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More parking talk on horizon

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The Wrightsville Beach Board of Aldermen is again seeking a solution to parking in Harbor Island’s business district.

The board first considered adding paid parking only to Pelican Drive. The idea was initially suggested during a March 26 budget meeting as the board, faced with a $156,704 shortfall in the proposed budget, searched for additional revenue sources and landed on Pelican Drive’s summertime overflow beach parking. Beachgoers would pay by phone, so no meters or pay stations would be required.

The board held a public hearing on the matter April 8 and received pushback from Pelican Drive residents. Residents would still be able to park along the street using their hangtags, but they were concerned designating Pelican Drive as paid parking would dangerously increase traffic on the narrow road.

Even before opening the n See parking Page 5

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The Wrightsville Beach Board of Aldermen approved spending between $10,000 and $15,000 to hire a surveyor to gather elevation data for Harbor Island to determine whether the town should appeal FEMA’s preliminary flood zone maps.

Promising results for flood zone appeal

By Emmy Errante Staff Writer

An ongoing study by a coastal engineering firm to determine whether Wrightsville Beach should appeal FEMA’s preliminary floodplain maps has revealed promising results, town manager Tim Owens said during the April 8 board of aldermen meeting.

Owens said Applied Technology and Management (ATM) processed LIDAR elevation data for Harbor Island using different methods than

FEMA used. The results could potentially put more of the island in the lower-risk AE zone.

To argue its case to FEMA, Owens said, ATM needs actual, exact elevation data for Harbor Island. The aldermen, at Owens’ suggestions, voted April 8 to use between $10,000 and $15,000 to hire a surveyor to obtain the data. The funds will come out of the town’s Hazard Mitigation Plan, a pool of money it doesn’t need right now since it merged into the county’s plan.

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Live Oak tree trimming concludes under watch

By Tricia Vance Staff Writer

Staff photo by Allison Potter

Residents of Live Oak Drive watch as employees of Asplundh and Duke Energy trim the live oak trees near power lines in the road’s median Tuesday, April 14.

All eyes were fixed on Wes Gore’s every move Tuesday, April 14.

Residents of South Harbor Island’s Live Oak Drive followed each cluster of foliage as it fell to the ground. They then turned their gaze upward again as the Asplundh tree trimmer calculated his next cut with the assistance of Duke Energy arborist Duane Dickinson.

Dickinson’s laser pointer landed on the exact spot where a longhandled circular saw would take the next piece from the stately oak, one of three left in Duke Energy’s directive to trim back limbs hanging near power lines. Dickinson’s presence was part of the utility’s agreement to be more mindful of how its crews do their jobs.

Neighbors were intent on preventing the aesthetic damage they say was inflicted on other trees on the shade-rich street, and to ensure n See Trimming Page 5

Preservation tax credit bill may falter in Senate

By Tricia Vance Staff Writer

A bill to revive the state historic preservation tax credit faces possible death in the N.C. Senate despite Gov. Pat McCrory’s support. Locally, the state’s tax credits encourage preservation of historic buildings, one of the missions of the nonprofit Historic Wilmington Foundation Although the tax credits passed 98-15 in the N.C. House in March, a powerful Senate leader said they won’t take up the bill, which would provide a more

limited tax credit than the program that lawmakers allowed to expire in December.

Gov. Pat McCrory actively promoted the legislation, which would provide a 15 percent tax credit for work on income-producing property costing up to $10 million. He and Secretary of Cultural Resources Susan Kluttz have been crossing the state to rally support for the revised tax credits. The pair made a stop in New Bern last week, and Kluttz made a pitch in Wilmington last month. n See Preservation Page 5

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The owner of the Bear-Munson building on North Front Street in Wilmington, location of the Hot Pink Cake Stand, used a historic preservation tax credit to help offset the cost of renovations.

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A vote by the Wrightsville Beach Board of Aldermen last week classified graffiti as a public nuisance in town code with a minimum penalty for the vandal beginning at $250 and escalating for multiple offenses.

Graffiti markings have appeared on structures throughout town during the past year and as recently as April 1, when the Shell Island Resort was vandalized. No suspects have been identified, despite the Wrightsville Beach Police Department’s implementation of an elaborate surveillance camera system. Town leaders hope the threat of hefty fines will deter the perpetrator.

Vandals could potentially receive both civil and criminal penalties under the original ordinance drafted by town staff. A first offender would be fined $100, but the aldermen were in favor of stricter penalties.

The board decided a first offense will carry a $250 fine, a second offense $500, a third offense

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Budget prioritizes equipment purchases over personnel

By Emmy Errante Staff Writer

Throughout the process of creating the 2015/16 fiscal year budget, Wrightsville Beach Mayor Bill Blair has said he does not want to raise residents’ taxes.

During the board’s April 14 budget meeting, aldermen began budget cuts, prioritizing urgent equipment upgrades over employee salary increases.

“It’s not a matter of what we would like to do, it’s what we can afford to do,” Blair said.

He recommended the board remain conservative in its expenditures right now, especially because several sources of revenue are uncertain. For example, he said the New Hanover County Tourism Development Authority might implement a new holdback policy requiring the beach towns set aside a certain amount of their Room Occupancy Tax every year to be used in the event the beaches are hit by a hurricane and temporarily lose that source of funding.

The town also has several n See budget Page 5

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All-girls charter school proposed for Wilmington

By Lindsay Kastner Contributing Writer

During a recent tour of the Ann Richards School for Young Women Leaders in Austin, Texas, Todd Godbey met a 10th grader who was the first in her family to ever finish elementary school.

Now she plans to become a nuclear engineer.

“To see that is awe inspiring,” Godbey said.

As president of the Leadership Academy of Young Women, a proposed local charter school, he hopes to be telling similarly inspiring stories about Wilmington-area students soon.

If approved, the academy would open in 2016, joining four existing charter schools in New Hanover County and becoming the only one with a single-gender focus.

“There’s most likely an advantage to not having the distraction of a co-educational classroom and you have more of an opportunity to create a culture of sisterhood,” Godbey said of the girls-only model.

The proposed school would also target students with low-income backgrounds who would be the first in their families to attend college. It would open with 75 sixth graders and add one grade each year, eventually serving about 550 students in grades 6 – 12.

The North Carolina Charter School Advisory board gave unanimous approval to the charter application in February. The proposal now awaits a vote by the State Board of Education later this summer.

The planned academy is part of a network of girls-only schools that started in East Harlem in 1996. The network now includes 16 other affiliate schools including the Ann Richards School in Austin.

Godbey said the Wilmington school would center around science, technology, engineering and mathematics, also known as the STEM fields, as well as arts education.

“These things are typically taught more to males,” he said of STEM subjects, adding female students “have 100 percent of the capacity as their male counterparts, when given the opportunity.”

Godbey points to the success of other schools in the Young Women’s Leadership Network as further evidence that single-gender education works.

But while some single-gender schools tout positive results, ACLU attorney Galen Sherwin said, “There’s no proof that they’re effective because of single-sex education.”

Sherwin said she is not familiar with the Leadership Academy for Young Women proposal, but the ACLU has previously spoken out against other single-gender schools and programs across the country, including in Wake County.

A 2012 report by the organization said public single-gender education is often “based on discredited science and gender stereotypes.”

Though some studies seem to favor a single-gender approach, Sherwin said when study methodology is taken into account those arguments fall flat.

“The research has not supported single-sex education,” she said.

Here in Wilmington, Godbey said response has been positive and he has encountered no pushback to the proposal.

“I have personally not experienced any at all,” he said. “None whatsoever.”

New Hanover County School Board Member Lisa Estep expressed concerns that preliminary discussions about a bus-sharing arrangement with

the New Hanover County public schools did not include the full county school board, but said she is “very impressed” with the concept for the charter school.

The Leadership Academy plans to offer transportation for its students, but those details have yet to be ironed out.

Contracting with the county school district to use its buses “is certainly one of the possibilities on the table,” Godbey said, however it would only work if the academy’s school day starts and

ends late enough to avoid interfering with the district’s existing routes.

Perhaps more pressing is the need to find a facility for the planned school. One possibility, renting a portion of Gregory Elementary School, is now off the table because Godbey said it doesn’t appear Gregory will have enough available space.

Godbey said he wants the school to be centrally located but he is open to more traditional facilities as well as the

idea of repurposing a large vacant storefront or warehousetype space.

He said he wants a setting that can foster a very hands-on type of education, “not rows of desks in a classroom.” But although starting with a blank slate has its appeal, readying a wide-open space could prove pricey.

“In a warehouse space the board would have an opportunity to raise a whole lot of money sooner,” Godbey said.

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A kiteboarder takes advantage of 15 mph south winds Friday, April 10 at the south end of Wrightsville Beach. ~ Emmy Errante

Wrightsville’s drinking water back in compliance

By Emmy Errante Staff Writer

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Jessica Dunn stops at a drinking fountain on the John Nesbitt Loop after a morning run Wednesday, Jan. 21.

Wrightsville Beach’s water system is back in compliance with Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) standards, the town’s assistant public works director Steve Dellies said April 14.

A sample of the town’s water taken March 31 showed levels of the disinfection byproduct trihalomethane at 38 parts per million, putting the quarterly average at 57 parts per million, well below the 80 parts per million allowed by the EPA. The town had previously received violations for the third and fourth quarters of 2014, but new methods of flushing water through pipes proved effective in lowering the contaminant levels. email emmy@luminanews.com

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emissions testing in New Hanover, Brunswick

By Tricia Vance Staff Writer

Drivers in the Cape Fear region may soon save a few dollars per year on their annual vehicle inspection. The N.C. Division of Air Quality (DAQ) recommends getting rid of the emissions inspection in at least 27 counties, including New Hanover and Brunswick.

The inspections have been required since 2000. The change was prompted by a General Assembly mandate combined with stricter limits on auto exhaust and an overall reduction in ozone emissions statewide, said Tom Mather, spokesman for the air quality division.

Drivers pay $16.40 for the emissions portion of their annual inspection. The annual safety inspection will not be affected by the agency’s recommendation, although Senate Bill 200 would do away with that requirement as well.

