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Festival Begins
Friday Night
BY DAWN ELLEN BOYD
Holden Beach's N.C. Festival By The Sea this weekend promises
fun and activities for all ages.
The festival is sponsored by the Greater Holden Beach Merchants
AcQOrbtinn
The party begins on Friday night at6:30p.m. with a Halloween Carnival
at the Tri-Bcach Fire Department
Costumed children can meet at The Beach Mart on the Causeway
around 6 p.m. for a "parade" to the fire department building.
Trophies will be presented to children wearing the best costumes.
The carnival also features a haunted house, games and pnze drawings.
Refreshments and baked goods will be sold.
Festival activities resume at 8:30 a.m. Saturday with the festival
runs. A one-mile fuii cm., b-kilonicter and 10-kllometer races will begin
at the fire substation near the west epd.
Arts and crafts will be displayed at the town hall area from 9 a.m. to
6 p.m. Last year 82 craftsmen set up displays; this year at least 100 are
expected.
The festival parade, featuring bands, clowns, queens, race cars and
other surprises, will begin at 11 a.m. at the Inland Realty parking lot.
The parade will move down the causeway, across the bridge and turn
east on Ocean Boulevard.
The horseshoe pitching competition will also begin at 11 a.m. (or
perhaps later if the tide isn't low enough I on the strand beside Ocean
View Pavilion. Interested pitchers can sign up at the site.
A sand sculpture competition will follow tlie horseshoe pitching at
the pavilion at 12:30 p.m. Interested persons or groups should cotne a
few minutes early to sign up Tee shirts and ribbons will be awarded to
the winners, but groups will receive only one tee shirt. The grand prize
winner will also receive a sand castle sculpture.
Barbecue plates will be available from the town hall area from noon
until 6 p.m. Plates are $3.50. There will be a drawing for a 13-inch color
television set at 5 p.m. You must be present to win.
A bridge tournament will be held at Reaves Fish Camp on the
causeway from 12:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Prizes will be given to the winners.
The Brunswick County Taxpayers Association, which is fighting the
closing of road access to Holden Beach's west end, will hold an all day
attic, bake and tee shirt sale Saturday at the old Faircloth service station
at the causeway intersection Proceeds will go into the group's legal
fund.
Festival events which will take place outside the town of Holden
Beach include the long-driving contest, which will be held at the Holden
Beach Driving Range on N.C 130 at 3 p.m. and the gospel music exhibition.
The Coastalaires of Holden Beach and the Ennis Family of Supply
will entertain at 7 p.m. at the gospel music park near Jane's Restaurant
on N.C. 130 (Holden Beach Road).
One of the highlights of the festival is the street dance, which will
feature the East Coast Rivieras from High Point The band specializes
in (Knar Inn Art orvf
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Mitchell Simpson the band's Wader, is the son of Holden Beach
Police Chief Raymond Simpson.
The dance will be held on Brunswick Street, between Davis Street
and the Intra coastal Waterway
The Greater Hoi den Beach Merchants Association will make contributions
to the Coastline Volunteer Rescue Squad and the Tri-Beach
Volunteer Fire Department with proceeds from the festival.
Money will also be earmarked for landscaping the causeway after
the completion of the new high-rise bridge.
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CRC Extends Con:
BY SUSAN ISHFJt Reacts to
Just as local planning and development wArests bearu^ last Thur
had hoped. Coastal Resources Commission members for recccsiderau
decided Friday to further study controversial building meets that the |
regulations aimed at protecting sheiihshusg waters Most comments'
bet ere bringing them to a vote Meeting at ;
The mks ccr&xtere*i ThondaT Frklav ?rfH K* e? ?-?
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readeertisrd as rmwt with two more pobbc hearings to reconaneod p
to be fceii. see sr. the hocthftu and one to the central regulaticos as ct
part of the caasL The period ft# recarac written com- beard d
meets on the proposals has been extended to Sow SO tokltheCRC
The rules will be considered (or adoption when the He read a
CRC meets Dec U and 13 drafted by Court
At the same tane. the osmratsssoo directed its staff body to "be i
to urrestlgate the impact of extending the CRCs rather than a re
authority oeer the aXaanm shoreline from 73 feet to Not*.' "
M feet from there The memo c
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BY SUSAN USHER
A business that plans to sell steamgenerated
electric power to Pfizei
Chemicals and Carolina Poiaor an/
I jght Co. promises to be one of the
large-volume water users Brunswick
County has been looking for.
