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October 2010 • Vol. 7, No. 04 A Shoreline Community, Pine Knoll Shores, N.C. Town Hall 247-4353
Beacon's Reach Thanks Ed Erickson
By Phyllis Makuck
In 1997, Ed
Erickson accepted
what he thought
would be a
three-year term
as president of
Beacon's Reach
Master Association
(BRMA). Thirteen
years later, at the
September 5, 2010,
aimual association
meeting, he stepped
down from that
position, handing
the gavel to Jim
Johnson, BRMA
Vice-President
and long-time
chair of the Marina
Committee.
When Ed assumed the role of president, he was
a professor of economics at North Carolina State
University, a permanent resident of Wake County and
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a vacationing owner
of an Ocean Grove
condominium.
In recent years,
he retired from
university teaching
and with his wife,
Ann, has made
Beacon's Reach a
permanent home.
Ed's long tenure
as president of the
Master Association
has been filled with
major challenges.
He took office
following one of
the island's worst
hurricane years
and held the reins
through several more
damaging hurricanes. In this timeframe. Beacon's Reach
continued to grow, adding many new single-family
homes while beginning to experience the aging pains
of 20+ years as an island development. Fortunately,
Ed and the Master Association Board made quality of
life at Beacon's Reach a top priority.
Recognizing the beach as central to that quality of
life, Ed, early on, dedicated himself tirelessly to re
nourishment efforts. The addition of much-needed
sand, along with sand fencing strategically placed
in front of the 1.62 miles of the Reach's beachfront
property, encouraged new dime development and
new vegetation to take hold. The health of this beach
today is the happy result.
Beach re-nourishment was undertaken with
a commitment to
create public beach
accesses. Having a
firm desire to honor
this commitment
with minimal
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Ted Goetzinger
Several years ago, Ted Goetzinger taught himself to
work with stained glass, which should be nicknamed
"blood-art" from all the splinters it causes. After
decorating the tip-top windows of his hilltop house
with beautiful stained glass pieces, he was able to move
on. Ted found he enjoyed glass fusing as an art form
far more than he did stained glass (which had nothing
to do with the splinters by the way) as this new art
had no limitations. He fuses diachronic glass which
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