Holden Commissioners Considering
Changes In Auto Sticker Program
BY DOUG RUTTER
Hoidcn Beach officials arc con
sidering drastic changes in the
town's vehicle sticker program, in
cluding reinstating nominal fees for
the dccals and penalizing residents
who don't use them.
The small windshield stickers are
used to identify island property
owners and residents following
evacuations. The purpose of the
sticker is to prevent from coming on
the island following hurricanes or
other disasters those who have no
business on the island.
Following Hurricane Hugo last
September, a number of problems
with the sticker program surfaced
because many property owners did
not pick up their dccals until after
the storm.
As a result, people who should
have been kept off the island were
allowed on the island, and town em
ployees were kept busy for several
days following the storm issuing
hundreds of stickers.
There were also rumors that the
yellow slips of paper used when the
town ran out of slickers were dupli
cated and sold to people who had no
right to be on the island.
As a result of these post-Hugo
problems, town commissioners arc
talking about charging for the dc
cals and Ciifurcing an old ordinance
that requires residents to display the
dccals on their vehicles at all times.
A committee made up of Com
missioners Gloria Barrett and Ken
ncr Amos and property owner Ben
Tonking presented a list of proposed
changes to the town board at a work
session last Wednesday. Commis
sioners may approve changes in the
slicker program at their Feb. 5
meeting.
A major point of the committee
proposal is to go back to charging
people for the stickers. The pro
posed fee is $2.50 per sticker
through June 30 and 55 after that
lime.
Hoidcn Beach used to charge res
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Fourteen students and two par
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the South Brunswick Chapter of the
Region O Council for the Advance
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(ROCAME). Held at South Bruns
wick High School, the meeting was
the group's third of the year.
Tim my Myles, Patrice Law and
Jussani McKoy were picked as del
egates to a state conference March 8
and 9 at the University of North
Carolina at Wilmington' itiey also
will attend at training session Feb. 1
at Wilmington's Hoggard High
School.
In other meeting activities, the
organization reviewed a newspaper
article on black individuals who
hold Ph.D.'s in math and science.
Also, students were given forms to
record their first-semester grades.
A senior high school quiz bowl
was held, with girls competing
against boys. The team of Ralph
Parker, Travis Sidberry, Ernie Wear
ren, Lamont Tobler and Timmy
Myles defeated the team of Lar
nicce McKoy, Kristie Joyner, Pa
trice Law, Toy Gore and Brcnda
Tobler. Myles and Ms. McKoy were
chosen as outstanding performers
for their respective teams.
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idents and property owners for the
decals but started giving them away
two years ago. For now, slickers arc
free and available at town hall.
Commissioner Bob Buck said
last week he was disappointed that
the town has been put in a position
that it has to charge for the dccals.
"I don't like it, but I can't vote
against it." He suggested, however,
that the town give the stickers away
through June 30 and chargc $5 after
that dale.
Besides reinstating a fee, (he
committee has also recommended
stricter enforcement of an existing
vehicle registration ordinance that
requires residents to use vehicle
stickers and penalizes them if they
don't.
The town ordinance, adopted fol
lowing Hurricane Diana in 1984, re
quires residents to register vehicles
with the town clerk by January 30
of each year. Failure to register ve
hicles or display stickers is punish
able by a $5 fine.
Under the committee proposal,
contractors who work on the island
on a regular basis would be required
to display stickers just like resi
dents.
Contractors, insurance adjusters
and others coming onto the island
for official business following an
evacuation would be given one -day
passes which would be issued at a
checkpoint on the north side of the
bridge and turned in at the end of
r
cach day.
To make things easier on town
staff, the proposal would also limit
the amount of information needed
to issue a sticker to the name and
address of the vehicle owner and
the year and make of the vehicle.
Presently, staff also records vehicle
registration numbers and auto tag
numbers, information which is nev
er used.
Land Use Meeting
Planned At Holden
A public forum on future land
use and development at Holden
Beach will be held Tuesday, Feb. 6,
at 10 a.m. in town hall.
Caroline Bell is of Henry Von
Ocscn & Associates, a Wilmington
engineering Firm working on updat
ing the town's land use plan, said
the meeting will be an informal
question and answer session.
"It's an opportunity for public
comment about land use issues as
well as an opportunity for us to an
swer any questions the public may
have," she said. A representative
from the N.C. Division of Coastal
Management is also expected to at
tend.
Questionnaires giving property
owners another chance to comment
on land use issues were early mail
ed last week. Results will be pre
sented at the board of commission
ers' meeting in March.
STAFF PHOTO BY DOUG BUTTER
PINEWOOD DERBY TROPHY WINNERS are, from left, Jonathan Galloway, Clinton Roundtree,
Al Kulak, Neil Ansley and Scott Macon.
Pinewood Derby Winners Named
The ruckus at the N.C. National
Guard Armory in Shallotte last Fri
day night wasn't the guard prepar
ing for a weekend of training.
Rather, the noise was created by
about 40 members of Shallotte Cub
Scout Pack 227 cheering their mini
ature race cars to the finish line in
the annual Pincwood Derby.
The derby is a double elimination
contest in which scouts race their
cars down a narrow 30-foot track
which is elevated at the starting
line. Working with their parents.
Scouts make their own cars from
blocks of wood, and the finished
product cannot weigh more than
five ounces.
The lop finishers in each of the
four grades competing last Friday
won trophies, and sccond- and
third-place winners received med
als. All participants took home rib
bons.
Winners, listed in oiuci of fiiusn
according to grade, were as follows:
A1 Bulak, Roger Cox and Kelly
Mintz, 2nd grade; Jonathan Gallo
way, Conrad Bulak and Jordan Re
eves, 3rd grade; Clinton Roundtree,
Eric Carpenter and Wesley Fenton,
4th grade; and Neil Anslcy, Scott
Walters and Thomas Gore, 5th
grade.
Scott Macon won the trophy for
best of show, given to the owner of
the best-designed car. His black car
was modeled after the Batmobile.
Last week's derby was the
smoothest ill yeais with trie compe
tition lasting just over an hour. For
the first time this year, the track was
roped off to keep scouts and young
er siblings from interfering with the
race.
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