SHALLOTTE POINT HEARING SET IAN 22
Winnabow
Water Project
Cut From Special
Assessment District List
HY TKRRY POI'K
As cxpcctcd Monday, the Bruns
wick County Utility Operations
Board voted to drop a project tluit
would have routed county water
lines into the Winnabow and Town
Creek communities.
But a plan approved by Bruns
wick County Commissioners Mon
day could make Shallottc Point one
giant Special Assessment District so
water will be made available to all
residents there.
That plan will go before a public
hearing Tuesday, Jan. 22, 7 p.m., in
the Public Assembly Building at the
Brunswick County Government
Center in Bolivia.
Water plans and requests, from
llie Northwest community to
Shallotte Point, seeped onto the two
hoards' agendas Monday.
Last week, emotions ran high as
two property owners died alter they
attended a public hearing held to
gather input on the Winnabow pro
ject.
John Edward Maggard, 55, of
Lcland died of a heart attack he suf
fered just minutes into the meeting.
Also, Elizabeth Irving, 70, of
Winnabow suffered an apparent
stroke and left the meeting early.
She was transported to lite Bruns
wick Hospital in Supply and later
died.
"My water table is dropping . We're
getting concerned ?R.C.Eaton,
Shallotte Point Resident
Aboul 2(X) people attended the
hearing where residents voted unani
mously against SAD 19 and the as
sessment method that had been pro
posed.
Residents said that although they
arc for county water, they were
against the high cost of running wa
ter lines into the mostly rural com
munities.
Point Outlined
Hie entire Point community will
be considered for a single SAD,
where residents will be assessed die
cost of installing water lines into
subdivisions and neighbortnxKls.
As part of the county's S7 million
capital improvements project, main
water distribution lines would be
routed to die Point community in
1992.
R.C. Eaton told commissioners
Monday that three more wells near
his Shallotte Point home went dry
iast week.
"My water table is dropping," he
said. "We're getting concerned."
County Engineer Robert Tucker
said plans being drawn tor bids arc
about XO percent complete. Jan. 27
is the target date for accepting bids,
said Tucker, with awarding some
time in February.
A map prepared by the UOB
shows the entire Shallottc Point
community as one large SAD ? bor
dered by the Shallottc city limits and
Village Point Estates on the north,
by the Shallottc River on the cast
and N.C. 179 on the west.
District 2 Commissioner Jerry
Jones said making the Point one
large SAD would get water to those
residents quicker.
Bid Awarded
Bryant Elcctric Co. of High Point
will install a portion of the S7 mil
lion main distribution water line to
Seaside.
Tucker told commissioners he
was "extremely pleased" with
Bryant's S2.2 million low bid. The
line will be placed along Brunswick
Elcctiic's casement diruugh
Shallottc and down U.S. 17 to
Grisscttown.
County Manager David Clcgg
said the entire project must be bid in
sections. He expects bids for another
scction, down N'.C. l>(>4 to Seaside,
to be lor the Dec. 16 meeting.
Other bids received lor the first
phase included: T.A. Loving, S2.6
million; R.H. Moore, S2.7 million,
HBS Contractors, S2.7 million; East
Coast Construction, S2.X million;
Wright and Lope/, S2.8 million;
Yates Construction Co., S2.9 mil
lion; Hall Contracting, S2.9 million;
Mark H. Johnson Inc., S3.0 million;
State Utility Construction, S3.0 mil
lion; Hobby Construction Co., S3. 2
million; Glover Construction Co.,
S3.4 million; and Herring Riven
bark, S4.1 million.
Commissioners gave Clcgg au
thority to negotiate for property,
based on fair market appraisals,
where an elevated storage tank and
pumping station arc planned.
Residents Concerned
A number of residents from
Jennifer Subdivision near Leland,
where emergency waier lines arc be
ing installed for residents with gaso
line contaminated wells, appeared at
the commissioners' meeting asking
for information.
"We've heard they're charging us
S6 per foot," said resident William
Holland.
A line routed from the Northwest
Water Treatment Plant on Ml.
Misery Road to the subdivision is a
capital improvements project, said
Tucker. However, the line running
into the subdivision will be an SAD,
with residents paying an assessment.
The state gave the county a
S2(),(X)0 grant to help pay for the
emergency water line.
Northwest resident Yvonne Bright
asked UOB members if they plan to
expand lines in the area for residents
along Mt. Misery Road.
"We are within lXK) feet of the
water line," she saul.
Public Utilities Director Jerry
Webb said his stall is doing housing
counts in that community to deter
mine if an SAD would be feasible.
He plans to hold a community meet
ing there s<x>n.
"How it ends up remains to be
seen," said Webb. "But we arc look
ing at it."
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FAVER
Dead As A Dodo!
BY BILL FAVKK
You don't hoar many people use this expression anymore, but I can
remember my grandfather proclaiming something as "dead as a Dodo!" 1
think it meant not only "dead," but something long
gone, removed, vanished forever. For the Dodo birds
were killed mercilessly until they were all removed
from three islands off Madagascar in the Indian
Ocean.
