Letters To The Editor
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snouia make a choice between 20
30 foot high security lights and sea
turtles. I would hope, instead, they
make a choice to read and advertise
in a more responsible and fair news
paper.
Rick Bryan
Holdcn Bcach
Turtle Program Coordinator
To the editor:
1 want to go on record as being
opposed to the removal of the secu
rity lights on Holden Beach. This
was done without any consideration
of or input from the residents of the
island.
It is not loo late to reverse the de
cision.
Emily S. Frye
Holden Beach
and Blucfield, West Virginia
Flood Lights
Not The Answer
To the editor:
In the eight years we have lived
on IN" island of Holden Bcach there
have been many changes-some
good, some bad, some for a few
people and some for the benefit of
all.
I just can't believe that the major
ity of the people wanted a complete
black-out of the entire island. Why
was not some phase of lighting put
up before the security lights came
down?
Many of the names on the peti
tion against security lights are rental
property owners. Why would they
want to greet their visitors without
some sort of lighting?
Flood lights are not the answer.
Why not work together to beautify
Ocean Boulevard with street lights,
repaving, bike paths and some type
of shrubbery or plantings?
Holdcn Beach is a wonderful
place to live and we are lucky to be
a privileged few to live on an island
this close to the beautiful Atlantic
Ocean. My husband and I have been
through one war, in black-outs and
such and I'm not crazy about this
enforced one at my late stage in life.
Libby Simmons
Holden Beach
Not What, But
VV/io You Know
To the editor:
m 1 !', isLtime for answers for
me and all the senior citizens of
Bninswick County who signed the
petition requesting the commission
ers and county manager to replace
Ronnie Robinson as head of the
Department of Aging and put in a
more qualified person with a better
atutude and understanding of the
needs of the senior citizens of
Brunswick County.
It was a year ago that Mr. Rob
inson was a guest speaker at the
monthly meeting of the county Sen
ior Citizens Advisory Committee
stated J* W,ho he was
stated, I dont play the north
against the south, or the east against
the west. You don't come to me and
demand anything. You tell me what
you want and we will sit down at a
tab c and I will decide whether I
will help you or not."
Mr. Pinkerton (county commis
sioner) agreed that somebody needs
to change his attitude, and he said
fie would take care ot it Mr. Clegs
Promised actio?
after I delivered a list of questions
and statements from people who
hac called me from all over the
q2nsWanting a"SWerS to their
is yT ,ater lMr' R?binson
tell e.ni if6 a?d 80 far as 1 can
tejj, still selling insurance on the
I mailed copies of that letter to
three ocal papers, asking them to
keep it in their files in case of a bad
loss of memory. I am now giving
permission for them to publish this
era^irflh l? thank 1,16 comm'ssion
ers and the county manager for their
prompt action and understanding of
the situation.
It seems to be the case in Bruns
wick County that job security is "It
a-n^wta you know. bu,
Harold B. Watson
Long Beach
Pray Lottery
Will Not Pass
To the editor:
It seems our elected official has
finally come Up with the solution to
solve our financial woes in North
Carolina. The lottery is going to be
introduced as a savior; no more tax
increases, and the budget can be
balanced.
We are losing $40 million a year
to Virginia alone, it was stated.
I feel some more research should
be done in regard to this. The states
that do have lotteries still have
money problems, they still have
taxes, the elderly and those in need
have no more assistance, the monies
that were to come in to boost educa
tion are very little if any, and the
crime rate, if anything, is worse and
getting worse.
The official elected from our area
is going to introduce or help intro
duce this miracle bill. He is also the
one who brought up that great bill
to make the shag the state dance.
I for one cannot see how these
two bills, as well as a couple more,
have done anything to help the ma
jority of people in our area, or the
state of North Carolina. He was
elected to represent the majority of
people, not just a few. So if the lot
tery becomes a reality those who
want to participate will be able to
shag right down to the convenient
mart and buy all the tickets they
want.
With the rising cost of living, re
cession and tax increases, the peo
ple of North Carolina don't need
something else to take their money.
We need to turn our attention to
what the word of God teaches in
Matthew 6:25-34. Jesus spoke the
words that all need to hear.
Pray this bill will not become a
reality in the state of North Caro
lina.
William L. Chappeii
Ash
Postal Service:
Bad To Worse
To the editor:
Despite the recent healthy postal
rate hike, our postal system has
gone from bad to worse-deplorable!
I am not criticizing our local post
office or its personnel; they all are
innocently caught in the web of the
bureaucratic national postal delivery
dilemma. I am certain many others
feel the same as I.
Just some instances, personally:
It took a first-class, properly stamp
ed and addressed letter 18 days for
delivery from Calabash to a city in
New York state. Another occasion it
took a first-class letter nine days for
delivery from Conway, S. C. to a
point in N. Y. state. On another oc
casion a letter marked to a New
York state city from Conway, S. C.
never reached its destination and
was either lost, "dead-lettered" or
ended up in Alaska.
1 believe we deserve better, faster
ana accurate postal service for the
money we pay for this right.
I would suggest writing in protest
to you congressional representative
or Postmaster General in Washing
ton, but hesitate for fear your letters
would never reach them much be
fore Christmas-if ever.
We can just hope for return of the
pony express or overland stage
coach systems as they certainly
would be faster and more accurate
than the horrendous system we are
saddled with today.
Douglas R. Wildey
Carolina Shores Village
Shallotte
What Happened
To Delivery ?