Mather said the N.C. General Assembly mandated a review of the rules because the Environmental Protection Agency increased standards for auto emissions systems and for fuel to reduce ozone emissions. In addition, he said, the number of autos failing the inspection is low.

As of April 1, the state no longer requires emissions inspections for vehicles up to three years old.

Abolishing the exhaust inspections altogether in some counties takes that change a step further.

In 48 counties automobile owners are required to have vehicles inspected annually for compliance with emissions rules. When the legislature enacted the law, onethird of North Carolina’s counties exceeded the limit for ozone, Mather said. Today, none do.

For now, DAQ recommends keeping the inspection requirement in the most heavily populated counties, but if the rule change becomes final residents in the Wilmington area will no longer have to pay the added fee.

The change would hit service provider’s bottom lines, but some

local operators say they don’t expect the impact to be severe.

“We don’t really make a lot of money doing inspections,” said Joe Pedzwater, owner of Aspen Tire and Auto at Kerr Avenue and Wilshire Boulevard. “If it goes away, it goes away.”

Jason Scott, who manages the Pro Lube station on Market Street at Ogden, said shops like his will feel the effect.

“We do a lot of inspections here, and most of them are emissions inspections,” he said. “It’s not going to shut us down, but it is going to hurt.”

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“We do a lot of inspections here, and most of them are emissions inspections.

It’s not going to shut us down, but it is going to hurt.”

Tire on Market Street said the effect will be noticeable for many service stations, particularly those that limit services to oil changes and inspections.

Meanwhile, the N.C. Sierra Club wants the state to consider the potential consequences.

While it is true air quality has improved, part of that trend is due to emissions inspections, said state director Molly Diggins. North Carolina is one of the fastestgrowing states in the nation, and that means more automobiles and more emissions, she said.

In addition, she said, the state could lose transportation dollars if the change causes it to fall out of compliance with federal air quality standards.

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For The Record Question and photographs by Cullen Lea

Why do you avoid or attend the North Carolina Azalea Festival?

Mark Pearman Chesapeake, Va.

Brittany Skipper

“I’m not familiar with it. I’m here visiting my daughter who’s at UNCW. We did attend the Alan Jackson concert and it was a great event and atmosphere.”

Wilmington, N.C.

“I feel like it’s a part of Wilmington, a St. Louis, Mo. tradition. I go for the funnel cake. This “I haven’t ever been because I haven’t is my first year that I won’t be attending been in town long enough. I’d like to go the Garden Party.” next year. I just dropped his parents off at the Garden Party!”

Weekend Police Report April 10 Arrests • John D. Burns was arrested for two orders for arrest, possession of marijuana and possession of paraphernalia.

• Robert Conn was arrested for order to arrest, failure to appear, and resist, delay, obstruct.

• Nicholas Tudor was arrested for being intoxicated and disruptive.

Citations

• Maria Hernadez was issued a citation for no operator’s license.

• William Kyle Jones was issued a citation for exceeding posted speed limit.

• James Whitley Jr. was issued a citation for speeding in a school zone.

• Nicole Gaylord was issued a citation for failure to decrease speed.

• Edward William Chrisman was issued a citation for consuming a malt beverage in a motor vehicle and failure to burn headlights.

• John D. Burns was issued a citation for driving during revocation/resist, delay, obstruct.

• Sarah Barnes was issued a citation for expired registration.

• Dev Sanyal was issued a citation for an affray.

• Ian Gove was issued a citation for an affray.

• William Pershing was issued a citation for underage consumption.

• Ceasar Moreno was issued a citation for no operator’s license, no insurance.

Warning tickets • Megan Morrisey was issued a warning ticket for speeding.

• Carley Marissa Bass was issued a warning ticket for speeding.

• McKinley Bradshaw was issued a warning ticket for speeding.

• George Anthony Macken was issued a warning ticket for noise.

Civil penalties

• An order for arrest/failure to appear; and resist, delay, obstruct was reported.

April 11 Arrests • Staci Wensevic was arrested for being intoxicated and disruptive.

Citations • Jonathan Wayne Thompson Jr. was issued a citation for speeding.

• Alexandra Chansler was issued a citation for failure to reduce speed.

Civil penalites • Robert Spino was issued a civil penalty for impeding traffic.

• Jan Gaspar was issued a civil penalty for human waste.

• Lisa Stiles was issued a civil penalty for noise.

Reports • The Silver Gull Motel reported criminal damage to property and possession of a Schedule II substance and marijuana.

• An intoxicated and disruptive person was reported.

• A crash was reported.

April 12 Arrests • Juanita Macedo was arrested for driving while impaired and failure to burn headlights.

Citations • Brian Edward Kouri was issued a citation for no insurance and no license.

• Margaret Ann Flaugher was issued a citation for expired registration and inspection violation.

• Juanita Macedo was issued a citation for a driving while impaired, failure to burn headlights, possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia.

• Tania Mendoza Leon was issued a citation for possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia.

• William Pershing was issued a civil penalty for an open container.

• George Anthony Macken was issued a civil penalty for noise.

Warning tickets

Reports

• Charles Sahannas reported a hit and run collision.

• Judson Hudson reported a found iPhone.

• A civil dispute was reported.

• Lee Stapelton reported a found purse.

• Driving while impaired, failure to burn headlights, possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia were reported.

• Gaylord, Slate and Vanderberg reported a crash.

• Two orders for arrest were reported; a resist, delay, obstruct; a driving during revocation; possession of marijuana and paraphernalia.

• Underage consumption was reported.

• An affray was reported.

Victoria Martin babysitting Jack Buchanan

• Elizabeth Baulvelt was issued a warning ticket for speeding.

Reports

Paul Tartt

Staff Writer

Fears that the federal government will drop financial support of beach renourishment projects prompted concerns by local officials Wednesday about how accommodations tax dollars are split between sand and tourism.

The discussion arose as members of the WilmingtonNew Hanover Port, Waterway and Beach Commission were discussing scheduled studies and updates for upcoming sand replenishment projects on Wrightsville, Carolina and Kure beaches.

Carolina Beach Councilman Steve Shuttleworth noted that only about 30 percent of the revenue from New Hanover County’s 6 percent room occupancy tax (ROT) goes toward beach renourishment; the rest is earmarked for tourism-related municipal projects, marketing and the Wilmington Convention Center. Carolina Beach officials attempted unsuccessfully in 2014 to get greater discretion over how it spends its share of the ROT. But as the expense of beach projects is increasing, the federal government — which currently pays 65 percent of the cost of dredging and sand replenishment — has threatened to revoke its support. Although

Wilmington, N.C.

“I avoid it. I’ve been a few times in the “Been there, done that; now I avoid it. I past. I don’t like to fight the traffic. Once think everyone should go once, but after you’ve been a few times you’ve seen that you avoid it.” them all.”

Money for sand concerns waterway commission

By Tricia Vance

Mike Hackeling

Wilmington, N.C.

a push by members of Congress representing coastal states has helped save funding in recent years, local officials fear that may not always be the case.

Shuttleworth and Kure Beach Councilman Craig Blozinsky worried the current allocations, while sufficient as long as the federal government is paying the lion’s share, would not be enough to continue periodic renourishment. Tourism promotion is important, Blozinsky said, “But we’ve got to find a way to get a little more for sand.”

Under the current program, local ROT funds pay 17.5 percent of the cost of dredging and pumping sand, and the state pays 17.5 percent. It is not clear that the state would continue its support if the federal government share disappears, Shuttleworth said. If the worst came to pass, the entire burden could fall on beach towns and the ROT fund.

Said commission member and former Carolina Beach Mayor Dennis Barbour, “Without the beaches, we don’t have the tourism dollars.”

Moreover, the local tax base could suffer. While the beaches attract tourists, they also protect the valuable property and infrastructure along the oceanfront from erosion, Shuttleworth said.

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Boys gone wild

Fast.

Fresh.

Casual.

James Murphy, manager of the Silver Gull Motel at 20 E. Salisbury St., reported significant damage to multiple hotel rooms April 11. Members of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity from Wake Forest University stayed at the motel for spring break and reportedly wreaked havoc on the rooms in which they stayed. The three members who rented the rooms, 20-year-old Sean Rapela, 19-year-old Mark Brown and 21-year-old Henry Valk, were charged with criminal damage to property, possession of marijuana and possession of a Schedule II substance.

Disorderly conduct The afternoon of April 11, 39-year-old Staci Wensevic was asked to leave the Blockade Runner Beach Resort, where she was renting a room. Wensevic was allegedly exhibiting disruptive behavior in the hotel’s lobby. When she refused to leave, managing staff reported her to the police and she was cited for being intoxicated and disruptive.

Split decision April 12 around noon, officers responded to reports of a civil dispute between Roman Zimmerman and Alex Venditti. Zimmerman and Venditti rent two units of an East Henderson Street property and share a garage. Police were called to help solve the ongoing dispute when Venditti put a wall up to partition off his side of the garage and Zimmerman took the wall down.

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Editorial/Opinion My thoughts

By Pat Bradford

The annual budget process is occurring simultaneously in government offices around the state, where, in the face of continued general assembly cuts to the municipalities, the cry can be overheard: Where we are going as a municipality collides with the lack of money to fund that!

The Wrightsville board is three of four meetings deep into the 2015/16 fiscal year budget.

In the face of a proposed 4-5 cent county tax increase, as well as a 3-4 cent city increase (WB second home property is frequently owned by city residents), none of Wrightsville’s elected officials desire to raise its property tax rate. Unless new revenue streams are identified, services and payrolls cannot increase and the very real possibility exists for these to be cut in the face of the annual increase in the cost of doing business. Case in point: Even with cost shopping, the town’s health insurance tab hiked an additional 15 percent over last year.

Aldermen have been considering budget cuts to balance the $13 million budget, which is generally static from the previous year. The consensus of the board at this point is to fund urgent equipment upgrades rather than employee salary increases.

One of the perpetual complaints from town department heads, notably the police and fire chiefs, is non-competitive wages place the town into a position of being a training ground for other municipalities. As soon as an employee has training and experience under his or her belt, he or she is recruited by larger, better paying municipalities and the expensive, labor-intensive hiring and training process begins all over again.

