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April finish for water tower renovations

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leases expected for Masonboro Island area By Terry Lane Staff Writer

With more shellfish lease applications under review for local waters in 2017, the committee that advises state regulators on policies for the Masonboro Island reserve area is reviewing under what conditions shellfish leases could be granted. While there is general agreement that increased oyster production is needed in North Carolina, there are some concerns that new shellfish leases could create other unintended consequences. The North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries held a public hearing on three shellfish leases in New Hanover County on Jan. 25, which occurred after the Lumina News press deadline. There could be more oyster farms coming to the Masonboro Island area once a moratorium on new shellfish leases there expires in March, said an official with the North Carolina Coastal Reserve, the organization that oversees the uninhabited island. Of the leases considered on Wednesday, two were in the Masonboro Sound and one in Pages Creek, none of which are protected areas under a moratorium. The local advisory committees (LAC) for both Masonboro Island and Zeke’s Island met jointly last week to review policy issues on shellfish leasing, as both islands gained new oyster farm leases in 2015 for the waters in protected reserve areas. In 2015, the marine fisheries division granted two leases for the Masonboro Island reserve, a protected area around the island. However, the division placed a moratorium on new leases for areas protected by the North Carolina Coastal Reserve in 2016, after the North Carolina General Assembly approved funding to

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Crews are repainting the Town of Wrightsville Beach’s water tower on the south end near the Carolina Yacht Club.

For the first time since 2006, the town’s south end water tower will undergo renovations, as crews will repaint and repair the tower over the course of the next few months, public works director William “Buck” Squires told the Wrightsville Beach Board of Aldermen this week during the annual retreat meeting. Both the interior and A tower nearby exterior of the water that holds mobile tower will be sand blasted and the towcell phone er’s exterior will be communication repainted. The interior of the 200,000-gallon equipment will water tank, which come down was last disinfected once the work is in 2014, will be recoated. Squires said complete. the project will likely be finished in April. Meanwhile, crews for AT&T erected a tower nearby to hold the mobile cell phone communication equipment that was attached to the water tower. Town officials said the temporary tower would come down once the work is complete. As part of the renovations, a new safety rail will be added to give workers more room to work around the cell phone antennas. Email terrylane@luminanews.com

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National Park Service’s grant sends students to Alaska By Elly Colwell Contributing Writer

Ten Wilmington high-school students are preparing for a three-week Alaskan wilderness adventure as part of a program that introduces outdoor excursions for students with financial needs. Serving as ambassadors for the National Center for Outdoor and Adventure Education’s program Education Without Walls (EWW), the students will climb, hike and camp on glaciers in the remote mountains of Alaska at no personal cost over 21 days this July. “Circumstances arise in all of our lives where we find ourselves in financial need,” said Zac Adair, cofounder of the center. The group uses outdoor adventure to help its students overcome challenges they face in daily life. EWW specifically aims to encourage highly motivated students in academic and personal development. Each Alaska-bound teenager has participated in EWW excursions throughout his or her middle- and high-school years. “I was always too scared to go n See ALASKA Page 2

Family uses fishing tournament proceeds to launch scholarship

Cold Stroke Classic

By Terry Lane Staff Writer

Following a successful fishing tournament fundraiser held last year, the friends and family of a popular late employee of Motts Channel Seafood in Wrightsville Beach will honor her memory the best way they know how: through education. Starting in 2017, a New Hanover County student will apply $5,000 toward his or her education at Appalachian State University through the Mandie Phillips Memorial Scholarship. The scholarship fund will have an endowment of $25,000, meaning it will be there for years to come, following the Mandie Phillips Memorial Inshore/Offshore Fishing Tournament, hosted in October 2016 by Motts Channel Seafood, which raised a total of $30,000. “The biggest fear when you lose someone is they’ll be forgotten,” said Allie Phillips of her sister Mandie, who died in a car accident n See SCHOLARSHIP Page 2

Paddlers prepare to start Coastal Urge’s ninth annual Cold Stroke Classic at the Blockade Runner Beach Resort’s soundside beach Saturday, Jan. 21.~ Allison Potter

Board sees WB Park plan, considers recycling survey By Terry Lane Staff Writer

A first look at upgrades to Wrightsville Beach Park were presented to the board of aldermen by architect Scott Stewart on Monday, Jan. 24.

