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INSIDE Volume 62/ Number 41 Southport, N.C. f) June 2,1993/ 50 cents Agencies^ will befunded 68-cent rate seen as goal for county By Terry Pope County Editor Brunswick County's tentative 1993 94 budget entered its second week of revisions Tuesday as commissioners attempt to keep the tax rate at 68 cents. Many of the estimated 173 people who gathered at a public hearing at Bolivia last Thursday received some good news before the meeting began. Still others used the occasion to. criticize commissioners for their re cent handling of some personnel mat ters and for a confusing budget pro cess. "It's most unfortunate so much nega (iarbage, 911 fees possible, page. 7 live publicity came as a result of this budget proposal," said Don Hughes, chairman of the Brunswick County Resources Development Commis sion, "because this hurts in industrial recruitment." At a series of workshops earlier in the week, commissioners agreed to restore some funds to local agencies and non-profit groups, money that was cut by interim county manager John Harvey's proposal on May 17. Many groups sent speakers to the hearing to plead their cases, not know \ -s' :-. *> . w s “ “ ^ , ••‘•\s CP&L at 100 percent Carolina Power and Light Co.’s Brunswick Unit 2 went to sustained JOG-percenf power production Friday and was still operating at that level Tuesday. Plaid: vice-president Roy Anderson said adjustment of control valves in the main turbine may require powering down over the hveekend, but added that he anticipated requesting pefflhssibri to operate the unit without close Nuclear Regulatory Commission supervision in the next meeting wife fee NRC on June 9. "But this is not the end," Anderson said. "This is just asking permission to do it by ourselves.” Still ahead is getting Unit 1 refurbished,repaired and refueled. Anderson has said he expects start-up of Unit 1 in September. Both units were shut down April 21,1992, and CP&L work to : get them operable has been closely monitored by the NRC. li 111 W\ County may fill landfill position By Terry Pope County Editor Questions surround an unexpected decision to hire a new solid waste director in charge of Brunswick County's landfill, a position previ ously cut from the budget Some county commissioners were surprised to see the job posted and advertised in newspapers last week when a consensus of the board in March was to cut the position. The job has been vacant since March IS when Leo Hewett was suspended and later fired by interim county man ager John Harvey. Hewett was caught in a controversy over violations and fines imposed by See Landfill, page 9 7/i my view that’s a violation of the law. What you in ef fect do is conduct a meeting where the public cannot par ticipate.’ Hugh Stevens Jr. NCPA counsel Related story, pj». 9 Forecast The extended forecast calls for mostly sunny skieS on Thursday with highs between 80 and 85 degrees. On Friday and Saturday expect partly 1 cloudy skies with oc casional showers, with highs 85 to 90 degrees and lows in the 60s. Cooler on Sunday, with highs in the lower 80s and lows in the 50s. Tide table HIGH LOW THURSDAY, JUNE 3 7:37 am. 1:37 un. 8:13 p.m. 1:42 p.m. FRIDAY, JUNE 4 829 a.m. 229 a.m. 9.05 pm. 229 pm. SATURDAY, JUNES 9:19 a.m. 3:17 a.m. 922 pm. i 3:18 pm. SUNDAY,JUNES 10:06 am. 403 am. 10:38 pm. 403 pm. MONDAY, JUNE 7 10:34 am. 4:48 am. 11:23 pm. 421pm. TUESDAY,JUNES 11:42am 521 am —-pm. 524p.m. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9 12.06 am 6:13 a.m. 1227 pm. 621 pm 11m following adjustment! should bo made: Bald Head Island, high >10, low >7; Caswell Beach, high -5, low -1; Southport, Ugh +7, low +15;Yaupon Beach, high -32, low -43; Lockwood Folly, high -22, low -8. ing the tentative changes were in place. The hearing will be the only one held on the budget, said chairman Don Warren. It may not be approved until June 21. Following Harvey's budget mes sage the board did not vote on a pro posed budget However, it did set a public hearing and immediately be gan from scratch to rework Harvey's figures with finance director Lithia Hahn. Harvey proposed a tax rate of 74.75 cents per $ 100 of property value along with severe cuts to agencies, elimina tion of the county's parks and recre ation department and RDC, and that See County, page 7 Same rate, but higher fees for city Southport aldermen were present ed with a proposed 1993-94 budget of $6,101,414 Tuesday night that would retain the present 58-cent ad valorem tax rate but require in creases