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CUT-OFF IS NOON TODAY Pace Of Filing Speeds Up With Approach Of Deadline Twenty-lour more candidates filed for office this past week as to day's (Thursday's) noon deadline loomed, with more local races shap ing up across Brunswick County. Former Sunset Beach council member Minnie K. Hunt has filed for mayor, opposing incumbent Ma son Barber, and Paul E. (Ed) Hughes has filed for town council. At Calabash Mayor Douglas Simmons is tossing his hat into the ring for another term, taking on challenger/Commissioner George Anderson. Roger Williams has filed for com missioner at Holdcn Beach, and Planning Board member Ken Proc tor has filed for commissioner at Ocean Isle Beach. As of Tuesday, according to the Brunswick County Board of Elec tions, candidates had filed for office in all but one town, Shallottc, where two aldermen's scats and the may or's scat arc up for election. "It's happening this week," Mayor Sarah Tripp said when asked Tuesday about the lack of candi dates. "They'll be coming in." Tripp said she plans to file for re-election. Two candidates have also filed for scats on the governing hoard of Northwest, Brunswick County's newest town. They arc Jay Robinson and Elsie Jane Peterson In Bolivia, Mayor Ina Mac Mint/, and the full board of aldermen ? Guy H. Wcscott, Ella Jane Willctts Wcscou, Sarah Knox and Alice Lcsh ? have filed for rc-clcction. Milton (Mike) Garner, Robert Cowan, Robert B. Cruse and Charles Bailey have filed for elec tion to the Sandy Creek council, along with incumbcnts Donald C. Minnis and Carolyn A. Hamilton. Mayor Ernest Grainger has also filed for re-election. The lown coun cil members previously elected the mayor from among their number, but now the mayor is elected in his or her own right. Also filing during the past week are these candidates: Linda Vcrecn, commissioner, Yaupon Beach; in cumbent Betty J. Sutton, council, Belvillc; incumbent James (Jim) Brown, Ward I alderman, Southpori; Eigic Jones, Leland Sanitary Dis trict; incumbent James W. (Bubba) Smith, Southeast Brunswick Sani tary District. Previously filing as candidates arc these hopefuls: Calabash: George Anderson, mayor; Alvin L. Lcisey and Theo dora "Teddy" Alimctcr, District 2 commissioner. Sunset Beach: incumbent Mason Barber, mayor; Herb Klinkcr, Thcr csc Regan and incumbcnis Edward M. Gore Sr., D.G. "Bud" Scrantom and Julia Thomas, council. Ocean Isle Beach: incumbent Betty Williamson, mayor; incum bents Bill Benton and Terry Barbcc. commissioner. Holden Beach: incumbent Wally Auslcy, mayor; Nash Greene, Larry Vogt and incumbent Sid Swans, commissioner. Varnamtown: incumbent Judy Galloway, mayor; Chris Lancaster, Charles McDonald and incumbents George Ennis Swain and Ada McDonald, alderman. Boiling Spring Lakes: incum bent Mark Stewart, mayor; Ray mond Hicks, commissioner. Southport: incumbent Norman Holden, mayor; Leonard H. Moore and Phil Joyner, Ward II; and in cumbent William Crowe, Ward I. Long Beach: Rupert Riley, Voter Challenge May Be Ahead For Sunset Beach BY LYNN CARLSON Some people registered to vote in Sunset Beach may soon face a chal lenge of their right to do so. Town Administrator Linda Fleugel told the town council Monday night. The topic came up as council be gan discussion of requests that it make absentee voting possible for the first time at Sunset Beach. "I've been contacted by a citizen who told me he plans to challenge a number of listed voters." Fleugel said. "If that happens, it's going to be embarrassing. Maybe you should not act so quickly (on absentee vot ing). This man is serious; he has the paperwork drawn up." Fleugel did not name the prospec tive challenger. Town Attorney Michael Iscnbcrg agreed to meet with Brunswick County Elections Supervisor Lynda Brut to get more information about selling up ihc absentee balloting procedure and establishing guide lines for voter eligibility. "It's pretty nebulous," the attor ney told council. "It's where you in tend your permanent residence to be. Just owning property here isn't enough." Fleugcl said such indicators as place of vehicle registration, bank accounts and church membership arc sometimes used to prove eligi bility to vole in a town. Citizens Joe Bramble and Kathy Kakos said they believe absentee ballots should te available for the upcoming town election. Bramble said, "My wife and I will be out of town. The local election is more important to us than a national one." Kakos said she hopes the threat cncd challenge of some voters "will not keep you from giving us full voting privileges," adding that many Sunset Beach voters probably don't realize that absentee ballots are not currently an option. Council agreed to