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By LEE HINNANTThe State Port Pilot

Bald Head Island’s unique center for the study of barrier islands now has a farm in neighboring Columbus County. The Bald Head Island Con-servancy hasn’t changed its mission: it’s growing the next generation of scientists – teenagers engaged in the natural world.

The Conservancy recruited six teens and their mentors from the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences at Whiteville for a close-up, overnight look at life on an island with hun-dreds of acres of maritime forests, marshes and pristine beaches.

This outreach program put the youth on midnight sea turtle patrols, birding treks through the wetlands and studying marine creatures in a wet laboratory. Encouraging young people to develop problem-solving, cooperative and science skills was part of the goal.

“My favorite part was dissect-

ing a squid,” said Victoria Price, a 13-year-old from Whiteville. “It was something I’ve found interesting and

something I’ve never done before.”

Bald Head IslandRetreat encourages young scientists

Hannah Longson and Lauren DiMuzio receive assistance from mu-seum intern Kat Tregaskis

By FULLER ROYALDigital Editor

After several months of preparation by contractors, Columbus Regional Healthcare accepted delivery of its new $1.3 million wide-bore Magnet-ic Resonance Imaging (MRI) magnet Monday morning.

The 11,000-pound magnet – the biggest component of the General Electric Optima 450W MRI – was delivered by flatbed truck from the GE plant in Florence, S.C.

Jason Beck, the director of imaging at the hospital, said the acquisition of the new MRI, which represents the lat-est in magnetic resonance tech-nology, will offer residents of southeastern North Carolina the clearest, most accurately detailed imaging available and at far greater levels of comfort than in the past.

Beck said the machine is be-ing housed in a completely new suite designed for the comfort of patients.

Including the MRI’s cost, the total renovation of what will be know as the “Caring Suite” was $2.2 million.

The wide-bore machine replaces the more than 10-year-old open air MRI housed in the building next to the hospital’s helipad.

The new MRI is housed in the main building’s imaging department.

Beck said the wide-bore machine, which allows for “feet-first” entry on the major-ity of procedures, can actually accommodate larger patients than the open-air design. And it produces images that are more accurate and detailed.

The wide-bore design is also good for people with tenden-cies toward claustrophobia.

Beck said that patients can choose the color and level of the lighting in the room. The temperature is adjusted for the patient. A large-screen moni-tor positioned over the top of the MRI provides relaxing images of a beach or pasture.

New MRI system to debut Sept. 14

Staff photo by FULLER ROYAL

Workers use a crane to move Columbus Regional Healthcare’s new 11,000-pound MRI magnet from a flatbed to its new home in the hospi-tal’s imaging department. Chief Radiologist Dr. Demir Bastug said the machine will be operational by mid-September.

City offices will moveto Hill Plaza

By JEFFERSON WEAVERStaff Writer

The City of Whiteville will soon be the newest tenant at the Hill Plaza Shopping Center.

City Manager Darren Currie said the coun-cil approved a contract with the Hill Company to lease 6,000 square feet for $5,000 per month. The city will occupy three units beside the Roses department store, Currie said.

“It’s really an excellent location and a good deal for the city and the owners,” Currie said. “When we make a permanent move, the own-ers said they plan to keep the improvements in place and possibly use the area for another office client.”

The city is moving operations from the 1937 municipal building due to a major mold outbreak. The basement offices were closed and cleaned in 2012-13, but continued moni-toring has shown the mold has crept into the upper floors of the building. On humid days, the smell can be so strong that people allergic to mold are made ill, Currie said.

Currie said the move will be a big change for city hall.

“This is going to be an entirely modern facility,” he said. “The owners have really been helpful – they let us basically design the entire space to meet our needs, and they’re handling the upfit. They’ll recoup their cost in the lease payments, but the city is getting entirely new, updated offices for a good price.”

The city will likely see significant savings in utility bills, Currie said.

“Currently we’re working in an uninsu-

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State adopts new budget resolutionn Tax redistribution and incentives, Medicaid now in separate bills.

By NICOLE CARTRETTENews Editor

Just two days before one continuing budget resolution was set to expire, state legislators adopted another one.

The resolution (Senate Bill 560) adopted Wednesday by both houses holds state spending at levels set in mid-July and gives lawmakers additional time to come up with a state budget.

The resolution funds State government functions through Aug. 31 at 11:59 p.m.

“I am very encouraged by recent discus-sions with Senate leaders and confident that we will reach a final budget agreement very soon,” said House Speaker Tim Moore, a Cleveland Republican. “North Carolinians want and deserve a thoughtful, effective budget that responsibly invests in our State’s future. We will remain committed to provid-ing our schools and teachers with certainty, while also ensuring that we give this process the time and attention that it truly needs to yield a successful end product.”

ShutdownSen. Jane Smith, a Lumberton Democrat,

said she is pleased a government shutdown was avoided but not happy that schools still face so much uncertainty.

“Our school districts are really not sure if they will have money for teacher assistants, or what the salary is for teachers,” Smith said. “That’s really a shame.”

“We will continue to operate with many un-knowns, such as driver›s education, teacher assistants, textbooks and other budgetary

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Whiteville’s Felix Smith Park project in equipment stageBy JEFFERSON WEAVER

Staff Writer

While the Whiteville Parks and Recreation staff has been busy on the Nolan Park make-over, work has been slowly but steadily progressing on one of the city’s smallest and most popular playgrounds.

The Felix Smith Memorial Park, located at Calhoun and Franklin streets, was donated to the city by the Smith family in 2010.

For years before it formally became a park, it was a neigh-borhood playground.

City officials began reha-bilitating the park earlier this year to bring the play areas into compliance with safety and insurance regulations. New rules require “soft land-ing” areas around playground equipment, as well as equip-ment that is designed to lessen the likelihood of injury.

Charlotte Almada of the parks department said the project is now in the “equip-ment hunting stage. We’re

looking for new equipment that meets both the standards and the budget requirements,” she said.

Officials cleared more than half of the trees in the park earlier this year to improve drainage, make the park more usable and allow for more play area. Most of the large trees that provide much of the char-acter of the park were saved.

City Manager Darren Cur-rie said the timber cutting

helps promote the growth of grass and ground cover.

“We kept a few of the sweet gums, and the landmark oaks,” he said. “It takes a long time to grow trees like that. I think it already looks a lot more invit-ing as a park, and the work has just begun.”

The park has had drain-age problems for years, with as much as two feet of water standing in the lower areas after a heavy rain. The city has

been rehabilitating the storm water system in the neighbor-hood for years, as part of over-all efforts to improve drainage in the city.

Currie praised Parks and Recreation Director Tim Col-lier and his staff for continu-ing the Felix Smith project while still working on the Nolan Park project.

“Tim’s really been on the ball with this one,” he said. “He and the staff have been working hard to make this one of the nicest little parks around.”

The Smith park will be fo-cused more toward the “12 and under crowd,” Currie said.

“There is a basketball court there, but there are several more that are much nicer just a few blocks away, with more room,” he said. “We need more play space for the little kids.”

A final completion date has not been announced on the park improvements, but Currie said the city hopes to have the park ready by spring. While it could reopen on a lim-ited basis before then, Currie said the city will likely work on the total project – from landscaping to new equip-ment – over the next two years. It will be back in business at least with some equipment by the end of winter, he said.

“We’ll be adding equipment along the way,” he said, “but by the time everybody’s ready to get back out in the sunshine, they’ll have their park back.”

City could save $100K under state benefit planBy JEFFERSON WEAVER

Staff Writer

City employees could be getting the same or even bet-ter health benefits, for less cost to the taxpayers.

Council on Tuesday gave City Manager Darren Currie permission to discuss joining the state employees’ health benefit program. Legislation passed in the wake of the federal Affordable Care Act (ACA) made it easier for local governments to join the state program.

The state health plan is of-fered only to current employ-ees and dependents through

House Bill 154, which was signed into law on June 24.

The resolution does not commit the city to joining the program, Currie explained, but officially states the city’s request to join.

Currently the city bud-gets $560,000 per year for employee benefits, Currie said. Benefit costs have risen virtually every year for the past decade.

“We could potentially save $100,000 a year under the state plan,” he said.

Currie said staff will meet with state officials on the plan, and report to the coun-cil with some options.

City Schools’ open house scheduleBy WALLYCE TODD

Staff Writer

It’s about to be a new aca-demic year for the Whiteville City Schools, so each school is hosting an open house.

The times at each campus will be for parents to come

and meet teachers and to learn about school policies and procedures.

The schedule is as follows:W h i t e v i l l e P r i m a r y

School, Thursday, Aug. 20, 4–6 p.m.

Edgewood Elementary School, Thursday, August 20,

4–7 p.m.Central Middle School,

Thursday, August 20, 1– 7 p.m.Whiteville High School,

Thursday, August 20, 1-7 p.m.North Whiteville Acad-

emy, no open house; transi-tion meetings will be held on an individual basis.

Staff photo by FULLER ROYAL

After more than 100 trees were removed in the spring, Felix Smith Park awaits new equipment ... and youngsters.

By NICOLE CARTRETTENews Editor

North Carolina Secretary of State Elaine Marshall visit-ed Columbus County Wednes-day and was a guest speaker at a “Modern Times, Modern Crimes” program at South-eastern Community College.

“I’m going to turn them into a lean, mean, investment-fraud-fighting machines,” Marshall said in an interview Wednesday prior to the event.

Marshall said while Bernie Madoff is the most famous for his financial schemes, “he isn’t the first nor will he be the last scammer out there.”

$189 millionMarshall’s office, among

other duties, deals with busi-ness and financial scams. Last year, 15 people were arrested or convicted of scamming 600 to 700 victims across the state out of $189 million.

“That’s $130,000 per person of known losses,” Marshall said. “Sometimes people do not report when they have been scammed because they are embarrassed about it.”

She said seniors are often afraid to tell family members because they fear a loss of control of their own finances.

“What they have saved for their golden years should not to be gold in someone else’s pocket,” Marshall said.

After 19 years leading the Secretary of States office, Mar-shall hasn’t grown tired of her work in public office.

“I still have challenges as secretary of state,” Marshall said. “Cyber crime is an ever evident threat.”

Business identity fraud is another issue her office works to combat, she said.

“I am fascinated by the cas-es we get and how we develop them,” Marshall said.

Many of those cases end up in federal court where there is a greater chance of helping victims get back some of their losses.

“In state court, that is very, very hard to do,” Marshall said. “In most cases there is nothing or very little to liq-uidate.”

Ponzi schemesShe said those running

Ponzi schemes take money to “prop them up and look pros-perous in the community.”

They spend the money and getting it back is a challenge, she said.

The department is made up of fewer than 200 employees with about a quarter of them attorneys like Marshall.

“Most are in the securities division as prosecutors,” she

said.The first woman to hold

the position as a state cabinet member is well-known for having one of the most unique political races in history when she edged Richard Petty out of a win.

She is proud of her work to break gender barriers.

“When you meet young women or you meet the par-ents of little girls and they say this is a role model, this woman broke barriers for you and everybody else its gratifying,” Marshall said. “We can tell young people you can be anything you want to be, but visualization is very important. If they don’t see someone doing that kind of thing it is very had for them to think about themselves being an elected official.”

She was speaking from experience.

‘Never dreamed’“When I was in school, I

never saw a woman legislator in my classroom. I never saw a woman lawyer when we had career days and things like that. So I never dreamed I could be either one of those,” Marshall said.

She sought a law degree 10 years after she graduated from college. She said wanted to change things that she be-lieved were unjust.

She pointed out that prior to better equitable distribution laws in the state, women lost control of any property they owned prior to marriage.

“Women who were stay-at-home homemakers frequently got starved out,” Marshall said.

“In the early days, a pension was not property that could be divided, and in some cases

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Loose dog kills cats at shelterBy JEFFERSON WEAVER

Staff Writer

A bulldog at the Columbus County Animal Shelter killed at least 14 felines over the weekend, after a worker left a kennel unhooked.

Animal Control Supervisor Rossie Hayes said Whiteville Animal Control Officer Elijah Kemp was cleaning the cages and feeding on Saturday when he apparently didn’t latch the gate on a kennel. Kemp was working part-time for the shelter outside of his duties with the city.

“The dog got loose after he left, and got into the quaran-tine room,” Hayes said. “One of the staff found it Monday morning when we opened.”

A mother cat and 13 kittens from several litters were in the quarantine area due to an eye infection, Hayes said.

The roughly 7-year-old bull-dog was picked up as a stray at the request of a resident, Hayes said. The dog had been at the shelter for a week to 10 days.

While the law requires a surrendered animal be held only for 72 hours, many dogs and cats at the shelter are held at the request of various animal rescue groups, Hayes explained. The bulldog was on a hold list for rehoming.

Hayes said a rescue group picked the dog up Monday and took it to a Fairmont veterinarian for transfer to a foster home.

“I think they thought we were going to euthanize it im-mediately,” Hayes said.

The dog was friendly, and had showed no signs of being dangerous, Hayes said.

“He’s been a good dog,” Hayes said. “You see them when they come in, and you can usually tell if one’s going to be a problem. This one was real sociable, and wasn’t any trouble at all.”

Hayes said some procedural changes will be made at the shelter to prevent a similar event from happening again. Most of the gates latch au-tomatically, Hayes said, but the one the dog escaped from

sometimes required being manually locked.

Kemp has been terminated from the part-time work at the shelter, Hayes said.

“There’s no way to predict something like this is going to happen,” Hayes said. “You do all you can to prevent things like this, but sometimes things are going to happen, no matter what you do.”

City Manager Darren Cur-rie said Kemp turned in his key in to the county shelter Tuesday.

He will now be required to turn over animals to county shelter employees.

In the rare instance that the city had a weekend pickup of an animal, Kemp could drop dogs and cats off at the shelter while servicing the shelter after hours.

“Now he’ll hand any ani-mals over to a county em-ployee,” Currie said.

Since the incident did not occur in the course of his du-ties with the city, Currie said the city will take no action in the case.

GO TELL COLUMBUS is a non-denominational, crusade ministry with evangelist Rick Gage to be held

October 4-7 2015 at South Columbus Football Stadium.

Saturday, August 15 Counselor TrainingMissionary Alliance Church623 Warrior TrailWhiteville, NC 28472 Morning Session:9:30 – Pastors10:00 – General Counselors Afternoon Session1:30 – Pastors2:00 – General Counselors Steve Peyson & Tim Miller

Saturday, August 22 Inspire Women’s Luncheon Western Prong Church167 Peacock RdWhiteville, NC 28472 11:30 a.m. Ann Platz, speaker

Sunday, August 23Sunday, August 30Sunday, September 6Sunday, September 13Sunday, September 20 Each One Reach One Sunday All churchesCommitment to pray for the lost cards will be given to congregations.

Saturday, August 29 Prayer Breakfast$10 ticket (to cover expenses) ECHS 8:30 a.m.Rev. Gregory Spaulding, speaker

Saturday, September 12 Block Party/Talent CompetitionWinner will open for New Song on Monday night of crusade.“Columbus Got Talent” Columbus County Fairgrounds Sound check at 12:00 Competition begins afterward (1:00-1:30) Solo, groups, interpretive movement, mime, stick teams, bands, etc. Application form to be in The News Reporter. Deadline: September 5Judges from surrounding counties.

Sunday, September 13 Crusade Challenge Sunday Love offering taken in each church.

Saturday, September 19Saturday, September 26Saturday, October 3 Flyer DistributionPublicity Committee

Saturday, September 26 Day of Individual Prayer & Fasting

Monday, September 28 Prayer/DedicationSCHS Football Stadium 6:30 p.m. Pastors and Go Tell Leadership Teams

Saturday, October 3 Youth Rally SCHS Auditorium 6:00Youth Committee

MASS CHOIR: Monday, August 17 - I will only need to meet with one representative from each church to pass out music and rehearsal CD’s for their participants. Rehearsals: August 24, 27 & 31 and September 14, 21 & 28 Chadbourn Pentecostal Holiness Church at 7:00pm for the above dates. Rehearsal with Chuck Sullivan will be October 3rd. The place and time will be announced.

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By ALLEN TURNERStaff Writer

Although a final deal has yet to be struck, negotiations between R.J. Corman Rail-road Group and Ken Pippin, owner of Carolina Southern Railroad are “getting closer” for Corman to purchase the assets of the railroad.

“Nothing has happened yet,” Henderson said, “but I still think the phrase ‘sooner rather than later’ is accu-rate.”

“This is a big transaction and we have addressed all the

major issues. “Everything big has been

taken care of. “We’ve just got to get a

couple of little things ironed out and I think we’ll soon be moving forward.”

He said a lot of progress has been made between the Corman group and Pippin and he is hopeful that ev-erything will be resolved in direct talks between the two without having to involve a court-appointed mediator who several weeks ago or-dered that the sale to Corman go forward.

All funds to effect the sale of the railroad are in an es-crow account with a South Carolina court.

Those funds will be trans-ferred to Pippin.

Corman will take owner-ship of the railroad assets as soon as the unnamed minor snags have been worked out.

“We are confident enough that this thing will come to pass soon that we’re working hard with our potential cus-tomer base in Columbus and Horry counties and we’re planning on moving forward very soon,” Henderson said.

Rail talks ‘getting closer’

Stadium has new parking rules By NICOLE CARTRETTE

News Editor

Whiteville City Schools and the N.C. Department of Transportation are looking to alleviate game-day parking issues at Legion Stadium with additional parking spaces and new traffic patterns.

Alterations go into effect with the first game on Aug. 21.

Officials plan to route exit-ing traffic from the lots in two different directions.

Those parked in a leased lot behind the county bus garage will exit the stadium by turn-ing right onto the Chadbourn Highway eastbound toward Whiteville.

Vehicles parked in the front lot adjacent to the highway will be directed to turn left out of the stadium westbound toward Chadbourn.

Those drivers turning left will need to head back to Whiteville via a left on Fruit Ridge and left on Pine Log

roads or take a right on Union Valley Road to access U.S. 74-76.

A leased lot at the Colum-bus County schools bus ga-rage brings the total number of parking spaces at Legion Stadium to 600 or 700, said Whiteville City Schools su-perintendent Kenny Garland.

“We will fill the leased bus garage area first with non-handicapped parking,” Gar-land said.

No-parking signs will be installed along the roadside.

“We are trying to work with law enforcement on dismissal and to eliminate parking along the side of the road,” Garland said.

Parking along the roadside has been a safety concern for years.

As of this week, the NCDOT had installed one of the two new entrances for the new parking arrangement at the stadium, Garland said.

A new gate has been in-

stalled for fans to enter and exit the home stands from the new area. New gravel will fill the driveways from the new access areas and additional lighting in the parking areas is being installed.

“I respectfully request fans adhere to the new procedures as we promote the safety and well-being of all our fans at-tending the events,” Garland said.

Drew Cox, district engineer for the NCDOT created the new traffic design, Garland said. “I think it’s a good plan,” Garland said. “This one makes a lot of sense when I look at it on paper.”

Garland knows change is not easy but believes it is for the best.

“There are going to be some fans who have parked in the same place for fifty years. It’s kind of like church: every-body sits in the same place but we are doing it for the safety of our fans,” Garland said.

A public hearing on pos-sible revisions to the county’s land use ordinance that had been scheduled for Aug. 17 will not be held because the required legal notice was not published in advance of the meeting.

The News Reporter Monday reported that the hearing

would be held because the Co-lumbus County Board of Com-missioners voted at their last meeting to hold the hearing on Aug. 17. However, because the county failed to publish the required legal notice, it will have to be rescheduled for an as-yet-to-be-determined date sometime after Labor Day.

No land-use hearing

BridgingWhiteville Girl Scout Troop 4265 held a bridging ceremony Saturday at the Girl Scout hut in Whiteville. Present were, back row, left to right, Brownies turned Juniors Kaylee Cartrette, Lorelai Palmer and Ella Cartrette; front row, left to right, Daisies Morgan Cartrette, Dennisha Richardson, Tesla Boswell, Caroline Palmer and Brownie Addi-son Cameron. Troop leaders are Sarah McGee, Michele Edwards and Vicky Sealy. Not pictured are Girl Scouts Michaela Smith, Paisley Clemmons, Piper Powell and Madison Monroe.

By JEFFERSON WEAVERStaff Writer

The parking lot at the Bolton Town Hall is gaining a few spaces, after the town board approved the sale of several surplus vehicles at its recent meeting.

Town aldermen approved the sale of several police cruis-

ers, a truck and a boat at their August meeting. Bids on a 1994 Plymouth Acclaim sedan and a 1998 Ford Crown Victoria were not accepted. Another 1998 Crown Victoria had no bidders.

Lester Frink was the high bidder on a boat and the for-mer town utility truck, a 1990 Chevrolet. Frink’s bids were

$1,000 for the truck and $250 for the boat.

Cars from the now-closed police department made up most of the surplus list.

Rashid Johnson had the high bid of $400 for the 1996 Crown Victoria, as well as the 1999 and 2004 Crown Victorias, at $500 and $900, respectively.

The money for the vehicles will be returned to the general fund.

Bolton thins vehicle fleet

WTS cleanup day is Aug. 15W i l l i a m s T o w n s h i p

School’s annual “Back to School Cleanup Day” is Satur-day, Aug. 15 from 8 a.m. until noon.

The community is invited to bring rakes, clippers and mowers and join in the beau-tification effort.

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ShopliftersMonica Powell Jenkins, 50,

of Coleman Cemetery Road, Cerro Gordo, was found Aug. 10 stealing a candle, valued at $5, from the Tabor City Family Dollar store. She was cited by Tabor City police and banned from the store, a report shows.

A man paid for some items in a shopping buggy, but ran out of the Tabor City Family Dollar store when asked on Aug. 9 about items under his shirt. The suspect got into a vehicle and fled the parking area, a police officer reported.

ToeWayne Allen Ray Jacobs, 37,

of Mollie-Iron Hill Road, Clar-endon, shot himself in his left foot about 8:30 p.m. on Aug. 7, according to a sheriff ’s report.

Jacobs was at home and cleaning an Ithaca shotgun when it fired while pointed to the ground. The third toe on Jacobs’ left foot was mangled by birdshot.

Break-ins, theftsThe following were victims of a break-in and/or theft re-

ported on date shown:• Aug. 12 – David Arthur Wright, Wright Road, Tabor City –

theft of wood, one-man boat.• Aug. 12 – Mary Craft Jacobs, Lacy Woodbury, Spearman

Road, Bolton – break-in, theft of 46-inch cut Troy Bilt riding mower, gas-powered grass trimmer, medication.

• Aug. 12 – Mark Laverne Cartrette, Peacock Garden Lane, Whiteville – break-in, theft of 24-inch Stihl chain saw.

• Aug. 11 – Jennie Lee Wilson, Doodle Hill Road, Cerro Gordo – break-in, theft of 10 Case knives, .22 rifle, medication.

• Aug. 11 – Dianne Beck Long, 5700 block of N.C. 905, Nakina – break-in, theft of Kindle 10-inch tablet, 42-inch LG TV.

• Aug. 11 – Sherry Carter, Ward Town Road South, Whiteville – break-in, theft of Hewett Packard laptop computer, two sets of computer speakers.

• Aug. 10 – Donna Yancheck Smith, Bell Street, Tabor City – attempted break-in.

• Aug. 10 – Jerry Donald Williams, Tina Penny, Hickory Hill Road, Chadbourn – theft of cash, lockbox, deed, assorted jewelry, medication.

• Aug. 10 – Betty Westbrook Johnson, Valley Acres Drive, Whiteville – theft of riding mower.

• Aug. 10 – Ricky Lee Goodwin, Ward Town Road, Whiteville – theft of American Tactics 9mm pistol, 52-inch Sony TV.

• Aug. 10 – Glenn Andrew Best, 18900 block of U.S. 74-76, Bolton – break-in, theft of Craftsman chain saw and hedge trimmer.

• Aug. 10 – Coastal Carolina Behavioral Healthcare, South Madison Street, Whiteville – break-in, theft of Vizio TV, Toshiba laptop computer, Hewett Packard laptop computer, two other laptop computers, cash.

N.C. seafood processor fined for mislabeling shrimp

CreditTimothy Wade Fowler II,

31, of U.S. 701 South, Whiteville, w a s s e n -t e n c e d t o ja i l for 80 d a y s l a s t week when he pleaded in Superior Court in a break-in and theft case where copper wire was stolen from Lacy Thompson Jr. Fowler had a credit of the same number of days. This was his first criminal conviction.

Fowler

ProbationAlexandria McLaurin, 22,

o f W h i t e -v i l l e , w a s p l a c e d o n probation for three years l a s t w e e k i n C o l u m -bus County S u p e r i o r Court after she pleaded to assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, inflicting serious injuries.

McLaurin admitted she used a knife in March 2014 to wound Talnisha Shipman. McLaurin was also ordered to serve three days in jail under the direction of her probation officer. A prison term of 20 to 36 months was suspended.

McLaurin

Involuntary manslaughtercharge faces crash driver

Samuel Bracey Jacobs III, 20, of Southwood Road, Whiteville, was arrested Tuesday, Aug. 11, on a felony charge of involuntary man-slaughter involving the ve-hicle death of an Ocean Isle Beach woman in Whiteville on Aug. 5.

Whiteville Police Detec-tive Sgt. Andre Jackson obtained the warrant that shows Jacobs were derelict while driving his pickup truck south on the U.S. 701 Bypass after a heavy rain left puddles of water on the road in the area between Love Mill Road and Hay Street.

Jacobs’ pickup, headed south, spun out of control and crossed to the left where it was struck in the passen-ger side by a four-door car driven by Robert Alexander of Ocean Isle Beach.

The impact pinned Alex-ander and his wife, Thelma Autry Alexander, 86, in the car. Thelma Alexander died of her injuries soon after the wreck. The couple, for-mer residents of Fayette-

ville, was returning to their beach home after attending the funeral of a grandson in Fayetteville.

Jacobs is also charged with driving with no insur-ance and with an expired license tag. A blood sample was taken from both driv-ers at Columbus Regional Healthcare, and it is expect-ed to be several weeks before an analysis is available.

