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Easter Activities
Scheduled Sunday
Both religious and secular
Easter observances are slated
Sunday in the area.
Sunday at 10:15 a.m. the South
Brunswick Interchurch Council is
sponsoring a brief "blessing of
the palms" service at the old Sunnyside
School in Shallottc
Municipal Park, with the public
invited.
Palm Sunday, the first day of
Holy Week, recalls the entry of
Jesus into Jerusalem riding upon
a donkey, when the people
shouted "Hosanna" and scattered
palms in his path.
In a more secular observance
of the Easter season and springtime,
a community Easter egg
hunt will be held from 2 p.m. to 4
p.m. Sunday at the Brunswick
County Government Center in
Bolivia.
Youngers ages pre-school
through age nine are invited to
participate in the hunt, which is
sponsored by the Brunswick
County Parks and Recreation
Department.
Youngsters arc asked to bring
a basket and register for a prize.
Candy will be provided.
Deputies
Respond To
854 Calls
Officers with the Brunswick County
Sheriff's Department answered
854 calls, including 77 domestic calls,
during the month of February.
Last month, 250 investigations
were initiated by the sheriff's department,
and 33 arrests were made as
prosecuting witnesses. No arrests
were made on drunk and disruptive
charges.
Also, $28,656.71 worth of stolen property
was recovered.
Officers served 328 local warrants,
587 civil papers, two juvenile petitions,
two foreign warrants and four
mental and inebriate naners last
month.
In addition, officers spent 441 onduty
hours and six off-duty hours in
court. Some 247 witnesses were summoned.
Members of the sheriff's depart
ment drove 88,151 miles last montl
and used 5,845 gallons of gasoline.
While on patrol, deputies
discovered one fire and found on(
door or window open. Some 19 crime
prevention meetings were held ir
February.
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BY RAHN ADAMS
"We think we've got one more rabbit
in the hat for '88, but after that the
rabbits are gone," Water System
Director Kenneth Hewett said last
week about the system's capacity to
meet peak water needs in
southwestern Brunswick County.
Poiniing out that the county water
system must "beat the peak" like a
power company, Hewett reminded
county officials last week that the demand
for water in areas southwest of
Shallotte will exceed current capacity
by July 1989, according to growth
estimates.
Discussion of that issue and others
involving county water service came
at last Thursday's three-hour
meeting of the Brunswick County
Utility Operations Board in Bolivia.
The meeting included a 50-minute
executive session requested by UOB
Acting Director John Harvey to
discuss "personnel and contractual
relationships." No action was taken
as a resuu 01 me ciosed-door session.
UOB members present included
Chairman William English, Robert
Nubel, Morris Crouch, Alfonza
Roach ant) Ed Onrp Jimmy Oldham,
Ernest McGee and ex officio member
Paine Trial
Trial of a former Shallotie physician
on charges of insurance and
mail fraud opened in U.S. District
Court in Wilmington Monday.
The trial of Karen N. Paine on 89
counts of Medicaid, Medicare or mail
1 fraud is expected to continue two to
three weeks, J. Michael Carpenter,
director of the Medicaid Investigai
tions Unit of the N.C. Department of
Justice, said last week. Carpenter
i has been cross-designated as a
i special assistant U.S. Attorney so
that he can prosecute the case in
federal court.
This is the first case in the Eastern
court district to all involve all three
types of counts, according to
Carpenter.
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i ante wud (tiit'Mcu uy u.o. iviurshals
in Shallctte on Oct. 15, following
her indictment on Oct. 13 by a federal
i grand jury meeting in Fayetteville.
The federal indictment was the
result of a two-year investigation
conducted jointly by the Medicaid Ini
vestigations Unit and the Office of Investigations
of the U.S. Department
j of Health and Human Services in
> Greensboro.
> Fraud is alleged in the counts
i regarding reimbursements obtained
for services the investigators contend
were never rendered to patients.
Paine was indicted on 39 counts of
Medicare fraud, 19 counts of
Medicaid fraud and 31 counts of mail
fraud.
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Projects Discussed I
County Manager Jolui T. Smith and i
Finance Director Lithia Hahn also
were on hand to discuss possible i
methods of funding major additions |
to what Harvey called the county's I
"basic backbone water system." I
At the UOB's January meeting, (
Hcwett estimated that water con- i
sumption in southwestern Brunswick I
County will reach 2.9 million gallons :
per day next year, with the peak oe- i
curring over the July 4th weekend. I
The system's current capacity
southwest of Shallotte is 2.6 million (
gallons per day. I
This summer the demand will be
met with Hewett's last "rabbit in the
hat"?by operating the Calabash 1
River pump station on a "time t
mode," pumping water out of the i
Sunset Beach area only at night, he s
said last Thursday. i
Hewett noted that the long-range
solution would be construction of a \
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tually be needed to increase capacity
to the Holden Beach and Southport
areas.
Smith and Ms. Hahn said $2.1
million is available now for water
orojects in Brunswick County.
Regardless of the amount allocated
ror water in the 1988-89 budget, the
:ounty will have to find other
revenue sources to fund major additions
to the water system. Possible
sources include a tax increase, water
ate increase or bond referendum,
they said.
"Other than those three sources, 1
ion't know where you're going to get
he money," Smith commented.
Studies Recommended
Following lengthy discussion,
>oar;i members voted unanimously
o recommend that commissioners
mthorize three separate feasibility
studies involving additions or
:hanges in the water system.
If authorized, the studies would in'olve
the proposed U.S. 17 and N.C.
04 water line; proposed additions
vhich would rid the system of other
missing links;" and the proposed
losing of the old groundwater treatneni
plant on N.C. 211.
Earlier in the meeting. Smith told
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arily surrendered her license to
ractice medicine to the N.C. Board
f Medical Examiners, after a hearig
was scheduled by that board on
n unrelated complaint.
Paine had practiced general
nedieine from an office on Forest
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UOB members that he would rather
see them do the feasibility studies
before they presented commissioners
with a list of water system
needs.
"What we need to do then is
prioritize what (needs) we have here
and put them in sequence?put them
on a calendar," said Gore.
"I don't see how we can avoid it
(feasibility studies)," said Nubel, in
making his motion to recommend the
studies.
The board also approved a motion
by Nubel to study the possible closing
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ago, Nubel suggested that the water
system could save money by using
only the new Northwest Treatment
Plant.
SAD Updates Given
Engineer Jay Houston of I<ewis and
Associates brought the UOB up to
date on the progress of water projects
in the county's six special
assessment districts (SADs).
Houston said last Thursday that
the SAD 2 project in the Brick landing
area was about 90 percent
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