Mayor Mason Barber's suggestion that it consider dividing the town into voting dis tricts in the future. "We're growing; we need to look at it so we can as sure that all areas have equal repre sentation." Counting Cars N.C. Department of Trans portation equipment clocked 81,147 cars crossing the Sunset Beach bridge on the first 11 days of July, Barber reported. The mayor asked DOT to conduct the traffic counts, which took place during June and July. Peak daily traffic occurred July 3, when cars crossed the one-lane pontoon bridge 8,943 times. A Raleigh engineering firm is conducting an environmental impact study to determine the consequences of replacing the bridge with a high rise fixed span or a different type of drawbridge. In other business, council: ?learned that representatives from Sunset Beach will meet with Town of Shallotte officials and Atlantic Telephone's cable division to discuss improvement of service. The meeting will take place Sept. 7 at 7:30 in the Shallotte Town Hall and will be open to the public. ?reappointed Channing Coppagc to a term on the planning board. ?delayed action on suggestions that unattended volleyball nets and other equipment be banned from the beach strand and that portable toilets be provided near the town gazebo during the tourist season. Shallotte To Allow County Water In Brierwood BY DOUG RUTTER Shallouc officials have agreed to let the county provide water service in the unincorporated section of Brierwood Estates, where some resi dents arc thirsting for public water. Aldermen made the decision Tuesday night after hearing from a property owner in the area and a representative of the development company who said the owners can't justify the expense of extending wa ter lines. Chris Lane, an official with Brierwood Builders, said the devel opers would welcome county ser vice in the "old section" of the sub division. Some people in the neigh borhood need water, and others need sewer service. Lane said the company can't af ford to run 22,i2i feet of water and sewer lines to the area, which would cost about S265.000. The cost would be SI 77 ,000 to run water lines only. "We can't even comprehend that. Wc don't hsvc thsi kind of property to spread that cost out to have any help recouping it," Lane said. "We as the developer don't see any way we can swallow this cost." Lane said the corporation still owns 28 of the 201 lots in the old Triple Tax-Free NC Municipal Bonds 5.50% Equal to taxable yield of 8.57% for NC resident North Carolina Municipal Bonds are exempt from Federal, state and local taxes. You keep 100% of what you earn ? and that's what counts. For more information call: 919/763-1641 or 1-800-288-5055 Frank I). Voli Financial Consultant Wheat First Securities Memo* New tort Siorfc tictunge and SCC 102 S. Second Street Wilmington, NC 28401 ?Rale expressed as yield to maturity as of 8/2/93 Market coodt toons may affect prices, yields Subject to availability and earfy call for redemption AMT mey apply Assumes 31% Federal and 7% State tax brackets part of Bricrwood, which is outside the town limits. But the company can't raise the price of the remaining lots enough to cover the cost of wa ter lines. As an alternative, Scott Taylor of Shallotte Point suggested the town board grant Brunswick County per mission to provide water scrvicc to the area. Taylor owns property in the old portion of Bricrwood. Based on recent conversations with Brunswick County Utilities Director Jerry Webb, Taylor said the county is willing to serve the area with the town board's permission. "Everyone in the ETJ (extraterri tonal jurisdiction) around us already has county water," Taylor told the board, which was considering pro viding town water to the area. Taylor indicated that Webb told him the old part of Bricrwood could be included in a county Special Assessment District (SAD) in the Shallottc Point area and water could be provided soon. "If the county will extend the SAD that may be the easy way out," said Finlcy Boney, consulting engi neer for the Shallottc water and sew er systems. However, Lane said following Tuesday night's meeting that he un derstood county water service couldn't be provided for three or four years. Shallotte officials are trying to come up with a policy on providing water to the . xtraterritorial jurisdic tion, a spcciLi zoning district that extends about one mile from the town limits. "This won't be the last time this will come up," Boncy said. "A poli cy is needed." Aldermen David Gausc and Paul Wayne Reeves were absent Tuesday night. In other business, aldermen reap pointed Carson Durham as chairman of the town planning board through July 1995. Child Passenger Injured In Two-Vehicle Accident A teenager