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County May Seek Contract For Its Recycling Program i?i i r.KKi rui r. Count) commissioners appear close to accepting a dca< that would contract the count) 's recycling program (Hit to a private firm. At a workshop F riday. County Engineer Robert Tucker told the Nurd thai Waste Industries of Wilm ington is willing to maintain drop sites for recyclable aluminum, paper, plastic and glass for a monthly fee of $426 per site The board agreed to study the proposal more care fully They also voted to pull SI.200 from contractual services to help pay lor hauling oil recyclable materials at six sites in the county where trailers arc presently provided by Bush's Recycling of Florence, S C. The six trailer sites arc operated mostly by volun teer gmups. South port and Long Beach do provide manpower while sites at Carolina Shores, Sunset Beach, Holden Beach and Boiling Spring lakes arc op erated by volunteers only. Last week George Bush, owner of the recycling company, asked commissioners to supplement his pro gram by $200 per trailer to help defray the cost of haul ing materials to Florence. Bush provides the trailers, which arc parked on town property, at no cost providing he is able to recover SI50 from the sale of materials to cover the hauling fees Interim County Manager David Clegg w ill allocate the $1,200 as needed to continue the recycling program now in place until a decision is made on the Waste Industries proposal. At Friday's meeting, an employee from Chambers of South Carolina, a solid waste dispos al company, attended but chose not to address the jf I I ?\ 'iU VJ. V.IUIIII'M> ll?P I Beach for its garbage disposal scrvicc. The company's proposal to provide curbside service to collect recy clable goods was turned down by the town. Commissioners have agreed to study a long-term plan rather than continue to supplement Bush's pro gram. By 1993. counties must be recycling 25 percent of their solid waste, as mandated by the state, in an ef fort to reduce the amount of material arriving at land fills. Approximately 55.CXX) tons of garbage arc dumped into the Brunswick County landfill each year. Tucker said. By July 1. 1991, the county must have a recycling program in operation. Tucker said the proposal from Waste Industries was originally more than S1,(XX) per site. He said the com pany is asking the county to sign a three-year contract with the monthly S426 per site fee guaranteed for the first year, but negotiable at the end of each following year. He has recommended that the county establish recy cling centers at nine locations in the county: one on N.C. 904 at Seaside; at the county landfill; at the Oxpen Convenience Center; on N.C. 211 between Midway Road and Supply; at the county government complex in Bolivia; at Longwood: and one each at the three solid waste transfer stations at Ocean Isle, Lcland and Southport The board also established a committee to examine how the volunteer groups active at the recycling sta tions now in place could work with the county in get ting materials to the nine drop sites. Commissionei Kciiy Holden will head that group along with represen Ui lives from Sunset Bcach, Long Beach, South port. Carolina Shores, Boiling Spring Lakes and Holden Beach. Each drop site would cost the county $5,112 per year. For nine sites, as recommended by Tucker, the county would spend $46,008 per year. Waste Industries would provide separate boxes at each site for paper, glass and plastic. The cost will be the same per month regardless of how often the boxes need to be emptied. Tucker said. "A great number of communities have gone to this same system," Tucker said. "If we set up sites at those locations, we might be able to provide longer hours of service and get a higher volume of materials." Not counting the hours that volunteers work, the re cycling trailers now provided by Bush's Recycling is costing some towns more than it would like to spend. Carolina Shores estimates it has lost S340 this year. Charles Derrick of Long Bcach says the program there has gone in the hole $1,829 since July. Some of the cost was due to site improvements. "It docs cost money to recycle," he told the board. Commissioners agreed to allocate enough money to pay Bush $200 per trailer to keep the recycling program alive. If a contract with Waste Industries is accepted, it would take the company four to six weeks to implement the program. Tucker said. Under the present program with Bush, a trailer fills every two or three weeks at a cost of $350 each for hauling. Volunteers operate the trailers for certain hours each week. Under the Waste Industries proposal, the drop sites would he open 24 hours a day. Ituilding Plans Commissioners also met with Michael Rhodes, health director, Friday to discuss how much additional room hi.; department will need when the Department of Social Services moves to its new building at the gov ernment complex. Rhodes told the board the environmental health di vision could use double the square footage it now has. Although completion of the new building is six months away, commissioners arc trying to decide now which departments will get the extra space created when social services moves. The building must first be renovated. Clcgg told the board he hopes the building can house all of the human services departments. Ptiblic housing should be in that building rather than in