If blood from Jacobs or Alexander show impair-ment by drugs or alcohol, a felony charge of motor ve-hicle death can be obtained against the offender.

Samuel Bracey Jacobs III

PWISDJennifer Marie Boswell,

35, of Green M e a d o w s Lane, White-v i l l e , h a s b e e n a r -rested on a c h a r g e o f possession of marijuana with intent to sell and deliver the illegal drug on a warrant obtained by Sheriff ’s Drug Detective Sgt. Barett Thompson. She had seven grams of marijuana at the time of her arrest.

Boswell

FraudSaundra Benoy, 46, of Stan-

ley Circle, Whiteville, has been ar-rested on a c h a r g e o f t h e f t o f a firearm, and three counts of fraud for using a sto-len bankcard on warrants obtained by Sheriff ’s Detective Scott Norris.

Benoy is charged with steal-ing Benjamin Larry Ward’s Mossberg 12-gauge shotgun during the period of July 27-29, plus using Geraldine H. Ward’s bankcard to get cash and goods valued at more than $1,100.

The fraud cases are all from July 28. Benoy got $480 in cash, then $39.54 in goods at White-ville’s Time Saver convenience store, plus went to Walmart and got $605.56 in goods and cash.

Benoy

Two felons arrestedwith revolver and rifle

Bazzle Jerome McClure, 29, and Terrance Tyron Gore, 41, were ar-rested Sun-day, Aug. 9 during a traf-fic stop near Tabor City and charged with possession of a firearm by a felon, plus possession of a stolen pistol.

Sheriff ’s Drug Detective Sgt Barett Thompson obtained the warrants.

McClure now has a Mt. Airy address, but formerly lived in Clarendon and Tabor City, plus Green Sea and Loris, S.C. Gore’s address is Yam Lane in Ridgeland Acres southeast of Tabor City.

A Rossi .38 pistol, stolen f r o m T e d Spivey Jr. , was found in possession of the two sus-pects, plus a Colt rifle was also found in

the vehicle.McClure’s most recent felo-

ny conviction was for attempted trafficking in cocaine in Surry County in April 2010. Gore’s prior felony conviction was for forgery in May 2014.

McClure was also charged with DWI, driving with while his license is revoked, and pos-session of an open container of alcohol in the vehicle passenger area.

McClure Gore

North Carolina-based sea-food processor and wholesale distributor Alphin Brothers Inc., was sentenced in federal court for falsely labeling im-ported shrimp, the Justice De-partment announced this week.

Pursuant to plea agreement

entered on Feb. 10, 2015, Alphin Brothers Inc., pleaded guilty to one felony count of making or submitting false records in violation of the Lacey Act. Court documents state that an Alphin Brothers employee, who purchased and sold shrimp on the company’s behalf, directed Alphin Brothers employees and employees of another seafood processing facility to falsely label approximately 25,000 pounds of farm-raised im-ported shrimp as wild-caught product of the United States. The falsely labeled shrimp was later sold by Alphin Brothers in interstate commerce to custom-ers in Louisiana.

Consistent with the plea agreement, the court sentenced Alphin Brothers Inc., to pay a criminal fine of $100,000 and to forfeit approximately 21,450 pounds of shrimp. The company also will serve three years of probation, including a special condition requiring the company to implement a training program to educate its employees on federal labeling requirements, as they relate to business activities at the company.

DamageA commercial truck, used

to haul U.S. mail, was damaged at the Tabor City Post Office, according to a report filed by a sheriff ’s deputy. The report was filed at 6:16 a.m. Damage was estimated at $1,000.

SolicitationA 55-year-old Whiteville

woman was arrested here Aug. 6 by local police on a charge of solicitation of prostitution, according to a report filed this week. The woman was given money to perform a sex act, and also given cash to provide her “customer” some cocaine, the report showed.

JailSamuel James Phillips,

30, of West T h i r d Av -enue, Chad-b o u r n , pleaded here recently in S u p e r i o r C o u r t t o misdemean-or counts of possession of marijuana, and maintaining his vehicle as a place to keep and use the drug, and was sent to jail for 30 days. He was arrested last August, and he has no days credit to-ward the jail term.

Phillips

Tips for safe online experiences As kids seem to grow up

faster in today’s digital age, parents are embracing wire-less technology to help them feel secure and stay connected to their families throughout the day. While smartphones and tablets can simplify our lives, sometimes parents strug-gle with how much freedom to give their kids online as well as offline. A recent study by the Pew Research Center found that nearly three in four (74 percent) teens ages 12-17 said they access the Internet on cellphones, tablets, and other mobile devices at least occasionally, so conversations around safe Internet use are a good first step in discussing safe cellphone use.

June is Internet Safety Month, and given the vastness of the Internet, many parents wonder how they should moni-tor their children’s use of the web. According to a recent U.S. Cellular survey, nearly half of parents (47percent) said their child has a cellphone, and the average age that children receive cellphones is 12 years old. The majority of parents establish cellphone rules, and two-thirds monitor their chil-dren’s cellphone usage, accord-ing to the same survey.

“At U.S. Cellular, we know that every family is different so

we suggest having open discus-sions about what works best for your family’s Internet use,” said Jeremy Taylor, director of sales for U.S. Cellular in east-ern North Carolina. “Mobile devices can help families stay connected, so we want to be a resource for parents as they make decisions on their child’s first cellphone and the Internet use that goes along with it.”

U.S. Cellular suggests the following tips for parents to help facilitate conversations about using the Internet on mobile devices:

• Have an agreement with your child(ren). U.S. Cellular has created a Parent-Child Agreement to help guide fami-lies’ conversations about mo-bile phone usage. The agree-ment focuses on safety and etiquette, and is customizable based on each family’s specific needs.

• Discuss online sharing. Make sure your children know to never share personal infor-mation online, including their name, age, address, school or passwords. Remind them to communicate only with family or friends and not to answer unknown requests or texts.

• Share photos appropri-ately: Kids may not know that

once photos are online they are part of a public space, and can even be modified without their knowledge. Discuss appro-priate use of sharing photos with friends and alert them to never post photos, which could contain information about where they live or be seen as inappropriate.

• Use a protective app. The U.S. Cellular Family Protector app provides safety and secu-rity by monitoring your child’s location and mobile usage. This service allows parents to review their child’s calls and texts, and restrict certain websites and apps. Children can also send their parents an alert with the simple press of a button if they are in trouble or find themselves in an un-comfortable situation.

¹Results are from a nation-ally representative online sur-vey of 738 smartphone owners conducted by U.S. Cellular in partnership with Maritz Research from Nov. 12-20, 2014.

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City movesContinued from page 1-A

Bald HeadContinued from page 1-A

Price said the lab experience at the Barrier Island Study Center fit well with her inter-est in science and nursing.

The visit was not a vaca-tion. Conservancy interns put the teens to work in classes with young children and had them follow college-age in-terns who live and study on Bald Head Island during the busy tourist season.

“They are helping con-serve the animals there,” said 16-year-old Hannah Longson. “We helped them with their jobs and summer programs.”

The star of the show was watching loggerhead sea tur-tles emerge from their san-dy nests and scamper to the ocean. If sea turtles could join the Bald Head Island Chamber of Commerce, they would be on the board of directors. A 2012 Stanford University study found that sea turtle-related tourism directly contributed $33 million a year to the island economy.

“They were helping the little turtles get to the ocean,” said Aliyah Crowley. “It was so cute.”

N.C. State University genet-ics major Avery Ashley said the trip gave him a deeper appreciation for the effort it takes turtles to nest and the work required for the hatch-lings to make it to the sea. “The emphasis on conserva-

tion here is cool,” he said.Patricia Faulk said she

saw a painted bunting, ibis

and cranes on her expedition. The highlight was watching puffball-like baby sea birds

near their roped-off nests on the sand, she said.

Kellie Lewis, an educa-

tion coordinator, and Vicki DiMuzio, an education spe-cialist, both with the N.C.

Museum of Natural Sciences at Whiteville accompanied the teens. All have assisted with the museum’s Teen Science Café, a regular program that brings hands-on experiences students won’t find in high school labs.

“These are my teen lead-ers,” said DiMuzio. “We’re trying to say ‘thank you’ for their extra effort.” Bald Head Island has many opportuni-ties for learning and the trip only scratched the surface, she said.

Suzanne Dorsey, director of the Conservancy, said a recent fundraiser with Baltimore Ravins coach John Harbaugh funded the outreach effort. It is a test run for future at-tempts to encourage young people from rural areas to study nature and science.

She said the staff wished for more time with the group.

“We enjoyed showing them around the island and giving them a taste of what we do every day,” Dorsey said. “We were so thrilled to host our six teens from Whiteville looking for ways to expand our reach and help as many families as we can and help kids along their paths.”

To learn more about the Conservancy, visit bhic.org. To learn more about the science museum, point your browser to naturalsciences.org

Front row, from left: Hannah Longson, Aliyah Crawley and Lauren DiMuzio. Back row, from left: Teen Science Café Coordinator Vicki DiMuzio, Teen Science Café coordinator and education specialist for the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences at Whiteville, Patri-cia Faulk, Victoria Price, Avery Ashley and Kellie Lewis, education coordinator for the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences at Whiteville.

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lated building without energy efficient windows,” Currie ex-plained. “We have doors that don’t close the whole way, and a host of other problems. It’s an old building – they’re hard to heat and cool.

“Just the cost savings in heating and air conditioning bills will be a big deal. The owners of the new offices are basically starting with a roof and outside walls – it will be insulated, energy-efficient.

“They’re working closely with the staff to plan out the office and workflow areas,” Currie said.

The planning and inspec-tions office will also be moving back with the main operations

of the city hall, Currie said. Those offices moved down-town after the mold outbreak in the basement was making workers sick.

The rental payments for that building will be applied to the new office lease, Currie said.

“It will be good to have everyone together under one roof again,” Currie said. “That makes it easier for our customers to take care of their business with the city as ef-ficiently as possible.”

The move itself will be daunting, Currie said, com-paring it to the county’s recent relocation of the clerk of court and other offices to the

new courthouse.“A big advantage they had

was that they could shut down for a few days,” Currie said. “We still have to be open every day; we have customers com-ing in, water bills going out, services to be taken care of.

“It’s going to be a challenge – we’re all ready making some preliminary plans. Logisti-cally, this is going to be a tough one.”

Whiteville isn’t the first municipality to take over retail space for government offices.

New Hanover County, Wilmington, Raleigh, Fay-etteville and other larger cities have utilized a variety

of former storefronts for city services that require large amounts of customer traffic.

Unlike those larger com-munities, the move is a tem-porary one for the city of Whiteville.

The city expects to shift the offices from the municipal building to Hill Plaza in 60 to 90 days, Currie said. The city will start a public information plan in the coming days, “so people have plenty of warn-ing.

“We have the responsibil-ity to continue providing the services everyone needs and expects,” Currie said. “We can’t just close the doors for a few days while we’re mov-

ing. This is going to take a lot of work and planning by the staff, but the end result will be worth it.”

After the move, Currie said, city officials will “take a deep breath, then sit back down to get back to work” on what to do about City Hall. The temporary move to Hill Plaza is expected to last two years, Currie said.

All options for cleaning or possibly replacing the city hall are being considered, Currie said, but he emphasized that current plans are for a return to the midtown municipal building.

The total estimated cost of the cleanup project is still up

in the air.“The only numbers we have

right now are from the 2012 study,” Currie said. “At that point, the city was looking at $300,000 for the mold, asbestos and lead, plus another $200,000 to $300,000 for other work be-fore we even got started.

That was just for down-stairs – that didn’t include the work on the upper floors.

“Before we can do anything else, we have to get moved. Then we can look at what it’s going to take to get all the building taken care of. We have a long way to go. We have to get moved into the new place, and keep our doors open at the same time.”

After the turtle release.

DeathsThe News Reporter, Thursday, August 13, 2015 -- 7A

DEATH NOTICEEDGAR FREEMAN JR.FAYETTEVILLE -- Edgar

Freeman Jr., died Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2015. He was the son of the late William Edgar and Maggie Freeman of Halls-boro.

Arrangements are incom-plete.

He is survived by Elsie Alston, Wells Freeman, Al-phonso Freeman, Donald Freeman and Judy Alston.

AVONDA MURIEL NORRISTABOR CITY -- Avonda Mu-

riel Norris, 56, died Thursday, Aug. 6, 2015.

Viewing was held Wednes-day, Aug. 12 in the chapel of Westside Funeral Home. A graveside service will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 13 at Columbus County Singing Union Cemetery.

She is survived by her daughter, Rhonda Heming-way; and five grandchildren.

VERGIANT DEVAUGHN BROWN

ELIZABETHTOWN -- Ver-giant Devaughn Brown, 59, died Monday, Aug. 10, 2015 at his residence.

A memorial service will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 15 at Jerusalem Missionary Baptist Church, 10133 Hwy. 211 East, Council. There will be no public viewing. Peoples Funeral Home of Whiteville is handling the arrangements.

Surviving are his mother, Annie B. Brown of Liberty Commons in Whiteville; three sisters, Victoria B. Mask of Durham, Edwina Campbell of Hinesville, Ga. and Ka-trice Brown of Greensboro; and one brother, Bobby Oliver Brown of Council.

Hallsboro Middle open house

Hallsboro Middle School will hold its open house Thursday, Aug. 20 from 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Students and families can meet teachers and parents may pay school fees at this time.

CARRIE ELIZABETH VEREEN

CHADBOURN -- Carrie Elizabeth Vereen, 100, died Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2015 at Columbus Regional Health-care.

Arrangements will be an-nounced by Peoples Funeral Home of Whiteville.

LUETTA POWELL LENNON

EVERGREEN -- Luetta Powell Lennon, 94, died Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2015 at Lower Cape Fear Hospice and LifeCare Center in Whiteville.

Arrangements will be an-nounced by Peoples Funeral Home of Whiteville.

Friends may visit the fam-ily at the home of Rev. Albert Singletary in Bladenboro.

BILLY STRICKLANDHORRY COUNTY, S.C. --

Billy Strickland, 70, of the Spring Branch community, died Sunday, Aug. 9, 2015 at Carolina Hospital in Flor-ence.

Bill was born in Tabor City, the son of the late Ernest and Gladys Prince Strickland. He was pre-ceded in death by his wife, Mary Jo Callahan Strick-land.

Bill Strickland loved his community. He was an avid fisherman who had a lifelong love of the Lum-ber River. He was a found-ing member of and a major force in the Causey Hunt-ing Club.

A native of Fair Bluff, he was self-employed, the own-er of a private club in the Spring Branch community, where he celebrated his 50th anniversary in busi-ness in May 2014.

Visitation was held Tues-day, Aug. 11 at Meares Fu-neral Home in Fair Bluff. A graveside service was held Wednesday, Aug. 12 at Riv-erside Cemetery in Nichols, S.C.

He leaves to cherish his memory three daughters, Sherry Strickland, of Lo-ris, S.C., Wendy Strickland Shoemaker of Surfside Beach, S.C., Billie Strick-land McWilliams of Con-way, S.C.; one sister, Ernes-tine McQueen of Fair Bluff; seven grandchildren, Bion Shoemaker Jr., Sarah Shoe-maker, Storm McWilliams, Haley McWilliams, Keelee Britt, Talon McWilliams and Logan McWilliams; a soon-to-be-born grandson, Rowan Bill McWilliams; and his constant compan-ion, his pet Jack Russell dog, Daisy.

Memorials may be made to the Causey Hunting Club, Youth Hunting Pro-gram, Attn: Wendy Shoe-maker, 5971 Hwy. 76 Nich-ols, S.C. 29581.

MARY ANN CORLEYMULLINS, S.C. -- Mary

Ann Corley lost her fight with cancer after a long and courageous battle on Aug. 11, 2015. Born in Lum-berton Dec. 10, 1950, she was the daughter of the late Mary Wren and Ira H. Warwick.

After graduating from college, Mary Ann began her professional career as a social worker in children’s services with the Marion County Department of So-cial Services and retired from the Department of So-cial Services as Director of Region IV Adoptions.

She was a very active member of Macedonia United Methodist Church in Mullins, S.C., where she served on numerous com-mittees and held many leadership positions. She was the first female chair-person of the Finance Com-mittee. Her passion was missions and she went on numerous mission trips to various locales. Mary Ann served as chairperson of the Missions Committee for many years until her health would no longer permit her to serve. The Macedo-nia Methodist Men’s Club awarded the Susanna Wes-ley Award this year for her lifetime of service to the Methodist church.

Mary Ann served as di-rector of the Greater Mul-lins Chamber of Commerce and was awarded the Com-munity Service Award in 2007. The Woodmen of the World awarded her a com-munity Service Award in 2008.

Her community activi-ties included volunteer-ing at the Mullins Helping Hands Medical Clinic. She loved interacting with chil-dren at the local elementa-ry school volunteering her time by reading books.

The family received friends Wednesday, Aug. 12 at Cox-Collins Funeral Home. A celebration of life service will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 13 at Macedonia United Method-ist Church.

Mary Ann is survived by her husband, Bob, of the home; one sister, Peggy Warwick (John) of Shelburne Falls, Mass.; a brother, Ira Warwick, his children, Simone, Leslie, and Ira Jr. of Whiteville; a brother, Edward Warwick (Sook), and their children, Aaron, Joshua, and Mary Grace, of Tampa, Florida; and her devoted golden re-triever, “Sport.”

A special thank you to her caregivers, Mary Dunkin and Mollie Smith.

Memorials may be made to Macedonia United Meth-odist Church, 402 N. Main Street, Mullins, S.C. 29574 or Epworth Children’s Home. P.O. Box 50466, Co-lumbia, S.C. 29250.

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St. Paul HC usher anniversary

St. Paul Holiness Church will hold its annual Usher Anniversary Sunday, Aug. 16 at 3:30 p.m. The speaker will be Betty Bryant of United Pentecostal Church of Christ, Whiteville.

The church is located at 215 W. Smith Street, Chadbourn.

Bishop E. Davis is the pastor.

Veterans benefit fair Aug. 21

A veterans benefit fair will be held Friday, Aug. 21 from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. at the Brunswick-Waccamaw Missionary Bap-tist Association, located at 600 Pine Log Road in Whiteville.

Veterans can learn more about education, dependent care and employment benefits as well as file or check on a claim for service related dis-ability benefits.

The Fayetteville Rural Health Team from the VA Medical Center, representa-tives with the Veterans Ben-efit Administration Winston Salem Regional Office, vet-eran service officers, Vet Cen-ter mobile unit and NC Works career staff and community college representatives are among those participating in this free event for veterans that is open to the public.

For more information, contact Melvin Peterson at 308-1183 or Ann Garrett at 212-2098.

Six million mealsState Employee Credit Union Foundation board chair McKinley Wooten Jr., left, and N.C. Association of Feeding America Food Banks executive director Alan Briggs met Aug. 6 to sign a $1.2 million agreement that will provide North Carolinians in need with six million additional meals over the next three years. The grant from State Employees’ Credit Union (SECU) members via their Foundation will add two million meals per year to clients served by North Carolina food banks – that’s one extra meal per year funded by each of the Credit Union’s two million members. The non-profit N.C. As-sociation serves as a strategic alliance for the six food banks and one food recovery organization in the state, and its affiliated network of 2,500 food pantries, shelters and community groups will help ensure the additional meals reach neighbors in all 100 North Carolina coun-ties.

Kelly Youth Focus Center registration

The Kelly Youth Focus Cen-ter is registering for its fall session Tuesday, Aug. 25-Fri-day, Aug. 28 from noon-4 p.m. Classes will begin Sept. 14 from 2:30-5 p.m. Seating is limited.

For more information call Hattie Kelly at 918-7583.

Union BC usher anniversary

Union Baptist Church will hold its annual Usher Anni-versary Sunday, Aug. 16 at 4 p.m. The guest speaker will be Dr. Carlos Shipman of Kings Domain Praise and Worship Center of Hallsboro along with is choir and congregation.

The church is located at 2290 Old Northeast Road, Lake Waccamaw.

Gregory W. Spaulding is the pastor.

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Artesia Alumni Associa-tion will hold a Family Fun Day Saturday, Sept. from 11 a.m.-6 p.m.

The event will be held at Bogue Park at Jockey and Red Bug roads, Hallsboro.

There will be food, fun, games and entertainment.

For more information call Sid Hazel at 918-3016.

Coast Guard exhibiton display in Manteo

A new exhibit, “A Heritage of Heroes: The Coast Guard in North Carolina,” has been launched by the Outer Banks History Center. The exhibit tells the story of the founding and impact of the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) in the 19th cen-tury, activities undertaken throughout the 20th century and the roles played by the service to this day providing maritime safety, mobility, se-curity, national defense and protection of natural resourc-es.

“A Heritage of Heroes” will be on display through Dec. 31, daily 9 a.m.-5 p.m. If anyone has Coast Guard memories to share or artifacts to loan the center for this exhibit, or want more information about the exhibit, contact the Out-er Banks History Center at obhc@ncdcr.gov or (252)473-2655. Follow us on Facebook for frequent updates.

“We are honoring the men and women who have served in the U.S. Coast Guard and its predecessors through the years,” said KaeLi Schurr, cu-rator and site manager of the center. “For many families in our region, pride in multigen-erational service in the Coast Guard is interwoven into their own family’s history.”

Visitors to “A Heritage of Heroes” will learn about the rich legacy of the U.S. Life-saving Service (USLSS) in North Carolina and how it merged with the Revenue Cutter Service 100 years ago in 1915 to form the U.S. Coast Guard. With miles of unprotected and treacher-ous coastline, surfmen of the USLSS were the region’s first responders of the late 19th

and early 20th century. At one time, 24 life-saving stations dotted the North Carolina coast.

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“A Heritage of Heroes” touches on the roles and mis-sions of the Coast Guard through the decades, includ-ing World Wars I and II, and ways that North Carolinians have served. Profiles of boat and air stations will join with recognition of medal recipi-ents to fill out the History Center’s telling of the North Carolina Coast Guard’s heri-tage and contributions. Learn about the heroes who have exemplified their motto, Sem-per Paratus (Always Ready), and view dramatic footage of actual rescues, including the survivors from the sinking of the HMS Bounty during Hur-ricane Sandy in 2012.

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Columbus County native and state Senator Norman Sanderson, a Pamlico County Republican, will be the fea-tured speaker at the Columbus County Republican Women’s Club meeting Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. in the new Columbus County Courthouse, 113 Court-house Square, Whiteville.

All members of the public are welcome to attend, said Wendy Pridgen of the Co-lumbus County Republican Women.

A 1969 graduate of West Columbus High School, Sand-erson is a native of the Ev-ergreen/Boardman area of Columbus County.

He was elected to the N.C. House of Representatives in 2010.

Two years later, he was elected to the N.C. Senate to represent Carteret, Craven and Pamlico counties.

T he Civi tas Inst i tute ranked him ninth of 123 in its“Conservative Effectiveness Rating.”

He is one of two Columbus County natives currently serv-ing in the N.C. Senate.

His West Columbus High School classmate, Bill Rabon, was first elected to the Senate in 2010.

Sanderson serves on the fol-lowing committees in the Sen-ate: Appropriations on General Government and Information Technology (co-chair), State and Local Government (co-chair), Insurance (vice-chair), Commerce, Finance, Judicial I, and Workforce and Econom-ic Development, Emergency Management Oversight Com-mittee.

He is the Senate co-chair of the N.C. Legislative Prayer Caucus and helped facilitate the Statewide Call To Prayer North Carolina at the State Capitol. He also co-sponsored the We Love NC Call To Prayer.

He and his wife, Linda, who

has family ties to Columbus County, have been married for 43 years.

They have been small busi-ness owners for more than 25 years in real estate manage-ment and childcare adminis-tration.

Sanderson also has experi-ence in law enforcement and Christian private school ad-ministration.

He says that growing up on a family farm in Columbus County helped him under-stand the value of a strong work ethic, enabling him to work tirelessly in his dual role as a legislator and business-man.

Earlier this year he re-ceived the N.C. Press Asso-ciation’s William C. Lassiter Award for promoting open and accessible government and the public’s right to know.

He also received the N.C. National Guard 2015 civilian commendation award.

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Some Columbus County farmers are now busy harvest-ing their corn crops and find-ing that the harvest is not as good as in recent years.

Continued hot, dry weather during much of the grain’s growing period is consid-ered responsible for a drop in harvest totals, according to Michael Shaw, row crop agent with the Cooperative Extension Service office for Columbus County.

“The yield is probably be-low average,” he added.

The 2014 corn crop yield in Columbus County was esti-mated to have been 132 bushels per acre, down 10 bushels per acre from the 2013 record-

setting 142 bushels per acre production.

Old crop corn was bringing $4.61 per bushel at Bladenboro and Clarkton feed mills, and new crop corn was selling at the mills at $4.51 per bushel as of Monday, Aug . 10.

Prices for the grain in-creased 17 to 18 cents per bushel from last week after the U.S. Department of Agricul-ture lowered its earlier yield estimate.

This year’s corn harvestprobably below average

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Williams Township School will host an open house Thurs-day, Aug. 20 from 4:30 to 7 p.m. Parents, grandparents, guard-ians and students are invited.

Telescopeprogramis Aug. 14

Ingram Planetarium out-reach educator Robert Morris will discuss the fundamental principles of electromagne-tism and the ways in which electromagnetic waves in-teract with matter in a free program at noon Aug. 14 at the planetarium at 7625 High Market Street in Sunset Beach.

Dr. Morris will then ex-plain how various types of telescopes collect different wavelengths of electromag-netic waves.

Admission to the Science in Small Bytes series on Fri-days at noon is free.

For more information, call (910) 575-0033 or visit www.MuseumPlanetarium.org.

Mary Ellen Rogers will talk about migrating water birds and raptors that she sees at Sea Biscuit Wildlife Shelter on Oak Island at the Museum of Coastal Carolina Aug. 18 at 6 p.m.

