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Ocean Isle Beach Wants Larger Signs; Waterway Dredging Starts Soon BY DOR! COSGROVK (il RdAMS Several projects arc in the works for municipal im provements at Ocean Isle Bcach, including the dredging of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway and larger road signs. The hoard agreed at their regular meeting Tuesday morning for Mayor Betty Williamson to apply to the N.C. Department of Transportation for larger directional road signs. Ocean Isle had to take down its billboard on U.S. 17 between Miailotte and Unssettown because oi tne lour laning project along U.S. 17. It was a sign that the board Iccls clearly pointed out to drivers which road to take to the beach community. Without the billboard, board members said it is easier now to miss the exit, due to the low visibility of the green directional signs on either side of the Four Mile Road intersection. The words "Ocean Isle Bcach" and an arrow appear on the signs closest to the intersection. Additional signs, also small in size, alert drivers to the turn-off ahead. The town moved its billboard to a site on N.C. 130 past West Brunswick High School, which Mayor Williamson said is working well. However, the board hasn't decided what to do with the other side of the sign. Mayor Williamson said she hopes the request to the DOT will result in larger, more visible signs directing travelers off of U.S. 17 to Ocean Isle. Commissioner Terry Barbce said he believes the IX)T plans to install more directional signs for die town, but he isn't sure where. The Corps Is Coming Mayor Williamson also reported mat ihc U..Y Army Corps of Engineers has announced immediate plans for routine maintenance dredging along the Atlantic lntracoastal Waterway behind the island Pipes will soon be brought to the island, she reported, as well as other necessary equipment The pipes will be stationed at Shallotte Boulevard and eastward in preparation for pumping sand and other dredge spoil from the waterway to the east end of the is ianu. The dredging provides a twofold benefit: restoring the channel for navigation purposes ami providing material to replenish the eroding beachfront. Mayor Williamson said that the board is still waiting to hear from the Corps concerning the results of its study of the feasibility of dredging Shallotte Inlet. The town should hear from the engineers sometime in January, ac cording to a letter received by the mayor last month. Sewer Extension Extension of Ocean Isle's sewer system to serve the remaining portion of the island is coming to the fore ground in municipal planning, the mayor said Tuesday. "We're so glad thai it's become a reality," she said. The project, in the early stages of development, is the second phase of the town's sewer plan. The first phase was completed in I9H7. When the second phase is com pleted, all residents of the island will be served. So far, four of the five required construction permits have been issued to the town. Water Department em ployees will install the sewer collection lines in stages. Odcll Williamson, town utilities commissioner, said no bidding was necessary at tnis time since the town is able to do the work ttself. Consulting engineer Finlcy Boney said Boney and Associates forwarded completed plans for the project to the state for approval. He has been working with the town in obtaining the necessary permits. Mayor Williamson said several steps remain, includ ing adoption of appropriate ordinances and resolutions and possiblly holding one or more public hearings. (iuiiiK I niifi ground Mayor Williamson also reported that Bobby Ciore, op erations manager of Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation, advised that underground installation of all town electrical lines was to begin this week. "I talked to him on Friday, and he promised me that it would be this week definitely," she said. Crews were to begin work Wednesday morning mov ing electrical wires under roads and sidewalks to avoid future storm damage. Gore said Tuesday afternoon. Other Business In other business: ? Mayor Williamson reported she had met with Chambers Inc. about their service routing for waste dis posal in the coming beach season. She asked that garbage pick-up bo scheduled for early morning hours instr'ul of tiller in the ilnv ?She also reported that the Atlanta, Ga., office of the Federal Emergency Management Agency has received the town's application for a new flood insurance rating. A new raling from FEMA would mean lower premiums lor property owners who pay Hood insurance on tlieir houses. ?Decided to hold a workshop to discuss inclusion of a Vested