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Sharing perspectives for stronger decisions

A local sustainability series

Catlin, Lee on coal ash, seismic testing, sea level

Commissioners past and present reflect on the role of diversity

By Miriah Hamrick

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Vivian Seigler Wright was not trying to make history when she ran for a seat on the county commission in 1972. She simply thought she could do the job better than sitting board members. Wright does not remember what item of business she brought to commissioners as a member of the county board of elections, but she remembers her response to the experience. “We had an issue before the board of commissioners, and after we went before the board of commissioners, I figured I could do better than those five men. So I ran for election,” Wright said. “I’m not sure I could remember [the issue] now, but it upset me enough at the time that I left the board of elections and ran for the other.” Wright was the first woman to serve on the New Hanover County Board of Commissioners, more than 50 years after women earned the right to vote. Two more women, Ellen Carraway Williams and Karen Eckberg Gottovi, joined her on the board in 1976. Wright took her duty seriously and worked hard, an effort she said anyone can make. “I tried to be prepared, to study the things that were on the agenda. I think that’s where some of the men on the board fell short, because they didn’t put the time in,” Wright said. “That’s the big thing about it. It doesn’t much matter whether you’re a man or a woman. If you know what you’re doing, and you’re faithful about learning the things that are coming before the board, then anybody can do it.”

After successfully defending their seats against challengers during the 2014 election, Rep. Rick Catlin, R-District 20, and Sen. Michael Lee, R-District 9, discuss how they might approach coal ash management, offshore oil and gas exploration, and updated sea level rise predictions during their two-year terms in the N.C. General Assembly.

Coal ash law revisited

Performance Club elf patrol sings holiday songs during the tree lighting ceremony in Wrightsville Beach Park Friday, Nov. 28. ~ Emmy Errante

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Turtle, hound and hummingbird turn heads at flotilla By Emmy Errante Staff Writer

Parading behind boat captains with enormous yachts and decades of flotilla experience, Mike Spivey and his four-man crew felt their confidence in winning the 31st North Carolina Holiday Flotilla slipping away. They walked away empty-handed the only other year they entered, so placing second or third would be a satisfying achievement, they decided. When results were revealed several hours later, however, Spivey’s turtle-themed boat decorations were awarded Best in Show by the five flotilla judges — Eric Irizarry, DC Virgo principal; Bill Vassar, EUE Screen Gems Studios; Brian Simms, Double Q Radio; Jason Dillion, Star News; and Wrightsville Beach Mayor Pro Tem Darrel Mills. “We thought we had a winner when we left the driveway,” Spivey said after collecting the $5,000 cash prize and iconic trophy at the awards brunch Sunday, Nov. 30. “But then we put in and saw everybody else.” Spivey and his brother-in-law, Delmer Atkinson, said they came up with the “save the turtles” theme over the summer. n See flotilla Page A5

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Brent Jernigan, captain of the Craig Cat, won Best Powerboat 22 feet and under at the N.C. Holiday Flotilla for his entry, “Christmas Hummingbird.”

Residents oppose, support sidewalk By Emmy Errante Staff Writer

A proposed sidewalk on Coral Drive is a matter of contention for Wrightsville Beach residents. The sidewalk would be built using funds from a Surface Transportation Project-Direct Apportionment (STP-DA) grant. The amount of the grant is $292,000 with the town matching the grant at $58,400 and the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) providing funds in the amount of $233,600. The proposed sidewalk would be 5 feet wide and run along the eastern right-of-way edge of the road from the existing sidewalk to Wrightsville Beach School. The Wilmington Metropolitan Planning

Organization (WMPO) and the NCDOT require the sidewalk be separated from the travel lane a minimum of 5 feet. The project would also involve the installation of speed humps along Coral Drive to lower speeds and improve safety. Bill West, who lives on the east side of Coral Drive, expressed concerns about the trees and other landscaping features that would be lost if the sidewalk were constructed. The sidewalk construction would extend 15 feet into residents’ yards, and although that area is within the NCDOT right-of-way, West said residents maintain the area as if it were their private property. “We consider it part of our yard,” he said during a Dec. 2 phone interview. “We mow it, we clip it and take care of it.”

“We consider it part of our yard. We mow it, we clip it and take care of it.”

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Coral Drive joggers run past stacked up traffic inbound to Wrightsville Beach School Wednesday morning, Dec. 3.

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County leadership Urban greenway may replace rail bed transition delayed By Cole Dittmer Staff Writer

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Until commissioners-elect Skip Watkins and Rob Zapple can join the New Hanover County Board of Commissioners, the election of a new chair and vice-chair will be postponed. The selection of new leadership was scheduled for a Dec. 1 meeting, which county staff initially interpreted as required by state law, even though the seating of Watkins and Zapple is halted until the North Carolina State Board of Elections resolves an elections protest appeal. But during the meeting, Chairman Woody White said the law offers “a few choices.” He noted the law calls for an election of the chair and vice-chair on the first Monday in December of each even numbered year. “When you look at the plain reading of the words, it appears we should hold the election today. But when you pause and reflect on the purpose of the law ... we all agree that it was meant to further the will of the electorate on elections,” White said before the board unanimously agreed to delay the election until a full board is seated according to the choice of voters at the polls in November. The state elections board ten“When you look at tatively scheduled a hearing for the plain reading of elections protest appeals filed the words, it appears across the state, including the filed in New Hanover we should hold the one County, for Dec. 9. Elections election today. board spokesperson Joshua Lawson said appeals protests are “not uncommon.” The elections protest, filed by county resident John Christian Anderson, calls for a new election for the commissioners race or disqualification of all votes cast at the Williston precinct due to allegations of improper influence of voters and delayed delivery of votes on election night. The New Hanover County Board of Elections dismissed the protest during a Nov. 20 meeting, while a recount of almost 67,000 votes was underway in the next room, a process that confirmed Zapple’s victory over Republican candidate Dr. Derrick Hickey by less than 200 votes. Disqualification of the W29 precinct votes could have changed the results of the election. White congratulated Watkins and Zapple, who attended the meeting from seats in the audience. “This was supposed to be a festive occasion, where we say thank you to one outgoing commissioner and welcome two incoming commissioners. Unfortunately, circumstances are such that we can’t welcome them in, but we all look forward to having five commissioners, and we commend you all for winning the election,” White said. The terms of commissioners Thomas Wolfe and Brian Berger are extended until the new commissioners can be seated. Commissioners are next scheduled to meet Dec. 15 at 9 a.m. email miriah@luminanews.com

A greenway connection utilizing the rail bed stretching from North Third Street to McRae Street could be coming soon to downtown Wilmington. Wilmington City Council approved the concept of using the long abandoned rail bed for a public greenway and trail during its Tuesday, Dec. 2, meeting. Mike Kozlosky, Wilmington Metropolitan Planning Organization executive director, said the reestablishment of the rail bed as a functioning passenger railway is several years away. The greenway and trail could be developed in the interim to provide bicycle and pedestrian access between the two areas with an intention to retain the trial when rail service is reestablished in the future. Council’s approval of the concept was the first step in securing funding for the project and planning. While the North Carolina Department of Transportation owns the land, Kozlosky said maintenance of any landscaping improvements and trails would likely be the responsibility of the city. Another partnership between the city and NCDOT is the installation of mast arm signal poles at the intersection of 17th and Market streets was also approved at city council’s meeting. The city approved $250,000

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An adjusted schedule to complete projects funded by the voter-approved $160 million school bond referendum delays the renovation and expansion of Wrightsville Beach School by one year.

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in funding to accompany $200,000 from NCDOT for the project. In addition to the mast signal arms, the project will include curb extensions, traffic calming devices, pedestrian improvements, resurfacing and landscaping along 17th Street. The motion passed 5-2 on the first reading with councilmen Kevin O’Grady and Neil Anderson voting against the ordinance. After a couple of rounds of voting, an easement was granted to a private developer for the construction of a walkway between the Second Street parking deck and the new multiuse

development under construction on Third Street across from City Hall. Along with granting the easement, the city planned to charge a one-time fee of $5,233 for the valuation of the easement. Councilman Anderson objected to the charge. “We talk about attracting businesses and rolling out the red carpet for them but I feel like this is a case where we are nickel and diming them,” Anderson said. “This is a $40 million development.” Councilman Charlie Rivenbark agreed with Anderson, saying council should consider the

increased tax base the development will bring. Mayor Pro Tem Margaret Haynes and councilmen O’Grady, Laura Padgett and Dr. Earl Sheridan disagreed. “We certainly want to be business friendly but I think this is a minimal amount of money to pay,” Haynes said. “I think it would set a bad precedent to give the easement away.” Anderson’s substitute resolution failed 4-3 with Haynes, O’Grady, Sheridan and Padgett voting against. The original resolution passed 5-2 with Anderson and Rivenbark dissenting. email cole@luminanews.com

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The New Hanover County Board of Education unanimously approved the new schedule during a Dec. 2 meeting, after newcomer Bruce Shell took an oath of office and assumed his seat among board members. Director of facility planning and construction Eddie Anderson said the plan to relocate students while schools undergo construction was scrambled to address concerns raised by College Park Elementary School staff and parents about the impact of relocating children for three years. The original schedule relocated Wrightsville Beach students to the newly replaced College Park Elementary School during the 2018-19 school year, with College Park students attending the old Rock Church on Sidbury Road from 2016 to 2019. The new schedule displaces College Park students for only two years, during the 2017-18 and 2018-19 school years, and moves Wrightsville Beach students to the newly replaced Blair Elementary School

during the 2019-20 school year. Blair students will remain at the new elementary school in Porters Neck for an extra year. After redistricting, students will return to home schools for the 2020-21 school year. Anderson said discussions with Wrightsville Beach School staff and parents indicate the new plan is not an issue. “They actually see attending Blair Elementary School as an advantage,” Anderson said to the board. Blair Elementary is a little more than 6 miles away from Wrightsville Beach School, about 13 minutes of travel time using Google Maps. College Park Elementary is 7.7 miles from the Sidbury Road site, about 15 minutes of travel time. School bond projects to renovate and expand middle schools and high schools will take place in multiple phases, with most work completed during summer breaks. Students will not be relocated to swing sites. Before the school board tackled

the Dec. 2 agenda, veteran chair Don Hayes and vice chair Jeannette Nichols secured just enough votes to continue leading the board. Board member Edward Higgins nominated Hayes to continue his tenure as chair, followed by board member Tammy Covil’s nomination of fellow board member Lisa Estep. Estep was elected to the board in 2012. Hayes, who has served as chair for eight years, was reelected by a 4-3 vote with support from longtime board members Janice Cavenaugh, Higgins and Nichols. Covil and Shell voted for Estep to assume the position. Both Hayes and Estep voted for themselves. Estep nominated Covil for vice-chair following Hayes’ reelection. Cavenaugh nominated Nichols, who maintained her position with votes of support from the same group as Hayes. Nichols has served as vice chair since 2002. Like Estep, Covil was elected to the board in 2012. email miriah@luminanews.com

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Board recommendation opens door for mixed-use development at Wrightsville By Emmy Errante Staff Writer

The Wrightsville Beach Planning Board voted to forward a favorable recommendation to the board of aldermen to allow planning staff to accept applications for mixed-use projects with a proposed height greater than 40 feet. “This is a touchy issue for people,” board member Andrew Hall said during the planning board’s Dec. 2 meeting. “People say, ‘I live here because this isn’t Myrtle Beach.’” The specific recommendation was for a text amendment to delete the height requirement for mixed-use commercial-residential property in Wrightsville Beach’s commercial districts. Director of planning and parks Tony Wilson said the purpose of the text amendment would be to allow more project proposals to at least be brought to the board for consideration. “It doesn’t mean it’s actually going to happen, it just means we can accept that application and then the board gives us direction at that time,” Wilson said. When the 40-foot requirement was originally put in place, buildings were measured

from the height of the nearest fire hydrant, Wilson said. Today, they are measured from street-level. “So now, a lot of the buildings are 42, 43, 45 feet,” Wilson said. When the board invited public comment, Atlantic Marine president David Floyd spoke in favor of the text amendment. He said it was unfair that certain buildings exceed maximum height simply because the process of measuring changed, and as a result are unable to be modified. Joe Taylor, an attorney with Murchison, Taylor & Gibson, also expressed support for the amendment because it would allow him to present a project proposal that has been years in the making. He said the project would be a mixeduse development on an area of unused land behind Johnnie Mercer’s Fishing Pier. Those involved with the project have been reworking the plans to reduce the height, which is still slightly above 40 feet. “It would be a wonderful, true mixeduse atmosphere,” Taylor said. “This area is in dire need of a fix, and we’ve got it in spades.” Taylor said he was a part of the

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Wrightsville Beach board that originally instated the 40-foot requirement, which it created to limit high-rise buildings. The maximum height was really intended to create four usable floors, he said, and the new FEMA requirements eliminated one entire floor. “It would be a wonderful opportunity to present it for your consideration. That’s all we want to do, but we can’t do that. ... We need flexibility if the beach is going to move forward.” Board members Hall and David Culp expressed concern about deleting the 40-foot requirement without setting a new maximum height. Taylor responded, saying the board would set the maximum height for individual zones or projects further along in the approval process. The planning board voted 4-1 to forward the favorable recommendation to the board of aldermen during its January meeting. “If a developer comes in with a nice design, and it’s slightly over 40 feet, but it would complement the property that it’s going on,” board member Vivian “Zeke” Partin said, “we certainly should evaluate it.”

