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The News ReporterThursday, August 16, 2012

Published since 1890 every Monday and Thursday for the County of Columbus and her people.

Volume 122, Number 14Whiteville, North Carolina

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A steady flow of customers at the Whiteville License Plate agency that opened this week? …The Rev. Jackie and Martha Strickland celebrating their 25th wedding an-niversary? ... Tara Gore, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Gore, at the London Olympics with her face painted red, white and blue at the Gold Medal women’s soccer match won by the USA?...Jimmy Garrell quickly re-moving his hat at a Kool 105 Radio lun-cheon in Whiteville when UNC radio announcer Jones An-gell noted that new UNC Head Football Coach Larry Fedora doesn’t allow his players to wear hats or earrings inside the football center? ...

Index

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SEC charges former oil CEO with fraud

By NICOLE CARTRETTEStaff Writer

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commis-sion is seeking legal action against the former CEO of a firm who claimed earlier this year that the company planned to build a $35 mil-lion trash-to-diesel fuel facility in Columbus County.

The charges appear to be unrelated to busi-ness dealings here in North Carolina. They targeted the founder and chairman of the board of a company that Columbus County commissioners in a 6-1 vote approved a letter

See McKenzie, page 7-A

McKenziepicked as new DSS director

By NICOLE CARTRETTEStaff Writer

A f t e r m o n t h s o f searching, the Columbus County Social Services board named its new di-rector Tuesday, and as it turns out, it did not have to go far to find him.

Algernon McKenzie, a Columbus County native and Work First program manager for the depart-ment, is the new appointee.

“He has been with DSS for 21 years,” Social Services Board Chairman Michael Lewis said. “The state qualified him as eligible and he has

Photo by Krystal Hawkins

Art campBronwyne Tilley draws on the street art at the Columbus County Arts Council during its annual sum-mer art camp last week, organized with help from Columbus County Parks and Recreation.

nFive brothers of World War I vet fought in France, Okinawa, Korea and over Iraq.

By BOB HIGHStaff Writer

Meet the Duncans. Charles, the oldest of the five brothers, lives along

Savannah Road, Tabor City, and is 92. He’s a veteran of the 79th Infantry Division’s bloody trip from Utah Beach, France, to northern Germany in 1944-45.

Homer, 86, a resident of Wilmington, is a veteran of the 6th Marine Division’s battle to take Okinawa dur-ing the one of the last major battles in the Pacific arena during World War II.

Thomas, 84, living along Ramsey Ford Road not far from Charles, is a U.S. Army Air Corps veteran with ground duty in Korea.

Edgar T. “Pete,” is 81, and lives near Charles along Savannah Road. He’s a U.S. Air Force veteran and was a side gunner on a B-29. He flew on his B-29 on the U.S.’s

last bombing run of the Korean War in 1953.Jimmy, 78, is the baby of the group, and his military

service spanned 38 years, most of it with the Utah Air National Guard. He’s a resident of Kearns, Utah, near Salt Lake City.

All five gathered Tuesday, Aug. 14, at Charles’ home, to talk about their military experiences.

Charles Duncan, the eldest son of Alton Edwin and Retha Lola Long Duncan, was a member of a military neighborhood, including three young men who gave their lives in World War II – Marvin Long, Dewey Jacobs and Grover Hewett.

Charles joined the Army in June 1942, and after re-lentless training, was shipped to England in April 1944. Less than two months later, he waded ashore on June 14 – D-Day plus 8 – at Utah Beach as a rifleman in the 79th Infantry Division.

Charles had been a member of two units of the Ci-vilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in the late 1930s. He was in a unit near Albemarle, and the second was at

Duncan brothers fought from 1944 to 1991

WPD carsto go onlinelater this yearBy JEFFERSON WEAVER

Staff Writer

Whiteville Police will have six new vehicles on the road later this year—possibly in time for a Christmas present.

Police Chief Jerry Britt up-dated the city council Tuesday on the status of the six vehicles approved by the council in the new budget. The four Dodge Chargers and two Jeep Liber-ties will be delivered as soon as financing is approved.

“All police cars that are on state contract go through a

Arcade willoffer safe haven for local youthBy JEFFERSON WEAVER

Staff Writer

A Whiteville game room won’t be the typical arcade if the owners have their way—and since they are paying the bills, they will have that control.

Retired Command Sgt. Major Preston Smith, better known as the ROTC instructor for Whiteville City Schools, asked the city council Tuesday to approve his request to open

DSS invitationto commissioners called a ‘mistake’nSome employees not happy with pay study.

By NICOLE CARTRETTEStaff Writer

Columbus County commissioners did not attend a Social Services board meeting Tuesday night. Commissioner Edwin Russ had requested that the two boards discuss a pay study jointly but officials said Tuesday the Social Services board did not ask for that to happen.

While many DSS employees were in at-tendance, Russ, the board’s appointee on the DSS board, was the only commissioner in attendance.

“Sometimes what people say and what you hear are two different things,” Russ said. “I un-derstood that some of you wanted the commis-

The Duncan brothers are, seated, from

left, Pete and Charles, and standing,

from left, Jimmy, Homer and Tom.

By JEFFERSON WEAVERStaff Writer

A local broadwing hawk that won local hearts is recovering at a wild-life hospital in Hubert.

The bird was christened Live Wire by her rescuers after she became tangled in an electric service and cable television wire along U.S. 701 North.

Cody Sasser and Austin Odham were selling watermelons at their stand near Western Prong earlier this month when they heard a com-motion in the utility lines overhead.

“I didn’t know what it was,” Sasser said. “I never heard anything like that.”

The broadwing hawk, a young female, had become tangled in the electric and cable lines. The men were helpless to do anything but

watch as she fought the wires and finally broke free.

“I thought she would be all right,” Odham said, “but she couldn’t fly, and she ended up crashing on the highway.”

The men rushed out to save the hawk from oncoming traffic, trying to keep their canine companion out of the road, too.

“If anything had happened to that dog, I would be hurt, too,” Odham laughed. They retrieved the hawk from the scorching pavement, secured the errant pup, and started examining the bird.

Broadwing hawks (buteo platyp-terous) are a protected species, like all raptors. They are sometimes lumped together with kestrels under the generic name sparrowhawks, since they feed on birds and small

Injured hawk steals hearts, healing at wildlife hospital

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Pigskin Preview 2012Included in today’s issue is The News Reporter’s annual look at the four local high school football teams and their upcoming season.

There are 16 days until Take the Lake, and 308 people have registered for 467 PECs. Are you ready?

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Family traditionMichael and Rudolph Pridgen look over an antique router of their father’s in the Pridgen Woodwork shop in White-ville recently. Ernest Pridgen used the machine when he worked at the shipyard in Wilmington during World War II, and liked it so much he bought it at auction after the war ended.

Whiteville’s school board concerned with high school’s low EOC scores

By FULLER ROYALStaff Writer

During what was an oth-erwise short-agenda meeting Monday night of the White-ville City Schools Board of Education, board members offered their comments on the Whiteville High School’s low performance in the 2011-12 statewide End-of-Course testing.

In a six-county area of Southeastern North Carolina, WHS scored 19th out of 19 traditional high schools with particularly low scores on the Algebra I and biology EOCs. The high school fared better with its English I scores.

Some board members were caught by surprise.

Last year, WHS was 16th among the 17 traditional area high schools. In 2010, it was 14th. In 2009, it was 17th and in 2008, it was 11th. This is the fourth consecutive year the school has lagged behind the county’s three traditional high schools.

Board member Carlton Prince asked that the night’s agenda be modified so that he, and anyone else, could address the scores.

“I want to be as positive as I can be,” he said, to a room with only board members, school administrative person-nel and the writer from The News Reporter present. “I am not a good athlete. I am a bad loser. I was very concerned and am concerned when I see the scores for the high school. I don’t want to point fingers at anybody except me and this board.”

Prince passed out copies of a prepared text to board members titled “Statement of Concern.”

“These are some things I have mentioned several times,” he said. “I ran for this office and I was elected. When I have the opportunity to speak I always say what I feel. I want this to be in the right spirit. These are the is-sues I think need addressing.”

“The recent edition of The News Reporter is a loud wake up call to the Whiteville City Schools,” Prince said, read-ing from his statement. “I refuse to believe this report represents the best for our stu-dents, faculty and community. I believe our students, faculty and citizens are much more capable and deserve better from all accountable parties – beginning with the board of education, the superinten-dent, the administrators and our faculties.

Prince challenged the board to address the issue “directly and positively” by examining the following elements.

First, written andspoken communications

“Are we saying and doing what we think as a team and are our goals clearly identi-fied, measurable and is what we do focused on these written goals?” he asked.

Second, writtenorganization

“Do we know who is respon-sible for what and to whom does each one account?” he asked.

Third“Do we have identified in-

structional programs to ad-dress the goals and curricu-lum?” he asked.

Fourth“Do we have identified

(available) materials and sup-plies best suited to teach and direct student learning for the goals identified?”Fifth, direct budget to

schools and goals “Are our budget allocations

determined by input from schools, administration and board?” he asked. “Fiscal mat-ters are a legal responsibility for the Board.”

Sixth“Do we involve citizens,

parents, students, faculties, administrators and the board in all the major decisions?”

Seventh“Do we support, supervise,

evaluate, maintain, and select the best personnel available to teach the goals at the level of expectation identified?”

(Later, Chair man Jim DiMuzio would answer “yes” to all of Prince’s questions.)

“Again, I challenge the board and superintendent to lead these efforts by mak-ing policies or whatever it takes to succeed,” Prince said. “The Whiteville City Schools should never settle for less than scores in the high aver-age range. That is who we have been and where we must get. These procedures must be on-going, not static. These steps are not conclusive and in no way represent every issue that needs to be discussed.

“We need to integrate state requirements for Common Core and Essential Skills, all assessment programs and the evaluation for personnel,” he said. “We also must adhere to state board policies and North Carolina state statutes.

“Higher standards, grad-ing, technology, long and short range planning, student as-signments, involvement of all parties, time management, individual student needs, Wolfpack Pride, commitment to the community and many other issues are important,” he said. “However, we must make Whiteville City School’s programs for Whiteville City School’s students and citizens

and must prepare each stu-dent for success in the global market place.

This is our task and we asked for the challenge. We must begin.”

Board member Lar ry Hewett, said that for the past several days, he had felt like a father who had been fo-cused on trying to make things better for his family only to watch that family fall apart. He said he felt like he had been “kicked in the chest” with the high school’s scores.

He said the things the board had done have not made as much a difference as they should.

“We need to bring our schools back to where they need to be,” he said. “I see these reports and scores, it really hurts to see where we are.” He said expectations need to be raised and the processes of meeting those ex pectations need to be looked at carefully. He added that the board needs to make a com-mitment to turning things around.

“I agree with what my col-leagues have stated,” board member Greg Merritt said. “I am thoroughly disgusted with myself to be a part of the low-est performing high school in six counties.

“We can do better,” he said. “But just saying it won’t get it. We need to commit to this from the top right on down, from the superintendent on down and not let up.”

Merritt said the board needs to set some attainable goals.

“No ‘pie in the sky,’” he said, but something in the area of a 10 percent improve-ment. “That’s not too much to ask. We need tangible results. I hope we can come up with a game plan, starting tomorrow and come up with one or two goals we can reach. We need to start building back so we can have a high school we can be proud of. Who can be proud of these scores?”

Board member Dave Flow-ers said he was unaware the high school had such low scores until the story was published.

“I was riding around think-ing we were on top,” he said. “You feel funny when someone asks why we’re on the bot-tom.”

Flowers said he wasn’t go-ing to play the blame game or point fingers.

He said that the community is not too happy.

“They are asking, ‘What are you doing?’” he said.

DiMuzio said he doesn’t feel the outlook for the school

is “bleak.”“We have made a lot of

changes recently,” he said. “It will take a little bit of time. We have good people in positions now to get where we need to be. Everybody in this room ex-pects better. No one feels good about it. It would be worse if people were happy with the results.”

Prince read an excerpt from The Fayetteville Observer that showed where Cumber-land County had a high school that scored lower than WHS – Douglas Byrd at 68.1 percent proficient. WHS was 68.4 per-cent proficient.

Had Cumberland County been included in the round-up, WHS would have been next to last in the list, but the nine other traditional high schools in Cumberland would have been added to the list ahead of WHS.

Occasionally, in the past, Cumberland County has been included in The News Re-porter’s articles about testing results. So have the schools in Clinton City, Scotland County and Sampson County, all of which scored higher than WHS in 2012.

“I think our teachers and students are above the average for the state,” Prince said. “I believe in our personnel. We must identify our goals and have measurable, attainable direction.”

Merritt said that on a posi-tive note, the system’s elemen-tary and middle schools were still reaching their goals.

He said that the system has the “right man in charge now at the high school to do better,” referring to Jes Sealey who, last fall, inherited the prob-lems left by the two previous principals when he took over that job.

Merritt pointed out that there is stability at the high school for the first time in five years.

Mosquito-free summer –so far – won ‘t last long

By RAY WYCHEStaff Writer

It’s been a pleasant summer despite a few days of 90-degree-plus thermometer readings, but environmental health officials say the worst may be just ahead of us.

Although the county has had sufficient rainfall this summer to produce breeding places for mosquitoes, the little pests have been scarce in most areas.

Bill Horne, director of en-vironmental health of the Columbus County Health De-partment, said that no cases of eastern equine encephali-tis (EEE) or other mosquito-borne illnesses such as West Nile virus have been reported in the county, but a resident of Wayne County has died from West Nile Virus, according to Wayne County Health Depart-ment.

Horne said, “There have been a number of cases” of EEE in surrounding counties. EEE attacks mainly horses, mules and donkeys,

“It’s all around us,” said Health Department Environ-mental Specialist Brandon Grigsby, supervisor of the

spraying operation the county conducts in areas with mos-quito problems, of diseases caused by mosquito bites.

“We’ve had hardly any com-plaints so far but they are go-ing to start,” Grigsby said of county residents asking for the spray truck to visit their homes because of problems with high numbers of mos-quitoes.

“Fall is the worst time for mosquitoes,” Grigsby said.

He added that he had per-sonally checked out some ar-eas noted for heavy mosquito populations and found very few of the biters.

“I’ve gone out into the woods and have shaken the limbs of bushes” in an effort to see how many mosquitoes would appear, and “I haven’t seen any.

“But it’s going to start,” he adds.

Mosquito eggs must have water or extremely damp con-ditions in order to hatch, but eggs have been known to sur-vive on the ground two years before hatching.

Creature Feature at the N.C. Museum of Forestry

The N.C. Museum of For-estry’s Creature Feature will be held Sunday, Aug. 19 at 3:30 p.m. The feature will be Mada-gascar hissing cockroaches, the amazing creatures that have been on earth for mil-lions of years. Storyteller

Lynda Johnston will provide Ever After Stories.

Children and adults are invited to attend this free program.

Creature Features are held at the museum every third Sunday of the month.

Lake Waccamaw museum sets weekend programs

Lake Waccamaw Depot Mu-

seum will host two programs this weekend including an acoustic music jam on Satur-day, Aug. 18 and its monthly speaker series on Sunday, Aug. 19.

The jam will begin at 9:30 Saturday and continue until noon. Area musicians of all abilities are invited to join the fun and audience members are always welcome.

Lake resident Dr. Ben Bahr will be the guest speaker Sun-day afternoon at 3:30 p.m. His

subject will especially for people interested in scientific research towards finding a cure for Alzheimer’s disease. Bahr has a patent on a new medication that he believes will affect the course of the disease.

The public is invited to at-tend one or both events. The museum is open Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. and Sunday afternoons from 3-5 p.m. The telephone number is 646-1992.

Lake park to featuregators, bat houses

The Lake Waccamaw State Park will show a movie on the lake’s most recognized symbol — the American alligator — at 8 p.m. Friday at the picnic area of the park.

The documentary on the life and habits of the gators, which have increased in num-bers in recent years in waters around Lake Waccamaw, will conclude at 9:30 p.m.

On Saturday from 1:30 to 2 p.m., young craftsmen will

get the chance to aid another group of park residents when a bat house building handi-craft session will be held.

Participants must register for the program by calling 646-4748.

Night-flying bats are usu-ally ignored by even devoted nature lovers but the little aerial acrobats help keep the flying insect population under control and also are good for pollinating flowers.

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Clayton, just south of Raleigh. The CCC was one of President Franklin Roosevelt’s make-work programs in an effort to get the massive number of unemployed back to work as part of efforts to combat The Great Depression.

Charles recalls wading ashore on the beach in Nor-mandy, France, but he doesn’t like to talk about it. “I was so scared, I really don’t have much to say.”

The 79th Infantry wheeled to the right and headed toward Cherbourg, a giant port the Allies hoped would become available to supply the mil-lions of men ashore in France. The port was soon captured, but not until after a bloody battle. Most the port facilities had been destroyed by the Germans.

His unit was also involved in some of the bitter hedgerow fighting. After taking Cher-bourg, the 79th became part of Lt. Gen. George Patton’s Third Army.

Patton’s daring moves with tanks and infantry captured the imagination of the world as headlines splashed across newspapers every day de-scribing the great breakout of American forces from the Normandy region of France.

Charles wasn’t simply a rifleman. He was a sniper – a crack shot who could consis-tently hit a target at 900 yards with his Springfield M-1903 single-shot rifle.

Charles was so good his sergeant boasted of his abil-ity and bet a month’s pay that Charles could outshoot the Army’s best marksman. “He came to me right before we started shooting, and told me to make sure he didn’t lose his money. He didn’t. I beat the guy who was supposed to be so good,” Charles says with a twinkle in his eyes, and a broad smile.

He recalled one day in Au-gust 1944 his unit was stopped at the Siegfried Line not far from Aachen, Germany. “I had been shooting some Germans with my rifle, and they tried to silence me with one of their 88’s (cannon),” Duncan recalled.

The German’s 88 artillery piece was a feared weapon, particularly those mounted on German Panzer tanks. “They started firing at me, and each shell hit where I had just been. I was running fast, and they couldn’t keep up with me,” he said with a grin.

Charles recalled entering Aachen. “There was a gate to the city, but there weren’t any buildings left standing after all the bombing and artillery hits.” He also recalled the Ger-man’s Operation Nordwind at-tack in the Ardennes – known in this country as the Battle of the Bulge.

Duncan’s unit, no longer

with Patton’s Third Army, was north of the major German thrust toward Bastogne, Bel-gium, the famed crossroads where they were stymied.

“I remember Germans in American uniforms trying to trick us. They spoke good Eng-lish, and about the only way we could find out they were German was to ask them a baseball question. They hadn’t kept up with who was winning back in the States.”

Charles finished his service as the war ended in Europe in May 1945. He doesn’t have a Purple Heart, but he should have one. He has shrapnel in one of his legs, possibly from one of those German shells he was trying to outrun.

Brother Pete Duncan said he and his other brothers had threatened many times to take the bits of metal out of Charles’ leg, since the price of scrap metal is so high.

Charles has a Bronze Star he earned in France, but he doesn’t remember what he did to earn it. He doesn’t recall a military award ceremony.

“War is hell, and I saw plenty of it,” Charles declared. “Our own bombers bombed us in France, and a bunch of our soldiers were killed,” he added.

Charles married Mary El-len Stanley, and they had a son, Charles Jr., but usu-ally called “Bill.” Charles has three grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

Homer Duncan, the 86-year-old resident of Wilmington, was a member of the 6th Ma-rine Division, and his major World War II action was at Okinawa, the Japanese island near Japan coveted by the U.S. for its major airfield to be used in the planned eventual attack on Japan’s mainland.

Homer joined the Marines in 1943, and spent endless weeks and months training. His unit didn’t make the Iwo Jima landing in February 1945, but was part of two Ma-rine divisions (1st and 6th) wading ashore on March 31 at Okinawa. The 7th, 27th, 77th and 96th Divisions of the 10th Army also fought on the island.

Homer was a rifleman in

the 4th Marines, a regiment of the 6th Division. The 4th Ma-rines was formed in February 1944 when Carlson’s Raiders, being disbanded, was desig-nated to become the unit. The 4th Marines stormed Guam before landing on Okinawa.

Homer was part of the 4th Marines’ battle to take Sugar Loaf Hill, a mound 50 feet high about 300 feet wide in the southern area of Okinawa. It took 12 days, amid hand-to-hand ferocious fighting before the Marines took control.

Sugar Loaf Hill was part of a triangle of Japanese de-fensive positions, the others being Shuri Heights, and a sec-ond the Marines designated as Half Moon. By the time Sugar Loaf Hill was taken, some Ma-rine companies had become platoons, and some platoons and squads ceased to exist. Marines lost 1,656 killed and another 7,429 wounded.

The battle for Sugar Loaf Hill is where Homer was hit in the head by an enemy shot. He fought hand-to-hand with the Japanese soldier who shot him, and captured the enemy soldier’s rifle after killing him.

“When we landed our first objective was the Yontan air strip. We were supposed to take it in three days. We had it under control in half a day,” Homer Duncan related. The Yontan strip was later used as a base for American fighters that supported the Okinawa campaign.

Homer didn’t say much more about his Marine ser-vice. He closed, “I’ve seen the world on fire.” Homer married Lucille Wood, and they have an unmarried son, Henry.

Tom (Thomas), the 82-year-old living along Ramsey Ford Road, was a member of the

51st Fighter-Interceptor Wing of the Army Air Corps, joining in 1947, a year before the ser-vice became the Air Force. He was a member of the ground crew for the F80-C Shooting Star jets flown by the wing’s pilots. Tom’s major duty was to refuel aircraft.

Tom’s time in the military was dotted with chances to see some of his brothers. He spent three days with Pete at a former Japanese kamikaze training base in Japan. Tom was stationed on Okinawa at the Naha Air Base in 1947, two years after Homer and his Ma-rines and the Army captured the island.

Tom said duty in Korea was busy, and there was an attack by North Korean MIG-15s that leveled a hanger at Suwon Air Base where he was stationed with part of the 51st Fighter-Interceptor Wing.

“The South Koreans are nice people. I still hear from some of them,” he noted.

His unit moved to South Korea for the war in October 1950, and then was sent back to Japan until May 1951. The planes he refueled flew from Japan to make their strikes on North Korean targets, and par-ticipate in the fighter combat.

The pilots of the 51st Wing bagged 312 MIG-15s during the war, at a cost of 32 pilots lost, including nine who were prisoners of war, and later re-patriated. The U.S. losses were a ratio of 10 to one.

In November 1951, the 51st Wing got the F-86 Sabre jets, five months after being sent back to Suwon Air Base in South Korea.

Following the war, Tom was stationed at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida, and was a member of a group, headed by

Col. Paul Tibbets Jr., the man who piloted the B-29, named Enola Gay after his mother, from Tinian Air Base in the Marianas to Japan on Aug. 6, 1945.

Tibbets’ plane carried “Lit-tle Boy,” an atomic bomb and at 8:15 a.m. Japanese time, dropped the bomb on Hiro-shima. Japan surrendered after a second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki.

Tom wouldn’t say much about work with Tibbets in Florida, but Tibbets’ biogra-phy shows he was working at Eglin Air Force Base to test the B-47 Stratojet medium bomb-er, designed to drop nuclear bombs on the Soviet Union.

Tom said it was known as the “Greenhouse Project,” and he couldn’t talk about it. Following his active duty time, Tom worked until retirement included 12 years as a civilian employee at the Myrtle Beach, S.C., Air Force Base.

Tom married Clara Mae Long, and they had four chil-dren, daughter Christine Smith, sons Thomas Duncan Jr. and Joseph, and a boy Ed-win, who died as a child. Tom has four grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.

Edgar “Pete” Duncan, 81, was in the Air Force from

November 1950 to November 1953. He was the “right waist gunner” with a .50 calibre ma-chine gun in a B-29 crew, and flew 37 bombing missions over North and South Korea.

“My plane was among the B-29s that flew the last bomb-ing mission of the Korean War,” he noted. The last bomb-ing mission was on July 20, 1953 with two North Korean airfields as targets. Pete’s B-29 was stationed on Okinawa, and Pete became the third of the Duncan brothers to be stationed on the island.

Pete said the B-29s normal-

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Mans shoots himselfWilliam Anthony Spivey, 26, of Sidney-Cherry Grove Road,

Tabor City, was wounded in his abdomen at 11:59 p.m. Monday, Aug. 13, when his “jammed” rifle fired, according to a sheriff ’s report.

Spivey told a deputy he heard his dogs barking, and saw an-other dog fighting with one of his dogs. He got his .22 rifle and tried to fire a shot at the invading dog, but the rifle didn’t fire.

He turned the rifle toward himself and slapped the side of the weapon, and the bullet fired and hit him in the abdomen. He was treated at a Loris, S.C., hospital.

Home burns as maneats supper nearby

The home of James McArthur Duncan of J.D. Cartrette Road, Chadbourn, was heavily damaged by fire at 8:45 p.m. Monday, Aug. 13, as Duncan ate supper with a family member across the road from his residence.

A sheriff ’s report showed Duncan, 42, was home alone. He prepared to fry some bacon, and put a half-inch of cooking oil in a pan, and put it on the stove. As he waiting for it to warm, he received a phone call inviting him to supper.

Duncan left his home and began to eat the evening meal across the street. He suddenly remembered he had not turned off his stove, and he ran across the road.

Duncan kicked open his front door, but couldn’t enter because of thick smoke. He went to a side door under his carport, and managed to remove some items from the home, the report noted.

BurnedHarrell Smith Jr., of Pleas-

ant Plains Church Road, White-ville, told a sheriff ’s deputy Wednesday, Aug. 15, that he is missing a Hi Point 9mm pis-tol, and a Browning HP 9mm pistol, plus a small safe that he believes were stolen from the burned ruins of his residence.

Smith’s home burned on Aug. 8, and he went into the ruins Wednesday to look for the weapons and safe.

PeanutsCans of boiled peanuts,

Chef Boyardee products, snacks, Vienna Sausage, Pepsi-Cola and Mountain Dew were stolen from Vernette Riggins’ business in the Ridgeland Acres Trailer Park off Shug Norris Road, Tabor City, dur-ing a break-in discovered Aug. 13, according to a sheriff ’s report. The total value of the items was $150.

WireAn estimated 5,000 feet of

No. 6 copper wire has been stolen from stretches of Prog-ress Energy’s lines beside the Byrdville-Freeman Road, and U.S. 74-76 in the Delco area, according to a sheriff ’s report.