was seriously injured Wednesday, July 28, in a two-car ac cident that occurred at 8:30 p.m. 3.2 miles northeast of Shallotte at the in tersection of Shell Point Road (S.R 1132) and Gray Bridge Road (S.R. 1134), according to the N.C. Highway Patrol office in Wilmington. Virginia Brantley Robertson, 78, of Shallotte, was charged with a yield violation by Trooper D.B. Harvell. Driving a 1989 Dodge, Robertson was traveling east on Shell Point Road. She pulled out in to the path of a 1984 Ford truck headed south on Gray Bridge Road and driven by James Clifford Long, 3 1 , of Route 3, Shallotte. After Long's truck struck the Dodge, both vehicles ran off the roadway. Neither driver was injured. However, one of two passengers in Robertson's car, 13-year-old Jody Robertson of Raleigh, was taken to Dosher Hospital with serious, non incapacitating injuries. Damages were estimated at S500 to the truck and SI, 000 to the Dodge. Both drivers were transported to Dosher Hospital in Southport with complaints of minor injuries follow ing a two-car accident Friday, July 30. The accident happened 3:30 p.m. on N.C. 130 one mile west of Holdcn Beach. Sheila Holden McKinney, 20, of Shallotte was traveling cast on N.C. 130 in a 1988 Honda when, accord ing to Trooper J.H. Kerr's report, she failed to reduce speed and struck struck a 1988 Chevrolet in the rear. Driver Julie Hamilton Lec, 19, of Ocean Isle Beach, had stopped for a turning vehicle. Damage to the Honda was esti mated at S3, 000 and to the Chevrolet, S2.000. McKinney was charged with failure to reduce speed. ?u.nge>t B&ach flfotei 6 MAIN STREET ? SUNSET BEACH, NC 28468 (919)579-7093 Fully equipped kitchens ? Refrigerators in most bedrooms ? Elec tric heat ? Color cable TV ? Air conditioning ? Directly across from fishing pier ? Near 15 golf courses ? Only six (6) miles to Calabash (The Seafood Capital). All rates are based on at least 4 days stay. Holiday weeks considered seasonal rates. NO. 2 *3 ROOM EFFICIENCY 2 Bedroom. Full Bath. Sleeps 6 Seasonal $64.00/0fl Season $49.00 NO. 2 *1 ROOM EFFICIENCY Full bath. Sleeps 4 Seasonal $48 OO/Off Season $31 .00 NO. 5 & 1 1 *1 ROOM EFFICIENCY Shower. Sleeps 2 Seasonal $42 OO/Off Season $29 00 NO. 6. 8. 10 *1 ROOM Shower. Two Double Beds. Sleeps 4 Seasonal $45. 00/0(T Season $31.00 NO. 12 *1 ROOM Shower. King Bed. Sleeps 2 Seasonal $45.00/0fl Season $29.00 NO. 7 & 9 *1 ROOM Shower, Sleeps 2 Seasonal $34. OO/Off Season $24.00 NO REFUNDS on deposits. NO POOL ? NO TELEPHONES in rooms. NO DAILY MAID SERVICE ? NORMAL OFF SEASON RATES IN EFFECT from March 15th until May 22nd and from September 6th until motel closes at the end of November. Check-in time is 3:00 PM or later. Check-out time is 11:00 AM. SORRY ? NO PETS. Johnny Vcrcen and incumbcnt Jcxin Altman, mayor; Francos Allen. Dave Drummond, Timothy L. Jones, and incumbents Danny Leonard and Jeffrie Ensmingcr, commissioner. Yaupon Beach: Jackie Slockett, commissioner. Caswell Beach: Robert Charles Spake and incumbents William A. Boyd Jr. and Robert (Bob) Terry, council. South Brunswick Sanitary Dis trict: incumbcnt Ginger Canady. Dosher Board of Trustees: in cumbents Bill Kirby and C. William Ncwnam. Sandy Creek: Franklin D. Squires and Danny Canady, council. Belville: incumbcnt Kenneth D. Mcsscr Sr., mayor. Leland: incumbent S.L.. Doty and Franky Thomas, mayor, Jimmy Cooke, Donald T. Sellers, Fred P. Seltzer III anu incumbents Sadie Richburg and Lucille Blake, council. Leland Sanitary District: Joe Gaincy and incumbents Edison Moore and Julius Adams. Navassa: incumbcnt Louis "Bob by" Brown, mayor. Candidates have until noon Aug. 6 to file for office. The filing fee is S5. The deadline to register to vote in the Nov. 2 elections is Oct. 1 1 . 75% Off Mini Blinds ONE WEEK ONLY APER PL Graber ? Hunter/Douglas ? Louverdrape ? Joanna BEST BLIND PRICES SPECIAL MINIS VERTICALS PLEATED SHAPES OPEN 9-6 Mon. Sat. SC-1-6 Sun. ?Blinds ?Window Treatments Designer Wallpaper ?Bedroom Ensembles TWO LOCATIONS Main St., Shallotte Northwood Plaza (Next to Shallotte Electric) 7746 N. Kings Hwy. , Myr. Bch, SC 754-21 14 next to Food Lion (803)449-2840 CHICORA Medical Group Complete Primary Care Lee Langston, MD ? Jon Langston, PAC ? Roger F. Nelson, MD We have 2 locations for your convenience ? Shallotte Seaside 5 341 Whiteville Rd.(Hwy. 130 W) Seaside Plaza (Jet. Hwy. 179 & 904) ? 754-8731 579-8512 Call for appointment-Vacationers & Walk-ins Welcome, g Adults Hospital Care Children Minor Emergencies Don't miss the Labor Day issue coming . . I forget the advertising deadline is August 12! THE BRUNSWiCK#fitACON CALL AN ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVE, 754-6890
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