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The Goal Is Better Prepared Students BY BILL DEERMAN, EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT South Brunswick Islands Chamber Of Commerce Education is a major conccm of just about everybody these days. There is a statewide coalition called Education Is Everybody's Business. This group is seeking some real changes in the state's educational system. Are these changes good or not so good? Only time will tell. The important thing is dial people arc con cerned and want to see the education system turn out a belter product. Here are some of the changcs this group would like to sec. They would like to sec more attention paid to programs that better prepare students to transition from school to work, and also offer a more rigorous academic program to all young peo ple. Accountability at all levels is a keystone of the plan. To do this dicy would like to sec an appointed Slate Superintendent of Education ap pointed by a State Board of Education. Tenure would be replaced by a contractual system to provide a better degree of management. Also the cunent merit pay policies should continue to ofTcr rewards to teachers who measurably increase the academic performance of their students. The coalition also recognizes the need for some form of administra tive certification and training and development programs. Furthermore the coalition supports efforts to ensure that equal educational opportuni ties are available to all children. FinnJly the coalition believes that a "business as usual" approach will not assure our children of the education they need for tomorrow's jobs. Therefore they support: a) a movement away from a strong centralized system, and b) both local and state initia tives that will break the present mold and create new and better methods of preparing today's students for tomorrow's jobs. As legislation supported by the coalition moves through the legisla tive process dicrc will be changcs, but the end results will hopefully be a better education for all. Children entering school today will change jobs a minimum of five times. The changes will be brought about by changes in technology that will make skills learned today of little value tomorrow. Maybe a better way to say the same thing is that to preform the same or a similar job with the same employer a child entering school today will have to be retrained five times. Education has become a lifelong endeavor. To stay competitive, learning and our desire to lcam must increase at an ever expanding rate. To stand still is simply to ask to be run over. Education today and tomor row is not merely the key to a better life. It is essential if we arc to have a future. Brunswick Plant Remains On Watch List For Present Carolina Power & Light Co.'s Brunswick Nuclear Plant will re main on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's so-called "watch list" for at least another six months as its performance is closely monitored by the federal agency. On June 25. the Commission re ceived its semi-annual briefing in Washington. D.C., by senior staff on the status of nuclear plants across the country, with Brunswick remain ing a Category 2 plant. That desig nation is applied to plants that the NRC allows to continue operating under increased attention until the li censee demonstrates a period of im proved performance. NRC Spokesman Ken Clark said that Stuart Ebneter. regional admin istrator for the NRC, told commis sioners the April restart of Unit 2 at the Brunswick Plant "went very well," and that significant improve ments had been made at the plant. Ebneter added, however, that CP&L still needs to restart Unit 1 and show a sustained period of good operation before it is removed from the list of April Construction Tops $1.8 Million In Brunswick County Permits were issued for more than $1.8 million worth of new construc tion in the unincorporated area of Brunswick County during April, in cluding 90 permits for mobile homes and 9 for other single-family dwellings built at an estimated cost of $877,218. According to figures compiled by the county planning department, six permits were issued for commercial construction valued at $738,210 along with ten permits for $117,182 worth of additions, 12 permits for garages valued at $182,148 and sev en for decks or porches valued at $36,300. There were a total of 428 permits issued during April, including 195 for building, 142 electrical, 44 plumbing and 47 mechanical. During the first four months of 1993. there were a total of 1,370 permits issued, including 264 for mobile homes and 47 for single family homes valued at a total of $4.5 million. The average value of the homes permitted this year is $69,226. "problem" facilities. Units 1 and 2 of the Brunswick Plant share the Category 2 designa tion with six other units at four loca tions. Units I and 3 at Brown's Ferry Nuclear Plant in Virginia are the on ly units currently designated as Category 3, or shutdown, plants which require NRC authorization to operate and which the NRC will monitor closely. When Brunswick Nuclear Plant was placed on the problem facilities list in June 1992, the NRC noted a continuing