The Aug. 13 report noted the wire had been pulled from poles by a vehicle, and several poles were damaged. Some are being replaced, the report showed.

Stolen mower, cart foundMichael Whitehead of Page’s Mill Road, Cerro Gordo, told

Sheriff ’s Deputy Tom Manolis early Wednesday, Aug. 15, that he found a Cub Cadet riding mower in the middle of the road at the intersection of Page’s Mill Road and Joshua Drive.

Whitehead said he saw a black male riding the mower, and he yelled at the suspect. The suspect ran and got into a golf cart that was driven to Batten Avenue where it was abandoned. Two suspects, both wearing hoodies, ran into a cornfield.

Manolis checked West Columbus High School, and the mower had been stolen during a break-in of a storage building behind the football field. The golf cart had been purchased by West Columbus boosters within the past month.

Paraphernalia

Parris Juan Demery, 27, of N.C. 214, Bolton, pleaded in Dis-trict Court here Aug. 6 to pos-session of drug paraphernalia in a possession of cocaine case, and was placed on probation for 18 months.

Demery was arrested in January on the cocaine charge. A jail term of 45 days was sus-pended.

FatalitiesTwenty-six percent

of all traffic fatalities in North Carolina in 2011 were alcohol related, ac-cording to the Highway Patrol.

The Highway Patrol is continuing its enforcement efforts to arrest drivers for driving while impaired, either by alcohol or medi-cation.

Drivers are reminded to “Be responsible!” Call a friend, or family member to drive for you if you’re impaired.

Staff photo by Bob High

Shredded

Ouch!Jessica Brooke Long, 24, of

Chadbourn, was injured at 2:52 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 12, when she drove her 2001 Mazda into a parking lot light pole in front of the Food Lion store in the Northfield Shopping Plaza here.

Long told police she dropped some money while driving and was trying to retrieve it when she drove into the pole at 35 mph. A child in the car was not hurt.

Shoplifting arrestDouglas Watson Frye Jr., 37,

of Supply, was arrested here Tuesday, Aug. 14, for stealing two ribeye steaks, valued at $35, from the Food Lion along U.S. 701 Bypass North, police report.

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

ported on date shown:

found Aug. 9 of vehicle at IGA store, Whiteville, theft of 24 food vouchers.

-ter’s home along U.S. 74-76, Delco, theft of two air conditioners, patio set, two iron gates.

black 7-foot-by-12-foot utility trailer loaded with 2010 Cub Cadet 50-inch cut riding mower.

Snow Bear 5-foot-by-10-foot tilt bed trailer loaded with limbs and yard debris from Blacksmith Road, Bolton.

1995 Carson utility trailer from blueberry farm along N.C. 905, Nakina.

theft of diamond cluster pendant, two pearl rings, gold chain necklace.

earrings, gold necklace.-

age to touch screens on both sides of gas pump.

medication from ambulance at Dr. Candela’s office, Whiteville.

business.

burglary by unknown man at 3 a.m., fled to West Third Street into a car that sped from the scene.

cash.

angel statue, butterfly stepping stone.

deer lying down.

Employee

Cox

H i l t o n Berry Cox II, 26, of Sellers Town Road, Whiteville, was arrested Aug. 13 on a charge of theft by em-ployee on a warrant obtained

Donnie Hedwin.Cox is charged with stealing

Auto Parts here during the period of July 1 to Aug. 13 that have a total value of $159. This includes $30 in cash, six cans of Freon and three quarts of oil, according to the warrant.

Fleeing

Duncan

Gregory Alan Dun-can, 43, of N i c h o l s , S . C . , h a s b e e n a r -r e s t e d o n charges of felony flee-ing to elude arrest, misde-meanor larceny and damage to property involving the theft of a hog cooker from Daddy Joe’s Campground outside Tabor City on June 11.

Duncan is charged with flee-ing from a Tabor City police officer on Richard Wright Road and U.S. 701 leading into South Carolina at speeds more than 15 mph above the 55-mph limit.

The theft charge is for steal-ing the cooker owned by Jef-fery Stocks. Duncan damaged a metal gate at the campground during the incident.

Rings

Martin

Destinee Lynn Mar-tin, 24, of Stuart Av-enue, Lake Waccamaw, was arrest-ed Aug. 14 for misdemeanor larceny and fraud involving two rings sto-len in July.

Sheriff ’s Detective Jeremy Barber obtained the warrants that show Martin is charged with stealing the rings, valued at $750, from Linda Miller on July 25. Martin got $160 for the rings from a Whiteville pawn-shop the same day.

Ward flees hospital,arrested for B&Es

Ward

Jason Earl Ward, 26, of Tabor City, re-moved the IV from his arm at Columbus Regional Healthcare here at 5 a.m. last Thursday, Aug. 9, and fled the hospital.

H e w a s f o u n d nearby by Whiteville

on three counts of breaking and enter-ing, plus larceny on warrants obtained by Soles.

Ward is charged with breaking into Inman Transporta-tion’s office on June 28, and stealing cash

police, and taken into custody by Sheriff ’s Detective Jason Soles, who interviewed him about some recent break-ins north of Whiteville.

Ward, hospitalized over-night after being hit by a car here on Aug. 8, was arrested

and a case of 5-Hour Energy, breaking into the nearby A Row of Purls Too and stealing

Ready Mix Concrete’s office and stealing a pair of Air Jor-dan shoes and a white football.

Arrest in Chadbourn B&E

Peppers

Teddy Roosevelt Peppers, 46, of Gil-liard Road, Chad-bourn, was arrested recently on a charge of breaking and entering, and lar-ceny on a warrant obtained by Chad-

P e p p e r s i s charged with break-ing and entering the

along Brown Street, Chadbourn, on Sept. 24, 2010, stealing cigarettes, beer and lottery tickets. The value of the stolen

J. W. Lewis. items was $934.84.

Jacobs gets probation

Jacobs

Aaron Davis Ja-cobs, 24, of Bolton, was put on proba-tion for a year in Superior Court last week after he plead-ed to three misde-meanor counts of

and another $150 to

while on probation. A 90-day jail term was suspended.

Jacobs’ co-defen-dants include Alvin Lewis Pemberton

breaking and entering.Jacobs is one of seven young

males charged with breaking into several vehicles at Lake Waccamaw in September 2011, and stealing various items from some of the victims.

He was ordered to pay $150 restitution to Martha Lowe,

III, James Nicholas Jacobs, Henry Herbert Giles V, Taylor Ryan Terrell, William Thomas Clay Bordeaux and David Mi-chael Bridgers.

Aaron Jacobs’ prior record showed a conviction for failing to heed a siren and blue light in 2009.

Marijuana spotted from air

Smith

R i c k y A l l e n Smith, 54, of Bud Stephens Road, Ever-green, was arrested Monday, Aug. 13, for manufacturing mari-

helicopter.Smith had three

plants in the edge of the woods imme-diately behind his home, and six more

juana after some plants were spotted by a sheriff ’s drug detective while riding in a

were deeper in the woods, according to Drug Detective Justin Worley.

Pierce pleads in break-in

Pierce

S h a n n o n L e -grand Pierce, 28, of Hallsboro, pleaded in Superior Court here last week to breaking and enter-ing a trailer and at-tempted larceny of two motorcycles in an April 2009 case in

He broke into a trailer owned by Ran-dy and Tracy Petitt and tried to steal the motorcycles. Pierce still faces a case of armed robbery in February 2010 case where a Hallsboro man was robbed as

Chadbourn.Pierce, who has nicknames

of Smiley and Goofy, was placed on probation for three years, and a prison term of six to eight months was sus-pended.

he took his trashcan to the highway.

Pierce’s prior convictions include breaking and entering, and larceny in 2001, financial card theft in 2007, and forgery in 2011.

Cothran to pay restitution

Cothron

Spiro John Co-thron, 41, of White-ville, pleaded last week in Superior Court here to break-ing and entering, and was placed on probation for five years, with a prison

term of 15 to 18 months sus-pended.

He was also ordered to pay restitution of $2,350 to his victims. In 2011, he broke into Show Ridez’ business here, plus stole a vehicle, and vehicle parts, and broke into a vehicle.

Restitution of $550 is to go to Show Ridez, $1,010 to David Dew and Madison Motors, $150 to Grace Bible Church, and $640 to Enterprise Auto Rental.

Cases of attempted com-mon-law robbery, breaking into a vehicle, breaking and

entering, two of lar-ceny, and theft after a break-in were dis-missed in his plea deal.

Cothron’s prior record shows con-victions for armed robbery in 2007 ,

common-law robbery in 2007, receiving stolen goods in 1994, breaking and entering, and larceny in 1993, and breaking into a vehicle in 1994.

County FatalitiesTo this date

2012 ......….……...9 2011 ……...………6Total 2011...........17Total 2010..........26

Dismissed

Todd

T w o c o u n t s o f b r e a k i n g into vehi -cles and two c o u n t s o f misdemean-or larceny against Jamie Devon Todd, 32, of Tabor City, were dismissed recently in District Court be-cause of the lack of a prosecut-ing witness. The vehicles were parked on Main Street in Tabor City, and the crimes took place on Nov. 30, 2011, records show.

Bullard gets probationfor break-ins, larceny

Bullard

Ricky Lynn Bul-lard, 44, of Lumber-ton, was placed on probation for two years here last week after he pleaded in Superior Court in two break-in and theft cases. His pro-

record includes con-victions from Ruth-erford and Polk coun-ties in this state, plus Greenville and Spar-tanburg counties in South Carolina.

The record shows convictions for pos-

bation is to begin at the com-pletion of a prison term he’s serving from Robeson County.

Bullard was also ordered to enroll in a substance abuse treatment program. His prior

session of stolen goods, break-ing and entering, burglary, selling a stolen vehicle, larceny, and possession of drugs, with conviction dates ranging from 1991 to 2011.

Edwin Russ of Go Green Recycling of Whiteville, de-livered another truckload of shredded and baled office paper, magazines and books to Fayetteville this week.

Anyone wishing to recycle office paper, magazines or books can deposit the items at Russ’ recycling site at the intersection of Main and Canal streets here.

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District CourtABPG - assault by pointing a gun; AISI - as-sault inflicting serious injury; AOF - assault on female; AOO - assault on officer; AWDW - assault with deadly weapon; AWDWIK - as-sault with deadly weapon with intent to kill; AWDWIKISI - assault with deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury; B&E - breaking and/or enter ing; B&E&L - lar-ceny after B&E; B/S/P - buy/sell/purchase; CCG - carrying concealed gun; CCJ - Colum-bus County Jail; CCMH - Columbus County Mental Health; CCW - carrying concealed weapon; CRD - careless and reckless driving; CRDL - civil revocation of drivers license; C/R/SC/T - canceled/revoked/suspended certificate/tag; c/s - community service; CS - controlled substance; CT - communicating threats; C/TV - city/town violation; DAC < 21 - driving after consuming < 21; DART - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Treatment; D/AVNR/T - driving/allowing vehicle not reg-istered/titled; D/AMVNR - drive/allow MV no registration; D/ARPND - drive/allow reg. plate not displayed; DB/WWD - drink beer/wine while driving; DD - drunk and disorder-ly; DEF. PROS. - deferred prosecution; DLC - driving left of center; DMTC - defense motion to continue; DOC - Department of Correc-tions; DV - domestic violence; DWI - driving while intoxicated; DWC < 21 - driving while consuming < 21; DWLR - driving while li-cense re voked; EHA - electronic house arrest; EPS - exceeding posted speed; ERC/T - ex-pired registration card/tag; ESS - exceeding safe speed; F/AT/RC/T - fictitious/altered title/registration card/tag; F/C/RRC/T - fic-titious/canceled/revoked registration card/tag; FDT - first degree trespass; FL - felony larceny; FOE - forgery of endorsement; FOI - forgery of instrument; FRS - failure to reduce speed; FSIV - federal safety inspection viola-tion; FTA- failure to appear; FTC - following too close; FTRRP - failure to return rental property; FTSP under 16 - failure to secure passenger under 16; FTSSS/FRL - failure to stop for stop sign/flashing red light; FTYSS/FRL - failure to yield stop sign/flashing red light; FV - fishing violation; FWSB - failure to wear seat belt; G - guilty; HR - hit and run; HV - hunting violation; IE - improper equip-ment; IPP - injury to personal property; IRP - injury to real property; IV - inspection viola-tion; LOA - letter of apology; MAR - motion for appropriate relief; MHA - mental health assessment; ML - misdemeanor larceny; MTC - motion to continue; NC - no contest; NG - not guilty; NOA - notice of appeal; NOL - no oper-ators license; NON OP MV - non-operation of a motor vehicle; NOV - noise ordinance viola-tion; NR - not responsible; OA - outstanding order for arrest; OFA - order for arrest; OPB-FP - obtaining property by false pretense; PC - probable cause; PD - public disturbance; PDP - possession of drug paraphernalia; P/DA/F/RDL - possess/display altered/fictitious/revoked drivers license; PJC - prayer for judgment continued; POC - possession of co-caine; POC/CAPA - possess open container/consume alcohol passenger area; POM - pos-session of marijuana; PV - probation viola-tion; PW - prosecuting witness; PWISD - pos-session with intent to sell/deliver (marijuana or cocaine); PWISDM - possession with intent to sell/deliver/manufacture (marijuana or cocaine); R - responsible; RDE - reckless driv-ing to endanger; RWDW - robbery with dan-gerous weapon; RPO - resisting public officer; SA - simple assault; SAA - Substance Abuse Assessment; SC - show cause; SCG - shoplift-ing concealment goods; SDT - second degree trespass; SDTP - state declines to prosecute; SFTP - state failure to prosecute; S/F - super-vision fee; SMTC - states motion to continue; SP - speeding; TASC - Treatment Alternative to Street Crime; UFE - uttering forged en-dorsement; UFI - uttering forged instrument; UUMV - unauthorized use of motor vehicle; UW/LPA - unsealed wine/liquor in passen-ger area; VD - voluntarily dis missed; VL - dismissed with leave; WC - worthless check; WRC - Wildlife Resource Commission; WS - warrantless searches; WTV - window tinting violation.

Alphabetical key to court list

District Court in Tabor City6-1-12

-ing-wanton disregard. Pay cost per judge. Pay w/i 20 days. VD on EPS. Per plea.

SC/T. State complied.

counts of AOF. Def. lives at Waterbook facil-ity (disability) Judge assigned counsel on his own motion. Per state.

-tempted B&E bldg. Def. in rehab. Per Water & Jones. Per state. Cont. 7-6.

on handicapped. SMTC-denied. Def. does not object.

-hicle no insurance. 24 hours CCJ/12 months

-erly registered and insured. Strike FTA/fee.

4. VD on D/AMVNR. Per plea.

SA. Per PW. SMTC-denied. No PW on 2nd and

-ous Z. Johnson is charged with felony larceny

-duction wrote on blue sheet. Cont. 7-6.

SA. Cont. 7-6. VD on CT. Per state.

Per state.

State-complied.

charged with AWDW. Cont. 8/10 final all. Per judge if no PW next time – VD.

Also charged with expired/no inspection.

elude arrest. Per state.

FRL. No PW.

and operate vehicle no insurance. No PW.-

cohol by 19/20. Completed deferred.

cost per judge. 24 hours CCJ/12 months prob.

District Court in Whiteville6-4-12

and cost. $20 fine. Pay w/i 60 days. VD on FWSB-driver. Per plea.

-

Also VD on FTSP under 16. Per Plea.

of PV. Denies willfulness of violation. PV found not to be willful. Prob. is to continue on both charges.

monitoring. Any violation to be reported back to Judge Ussery. Waived PC.

AT/RC/T. Complied.-

plied.-

session of cs prison/jail reduced to POM up to ½ oz. Refused prob. 15 days DOC to run at expiration of any sentence now serving.

driver. Paid

Charged with DWLR. Cont. 9/18. VD on oper-

DA/F/RDL.

vehicle no insurance and POC/CAPA.

of $45.

conspire to traffic in cocaine.

-

on DWLR.-

ny possession of cocaine. Bond modified to

9/24.

120 days/24 months. $50 and costs. $20 install-ment fee and comply w/all pending citations. NON OP MV until. Not violate any NC or federal laws. Once complied transfer to unsu-pervised prob.

-

days.

90 days CCJ. NOA bond set. Also R on FWSB-driver and FTSSS/FRL. Consol with previous charges.

-der 16.

attorney fee. Comply w/all pending citations.

NC or fed laws. Once complied transfer to un-supervised prob.

90 days. Deferred pros. Continued on 12/17.

inspection.

days/24 months prob. $100 fine plus cost. $20 installment fee. NON OP MV until. Do not violate any NC or federal laws. Comply w/all indef. susp. Once complied transfer to unsu-

-mits PV. Term unsuccessfully. Strike remaing PSF.

DA/F/RDL. Complied.

-session of CS prison/jail premises reduced to POM up to 1/2 oz. Refuses prob. 15 days DOC to run at expiration of any sentence now serving.

prison/jail premises reduced to POM to 1/2 oz. Refuses prob. 15 days DOC to run at expi-ration of any sentence now serving.

Complied.

days CCJ to run concurrent with 2nd charge. Also G of PV. Admits wilful violation. Elects to serve. Prob revoked. NOA bond remains the same on both.

FWSB-driver and FTSP under 16. Paid.

Stephens Thurman Moore Jr.

Nine wanted for absconding probation supervision

are wanted for fleeing super-vision by probation officers.

-bor City; Dedward Lemont

-

uses the last names of Little

those wanted.Moore was placed on pro-

receiving stolen goods. His last known address was 6658

known address was 442 West

placed on probation on Aug.

intent to sell drugs.Thurman was convicted

-sion of cocaine with intent

address was 99 Thurman

address was 11544 Seven

Nakina. She was convicted

of stolen goods.

Victor Graham was con--

ceny. His last known address

Waccamaw.

last known address was 11196

of selling a controlled sub-stance on school property.

Cardenas was convicted on

last known address was 22 In-

Keyser was convicted of

his last known address was -

bourn.Anyone with information

about these absconders is asked to call Probation Of-

or contact 9-1-1 if after or be-fore normal business hours Monday through Friday.

McPherson McInville Graham Jr.

Graham Cardenas Keyser

Two federal prison workers sentenced for smuggling marijuana

New school year brings increased safety education and enforcement from Highway Patrol

The Highway Patrol will be focusing on education and enforcement. Troopers across the state will be educating teen-age drivers by implementing teenage driver safety plans and will be working with school administrators in offering any assistance in the area of high-way safety. Education however is just one part of the solution. Increased enforcement vis-ibility in and around all school zones will be observed.

operating on traditional calen-dars will begin with more than one million students attend-

schools. Students will be trav-eling to and from school and school related activities during the morning and evening rush

busiest times for a teenager to

Research has shown that teenage drivers lack the expe-rience of seasoned drivers and are more likely to be distracted while operating a motor vehi-cle. According to the National Highway and Transportation Traffic Safety Administration and the UNC Highway Re-search Center revealed some staggering facts:

of the people killed in fatal young-driver crashes are the young drivers themselves or their passengers.

fatalities involving young driv-ers occur on rural roadways.

drivers in North Carolina is involved in a car crash every year and nearly half of these crashes are serious enough to result in injury or death ac-cording to the UNC Highway Safety Research Center.

more likely to die in a car crash then other drivers.

young driver fatalities were not wearing their seatbelts.

as a result of not being re-strained.

Studies have shown that the combination of inexperience and the natural impulsiveness of the adolescent years con-tribute to this increased risk in being involved in a fatal crash.

not surprising that traffic col-lisions continue to be the lead-ing cause of teenage deaths in North Carolina.

TC woman arrested in shooting incidents in S.C., and Tabor City

Amanda Hardee

-

and was served with six counts

of discharging a weapon into an occupied residence.

Hardee is jailed in the Horry

bond set.She is one of several people

City and Columbus County authorities in connection with several shootings in recent

-bor City man shot twice in the head last week.

Tabor City Police Chief Donald Dowless said Hardee is charged with being among six to eight individuals who were

his arm by one bullet.Hardee is to be charged in

connection with the point-blank shooting of David South-

victim sat in his car in the parking area of a Tabor City church. Dowless said robbery was the motive in the Grubbs shooting.

“Hardee is an employee of

the suspects in these shootings are believed to be from Colum-

suspects are to be charged with other recent shootings in the Clarendon and Tabor City area.

in a car when several shots

Aug. 9. One man was struck on Nakina woman found deceased in her vehicle

-ural causes in her car parked at Southeastern Primary Care along Jefferson Street here at

to police.Coroner Linwood Cartrette

ruled the death was from natu-ral causes.

U.S. Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced in federal court Wednesday Senior U.S. District Judge Malcolm J. How-

imprisonment followed by three years supervised release.

-tenced to two years probation.

Hinnant pleaded guilty with accepting bribes and conspir-ing to commit wire fraud and mail fraud.

pled guilty to conspiring to commit bribery and wire fraud relating to the deprivation of honest services by a public official.

The investigation revealed

Hinnant was a senior correc-tions officer at the Federal Cor-rectional Complex in Butner. While Hinnant was employed

directed other inmates to send

or the United States Postal

North Carolina and Virginia. These co-conspirators

would deliver the money to Hinnant as bribes to Hinnant and in return Hinnant smug-gled contraband into the pris-on. Contraband that included cigarettes and marijuana.

gather the money sent by vari-ous inmates. After gathering

travel to the prison and pay the bribe money to Hinnant so that Hinnant could then smuggle in the contraband.

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Duncan’sContinued from page 3-A

Two surprisesThe Order of the Long Leaf Pine was presented to R. Mitchel Tyler, left, at his surprise

birthday party at Dale’s Seafood in Whiteville recently. Making the presentation was

Tate Johnson, director of Gov. Bev Perdue’s Eastern Office. More than 100 friends and family attended.

ly flew at 25,000 feet. “We had radar, and they didn’t have it. Most the enemy fire at the planes came from anti-aircraft batteries on the ground. My plane wasn’t damaged dur-ing any of the 37 missions I was on.

“You could hear the pieces of shrapnel from the air burst pinging against the skin of the plane, and you wondered if the next burst would be close enough to send the shrapnel through the skin and into the plane,” he added.

Pete described one bomb-ing mission that he’ll never forget. The plane had four 4,000-pound bombs, all set to explode just above the ground. They were in racks in the bomb bay. The bombs are scheduled to fall in sequence, he said.

Pete was at the bomb bay doors, and he watched as the first bomb fell. The second bomb didn’t fall. Pete began to move toward the bomb racks and the bomb that hadn’t fallen. Before he could reach the equipment, the third and fourth bombs dropped.

“I was lucky I didn’t have to get into the open bomb bay area, because when the fourth bomb fell, it apparently brushed against the bomb that was stuck, and the second one fell at the same time,” he explained.

Pete married Maeve Long, and they had sons, Allen, John and Greg. There are six grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren.

Jimmy Duncan, the “baby” of the brothers at age 68, is a retired 38-year military vet-eran. He spent his first few years in the Air Force, then more than 30 with the Utah Air National Guard, going home for good in 1991. His service spanned the Korean War and Desert Shield in Iraq.

Jimmy, a resident of Utah, was sent to Korea near the end of the war, and stationed at “K-13,” the American mili-tary designation for Suwon Air Base, the place where his brother Tom was stationed with the 51st Fighter-Intercep-tor Wing.

Jimmy’s duty was also with the 51st. He was a jet mechanic, and worked on the F-86-F model of the Sabre jet fighter,and the design change that became the F-86-L.

Following the war, Jimmy was stationed for a time in Sioux City, Iowa. When he left

there he joined the Utah Air National Guard near Salt Lake City, and spent time there as a fulltime jet mechanic.

Within a few years Jimmy became a flight engineer on the KC-97 cargo planes taking supplies to the permanently stationed units in Korea.

Jimmy’s next duty was on a Boeing tanker providing mid-air refueling to all types of planes, including many types of fighters.

In the 1970s and 1980s, Jim-my was a boom operator on a tanker that regularly provided fuel to the Air Force’s Thun-derbirds.

He also performed this duty during Operation Desert Shield, the building of forces in the Middle East to free Ku-wait from Iraq’s occupation. By the time Desert Storm began, Jimmy was on the Air Force’s battle staff operat-ing underground in Omaha, Nebraska.

He was the highest rank-ing enlisted man in the Utah National Air Guard at the time of his retirement.

Jimmy married Eulale Birch of Utah, and they have sons Jim, Shawn and Chad, plus daughters Pamela and Bonni, plus 10 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. His son Shawn is retired from the Air Force, and one of his sons is now serving in the Utah Air Guard.

Jimmy Duncan

Cox honored by city for years of service

Interim finance director Kathy Cox receives a presentation from Mayor Terry Mann and Mayor Pro Tem Harold Troy.

By JEFFERSON WEAVERStaff Writer

Whiteville City Council members bade farewell to a longtime employee regarded by many as one of the “nicest people at City Hall.”

Kathy Cox officially retired last month, but a scheduling conflict prevented her from attending the July 24 meeting of the board.

The Whiteville woman started out in the finance de-partment as a clerk 30 years ago and retired as interim finance director, a post she held since May 2010.

“The City of Whiteville appreciates your loyalty and years of service,” Mayor Terry Mann said.

Cox was presented a clock last month, and Mann gave her a brass plaque to mount on the

clock Tuesday, in addition to a resolution honoring her years with the city.

“Kathy has always been considered one of the nicest people on city staff,” City Man-ager Larry Faison said. “She always went the extra mile for the citizen, and wasn’t afraid of hard work. She befriended all — her co-workers, citizens and supervisors of every de-gree. We will miss her.”

In the upper photo, refueling north of Las Vegas, Nev. In the 1970s and 1980s, Jimmy Duncan was a boom opera-tor on a tanker that regu-larly provided fuel to the Air Force’s Thunderbirds. At left, Sugar Loaf Hill on Oki-nawa. Sugar Loaf Hill was part of a triangle of Japanese defensive positions, the oth-ers being Shuri Heights, and a second the Marines desig-nated as Half Moon.

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the potential to become a good director.”

McKenzie is a 1996 graduate of West Columbus High School. He holds a bachelor’s degree in social work from N.C. A&T University, earned in 1991.

