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The 1990 West Brunswick Trojan
football team Is previewed In today's
edition. For an In-depth look at the
1990 Trojans, turn to Page 8-B.
Marco, the N.c. Highway Patrol drug-lnterdlctlon
dog assigned to Brunswick County, and his
1/ Dining and entertainment I handler, Trooper Jerry Dove, were honored by Lt.
supplement Included In this Issue. * Gov. James Gardner. For the story, see Page 8-A.
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Photo With Gorbachev
BY SUSAN DSIIKR
No, ii wasn't trick photography or creative editing.
Keith Howard really did have his photograph made
with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev?a highly
improbable act in the days before glasnosl.
Howard is the son of James C. and l-ottie Howard
of Crown Creek subdivision near Ocean Isle Beach.
He lives in Lappeenranta, Finland, where he works
for a school, teaching English for corporations whose
managers or other employees need to learn the lan
guage. He is fluent in Finnish.
Howard was visiting Moscow in late May with a
small group of fellow teachers from Finland. Their
slops included a hill overlooking Lenin Stadium.
Following a civil ceremony at City Hall, it is tradi
tional for wedding parties to stop on the hill on their
way to the reception.
On this spring day a particularly large wedding par
ty had stopped. Among it members was Soviet
President Mikhail Gorbachev, who was surrounded by
armed bodyguards.
"Keith is totally uninhibited," his mother said later
as she recounted the encounter described by her son.
"He handed his camera to a friend and asked him to
try to get some pictures."
Then Howard slipped up besiue Gorbachev and
suggested quietly, "How about we have our picture
made?" she said.
Gorbachev didn't answer, but did straighten his
shoulders as if posing.
The friend snapped the photograph and Howard
quickly rejoined his fellow teachers.
"He was as surprised as anybody," said Mrs.
Howard. "He was afraid he might get shot at. And he
didn't know until the pictures came back that every
one else had moved away, out of the picture."
A letter from her son in which the photographs
were enclosed didn't provide much information. It
look a follow-up phone conversation to learn the de
tails, she said.
The visit to Moscow was Keith Howard's second.
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CALL IT "G1ASNOST" or simply amazing,
but Keith Howard, whose parents live near
Ocean Isle Reach, managed to have his photo
graph taken with Soviet President Mikhail
Gorbachev while visiting Moscow in late May.
He first saw the city in 1975, while living in Finland
as a high schixil exchange student.
During his most recent stay, he was able to visit in
the homes of several fellow Quakers.
Since 1975, the city's standard of living has
dropped, he wrote his mother in June, enclosing pho
tographs. Howard predicted conditions will worsen
there before they get better. He described the present
day Soviet Union as perhaps the most "sclfsearch
ing" nation since France in the 1790s, during the
French Revolution.
Those most affected by the political and economic
upheaval, he said, arc the working people.
Meanwhile, Mrs. Howard is "unflappable" when it
comes to her son. "Anything I get from Keith doesn't
surprise inc." she said.
Hankins, Harrison Among
Superintendent Finalists
I?Y SUSAN USHER
The lop two administrators in the Brunswick Coun
ty Schools arc among four finalists still in the running
for superintendent.
Interim Superintendent P.R. Hankins and Assistant
Superintendent William Harrison made the cut. Also
still under consideration arc Betty Wallace, who is on
leave from the N.C. Department of Public Instruction,
and Barbara D. Rogers, principal of East Wake High
School and a former assistant superintendent
These finalists will undergo extensive scrutiny be
tween now and the school board's next regular meeting
on Sept. 4, when school board attorney Glen Peterson
said it is likely a new superintendent will be named.
Hankins has been serving as interim superintendent
since July !. Former superintendent John Kaufhold was
ousted in April on a 3-2 vote, effective June 30. Board
members cited questions about an alleged "illegal" con
tract in the board's decision not to honor an earlier deci
sion to extend his employment with the school system.
Kaufhold sued the board and three of its individual
members. In June, the board paid him S30,(XX) as part
of an out-of-court settlement
The four finalists were sclcctcd at a special meeting
of the Brunswick County Board of Education Monday
night. Board Attorney Glen Peterson released their
names and resumes Tuesday afternoon after first con
tacting ali four and obtaining their permission.
Peterson said he had planned to release the informa
tion only if all four finalists agreed. "If one says no, I'm
not going to put that candidate at a disadvantage or in
jeopardy," he said. "And it also wouldn't be fair to the
public to have three out in the public for scrutiny" and
not the fourth.
The board narrowed the list to four after each of the
five members ranked his or her top choices on a scale
of 1 to 5. Those with the highest total points made the
cut. The finalists were chosen from among 15 appli
cants interviewed by the board over two weekends in
July. Forty-four people had applied for the post, with
two later withdrawing.
Before the Sept. 4 meeting, board members Doug
(Set HANKINS, Page 2-A)
Permit Issued For Lockwood Marina
HY DOUG RUTTER
The stale has issued a permit that
will allow developers of the Lock
wood Folly golf community near
Holdcn Beach to build a controver
sial marina on the Lockwood Folly
River.
The N.C. Division of Coastal
Management issued the CAMA ma
jor development permit Monday,
said John Parker, the division's
chief of permitting.
The permit opens the doo's for
construction of a 26-slip upland
basin marina and a boat ramp near
the Lockwood Folly clubhouse, lo
cated on the banks of the lower
Lockwood Folly River.