Cogentrix of Charlotte will be "the
first major benefactor of the county's
new water system," according U
Michael deSherbinin, executive
director of the Resources Develop
ment Commission. Revelation of the
company's plans at a Monday
meeting of the Brunswick County
Board of Commissioners was the
latest of several announcements ol
industrial activity in the county and
one of two announcements that night.
The company plans to begin construction
in March of a $75 million
plant on nine acres of the southwest
section of Pfizer Chemicals Inc. tract
at Southport The plant will eventually
employ 40 permanent shift
workers.
The 100-megawatt capacity plant
will burn 36,000 tons of low-sulphur
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DIGNITARIES took shovels In han
for the (irst expansion of Brunswick
ed In 1J77. At the left are Charles So
Hospital
BY SUSAN USHEIK
A $3.2 million expansion am
renovation project at Brunswicl
Hospital in Supply should be com
pleted by mid-1987, enhancing th
hospital's ability to provide intensivi
care and obstetrical services
At a groundbreaking ceremony fa
the project Sunday afternoon. Rober
Sellers, chairman of the Brunswid
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of trustees, described the expansioi
as the "beginning of the final phas
of a three-year effort to update an
upgrade the hospital," facilitating
the move toward a "full servic
hospital "
Other participants included Set
R C. Soles Jr., Rep E. David Re<
wine. Administrator Charles E. Sore
staff surgeon Dr Mushtaq H. Khar
and authority members Kennet
Bellamy and Alfneda Ward Chn
Chappell. chairman of the count
s ideration <
the proposed rules during a public
sdajr in Wilmington ranged from pleas
dc of such drastic" measures to com
waposals were not stringent enough,
ere support***
Sunset Beach Wednesday night the
hr Plancma Board voted rm^mrTv* i?v
oetponemml and farther study of the
njuechoc with coastal communities,
hnirnoan and beach drrekper Ed Gore
piaraiing board memo to the CRC,
!y Plainer John Harvey, which urged
i positive development guidance farce,
Satire ace at short term Thou Sfcaii
led the "tremendous loss of tounso
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Kentucky coal per year and generate
945,000 pounds ot steam per hour, ac
cording to Larry N. Frost, vice presi1
dent for corporate development.
Cogentrix will produce all of the
electricity needed to operate Pfizer's
citric acid production plant and will
: sell additional power to Carolina
i Power & Light
) Its plant will produce electricity
! cheaper than the oil-burning facility
Pfizer now relies on.
( "This will put Pfizer in a more com<
petitive position" with corporate
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lucuiues ui L-onnccucui ana inaiana,
i said Pfizer plant manager Robert
Nubel, increasing the likelihood of
I expansion at the jthport plant.
"We will be totally dependent on
their steam. Without it, we don't
i make pound one of citric acid," he
added.
Cogentrix will require a steady
flow of up to four million gallons of
water per day, an amount not
available from the county's current
water plant on N.C. 211, but which
will be available upon completion of
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d Sunday afternoon to "break ground"
Hospital at Supply since Its doors opeons,
Sen. R.C. Soles Jr., Rep. David RedLaunches
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commissioners, and Billy Carter,
1 county manager, sent their regrets,
c The project will be the first expan
si0,1 since the 60-bed hospital began
i operation in November 1977 on a
e shoestring budget.
It will include conversion of four
r medical/surgical beds into a fourt
bed intensive care/coronary care
I unit, addition of one operating room
i and two minor procedure rooms by
n replacing the old delivery and labor
e rooms with a new labor and delivery
i suite and C-section room, an expand
% ed emergency room with trauma
e bays, triage area and waiting room,
addition of an ultrasound and nuclear
l medicine suite in the radiology area,
I- expansion and rcucsigr. of the adt,
ministrative and business/accounU
ting office areas, addition of a
b private dining room, and expansion
s of the engineering and storage areas
y The hospital's long-troublesome
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revenues that could result from rep
wouldn't solve the problem.
Gore sard large inland waters!
drain across Brunswick County ar
point pollution of area waters , th
evidence indicate development of Sci
beaches is responsible- He said the a
study that says the difference in wate
Don adycaning developed and uodev
agEffkaet, about 10 percent.
