SOUTHPORT, NC
VOLUME 65 / NUMBER 35
50 CENTS
The spring sports season
winds down for Waccamaw
conference teams-- 1C

Term plan
goes to the
By Terry Pope
Cbunty Editor
Voters will decide in November
whether to bring back staggered,
four-year terms for school board
members and county commission
ers.
State Rep. David Redwine (D
Ocean Isle Beach) said lliesday he
will introduce a special bill when
* the N. C. General Assembly con
venes May 13 to let voters decide
the issue once again.
“All of our legislative delegation
is in favor of this,” said Redwine.
“I’ve received resolutions from
both parties, civic groups and town
officials asking for another vote on
the issue. There seems to be a
tremendous amount of support for
it."
L '-’T; : Redwine represents most of
Brunswick County in the 14th
District, along with State Rep.
Dewey Hill of Lake Waccamaw.
Portions of northern Brunswick
;| County are included in a minority
t.' 98th District represented by
Thomas Wright of Wilmington.
| A switch to two-year terms for all
live seats on the two boards resulted
r ^. ftonr-jr 1992 referendum in which
[ county voters at the time favored a
change. But the mood of the people
apparently has changed after two
elections under the plan,
kv If the referendum passes in
November, the bill will stagger
; terms based on the amount of votes
<7 each winner receives in the general
election, said Redwine.
The top three voter-getters for the
commission and school board will
serve four-year terms while the bot
tom two will be seated for two
years. Those two would face reelec
tion in 1998 and the top three in the
year 2000.
“That’s only because you need to
stagger it, and that’s the best way to
See Term plan, page 17
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DOWNTOWN REPAIR
Scaffolding was erected at the fire-damaged Hood
Building last week in preparation for the renovation
project to begin. It will cost about $250,000 to repair
and bring the building up to current building code.
Vhoto by Jim Harper
Contractors from Port City Builders are expected to
complete the project in October and the Dosher Flea
Market can return to its former home.
Deputies fired fatal shots
DA says self-defense
in Shallotte shooting
By Terry Pope
County Editor
Deputies who returned gunfire which killed Shallotte
resident Johnnie Lee Hill during a domestic disturbance
February 11 acted in self-defense and were justified in
their actions, district attorney Rex Gore has concluded.
Gore closed his investigation of the fatal shnnting
Tuesday after reviewing an extensive report prepared by
^ the State Bureau of Investigation.
No charges will be filed against the Brunswick County
sheriff’s deputies who were at the scene when the inci
dent suddenly turned deadly. Hill was struck in the legs
by at least one bullet at the mobile home just south of
Shallotte after officers responded to the call that a
woman was being held inside against her will.
Gore said he regrets the loss of life in the incident,
which was turned over to the SBI for investigation.
“For a reason known only to him,” said Gore, “Mr.
Hill chose to escalate a routine call to check on the safe
ty of Lou Nell Bissette into a life-threatening situation.”
See Self-defense, page 17
All board seats
Primary vote
next Tuesday
7th District race
to replace Rose
is a free-for-all
By TUrry Pope
County Editor
Voters will go to the polls
v Tbesday, but a runoff election is
almost assured in some key races.
With 11 candidates seeking the
7th District U. S. Congressional seat
and three Democrats competing in
the local register of deeds race, vot
ers will likely return to the polls
TUesday, June 4, the date of a sec
ond primary if needed.
One school board candidate has
withdrawn from the District 3 race
and must be replaced on the
November ballot. Bob Hayes of
Long Beach did not have a primary
opponent in the Republican race,
and his name would not have
appeared on the ballot this TUesday.
“It seems to be quieter than pri
maries in the past,” said Brunswick
County Board of Elections supervi
sor Lynda Britt. “All of that is point
ing to a low voter turnout.”
That may increase the chance of a
runoff race even more.