In spite of this turnover challenge, requests by each department head to add manpower and salary increases plus benefits may not be approved.

While aldermen may balk at pay raises for some departments, the ocean rescue program is 100 percent funded by New Hanover County Tourism Development Authority (TDA) allocations. Aldermen are weighing a request for a small pay raise for Wrightsville’s advanced level certification ocean rescue personnel. The elite squad receives about the same compensation as neighboring beach towns, but are recognized far and wide as being among the best of the best in the United States.

Police chief Dan House has a request in for one additional police officer and implementation of a take-home vehicle program. The plan would make House’s department more competitive with neighboring municipalities, but the morale-boosting move will increase the budget in the cost of additional vehicles, with increased ongoing annual costs for insurance and fuel.

Acknowledging everyone wants more police and fire boots on the ground, the board has requested additional numbers from House about his proposal to restructure his department and fund an extra position this year. His department added a full time position in 2011. A little known fact about the police beach officer program is $100,000 is also reimbursed by the TDA. Every year the town takes a beating over the price to park at Wrightsville but parking is the second largest revenue stream for the town, after property taxes.

Last year’s parking numbers had the town excited until the August rains hit. The town may see an increase in parking based on the number of paid spaces under

consideration, but wet weather means a decrease in parking revenue.

Faced with no new source of revenue, at the same time the town is eying very real potential cuts to its revenue stream.

The present mood of the board is to remain conservative in its expenditures this year, without raising taxes, despite urgent needs to aging and crumbling infrastructure long neglected by prior boards.

Mayor Bill Blair, who, in addition to his stint on the planning board, served as alderman four years, sat out 2012-13, to be elected again for his current term. One of Blair’s frustrations, shared by former town manager Bob Simpson, was the gutting of carefully crafted longrange capital improvement budgeting for infrastructure upgrades like aging water lines, not to mention sewage.

Some of those needs have come back to haunt the town, like its failing water lines and water quality.

One of the town’s lift stations needs $300,000 worth of improvements to handle pumping sewage off of the island when the town experiences dramatic poo hikes during the busy summer months. This lift station is described as overwhelmed; unable to meet the demands of the fast approaching summer tourism season.

Paying for future equipment needs can be viable when planned in advance, and Simpson was continually frustrated by the former board’s robbing and eliminating capital improvement projects from the budget to appease voters by not raising taxes.

This current board must set aside revenue now to pay the town’s portion of the hefty, about-to-come-due tab for the NEI No. 2 improvements following the 2006 massive city of Wilmington sewage spill. The $15 million to $18 million bill looms on the horizon. A source of new revenue might be an additional increase in water and sewer fees, which increased healthily in 2014.

One bright spot? The planning and inspection department took in 100 percent more than budgeted due to the increase in new construction and home upfit permits. But this one-time unbudgeted $150,000 doesn’t help the current budget.

Aldermen are concerned about a hold-back policy proposed by TDA that in theory sounds good and is prudent planning, but would require sidelining a portion of the annual Room Occupancy Tax revenue to be used in the event the beaches are hit by a hurricane and temporarily lose that source of marketing funding.

And then there is sales tax. Sales tax revenue collected from the town’s businesses is the third largest town revenue stream. The system sends a portion of sales tax revenue back to where the sales are made.

The budget has already been revised downward $80,000 based on anticipated New Hanover County property tax increases, Mayor Blair said.

Even more disturbing is Senate Bill 369, Senate Majority Leader Harry Brown’s redistribution of wealth legislation to take sales tax from wealthy counties and redistribute it to poorer ones. Blair said legislation would strip some 60 percent of the town’s sales tax collections. Under the proposal the town stands to lose at least $720,000 in sales tax revenue.

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public hearing, Wrightsville Beach Mayor Bill Blair urged his board to not vote on the matter yet. If the town begins

charging beachgoers to park on Pelican Drive, he said, it could cause those people to simply park in the spots on nearby Keel Street, Old Causeway Drive and Marina Street instead.

“What we do know is all

these pieces are connected,” he added, saying any decision regarding paid parking on Harbor Island should be made carefully and comprehensively.

The reason for considering paid parking on Harbor Island

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The Wrightsville Beach Board of Aldermen is considering adding paid parking in the Harbor Island business district.

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the company abided by an agreement settling a dispute over the scheduled tree trimming.

“We feel we have to be here,” said Live Oak Drive resident Francine Streich — just so the man in the bucket truck knew they were watching.

Gore said the audience didn’t bother him so much, but trimming so near to the power lines made him a bit nervous.

Precision was important to these residents, who fought hard to preserve the natural shape and aesthetic of the oaks. They’ve seen the L- and V-shaped trees that line Market Street, Eastwood Road and other major corridors, and they didn’t want that happening to their canopy.

“We understand the need to protect the power,” said Walt

Laughlin, who was watching since the crew set up Tuesday morning. The cuts started around 7:45 a.m. on a third tree residents were not expecting to see trimmed further. Three hours later the crew was still at it, pausing between each cut to check the shape of the tree and determine how to save as much as possible of each limb.

This was not standard procedure. Dickinson estimated that taking it slowly “easily doubled” the time needed to trim a tree. But after residents balked at further cuts until Duke Energy agreed to meet with them, the company sent Dickinson and another arborist to talk with the neighbors, examine the remaining two trees and show them how they would make the last cuts.

“They’re clearly being very careful,” Laughlin said.

Live Oak Drive resident Colin

Eagles wasn’t so sure. To him, it looked like the trimmer took more than originally promised.

The best he could say was it wasn’t as bad as it could have been.

“If Duke was not a monopoly, I wouldn’t do business with them,” he said. “But summer’s coming, and I’ll be running my air conditioner.”

Residents hired a master arborist to meet with Duke’s representatives, just to make sure the integrity of the trees was the primary focus. The Apex-based arborist tied pink ribbons around branches to show where the cuts should be made. But while discussing the next series of cuts with Gore, Dickinson said he didn’t think some of the limbs needed to be trimmed even as far as the residents’ arborist indicated.

The residents know trimming

goes deeper than just a search for extra revenue, Blair added.

Adding pay-by-phone parking to Pelican Drive would only generate between $10,000 and $15,000 during one eight-month parking season.

The real issue, Blair said, is figuring out what solution works best for the nearby businesses, especially in light of a new restaurant, Poe’s Tavern, opening this summer on Old Causeway Drive. Owners of the property that previously housed the Middle of the Island restaurant also want to be a part of the parking discussion, Blair added.

There is some uncertainty as to whether paid parking would help or hurt those businesses.

Poe’s Tavern co-owner Rusty Bennett met with board members April 14 to tell them he is in favor of paid parking because it would deter beachgoers from parking there, opening up more room for restaurant patrons.

But the aldermen also heard

crews don’t often spend that much time on each job. There are so many power lines, so many trees. They know Duke Energy will send crews back in a few years unless a satisfactory alternative arises.

Soon the utility will send representatives to discuss some possible solutions, including the feasibility and cost of raising power poles well above the tree line.

“Hopefully, that will be successful and we won’t have to go through this anymore,” Laughlin said.

Neighbor Richard Olson noted most communities dislike seeing trees hacked into unnatural shapes. He said it’s time to revisit the industry’s trimming guidelines. ”The cutting standards are too radical,” he said. email tricia@luminanews.com

Jason Adams, founder of neighboring business Lighthouse Beer and Wine, speak against paid parking during the April 8 public hearing, saying it dissuaded potential customers when it was implemented in 2010.

Even if the board decides to add more paid parking on Harbor Island, it would likely not have the same parameters as parking on the beach strand.

Board members have discussed limiting enforcement from May 1 to September 15, allowing 15-minute free parking or not charging at all and enforcing a two-hour limit on spaces.

At the very least, alderwoman Lisa Weeks said, the town needs to prevent boaters unhitching and parking their trailers all day in the Harbor Island business district. She suggested marking specific areas where boat trailers can and can’t be parked.

Blair said in order to come to a solution before the summer season starts, the board will hold a public hearing about paid parking on both Pelican Drive and the Harbor Island business district after its board of adjustment meeting April 23.

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The board was satisfied with his safety precautions, which require each club member complete both classroom and on-the-water training before operating a Carefree Boat Club vessel.

A recent addition to town code sets general rules for boat rental facilities, such as no storage of motor boats or trailers on the office’s lot, no Jet Ski or personal watercraft rentals and compliance with local, state and federal laws.

Wessell recommended the board rely on those laws to govern rental facilities and not specify its own conditions on the CUP. “Once we start establishing standards on how they’re supposed to operate, then I’m concerned we could be held liable if those standards turn out to be insufficient at some point in time. And, I’m not sure we are necessarily equipped to say what the appropriate standards are for boat facilities,” Wessell said.

The board also granted a CUP to the Surf Club, located at No. 1 Mallard St., to construct a permanent awning over its existing 52- by 34-foot deck and to Spring/Ericsson to plant a 50-foot temporary wireless facility in Wrightsville Beach Park until September to create better cellular service for its customers during the busy summer months.

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$750 and all further offenses $1,000. In addition to the civil penalties, vandals could also be cited for a misdemeanor criminal penalty and $250 fine for a first offense.

Mayor Bill Blair asked town attorney John Wessell to define whether repeated offenses meant the suspect vandalized multiple structures or on multiple occasions.

Wessell clarified if one person vandalized four structures in one night, he or she would be penalized for four offenses.

The ordinance amendment also requires property owners whose structures have been vandalized remove or cover the graffiti to prevent copycat crimes. Once the town identifies a graffiti tag on private property, it will notify property owners by first-class mail they must remove the markings within 15 days.

If property owners do not comply, forcing the town to remove the graffiti, they will be charged the cost of cleanup.

The board also granted three conditional use permits. Scott Weismantel received permission to open nationwide franchise Carefree Boat Club at 96 W. Salisbury St. The permit allows him to operate an office at that location and rent three boats to club members.

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Wes Gore of Asplundh trims the trees near power lines in Live Oak Drive’s median Tuesday, April 14.