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• Garret Johnson was issued a citation for driving during revocation and no insurance.

Nov. 29 Warning Tickets • Harvey Clewell II was issued a warning ticket for equipment violation.

Civil Penalties • Three civil penalties were issued for glass on the beach and open container.

Reports • Larceny of a cell phone was reported. • A white iPhone was reported as found property. • Assault inflicting serious injury was reported.

• Larceny of an iPhone 6 was reported.

Parks and rec proposes changes to farmers’ market By Emmy Errante

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The 2015 Wrightsville Beach Farmers’ Market might have a later season, more craft vendors and bottled water available for purchase. During the Wrightsville Beach Parks and Recreation Advisory Committee’s Dec. 1 meeting, those were the three changes the committee agreed to bring to the board of aldermen for approval. Parks and recreation program supervisor Katie Ryan said she reached out via email to the 2014 vendors seeking suggestions about improving the farmers’ market. She received eight responses. Ryan said certain produce vendors are not able to harvest enough goods to sell until the beginning of June. And although Davis Seafood and Sea Love Sea Salt aren’t restricted by a growing season, she said they too expressed support for a later farmers’ market season because the first few weeks are typically not very crowded. Committee members referenced the Poplar Grove Farmers’ Market, which they said includes many produce vendors that successfully grow and sell goods through September. The committee decided to recommend the board of aldermen change the dates of the 2015 farmers’ market to May 18 through September 28. Next year’s market might also

A 36-year-old white female was discovered dead Wednesday, Nov. 26, at her Channel Walk townhome just east of the Heide Trask Drawbridge in Wrightsville Beach. Wrightsville Beach Police and Fire departments, and New Hanover County EMS responded to the scene after the woman’s neighbors discovered her body around 7:30 a.m. The death was a suicide.

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Customers fill their bags with produce from Edens Farms at the Wrightsville Beach Farmers’ Market Monday, Aug. 25 at Wrightsville Beach Park.

offer more crafts. The number of craft vendors has previously been limited to five, Ryan said, because town leaders did not want the market to become a craft show. Committee members said allowing additional craft merchants would draw more costumers to the market, which would mean more business for all vendors. “The craft vendors are going to make it look always busy, like there’s something going on,”

Ryan pointed out. The committee decided to ask the aldermen to increase the number of craft vendors to 10, with flexibility to reduce that number should the market take on the appearance of a craft show. The last change the committee discussed was allowing bottled water to be sold for $1 or less, which has previously been prohibited unless the water was bottled in North Carolina. “It’s so hot, and vendors are giving out samples,” Ryan said,

explaining why costumers were thirsty. Ryan will recommend the three changes to the aldermen during the board’s Dec. 11 meeting.

Wednesday, Dec. 10 Wilmington-New Hanover County Port, Waterway and Beach Commission meeting 4 p.m., NHC Government Center Finance Conference Room

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TOWN OF WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH IS ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR ADVISORY BOARD APPOINTMENTS

BEACH BLOTTER Double burglary An individual who owns houses on both South Channel Drive on Wrightsville Beach and North Beach Road on Figure Eight Island discovered both properties were broken into and reported the incident to the Wrightsville Beach Police Department around 9 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 25. The items stolen at the Wrightsville Beach home included several cameras valued at $3,500 and WBPD believes the culprit is related to a man who used to work for the victim.

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THE WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH BOARD OF ALDERMEN WILL MAKE APPOINTMENTS TO FILL VACANCIES ON THE PLANNING BOARD, BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT, HISTORIC LANDMARK COMMISSION, PARKS AND RECREATION ADVISORY COMMITTEE, AND MARKETING COMMITTEE

Wrightsville Beach Police responded to a report of assault and property damage at 9 E. Greensboro St. around 2 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 27. In what has been an ongoing dispute between neighbors, 39-year-old Brian Pascoe and 43-yearold Spencer Broadfoot, the dispute escalated Wednesday evening after Broadfoot allegedly littered in Pascoe’s yard. A confrontation ensued when Broadfoot approached Pascoe and Pascoe ran to grab a stick. Pascoe struck Broadfoot in the head with the stick and later Broadfoot allegedly damaged the window of Pascoe’s car. WBPD discovered both men had been drinking, and charged Pascoe with assault with a deadly weapon and charged Broadfoot with injury to personal property.

The Town of Wrightsville Beach is now accepting applications from Town residents who are interested in serving on the Planning Board, the Board of Adjustment, the Historic Landmark Commission, the Parks and Recreation Advisory Committee, or the Marketing Committee. (Representatives from the Town’s business community may also serve on the Marketing Committee.) Appointments will be made by the Board of Aldermen at their January 2015 meeting.

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Applications are available on the Town’s website (towb.org) and at Town Hall, 321 Causeway Drive, Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, Monday-Friday, 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Applications must be submitted by 5:00 p.m. January 7, 2015.

Wrightsville Beach Police received a call from 22-year-old James Logue around 4 a.m., Sunday, Nov. 30, from New Hanover Regional Medical Center claiming 22-year-old Dickson Bridger hit him with a bottle on East Charlotte Street.

For additional information, please contact Sylvia Holleman: 239-1771 or sholleman@towb.org.

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This week as the New Hanover County Commission met, its inability to swear in and seat the two highest vote winners from the November election was another low point. For more than a year, commissioners had been hampered by the absenteeism of beleaguered Commissioner Brian Berger. Berger’s term thankfully expired along with that of Tom Wolfe’s, appointed to fill the remainder of now Rep. Rick Catlin’s two-year term. For many in the county, seating two new commissioners was a high priority. The county needed to refocus on county business, not county drama, but the board remains the old board of four, and drama swirls once more. A man named John Christian Anderson has caused a delay in seating the freshly elected Skip Watkins and Rob Zapple. Not many knew Anderson’s name before he inserted himself into the election process with his protest. Anderson said he has lived in the county “a long time,” but would not say how long. He said he is in real estate and construction businesses, but would not elaborate. He lost the protest and has appealed to the state. Watching election returns at the government center on election night, as the vote tally for the commissioner’s race switched up again and again, it was clear every vote was going to count. The final precinct to tally was the 29th, voting at Williston school, in the inner city. W29 saw 758 voters on Election Day; another 550 votes were cast pre-election. Anderson, whose address on his protest is listed in Long Leaf Hills, was not one of them. Anderson’s protest says, from his vehicle outside the elections board office at 11:30 p.m., he observed the final ballot box being delivered into the election board by the back door. For whatever reason, Anderson finds this suspicious. For the chief judge to come in by the back door was legal, but not encouraged. Chief election judges like this one, who worked nonstop voting, picked up their election materials from this very same back door, but all were told to bring the ballots to the front door election night. Anderson’s protest alleges misconduct of election officials and questions the integrity of the votes cast in the W29. In his zeal, Anderson went to the work place of a Williston precinct judge. He was turned away there, but not before the judge gave him his phone number. Anderson inexplicably returned the next day. Following this second visit, a text arranged a meeting at the Oleander office of Congressman-elect David Rouzer. During this interaction with the 20-something, wellregarded judge, Anderson referenced his connections in Raleigh, that he had relationships, people he knew including a “Rep Lewis,” and Rep Tim Moore, (but not the local delegation). He questioned the judge about blue Democratic election materials left in the voting booth on Election Day. Anderson then filed a protest asking to disqualify the votes from the Williston precinct (which would change the outcome of the election) or hold a new county commission election. While no campaigning materials are allowed to be distributed within 50 feet of the voting place, voters may take in with them anything they need to cast their

vote with no restrictions, including sample ballots. Leaving them behind, however is a no-no. Precinct judges say they took action as soon as they were made aware of the ½ page blue election materials, removed them and then monitored the situation as best they could at this busy polling place. Even though three poll observers were present, no complaints have been made from anyone at the 29th precinct, or from the local Republican Party. Campaign materials incidents are apparently not uncommon; similarly, materials stacked on a table inside the Northeast Regional Library, on Military Cutoff Road, were the subject of an incident report, but this incident didn’t stall the election results. At the library, a couple saw the materials, in this case Republican sample ballots, inside the 50-foot protected area and took their concerns to Phil Bloedom, chief election judge at that polling place. In the incident report, the incredible back-and-forth dialogue between the voters and Bloedom, if true, is highly disturbing, much more so than the blue election materials at Williston. Why then did the Democratic materials found in the voting booth at Williston put a lockdown on the seating of the new commissioners? These are training issues, not an issue of law or statute, the NHC GOP chairman said, which was echoed almost word for word by the NHC Democratic Party chair. As the final precinct reporting on election night, Zapple’s win was assured by the votes from Williston. The W29 is a heavily Democratic precinct; of the 4,275 registered voters in W29, 3,033 are Dems; Republicans make up only 244 of registered voters, 995 are “other.” Election Day, there was a crowd in line as the doors closed at 7:30 p.m. When the tally was finally in, candidate Derrick Hickey received just 71 votes to Commissioner- elect Rob Zapple’s 604 votes in W29. Skip Watkins received only 13 more than Hickey. Zapple had a combined total of 1,037 from the W29, however Patricia Spears received 27 more votes in the precinct than Zapple. In this overwhelmingly Democratic precinct, for Dr. Derrick Hickey to win over Rob Zapple would have been a shocker. Listening to a recording of Anderson speaking during an interview after his protest was denied by the Board of Elections, he consistently used the royal “WE” as in “we believe, we feel . . .” When quizzed on this use of “we,” he said he was friends with Derrick Hickey, then quickly added, he was friends with all of the candidates. The hearing of the BOE was pretty bizarre, with Anderson interrupting, audibly and visibly angry, challenging the chairman, shouting, arm in the air, then storming out. Anderson said this week suspicion was a “matter of habit” for him. Speaking with Anderson creates more questions than answers. In this Much Ado About Nothing, one wonders what is really going on here, but no one is laughing. What dog does Anderson have in this fight? How close a friend is he of the Hickeys? And what could Anderson hope to gain by overturning the election? All good questions. In the meantime, the county commission is on pause yet again.

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final bill was passed to Gov. Pat McCrory for approval. The law required removal of ash from ponds at four high-priority Duke Energy sites, including at Wilmington’s Sutton Plant, by 2019, and requires new ash management strategies in place at Duke’s remaining 10 facilities by 2029. Lee recalled the quick consensus reached at the end of the session to get a law in place and begin the cleanup process, but said legislators need to revisit the law because it was hurried to the governor. “It’s not perfect, but we wanted to get what we thought was a good, strong statute in place by which we could have regulation established. But whenever you do something like that, you need to take a step back and look at it again,” Lee said. Catlin said he expects a second coal ash law as details about deadlines, schedules and ash management requirements emerge. “I’d be surprised if we don’t have a coal ash bill No. 2,” Catlin said. He said he is already working on a closure strategy for Duke’s Cape Fear plant, upriver from New Hanover County drinking water intakes, with the newly seated Coal Ash Management Commission, the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources, and Duke Energy officials.

Offshore oil and gas exploration

Oil and natural gas extraction in federal waters is dictated by leasing plans released by the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management every five years. A draft of the next plan, effective in 2017, will likely be released for public comment in 2015. The federal waters off North Carolina could be included in the plan. McCrory, who chairs the pro-offshore exploration Outer Continental Shelf Governors Coalition, supports seismic testing and extraction of offshore oil and natural gas reserves, if found in large enough quantities. Seismic testing to determine what oil and natural gas resources lay beneath the sea floor could begin as soon as 2015. Applications to conduct the testing are currently awaiting approval by the U.S. Department of Interior. Catlin said he has a lot of unanswered questions about the impact of seismic testing on marine life. He also cited concerns about safety, if the seismic testing identifies significant resources and drilling begins. “This is not the Gulf of Mexico. We have a lot more storms, a lot more current, and

Lumina News — Your Coastal Community Newspaper since May 2002 we may have a lot more depth. We have to look at the safety technologies to make sure we do it properly,” Catlin said. Lee supports seismic testing, and if resources are identified, he is particularly concerned with how resources will be handled after they are brought onshore for processing. “That’s where we really need to be careful, from an environmental perspective . . . and a lot of folks aren’t really talking about it,” Lee said. Both Lee and Catlin said they support McCrory’s pledge to share offshore royalties with coastal communities to fund beach management and infrastructure projects like renourishment and dredging. “It benefits the United States to be energy independent, but it also benefits North Carolina from a royalty revenue perspective,” Lee said.

