Chamber Board Members,
Volunteers Are On The Go
l?Y 1IOI.LY RICHARDS, KXKCUTIVK VICK I'KKSIDKNT
South llrimsw ii k Islands Chiiinhcr Of Commerce
Here we go again, yes the chamber is oil to the capital city twice hi
two weeks. Last week Annette Odom, Terry Barbcc, Allan Dameron and
yours truly attended North Carolina's Travel and
Tourism mid-year marketing update. I went to
Raleigh a day early to attend a workshop on
Organizing Events for Fun and Profit. For my three
cohorts who are pros at putting on events, I think
that they probably could have taught the course. As
for me, the Oyster Festival rookie, the workshop
was extremely entertaining and informative.
Personally, I was pleased that three of our chamber's
volunteers attended this workshop that is so impor
tant to the economy of the South Brunswick Islands. ? ? -
This week I'll be attending the 1991 Public RK hards
Policy Forum ? Driving North Carolina's Highways. Annette Odom,
Terry Barbcc and Jody Simmons will also attend. litis is sponsored by
North Carolina State University's Emerging Issues Forum. It is quite an
honor to be invited to attend this forum, as it brings together mature
thinkers from both the public and private sectors to focus on crucial is
sues... to question, to probe, to test ideas, and then to translate those ideas
into actions that will help shape the future of our state and nation. Sound
heavy? It is!
The speakers are drawn from the ranks of the state's leading deci
sion-makers and analysts. They direct corporations, institutions and gov
ernments. What sets them apart is their forward-thinking approach. That
is why your chamber was invited to attend this forum. What sets us apart
is our forward-thinking approach. Better translated to movin* and
shakin.'
Also this week I'll be in Wilmington for the North Carolina Citizens
for Business and Industry's (NCCBI) area meeting. Board members
David Batten, Percy Woodard and Ed Jones will be attending with me.
NCCBI is conducting six regional meetings across the state and will be
addressing several important legislative, economic and educational is
sues during this meeting.
Again, I'm pleased to see that our board members arc interested in
several important affairs that affect the South Brunswick Islands as well
as our state.
Something else that is important to our area is the South Brunswick
Islands Visitors Guide. Our Visitors Guide is the most important adver
tising tool that you can have. We're printing 60,(XX) guides this year.
When attending shows, meetings, etc., we always have Visitors Guides
in hand to give out. Not to mention that we send them to all inquirers,
AAA, welcome centers, travel agencies, airports, convention and visi
tors bureaus and have them in all members establishments.
ON A BRIGHTER OUTLOOK
County Construction Activity
Grows During September
Conslruciion activity increased
during September, with the Bruns
wick County Building Inspection
Department issuing permits for con
struction valued at more than SI. 8
million.
Permits were issued for construc
tion valued at SI, 839 ,800, com
pared to S 1 ,09 1 ,456 during August.
Legal Notices
ESTATE NOTICE
The undersigned having qualified as Exe
culor of the Hstalc of Doris I.. Barton, de
ceased, late of Brunswick County, ihis is to
notify all persons having claims against said
estate to present them to the undersigned on
or before the 1 9th day of March, 1992, or
this notice will he pleaded in bar of their re
covery. All persons indebted to said estate
will please make immediate payment to the
undersigned.
This the 11th day of September, 1991.
I.arry Branch. Executor of the
Estate of IXiris L. Harton
P.O. Box t>23
Shallotte, NC 2X459
Oct. 10 pd.
Building inspectors issued 320
permits lasi month, up from 305 in
August, according to the monthly
permit report. Of those permits for
September, 148 were building, 120
electrical, 11 plumbing and 41 me
chanical.
Seventeen permits were issued
for single-family home construction
valued at SI, 07 1,586, six permits
for commercial projects valued ai
S478.126. Also, 63 mobile home
permiLs were issued.
Other permits recorded included
these: remodeling, two; additions,
nine; garages, 10; decks/porches,
three; and and signs, two.
For the year to date the county
has issued 3, 109 permits, including
1 19 for single-family homes valued
at S7.7 million and 43 commercial
permits for projects valued at S9.4
million.
The year-to-datc total valuation
of new construction in Brunswick
County is S19.6 million.
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BUSINESS BRIFFS
Small Business Seminars Offered During
Month Of October
Small business seminars on com
puterised accounting and legal is
sues will be offered during October
by the Brunswick Community Col
lege Small Business Center.
On Oct. 17, computer consultant
Rachcl C. Dodge will discuss ac
counting software used by small- to
mcdiuin-si/.cd businesses for tasks
ranging from ledger-keeping to in
ventory control, with computer
demonstrations.
