Page 2-A?THE BRUNSWICK BKACOP Varnan BY SUSAN USHER Varnamtown aldermen Monday ] night pledged the town's support of state efforts to identify sources 1 polluting the Lockwood Folly River ] and to clean up the river. 1 Members agreed to ask for 1 cooperation from its residents with a 1 state study of "suspect" septic tanks < along waterways that empty into the river. The action was requested by , Annie Smigiel, president of Save Our i Shellfish, a conservation group con- I cerned about the future of the river and its shellfishing resources. She \ was among a group of countv j residents to met with state officials in i Raleigh last Thursday. ! SOS members Smigiel, Marlene ; Varnam and Robert Maultsby at- < tended, along with Brunswick County Republican Party Chairman John | Dozier, who began planning the j meeting shortly after the November . election. Also present were Commis- ] sioners Kelly Holden and Gene Pedestrian D Being Struck A Bolivia girl was struck and killed < Dec. 5 after she dashed into the path 1 of a car on U.S. 17, according to I Highway Patrol spokesperson Ruby Oakley. i Ms. Oakley said the fatal mishap C occurred last Tuesday at 6:30 p.m., i about 2.2 miles south of Bolivia, when ( LaShonia Niehole Smith, 14, was hit c by a 1984 Volvo driven by Elbert s Nolan Galloway, 36, of Shallotte. y Galloway was traveling south on U.S. 17 when the girl ran in front of ii his car from the right shoulder of the C road, Ms. Oakley said. Trooper R.V. r West filed no charges in the accident, h Brunswick County Coroner Greg White said the girl was taken by rescue squad ambulance to The Brunswick Hospital near Supply, where she was dead on arrival. Galloway was not injured, Ms. Oakley said. Damage to the car was s estimated at $600. s According to Ms. Oakley, the u;.tV?.To,. ?i ?nc: _ j i?i - ingiinaj rauui W<1&> HUlllltfU UlSl [J week that a Brunswick County man h died in August about a month after he $ was injured in a two-car wreck near E Navassal 5 The victim?Ernest Chapman Ed- \ Former Deputy On Sexual Abu: BY RAHN ADAMS Uf A former Brunswick County bi Sheriff's Department officer was ti< charged with child sexual abuse Monday following an SBI investiga- p( tion. ci William A. Rivenbark, 34, of Sunset B Harbor, was among 22 individuals in- T dieted on various charges Monday by tj a Brunswick County grand jury, according to the Brunswick County Clerk of Court's office. C Indictments show Rivenbark was d charged with committing a sexual of- g fense and taking indecent liberties with a minor. The incidents allegedly p occurred June 1 and Nov. 7, involving c a female under 16 years of age. c District Attorney Michael Easley c said Tuesday that the alleged of- v fenses were reported to his office by the victim's mother. Easley re- t quested the outside investigation because the suspect was then e employed by the sheriff's department. fi According to Sheriff John C. Davis, 1: Rivenbark resigned his post as sergeant for "health reasons" on fi Dec. 7 when the SBI investigation Is began. fi Davis said Rivenbark served with 1: the sheriff's department for eight years as a deputy, detective and o sergeant in the uniform division. "He Is was a good officer, and he did his job well with no problems," the sheriff n said. Sentencing Delayed si Rivenbark is the second member of the sheriff's department member to si be charged with child sex abuse this year. In July, former deputy Gregory si Lee Wood, 28, of Route 6, Shallotte, pleaded no contest to taking indecent si liberties with a minor. Wood resigned in May shortly si before he was indicted in connection with an alleged offense earlier that si month involving a seven-year-old boy at Ocean View Baptist Church in bi Seasidje. The defendant was ordered to undergo a diagnostic evaluation before sentencing. ai According to Easley, Superior Court Judge Carlton Fellers Monday rr ordered Wood to undergo a second assessment, as requested by the in DA's office. Easley said an evaluation Wood received at Dorothea Dix Hospital in Raleigh was "absolutely si i J, Thursday, December 15, 1988 ntown Board Pinkerton, Republicans elected from f Districts 1 and 3. v State officials present included a Ernest Carl, deputy secretary of f Natural Resources and Community s Development, representatives of the 1< Division of Health Services Shellfish ii Sanitation Branch, Division of En- a vironmental Management and Divi- a sion of Marine Fisheries, along with p Jerry Lewis of Shallotte, a member i>f the Environmental Management d Commission. L The Raleigh session was a follow jp to a meeting held in late October e at the county government center, o State officials outlined plans for two p ? * ii--* j-? * tunics iu Loueci aaia tnai can serve as a basis for drawing conclusions about the river and for recommen- c ling steps to help rectify its problem. T After results are tabulated the IV group will meet again in early if March, with all county commis- U aioners invited to attend, said a El olden. Starting in January the staff of the s< ies After On U.S. 17 p iins, 75, of Leland?died Aug. 9 at || "lew Hanover Memorial Hospital, Vis. Oakley said. Eddins had suffered incapacitating | njuries July 1 when his 1980 U Chevrolet struck a 1982 Buick at the ntersection of Mt. Miserv Rn.