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Sunset Hcai'h Taxpayers Association iiieinbers
reaffirmed opposition to a hif.h-ri.se bridge to the island
Saturday during their fall meeting at the fire station.
While rain fell in a steady dri/vle outside, members
inside the bay worked their way through the intricacies
of parliamentary procedure. In a series of unanimous
votes, they took stances:
.opposing the U.S. Postal Service plan to have
Sunset Bench. Ocean Isle Peach anil Calabash residents
assume Sliallotte mailing addresses as well as usinc the
Shallotte zip code:
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FOLLOWING THK EXPLOSION the hull sank in Just
two minutes to the orean floor to form the Tommy
MeGlammen Memorial Reef. According to Long Hay
Artificial Reef Association President Dale McDowell.
HURRICANE SHELTER RULES CH/
Two High-Rise E
To Speed Evacu
UY SUSAN lJSIIF.lt storm of the 1986 si
Two new hiuli-ri.se bridges are ex- Safe evacuation
peeled to reduce the time needed to provision of shcltei
evacuate Ocean Isle and Holden who need it are
beaches by as much as one-third in priorities, said l.ojj
the event of a hurricane warning, ac- 'Hie bridges are
cording to Brunswick County a significant differi
Emergency Management Coor- Holden and Ocean
dinator Cecil lx>gan. cording to l.ogan.
With the brunt of the Atlantic bur- "We will no lonf
ricane season approaching, Ixigan way traffic," he sa
has been completing arrangements longer have bolt
witli local and state agencies on how bridges."
to deal with a hurricane. Between La I
While the season runs from June 1 Thanksgiving, l.o
to Nov. 30, Logan said the months he lead time of about
really worries about are September be required to
and October, when the most bur- residents of l>nrrit
ricanes are likeliest to occur. On tracoastal Waterw,
Tuesday afternoon, weather bably do it in six hi
forecasters were tracking a tropical to have eight hour:
depression located about 825 miles That's taking int
east/northeast of the I.ecward increase in perina
Islands. They said the depression, several thousand s
while weak and poorly organized, storm,
could reach t -'epical storm strength With a peak popi
by Wednesday afternoon. If its winds however, the le,*i
reach 39 mph it will become a would increase t
tropical storm and he named because more til
Danielle. It would be fourth named quired for notifical
South Br
"Well, it rained, 40 days and 40 "There was inud
nights without stoppin'," goes the old the weather, and
spiritual, and most of southeastern pay a deposit just
in or Ih Carolina could have joined in uils were about
that refrain over the Uibor Day business."
weekend. Site added that r
With never a .significant break in the island went sii
the showers and the overcast skies more than usual,
till Monday afternoon, the last holi- Ann Martin at Si
day of the summer was a soggy mess noted that they ha
for most tourists and residents of the "Everyone who ri
South Brunswick Islands area. said. "But there
On the other hand, the cold, dismal reservations as as
drizzle drove many people to local Day is not one of <
grocery stores and other shops to On liolden Beac
give them an unexpected boost in of his realty fii
business. pcriencc, "We w
Realtors gave the weekend a mix- pointed in the ovi
cd review. I xmiie I <ee Cooke at Ocean there were lots mi
Isle Beach's Cooke Realty, said, ing property durir
t
BUT FAVOR LO'
fers Still Oppose
opposing the proposed rczoiiinK of ;i portion of Sen
IT nil Coif I.inks from residential to business and su|>portiiiK
* comproliensivc master plan" for the town's
development;
favoring underground eleetricnl lines;
reiterating opposition to a proposed Mad Inlet
parking lot. recommending the town accept the west
end property only for |M*deslrian access, not for park
ing.
According to council member Minnie Hunt, rewording
of the deed conveying the property from Mr and
Mrs I 'd Core to the town is on the agenda for discussion
'1UNSWI
orth Carolina Thursday, Septemt
jjp
y>?z; feci!
fish will begin congregating around tin- reef immediately,
with larger fish to follow. "There Mill lie
some fish caught there this fall." he predicted.
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bridges Expected
ation Of Islands
eason. of visitors with the area; and
of the roast and tourists' tendency to park all they've
r to those families brought with them for the return trip,
the county's top "They aren't going to go to the
[an. shelters." he said. "They're going to
expected to make go home."
?ncc in evacuating 1/igan said that while all data from
Isle beaches, ac- Hurricane Diana in 1984 has not been
compiled, that public attitudes
?er have just one- toward advance evacuation have
iid. "We should no cluuigcd. Five years ago, only 30 per
lenecking at the cent of those surveyed said they
would be willing to evacuate. That
jor Day and number has since increased to 70 perRan
estimates a cent, he said,
eight hours would "But if we keep getting storms tiiat
safely evacuate don't do much damage?like Gloria
:r Islands and the last year and Charley this year- that
area along the In- could change," continued l.ogan. "It
ay. "We could pro- would take a period of several
nirs, but I'd prefer years."
s " He suspects that is due primarily to
o consideration an n imml u.'nririf.n r?ioiUn?i.in
nent population of established among county agencies,
incc the last major the municipal governments and
others. When county commissioners
ilation in Die area, meet and make the recommendation
id time required to evacuate, he said, the
o 12 to 18 hours municipalities concur and then act
;ne would he re- quickly.
