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The State Port Pilot OUR TOWN Southport N. C. Department of Transportation crews teamed with Southport workers and the city department of parks and recreation to continue a tree transplanting project Tuesday. DOT crews arrived with special equipment Monday to begin the project. In all, the city hopes to transplant between 30 and 50 live oak trees to create a shade canopy along portions of Howe and Moore streets. The shade canopy was recommended in a master development plan drawn for Southport by an 11-member team of the American Institute of Architects last February. Recently, members of the city’s economic development commission, Southport 2000 and city staff have pushed the plan into action. DOT crews are to be in Southport through Friday with a special bladed device which will scoop trees donated from a site near 9th Street and facilitate their transplant along the city's major thoroughfares. Caswell Beach Meeting last Wednesday. Caswell Beach Planning Board members voted to take no action on a proposal to establish fees for driveway permits. The intent of any ordinance which may emerge from discussions is to limit stormwater run-off. The idea was spurred last year when the state department of transportation installed a drainage device in the 600 block of Caswell Beach Road, a state route. Mayor Jack Cook and commissioners will examine similar ordinances in other towns prior to an April 9 meeting at which a recommendation is expected. Planning board members have also reviewed a proposed ordinance addressing abandonment of unsafe structures. A recommendation will be made to commissioners at the same April 9 meeting. Police chief Paul Osborne has met with Brunswick County Emergency Medical Services director Doug Ledgett, county planning department personnel and Yaupon Beach fire chief Alan Essey in an effort to coordinate Oak Island response after BrunswickCounty's911 emergency notification system goes on line next month. Critical to 911 operation is the posting of house numbers. A Caswell Beach ordinance requires homeowners to post address numbers that are easily discernible from the street. Long Beach Mayor Joan Altman and members of the Long Beach Board of Commissioners will continue a series of meetings with those who have questions about the town’s proposal to construct a public wastewater management system. At least two commissioners will be available to answer questions at the Long Beach Recreation Center tonight (Wednes day), Saturday morning and Monday evening. The evening sessions will begin at 6:30 p.m. and the Saturday session will begin at 10 a.m. Representatives of local ABC boards met with Long Beach ABC chairman Ben Thomas on Tuesday to discuss a proposal to state Rep. E. David Redwine. The group has asked Redwine to extend legislation that prohibits Brunswick County's ABC board from establishing a liquor store within seven miles of a municipally owned store. Last year, county ABC officials threatened to open a liquor store at RiverRunShoppingCenter.Officialsof Boiling Spring Lakes. Southport. Yaupon Beach and Long Beach said that store would drain profits from existing municipal operations. While Redwine pushed local legislation banning the county move, that legislation is to "sunset", or cease to be effective, this June. Municipal operators of ABC stores will meet to discuss this matter shortly. Boiling Spring Lakes Want to get something off your chest? Or, maybe you just have a constructive suggestion for mayor Mark Stewart and the Boiling Spring Lakes Board of Commissioners. Tonight presents your opportunity to express your view. Mayor Stewart and commissioners will conduct constituent office hours tonight (Wednes day) at City Hall beginning at 7 p.m. Representatives of city government will be on hand to hear citizen suggestions, complaints and criticisms. Members of the planning board will meet Monday evening at City Hall. No agenda has yet been announced. Pick-up of large trash items - major appliances and other things you can't fit in your g? oage can - has been scheduled Friday, April 3. Items may be placed at curbside for collection, city officials say. Tax lien notices for fiscal year 1990-91 appear in this week's edition of The State Port Pilot. Yaupon Beach With a public wastewater management system in the works for which construction will begin this spring, Yaupon Beach staff is starting to wrestle with the specifics of system management. Staff this week began discussions with Data Systems, Inc., which distributes software products needed for sewer billing. Additional talks are anticipated. Staff is also accepting requests from department heads in anticipation of budget formulation for 1992-93. As the town anticipates addition of a sewer department, budget figures are still hard to predict for the coming year. Otherwise, Yaupon Beach property owners can expect pretty much the same budget picture they saw this year. "We're shooting to keep it in a line where taxpayers would like to see it," town clerk Nancy Wilson said of early budget deliberations. Past week’s highs & lows on WED THU FRI SAT SUN MON TUE MARCH Average High 60 degrees Average Low 41 degrees i—■ i Data courtesy of Foxy Howard Graph by Debi McKellar * f: I f m m ■€=. m An American egret dances across the water while trying to attract a mate. These big birds were in the #*»i _ 11 r ■' w lagoon fronting Bay Street between Lord and Cas well, where they frequently feed. 1 ■ ' 1 • : Recovered, woman can't recall mishap The victim of a three-story fall last Tuesday afternoon remembers noth ing about the incident. Long Beach police sergeant Barbara Harvell said. "She can't help,” Harvell said of the woman's ability to recall circum stances which led to her fall from the third floor of the West Beach Villas complex on Beach Drive. Debbie Guadagnoli, 26, whom Harvell reported to be in critical con dition in New Hanover Regional Medical Center last Tuesday night, is at home and recovering, the officer said. Ms. Guadagnoli suffered fractured ribs, bruises and a head injury as a consequence of the fall from the bal cony of her residence, Harvell said. "She says she remembers nothing,'' Harvell said. Police and emergency workers were, called to West Beach Villas last Tues day shortly after Ms. Guadagnoli's fall was reported about 5:15 p.m. She was treated first by Long Beach res cue volunteers. A county EMS worker with knowledge of advanced life sup port techniques