To the editor
We have subscribed to your paper
for nearly two years and look for
ward to getting it each week. We
visit Brunswick County every year
and have for years, so we do have a
great interest in the area.
When we started getting the pa
per, it would arrive by mail on Sat
urday most of the time, or occasion
ally on Monday. Now we are re
ceiving two papers together, a week
later, and this week the Feb. 7 paper
came on Feb. 14. It i puzzling after
two years it arrived in a reasonable
time and now so late.
Would appreciate if you could
check into this matter for us and see
where the problem is. It is not so
nice reading the news a week or
more late.
Mrs. Neil D. Phipps
Arnold, Maryland
(Editor's note to Mrs. Phipps and
other subscribers who have written
to complain about inconsistent andl
or late mail delivery of the news
paper: We are continually contact
ing postal officials in Shallotte,
across North Carolina and all the
way to Washington, D. C. to beg for
better service. We will continue to
do so, but the only thing we are
able to guarantee is that your news
paper is delivered to the post office
in Shallotte on Wednesdays of the
week of publication, in time for all
deadlines to leave that day for ovl
of-town addresses. We have not
missed that deadline in more than a
decade. As a matter of fact, our
pressman addresses himself a news
paper each week to his post office
box in Shallotte so that he can
check the quality of printing on a
randomly-selected paper. He failed
to receive a copy last week, despite
the fact that we sent it to the post
office in a bundle of papers se
quenced to make distribution easier.
We will continue to make every ef
fort to get belter service, but we
have to, unfortunately, rely on the
United States Postal Service.)
PHOTO ?Y BILL FAVtR
THE OCEAN is the beginning and end of land and rain and winds and life .
?
The Beginnng And The End
BY BILL FAVER
There is a real sense in which everything begins
and ends in the sea. The land rose
up out of the sea when plates col
lided or volcanic pressure pushed
it up. The constant siltation of
sand and stones down rivers and
into the sea return land to the wa
ter. The erosion we experience at
the beaches seems to be the sea
biting off some land to return it to
its origin.
The rains that fall on the land
come from moisture pulled from
the sea by the sun. The moisture forms in clouds, con
denses as it cools and returns to the sea by falling on
the land, forming in streams and rivers and finally,
moving back to the sea from which it came.
The winds move in response to the sea and storms
form because of pressures and currents and gravita
tional pulls all lied to the sea.
If we believe what some of the scientists tell us,
mammals began in the sea and one day some ancient
creature crawled out on the land to bask in the sun
shine. As the years passed, this pioneering creature
stayed out of water for longer periods of lime until it
could live on land as well as in ihe water. Its gills.
FAVER
used to obtain oxygen from water, evolved into lungs
capable of gciting that oxygen from the air. Many
people believe man's development is tied to this same
sequence and that this in part explains man's love of
and dependence upon the sea.
Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring, writes in
another book:
"The sea lies all around us. The commerce of all
lands must cross it. The very winds that move over
the lands have been cradled on its broad expanse and
seek ever to return to it. The continents themselves
dissolve and pass to the sea, in grain after grain of
eroded land. So the rains that rose from it return again
in rivers. In its mysterious past it encompasses all the
dim origins of life and receives in the end, after, it
may be, many transmutations, the dead husks of that
same life. For all at last returns to the sea-to Ocean us,
the ocean river, like the everflowing stream of life, the
beginning and the end.
This ever-changing sea is deep within each of us,
tied to the rhythms of seasons and life. It is in our his
tory somewhere, no matter where we live. It touches
our lives in many ways and constandy reminds us to
put ourselves in perspective when we feel loo power
ful or too important. It brings us the joys of beauty
and happiness. It is the beginning and end in many,
many ways.
Parent Conferences Tonight
At South Brunswick Schools
Faculty members al Soulh Bruns
wick Middle and Soulh Brunswick
High schools will work an extended
schedule today (Thursday) so that
they can meet with parents from
3:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
The evening conference schedule
is intended u> help parents whose
work hours conflict with regular
school day conference hours, said
Bob Rhyne, principal of Soulh
Brunswick Middle School. Parents
may contact either school to set up
an appointment with any teacher
they would like to have a confer
ence with.
"We have a number of students
who are borderline and we really
would like to talk with some of their
parenis," said Rhyne. "We can't do
it alone; we've got to have parental
support"
TTie school telephone numbers
arc South Brunswick Middle, 845
2771; and Soulh Brunswick High,
845-2649.
Both schools will be closcd Fri
day.
Visitors Aid Study
Third grade students at Union
Primary School have been studying
local government and how it works.
Several recent classroom visitors
have added to the students' under
standing by talking their roles in lo
cal government, indicated school
spokesman Sue Chapman.
These include Sarah Tripp, mayor
of Shallotte; Ada McDonald, a Var
namtown alderman; Tom Simmons,
a Boiling Spring Lakes councilman;
13th District Judge Napolean Bare
foot; and his wife, Kelly Barefoot,
secretary to David Clegg, county
manager/attorney.
Winnabow VFD
To Sell Barbecue
Winnabow Volunteer Fire Dc
partment will serve barbecue din
ncrs Saturday, March 2, from 1 1
a.m. until 5 p.m. at the fire station
said spokesman Ralph Frazicr.
Plates costing S3 each will in
clude pork barbccuc, potato sala 1
cole slaw and hush puppies.
The fire department is loeated on
Governor's Road off U.S. 17 in
Winnabow.
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