In his current position, McKenzie supervises Work First Employment. It is a pro-gram that assists people in finding work and on-the-job training.

McKenzie also oversees a child daycare subsidy program and the fraud unit. He serves on the county’s Joblink board and is a member of the Partnership for Children.

McKenzie said he has past experience in human resources and in working with domestic violence programs.

He has worked for five di-rectors at the department be-ginning with Joanne Vereen, perhaps the last director to be hired from within the county.

McKenzie sees his experi-ence within the organization as a benefit.

“I have an understanding of people in the county and here. I am able to relate to the staff because I have been where they are,” McKenzie said. “Some-times we are unappreciated for the things that we do but I hope to help the agency become better.”

McKenzie said he is eager to learn about departments with-in the agency that he has less knowledge of and he admits that at times some departments need more oversight.

“Some may need more atten-tion than others but I want to make sure that the employees have the tools they need in every department. That is im-portant,” McKenzie said.

McKenzie said some of the biggest challenges facing the department include the imple-mentation of new technology and programs.

N.C. Fast is a statewide system that is expected to inte-grate systems within various departments to make online applications for services and requests for services from vari-ous programs more efficient

and streamline the process.Glitches in the system at

various pilot counties in the state have led to slower imple-mentation of the system, McK-enzie said, but training is ongo-ing at Columbus County DSS to transition to the new system.

“It will impact food and nutrition and change the way applications are done,” McK-enzie said.

McKenzie sees a lot of po-tential in the DSS staff.

“The staff here is very knowledgeable, from line workers to supervisors and program mangers. They know their job and do it well,” McK-enzie said. “That is a plus –to have a management team with that kind of knowledge.”

McKenzie said he is “ex-cited about the opportunity. I just hope people will embrace me with open arms and work with me. I am just grateful to the board of Social Services and look forward to working with them.”

Lewis said the board con-sidered candidates outside the county and had some top choices that either took other positions or did not follow through with adequate refer-ences.

McKenzie’s references were all good, Lewis said.

“We wanted to make sure we gave him the opportunity to advance into the position,” Lewis said. “He has a knowl-edge of various programs, leadership ability and the way he conducted himself in the meeting made him a good

choice. Overall as a person, we liked the way he conducted himself.”

McKenzie has the added benefit of knowing about the agency’s past and office culture.

“He already knows the people,” Lewis said, adding that McKenzie is the pastor of a church, was “a good can-didate.”

McKenzie, the son of Bren-da and Hudie Cooper of New Jersey and Leon and Barbara Wooten of Clarkton, grew up in the Mount Olive commu-nity with his grandmother, Naomi McKenzie. He resides with his wife Tahitian, a Bladen County schoolteacher, in the Mount Olive commu-nity. They have two daughters, Tyashia,7, and Aneshia,14.

Weeks ago, Lewis said five candidates had been inter-viewed with two being “local.”

Commissioners set the sal-ary for the position but the director serves at the will of the Social Services board.

Commissioners have ap-proved a $75,000 salary for the position.

Lewis said Wednesday that commissioners “only want” to pay McKenzie, who has no prior director’s experience, $60,000 per year.

“That’s unacceptable. We are standing firm at $75,000,” Lewis said.

In recent years the DSS director’s position has experi-enced a high rate of turnover. After just 16 months on the job Gerald Fogle, a director with

30-plus years of experience in South Carolina who grew up in Fair Bluff, called it quits after weeks of investigation.

A terminated supervisor claimed race and age dis-crimination played a role in her dismissal. Fogle denied that race played any role in his firing of the employee who made profane postings on Facebook about her job. The terminated employee later dropped her case.

Director Linda Fry gave her resignation in 2009, after less than two years on the job. Fry said she had intended to stay in Columbus County but became discouraged when she was denied pay increases for herself and staff.

Columbus County Social Services has some of the lowest paid employees, she said. Fry said her salary at roughly $64,000 at the time was fifth from the bottom in the state. She sought a $5,000 pay increase.

The county board of com-missioners subsequently ap-proved a larger salary for the next director, Fogle, who started at $75,000 a year.

The director oversees a staff of 141 and a budget of more than $11 million.

McKenzie makes the tran-sition to director Sept. 4. Joan Stephens is currently serving as the interim director.

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of intent with just two months ago.

On Aug. 9, the Securities and Exchange Commission filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the North-ern District of Texas alleg-ing that Ronald D. Brooks committed securities fraud in 2010 while serving as CEO and chairman of Standard Oil Company USA, Inc., a purported energy company headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

According to the SEC’s complaint, Brooks signed and certified Standard Oil’s initial disclosure statement filed with the Pink OTC Mar-kets and made the disclosure statement that he had no prior criminal convictions.

“In reality, Brooks had been convicted of three felo-nies in separate cases and sentenced to prison each time,” the complaint alleges. His prior convictions includ-ed securities law violations in Kansas in 1987 and 1992. In 1993, Brooks was convicted of aiding and abetting conceal-ment of property from the Federal Insurance Corpora-tion in U.S. District court in Kansas.

The suit also claims that Brooks “directly or indirectly, singly or in concert with others, in connection with the purchase of securities, by use of the means and in-strumentalities of interstate commerce and by use of the mails have: employed de-vices, schemes, and articles to defraud; made untrue state-ment of material fact and omitted to state a material fact; and “engaged in acts, practices, and courses of busi-ness which operate or would operate as a fraud and deceit upon purchasers, prospective purchasers, and any other persons.”

The complaint seeks a permanent injunction, a civil monetary penalty and asks that Brooks be barred perma-nently from serving as an of-ficer, director or penny-stock trader.

In June, Standard Oil In-ternational made an effort to put a trash-to-diesel pyrolysis plant at the Columbus County landfill.

The company sought a long-term lease for acreage at the site at New Hope and asked commissioners to pro-vide the company with all of its solid waste to convert trash into diesel fuel.

The county would not be required to provide incen-tives, and the company even promised a discount on die-sel fuel sales to the county schools.

The proposal stirred up in-terest initially and reports or press releases could be found on penny stock and investor websites across the Internet.

The News Reporter pub-lished an article on Brooks’ past troubles, convictions and questionable business dealings (including selling interest in oil wells that didn’t exist and founding a company that claimed it had a cure for diabetes) on June 4.

That same night all but one commissioner approved the letter of intent with the firm, after company officials claimed a case of mistaken identity.

Officials said the firm’s attorney would contact the newspaper but that never happened.

Brooks, who showed off a picture of a helicopter and jet on his Facebook page and according to Kansas revenue documents, owed the state more than $2 million in in-come taxes, via email refused to give any phone contact information or specify any alleged inaccuracies in the article about his past.

Days later, the letter of intent signed by county of-ficials was returned to the county unsigned, and a lo-cal company representative, Melvin Ezzell, announced his resignation.

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DEATH NOTICE

BILLY CHARLES PARKERBOLTON -- Billy Charles

Parker, 80, passed away Monday, Aug. 13, 2012 at his home after a six-month battle with liver cancer. He was born in Columbus County on Nov. 25, 1931 to the late Vander P. Parker and Maude Batch-elor Parker. He was preceded in death by four brothers, Clayton R. Parker, Robert Lee Park-er, Andrew Richard Parker Sr., and Harry Lee Parker; and by the daughter of his wife, Shirley K. Parker, whom he raised from the age of seven until her death in 1983.

He was a veteran of the U.S. Army, having served in Korea and later took on the trade of brick mason for the next 30 years. As time passed he developed a love for auctions and flea markets and on Friday and Saturday could be found on Hwy. 701 Whiteville sell-ing tools and handles. For 42 years Billy had a large garden and shared his veg-etables at no charge with everyone. He loved people and had many friends. He was a member of Bolton Baptist Church and of the Bolton Fire Department in the 1970s when it was first organized. He was a trustee on the board and helped brick the old fire depart-ment free of charge.

He is survived by his wife of 42 years, Janice Lewis Parker and by her son, An-drew (Andy) Richard Park-er Jr. who Billy raised from the age of nine. Also sur-viving are Andy’s children, Andrew (Drew) Richard Parker III and Cera Jean Parker who dearly loved their granddaddy. Also sur-viving are four brothers, Charles R. Parker (Pat) of Sunset Harbor, James M. Parker (Patsy) of Lake Wac-camaw, Maurice D. Parker (Karen) of Mechanics-ville, Va., Jimmy D. Parker (JoAnn) of Whiteville; and one sister, Ann Parker Co-sper (Ronnie) of Marion, S.C. Also remembered are sisters-in-law, Elizabeth S. Parker and Nancy Lewis Simmons; and brothers-in-law, Edward Lee (Ned) Sim-mons and Robert F. Lewis III of Lakeland, Fla.; a spe-cial cousin, Jean Batchelor Norris of Whiteville; and many nieces and nephews.

Special thanks to Dr. Richard Bumgardner and staff, Dr. Steven Crawford and assistant Shannon and Dr. Birgit Arb.; Hospice caregivers, Michelle King, Lori Hursey, Misty Jenkins, Kathy Conrad and Linda Uber; also to our church family and friends for all their prayers, phone calls and cards; to my brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law, my sister, Nancy, and best friend, Carolyn Baker for all their help and keeping us well fed. Please contin-ue to remember our entire family in your prayers.

Final rites were conduct-ed Wednesday, Aug. 15 in the Peacock Funeral Home Chapel with Revs. Sterling Sarvis and Houston Miller officiating. Interment was in Hillcrest Cemetery, Lake Waccamaw.

In lieu of flowers, me-morials may be made to Bolton Baptist Church, P.O. Box 70, Bolton, N.C. 28423, Columbus County Gideons, P.O. Box 152, Whiteville, N.C. 28472 or Lower Cape Fear Hospice and LifeCare Center, 206 Warrior Trail, Whiteville, N.C. 28472.

JACQUELINE ‘JACKIE’ SMITH BENTON

CHADBOURN -- Jacqueline “Jackie” Smith Benton, 78, died Monday, Aug. 13, 2012 at Lower Cape Hospice and LifeC-are Center in Whiteville. She was the daughter of the late Richard Dick and Rosie Lee Milliken Smith Sr. and was pre-ceded in death by a grandson.

Final rites will be held at 3 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 16 at Worthington Funeral Home in Chadbourn with Rev. Tony Ward officiating. Interment will be in Whiteville Memorial Cemetery.

She is survived by her hus-band, George Houston Benton of the home; two daughters, Jackie Sue Suggs of Tabor City and Rose B. Strickland of Chadbourn; one sister, Hilda S. Simmons of Chadbourn; two brothers, Marshall Smith and Richard D. Smith Jr., both of Whiteville; and three grand-children.

Memorials may be made to Lower Cape Fear Hospice and LifeCare Center, 206 Warrior Trail, Whiteville, N.C. 28472.

ADDIE BLUE RHODIE CLARKTON -- Addie Blue

Rhodie, 87, died Monday, Aug. 13, 2012 at Columbus Regional Healthcare.

Final rites will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 18 at Pleas-ant Hill Missionary Baptist Church, 426 Booker T. Wash-ington School Road, Clarkton. Burial will be in Rhodie Cem-etery. Peoples Funeral Home of Whiteville is handling the arrangements. Viewing will be held from noon-7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 17 at the funeral home and Saturday, Aug. 18 one hour pri-or to the service at the church.

Surviving are one daugh-ter, Elizabeth Rhodie of the home; two sons, Dontae Hock-ett of the home and Charles Rhodie of Montclair, N.J.; an done sister, Lizzie Johnson of Clarkton.

Ward reunionslated Aug. 26

Descendants of Addie Jane and William Calvin Ward will have their annual family cov-ered dish dinner on Sunday, Aug. 26 at 1:30 p.m. at Mission Valley Freewill Baptist Church fellowship hall in the Mollie community.

For more information call 653-5459.

Cerro Gordo Elementary open house Aug. 23

Cerro Gordo Elementary School will hold Open House Thursday, Aug. 23 from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Parents and students can meet teachers and tour classrooms.

Acme-Delco Elementary open house Aug. 21

Acme-Delco Elementary School will hold Open House Tuesday, Aug. 21 at 5:30 p.m. Parents and students can meet teachers and tour classrooms.

Whiteville City Schools holds open house

The Whiteville City Schools will be hosting open houses as follows:

Aug. 22, Central Middle School from 6-8 p.m., 310 S. Martin Luther King Jr. Ave. Go to the student’s homeroom. Chris Burton is the principal.

Aug. 22, North Whiteville Academy from 5-7 p.m., 310 S. Martin Luther King Jr. Ave. Go to the Multi-purpose room. Shelly Cullipher is the principal.

Aug. 22, Whiteville High School from 5-7 p.m., 413 N. Lee St. Go to the student’s homeroom. Jes Sealey is the principal.

Aug. 23, Whiteville Primary School from 5-7 p.m., 805 Barb-crest Ave. Go to the student’s homeroom. David Bobbitt is the principal.

Aug. 23, Edgewood Elemen-tary School from 6-8 p.m., 317 E. Calhoun St. Go to the student’s homeroom. Susan Smith is the principal.

Tabor City Elementary open house Aug. 23

Tabor City Elementary will hold open house Thursday, Aug. 23.

Pre-K through 2nd grade will begin at 5:30 in the audi-torium.

Grades 3-5 will begin at 6:15 in the auditorium.

A meet and greet session with the teachers will follow in the classrooms.

Evergreen Elementary open house Aug. 23

E ve r g re n E l e m e n t a r y School will hold Open House Thursday, Aug. 23 from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Parents and students can meet teachers and tour classrooms.

PRISCILLA BRYAN HARDEE

LORIS, S.C. -- Priscilla Bry-an Hardee, 85, died Monday, Aug. 13, 2012 in McLeod Loris Hospital. Born in Horry Coun-ty, she was the daughter of the late Harry and Oline Butler Bryan and was the widow of the late Lewis Clifford Hardee Sr.

Visitation will be held from 6-8 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 16 at Inman Funeral Home of Ta-bor City. A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. Friday at Loris First United Method-ist Church with Revs. Grady Corder and Carl Harris officiat-ing Interment will be in Twin City Memorial Gardens.

She is survived by one son, Lewis C. Hardee Jr. of Lo-ris; two daughters, Debby H. Watson and Angela H. Gray-son, both of Columbia, S.C.; one brother, William Donald Stevens of Loris; and three grandchildren.

Whiteville Primary open house Aug. 23

Whiteville Primary School will hold open house Thurs-day, Aug. 23 from 5-7 p.m. Par-ents and students can meet teachers and tour classrooms.

Chadbourn Middle open house Aug. 23

Chadbourn Middle School will hold open house Thursday, Aug. 23 from 5:30-7 p.m.

Guideway Elementary open house Aug. 23

Guideway Elementary School will hold open house Thursday, Aug. 23 from 4:30-6:30 p.m. Parents and students can meet teachers and staff.

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VIRGINIA -- Mr. William Edwin “Ed” Morris Sr. passed away p e a c e f u l l y Aug. 13, 2012 at Runk and Pratt Retire-ment Village in Hardy, Va. He was born in Section, Ala. in 1924 and spent his formative years in the Red Bank/Chattanooga area of Tennessee with two older brothers and an older sister. He was a celebrated baseball player, Golden Gloves boxer and an avid outdoorsman in his youth. During World War II, he enlisted in the Navy at the age of 18. He served in the European Theater as a ra-dio operator on a Landing Craft Infantry and after the war he went to flight school to become a pilot in the Navy.

After his military ser-vice, he continued his edu-cation by enrolling at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. He transferred to the University of Geor-gia at Athens, receiving a degree in Forestry in 1950. During his senior year, he married his sweetheart, Grace Clark, of Savannah, Ga. Upon graduation he started a 33 1/2 year career with International Paper Company focusing on tim-ber management and pro-curement while working in several areas of Eastern North Carolina. He main-tained long term residences in New Bern, Sneads Ferry and Lake Waccamaw until 2002 when he and Grace moved to Eden to be near family for health reasons.

After 55 years of mar-riage he lost his wife, Grace, to cancer in 2002 but remained in Eden with his son, Rusty, and his family. In 2008, he moved to Smith Mountain Lake, Va. to be near his son’s new resi-dence and remained there until his death.

Rev. Sommer Bower will lead a celebratory service at noon at Lake Waccamaw Presbyterian Church Satur-day, Aug. 18, followed by a reception in the fellowship hall. Tharp Funeral Home and Crematory of Smith Mountain Lake is handling the arrangements. (540)-721-9375.

He is survived by his son Dr. William Edwin “Rusty” Morris Jr. and wife, Nol-lie; as well as his daughter, Elizabeth Royden “Roy” Montgomery. He also leaves behind four grandchildren, Leiza Lewis, Hunter Mor-ris, Clark Morris and wife Michelle, and Sterling Mor-ris. He was expecting his first great-grandchild at the time of his death.

The family requests that no flowers be sent but con-tributions may be made to: Lake Waccamaw Presbyte-rian Church, 301 Church Street, P.O. Box 150, Lake Waccamaw, N.C. 28450 or the charity of your choice.

DEATH NOTICEHAZEL LORRAINE CONNER SELLERS

CHADBOURN -- Hazel Lor-raine Conner Sellers, 63, died Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2012 at Lower Cape Fear Hospice and Lif-eCare Center in Whiteville. She was the daughter of the late Matthew “Bud” and Ruby Hardin Conner and was also preceded in death by two sib-lings, Elizabeth Ann Perritt and Henry J. Conner.

Final rites will be held at 3 p.m. Friday, Aug. 17 at Chad-bourn Pentecostal Holiness Church with Revs. Jim Skin-ner and Tim Pittman officiat-ing. Interment will follow in Chadbourn Memorial Cem-etery. Worthington Funeral Home of Chadbourn is han-dling the arrangements. The family will receive friends from 7-9 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 16 at the funeral home.

She is survived by three daughters, Paula S. Thompson of Whiteville, Cheryl D. Sellers of Fairmont and Jamie S. Ward of Chadbourn; one son, David A. Sellers of Chadbourn; one brother, Tom Conner of White-ville; five grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.

Memorials may be made to Lower Cape Fear Hospice and LifeCare Center, 206 Warrior Trail, Whiteville, N.C. 28472.

RONAL EARL HYATTCHADBOURN -- Ronal Earl

Hyatt, 51, died Monday, Aug. 13, 2012 at Columbus Regional Healthcare in Whiteville. He was the son of the late Jan-ice Callihan Hyatt and was preceded in death by one son, Stephen Hyatt.

Visitation will be held from 7-9 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 18 at Worthington Funeral Home and at other times at the resi-dence of Kenneth R. Hyatt, 177 Pear Blossom Lane, Whiteville.

He is survived by one son, Kevin Glenn Hyatt of Chad-bourn; one daughter, Jeannie L. Buchan of Lyford, Texas; two stepchildren, Heather Lanier of Clarkton and Johnny C. Huggins of Chadbourn; his father, Roscoe Hyatt of Faison; two brothers, Kenneth Ray Hyatt of Whiteville and Jeffrey Dean Hyatt of Clarkton; one sister, Janie Hyatt Gore of Na-kina; and eight grandchildren.

JAMES BRAXTON SINGLETARY

BLADENBORO -- James Braxton Singletary, 56, died Monday, Aug. 13, 2012.

The family will receive friends from 5-8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 17 at Bladen-Gaskins Fu-neral Home in Elizabethtown. A memorial service will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 18 at the Kingdom Hall of Je-hovah’s Witnesses in Clarkton with Raymond Bell officiating.

He is survived by one broth-er, Rex Singletary; and four sisters, Ann Owens, Addie Hines, Gracie Singletary and Dorothy Zeigler.

JOHN KARL STARKLOFFELIZABETHTOWN -- John

Karl Starkloff, 71, died Friday, Aug. 10, 2012.

A private service will be held at a later date. Bladen-Gaskins Funeral Home in Elizabethtown is handling the arrangements.

He is survived by his wife, Carol Starkloff of the home; two sons, Kyle Starkloff and John Starkloff Jr.; three sis-ters, Karen Parker, Ruth Dur-ham and Donna Hyter; and four grandchildren.

RAQUAN JAVON GREENLONGWOOD -- Raquan

JaVon Green, 15, died Sunday, Aug. 12, 2012 at McLamb Dirt Pit, due to drowning.

Final rites will be held at 1 p.m. Friday, Aug. 17 at Ocean View Association Center, Sun-set Beach with Pastor M.C. Herring of Mt. Zion Church of Longwood officiating. Burial will be in the church cem-etery. Union Funeral Home in Whiteville is handling the arrangements.

He is survived by his par-ents, Raymond and Anthanet Green of the home; two broth-ers, Demetri Green, Desmond Green; and one sister, Miracle Berkley.

Artesia Alumni Association to hold school supplies giveaway

The Artesia Alumni As-sociation will hold a back to school supplies giveaway for Hallsboro/Artesia Elementary School at Bogue Park, Halls-boro Saturday, Aug. 18 at 1 p.m.

Smyrna BC to host car wash

The Smyrna Baptist Church youth group will hold a car wash Saturday, Aug. 18 from 8:30 a.m.-until. The cost is $10 per car.

Ray Best is the pastor.

Cherokee Chapel BC to hold preacher/wife appreciation

Cherokee Chapel Baptist Church will hold its annual preacher/wife appreciation day Sunday, Aug. 19, for Rev. Ernest Goins and wife, Sunday school will be at 10 a.m. and worship service at 11 a.m.

Lunch will be served in the fellowship hall after the service.

The church is located at 715 E. Institute Street, Chadbourn.

Second St. Paul to hold Missionary Day

Second St. Paul Church of Hallsboro will hold it annual Missionary Day Sunday, Aug. 19 at 3 p.m. Rev. Jimmy Lee Thompson and choir of Per-kinsville Missionary Baptist Church of Leland will be the guest speaker.

Rev. Acie Robinson is the pastor.

CHARLES BERNARD STEPHENS

WHITEVILLE -- Charles Bernard Stephens, 51, died Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2012 at New Hanover Regional Medi-cal Center.

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

HENRY DAVIS FAULKCHADBOURN -- Henry Da-

vis Faulk, 67, died Monday, Aug. 13, 2012 at Columbus Regional Healthcare in White-ville.

Final rites will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, Aug. 17 at First Baptist Church in Chadbourn. Burial will be in Belvue Cem-etery. Friendly Funeral Home of Riegelwood is handling the arrangements. Visitation will be held from 1-7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 16 at Friendly’s Chapel, 217 S. Brown Street, Chad-bourn.

He is survived by his wife, Sarah Rorie Faulk of the home; two sons, Henry Merritt and Connell Faulk, both of Chad-bourn; four daughters, Mary Ann Burris and Teresa Mer-ritt, both of Charleston, S.C., Seanti Faulk of Baltimore, Md., Tiffany Faulk of Chad-bourn; one stepdaughter, Eb-ony Rorie of Chadbourn; his mother, Everlene Singleton; two brothers, Levi Faulk of Brooklyn, N.Y., William Faulk of Tabor City; and two sisters, Katrina Williams and Vernell Underwood, both of Chad-bourn.

Piney Grove AMEZ to hold usher anniversary

Piney Grove AME Zion Church of Clarkton will hold it usher anniversary Sunday, Aug. 19 at 4 p.m.

Rev. Larry Campbell is the pastor.

Jefferson Weaver910-642-4104 ext. [email protected]

Nicole Cartrette910-642-4104 ext. 225

[email protected]

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Kayakers set out for a paddle on Lake Waccamaw recently. Water levels in the lake have been higher than last year.

sioners to come to the meeting but that was my mistake.”

DSS Board Chairman Mi-chael Lewis thanked Russ for “trying.”

“We still have a big inter-est in what is going to hap-pen in October,” Lewis said. Increases are set to take effect Oct. 1 for all county employ-ees. Those who are the most “underpaid” according to a pay plan sought earlier in the year will get increases greater than one percent. Others will receive a one percent pay in-crease or if at the top of their grade, will receive one time 1 percent bonus.

One employee who was present at the meeting said employees still have a lot of unanswered questions about the pay study and how it will work. She said that no one had explained anything to the employees.

“I thought County Manager Bill Clark and Bobbie Fair-cloth (finance officer) were coming,” Russ said.

“We talked with the chair-man of the Social Services board. He told us that it was not the consensus of the board for commissioners to go to the meeting,” said Amon McKen-zie, chairman for the board of commissioners.

“If they needed that an-swered all they had to do was talk to the interim director because she was involved in the whole process,” McKenzie said. “If someone makes a request we want to go. I don’t see where they would have benefited from having us there anyway.”

Guillermo Noguera, a DSS board member, suggested the pay plan be discussed or ex-plained at an employee staff meeting in September.

“It needs to be explained at least to the leaders,” Lewis said.

“At least now people know that i t is troublesome,” Noguera said of the pay situ-ation.

“I want to thank you for the job you do. No matter what you do, life is hard,” Russ told employees.

At a previous DSS meeting, pay was a topic of discussion and Russ shortly after asked

commissioners in a regular board meeting to make plans to attend Tuesday’s DSS meeting to discuss pay.

Draft minutes from the DSS meeting in question do not name speakers or identify who said what but do read that:

“Several DSS employees made comments concer n-ing the recent pay study the County Commissioners paid a company to prepare” and that “most are upset with the out-come and recommendations for pay increases.”

“As it stands, the employ-ees who will get the largest increases are those who have been employed six years or less with the County. These employees will see significant increases in their salaries,” the minutes read.

“The staff that have been with the county the longest, and have devoted their lives to their county positions, are only getting a 1 percent pay raise for the year. Those at the top of their pay scale will receive a one time lump sum payment of 1 percent,” the minutes read.

“The plan is to be imple-mented in four-year incre-ments with those having the most seniority getting the least; and many reaching re-tirement before they see any-thing. As always, those who have the most experience and years of service are being penalized and will not see any increase in their salaries that will be noticed after taxes,” the DSS minutes continue.

“There was also concern the increases will not be imple-mented until October; when normally pay raises are given in the July checks. Employees will lose three months of in-creases because of this. There has been no mention of retro pay back to July,” the minutes conclude.

According to the county finance offices preliminary data 69 employees at DSS will receive increases as a result of the pay study that total $206,000. That does not include the 1 percent pay raises for all other employees.

Job titles were unavailable from the county personnel of-fice due to the director being

out of the office.One of those employees

has 17 years of service with the county and will receive a $2,000 increase. Many more have few years of experience with the county.