The program is co-spon-sored by Ocean Isle Beach Surf & Java. The Sea Biscuit Wildlife Shelter cares for in-jured or orphaned birds.

Rogers, founder of the shelter, said when she moved to the area in 2005 there was no facility that cared for local shorebirds that were injured or orphaned. The shelter treats about 350 birds a year. To protect the birds from un-

necessary disturbance and noise, the shelter is not open to the public.

Occasionally, an injured bird cannot be released into the wild due to the extent of its injuries and special permits allow Rogers to use these birds for educational purposes.

One such bird is Shadow

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and some other birds to the museum for the Aug. 18 pro-gram.

The museum is located at 21 East Second Street, Ocean Isle Beach.

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Sellers said she loves mov-ies, spaghetti and her cat So-phie. One of her deepest loves, however, can be found between the covers of a book. She is also a fervent lover of fiction.

Below, in her own words, she explains why fiction is her favorite genre. Look for more writing and photography from Sellers in the weeks to come on The News Reporter’s POP!

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Why I am a bibliophileI am passionate about

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I am immersed in other cultures, eras, and countries. I love that I am plunging into the unknown whenever I pick up a book.

I love the fact that I am constantly learning. I love that when I read, I am growing, changing, and evolving.

Fiction is my drug of choice.

This is because fiction is fiction; it isn’t real, it has never happened, nor will it ever happen. You can dream, imagine and create with fic-tion in a way that you cannot with non-fiction.

I relish the fact that when-ever I read a fiction novel, I can change scenarios, I can feel all of the intense emotions that the book provokes and know “it was never real.”

I feel like I know and un-derstand the characters, yet I love that in the end, none of it is real.

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I thirst for knowledge. That is where my passion for read-ing stems.

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David Clinton of Szostak Design Inc. presented a $19,500 proposal for the planning ser-vices the company could offer to Whiteville City Schools at the Monday night board of education meeting.

The proposal was in re-sponse to an earlier request of the county commissioners to see a long-range facilities study within both schools systems in Columbus County. The commissioners said they were willing to pay for half of the cost of such a plan for each school district.

Clinton and his colleague, Dr. Larry Mabe, attended the meeting though Clinton was the only one to speak.

A principal designer for Szostak, Clinton has been in-volved with Columbus County Schools on number of proj-ects including designing the new building at Old Dock El-ementary School, which will replace the one that burned Jan. 7.

The property accounting fee would be $19,050 for gthe city schools.

If this cost is close to cor-rect, it would make the esti-mated costs of facilities evalu-ations for both local school district equal closer to $60,000.

Previously, Columbus County Manager Bill Clark said he knew the combined cost of the plan(s) could be more than anticipated.

He originally stated he anticipated the total cost to be around $50,000.

As it stands, the proposed

cost for a Columbus County Schools long-range facilities plan – also proposed by Clin-ton and Scozstak Design – is estimated to be $40,000.

“What we do takes time,” Clinton explained Monday night. “And that’s what we are charging for, our time.”

Clinton noted Szostak does not render opinions, but rather they give their cli -ents facts on dif fer-ent ways t o m o v e f o r w a r d . “We make no sugges-t i o n s o n academics, and we in-corporate i n w h a t your exist-ing stan-dards are,” he said.

From the proposal – copies of which were provided to each member of the school board – Clinton detailed what would be involved in the “eval-uation to determine the opti-mal facility requirements for schools in Whiteville City.

“While the current school arrangement is satisfactory, you have asked us to provide you a proposal for evaluating the conditions and operational costs of each school and what will need to occur for each school to meet the minimum programs standards of the N.C. Department of Public Instruction.”

“In addition,” the proposal

stated “you would like us to evaluate and compare the ef-ficiencies of upgrading the current high school campus versus the potentiality of cre-ating a new campus for this school program. This evalua-tion will include two possible outcomes:

“1. Maintain the schools as they cur-re n t ly o p -erate, with u p g r a d e s required by program re-quirements.

“2. Create a new high school and m a i n t a i n other cam-puses as they exist, with u p g r a d e s r e q u i r e d by program r e q u i r e -ments.”

Szostak’s proposal estimat-ed 117 hours would be spent in the property accounting of the four main campuses of White-ville City Schools district, also including the buildings utilized by North Whiteville Academy.

Other estimated costs in-cluded evaluating educational programs and suitability of sites.

The school board members did not take any action on the proposal during the open ses-sion of Monday’s meeting.

The next regular meeting of the Whiteville City Schools Board of Education will be held at the Central Office on Monday, Sept. 14 at 6:30 p.m.

“What we do takes time, and that’s what we are charging for, our time. We make no suggestions on academics, and we incor-porate in what your exist-ing standards are.”

David Clinton Szostak Design Inc.

Design company proposes long-range facility plan for Whiteville City Schools

David Clinton of Szostak Design presents the company’s proposal for a long-range fa-cilities plan for Whiteville City schools, while his colleague, Dr. Larry Mabe, observes.

Time is running out for lo-cal teachers to apply for grants of up to $2,000 from Brunswick Electric Membership Corpora-tion’s Bright Ideas education grant program.

Educators with creative ideas for hands-on classroom projects must submit their applications by Sept. 21.

Teachers who submit their applications by the early bird deadline of Aug. 14 will be entered into a statewide draw-ing for one of five $100 Visa gift cards.

The early bird prize win-ners will be notified and rec-ognized on the Bright Ideas website and Facebook page at www.facebook.com/ncbright-ideas.

In addition, BEMC will award an additional $100 Visa gift card locally to an applicant

from the BEMC service area.The application, grant-writ-

ing tips and more information can be found on the Bright Ideas grant website at www.ncbrightideas.com.

The application requires an outline of the proposed project, a detailed budget and a description of the benefit to students.

Applicants are encouraged to highlight the innovative, creative elements of the proj-ect and to proofread carefully.

“Since 1994, the Bright Ideas education grant pro-gram has provided more than $9.6 million for 9,200 projects benefitting more than 1.8 mil-lion students in North Caro-lina,” said Don Hughes, CEO/general manager of BEMC. “We are committed to local communities, and we believe

there’s no better way to con-tribute than by investing in the education of our youth.”

Submit applications by the early bird deadline of Aug. 14; applications will be accepted through Sept. 21.

Deadline approaching forBEMC Bright Ideas grants

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The pointColumbus Regional Healthcare is one of Co-lumbus County’s great-est assets. The new MRI system is just the latest example of the nearly 80-year-old institution’s efforts to remain on the “cutting edge” of mod-ern medicine.

Send letters to the editor or contact editorial page editor Les High at leshigh@whiteville.com, or mail them to PO Box 707, Whiteville N.C., 28472.

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CommentaryLimericks by Bob Aldrich

The delivery this week of Columbus Regional Healthcare’s new Magnetic Reso-nance Imaging magnet and diagnostic sys-tem – and the creation of a “caring suite” for patients undergoing scans – is further demonstration of the level of concern and d e d i c a t i o n the hospital’s leaders and staff have for the residents of Columbus County and southeastern North Caro-lina.

A n d t h a t is something that, far too often, we take for granted.

One need only look beyond our county’s borders to see examples of medical systems and hos-pitals that have suffered from the a lack of vision, a dearth of leadership and virtually no community support.

Despite a shaky start in the 1930s – it took our county two tries to pass a hospital bond – a long list of administrators, physi-cians, nurses and staffers, as well as busi-ness and civic leaders, have dedicated their lives to the advancement of local medicine, the improvement of the hospital and the increased quality of life for the community.

These men and women took seriously their roles in the medical community.

During the past three decades, espe-cially, Columbus Regional Healthcare has implemented programs and services that existed initially in few other locales, including some larger metropolitan areas.

The ingenuity of the hospital’s depart-ment heads has created a medical facility that has many cutting-edge aspects to it.

We hope that county leaders – and more importantly, county residents – realize the gem that Columbus Regional Healthcare is and the important role it plays in the life of 55,000 Columbus Countians.

Two old dogwoodsLately, I’ve noticed a few ar-

ticles in The News Reporter about the Madison Hill Apartments.

In 1954 i t was the Hotel Whiteville.

My wife, Candy, was a wait-ress, along with Mertie Ward and Mablene Walker. Helen Smith, Gola Smith’s niece, was the desk clerk. Aaron Troy and his wife, Sarah, were cooks. Suel Hodges was the valet/busboy.

I t w a s s u m m e r t i m e a n d Whiteville was a busy small town and close to tobacco season.

I was on 100 percent disability temporarily for three years from the Korean War.

One day, Mr. Hassell, the hotel manager, asked me if I would go

to McQueen’s Nursery and pick up two dogwood trees for the front lawn. Merlin McQueen told me it was a bad time to plant dogwoods, and that I should plant them in late fall or winter.

I had nothing to lose, so I went to my mother-in-law, Mattie Nobles Jordan, who lived in the Western Prong area. She told me to go to the wooded area of her farm and dig up two dogwood trees.

I set them out in front of the Ho-tel Whiteville and I watered them every day for about two weeks.

When you drove by Madison Hill apartments, those two dog-wood trees are 61 years old.

Someone has taken good care of them.

David IknerWhiteville

Enough trashMy husband has lived here on

Whitehall Road for years. He trav-els Whitehall Road almost every day. He has watched the trash build up more and more every day.

There are so many vacationers coming through the area to get to the beaches (which is great). But it breaks his heart to know all the trash they are seeing and just to know they are saying what a trashy state North Carolina is.

It is time to get this road cleaned up and to stop people from trash-ing it.

Donna JordanWhiteville

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When the Queen Anne’s Revenge disap-peared

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Enjoying a visit with one of my grandsons and his wife, it was fun for me to talk with them about the green stuff growing in rows a few miles from my home.

I explained to them that was tobacco and that cigarettes were made form this plant. We didn’t discuss much about tobacco ex-cept to talk about how much one pack of cigarettes cost. Since he was a non-smoker, and one who liked to save money, we moved on to another subject. However, when I visited the doctor’s office for routine blood work, several waiting patients joined with me as we laughed and talked about the ‘Good old days of tobacco time.”

One of the guys talked about how hot it was out in the field when gathering the green stuff, and he related that he had to stick his feet under the leaf of tobacco when gathering the stuff to keep from burning his feet in the hot dirt. Also by the time the croppers had broken an armload of tobacco and placed it in the contraption that held the week if it was early morning they were soaking wet on the side of their body that held the tobacco, but they didn’t mind because the moisture helped to cool their bodies.

We had a good laugh about the black-green gummy stuff that stuck to our bodes as well as our clothes and it didn’t wash off very easy and it was there to stay for a few days especially under the fingernails, of course that was just the strain of the plant.

Since the gathering of the tobacco on our farm was mostly done by men, the ladies took care of the tobacco once it reached the barn shelter, and it was a bit cooler there, but we ladies hated getting the black-green sticky stuff on our hands, because la-dies always wants nice-looking hands, but one young lady had a great idea concerning what we called “Tobacco hands” and she found some rubber gloves in a store and bought a pair, brought them to work and wow, when her tobacco working day was over, she had clean hands and the rest of us…well. Her reasoning was that she would be attending a business school for higher edu-cation in the fall and she wanted her hands to look nice. I thought that was a pretty cool idea.

My reader friends, I often think about those long, hot, sum-mer days when I was a little girl, and I wonder how we all made it without air-conditioning, but I guess you don’t miss things that were not available, but those were wonderful happy days with family and friends.

Join with me as we pray for each other every day and in every way. And as always, until next time, don’t forget God loves you and so do I.

Dr. MIKE WALDENNorth Carolina

Cooperative Extension

Operating a business is tough. Meeting payroll, hiring qualified workers, attracting buyers and complying with regulations are just a few of the challenges faced by business owners.

Statistics show 44 percent of new businesses shut down within three years. Opening a business is no guarantee it will be a success.

This is why I was excited re-cently to run across a small pa-perback book titled The Roadside MBA. Although written by univer-sity professors, this isn’t a typical textbook.

Instead, it’s a series of stories – 45 in total – based on the authors’ travels around the country (in-cluding North Carolina) and their visits to successful businesses (most of them small). Each chapter illustrates a principle of profitably running a firm.

Of course, I don’t have the space to discuss all 45 ideas. But here is a sample of those I consider to be at the top of the list.

Factor in Your Fixed Costs: There are two important kinds of costs for a business: fixed costs and variable costs. Fixed costs are the costs of machinery, equipment or any other input a business has to have just to be open.

For example, a restaurant needs a stove, refrigerator and other kitchen equipment, plus a space where customers eat. These costs are the same whether the restau-rant serves one meal a day or 100 meals, hence the term fixed costs.

In contrast, variable costs in-crease as the business sells more and decline as the business sells less. Continuing with our restau-rant example, food purchased for the meals is a prime example of variable costs: The more meals served, the more food has to be purchased.

An important business fact is that as sales increase, fixed costs per sale decline.

Say our restaurant has monthly fixed costs of $5,000. If 500 meals are sold during the month, fixed costs per meal are $10.

But if 1,000 meals are served, fixed costs per meal are only $5. One reason businesses like to sell more is that they lower their fixed costs per sale, meaning they can make more profit per sale or they can lower their price and be more competitive.

It’s typical for a beginning busi-ness that sales will be low, fixed costs per sale will be high, and profits will be low or non-existent. Not to panic; it may take time for customers to come around, and when they do, fixed costs per sale will drop. But if they don’t, it may be time to throw in the towel!

Build a Better Mousetrap: In business, if often pays to be differ-ent. Many successful businesses have been built on finding short-comings in the current market and developing ways to correct them.

Uber, the personalized taxi service, is using smart-phone technology to better coordinate trips for travelers.

Recently two entrepreneurs calculated the time and costs of installing misting services in supermarket vegetable sections.

They developed a company providing less costly and portable misting systems that many su-permarket chains are now using. There’s even an annual competi-tion for developing an improved mousetrap!

Treat Customers Differently: Successful businesses know not all their customers are alike.

Even though all customers may be purchasing the same general product or service, their costs of accessing the product or service can vary.

The authors of The Roadside MBA give an example of a gym in a small town.

Many of the customers came to the gym because it was close to home or work.

But to broaden the geographic scope of their customer base (and to reduce fixed costs per customer!), the gym operators put coupons in local newspapers in farther-away neighborhoods of-fering discounts on a membership. So members living nearby paid the full price, while members living farther away paid a lower price to compensate for their higher

travel costs.Go Around, Not Straight Ahead:

There are many advantages to be-ing a big business: Fixed costs are less of an issue, input prices are often lower due to bulk buying, lenders and advertisers may be more likely to cut big businesses a deal, and it’s easier to establish a brand-name and command the loyalty of consumers.

With all these pluses of being big, how’s a small business to survive?

One recommendation is, don’t compete head-to-head with the big guy, but go around him.

Don’t try to offer customers what the big business has. Instead, a small business should provide to customers what the big business doesn’t have.

And what might this be? Per-sonal service. A downside of being big is that the distance between the business decision-makers and customers can widen.

This results in less attentive-ness to customer needs and a slow-er response to solving problems.

Larger bureaucracies and a tendency to do things “by the book” can be drawbacks of big companies.

In contrast, small companies can be fast, responsive and more adaptive to special circumstances. It’s these benefits that small busi-nesses can push to allow them to successfully compete with the giants.

There are numerous other good tips for keeping a business alive, and you’ll find many of them in The Roadside MBA. If you are in business – or thinking of starting a business – I think you’ll decide it’s worth the trip!

Dr. Mike Walden is a William

Neal Reynolds Distinguished Pro-fessor and North Carolina Coop-erative Extension economist in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics of North Carolina State University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He teaches and writes on personal fi-nance, economic outlook and public policy. The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences communications unit provides his You Decide col-umn every two weeks.

You decide: How can a business stay afloat?

• To the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences at Whiteville for teaming with the Bald Head Island Conservancy in provid-ing youngsters with the opportunity to work with sea life and turtles.

• T o t h e C i t y o f Whiteville for preparing to outfit Felix Smith Park with new playground equipment – something it has needed for more than a decade.

• To the Department of Transportation and the Whiteville City Schools for working together to make parking safer at Legion Stadium this year.

People, Places and ThingsI might be old, but Keith Richards is older

The News Reporter, Thursday, August 13, 2015

By ALLEN TURNERStaff Writer

I’m probably getting too old to be going to rock con-certs if the last two I attended are an accurate measure.

On July 1, I was one of the 40,000 or so people in at-tendance at Carter-Finley Stadium in Raleigh for an appearance by the Rolling Stones and I don’t regret for a second my decision to attend.

It was the fifth time I had seen the Stones – in my hum-ble opinion the greatest rock and roll band of all time – and the third time I had seen them at Carter-Finley. I also saw them once at Bank of Amer-ica Stadium in Charlotte and once at the United Center in Chicago.

I enjoyed the most recent one in Raleigh more than any of the others. Not only did Mick Jagger and company put on an excellent show, but also the opening act, North Carolina’s Concord-based Avett Brothers, was superb.

From the time the Stones opened with “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” until they closed more than two hours later with an encore performance of “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction,” they rocked. There’s no other verb to use.

As I said, it was the best of the five shows I’ve seen them do.

The crowd was an eclectic one comprised of numerous generations of fans … some of them considerably older than me, but lots and lots of them considerably younger by a long shot.

It was a well-behaved crowd, too, much better-be-haved than the one at the last concert I had attended in Raleigh’s Walnut Creek Amphitheatre in September of last year.

Unlike Walnut Creek, where the alcohol flows freely and its use is strongly encour-aged to benefit the bottom line of the concert promoters, no alcohol was permitted at Carter-Finley and I didn’t notice any folks who man-aged to sneak a snort into the venue. There were no wafts in the air, either, of illegal substances being smoked (unlike Walnut Creek and, to be frank, unlike at the two previous Carter-Finley Stones shows I’d attended). As a matter of fact, I saw only one person ejected from the

stadium by the police, and I’m not sure what she did to cause a ruckus, even though she was sitting in our section.

So why do I think I’m get-ting too old for rock concerts? A couple of episodes, one of them at Carter-Finley and the other this past September at Walnut Creek, convinced me of that.

I s a t t h r o u g h the entire p ro c e e d -i n g s a t C a r t e r -Finley, the o p e n i n g a c t a n d the Stones p e r f o r -m a n c e , w i t h o u t taking a bathroom break. By the time the concert was over, I was pretty ready for some … er … facilities.

By the time the crowd thinned enough for us to make our way out of the venue, I was in pretty desper-ate need to find a restroom and essentially began force-marching myself in my quest. In that particular section of the concourse, there were ladies’ rooms all over the place, but no men’s rooms. I pushed myself too hard and got too winded, so much so that I finally had to stop and lean against a wall.

Some EMTs from a local rescue squad noticed I was having difficulty and came to me, bringing with them a folding chair in which they insisted I sit. They measured my blood oxygen level and it was only 81 percent. They immediately put an oxygen mask on me and summoned Wake County EMS.

One older gentleman, 75 if he was a day and probably older, standing about six and a half feet tall and wearing a Hawaiian shirt was look-ing at me kind of funny as he passed. He kept turning around and looking at me. Fi-nally, after he had gone about 30 feet past me, he turned around and came back and asked me if I was okay. I told him that I was all right and he said, “Well, I’m a cardiologist, and you don’t look okay.” He was satisfied when the EMTs told him that Wake EMS was on the way and he left mo-

ments later.Two paramedics and a

physician from Wake EMS arrived shortly thereafter. The oxygen the EMTs admin-istered got my O2 level back up into the upper 90s. The doctor from Wake EMS had the paramedics administer a Nebulizer treatment which also helped.

T h e y wanted to take me to the emer-g e n c y room, but I declined. The last t h i n g I w a n t e d to do was get mixed up in the ER at ei-ther Wake M e d o r Rex Hos-

pital at that time of the night (by now it was well after 1 in the morning) 120 miles from home. I promised them that when I got home I would see my primary care provider, which I did.

That doctor’s visit got me a referral to a cardiologist which, in turn, got me re-ferred to UNC Hospitals at Chapel Hill for a double car-diac catherization this past Friday. I was grateful and pleasantly surprised when the professionals in Chapel Hill found that I have no blockages and that my heart is very healthy for a man my age (66), particularly someone whose family history is heavy on heart problems. We’re back at square one in trying to determine the cause and treatment plan for my short-ness of breath, but we’ll get there.

I mentioned that I’d had a similar episode at Walnut Creek last September. At the time, I chalked it up to a long, long day. I was at Walnut Creek for Farm Aid, the ben-efit concert featuring dozens of artists, including Farm Aid board members Willie Nel-son, John Mellencamp, Neill Young and Dave Matthews. Unlike the Stones Concert, where I was a ticket-buying member of the public, I had press credentials for Farm Aid and had to pick up those credentials at 9 a.m. The con-cert didn’t start until after 12 noon with the opening acts and, by the time the show

was over after midnight, I was pretty tired as I began my trek to my car lugging 40 or 50 pounds of computer and camera equipment.

A Raleigh police officer saw me stopping to rest every minute or so and came to my aid, insisting that he carry my equipment. When he found out how far away my car was, though (on the very back side of the Walnut Creek property, where they had press parking in the employee parking lot), he got on his radio and sum-moned someone on a golf cart from Walnut Creek security to carry me to my car. It was greatly appreciated. My dif-ficulty should have given my hard-headed self a clue that something was wrong, but it didn’t. It took the episode at Carter-Finley to do that.

There are a couple of hi-larious memes circulating on the Internet about the Rolling Stones’ Keith Richards, who looks every day of his 71 years old, and then some. One of them has him glaring at the camera, a cigarette dangling from his mouth. The caption says, “I outlived Elvis, Mi-chael Jackson and Whitney Houston. Bet you never saw that coming.” The other has a picture of him looking par-ticularly rough. The caption says, “For every cigarette you smoke, God takes 10 minutes from your life and gives them to Keith Richards.”

So, even though I thor-oughly enjoyed the show by Mick Jagger, then 71 but now 72, Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood, 68, and Charlie Watts, 74, it probably was my last concert unless and until I get my health back in better shape.

I’m grateful for the oppor-tunity. I’m grateful that the heart caths in Chapel Hill last week uncovered no serious problems, and I’m grateful that I have other options for determining and correcting what is going on.

I’m very, very grateful.

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the house and the pension are the two main assets of the marriage,” she said. “Wives tended to not work outside the home so it kind of ended up being a man’s asset. The women had no entitlement to it, but now, fortunately, a lot of women do have their own pen-sions and either spouse has a claim against the pension of the other.”

SenatorShe served as a state sena-

tor in the early 1990s. When the opportunity to seek the office of secretary of state came, she saw it as a good fit for her.

In private practice she had experience with business for-mation, litigated a notary case and was familiar with trade-mark protection.

“I did a lot of the kinds of things that the office does, so it was a natural fit,” Marshall said.

In 2010 she lost a hard fought race for the U.S. Senate to incumbent Richard Burr.

“I wasn’t aware of how much the decision-making in Washington affected the cam-paign,” Marshall said.

That same year, in a 5-4 rul-ing, the U.S. Supreme Court voted that it was unconsti-tutional to limit campaign spending.

It meant that corporations and unions could spend un-limited amounts of money on campaigns as long as it was independent of a party or candidate.

‘Money chase’“I think there is way too

much money in these cam-paigns,” Marshall said. “Cam-paigns ought to be about a dia-logue with the people not just a dialogue with the donors.”

She described it as a “mon-ey chase.”

Marshall said she has no interest in any future federal senate race or even for state governor.

“I’m choosing not to spend every waking hour I have between now and election day raising money. Had I won that race, I would be doing it as an incumbent,” Marshall said.

As a Democrat working un-der a Republican administra-tion, Marshall said her office operates much like it always has in the past.

“The General Assembly supports business creation and economic development – heaven knows that’s what they talk about and that’s what they better be doing,” Marshall said. “I would never say they are generous to me, but they are willing to listen and invest in things that are going to return value to the public. If I can show them a clear pathway to assisting the business community, they are very ready, willing and able to listen.”

They don’t always fund her requests, but she said that is typical of any law enforcement person that you might ask.

“Do they want more re-sources?” she said. “The an-swer is always ‘yes.’”

TechnologyShe said moving the office

forward with new technology and giving the opportunities to file business documents online as well as research businesses online has been a great accom-plishment.

The office has received nu-merous awards for its technol-ogy.

“Our business, in addi-tion to helping people start businesses, is risk litigation. People go to that website every day,” she said. “Hundreds of thousands of people look at our site to help them make wise business decisions.”

The site averages a half to three-quarters of a million page views every day.

“Its figuring out ways that people can pursue their dreams as a business entities,” Marshall said. “I feel very good about being in law enforce-ment in those areas by either trying to help people get their dreams off the ground or by helping people try to protect an idea so that people don’t steal their dreams from them.

“That is quite rewarding and I enjoy my work very much,” Marshall said.

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Chadbourn Elementary School will host an open house Thursday, Aug. 20, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Pre-K slots are still available for students who are 4 years old on or before Aug. 31, 2015.

Registration will occur during open house and a par-ent/guardian should bring the child’s birth certificate, immunization record, Social

Security card, proof of resi-dence (electric, water or cable bill) or rent receipts. Call the office at 654-3825 for more de-tails. School supply lists can be found on the school Facebook Page, webpage or at Walmart.

Chadbourn Middle School

will host an open house Thurs-day, Aug. 20, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. School supply lists can be found on the school Facebook Page, webpage or at Walmart. Call the office at 654-4300 if you have any questions.

Chadbourn schools open house Aug. 20

Museum presents ‘Rethink Your Drink’

The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences at Whiteville invites you every third Saturday to join them for family friendly science programs.

“Rethink Your Drink,” will be presented on Saturday, Aug. 15 at 1:30 p.m.

This program, presented by Meleah Collier-Evers, will focus on the amount of sugar in vari-ous drinks and how those calories add up to weight gain or weight loss.

Collier-Evers is a family and consumer sciences extension agent with N.C. Cooperative Extension, Columbus County Center.

She teaches health and well-ness in Columbus County, as well as food safety and works with extension volunteers.