decline in performance and degrading physical conditions of the plant. Since then, CP&L has re organized plant management, made extensive maintenance repairs and improvements to the facility, and launched a long-range improvement plan. CP&L expects to bring Unit 1 back into service sometime this fall. Both units were taken out of service in April 1992. Legal Notices NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND DEBTORS OE HERRERT A. LYNCH W. Davis Milligan. having qualified as F.x ccutor of the Estate of Herbert A. Lynch, late of 1825 Pharview Dr.. Ocean Isle Bcach. Brunswick County. North Carolina, the un dersigned does hereby notify all persons, firms and corporations having claims against the estate of said decedent to exhibit them to the undersigned at P.O. Box 2599, Shallotte, N.C. 28459 on or before the 4th day of Octo ber, 1993 or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons, firms and cor porations indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment to the undersigned. This thelst day of July, 1993. W. Davis Milligan. Executor of the Estate of Herbert A. Lynch. Deceased BAXLEY andTREST. Attorneys for the Executor P.O. Box 36 Shallotte. N.C. 28459 Telephone (919) 754-6582 July 22 ESTATE NOTICE The undersigned, having qualified as Ad ministratrix of the Estate of Henry Nelson Jones, late of Brunswick County, this is to no tify all persons having claims against said es tate to present them to the undersigned on or before the 17th day of September. 1993 or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their re covery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment to the undersigned. This thel4th day of June. 1993. Palsy Tyndall Jones, Administratrix of the Estate of Henry Nelson Jones 879 Bricklanding Rd.SW Shallotte. NC 28459 July 8 pd. ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS Pursuant to Policy No. C-5 of the Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation Policy Manual, sealed pro posals addressed to: Currie Batchelor, Purchasing and Inventory Agent, Post Office Box 826, Shallotte, North Carolina 28459 and marked: 1 -Stormwater Project-Supply Site Will be received until 1:00 p.m., July 14, 1993. Instructions and specifications for submitting bid proposals may be obtained from the Purchasing and Inventory Agent, Shallotte Headquarters Office, Shallotte, N.C. Brunswick Electric Membership corporation reserves the right to reject any and/or all proposals. / i <> ^ DAMERON FOX SPIVEY BUSINESS BRIEFS 3 Earn Graduate Designation Three Realtors associated with Alan Holden Realty Company of Holden Beach and Shallolte have earned the professional designation "Graduate, Realtor Institute" (GR1), which indicates mastery of an inten sive training program of classroom instruction. They are Allan R. Dameron. Pat M. Fox and Linda T. Spivey. The institute is co-sponsored by the North Carolina Real Estate Educational Foundation and the North Carolina Association of Real tors. It is the first level of formalized advanced education beyond licens ing. According to Foundation Pres ident Sharon Lankford of Greens boro. it provides an opportunity to study the latest methods and proven practices for success in the real es tate and related businesses. Graduation requires completion of 96 hours of coursework and 12 written examinations on various as pects of the courses taken. Three Hired Comprehensive Home Health Care Inc. of Supply has announced the hiring of Lisa M. Turner and Sara Eason as physical therapy as sistants and Greg Randolph as a nurse aide. Turner is a graduate of Central Piedmont Community College and has been in the physical therapy field for five years. She and her hus band. Gregg, live in Southport. Eason resides in Winnabow with her nine-month-old son, James. She recently graduated from Walsh Community College in Rocky Mount. Randolph, a graduate of Bruns wick Community College, lives in Bolivia and has been a nurse aide for 10 years Joins Rampage Lary Vogt has joined the sales staff of Ramp age Realty. Vogt has been a local resident for tile past 2-'A years. He has 36 years of sales experience. He lives with his wife Frances on Holden Beach. VOGT Harris Honored Edgar B. Harris of Shallotte, pres ident and chief executive officer of Comprehensive Home Health Care, was hon ored May 7 by the YWCA of Wilmington at its ninth annual Women of Ach ievement dinner. He received a plaque in appre II arris ? ciation for his company's distinction as the first corporate sponsor of the Women of Achievement program. Comprehensive began in Bruns wick County and has grown to in clude offices in a number of com munities across North Carolina. State ESC Lists Brunswick May Joblessness At 1 2.9 Brunswick County's unemploy ment rate, at 12.9 percent, was sec ond highest in the state in May, but was down from 13.7 in April, ac cording to the N.C. Employment Se curity Commission's monthly report released Thursday. The statewide rate for May was 5.1. ESC analysts say they regard five percent as a "near full employ ment situation." Brunswick was among seven counties with rates higher than 10 percent. Other include Graham, ? 20.1; Tyrrell. 12.1; Swain. 