Seven have less than one year of experience. Several have less than five. A few have salaries in the teens ranging from $15,580 to $18,839 with the increases pushing them into the upper $18,000s or just over $20,000 annually. Several making in the low $20,000s will advance to the mid $20,000s or $26,263. Oth-ers in the low $30,000’s will advance to the mid $30,000 or just under $35,000.

The Maps Group, a con-sulting service based in Cary, recommended that commis-sioners place employees in new ranges this year and move them up their ranges by 1 per-cent for each year of service if they were underpaid accord-ing to the plan.

That option would have cost the county more than $2 million and be a more than 14 percent increase in overall payroll.

Commissioners instead opted for another option that increased payroll by 3.45 per-cent overall and cost the county $505,418 –not including more than $100,000 in 1 percent pay raises not included in the plan. It places all employees at the new minimum salary range then adds one half percent of each year of service up to the midpoint salary if the employ-ee is not already there.

The phase-in option meant that hiring rates are still 11 percent below recommended amounts and compression is still a factor, according to the April report.

“They (DSS) got over a third of the total pay raises,” County Manager Bill Clark said, add-ing that he and the finance staff have met with department managers numerous times about the study. “We cannot solve this problem without giv-ing some people more money

Lake Lions seek yard sale items

an arcade at 1001 South Lee Street. The Southeastern Ar-cade Learning Center will be open for children and youth ages eight to 18, and provided a safe, structured environment where video games and other activities will be available, Smith said.

“I will not tolerate loiter-ing or trouble-making like sometimes goes on with these places,” he said. “This isn’t going to be like that.”

Smith said his abiding love for the children of the com-munity led him and his wife Lisa to pursue opening the youth center.

“We are paying for this out of our pocket,” he said. “This isn’t a government program. It’s a private effort to give our

youth a safe place.”Smith said he knows “hun-

dreds” of kids in the White-ville area “who can use a safe place to go and have fun.”

“There are not many places where children can go without their parents worrying about them being exposed to bad influences,” he said. “I talk

to kids all the time, and they need adults who will teach them and help them.”

Council approved the re-quest. An opening date for the arcade has not been set.

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dealer in High Point,” Britt said. “We just have to wait for the money to be approved, and take our place in line.

They have been selling a lot of them this year.”

Britt said the Liberties are 2012 models, which resulted in a small savings for the city. The Chargers will be 2013 models, but were purchased at a reduced price since they were approved earlier this summer. The Liberties were “put to the side” as soon as Britt had confirmation of the purchase, Britt said.

“The dealer was very good to us in that regard,” he said.

The chief and several of-ficers appeared before the board earlier this year to discuss vehicle problems in the department.

They also gave a rundown of the city’s aging police fleet at a budget workshop in February.

Several of the cars are at double the 125,000 mile life expectancy, and the depart-ment regularly has to ask for budget amendments for repairs.

Britt said he began inves-tigating the Charger cruis-ers as an option when Ford announced it was ending the

Crown Victoria line of police sedans.

The Charger is the stan-dard vehicle for the Highway Patrol, Britt said, and is popular with chiefs he met at a recent conference.

“They get high marks,” Britt said, “and our guys like them as well. They are good cars.”

The Jeep SUVs will be used by an investigator and a narcotics officer, Britt said. Both officers require addi-tional room for transporting specialized investigative and tactical equipment.

The city will spend $173,000 in payments for the first year on the vehicles, with the bal-ance spread across five years.

Britt thanked the board for the budget allotment.

“I appreciate it, as do the officers,” he said. “I don’t like coming in here and ask-ing you for money to keep vehicles running.”

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The Lake Waccamaw Li-ons Club is collecting items for the Flemington Flea Market set for Saturday, Sept. 1 at Lake Waccamaw Depot Museum.

Those who wish to donate items are asked to call Gary Greene at the Boys and Girls Homes at 646-3083 to schedule

drop off or a pick up. Proceeds of the sale will benefit Lions projects that benefit visually impaired persons (VIPs).

The Flea Market is open to individuals or groups who wish to sell yard sale items or crafts, baked goods, cookbooks and other items. For informa-

tion about space on the depot grounds, contact Ginger Lit-trell at 646-1992. There is no charge and participants must furnish their own tables, tents. etc. The sale is being held in conjunction with Take The Lake that attracts hundreds of people to the lake.

VA Health Teamcoming Aug. 15

The Veterans Medical Cen-ter Rural Health Team will be at American Legion Post 233 at 313 West Phillip Street, White-ville, on Wednesday, Aug. 15, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Anyone who served in the U.S. military is invited. Veter-ans are encouraged to bring a copy of their DD Form 214 (discharge paperwork) and last year’s financial information to expedite enrollment in the system.

For more information con-tact Fayetteville Veterans Med-ical Center’s public affairs of-ficer Robin DeMark at 488-2120 ext. 5991, or county Veteran Service Officer Sherry Black-man at (910)640-6638 or Post Commander Rasheed Rahman at 212-2532.

Jefferson Weaver910-642-4104 ext. [email protected]

Who are our WWII vets?

Neal Hector McNeill of Whiteville is interested in getting a list of World War II veterans who reside in Colum-bus County.

McNeill is especially inter-ested in making connection with those who served at Iwo Jima. So far as he knows, he said, he and Mike Byrd of Fair Bluff are the only two still liv-ing in Columbus County who were at Iwo Jima. Horace Cox of Tabor City, who died last year, also served there.

Anyone who knows of World War II veterans is asked to contact McNeill at 910-642-2807, or email [email protected].

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Oscar Wilde

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

Walt Disney

Recent results that show Whiteville High School underperforming in Algebra I end-of-course tests underscore some of the pros and cons of testing.

Here’s a good example: In Whiteville City Schools, Algebra I is offered at Cen-tral Middle School. By getting Algebra I out of the way in middle school, motivat-ed students have the opportunity to take more high-level courses once they arrive at Whiteville High School.

That’s great for the student but not so good for the high school’s end-of-course results. Typi-cally, the brightest students take Algebra I in middle school, and their end-of-course grades, which are usually high, are credited to the middle school and not the high school. Thus, end-of-course grades at the high school don’t include the school’s best math students, who have already taken the test.

This creates a dilemma for adminis-trators: should the school system con-tinue to do what’s best for the student by continuing to offer Algebra I in middle school, or does the negative publicity for underperforming scores necessitate a move to offer Algebra I only in high school, thus including the scores of its best students and making the school look better?

Obviously, the public should expect school officials to do what’s best for the student, but the ramifications of poor school-wide test scores, which include lowered public perception and morale among teachers, bring pressure on of-ficials to make decisions that promote better overall scores.

This pressure will be exacerbated next year when schools are given a letter grade– from A to F – based on test scores.

Testing is necessary because there’s no other way to determine if schools and individual teachers are doing their jobs. Benchmarks must be established, but as shown in the example above – and there are many others – there are pitfalls and hard decisions that must be made due to testing.

School assessments will change as testing moves from a fill-in-the-bubble affair to a true assessment of critical thinking and problem solving.

The initial results will not be pretty, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing as the new Common Core curriculum will re-enforce the art of critical thinking. This will take time.

One key, though, will be consistency in assessing testing results so schools aren’t forced to make decisions that make their overall grades look good at the expense of individual students’ needs.

Public opinion

The pros and cons of testing

Hallsboro blessing

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Editorials

The pointMaking choices be-tween good schoolwide test scores and indi-vidual students’ needs shouldn’t have to be in conflict with each other.

The CollegeConnection

I am a truck driver from Rock Hill, S.C.

On Aug. 2, I broke down on U.S. 74 at Hallsboro Road. It was so hot and humid all I could do was try to find a cool place to wait until my boss decided what to do.

I went and sat in the woods. Thirty minutes passed and a lady appeared and asked, “Are you al-right, sir? Do you need me to get you anything?”

I said no thanks, I just have to wait. I have water and snacks. I have a refrigerator in my truck.

She talked for a while, so I told her it was my wife’s birthday and I was hoping to get home early. She said if there’s nothing I can do, could I pray with you? She prayed and left.

I bet 35 people stopped to check on me. I just had to sit in the heat and wait.

After about seven hours, the first lady stopped again. She said Jesus told her she had to do some-thing for me.

She said she knew I wouldn’t have time to shop, so she had bought my wife a present.

So she also gave her DVD and a book. She also gave me steaks for us to cook when I got home. I couldn’t believe she did that. Everyone just gets cold chills when I tell them the story of being broke down in Hallsboro.

It was a blessing to be in Halls-boro. Thank you all for stopping. God bless all of you.

Johnny HunsuckerRock Hill, S.C.

The mediocre scores on the Program for International Stu-dent Assessment exam have been highlighted by the Obama admin-istration and others pushing for education reform.

On June 1, 2009, President Obama and Secretary of Educa-tion Arne Duncan announced the Race to the Top. As a result, if a state joins the initiative common core and essential standards cur-riculum (45 already have, includ-ing N.C.), there will be competitive grants as a motivation for educa-tional reform.

Our children today are at a competitive disadvantage with children from other countries. In essence, this puts our country’s long-term economic prosperity absolutely at risk.

Let’s all hope this new approach will make teaching and learning a more viable possibility.

Martha StoutWhiteville

The 4th Annual Christian March is set for Saturday, Sept. 8 at 10 a.m. Once again, we have the privilege to walk and pray for our nation, country and county.

The first Christian March, four years ago, had around 300 people turn out in response to the Presi-dent’s remark that we were no longer a Christian nation. The second year that number dropped to around 150. Last year we had around 25 awesome people who were really on fire for the Lord.

By SUE HAWKSExecutive Dean of Institutional

AdvancementSoutheastern Community College

The Southeastern Community College Foundation was created in 1968 out of the necessity for additional financial support for our students and for our college. The founding fathers and com-munity members quickly realized that local support was tantamount to the success of the fledgling col-lege. Every-one wanted Southeast-ern to con-t i n u e t o move for-ward as a landmark for learn-ing.

Over the years, the SCC Foun-dation has grown to be one of the largest in the North Carolina Com-munity College System.

The phrase “charity begins at home” is not lost on our many do-nors who make a commitment to contribute annually or who choose to name scholarships “in memory” or “in honor” of loved ones.

One of our most recent schol-arships was established by the congregation of Chadbourn Pres-byterian Church. Worthwhile ministries have always been sup-ported by the members of the 115-year-old church but this year the congregation literally “looked out their back door” and concluded that their good-deed monies would be well spent close to home. The first scholarship recipient will be named this fall.

The Norma Sidbury Stroscio Excellence in Nursing Scholar-ship was endowed in 2011 by fam-ily members desiring to honor a true professional whose nursing career spanned 57 years. Her name, through this scholarship, will continue to be synonymous with coming to the aid of others.

More than 75 named scholar-ships exist through the Founda-tion, with more added to the list annually. These scholarships make education accessible to many students who would otherwise be unable to attend SCC. Many of the scholarships are endowed and some donors make annual contributions to fund the amount of the award. Regardless of how a scholarship is funded, the outcome is the same - a deserving student achieves his or her goal. A collec-tive sigh of relief can be heard as the scholars gather each fall for a photo that commemorates their academic success.

On average 150 students receive in excess of $170,000 in scholarship awards annually through the SCC Foundation. In addition, a Foun-dation grant to the SCC Financial Aid Office assists, on average, 175 more students in achieving their goals. The Foundation also pro-vides $10,000 to allow continuing education students to enroll in skill-building classes to improve their employability.

Since SCC’s first graduating class in 1966, thousands of students have achieved success thanks to an SCC education and thousands more have been the beneficiary of a SCC scholarship. Everyone in our county either knows a SCC graduate or is a graduate. The SCC Foundation has played a role in many of these graduates’ lives. We salute our many existing donors and challenge our many graduates to make a contribution.

Southeastern’s donors receive our personal attention in creating the details for each scholarship. A great deal of trust has been estab-lished over the years between the Foundation and our donors, and our donors can see their contribu-tions at work.

The SCC website, www.sccnc.edu, lists the many scholarships of-fered through the SCC Foundation. The establishment of a scholarship or contributions to an existing scholarship can both be easily accomplished. I look forward to making that connection with you that will benefit the next SCC stu-dent. For more information about supporting the SCC Foundation, please contact me at (910) 642-7141, ext. 320 or [email protected].

Sue Hawks

Common Core It made me so proud that first year, knowing that so many Chris-tians turned out to stand up for our Lord. My thoughts last year left me to wonder, was just walking with other Christians to exercise our right and privilege to pray to the Lord in public not as important? Do we only want to stand up for Jesus when there is a fight? Any time I can do something to share my faith is a good enough reason for me. I am just a sinner saved by grace. I want everyone to have what I have, a Savior who has filled my life with grace and mercy.

“Not a Fan,” by Kyle Idleman has had a truly profound effect in my walk with the Lord. He asked, “Are you a true follower of Jesus or just a fan? Do you really know the Lord or are you just a fan of His?” “Does your life make Jesus real to the people you are in contact with?”

Remember, this is an opportu-nity to share Jesus with others who may be riding by, shopping, or even walking their dogs; you never know who you may affect just by walking and praying with a group of Christians. We have something everyone needs, an amazing, all-powerful savior, and it’s our duty to share Him with the lost.

I shortened the walk this year thinking maybe it was too far, so we will rally at the Lewis Smith Parking Lot at 10 a.m., and walk to the Forestry Museum, cross over to First Citizens and walk back.

I have flyers available for people to post at churches and work places and will make myself available to speak about this event at local churches if needed. You can e-mail me at [email protected] or call me at 910-918-3347.

Renee KellihanCerro Gordo

Christian march

Adoptions were down last week at the animal shelter after the county imple-mented its new spay and neuter require-ment in addition to the standard adoption fee.

County res-idents adopt-ed only three animals, but non-profit rescue groups adopted 32.

While the initial reac-tion is to save as many animals as possible – and thanks to outside groups, this is happening – holding firm to the new policy is the right thing to do.

It wasn’t so long ago that the animal shelter was euthanizing more than 4,000 animals annually. Rescue groups have done a lion’s share of adoptions, but that didn’t stop the problem of animals pro-ducing litter after litter of puppies and kittens, many of which are unwanted or can’t be provided for.

The only good way to put a dent in the problem is to prevent an overpopulation of unwanted animals in the first place, which the new program helps accomplish.

Hold firm to adoption policy

The pointAdoptions of animals at the shelter were down the first week of the new spay and neu-ter policy. It’s difficult to allow more animals to be euthanized, but in the long run, holding firm to the policy will result in fewer animals having to be put down.

People, Places and ThingsJesse Colter, guinea keets, Live Wire and love

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Staff photo by Mark Gilchrist

Making doWhiteville High School Junior Kellie Bass doesn’t need a

trumpet to practice with the Marching Wolfpack recently.

The band is rehearsing a Disney-themed halftime show.

By JEFFERSON WEAVERStaff Writer

It was a typical afternoon at The News Reporter when I got a most atypical call.

Little Barbara, as we call her, paged me and said there was a fellow on the line with an injured hawk. He didn’t know who else to call, so he called the newspaper. Barbara knew precisely who to call, since I am the resident critter whisperer.

I had no idea that we were embarking on a journey involv-ing biddies, guinea keets, mice, and falling in love.

You can find all of Live Wire’s story on the front page of today’s paper, as well as more of her journey on our feature page. The story we as reporters don’t often get to tell is what happens when we get personally involved.

Due to one thing and an-other, Live Wire ended up living with me for a week. Everywhere I went, the hawk went, except to church and city council meetings.

Of course, at first I thought she was a kestrel, not a hawk. She turned out to be a broad-wing hawk, which is actu-ally a fairly common species in North Carolina. What her res-cuers, Cody and Wade, thought was a youngster was actually a full-grown bird of prey.

Broadwing hawks are known to birders as buteo platypterous; they are one of several species folks of-ten lump together as spar-rowhawks. Broadwings are migratory—they migrate in flocks called kettles—and eat everything from mice and rats to birds and snakes. Although they mate for life, they will take up with another mate if their partner dies.

Like kestrels and other fal-cons, they like to hunt birds that are flying, which some-times leads to incidents like Live Wire’s collision with the utility line.

Cody and Austin gave Live Wire some water, but the bird was hurting, frightened and stressed. The day was well over 100 degrees, and she seemed both pleased and perplexed that the air conditioning in my truck was set between frigid and hog-killin’.

I contacted one of my Wild-life officers immediately, and he made some suggestions about rehabilitators. Now, we have successfully raised pos-sums, squirrels, and other var-mints, and on a few occasions have cared for owls. There are so few licensed rehab people that with each of our owls, the birds were healed and released before we could arrange a pickup.

I knew this wouldn’t be the case for the first daytime raptor I had ever helped rescue.

Live Wire was a finicky eat-er; when she turned her beak up at nice, bloody raw liver, a bird specialist suggested I find a hatchery and obtain a dead chick or two.

Naturally, the chick con-tainer at Gurganious Milling contained nothing but healthy, vibrant hatchlings, and the poultry fan in me couldn’t come to grips with buying a cute little chick and feeding it to a predator. When I finally gave up and embraced the circle of life, all the chicks had been sold; only guinea fowl, my favorite bird, remained.

Thankfully, the guinea’s end was swift, and for a higher pur-pose; guineas are not endan-gered, while broadwing hawks are. Still, it was with mixed emotions I dropped the keet into Live Wire’s dining room. It didn’t help when seconds later, a friend sent me a mes-sage that she was en route from Wilmington with a nice live mouse for Live Wire’s dinner. She ate the mouse that night.

I became a regular at Gur-ganious for several days; when one of the guys brought his beautiful little daughter to

work, I had to dance a fine line. She had a certain inter-est in the welfare of the baby chicks, and there was simply no way I was going to take it on myself to explain what I was doing with her little friends. When I tried to explain I was looking for sick chicks to, err, “take care of,” she did her best to help. Her daddy’s grin was downright malicious as I squirmed and prevaricated and did everything but flat-out lie to the little girl, or tell her the absolute truth. The chicks all miraculously healed when I picked them up, so I made a note to come back during school hours.

Man is a predator, regard-less of what the tree-huggers and bunny-worshippers want us to think. As a hunter, a trap-per, an angler, and an outdoors-men, I am familiar with death in nature and the part it plays in the circle of life.

Still, it gives you a different perspective when you watch it happen in something close to the natural state.

I have never been so thank-ful that I was not born lower on the food chain as I was when it was feeding time for Live Wire. As we had to feed her several times a day, I learned how to just drop Live Wire’s latest victim into the cage and wait a while before looking at her again.

And I looked at her a lot. You couldn’t help but look deeply into those golden eyes and real-ize what an incredible creature God had made.

Live Wire and I became buddies in the coming days; she would bob her head and clack her beak when I came back into a room, and make what the experts called social noises. Not knowing what else to do, I talked to her, then began singing to her when we were on the way to and from work. She would prance back and forth, slightly opening her wings, in what I feared was an attempt to fly (she needed to be cleared by a vet first) but what I found out was actually a mating ritual of sorts. My friends teased me un-mercifully about inter-species dating.

Live Wire loved music while she was in my care; she had a special affinity for The Out-laws, Lynard Skynard, Cast-ing Crowns and naturally, the Eagles. She even bobbed her head up and down when the B-52s’ one and only hit was on the radio. I knew she couldn’t understand the words, but when Jesse Colter’s haunting ballad, “I’m not Lisa,” came over the speakers, Live Wire was rapt. Apparently, Live Wire is a country girl at heart.

The trip to Possumwood Acres near Hubert was a long one, and not just because find-ing Miss Toni’s facility is an adventure without specific directions. Live Wire talked

to me on the two-hour drive, clacking her beak and once squeaking a little as we passed, coincidentally, a place with a hand-painted sign announcing “Baby chicks for sell”. Whether Live Wire was hungry, or criti-cal of the chicken farmer’s grammar, I cannot say.

Jennifer met us in the park-ing lot, and led us inside the re-ceiving area, where dozens of baby birds, squirrels, possums and other critters were await-ing lunch, medicine, water or attention.

Sadie the Possum lay qui-etly in her kennel; a popular resident of Possumwood, Sa-die participated in dozens of school programs and helped changed hundreds opinions about possums. Sadie was sick that day, and actually passed away a few days later.

Jennifer answered a dozen questions as she led us past what Live Wire likely thought was a heavenly buffet of blue jays, pigeons, mockingbirds, squirrels and rabbits to a me-dium-sized dog crate used as a holding pen. Live Wire had to stay in there to await her doctor’s visit (and later that day, lunch).

Although Jennifer brought gloves, a towel and some other equipment, I waved her away and reached into Live Wire’s cage. The hawk looked at me and made her greeting noise, then hopped onto my fingers. I carefully held her wings down and placed her in the dog ken-nel, where she immediately jumped on top of a perch and began bobbing.

Cathy Burns is Toni O’Neil’s right hand at Possumwood; the Texas native lives near Rich-lands with her Marine hus-band, and more or less fell into animal rehabilitation. She isn’t one of those folks who end up worshipping the animals they are supposed to care for. She eats venison, a habit which she said, “horrifies some people.

“Man is part of nature,” she said simply. “God made it that way.”

Her original plans were to return home on her husband’s retirement and go to work for a zoo.

“Instead,” she said, “it seems like I am supposed to be here.”

Miss Cathy explained to me about how many animals are lost because well-meaning folks try to help, but don’t call a professional until it’s too late. She chided me—politely but properly and deservedly—for not having moved a bit faster on Live Wire.

“We know we can’t save every one,” she told me. “We try—sometimes we try too hard—but we do what we can.”

Miss Cathy has her favor-ites—Sadie the sick possum, a young buzzard who barks and follows her, and a Canada goose that is so friendly, she

feels sure the bird was raised by humans until he became too big to handle.

“People don’t realize they aren’t domestic animals—these are wild animals, not pets,” she said. “You can’t change that, and expect the animal to thrive.”

After a leisurely tour of the site, Cathy was called back in to check on Sadie. I asked Jennifer for a chance to say goodbye to Live Wire, and with a sweet, small smile, she told me of course.

As I approached the cage, I whistled a little to let her know I was coming. Live Wire responded, clacking her beak and peeping. When I opened her cage, she bobbed her head, then cocked her head to one side as if to see if I were hiding lunch. Instead, I just rubbed between her eyes, very gently, and whistled again before shutting the gate and walking out, reminding myself of the two other broadwing hawks at Possumwood, both of which are males.

If she approves of one of them, they could produce a few clutches of chicks that will then help the species re-populate.

Shoot, maybe even some of the children who stopped by my office to see Live Wire can see the migrating flock of spin-ning broadwings some creative thinker called a kettle.

I tried to be happy about finally getting Live Wire where she could get the help and care of professionals, as well as possibly being able to someday be released. I remarked to Jen-nifer how that even though I would not have done so, I was tempted to never say a word about Live Wire, but rather to domesticate her (in total viola-tion of about a dozen laws). She nodded.

“It’s easy to fall in love with them, isn’t it?” she said.

All too easy, I agreed, but some loves are just never meant to be.

Weaver with the injured hawk, Live Wire

N.C. ‘State of the Year’ for economic development efforts

Southern Business & Development, a leading publication covering and promoting economic development in the American South, announced that North Carolina has been named the “2012 State of the Year.” North Carolina is being honored as State of the Year based on its performance in 2011. North Carolina also received this accolade in 2005 and 2006.

“This recognition is further proof that North Carolina is a great place to start or grow a business,” said Gov. Bev Perdue. “Our investments in education, highly skilled workforce, and low cost of doing business are major reasons that people and businesses thrive in North Carolina.”

Southern Business & Development joins the list of publica-tions that have recently recognized the state’s successful busi-ness recruitment efforts. CNBC,Forbes, Site Selection and Chief Executive have all ranked North Carolina as one of the best states to do business.

Since 2009, companies have pledged to create more than 100,000 jobs and make capital investments of more than $23 bil-lion in North Carolina communities.

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mammals. Broadwings tend to target slightly larger game than the diminutive kestrels, but both species can kill birds as large as pigeons. Broad-wings will live in colonial groups called kettles during times of mating and migra-tion. The kettle is so named because the flying group looks like water boiling in a pot.

Like many raptors, broad-wings are prone to being in-jured while pursuing prey. Se-vere head injuries and broken or cracked wings can result when birds fly into cars while hunting mice and birds on roadsides. Sasser and Odham thought Live Wire was possibly chasing another bird when she crashed into the utility line.

“When we got to her,” Sasser said, “we didn’t think she could survive.”

The bird was obviously distressed, and one eye was swollen. Her feathers were also in disarray. She held her mouth open, but seemed strong enough to flap her wings and try to fly, but she never quite held her balance.

The men offered her a little water, and began trying to find help.

“I got on my cell phone and started finding numbers,” Sasser said. “I called the wild-life people, anybody I could figure, but nobody could really help me. That’s when I called The News Reporter. I figured if anybody would know, the newspaper would.”

Newspaper circulation clerk Barbara Milligan transferred the call to staff writer and col-umnist Jefferson Weaver. An avid outdoorsman, Weaver is often contacted by people with questions about wild animals.

“I have never dealt with a hawk before,” he said. “I was worried from the start, since raptors can have severe inju-ries that the average person — me included — can’t detect. I’m not a certified rehabilitator, so I immediately called some of my friends with the Wildlife Re-sources Commission for help.”

The WRC officers and ani-mal rehabber Tommy Raines

of Fayetteville helped Weaver finally make contact with Pos-sumwood Acres in Hubert. The facility is home to a number of injured raptors, including buzzards, hawks, kestrels, and a variety of owls. They also care for songbirds, squirrels, rabbits, possums and other wild animals.

Since any kind of raptor is a protected species, Weaver said, he kept in contact with Wildlife officers, as well as Toni O’Neil and Cathy Burns of Pos-sumwood.

“We didn’t want her to be hurt any worse, especially be-cause of something that could be avoided,” he said. “I wasn’t really excited at the idea of go-ing to jail over a bird, either.”

“It took a few days to get things lined up so I could take her to Hubert,” Weaver said. “During that time, we fed her chicks from Gurganious Mill-ing, and feeder mice a friend picked up in Wilmington.”

Live Wire was turned over to Possumwood July 31. A pre-liminary exam shows her to be in good health, but due to the eye injury, she may not be able to be released.

