Volume 61/ Number 51
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Brunswick County, in the throes
of 15.6-percent unemployment as
reported by the state's Employment
Security Commission, nevertheless
can boast of having five of the rich
est towns in the Tar Heel State.
That information comes in a "Rich
Town, Poor Town” article that ap
peared in the July 26 edition of The
Winston-Salem Journal. Bald Head
Island, Caswell Beach, Holden
Beach, Ocean Isle Beach and Sunset
Beach are among the 25 "richest”
NorthCarolina communities in terms
of median household income; no
Brunswick County town is among
the 25 counted as the state's "poor
est". Information was provided by
the Census Bureau.
Median income means that half
the households make less and half
make more than the reported figure.
Bald Head Island ranks third in the
state with a median income of
$65384. Caswell Beach ranks fifth
with a median income of $51379.
Others are Sunset Beach, $49,583
(ninth); Holden Beach, $44,000
(15th); and Ocean Isle Beach,
$40,278 (19th).
The state's richest community, ac
cording to the Journal article, is
Biltmore Forest (pop. 1300: median
income $77,064). Nelson Smith,
former city manager of Southport, is
administrator of that community lo
cated just south of Asheville.
Smith is quoted in the newspaper
article, and admits that even he is
overwhelmed by the prosperous
community he oversees.
"No. I don't live here," Smith told
the reporter. "They’d have to raise
my salary."
. ' _ Photo by Jim Harper
. As tti hdt joes on, so docs the water practice field where Cougar footballers turned
sprinkler at the South Brunswick High School oat for their first prtKtice Saturday.
to the Oak Island Library Boostersif|^|
name docs not appear in the name of ihc library branch. In fact.
§| Bart>ee does not want to name the library after himself but after his
* Mtcr,G> V. Barbee.
■Barbee would like to name the library the “G. V. Barbee Branch"
the Brunswick County Library system to honor his father, who
, was one of the first developers of Oak Island, said library board and
Oak Island Library Boosters member Ann Hines.
donations to local organizations,
about **»" Hines said, |
"He has been a very philanthropic person in the past."
When tbe Oak Island Library Boosters began raising money
»earty a year and a half ago, members agreed to allow the largest
Individual donor to name the library branch, Hines said. Since then,
the county has taken over the library system, and the naming of
library branches in now controlled by the county library board. The
hoard is expected to discuss naming of the library during its next
meeting on Monday, August 10.
> A total of $120,000 worth of property is at stake In the naming of
ftie Oak Island library branch because Barbee’s donation is inher
ently tied to a United Carolina Bank offer of $55,000 worth of
property on the same block. If Barbee is not allowed to name the
library in honor of his father, he has indicated he will withdraw his
offer, Hines said.
Absenteeism policy is adopted
By Marybeth Blanch i
Feature Editor
This fall BrunswickCounty schools
will be getting tough on kids who
don't come to class.
The board of education Monday
night approved a policy that limits
student absences to ten days. In previ
ous years, students were allowed to
More School reports, page 5
miss up to 20 days of school.
The new policy does give students
an opportunity to erase absences by
making up the work they missed.
However, when a student is unlaw
fully absent for more than ten con
secutive days, he or she will no longer
be enrolled in school.
[ales tax totals $706,645
ction of the iocal-opsioo sales and use tax in Brunsc
nty totalled $706,645 during June, a report from the R
tnaeitt of Revenue indicates,. „■. .iVv/'*'
total will tie added to April and May collections to .
ei to Bnmswfck County and municipal gwernments do
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"We hope this will improve atten
dance." assistant superintendent Mose
Lewis told the board of education.
Earlier in the meeting, chairman
Donna Baxter pointed out that out of
131 school districts in the state
Brunswick County was ranked 123th
in attendance.
Each school may enforce the new
attendance policy differently.
For example. South Brunswick
High School, which is implementing
the Comprehensive Management Pro
gram, will require students to work
with their teachers to make up any
class work missed during the first
three absences. On the fourth absence,
the student must stay after school to
make up the work on an hour-for
hour basis, within five days of the
absence. When the work is made up
on time, the fourth day absence will
be erased. After five absences, stu
dents get ten days to make up their
work. The policy also states that more
than ten days of non-made-up work
will cause a student to fail the course
for the year.
At West Brunswick, students will
be allowed ten absences in each class.