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Proposed legislation provides renovations of $10 million to $20 million eligibility for a 10 percent credit. McCrory has supported credits that help increase the value of revenue-producing properties, as opposed to private homes. However, House Bill 152 would provide a small tax credit for those structures too. Under the previous legislation, property owners could seek a credit of up to 30 percent.

All of New Hanover County’s House delegation supported the House bill. It was sent March 30

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to the Senate Ways and Means Committee. The chairman of that committee, Sen. Tom Apodaca, R-Henderson, has the power to sideline the bill.

In an interview with The Raleigh News & Observer, Apodaca referred to Ways and Means as “a graveyard” and said the bill does not have Senate support. Instead, he told the Raleigh paper he is more likely to back a Senate bill allowing local governments to make grants and loans to encourage preservation efforts.

“Going to the Senate is going to be a tall order,” admitted George Edwards, executive director of the Historic Wilmington

Foundation. But Edwards was optimistic backers of the bill might succeed in pushing it to passage.

State Sen. Michael Lee, R-New Hanover, said he hasn’t decided whether to support the bill. He said he worries the legislation may hurt approval of an expanded film grant program.

“I am somewhat concerned about how it might impact the film incentive debate,” he wrote in an email. “There is some concern that it could negatively impact our efforts to increase funding to the film incentive. If I am working on prioritizing what I feel and hear is most important

to New Hanover County, it is the film incentive.”

As proof of the tax credit’s value, supporters point to the more than $1.6 billion invested in historic buildings in 90 counties since 1998. From small towns to cities, the state tax credit has helped revive stagnant business districts and repurpose deteriorating buildings. Residents and business owners in Wilmington have made generous use of the credit, resulting in investments of more than $18.5 million.

Among the sites renovated using the tax credit is the BearMunson building on North Front Street — home to the Hot Pink

costly items that department heads say can’t wait for future budget cycles. Assistant public works director Steve Dellies said one of the town’s lift stations needs $300,000 worth of upgrades to effectively pump sewage off of the island during the busy summer months.

Lift station No. 1, Dellies explained, is the only lift station that pumps sewage straight off the beach.

“During the summer when lift station No. 1 is working really hard, it cannot overcome the pressure, so we have to send [the sewage] back around, and it overwhelms the lift stations,” Dellies said.

With the town budgeting for such major equipment upgrades, department requests for additional positions, salary increases and benefits might not be granted.

Ocean rescue director Dave Baker requested a small raise for his lifeguards. Wrightsville Beach Ocean Rescue pays about the same as Carolina and Kure beaches, he said, despite being an advanced agency with higher training standards.

Cake Stand. Building owner/ architect Chuck Dietsche said the state and federal historic preservation tax credits were important in restoring much of the building’s architectural character.

“It allowed us to treat the building the way we would have wanted to treat the building, as architects,” Dietsche said.

The tax credits also helped renovate the Efird and Murchison buildings on North Front.

One potential problem with any proposal that may emerge, Edwards said, is some lawmakers are likely to insist local governments have a financial stake such as the grant program Apodaca

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Baker’s proposal, as well as police chief Dan House’s request for one additional police officer and a take-home vehicle program, might have to wait.

During a previous budget meeting House presented plans to restructure his department to fund the extra position.

Capt. P. Burdette, who attended the April 14 meeting in place of House, pointed out the intangible benefits of restructuring the department to be more efficient and get an extra police officer out on the roads.

The aldermen, however, were hesitant to grant House’s request until they saw concrete evidence the restructure would not cost any additional money.

“Why don’t you have the chief put down on paper how this gets funded,” Blair told Burdette.

“I think everyone wants more police, more fire, more everything, but at some point we have to be good stewards and decide how we’re going to pay for stuff. ... You have to be realistic.”

The board will continue to finalize the town’s budget during its last scheduled budget meeting, Wednesday, April 29. email emmy@luminanews.com

was touting. But as the General Assembly has whittled away at revenue sources for cities, in particular, those communities have less money to invest, Edwards said.

The legislature severely limited cities’ abilities to annex developed areas outside their borders and eliminated the business franchise fees that provided significant revenue. Lawmakers also are considering redistributing sales tax proceeds to benefit rural areas, a prospect that would hurt urban areas, includingWilmington and New Hanover County. email tricia@luminanews.com

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Solutions Show time Making a Difference in the Cape Fear Region

By Stephanie Rose Miller, Contributing Writer

“We’ve gotta have a show, with a million laughs … and color … and a lot of lights to make it sparkle! And songs — wonderful songs! And after we get the people in the hall, we’ve gotta start ’em in laughing right away! Oh, can’t you just see it?” — Patsy Barton, “Babes in Arms”

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Clockwise from top: Rendering of the completed Cape Fear Community College’s Humanities and Fine Arts Center. Rendering of the completed theater inside Cape Fear Community College’s Humanities and Fine Arts Center.

Backstage at Cape Fear Community College’s Humanities and Fine Arts Center.

udy Garland and Mickey Rooney popularized this quote in the 1930s movie “Babes in Arms.” The storyline repeats itself in modern sitcoms and movies. But the reality of putting on a show is anything but a light-hearted romp.

Ask Shane Fernando, director of Cape Fear Community College’s Humanities and Fine Arts Center. Fernando is about six months away from opening New Hanover County’s largest performance hall, housed in a 159,000-square-foot building along North Third Street. The center will be equipped with 1,500 to 1,600 seats in its main performance hall, the state’s largest orchestra pit and an acoustic experience masterminded by one of the country’s leading acoustical engineers in the performing arts field.

The concept has been 25 years in the making and now with the opening scheduled for Oct. 3, Fernando is heading into the final stages. His mantra: “remain intentional.”

At the beginning of April, seats were installed and sightlines checked.

Before tickets go on sale, each seat is checked to make sure the view is as planned.

“We can’t have a seating chart until we have all the seats in place.

We can’t have a ticketing office and a website without a seating chart,” Fernando explained.

With seats in place, CFCC conducted a search for a ticketing central manager in early April. Ticketing is just one piece of the puzzle.

“Every component that goes into operating a large venue, we are doing from scratch,” Fernando said.

A startup of this kind is unique. Building the presenting entity, the organization that books and brings in shows, as well as building the space, is not an everyday occurrence.

Now add the center’s primary mandate to the mix — to function as an academic space.

“The performance hall is a place to be entertained and culturally enriched but the operations are intimately connected to the academic mission of the community college,” Fernando said. Roughly 5,000 students and faculty will use the facility each semester, said David Hardin, CFCC’s director of marketing and public relations.

“I can’t think of a more incredible laboratory for our students to get that type of real-world experience. I wish I was a student again,” Fernando laughed.

The concept of having everything all in one compound is unique, said Tony Rivenbark, executive director of historic Thalian Hall Center for the Performing Arts. The school’s public art gallery is across the street from the performance hall, separated from the academic space by a courtyard off of the lobby.

As the days tick away, Fernando is signing contracts with performing artists and developing a marketing plan to reach its stated 75-mile radius. Ticket sales are scheduled to begin in June for the three large series: a star series with headliner concerts and comedians; a Broadway series that will bring in large-scale Broadway touring theatricals; and a contemporary dance series.

Throughout the booking process, Fernando is conscious not to duplicate arts programming already in place in Wilmington. Since dance troupes perform on a stage here, Fernando wants to explore presenting dance in one of the studio spaces installed with a sprung floor to absorb shock.

The studio performance, popular in large metropolitan markets, allows for a more intimate experience for the audience and the dancers, with the audience only feet away from the performers.

Another of Fernando’s missions is developing strong ties with the community. He’s forging one of those partnerships with large donors. The HVAC was originally budgeted at $44 million and paid for by New Hanover County taxpayers as part of at $164 million 2008 bond referendum. But additional funds are required. Fernando aims to wrap up the major fundraising push this summer. Already in place as of early April are major named donors Corning, PPD, Dr. John and Betsy Leonard, and Frank and Linwood Potter-Gainey.

As much as Fernando would like to shout from the rooftops about the upcoming season, he said he is moving forward slowly and deliberately.

“We’re not at the point where we can talk about all that is to come,” Hardin added, “but as soon as we get there, we will not be able to stop talking about it.”

What’s coming down the pipeline this weekend?

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23 Annual Fashion Show and Silent Auction Hilton Wilmington Riverside April 17, 11 a.m./6 p.m., $45-$55

John Lithgow: Stories by Heart Kenan Auditorium April 17, 8 p.m., $45-$65

Sixth Annual Pajama Party Bluewater Grill April 17, 6:30-10 p.m., $50

Record Day Gravity Records April 18, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.

A luncheon at 11 a.m. for $45 and a dinner at 6 p.m. for $55 will benefit Wilmington Domestic Violence Shelter and Services. Local celebrities, community leaders and others will walk the runway displaying clothes available at nonprofit Vintage Value stores.

Tables of eight are available for lunch and dinner.

Call 910-343-9969 for details.

Tony, Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning actor John Lithgow visits the University of North Carolina Wilmington to perform his piece “Stories

by Heart,” a reflection of how story-telling binds humanity. The play traces the actor’s past as a performer while intersecting with two stories that were read to him as a child by his grandmother and father. Call the Kenan box office 910-962-3500.

The popular Wrightsville Beach dining spot presents its sixth party where anyone can wear PJs in public. Bluewater will provide food, drinks, a fashion show and silent auction. Those with the best pajamas will be awarded a prize. Proceeds benefit Homeless Medical Respite Care Project. Call 910798-3900 for more information.

The iconic Castle Street record store celebrates the two-dimensional vinyl music medium during International Record Day, filled with giveaways and chances to purchase rare records.

Extremely limited releases will be available from certain artists — first come, first served.

For more information call 910-343-1000 or visit www.recordstoreday.com

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UNCW theatre students perform Hamlet-inspired comedy

By Pam Creech Contributing Writer

Most academics and Bard fanatics agree “Hamlet” is Shakespeare’s best-known and most accomplished work. While the University of North Carolina Department of Theatre took on Shakespeare’s greatest play in February, it now prepares to explore the tragedy of the prince of Denmark from the point of view of two minor characters: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.

“Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,” an absurdist tragicomedy by British playwright Tom Stoppard, gains its name from a single line in “Hamlet,” and features other characters from the Shakespeare play in minor roles, including the prince himself.