met the ambulance at 23rd Street and Oak Island Drive and administered intravenous fluids. After a brief assessment at Dosher Memorial Hospital in Southport, Ms. Guadagnoli was transferred to the New Hanover facility. Harvell said Jeffrey Yates, 31, who reportedly shared the apartment with Ms. Gaudagnoli, was in the apart ment at the time of the incident. But, Yates' statements to police do little to explain what happened to her. "He said he was standing at the refrigerator and she was out on the balcony." Harvell said. "When he looked again she was gone and was dowrt 6h the pavement.""'". i.i r .ii*. f' M »' Bald Head Island 'Cottages' get warm welcome By Jim Harper Staff Writer Cottages at South Beach -- cluster housing representing a departure from the traditional oceanfront develop ment and marketing system on Bald Head Island - was approved by the village board of adjustments Satur day and the developer announced plans to commence the project di rectly. Kent Mitchell, president of Bald Head Management, said site prepara tion will begin in April and construc tion of model homes is expected to be completed by summer. The structures, situated to take ad vantage of existing terrain, will at times be located closer together than in other sections on the island - thus the "cluster housing" description. In one-, two- and four-bedroom con figurations, the completed houses will be for sale by the Bald Head develop ment. Heretofore, with the exception of the villas and Swansquarter condo The Cottages sub division will be lo cated east of the present termination of South Beach de velopment and will eventually extend to Captain Charlie’s Station miniums, Oceanside development on the island has been on lot-sale-for construction basis, and approval by the architectural review committee has been dependent on houses being more similar in design. The Cottages subdivision will be located east of the present termina tion of South Beach development and will eventually extend to Captain Charlie's Station. While the initial segment of con struction will involve 38 structures on eight acres — an average density of 4.5 habitations per acre - the overall development of 48 oceanside acres was approved by the board of adjust ments on Saturday. Site plans are to be provided for successive sections. The planning board viewed the Cot tages plan favorably after a public hearing March 6, but because the clus ter housing concept represented a con ditional use under the island’s recently adopted zoning ordinance, the board was required to refer the plan to the board of adjustments - which is made up of the village council. Because of rules requiring a four fifths vote of approval, and because neither Mitchell nor his associate David Smith could vote on a matter in which they had an interest, the two resigned from the village council and Mitchell appointed Floyd Wingfield and Skip Fry to the council and thus to the board of adjustments. Fry and Wingfield were joined by regular council members Dick Messinger and Bill Watkins in ap proving the new subdivision. The surrogates are expected to re sign from the board so Mitchell may reappoint himself and Smith at the April council session. In earlier action Saturday the coun cil accepted a bid from J. D. Beam to build a permanent village hall on a site adjacent to the post office, near the lighthouse. Beam bid SI80,759 for the job, under other bids which ranged from $217,000 to $228,000, but recom mended changes which carried the cost to SI90,000, and a construction time of 147 days. Tom Storrs, chairman of the plan ning and construction committee, told the council that with the added ex pense of architect, attorney, landscap ing and furnishing, the total project cost would be around $235,000. Councilman Mitchell objected to the landscaping plan, calling the bud get too small, but voted in favor of the See 'Cottages', page 6 Walters: We've got a mess’ Airport chairman bailing out By Richard Nubel Municipal Editor Brunswick County Airport Com mission chairman John Walters will resign his post and will recommend his replacement to Southport mayor Norman Holden. "We've got a mess out there now," Walters said. Walters' resignation comes in the wake of a dispute over the propriety of actions taken by former commis sioner Grover Gore, who served con currently as the board's treasurer and its counsel. In his dual capacity. Gore reimbursed himself for $856.27 in telephone calls he says he made on the commission's behalf and co-signed airport commission checks with Walters for his own legal services in excess of $5,000. These revelations came in an audit report completed Tm now writing up a recommenda tion to the mayor.... It's going to take a strong person who can stand up to pressure' John Walters Retiring chairman recently; Gore's service to the com mission ended December 31,1991. Walters said Tuesday he was suf fering from an inner ear problem and was no longer able or willing to con tinue service to the airport commis sion. He said he would inform mayor Holden of his decision in writing and his resignation would become effec tive June 1. The commission chairman said he would recommend Holden consider Southport alderman Nelson Adams or resident Barbara Rhodes, a private pilot, as his replacement. The City of Southport has one appointment to the airport commission. Walters has served as the city's appointee for nearly ten years. "I'm now writing up a recommen dation to the mayor," Walters said. "It's got to be a strong man, deter mined not to be snowed by anyone on there. It's going to take a strong per son who can stand up to pressure." Walters blamed the controversy in volving himself and Gore on com mission member Bob Miller of Long Beach, who initially questioned Gore's use of airport telephone credit cards, apparently for personal use. "This guy is disruptive," Walters said of Miller. Miller, earlier this month, called for an executive session of the airport commission at which he challenged some 23 long-distance telephone calls Gore had made last year to his son in Raleigh. Records show Gore made an additional 21 calls to his daughter, who also lives in Raleigh. Airport commission telephone credit card charges also include Gore's calls to the Wilmington YMCA and several retail stores in Wilmington. Walters said the cost of the calls was absorbed as an allowance to Gore, who let the airport commission use See Airport, page 6
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