On the 11th and subsequent absences,
the student will be required to make
up all the time and work after school
from 3:IS to4:IS p.m. Students who
do not make up die work won’t re
ceive credit for the class.
"We have to have them there if
weVe going to teach them," West
Brunswick principal Ed Lemon said.
County ALS
’deficiencies'
cause alarm
By Holly Edwards
County Editor
Brunswick County's advanced life
support program was suspended ef
fective midnight Monday, August 3,
because of numerous deficiencies in
the ALS training program and
recordkeeping at Brunswick Commu
nity College.
Until ALS certification can be veri
fied for all paid and volunteer rescue
workers in the county, use of intrave
nous medications and defibrillators
(electronic devices used to re vi ve heart
attack victims) by emergency rescue
workers will be suspended.
County medical director A. L.
Johnson suspended operation of the
ALS program until "an exhaustive
investigation into the exact nature and
extent of the deficiencies" can be con
ducted. However, Johnson said there
are about 14 emergency medical tech
nicians in the county who have proper
certification and will probably be able
to continue the ALS program in the
near future. Other EMTs may have to
start over or repeat certain aspects of
their ALS training.
The training coordinator at
Brunswick Community College
"grossly misled" county emergency
medical service officials, and led them
to believe that the state board of medi
cal examiners had approved things it
had not, Johnson said in a letter to Bob
Bailey, chief of the state EMS office.
‘It is ultimately the
teacher’s responsi
bility to keep up
with the paperwork.
It’s not Brunswick
County’s fault. I
think the biggest
problem would have
been if nothing were
done about it.’
David Ciegg
County manager
County managei/attomey David
Clegg said the training coordinator
has been fired by Brunswick Com
munity College. Most of the prob
lems centered around a lack of
recordkeeping, he said. The paper
workshowing that EMTs had received
proper training and experience in us
ing advanced lifesaving equipment
was simply not being processed.
"It is ultimately the teacher’s re
sponsibility to keep up with the pa
perwork," Clegg said. "It's not
See ALS alarm, page 8
County opens
zoning review
By Holly Edwards
County Editor
Brunswick County commissioners
and county planning board members
have begun holding semi-monthly
workshops to review and revise a
proposed countywide zoning ordi
nance.
Planning director John Harvey
pointed out that the planning board
spent a full year reviewing the subdi
vision ordinance line by line before it
was ready for public debate and com
missioners' consideration.
Zoning workshops will be held on
the first and third Monday of each
month at 4 p.m. in the public assem
bly building at the county govern
ment center near Bolivia. The next
workshop is scheduled August 17.
While most commissioners say they
favor zoning, the implications of land
use regulation seemed to surface
Monday afternoon when Harvey in
dicated the proposed ordinance would
not allow people to own less than five
acres of land in agricultural zones,
which comprise most of the county.
"So, if I want to give my son some
land left of the swamp, I have to give
him five acres?" commissioners'chair
man Kelly Holden asked Harvey.
Harvey said he considered agricul
tural zones to be, in some respects,
environmental conservation zones.
But, Harvey stressed, in the residen
tial strip zones - which he said he
likes to refer to as the "good of down
home southern country living zone" -
- property could be broken down into
See Zoning, page 8
Forecast
The forecast calls for
partly cloudy skies Thurs
day through Saturday with
a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs will
be in the 80s, lows in the
70s. The month-long fore
cast calls for temperatures
below normal for August
Tide table
HIGH
2:44 a.m.
3:35 p.m.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 4
LOW
3:44 a.m.
4:35 p.m.
8:33 am.
FRIDAY, AUGUST?
9.53 am
1&44 pm.
SATURDAY, AUGUST t
4:42 a.m. 10:49 ui
5:31p.m. 11:40 pm
SUNDAY, AUGUST 9
5:38 am. Il44»a
6:21p.m. -
MONDAY, AUGUST 1*
6:30 a.m. 12Jlem
7:11p.m. 12.33 pm
TUESDAY, AUGUST 11
7:16 am. l:ISkm.
7:49 p.m. 1:17 pm.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12
7:58 am. 15(am
828 jam. 2.-01 pm.
The following artuttmcnts should be made:
Bald Head Island, high -10. low -7; CarwaR
Beach, high -3, low -1; Southport, high +7,
low +15, Yaupoo Beach, high -32, low -43;
Lockwood FbUy7high -22, low 4.
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