-irl and B ?edar Hill Road. Ms. Oakley said the ither driver?Doris James Best, 33, p] lIso of Leland?was charged with a ' ield violation in the wreck. Sixteen persons have died this year .. ti traffic accidents on Brunswick bounty roadways, Ms. Oakley eported. She said last year's ighway death toll was 20. " Manager Stops? (Continued From Page 1-A) aid. "He listened to his commis- 1 ioners." 5 According to Ms. Hahn, the district ark fund balances at the end of iovember were: Lockwood Folly, 12,159; Northwest, no funds; ihallotte, $41,171; Smithville, >36,967; Town Creek, $42,000; and Vaccamaw, $37,646. indicted I se Charges ; seless" lor sentencing purposes ;eause it made no recommendaans. t The district attorney said he ex- r sets the second assessment to be I MTiplcted by the Jan. 3 term of ? runswick County Superior Court, he evalution will be done at a facili- ? r in Jacksonville. t Other Indictments { According to the Brunswick County i lerk of Court's office, other in- 1 ividuals indicted Monday by the rand jury included: 1 Dewey Lee Robinson, obtaining ! roperty by false pretense, rape, two 1 ounts of crime against nature, five ounts of felonious incest and six i ounts of taking indecent liberties I nth a minor. Joe Murvin, two counts of rape, | tvo counts of sexual offense. Wavne Moore, felonious hrenlrino ntering and larceny. Conroy P. Barnes, three counts of lonious breaking, entering and irceny. James P. Bland, three counts of slonious breaking, entering and irceny. Burt C. Bailey, three counts of jlonious breaking, entering and irceny. Michael S. Williams, three counts ti< f felonious breaking, entering and da irceny. Marc Dalton Causey, embezzle- ti( lent. re Robin Marie Whicker, controlled wi iibstance violation. co John H. Bates Jr., controlled 51 ibstance violation. Leonard Alvis Johnson, controlled ec ibstance violation. ni| Harry Gordon Bennett, controlled B( ibstance violation. qu William Rick Bennett, controlled dii ibstance violation. "e Winfred Clark Harkey, controlled re ibstance violation. Jerry Burckhalter, armed rob- Gc ery and kidnapping. Ei Michael Glenn Everhart, bigamy, m Roy Robert Fowler Jr., breaking R; rid entering. Ct William S. Faircloth, ris lanslaughter. I Marston Wayne Patterson, break- vo ig and entering. in Charlene E. O'Neal, arson. ca Ronnie Eley Ballard, controlled < lbstance violation. Pi: To Cooperate J.C. Division of Shellfish Sanitation tj rill begin testing some septic tanks pi long and near the estuary. They will di lush dye into toilets connected to m optic tanks suspected of failure or ai jakage into a waterway that drains ai uto the river. Septic tank effluent is of source of fecal coliform bacteria, p( n indicator used to detect the resence of pollution. c? At Holden's specific request, the F< ivision will also check tanks in the ri lolden Beach area. w; Ixtckwood Folly will also be includ- Tl d in tests conducted by the Division til f Environmental Management for cc esticide residues. Ri Watershed Under Study The chemical testing is part of a se- w; ond study that has already begun. Ix he state Division of Environmental lanagement is evaluting fecal col- tei orm levels and other possible con- de iminants in the Green Swarnp and st; djacent areas. he Sparsely populated, the pocosin tir ivamp is home to much of the coun- sli :i.