the planning department building, he said. The board also viewed blueprints of the new emer gency services and 911 building that will be built in front of the government complex. Commissioners did rcach a consensus that of the three sites originally cho sen the tract closest to U.S. 17 in front of the complex is best suited. The estimated Sl.l million building will contain 16,(XX) square feet of space for the 911 communications center and will also serve as a training center for emer gency personnel. Emergency Management Coordinator Cecil Logan will meet with architects Pierson and Whitman to final ize the blueprints before presenting them to commis sioners. Big Sweep Helps Clean Up Beaches m tiii MARY MCKINNEY of Roanoke Rapids looks on as her daugh ter, Libby McKinney of Kernersville, registers for The Rig Sweep at Holden Beach. They planned to clean up the beach at Campground By The Sea. County Finds Errors On Census (Continued From Page 1-Al area. The leucr also reveals that a rcsi- "We have field checked that dent near Calabash who served as again this week and our figure is an enumerator was stopped before correct," Harvey wrote. she had completed her work. The Brunswick Cove Nursing Kathy Pope worked on the census Home on N.C. 133 near Leland was for over a year and at the first of also left off of the group quarters June, at least a month before she population counts. The home open was through w ith the enumerations, ed in April 1990. she was stopped by the Census Bur- "By May 1, 1990, 77 of the 80 cau. beds were occupied," Harvey wrote. "She is of the opinion a signifi- "Today there is full occupancy and cant number of people did not get they plan to open another 60 beds counted bccausc of thai," the letter on January 1, 1991." states. The county cxpects responses to Harvey said his department had be filed to the census bureau from to compare the census tract maps the towns of Bald Head Island, with the county's 1989 field checks Shallotte, Southport, Bolivia and to find the errors. The block bor- Navassa. The population and num dered by Pisgah Road and Turnpike ber of housing units reported in Road just off of Stone Chimney both Bolivia and Navassa dropped. Road showed no housing units according to the census. Southport whereas the county's field check of believes its population count is off 1989 showed 30 homes within this by about 1,600. HOW TO SUBSCRIBE TO THE B \\MJ\ POST OFFICE BOX 2558 SHAlLOTTE NORTH CAROi iNA 2845S AND GET ISLAND LIVING, TOO! ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION RATES BY MAIL: Sr Citi7pn In Brunswick County J6.30 U5.30 N.C. Sales Tax .32 .27 Postage Charge 3 68 3 68 TOTAL 10.30 9.25 Elsewhere in North Carolina rJ6.30 'J5.30 N.C. Sales Tax .32 .27 Postage Charge 8 18 8.18 TOTAL 14.80 13.75 Outside North Carolina J6.30 LI5.30 Postage Charge 9 65 9 65 TOTAL 15.95 14.95 Complete And Return To Above Address Name Address City, State Z'P (Continued From Page 1-A) ihc bridge, hut some people were told to meet at the fishing pier at 9 a.m. "Ii trailv messed us up on some of our volunteers," Mrs. Vasco said. "But there arc glitches with every thing. We tried to do the best we could under the circumstances." Like people at the other local beaches, she said helpers at Holdcn Beach picked up a lot of cigarette butts. Volunteer: also found a lot ol plastic foam cups on the strand The local beaches weren't the on ly places where volunteers found lots of cigarette butts Saturday, ac cording to Kathy Hart of UNC Sea Grant, one of the sponsors of The Big Sweep. People picked up about 10,(XX) cigarette bulls at one site on Emerald Isle, she said. The plastic fillers inside cigarettes were a popu lar find across Noilh Carolina. Statewide, nearly 10,000 volun teers pickcd up 163 ions of trash at 160 coastal and inland sites. The number of volunteers was three times the number who helped out last year, and they pickcd up twice as much litter as they did in 1989. Based on what was found and recorded Saturday, Ms. Hart said the biggest litterers appear to be people who use the beaches, lakes and rivers the most. The slate's bcachcs were littered with a lot of plastics, including bot tles, wrappers and foam pieces. A lot of fishing bait bags and bot tles were found along the inland lakes and streams, pointing the fin ger at boaters and recreational fish ermen as the culprits. Despite the tremendous amount of trash found on the shorelines Saturday, Ms. Hart said some veter an coordinators are starting to see improvement in the appearance of the areas being cleaned. 'They feet like we've made an impact in some areas." Ms. Han said. "We're seeing fewer plastic bottles and aluminum cans than we did a couple years ago. But we're still seeing a lot of things like cigarette butts. We still have a long way to go to educate all of the peo ple about the dangers of littering." Some ot the more unusual finds across the state included an inflat able woman found in a creek in Forsyth County and a two-ton truck found in a nearby lake. Other items pickcd up Saturday included a bottle of pickled pig brains, a pay phone and a 43-year old Orange Crush bottle. An airline boarding pass from Pakistan was found at Wrightsvillc Beach, Ms. Hart said. Oyster Season Opens Oct. 15 (Continued From Page 1-A) **-rs could be lowered in some cas es so they could harvest smaller as gas for vehicles and boats. oysters that arc turned over