Admission is free, but dona-tions are greatly appreciated. Contact the museum at (910) 914-4185 or Whiteville@natu-ralsciences.org for more infor-

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items,” Columbus County Schools superintendent Alan Faulk said. “It’s very difficult to plan for staff and instruc-tion. With no known state budget, we are operating in the dark, which could result in staff reduction-in-force (RIF) and insufficient classroom materials.”

Smith is optimistic about budget talks moving at a faster pace now that leaders in the Senate have agreed to pull certain policy issues from the budget.

MedicaidMedicaid reform, tax incen-

tives for industry and the tax redistribution proposal will be voted on separate from the budget.

“All of those things were important enough individu-ally to go through commit-tee process instead of being lumped in a budget,” Smith said.

A department that is sepa-rate form the Department of Health and Human Services would oversee Medicaid un-der one proposal.

On Monday, the Senate passed bills on economic development and Medicaid reform.

“By working in good faith with our House and execu-tive branch colleagues, we’ve taken real steps to encourage economic development across the entire state, give Gov. Pat McCrory tools to recruit and retain jobs and finally help get Medicaid costs under control,” said Senate Leader Phil Berger, a Rockingham Republican in a press release. “We hope the House will join us in the spirit of compromise and support these very impor-tant goals.”

Sales taxThe latest sales tax redis-

tribution proposal returns the state to pre-2007 funding formulas. Under that policy, 50 percent of sales tax alloca-tions would be based on where people live and 50 percent based on point of sale.

The current model allo-cates just 25 percent based on where people live. It benefits metro areas the most.

Gov. Pat McCrory had promised to veto the original proposal that would shift as much as 80 percent to be based on population. Columbus County would gain slightly less than $1.3 million in new revenue under the 50-50 plan.

Rep. Kenny Waddell, a Chadbourn Democrat, said when the state negotiated with counties to relieve them of paying a portion of Medicaid costs in 2006, the state took a portion of sales tax money that was coming to the coun-ties.

At the time, roughly $6 mil-lion in local funds went for Columbus County’s Medicaid share.

Waddell said the Medic-aid swap benefited wealthier counties in additional to rural counties like Columbus.

Mecklenburg County had such a large Medicaid bill that it saved over $17 million, Wad-dell said.

The latest sales tax plan would result in a net loss for just 12 counties (taking the Medicaid swap into consider-ation), Waddell said.

“It’s real important for all rural legislators to try to hold together as a group,” Waddell said.

‘Godsend’“It might be a Godsend

that they have the incentives in the bill with the sales tax,” Waddell said. “A lot of rural in-frastructure and school needs are not being met and we do not have the property value in rural counties that some of these other counties have.”

The Medicaid reform plan creates a system covered by provider health plans and managed care plans. It also creates a new Department of Medicaid managed by a cabinet secretary appointed by the governor and confirmed by the General Assembly. The

Department of Health and Human Services oversees Medicaid now.

Smith said she had con-cerns about the Medicaid re-form bill that will essentially let out of state companies run Medicaid.

“I really like keeping it with providers here in this state that know the state and areas as opposed to paying money that is going to go to other states to be head agen-cies over Medicaid,” Smith said. “That is my biggest con-cern.”

IncentivesSmith said getting a pack-

age passed on economic de-velopment incentives should have been a priority.

She said she was “thrilled” the legislation has passed the Senate.

“We should have done it the first week,” Smith said. “We have been out of business all this time. It has been very dif-ficult for economic developers in terms of business develop-ment.”

She said without incentives in place site selectors were hesitant to recommend North Carolina.

“We may have missed out on new business because we did not have an incentive pack-age,” Smith said.

She disagrees with capping incentive that she says are essentially a return on new investment.

“It’s not like the state is giv-ing them money,” Smith said.

“The sales tax distribution certainly benefits Columbus and Robeson County,” She added. “That is real important for our two counties.”

She is hopeful a budget is in sight. “I think the big hold up now is the amount to spend. The House is spending more than the Senate,” Smith said.

“There is a lot of sticking points but they are getting a little bit closer together,” Wad-dell said. “We should be gone from here.”

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Fall sports

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South Columbus All-Stars fall inAngels World Series semi-finals

Stallions, Wolfpack set for BB&T Jamboree action

Scrimmage weekWhiteville High quarterback Nydir Carr (2) takes the snap from center during the Wolfpack’s scrimmage with North Myrtle Beach, S.C., Tuesday night at Legion Stadium. Also on Tuesday, West Columbus and South Columbus scrimmaged Dixon and Green Sea-Floyds at Green Sea-Floyds. On Wednesday, East Columbus went against Northside and South Brunswick in a scrimmage at South Brunswick.

CARTHAGE - After taking wins in their first two games, the North Carolina champion South Columbus All-Stars suffered back-to-back losses on Monday and Tuesday to be eliminated from the 2015 Dixie Angels X-Play World Series. The double-elimination tournament featured champions from nine states as well as the host Moore County team.

In Monday’s battle of unbeaten teams, Tallasee, Ala. de-feated South Columbus 7-0. In Tuesday’s tournament semi-finals Sabine, La., topped the North Carolina champs 4-1.

“We took a couple of tough losses ... just didn’t really get the bats going,” said head coach David Spivey,. “But I couldn’t be prouder of this team and what these girls have accomplished this season. Playing in the World Series has been a great experience for all of them.

South Columbus, which advanced to World Series play by winning the District 9 championship at Leland and the North Carolina championship at Burgaw. had opened World Series play Saturday with 7-3 win over Wesley Chapel, Fla., On Sunday, the South Columbus team tripped Aynor, S.C. 4-1.

29th BB&T Football JamboreeAug. 14, Legion Stadium

Wilmington

5 p.m. - Cheerleader Showcase6 p.m. - Scrimmages begin South Columbus vs. Laney Wallace-Rose Hill vs. Hoggard West Brunswick vs. Ashley Whiteville vs. New Hanover South Brunswick vs. North Brunswick

The 29th annual BB&T Football Jamboree will be held Friday at Wilmington’s Legion Stadium with 10 teams from Southeast-ern North Carolina participating. (See schedule at right).

Whiteville and South Columbus will again be among the field for what has long been noted as the state’s top pre-season high school football showcase.

Jamboree festivities were kicked off Tuesday with the tradiional press luncheon held at Terraces on Sir Tyler. The event featured a panel of 10 coaches, including Whiteville High’s Luke Little and South Columbus’s Kyle Hutchison. Six of the participating teams have new head coaches.

Wallace-Rose Hill head coach Joey Price heads into his 19th Jamboree, including his seven at WRH. He was head coach for South Columbus in 12 Jamborees before taking the job at Wal-lace-Rose Hill. Coach Little will have the second-most Jambo-ree head coaching experince with his fourth on Friday.

Once again, Laney, Hoggard, Ashley, New Hanover and North Brunswick will make up the “home” side with South Columbus, Wallace-Rose Hill, West Brunswick, Whiteville and South Brunswick forming the “visitor” side.

The home side won last year’s Jamboree by a combined score of 94-57. The home side has won the last four Jamboree scrimmages and has won 18 of the past 28 scrimmages.

High school football in Columbus County is a special state of mind.

It’s not just the blocks, the tackles or the winning points as time expires. It is also the feelings that can be carried on forever.

Over the past 40 years I run into men and women of all ages who have always looked back so fondly on their careers as high school athletes.

There have been so many exciting games and seasons through the decades and it’s always been a pleasure to talk about the good times with the many former high school athletes I still see these days.

Lately I’ve been getting asked , “When are you going to retire?” or “Haven’t you retired yet?”

That almost leads me to believe that they have had just about enough of me. But then I kind of realize that some of these people who I covered way back in the 1970s have been retired for quite a while themselves or considering that possibility.

Fall Friday nights have long been one of the most enjoyable parts of my occupation, and they are something I look forward to throughout the week.

When I received my journalism degree from the University of North Texas in 1972, I felt I was on a career path of covering college and possibly professional sports for a large daily newspaper.

My first two years out of college were spent with The Tampa Tribune in Florida. It was good work and I enjoyed the people I worked alongside. But it was during that time I realized that covering high school sports

was the thing I enjoyed the most about the business.

My move to North Carolina in 1974 had me considering several options, but I ended up taking a job at The News Reporter while figuring I would move on to something else within another two or three years.

But that didn’t happen.There was a three-year

period when I commuted to Wilmington to work for its daily paper, but I ended up returning here because it gave me the opportunity to again cover area sports more exclusively and return to being a regular family man.

On Friday I plan to be on hand for the BB&T Football Jamboree the 27th time in its 29 years, . The event has been an exciting way to help giveparticipating teams a real boost into their regular-season players as well as provide scholarships for selected participants.

Here’s hoping that all of our county’s fall sports teams have seasons that will bring memories they can carry for a lifetime.

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By FRANKLIN DAVIS Sports Writer

Seven of the eight Three Rivers Conference (TRC) football coaches met with the media recently at Fairmont High School. South Colum-bus coach Kyle Hutchison was unable to attend. Each coach spoke briefly about their team’s outlook for the 2015 football season. Here is a preseason look at the 2015 TRC football teams.

East Columbus head coach Rocky Lewis said “We have nowhere to go but up.” Lewis, who was hired in late July of 2014 also talked about how he was “excited to spend an entire off-season with his players.” Lewis has had his players look back at the his-tory of Gator football and focus on the work and dedica-tion it will take to change the program’s perception.

He also hopes a more manageable non-conference schedule will help build con-fidence entering conference play.

Coach Mark Heil is new to Fairmont, but not to Robeson County football. Heil served as head coach at Purnell Swett the past eight seasons. Heil was scheduled to be an assistant at St. Pauls this season.

When former Fairmont coach Randy Ragland took the job at Middle Creek High in mid-June, Heil was called upon to lead the 2015 Golden Tornadoes. He claims he

is still learning the players’ names. Heil said “Defense was not a focus for Farimont last season and definitely some-thing we need to tighten up.

We have good-looking ath-letes that have potential. Dis-cipline and mental toughness will be our keys to success.” Quarterback Julius Caulder returns for Fairmont. Caulder flourished under the previ-ous pass-oriented offense, throwing for 3,257 yards and 32 touchdowns in 2014. One interesting note, Heil’s 27 years of head coaching expe-rience is four more than the sum of the other seven Three Rivers football head coaches’ experience.

Red Springs coach Ron Cook exudes a quiet confi-dence when talking about his team. He wants the team to take on a “chain” mentality. That is the whole chain is only as strong as the weakest link. The Red Devils will carry a four-foot chain with them this season to emphasize this attitude.

Coach Cook’s message to his team is “don’t be satisfied with a couple of wins or be-ing average.” Three running backs return, led by senior, Ron Alexander (59 carries, 683 yards and 11 TDs) and junior, Eric Graham (75 carries for 673 yards). Quarterback Cody Freeman returns. He threw for 930 yards, 14 TDs and just one interception last season.

Clay Jernigan of South Robeson said his team would take a “David versus Goliath

approach” this season. The Mustangs list just six seniors on their 2015 roster. Jernigan will be counting on a num-ber of “young, but very tal-ented underclassmen.” South Robeson has been stressing the weight room during off-season workouts. Jernigan is the only coach looking to replace last season’s starting quarterback.

Coach Trey Sasser of St. Pauls has been pleased with his players off-season work ethic. Sasser feels, “we will be improved due to a number of skill position players re-turning.” This despite losing Sayvon Sampson and Charles Spears who combined for 73 receptions, 1,058 yards and eight TDs. One reason for Coach Sasser’s optimism, returning quarterback Cody McKenna. McKenna threw for 1,700 yards and 17 TDs last season. He rushed for another 500 yards and nine TDs. Coach Sasser says McKenna under-stands exactly what he wants from the Bulldog offense and “can finish my sentences for me.” The biggest area of concern for St. Pauls is the offensive and defensive lines. Sasser’s seven previous sea-sons at St. Pauls is one year shy of the total of the rest of the TRC football coaches’ ten-ures at their current schools.

West Columbus coach Ja-son Jones feels good about the offensive potential of his club. Quarterback Johnny McFadden threw for over 1,200 yards and Fred Evans

rushed for 1,100 yards in 2014 and are back for their senior seasons. Depth and defense are concerns for the Vikings. Coach Jones said, “We have a small group of hard workers whose effort is starting to rub off on others.”

Whiteville Caoch Luke Little says “we have a lot of youth, but this is as fast and athletic a team as I have had.” Defense should be a strength with linebackers Andrew Powell and Garrett Wilson leading the way.

A running back will need to step up to help replace the 2,000+ yards of Terrin Man-ning, but quarterback Nydir Carr and slot Nate Powell do return. Graduation hit the offensive and defensive lines hard. The replacements are inexperienced, but talented. Coach Little’s biggest ques-tion is “How will this team respond when they get hit in the mouth?”

Most of the coaches and several members of the media participated in a survey of the anticipated TRC finish. Whiteville was a unanimous pick for first place. Fairmont was a solid choice for sec-ond. Red Springs and South Columbus tied for third. St. Pauls finished fifth, but was only four points out of third. South Robeson edged out West Columbus for sixth and East Columbus finished eighth, but was chosen higher on several ballots.

Three Rivers Conference FootballCoaches discuss upcoming season

In today’s edition of The News Reporter

The 2015 Pigskin Preview

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C o r y F a i s o n , H u n t e r Hagood and Isaac Sealey of Quality Cleaners; and Parker Bass, John Lucas Newell and Quinton Lennon of Civitains each had three hitters.

Those with two hits were Drake Grainger of Civitans, and Devin Faulk and Holland

Whiteville Optimist AAAsdrop 5-4 heart-breaker in 4th round of state tourney

Hallsboro Middle School football practices will begin on Monday Aug. 17, from 5:30 until 8 p.m.

Whiteville defenders in dark (left to right) Cameron Cartrette (72) , Jarred Little (26), Garrett Wilson (4) and Monchovia Gaffney close in on a Myrtle Beach ball carrier in Tuesday’s high-school football scrimmage at Legion Stadium.

Jamboree run - 2014South Columbus High running back Dennis Leggett turns upfield en route to a 70-yard touchdown run in last season’s BB&T Football Jamboree scrimmage against New Hanover. Leggett had a strong sophomore season on hte 2014 Stallion squad, eclipsing the 1,000-yard rushing mark.

By FRANKLIN DAVISSports Writer

Girls tennis in Columbus County this fall will have a dif-ferent look at the top. All four schools will be looking to re-place their number one seeds. Whiteville’s Margaret High, East Columbus’s Kaitlin Jack-son, South Columbus’s Eliza-beth Buffkin and West Colum-bus’s Emma Burroughs have all graduated. The cupboard is not bare, however as White-ville’s Chase Barnhill and Sarahgrace Snipes, South’s Mary Grayson Koonce, West’s Logan Elkins and East’s Heather King have the experi-ence to step up and lead their respective schools. There are two words that echo across the county from the tennis coaches, youth and potential. Whiteville should again be the conference favorite, but don’t be surprised if all four county teams have a good showing this fall.

EAST COLUMBUS

Head coach: Tara William-son, second season

Assistant coach: Amy Mal-pass

Key players lost: Kaitlin Jackson, Serena Mitchell, Sarah Freeman, Olivia Elliott, Aarika Jacobs

Top returnees: senior, Heather King. Juniors: Hillary Jacobs and Haley Canady

Williamson: “We will face a challenge this season since we graduated five of our top six seeds. We still expect to win. I have high expectations for Heather King in her fourth season. Miracle Jacobs is im-proving daily in just her sec-ond season of tennis play.”

SOUTH COLUMBUS

Head coach: Brett Bur-roughs, eighth season

Assistant coach: Sterling Koonce

Key players lost: Elizabeth Buffkin

Top returnees: Mary Gray-son Koonce, Savannah Seay, Madison Holt

Burroughs: “We have 14 players, the largest squad I’ve ever carried. There are no se-niors; two juniors and the rest are sophomores and freshman. We are young, but gained expe-rience last season. I feel this will be another year of growth, but we will be competitive.”

WESTCOLUMBUS

Head coach: W. T. Edwards, fourth season

Assistant coach: Josh Red-wine

Key players lost: Emma Burroughs, Chelsea Britt

Top returnees: Logan El-kins

Edwards: “We are definitely in a rebuilding stage. With an experienced winner like Lo-gan Elkins (three appearances in 1A State doubles, All-Con-ference and All-Area in 2014) leading our team, we are opti-mistic about our potential.”

WHITEVILLE

Head coach: Serena Smith, fourth season

Key players lost: Margaret High, Charis Kasitati, Donita Wilson

Top returnees: Sarahgrace Snipes, Chase Barnhill

Smith,: “Our goals are to be conference champs and have our top players advance to state tournament play. Barn-hill was part of the 1A Region-al doubles championship duo and Snipes was a 1A Regional runner-up in singles. Both have state tournament expe-rience. We have an inexperi-enced team overall, but the

girls show lots of potential.”

Girls Tennis Preview 2015

South Columbus tennis player Mary Grayson Koonce follows through on a return during a recent Lady Stallion practice session.

West Columbus tennis player Logan Elkins hits a back-hand shot during a Lady Viking practice ses-sion. Elkins returns to the Lady Viking squad this season after advancing to the state 1A tournament last fall.

Whiteville High School tennis players Chase Barnhill (left) and Anna Ezzell practice serving prior to the Lady Wolfpack’s homecourt scrimmag with West Bladen.

Hallboro Middleto open grid drills

Staff photo by Franklin Davis

File photo by Mary Kindschuh

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nurses - Bladen County Hospital-CFV, Elizabethtown is seeking RNs and LPNs are needed for the ED. Me/Surg. OR nd ICU. FT, PT, and per Diem, Day or Night shifts positions are available. LPNs for the Clinics 8 and 12 hr shifts. Competitive salary, excellent benefits. Send resume to gparks@capefearvalley.com or by fax to GParks 910-862-1127.

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Exempt salary position. We offer an excellent benefit pack-age. EOE

You can apply online at www.boysandgirlshomes.org, by email at tesa.bush@bghnc.org, or fax to 910-646-3609 and/or mail applications to Boys & Girls Homes of NC, Inc – P. O. Box 127, Lake Waccamaw, NC 28450 – Attn: Tesa Bush, Hu-man Resources Manager. For questions, please call Tesa Bush at 910-646-3083 ext 205.

PERFORMANCE QUALITY IMPROVEMENT RISK MANAGER

Boys & Girls Homes of North Carolina, Inc is accepting applications for the position of Performance Quality Im-provement Risk Manager. This role will be responsible for the overall quality improvement activities for the organiza-tion. Implementation of the strategic plan process and con-tinuous improvement in targeted areas of responsibility. Monitor and report on all clinical outcomes. Works closely with leadership teams to establish PQI standards and mea-sures, and to design and implement effective processes and programs to improve quality of care, ensure compli-ance with COA and state regulatory mandates and reduce organization risk. Prepares reports and analysis of clinical outcomes data. May be asked to prepare written and oral presentations to various stakeholders. Must have gradu-ated from an accredited college or university, Masters pre-ferred. Three to five years experience in the field of health care. Strong computer skills required. Exempt salaried position. We offer an excellent benefit package. EOE

You can apply online at www.boysandgirlshomes.org , by email at tesa.bush@bghnc.org, or fax to 910-646-3609 and/or mail applications to Boys & Girls Homes of NC, Inc – P. O. Box 127, Lake Waccamaw, NC 28450 – Attn: Tesa Bush, Human Resources Manager. For questions, please call Tesa Bush at 910-646-3083 ext 205.

Assistant Director Med Surg/Telemetry/CCU: Full-time position requires RN license from NC or compact state, BLS, ACLS and PALS. Minimum of 2 years critical care nursing experience required. Supervisory experience preferred. Normal schedule is M-F days, but alternate schedule may occasionally be required.

Diabetes Educator - Inpatient: Full-time, RN licensed in NC or compact state and 3 years experience as a RN are required. Diabetes self-management skills training, BSN, and/or certification by the National Certification Board of Diabetes Educators are preferred. Normal schedule is M-F but alternate hours may occasionally be required.

Registered Nurses: Full-and Part-time positions are available in several areas of the hospital. Various shifts are available but all involve a weekend rotation. New graduates are welcome to apply.

MRI Supervisor: Full-time, must be a Radiologic Tech-nologist (ARRT) and be MRI certified. Must have 2 years of supervisory experience and 5 years of MRI experience.

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lot for sale at North Lakes. Beautiful views. Call 910-642-8527.

lot for sale: Williams Township/ Mollie area. Large lot, nice communi-ty. Call 642-2872 or 653-3582.

lots on sale1/2 acre lots on mary b white rd. left from new hope. month of aug: extra discount with cash payment. road frontage lots $20,000, 2 lots in back $15,000, 3 in back $12,000. owner finance available w/down payment. Contact 843-267-4996.

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land for sale in Whiteville/Eliza-bethtown & St. Pauls. Call for details. 910-876-3099

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auCtion- online only w/Bid Center, 28 Lake Hickory Residen-tial Lots, Caldwell Co., Ends 8/25/15 at 1pm, Bid Center at Hampton Inn, Hickory, NC. Selling Regardless of Price at the End of the Auction. 800-997-2248. NCAL3936. www.ironhor-seauction.com

1 aCre 3 br, 2 bath, carport, garage/workshop near Whiteville. No pets. 910-640-3896

3 bedroom house for rent. No pets. Credit check required. Call 910-840-1318 after 6 pm.

212 w. 3rd ave-Chadbourn; 2bd. 1ba.; W/D hookup, back yard, lawn care incl; $650/mo. $650 security deposit; first month’s rent free for qualifying applicant, apply @ car-tretteproperties.managebuilding.com; contact: 252-756-2920

3 bedroom, 1 1/2 bath house, car-port, $650 month. Security deposit required. Call 910-368-6652.

3 bedroom, 1 bath house, outside storage. CH/A. $550 moth + deposit. References required. 910-368-6652, or 910-840-1433.

659 Cedar branch rd, Chadbourn 3BR. 2ba. bonus room; W/D hook-up, private, security system, large yard; water & lawn care incl; $850mo. $850 deposit; first month’s rent free for qualifying applicant, apply @ car-tretteproperties.managebuilding.com; office contact: 252-756-2920

furnished house for rent. $750 per month. Deposit and refer-ences required. 910-642-4923

2 bedroom apartment. No pets. Please call J.L. Powell & Co., Inc. Call 642-4049.

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2 bedroom mobile home, East-over Park. Call J.L. Powell & Co Inc. 642-4049.

3 bedroom mobile home fur-nished for rent in the Chadbourn area. Call 654-4130.

bladenboro rent to own 3 BR, 2 bath singlewide, $650 mo, limited pet policy. 910-316-9058. www.wellingtonridgehomes,com

furnished 2 bedroom mobile home on Princess Ann Rd., Chad. No pets. 654-3063.

for rent Downtown Commercial Building. Spacious parking. Call J.L. Powell & Co., Inc. (910) 642-4049.

mobile home lots for rent. 294 Thompsontown Rd., Whiteville. Tony Stanley 840-2454.

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lake waccamaw The Lake Waccamaw Town Board of Commissioners will change their reg-ularly scheduled meeting for Tuesday August 11, 2015 until Tuesday August 18th at 6:00 P.M. Everyone is encour-aged to attend.Town of Lake WaccamawMayor Daniel HilburnAugust 6, 13, 2015

notiCe to CreditorsHaving qualified as Administrator CTA-Testate of the estate of Corena M. White, deceased, late of Columbus County, the undersigned hereby noti-fies all persons having claims against the estate of said decedent to pres-ent them to the undersigned within three (3) months from the date of the first publication, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment.This the 23rd day of July, 2015.Yalanda Gale Tartar, Administrator CTA-Testate of the estate of Corena M. White205 Gail LaneChadbourn, NC 28431July 23, 30, August 6, 13, 2015

notiCe to CreditorsSTATE OF NORTH CAROLINACOUNTY OF COLUMBUSThe undersigned, RONALD ALFRED BROWN, has qualified as Executor of the Estate of MEMORY BROWN, late of Columbus County, and this is to notify all persons having claims against said Estate to present them to the undersigned on or before October 30, 2015, pursuant to North Carolina General Statute 28A-14-1, or this notice shall be pled in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said Estate will please make imme-diate payment to the undersigned at the following address: This the 30th day of July, 2015. Ronald Alfred Brown, Executor737 Goodyear DriveSpring Lake, NC 28390Williamson, Walton & Scott, L.L.P.Attorneys at Law P. O. Box 1467 Whiteville, NC 28472July 30, August 6, 13, 20, 2015

notiCe of CreditorsState of North CarolinaCounty of ColumbusIn The General Court of JusticeSuperior Court DivisionFile No.: 15E91In The Matter of The Estate of HAZEL ELIZABETH MCGLOCKTONHaving qualified as Administrator of the estate of HAZEL ELIZABETH MCGLOCKTON, deceased, late of Columbus County, North Carolina, the undersigned hereby notify all per-sons having claims against the estate of said decedent to present them to it on or before the 12th day of Novem-ber, 2015, or this notice will be pled in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment.This the 6th day of August, 2015Hamric Leon McClockton IIIAdministrator of the estate of HAZEL ELIZABETH MCGLOCKTONdeceased2865 Cambria CourtCummings, GA 30041Telephone 404-932-5469August 6, 13, 20, 27, 2015

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2010 ford taurus Limited, V6, SYNC, hot/cold leather, sunroof, 97k. $14,900. Fair Bluff Ford. 649-7531

2013 fiat 500 pop, auto, power pkg, Bluetooth, 4 wheel abs brakes. 32k. $12,900. Fair Bluff Ford. 649-7531

2013 ford fusion se, turbo, auto, SYNC, heated leather, 44k. $17,900. Fair Bluff Ford. 910-649-7531

2013 nissan altima 2.5 S, 4 dr, intelli-key w/push-button start, 23k. $15,900. Fair Bluff Ford. 649-7531

2014 Chevy CruZe ltZ, turbo, auto, Touch-Screen, sunroof, 23k. $18,800. Fair Bluff Ford. 910-649-7531

****Publisher’s Notice****equal housing opportunity

All real estate advertised herein is subject to the Federal Fair Housing Act, North Carolina and Columbus Fair Housing Law which makes it ille-gal to advertise any preference, limita-tion, or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin, or intention to make any such preferences, limi-tation or discrimination. We will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of the law. All persons are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised are avail-able on an equal opportunity basis. To complain of discrimination, call HUD toll-free at 1-800-765-9372.

