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Welcome Center Opens
Robert and Virginia Sumberg (center) of Bradford, Mass., were among the first people to stop at the
Southeastern Welcome Center when it officially opened for business Monday. They were headed to
Key West, Fla., and hoped to play some golf along the way. The welcome center is located on the U.S.
17 Shallotte bypass at N.C. 130 West. Also pictured are Sabrina Hodges (left), welcome center director
and Margaret Means, information counselor.
Joint Resolution Sets
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Of Science-Math Center
BY SUSAN USHER
Brunswick County Board of
Education member Robert Slockctt
was smiling Monday night as the
school board's five-hour meeting
came to an end.
The board voted approval of a
joint resolution that, when approved
by the Brunswick Community Col
lege Board of Trustees, will create a
committee to organize a math and
science education center for Bruns
wick County.
BCC trustees arc expected to ap
prove the resolution at their Febr
uary meeting, said school board at
torney Gien Peterson.
The school board's quiet, unani
mous vote brought to reality a dream
Slockctt has pursued with zeal and
persistence for more than a year. A
icuicu itaCofCu SCiCntiSi, lie has
been a strong advocate of school-in
dustry partnerships, particularly in
establishing such a center on a coun
ty or regional basis.
The resolution calls for appoint
ment of a seven-member committee.
That committee will be charged with
pursing all aspects of organization of
the center, said Peterson, including
bylaws, format, location and
whether it should have a full-time or
part-time director.
The committee is to report on or
before April 1 to key figures at BCC
and in the school after it meets and
prepares recommendations and sug
gestions "for the legal and structural
framework of the center" and possi
bly other recommendations as well.
The committee will be made up
of two persons each appointed by
Superintendent of Schools P.R.
Hankins and BCC President
Michael Reaves, and then three rep
resentatives of Brunswick County
industry to be appointed by those
four members.
Establishing a permanent program
for advancement of science and
mathematics education would be
the resolution states, "a creative and
effective approach to enhance
Teacher proficiency and student
learning."
The resolution and proposal as
described is modeled basically after
a center established in Aiken, S.C
as a joint effort of industry, the
school system and the local branch
of the stale university, with start-up
grants from businesses and industry.
Fellow board members have sup
ported the concept of a math-science
education center, but were hesitant
to commit the school system as a
lead agency for the project. They
had wanted Slockctt to provide more
details on how such a center would
be organized and funded before
committing to such a major venture
with partners.
Since then, a number of local
businesses and industries as well as
BCC have expressed interest in sup
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Street Lights Coming To Holden Beach
BY DOUCJ RUTTKR
Holdcn Bcach officials cxpcct 10
have about i76 sireei lights in place
by the start of the summer tourist
season.
That's the plan commissioners ap
proved Monday when they voted to
have "dccora" lights erected at each
intersection and spaced 500 feet
apart between intersections.
Lights will be erected on 20-foot
fiberglass poles and placed on the
north side of Occan Boulevard,
where underground wiring and the
sidewalk arc located.
Town officials haven't decided
which side of the street the lights
will be placed on other streets.
Approval of the lighting program
comes about a year after a contro
versial ordinance regulating lights
outside homes and businesses took
effect.
"We've had a year of extremely
hard feeling and knit-picking,"
Commissioner Sid Swarts said at
Monday's board meeting.
Holdcn Bcach will rent the lights
frorn Brunswick clcciiic
Membership Corp., which erected
four samples on the island last week
for public viewing.
Besides two of the "dccora" mod
el, BEMC also put up two sample
"metro" lights, which arc used in
Shallouc and Vamamtown.
The "dccora" lights are seated in
rectangular housings and direct the
light downward more than the
"metro" lights.
Town Manager Gary Parker said
each 100-watt, high-pressure sodi
um light will cost the town S14 per
month.
Street lights at cach of the com
STAFF PHOTO BY DOUG RUTTEH
" DECORA " LIGHTS like this
one will be erected on Holden
Reach within the next few
months.
munity's 80 intersections and every
5(X) feet in between will run the
town approximately S29,6(X) per
year.
The annual cost of the lights will
be equal to about I 1/2 ccnts on the
tax rate, Parker said.
Monthly rent for the lights will be
around S2,5(X). Parker said the town
may have to pay up to two months
rent before the new budget year
starts in July.
BEMC officials told Parker they
expcct it will take about one month
to have the lights ordered and
shipped and another two months to
install them.
Most town commissioners, in
cluding the ones who said they don't
like street lights, agreed Monday
that they prefer the "decora" to the
"metro."
Commissioner Jim Fournicr said
he prefers the "metro" model be
cause it casts a larger pool of light
and would provide more home secu
rity.
"The 'decora' lights 500 feet
apart won't offer any security what
soever," said Fournicr, who had to
remove a security light at his home
after the light ordinance took effect
in November 1990.
But Commissioners David Sand
ifcr and Gay Atkins said the purpose
of the street lights is to light the
streets, not provide security for pri
vate residences.
Homeowners are still allowed to
put up security lights at their homes
if they follow the town's guidelines.
Commissioners offered conflict
ing reports Monday night about
what the residents think about street
lights and which model they prefer.
Fournicr said everyone he talked
to wants street lights of some sort,
and they arc evenly split between
the "metro" and "decora" models.
However, Commissioner Atkins
said only half of the community
wants street lights, and most agree
that "decora" lights arc the '.east ob
jectionable.
Most of the residents who spoke
at Monday's meeting said they pre
ferred the "decora" lights to the
"metro."
"You put up 175 of those 'metro'
lights and this place is going to look
like New York City," said Crawford
Hart.
Residents Judy Bryan and Bob
Rohdc didn't get a response from
the board when they asked if home
owners could request that a light be
shielded or moved away from their
property.
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