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Mark Conner prepares another cone-shaped
planting site as a Southport city crew begins tending
a live oak just planted by the Department of Trans
Photo by Jim Harper
portation near Smith Cemetery. Work continues
this week on renewal of the city’s oak cover along
streets laid bare by time and paving.
Library board presented plan
for construction at four sites
By Holly Edwards
County Editor
The Brunswick County Library
Board’s building committee Mon
day presented architect Johr
Sawyer’s proposed designs for new
libraries in Leland and Oak Island
and proposed improvements to ex
isting libraries in Southport and
Shallotte.
The Southport library would be
enlarged by about 1,600 square feel
and would undergo a number ol
small interior changes, such aj
changing the locations of the chil
dren’s library, the service desk and
the periodicals. A new pitched rool
would be installed, and a private
area for the library director and new
handicapped restrooms would be
constructed.
The old roof has been leaking and
in disrepair for years.
"(The roof) was boards with noth
ing but tar spread on them," said li
brary board member Ralph Frazier.
However, library board member
Margaret Harper indicated that the
money allocated to the Southport
refurbishing project is going to run
out before all of Sawyer’s proposed
improvements are completed.
The board has allocated $125,000
for each refurbishing project at
Southport and Shallotte, and
Forecast
The extended forecast
calls for showers on
Wednesday with highs in
the 70s, followed by part
ly cloudy skies Thursday
and Friday with highs in
the 60s, lows in the 40s.
Cooler on Saturday, with
highs near SO and lows in
the 30s.
Tide table
HIGH LOW
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26
9:10 a.m. 2:35 a.m.
9:17 p.m. 3:17 p.m.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27
9:52 a.m. 3:17 a.m.
10:02 p.m. ' 3:59 p.m.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28
10:34 a.m. 4:01 a.m.
10:44 p.m. 4:44 p.m.
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2#
11:16a.m. 4:44a.m.
11:31p.m. 5:27 p.m.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30
11:59 a.m. 5:31a.m.
-p.m. 6:12 p.m.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1
12:17 a.m. 6:22 a.m.
12:46 p.m. 701 p.m.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2
1:09 a.m. 7:17 a.m.
1:35 p.m. 7:52 p.m.
The following adjustments 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.
$400,000 for each new library at
Leland and Oak Island. However,
the board agreed that the funds
could be shifted around as needed.
A 4,700-square-foot library is pro
posed for Oak Island. The library
would include small study areas as
well as a children’s section.
The building committee is sched
uled to meet with Sawyer again on
December 1 to review the proposals
and make any necessary changes.
"Next month we’ll have a better
idea of where we stand and how
much further we have to go," said
building committee member Don
Eggert. "But the committee felt real
See Library board, page 19
Early
edition
The State Port Pilot will
be closed Thursday in ob
servance of the Thanksgiv
ing holiday but will be open
Friday on an abbreviated
schedule.
Tt is suggested that one
telephone457-4568 prior to
a Friday visit to assure that
someone win be in the of
fice.
The office will reopen on
its tegular schedule at 8:30
a.m. next Monday.
Anotherfarmn planned
Towns, UNCW speak
to common problems
By Holly Edwards
County Editor
Municipal representatives from
Southport, Oak Island, Bald Head
Island and Boiling Spring Lakes and
the University of North Carolina at
Wilmington have initialed a joint
venture to propel Brunswick County
into the 21st century, despite its per
ceived economic and cultural
shortcomings.
Local officials dined at the Kenan
Mansion last Monday with UNCW
chancellor Jim Leutze and a number
of university development
specialists. The purpose of the din
ner was to kick-off a discussion of
common municipal problems and
ways the university could help with
those problems.
A larger forum that will include
county government officials and
representatives from every
‘It behooves all of us to pass informa
tion back and forth more freely. We need
to focus more on problems we can collec
tively work together to solve.’
Bill Boyd
Caswell Beach commissioner
municipality is planned for January.
"Local governments are going tc
have to work together and share
costs to continue to provide the
same level of services," said UNCW
regional development specialisi
Scott Carpenter. "As the economy
changes, without a total open-dooi
policy, people are going to suffer."
Carpenter indicated that the uni
versity is trying to take a more
regional approach rather than focus
solely on the concerns of Wilming
ton and New Hanover County.
Some of the long-range projects
Carpenter mentioned for Brunswick
County included hooking the county
See Towns, UNCW, page 19
Contractor’s delay upstages
BCC auditorium completion
By Marybeth Bianchi
Feature Editor
It doesn’t look like the Odell Wil
liamson Auditorium will be finished
by Christmas.
Originally scheduled for comple
tion in October, construction of the
auditorium is not expected to be
wrapped up in December either, Ben
PeBlois, vice-president for adminis
trative services, told Brunswick
Sales tax distributed
Distribution of the local-option sales and use tax to Brunswick:
county and municipal governments totaled $2,490,318 for third
quarter 1992, a report from the N. C. Department of Revenue
indicates.
Brunswick County received more than three-fourths of the
total— $1,894,546-based on the percentage of county popula
tion living outside municipalities. Long Beach’s $143,202 allo
cation was the largest among Brunswick County towns.
Southport received $84,915, Boiling Spring Lakes $61,593,
Yaupon Beach $27,203, Caswell Beach $6,540 and Bald Head
Island $2,874,
OtherBrunswick County allocations included Leland, $66,372;
Calabash. $44,523; Shaliotte, $38,414; Sunset Beach, $25,442;
Holden Beach, $23,573; Ocean Isle Beach, $19,764; Navassa,
$16,278; Vamamtown, $14,913; Sandy Creek, $8,876; Bolivia,
$8,301; and Belville, $2,982.
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Community College trustees Thurs
day.
During the October construction
meeting the general contractor,
Hatcher Construction Co. of Fayet
teville, was asked to present a
revised schedule for completion but
has npt done so, DeBlois said. The
next construction meeting is today
(Wednesday) but DeBlois said he
doesn’t think any decision could be
made until the December meeting.
In addition to being behind sched
ule, DeBlois expects other delays to
be caused by changes recommended
by the auditorium manager and
change-order requests. He told
trustees that it will take time to
reconcile issues between the con
tractor, the architect and state con
struction.
"There’s a lot of correspondence
flying," he said.
When asked by A1 Wooten, build
ing and grounds committee
chairman, to venture a guess on the
completion date, DeBlois said the
most logical date would be late Feb
ruary or early March.
He pointed out that little work was
See Contractor’s, page 9
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It was Andy and Randy, picking and grinning on
the porch of the Moore home on Lord Street Fri
day. Randy Travis, popular country singer, joined
Andy Griffith for filming of a "Matlock" segment
here.