and "1 am for a limit. I've been for a killed by people digging for limit for 20 years," said Carson clams. Varnam, who runs an oyster house Mike Marshall, fisheries devel in Varnamtown. "Personally, 1 feel opment chief for Marine like seven bushels would be a fig- Fisheries, said the state might urc I would agree on." change its rules to give the fish Alex Kuigrc of Varnamtown eries director the power to set size said it takes a bushel of oysters or limits for oysters. That way, un more just to cover expenses. He dcrsi/ed oysters disturbed by supported a seven-bushel limit per clammcrs could be harvested in person and 21-bushel limit per stead of being wasted. boat. Local fishermen also asked that R<xlncy Williams of Shallotte commercial fishing licenses be re Point, who has been gathering quired for anyone harvesting oys oystcrs for 35 years, said he ters. They said the cost should be thought five bushels per person high?S200 or more?so recrea was plenty, based on a price of tional fishermen don't take all of S25 per bushel. the oysters. But several other fishermen Responding to another com said they only got S17 per bushel plaint, Hogarth said the state's last oyster season and expected Shellfish Sanitation branch, which the same price this season. recommends when to close and The daily harvest limit wasn't open shellfish waters, should be the only thing on the minds of lo- more responsive this year when it cal shell fishermen last week. comes lo opening waters. He said Several people asked if the the department has six new em three-inch minimum size on oys- ployces. L. Bookworm Causeway Plaza ? Holden Beach ? 842 7380 SUN THURS 106, FRI & SAT 10-9 At Last! At Last! The turtle book has arrived-in limited quantity. "The Sea Turtle: So Excellent a Fishe" 1 by Archie Carr University ol Texas Press $9.95 Get them while they lastlll =wmm.= GIFT SHOP We carry Sugar-Free Items Candies ? Jellies Chocolates CAUSEWAY PLAZA ? HOtDEN BEACH 842 5678 ? SUN THIJfiS 10 6! FR! 4 SAT 10 9 STAFF PHOTOS BY DOUG KUTTM JEANNINE GRISSOM-STEGALL was among a group of eight people from Raleigh who helped pick up litter at Ocean Isle Beach. Holden Cop Found Guilty Of Assault, Trespassina A Holdcn Bcach policc officcr was found guilty of simple assault and second-degree trespassing in Brunswick County District Court Tuesday. Patrolman Gary Dancy was found guilty of the two charges, which were filed in early August following an incident involving an other town employee, Building In spector Dwight Carroll. Dancy pleaded innocent to both charges in district court Tuesday. Judge William C. Gore Jr. found him guilty on both counts, accord ing to the clerk of court's officc. Gore sentenced the policc officcr to 30 days in Brunswick County Jail, which was suspended for one year, and one year of unsupervised probation. Under the conditions of the sen tence, Dancy is not allowed to as sault, harass, molest or make any communicating threats to Carroll or his wife for 12 months. Dancy also is not allowed to go on or about Carrolls* property without autho rized permission or a search war rant. The sentence also requires Dancy to attend Brunswick County Mental Health to see il he is mentally able to possess or use a firearm. Dancy has worked for the Holdcn Beach Police Department sincc July 1987. The charges have been consoli dated and the case was appealed to Brunswick County Superior Court, according to the clcrk's office. Dancy was charged following an Aug. 2 incident involving Carroll, who later took out a warrant for Dancy's arrest. The building inspec tor said in an earlier interview that the incident occurred around 3 a.m. at his home on Holden Beach. He had just returned from a store where he went to purchase a soft drink and pulled his car into his garage. Carroll said he closed the automatic garage door and when he got out of the car, Dancy was stand ing in the garage. Carroll said the officer was dres sed in uniform, had a hand on his gun and did not have a search war rant. He said he asked Dancy to leave several times, but he stayed in the garage for about 20 minutes. At one point, Carroll said, Dancy tried to hit him in the head with a clenched fist, but he ducked and took the blow on the shoulder. Dancy declined to commcnt on the incident at the time and said he wouldn't talk about it until it was settled in court. Earlier this year, Dancy was sus pended without pay from the police force for one week after he was in volved in a car accident that oc curred while he was on duty. The suspension was later rescinded and the officer was given his back pay. Cool Weather Is Expected The South Brunswick Islands should enjoy pleasant weather over the next few days with temperatures and rainfall expected to be below normal, according to ShalloUc Point meteorologist Jackson Canady. The outlook is for temperatures to range from around 60 degrees at night to 80 degrees during the day, with less than half an inch of rain. For the period Sept. 18-24, Canady measured 2/10 of an inch of rain. The temperature during the sev en-day period ranged from a maxi mum high of 89 degrees Sept. 22 to a minimum low of 49 degrees Sept. 24. Canady said the average daily high was 82 degrees and the aver age nightly low was 61 degrees. The average temperature during the period was 71 degrees, which is about normal for this time of year.
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