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Ocean Isle To Buy Land For Sewer System Growth BY DOUG RUTTER The Town of Ocean Isle Beach plans to purchase more than 400 acres of land next to its sewer plant that could be used for future expan sion of the facility. Ocean Isle Beach Commissioners adopted a resolution Tuesday autho rizing Mayor Betly Williamson to enter into a contract and purchase three parcels of land adjoining the waste treatment plant 1 oca ted off Four Mile Road. 1 he action followed a 20-minute executive session in which board members discussed land acquisition with Town Attorney Elva Jess and island developer Odell Williamson. Commissioners Bill Benton and Virginia Gibson were absent. Ocean Isle Beach plans to buy the land from Cnadwick Shores, Inc., at a cost of $2,500 per acre, ac cording to the resolution adopted Tuesday. The land has to be surveyed be fore the total acreage is known. But based on the estimate of 433 acrcs included in the resolution, the town will pay $1,082,500 for the proper ty Money for the land will come out of the town's sewer capital project reserve fund, which has been built up over the years for system expan sion and emergency maintenance. The town has saved S895.867 over the years for expansion and has budgeted SI 03,989 next fiscal year for the reserve fund, according to the 1990-91 budget adopted Tuesday. Ocean Isle Bcach will pay the landowner a $550,000 option cost that will be applied to the purchase price, or refunded if the town docs not receive a warranty deed within 90 days. Odell Williamson, who serves as utilities supervisor at Ocean Isle Bcach, said following Tuesday's meeting that no tax dollars will be used to buy the land. Explaining the town's ability to build up a large re serve fund, he said, "We've just been running a light ship." Williamson said the additional land will likely be used for spray fields, areas where treated wastewa ter is sprayed from pipes and ab sorbed into the ground. The town could also use some of the properly for a holding lagoon, a pond where waste is held during periods of peak usage until it can be sprayed. Ocean Isle Beach presently doesn't have enough spray fields to allow for development of the entire island. Williamson said the addi tional land "should take us into the 21st century with normal growth." Sewage lines run in front of about 80 percent of the lots on the island. But Williamson said the town doesn't have the treatment ca pacity to serve all of those lots. The additional land could help solve that problem, he said. "We're trying to slay ahead of our actual demand," said William son. "We're just trying to plan ahead and protect our bases so to speak." Williamson, who said he owns slock in Chadwick Shores Inc. but has no controlling interest, said the firm plans to buy land from Interna tional Paper Company and sell some of it to the town. Mayor Betty Williamson said the town negotiated with International Paper for more than a year and the firm would not sell land in the small tracts that the town needed. The three parrels the town plans to purchase from Chadwick Shores Inc arc approximately 297. 90 and 46 acres in size, according to the resolution. Chadwick Shores will pay for the survey that will deter mine the exact acreage and cost. Mrs. Williamson said the town couldn't have gotten a better price if it had tried to condemn the property. The town paid more than $2,100 per acre when it condemned the land needed to build the sewer plant, she said, and land costs have gone up since then. Commissioners Cut Budqet (Continued From Page 1-A) ployce an across-the-board a 2 1/2 percent across-the-board increase and to divide the other 2 1/2 percent equally among all employees. He then maue a motion to grant the 5 percent increases and it passed unanimously. A motion by Holdcn to rescind previous action granting Depart ment of Social Services employees an extra 2.5 percent pay increase passed 3-2, with Rabon and Mrs. Beaslcy dissenting. A motion by Ludlum to set aside $40,000 for state-mandated reclassi fications and reclassifications justi fied to and approved by the county commissioners, instead of 69 rec ommended reclassifications that would have cost $127,000, passed 3-2. Pinkcrton and Rabon dissented. Coastal Insurance and Realty of Shallouc was approved as the com pany to handle the county's liability and property insurance again, after prolonged discussion. Last Friday. Coastal proposed a premium of $186,616.50 to S225.148 by Carolina Security In surance Group, S199.296 by Cala bash Insurance Agency and $219,966 by the N.C. Counties Lia bility and Property Insurance. Tues day, Carolina Security reduccd its pro[X)scd premium to $201 ,406. Pinkcrton proposed separating the various elements of the insur ance and contracting with the agen cy that had the lowest premium on each element, which could have in volved contracting with several in surance agencies. Holdcn 's motion to award the insurance contract to Coastal Insurance