Open House Marks 7 Oth
Year Of EMS Service
Calabash Emergency Medical Service (EMS) celebrates iis I Oth
birthday this month, and is holding a party Sunday to let the entire com
munity in on the festivities.
Kathy Morlit, president, announced that an open house wiii be neid
at the station building, corner of N.C. 179 and Old Georgetown Road,
Sunday, March 15, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Part of the anniversary celebration, she said in a telephone interview
Tuesday, will lie to honor three of the original founders of the EMS:
Barbara Meares, Frances Wrenn and Pam Saulk. who arc still active
with die corporation.
Refreshments will be offered and "gifts of appreciation" wdl be
awarded to trie 17 present members, Mrs. Morfil said.
"We started out really from scratch," site sakl, explaining that much
of the station's progress has been funded by sales at the thrift shop lo
cated behind the EMS building.
That money, she said, has helped the squad grow from having just
iwie used ambulance to having Uiree ambulances under five years old,
one of which is relatively new.
The Calabash EMS, founded in March 1982 and actually located
outside the town limits, serves a 50-square-mile area around Calabash,
Sunset Beach and surrounding subdivisions. Its present chief is Mark
Christy.
INCLUDED IN SPECIAL AUDIT
Audit Suggests DOT Eye
Bridge To Replace Ferry
The suite Department of Trans
portation should consider replacing
the Southport-Fort Fisher Ferry with
a bridge, according to a state audit
released last week.
The recommendation concerning
the local ferry is included in a spe
cial audit that accuses the DOT's
ferry division of wasteful spending,
on-the-job politics and questionable
hiring practices.
That audit has drawn a sharp re
sponse from state DOT officials,
who assert that elements of the study
were politically motivated.
Southport's ferry is one of five in
the system that state transportation
officials should think about replac
ing, according to the N.C. Office of
the State Auditor report released
Friday.
"That's been on the list of DOT
studies for a right good while," said
Ray Mo/.ingo, a member of the audit
special review team. "It's nothing
new, and it's not really that we're
recommending that one be built."
Mo/.ingo said the audit team
merely wants state transportation of
ficials to study the economic feasi
bility of replacing the ferries with
bridges.
A three-mile span between
Southport and Fort Fisher would cost
about $30 million, said Assistant
State Auditor Denise Roberts.
Besides the Southport fern-, the
audit suggests the IX)T consider
building bridges to replace the
Cherry Branch- Mmnesotl. Aurora
Bayview, Currituck-Knotts Island
and Hattcras-Ocracoke ferries.
The performance section of the
audit also recommends cutting two
of the 23 job positions at the
Southport ferry site.
Mrs. Roberts said positions for a
trades worker and clerk-typist would
be eliminated under the audit recom
mendation.
In the spccial review section, au
ditors say ferry division employees
have participated in political activity
on state time and the system has cre
ated unnecessary positions.
State Transportation Secretary
Tommy Harrelson said the spccial
review produced no useful informa
tion and focused more on "political
witch-hunting than on management
assistance".
The performance audit also points
out that there were approximately
1 30 job-related accidents within the
fern division between 1989 and
1991.
Mrs. Roberts declined to say
whether she thought the number ol
accidents was unusually high.
"It's an industry in which there
are a lot of accidents," she said. "It's
a hazardous industry to begin with."
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Health Board Endorses Sewer System Concept
BY TKRRY POPF.
When given the option, ihe
Brunswick County Board ol Health
believes public sewage disposal sys
tems are preferable over installation
of septic tanks.
That s the concept unanimously
endorsed by the hoard Monday at the
request of Long Beach Mayor Joan
Altman.
Long Bcach residents will vote
March 31 on whether to approve or
disapprove of the town's plan to pur
chase up to SI 5.5 million in general
revenue bonds to help finance a mu
nicipal sewer system.
"We're pursuing it very seriously,"
said Ms. Altman, who added that she
was not asking for an endorsement of
the Kind referendum.
Instead, she asked the board to
clarify its stance on sewer systems
versus continued installment of septic
utnks, which have been blamed for
csluarinc and ground water pollution
in coastal counties.
"Historically, the position of this
board has been
that when we've
been given the
option, we've
opted lor sewer,"
said Bill Rabon.
who chairs the
board's environ
mental health
committee.
"We've endorsed
rabon public sewer
where it was feasible."
Rabon made the motion to endorse
the sewer system concept
Comparisons of scptic tanks with
sewer systems and possible pollution
problems have been ongoing for
years, said Brunswick County Health
Director Michael Rhodes.
"My personal opinion is that, not
to sidestep the issue, il depends on
lite community itself." said Rhcxles.
"whether they arc in need of a sewer
system."
In the 1960s, slate and federal gov
ernments pushed for regional sewer
systems, offering granLs to towns that
opted for public sewer. Those funds
have since disappeared, making it
more difficult for growing communi
ties to afford sewer.
"It's hard to point the linger at scp
tic systems," said Rhodes. "Some are
failing. There is a failure rate with all
systems."
The need for sewer systems may
also be determined by soil condi
tions. In coastal environments, sandy
soils often require property owners to
install low pressure pipe (LPP) sys
tems as opposed to traditional tanks.
LPPs face tougher inspection guide
lines in Brunswick County, with the
state set to adopt similar standards
this year.
Environmentalists argue that septic
lank discharge ends up in coastal wa
ters, causing pollution and the closing
of shellfish beds.
"1 don't think at this point 111 time 1
have the information to answer that"
said Rhodes. "I would want more
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McDonald, environmental health
specialist at the Brunswick County
Health Department.
Ocean Isle Beach is the only barri
er island in Brunswick County to
build a municipal sewer system,
though Sunset Beach is involved in a
sewer system study.
"I think the whole idea is how is
the public health being served," said
board member Brad Williams. "1
think we should be speaking on this
subject."
Chairman HJ. "Skip" Davis of
Ocean Isle added, "Thai's what we're
doing."
Davis was appointed chairman last
month He told the board that he
would like to stress education on
health issues while he is chairman.
"I would like to educate all of the
Holden Committee
Holden Beach's wastewater man
agement committee received back
ground materials but didn't take up
any business at its first meeting last
Friday.
Commissioners Gay Atkins and
Sid Swarts and resident Marlene
Thomas were the only committee
members to attend the meeting.
Harold Steorts and Duncan St. Clair
were absent.
people in Brunswick County as to
what the Health Department does,''
said Davis, "so they can better under
stand our dilemmas and we can un
derstand theirs."
Other Business
In other business, the board:
?Heard a report front Fauna Schaub,
coordinator of the Maternity Care
Program, which offers prenatal care
for an estimated 176 mothers in
Brunswick County F.very dollar
spent in the program saves the state
S2.40 in medical bills for die at risk
babies, said Ms. Schaub.
?Heard that Rhodes will travel to
Raleigh March 12 to check on the de
partment's joint application \ with
New Hanover County to participate
in Project ASSIST, a state and feder
ally funded program aimed at helping
juveniles, pregnant women and other
volunteers quit smoking.
?Approved a bad debt write-off of
S320 from July to December 1991 in
the Child Health Program.
To Review Studies
Ms. Atkins said committee mem
bers received copies of the two
wastewater needs studies that have
been conducted at Holdcn Beach in
recent years.
The committee, charged with rec
ommending ways to control abuses
of septic systems and meet long
term wastewater management needs,
will meet Wednesday, March 25, at
1 p.m. in town hall.
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