New sea level rise predictions

Following a controversial 2010 prediction that waters off the coast of North Carolina could raise as much as 39 inches by 2100, the N.C. General Assembly halted implementation of any rules or policies addressing sea level rise until the N.C. Coastal Resources Commission’s Science Panel prepares a new, official state prediction. The updated prediction will offer a range of sea level rise estimates, reaching only 30 years into the future, with updates every five years to ensure predictions remain reliable. A draft prediction will be sent for peer review by the end of 2014, with a public comment period beginning March 31, 2015. A final copy will be sent to the General Assembly in 2016. Calling on his experience as an engineer and scientist, Catlin said he hopes to see either a more modest rate of growth in the updated predictions, or justification of the rapid rate of acceleration in the 2010 prediction. “Sea levels rise and fall throughout the history of the Earth. As a geologist, I see the impacts of that,” Catlin said. “It’s always changing, but it’s changed in a steady fashion.” Catlin and Lee both said state leaders need accurate predictions to help coastal communities plan and prepare to assume risk. “What we in state government need to do is adequately predict what the regulatory environment would look like in the event the report proves to be accurate,” Lee said. “I think we can better assess this on a relatively short-term basis, so we can look at the next 30 years, and then five years from now, we can look out 30 years from that point.” email miriah@luminanews.com

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Spivey began building the turtle’s shell while Atkinson worked on creating a head with a Santa Claus hat. They drove from Alamance County to Wrightsville Beach Nov. 29, the day of the boat parade, to put the two pieces together on Spivey’s boat, Angler Management. “The whole thing actually came together around 4:30,” Atkinson said. As the sun set, he switched on the lights and the turtle came to life, illuminated by 7,000 red, green and gold Christmas bulbs. At 6 p.m., with the Coast Guard in the lead, the line of glittering boats began snaking slowly through the Intracoastal Waterway and Banks Channel past tens of thousands of spectators crowding the bridges, docks, parks and waterfront porches. Last in line came the turtle, boat No. 18, steered by Spivey’s brother, Chris. Other crewmembers manually moved the turtle’s appendages, so it would appear to swim through the water. “Everyone had a job, we were all doing something on the boat,” Atkinson said. Spivey raised and lowered one glowing flipper while his friend Tim Reece moved the other flipper and turned the head back and forth. Atkinson provided holiday tunes with his saxophone while his sister, Luci Spivey, played the bells. “Luci and I grew up playing,” Atkinson said. “Our dad always had us play for him after dinner. ... It was good to play music with my sister again last night.” Several other boats in the parade were transformed into creatures as well. Ava and Scott Werlstein won the People’s Choice award for their holiday hound dog boat

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Construction would involve removing a number of native trees such as wax myrtles and cedar trees, which West said contribute to the beauty of the neighborhood and also serve as a habitat for many birds. Betty Jackson, who owns and rents two duplexes on the eastern side of Coral Drive, voiced parking concerns. Because Coral Drive is not wide enough for residents to park on the side of the road, her tenants park in the rightof-way if they have company. Should the sidewalk be constructed in the right-of-way, she said, her tenants’ visitors would have nowhere to park. Jackson said North Channel Drive, which runs parallel to Coral Drive, is a more logical place for students to walk anyway because the sidewalks along that road lead to the High Intensity Activated Crosswalk (HAWK) light, where a crossing guard is stationed when school is dismissed.

MOAA holiday luncheon

Amy Tucker-Morgan directs Coastal Christian High School’s Honors Ensemble Tuesday, Dec. 2 at Bluewater Grill during the Southeastern North Carolina Chapter of the Military Officers Association of America holiday luncheon. ~ Allison Potter

31st North Carolina Holiday Flotilla parade winners Category

Captain Boat Theme

Best In Show

Mike Spivey

Angler Management

People’s Choice

Ava and Scott Werlstein

No Name Furtilla

Crowd Favorite

Skip Wilson

The Bottom Line Yellow Submarine

Best Powerboat: 31’ and over

Bob Bleecker

Good Tiding to You (Turtle)

J&B

Salt Life Santa

Best Powerboat: 23’– 31’ Eric Burns

Chuck Norris

Sleigh Surfing

Best Powerboat: 22’ and under

Craig Cat

Christmas Hummingbird

The Jolly Roger

Peter Pan

Brent Jernigan

Best Costumes and Crew Spirit CastleBranch

promoting animal adoption. Flotilla committee chair Pres Davenport said the “Furtilla” theme took home the prize after receiving 6,000 text-message votes from onlookers. Brent and Chris Jernigan, brothers from Lake Waccamaw, turned their 11-foot pontoon boat into a shimmering blue hummingbird. Brent Jernigan shaped the bird’s body out of chicken wire and PVC pipe in his backyard and strung on the lights the night of the flotilla. He completed the theme with a glowing red flower on the bow of the boat. “I said, ‘We need the flower, or else we’re going to look like the Christmas mosquito coming down the waterway,’” Jernigan said. Although the miniscule boat inhabited the character of a hummingbird perfectly, the brothers’ choice of theme was inspired by more than just the diminutive size of their craft. “We lost our mom four months ago,” Brent Jernigan explained. “She loved hummingbirds. She was in the nursing home and she made a hummingbird piece of art the day she died, which [Chris] brought to the funeral. And the next day, a hummingbird showed up at the house.” “It was kind of a sign,” Chris Jernigan added, “and a way to honor Mom since she couldn’t be here with us this year.” email emmy@luminanews.com

Staff photo by Emmy Errante

In addition to the $5,000 prize, Mike Spivey and Delmer Atkinson receive the iconic trophy Sunday, Nov. 30 for winning Best in Show at the 31st North Carolina Holiday Flotilla for thier “Good Tiding to You” sea turtle theme.

Town manager Tim Owens met with Jackson to address her other concerns over drainage. Before approving the project, Owens said, the town would have an engineer look closely at the project to make sure the proposed sidewalk wouldn’t cause flooding issues. He said installing an underground pipe in the area might actually improve drainage rather than worsening it. Many Wrightsville Beach residents, especially those with children enrolled at Wrightsville Beach School, have reacted positively to the proposed sidewalks. School principal MaryPaul Beall said in addition to the students who walk to and from school, the

entire fifth grade walks to attend class in nearby Wrightsville Beach Baptist Church. “There are times when they have to come down to school during the day,” Beall said during a Dec. 2 phone interview. “They will walk the whole class down North Channel Drive because that’s where the sidewalk is, but it would be nice to be able to walk straight down Coral.” Furthermore, she said other classes occasionally walk down Coral Drive to go on marine science field trips to Wrightsville Beach Park or Seapath Yacht Club. In an email, Tim Owens outlined the next steps in the process

of constructing the proposed sidewalk. The full project, which includes both the Coral Drive sidewalk and pedestrian improvements on Lumina Avenue, would be presented to the board of aldermen in January or February. The board could decide to hold another public hearing on the matter at that time. Any change in the grant would go to the Wilmington MPO for approval. Then, the town would move forward on surveying, engineering and design for both projects. At that point, the board could seek further public feedback on the finalized project proposal.

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wouldn’t understand. If he has credibility with me . . . I’m going to listen to what he’s saying, and nine times out of 10, I’ll support it,” Barfield Sr. said. Barfield Sr. and his son, current county commissioner Jonathan Barfield Jr., are the only AfricanAmericans to serve on the board since 1898. Barfield Jr. said he learned how to share and discuss different perspectives by observing his father, a skill he said is important to serving the community. “Diversity has many different forms. It can be racial, by political party, in work experience. I think all those factors play into making a board stronger, because everyone has different gifts and skill sets,” Barfield Jr. said. County commissioners discussed a switch to election by districts, instead of election atlarge, during the 1990s, said former county commissioner and Wrightsville Beach alderman Bill Sisson, to secure more diversity on the board. Dawson and Barfield were both skeptical of the need for election by district because of New Hanover County’s small size. “When you run countywide, you reach out and meet people, as I did, from Kure Beach to Castle Hayne and everywhere in between. I think the folks that live in the northern or the southern parts of the county recognize

that we serve all areas, all citizens,” Dawson said. Sisson said it is not impossible for county commissioners to represent needs specific to certain communities, like the beach towns, but it is improbable. “I’m not saying the county commissioners aren’t capable of representing the beaches, but basically, it’s a matter of mindset. If you don’t live in a beach community, then you don’t think about the same things in terms of disasters, sewage, water, trash because you’re not in the same situation,” Sisson said. Barfield Jr. doubted election by district in New Hanover County would ensure racial diversity. “I don’t know if you have that kind of a pocket here, where you could draw lines to make that happen,” he said. Both Barfield Jr. and Dawson said they try to secure more diversity to the board by serving as mentors and encouraging people to serve. “I am constantly reaching out to individuals in our community to encourage them to get on boards, get on committees, attend county commission meetings, to get involved,” Barfield Jr. said. “For me, it was a decision I made for myself, but at the same time, I recognize that others need to be groomed, to be introduced to the process.”

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When current vice chairman of the board Beth Dawson was elected in 2012, she invited Wright to her seating ceremony. Dawson said she is proud to be one of eight women to serve as county commissioner, but like Wright, she said she brings more than her experience as a woman to the board. “I may have different perspectives on certain issues, but I don’t know whether that necessarily comes from being a woman, or from my life experiences, my service on other boards and commissions, my business background in banking,” Dawson said. “It’s a combination of a lot of different things.” When Jonathan Barfield Sr. campaigned in 1980 to become the first African-American elected to the board since the 1898 coup d’état in Wilmington, he pledged to use his experience in the African-American community to better serve county residents. He said stronger decisions are made on important issues when different perspectives are considered. “That’s what diversity does. I’m going to play you a mindset from the black community that you would not understand, and a guy might bring me a mindset from Wrightsville Beach that I

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cOMMUNITY nEWS For The Record Questions and photographs by Jacob Mohr and Cole Dittmer

What are you doing with your extra gas money?

Francesca Catania Wilmington, N.C.

“Getting a hot dog!”

Eric and Betsy Davis

Wrightsville Beach, N.C.

“Traveling! We went to Maryland to visit family.”

Seth Vernon

Wilmington, N.C.

“Putting it in my boat.”

Tom Canzano

Chris Bartlett

Farmington, N.Y.

“I think it’s probably going to go toward holiday travel to New York.”

Asheville, N.C.

“It hasn’t affected me much.”

Retail therapy meets garden therapy By Miriah Hamrick

HIGC Yard of the Month

Staff Writer

The home of Linda and Bill Jenkins on Harbor Island was named the Harbor Island Garden Club Yard of the Month for November.

Photo courtesy of Linda Jenkins

Affordable new offerings during an annual holiday plant sale at the New Hanover County Arboretum could help a therapeutic gardening program extend its reach. In addition to the traditional poinsettias and Christmas cacti, more than a dozen local artisans will sell handmade pottery, metalwork and textiles, all priced under $50, during the ‘Tis the Season Craft and Plant Market. For a green gift, shoppers can bring in a container or buy a container at the arboretum and create a custom planter. Heather Kelejian, director of the Ability Gardens program, said the greenhouse is overflowing with indoor and outdoor plants for sale during the market. “We propagated a lot to get ready for the sale, and hopefully we’re going to clear our greenhouse out,” Kelejian said. Plant experts will be available to ensure shoppers combine

plants that thrive under similar conditions. The cost of a customized planter ranges from roughly $10 to $40, Kelejian said, based on how rare or hard some plants are to grow. “Plants are great gifts,” Kelejian said. “A simple house plant collection can be very easy to take care of, a nice way to brighten a room, and it can help clean the air in houses or schools.” Pre-planted containers with indoor and outdoor plants tolerant of cooler weather, including pansies and parsley, will also be available. Kelejian hopes the craft and plant sale will bring in $6,000 to invest into the Ability Garden, a therapeutic gardening program that serves up to 2,500 disabled and disadvantaged people each year. The program coordinates with local public schools, vocational training programs, adult care facilities and nursing homes to connect people of all ages and disabilities with nature.