passed 4-1, with Pinkcrton dissenting. In other action, the board: ?unanimously passed a motion by Pinkcrton that no insurance quotes or contributions to agencies be con sidered if accepted later than March 30 next year; ?unanimously eliminated $2,000 for Retired Senior Volunteers, be cause Holden said that group is out of Columbus County; ?unanimously granted $1,000 to the Brunswick County Law Enfor cement Agency and unanimously denied any funding for the Sunset Beach recycling project; ?denied on a 2-3 vote, with Pink erton and Rabon voting for, $25,000 to the Ocean Isle Museum; ?granted the Lcland Library $10,000 that had not been recom mended; ?cut S39.900 in matching funds for capital improvements from the Brunswick County Airport, with Pinkcrton and Rabon dissenting; ?unanimously cut SI 5,000 from the Resource Development Com mission's budget; ?cut $15,000 from the Chamber of Commerce, funding it at the same $60,000 level it was funded this year, with Pinkcrton dissenting; ?cut $56,285 from Southeastern Mental Health's funding, with Hol den dissenting, which leaves SEMH with an allocation of $229,088 or 25 percent more than this year; ?unanimously cut $10,000 from the Brunswick County Library's al location, leaving it the same amount of funding as this year; ?increased North Carolina Ma rine Crescent's funding from the re commended $1,000 to $3,000, with Holden and Mrs. Beasley opposing. HOW TO SUBSCRIBE TO THE BRUNSWICK&BEACON POST OFFICE BOX 2558 SHALLOTTE. NORTH CAROLINA 28459 AND GET ISLAND LIVING, TOO! ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION RATES BY MAIL: Sr. Citizen In Brunswick County J6.30 J5.30 N.C. Sales Tax .32 .27 Postage Charge 3.68 3 68 TOTAL 10.30 9.25 Elsewhere In North Carolina _I6 .30 LI5 .30 N.C. Sales Tax .32 .27 Postage Charge 8 18 8 18 TOTAL 14.80 13.75 Outside North Carolina U6.30 J5.30 Postage Charge 9 65 9 65 TOTAL 15.95 14.95 ) Complete And Return To Above Address I Name J Address i City. State Zip STATE BOARD MUST APPROVE AGREEMENT L/NC-W, BCC Plan To Offer Dual Transcripts BY SUSAN USI1KR A new program cxpectcd to be in place ai Brunswick Community College (BCC) by fall quarter should make it easier for students to transfer to other schools to continue their educa tion. Officials at BCC and the University of North Carolina at Wilmington have signed an agree ment that governs the offering of specific gener al college courses, said BCC President Michael Reaves. Students who take approved courses will be eligible for transcripts from both BCC and IJNC-W. "Most of our students have no problem trans ferring to UNC-W with the arrangement we have now with them." he said. "The main thing this program will do is help the student who wants to transfer to some other school such as Carolina. State or East Carolina University. "For students that take these courses it will be just as if they were taking courses at UNC-W," he continued. "They'll be using the same texts, the same syllabuses. The real benefit is that they will be able to take the classes here on our cam pus rather than uavciing to UNC-W." Some four-year colleges and universities tra ditionally have not accepted transcripts from BCC and similar community collcgc campuscs that offer general collcgc courses, but do not have a formal college transfer program with a faculty of its own. Several steps must be completed almost si multaneously before the transcript program goes into operation at BCC. First, the agreement must be approved by the Suite Board of Community Colleges, he said, and must be signed by the president of the N.C. Department of Community Colleges and the chairman of the state board. "That should be routine," he said. "As soon as t can get it on Uicii agenda that's when it will be approved." Reaves hopes the item can make the agenda of the board's next meeting, July 12 in Raleigh. Dot Rcardon, a secretary in DCC President Bob Scott's office, said the board may not meet in August. Also, BCC must send the credentials of all its general collcgc faculty to UNC-W for review and then faculty will have to go to UNC-W for personal interviews. With one exception, faculty members must have a master's degree, with at least 18 hours of graduate course work in the academic area they will leach. However, betorc BCC can oiier chemistry, said Reaves, the school must not on ly add a chemistry lab, but must also find some one with a doctorate in chemistry to teach the course. The approval process will complicate regis tration for fall courses, since only courses taught by approved faculty can be offered under the dual transcript program. "That will affect our course offerings. I don't know how many we can gel approved in time to offer fall quarter," said Reaves. "I know that some of our faculty won't have any problem geitine approval." said Reaves. UNC-W is following guidelines set by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS), which BCC also follows. BCC has already prepared an in-house fall course schedule. Some BCC