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MORELETTERs Wear Your Red Ribbon lo the editor: Who will win the war on drugs"' Wc would hkc to say that wc will. tic KgUyS- But ycl' how rcalis t,c is the picture? Are our kids armed enough to fight against sub stance abuse? Nowadays there are many efforts through various orga ni/auons which arc pulling together to wage the war on drugs. One or these such organizations that knows to reach out to young people is the Girl Scouts, an organi /.ation that is building an impressive campaign against addictivc sub stance. In 1985. the Girl Scouts took an important first step in drug education with their Tune Into Well *,n8 S(,y No To DruKS contem porary program issues. In 198.8 the Girl Scouts launched an important initiative. Called Fight Drugs, this initiative offered Girl Scouts the op portunity to take an active role in this battle. Figh' Dr"gs initiative fo cused on its youngest members. Browmes ages 6-8. to prevent drug and alcohol use and to empower young people everywhere to ask for help when confronted with pressure S,.?" I]ccrs an(l the socicty in h ch they live. As one out of Tour Icout lhr? ,S 3 BrOWnic G'rl Stout, the message impacts on Daisy and Brownie Girl Scouts which number more than a million g'rIs ,arc !cadcrs and role models in their communities be cause they arc reaching out to their peers to prevent substance abuse For more than 78 years. Girl Scouting has provided a supportive environment?an environment that enables girls to develop their poten tial. Today various programs that focus on alcohol, drug and tobacco abuse prevention arc emphasizing strategies familiar to the Girl Scouts: increasing self-esteem and achievement, development of prob lem-solving and decision-making h,viS',Kmanmg Surc ^ children have the all-important coping skills in place?before they arc needed and encouraging active cooperation between schools, families and com munities. It is time for us all to rccognizc the leadership position that Girl scouts is taking in this deadly battle - to support the Girl Scouts in this nauonwidc campaign. Girl Scouts arc joining with government groups schools, parents, media and now the national Red Ribbon Week cam paign for an enormous effort to end this horrifying threat to our youth Working together wc can curb the UC!T!2nd ^ InnK/xi . j ... drugs. Children's*livcs ^hang'g in uic balance. Wc must not fail them. 97D"ri"8 week of Octobcr 21 27. Red Ribbon Week, wc encour age you to wear your Red Ribbons in support of drug free America. The Girl Scout Council of Coastal Carolina, Inc. serves 13,000 girls and adults in 25 Eastern North Carolina counties and is a United Way Agency. Vickie Poole Shallotte Great Role Model To the editor: In the educational field through out Southeastern North Carolina, P. R. Hankins Jr.'s record speaks for itself. Me has been a great asset to the school system, the community, and is a great role model for our young girls and boys. Here's hoping his tenure as su perintendent of Brunswick County schools will be his greatest endeav or. Kenneth Bellamy Southport Flowers Are Beautiful To the editor: I would like for you to observe the beautiful flowers the Bobby WiHitVnson fsmi!y h?s in front of their business in mid-town Shallotte. They have been there since early spring and are still beau tiful. Thanks to mem for making Shai lotlc more beautiful and I sincerely hope others will do the same in 1991, making Shallouc the most beautiful town in Brunswick County. Ouida lie we it Shallouc !5 Calls' For $20 Per Month! Can You Atlord NOT To Have An Answering Service? KOALA-T Business Service 754-5858 ? ? / PHOTO BY BILL FAVH BIRDWATCHERS joined other sports enthusiasts in spending billions of dollars on their interest last year. The Economics Of Birdwatching BY BILL KAVKR Have you ever noticed how almost every sport and outdoor activity has developed its own uniform? We cxpcct to see football, basketball, and baseball players in their uniforms. We cxpcct hunters to wear the colors that will conceal them and at the same time alert other hunters to their presence. Bicyclers, surfers, fishermen, sailors and a host of others have been prompted by the fashion promoters to wear cer tain clothing if they cxpcct to be taken seriously about their sport. Birdwatchers or "birders" (some prefer that name) arc no exception. Actually all you really need to be a birdwatcher is an inquiring mind and some patience mixed in with a little curiosity A bird guide will certainly help and a good pair of binoculars will help you see the birds that arc farther away. Sometimes a spotting scope will bring in the birds you can't get near. For la/.y folks, loo. such a scope will make it possible to scan the beach or the waterway to sec if the fall migrants have arrived as they head south. TTicsc may be the basics. But birders have accu mulated all kinds of "helps." We have books of all kinds, arranged in various ways, to help us identify both birds and habitats, or "where to look." Wc have hats with emblems and camouflaged clothing with pockcts for every kind of gadget. Wc have tapes play ing calls to bring the birds to us and videotapes for learning about birds after wc see them. We even have preferred 4-whecl drive vehicles which class us as se rious (and also affluent) students of birds. Then there arc all the backyard birding items-feeders, heated wa tering stations, suet bags, squirrel-proof poles, natural planting guides and materials. Recently the magazine, American Birds, published an article based on a survey of one thousand active birders and their spending habits. These folks were participants in the Audubon Christmas Bird Count, so they may be more serious than some of the 61 million birdwatchers in our country. The survey found travel for the purpose of birding came to 27(H) miles a year for each birdwatcher. In addition, each birder sur veyed spent an average $1852 per year for travel, ac commodations, and products. The authors concluded the participants in the 1989 bird count spent S79.6 million. If we apply the same rates for the total bird ing population, wc can estimate birdwatchers con tributed some SI 12 billion dollars to the economy last year. Not bad! i Chamber Treats Volunteers PHOTO CONTIIBUTID Katherine Fisher (from left), Glenn Humbert and Terry liarbee chat at the South Brunswick Islands Chamber of Commerce annual Volunteer Appreciation Day, hosted recently by Village Pines Office Park in Shallotte. More than 100 persons who assisted the chamber during the past year attended. r Boat Tips Off Lockwood Folly Rough seas causcd a small boat inlet but the current pushed them to capsize off Lockwood Folly Inlet out into the breakers, where the boat last Wednesday, sending one man to capsized. the hospital where he was treated Shortly after the two Coast Guard for exposure. boats arrived, Blocker said a third The U.S. Coast Guard station at boat was sent It was a 44-footer Oak Island dispatched three boats to built to handle rough seas. Before the inlet, but the two men who were that boat arrived, however, the two in the 15-foot johnboat when it men had made it to the beach, overturned made it to shore on their "We didn't have to make the res own, said Petty Officcr 2nd Class cue," Blocker said. Thankfully, cv Jeff Blocker. erybody made it to the shore OK." A woman called the guard station The two men got out of the water at 5:39 p.m. last Wednesday and at the east end of Holdcn Beach said it appeared that a boat in the in- shortly after 7 p.m. 'They were able let was taking on water. Seas in the to swim and the waves pushed them inlet were about eight feet high, and onto the beach," Blocker said, the breakers were 10 to 12 feet One of the two men was taken to Blocker said a 41-foot Coast The Brunswick Hospital in Supply Guard boat was on its way to the in- where he treated for mild hypother lct two or three minutes after the mia and released. call, and a 19-foot rescue boat was Blocker said he wasn't able to get dispatched a few minutes later. the names of the boaters and didn't The two men in the boat were ap- know whether or not they were fish parently hanging onto a buoy in the ing in the inlet. 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