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During its annual retreat meeting, the Wrightsville Beach Board of Aldermen looked at an updated conceptual redesign of Wrightsville Beach Park, heard a presentation about new parking meter technology and asked staff to create a survey to ask residents if the town should offer curbside recycling. The Monday, Jan. 24 meeting gave the town’s board an informal opportunity to review several other issues as well, including proposals to add new security cameras in the town, to modify the town’s crosswalks and to create new loading zones for trucks on North Lumina Avenue. Architect Scott Stewart unveiled a first look at the complete design of upgrades to Wrightsville Beach Park. He said the project that began as a n See BOARD Page 2

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Lumina News — Your Coastal Community Newspaper since May 2002 both a handicap-accessible kayak launch and an outdoor “classroom” area where lectures could be conducted. Mayor Bill Blair described the plan as “impressive” while alderwoman Elizabeth King said it was a “perfect idea.” Stewart and board members didn’t discuss costs during the meeting, but he said the plan was

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multi-use path connecting Causeway Drive with Salisbury Street on the park’s eastern border grew to a comprehensive redesign that added gazebos, new tennis courts, additional parking and a dock stretching into the adjacent marshland, offering

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in 2014. “We’ve made sure that’s never going to happen. That’s the best feeling in the world.” When the owners of Motts Channel Seafood first learned that Phillips made the dean’s list at Appalachian State University in her first semester there, they were impressed, but not surprised. “We were shocked when she said she wanted to study physics,” said Alison Long, the market’s co-owner. “She had such lofty goals. You believed her when she said she wanted to be the first female president.” Earlier this month, the family met with Appalachian State officials to talk about how to set up the scholarship. While organizers originally envisioned awarding six scholarships of $5,000, they said that setting up an endowment offers the opportunity to provide a scholarship in Mandie Phillips’ name for years to come. When she died, Phillips was a senior at Appalachian State, majoring in political science with a minor in physics. The scholarship will be merit based, taking into account the grades, activities and academic achievements of the awardees, with the only requirement being that it is a New Hanover County

student attending Appalachian State. Last year, 47 students from New Hanover County attended the university located in Boone, North Carolina. Phillips said her sister received a scholarship help to attend Appalachian State, so it’s fitting that her memory is tied to education at the school. “She loved school, she talked about it all the time,” Phillips said of her sister. “It meant a lot to her.” Long and Phillips also said they were overwhelmed with the support they received at last year’s tournament and plan on hosting it again in 2017. Those proceeds would be put toward the scholarship endowment, potentially growing the size and number of recipients for future scholarships. Appalachian State will manage the fund, with a panel of school officials and students determining who will be awarded the scholarships, tournament organizers said. Phillips said allowing the school to manage the scholarship will ensure that it can be awarded impartially to a local student. “They will set the criteria and they will select the recipients,” Phillips said of the panel. “It will go to someone who works hard and earned it, like Mandie did.”

developed to be phased in incrementally to help the town with budgeting. Blair said the plan should go through the town’s parks and recreation committee before the board of aldermen considers it. “There’s not going to be a park like this next to a 120-acre nature preserve,” Stewart said. “To marry the two would be an epic event. It would be extraordinary.”

how many available spots are left on the beach, and where they may be, to help alleviate the need for drivers to hunt for spots. The system also offers better datacollection measures to help the town more efficiently manage its parking. “It looks like we’re getting closer to having a sign at the bridge that says ‘The beach is full,’” said alderman Hank Miller.