Ed Wagenseller, UNCW Department of Theatre lecturer and director of the show, said the show’s cast and crew are using the same actors, set and costumes used in February’s production;

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The cast of “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead” rehearses in the Mainstage Theater of University of North Carolina Wilmington’s Cultural Arts Building April 13.

however the characters are not portrayed in the same way.

“They’re even more clueless than they were in ‘Hamlet,’” Wagenseller said. “They’re trying

to figure out their place in life.”

Also unlike “Hamlet,” the dialogue is contemporary English.

“Those who are familiar with ‘Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are

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“The Legend of the Flying Tomato,” a submission from students at the Ringling College of Art and Design, will be among the short films screened during the Visions Film Festival Saturday, April 17 in the University of North Carolina Wilmington’s Lumina Theater.

Visions film festival returns to UNCW

By Pam Creech Contributing Writer

Superhero film lovers may want to check out the University of North Carolina Wilmington’s Lumina Theater April 17 during the fifth annual Visions Film Festival and Conference. The daylong event showcases short films made by up-and-coming filmmakers from around the world. Visions is hosted and organized by UNCW film studies undergraduate students.

Hillary Scott, a UNCW senior double majoring in film studies and business and the event’s marketing director, said the staff and filmmakers involved are those who really contribute to the art of film.

“We like to call the staff and the filmmakers and people we invite visionaries,” she said. “The idea is being a visionary person, whether you like to write films or write scholarly works about film.”

The theme for the event is superheroes.

“All of our campaigns are based around superheroes and comic books,” she said. “Everyone who comes out to our event is a superhero. Everyone who submitted their films and papers to us is a superhero.”

The festival will kick off at 8 a.m. with an address by keynote speaker Caroline Roberts, a film studies alumnus.

“She graduated eight years ago, and she’s had a lot of success in New York working on large-scale productions, like ‘Pirates of the Caribbean,’” Scott

explained. “She’s going to share her story and tell us the successes and challenges she’s had.”

During the first 90-minute conference block at 10 a.m., four film scholars will present their research.

“The scholars submitted a paper on a topic of their choice, such as Latin American cinema. They have a 15-minute presentation on what their paper was about and they take questions afterward,” Scott said.

From 12:15-1:15 p.m., a video race invites participants to form teams to create a one-minute film.

A prize will be awarded to the team that receives the most votes during the video race screening 2:30-3 p.m.

The first film block begins at 3:15 p.m. Twelve short films will be shown, followed by a 30-minute Q-and-A session with the filmmakers.

“There’s a very nice spectrum. There’s something for everyone, no matter if you like documentaries, experimental films, narratives, animation or hybrids,” Scott said. “We have filmmakers coming from Australia, Canada and all over the country.”

A second conference block at 5:30 p.m. is followed by dinner and a dessert reception. The second film block begins at 8:30 p.m. All participants ages 18 and over are invited to attend an after party at Growler’s Tavern on Front Street, starting at 11:30 p.m.

Individual block passes cost $5. All-access badges cost $15 in advance or $20 at the door. For more information, visit www.visionsfilm.org

Dead’ will love it,” Wagenseller said. “Those who saw our production of ‘Hamlet’ will really love it. For those who are unfamiliar with ‘Hamlet,’ there’s something in it for them, too. This play is an existential look at death from two minor characters in ‘Hamlet.’

Stoppard made a comedy out of one of the greatest tragedies ever.”

Wagenseller said he had never seen other productions of the play and discouraged his students from watching other productions, too, so they will not be influenced by other actors’ portrayals of their characters.

Eddie Waters, a UNCW senior who previously played a fairy in UNCW’s production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” is looking forward to bringing his personality to his first lead role as Rosencrantz.

“I have a bouncy, carefree energy when I’m onstage, and that goes along with Rosencrantz’s character,” Waters said.

Waters is also excited about sharing the stage with his best friend, Wilson James Meredith,

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who will play Guildenstern.

“We kind of have this Abbott and Costello thing going on. … It’s a really fun, best friend dynamic,” Waters said.

He encourages even those unfamiliar with “Hamlet” to come see “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.”

“Don’t be scared to see it,” he said. “We’re not asking you to sit through a rehashing of ‘Hamlet.’

It’s a completely different show.”

“Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead” shows April 16-19 and 23-26 in the Mainstage Theater of UNCW’s Cultural Arts Building.

Performances are at 8 p.m.

Thursday-Saturday and 2 p.m.

Sunday. The show runs two hours, including intermission. Tickets are $12 for the general public, $10 for senior citizens and $5 for students and children. To purchase tickets, call the Kenan Auditorium Box Office at 910-962-3500.

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Students learn physics concepts through 150-foot egg drop

By Emmy Errante Staff Writer

Rather than teach her students physics concepts like resistance and velocity solely from a textbook, Wilmington Academy of Arts and Sciences (WAAS) teacher Lisa Giacomelli gave them a challenge: build a contraption to allow a raw chicken egg to survive a 150-foot fall.

And so, Saturday, April 11, the students gathered in a field

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off of Burnt Mill Drive and watched their teacher ascend into the sky in a helicopter to drop their final projects to Earth.

The logistics of dropping items out of a helicopter and keeping the spectators safe were highly controlled, Giacomelli explained afterwards, and she said she was grateful to pilot Ken McGee for donating his services.

The project had several parameters, she said. The structure could measure no more than eight inches in height, width and depth, and no parachutes were allowed. Other than that, the students could use any materials they wanted.

The sixth, seventh and eighth graders divided into groups of two, three or four to complete the challenge. They worked together for weeks to brainstorm materials and structure design.

“It was interesting because immediately they think of soft stuff,” Giacomelli said. “I kept telling them … you have this huge impact, something needs to absorb that shock. So then they started going to a mixture of hard and soft things.”

The contraption created by 11-year-old Emma Johnson’s group looked deceptively simple. But inside the box were layers of materials carefully selected by the four sixth graders.

“We had bubble wrap on the inside,” Johnson said. “Then we mixed packing peanuts with marshmallows and made that

the filling. Then we took two bags of peanut butter and rubber banded them around the egg.”

Cornstarch, carwash sponges and Styrofoam were some of the other materials utilized by the various groups.

The students watched Giacomelli hovering 150 feet in the air, tossing their projects into the field below. They groaned as one project splattered on impact, and cheered as another had so much buoyancy it skittered across the grass after landing.

After gathering the remnants of the projects, Giacomelli let each group open its experiment and reveal whether the egg had broken. She said when she pre-

“Now, they’re probably going to say to me, we need to go higher!” viously assigned this project at another school, many of the eggs cracked, so she was surprised as, one by one, WAAS students pulled intact eggs out of their packaging. In all, 11 of the 15 eggs survived the fall.

“Now, they’re probably going to say to me, we need to go higher!” she laughed afterwards. email emmy@luminanews.com

Above: Wilmington Academy of Arts and Sciences teacher Lisa Giacomelli drops one her student’s physics projects out of a helicopter hovering 150 feet in the air Saturday, April 11 near Burnt Mill Drive. Top: A group of students celebrates its egg surviving the drop as the rest of the school looks on.

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Amanda Ricker, FNP Laura FNP-C KimQuarino, Farmer PA-C

910.344.8900 910.344.8900 1721 Allen’s Lane, Suite 100 1721 Allen’s Lane, Suite 100 Conveniently located near ConvenientlyBeach located near Wrightsville behind Wrightsville Beach Learning Express andbehind PT’s Grill Learning Express and PT’s Grill

April 16–22, 2015

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NEAR the Beach

Little Chapel On the Boardwalk Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Rev. Patrick Thomas Rabun, pastor 2 W. Fayetteville St., 910-256-2819, ext. 100 Early Worship: 8:30 a.m.

Sunday School/Children’s Choir: 9:15 a.m.

Traditional Worship: 10:30 a.m.

Children’s Church: 10:45 a.m.

Nursery provided St. Andrew’s On-The-Sound Episcopal The Rev. Richard G. Elliott, rector 101 Airlie Road, 910-256-3034 7:45 a.m., 9 a.m., 11 a.m.

Wrightsville Beach Baptist church Keith Louthan, church pastor 601 Causeway Drive, 910-256-3682 Traditional Service: 9-10 a.m.

Sunday School: 10:10-11 a.m.

Celebration Services: 11:10 a.m to 12:20 p.m.

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.

Friday Mass: 8:30 a.m. 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

Diaper drive to benefit Tileston Outreach, working poor Six Wrightsville area churches are joining together Sunday, April 19 to finalize a spring diaper drive to benefit working families with young children. The Local Community Diaper Drive has been collecting large-sized diapers — sizes 3, 4, 5, 6 for children aged 9 months to 2 ½ years — to donate to Tileston Outreach in Wilmington. Its stock of large-sized diapers is very low. Statistics suggest average income families with a baby spend about $100 per month on diapers, and some lower income families must choose between food and diapers.

Parishioners of participating churches including St. Therese Catholic;

The Little Chapel on the Boardwalk, Presbyterian; Wrightsville United Methodist Church; Wrightsville Beach Baptist; St. Andrew’s On The Sound, Episcopal; and St. Mark Catholic are asked to bring diaper donations to their respective churches.

On April 19, a St. Therese truck will collect diapers from each of the churches after their Sunday services. The truck will bring the diapers back to St. Therese to be loaded onto a Tileston truck for delivery.

For more information, please contact Dottie Fullerton, St. Therese Parish Community OUTREACH, fullertondorothy@yahoo.com

Living H2O April 12, 2015, 6:07 p.m.

Servant You come and dance before Me with healing as your desire Only the evil one keeps it from you as he will conspire Against your health but My Servant Jesus is here Lift up your hands and take your healing and hold it near The Servant has come in a visitation to make it clear Your future is at hand so reach and embrace with a cheer The healing you so desire as the waters flow clear and cool The next time the enemy sees you he will be made a fool Your Servant is here and the hour of cleansing has come Lift your hands and shout to the heavens, all of you not just some Look to your all precious Jesus the Servant of heaven’s glory Use your faith, make sure to receive this healing as a new story One to be told from shore to shore and from the mountain’s high peak The glory will follow you wherever you go if only you seek To have the heart of a servant beating within your chest So receive your healing from My Servant for He is the best

C a rl W a t e r s (Mat 8:8 NRSV) The centurion answered, “Lord, I am not worthy to have you come under my roof; but only speak the word, and my servant will be healed.”