-A,. s- ? ? A/ ihallotte VFD Chief Tim Carter checks (Continued From Page 1-.A gram about the post. When asked if he would accept the c ivere offered, Bellamy said, "That is a ,ve'd have to evaluate at that time, becaii vant my employment to be perceived as t ;ling act. My application will stand on its vant to go in as a political football." Recommendation Made Wliile Chappell would not comment s he closed-door discussion of the inspei eadily admitted that he had personally i lellamy to Ingram and Smith prior to doners' meeting. "I feel like he (Bellamy) was one ol ipplicants for the position," Chappell expi hat he knew the final decision on the hiri ;ram and Smith to make. "As a commiss nake a recommendation, but you mighi ,vay." I act TKiir orlat. C*v?:?W :J "*? juoi tuuiouajr, on 11 LI I ai^U SidiU, 1 V lire the most qualified person for the job ^ou get to who's the most qualified, that ? :hen." The county manager said it is "not ui commissioners, whether here and in oth has worked, to intervene in hirings. "It's not all that unusual, but gener; get involved in anything below the (hiri UOB Rever Dropping F MY KAHN ADAMS tra Brunswick County's Utility Opera- 17S )ns Board changed its mind Mon- ed ly night. to The board reversed an earlier posi- f >n and decided not to recommend the moval of a private road from a las iter line installation project in the avv unty's Special Assessment District Un lear Seaside. for The action followed a l'/i-hour ex- I utivc session during Monday ght's 2%-hour regular meeting in m> >livia. The secret session was re- dr< lested by UOB staff members to re( scuss easement acquisition and ow xisting and DroDosed contractual bo< lations." she UOB members Robert Nubel, Ed Pei >re, Alphonza Roach, D.V. Jones, me nest McGee and non-voting * ember Commissioner Frankie me ibon attended the meeting. Acting UG lairman Jimmy Oldham and Mor- sio ! Crouch were absent. tio. On a motion by Gore, the board ch* ted 4-1 to reinstate the private road v's the SAD 5 project, with McGee 1)a( sting the only opposing vote. on SAD 5 includes Ocean Pine Acres, w't ne Acres and several large private ^ With State ''s game population as well as to ine plantations with extensive rainage ditching. Farmlands edge luch of its border. Forestry, >riculture and urban development :e all activities with resultant runf that could contribute to the river's ollution. Part of the swamp drains into Wacunaw River, part into Ixjckwood oily River. Diverting additional in-off to the Waccamaw watershed as one possible action suggested lursday, should the swamp be idenied as a major contributor of fecal iliform bacteria. Hie Waccamaw iver drains into Horry County, S.C. The DEM study includes the entire itershed, or area that drains into ickwood Folly River. In October, state officials unveiled mauve plans for the studies and velopment of a plan of action for ite and local agencies interested in lping rectify the problem. At that ne, the river had been closed to ellfishing since late August ' ff! , 4 I* _. " * ?'f \obile Home Burns ut (lie butlom sulation underlies was partially hitch was being ' more Homes planned to use thi livey said incplains Seen l) ment heads," Smil sioners get involv rounty job if it "put additional pr decision that 'I ise I would not According to C a political jug- executive session v merits. I don't vestigation that is "The reason I potential problem! specifically on Without going into ;tions job, he was "very severe t ecommended to be taken." the commis- Both Smith ai possibly was referi : the qualified volves a current c< lained, adding say if the SBI prol ng was for In- last week, althougl ioner, you can ing personnel and i t not get your Brunswick Coi county personnel e been told to District Attorney's i.. . Now how ment some time ag ;ets to be a job county administrE Michael Easlev co leommon" for report from the SB er counties he employee. None of the o illy they don't would reveal furthi ng of) depart- ing county personr ses Positic 'oad From icts on the mainland side of N.C. I. The reinstated road is an unnamdead-end, private street adjacent Pine Acres. Jased on UOB recommendations it followed an SAD 5 public hearing t spring, county commissioners arded an $82,725 contract to W&S derground Inc. of Florence, S.C., the project. n November, the UOB voted Septic Tank T becuase of a high coliform bacteria count. Thursday's meeting went one step farther, local participants said. "It was very frank, blunt and to the point. This is the first time they came out with specifics," said District 1 Commissioner Kelly Holden. During his campaign Holden, a farmer and businessman, described the river as a top priority for the county. "They said, 'These are the things we're going to do and these are the things you're going to have to do.' "Especially zoning," said Holden. "It will be a higher priority than in the past." Unincorporated areas of the county are not zoned. With zoning, the county could regulate land uses that might be contributing to pollution in the river. Setback ordinances, for instance, could be used to control development close to waterways that drain into the river. In their election