Board members view new parking technology

Town to survey residents on curbside recycling

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trip. It did not cover the entire cost, however, so the students are learning about fundraising and will be responsible for raising a portion of their own travel expenses. Adair said the grant is allowing the organization to continue its growth. Adair and his wife, Celine, founded the center in 2009. Both are lifelong adventurists and created the organization after Zac became almost completely blind in an automobile collision in 2003. “I knew I wouldn’t be hired by anybody, so I figured I’d start my own company,” Adair said. “I probably could’ve gotten an administrative job, but I wanted to be outdoors.” This Alaska trip will be the students’ longest and first out-of-state excursion with NCOAE. They will begin the trip by flying with three instructors to Anchorage, taking a bush flight closer to their destination, and backpacking across the mountainous and glacier-ridden Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve. “I’m excited to see all the snow,” Bowman said, “and maybe even a grizzly bear.” The park is snow-covered yearround. It is also the largest national park in the United States, totaling 13.2 million acres. Because of its size, Adair said the park is difficult to maintain.

With most of the town’s electronic parking meters facing obsolescence in 2018, representatives of Lanier Parking, the company that manages the town’s parking system, demonstrated an electronic parking meter that included advanced technology. Most importantly, the Parkeon Pay Station technology won’t require the periodic upgrades from Microsoft that create expiration dates for the systems. Currently, the warranties on 23 of the town’s 26 electronic parking meters expire in March 2018. The town can buy additional replacement parts to extend the life of its current meters, though Lanier Parking executives touted the benefits of bringing on the new vendor, citing the extended life of the new technology. Additionally, the new meters could be used to help replace the 263 coin-operated gray meters still set up in some parking areas around town. In addition to sidestepping the warranty problem, the new parking technology could also offer new services to visitors planning on driving into Wrightsville Beach. While not specific to any spot, the system could tell users

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Public works director William “Buck” Squires told the board the only recycling policy that would work for the town would be automatic curbside singlestream recycling, where all residents would pay the monthly fee, which would allow them to put all their recyclable trash in a single bin for weekly pickup. The costs for residents would be $4-$5 monthly. The town had voluntary curbside recycling until 2015, when the company providing it stopped because of weak voluntary participation, making it unprofitable. There could also be issues with how to include residents in condominiums and other multifamily units, as Squires said it would likely require another large bin to be placed on the property. Alderman Lisa Weeks, an advocate of curbside recycling, said the service was intended to primarily focus on single-family residences, but Blair said “if you charge people, then you have to charge everybody.” Weeks said there could be some interest in cost sharing from the New Hanover County government, since it could help reduce use of the county’s landfill.

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out in the woods before this,” said Shaianne Bowman, a junior at New Hanover High School. “It’s helped me learn how to communicate, too. I’m an introvert but I’ve started to learn about how to talk about my problems.” Over the course of her four years in the program, Bowman said she and her classmates have backpacked, rock-climbed, surfed, kayaked and camped together. They have learned about stewardship, interpersonal relationships and independence as they explored the wilderness and beaches of North Carolina. NCOAE won a $25,000 grant from the National Park Service’s Challenge Cost Share Program that Adair said will help fund the

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study how the state can promote more oyster and shellfish cultivation. The moratorium is scheduled to expire in March. With the moratorium on shellfish leases coming to a close, the coastal reserve is reviewing what guidance, if any, to offer as more applicants for oyster farms are expected in 2017. The meeting last week for the LAC groups, which are informal advisory groups, gave local stakeholders an opportunity to explore whether any restrictions should be placed on new shellfish leases in the protected areas. “We are at 5 percent of our historic oyster levels in North Carolina,” said Richard Johnson, a member of the LAC and organizer of the nonprofit Masonboro.org, which provides volunteers to help

Board members asked the town staff to put together a survey of residents to gauge their feeling on whether they would pay for weekly curbside recycling services.

New surveillance cameras, crosswalks

The town will consider adding additional surveillance cameras in some locations, including on Jack Parker Drive on the island’s south end and at the corner of Causeway Drive and Waynick Boulevard. The additional cameras would cost between $60,000-$80,000. Additionally, the town will consider new configurations for crosswalks downtown. Several board members said the crosswalks at 4 N. Lumina Avenue by Tower 7 Baja Mexican Grill, and the crossing at the intersection of Waynick Boulevard and Causeway Drive were dangerous for pedestrians. While adding other crosswalks across North Lumina Avenue would be helpful, alderwoman Elizabeth King noted most pedestrians will continue to take the “shortest path” across the street, regardless of where crosswalks are painted. The town is also looking at ways to set up truck-loading zones on North Lumina Avenue between the intersections of Birmingham and Columbia streets. There can often be three or four trucks on Friday morning unloading supplies to nearby businesses, creating traffic and visibility problems for nearby residents, board members said. “We’re trying to help these folks out. They deal with a lot,” Mayor Pro-Tem Darryl Mills said. Other items considered by the board included.:

Jan. 26–Feb. 1, 2017 In an effort to limit the time a developer can have a conditional use permit, the board will consider establishing new policy to limit the number of extensions on conditional use permits granted by the board. Blair said it wasn’t fair to extend projects indefinitely, as future boards of aldermen would inherit the conditional use permits granted by prior boards. “If you can’t get it built in 18 months, it’s not going to happen,” Blair said. The staff will present policy to the board during the Feb. 9 meeting that will allow a oneyear extension of a conditional use permit, followed by an additional six-month extension that staff could grant. Conditional use permits grant developers exemptions from some zoning requirements if they are able to meet other conditions specified by the town. With the prospect of new requests for town right-of-way leases for mobile phone towers, the board gave the town manager and attorney authority to research the hiring of lawyers specialized in telecommunications policy to help update the town’s ordinance. Owens said that changes in mobile phone technology are expected to create demand for more, and smaller, towers, which could create an eyesore in some places. The town will consider purchasing a variety of “welcome” banners for light poles, as board members requested the staff put together a presentation with options. Weeks noted that both Carolina Beach and Kure Beach had similar banners, which she said improved the hospitable image of those places.

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Left to right, Joaly Canseco, Shaianne Bowman, Cameron Williams, Jack Canseco, Celine Adair and Quenton Bowman Jr., students in the Education Without Walls program, play an outdoor game with the program’s cofounder, Celine Adair, on Sunday, Jan. 22.

“It’s probably one of the wildest places in the United States,” Adair said. “We want to help sustain it.” Working with an archaeologist on-site, the students will learn about restoration as they repair bear fences and degraded structures at a historic mining site in the park. EWW was the organization’s first program and has reached almost 800 students since its creation. The current students who are headed to Alaska voiced appreciation for the things they’ve learned, and some said they hope

to come back as leaders for the program. Some of the students are also applying to universities, asking for letters of recommendation from the NCOAE founders and spreading their knowledge of the outdoors. “After we graduate, my friends and I are talking about going backpacking,” said Joaly Canseco, a senior at New Hanover High School. “Most of them have never done anything like this before, but they want to after hearing about what we’ve done.”

clean and preserve the island. “If there are any restrictions needed, they should be science-based.” While oysters are valued for their ability to clean the water, there are some concerns that too many oysters concentrated together could rob nutrients of other marine life downstream. Additionally, Cape Fear Surfrider Foundation Chairman Ethan Crouch said that while shellfish production can be beneficial, it’s not the solution to other pollution problems, like stormwater runoff. “A bed of oysters in the Masonboro Reserve is not going to solve water-quality issues in the community,” said Crouch, another member of the Masonboro Island Reserve LAC. “We’re trying to do this in a thoughtful manner by looking at possibly permitting a designated number of leases in designated areas.”

Hope Sutton, N.C. Coastal Reserve stewardship coordinator and Southern sites manager, said that local regulators are still working to figure out how to meet signals sent by the North Carolina General Assembly, which has funded studies designed to boost support and interest in shellfish cultivation in North Carolina. “Because these are dedicated state nature reserves, we have legal obligations to meet the main purpose to make sure that the habitat is protected and will be used for research and education,” Sutton said. “There are a variety of benefits of oysters, as well as some potential concerns. The reality is there’s not as much research that’s as conclusive as we wish it to be.” Email terrylane@luminanews.com

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For The Record Question and photographs by Terry Lane

New Hanover County has added a mobile hazardous waste recycling van and Wrightsville Beach will again look into adding curbside recycling for residents. Are local governments doing enough to promote and encourage recycling?

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“Not really, it can be a pain to recycle, especially where they are picky in what they pick up.”

“It would be good if they had more places for recycling in the park, around the beach and around town.”

“I think they do a good job of providing opportunities, but I need to do a better job of doing it.”