Rights Ordinance in the town code, as directed by resolution of the state legislature. Meanwhile, the Planning Board will be asked to review the proposed or dinance. Its adoption would prevent the town from changing zoning areas within two years from the time a builder obtains permits for a piece of land. Therefore, saiu town attorney Eiva jess, owners of piupcity couiu be stopped from proceeding with their present permits for two years. The board could make the permits good for up to five years if it w ishes, she indicated. ? Heard the results of the 1990-91 audit from John Carraway, certified public accountant, who said the town was in "excellent financial condition" as of June M), ll)9l. The tax collection rate increased from 99.59 percent at the end of June to 99.99 percent at the end of December. ? Heard from Building Inspector Druied Roberson that the town issued four building permits in the ETA (extra territorial area) in December, collecting SX5 in fees. Twelve permits were issued in the town limits, with S2.570 paid in lees. ? Heard trom Roberson that he had been notified by the Department ol Insurance that the state deadline tor towns to approve a municipal schedule of fire inspec tions has been extended from April 1, 1992, to Jan. 1, 1^93. Carolyn Williams Appointed Principal Of Supply School Supply Elementary School's first principal is already on the job, though the school will not open until August. She is Carolyn S. Williams, an educator with 23 years' experience, most of it in Brunswick County. Selected from a field of more than 20 applicants, Mrs. Williams has served as assistant principal of Bolivia Elementary School sincc 1986. Her appointment was approved by 2 unanimous vole of the Bruns* wick County Board of Education last Wednesday night in a meeting continued from the previous Monday. Officially, she will report to her new post around Feb. 1 , alter a work space has been found for her at the central office in Southport and an in terim assistant principal named for Bolivia Elementary School. But she's already at work. Mrs. Williams and several other adminis tratcrs were to visit Hornet! E!c mentary School in Charlotte Wed nesday and today as part of their preparation for opening the new school. It is the first of several scheduled looks at outstanding school facilities and programs across the state. Superintendent P.R. Hankins said that selection of the principal for the county's 12th school was "a difficult task to say the least". System administrators inter viewed all 10 candidates who met the minimum qualifications for the job, including seven applicants from within the county schools. "All had good credentials and all had good experience," said Hankins. The two finalists for the post were Mrs. Williams and Diana Mintz, as sistant principal at South Brunswick Middle School. Hankins said the final selection was based on Mrs. Williams' experi ence and advanced training. "All these things should give you the potential to be creative and inno vative," he said. The Boiling Spring Lakes resi dent earned a bachelor of science degree from Campbell University, a master's in education from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an education spe cialist certificate from the University of South Carolina at Columbia. .She is a candidate for a doctor of philos ophy degree in education "dminis tration from USC -Columbia. Mrs. Williams served as a guid ance counselor in the Brunswick County Schools for 11 years. Her classroom experience includes a year teaching music at Ft. Bragg Dependent's Schools in Faycttcville and four years 'etching second and third grades in the Brunswick County Schools. She has successfully written grants and supervised the exception al children's and bus programs at Bolivia Elementary, as well as chair ing numerous committees and coor dinating activities such as the Bcx>ks and Beyond reading incentive pro gram. Before Supply Elementary School opens in the fall, said Hankins, Mrs. Williams has much work to do ? re searching the school's population, which will be drawn from parts of several existing school districts; de signing a curriculum to meet those students' needs; and then "shopping for the people that can deliver," he said. Hankins and other school system administrators have said they want the new school to invite learning and to be a pacesetter for the entire county school system. Shallotte Officials Say New Census Count's Short BY DOUG RUTTKR Shallotlc officials say the final 1990 ccnsus count for the town is still about 300 people short and the lack of people will hurt town fi nances. Town aldermen received word last week that the revised population for the community has been in creased from 965 to 1,073. "We're still way short," Mayor Sarah Tripp said. "We've trial ev erything. Seemingly this is going to be it, according to what we've been told." Town Clerk Mary Etta Hewett re ceived a letter from the U.S. Census Bureau last month providing "re vised" 1990 figures. As of April 1, 1990, the popula lion of ShaHotie wss !t()73, town had 470 housing units, accord ing to the Census Buicau. Town officials, who have been pleading for an increase in the popu lation since preliminary ccnsus fig ures were announced in September 1990, believe the actual population is about 1,400. 