“We can serve someone who needs hand-over-hand help to participate, to someone who doesn’t have any physical disability but is recovering from drug addiction or alcohol addiction and is trying to learn some new leisure skills,” Kelejian said. The reach of the program shrunk in recent years due to funding cuts, Kelejian said, but she hopes to reinstate a group open to any community members and increase the Ability Garden’s presence in schools, nursing homes and adult care facilities with proceeds from the market. She noted the event also provides an opportunity for kids to tackle holiday shopping. “We wanted to make it affordable so kids could come in and buy gifts for their parents or teachers,” Kelejian said. The craft and plant market will be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 6 and Sunday, Dec. 7. email miriah@luminanews.com

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Celtic multi-instrumentalist and songstress Jennifer Licko will soon return to her native state of North Carolina to present a Christmas concert featuring traditional Irish instruments like the bodhran. The Jennifer Licko Band and Dylan Foley will present “A Celtic Christmas” Dec. 6 at 7 p.m. at the Wrightsville United Methodist Church. Wrightsville UMC music director Julia Walker Jewell said the concert is the church’s Christmas gift to the community. “People can visit us for a stress-free evening and listen to fantastic musicians,” Jewell said. Licko grew up in Swansboro, one hour north of Wilmington. When she began learning Scottish Highland dancing at an early age, the sounds set to the movements piqued her interest. “Since there’s a large amount of Scottish heritage in North Carolina, the music felt a part of me,” Licko said. “After that introduction, I had to know more.” Licko spent years living in Scotland and Ireland where she became immersed in the Celtic culture. She even learned to speak Scots-Gaelic. Her experiences led to an authentic Celtic sound that can be hard to find outside of the Scottish Highlands. Foley, a three-time all Ireland fiddle champion, and Bob Noble, venerable music producer, will join Licko onstage. “People start hearing Christmas songs in department stores in October and it can get tiring,” Jewell said. “It’s nice to hear these songs in their original forms by such talented artists.” This will be the fourth time The Jennifer Licko band has played “A Celtic Christmas” in the Wilmington region and Jewell is elated to have her perform. “She received rave reviews last year so it’s special to have her at our church,” Jewell said. Licko said the concert will be a family-oriented

Supplied photo courtesy of Jennifer Licko

Jennifer Licko will perform a Christmas concert featuring traditional Irish instruments Saturday, Dec. 6 at Wrightsville United Methodist Church.

experience that will get people tapping their feet and clapping their hands. She likes to get the audience involved, making sure they play along and enjoy themselves. Licko is excited to return to the Port City, where she believes there is a focus on celebrating the arts not found in many places. “The Wilmington area is a fantastic venue with great diversity and culture,” she said. “Artists feel at home here and it will be great to see returning faces.” The concert is free and open to the public.

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Lifestyles Bringing the Beach Together

Two man crew By Emmy Errante, Staff Writer

tiny wooden craft skimmed through the emerald water of the Intracoastal Waterway Dec. 1, its sail billowing in the unseasonably warm breeze. Pat Plunkett perched in the stern of the boat, one hand on the rudder, while his father, Butch Plunkett, sat closer to the bow. The stillness was broken only by the steady rhythm of waves lapping against the side of the boat and the flapping of the sail catching the wind. Butch Plunkett leaned forward, a wide grin breaking out on his face. “There isn’t anything I’d rather be doing right now,” he said. The voyage was made all the more sweet for father and son because it was the culmination of five weeks’ toiling in the backyard to build the boat out of poplar hardwood and pine plywood. But the full journey actually began 60 years earlier. The year was 1954. Butch Plunkett was 13 years old and attending Camp Sea Gull in Arapahoe, N.C., for the first time. Cruising around the Neuse River in a 19-foot lightning boat with his friends, he fell in love with sailing. “When something like that gets in your blood, you can’t leave it,” Plunkett said. He discovered a natural talent for repairing boats several years later when his father’s 21-foot craft was rammed by another boater. Plunkett was only 16 years old and unschooled in woodworking, but he successfully repaired the extensive damage. Although he pursued a meandering career path, first in the Marine Corps and then as the owner of an engineering business, he continued dabbling in carpentry over the years, building furniture for various family members and friends. He indulged his love of sailing by taking Pat, wife Maggie and daughters Melin and Michelle, out on their 30-foot sailboat, the SkyBird. Around that time, Butch and son Pat built their first boat, a 7-foot 6-inch craft to transport them back and forth from their sailboat. They built it merely out of necessity — the SkyBird needed a dinghy — but it planted a seed of inspiration. After losing his engineering business in the recession of 1991, Butch Plunkett began working as an environmental engineer. The job brought him and his family to Wilmington. Then tragedy struck as Maggie Plunkett was diagnosed with lung cancer. Butch Plunkett retired to take care of his wife. She died in 2009. Several years went by. In 2013, Pat Plunkett, who by then was equally skilled in woodworking, moved in with his father. They decided to dust off the plans for the small dinghy they built years earlier. They began sketching a basic blueprint, using a computer-aided-design (CAD) drawing program to make tweaks here and there. They added oars reminiscent of a typical wooden dinghy. They added a sail, because they no longer had a sailboat. They added a motor. After weeks of modifications, they had finalized plans

for a unique, Swiss-army knife of a boat. Pat Plunkett created an 18-inch model to test the feasibility of the design. Still, he said there was a fair amount of apprehension when, after five weeks of construction, they pushed the full-size boat into the water. “There was a moment of, ‘OK, is it gonna move?’” he said. It moved. In fact, when the breeze caught the sail, the tiny craft charged through the water, looking like the ocean’s smallest pirate ship. “They actually run a pirate regatta down in Southport and we think we’ll go join them [next year],” Butch Plunkett said with a laugh. “Maybe make us a Styrofoam cannon and put a potato gun in it.” Between the two of them, Butch and Pat Plunkett have built countless wooden creations over the years. The process of combining their favorite hobbies, sailing and woodworking, to build a boat together spurred a new dream of acquiring a shop and starting a boatbuilding business. But this first boat would always be special to them, they agreed, both as the realization of a lifelong passion and the start of a new journey. Father and son now have to complete the final step of the boatbuilding process — naming and christening the boat, a process that involves gathering with friends and family members and toasting to safe voyages. Butch said in the next few weeks he and his son plan to mark the vessel with the only name befitting such a meaningful endeavor — Maggie. email emmy@luminanews.com

Staff photos by Emmy Errante

Photo courtesy of

Butch Plunkett

Above and top: Butch Plunkett and Pat Plunkett steer their boat through the Intracoastal Waterway Monday, Dec. 1 while Waz supervises. Left: Maggie, Michelle, Butch and Melin Plunkett sail on their boat, the SkyBird.

What’s coming down the pipeline this weekend?

Santa at Sea

Christmas Pantheon Performance

Very Merry Showboat USS North Carolina Battleship Saturday, Dec. 6, 10 a.m.-noon, 1-3 p.m. Admission $6-$12

Every Christmas Story Ever Told (and then some) Cape Fear Playhouse Dec. 11-14, 8 p.m. (Sunday matinee at 3 p.m.) Admission $15-$20

This seaworthy holiday event lets kids fly a flag with Santa, write Christmas lists on WWII radio paper, call the North Pole from the Battleship’s radio, track Santa’s journey in the Combat Information Center and craft Christmas cards for veterans in VA hospitals. For more information, call Shelly Robinson at 910-251-5797 or visit www. battleshipnc.com

David Lee Kent directs this madcap amalgamation of holiday traditions both modern and historical that includes Christmas traditions from around the world, seasonal icons from ancient to times to today and renditions of every Christmas carol ever sung. For more information, call 910-367-5237 or visit www.bigdawgproductions.org

Ballet for Young Audiences: The Nutcracker Thalian Hall Friday, Dec. 5-Saturday, Dec. 6 Admission, $15-$20 New York’s Ballet for Young Audiences presents a one-hour, narrated rendition of the classic Christmas story in which a young girl is transported to a magical world on Christmas Eve. Show times are 4 and 7 p.m. on Friday, 10 a.m. on Saturday. For more information, contact the Center Box Office at 910-632-2285.

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Staff photo by Allison Potter

Another fabulous Flotilla Clockwise from above left: Fireworks illuminate Banks Channel after the N.C. Holiday Flotilla boat parade Saturday, Nov. 29. Ava and Scott Werstlein won People’s Choice at the N.C. Holiday Flotilla for their entry, “Furtilla.” Six-year-old Izzie Culpepper receives a gift from Santa Claus during the tree lighting in Wrightsville Beach Park Friday, Nov. 28. Sea Love Sea Salt owner Amanda Jacobs displays her sea salt and sea salt scrubs during the N.C. Holiday Flotilla Festival in the Park Saturday, Nov. 29.

Staff photo by Emmy Errante

Staff photo by Cole Dittmer

Festival of trees features sweet event By Miriah Hamrick Staff Writer

The smell of sugar wafts through the air in the Weyerhaeuser Reception Hall at the Cameron Art Museum, where more than two dozen Christmas trees and nine gingerbread houses are on display for the annual Cape Fear Festival of Trees. A new addition to the festival, the first Art of Gingerbread competition drew bakers of all ages and abilities. Nan Pope, museum shop manager and Cape Fear Festival of Trees event coordinator, said the gingerbread competition taps into the museum’s artistic mission while fitting the festival’s holiday theme. “Our exhibitions are about art, and the trees are about the holidays, but we wanted this to be about both. The gingerbreads are about the holidays and art,” Pope said. Built with only edible materials, submissions ranged from a towering replica of Thalian Hall, complete with Necco Wafer columns and cinnamon stick stairs, to a beach scene of gingerbread surfers and sunbathers created by a fifth grade class at the Friends School of Wilmington, all fit to the same 2-by-2-foot foundation. The Davis Community, a sponsor of the gingerbread competition, worked with the architect and interior designers behind the new household model of care at the assisted living facility to recreate four of 10 homes where residents live. Davis Community marketing and public relations administrator Julie Rehder spent a day baking gingerbread, mixing six pounds of royal icing and rolling out fondant. After she constructed the gingerbread quadraplex based on a design by architect Bruce Bowman, the design team at Big Sky Designs stenciled food coloring on fondant walls, weaved Fruit Roll-Ups into braided • Brokerage services for buyers and sellers • Yacht management services • New boater training on safe navigation, systems and boat handling • Insurance training and sign offs • Certified Professional Yacht Broker on staff • Sales force with many years of experience in the pleasure, commercial and military maritme fields.

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rugs, and shaped Rice Krispie treats into chairs. “I don’t even want to think about how long it took,” Big Sky Designs owner Jennifer Kraner joked. “It was a lot of fun, though.” The design team even crafted tiny marzipan versions of Davis Community cats Haley and Cece, which is one of Rehder’s favorite features of the gingerbread house replicas. “It’s home. You would find the cats curled up on the couch somewhere,” Rehder said. Pope said the museum hoped to allow each baker creative freedom by keeping rules and requirements minimal, a strategy that seemed to work based on the diverse approach taken to each submission. “This is what we love, to see people using their memories and hearts to create something they can share. It’s an opportunity of expression for them,” Pope said. The museum set up an online auction for the gingerbread creations, with a starting bid of $10. The gingerbread that rakes in the highest overall bidding price will be announced as the grand prizewinner during a Dec. 6 Ginger Blast party. After the party, each gingerbread creation will be given to its highest bidder. Proceeds from the auction will benefit the museum’s educational programming. The Ginger Blast party will begin at 7 p.m., with live music by The Blarney Brogues, ginger-inspired fare by CAM Café chef Jessica Cabo, and a cash bar. Tickets cost $30 and include admission to two current museum exhibitions: Matter of Reverence by clay artist Hiroshi Sueyoshi in the Brown Wing; and State of the Art/Art of the State, featuring work of more than 600 North Carolina artists, in the Hughes Wing. The Cape Fear Festival of Trees comes to a close Dec. 7. email miriah@luminanews.com

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It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Christmas Tree Lighting 12/04, 6 p.m. Kick off the holiday season at Greenfield Lake Park with a festive tree lighting celebration, beverages, snacks and a visit from Santa. Free admission. Call 910-341-4602.

Enchanted Airlie 12/5-6; 12/11-14; 12/18-22, 5-7 p.m., 7-9 p.m. The self-guided winter wonderland tour features a spectacular array of lights, holiday displays, hot beverages, sweet treats and a seat on Santa’s lap. Single admission $10, couples $17, carloads $27. Reservations required. Visit www.airliegardens.org/ events/1472/enchanted-airlie/

Old Wilmington by Candlelight Tour 12/06, 4-8 p.m.; 12/07, 2-6 p.m. The Historical Society of the Lower Cape Fear’s festive tour features the finest private homes, churches and historical sites in downtown Wilmington. Tickets are $30 and may be purchased at Harris Teeters, Latimer House, The Ivy Cottage, Two Sisters Bookery and Candles, Etc.

A Celtic Christmas Concert 12/06, 7 p.m. Chamber Music Wilmington, in collaboration with the Scottish Society of Wilmington, presents A Celtic Christmas Concert at Wrightsville United Methodist Church, 4 Live Oak Drive, Wrightsville Beach. North Carolina’s own Jennifer Licko stars in this sure-to-please holiday celebration. Free admission.

Poplar Grove Plantation’s Christmas Open House and Gift Show 12/07, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Bring your Christmas wishes to the decorated manor house where Mr. and Mrs. Claus will be on hand to find out who’s been naughty or nice. The barn out back is the staging area for the arts and crafts show. Poplar Grove Plantation www.poplargrove.com

Candyland Christmas Event 12/07, 1-5 p.m. Ever wonder what reindeer eat? This is your chance to make it while you visit with Santa and Elsa from “Frozen.” Learn to make candy cottages and ornaments; enjoy snacks and

storytelling. $20 per child. Children’s Museum of Wilmington www.playwilmington.org

Wrightsville Beach Museum of History Open House 12/7, 2-4 p.m. Bring a friend. Meet the en plein artists. Purchase gifts, like commemorative memorabilia, Loop T-shirts, books. Coffee and light refreshments will be served. Local authors Dr. Chris Fonvielle and Becky Shuford will be present to autograph books.

