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BRUNSWICK COUN 1 1 PLANNING OkPT MAP VOTERS WILL decide in November if the redisricting plan Hrunswick County Commissioners chose Monday is the one residents want. This map shorn the new districts and their populations as determined by the Itrunswick County Planning Department. Redistricting Choice Offers Fewest Changes (Continued From Page 1 -A ) Each district will contain about 10. 147 residents. When commis sioners drew district lines in August 19X3. each contained approximately 7.2(H) residents. In Brunswick County, while can didates run from and represent the district in which they reside, they are elected by voters countywide. The districts are the same lor both commissioners and the Brunswick County Board of Education. Both boards have live members, one from each district. Holdcn polled commissioners Monday to determine which plan members favored. All but District 5 Commissioner Donald Shaw picked the first plan. Shaw had asked for Plan 2, but conceded to make the vote unanimous. "I had 1" think about it," added Shaw District i Commissioner Gene Pinkerton said Ihc plan chosen "rep resents the least amount ol people moved and geographical changes" than the other lour plans submitted by Planning Director John Harvey. "1 think Plan 4 was very interest ing," said Holden. That plan would have grouped all of the county's beaches into one district. Iron i Caswell Beach to Sunset Beach. The plan residents will vote on Nov. 5 are structured as follows: District I: Represented by Kelly Holden, ID. 152 residents, includes Ocean Isle Beach, Sunset Beach and areas south ol N.C. 130 to the Columbus County line and east of N.C. I7l> to Bricklanding; District 2: Represented by Jerry Jones. 10,237 residents, includes Shallolic, lloldcn Beach and all ar c;ls south of N.C. 211 to N.C. 130, south of Ml. Pisgah Road and S (anbury Road to the Lock wood Folly Inlet; this district will pick up Ex um and part of Ash in southwest ern Brunswick: District 3: Represented by Gene Pinkerton, 10,168 residents, in cludcs Southport, Oak Island, Vamumtown and areas east ot N.C. 211 from Supply, areas south of Town Creek on N.C. 133 and bor dered by Funston Road (S.R. 1 5 1 X ) and a transportation railroad line on the east: District 4: Represented by I- rankie Rabon, 10,251 residents, in cludes areas cast of N.C. 211 and north of Town Creek to Jackcy's Creek on N.C. 133, south of Old Town Creek Road (S.K. 1413) and part ol N C. X/ in Winnabow. District 5: Represented hy Donald Shaw. 10,117 residents, in cludes Leland, Hclvillc and the Malmo coininunities, north ol Jackey's Cieek on N.C. 133, all ol Northwest 'lownship. Commissioners must have infor mation to the Brunswick County Hoard ol I. lections office by Oct. I to Ik* placed on the November bal lot, said Clegg. Molden saitl commissioners will discuss other non-binding topics to possibly add to the referendum at the next meeting. The board may use the referendum to see what county voters think of non-partisan elections, county zoning and other issues. Holden Beach Surf Claims Another Victim (Continued From Page 1-A) water any time they want to." Logan said the big breakers re stricted the water rescue team search area in the surf boat. "It was extremely lough for them to run close in." The emergency management co ordinator said he called in the water rescue team as soon as he was noti fied of the possible drowning. The surf boat was on the scene about 30 minutes later. The drowning occurred in the same area as a July 4 drowning which claimed the life of a 12-year old boy from Knightdale. Jaremas Barnes was riding a rail with his cousin and foster brother when he was knocked off by a wave and drowned in the surf near the HKKt block of Occan Boulevard West. 'I he ocean was extremely rough that clay. "It was almost in the same place as the little boy was in," Logan said of Sunday's drowning. "1 don't know if we've got a bad rip tide or what we've got there." Sgt. Carl Pearson with the Brunswick County Sheriff's Department, who has piloted the county plane during each of the last two searches, said he spoiled a rip tide there Monday. Rip tides are strong, usually nar row, surface currents that How out from the beach. They are caused by the return How of waves and wind driven water. Pearson said a sandbar located about MX) leet oil the beach where 1 HOW TO SUBSCRIBE TO THE BRUNSWICK{)BEACON POST OFFICE BOX 2558 | SHALLOTTE . NORTH CAROLINA 28459 I NOTICE: Reliable or consistent delivery cannot be guaranteed since this newspaper must rely on the U.S. Postal Service tor delivery. We can only guarantee that your newspaper will be submitted to the post office In Shallotte on Wednesday of the week of publication, in time for dispatch to out-of-town addresses thatjlay. ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION RATES BY MAIL: Sr. Citizen In Brunswick County j6 30 J5 30 N C Sales Tax 38 32 Postage Charge 3 68 3 68 TOTAL 10.36 9.30 Elsewhere In North Carolina J6 30 J5 30 N.C. Sales Tax .38 32 Postage Charge 8.18 8.18 TOTAL 14.86 13.80 Outside North Carolina _i6 30 J5 30 Postage Charge 9 65 9 65 TOTAL 15.95 14.95 Complete And Return To Above Address Name Address City. State Zip the last two drownings have oc curred appears to create a rip tide under certain conditions. He said most people who visit the beach aren't cautious about hazards such as rip tides. "They don't un derstand the force of the water." Pearson, a certified diver who heads up llie county dive team, said the easiest way to get out of a rip tide is to swim parallel to the beach. "If you try to fight against that rip, it will draw you under and leave you there," he said. Besides the Gateau and Barnes drownings, three Greensboro men drowned off Holden Beach in late May when a fishing boat sank. Holden Beach is organizing its own water rescue unit in response to the live recent drownings. Town commissioners voted earli er dus month to purchase aboul $11, (XX) in water rescue equipment, including a surf boat, and pay lor training ami operating costs lor a water rescue team. A group of 10 area residents will Ik qualified to use the equipment alter completing