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Brunswick
Waste
contract
extended
By Terry Pope
County Editor
Brunswick County has contracted
with Waste Industries Inc. for another
year to haul garbage to an incinerator
near Fayetteville and to operate its
three county transfer stations at
Southport, l.eland and Ocean Isle
Beach.
"Has theit service improved to
where I can in good conscience vote
to extend the contract'.’" asked Dis
trict 3 commissioner Leslie Collier of
Long Beach last week.
She referred to numerous com
plaints from residents filed with com
missioners over operation of the
transfer stations in the past. Waste
Industries has served the county since
March, 1992, hut in the last six
months it has operated under a new
supervisor of services in Brunswick
County.
In the past, residents have com
plained about the cleanliness of the
See Waste, page 8
Assistants
join Wise's
school team
By Holly Edwards
feature Editor
The personnel director for the N.
C. Department of Public Instruction
and the 1996 North Carolina princi
pal of the vear were hired Monday to
serve as assistant superintendents for
Brunswick County schools.
At the recommendation of super
intendent of schools Marion Wise, the
board ol education unanimously
voted to hire Clarence Willie to serve
as assistant superimendent for opera
tional services, and Mary McDuflie
as assistant superintendent for instruc
tional services.
Wiilie will replace Jan Calhoun,
whose contract was not renewed last
month, and McDuffie will replace
Oscar Blanks Jr, who resigned last
vear due to health reasons.
Both will be paid S7(),(K)() a year
but their contracts have not been ii
nali/ed
McDuffie's strong points include
See School team, page 8
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Juan Manuel Rueda, backed by friends and well-wishers, sang for joy evening was Col. Donald Parker, and keynote speaker was former U. S.
July 3 as he became a naturalized American citizen along with 55 oth- education secretary William Bennett,
ers in a ceremony on the grounds of Fort Johnston. Host for the
SBSD
Plans
change
course
By Richard Nubel
Municipal Editor
Consulting engineer David L.
Pond brought Southeast Brunswick
Sanitary District commissioners
some good news and some bad
news Monday morning.
The bad: Soils at the Brunswick
County Airport will only be suitable
to accept some 60,000 gallons of
treated wastewater effluent per day
and not the 100,000 gpd engineers
had hoped to spray on that property
for irrigation.
The good: Absorption tests on the
planned golf course adjacent to the
Arbor Creek subdivision indicate
the entire 500,000-gpd projected
treatment capacity of the district’s
plant can be sprayed for irrigation
there.
Concentrating flow on the one
golf course disposal site will save
SBSD an estimated $600,000, the
engineer said.
“While the airport seems some
what negative, if we can save
$600,000 and redirect that to the
City of Southport, that seems like a
good option," Pond, of W. K.
Dickson Inc. consulting engineers,
said.
He said if project costs were cut
See Plans, page 8
A major concern
Federal cuts threaten
Lockwood Folly Inlet
Bv Terry Pope
County Editor
It dredge funds are cut from the federal budget,
maintenance of the Lockwood Folly River will all
hut cease.
Id local fishermen it is a tremendous concern.
"II the Lockwood Folly Inlet is closed, I predict
that within two or three years there will never be
another shell I ish taken from that river,” said Arden
Moore of Shallotte, president of the C'arolinas
Commercial Fisherman’s Association.
Moore has asked the Brunswick County Board of
Commissioners to revive the county fishermen’s
See Lockwood, page 8
‘If the Lockwood Folly Inlet is
closed, I predict that within two
or three years there will never be
another shellfish taken from that
river.’
Arden Moore
Shallotte fisherman
Wilson's plans
Live Oak store
By Richard Nubel
Municipal Editor
Wilson's supermarket owners plan
to locate a store at Live Oak Village
Shopping Center, across from Food
1 ion on Long Beach Road.
The long-rumored move was her
alded in a July 3 letter to city man
ager Rob Gandy from Wilson's con
sulting engineers, who seek to have
the Live Oak Village location -- for
merly a Winn-Dixie supermarket --
removed from the City of Southport
water system. Hannaford Brothers
( ompany, of Portland, ML, owner of
Wilson's supermarkets, wish to install
a sprinkler system in the Live Oak
Village location. That sprinkler sys
tem cannot be supported by meager
How at the terminus of the city water
system.
A Brunswick County water main
also runs by Live Oak Village, at the
intersection of N. C. 21 1 and N. ('.
133, which will support the sprinkler
system.
Aldermen have been asked to "re
lease" Wilson's supermarket from the
city water system so it may connect
to the county water system at Live
Oak Village. The city board of aider
men is to entertain that request Thurs
day night as it meets in regular
monthly session beginning at 7 p.m.
"We are the civil engineers for a
proposed Wilson's supermarket
which is to be built in the existing
building space at Live Oak (Village)
See Wilson’s, page X
Marine band
performs here
on Thursday
Thought the Fourth of July celebration in Southport was over?
Well, to keep the patriotic juices flowing in Southport just a
little longer, the N. C. Fourth of July Festival Committee will
present the renowned Second Marine Division Band from
Camp Lejeune in concert on the Garrison at Fort Johnston
Thursday. The free concert will begin at 7 p.m.
The band will perform a tuneful array of military, classical,
jazz and show music. The Second Division Marine Band has
entertained presidents, the Queen of England and numerous
heads of state. It has won many awards.
Those attending the free concert are advised to bring lawn
chairs or blankets to the Garrison for seating. Alcoholic bev
erages are prohibited.
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Beaches were packed too
'Largest ever' crowds
(again) attend festival
By Richard Nubel
Municipal 1 • d i lor
Where in the world did they all
come from?
By just about everybody's estima
tion more people attended the N. C.
Fourth of July Festival last week and
more people visited Oak Island than
at anv.time ever before.
Official crowd estimates are hard
to come by, but the word "largest"
kept popping up in everybody’s con
versation in immediate post-festival
dav s.
"F.veryone I've talked to, includ
ing those who have seen more testi
v als than I have, keeps telling me the
parade and fireworks crowds were the
largest ever," said 1996 festiv al presi
dent Karen Sphar-Hope. "II that is
true, I have a lot ot people to thank -
- not only the many who attended the
festival, but the many volunteers who
served festival committees which en
tertained the crowds once thev got
here.”
"It was the largest crowd that I hav e
seen in Southport in my seven sears,
both at the parade and at the Julv 4
evening entertainment and fire
works," Southport police chiet Bob
Gray said.
The huge crowds that ventured to
the city this Fourth of July could have
been attributable to the unusuallv
large population swell that hit Oak
Island this holiday week.
"I think it was the largest crowd
I ve seen in I 1 years." l ong Beach
police chiet Dannv L.aughren said.
Laughren said more people mat
have stayed in Long Beach than in
any other week's period ever.
Again, official estimates ol Long
Beach and Oak Island population are
[.ol made.
"Everyone I talked to sass there
were at least 50,000 people," chiet
I aughren said. "Normally we t e got
'5,000to 40,000 and there were much
more than normal.”
1 he Biggest adaptation law en
See Festival, page 6
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