(Mat 8:13 NRSV) And to the centurion Jesus said, “Go; let it be done for you according to your faith.” And the servant was healed in that hour.

(Mark 9:35 NRSV) He sat down, called the twelve, and said to them, “Whoever wants to be first must be last of all and servant of all.”

(John 15:15 NRSV) I do not call you servants any longer, because the servant does not know what the master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my Father.

(Acts 4:30 NRSV) while you stretch out your hand to heal, and signs and wonders are performed through the name of your holy servant Jesus.

(Rev 1:1 NRSV) The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show his servants what must soon take place; he made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, (Rev 19:10 NRSV) Then I fell down at his feet to worship him, but he said to me, “You must not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your comrades who hold the testimony of Jesus. Worship God! For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.”

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April 16 JOINT HEIRS WITH CHRIST Matthew 12:50, “For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.”

MATTHEW 12:46-50 We are not just heirs, we are joint-heirs with Christ. It would be wonderful to inherit any amount of God’s glory and power. But, the idea that we share equally with the one who has inherited everything God is and has is beyond comprehension. This is an awesome blessing, but it also places a tremendous responsibility on us.

In the same way in which a check made out to two people cannot be cashed without the endorsement of both parties, so our joint-heirship with Jesus cannot be taken advantage of without our cooperation.

Unaware of this, many Christians are just trusting that the Lord will produce the benefits of salvation for them. They are acutely aware that they can do nothing without Him, but don’t realize that

He will do nothing without us (Eph. 3:20).

The idea that God will do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, PERIOD, is not true. He has power, but it is the use of His ability combined with the power that works in us. “No power working in us” means no power of God will come through us. The exceeding greatness of His power that is to us-ward who believe is power that is not external, but is internal, within the believer. It is working according to the faith that we exercise in the indwelling Savior. It was this principle that Paul was stating when he declared, “I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.”

The way we place our endorsement on the check is to believe what God promised in His Word and act on it as if it were true. IT IS! Jesus has already signed His name to every promise in the Word. We aren’t waiting for Him. He is waiting for us.

Andrew’s Gospel Truth television broadcasts air M-F @ 6:30 a.m. ET on Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN).

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Praise and Worship the Whole Day Through!

Family Radio now offers live online radio so you can listen to your favorite worship music no matter where you are!

Tune In To Family Radio Online: www.wwilfm.com

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NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE

AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE

NORTH CAROLINA, NEW HANOVER COUNTY

NORTH CAROLINA, NEW HANOVER COUNTY

NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S FORECLOSURE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY

Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Timothy Rooney and Megan Rooney to Fidelity National Title Insurance Co of New York, Trustee(s), which was dated October 30, 2006 and recorded on October 30, 2006 in Book 5098 at Page 2901, New Hanover County Registry, North Carolina.

Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by William Paul Hewett and Janet B. Hewett to Financial Title Company, Trustee(s), which was dated June 24, 2004 and recorded on July 30, 2004 in Book 4432 at Page 450, 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 April 21, 2015 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 7G, Phase 2, Wilshire Townhomes, as shown upon plat thereof recorded in Map Book 49, Page 300, New Hanover County Registry, reference to said map being hereby made for a more particular description.

Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record.

Said property is commonly known as 993 Downey Branch Lane, Wilmington, NC 28403.

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. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED. 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 Timothy Rooney and Megan Rooney.

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.: 14-05097-FC01 April 9 and 16, 2015

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 April 21, 2015 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 207, SECTION 4, OF ECHO FARMS SUBDIVISION AS THE SAME IS SHOWN ON A MAP THEREOF DULY RECORDED IN MAP BOOK 16, AT PAGE 13, IN THE NEW HANOVER COUNTY REGISTRY, REFERENCE TO WHICH IS HEREBY MADE FOR A MORE COMPLETE DESCRIPTION. SOURCE OF TITLE: BOOK 1346, PAGE 1933 (RECORDED 10/18/86) Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record.

Said property is commonly known as 3935 Appleton Way, Wilmington, NC 28412.

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. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED. 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 William Paul Hewett and wife Janet B. Hewett.

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.: 08-14297-FC02 April 9 and 16, 2015

Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed and delivered by Lisa M. Engelmann and Robert Engelmann, dated October 12, 2012 and recorded on October 22, 2012 in Book No. 5681 at Page 2304 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 April 22, 2015 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: 303 Embassy Circle, Wilmington, NC 28412. Tax Parcel ID: R07012-001-007-000 Present Record Owners: Lisa M. Engelmann and Robert Engelmann. 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)7444444, 113081-06426 P1137411 4/9, 04/16/2015

AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 13 SP 1209 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Valerie Coleman-Rose to Fuss and Fairley, Trustee(s), dated the 26th day of July, 2004, and recorded in Book 4423, Page 741, 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 April 21, 2015 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 284, Section 13 Quail Woods as shown on a revised map recorded in Map Book 36 at Page 114 and Map Book 36 at Page 335 of the New Hanover County Registry, reference to which is hereby made for a more particular description.

Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 1600 Basset Court, 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 FortyFive 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: 1125377 (FC.FAY) April 9 and 16, 2015 15 SP 7 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 Michele L. Stewart and Michael K Stewart to William R. Echols, Trustee(s), which was dated September 11, 2006 and recorded on September 15, 2006 in Book 5080 at Page 436, 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 April 28, 2015 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: Tract 1: All that certain lot or parcel of land containing 61/100 acres more or less and is a part of Lot 1 of the Biddle Subdivision on the west side of US Highway #421 in the Masonboro Township, New Hanover County, NC and being more fully described as follows: >From a stone in the western right of way of US Highway #421, 50 feet from the center of pavement and in the dividing line of Lots 1 and 2 of the Biddle Subdivision, S 33-58 E 116.2 feet along said right of way to a stone in the agreed Riggs and Downing dividing line; thence S 22-20 W 447.38 feet along said agreed dividing line to an iron pipe; the point of beginning, thence S 81-22 W 341.10 feet to an iron pipe on the north bank of long Branch, thence southeastwardly along the meander of the run of Long Branch 272 feet plus or minus to a stone on the north bank of Long Branch and in the agreed Riggs and Downing dividing line thence N 22-20 E 183.22 feet along said agreed dividing line to the point of beginning. This tract contains 0.61 acres plus or minus, together with the right of ingress and egress along a 20 foot access road along and parallel to the said agreed dividing line, all 20 feet of which is on the A.B. Riggs Property. Said right of way being shown on a map by Walter E. .Gaylor, Jr RLS dated August 4, 1975 and recorded in Book 1038 at Page 702 of the New Hanover County Registry.

TRACT 2: Beginning at a point in the Eastern line of a 20 foot access road, said point being located S 22-20 W 393.0 feet as measured along the Eastern line of said 20 foot access road from an old stone in the Southern right of way line of US Highway 421, said old stone in the Southern right of way line of US Hwy 421 being the Northeast corner of Lot 1 of the Biddle Subdivision, as shown on map recorded in Map Book 3. Page 27, New Hanover County Registry. Running thence from said point of beginning with the Eastern line of said 20 foot access road, S 81-52 w 341.1 feet to a point on the Northern bank of Long Branch; running thence down and with the run of Long Branch N 61-40 W 17.29 feet to a point; running thence up and near old ditch N 71-48 -45 E 110.0 feet and N 78-14-30 E 274.82 feet to the point of beginning, containing 0.27 acres more or less. Same being part of Tract #1 of the Biddle Subdivision as recorded in Map Book 3, Page 27, New Hanover County Registry.

TOGETHER WITH an easement for ingress and egress over and upon the 20 foot access road as shown on map recorded in Book 1038, Page 702, New Hanover County Registry.

Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record.

Said property is commonly known as 1315 Riggs Trail, Wilmington, NC 28412.

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. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED. 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 Michaell K. Stewart and wife, Michele L Stewart.

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.: 14-29393-FC01 April 16 and 23, 2015 15 SP 4 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 Shane Allen and Haylee Allen to Pamela S Cox, Trustee(s), which was dated October 4, 2012 and recorded on October 4, 2012 in Book 5677 at Page 2509, 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 April 28, 2015 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 33 Section 2 Eagles Nest Subdivision, as shown on a map of same duly recorded in Map Book 21 at Page 46 in 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 conveyances of record.

Said property is commonly known as 3406 Talon Court, Wilmington, NC 28409.

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. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED. 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 Shane Allen

and wife Haylee Allen.

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.: 14-29082-FC01 April 16 and 23, 2015 13 SP 1214 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 Jason L. Parker to Trste, Inc., Trustee(s), which was dated May 25, 2007 and recorded on May 25, 2007 in Book 5187 at Page 1052, 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 April 28, 2015 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 the intersection of the western line of North TwentyThird Street and the northern line of Klein Road, the same being the southeastern corner of Lot 1, Block 6, Princess Place according to the official plan of Princess Place in (in part) as recorded in the New Hanover County Registry; and running from said beginning point and along the northern line of Klein Road North 88 degrees 20 minutes West 168 feet, thence North 01 degrees forty minutes East 65.67 feet, more or less, to a point in the northern line of Lot 1, thence South 88 degrees 20 minutes East 168 feet to the point in the western line of North Twenty-Third Street, thence South 01 degrees 40 minutes West 65.67 feet to the point of beginning, the same being part of Lot 1, Block 6 of Princess Place as shown on Map by M. H. Lander, C.E., recorded in Map Book 4 at Page 58 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 601 North 23rd Street, Wilmington, NC 28405.

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. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED. 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

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L E G A L NOTI C ES 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 Jason L. Parker.