A candidate must gather 40 per
cent of the ballots cast, plus one
vote, to avoid a runoff with the sec
ond-highest candidate. With seven
Democrats and four Republicans
seeking retiring congressman
Charlie Rose’s seat, it will be diffi
cult for one to win a primary race
outright.
Also, this is the Erst time unaffili
ated voters will be allowed to cast
See Primary, page 14
Yaupon request,
district zoning
By Richard Nubel
Municipal Editor
A Yaupon Beach request for
exemption from an ordinance ban
ning disposal of wastewater in the
Southeast Brunswick Sanitary
District will come before district
commissioners for action Monday
morning.
SBSD commissioners’ meeting is
to begin at 7:30 p.m. at the district
office at 4310 Long Beach Road.
The board is also scheduled to con
duct first reading of a zoning ordi
nance amendment regulating mobile
home parks and campgrounds and
will adopt a resolution authorizing
the sale of $350,000 worth of bond
anticipation notes. .
As Yaupon Beach attempts to win
approval of a third plan to dispose of
up to 400,000 gallons of treated
wastewater plant effluent each day,
it finds itself at odds with an ordi
nance adopted by SBSD commis
sioners earlier this year.
The Yaupon Beach treatment plant
is sited on Fish Factory Road in the
sanitary district. Under terms of its
consulting engineers’ most recent
proposal, Yaupon Beach seeks to
dispose of up to 50,000 gallons per

, Bolivia Elementary
I Llewellyn is ‘teacher of year’
By Holly Edward*
Feature Editor '
Bolivia Elementary School teacher Maria
Llewellyn has been named 1996 Brunswick
. County Teacher of the Year and will compete for
* the title at a regional level.
Llewellyn has been at Bolivia Elementary for
| two years and has been teaching for eight years.
“I decided I wanted to be a teacher in second
I grade when I had the most wonderful teacher,” she
I said. “Since then I’ve watched every teacher I’ve
had and have made mental notes of all the things I
wanted to do, and all the things I didn’t want to
do.”
Llewellyn said she tries to relate everything sh<
does in the classroom to something in the outsidi
world. For example, this year her fourth grade stu
dents have started a school “post office” ant
“bank.” Students, teachers and parents now com
municate regularly through the school mail sys
tern, she said, and her students try to earn as mucl
“money” as possible by coming to school each daj
and turning in homework on time.
“My students get ‘paid’ $50 a day to come t<
School, but if they’re absent they don’t get paid
and if they don’t do their homework or it’s late
they’re docked,” she explained. “At the same time
they’re learning how to manage and save their
! ‘money.’”
Llewellyn said her students “hated” her when
■ she informed them that one-fourth of their income
1 had to be given to the IRS for taxes.
“One thing I try to instill in my students is self
responsibility,” she said. “The happiest moment
i for me is when a student does something for him
self without my help. By the end of the year, my
students can run the class without me, and that’s
i the way I like it.”
The Brunswick County Association of Educators
(BCAE) selected a teacher of the year
See Teacher, page 18
day effluent by spray-irrigating
some seven acres of land that town
owns adjacent to the plant site.
Realizing land suitable for dispos
al of treated wastewater would soon
be at a premium, SBSD commis
sioners earlier this year banned
wastewater disposal by any entity
other than the district itself.
A Yaupon Beach request for
exemption from the ban was tabled
by district commissioners last
month when a map depicting
Yaupon Beach’s entire land hold
ings was presented. The board now
appears poised to grant Yaupon’s
request to spray the seven acres it
obtained in 1993 from Standard
Products.
Yaupon Beach is banking that a
quick state approval of the seven
acre irrigation site will allow
Standard Products to begin develop
ment of a residential and marina
complex on the Intracoastal
Waterway at its old menhaden pro
cessing plant site.
Commissioners will conduct a
See SBSD, page 14
Forecast
Our area can look forward to
mostly sunny skies with a
chance of showers and thunder
storms. Highs will be in the mid
70’s to 80.
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