Local fishermen and conserva
tionists have opposed the project
since it was proposed more than
two years ago. They have said it
would cause further degradation of
water quality in the river, which has
been an important part of the Bruns
wick County shcllfishing industry
for generations.
However, Parker said none of the
slate and federal agencics comment
ing during the permit application
proccss opposed construction of the
marina.
He said only four county resi
dents wrote to the state opposing
the marina bccausc of concerns
about water quality in the river.
As part of the permit conditions,
Parker said, developers will be re
quired to monitor water quality near
the marina for three years. The
length of the monitoring pcritxl -. ill
(See PERMIT, Page 2-A)
Calabash Leaders Request
Help In
Attaining
Future Goals
BY DOUG RUTTER
Calabash leaders spelled out their
plans for the future at an historic
meeting lass wock, explaining uiCu
goals to a gathering of county and
state officials and asking for their
help in achieving them.
"We know what we want to do,
but we need your assistance to get ii
done," Calabash Planning and Zon
ing Board Chairman Warren "Bud"
Knapp told the group. "We cannot
do this by ourselves."
Expansion of the town bound
aries, recycling, water and sewer
needs, law enforcement, transporta
tion and dredging of the Calabash
River were among the topics dis
cusscd last Thursday.
The meeting started at the Cala
bash Town Hall, but included a tour
of the Marsh Harbour Yacht Club,
boat ride in the Calabash River and
lunch at one of the town's seafood
restaurants.
Guests included State Rep. David
Redwine, Brunswick County Com
missioner Kelly Holden, Brunswick
County Sheriff John Carr Davis,
Brunswick County Soil & Water
Conservation District Chairman
james Bellamy and state officials
involved in transportation, enviiun
ment and community planning.
State Sen. R.C. Soles showed up
for the meeting, hut he. was taken to
The Brunswick Hospital in Supply
with a nose bleed shortly after he
arrived. He relumed lo Caiabash
later in the day.
During the meeting, Calabash of
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GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS took a cruise in the Calabash River as part of last week's meeting Three pontoon be
at iow tide to show the need for dredging.
ficials repeatedly called for cooper
ation among town, county and state
governments, saying the town's fu
ture plans will affect the entire
Calabash area.
"We represent the entire area,"
Knapp said. "We're planning for the
entire area. We're proud of our
community, and we intend to prove
it to the world."
Mayor Doug Simmons, a lifelong
resident ol Calabash, said he's wit
nessed tremendous growth of the
town, which was just a small fishing
village with 22 homes when he was
a child.
Calabash has grown steadily in
the past decade and literally blos
somed last August when residents
of the old town and the Carolina
Shores golf course community vol
ed 10 merge and form one munici
pality. The population of the town
jumped from 200 to 1,400 over
night, and the tax base soared from
S16 million to $77 million.
With annexation of the SlOO-mil
lion Marsh Harbour Yacht Club
property in the works, ihe time has
come for the town to ask for help
from the county and state govern
ments, Simmons said.
Redwine promised the state will
lend assistance where it can. But he
warned that the town probably will
have to do more for itself in the
years to come, as slate and federal
dollars become more scarce.
"We will do our part and do as
much as we can, but we aren't the
panacea for everything," Redwine
said during the luncheon. "I think
the local people need to take the
bull by the horns and Oo what they
can."
One by one, members of the
Planning and Zoning Board discus
sed issues that affect Calabash and
asked for county and state help in
meeting the town's needs.
Specifically, town officials asked
Redwine for his support of plans to
consolidate several "pockets" that
were created when the old town and
Carolina Shores merged last year.
Patricia Lewellyn, vice chairman
of the Planning and Zoning Board,
said bringing those areas into the
town limits through state legislation
would be the quickest way to fill in
several iioies liiai wcic fotmixi in
Calabash.
The Calabash Post Office and
Calabash Fire Station are among
properties that are outside the town
limits. There's also a large tract of
farmland on Persimmon Road that's
almost completely surrounded by
land that's within the town limits.
(See CALABASH. Page 2 A)
Brunswick To Officially Buy
The Training Center This Week
BY BOB HORNK
The Brunswick Community Col
lege Industrial Training Center at
the Leland Industrial Park was ex
pected to become county property
this week.
The facility, which is being con
structed by Leader Construction
Co. of Wilmington, is nearing com
pletion and the closing of the
agreement, when Brunswick Coun
ty purchases the facility for SI 1
million, was expected to happen
this week, according to David
Clegg, interim county manager, and
Robert Tucker, county engineer.
The Training Center, which will
provide a facility in which BCC
will be able to train employees for
local industries, will be open Aug.
31 for inspection by local residents,
corresponding with the grand-open
ing ceremonies of Exide Electron
ics, the park's newest resident and
the Training Center's first "custom
er." Exide's opening ceremonies
will be from 10:30 a m until 2 p.m
that day.
The Training Center, which is lo
cated at the mam entrance to the. In
dusirial Park, will be able lo pro
vide training for virtually any in
dustry in Brunswick County, ac
cording to Velva Jenkins, small
business/industrial relations direc
tor for Brunswick Community Col
lege.
"Any industry in Brunswick
County is welcome to use the
Training Center," Ms. Jenkins said.
Depending on the si/c of the indus
tries. it's possible for more than one
industry to use the facility concur
rendy, she said.
(See BRUNSWICK, Page 3-A)
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THE PRODUCTION AREA of the Brunswick Community College Industrial Training Center
consumes 10,100 square feet, slightly more than one-half of the building, and is two floors high.