading Peter Makuck's poetry is like a pictorial conversation with nature and life's everyday experiences. Betty Adcock, referring to Peter Makuck's Ojf- Season in the Promised Land, says: "Infree-soaring lyrics, Peter Makuck casts deft nets for the moments that are nearly impossible to name, that disappear the way the fox in one poem vanishes 'like smoke into smoke.' Moving with reverence and precision, the poet captures both 'the sea's unkeepableblue'and the 'light that is always available.' Makuck is a master of praise, meditation and mystery. This is his wisest and most beautiful collection."
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