2 bedroom, 1 bath newly refin-ished house, new hardwood floors. Located in Chadbourn. 625-5626.

for sale by owner 3BR, 2 ba brick home, oak floors just finished, completely remodeled incl. wiring, windows, HVAC, private patio. Must See!! Call 910-640-7192.

display model home sale. 4 beautiful doublewide, ready to sell. Save thousands. Oakwood Homes of Chadbourn. 910-654-4128.

for rent or sale Clayton Mobile Home, like new 3 BR, 2 bath. Private acre lot with private storage. 910-642-0344

sale or rent. Mobile home & lot off Smyrna Rd. 3BR house., garage, fenced lot. 910-612-5792

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10 (1) aCre lots. $1,000 each. 20 acre wooded lots, $500 per lot. Call 910-228-6228, Charles Collier.

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his bid as provided for in N.C.G.S. 45-21.30(d) and (e).The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the offi-cers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation of war-ranty relating to the title or any physi-cal, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relat-ing to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed.A cash deposit or cashier’s check (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hun-dred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale.That an Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.Any person who occupies the prop-erty pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiv-ing the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days writ-ten notice to the landlord. The notice shall also state that upon termina-tion of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.This the 21st day of July, 2015Michael W. Strickland, as Attorney for and President of ANDERSON & STRICKLAND, P.A Substitute Trustee210 East Russell Street, Suite 104 Fayetteville, North Carolina 28301 (910) 483-3300August 6, 13, 2015

notice of foreclosure sale

15 SP 48Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by David A. Hurley and Tonia W. Hurley, husband and wife to SeviceLink Title-NATL Ven-dor, Trustee(s), dated the 25th day of April, 2012, and recorded in Book RB 1032, Page 324, in Columbus Coun-ty Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instru-ment duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Columbus County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebted-ness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in the City of Whiteville, Columbus County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:30 PM on August 18, 2015 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Columbus, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows:The land referred to herein below is situated in the county of COLUM-BUS, State of NC and is described as follows:All that parcel of land in township of Bogue, Columbus County, State of North Carolina, as more fully described in Deed Book 681, Page 353, ID# 75853, being known and designated as:Being all of Lot #262 and #263 in Block A of Waccamaw Shores Sub-division, as shown and delineated on that certain map of said subdivision, baring date of March, 1963, prepared by Spratt and Seaver, for Lake Wac-camaw Development Crop. and reg-istered in Plat Book 8, Page 12, in

.38 ACRE TRACT, MORE OR LESS,-AS SHOWN ON THAT CERTAIN PLAT FOR JAMES FREDERICK HINSON, PREPARED BY SOLES AND WALK-ER, P.S., P.L.S., DATED FEBRUARY 19, 2002, A COPY OF WHICH IS ATTACHED HERETO AND MADE A PART OF THIS DESCRIPTION BY REFERENCE.ALSO BEING A PORTION OF THAT CERTAIN TRACT D TO THE GRANT-ORS BY DEED DATED JANUARY 22, 1979, RECORDED IN BOOK 313, PAGE 357, COLUMBUS COUNTY REGISTRY.TAX ID: 88124SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE NOTE: The plat referenced in the above legal description is recorded in Book 712, Page 479 of the Columbus County Registry and is incorporated herein by reference for more particularity of description. The property currently has a physical address of 384 West Hay Street, Whiteville, NC 28472Said property being located at: 384 W. HAY STREET, WHITEVILLE, NC 28472PRESENT RECORD OWNER BEING: JAMES FREDERICK HINSON AND FONTINA HINSONTrustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in N.C.G.S. 45-21.23.Also, this property is being sold sub-ject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or encumbrances of record and any recorded releases.Should the property be purchased by a third party, that person must pay the statutory final assessment fee of forty-five cents ($0.45) per One Hun-dred Dollars ( $100.00 ) required by N.C.G.S. 7A-308 (a) (1), and any appli-cable county and/or state land trans-fer tax and/or revenue tax.Any successful bidder shall be required to tender the full balance of the purchase price so bid, in cash or certified check, at the time the Sub-stitute Trustee tenders to him a deed for the property or attempts to ten-der such deed, and should said suc-cessful bidder fail to pay the full bal-ance of the purchase price so bid, at that time he shall remain liable on his bid as provided for in N.C.G.S. 45-21.30(d) and (e).The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the offi-cers, directors, attorneys, employees,

agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation of war-ranty relating to the title or any physi-cal, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relat-ing to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed.A cash deposit or cashier’s check (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hun-dred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale.That an Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.Any person who occupies the prop-erty pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiv-ing the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days writ-ten notice to the landlord. The notice shall also state that upon termina-tion of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.This the 21st day of July, 2015Michael W. Strickland, as Attorney for and President of ANDERSON & STRICKLAND, P.A Substitute Trustee210 East Russell Street, Suite 104 Fayetteville, North Carolina 28301 (910) 483-3300August 6, 13, 2015

the Office of the Register of Deeds of Columbus County, North Caroli-na. Subject to restrictive covenants affecting said subdivision.More commonly known as 4443 Wac-camaw Shores Rd, Lake Waccamaw, NC 28450Tax/Parcel ID: 75853Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole dis-cretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §45-21.23.Should the property be purchased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by NCGS §7A-308(a)(1).The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the offi-cers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or war-ranty relating to the title or any physi-cal, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relat-ing to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applica-ble Federal and State laws.A deposit of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is great-er, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale.An order for possession of the prop-erty may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the prop-erty is sold.Any person who occupies the prop-erty pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rent-al agreement upon 10 days’ written notice to the landlord. Upon termina-tion of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

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15-SP-56Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by ROGER LOUIS PALM-ER (NOW DECEASED) to PHILIP E. GREER, Trustee(s), dated the 19TH day of DECEMBER, 2003 and record-ed in BOOK 764, PAGE 627, COLUM-BUS County Registry, North Caroli-na, Default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, ANDERSON & STRICK-LAND, P.A., having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of COLUM-BUS County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the Courthouse Door, in the City of WHITEVILLE, COLUM-BUS County, North Carolina at 2:00 P.M. ON AUGUST 18TH, 2015, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of COLUMBUS, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows:TRACT ONE: Beginning at a point marked by an iron pin in the south margin of a 60 foot wide street, said point of begin-ning being located as follows from an old nail at the intersection of the center line of State Road #1406 and #1407: N. 41 degrees 44 minutes E. With the right-of-way of S.R. 1407 253.86 feet to a nail; S. 54 degrees 23 minutes E. 239.54 feet, then S. 66 degrees 00 minutes E. 200.00 feet, then S. 66 degrees 00 minutes East 15.00 feet to an iron pin; thence along a curve to the left having a radius of 50.00 feet an arc length of 67.67 feet to a point marked by an iron, the beginning corner; running thence from said point of beginning along said curve to the left an arc length of 58.08 feet to an iron pin; thence running S. 66 degrees 58 minutes E. 200.61 feet to an iron pin; thence along the margin of a 20 foot wide road S. 20 degrees 26 minutes W. 70.00 feet to an iron pin; thence S. 79 degrees 07 minutes W. 74.88 feet to an iron pin; thence S. 79 degrees 41 minutes W. 133.35 feet to an iron pin; thence N. 00 degrees 25 minutes W. 151.68 feet to an iron pin, the begin-ning corner, containing 0.64 acres, more or less; and being a portion of the land known as the E.D. William-son Estate, further designated as a portion of Lot No. 2 in Plat Book 2, page 126, Columbus County Pub-lic Registry.TRACT TWO: Beginning at a point marked by an iron pin in the East margin of the curve in a 60 foot wide street, said point of beginning being located as follows from an old nail at the intersection of the center line of S.R. #1406 and #1407; N. 41 degrees 44 minutes E. with the right-of-way of S.R. #1407 253.86 feet to a nail; S. 50 degrees 23 minutes E. 239.54 feet, thence S. 66 degrees 00 minutes E. 200.00 feet, then S. 66 degrees 00 minutes East 15.00 feet to an iron pin; thence along a curve to the left having a radius of 50.00 feet an arc length of 67.67 feet to a point marked by an iron; then along said curve to the left an arc length of 58.08 feet to an iron pin, the beginning corner; thence run-ning along said curve to the left an arc length of 34.38 feet to an iron pin; thence N. 67 degrees 00 minutes E. 157.38 feet to an iron pin; thence S. 69 degrees 38 minutes E. 99.74 feet to an old concrete marker; thence along the margin of a 20 foot wide road S. 20 degrees 26 minutes W. 154.04 feet to an iron pin; thence N. 66 degrees 58 minutes W. 200.61 feet to an iron pin, the beginning corner containing 0.58 acres, more or less, and being a portion of the land known as the E.D. Williamson Estate, further designated as a portion of Lot No. 2 in Plat Book 2, page 126, Columbus County Public Registry.Said property being located at: 98 POND ROAD, CERRO GORDO, NC 28430PRESENT RECORD OWNER BEING: UNKNOWN HEIRS OF ROGER LOUIS PALMER, NOW DECEASED, POSSIBLE HEIRS: ELLEN RENA PALMER, GABRIELLE BOWERS, DANIELLE BOWERS AND GWEN-DOLINE SIMMONDS PALMERTrustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in N.C.G.S. 45-21.23.Also, this property is being sold sub-ject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or encumbrances of record and any recorded releases.Should the property be purchased by a third party, that person must pay the statutory final assessment fee of forty-five cents ($0.45) per One Hun-dred Dollars ( $100.00 ) required by N.C.G.S. 7A-308 (a) (1), and any appli-cable county and/or state land trans-fer tax and/or revenue tax.Any successful bidder shall be required to tender the full balance of the purchase price so bid, in cash or certified check, at the time the Sub-stitute Trustee tenders to him a deed for the property or attempts to ten-der such deed, and should said suc-cessful bidder fail to pay the full bal-ance of the purchase price so bid, at that time he shall remain liable on

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If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the chal-lenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVIC-ES, INC.SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEEc/o Hutchens Law FirmP.O. Box 1028, 4317 Ramsey StreetFayetteville, North Carolina 28311Phone No: (910) 864-3068https://sales.hutchenslawfirm.comCase No: 1155684 (FC.FAY)August 6, 13, 2015

notice of foreclosure sale

15-SP-83Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by JAMES FREDERICK HINSON AND FONTINA HINSON to PHILIP E. GREER, Trustee(s), dated the 9th day of DECEMBER, 2009 and recorded in BOOK 975, PAGE 534, COLUMBUS County Registry, North Carolina, Default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, ANDERSON & STRICKLAND, P.A., having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of COLUMBUS County, North Caroli-na and the holder of the note evidenc-ing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the Courthouse Door, in the City of WHITEVILLE, COLUMBUS County, North Carolina at 2:00 P.M. ON AUGUST 18TH, 2015, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of COLUMBUS, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows:Order Number: 091103-19447A Tax ID Number: 88124LYING AND BEING IN WHITEVILLE TOWNSHIP, COLUMBUS COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, AND BEING A

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15SP78IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLO-SURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXE-CUTED BY JAMES E. DUBAR AND LACRESU DUBAR DATED JUNE 15, 1999 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 593 AT PAGE 5 IN THE COLUMBUS COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINAUnder and by virtue of the power and authority contained in the above-ref-erenced deed of trust and because of default in the payment of the secured indebtedness and failure to perform the stipulation and agreements therein contained and, pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the secured debt, the undersigned substitute trustee will expose for sale at pub-lic auction to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said county at 12:30PM on August 27, 2015 the fol-lowing described real estate and any other improvements which may be sit-uated thereon, in Columbus County, North Carolina, and being more par-ticularly described as follows:All of that 0.60 were lying South of an adjacent to the Seaboard Coast-line Railroad right-of-way in Ransom Township, Columbus County, North Carolina, said tract being more par-ticularly described as follows:For a tie line begin at a PK Nail located where the center line of the Seaboard Coastline Railroad intersects the cen-terline of SR #1846; thence with the center line of said railroad, South 67 degrees 50 minutes 29 seconds East 1,985.70 feet to a PK Nail located in the center of said railroad right-of-way; thence South 21 degrees 34 minutes 11 seconds West 65.44 feet to an existing iron pipe located on the Southern right-of-way line of said Seaboard Coastline Railroad right-of-way, said existing iron pipe being the POINT AND PLACE OF BEGINNING;Thence from said beginning point so located, with said railroad right-of-way, South 68 degrees 00 minute 11 seconds East 150.00 feet to an exist-ing iron pipe; said existing iron pipe being the Northeastern most corner Lot #6 of the Division map for Elacksie Dubar Heirs as shown in Map Book 60, Page 54; thence with the dividing line between Lot #6 and Lot #7 of said Dubar Map, South 21 degrees 59 min-utes 51 seconds West 174.24 feet to an iron pipe; thence, a new line, North 67 degrees 59 minutes 44 seconds West 147.32 feet to an iron pipe locat-ed in the dividing line between Lot #5 and Lot #6 of said Elacksie Dubar Heirs Map, thence with said dividing line, North 21 degrees 07 minutes 01 second East 174.24 feet to the POINT AND PLACE OF BEGINNING, con-taining 0.60 acre, more or less.TOGETHER WITH AND SUBJECT TO a 30 foot easement from ST #1846 to the Eastern boundary of the tract described above. Said easement is more fully shown on map entitled “Map for James E. Dubar” dated Sep-tember 8, 1998, prepared by Davey Williams, R.L.S., which is incorporat-ed herein by reference.And Being more commonly known as: 490 Dubar Dr, Riegelwood, NC 28456The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Reg-ister of Deeds, is/are James E. Dubar Jr. and Lacresu Dubar.The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized rep-resentative of either Trustee or the holder of the note make any repre-sentation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale. Any and all responsi-bilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. This sale is made subject to all prior liens and encumbrances, and unpaid taxes and assessments including but not limited to any transfer tax associated with the foreclosure. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), which-ever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale. This sale will be held open ten days for upset bids as required by law. Following the expira-tion of the statutory upset period, all remaining amounts are IMMEDIATE-LY DUE AND OWING. Failure to remit funds in a timely manner will result in a Declaration of Default and any deposit will be frozen pending the outcome of any re-sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, the Sub-stitute Trustee or the attorney of any of the foregoing.SPECIAL NOTICE FOR LEASEHOLD TENANTS: If you are a tenant resid-ing in the property, be advised that an Order for Possession of the property may be issued in favor of the pur-chaser. Also, if your lease began or was renewed on or after October 1, 2007, be advised that you may ter-minate the rental agreement upon 10 days written notice to the landlord. You may be liable for rent due under the agreement prorated to the effec-tive date of the termination.The date of this Notice is August 6, 2015.Grady I. Ingle or Elizabeth B. EllsSubstitute Trustee

notice of foreclosure sale

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINACOUNTY OF COLUMBUSIN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICESUPERIOR COURT DIVISIONBEFORE THE CLERK14 SP 186IN THE MATTER OF THE FORE-CLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST FROM DARRYL GENE CARTER (DECEASED), TO NEUSE, INCOR-PORATED, TRUSTEE, DATED JULY 14, 2011 RECORDED IN BOOK RB 1014, PAGE 24, COLUMBUS COUN-TY REGISTRYPursuant to an order entered July 15, 2015, in the Superior Court for Columbus County, and the power of sale contained in the captioned deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”), the under-signed Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at auction, to the highest bidder for cash,AT THE COURTHOUSE DOOR IN WHITEVILLE, COLUMBUS COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINAON AUGUST 14, 2015AT 11:30 AMthe real estate and the improve-ments thereon encumbered by the Deed of Trust, less and except any of such property released from the lien of the deed of trust prior to the date of this sale, lying and being in Columbus County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows:Lying in the County of Columbus, State of North Carolina and being described as follows: Being all of Lot Number Thirty-Three (33), as shown on map made my Moore, Gardner and Associates, Inc, which map was made for Honey Hill Development Corpora-tion, and designated as Section 2 of the Honey Hill Development and is filed for record on July 3, 1974, and is recorded in Plat Book 14, Page 120, Office of the Register of Deeds of Columbus County, which plat is here-by incorporated by reference for more particularity of description. The above described tract of land is conveyed subject to certain restrictions as to the use thereof, which are recorded in Book 270, Page 271, Columbus County Registry; and also, amended sets of restrictions which are record-ed in Book 283, Page 163, and Book 284, Page 864, said registry.Tax ID: 19030.In the Trustee’s sole discretion, the sale may be delayed for up to one (1) hour as provided in Section 45-21.23 of the North Carolina General Stat-utes.The record owner of the real proper-ty not more than ten days prior to the date hereof is Bettye Carter.A five percent cash deposit, or a cash deposit of $750.00, whichever is greater, will be required of the last and highest bidder. The balance of the bid purchase price shall be due in full in cash or certified funds at a clos-ing to take place within thirty (30) days of the date of sale. The undersigned Substitute Trustee shall convey title to the property by non-warranty deed.This sale will be made subject to all prior liens of record, if any, and to all unpaid (ad valorem) taxes and special assessments, if any, which became a lien subsequent to the recordation of the Deed of Trust. This sale will be further subject to the right, if any, of the United States of America to redeem the above-described prop-erty for a period of 120 days follow-ing the date when the final upset bid period has run.The purchaser of the property described above shall pay the Clerk’s Commissions in the amount of $.45 per $100.00 of the purchase price (up to a maximum amount of $500.00), required by Section 7A 308(a)(1) of the North Carolina General Statutes. If the purchaser of the above described property is someone other than the Beneficiary under the Deed of Trust, the purchaser shall also pay, to the extent applicable, the land transfer tax in the amount of one percent (1%) of the purchase price.To the extent this sale involves resi-dential property with less than fifteen (15) rental units, you are hereby noti-fied of the following:a. An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to Section 45-21.29 of the North Caro-lina General Statutes in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold; andb. Any person who occupies the prop-erty pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rent-al agreement upon 10 days’ written notice to the landlord. Upon termina-tion of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination. This 15th day of July, 2015.POYNER SPRUILL LLPBy: Deborah Sperati, Esq.Attorneys for Spruillco, LLC130 S. Franklin StreetP.O. Box 353Rocky Mount, NC 27802Telephone: 252-972-7022August 6, 13, 2015

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expressly are disclaimed. This sale is made subject to all prior liens and encumbrances, and unpaid taxes and assessments including but not limited to any transfer tax associated with the foreclosure. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), which-ever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale. This sale will be held open ten days for upset bids as required by law. Following the expira-tion of the statutory upset period, all remaining amounts are IMMEDIATE-LY DUE AND OWING. Failure to remit funds in a timely manner will result in a Declaration of Default and any deposit will be frozen pending the outcome of any re-sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, the Sub-

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notice of saleIN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICEOF NORTH CAROLINASUPERIOR COURT DIVISIONCOLUMBUS COUNTY15SP98IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLO-SURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXE-CUTED BY EARL R. GORDON, JR. AKA RAY GORDON AND CRYSTAL F. GORDON DATED MARCH 13, 2008 AND RECORDED IN BOOK RB924 AT PAGE 313 IN THE COLUMBUS COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINAUnder and by virtue of the power and authority contained in the above-ref-erenced deed of trust and because of default in the payment of the secured indebtedness and failure to perform the stipulation and agreements therein contained and, pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the secured debt, the undersigned substitute trustee will expose for sale at pub-lic auction to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said county at 12:30PM on August 27, 2015 the fol-lowing described real estate and any other improvements which may be sit-uated thereon, in Columbus County, North Carolina, and being more par-ticularly described as follows:Situated in Chadbourn Township, Columbus County, State of North Carolina:Being that certain tract or parcel of land containing 3.02 acres, more or less, excluding of the right of way of SE 1572 and being the same as shown on a map entitled “Plat for David Ira Green” prepared by Clar-ence Hall, Jr., R.L.S., dated July 1993, said map is recorded in Book 448, Page 541, of the Columbus Coun-ty Registry and is referred to herein for more particularity of metes and bounds description.Less and excepting 0.5 acres deeded to Ray Keith and wife, by deed dated 9-19-95, recorded in Book 504, Page 135, Columbus County Registry.And Being more commonly known as: 369 Klondyke Rd, Chadbourn, NC 28431The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Regis-ter of Deeds, is/are Earl Ray Gordon Jr. and Crystal Fields Gordon.The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized rep-resentative of either Trustee or the holder of the note make any repre-sentation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale. Any and all responsi-bilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. This sale is made subject to all prior liens and encumbrances, and unpaid taxes and assessments including but not limited to any transfer tax associated with the foreclosure. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), which-ever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale. This sale will be held open ten days for upset bids as required by law. Following the expira-tion of the statutory upset period, all remaining amounts are IMMEDIATE-LY DUE AND OWING. Failure to remit funds in a timely manner will result in a Declaration of Default and any deposit will be frozen pending the outcome of any re-sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, the Sub-stitute Trustee or the attorney of any of the foregoing.SPECIAL NOTICE FOR LEASEHOLD TENANTS: If you are a tenant resid-ing in the property, be advised that an Order for Possession of the property may be issued in favor of the pur-chaser. Also, if your lease began or was renewed on or after October 1, 2007, be advised that you may ter-minate the rental agreement upon 10 days written notice to the landlord. You may be liable for rent due under the agreement prorated to the effec-tive date of the termination.The date of this Notice is August 6, 2015.Grady I. Ingle or Elizabeth B. EllsSubstitute Trustee10130 Perimeter Parkway, Suite 400Charlotte, NC 28216(704) 333-8107http://shapiroattorneys.com/nc/15-071135August 13, 20, 2015

notice of saleIN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICEOF NORTH CAROLINASUPERIOR COURT DIVISIONCOLUMBUS COUNTY15SP90IN THE MATTER OF THE FORE-CLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY DANNY P. LATHAM

stitute Trustee or the attorney of any of the foregoing.SPECIAL NOTICE FOR LEASEHOLD TENANTS: If you are a tenant resid-ing in the property, be advised that an Order for Possession of the property may be issued in favor of the pur-chaser. Also, if your lease began or was renewed on or after October 1, 2007, be advised that you may ter-minate the rental agreement upon 10 days written notice to the landlord. You may be liable for rent due under the agreement prorated to the effec-tive date of the termination.The date of this Notice is August 6, 2015.Grady I. Ingle or Elizabeth B. EllsSubstitute Trustee10130 Perimeter Parkway, Suite 400Charlotte, NC 28216(704) 333-8107http://shapiroattorneys.com/nc/15-070746August 13, 20, 2015

AND ETHEL MAE LATHAM DATED AUGUST 31, 2000 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 629 AT PAGE 287 RERE-CORDED ON NOVEMBER 28, 2000 IN BOOK 636, PAGE 158 IN THE COLUMBUS COUNTY PUBLIC REG-ISTRY, NORTH CAROLINAUnder and by virtue of the power and authority contained in the above-ref-erenced deed of trust and because of default in the payment of the secured indebtedness and failure to perform the stipulation and agreements therein contained and, pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the secured debt, the undersigned substitute trustee will expose for sale at pub-lic auction to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said county at 12:30PM on August 27, 2015 the fol-lowing described real estate and any other improvements which may be sit-uated thereon, in Columbus County, North Carolina, and being more par-ticularly described as follows:Being all of Lot No. Thirty (30) of Old Farms Estates, as shown on Plat recorded in Map Book 52 at Page 74 in the Columbus County Registry, to which reference is hereby made for a more full and complete description by metes and bounds.And Being more commonly known as: 113 Pretty Branch Ln, Riegelwood, NC 28456The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Regis-ter of Deeds, is/are Danny P. Latham and wife, Ethel Mae Latham.The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized rep-resentative of either Trustee or the holder of the note make any repre-sentation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale. Any and all responsi-bilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition

8B - The News Reporter, Thursday, August 13, 2015

Rough Horn Swamp Wetland Restoration Project

KCI Technologies, Inc. proposes to purchase conser-vation easement rights on approximately 46 acres of existing farmland in Columbus County, NC. The site is located along CCC Road in Boardman, North Carolina. The purpose of acquiring the easement rights is to provide mitigation for impacts to wetlands that have, or will, result from existing or future development in this area.

Anyone desiring that an informational public meeting be held for this proposed action may make a request by registered letter to KCI Technologies, Inc. at 4601 Six Forks Road, Suite 220, Raleigh NC 27609. Requests must be postmarked by September 13, 2015. If ad-ditional information is required, please contact Tim Morris at 919-278-2511.

The project is being completed for the North Carolina Division of Mitigation Services (DMS). DMS reserves the right to determine if a public meeting will be held.

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Living

The team, dissecting specimens, included, from left: Hannah Longson, Lauren DiMuzio, Victoria Price, Aliyah Crawley and Patricia Faulk.

Museum youth team helpsBald Head Island Conservancy

Six youths and their mentors from the N.C. Museum of Natural Sci-ences at Whiteville re-cently spent some time with the Bald Head Is-land Conservancy for a close-up, overnight look at life on the island with its hundreds of acres of maritime forests, marsh-es and pristine beaches.

Participants Hannah Longson, Aliyah Craw-ley, Lauren DiMuzio, Patricia Faulk, Victo-ria Price, Avery Ashley and their mentors Vicki DiMuzio, the museum’s Teen Science Café coor-dinator and Kellie Lewis, the museums’s educa-tion specialist found themselves on midnight

sea turtle patrols, bird-ing treks through the wetlands and studying marine creatures in a wet laboratory.

Featured on this page are images by State Port Pilot writer Lee Hinnant and Vicki DiMuzio. See page 1-A for the full story by Hinnant.

Aliyah Crawley helping with Reptile Talk. Releasing hatchlings into the ocean.

