Volume 62/ Number 33
Southport, N.C,
April 7,1993/ 50 cents
Chili the
hot item
Saturday
By Marybeth Bianchi
Feature Editor
Ten types of tasty chili will be there
for the sampling at Saturday's cookoff
in Franklin Square Park.
The fourth annual event sponsored
by the Robert Ruark Foundation will
get underway at 10 a.m. when the
nearly 40 arts and crafts booths will
be open for business.
The chili tasting will get underway
at noon.
There is no charge for admission to
the park, but those who wish to sample
the chili will pay $3.50 for the privi
lege of tasting and casting their vote
for the People's Choice Award. A
total of700 tickets have been printed,
and in year's past they've sold out
quickly.
Come early for chili tickets.
There'll be a lot of people there,"
cookoff chairman Happi Gottlieb said.
The Robert RuarkFoundation won't
be competing, but members will be
dishing out sample "chili fixin’s" pre
pared by Gottlieb, and donated by
Archer Daniels Midland Co. which is
co-sponsoring this year's chili cookoff.
Visitors can take home their own
packet of "chili fixin’s" for $2.
Cookoff competitors include Stan
Thomas and the leprechauns of the
ShamrockRestaurantandPub; Kermit
Finch and Red Carpet Realty; Mervin
E. Nichols and the Chuck Wagon
Gang; Gene Cain and the Red Hot
Chili Peppers; Gregory J. Mincey and
Carolina Eye Associates' Red Hot
Chili; Ray Carstens offering Ray's
Blue Ribbon Special; Larry Miller
and his Purple Heart Chili; A1 Puckett
with Sanjo's Eight-Bean Chili; Pattie
Sykes with Pattie's Chili; and Maxine
Pender from Pender's Luncheonette
in Wilmington.
Each competitor is preparing ten
gallons of chib forpublic tasting. One
quart will be set aside for official
judging by James Hardy, Terri Deal,
Jim Brown and two others who will
follow criteria established by the In
ternational Chili Society and the Chili
Appreciation Society of America in
selecting the winners.
First place will be worth $500 and
second place $250. A $100 People's
Choice Award will be presented along
with a $100 prize for the best deco
rated booth. Winners will be an
nounced at 3 p.m.
For those who prefer less spicy
food, steak sandwiches, hot dogs,
baked goods and beverages will be
available.
From 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. musical
entertainment will be provided by disc
jockey Julie Pittman. An Easter egg
hunt for the youngsters, age 11 and
under, will begin at 1 p.m. and Peter
Rabbit will be available for photos
from 1 to 2 p.m.
At 2 p.m. the hat contest will be
judged with $25 prizes being awarded
See Chili, page 9
Windsurfers find Southport harbor an excellent and strong -• conditions which are frequently found
location for their sport when the breeze is westerly here each spring.
Leland school among
requests in *93 budget
By Marybeth Bianchi
Feature Editor
A new elementary school in the Leland area and an addition to West
Brunswick High School are the big-ticket items in the 1993-94 budget the
Brunswick County Board of Education is considering.
The budget was presented to the board last Wednesday and is expected to be
acted upon tonight (Wednesday) when the board has its monthly meeting. It
includes a $7.85-million proposal for capital outlay and an $8.99-million
proposal for current expense.
The capital outlay budget is divided into three categories. The Erst is
designated for building construction and renovation and is funded mainly by
the half-cent sales tax revenues which last year totaled about $2.2 million. The
second category includes equipment and supplies while the third is for
vehicles. The latter two, which total $1.64 million, are funded by county tax
revenues.
Assistant superintendent William Turner told board members that the two
construction projects were recommended by the state Department of School
See Budget, page 9
Building a new K
5 school in that
area would bring
enrollment numbers
to about 600for
each school and
make Leland a true
middle school serv
ing grades six
through eight
By Terry Pope
County Editor
Before he resigned last
month, former county man
ager David Clegg figured he
llflwas owed around $21,000
* for88lhoursofaccuraulated!
vacation time he had never
, taken.
Brunswick County com
missioners reluctantly voted
4-1 Monday to pay him.
Commissioner Wayland
Vereen, whose motion to
table the matter failed 1-4,
‘Every board subsequent to that was
I fully aware of that (policy). They were
| aware it was part of my employment
J contract/
David Clegg
| Former county attorney
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was ifcoriJype<$on towteagainst
the payment
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mM
opinion on that" said Vr*ea
aa&if
: fpr bis advice at the meeting.
