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Li Pagt' 2-A—THE BKLNSWICK BEACON. Thursday. Aufiust 27 1987 Residents Along Road Won't Share Cost Of Water Line To Golf Course PAUL DENNIS, (left) one of the developers of Lockwood Folly Links, and Bruce Cardwell of Sea-Airc Canal, who wants water in his subdivision, exchange Ideas on how such lines should be financed during a SIA»F PHOtO BY SUSAN USHtB break in fast Thursday’s meeting of the Brunswick County Commissioners. In the background, one of Den nis' partners. Mason Anderson, talks with another Sea- Airc Canal resident. BY SUSAN USHER Property owners along two roads leading to the project won’t be forced to share the expense of running water to IxKkwood Folly Links, a 500-acre golf course development near Var- numtown. That’s the assurance given last Thursday night to Wallace Smith, spokesman for a group of the residents, by the Brunswick County commissioners. ’’Personally, I do not think we can assess the people in this district because we haven’t found anyone who wants the water," said Conrunis- sioner Frankie Rabon, his sen timents echoed by others on the board. “But at the same time we have to look at it from an economic stand point, we have to look at it as in dustry,” he continued. Wanting time to develop a poUcy that provides incentives such as tax breaks to encourage developments to finance water lines, commissioners postponed until later a decision on how to pay for the tine. Harvey said most incentive CommissionGrs Push Throuph 23 Appointm©nts BY SUSAN USHER After making no appointments for nearly a month. Brunswick County Commissioners pushed through 23 appointments in a matter of minutes last Thursday night. Some had been pending for weeks, others for months. Among other decisions the board unanimously appointed engineer Jerry Lewis of Shallotte to the Brunswick County Board of Health, in lieu of an optometrist. Lewis is consulting engineer for the county water system and a member of the state Environmental Manage ment Commission. “I don’t know any optometrist." said Commissioner Chris Cliappell in nominating l.ewis for the local post. Under state law, the health board membership is to include profes sionals from a number of specific health-related fields, so long as they reside in the county, if there is only one. then commissioners have a choice of appointing either the pro fessional or a member of the general public. The only practicing op tometrist commissioners knew of was Chris Moshoures. who had just resigned from the health board. If an optometrist living in the coun ty wanted the post and objected to Lewis’ appointment, Clegg told Chappell upon questioning, "1 think he will seek an injunction against seating him on the Iward.” Commissioners also voted unanimously to appoint Marie Hart, a Southport nurse to the nursing seat on the health board. At least six of Thursday appoint ments were on 3-2 votes, with Com missioners Chris Chappell and Jim Poole voting no together, a division of the board seen frequently of late. Since early summer, members had been caught up in a debate over the board’s policy of rotating some ap pointments among the five district. Thursday, the board agreed with a proposal to take motions from the floor for each appointment. Commis sioners Frankie Rabon, Benny Ludlum and Chairman Grace Beasley then agreed the appoint ments should be made that night, without further delay. “Wliat you mean is if we don’t put up names, we don’t get appoint ments," said Chappell. He and Poole said they hadn’t con tacted prospective appointees since they didn’t know what procedure the board would adopt. The first four appointments were made in rapid succession on the 3-2 split, with Chappell and Poole sear ching their memories for nominees they thought might accept appoint ment. Lacking other possibilities at one point, Chappell nominated reporter from the audience, the vole again 3-2. losing Other appointments/reap pointments are as follows: A1 Parker Jr., Brunswick County Airport Com mission; Wilson Arnold and Charlene Alston, Brunswick County Hospital Authority; R.L. Johnson, Industrial Facilities Board; and Don Warren, Resources Development Commis sion; Durward Clark, 13th District Jury Commission; Lucille Blake and Doug Hawes Jr., Brunswick County Library Board; Jean Caldwell, Mary Strickland and Rebecca Chapman, Nursing Home Advisory Committee; lymis "Bobby” Brown, Brunswick County Parks and Recreation Ad visory Committee and Brunswick County Social Services Board; John Barbee, Ed Gore and Alan Holden, Brunswick County Planning Board; Grace Beasley, Southeastern Mental Health Board; Robert Nubel and Ernest McGee; Jim Poole, emergen cy management committee. Split Vote Hires New County AAonogei (Continued From Page 1-A) county just as the commissioners are.” Smith said he expects to report to work in mid-September, or as soon as he can take care of some respon sibilities to his current employer. Smith served from 1974 to 1979 as manager and finance officer for Iredell County. Other past local government experience includes 11 years in tax administration. He has also taught school, owned an industrial engineer in textiles. He is currently manager of ap praisal services for L. Robert Kim ball, supervising approximately 120 employees of two companies. Automated Valuation Services and Hunnicutt Appraisal Co. surance business and worked as