a water rescue course in late September. Logan said Monday that the county beaches also need some type of warning system to let residents and visitors know about dangerous ocean conditions. Guards On Duty Long Beach lifeguards will no longer be on duty after Sept. 2, die town h;ts announced. Lifeguards will complete die summer schedule as follows: from Wednesday, Aug. 2K, to Monday, Sept. 2, from l) a.m. to 5 p.m. They will not be on duty Monday, Aug. 26, or Tuesday, Aug. EVACUATION. SHELTERS WEREN'T NEEDED County Sighs In Relief As Bob Turns North II Y TKKRY I'OI'K Back at their desks Monday morning, county officials were breathing a sigh of relief after Hurricane Bob tracked northward away from the Carolinas. "It was g?H>d to us," said Brcnda Freeman of the Brunswick County Emergency Management office. Hie county opened its Emerg ency Operations Center at the gov ernment complex in Bolivia around l):30 a. in. Saturday as officials be gan monitoring the storm as it head ed northeast, gained strength and picked up speed over the Atlantic. Emergency workers did not go home until 31 hours later, around 4:30 p.m. Sunday, alter the eye of the storm had passed about 125 miles east ol the Brunswick County coastline. Saturday was a busy day for va cationers checking into collages on Brunswick County's beaches. They and their relatives back in their home suites were calling the Emergency Management office as well as local rental agencies for liur ricanc information. "The phones were popping," said Ms. Freeman. "Some of them, their voices were breaking. They were scared to death." One caller asked Ms. Freeman, "How can you be so calm at a time like this?" The caller said a national cable news network had just aired a report that tens of thousands of va cationers were evacuating the North Carolina coast. "A lot of calls were from people out of suite who knew they had family coming down lor the week end," said Ms. Freeman. "When the news people started giving that in formation out, I think a lot ol peo plc panicked." The sioim was big news in Winston Salcin lor those attending tlic annual N.C. Association of County Commissioners* conven tion. Brunswick County Commission ers IJonald Shaw, Kelly Holdcn and Gene Pinkcrton were tlierc along with County Manager David Clcgg. The N.C. Department of Crime Control and Public Safety set up a command |>osi at the convention to keep commissioners of coastal counties informed ol what was hap pening back at home, said Clcgg. At 5:30 p.m. Saturday, Clcgg and Pinkcrton decided to return to Brunswick County. "I just thought it was important to have a quorum of the board here to function il nccessary," said Clcgg. As they headed cast on Interstate 40, Bob was upgraded to hurricane status. But the 6 p.m. storm c<x>rdi nates were good news for Cecil Logan, Brunswick County Emerg ency Management coordinator. " Hie way it looks right now, un less I sec something different, we may not shelter," said Logan. The storm began shilling north at about 9 mph. It had been moving northeast toward Brunswick County. "II it stays on the same track, we'll get mostly rain," said Logan. Shelter attendants. Red Cross volunteers and emergency fire and rcscuc volunteers stood on alert in case an evacuation was ordered. However no shelters were opened. It was only a close call. Vacationers who had driven hours to reach the beach arrived un der a hurricane warning and a torna do watch. Family members back at home were calling trying to locate them. "People were wanting to know where the shelteis were," said Ms. Freeman. "It was sad." Beaches Escape Damage From Passing Hurricane (Continued From I'age 1-A) Hurricanc Boh didn't cause any erosion or other problems at Sunset Heath, which usually weathers storms better than most beaches be cause of its wide strand. "We just followed our little hurri cane plan and it went away," said Town Administrator Linda F-luegel. Brunswick County Emergency Management Coordinator Cecil Logan estimated Saturday that the occupancy levels at area beaches was SO percent or higher. Despite the threat, most vacationers decided to stick it out. Randy Beach of Salt Lake City, who was visiting Sunset Beach with his family, said Saturday that the prospect of cloudy skies and rain didn't bother him. "We listened to Ihc news frequently and figured llicy would call us il ihcrc was a problem " 'Hie N.I'. Division ol f-mergency Management issued a news release Saturday recommending, as a pre caution. that people not visit the coast over the weekend. Bob was siill a tropical storm at the tune. "With the unpredictable nature of this storm, it is [teller to be safe than sorry," said Joe Myers, the state's emergency management director. Local sutlers apparently weren't too worried about their safety Sunday, when waves lopped out at 12 feel. More than 20 surfers were drawn lo the waves near Holdcn Beach Fishing Pier, and al least three had their boards snapped by the pound ing surf. Weather Data Was 'Normal' Despite Hurricane Bob Hurricane Bob notwithstanding, the South Brunswick Islands saw an "exactly normal" week in terms of temperature averages Aug. 13 through 19. "Everything was exactly normal, with the exact normal high and ex act normal low," said Jackson Canady, a Shallowe Point meteorol ogist. "We don't get dial very of ten." He recorded a maximum high of 91 degrees on the 19th and a mini mum low of 68 degrees on die 16di. A daily average high of 89 de grees combined wilh a nightly aver age low of 71 degrees lor an aver age daily temperature of 80 degrees. For the same period, he recorded 1 .06 inches of rainfall. Over the next few days, Canady said area residents can expect both precipitation and temperatures to be near normal. Temperatures should average from the lower 70s at night into the upper 80s during the daytime, with aixnit three quarters inch of rainfall. THE MITCHELL Sunday. The storm STAff PHOTO BY DOUG ?UTTf? HOUSE at 232 Hillside Drive, lloUlen tteach, was leaning Inward the ocean before Hurricane Hob passed offshore caused some minor erosion near the east end of the island where this cottage is located.
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