Christmas Spectacular

Wrightsville Beach Holiday Decorating Contest 12/10, noon deadline for registration 12/10, 6 p.m. judging begins The annual Harbor Island Garden Club and Wrightsville Beach Parks and Recreation Advisory Committee welcome entries from residents and business owners. Prizes will be awarded for Most Nautical, Most Traditional, Best Holiday Lighting, Most Holiday Spirit, Best Entryway, Most Creative and Best Overall. To register call the park office at 910-256-7925, or email parksandrecreation@towb.org

12/07, 3 p.m., 7 p.m.; 12/08, 7 p.m.

Annual Holiday Pops Concert

Doors open 6 p.m.

12/10, 7:30 p.m.

The Wrights bor o U n ited Methodist Church’s Christmas Cantata features the 80-voice combined choirs of Wrightsboro Methodist Church and the Wilmington Celebration Choir. Tickets are $5 and can be purchased by phone at 910762-2583 or online at https:// co.clickandpledge.com/advanced/ default.aspx?wid=44493

Better not pout! Join the North Carolina Symphony for a festive celebration of the holiday season at UNCW’s Kenan Auditorium. www.ncsymphony.org

City of Wilmington Holiday Parade 12/07, 5:40 p.m. The annual parade begins at North Front and Walnut streets. Bundle up and come out to cheer for your favorite school bands, local businesses and nonprofits as they march through historic downtown Wilmington. Don’t forget the Thermos of hot chocolate. www.wilmingtonrecreation.com

Fort Fisher Holiday Open House 12/09, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Looking for that perfect holiday outing for the history buff in your family? Head to Fort Fisher State Historic Site and enjoy wassail, music and 15 percent off on all gift shop purchases. www.friendsoffortfisher.com

Good Friends Luncheon 12/09, 11:30 a.m. Good Friends of Wilmington gathers each December to raise money for disadvantaged individuals and families in New Hanover County. All of the money raised goes directly to those in need. The event is located in the Wilmington Convention Center and open to the public, but reservations are required. To save a seat, contact Louise McColl at 910-350-1211 or email louise@mccoll-associates.com

5K Jingle Bell Run 12/13, 7:30 a.m. registration with 9 a.m. start time Don your gay apparel for the annual run benefiting the Wrightsville Beach Museum of History. T-shirts go to the first 300 participants to register. $30 per runner. Wrightsville Beach Museum of History 910-256-2569 www.wbmuseum.com

“Polar Express” Holiday Show 12/13-14, 4:30 and 5:30 p.m. Join Santa for the annual reading of the popular children’s story, “The Polar Express.” Treats and hot chocolate will be served. Tickets are $5 per person and children under 3 are admitted free. Reservations are encouraged. Wilmington Railroad Museum www.wrrm.org

Christmas Stroll Through the Past 12/13, 4-7 p.m. The Burgwin-Wright House and Bellamy Mansion Museum will host a festive holiday evening filled with music, period costumes, petting zoo, refreshments and more. Enjoy a candlelit stroll as you travel from one site to the other. Tickets are available at the Burgwin-Wright House, Bellamy Mansion Museum, local Harris Teeter stores and online. Tickets are $20 for adults, free for children (ages 5-12), and free for children younger than 5. Call 910-251-3700 (Bellamy) or 910-762-0570 (Burgwin-Wright) for more information.

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The Davis residence at 209 S. Channel Dr. was named best overall in the single-family home category of the 2013 Wrightsville Beach holiday lighting contest.

Holiday Tea at the Bellamy Mansion 12/15, 2-3 p.m. Enjoy a lovely afternoon in the mansion decorated for the Christmas season. The $35 tea menu includes three courses: finger sandwiches, scones, desserts and confections served with tea followed by door prizes, raffles and giveaways for everyone. Reserve early. Call the Tea Ticket Hotline at 910-251-3700.

Caroling by “Reindeer” Drawn Carriage 12/19-12/24, 6-10 p.m. In carriages drawn by reined “deer,” carol with Old St. Nick during a spin around historic downtown Wilmington. See the sights, admire the lights. $12 adults, $5 children younger than 12. www.horsedrawntours.com

“The Nutcracker” 12/20-21, 3 p.m. The Wilmington Ballet Company presents a full-length traditional and professional version of “The Nutcracker” brought to life by the dazzling performances of talented dancers. Kenan Auditorium Call 910-962-3500 or visit www.uncw.edu for tickets

“It’s a Wonderful Life” Thalian Hall, 12/23 7:30 p.m. Admission, $10 Enjoy the 1946 Christmas fable on the big screen at Thalian Hall. Directed by Frank Capra, “It’s a Wonderful Life” tells the story of an angel who shows a frustrated businessman what life would have been like if he had never existed. For more information, contact the Center Box Office at 910-632-2285.

New Year’s Noon Countdown 12/31, 1/1, 10 a.m. to noon Countdown to the New Year with a juice toast, make a party crown and streamer sticks, glittery slime and an epic confetti toss in the courtyard. Free with admission. Call 910-254-3534 for more information. Children’s Museum of Wilmington www.playwilmington.org

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A centerpiece of flowers, foliage and cranberries graces the dining room table at the Tiencken-Kelly House during the 2011 Old Wilmington by Candlelight Tour.

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Hook, Line & Sinker

Sports/Marine Race combines history and holiday cheer

December fishing slowing but not that bad By Skylar Walters

Obviously, anytime we get into the month of December, the fishing is not going to be all that spectacular, or at least the fishermen are not expecting it to be. Well, this is when that philosophy is wrong. Although the fishing is not on fire like it was during the month of November and before, there are still ample opportunities for anglers to head out and have a productive day. Water temperatures are hovering right around the 60 degree

nearshore reefs off Carolina and Wrightsville beaches are still holding plenty of fish. Reports of large black drum, over slot red drum and a few gray trout were all reported coming from these areas. While a lot of fish were caught on Carolina Rigged finger mullet, a fair share came from Stingsilver Jigs. In the surf and off the piers, fishermen are reporting decent catching, with black drum and blowfish being the main bait

Water temperatures are hovering right around the 60 degree mark, not that shabby for this late in the season. Although anglers are having to work just a bit harder than they did a few weeks ago, they are finding fish. mark, not that shabby for this late in the season. Although anglers are having to work just a bit harder than they did a few weeks ago, they are finding fish. Finally, with the extended forecast looking somewhat sunny and warmish, the fishing and catching should continue, at least for the foreseeable future. We’ll start with the offshore fishing, since that seems to be hit or miss, but mainly due to weather and not due to absence of fish. Some boats were able to get offshore over the weekend and found wahoo and tuna in the blue water. Unfortunately, due to the lack of reports from the previous weeks, those fishing these areas were fishing blindly, so to speak. Closer to the beach, boats looking for bottom fish found good bites from hefty black sea bass in the 30 mile range. Areas even shallower were also holding a few fish but anglers had to weed through the smaller ones. Right off the beach, areas around Johns Creek and the

stealers. Speckled trout have started showing up in the surf and while a lot of these fish are small, there are some keepers in the mix. Bluefish are also being reported in good numbers, although a large portion of them are on the small side. Inshore, the speckled trout fishing has remained steady, but not quite as good as a few weeks ago. Soft artificial baits are still working well and live shrimp is catching its share. A lot of small fish have started showing up, which is typical for this time of year. A few red drum are still being found in the creeks and reports of good numbers of black drum are being reported. As always, make sure to check the current regulations in regards to size and possession limits. Most of the inshore fish mentioned here (red drum, black drum and speckled trout) have both of these in play. The majority of the offshore fish do as well, and these limits can change from one day to the next.

TIDES Masonboro Inlet Latitude 34° 11’ N, Longitude 77° 49’ W

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By Emmy Errante Staff Writer

Reindeer, snowmen, elves and Santa Clauses will race around the John Nesbitt Loop at 9 a.m. Dec. 13 for Wrightsville Beach Museum of History’s Jingle Bell 5K that celebrates the holiday season by encouraging competitors to run in costume. Madeline Flagler, Wrightsville Beach Museum director, said the Jingle Bell Run has grown every year since the inaugural race in 2009, and in 2014 event organizers hope to have more than 500 participants. A large number of those participants will likely be families. Flagler said the race now offers a family registration fee and a prize for the best family holiday costume. Awards will also be given to the top overall finishers, the top age group finishers, best overall costume, best group costume, best pet costume and best decorated stroller. The top overall male and female finishers earn the right to participate in a unique Jingle Bell Run tradition. Every year, Flagler said, museum board member Sandy May crafts large wreaths out of jingle bells to hang from the finish line. The winners cut them down and take them home. The awards for best pet costume and best stroller decorations are more recent additions to the race. Flagler said the stroller award was actually inspired by historical events. During the 1930s and ’40s, she said, the Lumina Pavilion held what were essentially beauty contests for babies. Many mothers would strive to give their babies an advantage by decorating the babies’ strollers with elaborate crepe paper and garlands. Flagler said the Jingle Bell Run’s stroller award gently alludes to that piece of history. “We didn’t think it was a good idea to compare the babies,” she said, laughing, “but it was OK to compare the strollers.” The race itself also gives competitors a glimpse of Wrightsville Beach history. The course takes runners past several historical homes, including the two Bordeaux houses, which are nearly 100 years old. Competitors running past the intersection of Causeway Drive and Lumina Avenue might also notice the lack of 90-degree turns, a configuration left over from the days when the trolley navigated those roads. The Jingle Bell Run was originally created

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Above: Mike Duncan runs in the 2013 Jingle Bell 5K Run to benefit the Wrightsville Beach Museum of History. Top: Participants dressed in costumes begin the Jingle Bell 5K Run to benefit the Wrightsville Beach Museum of History Dec. 14, 2013.

to serve as the main fundraiser for the museum. Flagler said proceeds from the race would benefit the various presentations, exhibits and lectures the museum offers for both children and adults. “We’re a private nonprofit, which means that we don’t get any federal or local or county funds. Our main mission is doing outreach and doing programs,” she said. Flagler said even if race day offers lessthan-ideal conditions, the museum still hopes to have a successful fundraiser. If past years

are any indication, she said, bad weather wouldn’t put a damper on holiday cheer. “We’ve had windy weather, cold weather, really rainy weather, and we’ve had gorgeous weather,” Flagler said. “People tell us this [race] is the one they always make sure to run because it’s so much fun.” Runners can sign up by searching for the Wrightsville Beach Jingle Bell 5K at www. its-go-time.com and completing the online registration form. email emmy@luminanews.com

Running for the rescues: Trails for Tails 5K By Cole Dittmer Staff Writer

Most long-term residents of the greater Wilmington area know about Poplar Grove Plantation; fewer know about the Poplar Grove Animal Sanctuary, home to more than 20 different species of animals in some stage of rehabilitation. The inaugural Trails for Tails 5K Saturday, Dec. 6, will serve as the first fundraiser for the sanctuary and as a way for the organization to raise awareness about its mission of rescue,

rehabilitation and education. Betha Knight began volunteering at the sanctuary in 2013 after it was designated an equine rescue and said the sanctuary’s primary issue is awareness. “The problem that we are having as far as maintaining it and turning it into a viable sanctuary is getting the word out that it exists,” Knight said. With the equine rescue accreditation, Knight said the sanctuary is helping to rehabilitate malnourished and mistreated horses like the six currently on site. Three of the horses came

from Sampson County and were severely malnourished, and another just returned from shoulder surgery performed at North Carolina State University. Knight said the bills add up with the food, treatment and medical expenses needed for the mistreated horses. In addition to horses, the other animals that share the sanctuary space include pigs, goats, donkeys, ducks, geese, rabbits, sheep, lambs, cats and a Jersey cow named Bessie. “We either put them out for adoption if they are adoptable

or they will just stay and live,” Knight said. “We have a lot of property out here and . . . everybody is so amazed that all these animals are free roaming and live together. It is like a soap opera because they all have so much personality.” The 5K and fun run will take place in the nearby Abbey Nature Preserve the morning of Dec. 6. Afterward, food from Poor Piggy’s BBQ and Catering and Jersey Mike’s Subs will be available for purchase as will crafts from vendors. Free information from nonprofits like the

New Hanover County Animal Control, Cape Fear Raptor Center and Cape Fear Parrot Sanctuary will be distributed. Bessie the Jersey Cow will be one of the stars of the day during Bessie’s cow pie bingo. A raffle game popular in Texas, Knight said 250 squares in a grid will be sold at $20 each and the sponsor of the first square in which Bessie makes a pie will win $2,500 with the other $2,500 donated to the Poplar Grove sanctuary. For the first ever race and fundraiser for the sanctuary, Knight

said she just hopes to make people aware of its ongoing projects and needs. “My primary objective is awareness; I grew up here and I didn’t know this existed,” she said. “It is something positive, and how often can you turn on the news and find something positive? It is a sanctuary for people as well as the animals.” For more information and to register for the race, visit www.poplargrove.org/ animal-sanctuary email cole@luminanews.com

Dec. 4-10, 2014

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Azalea Coast

Real Estate Residential Real Estate Sales Trends Downtown 28401 Active Listings: New Listings: Went Pending: Sold Units Absorption Rate**: Sold last 12 months:

Central Wilmington 28403-28405

192 - 5 7 10 242

Myrtle Ogden/ Grove/MJ Porter’s Neck 28409-28412 28411

529 6 16 18 7 952

590 23 17 40 5 1,388

357 11 19 12 6 755

Week of Nov. 24–30, 2014 Single & Multi-family Homes

Information provided by Chris Livengood, Vice President of Sales, Intracoastal Realty

Wrightsville Pleasure Topsail Beach Island Island Hampstead Leland Castle Hayne 28480 28428-28449 28445 28443 28451-28479 28429 122 5 1 - 15 98

380 3 8 3 12 396

243 4 3 6 15 201

305 13 9 13 8 434

452 10 17 17 6 848

49 3 1 1 6 99

All of New Hanover County 2,208 51 66 80 7 3,895

**Absorption gives you an idea of the number of months it will take for the current inventory to be sold out based on the last twelve months of sales. Note: This representation is based in whole, or in part, on data supplied by the Wilmington Regional Association of Realtors (WRAR) Multiple Listing Service. Neither the WRAR nor their MLS guarantees or is in any way responsible for its accuracy. Data maintained by the WRAR or their MLS may not reflect all real estate activity in the market. All information herein has not been verified and is not guaranteed. ©2009 Multiple Listing Service of the Wilmington Regional Association of REALTORS, Inc.