campaigns both K, m* ^ V t j.' i'i' ? k $ v> - .V - ^ . / i,,* -W y ... it^ 8&IBhi5P STAFF PHOTO BY DOUG RUTTFP ith the used trailer caught fire while a welded to the front. He said he had e trailer for storage space. st Session ,h said, admitting that when commised in employment matters, it does essure on everybody." nvcstigation' Noted happell, a main purpose of the Dec. 5 vas to discuss a personnel-related in"bottlenecked right now." asked for it (executive session) was 5 with employees," Chappell said, further detail, he said one matter 0 me, and I think some action needs ad Rabon indicated that Chappell ring to an SBI investigation that injunty employee. Neither man would )e was discussed by commissioners < 1 Smith said a legal question involv- ! a "threat of suits" was mentioned. unty Sheriff John C. Davis said a matter was referred to the 13th office through the sheriff's depart- 1 [o. The investigation was initiated by ition, he added. District Attorney nfirmed Monday he was awaiting a I on a matter that involves a county fficials interviewed by the Beacon i ir details of any investigation involv- ] lei. I siiimuusiy 10 recommenu 10 comssioners that the private road be )pped from the SAD 5 project as juested by several property ners who appeared before the ird. The owners said the road >uld be left out because only one Tnanent residence and three sumr homes were located on it. lowever, following Monday's eting, Gore explained that the B reversed the November decin after discussing legal considerans involved in the proposed mge. He said "it just wasn't adable" for the county to "buy :k" that part of the project, based the terms of the countv's contract h W&S Underground. Earlier in the meeting, the UOB xi On i SAD 5 took no action on other property owners' requests for relief from assessments in SAD 2 (an area between Brick Landing Plantation and Bent Tree Plantation) and SAD 5. New Rates Approved In other action the utility board approved recommendations for new assessment rates to be used in SAD 1 (north Holden Beach) and SAD 2. The new rates are required after < commissioners voted in October to ; delete a 10 percent administrative fee from the total proj ect costs. Also, adjustments were made in instances where property owners showed that their assessment notices were in error. If approved by commissioners, the new rates will be $5.98 per frontage foot in SAD 1 and $6.03 per frontage foot in SAD 2. The old rates were $6.64 in SAD 1 and $6.51 in SAD 2. A second public hearing that will be held on the SAD 1 assessment roll has not yet been scheduled. Commissioners pledged in October to give the SAD 1 property owners additional time to comment on their assess nents and to notify them of the hearing by certified mail. t esting 1 Holden and Pinkerton advocated limited zoning?in the more heavily populated coastal area as opposed to rural areas. However, Holden said county residents in the past have held many misconceptions about zoning, which contributed to the negative responses at a public hearing on the subject. "It's a slow process," he continued. "I think I'm eoine to pronose that the planning department begin a public education program on zoning so that the pubic will know what's going on." If agreed to by other commissioners, the program might include educational meetings in each district, he said. Commissioners Pinkerton and Holden also met Friday morning with other state officials to "establish a line of communication" between county and state governments. County Gets First Flakes ' A storm system that skirted the North Carolina coast Monday night lightly dusted the Brunswick County area with its first snow of the season. The storm, which developed off the east coast of Florida, moved far enough nff.qhnrp on u nnrthonetorl.. 0? w w UIVOOICI iy track to result in only a trace of snowfall in the South Brunswick Islands, according to Shallotte Point meteorologist Jackson Canady. The weather outlook for the next several days in the Shallotte area calls for seasonable rainfall but below-normal temperatures, Canady said. Temperatures through the weekend should range from the mid 30s at night to the mid 50s during the day. Rain should measure about onehalf inch. For the period of Dec. 6 through 12, the daily average temperature locally was 44 degrees, which Canady said was about four degrees below normal. The daily average high temperature was 56 degrees, and the daily average low temperature was 32 degrees. The maximum high temperature during the period was 68 degrees, occurring on Dec. 8. The minimum low temnerptlirn wa