A Final Fling Before School
BY BILL DKARMAN, EXECUTIVE VICE-PRESIDENT
South Brunswick Islands Chamber Of Commerce
The final weekend of summer fun is here. While summer is not off
daily over until late September, it is back to school
for the kids and a return to the normal routine for the
family. Soon football, both college and professional,
will be the main attractions on the weekend? not
the beach.
It has been a great summer for the South
Brunswick Islands and we want to encourage our
visitors to return again next year. But, enough of
next year or next week for that matter; we still have
one glorious weekend to enjoy. It is going to be a
weekend filled with sun, fun and the excitement of
fishing for king mackerel.
If you like to fish we hope you will enter the tournament. If fishing is
not your cup of tea, join us for all the excitement of the weigh-in.
There will be two days of fishing and that means we will have two
days to join in the fun. Each day there will be live entertainment featur
ing Flipsidc and Clifford Curry. Delicious seafood will be available for
those who have worked up an appetite.
This year we will have a single weigh-in location at the end of the
Ocean Isle bridge canal at Ocean Isle Park on East Third Street on Ocean
Isle. With a single location, everyone can be part of the excitement as the
boats bring their fish in to be weighed.
The weigh-ins be from 2 to 5:30 p.m. on both Saturday and Sunday.
We will be looking for you.
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A personal note: Tuesday, Aug. 31, was Ann Laughinghouse's last
day as an employee of the South Brunswick Islands Chamber of
Commerce. Ann will be missed. She has worked for the chamber, both
as a volunteer and as paid staff for several years, but has decided that her
roses need her more than we do. She was always cheerful, perky, and
ready to help visitors with information about the area. In any new en
deavors Ann undertakes, we know it will be done well and we wish her
only the best.
DKARMAN
BUSINESS BRIEFS
IRS Offers To Listen
Sept. 17 has been declared "IRS
Listens Day" at the federal agency's
office in Wilmington.
Between 8:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.
a problem resolution officer will he
available to help area residents with
any unresolved federal or state tax
matters. The service is aimed at tax
payers who have tried to resolve
their tax problems through normal
channels and still have not done so.
Taxpayers should bring any docu
mentation or correspondence relat
ing to the case with them to the pri
vate conference. The service is of
fered on a first-come, first-served
basis.
The IRS office is located at Suite
2(X), 3904 Oleander Drive, Wilm
ington.
King Wins Cash
Melissa A. King of Mulberry
Street, Shallottc, took home 100
one-dollar hills as the winner of the
Dollar Days Giveaway held by
Heilig-Meyers Furniture in Shal
lotte.
She said she registered at the store
while picking up a chest of drawers
purchased by her mother, Ada King,
also of Shallotte.
Business Week Activities
Set For September 20-23
A mobile business assistance cen
ter has been scheduled to provide re
sources in Brunswick County Sept.
20-23.
The center's scheduled visit here
last year was cancelled so that it
could respond to South Florida's
small business victims of Hurricane
Andrew.
Brunswick Community College
Small Business Center, the three lo
cal chambers of commerce and the
U.S. Small Business Administration
will co-sponsor "Business Deve
lopment Week" while the center is
here
house, luncheon, workshops and
seminars on employee search tech
niques, cash flow dilemmas, financ
ing, federal government procure
ment, marketing strategies and other
topics.
The public is invited to participate
in the activities. They are specially
targeted to those considering starting
a small business and to current busi
ness owners considering expansion.
For more information about Bus
iness Development Week in Bruns
wick County, call Brunswick Com
munity College Small Business
The week's plans include an open 343-0203.
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July Jobless Rate Unchanged
Brunswick County was one of on
ly four North Carolina countics
whose unemployment rate was high
er than 10 percent in July, according
to a monthly report from the N.C.
Employment Security Commission.
ESC's calculations set the
Brunswick seasonally adjusted job
less rate in July at 13.7 percent, the
same as in June.
According to ESC, seasonally ad
justed unemployment rates eliminate
the changes which normally occur at
about the same time and in about the
same magnitude each year.
"Seasonal employment is deleted,
so that if there's a significant change
in the rates, either up or down, it's
due to something other than seasonal
factors. The data best shows trends
in labor market conditions from
month to month," the report states.
Brunswick County's unadjusted
July jobless rate was listed at 11.6
percent.
Those figures are based on a labor
force of 21,160 persons, 10,970 of
whom are employed and 2,890 who
are looking for work.
The county with the lowest rate
was Orange, with 2.8 percent. High
est was Graham, at 15.4 percent.
July unemployment rates for oth
er coastal counties included New
Hanover, 7; Pender, 7.4; Onslow,
5.8; Carteret, 6.3; Dare, 3.8; and
Currituck, 4.
