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October 20,1993/ 50 cents
A dedication ceremony for Southport’s Riverwalk project will be
held at 11:30 a.m. at the Bay Street starting point. City officials say
they intend to erect signs leading to the walkway from the city pier
. . .... Photo by Jim Harpei
and install a lighting system along the walkway itself. Aldermen also
have promised to construct a gazebo at the end of the Riverwalk when
more funds become available.
All... or nothing
Community building
repair studied by city
By Holly Edwards
Municipal Editor
Southport aldermen appear headed
for a showdown on the proposed re
furbishing of the Community Build
ing.
Some board members say all inte
rior and exterior repairs should be
made as soon as possible, while oth
ers say the city should stick to its
commitment to spend only the
$25,000 budgeted for the project this
year.
"We all agreed to do what we could
with $25,000," said alderman Nelson
Adams. "As much as we support the
project, we need a cap on the costs
we're going to spend."
Alderman William Crowe said he
would not vote in favor of anything
less than a complete restoration.
"We need to fix that building or tear
it down,” Crowe declared. "That build
ing over there could pay for itself, but
we're going to have to spend some
money first."
Mayor Norman Holden, who said
7 feel it’s time we make a commitment
to renovate the building. It’s time to ei
ther renovate it or turn it back over to the
government.’
Norman Holden
Southport mayor
he learned to dance in the Community
Building as a child, agreed.
"I feel it's time we make a commit
ment to renovate the building," Holden
said. "It's time to either renovate it or
turn it back over to the government."
The board directed city manager
Rob Gandy to solicit bids on all of the
needed repairs, and will make a final
decision on the scope of the project
next month after all of the cost figures
are in.
The city was notified earlier this
year by U. S. Army facilities engineer
division chief Jack Hauck that dete
rioration of the building could jeopar
dize future lease renewals. Southport
owns the building itself, but leases the
land on which it sit from the Army.
Problems cited by the Army in
clude rotting exterior siding that needs
to be painted, deteriorating shedporch
roofs and structural damage to the
roof. A restoration specialist with the
N. C. Department of Cultural Re
See Repair, page 6
Island fire
protection
a hot item
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By Jim Harper
Staff Writer
In the wake of the disastrous
Swansquarter fire September
30, B aid Head Island's fire chief
: Saturday called for required
sprinklers in all new island con
struction andasked for an addi
j tional fire engine for the vil
lage volunteer fire department,
j' Also reacting quickly to the
fire that destroyed ten build
ings and did an estimated $5.7
million in damage, the village
planning boardFriday arranged
an engineering study for addi
tional fire safety measures on
the island and set a meeting for
October 25 with an eye toward
making recommendations to
the village council in Novem
ber.
The planning board also
asked for a moratorium on
building permits for multi-fam
ily buildings and duplexes.
After hearing objections from
developer Kent Mitchell, who
See Fire, page 6
Unit fundamentally complete;
reactor shroud repair begins
By Jim Harper
Staff Writer
Brunswick nuclear plant vice-president Roy
Anderson said Monday that the fundamental
repairs requiring the extensive outage of Unit 1
are completed, and plans are to begin repairing
the cracked reactor shroud around November
5.
"Of the 4300open issues we had atone time
for Unit 1, we're down to 258, and 150 of those
we cant finish until we put the reactor back
together,” Anderson said.
He said that desijpt of braces to strengthen
the cracked Unit 1 shroud is complete, and that
installation of the braces should begin in about
two weeks. *
The present timetable calls for startup of the
reactor shortly after New Year’s Day.
Restart of the second Brunswick unit had
been planned for November until cracks were
discovered in the shroud and found extensive
enough to require repair.
Both units were shut down by CP&L in April,
^.Wpertod which extended through
Meanwhile, last week Long Beach resident
Chafes Webb, die National Whistleblower
Society and the Coastal Alliance for a Safe
Environment complained to the Nuclear Regu
See Reactor, page (
Martin Marietta
j County seeks
\ forum, study
j on mine plans
I By Terry Pope
County Editor
A resolution passed by Brunswick
County commissioners Monday, in
response to a growing demand for
action, asks for a public forum and
more studies on a proposed Martin
Marietta limestone mine near
Southport.
More than 150 area residents
crowded into the public assembly
building near Bolivia to cheer speak
ers who asked to halt the project and
to boo two who cautioned the board to
consider it.
Some that have formed the
Brunswick Mining Awareness Com
mittee will appear before the
Brunswick County Planning Board
on Wednesday to ask that the zoning
laws be changed to prohibit mines on
the 1,000-acre tract that lies between
. Bethel Church Road and the access
road to Military Ocean Terminal
Sunny Point.
Although commissioners stopped
short of endorsing a zoning change to
block the operation, some say they
will wait and see how the appeal pro
cess goes. The planning board must
hold a public hearing and make a
recommendation to commissioners,
who must hold a second public hear
ing on any proposed change.
‘Martin Marietta
never acted in good
faith to show their
concern for the pub
lic interests. They
have no regard for
the citizens in this
county....’
Leslie Myrie
Former EDC member
Commissioners voted Monday to
begin enforcing county zoning No
vember 1.
"If I could change zoning, 1 would."
said commissioner Wayland Vereen.
who listened to his home constituents
demand action. Monday. "When you're
sitting between the power plant and
Sunny Point, there are very few things
that are more dangerous than in our
whole county."
Vereen's motion forwards resolu
tions that oppose the mine - from the
See Marietta, page 6
Beach has no
burning need
for fire station
By Holly Edwards
Municipal Editor
Representatives from a Southern
Pines engineering firm told the Long
Beach Town Council Tuesday night
that the firm could design and con
struct a fire station that is "attrac
tive, simple and economical" and "a
symbol of the town’s civic pride."
What would be the approximate
cost of this facility? The consultants
said they didn’t know.
"We prefer to get a firm idea of
the conceptual design, materials,
details before we guess on a cost
range," said the firm’s division man
ager, Steve Cavanaugh.
Earlier this week, however, a
Raleigh engineering firm said it
could construct what the town says
it needs - a fire station with five
truck bays, a training room, two of
fices, a kitchen-recreation area, a
mechanical/storage area and "cir
culation space" - for between
$350,000 and $400,000.
When asked if the $225,000
budgeted for a new fire station
would buy the facility the depart
ment needs, fire chief Tim Pittman
shook his head. But despite his
doubts, Pittman said he remained
See Long Beach, page 7
Forecast
. The extended forecast
calls for partly cloudy
skies Thursday with
highs in the 80s. On
Friday, expect highs in
the 70s and lows in the
60s, followed by most
ly sunny but cooler
weather on Saturday
and Sunday: Highs in
the 60s, lows in the
50s.
Tide table
HIGH LOW
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21
J06 am. 7:06 a.m.
1:46 p.m. 7:54 p.m.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22
2=05 a.m. 8:05 ajn.
2:45 p.m. 8:51 pjn.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23
3:05 a.m. 9:08 am
3:41p.m. 9:47 pjn.
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24
4:03 a.m. 10:08 a.m.
4=33 pjn. 10:41 p.m.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 25
4:58 a.m. 11:03 a.m.
5:24 P-m- _ 11:28 pjn.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26
5:f5a.m. 11:54 a.m.
6:10 p.m. —p.m.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27
6=30 ajn. 12:12 a.m.
Si*2 P-m. 12:41 pjn.
The following adjuatmenU should be made:
Bald Head Island, high -10. low -7; Caswell
Beach, high -5. low -1; Southpon, high +7.
low +15; Yaupan Beach, high -32. low -45
Lockwood Folly Inlet, high -22, low -8.