12; Wil son, 11.5; Clay, 11.3; and Hertford, 10.4 Orange County had the state's lowest unemployment rate in May at 2.8 percent. Unemployment rates in other coastal counties included Pender, 6.4; Onslow, 5.9; Carteret, 6; Hyde, 6.5; Dare, 3.8; and Currituck, 3.3. The Brunswick figure is based on labor force of 20.720. with 18,040 employed and 2,670 looking for work. TOWN OF HOLDEN BEACH PUBLIC NOTICE The public will take notice that the Board of Commis sioners of the Town of Holden Beach will on the 6th day of July, 1993, in the Town Hall, pursuant to G.S. 160A-299, consider a resolution to close that portion of South Shore Drive as it runs Easterly, from a line that extends Southward from the Southeastern corner of Lot 13, Block K to the Northeastern corner of Lot 27, Block W, R.H. Holden Subdivision, to the Western boundary line of Ferry Road and the closing of Carolina Avenue as it runs Easterly, from a line that extends Southward from the Southeastern corner of Lot 12, Block W, to the Northeastern corner of Lot 24, Block U, R.H. Holden Subdivision, to the Western boundary line of Ferry Road. All abutting property owners are here by notifiea to appear at said meeting to present any objections that they may have with respect to the closing of said streets. SOUTH BRUNSWICK MEDICAL GROUP Gary D. Ross, M.D. (Internal Medicine) Samuel W. Kirtley, M.D. (Family Practice) For Complete Outpatient Medical Care Routine Health Maintenance Adult Medical Concerns /Pediatrics Women's Concerns (Pap Smears/Contraception) Laboratory & X-Ray Facilities For Complete Minor Emergency Care Located off Hwy. 17 at Union School Road Open Mon.-Fri., 9 A.M. to 6 P.M., Sat. 10 A.M. to 2 P.M. 579-9955 or 579-0800 s wsr&m PHOTO CONTRIBUTED Drunken Driving Crackdown I J. James Stewart (left) and Patrol Officer Jerry Bass of the Ocean Isle Beach Police Department accept one of 44 portable breath an alyzer units contributed to police forces by Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) and Nationwide Insurance. Ijocal law enforce ment officers will be cracking down on drunken driving offenders this week, which has been proclaimed " Sobriety Checkpoint Week'9 by Gov. Jim Hunt. The officers accepted the equipment at the state kick-off held in Raleigh on June 22. They also attended training on effective use of the unit. PUBLIC HEARING BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT TOWN OF CALABASH Notice is hereby given that a public hearing will be held by the Board of Adjustment of the Town of Cala bash ai 6:45 p.m. Tuesday July 13, 1993 at the Town Hall to consider the following appeal: CASE NO. 8-93: Mrs. Vertilee Bennett, 1157 River Road, Calabash requests a variance from Section 8.01.10 Operation Standards (subsequent to permit) B. Residential Units not to be Travel Trail ers. The proposed unit to be located in Bennett's Mobile Home Park located on River View Drive in Calabash, N.C. Oral or written comments will be heard at this time. Janet Thomas, Town Clerk SB aTVT",i g 5 J n> n FRANKLIN UTILITIES FUND The Franklin Utilities Fund can add power to your portfolio. The fund invests in public utility companies located primarily in high growth areas. Franklin's professional managers empha size growth of income and capital as their primary objectives for this fund. FRANKLIN Franklin Dutribulort. he 18.54 I Year 13.49 % 5-Year Frank D. Voli Financial Consultant Please call me for c free prospectus con taining more complete information on the Franklin Utilities Fund, Including charges and expenses. Please read carefully before investing or sending money. 919/763-1641 first Securities qj. Menta Nf* Yorti Sou {ittang? and SIPC 800/288-5055 Wilmington. NC 28401 13.94 * JO- Year M Returns for the period ended 3 1 31 1 93 include the maximum 4rA sales charge and assume reinvestment of dividends at the offering price and capital gains at net asset value. Investment return and principal value will fluctuate so that your shares, when redeemed, may he worth more or less than their original cost Past performance does not guarantee future results. ?'""J I I The President has a plan... Do you? By now, you've probably heard that President Clinton plans to Increase your taxes. If you fall Into the highest tax bracket, your effective federal rate could potentially climb to 39.6%. What can yoa do about it? You could try writing your representative or senator. You could also attend "Clintonomlcs 101", Prudential Securities' free seminar. We'll take a close look at the President's tax package, as well as discuss ideas for investing with the tax changes In mind and strategies for formulating your own short-term and long-term financial plan. Free Investment Seminar Speaker Bob Berry Associate Vice President-Investments When: Thursday, July 15th at 12:00 p.m. Lunch will be served Where: Sandpiper Bay Golf and Country Club Sunset Beach, NC Will you be ready for changes in the tax law before they affect your investments? Space is limited, so call Kathy Stokes at 800-634-0728 or 803-799-2626 today for reservations. I'rudentiaJ Securities is not a tax advisor. Prudential Securities Member SIPC
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