“The recycling center at Wrightsville Beach is always busy and being utilized, so the opportunity is there. I’d like more recycling bins by the beach.”

“They should make an effort to improve recycling by the beach. A lot of people throw recyclables in the trash at the beach because there are no bins.”

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BEACH BRIEFS Hamilton tapped for cabinet post A state lawmaker representing part of Wilmington is joining the cabinet of newly elected North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, D, after he appointed former N.C. Rep. Susi Hamilton, D-18th District, to be the secretary of the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources. “Susi Hamilton has a strong appreciation for North Carolina’s natural and cultural heritage and a deep commitment to serving our state,” Cooper said. “She shares my belief that our history, natural resources and strong arts traditions are critical to our economy and worth celebrating.” Hamilton earned recognition for her efforts to preserve the state’s film industry, including the 2014 North Carolina Metropolitan Mayors Coalition legislative award for her efforts on advocating film grant funding for the state. Hamilton served four terms representing the district that included part of Wilmington and a large portion of Brunswick County.

Wilmington Chamber hires new head executive The Wilmington Chamber of Commerce tapped a policy expert from its sister organization in Charlotte to fill the top executive position following a search that lasted more than seven months. The chamber announced this week that Natalie English will take the position of president and chief executive officer, coming from the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce, where as chief public policy officer she focused on government policy issues, including infrastructure investment campaigns and voter county bonds. The North Carolina State University graduate comes to Wilmington with more than 30 years’ experience, including campaigning for passage of more than $5 billion in infrastructure investment. She will replace the chamber’s interim president Dick Blouse, who stepped into the role after long-time president and CEO Connie Majure-Rhett retired in May after 22 years of leading the organization. “Her leadership experience and background in affecting policies that impact the cost and ease of doing business, quality of life and workforce will help take the Wilmington business community and our chamber to new heights,” said Charlie Mattox, Wilmington Chamber of Commerce board chairman. Additionally, English is currently the president of the Charlotte Rotary Club. “A hurricane of energy is about to hit landfall in Wilmington and her name is Natalie English,” said Bob Morgan, Charlotte Chamber president and CEO. English will take the position March 6.

New Hanover County adds mobile hazardous recycling in WB New Hanover County rolled out its new, specialty recycling wagon that will allow Wrightsville Beach residents and those living close by to recycle hazardous waste without transporting it to the county’s facility on U.S. 421. The county’s HazWagon will be at Wrightsville Beach

Park each Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the area where the farmers market is held. The wagon will accept a variety of items that can’t be thrown away through normal collection, including batteries, electronics, paints, cooking oils, fertilizers, fuels and household cleaners. The HazWagon will also set up on Mondays in Ogden Park and Fridays at Carolina Beach’s Mike Chappell Park, also from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at each location.

Casino night fundraiser goes for ’80s style This year’s casino night fundraiser for Wrightsville Beach School will see attendees breaking out neon spandex, lacing up Reeboks, pulling up legwarmers and throwing on Members Only jackets. The Wrightsville Beach Foundation will highlight ’80s fashion and lifestyle as part of its Back to the ’80s Casino Night at Country Club of Landfall on Saturday, Feb. 4 at 6 p.m. The annual event will feature a photo booth, silent and live auctions, heavy hors d’oeuvres, a latenight food bar and dancing, along with winner-take-all gambling with chips. Individual tickets are $100, rising to $125 at the door, with proceeds benefitting Wrightsville Beach School. Tickets can be

Tuesday, Jan. 31 Wrightsville Beach Museum of History board of directors annual meeting, 6 p.m., Wrightsville Beach Brewery, 6201 Oleander Drive Wednesday, Feb. 1 Wilmington Planning Commission, 6 p.m., Council Chambers, City Hall, 102 N. Third St.

