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BRUNSWICK COUNTY SHRINE
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Brunswick County Commissioners
Shriner Fish
Fry Planned
The Brunswick County Shrine Club
will hold a county-wide fish fry at
seven locations in Brunswick County
on Friday, Aug. 19, beginning at 11
a.m.
According to local Shriner Don
Willetts, the individual fish fries will
be held at the Hill's shopping center
in Shallotte, on the Holden Beach
causeway, at Ocean Isle Beach, next
I to Bethel United Methodist Church in
Bolivia, near United Carolina Bank
in Leland, at Wilson's shopping
center in Southport and at Middleton
Park in Long Beach.
Willetts said more than 100
Shriners will be involved in preparing
two tons of fish fillets, a ton of
cole slaw and a ton of potato salad for
J the event, which will continue until
the food runs out or until around 7
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He said the club hopes to raise at
least $16,000, with 98 percent of the
proceeds to go toward the care of
crippled children. Some 26
Brunswick County youngsters are
patients at the Crippled Children's
Hospital in Greenville, S.C., he said.
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RS Don Willetts Beasley signs a resolution proclaiming Friday, Aug.
Honday night as 19, as "Brunswick County Shrine Club Fish Fry Day."
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Excuse me while I catch my
breath.
It's just that I've been running
hard for a year now and feel the time
has come to stop and see where I've
gone.
When I started working at The
Brunswick Beacon last August I had
no idea whether or not I'd still be
here this August. Starting out as a
newspaper reporter, or in any profession
for that matter, is not an easy i
task. But in spite of myself, I surviv- i
ed the first year. <
A little while back, Susan wrote i
about her first year of marriage. It
was a great one, she said, which I
passed very quickly. 1
Well, I guess you could say I'm <
married to my job because it has also I
been a great year and one that has
disappeared in the blink of eye. If '
that doesn't automatically qualify as 1
marriage, how about the hours I I
spend with it. i
I've been exposed to a lot in just a
year's time. There have been good i
times, bad times and times when the 1
news wasn't good or bad. !
Undoubtedly, the best thing about i
working as a reporter for the past 12 i
months has been the different people |
I have been able to meet. On the job, 1
I've had the opportunity to meet
everyone, from everyday average
folks to the big wigs.
I talked with an elderly Texas couple
who was sailing around the country
and a young Frenchman spending I
a few weeks at Holden Beach.
I've also had the chance to rub
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makers and learned a great deal,
some of it enlightening and some
iisheartening, about politics in
\merica.
Through it all, I've concluded that
:here are some mighty different people
in this world, and each one has his
>r her own values and ideas about
low things should be done.
But I guess the old saying is true.
The world would be a boring place to
live if everyone were the same. And
:here would probably be very litle
lews to write.
Another benefit of being a reporter
s the free education it provides. I
lave learned more geography,
science, psychology and other
assorted disciplines in one year as a
renorter thnn T diH in 19 voare nf
grade school and four years of college
combined.
Someone once told me that
reporters have to know something
about everything, and that's about
the truth.
I'll be the first to admit that I don't
know something about everything
yet. But at least I know more about
some things than I did a year ago,
and there are fewer tilings about
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Exhausting
which I know nothing. As you can
tell, clarity is one of the concepts I
have yet to grasp.
On the other hand, I don't suppose I
have to tell you that my job is not the
epitome of perfection. It has its bad
points too.
I've literally sat through weeks of
board meetings and yawned through
more hours of executive session than
anyone should have to bear. I've
taken heat from the public for things
I've written.
And I've watched helplessly as
rescuers treat an accident victim or
firefighters work to save a burning
home.
It hasn't all been a barrel of
monkeys. In fact, there have been
times when so many things were happening
at once that I just wanted to
get up, walk out the door and never
come back.
But for some reason, when the
paper comes out each Wednesday
morning, all the sacrifices I make
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satisfaction I get for contributing to
something tangible like this
newspaper makes the long hours and
headaches worthwhile.
This was not an easy column to
write. I usually don't have much time
to reflect on anything.
To tell you the truth, it was very
difficult to look back on the year and
give my impressions. I felt like I had
to pull myself up out of the trenches
momentarily and just look around.
The view was spectacular, but for
better or worse, it's time to get back
in the trenches.
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