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.: 13-25566-FC01 April 16 and 23, 2015 12 SP 356 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 Ericka D. Morgan to TRSTE, Inc., Trustee(s), which was dated August 6, 2004 and recorded on August 9, 2004 in Book 4443 at Page 877, 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 April 28, 2015 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 eastern line of Wrightsville Avenue 164.2 feet northwardly from its intersection with the northern line of Gibson Avenue, said beginning point being in the div iding line between Lots 6 & 7 in Block 8 in Carolina Place Subdivision as shown on map recorded in Record Book 48, Page 180 in the New Hanover County Registry; running thence eastwardly at right angles to Wrightsville Avenue and along the southern line of said Lot 7, 113 feet to the easternmost corner of said Lot 7; thence northwardly and parallel with Wrightsville Avenue 44.2 feet to the southern line of Barnett Avenue (the southern line of Barnett Avenue being also the southern line of that tract conveyed to the City of Wilmington by that deed recorded in Book 162, Page 531); thence westwardly along said line of Barnett Avenue 43.5 feet to a turn in said Avenue (Last call erroneously omitted from the legal on the Deed recorded in Book 4443 at Page 874); thence westwardly along said line of Barnett Avenue 71.0 feet to its intersection with the eastern line of Wrightsville Avenue; thence southwardly along said line of Wrightsville Avenue 53.3 feet to the point of Beginning; being all of Lot 7 and part of Lot 8 in Block 8 in Carolina Place Subdivision and being the sam e lands described in deed recorded in Book 1281, Page 943 in said R eigstry.

Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record.

Said property is commonly

known as 2023 Wrightsville Avenue, Wilmington, NC 28403.

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. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED. 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 Ericka Denise Morgan.

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.: 09-05750-FC03 April 16 and 23, 2015 13-SP-1104

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)7444444, 018519-00011 P1135969 4/16, 04/23/2015 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 Rufus Adolphus Pool, III aka R.A. Pool, III 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 June 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 26th day of March 2015.

Murray P. Pool, Sr. Executor PO Box 1667 Wrightsville Beach, NC 28480 3/26, 4/2, 4/9, 4/16/2015 STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF NEW HANOVER IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE

AMENDED NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S FORECLOSURE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY

SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION

Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed and delivered by Carter M. Mckaughan and Lynne T. McKaughan, dated August 15, 2008 and recorded on August 29, 2008 in Book No. 5343 at Page 1390 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 April 29, 2015 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: 1984 Hillsboro Road, Wilmington, NC 284035370. Tax Parcel ID: R06008-010002-000 Present Record Owners: Carter M. Mckaughan and Lynne T. McKaughan. 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

FILE # 15 E 258

BEFORE THE CLERK

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Having qualified as EXECUTOR of the Estate of JANE L. KNIGHT, deceased, of New Hanover County, North Carolina, the undersigned does hereby give notice to all persons, firms or corporations having claims against the said Estate to present them by giving evidence of same to the undersigned on or before the 30th day of June, 2015, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to the deceased or said estate will please make immediate payment to the undersigned.

This, the 26th day of March, 2015 GENE R. KNIGHT, JR., Executor of the Estate of JANE L. KNIGHT c/o PAUL A. NEWTON, ATTORNEY 107 N. 2nd Street, Suite C Wilmington, North Carolina 28401 03/26, 4/2, 4/9, 4/16/2015 STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA\ COUNTY OF NEW HANOVER IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION 15 E 000367 EXECUTRIX NOTICE Having qualified as Executrix of the Estate of David A. Akerhielm, late of Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons, firms and corporations having claims against the estate of said decedent to exhibit them to the undersigned on or before June 26, 2015, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons, firms and corporations indebted to said estate please make immediate payment to the undersigned.

This is the 26th day of March 2015.

Betsy C. Akerhielm

8416 Fazio Drive Wilmington, NC 28411 W. Talmage Jones Hogue Hill, LLP Attorneys at Law P.O. Box 2178 Wilmington, NC 28402 03/26, 4/2, 4/9, 4/16/2015 NOTICE TO CREDITORS Having qualified as Executrix of the Estate of Thorveld Ray Torgersen, late of Wilmington, 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 in care of the undersigned at 1707 Bellevue Drive, Wilmington, NC 28405, on or before June 25, 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 26th day of March, 20156 Margaret Diane Torgersen, Executrix of the Estate of Thorveld Ray Torgersen Douglas A Fox, Attorney, YOW, FOX & MANNEN, LLP 102 N. 5TH Ave. Wilmington, NC 28401 3/26, 4/2, 4/9 AND 4/16/2015.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS NORTH CAROLINA, NEW HANOVER COUNTY All persons, firms and corporations having claims against the Estate of Annabel D. Ellis, deceased, are notified to present the same to the personal representative listed below on or before July 1, 2015 or this notice will be pleaded in bar of recovery.

All debtors of the said estate are asked to make immediate payment. This the 2nd day of April, 2015.

Andrew Olsen, Attorney Elder Law Firm of Andrew Olsen 6781 Parker Farm Drive, Suite 210 Wilmington, NC 28405 4/2, 4/9, 4/16, 4/23/2015 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 Jay Vaughn Miller 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 2nd day of July 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 2nd day of April 2015.

Teresa R. Hairston, Executrix 1830 Birmingham Drive Hillsborough, NC 27278 4/2, 4/9, 4/16, 4/23/2015 STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF NEW HANOVER IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION BEFORE THE CLERK PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE’S NOTICE Having qualified as Administratrix of the Estate of Jackie Lee Baize, 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 present them to the undersigned on or before the 2nd day of July, 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 2nd day of April, 2015.

Robbie Thompson Baize, Administratrix c/o G. Frank Jones, Esquire Burney & Jones, PLLC 110 N. Fifth Ave. Wilmington NC 28401 ATTORNEY: Burney & Jones, PLLC 110 North Fifth Ave., Wilmington, N.C., 28401 April 2, 9, 16, and 23, 2015.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Having qualified as Executrix of the Estate of FRANCES P. LEWIS, deceased of New Hanover County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against said Estate to present them to the undersigned on or before the 9th day of July, 2015, or this Notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery.

All persons indebted to said Estate please make immediate payment to the undersigned.

Claims should be presented or

paid in behalf of the undersigned at: 6525 Hollow Oak Drive Mint Hill, North Carolina 28227 This the 9th day of April, 2015.

Pamela L. Eggleston, Executrix of the Estate of Frances P. Lewis 6525 Hollow Oak Drive Mint Hill, N. C. 28227 The MacDonald Law Firm, PLLC 1508 Military Cutoff Rd., Ste. 102 Wilmington, NC 28403 4/9, 4/16, 4/23, 4/30/2015 NOTICE OF SERVICE OF PROCESS BY PUBLICATION STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA NEW HANOVER COUNTY In the Court of General Justice, District Court Division File No. 13 CVD 4508 Divorce Complaint To: LeRoy Kemp Take notice that a pleading seeking relief against you has been filed in the above entitled action.

The nature of the relief sough is as follows: That the Plaintiff be granted an absolute divorce from Defendant, LeRoy Kemp, and that the bonds of matrimony heretofore existing between the parties be dissolved.

You are required to make a defense to such pleading no later than May 20, 2015, and upon your failure to do so; the party seeking service against you will apply to the court for the relief sought.

This the 9th day of April 2015 Jessica Kemp 1239 Million Dollar Highway Kersey, PA 15846 04/09, 04/16, 4/23/2015 STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF NEW HANOVER NOTICE TO CREDITORS The undersigned, Mitchell Williams, having qualified as the Executrix of the Estate of Emory Williams, Jr., Deceased, hereby notifies all persons, firms or corporations having claims against the Decedent to exhibit same to the said Emory Williams, Jr., at the address set out below, on or before July 20, 2015, or this notice may be pleaded in bar of any payment or recovery of same. All persons indebted to said Decedent will please make immediate payment to the undersigned at the address set out below.

This the 16th day of April, 2015 Mitchell Williams EXECUTRIX OF THE ESTATE OF Emory Williams, Jr. c/o ROBERT H. HOCHULI, JR. 219 RACINE DR., SUITE A6 WILMINGTON, NC 28403 Stephanie Mediratta Paralegal Robert H. Hochuli, Jr. 219 Racine Dr., Suite A-6 Wilmington, NC 28403 4/16, 4/23, 4/30, 5/7/2015 NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND DEBTORS

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 James S. Potter Sr., 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 16th day of July 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 16th day of April 2015.

Yvonne Caryle, Executrix 405 Mohican Trail Wilmington, NC 28409 4/16, 4/23, 4/30, 5/7/2015 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 John Fulton Tucker, Jr. 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 16th day of July 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 16th day of April 2015.

John Fulton Tucker III, Executor PO Box 2338 Surf City, NC 28445 4/16, 4/23, 4/30, 5/7/2015 TOWN OF WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH PLANNING AND PARKS 321 CAUSEWAY DRIVE P.O. BOX 626, WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH, N.C. 28480 910-256-7937 Board of Adjustment Public Notice The public shall take notice that the Wrightsville Beach Board of Adjustment will meet at 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 23, 2015 or as soon thereafter, in the Town Hall Council Chambers, 321 Causeway Drive, Wrightsville Beach, N.C., to consider: A request for a variance to §Chapter 155.11 Floodplain Regulations, to allow the low-

est horizontal structural member to be 6.4 feet instead of 15 feet for the two existing temporary classrooms located behind the Wrightsville Beach School. The applicant also requests that the building code requirements be waived to accommodate a lowest horizontal structural member below 15 feet.

4/16/2015 TOWN OF WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING A PUBLIC HEARING HAS BEEN SCHEDULED TO CONSIDER PAID PARKING ON PELICAN DRIVE, OLD CAUSEWAY DRIVE, MARINA STREET AND A PORTION OF KEEL STREET. The Wrightsville Beach Board of Aldermen has scheduled a public hearing to be held on April 23, 2015 at 5:30pm or soon thereafter at the Wrightsville Beach Town Hall located at 321 Causeway Drive. The purpose of the meeting is to receive input from the public on the potential implementation of paid parking along Pelican Drive, Old Causeway Drive, Marina Street and a portion of Keel Street or any portion or combination of the before mentioned streets. The Town is considering paid parking in these areas using only “pay by phone” technology and no onstreet meters.