Food Network star hosts GLOW fundraiser at Landfall The organizers of a fundraiser for a local school said only a few breakfast tickets remain for a chance to meet celebrity chef Giada De Laurentiis. Both lunch and dinner tickets for the Jan. 27 De Laurentiis event have sold out, but tickets for the 7:30 a.m. breakfast show remain. During the events, De Laurentiis will supervise a locally sourced staff of Wilmington chefs in breakfast preparation at the Country Club of Landfall. The event will be featured in a Food Network Facebook live broadcast. Proceeds from the fundraiser will benefit the Girls Leadership Academy of Wilmington (GLOW), which opened in August 2016. Giada’s events follow Chef Emeril Lagasse’s visit to Wilmington in January 2016, which raised more than $260,000 for GLOW’s opening. To learn more about GLOW or to buy tickets for this breakfast event, go to www.glowacademy.net

Weekend Police Report FRIDAY, JAN. 20

Wallace Danna, Blair Elizabeth Bigham and Joseph McCaul were cited with expired registration.

Citations • James Neal, Shra Williams, Matthew Cotton and Rebecca Stevens were cited with expired registration. • Susan Marotti was cited with improper left turn. • Trilby Newkirk and Edward Neal Huffman Jr. were cited with revoked license plates. • Jesus Alberto Solis was cited with not carrying a driver’s license. • James Cagney Singleton was cited with driving while license revoked. • David G. McCaleb was cited with running a red light. • Adrian Bennett Hilton was cited with running a stop sign. • Timurlan Aitaly was cited with driving with an open container after consuming, driving while licensed revoked and speeding. • Corey Lee Price was cited with displaying neon lights on a vehicle. • Raymond Jonathan Verina was cited with speeding and not carrying a driver’s license. • Tanner Windham was cited with speeding.

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• Michael David White was cited with expired driver’s license. • Ranarta Michelle Mack was cited with fictitious plates, speeding and failure to carry a driver’s license. • Christopher Ian Thomason was cited with fictitious plates. • Timothy J. Foley was cited with running a stop sign and improper passing on the right. • Janet Maureen Delucca and Eugene Burrows were cited with running a stop sign. • David Nelson Frazier was cited with improper left turn. • Ryan Carr was cited with not carrying a driver’s license. • Henry Murtagh and John Hurdle were cited with speeding. • Connor Robinson and Richard Ogle were cited with human waste.

SUNDAY, JAN. 22 Citations • Christi McCuiston and Phillip Payne were cited with expired registration. • Clint Duckworth was cited with running a red light.

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• Daniel Martin, Earnest Jackson Snell, Samantha Elizabeth Schwarz and Travon Parker were cited with speeding.

Arrests • Colleen Lyons Rozier was charged with DWI and cited with speeding.

Citations • Ellis Layne Edwards, Anna Elizabeth Rosati, Walter Clement Sprye III, Bonnie Ellen Chasmer, Colin James Tracy, William

• Coty Tahj Loray was cited with expired registration and expired vehicle inspection. • Christopher Shemar Jones was cited with driving while licensed revoked, expired registration, possession of marijuana and marijuana paraphernalia.

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Editorial/Opinion Our thoughts By Simon Gonzalez

I met Ruth during a gathering of local nonprofits held at Cape Fear Community College’s Schwartz Center last Saturday. She was at the NAACP table, telling attendees about the mission and efforts of the New Hanover County chapter. The event was well into its second hour, but Ruth had just arrived. She had been at the women’s march downtown, a few blocks away. She said how great the event was, how empowering, how wonderful. As a husband and father of an amazing daughter, I’m 100 percent in favor of women’s rights — equal pay, equal respect, equal opportunity, the right not to be assaulted. But other than serving as a general protest of the man inaugurated as president the day before and a way to vent collective spleens, I didn’t really get the purpose of the march, nationally and locally. The gatherings across the country were intended to affirm the message that “women’s rights are human rights” (don’t know anyone who disagrees with that) and to “show intersectionality” (whatever that means). They were “made up of women of all races, ethnicities, political persuasions” — except for the pro-life women who were asked not to attend. I could have confronted Ruth with my reservations. I could have shared my opinion that the vulgar and obscene language and imagery on full display in Washington, D.C., were inappropriate for the children present. But I didn’t. We moved on to other topics. I said I work for Wrightsville Beach Magazine (Lumina News’ sister publication). She loves the magazine and asked about getting extra copies of an issue from last year that had a story she liked to share with friends. When I said I had written the story, she grabbed my hands in gratitude. Her husband is a musician who’s famous in jazz circles. We talked about our love of the music, concerts we’d attended, artists we’d seen. She said she was going to a jazz jam the following evening, and I should bring my wife. I said I’d be there. We went and sat at a table with Ruth and a man named Alan, a pianist who’s new to town and wants

