Volume 62/Number 27 _ Southport, N.C. February 24,1993/ 50 cents
Attentive attendants await a flying morsel as the
crew of the sinknetter Capt. J shake spots and gray
trout and an occasional menhaden from their nets
Photo by Jim Harper
at the Southport Fish Market dock. The fish were
caught off the Cape Fear bar. Spots and trout are
marketed, and pelicans get the pogies.
Horse-a-thon back in saddle
Registration for the 1993 Long
Beach Horse-a-thon, benefiting the
Long Beach Volunteer Fire Depart
ment, is open through Friday, March
5.
Invitations have been issued to those
who attended last year, and new rid
ers are welcome to participate in the
weekend event. The pre-registration
cost is $25 a person and $35 a horse.
Those who register late will pay an
additional $ 15 per horse, bringing the
total cost to $75. Horses are required
to have had a negative Coggins test
within the past year.
Included in the package is a camp
site for two nights, breakfast Saturday
and Sunday, and admission to a dance
Saturday night at the VFW hall. The
VFW willofferdinner Saturday night.
The featured event will be the 20
mile beach ride on Saturday, March 6,
which will include a hot dog lunch,
games and competitive events at the
west end of Long Beach.
Participants can stay at the Long
Beach Campground or in nearby mo
tels, cottages or condominiums, but
their horses must be kept at the camp
ground. Horses are prohibited from
the sand dunes and paved streets, ex
r
cept as access to the beach from the
campground.
Competitive events are being coor
dinated by Renee Walcott, and will be
judged by members of Oak Island
Senior Citizens. Horseback rides will
be available and awards will be given
See Horse, page 6
i
District to sell notes
Southeast Brunswick Sanitary District commissioners will discuss the
sale of notes to fund a district office and pay other necessary expenses
of district work at their monthly meeting next week.
Commission chairman James W. Smith said Monday that consultant
Finley Boney is also expected to report on progress in getting district
zoning to go into effect at the same time as county zoning, July 1.
Smith said that commissioners will also set a workshop date for
development of a sewer ordinance.
The commission meeting will begin at 7:30 a.m. Monday, March 1, in
the chamber of commerce visitors center on Long Beach Road.
Getting back to work
Good JOBS program
may be key to success
By Marybetn Biancm
Feature Editor
Dropping out of school may seem
an easy way out for some teenagers,
but it generally leads to a life of pov
erty.
Often relegated to the welfare rolls,
these individuals seldom have any
incentive to improve their situation.
The alternatives include low-paying
jobs, with little or no benefits and
security.
Now chances for the better life they
once might have thought beyond their
grasp are being made available to
Brunswick County residents through
the Job Opportunities and Basic Skills
‘If I get through this, I can get through
anything. It’s been real tough. I felt so
out of place. It was strange going back to
school after so many years *
Janice Stanley
(JOBS) training program.
In the early 1980s Janice Stanley
was not concerned that she didn't have
a high school diploma.
"I thought life was a rose garden
and 1 didn't worry about an educa
tion," she said, looking back to those
See JOBS, page 6
C ountywide ordinance suggested
Mobile home hearing
could bring new rules
By Terry Pope
County Editor
Health officials say they will hold a
second public hearing on a proposed
mobile home park and campground
ordinance.
Some of the estimated 40 people
who attended a hearing last week com -
plained they did not have time to
study the new rules.
The ordinance is aimed at bringing
the county's mobile home parks up to
health standards. Inspectors will check
for proper water, sewer and garbage
disposal service.
"Many are substandard, but many
are also A-1,” said Andrew Robinson,
Brunswick County Health
Department's environmental health
supervisor. "We've had numerous
complaints from residents who have
asked that we do something."
Annual permit fees will be $50 for
paries with ten spaces or less, $ 100 for
11 to 25 spaces and $150 for ones
with 26 spaces or more. A mobile
home park is defined as any parcel of
land that has three or more manufac
tured homes.
It does not apply to individual prop
erty owners who have purchased sepa
rate lots and their own manufactured
homes.
Several who spoke say the rules are
too tough on campgrounds.
