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November iz, 1397
The State Port
I VOLUME 67/ NUMBER 11
SOUTHPORT N.C.
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Sports
South loses bid but North,
West will host first-round
games in state playoff -- 1C
Neighbors
American Indian heritage
took center stage Saturday
at Brunswick Town — IB
Our Town
Yaupon Beach will not
impose extra two-percent
property rental tax — Page 2
Yaupon sewer
Disposal
capacity
in doubt
By Richard Nubel
News Editor
New consulting engineers to
Yaupon Beach brought commis
sioners mixed news Monday night:
The town can find disposal capacity
equal to the capacity of its waste
water treatment plant, but the Oak
Island Golf and Country Club prop
erty alone will not accept the entire
400.000 gallons the town’s treat
ment plant can treat each day.
Engineer Ford Chambliss of The
Wooten Company told commission
ers the five golf course holes in
Yaupon Beach corporate limits,
sprayed 365 days a year, could only
accommodate between 60,000 gpd
and 65,000 gpd treated effluent. The
entire 18 holes of the golf course —
13 of which are in Caswell Beach
which has an ordinance banning
discharge in its corporate limits --
can only accommodate between
180.000 gpd and 240,000 gpd, the
engineer said.
“You can get a lot of water to go
into sand as long as you’ve got a
place for it to come out,” Chambliss
said. With the entire golf course
property flat and near sea level,
there is no place for a large volume
of water to travel.
The news is at least mixed, if not
bad, for commissioners who had
considered the golf course option
their best in a three-year quest to
seek additional wastewater disposal
capacity. Commissioner Roy
Johnson, himself an engineer, had
estimated the town’s entire treat
ment capacity of 400,000 gpd could
be sprayed on the five golf course
holes in Yaupon Beach. Monday
night, Johnson still asserted the golf
course operators sprayed between
one million and 1.3 million gallons
of water each day during summer
months to irrigate the golf course.
That treated effluent may only be
sprayed at a rate of between
180,000 gpd and 240,000 gpd
makes disposal of wastewater at
Oak Island Golf and Country Club
less attractive to bofh the town and
the golf course.
“You’re also saying the golf
course still needs 800,000 gallons
per day,” Johnson said. “They’re
spraying between a million and 1.3
million gpd in summer.”
Johnson said the golf course has
considered digging additional wells
See Yaupon, page 7
Photo by Jim Harper
Marty Pertnacoose, a Ute Indian from Colorado, performs a traditional tribal dance during the
Native American Pow Wow at Brunswick Town. Event organizers hope the Pow Wow will become an
annual celebration and revitalization of Indian traditions and culture. v
Aldermen’s agenda:
Annexation, PRD plan
By Richard Nubel
News Editor
Aldermen may act Thursday night to increase the
size of the City of Southport by another 57.1 acres
and may decide whether or not to permit a planned
residential development of up to 81 single- and
multi-family units on a parcel extending along the
west side of Willis Drive from East Moore Street
to a point beyond Brown Street.
The agenda for the October meeting of the
Southport Board of Aldermen is consistent with
those of the last several months. Residential devel
opment has clearly been on the menu for the city in
the second half of this year. The city recently
See Aldermen, page 11
Williamson resigns
Second bridge
not jeopardized
by controversy
By Richard Nubel
News Editor
Although the proposed second bridge
to Oak Island played a central role in a
political flap that cost a Board of
Transportation member his seat Friday,
the project, which has led Brunswick
County’s Transportation Improvement
Plan priority list for years, will not be
sidetracked, another transportation
board member said.
Moreover, North Carolina
Transportation Secretary Garland
Garrett supports construction of the
western Oak Island bridge on sched
ule, said Michael Mills, of *
Wilmington, a statewide appointee of
Gov. Jim Hunt’s to the Board of
Transportation.
“The bridge project is still 100 per
cent,” Mills said Tuesday.
“Anticipating that there would be
those who would question commit
ment to the project, 1 very pointedly
asked Secretary Garrett and division
engineer Doug Bowers about it yester
day. Secretary Garrett supports that
bridge 100 percent and so does the
division engineer.”
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seat as District 3 representative to the
state Board of Transportation. Gov.
Hunt called Williamson to his office
that morning from a board meeting
after The News and Observer of
Raleigh ran a front-page story suggest
ing Williamson had voted as a trans
See Bridge, page S
Winding River
Paperwork done;
school may begin
By Holly Edwards
Feature Editor
Details have been finalized, land has
been purchased and bids are ready to be
advertised for construction of a new
elementary school at Winding River
Plantation, scheduled for completion in
the summer of 1999, assistant superin
tendent of operations Clarence Willie
told the Brunswick County Board of
Education Monday.
Final design and cost estimates for the
school will be submitted to the state
Department of Public Instruction this
week, he said.
The estimated price tag on the new
school is $8.1 million, most of which
will be covered by state bond revenues.
The school board closed last week on a
19.5-acre tract for $150,000. The site is
located about 500 feet from N. C. 211
and surrounded by Zion Hill Road and
the Winding River Plantation golf
course and development.
Willie reported he will begin negotia
tions with the state Department of
Transportation to have a stoplight
placed at the intersection ot N. C. 211
and Zion Hill Road.
The Winding River Plantation devel
See New school, page 13
Brig. Gen. Stewart addressed South Brunswick High students.
‘A debt of gratitude’
Students observe Veterans Day
By Holly Edwards
Feature Editor
Because there will always be evil.world leaders, the
United States will.always need young men and women
willing to risk their lives to protect America's freedom,
liberty and way of life, Brig. Gen. Wilbert Stewart told
an assembly of South Brunswick 11 itgh School students
last week.
Stewart was guest speaker at the annual Veterans Day
observance organized by the school's JROTC unit.
“I’m sure all of you have relatives who have served
in the military and some of you will one day serve as
veterans,” Stewart told students. '1 think you'll agree
that setting aside one day to let our veterans know how
proud we are of them is well worth the sacrifices
they’ve made.”
North Carolinians in particular have taken liberty and
freedom very seriously, Stewart said. One-sixth of all
Confederate troops were from North Carolina, he
noted, and there were more Civil War casualties from
North Carolina than any other state.
Stewart added that 87,000 North Carolinians served
in World War l, over 100,000 served in the Korean
War, 168,000 served in the Vietnam War and the high
est percentage of Vietnam War volunteers came from
eastern North Carolina.
Those who survive war continue to pay a price long
after the battles are over, Stewart said.
"1 hope you are all proud of what our veterans have
done for our country.” he said. “We surely owe them a
debt of gratitude.”
Strike up
the band...
but quietly
By Holly Edwards
Feature Editor
School band rooms will be
equipped with acoustical panels to
reduce the noise level in classrooms,
and help preserve the hearing of stu
dents and band directors.
A $58,303 allocation to install the
panels was approved unanimously
Monday night by the Brunswick
County Board of Education,
The panels also w ill allow band stu
dents to hear the sound of their instru
See Strike up, page 9
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