Patricia Faulk showing off a corn snake.

A hatchling found in a nest with hatched-egg shells on the ground.After the turtle release, from left: Aliyah Crawley, Kellie Lewis, Victoria Price, Patricia Faulk, Hannah Longson, Lauren DiMuzio and Avery Ashley

Excavating a sea turtle nest three days post-hatching.

Avery Ashley crabbing on the dock.

Lauren DiMuzio “captures” a box turtle for Reptile Talk.

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ReligionAcme Presbyterian Church, Hwy. 87, Riegelwood, holds chil-dren’s and adult Sunday School at 9 a.m. with nursery provided, and worship service at 10 a.m. with refreshments.

Celebrate Recovery meets at Peace Baptist Church, 653 Love Mill Rd., Whiteville, each Thursday from 6-9 p.m. For more information call 642-0251. Partial funding by Good Shep-herd Ministries.

The DivorceCare recovery semi-nar and support group meets at Peace Baptist Church, 653 Love Mill Rd., Whiteville, each Thursday from 6-8:30 p.m. Childcare is provided through fifth grade. DivorceCare features nationally recognized experts on divorce and recovery topics. Seminar sessions include Fac-ing My Anger, Facing My Loneli-ness, Depression, New Relation-ships, KidCare and Forgiveness. For more information call Peace Baptist Church at 640-2877. The pastor is Chip Hannah.

GriefShare seminar and sup-port group meets at Peace Baptist Church, 653 Love Mill Rd., Whiteville, each Monday from 6-8:30 p.m. GriefShare is a friendly, caring group of people who will walk alongside you through one of life’s most difficult experiences. For more information call Peace Baptist Church, 642-0251, 640-7237 or 770-1271. Chip Hannah is the pastor.

Members of The Lord’s Chapel are on a mission to provide items to the community, at a minimal fee, from their year ‘round back-yard sale. It is located at 2886 Hallsboro Road South, Halls-boro. The shop is open Monday – Saturday 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. and closed on Wednesday. Items donated will be greatly appreci-ated. Proceeds go to The Lord’s Chapel.

Good News Community Youth Outreach Ministry Inc., 1138 Giles Byrd Rd., Hallsboro has changed the date of their Inform-er Bible study from Thursdays at 7 p.m. to each Saturday at 3 p.m. to benefit seniors who may not be able to travel at night. For more information call 646-4898.

Honey Hill Missionary Baptist Church services. Sunday school

SERVICESis held at 10 a.m. and service begins at 11 a.m. Sunday night service is held at 6 p.m. and Wednesday service is at 7:30 p.m. The church is located at 6140 Honey Hill Rd., Hallsboro. The new pastor is Troy Little.

Victory in Jesus Ministries of Whiteville will hold two morn-ing worship services. The ser-vice times are 9 a.m. and 11:15 a.m. each Sunday with Sunday school at 10:30 a.m. Believ-ers night Bible study is held on Tuesdays at 6 p.m. Voices of Victory services are aired week-ly on WMIR 1200 AM in Myrtle Beach, S.C. on Fridays at 4 p.m. with streaming available via the internet. The ministry is located at 626 S. Madison Street. Tracey A. Troy is the pastor. For more information call 642-5416 of visit victoryinjesusministries.org

New Ebenezer Faith Ministries will hold its 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th Sundays - Sunday school at 9:45 a.m. Morning worship is at 11:15 a.m. Intecessory Prayer every Wednesday at 7 p.m. Bible study/youth night is held every Friday at 7 p.m. Every 2nd and 4th Friday is “Dine on us” from 6-9 p.m. (Feeding the commu-nity). The church is located at 1705 Southport-Supply Road, Bolivia. Bishop Ronnie McCray is the pastor.

Agape House of Worship will hold its Bible study ev-ery Wednesday at 7 p.m. and Sunday services at 11:30 a.m. Agape HOW is located at 199 Forest Drive, Whiteville. Bennie Benjamin is the pastor.

Fellowship Independent Bap-tist Church will hold its Bible study every Thursday at 7:30 p.m. The church is located at 3070 Hallsboro Road North. El-der Shawn Maynor is the pastor.

Green Chapel Missionary Baptist Church will hold Sun-day school every Sunday at 10 a.m. and worship service every 2nd and 4th Sundays at 11:15 a.m. and Midweek service ev-ery Wednesday at 7 p.m. The church is located at 14853 Sam Potts Hwy., Bolton. Rev. Timothy Ray Moss is the pastor.

Lynn Hill Baptist Church will hold a new Sunday school se-ries on “The book of Revela-tion.” Pastor Schalk is teaching a thought-provoking series of power-point messages on the book of Revelation. Sunday school begins at 10 a.m. and the

COMMUNITY NEWS

Alcoholics Anonymous meets at First Presbyterian Church, 511 N. Thompson St., Whiteville on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday nights at 8 p.m. A guest speaker will be at the meeting on the last Thursday of each month. The church is located on Thompson Street in Whiteville.

Narcotics Anonymous meets at Highest Praise Church, 109 N. Madison St., Whiteville on Tues-days and Thursdays at 7 p.m., at Mt. Pleasant AME Zion Church, 15956 Old Lake Road, Riegel-wood on Tuesdays and Thurs-days at 7 p.m.

Al-anon meets at First Presbyte-rian Church, 511 N. Thompson St., Whiteville on Mondays at 8 p.m.Diabetes Support Group meets at Columbus Regional Health-care, Education Center, Class-room 2 the second Thursday of each month at 6 p.m. For more information call Shauna Nobles at 642-9458 or 641-8208.Brain Injury Support Group meets at Columbus Regional Healthcare, Education Center, Room 1A the second Thursday of each month

Whiteville United Methodist

wumc@whitevilleumc.orgwww.whitevilleumc.org

“We invite you to worship with us every Sunday”Sunday School 9 a.m. Worship Service 10 a.m.

Minister - Rev. Paul Stallsworth902 Pinckney St., Whiteville • 642-3376

Welcome to Whiteville United Methodist Church.

main worship at 11 a.m. There is also an informative power-point series on Sundays at 6 p.m. and Thursdays at 7 p.m. The church is located at 620 Lynn Hill Road, near the intersection of Hwy. 74 and Union Valley Road. For more information or directions call 914-0002 or 642-5820.

The Waccamaw Siouan Tribe will hold its council meetings the 3rd Thursday of each month at 7:30 p.m. at the Tribal Grounds on Old Lake Road, Bolton.

The House of Prayer and Deliv-erance will hold its worship ser-vice every Sunday morning with Sunday school at 9:45 a.m. and morning worship at 11:15 a.m. Weekly services are held each Wednesday at noon. Intercesso-ry prayer and Bible study are on Thursday nights at 7 p.m. HOPD is located at 1113 S. Madison Street. Barbara P. Powell is the pastor.

First Missionary Baptist Church will hold Sunday wor-ship services. There will be two services every first through fourth Sunday at 8:30 and 11 a.m. The fifth Sunday will be at

at 6 p.m. For more information call Shauna Nobles or Sonja Green at 642-8011 ext. 9458.Compassionate Friends Sup-port Group (Grief group for par-ents who have lost children to death) meets at Grace Episco-pal Church, 105 S. Madison St., Whiteville the second Monday of each month at 7:30 p.m. For more information call 647-8401.Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter #962 of Columbus County meets the first Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m. at 1028 S. Madison St., Whiteville.The American Legion Post #233 meets the first Tuesday of each month at 6 p.m. at 313 Phillips St., Whiteville.The American Legion Post #139 meets the second Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m. at 208 First Ave., Chadbourn.Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 8073 meets on the second Tues-day of each month at 6:30 p.m. at the Vietnam Veterans building at 1028 S. Madison St. Whiteville.Military Vet Riders Associa-tion meets on the last Monday of each month at 6:30 p.m. at the Vietnam Veterans building at 1028 S. Madison St. Whiteville.

Ladies Auxiliary #8073 meets on the second Sunday of each month at 2 p.m. at the Vietnam

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8:30 a.m. only. The church is located at 501 Martin Street in Elizabethtown. Cliff E. Freeman Jr. is the pastor.

New Mt. Zion Missionary Bap-tist Church Sunday school is held each Sunday at 10 a.m. and morning worship service each second and fourth Sun-day beginning at 11 a.m. A special prayer time is held each Wednesday at noon and Bible study is held each Wednesday evening beginning at 7 p.m. The church is located on Mill Pond Road in the Brunswick commu-nity. For more information call 445-1022. Rev. Anthony Rowell is the pastor.

Leamon Rogers Memorial Chapel on the Boys and Girls Home Campus at Lake Wac-camaw is now holding a wor-ship service every Sunday morn-ing from 9-10 a.m. The service is open to the public. The weekly worship service will include a mixture of traditional and mod-ern messages and music. For more information call Rev. Mi-chael Jones at 646-3083.

Visitor center supports Dixie Girls World Series TournamentThe visitor center donated 15 Tabor City gift bags com-plete with Spencer Yam Dolls and all things Tabor City to the South Columbus All Stars Angels recently. The An-gels, who represented North Carolina in the World Series tournament, presented them to the Florida team players and coaches in Carthage. The tournament was held Aug. 7-13. Mary Watts, visitor center hostess, is shown pre-senting them to Mitchell Strickland whose daughter Eliza-beth is on the team.

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How to Become a Part of Our Church Directory . . .

Our church directory features a weekly church profile, helpful informa-tion about area churches, a devotional thought and daily Bible readings.

If you would like your church in-cluded on this page, we invite you to call us today at 642-4104, ext. 237. For only $21.50 per month (six month com-mitment), we’ll include your church in this weekly directory, plus in our web

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CHURCH DIRECTORY For Columbus Countyand Surrounding Areas

Mt. Olive Missionary Baptist Church5548 Silverspoon Rd., WhitevillePastor T.A. Lance • 910-648-2476moderatorlance@aol.comwww.mombcwhitevillenc.comSunday 9:45 am, 10:50 am1st & 3rd Sunday BTU at 4:00 pmWednesday 6:45 pm

Mt. Tabor Missionary Baptist Church824 Cherry Grove Rd., Cerro GordoPastor Dr. Thomas Southerland 910-739-8458 Cell 910-774-6800Sun School 10 am, Service 11 am: 1st, 2nd, & 3rd SundaysWed Bible Study/Prayer Meeting 7 pm

CATHOLIC

Sacred Heart Catholic Church302 N. Lee St., WhitevilleRev. Marco Antonio Gonzalez-Hernandez fr.marco.gonzalez@raldios.org www.bcrcatholics.org • 910-642-3895Eucharist/Santa MisaSunday 9:00 am & 11:30 English MassDomingo 12:30 pm Spanish MassMartes (Tues.) Spanish 7 pm Misa de la tardeThursday (Jueves) English 6 pm English MassHoly Day of Obligatio 7:30 pm Bilingual MassTuesday/Martes 6-7 pm ConfessionesThursday/Jueves 5-6 pm Confessions

CHRISTIAN MISSIONARY

Missionary Alliance Church623 Warrior Trail, WhitevilleRev. Justin Dubose • 910-640-3223www.missonaryalliance.comSunday 10:00 am, 11:00 am Wednesday 6:30 pm

EPISCOPAL/LUTHERAN

Grace Episcopal Church & Christ the King Lutheran Church105 S. Madison St., WhitevilleRev. Anne Natoli • 910-642-4784gracechurchwhiteville@embarqmail.comwww.gracechrist.bizland.comSun Services 9:30 amWed 6:00 pm Communion, Bible Study and Dinner

HOLINESS

Chadbourn Church of God of Prophecy3618 Joe Brown Hwy. S., ChadbournRev. John McPherson • 910-654-3968Sunday 10 am, 11 am, 6:00 pm,Wednesday 7:30 pm - Classes for all ages

METHODIST-UNITED

Chadbourn United Methodist300 E. 2nd Ave., ChadbournRev. Pat Inman • 910-443-9786frectorjr@ec.rr.comSun 9:45 am, 11:00 amPrayer Tuesday 10:00 am

Fair Bluff United Methodist1030 Main St., Fair BluffRev. Neill Smith • 910-649-7749fairbluffumc@tds.netSunday 10:00 am, 11:00 amTuesday 7:00 pm Bible Study

Mishop Springs United Methodist2756 Pine Log Rd., WhitevillePastor Sheena Cartrette • 910-640-2783mishopspringsumc@gmail.commishopspringsumc.webs.comSunday 9:45 Sunday School, Worship 11:00 amWednesday 7:00 - Bible Study & Children/Youth

Whiteville United Methodist902 Pinckney St., WhitevilleRev. Paul Stallsworth • 910-642-3376wumc@whitevilleumc.orgwww.whitevilleumc.orgSunday 9:00 am Sunday School 10:00 am Worship ServiceWednesday 6:30 pm

NON-DENOMINATIONAL

Glory Tabernacle Church4513 Pleasant Plains Church Rd, WhitevillePastor Clark Whittington 910-640-2991www.gtcconnect.orgSunday 10:30 am and 6:00 pmWednesday 7:00 pm

Living Word Church6374 Chadbourn Hwy., ChadbournPastor Ron Fields • 910-654-4164www.livingwordnc.comSunday School 9:30 am Worship 10:30 amWednesday 7:00 pm

Northwood Church2672 James B. White Hwy. N., WhitevillePastor Russell Honeycutt910-642-7654Sunday 10:30 amWednesday 7:00 pm Bible Study

PENTECOSTAL HOLINESS

Chadbourn Pentecostal Holiness518 N. Elm St., ChadbournPastor Donald Conway • 910-654-4850 www.chadbournph.orgSunday School 9:45 amSunday Worship 10:40 am, 6:00 pmTeen Worship in Sanctuary 6:00 pmWednesday 7:00 pm__________________________________

AFRICAN-METHODISTEPISCOPAL

Mount Horeb AME Church187 Otis Donnell Nixon Rd., EvergreenChurch Phone 654 1887Rev. Sylvester Colvin • 910-371-0604Sunday School 9:45 amSun Morning Worship 11:00 amWed. 6:30 pm

St. James AME Church225 West Walter St., WhitevilleChurch Phone 642-8832Rev. Dewey C. Farmer, Jr., PastorSun Church School 9:45 amSun Morning Worship 11:00 amWed. 6:00 pm

AFRICAN-METHODISTEPISCOPAL ZION

St. Mark AME Zion Church114 W. Virgil St., WhitevilleRev. Charlrean Mapson, PastorChurch Phone: 910-642-7327Sunday School 9:45 amSun Morning Worship 11:00 amBible Study/Prayer ServiceTuesday - Noon and 7:00 pm

ASSEMBLEY OF GOD

Abundant Life Assembly of God5384 James B. White Hwy. S., WhitevillePastor Jerry J. Spivey • 910-642-5003pastorspivey@embarqmail.comSunday 10:00 am, 10:45 am, 6:00 pmWednesday 7:30 pm

Whiteville Assembly of God516 N. Madison St. (Former location of Missionary Alliance Church) Pastor Tim Rausch, Sr.Sunday School 9:30 amMorning Worship 10:30 amWednesday, Family Night 7:00 pm

BAPTIST

Calvary Baptist Church5028 Pleasant Plains Church Rd., WhitevilleRev. Kenneth Barnes • 910-642-6904Sunday 9:30 am, 11:00 am, 6:00 pmWednesday 7:00 pm

Chadbourn Baptist Church504 N. Howard St., Chadbourn910-654-3992Dr. Danny Russell, Pastorcbcoff@embarqmail.comwww.chadbournbaptist.comSunday School 9:45 am, Worship 11:00 amAdult Choir 5:00 pm, Discipleship Training 6:00 pmWednesday: Children’s Choir 6:00 pmPrayer Meet/Child’s Mission 6:30 pm

Faith Baptist Church4262 Rough N Ready Rd.ChadbournSunday 10:00 am, 11:00 amWednesday 7:00 pm

First Baptist Church412 N. Madison St., Whiteville910-642-2139fbcoffice@embarqmail.comwww.fbcwhiteville.comSunday 9:45 am, 11:00 am, Wednesday 6:30 pm

First Baptist Church ofLake Waccamaw300 E. Sam Potts Hwy., Lake WaccamawEric Truesdale, Pastor • 910-646-3727Sunday 9:45 am, 11:00 am, 6:00 pm, 7:00 pm, Youth Group Wednesday 7:00 pm

Happy Home Baptist Church2670 Happy Home Rd., NakinaRichard Collins, Pastor • 910-642-7284www.happyhomebaptistchurch.orgSunday 10:00 am, 11:00 am, 6:00 pmWednesday 7:00 pm

Lennon’s Cross RoadsBaptist Church13804 Haynes Lennon Hwy., EvergreenDr. Fred Senter, Pastor • 910-642-4436Sunday 10:00 am, 11:00 am, 2nd Sunday of each month 6:00 pm Special Fellow-ship Activity, Wednesday 7:00 pm

Macedonia Baptist Church100 Macedonia Church Rd.,EvergreenJimmy Caines, PastorSunday 10:00 am, 11:00 am 2nd & 4th Sun, 6:00 pm every Sunday, Wednes-day 7:30 pm

Nakina Baptist Church7883 Seven Creeks Rd., NakinaRev. J. Darryll Hester • 910-499-1598nakinabaptistchurch@centurylink.netSunday 10:00 am, 11:00 am, 6:00 pmWednesday 7:00 pm

New Hope Baptist Church252 Rough and Ready Rd., Whiteville910-642-6345www.nhbcwhiteville.comSunday 9:45 am, 11:00 am, 6:00 pmWednesday 7:00 pm

Peace Baptist Church653 Love Mill Rd., WhitevillePastor Chip Hannah • 910-642-0251www.peacebc.orgSunday 9:45 am, 11:00 am, 6:00 pmSunday 5:30-7:00 pm AwanasWednesday 7:00 pm

Piney Forest Baptist Church4509 Andrew Jackson Hwy. SW, ChadbournRev. Willard McPherson • 910-654-5284Sunday 10:00 am, 11:00 am, 7:00 pmWednesday 7:00 pm

Sweet Home MissionaryBaptist Church3111 Walter Todd Rd., ClarendonRev. Wayne Faulk • 910-653-4421Sunday Worship 10:30 am & 6:00pm Sunday School 9:30am, WorshipWednesday 7:00 pm

Trinity Baptist Church201 S. Thompson St., WhitevilleRandy K. Speight, Senior Pastor910-642-7764tbc4me@embarqmail.comwww.trytbc.orgSunday 9:45 am, 11:00 am, 6:00 pmWednesday 6:45 pm

Western Prong Baptist Church167 Peacock Rd., WhitevilleRev. Ronnie Wilson • 910-648-2744westernprong.orgSunday 8:30 am Worship, 9:45 amSunday School, 11:00 am Worship,5:45 pm AWANA, 6:00 pm Youth Group, 6:00 pm Bible Study7:00 pm WorshipWednesday 7:00 pm

White Marsh Baptist Church341 White Hall Rd., Whiteville Rev. Ray Yow • 910-770-5487Sunday 9:45 am, 11:00 amWednesday 7:00 pm

Williamsons CrossroadsBaptist Church4071 Princess Ann Rd., Chadbourn Rev. Larry Nobles, Pastor 910-654-1260 Cell 910-317-1892Sunday 10:00 am, 11 amWednesday 7:00 pm

CHURCH OF GODNew Life Community Church107 Maultsby St., WhitevilleRev. DeWayne Dickerson 910-642-0130newlifewhiteville@gmail.comSunday 9:30 am, 10:30 amThursday 7:00 pmFriday Safe Harbor Youth Center6:30 pm - 9:30 pm

Whiteville Church of God506 N. Lee St., WhitevillePastor Chris Yarusinsky • 642-3395whitevillecog@yahoo.comFacebook: Whiteville Church of GodSunday 10:00 am, 11:00 amWednesday 7:00 pmSaturday Night: Every last Saturday of each month

FREEWILL BAPTIST

Avants Chapel FWB Church947 Cedar St., Cerro GordoPastor Mack Watts • 843-756-0417ww0417@sccoast.netSunday 9:45 am, 11:00 am, 6:00 pmWednesday 7:30 pm

Oak Grove FWB ChurchOak Grove Church Rd., BladenboroRev. Henry Ward • 843-236-3564Sunday School 10:00 am, Service 11:00 am Sunday evening 6:30 pmWednesday 7:30 pm

INDEPENDENT BAPTIST

Lynn Hill IndependentBaptist Church620 Lynn Hill Rd., WhitevillePastor William A. Schalk • 910-914-0002http://pastorpreacher.com/lynnhillbc.htmlSunday 10:00 am, 11:00 am, 6:00 pmWednesday 7:00 pm

MISSIONARY BAPTIST

First Missionary Baptist Church505 S. Wilkes St., ChadbournReverend Virgil Hugh Reaves910-654-3225www.firstmbcchadbourn.orgSunday 9:45 am & 11:00 amWed Noon Day Prayer Circle 12 noon,6:30 pmon WVOE 1590 AM every Sunday 11:30-12:30

PRESBYTERIAN

Chadbourn Presbyterian Church600 E. First Ave., ChadbournRev. C.F. McDowell III910-654-3449chadpc-usa@hotmail.comSunday 10:00 am, 11:00 am

First Presbyterian Church511 N. Thompson St., Whiteville910-642-2253fpcwhiteville@embarqmail.comSunday School 9:00 am, Services10:00 am

Westminster Presbyterian Church307 S. Franklin St., Whiteville910-642-2762westminster_presbyterian@hotmail.comSunday 9:45 pm, 11:00 am

SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTSeventh Day Adventist1002 N. Franklin St., WhitevillePastor Kenneth A. Lee 910-642-0698pastorlee3@gmail.comSaturday 9:30 am, 10:45 amWednesday 7:00 pm

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Lebanon United Methodist Church

9195 James B. White Hwy. S.Clarendon, NC 28432

910-653-2661

Reverend Stephen Bazan

Lebanon United Methodist Church is the oldest deeded church in Columbus County.

Begun in a rough log building in 1825 on Isaac Benton’s land, Lebanon was first known as the Duncan Methodist Church. Along with Moses Duncan, the first trustees were Symen Benton, Colon White, Neil Currie, Porter Todd, Isaac Benton and Elias Duncan.

In 1859, the church moved to its present site, which was donated by Isaac Benton and Porter Todd. A small chapel was erected and the name was changed to Lebanon United Methodist Church. A great revival in the ear-ly 1900’s strengthened the church, and con-struction began on a new building in 1910.

Completed several years later, the struc-ture served well until December 1954 when it was destroyed by fire. Temporarily, church services were held at the Williams Township School. Meanwhile, Homer Frink, Grover Hinson and Hugh Stout led the building committee, and N.C. Currie laid brick. The first service in the new sanctuary was in the spring of 1956.

Featuring a distinctive Gothic window, the building contained space for worship, educa-tion and social functions. Completed on a “pay as you go” basis, the building was dedi-cated in 1967.

The youth finished the Upper Room in 1979 and later added the tennis/basketball court. The Fellowship Hall was completed in 1997.

The people of Lebanon United Methodist Church invite you to become a part of our ongoing history!

Services:Sunday School 9:30 a.m.

Sunday Morning Worship 11:00 a.m.

Tuesday Bible Study 7:00 p.m.

Museum offers Dragonfly Detectives Day Camp

The North Carolina Mu-seum of Natural Sciences at Whiteville will offer Dragon-fly Detectives Day Camp Mon-day through Friday, Aug. 17 -21 from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m.

Dragonfly Detectives is a fun and inquiry-based sci-ence day camp. Participants will meet at the museum and will travel to Lake Waccamaw State Park to study dragon-flies, water quality and weath-er in the field.

They will also learn about aquatic systems, animal mi-grations, dragonfly identi-fication, careers in science and other topics while doing a variety of fun, educational activities in the park. At the end of the week each partici-pant will take home a toolkit to continue their investiga-tions on their own. Lunch and transportation are pro-vided. Call or email to regis-ter. Space is limited.

For more information,

to sign up for the camp or inquire about this as an af-terschool program, contact Meghan Barron at 910-914-4185 or Meghan.barron@natu-ralsciences.org

Dragonfly Detectives was designed as an afterschool program and is being offered throughout North Carolina. For an overview of the pro-gram visit https://dragonfly-detectives.wordpress.com/. Dragonfly Detectives is made possible thanks to a grant from the Burroughs Well-come Fund and is in partner-ship with the N.C. State Parks and the N.C. Center for After-school Programs.

The Burroughs Wellcome Fund’s Student Science En-richment Program awards grants that support informal education outside of the tra-ditional classroom time. The Burroughs Wellcome Fund is a private foundation in Re-search Triangle Park.

Whiteville UMC Bible study set

The Whiteville United Methodist Church Wednesday morning Bible study will be-gin Sept. 2 from 9:30-11:30 in the parlor.

For 31 weeks the class will study “The story” by Randy Frazee and Max Lucado. From Genesis to Revelation, 31 selected stories reveal how God’s master plan is unfold-ing through the lives of the Bible’s characters - and in your own.

Participant’s guides are $10. Call the church office at 642-3376 or Florence Marlowe at 642-4714 by Wednesday, Aug. 26 to order a booklet.

Summer film festival at Whiteville UMC

Whiteville United Method-ist Church is holding a sum-mer film festival.

Sunday, Aug. 16 at 6 p.m. will be “Walker Percy: A docu-mentary film” on an Ameri-can novelist.

Sunday, Aug. 23 at 6 p.m. will be “Theologians under Hitler” Germany’s best and brightest cave.

Sunday, Aug. 30 at 6 p.m. “Sing a little louder” a 12-min-ute movie (!) and “We shall not weary, we shall not rest” speech by Richard John Neu-haus.

The events will be held in the fellowship hall or pastor’s study.

The church is located at 902 Pinckney Street.

FUNDRAISERSFirst Presbyterian Church women have cookbooks for sale for $5 each. The cookbooks are available at the church located at 511 N. Thompson St., Whiteville. Office hours are Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m.-noon and 1-2:30 p.m.