Carson Durham, who owns a camp
ground near Shallolte, said a rule re
quiring a bath house within 200 feet
of each campsite is unfair.
"You can't get too many vehicles
College^ auditorium
Lawsuit may be next stage
By Marybeth Bianchi
Feature Editor
Hatcher Construction of Fayetteville has 1ms than two weeks to
complete Iri items that will bring the auditorium at Brunswick
Community College close to completion
If it does not, Hatcher Construction will be declared in default of
its contract and may not get a chance to finish the job it started back
in September, 1991.
After meeting in executive session for an hour at its regular
meeting last week, the college board of trustees authorized Boney
Architects to notify Hatcher Construction it had 15 days, effective
February 19. to make "substantial progress” toward completion of
the Odell Williamson Auditorium,
The $3.2-miUion facility was scheduled for completion In
October, but because of delays - some due(to inclement weather
trustees panted an extension to December 10. However, they
say the project is still far from being done,
“This seems to be the next logical step,” trustees chairman David
Kelly said after the meeting. "We’re hopeM this will cause us to
move:
attention without satisfactory response," the letter to the contrac
within 200 feet of a bath house," said
Durham.
Another rule requires a toilet and
urinal in male restrooms for every
eight vehicle spaces.
"In my park, in ten years. I’ve never
known that to be a problem," Durham
stated. "I'm sure there's a need for
such rules. I’m not against having
this."
Brice Randleman, who owns a
Leland mobile home park, claims the
county is responsible for his continu
ous septic tank problems. Water drains
from ditches routed through the Leland
Industrial Park and onto his property,
he said.
"I can’t get the water out of my
park," said Randleman. "I don’t have
a pump big enough to pump
Brunswick County into the Cape Fear
River. I'll work with anybody, but I
wish somebody would help me get rid
of my water problem down there."
Baker Harrell said he couldn't com
ment on something he had seen just
15 minutes prior to the hearing. The
ordinance is 30 pages long.
It was written by a committee of 18
members that include some mobile
home park owners, said Robinson.
Grady Roscoe of Ocean Isle Beach
said he was on that committee but was
never notified of any meetings.
"I will not comment on that," said
Robinson.
No member of the Brunswick
County Board of Health, which must
vote on the ordinance, was at the
public hearing last Tuesday, Febru
ary 16. Apparently, no committee
members, other than health depart
ment personnel, were at the meeting
either.
When one person asked if there
were any committee members present
in the audience, no one acknowledged
See Mobile, page 4
Utility briefs NRG
Carolina Power and Light Co. officials will brief the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission Match 2 on its preparations to restart the
Brunswick nuclear plant Unit 2 late in the month.
Since both units were shut down last April tire power company
has held regularmeetings with the NRC, usually at the Brunswick
site, to update work being done to get the plant operating.
The March 2 meeting, open to the public, will begin at 10 a.m.
in the public assembly building at the CP&L visitors center.
Forecast
The extended forecast
calls for mostly cloudy
skies Thursday with a
chance of rain and a high
only in the 40s. Showers
are expected Friday with
highs in the SOs and lows
in the 40s, followed by
partly cloudy skies Satur
day and Sunday with
highs in the 40s and lows
in the 20s.
Tide table
HIGH LOW
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25
10:02 a.m. 4:02 a.m.
10:18 p.m. 4:15 p.m.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26
10:31 a.m. 4:39 a.m.
10:57 p.m. 4:52 p.m.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27
11:11a.m. 5:20 a.m.
11:43 p.m. ' 5:34 p.m.
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28
11:59 a.m. 6:09 a.m.
-p.m. 6:22 pm.
MONDAY, MARCH 1
12:36 a.m. 7:07 a.m.
12:57 p.m. 7:24 p.m.
TUESDAY, MARCH 2
1:41 a.m. 8:1,4 a.m.
2:07 pm. 8:31 pm.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3
2:48 am. 9:21 am.
3:16 p.m. 9:39 p.m.
The following adjustments should be made:
Bald Head Island, high -10, low -7; Caswell
Beach, high -S, low -1; Southport, high +7,
low +15, Yaupon Beach, high -32, low -45;
Lockwood Folly, high -22, low -8.