'They're not going to let us do anything about it," Mrs. Tripp said. "We've tried everything that we could possibly think of to get it fixed." The preliminary head count ol 82S was increased to 965 last Jan uary. Mrs. Hewett received the final revision from the Census Bureau last month. Town officials have objected to the low figures, primarily because the number of people in town affects how much money Shallotte gets from the state. Asked if the low population fig ure will affect town Hnanccs, Mayor Tripp said, "You better believe it will. It's going to be a lot of loss." Mrs. Hewett said the town al ready has lost approximately S7.000 in anticipated state Powell Bill funds, which are used to maintain roads. The town expected to receivc $41,000 in Powell Bill money this fiscal year, but only received about S34,(XX). "It's going to hurt us," said Mrs. Hewett, who is the finance officer for Shalloite. "Anytime they cut your revenues it's going to hurt." She also anticipates less revenue than first anticipated from sales and utility franchise taxes as a result of the census count. "It's hard to tell how much we'll be affected on the sales tax until we get the seconu uuarter in," she said. Tb? town expected S125,(XK) in sales lax tnis year. Because of the census problem and state budget crisis, Mrs. Hewett said (he town was conservative when selling its budget this fiscal year. "We txied to hold lhat down as much as we could," she said. "We didn't really include any increases if we were told to expect a 2-percent increase Irom the stale." Mayor Tripp speculated lhat mosi census-lakers probably didn't know ihe value of ihe population to the town when ihey did ihe count two years ago. "I'm not altogether blaming them," Mrs. Tripp said. "I just hope and pray the nexi lime they do the census they'll gel somebody who can count." STAFF PHOTO BV OORl C GURGANUS Receives Morehead Honors Pam Detrie (right), a senior at West Brunswick High School in Shallotte, received the semi-finalist merit award in the Morehead Scholarship competition. The Morehead certificate was presented to her last Wednesday by local scholarship board member Doug Raxley (left). Along with recognition for outstanding academic and community acheivements, Detrie will receive a $500 grant if she attends UNC-Chapel Hill. DEADLINE MEET Rivergate Owners Submit An Erosion Control Plan Developers of Rivergate Estates submitted an erosion control plan to the state last week, meeting the lat est court-mandated deadline. The N.C. Land Quality Section, which has been seeking a sedimen tation plan for the Waccamaw River subdivision for more than a year, ac cepted the document Friday, said Robert Floyd, attorney for the cor poration. In submitting the plan, Rivergate Estates Inc. stockholders avoided a Monday court hearing and seeming ly ended a legal batde that has been brewing since the fall of 1990. Brunswick County Superior Court Judge William C. Gore ordered last month that developers of the proper ty off N.C. 904 at the Brunswick Columbus county line submit the plan by Jan. 10. Gore's order called for a Jan. 13 court hearing involving all of the stockholders of the corporation if a plan wasn't submitted by the dead line. Rivergate Estates Inc., the firm developing the subdivision, earlier promised to submit a plan to the slate by Oct. 3 in a consent judg ment filed in September. The plan wasn't submitted by the deadline. State land quality officials cited the developers for six violations of the N.C. Sedimentation and Pollu tion Control Act in September and November 1990. Initial violations included failing to submit an erosion-control plan prior to beginning development and failing to install devices to control erosion at the site. North Carolina officials later charged the owners with failure to lake measures to keep sediment on site, failing 10 have a buffer zone be tween the development and river, grading slopes near the river too steep and failure to provide ground cover on exposed slopes. The