An Oct. 29 seminar will focus on
legal issues and trends at let ting
small businesses in the 1990s, in
cluding the role and impact of gov
ernment regulation. Specifically,
Tim Whitener, a practitioner, con
sultant and training specialist, will
look at the Americans with Dis
abilities Act, Parental Leave, CO
BRA, EFiO/AMirmativc Action and
ATMC Planning New Services
Atlantic Telephone Membership
Corp. members will be able to
choose alternate long-distance car
riers by the end of 1992, President
Carol Dan ford announced during
the cooperative's annual meeting
last Friday night.
Presently AT&T is the only long
distance carrier available in the
ATMC service area.
Members enjoyed an evening of
homespun humor from keynote
speaker Wayne Atcs, along with
news of forthcoming services and
the past year's performance.
By 1992, caller II) and distinc
tive ring services will be available,
Mrs. Danford told members gath
ered in the West Brunswick High
School gymnasium. She also an
nounced that the FOX network will
be available in November to cable
subscribers.
Mrs. Danford noted improve
ments in customer service achcivcd
during the past year. Service repre
sentatives can now handle 947 in
coming customer assistance calls
each day without giving a busy or
hold signal.
Re-elected to the board of direc
tors by acclamation were Marion
Davis of Supply, District 5; Charles
Mills of Town Creek, District 7 and
PR. Hankins of Bolivia, at-large.
In his annual report. General
Manager Russell Price said the tele
phone operation showed growth of
5.6 percent last year and now reach
es 22.277 homes in the county.
PRELOW WIISOX Of SUP
PLY took home the $500
grand prize from ATMC's an
nual meeting Friday.
ATMC cablc television has 90
penetration in Brunswick County
homes where it is available, grow
ing by 1 1 .5 percent last year to
reach 7,744 homes.
Price said 1991 was the sixth
consecutive year in which ATMC
has not hail lo increase it> customer
rates, with no rale increase foreseen
for the future.
In the financial report, auditor J.
Michael Chandler CPA noted that
the cooperative spent and took in
S45,775,383 during ihe past year.
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Joins Sand Dollar
Doug Vogcl has joined Sand
Dollar Realty at Ocean Isle Beach
Beach as a part-time broker.
A former employee of United
Carolina Bank in Shallottc, the
Ocean Isle resident also serves as
volunteer youth minister with Shal
lottc Church of Christ. He is a tutor
with the Brunswick County Lite
racy Council and coaches soccer in
the Brunswick County Parks and
Recreation Department Youth
Soccer League.
Director Hired
Sea Trail Corporation has an
nounced the hiring of Deborah D.
Lennon as the first director of mar
keting for Sea Trail Plantation and
Golf Links at Sunset Bcach.
Ms. Lennon recently graduated
from Bryant College in Rhode
Island with a bachelor's degree in
business administration, specializ
ing in marketing and computers. At
Sea Trail she will coordinate adver
tising and marketing activities for
real estate, golf operations and ac
commodations.
Attends Medical Meet
Dr. Charles J. Savarcsc Jr. of
Shallottc attended the annual Scien
tific Assembly of the American
Academy of Family Physicians
(AAFP) Sept. 25-29 in Washington,
D.C.
He heard well-known speakers
disuiss the latest in health care top
ics and had an opportunity to attend
clinical seminars and visit scientific
and technical exhibits. Topics in
cluded asthma, environmental and
occupational hazards, posttraumatic
stress disorder, reimbursement and
socioeconomic issues, depression
and medical issues relating to the
Persian Gull War.
AAFP members must complete
1 5d hours of continuing study every
three years.
Set Safety Record
Employees at Carolina Power &
Light's Brunswick Nuclear Plant set
a salety record Saturday.
The approximately 130 employ
ees in the instrumentation and con
trol electrical maintenance safety
council topped the two million mark
in consecutive safe working hours,
said Kay Smith, CP&L spokesper
son.
This is the highest number of
continuous safe working hours ever
achieved by a group of employees
in the company's KO-plus year histo
ry. Huss Starkey, vice president at
the plant, praised the group's per
formance and dedication as an ex
ample to all CP&L workers.
CP&L safety councils are groups
of employees who work together
and meet regularly to discuss and
stress on-the-job safety.
The instrumentation and conttol
clcctrical maintenance safety coun
cil perform testing, calibrations and
repairs on all clcctrical equipment at
the plant.
"Hie last on-the-job injury record
ed by a member of this council hap
pened in May 19X4.
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