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unswick Says A S
h complaint about sold a few." He said there were a fewpeople
who didn't "no-shows," but some of the tnercancelled.
Ourren- chants on the island were hurt even
lialf off the usual worse. "The waterslide took a real
beating," he said,
nost people visiting The effect of the weather showed
inpping and ate out up in fewer day visitors, Holden said.
"Our parking lots hud about 25 perunset
Beach Really cent of last year's crowd," he said,
id no cancellations Par lav: enforcement, it was an
rscrvcu came, snc easy holiday. Jerry Ourganus, Ocean
were not as many isle Beach chief of police, said. "It
iiiil, because Utbor was it real quiet weekend, and there
our big weekends. were not as many day visitors, but
h, Alan Holden.said there seemed to be as many in the
m's weekend ex- cottages as usual. Most tourists were
ere a little disa|>- shopping."
srall weekend. But llolden Beach police officer Bay
ore lookers for buy- Simpson echoed this report. "It was
ig the rain. We even real quiet. There were lots of disap?
CAL ADDRESS
Bridge, Mad Ink
a! till' council's Oct.'?meeting
After a lengthy ilisciission on wording of a mot ion.
Hie 80 to 80 members present unanimously authorized
their executive committee to explore all available
routes of opposition to a high-rise bridge, including the
possibility of local action. The vote followed one
woman's urging to "leave no stone unturned to stop that
bridge "
"We don't need a high rise bridge pouring more
people onto this liny little island turning it into a Coney
Island." she said.
With one motion withdrawn and a substitute motion
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BY TEKHY POPE company contrai
After two years of waiting, ing. decided the
members of the l?ong Bay Artificial liau) the former
Heef Association watched Saturday Engineers servii
morning as its first reef sank beneath It had been docl
five- to seven-foot waves and came to Municipal Pier s
rest on the ocean floor off of Oak noon.
Island. A failing tide i'
It took just two minutes tor the rick through the
104-fooMong derrick to touch bottom Pear River; In
after more than 80 sticks of dynamite times members
were detonated in the vessel's hull. Association tin
The sinking had been postponed for would he postpoi
more than two weeks due to poor A tugboat owi
weather conditions. Co. of WiliningU
"It's been a long lime." said State the barge out to:
Hep. E. David Redwine Saturday as ched positions ai
he watched the dei rick sink from less stead of push th
than 100 yards away while aboard site Associatior
"The Other Woman." Redwine word that the
heiped sponsor bills through the N.C. around and w?
House of Representatives to help Southport.
fund the association's reef project. Another delaj
Other donations were made by boat carrying u;
Brunswick County Commissioners Sen-ices dcvelc
auu the City of Souiiipuit. enroute to the n
The McGlainmery Beef is the first shore. The boat I
in a series of offshore structures ex- site and the dyn
peeled to enhance both recreational another boat,
ami commercial fishing along the "We've wnitcc
Brunswick County coast. can wait a little
Although weather conditions were Dale McDowell
not ideal Saturday with rain and association,
rough seas, Hurt I .on of Sea Tow Ser- The reef will li
vices Inc. of Wrightsvillc Beach, the Mctllammcry
Clamming Rest
In Area Affecte
Five and a half months after an oil The closing's
spill temporarily ended shellfishing been economic, i
in tile Shallotte River, the last waters ding to Carpentt
closed because of that spill reopened of shellfishern
to clammers Saturday morning. harvest from tin
of work.
Affected, according to Rich
Carpenter, southern district Shellfish in t
manager for the N.C. Division of have weathered
Marine Fisheries, were the west "It didn't seei
bank of Shallotte River and the on the shrimp
marsh across the Intracoastal referring to an e
Waterway where the leaking barge, spill would harn
the Kitgur (). Sykes was deliberately area at the time
run aground the night of March 17 ly, we were exti
after it struck an ob]cct and began has all but di:
leaking its cargo of heavy No. 0 fuel oysters."
oil. It was en route from Savannah, However, he
(Ju., to Morehead City when the inci- was mainly to a
dent occurred. river after int|i
oggy Farewell Tc
pointed tourists, hut some of them silting in thai
said they enjoyed it and had a chance thought we'd ji
to relax," he said. awhile." "
tant to Sunset Beach's town Many to Mvrtli
manager, "Yoii wouldn't have known Pottery, or Will
it was a holiday here." She said the: e enclosed mall,
were no traffic problems, no c\tra their shopping i
men needed to direct traffic, uivl she Some grocer;
ur.M iiiied i?ilnu Day as "a ouici, picilLs of iiie i
soggy weekend." Assistant Mana
But for some fortunate mercltaiils, said, "It was pr<
the weather proved to be a boon, and Saturday.