By Marimar McNaughton, Staff Writer

he year was 1990, about one week after the North Carolina Holiday Flotilla. Wilmington resident Arland Whitesides and her husband Chip purchased a Wrightsville Beach cottage on West Oxford Street. “The more time we spent out here, the more we wanted to be here,” Arland Whitesides said. “We restored an 86-year-old beach cottage. Totally brought it up to date and added an addition.” They hired fellow sailor and architect Cothran Harris to design an addition completed by builder Dennis True in 1996. True said the goal of the team was to create additional modern, usable space that looked like it had been there all along. The original house was scarcely 1,500-1,600 square feet, had no real kitchen and no insulation, Harris recalled. “If you’re going to live here year-round, the first thing you need is a master bedroom suite with a sitting room,” Harris said. He began by treating the entire original cottage as secondary bedroom and bathroom space and creating a compatible addition. “We wanted this to have an old cottage feel but we wanted to have it reimagined,” Harris said. “We wanted to immerse ourselves in the details in the timeframe of the original

cottage … as if the Whitesideses had moved into the cottage and discovered blueprints, and said, ‘Wow, they had plans for an additional bedroom. Let’s build it.’” From its streetside elevation, the addition appears as if it were designed by the same person and built during the same timeframe as the original cottage. “A significant amount of shoring up and stabilizing had to be done to the original cottage,” True said. “The exterior juniper shakes were sourced nearby, probably from the same forests as the originals. The simple original finishes of the cottage such as interior trim details, heart pine wide plank flooring, beaded trim were easy to source and duplicate.” Some windows were also removed and those frames are now covered with heavy louvered panels. Combined with Bahama shutters and hanging pots of bougainvillea, which winter over in the garage, the Whitesideses have cultivated an eclectic look inspired by a love affair with the Caribbean. If it’s too hot in the summer, Arland Whitesides pulls the Sunbrella drapes across the front, southern elevation. When the sun finds her, she moves to the east porch. If it’s too windy, she retreats to the north porch, tucked between the original cottage and the new addition and buffered on both sides by exterior walls. In winter, the sun’s low arc finds shelter tucked under the covered entry porch. Despite all of these cozy outdoor spaces shaded by palm fronds, if it is complete anonymity she seeks, she resorts to the Charlestonesque side garden where, she is especially proud to note, there is not a single blade of grass on the property that needs mowing. “That is why we left town, to get away from all that formal mess,” Whitesides said. During the sailing season, the Whitesideses, then and now, entertain housefuls of weekend sailors, sans souci — or without care — for there is no formal upholstered furniture in the summer living room, furnished with a matched set of pretzel rattan settees and armchairs. The winter living room is arranged with Arland’s mother’s antique wing chairs and settees covered with hand-sewn, all-cotton drop cloths inspired by Martha Stewart’s shabby chic collection made to withstand the onslaught of wet dogs, bathing suits and sunscreened skin. Food is piled in the middle of the table for family-style meals served around a distressed oval table on Vietri pottery platters in the eat-in kitchen. “There’s too much fun to be had here instead of slaving over a house,” Whitesides said. “When we bought it … every pizza delivery boy said that he had lived in this house when it was a rental. It is a pure old beach cottage, which most people never get to visit anymore.” With traditional holidays observed from Thanksgiving to the New Year, Arland admitted her house has too little storage to do too much decorating at Christmastime. “We usually put up a little strand of blue lights on the porch,” she said. “There is no designer/decorator, just me and whatever friends suggest and I like. Nothing fancy at all but old beach style. There is no landscaper, just me and palm trees.” Once defrocked, cottage life will resume with the Whitesideses’ traditional bah humbug “I Hate Winter Party” thrown in January for extended family members and close friends.

White Christmas Staff photos by Joshua Curry

Fiore Fine Flowers’ designer Chelsea Fritts shared some ideas for how Arland Whitesides might decorate using what she already has on hand. Entwining the nuance of the old beach cottage with the family’s love of sailing and an affinity for artwork and décor inspired by the Caribbean, Fritts styled the cottage with fresh florals, live greens from Zone 8, shell and seaglass trees from Airlie Moon and whimsical accessories from Re-Eco. Moss-covered wreaths hung from yards of spooled burlap, flocked holiday greens laid inside evergreen branches, baskets of clear glass ornaments jostled with yarn covered vine balls, twig reindeer, driftwood stars and glowing LED lanterns set the stage for the indoor season.

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Nailing hot topics with industry insiders

Decoding the Law

Candlelight Home Tour

Holiday Social

Wilmington Regional Association of Realtors Dec. 5, 8 a.m. to noon WRAR Classroom, 1826 Sir Tyler Drive, Suite 100

The Lower Cape Fear Historical Society Dec. 6, 7 Historic Downtown Wilmington

Cape Fear CREW Dec. 4, 5:30-7 p.m. City Club at de Rosset

What should a Realtor do when state law and N.C. Real Estate Commission rules differ from the Realtor code of ethics? This four-hour elective course helps Realtors know when and how to demonstrate the code of ethics in daily practice. Members can register online. Nonmembers call Lois Petelinkar at 910-202-1584.

The Old Wilmington by Candlelight Tour includes 11 homes, two churches and one bed and breakfast, each decked out and decorated for the holidays. The tour will take place Saturday, Dec. 6, 4-8 p.m. and Sunday, Dec. 7, 2-6 p.m. Tickets cost $30. Call 910-762-0492 for more information.

Network with other women leaders in commercial real estate at the Cape Fear CREW December social, sponsored by Nabell Winslow. Appetizers will be provided and a cash bar will be available. Email Cheryl Nabell at cheryl@inspeopleofnc.com for more information.

Dec. 4-10, 2014

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Business News Mixed sales bag for local merchants Money Matters during flotilla and holiday weekend When you make

gifts, everyone wins Provided by RBC Wealth Management and Dave Dupont

If you want to make financial gifts to family members or charitable organizations, you get at least two major benefits. First, you get the good feelings that result from helping your family or those groups you support. And second, you can get some nice tax advantages — which makes it easier for you to keep giving. Most gifts fall into one of three Dave Dupont categories: • Personal gifts for any purpose — For 2014, you can give up to $14,000 per year to as many people as you like, without incurring gift taxes. And this limit applies to individuals, not to households.

Staff photo by Cole Dittmer

Crowds gather at the N.C. Holiday Flotilla Festival in the Park Saturday, Nov. 29, which was a slower day for other retail businesses around Wrightsville Beach than Black Friday.

By Cole Dittmer Staff Writer

The culmination of the Thanksgiving holiday, Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and the North Carolina Holiday Flotilla brings thousands of additional visitors to Wrightsville Beach every year, but the experience is different for each commercial sector. Wrightsville Beach hotels typically see a spike in reservations

for Thanksgiving and into the weekend. Blockade Runner Beach Resort, the flotilla host hotel, was full for the duration but representatives from both the Holiday Inn and Shell Island resorts said a majority of their guests do not travel specifically for the flotilla. “The flotilla typically does not have a huge impact; a lot of families were here for the Thanksgiving holiday and into the weekend,” said Maureen

Donovan, Holiday Inn sales and marketing director. “We had a few people that went but it was more of a fun thing to do while they are here. We did have quite a few families participate in the Turkey Trot Thanksgiving morning, however.” Nick Butler at Shell Island Resort said the hotel was about 80 percent full Thanksgiving night and Saturday night, and 90 percent full Friday night. Retail businesses around the

• Personal gifts for college — If you want to help pay for your child’s or grandchild’s college education, you can contribute to some attractive funding vehicles, such as a Section 529 college investment plan. Your 529 plan contributions will lower your taxable estate, but you’ll still retain control of the assets, right up to the time the beneficiary uses the money for college. Additionally, withdrawals from Section 529 plans are tax free, provided they’re used to pay for qualified educational costs. Separate from a 529 plan, you may also help cover someone’s educational expenses by paying his or her tuition to a qualifying institution, which can include primary and secondary schools as well as post-secondary schools. This can be in addition to the $14,000 personal gift to that individual. Keep in mind that you have to pay the institution directly.

island experienced similar disparities throughout the holiday weekend. Sweetwater Surf Shop • Charitable gifts — By making a gift to a charitable organizaemployee Spencer Lem said tion, you actually get several different types of tax benefits. First, the shop’s sidewalk sale drew you may get an immediate tax deduction for your gift. Second, crowds but the overall number you’ll avoid paying capital gains taxes by donating appreciated of shoppers appeared lower. assets, such as stock or real estate. And third, you’ll be remov“We did a sidewalk show sale ing an asset from your taxable estate. Depending on how you Friday and Saturday but it was structure your charitable gift, you may be able to benefit in not quite as busy as [2013],” Lem other ways. For example, if you establish what’s known as a said. “Saturday midday is usually Charitable Remainder Trust, you donate an asset to a trust, which busier with more people walking then sells it and invests the proceeds in an income-producing around but once it gets close to vehicle. You then receive a lifetime income stream and when 5 p.m. it definitely slows down you die, the trust disperses the remaining funds to the charitable with people hunkered down to organization you chose. watch the flotilla.” South End Surf Shop owner Jeff DeGroote said his busiThis article is provided by Dave Dupont, a Financial Advisor at RBC Wealth Management. RBC Wealth Management does not endorse this organization or publication. ness was well up for this year’s Thanksgiving weekRBC Wealth Management, a division of RBC Capital Markets LLC, Member NYSE/FINRA/ end. DeGroote said Black SIPC Friday was the best day of the weekend, far surpassing sales on Small Business Saturday, which were up 50 percent. While the N.C. Holiday business in her store over the Fourth of July for us,” Underwood Flotilla Day in the Park may weekend appeared to be on par said. “It is because we are right have drawn some of his busi- with last year’s numbers and she here and people can get a warm ness on Saturday, DeGroote always welcomes the additional pizza and take it with them or they can eat here and walk up to the said he was happy to share the flotilla traffic. “It brings a lot of people to the bridge.” foot traffic with those vendors beach and a lot of those people While the impacts of the floin the park. may not come to the beach this tilla and Thanksgiving weekend “I think it is good for those small businesses that they are weekend but they come because may vary for different businesses, Baker believes the visitors are a getting some traffic because of the flotilla,” Baker said. One constant is that people benefit to all. there is enough to go around,” have to eat one business that and“ISusan think it is a positive for our DeGroote said. “Small SUDOKU byandMyles Mellor Flanagan Business Saturday is a good takes full advantage of the flo- whole area . . . and it brings thing to keep that resonating tilla influx is Mellow Mushroom, business in degrees; for some it in people’s minds concerning said general manager Jennifer brings more and for others not as Each Sudoku puzzle consists of a 9X9 grid that has been sub much but it is a trickle down,” getting out to support all the Underwood. day ofsquares. flotilla is generally local businesses around here.” grids “The of 3X3 To solveshethesaid. puzzle each row, column Estelle Baker, owner of one of our busiest days of the year email cole@luminanews.com of the 1 to 9. Puzzles come in three grades: easy, m andnumbers it is pretty comparable to the The Fisherman’s Wife, said

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Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men (Luke 2:14 KJV). Although this is the proclamation the angels made to the shepherds on the night of Jesus’ birth, I find very little peace in the lives of believers this time of year. While I cannot find one scriptural mandate to celebrate Jesus’ birthday, I believe there is one primary attitude that could bring peace to what we have created: love. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness (Galatians 5:22 NKJV). For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit (Romans 8:5 NKJV). Christmas tends to give us opportunity to set the Spirit of God on a shelf somewhere in the back of our minds in order to get things accomplished in the flesh. The fruit of a mind that is submitted to the Spirit of God within will first and foremost demonstrate love and produce peace. If our minds are set on the things of the flesh, there will be no peace and joy, only frustration and anxiety. You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You, (Jesus) because he trusts in You (Isaiah 26:3 NKJV). Can we

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stop hanging tinsel long enough to examine our hearts and motives behind all the decorations and gift giving? Are we working this hard to demonstrate our love for Him, or is it for us? We should be saying with every colored light and tree ornament, “I love you Jesus and I am grateful for your natural birth.” When love is our motive, we will not decorate to please ourselves or the neighbors. I want to give every gift out of a heart of love, not obligation or man pleasing. Is Christmas truly just for children or can it be an expression of my love for Him and those He has put in my life? And let the peace (soul harmony which comes) from Christ rule (act as umpire continually) in your hearts [deciding settling with finality all questions that arise in your minds, in that peaceful state] to which as [members of Christ’s] one body you were also called [to live] (Colossians 3:15 Amplified). Can we allow the Spirit of God on the inside of us to guide and lead us through this Christmas? Can we allow the umpire of peace within us to decide and settle each decision we make throughout the holiday? Mercy, peace and love be yours in abundance (Jude 1:2 NKJV). When love is our motive, we will not decorate to please ourselves or the neighbors. Also, when love is behind our giving, each gift will be a demonstration of the greatest gift of all. When love became flesh to dwell among us!

