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VOLUME 64/ NUMBER 50 SOUTHPORT, N.C. 50 CENTS
Sports
South Brunswick continues
preparation for next week
end’s UCB Jamboree - 1C
Neighbors
Everybody’s doing it — or
they were last weekend in
the Southport harbor — IB
Our Town
Zoning proposed for the
SBSD doesn’t match the
county ordinance — Page 2
You gotta have a plan, leaders agree
Towns, county
look ahead in
joint session
By Terry Pope
County Editor
As 135 county leaders gathered for an unique plan
ning session last week, what evolved was a very similar
list of wants and needs for the year 2010.
From Calabash to Northwest the concerns are the same.
“When you have this many elected or appointed people
in one room, we need to take advantage of what we’ve
got,” said Wade Horne, Brunswick County planning di
rector.
On the lists reviewed during the four-hour session were
some recurring themes plus some new ones — consoli
dation of three Oak Island towns into one, plans for In
terstate 73, more youth programs, a new corridor from
Long Beach Road, an extension from Boiling Spring
Lakes to Midway Road, second bridge to Oak Island,
too many towns, protection of the Castle Hayne aquifer.
Eight topics evolved from the discussion and became
the focus of concerns for Brunswick County, which con
tinues to be one of the fastest growing areas in the state:
■ Traffic planning and transportation, thoroughfares.
■ Better coordination between county and municipal
governments.
■ Roadway trash and litter control.
■ Countywide water and sewer system needs.
■ Controlling growth without destroying atmosphere
and appearance of county.
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Brunswick County’s zoning administrator Judy
Russell approached the countywide planning ses
sion with enthusiasm. She led one group of partic
■ Educational system, sending graduates from school
that can’t read, write.
■ Finding ways to deal with beac^ erosion financing.
ipants, which had :no problem putting their ideas
on paper.
■ Regulation of hog farms.
A series of eight town meetings will be held in the
county to gather input from citizens this fall. Consultant
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Glenn Harbeck, facilitator of last week’s session, will
compile a report for county commissioners, who will
use it as a planning tool for the next decade. Horne said
he hopes residents respond at the same level. Of the 135
people last week. 120 were officials from towns stretch
ing from Calabash to Northwest.
“If thev do - .
participate, then
it gives us direc
tion of where to
go,” said Home.
“What we need
to know is what
do the people in
the county want
us to do "
Rated as the
top concern is
transportation
and traffic prob
lems. How can
you integrate
air, rail and
highway routes
‘When you have
this many elected or
appointed people in
one room, we need
to take advantage of
what we’ve got.’
Wade Horne
Planning director
in a county experiencing both industrial and tourism
growth?
“We feel the goal is a comprehensive transportation
plan to move people and materials,” said Bob Quinn of
Southport, a member of the Brunswick County Long
Range Planning Committee appointed by county com
missioners earlier this year. The committee sponsored
last week’s session and also serves as an advisory panel
to the Brunswick County Planning Board. “It’s a big
guessing game right now," said Quinn.
Roadway trash has caught the eye of the county com
mission, which has formed a new committee and funded
See Leaders, page 10
Who was at fault?
Schools' 'breakdown'
causes fund shortfall
By Holly Edwards
Feature Editor
A “communication breakdown”
between Brunswick County school
system principals and central office
staff has led to budget shortfalls for
classroom supplies in virtually every
school and lingering uncertainty
about the upcoming school year cal
endar.
With the first day of school just two
weeks away, the board of education
called for an informal meeting with
principals Monday afternoon to hear
their last-minute concerns.
Forecast
We're only halfway through the
summer but Tuesday saw morning
temperatures in the 60's giving us a
glimpse of autumn The temperatures
for Thursday through Saturday should
be in the mid 80's.
Tide table
high low
THURSDAY, AUGUST 10
8:14 a.m. 2:08 a.m.
8:48 p.m. 2:20 p.m.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 11
9:07 a.m. 2:57 a.m.
9:37 p.m. 3:11p.m.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 12
9:57 a.m. 3:43 a.m.
10:24 p.m. 4:00 p.m.
SUNDAY, AUGUST 13
10:46 a.m. 4:28 a.m:
11:09 p.m. 4:47 p.m.
MONDAY, AUGUST 14
11:33a.m. ,5:13a.m.