The state seasonally adjusted rate
was 4.5 percent, a .9 percent drop
from the June rate of 5.4. ESC ana
lysts regard 5 percent as a "near full
employment situation."
The national unemployment rate
for the month was 6.8 percent, ac
cording to the report.
Legal Notices
ESTATE NOTICE
The undersigned, having qualified as Ex
ecutrix of the Estate of Bernard L. Jones, Jr.,
deceased, late of Brunswick County, this is to
notify all persons having said claims against
said estate to present them to the undersigned
on or before the 1st day of December, 1993,
or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their
recovery. All persons indebted to said estate
will please make immediate payment to the
undersigned.
This the26th day of August, 1993.
Kay (.asater Lambert, Executrix
for the Estate of
Bernard L. Jones, Jr., Deceased
ANDERSON & MCLAMB,
Attorneys at Law
Resident Process Agent
P.O. Box 345
Shallotte, NC 28459
919-754-6786
Scpt.23
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
The Town Council of Sunset Beach will hold a public
hearing Monday, September 13, 1993, at 7:00 P.M. at
the Sea Trail Convention Center located in the
Jones/Byrd clubhouse.
PURPOSE: 1. Whether to adopt Sections #154.255
257 setting forth the permitted uses, special uses and
dimensional requirement for the CR district.
2. Whether to zone Bird Island (Mrs. Price's property)
as Conservation Reserve District.
Documents are available for inspection at the Town
Hall of Sunset Beach during regular business hours.
Linda Fluegel, Zoning Officer
FEDS MUST AFPROVE PLAN
Co-ops, CP&L Both Expect To Benefit From Aqreement
BY SUSAN USIIEK
Carolina Power & Light Co.
(CP&L) and the North Carolina
Electric Membership Corporation
(NCEMC) have reached agreement
on a proposed 30-year contract to
govern electric power supplies and
coordination between the two orga
nizations.
Final agreement depends upon
approval by the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission (FERC)
and the Rural Electrification Admin
istration (REA).
"It's a good contract for CP&L
and it is a good contract for us in the
NCEMC," said David Batten, gener
al manager of Brunswick Electric
Membership Corp (BEMC).
NCEMC is the power supply arm of
Carolina Electric Cooperatives, a
network of electric cooperative or
ganizations in North Carolina that
includes BEMC.
CP&L Chairman and Chief Exe
cutive Officer Sherwood H. Smith
Jr. and Carolina Electric Cooper
atives Executive Vice President
Wayne D. Keller said the agreement
marks a new era between the organi
zations. It will enable the two to
meet the electric power require
ments of their customers better, and
support further the economic devel
opment and creation of new jobs in
North Carolina.
"We are more partners than we
were 30 years ago as a result of ef
forts by us both because our ultimate
goal is the same, lower rates and
greater reliability," said Batten of
the two organizations.
Under the agreement, CP&L will
allow NCEMC to use the CP&L
transmission system to transfer pow
er from its own resources and to
make even more efficient use of its
load management program.
At Brunswick Electric, said Bat
"It's something we're looking at. If
we can arrange a contract to purchase
electricity at a lower cost than CP&L }s
for at least 10 years or so, it might be
worth our doing it. "
? David Bauen, General Manager BEMC
ten, that means CP&L will now sig
nal co-ops when its peak demand
period is occurring, whereas before
BEMC "had to guess".
That means co-ops like BEMC
will he able to hold their demand
costs down by timing local load
management efforts to tie in with
those of CP&L. "Our peak (period
of highest demand for electricity)
won't make a difference. Theirs
will," he said. The co-ops will bene
fit from the savings incurred by
CP&L. The demand charge paid for
wholesale clcctricitv is based on the
highest point of demand for electric
ity that occurs during the month.
Load management is an effort to
level out demand and reduce that
charge.
Presently BEMC controls about
16 megawatts a month through load
management. "It makes a differ
ence," said Batten.
In summer months CP&L peak
usually occurs between 3 p.m. and 5
p.m., while the peak in BEMC's
area traditionally comes later be
cause of the greater percentage of
residential services. Winter peak
usually comes in the morning.
The agreement, said Batten, as
sures NCEMC that it will be able to
purchase adequate supplies of elec
tricity from CP&L for the next 30
years.
However, the agreement also al
lows some flexibility, if NCEMC
wants to replace a portion of the
electricity it buys from CP&L with
electricity from another supplier or
through facilities it builds, it can ? in
increments, and while giving sub
stantial (five-year) notice to CP&L
so it can adjust its own plans for
making sufficient electricity avail
able either through plant construc
tion or supplier contracts.
"For example, between now and
1996 we have the opportunity to
airange to purchase 200 megawatts
from other sources," said Batten.
