Food training is suggested
All food service managers and owners in Brunswick County will be re
quired to complete a two-day training course on safe food-handling proce
dures if the health board adopts a proposed food service manager certifica
tion ordinance.
The ordinance would require all managers and owners to be certified
once every three years. While it does not target employees, it requires a
certified person to be present at the establishment at all times. Therefore
unless the manager wants to work all the time, at least one other employee
would have to be certified.
A public hearing on the proposal will be held Monday, January 25, at 7
p.m. in the health department conference room at the county government
center near Bolivia.
"We’re not trying to shut anybody down," said health board chairman
Skip Davis. But if we can educate people as to what causes disease in the
food service industry, they’ll stop it themselves."
However, the ordinance would enable the health department to revoke a
restaurant’s license if the manager repeatedly refuses to become certified,
or fails the certification course.
A copy of the proposal is available at the county health department.
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Drive-by beatings are among
sheriff’s department reports
The following crime reports were
on file at the Brunswick County
Sheriffs Department Monday:
•An Ash man reported Saturday
that two men came to his door about
3 p.m. and asked to see him. The
victim said he walked outside and
one of the men beat him in the face,
causing a cut about one inch long on
the side of his face. The victim’s
parents heard the fighting, went out
side and one of the men pointed a
gun at the victim’s mother, accord
ing to the report
•A Leland man reported Saturday
that a car drove onto his lawn and he
went outside to ask the driver what
he was doing. The victim stated the
car stopped and the passenger got
out and walked to the back of the
car to hide the license plate. The
victim said he told both men that the
best thing they could do was leave,
and the passenger then hit him in the
back of the head with his fist
Deputy Brian L. Sanders reported
the victim had a cut on one of his
ears.
•A Supply woman reported Satur
day that she heard someone fire a
gun toward her house and later dis
covered a storm window had been
shot out
•A Leland man reported Sunday
that someone broke six windows in
his house. Deputy Sanders said
small children may have been in
volved because there, were two
cinderblocks under one window to
form a stand. Sanders also reported
that paint was smeared inside and
outside the house and on the carpet,
and that the roof of the victim’s shed
was damaged. Total damages were
estimated to be $3,000.
•A Winnabow woman reported
Thursday that $1,258 worth of per
sonal property was taken from her
house, including three rifles, a
jewelry box, a CB radio, a class
ring, a watch, two coins and one
opal and diamond ring.
•A Supply man reported Saturday
that someone removed a 1991
Wizard riding lawn mower worth an
estimated $1,000 from his yard.
•A Leland woman reported Friday
that about $650 worth of personal
property was removed from her
house, including a remote control
cable converter and a gold watch.
•A Leland man reported Friday
that someone broke into his room at
the Camellia Motel and removed a 9
mm. pistol and an Ml carbine worth
an estimated $637.
•A Calabash man reported Satur
day that someone who had been
using his three hunting dogs
returned with only two collars,
saying all three had been run over
by a car. The victim stated he later
found out the suspect had been seen
with three dogs in his box and none
of them had collars.
•A Leland man reported Sunday
that someone broke into his
residence and caused about $275
damage. An estimated $300 worth
of property was reported missing,
including a VCR and a cordless
phone.
•A Longwood man reported Sun
day that while his car was parked at
Williams Car Care Center in Shal
. lotte, someone broke out the pas
senger window and removed his car
stereo, which was worth an
Fire destroys bus
but no one injured
The electrical short that caused the
destruction of a South Brunswick
Middle School bus Monday
afternoon is a "rare" occurrence, the
county director of transportation
said, but all buses will be checked to
make sure it doesn’t occur again.
Driver Susan Gore pulled bus 88
onto the shoulder of N. C. 87 about
3:30 p.m. Monday when she noticed
smoke coming from the dashboard.
All 28 students aboard were
evacuated safely and walked the
half-mile back to the school as the
bus became engulfed in flames.
The Boiling Spring Lakes
Volunteer Fire Department and
emergency management coordinator
Cecil Logan were called to the
scene. George Brown, director of
transportation, said Logan explained
the fire was caused when the fuse
block grounded.
"If it grounds with all that current
going through it, it can make a
mess," Brown said. The eight-year
old bus had no history of electrical
problems and nothing like this has
occurred before on a Brunswick
County school bus, he said.
Brown said vibrations from travel
ing on bumpy dirt roads probably
caused the block to work loose from
the bus frame and short out.
"It’s something that’s very rare,"
he said. "This is the first time I’ve
ever known it to happen."
Even so, he said other buses will
"definitely" be checked so some
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*A Goose Creek woman reported
Sunday that someone entered her
mobile home and removed about
$340 worth of household goods, in
cluding a stove, an electric griddle
and a six-pack of soft drinks.
•A Lumberton man reported Sat
urday that someone entered his
mobile home and removed a cable
converter box and remote control.
There was no sign of forced entry,
according to deputy J. D. Gray’s
report
•A Southport woman reported a
missing purse Saturday after she
picked up two men who were
hitchhiking near Lowe’s on Beach
Road. The victim stated she stopped
to tell a friend she would be right
back, and when she returned to the
car her purse and both men were
gone. The purse contained only a
driver’s license and personal papers,
the victim said.
•Jimmy’s Pantry in Calabash
reported Sunday that a man entered
the store, picked up a case of Bud
weiser and walked out, telling the
clerk to charge it. By the time the
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