Around Brunswick
Annexation request
: comes out of hiding
CALABASH — Slightly more
• than a month after Calabash resi
■ dents voted to spin off the Carolina
■ Shores subdivision it annexed in
1989, they find themselves weigh
ing yet another annexation request.
Every one of the 49 property
; owners in Hidden Valley subdivi
sion has signed a petition to
■ Calabash commissioners asking
• annexation by the town. The move
; would add about 100 more persons
to Calabash.
Commissioners received the peti
tion and directed town staff to veri
fy it.
Currently, Hidden Valley is gov
erned by Calabash subdivision,
zoning and building ordinances
through exercise of the town’s
extraterritorial jurisdiction.
Calabash commissioners say the
compact nature of the subdivision
would make it easy to provide ser
vices there.
The subdivision is engaged in a
i search for a wastewater manage
ment provider, as is Calabash,
j In an unrelated action, Emily
DiStasio was appointed to the
Calabash Board of Commissioners
i October 13. She replaces the late
1 commissioner Sam Bierworth, who
! died October 11.
Money flows to
! new municipality
| CAROLINA SHORES -
) Brunswick County’s 19th and
> newest municipality — freshly split
• from the Town of Calabash one
month ago — received the first
$500,000 of a division of assets
stemming from the great municipal
break-up.
The new town now expects
1 another $340,000.
! Town officials October 13
approved a $291,000 budget for the
remainder of the fiscal year to end i
June 30, 1999. But, commissioners ‘
| refused to pay a $350 bill sent by
j the Brunswick County Board of
j Elections.
I That bill was to cover costs of the
j referendum that divided Carolina
[ Shores and historic Calabash.
Carolina Shores officials said resi
dents there voted 4-1 not to split,
and Calabash should pay the entire
elections bill.
Jury selection starts
for Leland murder
BOLIVIA — Trial of a former
Sandy Creek police officer accused
of murdering her husband more
than two years ago began Monday.
Jury selection in the trial of Patsy
Eleanor Coplen is expected to take
several days. She is accused of
shooting Richard Edward Martin,
27, in their Acres Circle home in
Leland in May, 1996. „ ■
Coplen, who was not a police
officer at the time of the shooting,
has pleaded not guilty and contends
she found her husband lying in a
pool of blood in their bedroom.
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BCC takes on Y2K
College helps you swat the millennium bug Thursday
Y2K: The problem
' ' It is a pr6blerrf"which has reared its head with a variety of names
* over the last'several, yeats-thtr millenpium.bug, Y2K, The Year,*
2000 Problem — but, by any name, the problem remains the same,
and it poses a significant threat to our worldwide economy and, pos
sibly, to our own personal survival.
The problem arises from a simple, yet egregious error. Back in the
early 1960s computer programmers creating the first electronic com
puting systems made a decision to minimize memory processor
usage by designating the year as a two-digit function rather than a
four-digit function.
For example,, the year 1998 is recognized digitally by the code
See Problem, page 16
Y2K: The solution
Even the small business operator in Brunswick County faces, achal
v,',lenge in preparing for the millennium and problems the Y2K bug, may
bring.
The Small Business Center at Brunswick Community College
Thursday will sponsor a collaborative multi-agency presentation fea
turing six speakers who will address aspects of Y2K and preparations
all business people should be making for it.
“It just boggles the mind when you think ol it,” said John M.
Horton, BCC’s Small Business Center director.
Horton said the Y2K seminar, which will be held between 9 a.m.
and 3:30 p.m. on the BCC Supply campus Thursday, was spurred
See Solution, page 16
She was charged with first-degree
murder several weeks after the
shooting.
All aboard for farm
tour on October 30
BOLIVIA — Brunswick County
Soil and Water Conservation
District will sponsor a farm tour
October 30 and all interested per
sons are invited to participate.
Sites to be visited include the
South Brunswick High School
Aquaculture program, the Doug
Holland farm, Jackie Potter’s farm
and Brunswick Community
1
College’s aquaculture program.
A bus will depart the Brunswick
County Government Center at 1
p.m. and will return around 6 p.m.
Participants are asked to arrive by
12:45 p.m. for registration.
Those wishing to participate in
the farm tour are asked to contact
the Brunswick County Soil and
Water Conservation District office
at 253-2830 no later than Monday,
October 26.
Young will head
Special Olympics
RALEIGH — Tracy Young has
d
been selected coordinator for
Special Olympics in Brunswick
County.
As local coordinator, Young will
set local goals and objectives,
recruit and manage committees,
serve as liaison to the Special
Olympics North Carolina (SONC)
office, prepare an annual budget,
maintain proper records, of partici
pating athletes and manage compe
titions on the local level. Young
will work ten to 20 volunteer hours
per week for a two-year period.
She is the Special Populations
coordinator for Brunswick County
Parks and Recreation Department.
As Special Olympics Brunswick
County coordinator, her goals are to
develop and organize a strong and
successful committee structure. She
also hopes to increase community
support.
Young attended East Carolina
University, where she received both
bachelor and master degrees in
business administration.
Specia' Olympics North Carolina
offers year-round sports training
and competition for more than
25,000 children and adults who
have mental retardation or a close
ly-related disability. Through a
statewide network of thousands of
_Sk
coaches, sports officials, local pro
gram committee members and
event organizers, SONC offers
competition in 18 Olympic-type
sports on local and state levels.
Foy sits on UNC
law alumni board
CHAPEL HILL - Henry G.
Foy, of Long Beach, is one of 13
alumni of the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill SchooPof
Law recently elected to the board
of its nearly 8,000-member Law
Alumni Association.
Foy is a 1968 graduate of UNC
School of Law and is a partner with
the Southport law firm Frink, Foy
& Yount, P.A. He will represent the
13th Judicial District on the board.
Signs will mark
Cape Fear basin
RALEIGH - The N. C. Board of
Transportation Wednesday voted to
place 85 Cape Fear River Basin
highway signs on primary and
interstate highways throughout the
basin.
The signs are to be erected as part
of the N. C. Department of
Environment and Natural
Resources Office of Environmental
Education’s statewide adult educa
tion program, developed under the
theme “Discover Your Ecological
Address.” That message encourages
North Carolinians to discover
which river basin they live in and
how their actions affect water qual
ity in that river basin.
The Cape Fear River Basin is the
largest river basin in the state, cov
ering more than 9,000 square miles.
It is one of only four river basins in
North Carolina located entirely
within the state’s boundaries. The
Cape Fear River Basin flows from
the north central Piedmont region
near Greensboro to the Atlantic
Ocean at Southport.
The 85 signs will be installed at
interstate and primary highways
and on major stream crossings in
the spring of 1999. The signs will ’
inform travelers not only when they
are in the Cape Fear River basin,
but when they are entering and
leaving the basin.
Home construction
brisk in first quarter
RALEIGH — Home construction
continued at a rapid pace in
Brunswick County through the first
quarter of the fiscal year, the N. C.
Department of Labor reports.
The value of 275 new single-fam
ily units permitted was $22.2 mil
lion.
The value of 26 multi-family
units permitted was $1.8 million.
The value of additions to and
alterations of 39 existing homes
was $2.3 million, the Department
of Labor said.
Construction across the state
climbed 24 percent during the first
quarter of 1998, compared to the
same time period one year ago, sta
tistics indicate.
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