Whiteville United Methodist Church women have prints of the church steeple, by the late Martha Burns, for sale $40 each. The print size is 17 x 23. Call the church office Monday-Thursday from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. for pur-chase at 642-3376.

Veterans building at 1028 S. Madison St., Whiteville.Disabled American Veterans Chapter #35 meets the second Thursday of each month at 7 p.m. at 1028 S. Madison St., Whiteville.

Family and Community Hope Resources Inc. would like per-sons from 20-40 years of age to attend Community Development meetings on the fourth Thursday of each month at the Columbus County Dream Center from 6:30-7:30 p.m. For more information call Shelle Blanks at 910-207-8982 or Yolanda Davis at 704-780-8350. A Community Garden is avail-able at Chadbourn United Methodist Church. Persons are invited to come and plant in the raised bed plots. For more in-formation call 654-5250 or 654-4069 and leave message, name and number.

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Union Chapel FWBC ushers anniversary

Union Chapel Freewill Bap-tist Church will celebrate its ushers anniversary Sunday, Aug. 16 at 4 p.m. The speaker will be Elder Kevin McGeachy of New Prong Chapel Church along with his church family.

Elder Perry Shipman is the pastor.

Crystal Spring MBC homecoming Aug. 30

Crystal Spring Missionary Baptist Church will hold its annual homecoming service Sunday, Aug. 30 at 11:30 a.m. The guest speaker will be Rev. James Eason, pastor of Mt. Pisgah Missionary Baptist Church. Lunch will be served.

The church is located at 4754 Blue Banks Loop Road, Leland.

Rev. Dr. Carozell Henry is the pastor.

Veterans meetVietnam Veterans of Amer-

ica meet the first Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m. at 1028 S. Madison St., Whiteville.

JCPC meetingsThe Juvenile Crime Pre-

vention Council meetings are on the first Wednesday of each month at noon in the Whiteville City Schools Civic Room.

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Lake Waccamaw Food ministry to distribute food

Lake Waccamaw food min-istry will distribute food to those in need.

The distribution days will be the second Wednesday and fourth Saturday of each month, from 9-10 a.m. at First Baptist Church, Sam Potts Hwy. Lake Waccamaw.

Food recipients need only a photo ID to receive free food.

The partnering churches are Lake Waccamaw Method-ist Church, Lake Waccamaw Presbyterian Church, Little Wheel of Hope Church and First Baptist Church of Lake Waccamaw.

For more information call 646-3727.

Tabor CityHappenings and Events

By Dianne Nobles WardPromotions Director, Town of Tabor City

To celebrate the summer season summer banners are flying at the Tabor City Visitor Center. Other banners will be flying throughout the year as the seasons change and to welcome our many visitors.

There is still time to sign up for the Bass Tournament at Lake Tabor Saturday, Aug. 15. Call 653-3225. You may be the lucky winner that catches the “big one.”

All are invited to attend the Goshen Medical Center Open House Friday, Aug. 14 at 10 a.m. at Tabor Crossing Shopping Center. Greg Bounds, CEO of Goshen will say a few words along with other dignitaries. Free blood pressure checks, screenings and a tour of the facility will also take place during the event. Light refreshments will be served.

Tickets are on sale at the Tabor City Visitor Center for the bluegrass gospel group “Cross Talk.” Purchase a ticket from Rev. Neill Smith of Fair Bluff United Methodist Church. This event is a benefit for the church and the band. The concert will be held on from 7-9 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 10. Tickets are adults $15 and children 10 and under $10. Call the visitor center at 653-4141 for more information.

Mark your calendar for the 2015 Greater Miss Tabor City pageant which is scheduled for Aug. 22 at 6 p.m. at South Co-lumbus High School. Contestant ages will range from newborn on up. The winner in the Queen division will be awarded a $500 scholarship at the completion of her reign. The pageant is sponsored by the Greater Tabor City Chamber of Commerce and directed by Mitzi and Brittany Ward. Call 377-3012 for more information.

Birthday calendars are also back in Tabor City. The Tabor City Chamber of Commerce has taken on this project and cal-endar sales have already begun. Call the chamber office at 377-3012 if interested in purchasing a calendar filled with birth-days, anniversaries and other important dates. Don’t forget that you may also stop by the Tabor City Public Library to fill out your order form and purchase your calendar for $8.

On Saturday, Aug. 22 the Southeastern Drag Boat Club will host the “Redneck Drag Races” at Lake Tabor. There is a $30 fee to race in a class and the event offers a Novice Class as well. Novice class participants must have completed the boater’s safety course to be eligible to participate. Admission is $10 for adults and children 12 and under get in free. If interested or for more information go to http://www.southeasterndragboat.com or call Jimmy Cox at 843-241-2218 or Zack Hill at 910-234-4610.

If you need a N.C. map, Tabor City map or a phonebook the visitor center will provide you with one. Come by anytime Monday-Friday from 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. or Saturday from 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

That’s what’s happening in Tabor City this week. Until next week……..That’s what’s happening in Tabor City this week.Until next week……..

Living Hope offers free prenatal vitamins

In an effort to better serve their pregnant clients and to promote better health in Co-lumbus County, Living Hope Pregnancy Support Services has begun offering a free 6-month supply of prenatal vitamins to women who have positive pregnancy tests.

This allows a pregnant woman to begin taking prena-tal vitamins as early as pos-sible in her pregnancy to help ensure her health and the healthy development of her unborn child.

The vitamins have been provided to Living Hope through a grant from Vitamin Angels of Santa Barbara, Cal-ifornia.

The provision of free pre-natal vitamins is the newest service of Living Hope, which is celebrating 25 years of ser-vice to Columbus County. Oth-er services include free preg-nancy tests and estimated due dates necessary for applying for Medicaid for Pregnant Women, and an Earn While You Learn incentive program.

Living Hope provides ser-

vices free of charge to all women regardless of age, in-come or marital status.

The center is located at 116 Premiere Plaza, behind Waffle International in Whiteville.

Office hours are Mondays from 3-7 p.m. and Tuesdays and Thursdays from noon-4 p.m.

For more information, call the 24-hour helpline at 642-2677.

Wish Granting Volunteers are needed for the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Eastern North Carolina.

Wish Granters visit the family and help determine the wish of the child while ex-plaining wish procedures and using their creative side to make the wish truly magical.

Wish Granters see first-hand the impact a wish can make on a child with a life-threatening medical condi-tion.

For more information, contact Lisa at 919-821-7111 or lbrinkerhoff@eastncwish.org.

Make-A-Wish needs volunteers

Burning Hope Ministries/ We Care We Can Outreach to serve ice cream

Burning Hope Ministries/ We Care We Can Outreach and Pop Q Ice Cream will be feed-ing children two times a week on Tuesday and Thursday from noon-2 p.m. which be-gan June 16 and runs through Aug. 20 at the Waccamaw Si-ouan Tribal Grounds. This is a 10-week program.

The grounds are located at 7200 Old Lake Road, Buck-head. For more information call Pastor Deborah Smith at 232-8731 or Pop Q Ice Cream at 228-2036.

Services set at American Legion Post

Pastor Robert D. Williams Sr. and his congregation will hold services at the American Legion Post Sunday mornings at 9:30 a.m. until further notice.

Southeastern COG to hold overcomers

Overcomers will be offered at the Southeastern Church of God each Monday night at 7 p.m. This class helps in-dividuals overcome any type of obstacle including alcohol, drugs, food, sex, depression, grief and more that are hold-ing them in bondage.

The classes are free of charge and open to the public.

For more information call Pastor Brian Wible at 653-7788.

The church is located on the corner of 6th and Lewis Streets in Tabor City.

Green Chapel MBC sponsor clothes giveaway

Green Chapel Mission-ary Baptist Church Outreach Ministry is sponsoring a clothing giveaway Saturday, Aug. 22 from noon-2 p.m.

The ministry is located at 14853 Sam Potts Hwy. Bolton. Donations accepted.

Rev. Timothy R. Moss is the pastor.

Bladen animalcontrol hours

Bladen County Animal Control/Shelter will change the business hours as of Au-gust 3rd, 2015. The hours of operation are designed to ensure that all animals in the shelter are properly and humanely cared for and that the public has adequate and ample opportunity to con-duct adoptions and surrender stray / owned animals at the Bladen County Animal Con-trol and Shelter.

The shelter is open to the public for all animal-related services, during the following hours:

Animal Drop Off and Ani-mal Pickup, Monday-Friday 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.

Adoptions, Monday-Friday 12-5 p.m.

Closed Saturday and Sun-day.

The shelter promptly re-sponds to animal emergencies during non-business hours. Any situation in which a do-mestic or wild animal is cre-ating a danger to the public is considered an emergency. Call 911 for all emergency calls and they will contact the Animal Control Officer on-call.

Riegelwood AA meets WednesdaysThe Riegelwood group of Alcoholics Anonymous meets at

6 p.m. every Wednesday at the USW Local 9-738, 102 Old Stage Hwy. (87) at Riegelwood.

Benjamin celebrates pastor anniversary

Bishop Bennie Benjamin will celebrate his pastor an-niversary Sunday, Aug. 16 at 4 p.m. at Agapé House of Worship. The speaker will be Pastor Agnes Boozer from Fayetteville.

The worship center is lo-cated at 199 Forest Drive.

Second biennial for Nakina classes 83-92

The second biennial Na-kina reunion classes from 83-92 will be held Friday, Nov. 27 from 6 p.m.-12 a.m. at Sand Dunes Resort. The cost is $75 per person.

The resort is located at 201-75th Ave., North Myrtle Beach, S.C.

For more information call 478-918-7662 or 843-597-2994.

New Mt. Zion BC pastor anniversary

New Mt . Zion B apt i st Church of Brunswick will hold its pastor’s sixth anni-versary Sunday, Aug. 16 at 4 p.m. The guest speaker will be Rev. Andy Anderson of Cedar Branch Baptist Church of Lo-ris, S.C. along with his choir.

Rev. Anthony Rowell is the pastor.

County Fairbooths for rent

Columbus County Fair officials are now accepting booth rentals for the 36th an-nual fair.

The cost is $150 for an 8x10-foot inside booth with an elec-trical outlet, first come, first served.

To reserve a booth email jferguson28@ec.rr.com or call 910-654-4808.

Fair dates are Oct. 13-18.

Families First is seeking school supplies, uniforms

Vickie Pait, executive director of Families First, Inc. is ask-ing for school supply donations for children of the domestic violence shelter’s clients.

Needed are book bags, one, three or five subject notebooks, notebook paper, large binders, hand sanitizer, pencils, ink pens, colored pencils, highlighters, pencil pouches, crayons and such.

“We are also trying to help with school uniforms,” Pait said. “We will accept new or gently used school uniforms. Those

who wish to donate may call the office for specific sizes or make a financial contribution designated for uniforms. Thank you for your support.”

School supplies and uniforms should be delivered to the new Families First, Inc. office location at 121 W. Main St., Whiteville or call 642-5996.

Law enforcementtraining at SCC

Southeastern Community College will offer two Basic Law Enforcement Training (BLET) courses beginning Aug. 10.

The daytime BLET class will be held Aug. 10 through Dec. 12, Monday through Fri-day, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The evening BLET class will be held Aug. 31 through March 23, Monday through Friday from 6:30 to 11:30 p.m. and an occasional half day Saturday.

Both courses are eligible for financial aid and are VA approved. This class allows for certification as a N.C. sheriff ’s deputy, police officer or special police officer. For more infor-mation, contact Jeff Cully at (910) 642-7141, ext. 410 or at jeff.cully@sccnc.edu.

New Light BC to hold missionary day

New Light Baptist Church will hold its young adult an-nual Missionary Day at 3 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 16. The speaker will be Minister A.J. Johnson of Union Baptist Church of Lake Waccamaw.

The theme is “Vessels for the Master’s use.”

Rev. Franklin Graham is the pastor.

Ladies Bible Study at First PCAll area ladies are invited to an inter-denominational Bible

study, which will meet at First Presbyterian Church in White-ville. The classes will meet Tuesday mornings from 9:30-11 a.m. beginning Sept. 8.

Twelve Women of the Bible, life-changing stories for women today is a DVD-based study by Lysa TerKeurst and six other teachers. This fresh look at women of the Bible will help partici-pants discover new insights and will provide a powerful witness to God’s gracious love.

Member books, which cost $9, must be ordered in advance. For further information or to order a book, call Janet

McPherson at 642-9714 no later than Aug. 25.

St. Mark AME Zion to hold women’s retreat

St. Mark AME Zion Church will hold a women’s retreat Friday, Aug. 14 and Saturday, Aug. 15 at 7 p.m. The theme for Friday is “Women getting right with God physically and spiritually.” The guest speaker will be Carolee T. McLinnahan of Genesis Outreach Deliver-ance Center, Inc.

The topic for Saturday is “Women getting right with God spiritually during wor-ship.”

Saturday events begin at 8:30 and 10 a.m. with a free facial or a free manicure. (ap-pointment required). The topic is “Women, keep your body physically in good health for God and yourself.”

For more information call Gwendolyn Spears at 648-2410.

Time is running out for local teachers to apply for grants of up to $2,000 from Brunswick Electric Member-ship Corporation’s Bright Ideas education grant pro-gram. Educators with cre-ative ideas for hands-on class-room projects must submit their applications by Sept. 21.

Teachers who submit their applications by the early bird deadline of Aug. 14 will be entered into a statewide drawing for one of five $100 Visa gift cards. The early bird prize winners will be notified and recognized on the Bright Ideas website and Facebook page at www.facebook.com/ncbrightideas. In addition, BEMC will award an addition-al $100 Visa gift card locally to

an applicant from the BEMC service area.

The application, grant-writing tips and more infor-mation can be found on the Bright Ideas grant website at www.ncbrightideas.com.

The application requires an outline of the proposed project, a detailed budget and a description of the benefit to students. Applicants are encouraged to highlight the innovative, creative elements of the project and to proofread carefully.

“Since 1994, the Bright Ideas education grant pro-gram has provided more than $9.6 million for 9,200 projects benefitting more than 1.8 mil-lion students in North Caro-lina,” said Don Hughes, CEO/

general manager of BEMC. “We are committed to local communities, and we believe there’s no better way to con-tribute than by investing in the education of our youth.”

Submit applications by the early bird deadline of Aug. 14; applications will be accepted through Sept. 21.

BEMC is the second larg-est electric co-op in North Carolina, the 35th largest of 851 co-ops in the U.S. and serves about 89,000 locations in Brunswick and Columbus counties, plus small areas of Bladen and Robeson counties.

BEMC is a locally owned not-for-profit corporation committed to providing safe, reliable and affordable elec-tricity to its members.

Deadline approaching forBEMC Bright Ideas grants

Cancer Support Group meets

The Cancer Support Group of Donayre Cancer Care Cen-ter of Columbus Regional Healthcare meets the second Wednesday of each month from 9-10 a.m. in the CRHS education department. The programs are free.

The first meeting will be held Aug. 12.

The topic will be “How to maintain strength with nutri-tion” presented by Maria H. Rupp, RDN, LDN.

For more information and to register call 641-8220.

Mt. Zion BC hosts The New Believers

Mt. Zion Baptist Church will host the The New Believ-ers Sunday, Aug. 30 at 6 p.m.

The church is located on Red Hill Road.

Dr. M.L. Boone is the pas-tor.

Subscribe Today,Call 642-4104

Progressive Friendly HM to hold meeting

The Progressive Friendly Household Ministry will hold its monthly meeting Saturday, Aug. 15 at 1 p.m. at Cherry Grove Missionary Baptist Church. All members are asked to attend.

For more information call Loris McClellan at 207-6574.

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Boys & Girls Homes seekfoster and adoptive homes

How do you define dedica-tion? Boys & Girls Homes feels that their foster and/or adop-tive parents are the epitome of dedication.

Foster parents are volun-teers from the community who open their homes and provide 24-hour love and care to abused and neglected children. These nurturing, caring, responsible parents are the missing pieces in foster children’s lives. The absence of devoted and loving caregivers is what makes fos-ter care a necessity for more than 14,000 children in North Carolina.

The Boys & Girls Homes of N.C. Campus, Girls Activity Center, is located at 400 Flem-ington Drive, Lake Waccamaw.

Many of the licensed foster/adoptive homes are filled to capacity and many are over-crowded. Like many foster care agencies, Boys & Girls Homes finds itself with more children needing temporary substitute family care than skilled and caring foster fami-lies to meet that need. Foster

families give children the best possible chance to grow and heal but unfortunately, there are not enough foster families to go around.

Foster parenting is not easy. Boys & Girls Homes of NC carefully evaluates, orients, and trains new foster parents. This helps to ensure that the family and the home meet state and agency requirements. The children who need families are there – but where are the foster parents? It used to be that there were some children were hard to place, but it is really that homes - good homes - are hard to find.

For more information con-tact LeAnne Etheridge Graham at 877-211-5322, (910) 646-3083, ext. 217, or leanne.graham@bghnc.org.

Even though you may not think so now, you could be the one who can make a difference to wonderful kids who deserve compassion, friendship, and en-couragement. It will change, at the very least, two lives - yours and theirs.

Yokefellows Prison Ministry seeking participants

Yokefellows Prison Minis-try is seeking Christians in the Tabor City area to be a part of this ministry.

For presentation dates call 918-4531 or 653-2782.

Weight Expressmeets Mondaysin Chadbourn

People who want to lose weight and learn to eat health-ier are invited to join “Weight Express” each Monday from 6:30-7:30 p.m. at the Chadbourn Masonic Lodge at 417 E. Straw-berry Blvd. Everyone is invited and there are no fees involved, although donations are accept-ed. For more information call George Baysden at 654-3911or Rosa Watkins at 840-4904.

Assistance forpregnant women

The Well Births program at the Columbus County DREAM Center may be able to help women who are pregnant or recently delivered.

Well Births serves as a com-munity action team for minor-ity infant mortality reduction. The goal is to see all babies born healthy and thrive. The organization works to im-prove the health of women of childbearing ages, improve prenatal care and reduce infant mortality.

The DREAM Center is locat-ed at 403 S. Martin Luther King Jr. Ave. in Whiteville. Register by contacting case manager Amber Bellamy, Alisha Love or Jamika Lynch at 642-0633.

Columbus County Leadership committee meets Tuesdays

The Columbus County Leadership Council Steering Committee meets each second Tuesday at 6 p.m. at Bogue Community Park, Hallsboro.

This non-partisan, non-profit advocacy group encour-ages participation of citizens willing to collaborate to effect powerful, positive changes on the local, state and federal lev-els.

Group goals, bylaws, mem-bership information and ap-plications may be secured via email request at www.colum-buscountyleadershipcouncil.weebly.com or send written request to Columbus County Leadership Council, P.O. Box 57, Hallsboro, N.C. 28442

For more information call Loris McClellon at 207-6574 or Bridget Stephens at 646-1164.

Lakeside Ministry to host Sunday speakers and music

Lakeside Ministry will host speakers and special mu-sic each Sunday through Sept. 6 from 9-9:30 a.m.

The event will be held at the Lake Waccamaw Camp-ground Gazebo next to the Sailboat Club.

The schedule is as follows: Aug. 16 - Rev. Ronnie Wil-

son with Rhonda Grice. Aug. 23 - Rev. Ricky Byrd

with Danny Gibson. Aug. 30 - Rev. Hubert Mc-

Clenney with Don Brock.Sept. 6 - New Vision.

The Columbus County De-partment of Aging is prepar-ing a three day/two night holiday vacation to Pigeon Forge/Gatlinburg Tuesday Sept. 22-Thursday, Sept. 24.

Shows will include the Hat-field and McCoy dinner show, The Smith Family dinner show, The Smoky Mountain Opry, a visit to Apple Barn Vil-lage, A Moonshine & Mountain Tour and The Great Smoky Mountains, Gatlinburg and shopping at Tanger Outlets.

The cost of the trip is $364 per person-double occupancy.

For more information or reservations call Michelle Dip-pel at 649-6881, Jean Powers at

Columbus County Department of Aging holiday vacation set Sept. 22-24

640-6602, Catherine Spauld-ing at 655-4166, Ruby Shelley at 654-4423, Susan Prince at 653-3063, Warriette Hardee at 655-4754 or Jenny Godwin at 640-3791.

Chadbourn BC to hold outdoor movie night

Chadbourn Baptist Church will hold a summer outdoor movie night at 7:30 p.m. Fri-day, Aug. 14.

Join us for a free movie, popcorn and drinks. Bring a lawn chair or blanket. In the event of rain it will be held in the fellowship hall.

The movies being shown are: Friday, July 10, National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007), the sequel; and Friday, Aug. 14, The day the Earth stood still (1951), an old black and white classic.

For more information or questions call 654-3992.

Greater Restoration food distribution

Greater Restoration Enrich-ment Center in Whiteville has TEFAP and commodity food distributions every second Saturday and fourth Tuesday of each month beginning at 10 a.m. for Columbus County residents.

For more information call 641-0800.

GREC is located at 3490 James B. White Hwy. South.

St. Luke A.M.E. Zion fellowship brunch

The Women’s Home and Overseas Missionary Society of St. Luke A.M.E. Zion Church will hold a fellowship brunch Saturday, Aug. 15 from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. The guest speaker will be Rev. Grenda McMillan, pastor of Cromartie Hill A.M.E. Zion Church of Clarkton.

The church is located at 410 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in Bladenboro.

Rev. Harrison J. Branch is the pastor.

Love Grove young adult choir anniversary

Love Grove Freewill Bap-tist Church will hold its young adult choir anniversary Sun-day, Aug. 9 at 4 p.m. On the program will be The Chad-bourn Gospel Singers, The Graham Brothers, The (Old) Royal Lights of Dillon, S.C., Men In Christ of Raeford, The Shady Grove Male Chorus, Tony Campbell and Company and others.

The church is located in the Welches Creek community.

Elder Ronald Brown is the pastor.

St. Luke A.M.E. Zion sets Sunday school/morning worship

S t . Lu ke A . M . E . Z ion Church wil l hold Sunday school at 8:45 a.m. and morn-ing worship at 10 a.m. each Sunday until further notice.

The church is located at 410 Martin Luther King Drive, Bladenboro.

Rev. Harrison J. Branch is the pastor.

Liberty Hospice needs volunteers

Liberty Hospice needs vol-unteers to provide patient support. Any adult or teenag-ers interested in providing support for terminally ill pa-tients call Tonia Neal at 641-4095 or 733-5663.

The hospice is located at 44 McNeill Plaza.

St. Bethel MBC to hold revival

St.Bethel Missionary Bap-tist Church will hold its an-nual summer revivial starting Wednesday, Aug. 19-Friday, Aug. 21 at 7:30 p.m. nightly. The guest preacher will be Rev. Sylvester Smith pastor of Pyane Temple A.M.E. Church of Mt. Oliva.

Rev. Gregory Hewett is the pastor.

Town of Sandyfield parade/fun day set Saturday, Aug. 22

The Town of Sandyfield will hold its 18th Annual Pa-rade and Fun Day Celebration Saturday, Aug. 22 at 11 a.m.

The parade line up will begin at 10 a.m. at the inter-section of Hoover Road and Bowen-Blanks Drive.

The Fun Day will continue at Sandyfield Town Park lo-cated at 1811 Woodyard Road, Riegelwood.

There will be food, games, bounce houses, water slides, vendors, and more.

T-shirts are being sold on a pre-order basis for $10 & $12.

For more information call 655-9877.

Dulah MBC sets back-to-school bash

Dulah Missionary Baptist Church will hold a back-to-school bash for kids and youth of all ages Saturday, Aug. 15 from 4 p.m.-until. There will be a meal, games, music, a bounce house, an inflatable slide, basketball and volley-ball. The church is located at 12476 Swamp Fox Hwy. East, Tabor city. Michael Calder is the pastor.

Freewill Holiness Church VBS

Freewill Holiness Church will hold its vacation Bible school Wednesday, Aug. 5-Fri-day, Aug. 7 from 6-8 p.m. nightly. Finale night will be Saturday, Aug. 8 from noon-6 p.m.

For more information call Vickie Park at 874-0282.

The church is located at 3258 Pocosin Road, Lake Wac-camaw.

Pastor Lucy Young is the pastor.

Baldwin Branch MBC women’s conference Aug. 12-14

The Baldwin Branch Mis-sionary Baptist Church wom-en’s conference, “Women of Warfare” is scheduled for Aug. 12-14 and 16. The weekday ses-sions start at 7 p.m.

Sunday’s session, Aug. 16, Sunday School begins at 9 a.m. followed by worship service at 10 a.m.

The guests are: Wednesday, Evangelist Laurice Lesane of Fayetteville, Thursday, Bishop Eva Darden from the House of Praise of Newton Grove, Fri-day, Pastor Freda Hutchinson of the Faithful Few Ministry of Whiteville.

The conference concludes Aug. 16 with Rev. Cheryl Moore pastor of Zion Temple Church of Durham.

The church is located at 4047 N.C. Hwy. 242 south in Elizabethtown.

Rev. Dr. Louie Boykin is the pastor.

Global School of Ministry enrolling students

Global School of Ministry is now enrolling students.

Global School of Ministry is being offered free of charge through love offerings and donations.

Individuals interested in learning how to receive biblical training and education without paying the high cost of tuition are invited to contact Minister Patrina Wright at 234-3092.

Lake Waccamaw Depot Museum’s August schedule includes the Rummikub Club meetings every Monday at 1 p.m., Railroad Bridge at 1 p.m. every Tuesday, the Acoustic Music Jam at 9:30 a.m. Satur-day, Aug. 15, Take The Lake steering committee meeting at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 18 and the Take the Lake X-Treme at 6:30

a.m. Saturday, Aug. 29 at Dale’s Seafood or the dam.

All other events are at the Depot Museum.

Prescribed Burning, a pro-gram on prescribed fires to educate people about how fires are started under controlled conditions can benefit the en-vironment will be held Sunday, Aug. 9 at 6 p.m. at the museum.

Lake Museum August events

Columbus County Bible College opens fall registration

The Columbus County Bible College has opened its fall reg-istration.