U.S. Army Corps of Eng ineers later issued a "cease and de sist" order to prevent the developers from filling any more wetlands. In March, ihc N.C. Department of Environment, Health and Natural Resources filed a civil suit seeking an injunction ordering the company to halt all land-disturbing activity at the site. | ? y, I MaUe Your Spa A Party! Use: BioGuard Spa Guard Products Chlorine Concentrate?Water Clarifier-PH Balancers Relaxing, Affordable. n k Dozen ILast s Spas .by Fort Wayne Pools PROFESSIONAL POOL MAINTENANCE Hwy. 179, Island Village Specialty Shops. Ocean Isle Beach. Behind IGA 579-8828 OPEN MONDAY - SATURDAY Daily Maintenance ChemicalS'Accessories & Equipment PEOPLE IN THE NEWS Knights Of Columbus Inducts Vanchiere Michael P. Vanchierc of Calabash was rcccnlly in dueled into the ^^?1^ Knights of Col umbus, Circle ^^rZ, No. 7122. ~~ Y North Myrtle ? Beach, S.C. * He is the son \ ? of Aneelo and 4k Katherine Van chierc of Cala VANCH1KRE bash According to his father, Michael, who has Down's syndrome, is the first mentally handicapped member to be inducted into the Knights of Columbus in the Myrtle Beach, S.C., area and possibly a larger area. Completes Basic Navy Seaman Keary M. Cox re cently completed basic training at Recruit Traininu Command. Great Lakes, III. He is the son of Delilah L. Cox of Route 1. Bolivia, and a 1991 gradu ate of South Brunswick High School. Boiling Spring Lakes. Cox studied seamanship, close order drill, naval history and first aid in preparation for training in one of the Navy's occupational fields. Reports For Duty Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Craig A. Cobb recently reported for duty aboard the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Saratoga, homeported in Mayport, Fla. He is the son of Patricia A Cobb of Shallotte and a 1985 graduate of West Brunswick High School, Shallotte. Receives Credential The Council for Certification at the American Home Economics Association recently announced that Pearl W. Stanley has earned the Certified Home Economist (CHE) credential. Mrs. Stanley is a home economics extension agent with the N.C. Cooperative Extension Service in Brunswick County. Certification as a CHE requires a minimum of a bachelor's degree from an accredited college or uni versity and a passing score on the national home economics test. Mrs. Stanley completes 75 professional development units (PDU's) every three to remain certified. Graduates Training Coast Guard Seaman Apprentice Robert M. Pcrritt rcccnlly graduated from Coast Guard Recruit Training Center, Cape May, N.J. He is the son of Emory and Lanna Perrit of Shallotte, and a 1987 grad uatc of West Brunswick High School, Shallottc. Pcrritt was taught first aid, sea manship, Coast Guard history and regulations, close-order drill and damage control in preparation to train for one of the Coast Guard's occupational fields. Makes List Simon Little Jr. of Winnabow has made the Dean's List at Pembroke State University during the fall semester of 1991. Little, one of 196 students on the list, qualified for the honor by acheiving a grade point average of 3.6 for a minimum of 12 semester hours. Named To Committee Sen. R.C. Soles, D-Columbus, has been appointed to the 1991 Committee on Worker Trainer Trust Fund, a legislative study committee. The senator was named by Sen. Henson P. Barnes, president pro tern of the N.C. Senate. Soles, a resident of Tabor City, represents the 18th Senate District, which includes Brunswick County. Study committees are appointed to investigate selected issues that are brought before the N.C. General Assembly. They then make recom mendations on legislation which would offer the best solution. Article Published An article written by James H. Price Jr., media specialist at West Brunswick High School in Shallotte, appears in the February issue of a professional newsletter. School Lib rarian's Workshop. !p. "Paper Pushing With an Ap ple," Price discusses use of basic computer software to manage paper work more effectively in the media center with a small staff. r\j. Bookworm^ Moo-Sat 106, Closed Sundays at the Bridge to Holden Beach 842-7380 Things Slow? Read a book and brighten your day. We have hard / cover best J sellers such as f Comeback * 7$ ^ by Dick Francis ~3SrENT! America's Tax Team ? Standing up for you! H&R Block has the experience you need. jpr ? We prepare all kinds of income tax returns, from the simple to the complex. Whatever your tax situation, we can handle it. H&R BLOCK Resort Plaza, Suite 10, Hwy. 17 S., Shallotte Open 9 AM-6 PM Weekdays m 9 AM-5 PM Sat., Phone: 754-6067 (3E,
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