He had apparently given a le
gal ruling earlier after Clegg '
jsP sent a letter asking for his
.
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rpetsonnel policy adopted in
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Sewer to developers
Yaupon, Long
beaches could
offer service
By Holly Edwards
County Editor
Committees appointed by the Long
Beach and Yaupon Beach town boards
will soon begin hammering out the
details of policies that would allow
Long Beach developers to tap onto
the Yaupon Beach sewer system.
The Long Beach Town Council in
dicated last week that it would con
sider allowing developers to utilize
the sewer system, as long as an ac
ceptable agreement could be reached
between the two towns.
An estimated S20 million in real
estate property could be added to the
tax base of Long Beach if the towns
come up with an agreeable policy,
said Yaupon Beach engineering con-'
sultant Finley Boney.
About 115 residential units and 110
motel units are planned for the Turtle
Creek By-The-Sea development and,
just up the street, developer Homer
Wright is planning to build 22 resi
dential units and a clubhouse. Resi
dents of 79th Street may also tap onto
the sewer system that lies just across
the street.
Developers would have to bear the
full cost of constructing the sewer
lines and of the additional administra
tive work involved in billing, Boney
said. However, they would ultimately
recover those costs in increased de
velopment. For example, he said
Wright would be able to construct six
more residential units by tapping onto
the sewer system and, at $50,000 per
lot, would gain approximately
it will be up to
the developer to
deliver their
wastewater to our
system. If they have
to do it by buckets,
that’s okay by us.’
Finley Boney
Consulting engineer
$300,000.
Boney said he believed Long Beach
residents would also benefit from' ad
ditional accommodations taxes and
by a boost in their tax base. In addi
tion, he said, the Town of Yaupon
Beach would benefit from an increased
flow of money to help pay for the
sewer system.
"In the end. everyone will benefit,"
he said. "Still, I think there will be
some citizens groups that will be op
posed to it. And there will also be a
number of people who say. No, we
don't trust anybody who wants to build
a building.' But, it's inevitable. And to
me, a wastewater treatment facility
for Long Beach is inevitable."
Boney indicated that Yaupon Beach
commissioners have no interest in
maintaining and operating sewer lines
See Beaches, page 9
Leaves go, but
they'll be back
By Holly Edwards
Municipal Editor
\
As the first signs of spring breathe new life into the Southport-Oak Island
area, many plants and trees remain conspicuously scorched and brown. This
burned appearance is particularly striking on the south side of the Intracoastal
Waterway, and some residents are left wondering if our trees will ever be green
again.
Yes they will, in time, promised county cooperative extension director
Milton Coleman. The March 13 storm's dense salt spray, 70-to-100-mile-an
hour wind and extremely low wind-chill factor had a blistering effect on local
plant life, particularly the pine trees, Coleman explained. But. within a month
he said dead leaves, pine needles and other plant tissue will begin to fall off and
new, living plant tissue will begin to grow back.
In some cases, trees appear brown and leafless on the south side, while the
See Leaves, page 6
OUTSIDE
Forecast
The extended forecast
calls for mostly sunny
- skies on Thursday, fol
lowed by showers on
Friday and Saturday.
Expect clearing skies by
Easter Sunday. Highs
during the period will
be in the 70s, lows in
the SOs.
Tide table
HIGH
9:59 a.m.
9:32 pjn.
10:51 a.m.
ll:24p.m
THURSDAY, APRIL 8
LOW
FRIDAY, APRIL 9
3:53 a.m.
4:03 p.m.
4:44 a.m.
4:51 p.m.
SATURDAY, APRIL 10
11:42 a.m. 5:33 a.m.
-pjn. 5:42 pjn.
SUNDAY, APRIL 11
12:16 ajn. 6:27 ajn.
12:35 pan. (33 pjn.
MONDAY, APRIL 12
1:10a.m. • 7:19 a.m.
1:30 pm. • 7:28 pjn.
TUESDAY, APRIL 13
2:Q6ajn. 8:15 ajn.
2:28 pm. 8:29 pjn.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14
3:01 ajn. 9:11 ajn.
327 n.m. 929 pjn.
The following adjustments should be made:
Bald Head Island, high -10, low -7; Caswell
Beach, high -5, low -1; Southpott, high +7,
low +15, Yaupon Beach, high -32, low -45;
Lockwood Folly, high -22, low -8.