I sunrise i Services will be held at various sites throughout the area Sunday morning — 5B Sports South Brunswick finds itself struggling with a 4-5 record in early going — 1C Neighbors I It was mostly fun and games Saturday in the fifth annual horse-a-thon — IB Dosher insures future Managed care in partnership By Holly Edwards Feature Editor Dosher Memorial Hospital is poised to jump into the managed care health insurance business. Within two months Dosher will be a partner in an integrated health de livery system linking Coastal Caro lina Health Alliance (CCH A) regional hospitals and Acordia National Insur ance Company based in Charleston. WV. Regional health care providers and Acordia will begin by forming a Pre ferred Provider Organization (PPO) to provide discounted health care ser vice to its clients. While Health Main tenance Organizations (HMOs) will not pay for clients to use health care See Dasher, page 9 SBSD Yaupon request deferred By Jim Harper Staff Writer Southeast Brunswick Sanitary Dis trict commissioners Monday deferred action on a Yaupon Beach request that the town be given permission to spray treated wastewater within district lim its. Chairman James W. Smith reported that in discussions Yaupon Beach had sought leave to spray on seven acres, but in the written request the town asked to spray on 22.06 acres. Yaupon Beach bases its waste treat ment in the district, off Fish Factory See Yaupon, page 8 Colorful ini silll in full bloom along the Southport waferfroat this week are pelicans, but soon they will find themselves drawn to nesting Photo by Jim Harper areas upriver and to sea as feeding opportunities improve. * > x 'Primrose path' Beach strand project awash in paperwork By Richard Nubel Municipal Editor Once thought to be on a sure track for approval, a project to stabilize the Long Beach oceanfront between 58th Street and the area of 36th Street ap pears to be in danger of drowning in layers of bu reaucracy. “1 wouldn't call it dead, but 1 wouldn't call it really alive either.” town man ager Jerry Walters said. Authorized under Sec Under terms of the project, a spoil depository on the mainland side of the Intracoastal Waterway, used by the corps, was to be pumped out | tion 204 of the federal Clean Water Act. the estimated $6-million project was to renourish a mile of severely eroded Long Beach occanfront and taper another three-quarters of a mile from each See Paperwork, page 9 I Martin Marietta Mine dispute £ court date set By Terry Pope County Editor The first legal battle over Martin Marietta's proposed rock quarry north of Southport will be waged in Brunswick County Superior Court next week. Attorneys for both sides will enter court Friday, April 12, to present argu ments to Superior Court judge William C. Gore Jr. on whether Brunswick County’s ordinance that blocks deep-water mining within five miles of Caro lina Power and Light Co. s Brunswick nuclear plant Martin Marietta claims it has spent more than $1.6 million to set up its project and will seek that amount in damages from the county if the ordinance is not overturned in court I and the Military Ocean terminal Sunny Point ammunitions depot I is constitutional. J Martin Marietta has filed for a summary judgment which could See Dispute, page 7 Solutions sought School discipline problem caused by few students By Holly Edwards Feature Editor Principals and school board discipline committee members met this week to discuss possible solutions to one of the school system’s most pressing problems -- unmanageable students. “We need to put our heads together and find out what we can do to ensure that no one is allowed to keep teachers from teaching and stu dents from learning,” declared school board member Pat Brown. Board member Bud Thotsen, who also works with juveniles in the court system, noted that repeated disruptions of the teaching process is a violation of state law, and that juvenile petitions could be filed against students who cannot be controlled. “Before anything like that could go to court, we’d need documents from the school that they have exhausted all other alternatives,” Thotsen explained. Other possible solutions to discipline problems suggested by prin cipals included establishing a counseling center for unmanageable stu dents, requiring parents to sit in the classroom with their child in lieu , See Problem, page ( Weekend horse-a-thon 'Hitching up' in Long Beach A horseback wedding ceremony kicked off the fifth annual Long Beach Horse-a-Thon Saturday morning. Rusty Gainey and Lori Fowler fulfilled their dream of a horseback wedding at the beach and held their nuptials at the Long Beach ca bana. A small crowd of onlookers gathered as the couple said their vows and leaned across their horses to kiss, then rode of into the... er, west. The horse-a-thoh is an annual fund-raiser for the Long Beach Volunteer Fire Department and last year netted about $23,000 for the or ganization. Volunteers were expected to final ize die weekend total in a meeting Tuesday night Over 560 horses and riders participated in the event. Riders galloped through the surf, sipped cocktails on the beach and enjoyed hot. dogs and riding competitions at the “point* Saturday afternoon. The day concluded with a dinner and dance for the riders at the VFW Post in Long Beach. Saturday remained overcast and dry, but Sunday morning showers sent most rider* home early that day. Rosty Gainey ud Lori Fowler loss it the cob* 'elusion of their horseback aapHih Sitartty morning at the Long Beach The bride aad|nm« took advMta«e «rtte aNNNl Lnv Beth Horst^TVa to MOB thefe 4nw at a horseback weddfot oa the beach.

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