Cathy Burns of Possum-wood Acres said that Live Wire will be cared for by the staff until she can be moved to a “re-flighting” cage, a kind of physical therapy station for birds. If Live Wire can pass “Mouse Academy,” which in-volves evaluating a bird’s abil-ity to hunt, she will be released into the wild. If she can’t be turned loose, Burns said, Live Wire will become a permanent resident of Possumwood. The facility already has several broadwings.

“Our goal is to get every ani-mal we can back into nature,” she said. “Those that can’t become part of the education programs.”

At last check, Live Wire was progressing with her therapy, but her release date — if there is one — hadn’t been set. She eats several mice per day, and is very vocal, volunteers at the center reported.

Sasser said Wednesday that

the men just wanted to do the right thing, but didn’t know what to do or who to call.

“It’s too bad there aren’t more people out there who do this type of thing,” he said. “I wish we had someone right here in our area that we could call and they could respond. This is a special bird; you don’t see that many hawks around, not like you used to. We need to take care of them if we can.”

Even before they called the newspaper, Sasser and Odham had the hawk named.

“We called her Live Wire,” Odom laughed. “It seems to fit, considering how she got hurt.”

For more about Possumwood Acres, see today’s Living Page and People, Places and Things column in the editorial section.

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The 5,100-square-foot addi-tion to the Columbus County Department of Aging Build-ing is in the final stages of construction and a dedica-tion ceremony is scheduled for Thursday, Aug. 23 at 10.30 a.m.

Congressman Mike Mc-Intyre will deliver the dedica-tory address at the ceremony to which all residents of the county are invited.

The new structure, con-nected to the present build-ing by a covered walkway, contains 16 offices for In-Home Services workers and a 2,000-square-foot exercise room as well as a dressing room for senior citizens us-ing the exercise equipment.

Department of Aging Director Ed Worley said Wednesday that the only work remaining before the final inspection is the instal-lation of telephones and final placement of the 28 exercise machines that are now stored in the exercise room.

Landscaping of the site was scheduled to begin this week but was delayed be-cause of rainy weather.

“My staff is excited about the new building,” Worley said.

He complimented the contractor, Nye Construc-tion of Fairmont, and Tony Soles, director of the Public Buildings Department of the county, who oversaw the construction project.

“He did an outstanding job,” Worley said.

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ing was Armond Carter of Whiteville.

The new building’s offices and exercise room will free space in the present De-partment of Aging building where some workers have desks in hallways and cor-ners of meeting rooms.

The new building was made possible by a $450,000 federal grant that Congress-man McIntyre helped obtain.

Worley and Jean Powers, director of the Whiteville Senior Citizens Center, are currently seeking county residents at least 100 years old and physically able to take part in the dedication ceremony, including the cut-ting of the ribbon.

County’s Senior Centeraddition nearing completion

JDRF event for grandparentsEveryone who lives with

Type I diabetes in the fam-ily knows that this disease impacts the dynamics of the entire family, from meals and activities to emotions and sleep deprivation.

The journey of a family adjusting to the diabetic life is fluid and ever-changing. It can be complicating, over-whelming and frightening. Every member of every fam-ily is affected in a unique and special way.

“We at Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Coast-al Carolina Branch would like to address the needs and concerns of grandparents with a special forum designed especially for them,” said Anna Maynard, a JDRF board member. “The Coastal Caro-lina Branch encompasses nine counties — New Hanover, Brunswick, Pender, Onslow, Duplin, Columbus, Bladen, Robeson and Sampson. If you are a grandparent of a child with Type I diabetes, are the parent of an adult Type I, or

are a grandparent living with this disease, this event is for you.”

This event will be held on Grandparent’s Day, Sunday, Sept. 9 at Cafe Johnnie, at the Cameron Art Museum from 6-8:30 p.m. A light dinner will be served. For more informa-tion or to RSVP for this event contact the JDRF office at 509-9899 or email Anna Maynard at [email protected].

Maynard said diabetes medical specialists, includ-ing an insulin pump educa-tor, a family therapist, and a nutritionist will be available to inform, guide and educate grandparents on the dynamics of handling Type I diabetes and in helping their family successfully live with this dis-ease.

“We will also have an up-date on the latest cure, preven-tion and treatment research conducted by JDRF research-ers,” Maynard said. “Ques-tions about the environmental and genetic links to Type I will be discussed.”

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Stallions, Gators set forannual clash at SCHS

Pack to take on Bulldog powerhousein big non-conference football clash

West Columbus to open 2012 schedulewith home game against Green Sea-Floyds

Clinton edges Pack 1-0in soccer season opener;rematch set for tonight

Whiteville High’s Olivia Butler (above) and West Columbus High’s Emma Burroughs compete in the No. 1 singles match in Monday’s high school season tennis opener at the West Columbus courts. Whiteville won the match 9-0. Whiteville is scheduled to travel to Laurinburg today to meet Scotland County in a 4 p.m. match, and West Col-lumbus will play at West Bladen today at 4.

Whiteville High soccer player Tanner Morningstar battles a Clinton player for position as they pursue the ball in Monday’s season-opening soccer match at Clinton. Clin-ton took a 1-0 win with the lone goal coming on a penalty kick. The two squads will clash again tonight at 6:30 at the Whiteville field.

Lady Pack tops WCHS in tennis opener

Whiteville’s Akil Greene advances the ball in Monday’s non-conference soccer match at Clinton.

CLINTON - The host Clin-ton Dark Horses, who return 15 players from last year’s team that posted a 21-4 record and was ranked fifth among state 2A teams, pulled out a 1-0 victo-ry over the Whiteville Wolfpack Monday in the season-opening boys soccer match for both squads.

Clinton got the game’s only goal on a penalty kick.

Coach Ronnie Todd’s Wolf-pack will get a rematch with the Clinton team tonight at 6:30 when it is scheduled to play host to the Dark Horses.

The junior varsity match

will begin at 5 p.m.Todd’s Wolfpack returns

with most of its players from last season when it finished fourth in the Waccamaw 2A-3A Conference.

The Wolfpack will have three road gmes next week - East Columbus on Monday, Fayetteville Jack Britt on Tuesday and Richmond Coun-ty on Saturday.

The only goal of the matchcame on a penalty kick by Clinton.

On Aug, 28, 1992, the brand new football pro-grams of East Columbus and South Columbus high schools met in the season opener on the ECHS field at Lake Waccamaw.

South Columbus had just been formed by the consolidation of Tabor City, Williams Township and Nakina high schools, and East Columbus was formed by the consolidation of Hallsboro and Acme-Delco high schools.

Coach Frank Ciamillo’s Stallions ran to a 28-0 halftime lead and came away with a 35-0 victory. South Columbus tailback Marcus Bel-lamy provided much of the spark for his team as he rushed for 206 yards and two touchdowns.

The game drew more than 3,000 spectators.The two teams met later in the season at

South Columbus in a Southern 1A-2A Confer-ence game with the Stallions emerging with a 12-0 win over Coach Willis Council’s Gators.

The two teams will clash for the 22nd time Friday night at 7:30 and East Columbus will still be seeking its first win over the Stallion team. The Stallions have won the majority of the past 21 games by lop-sided scores.

South Columbus Head Coach Jake Fon-vielle said that while the Stallions have been able to dominate the series over the past two decades, the Stallions have never taken the Gators lightly.

Fonvielle was a four-year football standout for South Columbus before graduating in 1997, said that no matter what circumstances, “You never let your guard down against the Gators.

“We take a lot of pride in the long winning streak, but we have always felt that East Colum-bus is a team that you really have to be ready to play,” Fonvielle said.

“They have always had a lot of good athletes and usually have a lot of size in the line.”

South Columbus, coming off a 10-4 season in which it advanced to the Eastern N.C. 2A finals, will again be the favorite Friday night as it returns with quarterback/safety Pharoah McKever, and backs Dashaun Daniels and Reg-gie Frink.

The Stallions had good outings in pre-season scrimmages last week with North Myrtle Beach, S.C., and Jacksonville.

Coach Toby Kasell is in his third season at ECHS head coach. The Gators had limited pre-season scrimmage time as they had to cancel a scrimmage with Pender when senior twins Ricky and Ronald Ratliff were involved in an auto accident while en route to the school. Ronald sustained a hip injury that left him hospitalized.

The Gators were able to compete in last Friday’s Buddy Burney Memorial Jamboree at Elizabethtown.

East Columbus returns with a strong nucle-us from last year’s 4-7 team, including quarter-back Ricky Ratliff, running back Nick McClure, flanker Derreck Young and linebacker Henry Baldwin.

“We know what kind of team we’re going against Friday,” Kasell said. “It’s a game that will show us how we really stand at this point.”

South Columbus defeated the Gators 20-6 in last season’s game, and the Stallions rolled to a 38-6 win in 2010.

The South Columbus-East Columbus junior varsity game will be played tonight at 6:30 at East Columbus.

CERRO GORDO - The Whiteville High School girls tennis team of new head coach Ser-ena Smith opened its 2012 tennis schedule with a 9-0 victory Monday over host West Columbus.

The Lady Wolfpack is scheduled to play at Scotland County today at 4 p.m.

Whiteville 9, West Columbus 0Singles: Olivia Butler def, Emma Burroughs, 6-1, 6-0;

Carly High def. Logan Elkins, 6-0, 6-0; Madison Hege def. Alexus McKeithan, 6-3, 6-0; Kianna Washington def. Brittini Price, 6-1, 6-2; Margaret High def. Charlotte Rockwell, 8-0; Meredith Thompson def. Brittany Coleman, 8-0. Exhibition: Ashlyn Cox def. Aeisha McClelland, 8-0.

Doubles: Butler-C. High def. Burroughs-Elkins, 8-1; Hege-Washington def. McKeithan-Price, 8-2; M. High-Thompson def. Rockwell-Coleman, 8-0.

South Columbus 32, East Columbus 14Wallace-Rose Hill 24, Whiteville 15West Columbus 16, Green Sea-Floyds 14West Craven 26, South Brunswick 20North Brunswick 28, Pender 16Southwest Onslow 24, East Bladen 20

West Bladen 34, Red Springs 27St. Pauls 23, Gray’s Creek 21Hoggard 23, West Brunswick 14Fairmont 34, Union 12Western Harnett 30, South Robeson 12

Biser’s football predictions

Coach Luke Little will make his debut as head coach of the Whiteville Wolfpack Friday night when it takes on the Wallace-Rose Hill Bulldogs of Wallace. Gametime is 7:30 p.m.

Coach Joey Price’s Wallace-Rose Hill team won the state 1A championship in 2009 and 2010 and was knocked out of the state 1AA playoffs in a 14-13 loss to Ayden-Grifton in the Eastern N.C. finals.

In three seasons as Bulldog head coach, Price has a combined record of 43-4. Prior to becom-ing head coach at Wallace-Rose Hill, he had a 12-year season record of 131-27 as head coach at South Columbus.

Wallace-Rose Hill opened last season with a 46-3 victory over Whiteville.

Friday’s game will turn into a “family feud” of sorts as Coach Little is the brother-in-law of Wallace-Rose Hill assistant coach Jarrett “J.P.” Price, who is the son of Joey Price.

“It makes things a little more interesting,” said Little, who will also go against a West Co-lumbus team coached by his father Mark Little next Friday. “I’d rather play these two games early instead of later on in the season.”

Price said that this year’s WRH team lacks the depth and experience of the last three years,

but that it has given a solid effort in pre-season play.

“We’re pretty young, but the kids have been giving us everything they’ve got,” he said.

The Bulldogs outpointed Wilmington Ashley 20-13 in last Friday’s BB&T Jamboree.

There has been a lot of excitement and an-ticipation in the Whiteville camp as Little has made some changes that seem to be utilizing the best attributes of team personnel.

The Wolfpack played Wilmington Hoggard to a 0-0 deadlock in its Jamboree scrimmage last week.

The size and play of the offensive line has been the biggest plus for the Wolfpack in pre-season play and Fuquon Thompson has moved into the quarterback spot after starting at the running back slot the past two seasons.

Robert Smith, who had some strong running performances last season, and Thompson are ex-pected to be leaders in the defensive secondary.

The Whiteville vs. Wallace-Rose Hill junior varsity game will be played tonight at 6:30 at Legion Stadium.

A complete list of fall sports schedules can be found at Sports of all Sorts at Whiteville.com.

The West Columbus Vikings will be out to gain a win for new head coach Mark Little Friday night when they play host to the Green Sea-Floyds Trojans of South Carolina.

Kickoff is set for 7:30 p.m.Friday’s game will be the

Vikings’ only home game until Sept. 21 as all of the next four WCHS games are scheduled to be on the road.

Little served as head coach at Whiteville High School from 2002 until 2007, taking them to the state 2A playoffs every year and winning the 2006 Wac-camaw Conference champion-ship. His six-year coaching record at WHS stood at 47-26.

Little has spent the last four years at West Stanly High, where had previously served before coming to Whiteville.

Green Sea-Floyds has de-feated the Vikings in each of the games they have played the last three seasons, including a 12-6 decision last year.

Little feels that his Vikings and Green Sea-Floyds are much the same.

“Both of us are kind of short in numbers, size and experi-ence,” Little said. “Hopefully we can give a good showing tonight and gain a little confi-dence boost.

“Our players have been working really hard and they

are ready to get the season going.”

Little said his team went against some good competition in pre-season scrimmages with Lake View, S.C., West Bladen and East Bladen.

“We looked good in some areas and not too good in oth-ers,” he said.

Quarterback Harvey Lesane and back Savon Dawson are among the leading returnees for this year’s WCHS squad.

West Columbus had a 2-10 record last season and has not posted a winning record since 2005.

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The Whiteville Department of Parks and Recreation is mak-ing the following announcements:

-- The Whiteville 2012 Punt, Pass & Kick competition will be held on Saturday, Aug. 25, at Nolan Park. The competition is for youngsters of ages 6-15. Registration will begin at 9 a.m., with competition starting at 10 a.m.

-- Sign-ups for participation in the Whiteville Youth Football is underway and will run through Friday, Aug. 17. The league is open to youngsters of ages 5-12. Sign-ups can be made at Whiteville City Hall from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Fee for flag league players is $15 for city residents and $25 for non-city residents, and fee for tackle league is 23.50 for city residents and $33.50 for non-city residents (price includes mandatory insurance fee). Practices are scheduled to begin on Sept. 12. Sign-ups are also under way for football cheerleading.

-- Adult league softball meetings will be held Aug. 13 (men) and Aug. 14 (women) at 6 p.m., at the Whiteville Recreation Center.

For more information, call 642-9052.

Whiteville Rec Deparmentpreparing for fall activities

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Tabor City Baptist 28Chadbourn Church of God Prophecy 8

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Columbus Church Softball League

A county-wide fall softball league for girls of ages 5-15 is being formed.

The league will consist of several age divisions.

Sign-ups can be made by contacting directors of the following league areas:

Central Columbus – Doug Hayes 625-7771.

South Columbus – Melissa Sykes, 625-9491

East Columbus – Stuart Carroll - 770-0499.

Deadline for sign-ups is Friday, Aug. 24. Registration fee is $30 per player.

Games will begin on Satur-day, Sept. 8. Games will run for at least four Saturdays. Each team will play two games each Saturday.

Fall softballleague setssign-ups

ELIZABETHTOWN - The host East Bladen Lady Eagle volleyball team rallied from a 2-1 deficit to take a come-back victory over the East Columbus Lady Gators in the season-opening match for both squads Tuesday.

East Bladen took the match by scores of 25-13, 17-25, 21-25, 25-23, and 15-13.

Coach Karlyn Stephens’ East Columbus team will have its next match Monday when it is scheduled to play host to Whiteville at 4:30 p.m.

The Lady Gators will travel to play North Brunswick next Wednesday at 4:30.

State champs honoredJustin White (right), a senior member of the 2012 Whiteville High School state 2A championship baseball team, is presented a proclamation plaque by Whiteville Board of Education Chairman Dr. James Dimuzio at Tuesday night’s school board meeting. Also pictured is WHS Head Baseball Coach Brett Harwood. Players and coaches of the championship teams were recognzied and presented with special plaques. The Wolfpack defeated Randleman in the best-of-three state championship series for its first state baseball title since 2001. Whiteville closed the season with a 16-game winning streak and a 26-5 season record. Other members of the Wolfpack squad are Hunter Smith, Hyland Tyler, Zach Brown, Tyquan McDonald, Jacob Long, Nathan Hood, Ben Connor, Turner Brown, Bronson Best, Trevor Sellers, Austin Reaves, Bronson Best, Gerardo Maggioli and Ryan Dudney. Todd Burney and Bunky Williams were assistant coaches.

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Ten years ago on the NASCAR circuit, rarely a day or a press conference went by without a discussion of safety.

Those times were as troubling for NASCAR as they come. There had been three on-track deaths the year before -- Adam Petty and Kenny Irwin Jr., eight weeks apart, both in Turn Three at New Hampshire, then Tony Roper at Texas.

Then in the season-opening Daytona 500 in 2001, the sport’s most popular driver, Dale Earnhardt, died on the last lap of the race. Just when it looked like the sport might be able to put its tragedies behind for a bit, Blaise Alexan-der was killed in a crash during an ARCA race at Charlotte.

NASCAR itself, as well as its drivers and teams, began to react in 2000, looking to make the cars and tracks safer, but the initiative really ramped up after Earnhardt’s death.

Ten years later there have been no deaths on the track, and even serious injuries have become rare, thanks to in-novations like SAFER barriers, commonly known as soft walls, HANS head-and-neck restraints and the safety fea-tures incorporated into the Car of Tomorrow. Safety issues are rarely discussed in press conferences, and drivers seem more at ease these days.

Jeff Burton, who stepped up as a garage leader espe-cially on matters of safety during the days after Earnhardt’s death, said the mindset in NASCAR is somewhat different today. But he said that drivers, by their nature, tend to think more about how to make their cars faster than they do about what might happen to them in a crash.

“I think it’s important to know that I don’t really know that we really ever felt unsafe,” Burton said. “I think people don’t understand that we’ve had huge safety improve-ments, but in many cases we didn’t really know that we weren’t doing as well as we were doing it.”

Some have said that periods of aggressive racing and the “Boys, have at it” stance by NASCAR come about be-cause of the safety changes made since the deaths of 2000 and 2001, the thinking being that drivers make risky moves because they don’t believe they’ll get hurt in doing so.

Burton said that’s just not so.“I find that kind of ridiculous, to be quite honest,” he said.

“I don’t believe people drive in race cars worried about get-ting hurt.”

That school of thought was evident in Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s com-ments last week at Watkins Glen.

“The cars are safe, and we are not in physical danger of injury,” he said. “That kind of stuff may loom large in stick and ball sports, but in our sport, really the only thing you’ve got to worry about is burning yourself out mentally. If you just prepare yourself for that, you can handle that.

“It’s a little bit different since we are driving race cars, and we’ve

got all the safety equipment that we have to keep us in one piece.”Burton said that drivers try to maintain an attitude like Earn-

hardt Jr.’s.“Race car drivers have a way of sliding that stuff in the back of

their head,” he said. “I really can’t say that I have a different comfort level. I do know I have a comfort level that everybody is way more proactive than we used to be. And I knew we weren’t proactive prior to [Earnhardt’s death].”

Burton also pointed out that while there have been great strides on the safety front, there are still many places on race tracks where drivers could get hurt.

“We still have concrete walls,” he said. “We still have a lot of plac-es on the race track that don’t have SAFER barriers. We’ve seen drivers hit in openings in walls and stuff like that even after all of these things we’ve learned.

“That gets a little frustrating from time to time. You shouldn’t have to re-learn things. You learn it, you ought to apply it. And sometimes we’ve haven’t done as good a job as we’ve needed to do in those areas.”

Burton said that even though there haven’t been any fatal acci-dents, tracks still need to address their safety issues. Watkins Glen made some changes since last year’s race there.

“I think the main initiative now is to continue looking at our race tracks and continue to make improvements by having SAFER barriers, by having the openings in the wall constructed better,” he said. “There are still some infield walls that drivers can get into and get into an awful position by hitting the wrong way.

“We’ve got to go and fix all those problems that could be out there. You can’t halfway do anything. When the race tracks made the huge investments they made to put the softer walls in, that was awesome. That was great. Now they’ve got to go make the other investment to put it everywhere.

“You think about Daytona, for example. More wrecks happen on the straights than they do in the corners. We need softer walls everywhere. We need to look at openings and the grass. Grass at race tracks is ridiculous. They should never have grass on race tracks.

“All those things need to be looked at and taken care of.”He said the same is true of the cars.“The way to do that is to keep looking and not be afraid to look

and not to be afraid of what the answer is going to be,” he said. “And NASCAR has done a great job of that. They went from very reactionary to very proactive. They’ve stepped it up.”

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forth in Deed Book 349, Page 710 and recorded on 06/24/1983, Columbus County Records.The source deed as stated above is the last record of vesting filed for this property, there have been no vesting changes since the date of the above referenced source.Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record.Said property is commonly known as 304 Loop Road, Bolton, NC 28423.Third party purchasers must pay the excise tax, and the court costs of For-ty-Five Cents (45¢) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) pursuant to NCGS 7A-308(a)(1). A cash deposit (no per-sonal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing.Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no repre-sentations of 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. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, spe-cial assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the cur-rent owner(s) of the property is/are Alfred Smith and wife, Pamela Smith.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 posses-sion by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agree-ment entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, termi-nate the rental agreement upon 10 days’ written notice to the landlord. The notice shall also state that upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.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 bank-ruptcy petition prior to the confirma-tion 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 challenge 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.Trustee Services of Carolina, LLCSubstitute TrusteeBrock & Scott, PLLCAttorneys for Trustee Services of Car-olina, LLC5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200Wilmington, NC 28403PHONE: (910) 392-4988FAX: (910) 392-8587File No.: 11-26388-FC01August 16, 23, 2012

Notice of Sale

IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICEOF NORTH CAROLINASUPERIOR COURT DIVISIONCOLUMBUS COUNTY12SP183IN THE MATTER OF THE FORE-CLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST

EXECUTED BY JAMES W. CHEST-NUT DATED JULY 24, 2009 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 966 AT PAGE 35 IN THE COLUMBUS COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAR-OLINAUnder 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 per-form 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 public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said coun-ty at 12:00 PM on August 23, 2012 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, in Colum-bus County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows:Lying and being in the Town of Bruns-wick, Whiteville Township, Columbus County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as fol-lows:Being known, numbered and desig-nated as all of Lot Five (5), Section (I) of Cherry Acres Subdivision as recorded in Plat Book 13, Page 122, Columbus County Registry.Being a part of the same prem-ises conveyed to S.P. Stanley and wife, Juanita Stanley, by Edward C. Darden, et al, by deed dated June 21,1972, and recorded in Deed Book 262, Page 577, Columbus County Registry.Together with a permanent right of way and non-exclusive easement for ingress and egress over, across, upon and under Davis Street as delin-eated on plat of Cherry Acres Subdi-vision, Section One, as recorded in Plat Book 13, Page 122, Columbus County Registry.This being the same property con-veyed in that certain Trustee’s Deed in favor of JP Morgan Chase Bank (f/k/a The Chase Manhattan Bank), as trustee for the holders of the Mort-gage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2000-7, dated August 4,2008, and recorded in Book 937, Page 425, Columbus County Registry.Being the same property conveyed to Custom Properties of Whiteville, LLC, by Deed recorded September 19, 2008, in Book 941, Page 907, Columbus County Registry.And Being more commonly known as: 93 Davis Dr, Whiteville, NC 28472The record owner(s) of the proper-ty, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are James W. Chestnut.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 expiration of the statutory upset peri-od, all remaining amounts are IMME-DIATELY 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.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 2, 2012.12-030072Jacqueline Summer HuntAttorney for the Substitute Trustee10130 Perimeter Parkway, Suite 400Charlotte, NC 28216704-333-8107http://shapiroattorneys.com/nc/August 9, 16, 2012

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The 2011 Annual report of the Good Shepherd Fund, Inc. is available for inspection by any interested person within 180 days after this publication.This report may be viewed at the office of Thompson, Price, Scott, Adams & Co., PA at 1626 S. Madison Street, Whiteville, NC during normal office hours.August 16, 2012

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Notice is hereby given that the City of Whiteville City Council will conduct a public hearing on Tuesday, August 28, 2012, at 6:30 p.m., in the White-ville City Hall, 317 Madison Street, Whiteville, North Carolina. The pur-pose of the public hearing is to review the budget and activities that have been accomplished through the city’s FY09 CDBG Community Revitaliza-tion Program (Little Street Improve-ments Program). The program activ-ities are nearing completion and the city is in the process of closing out the program.All interested citizens are encouraged to attend this public hearing, and all comments are welcome. Anyone wishing to submit written comments should do so by mailing them direct-ly to Mr. Larry Faison, City Manager, PO Box 607, Whiteville, North Caro-lina 28472, no later than 4:00 p.m., Friday, August 24, 2012.This information is available in Span-ish or any other language upon request. Please contact Mr. Larry Fai-son, City Manager, at 910/642-8046, or at 317 Madison Street, Whiteville, NC, for accommodations for this request.Esta información está disponible en español o en cualquier otro idioma bajo petición. Por favor, póngase en contacto con Larry Faison al 910/642-8046 o en 317 South Madison Street, Whiteville, NC 28472, de alojamiento para esta solicitud.August 16, 2012