to get plugged into the local jazz scene. Alan sat in with the band for a couple of songs, and proved to be an outstanding musician. We talked about his influences, his background, and the challenge of pursuing music while not forsaking his day job as a scientist. I left feeling I’d made two good friends that weekend, which probably would not have happened if I’d started my conversation with Ruth by debating politics. Don’t get me wrong. I love a good, lively political debate with friends. But in this season, friendly debates have been replaced by confrontation. There’s a video making the rounds of a woman kicked off an airplane after berating a passenger because he voted for the candidate she despised. The sister of a Marine killed in Iraq in 2007 and the wife of a Navy SEAL who died in Afghanistan in 2010 were spit on, called vile names and their clothing ruined by protesters while walking to the Salute to Heroes Inaugural Gala on Friday. Sadly, such invective seems to be all too common these days. It doesn’t have to be this way. Instead of hostility, why not seek common ground? In December, I interviewed Wilmington pastor James Jamison about his outreach ministry called Boots on the Ground for a magazine story. Each month the group goes into a Wilmington public housing property to dispense food and love. Jamison ran for school board as a Democrat. Many of his volunteers vote Republican. But it doesn’t interfere. “One month a bunch of us were out at Houston Moore, and we were talking about the election,” Jamison said. “It was only then that I found out that they were all Republicans. But I looked around and I really saw the power of God. Democrats and Republicans and independents, all of us working together serving the children to the glory of God. I’m not with them on Donald Trump, but Donald Trump was not going to dictate whether we did our job here or not. We just worked together.” Now that sounds like a pretty good template to follow.

Hook, Line & Sinker Weather continues to cooperate for anglers By Skylar Walters

One could really not ask for better weather, especially considering it is the last week of January. With mostly sunny skies, highs reaching near 80 degrees and water temperatures warming up into the mid50s, those heading out to wet a line have been mostly successful. Sea conditions have allowed those with boats to head off the beach and the inshore fishing, while not on fire, has been relatively good. Of course, we’re about to head into the month of February so all this could change, but at least for now the extended forecast shows mild weather through the weekend. The bluefin tuna continue to impress those targeting them just off our beaches, although the past few days have been a little rough. One significant catch of note occurred in Morehead City last Friday with a 1,045pound behemoth landed by anglers fishing in a 26-foot center console boat. This fish would have crushed the state record but because it was caught by commercial anglers and headed for the sale table, it doesn’t qualify. Nonetheless, that’s one impressive catch! For those not wanting to wrangle with a monster and fight a fish for hours on end, the black bass fishing in water depths around 70 feet has been very good and some very large bass have been reported. As usual, sometimes you have to weed through the smaller ones but many anglers targeting them have been getting

TIDES Masonboro Inlet

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limits in short order. Inshore, the speckled trout fishing has slowed quite a bit but those putting in the time and effort have been successful. Live bait seems to be working a little better than artificial baits but both are working. Live mud minnows, which can still be caught using a minnow trap in the creeks, are a good, hardy bait to use under a popping cork. If using artificial baits, make sure the retrieve is slow because even though the water temperatures have warmed up a bit, the fish are still slow and lethargic. There have been lots of reports of red drum being found around the area docks and creeks around the Wrightsville Beach area also. For those looking for something a little different, the striper fishing in the Cape Fear River near downtown has also been producing well along the waterfront using bucktails and swimming plugs. If fishing is just not in your schedule, then you might want to make a weekend trip and visit the Carolina Outdoor Expo being held in the Greenville Convention Center this weekend starting on Friday. A day ticket is $10 or a weekend pass is $15 with children under 12 free. Plenty of seminars are scheduled throughout the weekend and more than 100 hunting and fishing vendors will be on hand. For additional information, visit www.carolinaoutdoorexpo.com to see a complete list of the weekend happenings.

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