He suggested also that the
" diametrically opposed" to current
reeulationa
Meanwhile, with CPX tdcpuoi i
saudpated FrvSty. at Brunzwu? Co
week bmhftng tmpcctori' office* ?w
pbcabaoi (or Vocal CAMA permit*, pr
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to viae j
the 24mgd surface water treatment
plant at Malmo next year.
The water it discharges into the
Cape Fear River will be recaptured
through condensation of steam, according
to deSherbinin, and will be of
excellent quality.
Production wastewater and stormwater
runoff will both be treated
before discharge. Sanitary waste will
go into Pfizer's treatment plant.
Frost said.
/vii puuuuun-cwurui systems Hi me
plant wiii be "100 percent
redundant," Frost said, meaning
that one-half of the systems can fail
and still provide the plant 100 percent
coverage.
Those systems include the use of
"bag houses," Teflon-lined
fiberglass bags that capture particulate
waste such as soot in a giant
vacuum system.
According to deSherbinin, the plant
will "actually improve the air quality"
because it will release less particulates
into the atmosphere than
Pfiier's existing system.
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wine and Robert Sellers. At right ari
Kenneth Bellamy and Rev. Dan Norn
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sewage treatment plant will be
replaced. To round out the project,
said Betsy Lewis, community relations
director, other areas will be
redecorated.
Thp nrftiM UfhinVi urill Ka finonrvwl
by Hospital Corporation of America,
which has leased the facility from the
Authority, and the hospital in a 60-40
split that will involve no county tax
dollars.
The improvements would be accomplished
with no significant increase
in operating costs and with
what Sons called "the lowest rate increase
in the history of the hospital."
Speaking for the medical staff to a
group of about 60 wellwishers, Dr.
Mushiaq H. Khan, a surgeon, said the
proposed improvements will help
doctors serve their patients "more
efficiently and ably."
Sen. .Soles stressed that the health
of the nation and the local communljality
ilations Gore said family resident*
bed systems that Tbepropoae
e responsible for within the TVfoo
at no studies as estuartne shore!
or Ocean Llia rlraa
IC haa available a Aj flrrt dn
r quality degrade- prevented drrti
doped Lands toil tKruiarty canal 1
meaaure lea* Ox
propoaaia art oepltd Last week
Hate septic tack used
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of the regulation* figured there a
saty hew*? IsjS Bnaewtdi Coon
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The plant will require landfill
space for disposal of five to six
truckloads of non-hazardous ash
each day. Cogentrix will work with
the county in financing and locating
additional solid waste disposal areas.
Frost estimates a 15-mor.th construction
payroll for the private utility
of approximately $20 million. An
average of about 225 workers will be
on the job at any one time, with a
peak work force of 450.
Of the 40 permanent jobs, about 25
to 30 wiii be filled locally, he said.
Cogentrix is the only independent
cogeneration production company
operating in the state. Others are
owned by the companies for which
they provide electrical power.
"We're here because CP&l. allows
us to be," said Frost.
Cogentrix has generating facilities
under construction "on time and
under budget" at Elizobethtown,
laimberton and Kcnansville. Under
Its exclusive agreement with CPStl.,
another will be built at Roxboro, but
the Southport plant will be largest of
these.
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? Alfrieda Ward, Dr. Munhtaq Khan,
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Expansion j
tv depends in |>art on the availability
o( good medical facilities.
"It is very unusual to have the
facilities you have here and what is
projected without a large expen<!? ?
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Sellers echoed that sentiment,
praising "the beneficial
partnership" between government
and private enterprise represented
by the hospital's leasing arrangement.
While tax dollars continue to [jay
for the original facility, the hospital
no longer relies upon an operating
contribution from the county and
private dollars will finance the expansion.
"We've had our ups and downs,"
Rep Red wine noted, adding that the
actions of the hospital, its staff and
administration demonstrate a
"renewed commitment to quality
(See HOSPITAL, Page ZrA)
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a on canal lots
Eataartae Shoreline
A nlatl/r.t wr.iM lUoalr^wr^w.l
( area of emtronmentel concern along
me*. Present regulations don't restrict
"uetton can come to estuanne waters
uteri the proposed rules would have
opraent of a number of local Iota, parota
on the barrier Lslanda and lota that
in 56- try lOWeet But revisions ac;
would allow thoae individual lota to be
t there aren't many < affected lotai. we
mat be at least 100 of thoae boys tc
ty." Ralph Caatrmxi of the N.C. Depart,
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