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Notice of Foreclosure Sale

12 SP 120NORTH CAROLINA, COLUMBUS COUNTYUnder and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Pamela Smith and Alfred Smith to Yvette Binn-Graham, Esq., Trustee(s), which was dated June 21, 2004 and recorded on August 2, 2004 in Book 787 at Page 962, Columbus County Registry, North Carolina.Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Sub-stitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on August 29, 2012 at 11:30AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Colum-bus County, North Carolina, to wit:The following described real property situate in the town of Bolton, county of Columbus and state of North Car-olina, to wit:A certain tract or parcel of land lying and being in Bolton Township, Colum-bus County, North Carolina, said tract being bounded by lands of Ezell Smith on the North, by lands of Lillie Smith on the East, by lands of Feder-al Paper Company on the South, and by the Western half of an easement in favor of Federal Paper Company on the West, said tract being more par-ticularly described as follows:To arrive at the beginning point begin at an iron located the center line of North Carolina State Road No. 1804, which iron is located over a culvert running under North Carolina State Road No. 1804 and which iron is fur-ther located 0.3 miles Northeast with the run of the center line of North Car-olina State Roads No. 1804 from the intersection of North Carolina State Roads No. 1800(?) and 1804, from said iron proceed North 71 degrees 09 minutes east 32.98 feet to anoth-er iron located in the center line of North Carolina State Road No. 1804. Thence leaving said road proceed with the center line of an easement in favor of Federal Paper Company (see Book 239, Page 682, Columbus County Registry) South 6 degrees 16 minutes West 320 feet to an iron in the center line of the aforesaid easement, a common corner with lands of Ezell Smith, this being the point and place of beginning. From said beginning point proceed South 5 degrees 55 minutes west 293 feet to an iron in the center line of the aforesaid easement.Thence proceed to and with a ditch North 73 degrees 01 minutes 30 sec-onds East 742.10 feet to a point locat-ed at the intersection of two ditches, thence proceed with the second ditch North 21 degrees 52 minutes West 260.88 feet to an iron in the center of said ditch. Thence proceed South 73 degrees 58 minutes West 605.94 feet to an iron, this being the point and place of beginning. All bearings Magnetic North 1977.By fee simple deed from Joel Smith and wife, Mary Smith, and Ezell Smith and wife, Margaret, clarence Smith and wife, Annie Bell Smith, Ernest Smith, Divorced, Theodore Smith and wife, Carolyn Smith, Patricia S. Best and husband, Fulton Best, Shirley S. Geiger and husband Otis Geiger, Alfred Ronald Smith and wife, Pamela Smith, Lillie Mae Smith, widow as set

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Notice of SaleIN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUS-TICEOF NORTH CAROLINASUPERIOR COURT DIVISIONCOLUMBUS COUNTY12SP137IN THE MATTER OF THE FORE-CLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY CRANCE WATSON DATED FEBRUARY 14, 2006 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 843 AT PAGE 419 IN THE COLUMBUS COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAR-OLINAUnder 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 per-form 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 public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said coun-ty at 12:00 PM on August 23, 2012 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, in Colum-bus County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows:BEGINNING at a point where the cen-terline of State Road No. 1117 (also known as the Mooney Road) which leads from Sidney to Mollie is inter-sected by the centerline of a ditch, said ditch being along the Eastern property line of the original tract of which this is a part, said point being also the Northeasternmost corner of the original tract of which this is a part, and running thence from said point and with the centerline of aforesaid ditch and property line said line being also the Western line of that certain tract conveyed to Willard Simmons as recorded in Book 254, Page 429, Columbus County Registry, South 20 degrees 35 minutes West 347.56 feet to a point in said ditch; thence a new line North 69 degrees 34 minutes West 294.35 feet to a new iron pipe in a field; thence a new line North 20 degrees 26 minutes East 400.0 feet to a new iron spike in the center-line of aforesaid State Road #1117; thence with the centerline of State Road No. 1117 South 59 degrees 30 minutes East 300.0 feet to THE POINT AND PLACE OF BEGINNING and containing 2.32 acres, more or less, excluding State Road No. 1117 right-of-way; and being a portion of that certain tract of land conveyed by

porated herein by reference for further particularity of description.And Being more commonly known as: 964 Dolph Lewis Rd, Chadbourn, NC 28431The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Reg-ister of Deeds, is/are Ricky Edward Atkins and Jeanne Strickland Atkins.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 responsibilities 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 associ-ated with the foreclosure. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever 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 expiration of the statutory upset period, all remain-ing amounts are IMMEDIATELY DUE AND OWING. Failure to remit funds in a timely manner will result in a Dec-laration of Default and any deposit will be frozen pending the outcome of any re-sale.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 purchas-er. Also, if your lease began or was renewed on or after October 1, 2007, be advised that you may terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days writ-ten notice to the landlord. You may be liable for rent due under the agree-ment prorated to the effective date of the termination.The date of this Notice is August 1, 2012.12-029873Jacqueline Summer HuntAttorney for the Substitute Trustee10130 Perimeter Parkway, Suite 400Charlotte, NC 28216(704) 333-8107http://shapiroattorneys.com/nc/ August 9, 16, 2012

Notice of SaleIN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICEOF NORTH CAROLINASUPERIOR COURT DIVISIONCOLUMBUS COUNTY12SP38IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLO-SURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXE-CUTED BY VICKIE S. GORE DUKES AND JUDSON LEON DUKES, JR. DATED AUGUST 29, 2008 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 940 AT PAGE 473 IN THE COLUMBUS COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAR-OLINAUnder 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 per-form the stipulation and agreements therein contained and, pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of

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Notice of SaleIN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUS-TICEOF NORTH CAROLINASUPERIOR COURT DIVISIONCOLUMBUS COUNTY12SP168 IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLO-SURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXE-CUTED BY TATANISHA BEST DATED NOVEMBER 3, 1998 AND RECORD-ED IN BOOK 573 AT PAGE 772 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 per-form 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 public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said county at 2:00 PM on August 22, 2012 the fol-lowing described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, in Columbus Coun-ty, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows:Being all of Lot Number 8 of Bertafield Acres as shown on that plat record-ed in plat book 50, page 28, of the Columbus County Registry. Refer-ence is made to said plat for a more accurate and complete description of the premises described herein.And Being more commonly known as: 230 Crepe Myrtle Lane, White-ville, NC 28472The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Reg-ister of Deeds, is/are Tatanisha Best.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 responsibilities 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

the secured debt, the undersigned substitute trustee will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said coun-ty at 12:00 PM on August 23, 2012 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, in Colum-bus County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows:Beginning at an iron pipe in the north margin of US 74-76 in the Town of Lake Waccamaw, North Carolina, and being in the Southeast corner of prop-erty owned by David Benson and run-ning thence with David Benson’s line North 02 degrees 00 minutes East 150 feet to an iron pipe; thence South 88 degrees 00 minutes East 154 feet to an iron pipe; thence South 02 degrees 00 minutes West 150 feet to an iron pipe in the north margin of US 74-76; thence North 88 degrees 00 minutes West 134 feet along the margin of said highway to the beginning.And Being more commonly known as: 1102 Sam Potts Hwy, Lake Wac-camaw, NC 28450The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Reg-ister of Deeds, is/are Vickie S. Gore Dukes and Lori Lubbs and The Heirs of Judson Leon Dukes, Jr.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 associ-ated with the foreclosure. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid or seven hundred fifty dol-lars ($750), whichever 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 expiration of the statutory upset period, all remain-ing amounts are IMMEDIATELY DUE AND OWING. Failure to remit funds in a timely manner will result in a Dec-laration of Default and any deposit will be frozen pending the outcome of any re-sale.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 purchas-er. Also, if your lease began or was renewed on or after October 1, 2007, be advised that you may terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days writ-ten notice to the landlord. You may be liable for rent due under the agree-ment prorated to the effective date of the termination.The date of this Notice is August 2, 201211-017386Jacqueline Summer HuntAttorney for the Substitute Trustee10130 Perimeter Parkway, Suite 400Charlotte, NC 28216(704) 333-8107http://shapiroattorneys.com/nc/ August 9, 16, 2012

liens and encumbrances, and unpaid taxes and assessments including but not limited to any transfer tax associ-ated with the foreclosure. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever 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 expiration of the statutory upset period, all remain-ing amounts are IMMEDIATELY DUE AND OWING. Failure to remit funds in a timely manner will result in a Dec-laration of Default and any deposit will be frozen pending the outcome of any re-sale.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 purchas-er. Also, if your lease began or was renewed on or after October 1, 2007, be advised that you may terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days writ-ten notice to the landlord. You may be liable for rent due under the agree-ment prorated to the effective date of the termination.The date of this Notice is August 1, 2012.07-93171Jacqueline Summer HuntAttorney for the Substitute Trustee10130 Perimeter Parkway, Suite 400Charlotte, NC 28216(704) 333-8107http://shapiroattorneys.com/nc/August 9, 16, 2012

Notice of SaleIN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICEOF NORTH CAROLINASUPERIOR COURT DIVISIONCOLUMBUS COUNTY12SP170IN THE MATTER OF THE FORE-CLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY RICKY EDWARD ATKINS AND JEANNE STRICKLAND ATKINS DATED JUNE 30, 2000 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 623 AT PAGE 847 IN THE COLUMBUS COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAR-OLINAUnder 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 per-form 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 public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said county at 2:00 PM on August 22, 2012 the fol-lowing described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, in Columbus Coun-ty, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows:Lying in Cerro Gordo Township, Columbus County, North Carolina, containing 1.24 acres, more or less, total (1.10 acres, more or less, after excluding the portion within the right of way of SR 1415), said tract being set forth and delineated upon plat of survey for Ricky E. Atkins and Jeanne Atkins, dated August 6 1999 prepared by Soles & Walker, PA PLS a copy of which plat is attached hereto and incorporated herein for further par-ticularity of description.This conveyance and the above described lands are made subject to the restrictions as set forth on the attached Schedule B which are incor-

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STATE OF NORTH CAROLINACOUNTY OF COLUMBUSIN THE GENERAL COURT JUSTICESuperior Court Division 12 CvS 860JANICE GERRALD FLOYDPlaintiff,vs.ANDRE LEON JACKSONDefendant.TO: Andre Leon Jackson170 Brick City RoadWhiteville, N.C. 28472TAKE NOTICE that a pleading seeking relief against you has been filed in the above entitled action on July 6, 2012. The nature of the relief being sought is as follows: Negligence, motor vehi-cle accident.YOU ARE REQUIRED to make defense to such pleading not later than forty (40) days from the first date of this publication, said first dated being August 9, 2012, and upon your failure to so act, the Petitioner herein will apply to the Court for the relief prayed for.This the 6th day of August, 2012.BENEDICT J. DEL RE’, JR.Attorney for Plaintiff1111 Sabbath Home Rd SWHolden Beach, NC 28462(910)842-5193(910) 842 8545 [email protected] 9, 16, 23, 2012

NOTICE TO CREDITORSHaving qualified as Co-Executor of the Estate of Nathan H McCormick, deceased, late of Columbus Coun-ty, the undersigned hereby notifies all persons having claims against the estate of the said decedent to pres-ent them to the undersigned within (3) months from the date of the first pub-lication, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment.This 26th day of July, 2012.Perry J McCormickCo-Executor of the Estate ofNathan H McCormick895 Love Mill Road Whiteville, NC 28472Harry Lee Co-Executor of the Estate ofNathan H McCormick7160 New Britton Hwy EastWhiteville, NC 28472July 26, Aug. 2, 9, 16, 2012.

NOTICE TO CREDITORSHaving qualified as Executor of the ESTATE OF NATHANIEL BRADLEY of the County of Columbus, State of North Carolina, we, pursuant to N.C.G.S. 28A-14-1, hereby notify all persons, firms and corporations hav-ing claims against the decedent to present them to the undersigned by the 9th day of November, 2012, or this Notice will be pled in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to the Estate will make immediate payment to the undersigned.This the 9th day of August, 2012. James Odell Bradley, EXECUTOR1577 Four Mile RoadConway, SC 29526 DENNIS T. WORLEY, ESQUIRE WRIGHT, WORLEY, POPE, EKSTER & MOSS, PLLCAttorneys at LawPost Office Box 457Tabor City, North Carolina 28463Telephone: (910) 653-2082/3682August 9, 16, 23, 30, 2012

NOTICE TO CREDITORSHaving qualified as Executor of the Estate of Ronnie R Perry, deceased, late of Columbus County, the under-signed hereby notifies all persons having claims against the estate of the said decedent to present them to the undersigned within (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 immedi-ate payment.This 26th day of July, 2012.Charles D. PerryExecutor of the Estate ofRonnie R PerryP.O. Box 1785Gate City Va 24251July 26, Aug. 2, 9, 16, 2012.

NOTICE TO CREDITORSNORTH CAROLINACOLUMBUS COUNTY The undersigned, John Cameron Coburn, having qualified as Execu-tor of the Estate of Jesse Marion Coburn, Sr., deceased, late of Colum-bus County, NC, this is to notify all persons having claims against said Estate to present them to the undersigned Executor on or before November 5, 2012 at Powell & Pow-

ell, Attorneys, PO Box 428, White-ville, NC 28472, or this Notice will be pled in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said Estate will please make immediate payment to the undersigned ExecutorThis the 31st day of July, 2012.John Cameron CoburnExecutor15 Auditorium CircleWrightsville Beach, NC 28480c/o J. Coburn PowellPowell & Powell, AttorneysPO Box 428Whiteville, NC 28472Telephone: (910) 642-2728August 2, 9, 16, 23, 2012

NOTICE TO CREDITORSNORTH CAROLINACOLUMBUS COUNTYThe undersigned, Jimmy Van Nance, having qualified as Administrator of the Estate of Joshua Van Nance, deceased, late of Columbus County, NC, this is to notify all persons having claims against said Estate to present them to the undersigned Administra-tor on or before November 5, 2012 at Powell & Powell, Attorneys, PO Box 428, Whiteville, NC 28472, or this Notice will be pled in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said Estate will please make imme-diate payment to the undersigned Administrator.This the 31st day of July, 2012.Jimmy Van NanceAdministrator184 Barfield LaneChadbourn, NC 28431c/o J. Coburn PowellPowell & Powell, AttorneysPO Box 428Whiteville, NC 28472Telephone: (910) 642-2728August 2, 9, 16, 23, 2012

NOTICE TO CREDITORSSTATE OF NORTH CAROLINACOUNTY OF COLUMBUSThe undersigned, Marguerite Terrell, have qualified as Administratrix of the Estate of Vivian Stephens Carter, late of Columbus County, and this is to notify all persons having claims against said Estate to present them to the undersigned Administratrix on or before November 5, 2012, at Pow-ell & Powell, Attorneys, PO Box 428,

Whiteville, NC 28472, or this notice shall be pled in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said Estate will please make immediate payment to the undersigned Administratrix. This the 31st day of July, 2012.Marguerite TerrellAdministratrix260 Meeker AveNewark, NJ 07112c/o J. Coburn PowellPowell & Powell, AttorneysP.O. Box 428Whiteville, NC 28472Telephone 910-642-2728August 2, 9, 16, 23, 2012

NOTICE TO CREDITORSSTATE OF NORTH CAROLINACOUNTY OF COLUMBUSThe undersigned, Paul B. Wyche, Jr. and William James Wyche, have qual-ified as Co-Executors of the Estate of Paul Byron Wyche, late of Colum-bus County, and this is to notify all persons having claims against said Estate to present them to the under-signed on or before October 29, 2012 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 immediate payment to the undersigned at the following address:This the 26th day of July, 2012.PAUL B. WYCHE, JR., Co-Executor1136 Court DriveCharlotte, NC 28211WILLIAM JAMES WYCHE, Co-Executor301 Water Tank RoadDelco, NC 28436C. Martin Scott IIWilliamson, Walton & Scott, LLPAttorneys at LawP.O. Box 1467Whiteville, NC 28472July 26, Aug. 2, 9, 16, 2012

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2012/2013 for the Riegelwood Sani-tary District has been submitted to the Town Council. A copy is available for public inspection by contacting the office at 655-2523 (leave message for call-back.Notice is hereby given that, a public hearing on the proposed budget, will be heard by the Riegelwood Sani-tary District at the office located in the Rieglewood Shopping Center, at 7 pm on Monday, August 20, 2012. Persons who wishes to be heard on the budget may appear. Written and oral comments may be given at this meeting.Steve Lanier, ChairmanRiegelwood Sanitary DistrictAugust 13,16, 2012

Time Warner CableTime Warner Cable’s agreements with programmers and broadcasters to carry their services and stations rou-tinely expire from time to time. We are usually able to obtain renewals or extensions of such agreements, but in order to comply with applicable regu-lations, we must inform you when an agreement is about to expire. The fol-lowing agreements are due to expire soon, and we may be required to cease carriage of one or more of these services/stations in the near future. Service: BBC America, BBC America HD, Bandamax, Cooking Channel, Cooking Channel HD, Current TV, De Pelicula, De Pelicula Classico, DIY, DIY HD, Encore(East), Encore(West), Encore HD, Encore Action, Encore Love, Encore Mystery, Encore Drama, Encore Westerns, Encore Wam, Food Network, Food Network HD, Gos-pel Music Channel, Great American Country, GSN, Gol TV, Gol TV HD, Music Choice (Channels 900-945), MC On Demand, NHL Network, NHL Network HD, NHL Center Ice, Retro-Plex, Sprout, Starz(East), Starz (West)Starz Cinema, Starz HD, Starz Kids & Family, Starz Kids & Family HD, Starz In Black, Starz Edge, Starz Edge HD, Starz Comedy, Starz Comedy HD, Starz On Demand, truTV, truTV HD, Youtoo.In addition, from time to time we make certain changes in the services that we offer in order to better serve our

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customers. The following changes are planned:On or about August 15th, the follow-ing channel additions are planned as part of the Sports Pass: Pac-12 Net-work Channel 532, Pac-12 Network HD Channel 1532.On or about October 1st, the following channels will launch as part of TWC Sports Pass: TWC SportsNet chan-nel 531, TWC SportsNet HD channel 1531, TWC Deportes channel 545 and 816 and TWC Deportes HD channel 1545 and 1816.

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All God’s creaturesLocal bird brought to rehab center

Muscovy ducks, like this one, like to court visitors to Possumwood. The domestic ducks are often abandoned when their owners discover Muscovies’ tendency to climb, and they end up at Possum-wood, even though they are not wild.

Canada Geese, considered a pest in many plac-es, are common at Possumwood. Mother geese will sometimes abandon goslings when they are learning to swim. Humans with good intentions sometimes catch the lost youngsters and raise them–a violation of federal law.

This hawk sustained a wing injury that kept it from graduating Mouse Academy, where raptors re-learn hunting skills.

Live Wire sustained a serious eye injury that may pre-vent her release back into the wild. Animals hurt too badly to return to nature are put to work in outreach and education programs at Possumwood.

Weaver with Live Wire, so named by her rescuers after she became tangled in an electric line and injured.

Live Wire, an injured broadwing hawk from Western Prong, awaits check-in at Possumwood Acres.

Come through the gate at Pos-sumwood Acres, and you are likely to be accosted by a squir-rel, greeted by geese, and courted by a Muscovy duck.

It’s all in a day’s work at the facility that may look and sound like a zoo, but is far from it.

“Our goal here is to return these animals to the wild, where they belong,” said Cathy Burns, a volunteer at the center.

Live Wire, a broadwinged hawk that was injured near Western Prong, was delivered to Possumwood recently. Birds of prey—called raptors—are com-mon and popular visitors to the rehabilitation facility.

Rehabbing wild animals in North Carolina requires special licensing and certification. To care for raptors, such as hawks, falcons, eagles, owls and buz-zards, additional federal licenses are needed.

“It isn’t something you casu-ally start doing,” Burns said. The founder of Possumwood, Toni O’Neil, teaches wild animal care in the community college system.

The facility concentrates on the majestic birds of prey (and the unlovely, but beloved, buz-zards) but songbirds, waterfowl, rabbits, opossums, and squirrels are also among the residents. Volunteers help feed the injured, lost or orphaned animals.

“Sometimes, we have 200 baby birds in here at a time, and they need to be fed every 20 minutes for the first few days,” said in-tern Jennifer Madden, a UNCW student who worked for Possum-wood this summer. “It gets tough remembering who got what when.”

Most raptors come in to the fa-

cility in circumstances like Live Wire—they are injured by elec-trical wires, or collide with auto-mobiles. Owls and buzzards are among the worst for car crashes. Buzzards are slow to take flight, actually running a few steps before flying, and owls tend to focus on prey animals that often scurry out of the way of oncom-ing traffic at night—only to fly into the side of the oncoming vehicle.

The largest number of patients at Possumwood return to the wild, but some—those that fail to graduate hunting retraining known as “Mouse Academy”—become more or less permanent residents. The educational ambassadors are popular with schoolchildren and visitors to Possumwood.

Sometimes, Burns said, ani-mals who come to the facility are too far gone to be saved. Whether the animal is injured, or is a sick baby that a well-meaning would-be rescuer tried to help, no deaths at Possumwood are taken lightly.

“We do all we can,” she said, “and some might say we do too much sometimes, but we have to try, if there is a chance of some quality of life. After all, we’re stewards of God’s creatures. But this is nature—and nature isn’t always cuddly and cute.”

For more about Possumwood Acres, or to arrange a tour, visit the organization’s Facebook page or website, at possumwoo-dacres.org. The facility operates entirely from donations, and is a 501c3 charity.

Possumwood is located in Hu-bert, between Jacksonville and Swansboro.

This buzzard, a young male, will greet visi-tors by barking.

Possumwood’s most popular patients are raptors, like this barred owl. One of the center’s hawks was severely injured by a BB gun shot, while the owl and other birds of prey are often victims of car crashes.

Late summer means Possumwood Acres volunteers are busy checking in lost or orphaned baby possums, like these.

Baby birds, squirrels, possums and rabbits require specialized feeding regimens.

By JEFFERSON WEAVERStaff Writer

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ReligionForest Lawn Baptist Church of Tabor City is holding a celebrate recovery seminar that will be of-fered every Tuesday night. Din-ner from 6-7 p.m., main meet-ing 7-8 p.m., small groups 8-9 p.m. and Solid Rock Cafe at 9 p.m. The seminar offers help for the following: drug and alco-hol abuse and family support, anger, food addictions, sexual addictions, eating disorders, adult children from dysfunction-al families, physical/emotional/sexual abuse. For more informa-tion call Pastor Jim at 843-503-3699, Lynn Williams at 499-1336 or Timmy Lanier at 625-5239. The church is located at 16025 James B. White Hwy.

The DivorceCare recovery semi-nar and support group meets at Peace Baptist Church, 653 Love Mill Rd., Whiteville, each Monday from 6:30-8:30 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 Bap-tist Church, 653 Love Mill Rd., Whiteville, each Tuesday from 6:30-8:30 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 informa-tion 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 is 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.

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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 Vic-tory services are aired weekly on WMIR 1200 AM in Myrtle Beach, S.C. on Fridays at 4 p.m. with streaming available via the in-ternet. The ministry is located at 626 S. Madison Street. Tracey A. Troy is the pastor. For more in-formation 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.

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.

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How do we maintain the control of a parent and still be a friend our child can confide in? It’s not an easy feat to stay balanced; parents need all the help they can get. Enroll your children in Sunday school, Bible school and youth groups that provide wholesome and exciting activities. Enroll yourself in Bible study and find your strength and wisdom through weekly worship. Share with those who have similar concerns. You can work with your children while serving as an example. Worship this week; tilt the balance in your family’s favor.

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Whiteville Negro/Central HS reunion

The Whiteville Negro/Cen-tral High School class reunion will be held over the Labor Day weekend, beginning Friday, Aug. 31.

The festivities will include a meet and greet Friday, tour of the school grounds and other activities Saturday, banquet at Vineland Station on Saturday evening, and Sunday morning worship service.

For more information call Daniel Piggott at 336-725-9611, Cheryl Jefferson George at 840-5722, Jewel Thompson Register at 770-1895 or Linda McCoy Pittman at 770-36145.

Living Healthy sessions to be held

Are you sick and tired of being sick and tired? Ongo-ing health conditions such as arthritis, high blood pressure, diabetes and heart disease can affect your quality of life. Living Healthy is a free six-week series designed to help you better manage chronic conditions and live a happier, healthier life.

Living Healthy sessions are once a week for six weeks and will be followed by exercise sessions.

The sessions, sponsored by the Columbus County Health Department and other com-munity partners, will be held at the Westside Alumni build-ing, 650 W. Smith Street, Chad-bourn.

For more information or questions call Sarah Gray at 640-6615 ext. 362.

70th year anniversary of Rev. Thomas Spann and the Brooklyn All Stars at Bowers Saturday, Aug. 18

The blockbuster showdown gold cup awards presents the 70th year anniversary of Rev.. Thomas Spann and the Brook-lyn All Stars Saturday, Aug. 18 at Bowers Auditorium, 413 N. Lee Street. Doors open at 6 p.m. and the program begins at 7 p.m.

The program will also fea-ture Robert Blair Original Fantastic Volinaires of De-troit Mich., Debra Barnes and Barnes Sisters of Rocky Mount, The Original Supreme Angels of Milwaukee, Wis. Also appearing will be gospel comedians Lynwood Williams of Tampa, Fla. and Anna Doug-las of Fayetteville, El-Bethel Male Chorus of Whiteville, Lil Ricky and the Mighty Golden Stars of Bennettsville, S.C., Queen of gospel and the Joyfu-laires of Elizabethtown.

For more infor mation call WVOE Radio at 654-5621, WENC Radio at 640-1220, Block-buster at 840-1352, Pastor Rob-ert Williams at 445-1538 or Queen at 499-1237.

Agape COGIC to hold pastor’s anniversary

Agape C.O.G.I.C. will hold its pastor’s Elder Bennie Ben-jamin anniversary Aug. 19 at 4 p.m. The guest speaker will be Superintendent Thomas A. Wiggins. Morning wor-ship is held every Sunday at 11 a.m. and Bible study every Wednesday at 7 p.m.

The church is located at 199 Forest Drive.

Pleasant Union MBC to hold program Sept. 9

Pleasant Union Missionary Baptist Church will hold its “Ladies in red, men in black” program Sunday, Sept. 9 at 3 p.m.

The church is located at 1437 East Arcadia Road, Rie-gelwood.

HHS Class of ’87planning reunion

Hallsboro High School Class of 1987 will be celebrating 25 years on Oct.13 at the N.C. Museum of Forestry.

Alumni are asked to contact Carina Smith Rivenbark at 910-253-4971 for more informa-tion. Deadline for registration forms is Aug. 20.

Whiteville United Methodist“We invite you to worship with us every Sunday”Sunday School 9:00 a.m. Worship Service 10:00 a.m.

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

Mary Robinson of the Prayer Shawl committee gave Rev. Stallsworth and his family, wife Marsha and son Peter, a quilt during a reception for the new pastor.

Fellowship IBC to hold Bible study

Fellowship Independent Baptist Church will hold its Bible study every Thursday at 7:30 p.m.

The church is located at 3070 Hallsboro Road North.

Elder Shawn Maynor is the pastor.

Union Chapel FWBC to hold usher’s anniversary

Union Chapel Freewill Bap-tist Church will hold its usher’s anniversary Sunday, Aug. 19 at 4 p.m. Pastor Corey Lyons and New Beginnings Missionary Baptist Church of Chadbourn will be in charge of the service.

