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District 1
I Don Warren, D
□Raymond Erikson, R
District 3
I IM. E. (Mark) Sharpe, D
□William R. (Bob) Thorscn, D
I IWavland Vereen, D
□Steven Foster, R
I Joseph Tyler Lenins, R
□Nathaniel (Nat) Parker, R
□William (Bill) Sisk, R
□Bob Slockett, R
I Torn Yeagle, R
District 4
□C. Lephus Piggotte, D
□Tom B. Rabon, Sr., D
□JoAnn Bellamy Simmons, D
□Tom Simmons, D
□Gene Sellers, R
□Patricia (Patty) Young, R
SCHOOL BOARD
District 1
□Sam Fletcher Frink, D
□Joseph V. Brust, R
□Janet Pope, R
District 3
[□William D. (Billy) Carter, D
□William F. Faught, D
□Carlton L. Sligh, D
□Stephanna Tewey, D
□Bill Fairley, R
District 4
□Donna Baxter, D
□J. Bryant Pcrgerson, D
□Pete Barnette, R
Coroner
□Greg White, D
Register of Deeds
□Grace Beasley, D
I Edward F. Mintz, D
□Robert J. Robinson, D
□Arthur Knox, R
14th House District
1 [David Redwine, D-Brunswick
□Leo Mercer, D-Columbus
□Dewey Hill, D-Columbus
□Shirley T. Green, D-Columbus
□Kelly Holden, R-Brunswick
18th Senate District
□R. C. Soles, D-Columbus
□Ron Taylor, D-Bladen
□Jim Whitworth, R-Wilmington
7th Congressional District
□Charles G. Rose, III, D
□Robert Anderson, R-Lumberton
□Scott Dorman, R-Tabor City
(Filing for this office closes March
9 at noon.)
On a foggy Southport morning a pair of pelicans dock, while a clammer sets out on a food-finding
tries panhandling on the American Fish Company mission of his own.
Better discipline is goal
South Brunswick will
adopt new school plan
By Marybeth Bianchi
Feature Editor
Although the Comprehensive Con
cept Management System was not for
mally adopted by the Brunswick
County Board of Education Monday
night, members said they will support
the schools which want to implement
it.
And, South Brunswick High School
principal Sue Sellers saidTuesday she
expects to have a plan of action ready
to present to the board by June.
The comprehensive management
system has been promoted for the past
month by Parents in Action, a group of
South Brunswick area parents who
want to see discipline problems re
duced, students given a quality educa
tion, teachers provided with a support
system and the community more in
volved in education.
Dorothy Essey of Yaupon Beach
and Gilbert Powell of Southport both
spoke in support of the comprehen
sive management system at Monday
night’s board meeting at South
Brunswick Middle School.
Powell reviewed the objectives of
the “effective school” philosophy the
school system is in the process of
adopting, and illustrated how the man
agement system supported that phi
losophy.
He urged the board to study the 12
steps in the first phase of the manage
ment system for implementation in
the 1992-93 school year.
“This will start the process, and al
though it will take several years to
fully implement and maximize the
effect of the comprehensive concept,
based on what we have seen in other
schools the results we will enjoy in
our schools, even the first year, will be
remarkable,” Powell said.
“We’re all for this program,” board
chairman Donna Baxter said. “We do
understand the concept and we are
working towards that goal. Anything
that can reduce 80 percent of disci
See School plan, page 3
OUTSIDE
Forecast
The extended forecast calls
for a chance of rain Thurs
day and Friday but clearing
skies on Saturday. Highs
will be in the mid-70s,
lows in the mid-SOs.
Tide table
HIGH
8:21 a.m.
8:33 p.m
THURSDAY, MARCH S
LOW
8:53 a.m.
9:08 p.m.
FRIDAY, MARCH 6
2:12 a.m.
2:30 p.m.
SATURDAY, MARCH 7
2:50 a.m.
3:04 p.m.
3:28 a.m.
3:41 pjn.
4:07 a.m.
4:18 pjn.
9:25 a. in.
9:44 p.m.
SUNDAY, MARCH 8
10:02 ajn.
11:26 pjn.
MONDAY, MARCH 9
10:42 ajn. 4:53 a.m.
11:16 pjn. 5:02 pjn.
TUESDAY, MARCH 10
11:35 ajn. 5:45 a.m.
-p.m. 6:54 p.m.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH II
12:12 ajn. 6:44 atm.
12:36 p.m. 6:56 pjn.
The following adjuitmemi should be made:
Bald Head Island, high *10, low *7; Caswell
Beach, high -5, low -1; Southport, high +7,
low +15, Yaupon Beach, high -32, low -45;
Lockwood Folly, high -22, low -8.
Bids are asked
for revaluation
By Holly Edwards
County Editor
Brunswick County will solicit bids
from contractors to perform the
county’s 1994 property revaluation,
but county commissioners Monday
night left open the possibility of per
forming an in-house revaluation if tbe
bids prove unacceptable.
The board has three options in con
ducting the revaluation, tax adminis
trator Boyd Williamson said Monday
night: Commissioners could hire a
contractor to perform the complete
revaluation without any county in
volvement, they could hire a contrac
tor to supervise the project and hire
additional county employees to per
form the appraisals, or they could con
duct the entire project in-house using
county employees only.
Commissioners agreed to receive
two bids from contractors: One to
perform the entire revaluation and one
to supervise the project. There will be
a great difference in the amount of the
two bids since it would be consider
ably cheaper for a contractor to send
in a supervisor alone rather than an
entire crew, Williamson said. But, he
See Revaluation, page 7
After nine workshops
Sewer system
plan presented
to beach voters
By Richard Nubel
Municipal Editor
A financial plan and preliminary design proposal to build a public wastewater
management system to serve the Town of Long Beach won the official
approval of all commissioners Monday night.
The package also was embraced by five of six commissioners and Long
Beach mayor Joan Altman as best for the town’s citizens.
Long Beach voters will go to the polls March 31 to authorize or reject the sale
of up to $15.5 million in general obligation bonds to finance the project.
In short. Long Beach commissioners said Monday they would put before the
voters for ratification a SI9.179-million proposal to build a combination
gravity and pressure sewer collection system with a treatment facility on the
mainland near Sunset Harbor. About S7.5 million of the system cost will be
recovered from taps and assessments. Another S9 million will come in the form
of loans from a state revolving Clean Water Fund program. The remaining
See Sewer plan, page 6
New owner in a hole
Sewage flows
with each tide
By Richard Nubel
Municipal Editor
A debate over a public utility sys
tem dominates the time of staff at
Long Beach Town Hall these days.
But that's little comfort to Tom Dean
and his wife, who have invested their
life savings in what they hope will
become their ultimate dream: A
“mom-and-pop” business in Long
Beach as operators of a small restau
rant, convenience store, docking and
motel operation at the place known as
Blue Wa’er Point Marina. The combi
nation facility was dubbed
See Tidal flow, page 6
When county
sanitarians arrived,
what they found was
an old septic system
constructed of
porous cinderblock
with roots growing
through it
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Tom Dean prods the bottom of an old faulty septic tank constructed of
cinderblock on his newly purchased property, the Blue Water Point
Marina.