Kven the bumper-to-bumpcr traffic watched 'IV all
that developed Saturday brought Don Safrit
customers to at least one shop along Grocery, howev
llwy. 130. was "terrible."
Joan Yerton, owner of the Villager, came in wantini
said, "Our store was filled to capaci- could go for ent
ty, and one person said, "We've been Beach, so they <
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reworded, urn- audience mcinl?er called fur a vote,
"Ix't's go witli this. I'm getting motion sickness."
Arguing tliat the group needed to "hit tliemover the
head" to gel the attention from state transportation
authorities, memher Warren "Bud" Kiuipp had pressed
for authority to seek a "cease and desist" order, hut
was told lli.it type of legal action could he taken only by
the full group. At the Thanksgiving weekend meeting on
Nov 29. the committee could recommend legal action.
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eted to do the sink- honor of a popular sport fisherman
winds were right to from tlie Midway Road area near
U.S. Army Corps of Southport. McUlammery was killed
cc derrick offshore, in a work-related accident in 1983.
rI'll fit Ihn . tniilhnnrl S.i?nril<ii-'c uinlrinu nmrlin.!
incc Saturday after- Brunswick County's first new reef
since the mid-70s. The Wilmington
leipctf guide the tier- District office of the U.S. Army Corps
mouth of the ("ape of Engineers donated the former serawever,
at several vice derrick to Brunswick County,
of the I.ong Bay which transferred ownership to the
aught the sinking reef association,
icd again. The I.ong Bay Association was
ted by O.K. Durant formed by the county's three
in that was carrying saltwater fishing clubs to promote
sea at one point swit- development of artificial reefs offnd
decided to pull in- shore. Permits have l>een obtained to
e derrick to the reef refurbish two existing reefs, one off
i members received Oak Island and another off of
vessel had turned I.oekwook Folly Inlet, and to create
is heading back lu six new ones.
As funds become available, several
occurred when the other drops of reef material are planviiailiite
fur Sea TOW lied in tliC" Hear fiiture, including (helped
engine trouble old Holdcn Beach Bridge and a
:cf site 3.5 miles off- donated tanker barge hull as well as
lad to be towed to the the county's share of about 200 boxamite
transferred to cars donated to the stale by Seaboard
Railroad.
I this lone. I euess we
1 while longer," said The Mdllammery reef is resting
I, president of the under feet of water approximately
4.2 miles southwest from lite oak
e named the Tommy Island Lighthouse. It is marked by a
Memorial Reef in floating buoy.
imed Saturday
>d By Oil Spill
mam impact has ment officers (ilea tlibbs and Dale
not biological, accor- Hewctt.
r. He said a number "We called it to their attention that
ten who normally the river was looking good." said
; river have been out Hewett.
Taste tests confirmed their visual
examination. "Shellfish sanitation
he river appear to said their was no oily taste." said
the spill well. Carpenter. "That's what we had been
in to have any effect most concerned about, if clams with
i," Carpenter said, an oily taste had reached the market,
arly concern that the they could have ruined the market."
i young shrimp in the The affected waters reverted back
of the spill. "Actual- to their status prior to spill except for
cmely lucky. The oil two areas which will remain closed,
.appeared from the These are waters within 100 feel of
Hughes' Marina, which were closed
said, the re-opening by a May 21 proclamation, and
llow clamming in the several shellfish management areas
uiries from enforce- in the river.
> Summer
line-up so long, we cottages."
list pull in here for Bryan's in Shallotte benefited from
the bad weather. Beth Willis,
ill those cars going? manager, said, "This weekend was
Beach, Wacrainaw tremendous, one of the best we've
nington to shop in an ever had, because people couldn't get
Hut many also did on the beaches."
n Brunswick County. It was the same story at Sliallotte's
y stores were red- Maxway, where Fred Burriss.
nisincss. Food i ion manager, described the iioiiday as
ger Wayne Cullman "the best weekend of the season."
itty good here Friday And Ursula Brown at Bench Mart
People got fowl and on Holden Bench, noted, "It was pretweckend,
I guess." ty crowded in here all weekend."
at Sunset Beach But at Windstorc Island (lifts in
er, said his business Ocean Isle Bench, manager Deborah
He added. "People Pope had a different story. "We had
i; to know where they aboil* the same business as if we'd
ertainmcnt in Myrtle had sunny weather." she said,
could get out of their (SeeSOGClY, l'age 2-A)