The church is located on East Mill Street.

Elder J.C. Robinson is the pastor.

Whiteville UM women to hold fundraiser

The Whiteville United Methodist women will hold a luncheon followed with bridge and games Wednesday, Aug. 22 at noon in the church fellow-ship hall. The fundraiser will support mission work.

Tickets may be purchased at the church office by Aug. 15.

The charge for lunch is $12 and for lunch and bridge/games is $20.

For more information call 642-3376.Clarkton PFWB to

hold gospel singClarkton Pentecostal Free-

will Baptist Church will hold a gospel sing Saturday, Sept. 15 at 7 p.m. featuring the Bea-verdam Boys.

The church is located at 24 S. Page Road across from Dow-less catering.

For more information call 625-8816.

New Britton BC to hold 200th anniversary

New Britton Baptist Church will hold its 200th an-niversary (1812-2012) on Satur-day, Aug. 25 and Sunday, Aug. 26 at 10 a.m. each day. This two day event will focus on the history and progress of the church. There will be singing, praying, preaching, special presentations and fellowship on Saturday. A fellowship meal will be served. In the af-ternoon, a display of antiques and old things of the past including farm equipment, implements, clothes, old tools and more.

The Sunday service will be a dedication service of the church to the Lord.

St. Bethel MBC to hold summer revival

St. Bethel Missionary Bap-tist Church will hold its annu-al summer revival Wednesday, Aug. 22-Friday, Aug. 24 at 7:30 p.m. nightly. The guest speak-er will be Rev. Dr. Timothy A. Lance, pastor of Mt. Olive Missionary Baptist Church. There will be several choirs on the program.

Gregory Hewett is the pas-tor.

FBMBC to hold Biking for Christ 10th annual ride

First Baptist Missionary Baptist Church will hold its annual Biking with Christ in the name of Jesus Sunday, sept. 9 at 10 a.m. Motorcycles, Dune Buggies and Classic Cars are all welcome.

The church is located at 2600 General Howe Road, Rie-gelwood.

For more information call Houston Williams Jr. at 619-5332, James Brown Jr. at 262-3188 or Tracey King at 512-6197.

Rev. Charles H. Jacobs Jr. is the pastor.

China Grove Missionary Baptist Church will host a gos-pel sing Saturday, Aug. 18 at 6 p.m. featuring Nadine and Stevie. A love offering will be taken. Refreshments will be served in the fellowship hall following the sing. The church is located at 2903 Old Stake Road, Chadbourn. For more information call Karen McPherson at 654-3013. Rev. Thomas Fairfax is the pastor.

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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

Faith Baptist Church4262 Rough N Ready Rd.ChadbournRev. Russell Long, PastorSun 10 am, 11 am, 6 pm, Wed 7 pm

First Baptist Church412 N. Madison St., Whiteville910-642-2139Dr. Ron Hinson, [email protected] 9:45 am, 11 am, Wed 6:30 pm

BAPTIST

FREE WILL BAPTISTAvants Chapel FWB Church947 Cedar St., Cerro GordoPastor Mack Watts • [email protected] 9:45 am, 11:00 am, 6:00 pmWednesday 7:30 pm

Love Grove FWB Church1763 Mille-Christine Rd., WhitevilleDr. Elder Ronald Brown • 910-640-1144Sunday 10 am, 11:15 am2nd Sun. Missionary, 4th Sun. PastoralWednesday Bible Study 7 pm

MISSIONARY BAPTISTFirst Missionary Baptist Church505 S. Wilkes St., ChadbournRev. Lionel E. Cartwright • 910-654-3225www.fmbchurchnc.comSunday 9:45 am, 11:00 amWed Noon Day Prayer Circle 12 noon,6:30 pm

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 GordoRev. Kennis Rolle, Sr. • [email protected] School 10 am, Service 11 amWed Youth Bible Study 6 pmWed Adult Bible Study/Prayer Meeting 7 pm

INDEPENDENT BAPTISTLynn 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

CATHOLICSacred Heart Catholic Church302 N. Lee St., WhitevilleRev. Marco Antonio Gonzalez-Hernandez [email protected] www.bcrcatholics.org • 910-642-3895Daily Mass Mon-Thurs 8amFirst Fri Mass & First Sat Mass 8:00am Reconciliation before Mass or by appointment, Holy Mass Sun 8am & 10am English, 12 noon Spanish,Holy Day of Obligation 6:30pm Englishand 7:30pm SpanishFaith Formation from Sept to May11 am - 12 noon

CHURCH OF GOD

CHRISTIAN MISSIONARYMissionary Alliance Church516 N. Madison St., Whiteville910-640-3223 • www.missonaryalliance.comSun 10:00 am, 11:00 am, Wed 6:30 pm

EPISCOPAL/LUTHERANGrace Episcopal Church & Christ the King Lutheran Church105 S. Madison St., WhitevilleRev. Anne Natoli • 910-642-4784gracechurchwhiteville@embarqmail.comgraceandchristtheking.comSun Services 9:30 amWed 6:00 pm Communion, Bible Studyand Dinner

METHODIST-UNITED

NON-DENOMINATIONAL

Seventh Day Adventist1002 N. Franklin St., WhitevillePastor Kenneth A. Lee [email protected] 9:30 am, 10:45 am, Wed 7:00 pm

SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST

PRESBYTERIAN

First Presbyterian Church511 N. Thompson St., WhitevilleRev. Joshua [email protected] 10:00 am, 11:00 am

Westminster Presbyterian Church307 S. Franklin St., [email protected] 9:45 am, 11:00 am

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

sion. We’ll include your church name, address, phone number, pastor’s name, service times and web address. You’ll also have an expanded church profile, includ-ing church photos, run in the directory sometime during the six month period. We encourage you to help make this di-rectory complete by having your church information included.

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

Nakina Pentecostal Holiness9745 Seven Creeks Hwy., NakinaRev. Anthony Rich • [email protected] School 10:00 amSunday Morning Worship 11:00Sun. Evening 6:00 except 5th SundayWednesday Teen/Youth Group 7:30 pmWednesday Bible Study 7:30 pm

PENTECOSTAL HOLINESS

Abundant Life Assembly of God5384 James B. White Hwy. S., WhitevillePastor Jerry J. Spivey • [email protected] 10:00 am, 10:45 am, 6:00 pmWednesday 7:30 pm

Whiteville Assembly of God3654 James B. White Hwy 701, SouthPastor Tim Rausch, Sr.Sunday School 9:30 amMorning Worship 10:30 amWednesday, Family Night 7:00 pm

ASSEMBLY OF GOD

First Baptist Church ofLake Waccamaw300 E. Sam Potts Hwy., Lake WaccamawRev. Stuart Shumway • 910-646-3727Sun 9:45 am, 11:00 am, 6:00 pm, 7:00 pm Youth Group, Wed 7:00 pm

Forest Lawn MissionaryBaptist Church10625 James B. White Hwy., Tabor CityJim Ponder, Pastor • 910-6 25-7739Sun 9:45 am, 6:00 pmWed 7:00 pm

Happy Home Baptist Church2670 Happy Home Rd., NakinaRichard Collins, Pastor910-642-7284www.happyhomebaptistchurch.orgSun 10:00 am, 11:00 am, 6:00 pmWed 7:00 pm

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

Macedonia Baptist Church100 Macedonia Church Rd.,EvergreenJimmy Caines, PastorSun 10:00 am, 11:00 am 2nd & 4th Sun,6:00 pm every Sun • Wed 7:30 pm

Nakina Baptist Church7883 Seven Creeks Rd., NakinaRev. J. Darryll [email protected] 11:00 am, 6:00 pmWed 7:00 pm

New Hope Baptist Church252 Rough and Ready Rd., WhitevilleRev. J. Kenneth Byrd910-642-6345www.nhbcwhiteville.comSun 9:45 am, 11:00 am, 6:00 pmWed 7:00 pm

Peace Baptist Church653 Love Mill Rd., WhitevillePastor Chip Hannah910-642-0251www.peacebc.orgSunday 9:45 am, 11:00 am, 6:00 pmSunday 5:45-7:15 pm AwanasTuesday 6:30-8:30 pm Grief ShareWednesday 7:00 pmMonday 6:30-8:30 pm Divorce Care

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

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

Rehobeth AME Zion Church475 Rehobeth Church Rd., ClarktonDr. Arnold B. Coley • [email protected] Worship 11 am, Sun School 10 amWed Bible Study/Tutoring 6:30-7:30 pm

AFRICAN-METHODISTEPISCOPAL

Mount Horeb AME Church187 Otis Donnell Nixon Rd., EvergreenChurch Phone 654 1887Rev. Ruth Pugh • 910-483-7126Sunday School 9:45 amSun Morning Worship 11:00 amWed 6:30 pm

St. James AME Church225 West Walter St., WhitevilleChurch Phone 642-8832Rev. Philip A. BlairSun Church School 9:45 amSun Morning Worship 11:00 amWed 6:00 pm

Smyrna Baptist Church4934 Peacock Rd., WhitevilleChurch Phone: 642-6266Pastor Ray BestPraise Service 9:30 am, Sunday School 9:45 am, Worship Service 11 am, Evening Worship 6 pm, Bible Buddies 5:45 pmWednesday Evening Bible Study 6:00 pm Sweet Home MissionaryBaptist Church3111 Walter Todd Rd., ClarendonRev. Wayne Faulk • 910-653-4421Sun 9:30 am Assembly, 9:45 Sun School,11 am & 6 pm Worship • Wed 7 pm Trinity Baptist Church201 S. Thompson St., WhitevilleRandy K. Speight, Senior [email protected] 9:45 am, 11:00 am, 6:00 pmWednesday 6:45 pm

Western Prong Baptist Church167 Peacock Rd., WhitevilleRev. Ronnie Wilson • 910-648-2744westernprong.orgSun 8:30 am Worship, 9:45 amSunday School, 11:00 am Worship,6 pm Training Union, 7 pm, Wed 7 pm

White Marsh Baptist Church341 White Hall Rd., WhitevilleRev. Carroll Fonvielle 910-642-6459Sunday 9:45 am, 11 amWed 7:00 pm

Chadbourn United Methodist300 E. 2nd Ave., ChadbournRev. Dr. Milford Oxendine, Jr. • 516-2092cell 461-7811 • [email protected] 9:45 am, 11:00 amPrayer Tues 10:00 am

Fair Bluff United Methodist1030 Main St., Fair BluffRev. Neill Smith • [email protected] 10:00 am, 11:00 amTues 7pm Bible Study Whiteville United Methodist902 Pinckney St., WhitevilleRev. Paul Stallsworth • [email protected] 9:00 Sunday School,10:00 Worship Service

Barefoot Church28 Whiteville Plaza, WhitevilleClay NeSmith, Lead Pastor 843-280-1270 • www.barefootchurch.comFacebook: Barefoot ChurchTwitter: @BarefootChurchSun 9:30 am & 11:15 am Christian Fellowship Church5662 Sam Potts Hwy., HallsboroBishop Henry Richardson, Jr. [email protected] 10:00 am, 11:15 am, Tues 7:00 pm Living Word Church6374 Chadbourn Hwy., ChadbournPastor Lester Holcomb, Jr. 910-654-4164www.livingwordnc.comSunday School 9:30 amWorship 10:30 amWednesday 7:00 pm

New Life Community Church107 Maultsby St., WhitevilleRev. DeWayne Dickerson [email protected] 9:30 am, 10:30 amThursday 7:00 pm

Whiteville Church of God506 N. Lee St., WhitevillePastor Chris Yarusinsky • [email protected]: Whiteville Church of GodSunday 10:00 am, 11:00 amWednesday 7:00 pm

CHURCH DIRECTORY For Columbus Countyand Surrounding Areas

Northwood Assembly2672 James B. White Hwy. N., WhitevillePastor Russell Honeycutt910-642-7654Sunday 10:30 amWed 7:00 pm Bible Study

Zion Tabernacle Church, Inc.2565 Jenkins Rd., WhitevillePastor Gloria C. Moore910-647-0047Sun 9:45 am, 11:00 amWednesday 7:00 pm

New LifeCommunity Church“A Church with a Heart and Vision to Serve.”

107 Maultsby Street, Whiteville, NCChurch Phone: 910-642-0130

[email protected] DeWayne Dickerson

New Life Church began on May 30, 1999 as Pastor DeWayne Dickerson and 180 pro-spective members gathered in Whiteville Pri-mary School to cast a vision for a new church in Whiteville. In a short time the group had been able to purchase the former Jasper Tex-tiles Building for its new home and exten-sively renovated the huge facility to serve as a worship and community center. For the last 12 years New Life Church has ministered as an interdenominational church but recently voted to affiliate with the Church of God based in Cleveland, Tennessee.

The Sunday schedule offers Sunday School

at 9:30 a.m. and worship services at 10:30 a.m. Mid-week Family Training Hour takes place at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday evenings. Fri-day night is Community Skating at New Life from 7-10 pm and is attended weekly by more than 200 young people. Weight Watchers In-ternational meets each Tuesday evening in the church fellowship center. Busy Bees Pre-School operates Monday-Friday with morn-ing and afternoon classes. Grand Ole Gospel, a Southern Gospel production is moving to New Life’s small concert auditorium during the month of August. Their singing schedule is the first and third Tuesdays of each month.

Pastor’s Comments:Besides offering a place for spiritual worship and Christian education the vision of New Life includes serving our community and assisting other churches and ministries in fulfilling their calling from God. We pray that new opportunities for ministry will be evident as we work together. My wife Sharon and I are happy to be back in Whiteville and we welcome everyone to experience New Life. God Bless You!

Facts of Life Church offers transportation

The Facts of Life Church will provide transportation for Smithfield employees to and from Smithfield. Transporta-tion began July 1.

For more information call 653-7215 or 918-4531 between the hours of 7 a.m. and 6 p.m.

FUNDRAISERSFirst Presbyterian Church women have cookbooks for sale for $10 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.

Chadbourn Middle to host gospel choir

A gospel choir concert will be held every Monday and Thursday from 3:08-4:08 p.m. at Chadbourn Middle School, 801 W. Smith St. under the direc-tion of Pastor Kevin Joyner Sr.

For more information call the school at 654-4300 or 654-3601 or Joyner at 918-7500.

Barefoot Church to feature family movie night

Barefoot Church will fea-ture a family movie night every third Friday of the month at 7:30 p.m.

The church is located at 28 Whiteville Plaza.

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 explaining 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 condition.

For more information, con-tact Lisa at 919-821-7111 or [email protected].

Make-A-Wish needs volunteers

Donna’s Fine Instruments Plus to host musical guests

Donna’s Fine Instruments Plus will host different musical guests each Friday. Open mic starts at 6:30 p.m. and scheduled bands at 7:30 p.m.

Admission is $5. Donna’s is located at 211 N.

Brown St., Chadbourn.For more information call

840-2122.

First Presbyterian to host Ladies Bible study

First Presbyterian Church will host an inter-denomina-tional ladies Bible study. The 10-week interactive study by Sheila Walsh is entitled “The shelter of God’s promises.”

The class will meet Tues-day mornings from 9-10:30 a.m. and began Sept. 11.

Member books, which cost $10, must be ordered in ad-vance.

For more information or to order a book, call Janet McPherson at 642-9714 no lat-er than Aug. 28.

Lake Waccamaw Food ministry to distribute food

Lake Waccamaw food minis-try will distribute food to those in need.

The distribution days will be the second Wednesday and fourth Saturday of each month, starting at 9 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.

Relay for Life 2013 planning meeting

Anyone interested in help-ing plan the 2013 Relay for Life event should meet at the Beth Israel Synagogue, next to Memory’s Plaza, Monday, Aug. 20 from 6-8 p.m. Help is needed on all committees.

Old New Hanover Genealogical Society to meet

The Old New Hanover Ge-nealogical Society will meet Saturday, Aug. 18 at Northeast Branch Library, Paynter Room, Landfall at 1 p.m., computer group meeting and at 1:45 p.m. presenting Judy Ward, telling “What your family wouldn’t tell you and didn’t want you to know about your native Ameri-can past.”

Light refreshments will be served.

43rd annual Pate-Pait reunion

The Pate-Pait reunion will be held in the fellowship hall of Center Road Baptist Church Bladenboro, Sunday, Sept. 2. Doors open at 12:30 p.m. and lunch will be served at 1 p.m. David Pate is the father of all Pate and Pait family members who claim Bladen County as home. Davis was born in 1772 and married Ferby Boyt and the has the following children: John Pate, James Pate, Hil-ary Pate, Jesse Pate, Mary M. (Polly) Pate and Timothy Pate. Most of children changed the spelling of their name to Pait, following the Civil War.

The church is located at 2485 Center Road, Bladenboro.

For more information call 754-5550.

1st annual ballin’ for a cause to be held Aug. 18-19

C-Nice Production with Believe to Achieve Monitor-ing Program (BAM) and the Overflow Ministry presents its 1st annual ballin’ for a cause Saturday, Aug. 18 and Sunday, Aug. 19 5 on 5 charity basketball tournament. Teams must have at least 5 players and teams must have match-ing jerseys. $10 each player and jerseys available for $5. Registration deadline is Friday, Aug. 10. The event will be held at Nolan Park, 722 Nolan Ave. Proceeds to benefit local chari-ties. For more information or registration call 445-1040 or email [email protected].

New Zion MBC to hold revival

New Zion Missionary Bap-tist Church will hold its reviv-al Aug. 15-17 at 7:30 p.m. night-ly. Rev. Corey Blanks will be in charge on Aug. 15 and Aug. 17 and Rev. Michael Jackson will render the service on Aug. 16. Various choirs will perform each night.

The church is located on Old Lake Road in Riegelwood.

Rev. Clarence Ganus is the pastor.

Powers family reunion Sept. 15

The Javie and Mary Pow-ers family reunion will be held at Godwin Heights Park in Lumberton Saturday, Sept. 15 from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Bring a covered dish.

For questions or directions call Ed Kinlaw at 654-3493.

Dublin Peanut Festival Scholarship Pageant set Sept. 8

Deadline for applications for the Dublin Peanut Festival Scholarship Pageant is Mon-day, Aug. 20.

The pageant will be held Sept. 8 at 7 p.m. in the Dublin Elementary School Multipur-pose Building.

There are seven divisions. An application is available by visiting www.dublinpeanut-festival.com and clicking pag-eant info.

Shiloh Outreach to hold Laborers of Love: food pantry

Shiloh Outreach will hold a Laborers of Love: food pantry, every Wednesday from 10 a.m.-noon and from 5-7 p.m.

There will be free food, but call for an appointment. Also available will be a consignment store.

The outreach is located at 426 S. 9th Street in the old International Paper building, Bolton.

For more information call 655-0540. Serving Bolton and Columbus County.

CLASS REUNIONSThe 1971 Hallsboro High School Class is planning its 41st reunion. Classmates are asked to provide phone numbers and email addresses if you have information about other class-mates. For more information call Joyce Thurman at 201-618-4799 or email [email protected], Joyce “Paula” Jacobs at 646-3964 or email [email protected], Wanda Dowless Bat-ten at 647-8611 or email [email protected].

Lakeside Ministry to host Sunday speakers and music

Lakeside Ministry will host speakers and special music each Sunday May 27-Sept. 2 from 9-9:30 a.m.

The event will be held at the Lake Waccamaw Campground Gazebo next to the Sailboat Club.

The schedule is as follows: Aug. 19 - Rev. Tim Jernigan

along with Danny Gibson and Don Brock.

Aug. 26 - Rev. Hubert McCle-ney along with Willa Dean Williams.

Sept. 2 - Glory Bound Quar-ter in concert.

Sandyfield Parks and Rec. seeking pageant contestants

Sandyfield Parks and Recre-ation is seeking pageant con-testants for its annual Town Hall Day Celebration, Aug. 2012.

All proceeds will be used to help fund the upkeep of the park and playground facilities.

Contestants must call Ms. Graham at 540-6982 or email [email protected].

Laddy’s variety music show

Laddy Cannon and the band will be performing every Tuesday night from 7-10 p.m. at W.N. Railroad St. in Clark-ton.

A variety of music is gos-pel, beach, oldies rock n’ roll, country and lots of dancing.

For more information call 640-8465.

Abundance of Love to hold rainbow tea

Abundance of Love Adult Health Care Center, 212 E. Columbus St., Whiteville has changed the date of its fund-raiser and Rainbow tea to Oct. 6 at 6 p.m.

The keynote speaker will be Sister Mable Lawrence. Music will be by the Huffman Sisters of Marion, S.C.

Clothing and diapers available at Living Hope Pregnancy Support Services

Living Hope Pregnancy Support Services provides free clothing and diapers for children through size 3T.

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. No appointment is neces-sary.

For more information call the helpline at 642-2677.

All services are free and confidential.

Peace BC to hold Marvelous Mondays

Peace Baptist Church will hold Marvelous Mondays dur-ing August at 7 p.m.

Each Monday will feature a different pastor. For Aug. 20 the speaker will be Pastor Joh Phillips with Cherry Grove Baptist Church, Tabor City.

The church is located at 653 Love Mill Road (behind Trac-tor Supply).

For more information call 642-0251.

Josh Phillips

China Grove Missionary Bap-tist Church will host a gospel sing Saturday, Aug. 18 at 6 p.m. featuring Nadine and Stevie. A love offering will be taken. Re-freshments will be served in the fellowship hall following the sing. The church is located at 2903 Old Stake Road, Chadbourn. For more information call Karen McPherson at 654-3013. Rev. Thomas Fairfax is the pastor.

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Alcoholics Anonymous meets at First Presbyterian Church, 511 N. Thompson St., Whiteville on Monday, Wednesday, Thurs-day, and Saturday nights at 8 p.m. A guest speaker will be at the meeting on the last Thurs-day 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. and at Mt. Pleasant AME Zion Church, 15956 Old Lake Road, Riegelwood on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 7 p.m.Al-anon meets at First Presby-terian Church, 511 N. Thompson St., Whiteville on Mondays at 8 p.m.Recovery (Christian Support Group) meets at Forest Lawn Church, U.S. 701, Tabor City on Tuesdays at 6 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 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 Saturday of each month at 11 a.m. at 313 Phillips St., Whiteville.Veterans of Foreign Wars Post #8073 and Ladies Auxiliary meets on the second Tuesday of each month at 6:30 p.m. at 121 W. Wyche St., Whiteville.Disabled American Veterans Chapter #35 meets the sec-ond Thursday of each month at 7 p.m. at 1028 S. Madison St., Whiteville.

Family CHAMPIONS to hold nurturing parenting program

The Nurturing Parent-ing Program is being offered through Family CHAMPIONS Family Resource Center.

This program can assist the participant in obtaining valu-able skills in raising children. It will cover many topics such as discipline, rewards, pun-ishments, morals, values and developing family rules along with a meal and door prizes.

The program is being of-fered at three different sites within the county. Bolton Senior/Youth Center every Monday at 6 p.m.; the DREAM Center every Tuesday at 5:30 p.m.; and at Family CHAMPI-ONS FRC in Tabor City every Wednesday at 5 p.m.

For more information call 653-9200.

Holy Land Pilgrimage planned April 8-19

A Holy Land Pilgrimage will be held April 8-19, 2013. The hosts are Virginia Greer, Enoch Holloway and Dr. Tom Jackson. The Israel guide will be Doron Heilinger.

Daily itinerary will be: Monday, April 8 - Bound for

the Promised Land. Depart USA aboard U.S. Air.

Tuesday, April 9 - Welcome to the Holy Land. Overnight in Tiberias.

Wednesday, April 10 - Upper Galilee and the Golan. Over-night in Tiberias.

Thursday, April 11 - The Coast and Hill Country. Over-night in Tiberias.

Friday, April 12 - The Heart of Galilee. Overnight in Ti-berias.

Saturday, April 13 - The Valleys: Jezreel and Jordan. Overnight at Dead Sea Resort.

Sunday, April 14 - Masada and Qumran: Places of Refuge. Overnight in Jerusalem.

Monday, April 15, Experi-encing the Holy City. Over-night in Jerusalem.

Tuesday, April 16 - The En-chanted Old City. Overnight in Jerusalem.

Wednesday, April 17 - City of David excavations. Overnight in Jerusalem.

Thursday, April 18 - Behold the New Jerusalem. Farewell dinner, drive to airport.

Friday, April 19 - Return to USA.

For more information call Greer at 642-7000 or email [email protected].

Columbus County Literacy Council to hold tutor training

The Columbus County Lit-eracy Council will conduct tutor training sessions Friday, Aug. 17 and Friday, Aug. 24 from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. at the Colum-bus Baptist Association, 208 S. Thompson Street. The 12-hour training will provide the re-quirements for tutor training certification.

There is no cost to the work-shop attendees; however, the council seeks individuals who are willing to commit to volun-teering through the organiza-tion by providing one-on-one tutorial services to individu-als who seek to improve basic skills such as reading, writing, listening and speaking.

Training will be conducted by the Apprentice Training Team of the Columbus County Literacy Council.

For more information or to pre-register call by Tuesday, Aug. 14 at the council office at 642-2442.

Union Baptist to hold usher’s anniversary

Union Baptist Church will hold its annual usher’s an-niversary Sunday, Aug. 19 at 4 p.m. Dr. Arnold B. Coley pastor of Rehobeth AME Zion Church of Clarkton, accompanied by his choir and congregation, will be the guest speaker.

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

Rev. Gregory W. Spaulding is the pastor.

New Townsend Temple Ministries church announcements

New Townsend Temple Min-istries will hold an all you can eat Blue Crab Fest Saturday, Aug. 18 from 3-7 p.m. Tickets are $20. The church is located at 273 Smith Lane, Bolton. For more information call 512-7010.

The Men’s Outreach Minis-try will hold its Annual Day in the park Saturday, Sept. 8 from 11 a.m.-4 p.m. There will be guest speakers, dance teams, choirs,tournaments, free food and more. The event will be held at Bolton Town Park.

A pre-pastoral appreciation celebration for Pastor Lula M. Webb will be held Sept. 12-14 at 7:30 p.m. nightly.

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Sandhill MBC announcements

Sandhill Missionary Bap-tist Church will hold its Mass Choir anniversary Sunday, Aug. 19 at 3:30 p.m. The guest will be “The Mighty Echos” of Elizabethtown along with other groups. Refreshments will be served.