Dodos were discovered on these islands in the
16th Century and the fat, flightless birds, weighing
up to 50 pounds each, attracted Dutch, English, and
French ships. The birds were easy to club to death
by the hundreds and to salt down in barrels for
transport to market. From the day the islands and
their unique birds were discovered to the classifica
tion of the Dodo as extinct took only 174 years.
The flightless Great Auk had a similar experience. Fossils in the
southern part of Italy prove the Auk was living some 60,000 years ago.
They were plentiful on rocky islands along the North Atlantic coasts,
from Spain to Scandinavia, and Greenland, Iceland, and the North
American east coast. European seamen used shotguns to take these
goose-like birds and the last pair was killed off the coast of Iceland in
IK44.
Another spccies as "dead as a Dodo" is the American Passenger
Pigeon. Once described as "so numerous as to darken the sky," one
flock was estimated at 2% million birds. In Wisconsin alone, one area
claimed 136 million birds in 1871. But by 1901, the species was about
extinct, and the last bird died in the Cincinnati Zoo in 1914. Birds had
been harvested for market and farmers had killed birds interfering with
their crops.
Gone also is the Heath Hen and the Carolina Parakeet and the Ivory
billed Woodpecker, larger cousin of our Pileated Woodpecker. Today
the California Condor is virtually gone and the Whooping Crane is
holding on only because of the extensive and expensive cooperation of
our Fish and Wildlife Service and Canada. And, even today, with the
publicity and supposed enlightenment of that program, we find a
Marble Falls. Texas, hunter, jailed and fined for killing a whooper.
In a way it is a shame we don't hear the phrase "dead as a Dodo"
anymore. Maybe it would remind us of our shameful trcauiicnt of crea
tures formed to share this world with us. That we exploited them and
brought them to extinction lor quick profit and sport ought to cause us
guilt, or, at least, ought to remind us we can do better!
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C1991 THE BRUNSWICK DEACON
Suit Says Ocean Isle Club Still Owes Rent
An Occan Isle woman says an upstairs renter
has left owing her business about S6,(XX) in rent
and damages.
In a lawsuit filed Nov. 19 in Brunswick
County District Court. Betty D. Gore, owner of
Occan Isle Seafood and Groccry on N.C. 179,
claims Jesse James Ellis, owner of the former
Jesse's Lounge, owes her S 5,886 plus attorney
fees.
Alcohol permit applications for Jesse's
Lounge were rejected by the State Alcoholic
Beverage Control Commission in August. The
night club closed shortly afterward.
According to a letter from ABC Commission
Assistant Administrator Douglas M. Robinson II,
alcohol sales permits were denied because the
lounge did not have an adequate septic system.
The upstairs business shared a septic system with
the seafood market.
The present condition of the establishment's
"septic system would tend to possess a threat to
the public health and safety of the surrounding
community," Robinson's letter dated Aug. 29
slates.
According to Ms. Gore's lawsuit, Ellis entered
into a written lease on June 26 to rent the upstairs
part of the building as a night club at Hale Beach
Road and N.C. 179, where Ocean Isle sewer lines
do not extend.
The suit claims Ellis defaulted on lease pay
ments in the amount of S3.900 and owes S2,(XX)
in damages. It claims Ellis, of Clarendon, failed
lo keep the premises and equipment in good con
dition.
It also claims that Ellis purchased on credit
S200.45 in goods from the Ocean Isle Seafood
and Grocery during June, July and August and
has refused to pay.
Filed by Seaside attorney Harry Hcilig. the
complaint is asking for S5.886 plus interest and
not less than S 1 ,200 in attorney fees.
Last month, Ms. Gore pleaded no contest to a
sewage disposal violation, a charge filed by the
Brunswick County Health Department.
She received a prayer for judgment continued
in the case, which means that the judgment is sus
pended provided there are no further violations.
National Home Care Week December 1 - December 7, 1991
A Salute To All The
Physicians And Their Staffs
Who Support Quality
Health Care At
Reasonable Cost
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our region have helped Comprehensive Home Health Care
grow and diversify to better meet the needs of the patients we
serve.
With the help of these dedicated professionals, we have been
able to expand our services to include modern specialties such
as antibiotic therapy, chemotherapy, enteral feedings, high-risk
maternity, pain management, and pediatrics. These are truly
valuable components of today's health care delivery system.
As the largest provider of home health care in North Carolina
and in celebration of National Home Care Week, we'd like to
recognize the hundreds of physicians and members of their
staffs who have believed in and supported home health care.
They have performed an invaluable service to their com
munities through their efforts to ensure the availability of
qualilty health care at reasonable cost.
By recognizing the importance of home health in today's
health care system, these fine professionals help people of all
ages take advantage of the benefits of home health such as
earlier discharge from the hospital, higher patient morale,
faster recoveries, and reduced medical costs.
Home health is an essential part of today's health care system.
If you would like to know more about home health care or if
you have any questions, talk to your physician or call Com
prehensive Home Health Care at 1 800-438-1 1 1 5.
Elizabethtown ? Fayetteville ? Jacksonville
Supply ? Whiteville ? Wilmington
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