11:54 p.m. \ 5:35 p.m.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 15
-a.m. 5:57 a.m.
12:20 p.m. 6:22 p.m.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16
12:39 a.m. 6:42 a.m.
1:08 p.m. 7:12 p.m.
The following adjustments should be made:
Bald Head Island, high -10, low -7; Caswell
Beach, high -5, low -1; Southport, high 4-7, low
415; Lockwood Folly, high -22, low -8.
Those people in the central office will be
more visible in the schools this year if we
have to move their offices into the
schools.9
BudThorsen
Board member
Instead, the school board discov
ered principals had not received fund
ing they were promised for classroom
supplies and materials and were not
informed that the school board was
resolutely opposed to the Wednesday
early release policy.
School board members said they
were shocked by the apparent lack of
communication between the central
office and school principals.
Directing money back to the class
rooms and eliminating the early re
lease policy have been two of the
board’s biggest concerns, but appar
ently none of the principals were
aware of the board position on either
of these issues.
“It was like throwing cold water in
my face,” declared school board
member Glenda Browning. “These
are things the principals needed to be
aware of. This is very disappointing.”
Browning told principals that she
was assured by central office staff that
local funding for classroom supplies
and materials would be doubled.
See Schools, page 7
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Fall elections
field complete
uy Kicnara NuDei
Municipal Editor
The municipal elections of 1995
may prove to be as notable for who is
not running as they will be for who is
running.
The period of the election year in
which candidates may file official
notices of intention to run for munici
pal office expired Friday at noon.
Southport, Yaupon Beach and
Caswell Beach will definitely have
new mayors in December.
Southport mayor Norman Holden,
after 14 years of service as an aider
men and mayor, did not file to seek
election. Caswell Beach mayor Jack
Cook, top elected official in that town
since 1979, did not file for election.
After 12 consecutive years of service
to the board of commissioners, all but
three as mayor, May Moore of
Yaupon Beach will not seek reelec
tion.
In Long Beach, 14 candidates will
enter a non-partisan primary election
to be held October 10. Only two can
didates will seek the Long Beach
See Elections, page 6
REACHING OUT
Resolution is approved
board wants
-area service
By Terry Pope
County Editor
Before Oak Is land residents
can reach out anti touch some
one just across the waterway at
Sunset Harbor it takes a long
distance telephone call.
From Southport to Boiling
Spring Lakes is just a few miles.
But that, too, requires a long
distance call.
The county is divided by two
companies - Atlantic Tele
phone Membership Corp. and
Southern Bell -- but some resi
dents are now pushing for toll
free service.
“We feel, in our area, that this
is something that is needed,”
said William D. (Billy) Carter
of Yaupon Beach, vice-presi
There would be an
increase in the basic
monthly service fee
each customer would
pay the telephone
companies, but no
more long distance
rates.
dent of governmental affairs for
the Southport-Oak Island Cham
ber of Commerce. “I think, above
all, it will bring us closer together
as a county.”
Carter called on support from
the Brunswick County Board of
Commissioners Monday, and
all five board members an
swered the call. They passed a
resolution to ask the N. C. Pub
lic Utilities Commission to ex
tend local calling among all of
the exchanges within county
boundaries ~ if approved by a
vote of the telephone custom
ers.
“There are a number of steps
that you must go through,” said
Carter. “It takes a two-year jour
ney to accomplish this.”
It also would not be free.
There would be an increase in
the basic monthly service fee
each customer would pay the
telephone companies, but no
more long distance rates.
Carter said the chamber will
See Whole-area, page 6
resolution
By Richard N ubel
Municipal Editor
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Municipal governing bodies in the area are
being asked to adopt resolutions aimed at mak
ing calls to most sections of Brunswick County
local calls.
of Commerce, an “Extended Area Service of
Local Calling” would be established to permit
local calling between the Southport-Oak Island
exchanges - 457,278 and 201 ~ and some of
the other exchanges in Brunswick County, 754
(Shallotte), 253 (Bolivia), 842 (Supply-Holden
Bead)) and 845 (Boiling Spring Lakes).
The Southport-Oak Island area is served by
Southern Bell Telephone Company which pro*
vides the 457 and 278 exchanges and the hew
See Chamber, page 6
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