Sunday, Aug. 26 will be Men’s Day. Pastor Rev. Donald Thompson will deliver the message at 11 a.m. Rev. An-drew Reaves along with the congregation of Effingham Baptist Church of Mullins, S.C. will render the 3:30 p.m. service. Refreshments will be served between the services. The church is located at 16920 Twisted Hickory Road, Blad-enboro.

Graham Chapel presents Marva Robinson in concert

The gospel chorus of Gra-ham Chapel A.M.E. Zion Church will hold, in celebra-tion of its anniversary, a con-cert featuring “Lady of song,” Marva Robinson Sunday, Aug. 19 at 3 p.m.

The church is located at 458 East Arcadia Road, Rie-gelwood.

For more information call Curtistene Graham at 655-4501 or the church at 655-3759.

Rev. Williams Peterson is the pastor.

Beth Moore Bible study to be held Aug. 29-Oct. 31

A Beth Moore Bible study, Living beyond yourself: Ex-ploring the fruit of the spirit, will begin Wednesday, Aug. 29 and run through Oct. 31 at 10 a.m. Meet at the Dock Baptist Association Building in Naki-na for Bible study, prayer and fellowship.

For member books or infor-mation call Rita Cartrette at 840-7766.

Whiteville UMC to hold Bible study Sept. 5

Whiteville United Method-ist Church will offer a Bible study on the gospel of Mark beginning Wednesday, Sept. 5 at 9 a.m. in the Worthington classroom. A study of John MacArthur will be used. It is a verse-by-verse format fol-lowed by questions.

Call the church office at 642-3376 or Florence Marlowe at 642-4714 to order a study guide for $10 by Aug. 27.

Smith Chapel UMC to hold Family/Friends Day Aug. 19

Smith Chapel United Meth-odist Church will hold its Family and Friends Day Sun-day, Aug. 19 beginning with the morning service at 8 a.m. There will be a fellowship lun-cheon at 1 p.m. and a special service at 4 p.m. The guest speaker will be Rev. Hannah Green of St. John AME in Fairmont.

The church is located at 1944 N. Blacksmith Road, Bolton.

Rev. Judy Billings is the pastor.

Sword of the Lord Ministries to hold Women’s conference

Sword of the Lord Min-istries will hold a women’s conference entitled “The un-known cry of a woman em-bracing the Word of God” Aug. 17-18. The guest speaker will be Apostle Dr. Dee Dee Freeman of “Eyes of Faith” Ministries, Waldorf, Md.

The program starts at 7:30 Aug. 17. Registration for Aug. 18 is at 8 p.m. and the workshop from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Brunch will be served. The registration fee for Aug. 18 is $10.

For more information call 445-6455 or 770-1288.

The conference will be held at 404 Martin Luther King Dr., Elizabethtown.

Appreciation service for Evang. Joyce Gause

An appreciation service for Evangelist Joyce Gause, founder of Evangelistic Out-reach Ministry will be held Sunday, Aug. 26 at 5 p.m. at Holy Bethel FBH Church of Thomasboro. She is actively involved in the prison min-istries of Columbus, Hoke, Brunswick, Wake and Mont-gomery counties. The guest speaker will be Evangelist Lil-lie Hammonds of Elizabeth-town.

The church is located at 8290 Ocean Hwy. West in Sun-set Beach.

For more information call Sam Bellamy at 843-513-0427.

Kelly Youth Focus Center to hold registration

The Kelly Youth Focus Center will begin tutoring, mentoring and enrichment registration for the fall term Monday, Aug. 13 through Thursday, Aug. 23 for children ages 4-16.

The center is located at 215 S. Brown Street, Chadbourn. For more information call 654-5300 or 445-6665.

Columbus Baptist Association WMU to hold conference

The Columbus Baptist As-sociation WMU will hold its get ready conference Thurs-day, Aug. 16 at 7 p.m. at West-ern Prong Baptist Church.

All WMU officers are urged to attend.

Porter Swamp BC to hold plate sale

Porter Swamp Baptist Church will hold a plate sale from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 25. The plates include BBQ chicken or ribs, yams, cole slaw, rolls, dessert and tea for $7.

The church is located at 8755 Andrew Jackson Hwy. SW, Cerro Gordo. Proceeds go toward the new building.

For more information email [email protected]

JCPC meetingsThe Juvenile Crime Pre-

vention Council meetings are held every second Wednesday at noon in the Whiteville City Schools Civic Room.

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Brunswick-Waccamaw Association Women’s Auxiliary to hold back to school celebration

The Women’s Auxiliary Youth Department of the Brunswick-Waccamaw As-sociation will hold a back to school celebration Saturday, Aug. 18 at 10 a.m. The guest speaker will be minister Pau-line Hankins of Bolivia. Han-kins is a native of Brunswick County. She is a member of Love of Christ Church. She is an attorney in Bolivia. Special entertainment will include praise performance dancers, singing and more.

The headquarters is locat-ed at 600 Pine Log Road.

For more information call Theldene Robinson at 642-9179 or Tamora Vereen at 642-4890.

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Pireway FWBC to hold revival Sept. 2-8

Pireway Freewill Baptist Church will hold its revival Sunday, Sept. 2 at 6 p.m. and Monday, Sept. 3-Saturday, Sept. 8 at 7:30 p.m. nightly. The guest speaker will be Rev. Buddy Seay from Beaveredam Freewill Baptist Church along with special singing each night.

The church is located on Swamp Fox Hwy. East, Tabor City.

Rev. Brooks Sykes is the pastor.

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CCYFA offers$250 scholarship

Columbus County Youth and Families Association Inc. (CCYFA) offers one $250 scholarship each year. To be considered for this scholar-ship the student must be from the Columbus County area attending Southeastern Community College and not receiving any other finan-cial assistance. Students in-terested in applying for the scholarship should contact Sue Hawks at 642-7141 ext. 320.

TCEM to hold pre-kindergarten enrollment

Tabor City Elementary School is now enrolling stu-dents for the North Carolina pre-kindergarten program. Children must be four years of age on or before Aug. 31, 2012. Go by TCES to pick up an enrollment packet or call the school at 653-3618.

RBH Society to hold fundraiser

The Reuben Brown House Preservation Society, Inc. will hold a fundraiser on Thursday, Sept. 13 from 6-8 p.m. at Vineland Station in Whiteville.

Four County Head Start accepting applications

Four County Head Start is accepting applications for the 2012-2013 school year for children who will be 3-4 years of age by Aug. 31. Ap-plications for children with special needs are also ac-cepted.

Bring birth certificate of child(ren) applying, verifi-cation of income, immuni-zation record, health insur-ance information, child’s current physical, birth dates of other members in family, directions to home, mailing and physical address and WIC verification.

For more information contact Tabor City Head Start at 653-5403, 205 Stake Rd., Tabor City, N.C. 28463.

WCHS Class of ‘67 sets 45th year reunion

The West Columbus High School class of 1967 will hold a 45th year reunion party on Saturday, Oct. 20, at the Co-lumbus County Arts Council building, 822 S. Madison St., Whiteville (across the street from the Sherwin Williams store).

The cost will be $25 per person and a delicious din-ner will be provided. Res-ervations must be made in advance and no later than Oct. 1.

To reserve a slot, please mail payments to Rossie (Buddy) Nance, 4104 Cape Landing Rd., Castle Hayne, N.C. 28429. Persons mailing payments should be sure to include as much of the fol-lowing information as pos-sible:

Name, address, email ad-dress, phone number, how many will be attending, name(s) of guest(s) attend-ing and amount of money enclosed.

For further informa-tion on the reunion, contact Rossie (Buddy) Nance at 465-0683, Johnny Cutrell at 262-1967, Terry Edmund Kury at 828-406-6985, Jefferson Smith at 232-8715 or Beth Todd White at 395-2604.

WCHS to hold 20th reunion Oct. 19

The West Columbus High School Class of 1992 will hold its 20th reunion Friday, Oct. 19 at the West Columbus football game and Saturday, October 20 at the Columbus County Law Enforcement Center.

Provide phone numbers and email addresses for class-mates.

For more information call Tanesha Boone Smith at 336-392-4801, Trina Gause at 919-740-8690, Traci Hayes Storms at 910-876-1153, Jeannetta McMillian McNeil at 336-343-3924 or Clarice Vereen Faison at 910-212-8640.

HHS Class of ’87planning reunion

Hallsboro High School Class of 1987 will be celebrat-ing 25 years on Oct.13 at the N.C. Museum of Forestry.

Alumni are asked to con-tact Carina Smith Riven-bark at 910-253-4971 for more information. Deadline for registration forms is Aug. 20.

Nakina Middle School OrientationNakina Middle School will hold its Parent-Student-Teacher

Orientation Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2012 from 3-6 p.m. Parents and students are invited and encouraged to come visit the school, meet the teachers and staff, and gain a perspective of the up-coming school year. School fees may be paid at this time.

Adult classes at Dream Center

DREAM Center will spon-sor several enhancement classes for adults in collabo-ration with Southeastern Community College. These include various computer classes, GED, and English as a Second Language. Each class will be held in the Tech-nology Center at the DREAM Center.

Computer/Technology Awareness for Job Seekers is scheduled for Monday and Wednesday mornings from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. beginning Monday, Aug. 20. Fee waived for this class. Mary Baldwin is the instructor.

Desktop Publishing is scheduled Fridays from 9 a.m. until noon beginning Aug. 24. The fee is $120 for persons younger than 65 years old. Wes Campbell is the instructor.

Desktop Publishing is scheduled Tuesdays from 6-8 p.m. beginning Sept. 24. The fee is $65 for persons young-er than 65 years old. Mary Baldwin is the instructor.

GED class is scheduled Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9 a.m. until noon begin-ning Aug. 21. There is no fee. Emma Walker is the instruc-tor.

English as a Second Lan-guage is scheduled Tuesday from 6-9 p.m. There is no fee. Heather Nance is the in-structor.

For more information con-tact the DREAM Center at 642-0633. Carol Caldwell is the executive director.Tabor City HS class

of ‘62 to hold reunionTabor City High School

class of 1962 will hold its 50th class reunion Saturday, Oct. 27 at Adams Seafood in Tabor City at 6 p.m.

For more information contact Rachel Cox Scott at 653-3687, Norris Gore Hunt at 653-3030 or Melva Dean Wright Bruton at 653-6540.

Mailing addresses are needed for class members.

WHS Class of ’72planning reunion

Whiteville High School’s Class of 1972 will hold its 40th year reunion on Oct. 12-13. All class members and faculty are invited to attend.

For more information provide contact information at [email protected] or call 910-642-3536. Class members are encouraged to join the WHS Class of 1972 group on Facebook. To register, go to Facebook and search “Whiteville High School Class of 1972.”John Gladstone Jones IV

graduated from N.C. State University on May 12 with a Bachelor of Science in parks, recreation and tourism management. Phillip Rivers, a record-setting quarterback for N.C. State and starting quarterback for the NFL’s San Diego Chargers was commencement speaker. John is the son of Bobby (John Gladstone Jones III) and Cathy Jones and grandson of Sarah Lewis Wright, all of Tabor City. He graduated from South Columbus High School in 2008 and resides in Cary where he works with Cary YMCA.

WHS Class of 1961The Whiteville High School Class of 1961 held a reunion at Bumming Hole Lodge.

Left to right are Georganna Gold, Bonnie Pinyatello, Angela Reaves, Linda Ma-

honey, Linda Thompson, Patricia Grimsley, Brenda Boykin, Patricia Tupper, Caro-

lyn Todd, Robert White, Jack High, Wade Thompson, Bonnie Sellers, Ronald Dy-

son, Mary Fran Floyd, Denny Wise, Gordon Lewis, Judy Hyatt, Sandra Stanley,

Mary Elizabeth Edwards, Nancy Ward, Linda Best, Ronnie Newsome, Pat Wood-

ard, Donald Thompson, Jane Smith, Malcolm Campbell, June Smith, Pete Huggins,

Emory Worley, Wayne Collins, Linda Rooks, Irvin Brown, Roger Worley, Betsy Bald-

win, John Barkley, Louise Towne, Jimmy Watts, teacher Nina Collier, James Rooks,

Clarence Inman, Etheleen Sellers and Maxine Sellers.

WOW lodges present awardsDanny Rice III of Kinston presented awards at a recent

meeting of Clarkton Lodge 262 at Clarkton Town Hall in appreciation of members who have given time to im-prove their community. Rice, chairman of the Woodmen of the World Children’s Home program, gave plaques and certificates to the following:

Good Citizens, Dale Melvin and Judy Elkins.Mentoring youth in four schools, the Rev. Larry Hayes.Dixie Youth, Marvin and Marsha Burney.Conservation, Shirley Clark.Lifesaving, Clarkton Chief Allen Robinson, Lisbon

Chief Kenneth Clark and Elizabethtown Chief Byron Graham.

Safe bus drivers, Sue Coleman, Susan Wooten, Tyrone McKoy, Laurine Murchison, Bonnie Williams, Lisa Jes-sup, Jaqunline Sauls, Ryan Godfrey, Rochelle Highsmith and Sakeeta Washington.

Fraternalist of the Year, Bobby Dennis.Past officer appreciation certificates went to Clarkton

Lodge president Howard Elkins, Clarkton Lodge vice president Randy Page and Lisbon Lodge treasurer Jean Draper.

Clarkton President Wanda Burch led the Pledge of Al-legiance and Hayley Hall sang the Star Spangled Banner and other patriotic songs.

Bobby Dennis, left, receives Fraternalist of the Year certificate.

Larry Hayes gets mentoring youth award.

Jean Draper, Randy Page and Howard Elkins receive certificates from Danny Rice, left to right. Elizabeth Wilson was not present to accept hers.

Local FFA member wins state event

Olivia Watson of the South Columbus High School FFA Chapter won First Place in the State FFA Prepared Pub-lic Speaking Career Develop-ment Event on June 20, 2012, at the 84rd North Carolina FFA State Convention held at the Raleigh Convention Center in Raleigh. Her FFA Advisor is Marlette Wat-son. Her speech was titled “Protecting The Thin Green Line.”

Olivia will compete at the 85th National FFA Conven-tion in Indianapolis, Indiana this October. Event partici-pants are required to deliver a prepared speech on one ag-ricultural topic. The speech must be six to eight minutes in length. After the speech is given, judges question the speaker for five minutes. Winners are selected on the written manuscript, speech delivery, content and re-sponse to judges’ questions.

The North Carolina FFA is a youth organization of over 19,800 student members preparing for leadership and careers in the science, busi-ness and technology of agri-culture with nearly 250 local chapters across the state. FFA makes a positive differ-ence in the lives of students by developing their poten-tial for premier leadership, personal growth and career success through agricultural education. Visit www.ncffa.org for more information.

Airman Apprentice Chan-dler Sullivan graduated recently from Great Lakes Naval Training Center. He will be attending avia-tion school in Pensacola Fla where he will train to be an Aviation Boatswain Mate-handler. Hayes is the son of Candace and David Hayes (stepfather), and David and Dawn Sul-livan (stepmother). The sailor is a 2011 gradu-ate of White Knoll High School, Lexington, S.C. Sullivan,19, is a third gen-eration sailor.

Olivia Watson

WCHS Class of ’78planning meeting

West Colu mbus High School Class of 1978 will hold a planning meeting Aug. 24 at 7 p.m. at the home of Caro-lyn Martin, 219 S. Wilson Street, Chadbourn.

For more information call Allen Livingston at 654-4444.

Chadbourn Elementary School Orientation

Chadbourn Elementary’s Open House is scheduled for Tuesday, Aug. 21 from 5:30-7 p.m.

Hallsboro Middle School Orientation

Hallsboro Middle School will hold its Open House Wednes-day, Aug. 22 from 5-7 p.m. Old Dock Elementary

School Orientation Old Dock Elementary

School will hold Open House for parents and students Tuesday, Aug. 21, from 3-6 p.m. School fees and volun-teer background fees may be paid at this time.

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Mighty Hurricanes Have you heard news bulletins about hurricanes this summer? If you live on the East Coast, you probably pay special attention when a new hurricane is developing. The Mini Page talked with an expert from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) to learn more about these fierce storms.Giant storms A hurricane is a huge storm that can cover 300 miles from end to end. (In comparison, a thunderstorm might be five miles across.) A hurricane has whirling winds blowing from 74 to 200 miles per hour. Hurricanes usually last about a week. These storms begin over the ocean. When they form over the Atlantic or Eastern Pacific oceans, they are called hurricanes. Over the Western Pacific Ocean, they are known as typhoons (tie-FOONS). Storms over the Indian Ocean are called cyclones (SY-clones).

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into rings and bands within the hurricane. One sign that a hurricane may be brewing is when a group of thunderstorms starts forming a spiral shape, with rings of storms on top of one another. Individual thunderstorms within a hurricane last only a few hours. Then they die, and new ones form. This process continues as long as the hurricane lasts. Sometimes this can be as long as a month.

Naming the storm Weather bureaus began naming hurricanes in 1950. From 1953 to 1979, they gave them girls’ names. Now they give them boys’ names too. Hurricane names are pulled from six lists of names. When a hurricane does a lot of damage, its name is never used again. For example,

The growing storm When winds start rotating over the ocean, they form a tropical depression. At this point, winds are less than 39 miles per hour. A number of thunderstorms may already be within the storm system. When winds reach 39 to 73 miles per hour, we call it a tropical storm. When it reaches that point, it is given a name. When winds reach 74 miles per hour, it becomes a hurricane.Hurricanes develop over the warm waters

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The eye of the storm When a hurricane grows strong, thunderstorms form in a ring around the center. This ring of storms is called the wall of the hurricane. The wall is where the worst conditions are, with the highest winds and the most rain. The center of the storm is called the eye. Inside the eye, there is no thunderstorm activity. The conditions are clear and calm. The eye may be 30 to 40 miles across.

Staying safe Pay attention to the radio or TV. A hurricane watch means one could

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Pregnant? Need a car seat?Living Hope Pregnancy Support Services, a life-affirming

Christian ministry, offers an Earn While You Learn program for pregnant women in Columbus County. This program is open all pregnant women, regardless of age, income, or mari-tal status. Upon enrolling in the program, the expectant moth-er is paired with a client advocate. The advocate meets with the client for a series of eight one-on-one classes, selected to match the interests and needs of the client. The client earns “baby bucks” by completing her classes and homework assignments. At teh completion of the classes, the expectant mom can trade her “baby bucks” for a car seat or a BabySuite portable play yard plus a basket filled with clothing and supplies for her baby.

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 helpline at 642-2677. All services are free and confidential.

Pregnancy tests at Living Hope Pregnancy Support Services

Living Hope Pregnancy Support Services, a life-af-firming Christian ministry, provides free pregnancy test with estimated due dates for expectant mothers in Colum-bus County. This verification can be taken to the Depart-ment of Social Services in or-der to apply for Medicaid for Pregnant Women.

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 helpline at 642-2677.

All services are free and confidential.

The Eddie Reynolds Trio will perform Tuesday Aug. 21 at 7 p.m. at New Life Church of God in Whiteville. The church is located at 107 South Maultsby Street. The event is free and hosted by the Grand Ole Gospel Group.

Central MBC to hold Women’s Day

Central Missionary Baptist Church will hold its Women’s Day program Sunday, Aug. 19 at 4 p.m. Wear your favorite color or hat. Pastor Marietta Lee of the House of Interces-sory Prayer will be the guest speaker along with the Heav-enly Light Inspirational choir.

The church is located at 443 W. Virgil Street.

Rev. David Flowers is the pastor.

New Era to hold Sunday school convention

The New Era Association will hold its annual Sunday school convention Saturday, Aug. 18 at 9 a.m. at Butler Branch Missionary Baptist Church. Classes will be pro-vided for all ages.

Adult classes will be church membership taught by Rev. Henry Jones Sr. and Sunday school officers and members taught by Rev. Llewellyn De-witt.

Youth classes will be It ain’t what it looks like taught by Minister Mary Cherry and My attitude determines my altitude taught by Rev. Shawn Maynor.

The church is located at 246 Carver’s Circle, Fair Bluff.

Rev. Ronald Alford is the pastor.

Riegelwood to hold voter registration

A Riegelwood Democrats organization for Obama-Biden 2012 gearing up for voter registration drive and a GOTV effort will be held Fri-day, Aug. 17 from 5-7 p.m. at 9703 Browntown Road.

Some campaign material and 2012 buttons and bumper stickers will be available.

For more information call Earnestine Keaton at 685-6735.

New Mt. Zion BC to hold 3rd pastoral anniversary Aug. 19

New Mt. Zion Baptist Church of Brunswick will hold its Pastor, Rev. Anthony Rowell’s, 3rd anniversary Sun-day, Aug. 19 at 4 p.m. The guest speaker will be Rev. Andy Anderson, pastor of Cedar Branch Baptist Church, Loris, S.C. along with his choir.

Refreshments will be served.

Baldwin Branch MBC to hold usher anniversary

Baldwin Branch Mission-ary Baptist Church will hold its Usher Ministry anniver-sary Sunday, Aug. 26 at 3 p.m. Pastor Theodore Thomas of First Baptist Church of Warsaw along with the choir and congregation will be the guests.

The church is located at 4047 N.C. 242 Hwy. S.., Eliza-bethtown.

New Light BC to hold Missionary Day

New Light Baptist Church, Hallsboro, will hold its young adult Missionary Day Sunday, Aug. 19 at 3 p.m. The theme will be “The call to serve.” The guest speaker will be Rev. Terrence Hardie of Union Mission Missionary Baptist Church of Green Sea, S.C. along with his choir.

Rev. Franklin Graham is the pastor.

New Zion MBC to hold revival

New Zion Missionary Bap-tist Church will hold its re-vival Aug. 15-17 at 7:30 p.m. nightly. Rev. Corey Blanks of Shady Grove AME Zion Church of Council will be the guest speaker for Wednesday, Aug. 15 and Friday, Aug. 17.

Rev. Michael Jackson of Davis Chapel Missionary Bap-tist Church of Navassa will render the service Thursday, Aug. 16.

Various choirs will per-form each night.

The church is located on Old Lake Road in Riegelwood.

Rev. Clarence Ganus is the pastor.

Family Fun Day at Bogue Park

A Family Fun Day will be held Labor Day weekend Sat-urday, Sept. 1 from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. at Bogue Park on Red Bug Road, Hallsboro. There will be gospel music, raffle, prizes, games food and fun.

The event is free and spon-sored by the Artesia Alumni Association.

Baldwin Branch MBC to hold women’s conference

Baldwin Branch Mission-ary Baptist Church will hold its women’s conference Aug. 16-17 at 7 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 18 at 9 a.m. and Sunday, Aug. 20 at 9 a.m. The theme is “Women of God to restore the joy, leading the church and transforming the world.”

The guest speaker for Thursday, Aug. 16 will be Min-ister Erickia McNair of Lum-berton.

Friday, Aug. 17 will be Rev. Pia Jessup of White Oak.

Saturday, Aug. 18 will be a hair and fashion show.

Sunday, Aug. 19 will be Dr. Shari Willis of Fayetteville.

The church is located at 4047 N.C. 242 Hwy. S.., Eliza-bethtown.

Rev. Louie Boykin is the pastor.

New Light BC to hold 60th anniversary Aug. 26

New Light Baptist Church will hold its 60th anniversary Sunday, Aug. 26 at 11 a.m. The guest speaker will be Rev. Franklin Graham.

Lunch will be served after the morning service.

An afternoon service will be held at 3 p.m. with special guests The Mighty Echoes.

Union BC to host Men’s Conference

Union Baptist Church will host the 21st Century G8keep-ers Men’s Conference Aug. 25 at 7 p.m. The challenge is for men of all ages, races, creeds and colors to step up and take a positive stand in their church, community and home. Men are asked to wear uniforms of law enforcement, EMT and firefighters to at-tend.

Guest speakers will in-clude Pastor Tony Rowell of New Mt. Zion of Whiteville, Clay McCauley of Mega Me-dia Ad Agency, CEO, Topsail Beach and Franklin Spauld-ing of Union Baptist of Lake Waccamaw.

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

For more information con-tact Franklin Spaulding at 641-2377.

Gregory W. Spaulding is the pastor.

Clarendon FWB to hold gospel sing

Clarendon Freewill Baptist Church will hold a gospel sing Sunday, Aug. 19 at 5 p.m. fea-turing the Rivertown Boys.

The church is located at 3960 Williams Road.

For more information call Ethel Cartrette at 653-4674. Rev. Bobby Cartrette is the pastor.

Wright reunionslated Sept. 23

The Wright reunion, which has been held every year since 1882, but one, is scheduled for Sunday, Sept. 23. It will be held at the Faith Activity Center of Forest Lawn Baptist Church between Tabor City and Vin-egar Hill on U.S. 701 across from Forest Lawn Cemetery.

The reunion will begin at noon and the covered dish lunch will be served at 12:38 p.m. Everyone is urged to bring a covered dish, beverag-es, family memorabilia such as pictures and family bibles. An exhibit of family informa-tion will be in place and fami-ly members are urged to bring their own exhibits.

Plates, utensils, cups and ice will be provided.

September has five Sun-days; however, the Wright reunion has been held on the fourth Sunday in September since 1974.

For further information call Richard Wright at 653-2082.

St. James A.M.E. Zionto hold homecoming

St. James A.M.E. Zion Church will celebrate its homecoming Saturday, Sept. 15 at 6 p.m. The guest speak-er will be Rev. Vincent M. Meares, pastor of Mt. Zion A.M.E. Zion Church in Eliza-bethtown along with his choir, ushers and congregation.

Dinner will be served im-mediately following service.

The homecoming celebra-tion will conclude Sunday, Sept. 16 with Sunday School at 9 a.m. and worship at 10 a.m., with Pastor, Rev. Viola L. Free-man delivering the message.

The church is located at 16297 Twisted Hickory Road, in the Sandhill community, Bladenboro.

VIJM to hold healing and deliverance service

Victory in Jesus Ministries will hold its 3rd Sunday heal-ing and deliverance service at 7 p.m.

VIJM is located at 626 S. Madison Street.

Regular services are held Tuesdays at 6 p.m. for Bible study and worship service on Sunday at 9 a.m. and 11:15 a.m.

For more information call 642-5416.

Tracey A. Troy is the pas-tor.

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