"That's the only opportunity we'll
have until 2(K)1 .
"It's something we're looking at.
If we can arrange a contract to pur
chase electricity at a lower cost than
CP&L's for at least 10 years or so, it
might be worth our doing it."
Under the agreement:
?NCEMC agrees to withdraw a
competing application for an operat
ing license for CP&L's Walters
Hydroelectric Plant in western North
Carolina;
?NEMC agrees to withdraw its ob
jections before the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission to CP&L's
contract for purchase of 4(H) mega
watts of electricity from Duke
Power Co.;
?NCEMC agrees to give CP&L no
licc before building its own generat
ing facilities or before choosing an
other power supplier; and
?NCEMC may gradually assume
full responsibility, subject to certain
limitations, for meeting the electrici
ty needs of its 27 member coopera
tives.
The NCEMC supplies wholesale
power to 27 rural electric coopera
tives serving more than 1.6 million
North Carolinians.
Seventeen of these cooperatives,
including BEMC, serve assigned
territories dispersed throughout the
territory assigned to CP&L. CP&L
serves approximately I million cus
tomers in a 30,(KH)-square-mile ser
vice area in central and eastern
North Carolina, an area around
Ashcville in western North Carolina
and the northeastern portion of
South Carolina.
K-Mart Says
Not Planning
Local Store
A corporate official says there are
no immediate plans to build a K
Mart in Shallotte, despite rumors
about the department store coming
to town.
A spokesperson at the K-Mart
International offices in Troy, Mich.,
said last week she had nothing in her
files to indicate a new store would
be built in Shallotte.
Shallotte Building Inspector
Albert Hughes said Tuesday he has
heard rumors about K-Mart coming
to town, but said he knows of no
formal plans for the store.
Center Offers Injection Therapy As
Way Of Managing Chronic Pain
"Oh, my aching back."
Chronic pain. Pain that recurs
again and again, with little or no re
lief possible from traditional meth
ods of treatment.
Eight-six million Americans suf
fer from some form of chronic pain,
with back pain among the most
common type, enduring anxiety, de
pression, fatigue, loss of appetite
and sleep disturbances. Chronic pain
can affect individuals of all ages, in
terfering with daily activities.
Chronic pain disables more peo
ple than cancer or heart disease and
costs the United States economy
more than $90 billion per year in
medical costs, according to the
National Chronic Pain Outreach
Association.
The new Coastal Carolinas Pain
Center, now in operation at The
Brunswick Hospital in Supply, will
treat and educate people on chronic
pain management, announced Earl
Tamar, the hospital's chief executive
officer. The center is run by Dr.
Kenneth L. Willcfoiu, Maff anesthe
siologist.
Tamar said the hospital is pleased
to be able to expand its services and
offer such an innovative method of
treatment that has the potential of
r
helping a large number of people in
the area.
Chronic pain management is a
subspecialty of anesthesia. Working
in a clinical setting, anesthesiolo
gists use techniques similar to those
performed in the operating room to
administer different classes of med
ication with minimal risk, said
Daphne Yarbrough, director of mar
keting.
If detected early, any chronic pain
syndrome can be treated more effec
tively.
While a majority of chronic pain
patients are treated for back pain, in
jection therapy can also be used to
treat other disorders such as myfas
cial pain syndrome, a form of mus
culoskeletal pain; reflex sympathetic
dystrophy, or the burning pain that
follows trauma or injury such as an
ankle sprain, and nerve pain follow
ing a viral infection.
Patients at the center will go an
initial evaluation process to deter
mine the source of the pain and how
ii can be treated. Back pain be
caused by a variety of conditions,
Willeford indicated.
Many patients treated for chronic
back pain with injection therapy are
able to continue working while un
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injection therapy enables patients to
avoid surgery.
"We have learned to use our ex
pertise in new ways that allow us to
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chronic pain," said Willcford.
"Through injection therapy and
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Nearly $900,000 In Ne
Permits were issued for almost
$900,000 worth of new construction
in the unincorporated areas of
Brunswick County during July, ac
cording to figures compiled by the
county planning department.
A total of 62 permits were issued
for mobile homes and 1 1 for other
single-family dwellings built at an
estimated cost of $877,946.
Two permits were issued in July
for commercial construction valued
at $41,240 along with one permit for
a $6, (XX) addition, six permits for
garages valued at $99,840 and eight
f Construction Reported
for decks or porches valued at
$34,067.
There were a total of 308 permits
issued by the department during
July, including 127 for building, 113
electrical, 29 plumbing and 39 me
chanical.
During the first seven months of
1993, there were a total of 2053 per
mits issued, including 499 for mo
bile homes and 86 for single family
homes valued at a total of $10.1 mil
lion. The average value for single
family homes permitted this year is
$69,658.
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