PAM DETRIE (foreground) helps lead "Doug's Angels" to the women's tug-of-war championship at
last year's Varnamtown Festival.
Town To Celebrate Third
Anniversary
Varnamtown celebrates its third
anniversary as an official town next
weekend with a fish fry, tug-of-war
and other activities at the communi
ty's annual festival.
The 1991 Varnamtown Festival
will be held Saturday and Sunday,
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Sept. 28 and 29, with most of the
activities taking placc at the town
hall property on Vamamtow \ Road.
The town board purchased the
converted house last October and
has been making improvements for
the past year. Refreshments will be
served at an open house that kicks
off the festival next Saturday at 10
a.m.
To prepare for the third annual af
fair, the Varnamtown Women's
Club is organizing a roadside
clcanup this Saturday starting at 9
a.m.
Varnamtown board member Ada
McDonald said trash bags can be
picked up at town hall. Volunteers
can leave full bags on the side of
the road for pickup.
The annual festival commemo
rates the founding of Varnamtown,
an historic community on the Lock
wood Folly River that incorporated
Sept. 20, 1988.
A fish fry is planned Saturday
from 11:30 to 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. to 6
p.m. Plates of fried fish, candied
yams, cole slaw and hush puppies
will sell for S3.50 each. Soft drinks
also will be available.
While the parade has been drop
ped from this year's festival, a
horseshoe competition for teens and
adults has been added to the lineup.
It is scheduled to begin Saturday at
3 p.m.
"I understand a lot of the men in
town are gelling all psyched up for
the horseshoe competition," Mrs.
McDonald said Monday. "And
some ladies arc getting excited loo."
The tug-of-war competition ? al
ways a crowd favorite ? is slated to
begin at 5 p.m. Saturday.
Oilier activities will include chil
dren's games, a poster contest and
cake auction. Organizers also ex
pect crafl booths and a hot dog ven
dor for those who don't eat fish.
Mrs. McDonald said some resi
dents are disappointed the parade
has been dropped from this year's
festival and people have already
volunteered to organize a parade in
1992.
The festival wraps up Sunday
with a gospel sing at Garland's Fish
House on the Lockwood Folly
River from 2 p.m. until 5 p.m.
For more information, call Tonya
RobbinsaiH42-93?t).
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A, Varnamtown Will Require
House Numbers By November
BY doik; rutter
Varnamtown residents have six
weeks before they'll be required to
display new numbers on their hous
es, but town officials want them to
drop by town hall Saturday to get
their assigned numbers.
Aldermen adopted a house num
bering ordinance Monday night pre
I sen ted by board member Ada
I McDonald, who over the last few
months has done much of the work
on street naming and house number
ing for the town.
Mrs. McDonald has been work
ing with county officials on naming
streets and numbering houses in
preparation for the county wide 911
emergency telephone system.
Once the 911 system takes effect,
street names and numbers should
help local Tire and rescue personnel
find houses easier than they do now.
Town officials want residents to
drop by town hall Saturday between
10 a.m. and noon or 2 p.m. and 4
p.m. to find oat their house num
bers.
Mrs. McDonald said people who
can't get to the town hall will be no
tified about their new street num
bers.
It will be up to the homeowner to
buy the numbers and display thein
in a "conspicuous place" on their
house by the first of November.
The ordinance says house num
bers must be at least five inches tall
and visible from the street
New buildings will be assigned a
number as they arc built. The town
board will have the authority to
change the numbers if it's ncccs
sary.
Mrs. McDonald said residents
w
shouldn't post numbers on their
mailbox or use their new address
until the town notifies them.
She said Monday there arc still
six residents who haven't been as
signed a new house number. The
names are on the town tax list, but
she doesn't know where they live.
Other Business
In other business Monday, alder
men:
?Voted to hire Trevor McDonald to
clean the town hall once a month, or
more often as needed. The vote fol
lowed a 20 minute executive ses
sion called to discuss the hiring.
Four people were considered for the
job.
?Agreed to transfer S7,(XX) from
the reserve fund into the buildings
and grounds fund. Mayor Pro Tcm
Ennis Swain said the transfer was
needed because some work that was
planned for last fiscal year wasn't
completed until this fiscal year.
?Postponed a decision on whether
to purchase a float in the Shallottc
Christmas Parade. Half of a float
costs $150 and a full float costs
S225. The town board has until
Nov. 1 5 to decidc.
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Threatened
Varnamtown Mayor Judy Gallo
way says town officials will be on
the lookout for area youths who
have apparently threatened to shool
out the town's new street lights.
The mayor said Monday that a
"reliable person" told her some
youngsters planned to shoot the
lights. Brunswick Electric Member
ship Corp. has installed about 70
lights in town in the last few weeks
at the town board's request.
"We're going to be on watch, and
if they are shot out their parents will
be held responsible," Mrs. Gallo
way said at Monday's town meet
ing. "We are aware, and we will be
watching."
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