an He has a certificate in county ad ministration from the Institute of Government at Chapel Hill, bachelor’s degree in physical educa tion and math from Erskine College in South Carolina and a master’s degree in political science and ad- Young Girl Drowns In Ocean Isle Beach Canal ministration from Appalachian State University in Boone. Smith said he has “always liked Brunswick County” and had sought the manager’s job once before—just after former manager William Carter was hired. “So when this came open,” he said, ”I made sure I got an application in.” During Carter’s tenure. Smith said, county government here stabilized under the leadership of a series of “good boards of conunis- sioners,” he noted, a pattern he ex pects to continue. “I don’t look for things to go back to what they were before.” Before voting on Smith, commis sioners met behind closed doors to hear a background report on two manager candidates from Sheriff John Carr Davis. Later, in open ses sion, (Chairman Grace Beasley said the sheriff’s report was thorough and contained nothing detrimental about Smith or the other candidate. The board had asked for as thorough a check on the candidates as possible after an earlier ex perience this summer. On June 15, commissioners hired Thomas Barnes, but before he could take office asked for and received his resignation after learning Barnes had been the subject of an SBI probe while administrator of Halifax Coun ty. They said Barnes hadn’t told them about the investigation. The county post has been vacant since April 1, when William Carter resigned for health reasons, taking medical retirement. BY DOUG RL ITER A two-year-old Burlington girl drowned in a canal behind her Iceland Street residence at Ocean Isle Beach Friday afternoon. Ocean Isle Police Chief Bill Ozmenl said Monday. Katherine A. Powell was pronounc ed dead on arrival at The Brunswick Hospital at 7:10 p.m. F'riday. After becoming lodged under floating dock for three to minutes, she was pulled from the canal and given CPH by Brunswick County Detective l.ind.sey Walton and nurse Suzanne Meghadapour of Durham, .said Ozment. He .said the child’s father, Samuel C. Powell, was cutting the grass and a five the Powells’ three children were playing in the back yard Friday when the incident occurred. Powell went to put the lawn mower in the storage garage, Ozment said, and when he turned around Katherine had started running towards the canal. Ozment said he believed the family had just arrived P'riday and that the Ixiland Street residence was a second home of the Powells. Daytime Te.mps Above Norma! Earlier this season at Ocean Isle Beach, Dwight M. Irwin, 62. of Tarheeland Acres, died while swim ming in the ocean June 24. The cause of death in this case was heart failure, however, and not drowning. Average daily temperatures were two degrees above normal in the Shallotte area during the period Aug. 18-24, according to meteorologist Jackson Canady. Canady recorded an average daily high of 91 degrees and an average nightly low of 71 degrees. The maximum high temperature was 96 degrees on the 23rd; the minimum low was 68 degrees on the 24th. Rainfall at Shallotte Point during the period measured 1.83 inches. Canady said that over the next few days, the area can expect near normal temperatures and rainfall. Daytime highs in the upper 80s are expected along with nighttime lows of around 70 degrees. 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Even if that changes, he told com missioners, “It’s against all prin ciples to throw people who have been asking and begging for watr for years—to throw us on the side—when we’ve been living here for years and paying taxes.” Paul Oc.^nis and Mason Anderson, two of the partners in Channelside Corp., which is developing Lockwood Folly, repeated their request Thurs day for the county to run the water line. “We’re asking the county to deter mine how,” added Anderson. quest of the Utility Operations Board, commissioners voted to proceed with a water assessment district along Ute route, with property owners and the county sharing the estimated $99,600 cost of installing a 12-inch line down Sabbath Home and Stone Chimney roads from Holden Beach. When property owners along the route protested, commissioners ask ed the UOB to reconsider its recom mendation. Reiterating that the development should be treated as an industry, the UOB stuck with its original recom mendation. But as an alternative, its members suggested the county pay the entire cost of the line from con tingency funds, not from its water project fund. As do other subdivisions that choose not to operate their own water system, Lockwood Folly plans to will install water lines witliin the com munity and dedicate them to the county water system. The lines will then be operated and maintained at county expense. At an earlier meeting, at the re in related action, commissioners adopted the final assessment resolu tion for special assessment district (S.A.D) 3, in the Seaside area. Harvey said the district projects'are taking longer than expected, each re quiring nine months to a year from start to finish, rather than the four to five months first anticipated. Water line installation in the first two districts, on the mainland near the Holden Beach causeway and in the Brick Landing area, should be com pleted in February. 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