Buddy and Maude Dawson are the founders and directors of the River of Life Worship Center, 3504 Carolina Beach Rd., Wilmington, NC. therolwc.org/buddydawson@ec.rr.com

Wrightsville United Methodist Church Bob Bauman, senior pastor 4 Live Oak Drive, 910-256-4471 Worship Services: 8:30, 9:45, 11:15 a.m. Sunday School: 9:45 a.m. St. Therese Catholic church Father Joe Vetter 209 S. Lumina Ave., 910-256-2471 Mass: Saturday, 5:30 p.m., Sunday, 8 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.; Monday, noon; Tuesday, 6 p.m.; Wednesday – Thursday noon; Thursday noon followed by Eucharistic Adoration St. Mark Catholic Church Father Patrick A. Keane 1011 Eastwood Road, 910-392-0720 Vigil Mass: Saturday 5 p.m. Sunday Masses: 7:30 a.m., 9:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 1:30 p.m. en Español Monday Mass: 8:30 a.m. Tuesday Masses: 8:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. Wednesday Mass: 8:30 a.m. Thursday Mass: 8:30 a.m.

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Kingdom I sent to you all the glory of the kingdom of heaven All you ask for in life plus seven times seven My kingdom has the majesty you can enjoy forever Do you think the supplies of glory, honor and peace will run out? Never! You will see the days when My gifts are used for The extension of My kingdom here on Earth to secure more Of My people freedom from sin and access to My love For I care for you and the kingdom that fits like a glove Secure and protective of My people who worship today On this earth My kingdom will dominate some day The forces of evil are not part of the solution here So in My kingdom My people will live without fear Sing your praises to the kingdom of heaven this night Take up your sword of faith and My word for the fight My kingdom reigns in heaven and on Earth just for you Believe what I say and receive My kingdom and glory too

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(Psa 103:19 NIV) The LORD has established his throne in heaven, and his kingdom rules over all. (Mat 4:17 NIV) From that time on Jesus began to preach, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near.” (Mat 6:10 NIV) your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. (Mat 6:13 KJV) And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen. (Mat 13:44 NIV) The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field. (Mat 16:19 NIV) I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. (Mat 26:29 NIV) I tell you, I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it anew with you in my Father’s kingdom. (John 3:3 NIV) In reply Jesus declared, “I tell you the truth, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again.”

followed by Adoration with Benediction at 9 p.m. Beth Simcha Messianic Jewish Congregation Congregational Leader/ Rabbi Marty Schilsky 7957 Market St. Wilmington, N.C. 28411 910-681-0117 Shabbat Services 10:30 a.m. Saturday

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December 2 RELIGIOUS PRIDE BRINGS DISSENSION Mark 15:10 “For he knew that the chief priests had delivered him for envy.” The Jews were God’s chosen people and therefore, God’s representatives on earth. Yet, they lied and condemned an innocent man to death. Pilate could see that their real motivation for wanting Jesus dead was envy. They were doing all their religious works to be seen of men, and were upset that Jesus was getting more recognition than they were. If these Jews would have thought about what type of witness they were giving, even they would have known that their actions were not inspired by God. We should remember that we are God’s witnesses on earth, or as Paul said, “We are epistles... known and read of all men” (2 Cor. 3:2). Judging our actions in the light of, “What kind of witness will

this give to others?” will help us discern whether or not we are being led of God. The chief priests had deceived themselves and other religious people into believing that they were condemning Jesus for godly reasons, but even an ungodly ruler like Pilate could see through their lies. Religious bondage blinds people to the truth even more than sin does. These rulers wanted to retain their power and authority, so they fought against the power and authority of Jesus. This is still the same today. Men use doctrinal issues to disguise the real issue. The truth is that, “Only by pride cometh contention” (Prov. 13:10). People who love to have the preeminence (3 Jn. 9) are usually the instigators of persecution.

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Classified and display deadline: Friday noon • Call 910-256-6569 ext 100 • classifieds@luminanews.com L E G A L N O T I C ES 13 SP 1212 AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, NEW HANOVER COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Vicky Ann Smith and Nathanial Smith to Michael L. Riddle, Trustee(s), which was dated December 10, 2003 and recorded on December 16, 2003 in Book 4131 at Page 447, New Hanover 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 Substitute 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 December 9, 2014 at 10:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in New Hanover County, North Carolina, to wit: All of Lot 76R, Section 2, of Ivy Wood at Runnymeade, according to a survey duly recorded in Map Book 30 at Page 65 of the New Hanover County Registry, and being the same lands described in deed recorded in Book 1877 at Page 1026 in said registry. Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record. Said property is commonly known as 3311 Needle Rush Court, Castle Hayne, NC 28429. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX, AND THE COURT COSTS OF FORTY-FIVE CENTS (45¢) PER ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($100.00) PURSUANT TO NCGS 7A-308(a)(1). A cash deposit (no personal 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 representations 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, special 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 current owner(s) of the property is/ are Nathanial Smith and wife, Vicky Ann Smith. An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate 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 bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the 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, LLC Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Attorneys for Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No.: 13-15791-FC02 November 27 and December 4, 2014 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Don B. Bosco and Nancy Bosco to Trustee Services of Carolina, Trustee(s), dated the 24th day of January, 2007, and recorded in Book 5134, Page 1630, in New Hanover County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of New Hanover County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in the City of Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 12:00 PM on December 9, 2014 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of New Hanover, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: BEING ALL of Lot 80 of Phase I-B of Kure Beach Club Subdivision as shown on a map of said subdivision recorded in Map Book 29 at Page 40 of the New Hanover County Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 805 Settlers Lane, Kure Beach, North Carolina. Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §45-21.23. Should the property be purchased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by NCGS §7A-308(a) (1). The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation 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, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws. A cash deposit or cashier’s check (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the pur-

chase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days’ written notice to the landlord. 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 bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the 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. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE P.O. Box 1028 4317 Ramsey Street Fayetteville, North Carolina 28311 https://sales.hutchenslawfirm. com Case No: 1141452 (FC.FAY) November 27 and December 4, 2014 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Terry A. Degrechie and Kimberly Kern Degrechie to Shapiro & Kreisman, Trustee(s), dated the 23rd day of May, 2005, and recorded in Book 4851, Page 582, in New Hanover County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of New Hanover County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in the City of Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 12:00 PM on December 9, 2014 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of New Hanover, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: All that certain property situated in the County of New Hanover and State of North Carolina, being described as follows: Lot 265, Marquis Hills Subdivision, Section 8, Map Book 12, Page 25. Being more fully described in a deed dated 01/24/1995 and recorded 01/25/1995, among the land records of the county and state set forth above, in Deed Volume 1849 and Page 165. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 505 Antoinette Drive, Wilmington, North Carolina. Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §45-21.23. Should the property be purchased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax,

as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by NCGS §7A-308(a) (1). The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation 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, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws. A cash deposit or cashier’s check (no personal 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. An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days’ written notice to the landlord. 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 bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the 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. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE P.O. Box 1028 4317 Ramsey Street Fayetteville, North Carolina 28311 https://sales.hutchenslawfirm. com Case No: 1138536 (FC.FAY) November 27 and December 4, 2014 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 13 SP 1155 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Keith Powers and Carol Shuller Powers (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Merriel Keith Powers and Carol Shuller Powers) to Charles W. Bennett, Trustee(s), dated the 1st day of November, 2005, and recorded in Book 4931, Page 2840, in New Hanover County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of New Hanover County,

North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in the City of Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 12:00 PM on December 9, 2014 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of New Hanover, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: BEGINNING at a stake in the Southern line of Fayetteville Street, said stake being located 150 feet westwardly from the intersection of the Southern line of Fayetteville Street and the Western line of Lumina Avenue; and running thence Southwardly parallel with Lumina Avenue and at right angles with the Southern line of Fayetteville Street 100 feet to a stake; thence Westwardly parallel with the Southern line of Fayetteville Street 50 feet to a stake; thence Northwardly parallel with the Western line of Lumina Avenue 100 feet to a stake in the Southern line of Fayetteville Street; thence Eastwardly with the Southern line of Fayetteville Street fifty feet to the point of beginning; being Lot No. 22 in Block 1, Addition 1, Wrightsville Beach Extension, map of which is recorded in the Registry of New Hanover County in Map Book 2, Page 100. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 7 West Fayetteville Street, Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina. SUBJECT to the Restrictions set forth in a deed from Oleander Development Company to Frances H. Symmes et als, recorded in Book 207, at Page 509, of the New Hanover County Registry. AND being the same property conveyed by deed recorded February 27, 1969, in Book 851, at Page 592 of the New Hanover County Registry. Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §45-21.23. Should the property be purchased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by NCGS §7A-308(a) (1). The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation 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, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws. A cash deposit or cashier’s check (no personal 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. An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1,

2007, may after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days’ written notice to the landlord. 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 bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the 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. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE P.O. Box 1028 4317 Ramsey Street Fayetteville, North Carolina 28311 https://sales.hutchenslawfirm. com Case No: 1120855 (FC.FAY) November 27 and December 4, 2014 12 SP 547 AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, NEW HANOVER COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Douglas W. Clarke and Teri A. Clarke to PRLAP, Inc., Trustee(s), which was dated July 23, 2002 and recorded on July 29, 2002 in Book 3375 at Page 348, New Hanover 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 Substitute 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 December 16, 2014 at 10:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in New Hanover County, North Carolina, to wit: ALL OF LOT 3 OF RAINTREE SUBDIVISION, SECTION 1, AS THE SAME IS SHOWN ON A MAP ENTITLED “REVISION IN PART, SECTION 1, RAINTREE” RECORDED IN MAP BOOK 27 AT PAGE 167 IN THE OFFICE OF THE REGISTER OF DEED OF NEW HANOVER COUNTY. Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record. Said property is commonly known as 5828 Oak Bluff Lane, Wilmington, NC 28409. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX, AND THE COURT COSTS OF FORTY-FIVE CENTS (45¢) PER ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($100.00) PURSUANT TO NCGS 7A-308(a)(1). A cash deposit (no personal 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 representations 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, special 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 current owner(s) of the property is/are Douglas W. Clarke and wife, Teri A. Clarke. An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate 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 bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the 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, LLC Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Attorneys for Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No.: 10-10510-FC02 December 4 and 11, 2014 14 SP 771 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, NEW HANOVER COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Shaun A. York and Margaret T. York to PRLAP, Inc., Trustee(s), which was dated December 14, 2006 and recorded on December 19, 2006 in Book 5119 at Page 2276, New Hanover 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 Substitute 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 December 16, 2014 at 10:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in New Hanover County, North Carolina, to wit: Beginning at a point in the northern line of Grace and Mulberry Street one hundred and two (102) feet and seven (7) inches westwardly from the western line of McRae Street and running thence northwardly, parallel with Seventh Street, one hundred and thirty two (132) feet, thence eastwardly, parallel with Grace Street forty (40) feet, thence southwardly, parallel with Seventh Street one hundred and thirty two (132) feet to the northern line fo Grace Street and thence along said northern line of Grace Street westwardly

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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, special 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 current owner(s) of the property is/ are Shaun York and Margaret T. York. An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate 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 bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the 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, LLC Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Attorneys for Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No.: 14-14886-FC01 December 4 and 11, 2014 14 SP 767 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, NEW HANOVER COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by

Wanda Kelly Henke to Pamela S. Cox, Trustee(s), which was dated November 23, 2010 and recorded on November 23, 2010 in Book 5527 at Page 2364, New Hanover 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 Substitute 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 December 16, 2014 at 10:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in New Hanover County, North Carolina, to wit: Being all of Lot 53, Section 2-A, Hidden Valley Subdivision as the same is shown on map recorded in Map Book 22, Page 99 of the New Hanover County Registry, reference to which is hereby made for a more particular description. Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior con-

veyances of record. Said property is commonly known as 506 Hidden Valley Road, Wilmington, NC 28409. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX, AND THE COURT COSTS OF FORTY-FIVE CENTS (45¢) PER ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($100.00) PURSUANT TO NCGS 7A-308(a)(1). A cash deposit (no personal 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 representations 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, special 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 current owner(s) of the property is/ are Wanda Kelly Henke. An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate 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 bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the 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, LLC Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Attorneys for Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No.: 14-20468-FC01 December 4 and 11, 2014 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 14 SP 365 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by James A. Cerniglia, a single person (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Venture Dynamic, LLC) to Transcontinental, Trustee(s), dated the 24th day of January, 2003, and recorded in Book 3639, Page 503, in New Hanover County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument