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OF NANCY FORT CANTWELL All persons, firms and corporations having claims against the Estate of Nancy Fort Cantwell, deceased, are notified to exhibit them to Theodosia Cantwell Thomson, Executrix of said Estate, at the offices of Wessell & Raney, L.L.P., 107-B N. Second Street, Wilmington, NC 28401 or P. O. Box 1049, Wilmington, NC 28402 on or before July 15, 2015, or be barred from their recovery. Debtors of the decedent are asked to make immediate payment to the above-named Executrix.

This 16th day April, 2015.

Theodosia Cantwell Thomson, Executrix John C. Wessell, III Wessell & Raney, L.L.P. Attorneys at Law 107-B N. Second Street Post Office Box 1049 Wilmington, North Carolina 28402 4/16, 4/23, 4/30, 5/7/2015 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 Ruth Iris Trimer 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 16th day of July 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 16th day of April 2015.

Roy Trimer, Executor 1416 S 4th Street Wilmington, NC 28401 4/16, 4/23, 4/30, 5/7/2015

Public Notice

Town of Wrightsville Beach The Town of Wrightsville Beach is currently accepting bids for Disaster Debris Response and Recovery Services for the anticipated Tropical, Winter and Nor’ Easter Storm Seasons through June 30, 2017. Bidders Instructions and Proposal Forms may be obtained from the Town of Wrightsville Beach, 321 Causeway Drive, PO Box 626, Wrightsville Beach, NC 28480, or by contacting Ms. Sylvia Holleman, Town Clerk at 910-256-7900. Documents may also be downloaded from the Town of Wrightsville Beach’s website at http://www. townofwrightsvillebeach.com.

Deadline for submittal of bids will be 10:00 AM on Tuesday, May 5, 2015. The bid opening and reading, which is open to the public, will take place directly following at a conference room made available at the Town Hall of the same address. A recommendation will be submitted no later than the next scheduled meeting of the Town Board of Alderman, following which the selected bidder will be notified.

A non-mandatory pre-bid conference is scheduled for 10:00 AM on Tuesday, April 28, 2015 at a conference room made available at the Town Hall.

The Town of Wrightsville Beach reserves the right to reject any or all project proposals.

Sylvia Holleman Town Clerk April 15, 2015

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Sports/Marine Hook, Line & Sinker Mid-April fishing producing well for anglers

By Skylar Walters

While the month of April is generally not considered a super month for fishing in our area, there are usually a few days here and there that produce better than others, and those are normally reserved for later in the month, when the water temperatures start quickly warming up. However, with the warm conditions we have experienced during the past week or so, water temperatures have now risen into the mid 60s and have fired off the spring fishing. Fishing from the surf, pier, inshore or offshore, when the weather permits, has been good to excellent during the past week, depending on what you’re fishing for.

We’ll start with the offshore fishing, as that has been hit or miss namely due to sea conditions preventing boats from reaching the fishing grounds. If offshore fishing is your game, unfortunately conditions do not look all that good for this week although the extended forecast shows a possibility of some decent seas late into the weekend.

Many boats reported good catches of wahoo near the area of the Same Ole last week with a few reports of some blackfin tuna and even a few dolphin being caught.

While the more well-known offshore fishing spots normally hold some fish, this time of year it is a good idea to research and find those warm water temperature breaks as water temperatures are still a bit cool even toward the Gulf Stream.

Closer to home, bottom fishing in depths starting around 100 feet has been

excellent for large black sea bass, vermillion snapper and trigger fish. Anglers are still reporting some locations, mainly those in shallower water, are loaded with sharks, so when they are encountered it is better to move off to deeper water.

Along the surf and off the piers, fishermen are reporting good quantities of Virginia mullet being caught on fresh shrimp. While a lot of these fish are on the small side, persistence will pay off and some anglers have managed to bring home more than enough keepers for dinner. Black drum have been reported being caught on shrimp as well. Bluefish have arrived and small spoons fished from the surf work well. If fishing from the pier, Got-Cha Plugs are the bait of choice. Some of these fish are small but there have been many fish caught that are pushing 2 pounds or better. Remember that bluefish have a bag limit of 15 fish per day with only five being greater than 24 inches, which is important because it won’t be long before the larger chopper bluefish show for a couple of weeks. Since bluefish don’t freeze very well, it’s suggested that anglers only keep what they can eat within a day or so.

Inshore fishing has picked up with reports of red drum being found around the docks and creeks, caught on both artificial baits and natural baits such as mud minnows and cut mullet. Some speckled trout have shown up in our local waters but the better fishing is found in the Cape Fear River and also areas around Surf City and Topsail.

Supplied photo courtesy of Chandler Hatch

The University of North Carolina Wilmington surf team celebrates a second place finish overall as well as several individual awards during the NSSA East Coast Regional Championships in New Smyrna Beach, Fla., April 9–11.

UNCW surf team clinches second in East Coast championship

By Emmy Errante Staff Writer

The University of North Carolina Wilmington surf team again asserted itself as one of the top teams on the East Coast with a strong showing in the National Scholastic Surfing Association (NSSA) East Coast Regional Championships in New Smyrna Beach, Fla., April 9-11.

The team won the event for six consecutive years, 2009-2014.

This year, it finished a close second to the University of North Florida.

“It’s exciting,” team member and surfing club president Zach Valenti said. “But of course we wanted to go there and get first, keep the streak alive.”

Of UNCW’s team — six male shortboarders, two female

shortboarders and one longboarder — Valenti said, every male shortboard heat but one included a UNCW surfer. Conditions were challenging, with the six surfers in each heat battling to pick off decent waves in the choppy, inconsistent lineup.

“They double-beached [the college division],” Valenti said.

“Two heats are running side by side in different areas of the beach. … You’ve got six guys in 100 yards having 15 minutes to catch the waves, so it’s pretty difficult, but it’s what East Coast surfing is all about. … You do the best you can with what you’re dealt with.”

Each surfer accumulated points based on his or her order of finish, and the top three surfers from each heat advanced to the next round.

At the end of the event, points

were tallied and the college with the most points won, Valenti explained.

Two UNCW surfers advanced all the way to the six-man shortboard final. Shane Burn finished third and Cobi Christianson finished fourth. Alek Rockrise clinched second place in the longboard division and Airlie Pickett finished third in women’s shortboard.

Valenti said while surfing Wrightsville Beach was good preparation for the sandy beachbreak at New Smyrna Beach Inlet, the team did not hold formal practices.

“It’s hard to set a practice when you can’t really predict the waves,” he said. “You can’t say, ‘Hey, we’re going to have practice Wednesday at 8 o’clock because … it could be

completely flat.”

Valenti said the team is close, though, so he often paddles out and finds himself surfing alongside his teammates. The team friendships, he said, slightly lessened the sting of finishing in second place this year.

“Overall it was a great bonding experience — getting to take a weekend and actually compete and hang out with each other, go out to dinner together,” he said.

As a senior, he reflected that those are the memories he’ll take with him after graduation.

“In May, when I’m done with surf team … it’s one of those things I’ll be able to look back on way down the road and be like, ‘Man, that was quite the experience, to surf competitively with your friends and represent the school.’” email emmy@luminanews.com

SUP comp showcases paddle surfing

By Emmy Errante Staff Writer

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

Date Time ht(ft) Time ht(ft) Time ht(ft) Time ht(ft) 4/16 Thu 04:13 AM 4.08 H

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05:37 PM 4.02 H

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07:24 PM 4.78 H

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4/22 Wed 03:37 AM -1.24 L

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A handful of the world’s elite paddleboarders will take on local talent in a wave-riding competition at Wrightsville Beach beginning Saturday, April 17.

The Wrightsville Beach SUP Surf Pro-Am is a part of the fourday Waterman Ocean Festival celebrating one of Wrightsville Beach’s signature watersports, standup paddleboarding, while raising money to fund Wrightsville Beach Museum of History’s newly formed Waterman Hall of Fame.

The festival begins Thursday, April 16, when the museum welcomes 35 children from the YWCA’s afterschool program for a paddleboarding clinic hosted by Jarrod Covington of Wrightsville

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The water is too cold to take the children out into the surf, contest organizer John Sideris said, but Covington and Pickett will teach the kids about surfing etiquette and bring several boards and paddles to demonstrate paddling techniques.

“We try to target underprivileged kids who probably wouldn’t make it out to the beach or even see a surfboard or a standup paddleboard,” Sideris said.

After the clinic, the kids will learn about the history of Wrightsville Beach surfing from local waterman and historian Skip Funderburg.

“He did this last year and it was a huge success, the kids loved it,” Sideris said.

Both divisions of the competition, amateur and professional, begin Saturday morning on the south side of Crystal Pier.

Participants with boards longer than nine feet may also enter the longboard style division, which will highlight retro longboard

maneuvers like cross-stepping and noseriding. The pro division will likely feature more radical paddlesurfing on shorter, highperformance boards.

“They use the paddle to help them with their maneuvers,” Sideris explained. “They can get up and out of the wave quicker and turn sharper, because they’re using the paddle kind of like a rudder.”

The pros will battle for cash prizes and the participant with the highest combined finish in the pro and longboard divisions will receive the $500 Newkirk Waterman Award, donated by the Newkirk family in remembrance of Wrightsville Beach waterman Haywood Newkirk Sr. All locals who enter the pro division to test themselves against elite paddlers like three-time world longboard champion Colin McPhillips will be eligible to be crowned the Carolina BAMF — or Best Amateur Finisher, Sideris said.

While the competition showcases some of the area’s top

watermen, proceeds from the event help honor both present and past local heroes of the waterman lifestyle.

Funds from the contest will allow the Wrightsville Beach Museum of History to continue inducting members into its Waterman Hall of Fame, which it created in 2014. Museum director Madeline Flagler said this fall, the museum will induct five more people who have excelled in their chosen watersport and positively impacted the vast and interconnected community of local surfers, sailors, fishermen, swimmers and paddleboarders.

Each inductee’s name will be displayed on a plaque in the museum along with an essay about his or her accomplishments, Flagler said.

“So it becomes not only a recognition, but also a concrete history that is captured and put in a permanent place,” she said.

For more information visit www.wbsupsurfproam.com email emmy@luminanews.com