Registration started June 1 and will continue until Aug. 21.

The college offers certifi-cates in biblical studies. They also offer associate, bachelor, master and doctorate degrees.

The college is housed in Community Prayer House lo-cated at 17362 Sam Potts Hwy., Bolton.

For more information call Dr. Apostle Tanty A. Freeman, dean at 619-7111 or 655-8971.

Western Prong BC to host upward soccer

Western Prong Baptist Church will hold upward soccer. Evaluation/registra-tion day (required of all par-ticipants) will be held Sunday, Aug. 22 from 9 a.m.-noon.

The event is for ages K4-6th boys and girls. The first game will be held Sept. 19.

The league fee is $35, which includes uniform.

For more information call 690-4378.

The church is located at 167 Peacock Road.

Trinity UMC to host Greene and Gray

Trinity United Methodist Church will host Paula Greene and Angie Greene Gray a mother/daughter duo from southeast N.C. spreading the gospel message through song. The sing will be held Saturday, Aug. 14 at 7 p.m.

The church is located at 16550 Hwy. 53 East in Kelly.

For more information call Pastor Ernie Block at 617-7744 or email eblock@ec.rr.com.

Sandhill MBC church announcements

Sandhill Missionary Bap-tist Church church announce-ments for August are:

Sunday, Aug. 23 will be Men’s Day beginning at the 11 a.m. worship service. Rev. Donald Thompson will be the speaker. Lunch will be served.

Sunday, Aug. 30 will be the July, August and September birthdays. Everyone born in these months will be recog-nized.

The church is located at 16920 Twisted Hickory Road, Bladenboro.

Donald L. Thompson is the pastor.

Mission Valley OFWBC to hold sing

Mission Valley Original Freewill Baptist Church will hold its fifth Sunday sing Aug. 30 at 6 p.m. featuring The Ri-vertown Boys of Conway, S.C.

The church is located at 5634 Lebanon Church Road, Clarendon in the Mollie com-munity.

Ward family reunionThe descendants of Ad-

die Jane and William Calvin Ward will hold its family re-union Sunday, Aug. 23 in the Pine Level Church fellowship hall. A covered dish meal will begin at 1:30 p.m.

The church is located on Pine Level Church Road, Na-kina.

For more information call 642-3568.

Dublin Peanut Festival set

The Dublin Peanut Festival Pageant Committee is accept-ing applications for the Dublin Peanut Festival Pageant that will be held Saturday, Sept. 12 in the Dublin Elementary School multipurpose building. The pageant will begin at 7 p.m. Message us online at Facebook.com/DPFScholarshipPageant for an application.

Peanut Festival organizers are now accepting craft and food vendor applications for the festival that will be held Sept. 19. Contact Jane Starnes at 862-4301.

The Classic Cruisers Car Club is now accepting registra-tion for the festival’s car show to be held festival day, Sept. 19. All antiques, classic cars and trucks are welcome. For more information contact Wayne Dove at 876-5578.

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After You Read.

The News Reporter, Thursday, August 13, 2015

Mini Fact:Hundreds of thousands of school kids serve on their schools’ safety patrols.

Next Week:Award-winning books!

As we head back to school, The Mini Page reviews some safety basics to remember for a successful start to the year. Fill in each face to show how well you obey safety rules.

As a car rider, do you:

As a bike rider, do you:

Words that remind us of safety are hidden in this puzzle. Some words are hidden backward or diagonally, and some letters are used twice. See if you can find:

Teachers:For standards-based activities to accompany this feature, visit:bbs.amuniversal.com/teaching_guides.html

Resources

On the Web:• bit.ly/1HUtrJc• bit.ly/1PQpufL• bit.ly/1FcWYtp

At the library:• “Back to School Safety” by Lisa M.

Herrington• “Staying Safe on the School Bus”

by Joanne Mattern

For Later:Work with your family or classmates on those safety rules you can improve on.

Unscramble the words below that remind us of back-to-

school safety.

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Answers: safety, bicycle, school, seat belt

Mini Jokes

Carl: Why do you keep doing the backstroke?Candy: I just had lunch and don’t want to swim on a full stomach!

Frank: Where do swimmers sit to eat dinner?Fiona: At pool tables!

Try ’n’ Find

Puzzling

You’ll need:• 3 cups diced cooked chicken• 1 cup diced celery• juice from 1 small lemon• 1 tablespoon minced red onion• 1 teaspoon salt• 1 cup seedless green grapes, quartered

What to do:1. Combine chicken, celery, lemon juice, onion and salt in a large bowl. Chill.2. Gently stir in remaining ingredients.3. Serve on bread as sandwiches or on lettuce leaves as a salad. Serves 6 to 8.

Cook’s CornerFruitful Chicken Salad

We use aluminum for airplanes, cars, bicycles and many household items — not just for soda. But it won’t be a buried treasure forever if we keep using it up. There’s no limit to the number of times aluminum can be melted down and reused. So recycle that can!

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As a bus rider, do you:

• Get off and on one at a time and use handrails?

• Always wear a helmet?

• Walk with a friend or adult?

• Cross the street at corners or crosswalks?

• Walk, not run, across the street?

• Look left, right, then left again before crossing the street?

• Never cross the street from between parked cars?

• Walk your bike across busy intersections?

• Obey traffic signals?

• Obey school rules about riding bikes?

• Make sure you don’t run with anything, especially sharp objects, in your mouth?

• Get into and out of the car on the curb side?

• Help the driver by speaking softly?

• Look for stones, holes and broken glass before playing in a field?

• Always wear a seat belt and sit in the back seat?

• Arrive at the bus stop at least five minutes early?

• Cross at least five giant steps in front of the bus so the driver can see you?

• Wait until the bus comes to a complete stop before standing up?

As a walker, do you:

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FreeLand

Mini Fact:About 270 million acres in 30 states were settled through the Homestead Act.

Next Week:A visit to the

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In the 1800s, only about one out of 100 people in Europe owned land. Even when they owned land, it was usually no more than five acres. Many thousands of Europeans left for America, trying to escape poverty, famine and religious differences. When the United States passed the Homestead Act in 1862, it gave millions of people a chance to live the American dream. The Homestead Act offered to give citizens, or people promising to become citizens, enough free land for a family farm.This was about 160 acres. Homesteaders had to farm the land, make improvements on it, build a home there and live on that land for five years.

Hard labor Homesteading was difficult. It was so hard that only about four out of every 10 homesteaders were able to stick it out on the frontier for the necessary five years. Plowing the land was rough work, especially on the plains. Prairie grasses had long roots that made the soil hard to cut through. To plow one acre of land, a farmer had to walk 10 miles while pushing a heavy plow. Horses or oxen may have helped pull it. This meant he or she had to walk hundreds of miles just to plow the land, to plant it, weed it and harvest it!

Everyone helped Women and girls often did all the housework: cleaning the house, preparing food, making clothes, cleaning and ironing them – all without electricity or running water. Children as young as 2 or 3 years old had chores. They brought in firewood, gathered eggs and herded the cattle. Older children milked cows and helped with the planting and harvesting, cooking and cleaning. Communities often built schools before permanent homes so that children could be educated. Students might share books and slates brought from their former homes.

A monument to hard work The Homestead National Monument in Beatrice, Nebraska, has a museum and exhibit space in the Heritage Center, built in 2007. The monument is built on the site of Daniel Freeman’s original homestead from 1862.

The last homesteader Kenneth Deardorff was the last person to receive free land under theHomestead Act. His claim was on 80 acres of land in Alaska. He gained title to his land in 1988, where he fished for salmon and hunted moose. He and his family still live in Alaska today, although they no longer live on the original homestead.

Words that remind us of the Homestead Act are hidden in this puzzle. Some words are hidden backward or diagonally. See if you can find:

Teachers:For standards-based activities to accompany this feature, visit:bbs.amuniversal.com/teaching_guides.html

Resources

On the Web:• nps.gov/home• bit.ly/1Ff56xR

At the library:• “The Homestead Act” by Elaine

Landau• “Wagon Wheels” by Barbara

Brenner

Unscramble the words below that remind us of the

Homestead Act.

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Answers: homestead, family, harvest, Nebraska

Mini Joke

Doug: What happens when the sun gets tired?Denise: It sets awhile!

Try ’n’ Find

Puzzling

You’ll need:• 2 tablespoons reduced-fat milk• 3 tablespoons chunky peanut butter• 1 1/4 cups light whipped topping• 3 cups cold reduced-fat milk• 1 large package chocolate instant puddingWhat to do:1. Stir 2 tablespoons milk with peanut butter until well-mixed.2. Gently blend in whipped topping.3. In a separate bowl, make pudding according to directions with 3 cups cold milk.4. Spoon whipped topping mixture and pudding alternately into parfait glasses.5. Chill for 1 hour before serving. Serves 6 to 8.

Cook’s CornerPeanut Butter Pudding Parfait

Believe it or not, 40 percent of bottled water comes from exactly the same source as tap water. But the government tests your tap water much more often, and much more strictly, than it tests bottled water. So tap water is probably safer to drink!

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WHS class of ‘75 planning reunion

T he Whitevi l le High School graduating class of 1975 is planning its 40th year class reunion Oct. 9-10.

For more information call Phyllis Betts Thompson at 207-2225 or Dixie Featherson Faison at 207-4038.

WHS class of ‘85 planning reunion

T he Whitevi l le High School graduating class of 1985 is planning its 30th year class reunion Saturday Oct. 24.

For more information call Julie Monds Ward at 640-0393 or Nancy Wayne Crabtree at 770-0774.

Guideway Elem. accepting Pre-K applications

Guideway Elementary School is now accepting Pre-Kindergarten applications for the 2015-2016 school year.

Students must be 4 years old on or before Aug. 31, 2015.

Parents/legal guardians may apply at Guideway El-ementary School Monday- Friday from 8 a.m.-3 p.m.

For more information call the school at 653-2723 or 642-5168, ext. 24022

Guideway Elem. kindergarten applications

Guideway Elementary School is now accepting Kin-dergarten applications for the 2015-2016 school year.

Students must be 5 years old on or before Aug. 31, 2015.

Parents/legal guardians may apply at Guideway El-ementary School Monday- Friday from 8 a.m.-3 p.m.

Required information is a copy of the child’s birth cer-tificate, social security card, verification of income and proof of residence.

For more information call the school at 653-2723.

City schoolsset open house

Whiteville City Schools welcomes students and par-ents to open house Aug. 20 on a drop-in basis during desig-nated times:

Whiteville Primary, grades Pre-K-2, 805 Barbcrest Av-enue, 4-6 p.m.

Edgewood Elementary, grades 3-5, 317 E. Calhoun Street, 4-7 p.m.

Central Middle, grades 6-8, 310 S. Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue, 1-7 p.m.

Whiteville High, grades 9-12, 413 N. Lee Street, 1-7 p.m.

The first day of school for students will be Aug. 24. All students Pre-K through 12 are served breakfast and lunch at no cost.

Nakina Middle open house

Nakina Middle will hold its parent-student-teacher open house Thursday, Aug. 20 from 3-6 p.m.

Parents and students are encouraged to attend where they will be able to visit the classroom and meet the teachers. Parents may also pay school fees at this time.

Hallsboro Middle open house

Hallsboro Middle will hold its open house Thurs-day, Aug. 20 from 4-6 p.m.

Students and families can meet teachers and pick up supply lists and parents may pay school fees at this time.

Old Dock Elem. open house

Old Dock Elementary will hold its open house Thurs-day, Aug. 20 from 4-6 p.m.

Students and families can meet teachers and pick up supply lists and parents may pay school fees at this time.

HHS class of ‘85 planning reunion

The Hallsboro High School graduating class of 1985 will hold its class reunion Satur-day, Sept. 19 at 6 p.m.

RSVP Hallsboro High School facebook page or email martinminusone@aol.com.

Columbus Christian Academy preschool registration

Columbus Christian Acad-emy’s WEE CARE Preschool registration is open. Pre-school hours for 2015-2016 are 8:20-11:50 a.m. two, days, 3 days and 5 days.

For registration forms and information go to www.columbuschristianacademy.com or go by the school lo-cated at 623 Warrior Trail, Whiteville or call 642-6196.

Tabor City Middle open house

Tabor City Middle will hold its sixth grade orienta-tion and open house Tues-day, Aug. 18 at 6 p.m. in the cafeteria.

Regular open house is set for Thursday, Aug. 20 from 3-6 p.m.

Whiteville High scholarship awards

Chadbournschools openhouse Aug. 20

Chadbourn Elementary School will host an open house Thursday, Aug. 20, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Pre-K slots are still available for students who are4 years old on or be-fore Aug. 31, 2015.

Registration will occur during open house and a par-ent/guardian should bring the child’s birth certificate, immunization record, Social Security card, proof of resi-dence (electric, water or cable bill) or rent receipts. Call the office at 654-3825 for more details. School supply lists can be found on the school Facebook Page, webpage or at Walmart.

Chadbourn Middle School will host an open house Thursday, Aug. 20, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. School supply lists can be found on the school Facebook Page, webpage or at Walmart. Call the office at 654-4300 if you have any questions.

Scholarship recipientsWhiteville High School scholarship recipients include, left to right, front row: Shay Rogers, Peyton Lashley, Nathan Williams, Darius Shaw, Frankie Fowler, Michay-la Shuman, Madison Schmoll, Zoe Barton, Morgan Murray; 2nd Row: Julie Ann Canady, Tylah Robinson, Jamie Powell, Naiya Bethea, LaTraikeyonnia Pridgen,

Monica Williams, Aaron Osbourne, Anthony Anderson, Jordan Cox, Lauren Wor-ley, Reagan Barnhill, Darnisha Williams, Sky Robinson, Hannah Cribb, Diamond McCray, Jocelyn Jones, Nicholas Price, Cole Faircloth, Nicholas Lee; back row: Spencer Campbell, Haley Collins, Carmen Reyes.

Whiteville High School scholarship awards were presented May 26 in the Law-rence Bowers Cultural Arts Center. Local Scholarships totaled $180,050 and Institu-tional and GI Bill totaled was $1,910,428.

Scholarships were award-ed to Lauren Worley, Ameri-can Red Cross; Shaelyn Cok-ley, Athletic Association of Whiteville, Whiteville/Negro Central High School Alumni Association Scholarship and Whiteville Boosters Club; Shay Rogers, Athletic As-sociation of Whiteville and WHS Class of 1965 Memorial Scholarship; LaTraikeyon-nia Pridgen, Andre L. Moore Scholarship, Golden Leaf Foundation Scholarship, WHS National Honor Society Scholarship, Kiwanis Math Scholarship, Whiteville Ro-tary Club, Whiteville/Negro Central High School Alumni Association Scholarship and Carolina Home Care;

Spencer Campbell, BB&T Football Jamboree Scholar-ship, Whiteville Touchdown Club Sponsorship and Brooks and Helen Stanley Scholar-ship; Jocelyn Jones, BB&T Football Jamboree Scholar-ship, NC Order of the East-ern Star Gleaner Scholarship and Incentive Scholarship;

Cole Faircloth, Carolinas Home Care, WHS National Honor Society Scholarship, Whiteville Civitans Schol-arship, Columbus County Home Builders Association, SECU “People Helping Peo-ple” Scholarship, Marion and Beulah Martin Scholarship and Hyman and Doris Kram-er Math Scholarship;

Sky Robinson, Carolinas Home Care, NC Order of the Eastern Star Gleaner Schol-arship, SEANC District 24 Scholarship, 17th District Masonic Scholarship, Sigma Iota Omega Chapter AKA So-rority Scholarship and Joh-nie J. Peterkin Sr. Memorial Scholarship; Michayla Shu-man, Carolyn T. High Garden Club Scholarship, Town and Country Garden Club Schol-arship, SCC-Sol and Miriam Mann Memorial Scholarship and SCC-Dr. W.F. & Lilma Barefoot Memorial Scholar-ship; Anthony Anderson, Cedar Branch Missionary Baptist Church, W.C. Butler Band Scholarship, Whiteville Boosters Club, WHS Class of 1969 Memorial Scholar-ship and John A. McNeill, Sr. Scholarship;

Morgan Murray, Cindy Turbeville Pridgen Memo-rial Scholarship, WHS Class of 1959 Memorial Scholar-

ship, Whiteville Woman’s Civic League Scholarship, Whiteville Juniorettes Schol-arship and Sara Woodard Cartrette Future Teacher Scholarship; Nathan Wil-liams, Claire McGirt Future Teacher Scholarship, Yetta L. and J. Herman Leder Schol-arship and Delta Kappa Gam-ma Recruitment Grant; Katie Parker, Columbus County Bar Association; Reagan Barnhill, Columbus County Cattlemen’s Association, Mc-Neill’s Pharmacy & Liberty Medical Specialties Math Scholarship and Dr. Jerry & Pat Paschal Memorial Schol-arship;

Jamie Powell, Columbus County Youth and Families Association and Columbus Regional Healthcare System HOSA Scholarship; Aaron Osbourne, Community Ser-vice/Volunteer Scholar-ship; Hanna Cribb, Cyrus E. Worthington Scholarship; Nicholas Price, Dr. Jerry and Pat Paschal Memorial Scholarship and Earl Ed-munds Masonic Scholarship; Peyton Lashley, Dr. Jerry and Pat Paschal Memorial Scholarship, SEANC District 24 Scholarship, Retail Mer-chants Association Scholar-ship and Golden Leaf Foun-dation Scholarship;

Madison Schmoll, Foun-dation for the Carolina/Crowder Scholarship; Zoey Barton, GFWC-NC Dis-trict 7 Sallie Southall Cot-ten Runner-up Scholarship, WHS National Honor Soci-ety Scholarship, Sigma Iota Omega Chapter AKA Soror-

ity Scholarship, WHS Math Club Scholarship, SCC Trust-ee Academic Scholarship, WHS Class of 1972 Memorial Scholarship and Michael R. Thompson Band Scholar-ship; Tylah Robinson, J. T. Smith, Jr. Memorial Scholar-ship and Whiteville Junior-ettes Scholarship; Margaret High, Kevin G. Williamson Math Scholarship, Whiteville Juniorettes Scholarship, WHS National Honor Soci-ety Scholarship and W. Roger Soles Scholarship;

Madison Creech, Lee J. Greer, Jr. Scholarship, Whiteville Juniorettes Scholarship, Wine and De-sign Scholarship and Sallie Southall Cotten Scholarship; Monica Williams, Lloyd Col-lier Scholarship, Whiteville Juniorette Scholarship and Queen Esther Chapter #533; Darius Shaw, Michael Kram-er Memorial and WHS Class of 1969 Memorial Scholar-ship; Charis Kasitati, Mickey Greer Memorial Scholarship; Robert Powell, National Wild Turkey Federation; Zach-ary Pait, New Hope Commu-nity Scholarship, Wilber S. Avant/Ora F. Avant Scholar-ship and Whiteville Optimist Club Scholastic Scholarship; Frankie Fowler, NC Exten-sion & Community Associa-tion Student Scholarship;

Turner Brown, Paul L. Powell Memorial Scholar-ship; Julie Ann Canady, Phil-lip and Deanne Edwards Memorial Scholarship and Whiteville Optimist Club Vo-cational Scholarship; Han-nah Grey Campbell, SCC

Trustee Academic Scholar-ship; Jordan Cox, SCC-Dr. W.F. & Lilma Barefoot Memo-rial Scholarship, Whiteville Junior Women’s Club Schol-arship, WHS Math Club Scholarship and SCC-Dr. Paula H. Stanley Memorial Scholarship; Ryan Dudney, SCC-Columbus County Farm Bureau Scholarship; Nicho-las Lee, SCC-Ashley Poovey Scholarship; Alicia Ward, St. Mark AME Zion Scholar-ship; Aaron Osbourne, Te-resa Smith Pool Scholarship;

Haley Collins, WHS Na-tional Honor Society Scholar-ship; Diamond McCray, WHS Student Council; Darnisha Williams, WHS Student Council, Brahimah Sillah, Whiteville Unit NCAEOP Scholarship; Naiya Bethea, Whiteville/Negro Central High School Alumni Associ-ation Scholarship; Nicholas Price, WHS Class of 1959 Me-morial Scholarship; Carmen Reyes, WHS Class of 1969 Me-morial Scholarship; Kayla Gore, WHS Math Club Schol-

arship; and C.J. Hammonds, Wolfpack Diamond Club.

WCHS student awardsFollowing are awards

presented at the end of the school year to West Colum-bus High School students:

Principal’s Awards–Ni-cole McClary-9th; Charles Edwards-10th; Logan Elkins-11th; Imani Cook-12th.

Principal’s Character Awards—Destiny Minick, Timothy Soles;

Emma Burroughs-Out-standing 2015 Senior;

Tanner Caines-DAR Good Citizen Award;

Charles Edwards-Nation-al Academy of Future Physi-cians and Medical Scientists Award of Excellence;

Kylie Jenkins -DAR Good Citizen Award;

Timothy Soles-DAR Good Citizen Award;

Jonathan Sturdivant-NC School of Science and Math.

A Honor Roll12th-Trent Brown, Emma

Burroughs, Imani Cook, Cambrika Jackson, Eric Jenkins, Jr., Xavier Keel, MaceLynn Nance, Cole Strickland, Kristen Thomp-son, Leslie Ward, Dana Wil-liamson.

11th-Trey Benton, Logan Elkins, Grayson Jarvis, Kylie Jenkins, Anna Pate, Mary Allen Waddell, Ethan Williamson.

10th-Tanner Caines, Me-gan Daniels, Charles Ed-wards, Dawson Elliott, Mor-gan Hayes, Ethan Jenkins, Ashley Maynard, Keslynn Pait, Landon Powell, Hunter Prevatte, Julie Strickland, Tess Strickland, Jonathan Sturdivant, Corey Ward, Larramie Whitehead, Keth-an Williamson.

9th-Greyanna Booth, Alexis Bowen, Danielle Bow-ers, Kasey Collins, Kaylyn Horne, Nicole McClary, Bri-an McDuffie, Chloe Pate, An-drew Soles, Timothy Soles, Kaleb Wilson.

AB Honor Roll12th-Qua’Shaliya Bald-

win, Lakeenya Bennett, Chelsea Britt, Payton Britt, Amber Buffkin, Tucker El-

liott, Chandler Floyd, Mae-gan Hayes, Laquanda Jor-dan, Lataysha Mason, Logan McKee, Amber Mercer, Des-tiny Minick, Tairrney Nel-son, Vernell Parker, Amaris Roberts, Emily Robinson, Jayla Robinson, Junior Sul-livan, Bobby Swingle.

11th-Madison Benton, Nadia Blanks, Gabrielle Bowers, Tommy Bryant, Marvbin Edge Jr., Julian-na Evatt, Brooke Jenkins, Jimmy McMillian, James Montgomery, Rohan Rodney, Kloe Stackhouse, Shamekia Vereen, Alexandria Whit-ted, Ambre’Nasia Williams, Fatima Williams.

10th-Erika Blackwell, Emilee Britt, Brian Bull-ock, Emma Leah Dippel, Nicholaus Godfrey, Rossie Haynes, Trenton Keown, Brittany McKenzie, Alex-is McPherson, EmmaLee Nance, Madison Nance, Hunter Norris, Lakin Prid-gen, Cody Ritchart, Peyton Sasser, Madison Smith, Mar-co Torres, Brianna Ward.

9th-Allyisa Britt, Chana Brown, Ashlynn Dicker-son, Titus Floyd, Excellent Green, Tatyanna Hawkins, Tacheal Lyttle, Carolina Moreno, Tavion Posey, Emma Small, Zachary Spiv-ey, Annela Tiffany, Chaselyn Ward.

Perfect Attendance—Ste-ven Connor, Grayson Jar-vis, Jarelle Nelson, Kloe Stackhouse, Tanner Caines, Megan Daniels, Nicholaus Godfrey, Meshawn Harris, Morgan Hayes, Ethan Jen-kins, Mikyla Evans, Tatyana Hawkins, Jonathan Jones.

SCC offers welding classes

Southeastern Commu-nity College will offer three workforce continuing edu-cation welding classes dur-ing fall semester – welding, welding and pipefitting, and basic welding. To pre-regis-ter or for more information about one of these short-term training classes, call 642-7141, ext. 296, 397 or ext. 425. Financial assistance may be available through the Columbus County NC-Works Career Center. To see if they qualify, students should contact the Center at 642-7141, ext. 261 or by visit-ing the NCWorks Center in A-Building on the SCC cam-pus.

Welding will meet Mon-days and Tuesdays, Aug. 17-Dec. 15, from 6-9:30 p.m. in M-Building, room 134. The $180 registration and 55 cents insurance fees must be paid at the first meeting. This course is designed to in-troduce the student to safety procedures and practices as well as provide practical work experience in welding and cutting. It will focus on the fundamentals and pro-cedures used in oxyacety-lene welding and cutting, plasma cutting, and electric arc welding (stick). Welding technique is stressed above welding theory as the stu-dents must be able to meet the welding performance demands of industry. This course is performance and safety oriented.

Welding/pipefitting will be offered Wednesdays and Thursdays, Aug. 19-Dec. 16, from 6:30-9:30 p.m. in M-Building, room 134, and a second class will meet on Saturdays, Aug. 22-Dec. 12, from 8 a.m.-3 p.m. in the same location. A $180 regis-tration and 55 cents insur-ance fee must be paid at the first meeting of each class. The welding/pipefitting course is designed to teach skills necessary to fit up and weld pipe in particular posi-tions and objects. Both fit up techniques and actual welds will be exercised during.

Basic welding will be of-fered Fridays, Aug. 21-Dec. 11, from 4-10 p.m. in M-Build-ing, room 134. The $180 reg-istration and 55 cents insur-ance fees must be paid at the first meeting. This course is designed to incorporate virtual welders as well as traditional welders into classroom instruction in or-der for students to develop different types of welding skills. Because the virtual welders are connected to a computer system, students are able to work on the skill sets designated for their skill level. In the traditional welding lab, students will gain hands-on experience with preparation of metal, welding, and cutting.

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