students have al ready prc-rcgistcrcd and actual registration is scheduled for August, prior to the start of the fall term in mid-September. Discussions regarding the program began be tween the two schools more than a year ago, culminating in a visit to the BCC campus by UNC-Wilmington officials in May. "It's been a long ordeal," said Reaves. w vma I 1 aemmmamm ? ? r iiui W M a PHOTO CONTRIBUTED Creative Writing Fair Barbara Hewett and three members of her kindergarten class at Bolivia Elementary School read some of the various writings on display for the school's first Creative Writing Fair. From left to right are Tabitha Naylor, Cedric Williams, Matthew King and Mrs. Hewett. Students displayed a variety of writings, including poems, short stones, paragraphs and letters. Visitor Drowns At Ocean Isle A South Dakota woman visiting Occan Isle Bcach drowned in the surf last Wednesday, shortly after rough seas caused a small boat to capsi/.e a few miles down the bcach in an unrelated incident. Officer Tommy Allen of the Occan Isle Beach Police Depart ment identified the victim as Naomi ?*rCin, a kjGuui i^tiivGui rCSivjCPn UC" lieved to be in her 30s. Brunswick County Coroner Greg White said drowning was the cause of death. Allen said officers received a call at about 4 p.m., 30 minutes after a boat did overturn, that a second boat had overturned in the occan in the vicinity of 174 E. First St. at Occan Isle Bcach and that two people were in danger. When officers arrived on the scene about four minutes later, how ever, there was no boat. Three em ergency medical technicians from Virginia and a doctor and nurse were with the woman, who was in cardiac arrest, Allen said. Ms. Frein was driven lo a vehicu lar bcach access point just cast of the Occan Isle Bcach Fishing Pier, where police met a rescue squad ambulancc. Allen said the woman was transported by Calabash EMS. ambulance to The Brunswick Hos pital in Supply, where she was pro nounced dead. The policeman said the abnor mally high new moon lidc last Wed nesday afternoon was near its high est point at the time of the incident. Also, he said the waves were be tween 4 and 4 1/2 feet when the woman drowned. Allen speculated the woman may have stepped in a hole created by the rough seas and been knocked over by 3 W2vc Tiic officcr siiici he believed Ms. Frein was vacationing at Ocean Isle Beach with her family. Allen said officers were called to the scene of the drowning shorUy after returning from another call near the west end of Ocean Isle Beach, where someone had reported that a small boat had capsized with five people on board. Two police officers and four or five volunteer firemen responded to the west end of the island around 3:30 p.m. after receiving a call that a johnboat had overturned, Allen said. When they arrived, however, the five people had already been res cued and dropped off on the beach, apparently by a person riding a Jet Ski. 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Conditions In Forecast Near normal weather conditions arc cxpcctcd in the Shallottc area during the next few days, Shallottc Point meteorologist Jackson Canady said Tuesday. He said he cxpccts temperatures to range from the upper 60s at night into the upper 80s during the day time, with approximately thrcc quarlcrs inch of rainfall. For the period of June 19 through 25, Canady recorded a maximum high reading of 93 degrees, which occurred on both June 21 and 22. On June 25, he recorded the min imum low for the week, 64 degrees. A daily average high temperature of 90 degrees and a nightly average low of 71 degrees combined for a daily average temperature of 80 de grees, said Canady, which is about 2 degrees above the long-term aver age for the period. He recorded no rainfall. Government Offices Closing For Fourth Ocean Isle Beach Town Hall will be open for business on ihe Fourth of July to accommodatc out-of-town property owners, but it is the exception among government offices. State government officcs, the Brunswick County Government Center and the town halls at Calabash, Shallottc, Holdcn Beach and Sunset Beach will closc for the day. Trash will be pickcd up at Sunset Beach July 4, on the regular collcclion schedule. Also, U.S. Post Officcs across the county will be closed, otter ing neither window nor route services. However, outgoing mail will be pickcd up from the various offices. Officcs of local financial in stitutions will also be closed. The Brunswick Beacon officc will be open on its regular schedule, 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. | First Class Checking "Checking At Its Best" Unlimited Checking! Free Travelers Checks Free Safety Deposit Box Free Notary Service! % INTEREST PLUS Free Checks Free Cashiers Checks Direct Deposit Free Signature Guarantee IF YOU'RE 55 OR OVER enjoy all of the benefits of FIRST CLASS CHECK ING with no minimum balance. Absolutely no cost to you because you deserve First Class Ser vice. 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