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L E G A L N O T I C ES duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of New Hanover County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in the City of Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 12:00 PM on December 16, 2014 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of New Hanover, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Being all of Lot 132, as shown on a map of Belmont Addition, Section 4, dated January, 1963, by Howard M. Loughlin, R.L.S. and recorded in Map Book 8, at Page 7 & 8 of the New Hanover County Registry, reference to which map is hereby made for a more particular description. Being the same property conveyed to James A. Cerniglia by deed from Duke M. Mishoe and wife Mary C. Mishoe, recorded 02/05/2001 in Deed Book 2881 Page 535 Together with improvements thereon said property located at 2817 Penn Street aka 28172819 Penn Street, Wilmington, NC 28412 APN# R06506-012-004-000 Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §45-21.23. Should the property be purchased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by NCGS §7A-308(a) (1). The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation 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, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws. A cash deposit or cashier’s check (no personal 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. An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days’ written notice to the landlord. 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 bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the 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. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE P.O. Box 1028 4317 Ramsey Street Fayetteville, North Carolina 28311 https://sales.hutchenslawfirm. com Case No: 1126278 (FC.CH) December 4 and 11, 2014

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AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE

NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S FORECLOSURE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY

NORTH CAROLINA, NEW HANOVER COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Erica Kelsey Satorre to Trustee Services, Inc., Trustee(s), which was dated December 13, 2012 and recorded on December 14, 2012 in Book 5696 at Page 1401, New Hanover 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 Substitute 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 December 16, 2014 at 10:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in New Hanover County, North Carolina, to wit: Being all of Lot 34, Sunset South Subdivision, as shown on a map recorded in Map Book 45, Pages 359-360 of the New Hanover County Registry. Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record. Said property is commonly known as 2237 Jefferson Street, Wilmington, NC 28401. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX, AND THE COURT COSTS OF FORTY-FIVE CENTS (45¢) PER ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($100.00) PURSUANT TO NCGS 7A-308(a)(1). A cash deposit (no personal 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 representations 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, special 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 current owner(s) of the property is/ are Erica Kelsey Satorre. An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate 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 bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the 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, LLC Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Attorneys for Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No.: 14-05897-FC01 December 4 and 11, 2014

Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed and delivered by Olga E Littleton, dated May 27, 2008 and recorded on May 30, 2008 in Book No. 5318 at Page 2604 in the Office of the Register of Deeds of New Hanover County, North Carolina; and because of default in the payment of the indebtedness secured thereby and failure to carry out and perform the stipulations and agreements contained therein and, pursuant to demand of the holder of the indebtedness secured by said Deed of Trust, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will place for sale, at public auction, to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at New Hanover County Courthouse, Wilmington, North Carolina on December 17, 2014 at 11:00 AM that parcel of land, including improvements thereon, situated, lying and being in the City of Wilmington, County of New Hanover, State of North Carolina, and being more particularly described in the above referenced Deed of Trust. Address of property: 529 Longleaf Acres Dr, Wilmington, NC 28405-3943. Tax Parcel ID: R05011-012-009-000 Present Record Owners: Olga E Littleton. The terms of the sale are that the real property hereinbefore described will be sold for cash to the highest bidder. 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. The successful bidder shall be required to pay revenue stamps on the Trustee’s Deed, any Land Transfer Tax and costs of recording the Trustee’s Deed. The real property hereinabove described is being offered for sale “AS IS, WHERE IS” and will be sold subject to all superior liens, unpaid taxes, and special assessments. Other conditions will be announced at the sale. The sale will be held open for ten (10) days for upset bids as by law required. If for any reason the Trustee is unable to convey title to this property or the sale is set aside, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Furthermore, if the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the Trustee, in its sole discretion, if it believes the challenge to have merit, may declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. In either event the purchaser will have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, the Mortgagee’s attorney or the Trustee. Additional Notice Where the Real Property is Residential With Less Than 15 Rental Units: An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days’ written notice to the landlord. 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. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a bona fide lease or tenancy may have additional rights pursuant to Title VII of 5.896 - Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act which became effective on May 20, 2009. Rogers Townsend & Thomas, PC, Substitute Trustee (803)744-4444, 017367-00424 P1121447 12/4, 12/11/2014 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 14 SP 113 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Angela Powell to W.J. Kellam, Jr., Trustee(s), dated the 5th day of October, 2007, and recorded in Book 5240, Page 891, in New Hanover County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of New Hanover County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in the City of Wilmington,

New Hanover County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 12:00 PM on December 16, 2014 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of New Hanover, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: BEGINNING at a point in the Western edge of South Fourth Street, 35 feet 6 inches South from the Southwestern intersection of Dawson and Fourth Street and running thence from said Beginning point Westerwardly and parallel with Dawson Street 32 feet; thence South 42 degrees West 56 feet 9 inches more or less to an iron pipe situated 66 feet Westwardly from the Western edge of South Fourth Street, thence Eastwardly parallel with Dawson Street 66 feet to an iron pipe in the Western edge of South Fourth Street, thence Northwardly along the Western edge of South Fourth Street 44 feet 6 inches to the point of BEGINNING, together with a right of way and easement in, on, to and trough and over a strip of land immediately adjoining the within property on the North, the same having a frontage of 4 feet on South Fourth Street and running back parallel with Dawson Street 32 feet, but, subject, however, to a right of way and easement to the owners of the Tract of land immediately, adjoining the within tract on the North of the within tract, the same having a frontage of 4 feet on South Fourth Street and running Westwardly parallel with Dawson Street 32 feet for the common use of the owners of the within property and the owners of the property immediately North and to their heirs and assigns the same being part of Lot 1, Block 33, according to the official plan of the City of Wilmington, North Carolina. Together with improvements thereon, said property located at 904 S. 4th Street, Wilmington, NC 28401. Parcel: R05409-033-006-000 Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §45-21.23. Should the property be purchased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by NCGS §7A-308(a) (1). The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation 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, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws. A cash deposit or cashier’s check (no personal 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. An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days’ written notice to the landlord. 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 bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale

is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the 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. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE P.O. Box 1028 4317 Ramsey Street Fayetteville, North Carolina 28311 https://sales.hutchenslawfirm. com Case No: 1109572 (FC.CH) December 4 and 11, 2014 STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF NEW HANOVER IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE BEFORE THE CLERK OF SUPERIOR COURT EXECUTRIX’S NOTICE The undersigned having qualified as Executrix of the Estate of Velma Oleta Thompson Friedman of New Hanover County, North Carolina, does hereby notify all persons having claims against said estate to present them to the undersigned at the address shown below on or before the 12th day of February 2015, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment to the undersigned. This is the 13th day of November 2014. Gwendolyn H. Johnsen, Executrix 1131 Forest Hills Drive Wilmington, NC 28403 11/13, 11/20, 11/27, 12/4/2014 STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF NEW HANOVER IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE BEFORE THE CLERK OF SUPERIOR COURT EXECUTRIX’S NOTICE The undersigned having qualified as Executrix of the Estate of Carolyn Rogers Cox of New Hanover County, North Carolina, does hereby notify all persons having claims against said estate to present them to the undersigned at the address shown below on or before the 12th day of February 2015, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment to the undersigned. This is the 13th day of November 2014. Hillary Wells, Executrix 1211 Upper Reach Drive Wilmington, NC 28409 11/13, 11/20, 11/27, 12/4/2014 STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF NEW HANOVER IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE

and corporations indebted to the said estate will please make immediate payment to the undersigned. This is the 20th day of November, 2014. Jay Will Heglar, Executor of the Estate of Hazel Glover Heglar Brian G. Morrison Smith Moore Leatherwood LLP 300 N. Third Street, Suite 301 Wilmington, NC 28401 11/20, 11/27, 12/4, 12/11/2014 STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF NEW HANOVER IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE BEFORE THE CLERK OF SUPERIOR COURT

The undersigned having qualified as Executrix of the Estate of Guy Stillman Howell of New Hanover County, North Carolina, does hereby notify all persons having claims against said estate to present them to the undersigned at the address shown below on or before the 5th day of March 2015, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment to the undersigned. This is the 4th day of December 2014. Angela Howell Rigsbee, Executrix 502 Superior Road Wilmington, NC 28412 12/4, 12/11, 12/18, 12/25/2014

FIDUCIARY’S NOTICE The undersigned having qualified as Fiduciary of the Estate of William Grey Wynn of New Hanover County, North Carolina, does hereby notify all persons having claims against said estate to present them to the undersigned at the address shown below on or before the 26th day of February 2015, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment to the undersigned. This is the 27th day of November 2014. Susan Wynn, Fiduciary 408 Endicott Court Wilmington, NC 28411 11/27, 12/4, 12/11, 12/18/2014

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Having qualified as Executor of the Estate of Josephine W. Cooper, late of New Hanover County, North Carolina, the undersigned does hereby notify all persons, firms and corporations having claims against the estate of said decedent to exhibit them to the undersigned, c/o Jill L. Peters, 300 N. Third Street, Suite 301, Wilmington, North Carolina 28401, on or before the 6th day of March, 2015, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons, firms and corporations indebted to the said estate will please make immediate payment to the undersigned. This the 4th day of December, 2014. Dr. Javon S. Cooper, Executor of the Estate of Josephine W. Cooper Jill L. Peters Smith Moore Leatherwood LLP 300 N. Third Street, Suite 301 Wilmington, NC 28401 December 4, 11, 18, 25, 2014 STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF NEW HANOVER IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE BEFORE THE CLERK OF SUPERIOR COURT

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF NEW HANOVER IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE BEFORE THE CLERK OF SUPERIOR COURT EXECUTOR’S NOTICE The undersigned having qualified as Executor of the Estate of Dorothy Smith Moore of New Hanover County, North Carolina, does hereby notify all persons having claims against said estate to present them to the undersigned at the address shown below on or before the 5th day of March 2015, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment to the undersigned. This is the 4th day of December 2014. Kenneth Eugene Moore Jr., Executor 7016-F Cape Harbor Drive Wilmington, NC 28411 12/4, 12/11, 12/18, 12/25/2014

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FANNY SLATER’S BUTTERNUT SQUASH WINTER ROLLs WITH POMEGRANATES butternut squash winter ROLLS Makes 16 rolls Filling Ingredients: 2 small butternut squash (1 pound each), peeled, seeded and diced into ½ inch thick cubes 2 Tbsp olive oil 2 Tbsp maple syrup (or substitute maple agave) 1 tsp coarse salt (such as sea salt or kosher salt) ½ tsp coarse black pepper 1 Tbsp chopped fresh sage 16 rice paper wrappers 1 cup pomegranate seeds 1 � 3 cup roasted salted pumpkin seeds, dry toasted in a pan over medium low heat for 5 minutes 2 tart apples (such as Granny Smith or Pink Lady), cut into matchsticks 2 cups finely shredded green cabbage Pumpkin Fig Jam (recipe below) Preheat the oven to 425 degrees. Toss the butternut squash with the olive oil, maple syrup, salt, pepper and sage and evenly spread onto a baking sheet. Roast until the squash cubes are lightly golden and tender, about 20 minutes. While the squash is still warm, sprinkle with a pinch of salt. Set out an assembly line of ingredients starting with the rice paper wrappers, a rectangular platter of warm water and a damp, outspread dishcloth. Next, the butternut squash, pomegranate seeds, pumpkin seeds, apples and cabbage. Prepare a serving platter at the end for the finished rolls. Make the rolls: Submerge a rice paper wrapper into the warm water until it’s pliable, 5-10 seconds. Carefully transfer the wrapper to the damp towel. Equally layer the fillings across the lower third of the wrapper. Fold the sides over the filling (like a burrito) and continue to roll away from you until the edges are sealed. Transfer the wrapped winter roll to the serving platter and repeat until all of the rolls are complete. Serve immediately with the pumpkin fig jam or prepare up to one hour ahead. If you’re making the rolls ahead of time, layer each level with a damp paper towel so they don’t stick together.

pumPkin fig JAM

Makes 1 cup

Fig jam Ingredients: ¼ cup canned pumpkin 1 cup stemmed and halved dried Turkish figs (or substitute dried mission figs)

Juice of 1 orange ½ tsp pure vanilla extract 2 Tbsp brown sugar 1 � 8 tsp ground cinnamon Pinch salt

PUMPKIN FIG JAM

Top: Slater’s butternut squash winter rolls combine fall flavors with a classic Asian spring roll. Above: Slater appears on “The Rachael Ray Show” with Chefs Ray and Jacques Pépin.

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