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-IMan. JL BEACON FIU PHOTO , / ()\A R I) ('< )\irTOt\ of Martinsville, Va., didn't let continuing erosion near the east end of II olden Heaeh Lttp him from enjoying his surffishing outing in early November. Brunswick County Opened CALABASH LEADERS took courtly and state officials on a tour of the show the need for dredging. First ABC Outlet In - BCACC Calabash River in August to BEACON FILE PHOTO August (Continual from Fagc 1-A) (."oqi .it the Lcland Industrial Park. . cased in Bmnsw ick Community College. the building will house i. ,i-.ses and serve as a training cen ter tor new and expanding indus tries. W hile voter approval wasn't nec essary to establish the building pro "am. property owners will f<xM the tax hiil for the projects. along with the da\-fo*day cost of operations. A pruposed 12-cent tax increase on property valuation sent more than 300 residents c reaming lor re bel at a public hearing in June. 1! we keep going, we'll he the biggest industry in the county," warned Commissioner Frankie Ra bon on the county's S35.K million tnidgei. Commissioners chopped away VVK).(HK). holding to a "-oeru in re.ise per Sl(X) of valuauon. Tapping another source of rev enues. BrutiNW ick County opened t>> hrst ABC outlet in August in a leased building on Holdcn Beach R.uid. It was the iirst project of the county's new ABC Board, chaired ;n Joyce Vereen of Long Beach. The site was chosen after an ear lier attempt to merge w ith a munici pal ABC Kurd failed, dashing any hope of establishing services before the start of the tourist season. Voters had approved countvwide alcoholic beverage sales in a So mber 1989 referendum, opening t;.c door for on-prcmise beer, wine nixeJ drink sales in both incor l> MU-d and unincorporated areas of Brunswick County. The vote gave isiness owners in unincorporated areas one less reason for seeking annexation. ?\ lltxKl ol permit applications mkiii followed. Fears that the area w> ild ? its family atmosphere ied commissioners to ban adult Jubs and cabarets in the uniniorp?v rated sections of the county. In other departmental changes, interim head of Building Inspec tions JuIuin "Buddy" Lewis resign ed in August amid an investigation by the district attorney's office. He was indicted in October for cm he/ /lenient of county funds. Robert Tucker was hired in January as county engineer, a position that had not been funded for two years. Tucker had the task of rallying residents toward a permanent recy cling program and. on state man dates. limiting the amount of soliil wastes rapidly filling up the county landfill m Supply Another six years was ordered for the landfill while the county came to terms with George Bush, not the President, but a Florence. S.C.. businessman who set up recycling trailers at six sites in the county that had been initiated ami stalled by community volun teers. Water: Ton l.ittle. Too Much Water as well as recycling brought county leaders into continu ing contact with local town offi cials. w ho wanted decisions, but got mostly discussion much of the year. Sunset Beach officials approach ed commissioners in April support ing plans of a S5 million capital im provement project for the county water system which would route a new main water line to areas south of Shallottc for future development. The Utility Operations Board con tinued to feed subdivisions off the main lines already in place through Special Assessment Districts, with SAD 12 as the largest projcct ap proved by the county thus far. It in cludes 10 subdivisions between Ocean Isle and Calabash. Shouts of, "Let it rain!" flowed from the crowd at a public hearing on SAD 12 in September. Public Utilities Director J errs Webb was also handed a S20,(XK) re port in November from Daniels and Associates in Cary which suggests luiure water expansion projects for the county until the year 2010. The first phase it outlines is a S3.8 mil lion protect to pump more water to southern Brunswick County. Getting rid ol water is what some Carolina Shores residents wanted and cot w hen the county matched a state grant and began clearing the more than 14 miles of clogged canals in the CawCaw drainage dis trict A downpour in October result ed m no Hooding to the areas al ready drained by the canals which had not been maintained for many years, llie canals carry stormwater runoll from Calabash and Long wood developments to the Wacca maw River. Resources Development Director Michael de Sherbinin resigned in February and was replaced by Thomas Monks, who watched ea gerly in November as a state engi neering firm began an Environment al Impact Statement on the proposed Nonhcr Outer Loop, an 1-40 bypass of Wilmington that would route traf fic through northern Brunswick County, possibly through the middle of the Lcland Industrial Park, which would help Monks bring more in dustry to the area. N;imed to the steering committee overseeing the Loop was Planning Director John Harvey, who also tried to convince the U.S. Census Bureau that their 1990 census count was short by about 5,0(X) people for Brunswick County. Among the plan ners' concerns were new septic tank rules adopted by the state that in creased the (xkls ol local lots receiv ing permits for septic tanks, thus making lots once thought undevel opable more valuable to landowners. Towns Push For Improvement Nowhere was strong leadership more evident than in Calabash, where town commissioners and planning board members blocked out the community's clash of cul tures and worked toward improve ment of the town as a whole. As a result of the merger of the old town and the Carolina Shores residential golf community in Aug ust 1989, Calabash started the year with an inexperienced town board made up of members representing the town's two distinct districts. The board set an ambitious agen da, including new zoning ordinanc es, Calabash River dredging and a request to square off town bound aries through state legislation. In August, Calabash leaders sought help from county and state officials in reaching their goals. Some of the projects started this year should lie wrapped up in 1991, while others will take years to complete. The progress made in Calabash didn't come without occasional un rest. Town officials engaged in sev eral heated debates in the spring over the method of trash pickup. Some businessmen criticized the town for its enforcement of the sign ordinance. In another waterfront community, Varnamtown, officials dealt with a move to unincorporatc the town at the start of the year, but at year's end were moving into the communi ty's first lown hall. More than 125 people signed a petition seeking to unincorporatc the town that formed in September BEACON FILE PHOTO RUDY SIMMONS Has one of the leading players in a move to unincorporate the Town of Varnamtown in the early part of 1990. 1988. Rudy Simmons, a leader of the unincorporation effort, said the fear of cscalaling taxes was a major reason for the petition. Petitioners and Vamamtown offi cials talked over their differences during a town meeting in March; the unincorporation effort did not resurface in 1990. In October, town officials bought a house and lot on Vamamtown Road with plans to convert it into a town hall. Aldermen held their first meet ing at the town hall in December, af ter more than two years of meeting in the community's churchcs. Down the road at Holden Bcach, annexation of the mainland cause way and the lasting effects of Hurri canc Hugo, both holdovers from 1989. were the biggest issues of 1990. The matter of annexation was de cided in February, when town com missioners voted 4-1 to rescind an ordinance that would have brought about 67 acres of mainland property into the town limits. A previous town board had adopted the annexa tion ordinance in the summer of 1989, and the annexation would have taken effect hist June. By over turning the ordinance, four commis sioners made gwxl on campaign promises that helped them get elect ed in 1989. 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