in sewer rate, electric rate and cost of solid waste disposal. The board set the first of several budget workshops for 7 p.m. tomor row (Thursday). The budget must also be considered at a public hear ing, yet to be scheduled, before adoption prior to July 1. City manager Rob Gandy’s first budget for Southport would retain the present emergency dispatch sys tem, staffed by local personnel, at a cost of $47,366. Local control over dispatch was continued at citizen re quest last year even after countywide 911 dispatch service was put into effect. Gandy. suggests in his budget a 3.6-percent rise in electric rate to cover an anticipated power agency rate increase in October. He also recommends an increase in sewer rates from $2.66 to $3.55 per 1,000 gallons to adequately off set the cost of sewage treatment; and he suggests making solid waste an "enterprise fund” -- self-supporting - by increasing the present $9.50 fee to $16.15. In Gandy’s budget city employees would receive a five-percent cost of-living raise. Last year they had none. |!^SHINGTON, D,C. - She’snumber four today, builder this ||||§ekshe hopes shell he number one. »f?:Can>lfn£ Sheffield, aneighth grader at Shallotte Middle School, gys here this week, one of235 students participating in the Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee. She is representing The State Port WfHtet in the competition. |i||garolirie is the fourth speller in the contest tlm began at 8:30 today (Wednesday) in the ballroom of the Capitol Hilton, i Having had access to words that areesed in the first two founds, ^Caroline expects to make it successfully toRound 3 when wotds I for the competition are taken directly from the dictionary, ®-lven with a busy end-of-the-year schedule that included repre i senting her school in the state History Bowl competition. Caroline fsaid, "I've been studying hard * §P«p® \vi fell 11 S| S the help of her mother, a former English teacher. "We're just working together," Caroline said. After weeks of studying the eighth grader said she's enjoyed preparing for the national spelling bee* I've learned a lot of new words," she said, "Unbecoming more interesting because Fro learning to appreciate it," Caroline said she used thefraoklin Wotdmastershe received as aprize fw winning tire Btunswkk CJotHtty Spelling Bee in March, and lire dictionary is a good reference that helped her pronounce words correctly and learn their meaning. Her main focus has been on medical and scientific terms which often pop up in national competition. "You have to foam the patterns, the prefixes and suffixes, so you can gettlrefedingofhow to spell them," she said. Once sire figures out the root word, Caroline said she is usually able to spell tire more difficult words. “You make alotiessmistakesthat way " she said. It alsohelps See Speller, page* Photo by jlm Harper It wasn’t nice roast beef, but munchies Deborah Beach parks and recreation department obedience Turner passed out held Sebastian’s attention last training, week as his classmates performed in the Long This little piggy stays home By Jim Harper* Staff Writer The first thing you notice is that he’s a bit low-slung for a dog. Maybe a basset is built as close to the ground, but the body on this one is more compact, has more heft. Then you notice he's better behaved than most of the canines prancing around; scratching, smelling, generally doing doggy things. Nothing like that for Sebastian, who is mild, mannerly, under perfect control. Then you see that he's eating the grass. "He'll eat anything," says Deborah Turner. "Grass. Dog food. Banana peel. He's a regular compost heap.” Yet while making a pig of himself, Sebastian remains the soul of decorum. There is no record of the initial response when Deborah and Michael Tumer asked to enroll Sebastian, their yeai old Vietnamese pot-bellied pig, in dog obedience da' at the Long Beach Recreation Center, but in the foui week course this month he won the respect, or at lea: grudging tolerance, of human and canine alike. Last week Sebastian and his fellow classmates wet through their exercises for schoolmaster Jerry Dove, an Sebastian earned a 90 - equivalent of a Gentleman's ( — for the class, following Deborah around the cours going "WEEE-WEEEE-WEEE" and doing the thing necessary for a passing mark. Sebastian was entered in the class along with th Turner's Shar-Pei named Chelsea (Shar-Pei is a Chines dog) and necessarily was subjected to comparison wit See Piggy, page 6
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