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Christmas break Pender County sports teams will participate in several holiday tournaments during the Christmas holiday break.

Read about it in sports beginning on page 8A.

Thursday, December 17, 2015

Volume 45, No. 11

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Big Christmas parade in Burgaw

DSS director will retire in January

By Andy Pettigrew Post & Voice Publisher

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George Brown moved into the chairman’s chair on the Pender County Board of Commissioners Monday. Commissioners voted to appoint Brown chairman and Fred McCoy as vice chairman. David Williams announced earlier he would not serve another term as board chairman.

Williams made the motion to elect Brown as chairman.

Brown served previously as board chairman for three years prior to Williams becoming chair.

Williams commented on his tenure as chairman as he passed the gavel to Brown.

“I’m proud of what we have done and where we are going and I believe we are heading in the right direction. It has been an honor to sit in the chair,” Williams said. “Who knows.

Maybe I’ll sit in it again, but not in the foreseeable future for work and family reasons.”

Brown thanked the board for their confidence.

“It’s either that or someone slipped me the short straw,” Brown quipped. “I will do my best.

Pender County Department of Social Services director Dr. Reta Shiver will retire at the end of January.

In a letter dated Dec. 9 to Pender County Commission Chairman David Williams, Shiver, announced her retirement.

Shiver said “After having served compassionately, diligently, faithfully and professionally, with excellence and profound dedication, I will retire in good standing from the position of Director of Social Services for Pender County effective January 31, 2016.

“I would like to thank the people of Pender County for allowing me to faithfully serve them throughout my 33-year tenure. I would also like to thank DSS staff, former and current, for its outstanding performance throughout the period of my service. Finally, I would like to thank the numerous state officials and county officials for the esprit de corps shown to Pender County Department of Social Services throughout the duration of my time as DSS Director for Pender County.”

Money questions cleared up in Topsail Beach

By Barbara Hazle Contributing Writer An apparent problem with town money in Topsail Beach was explained by town officials at the Dec. 9 commissioners meeting. Topsail Beach was notified in November town’s fund balance appeared to face a substantial financial shortfall.

“The money is there, we have plenty of money. There’s no problem with our budget, the money is not a problem,” said Mayor Howard Braxton.

“There was a process we had to go through before we could respond to Raleigh. We have worked diligently to show that this was not a real problem.

We have just gone through a clean audit, and no money is misplaced anywhere.”

Wade Greene of Whiteville perfor med the audit and presented the results to the board.

“I want to understand how we got in this position, that we required a letter from the state. I want to see our books

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Staff photos by Andy Pettigrew

Thousands turned out on a balmy night for the annual Burgaw Christmas Parade Saturday. See more photos of the event on Page 4B and on Facebook.

Hampstead Women’s Club Building

Breakfast with Santa Dec. 19 in Hampstead

By Tammy Proctor Pender County Tourism Director Special to the Post & Voice Santa Claus is coming to Hampstead for breakfast. He will visit with good little boys and girls Dec, 19, 9-11 a.m. at the Hampstead Women’s Club building, 14435 Hwy. 17.

Breakfast with Santa is sponsored by the Hampstead Women’s Club and the Greater Topsail Area Chamber of Commerce. This is the third year the two local non-profit organizations have partnered together on this project. The two groups will divide the proceeds and use them to fund scholarships for local students.

“Santa is coming to town,” said Patricia Truscello, president of the Hampstead Women’s Club. “We’re going to feed him pancakes and sausage.”

However, Truscello said Santa doesn’t

want to dine alone. The public is invited to join Santa and spend some precious time with him before Christmas morning.

“Each child will have an opportunity to sit on Santa’s lap and tell him what they want for Christmas,” said Chuck

Strickland, the executive director of the Greater Topsail Area Chamber of Commerce. “We encourage parents to bring their cameras and take photos.”

Tickets are on sale now. Tickets are $5 each. Children under the age of 2 are admitted free with a parent’s ticket. Tickets are available from the Hampstead Thrift Store, 14435 US Hwy. 17, or from the Greater Topsail Area Chamber of Commerce at 13775 Hwy 50 in Surf City.

“We are members of the Greater Topsail Area Chamber of Commerce,” said Truscello. “We are pleased to partner with the chamber in an event that will bring holiday cheer to families. The proceeds will benefit children of the community through scholarships.”

For more information call the Hampstead Women’s Club at 910-270-9510 or the Greater Topsail Area Chamber of Commerce at 910-329-4446.

Pender County man convicted of sex crimes, porn From Staff Reports Roy Lee Stubbs, 48 of Pender County, was found guilty by a Pender County jury Dec. 9 of three counts of sex offense with a child, one count of second degree sexual exploitation of a minor, and two counts of felony secret peeping. The trial involved testimony from two of Stubbs’ victims whose abuse took place over a number of years.

Stubbs was sentenced by Judge Jay Hockenbury to a total of 50-65 years in the Department of Adult Correction.

Stubbs will also be subject to satellite-based monitoring and have to register as a sex offender.

The jury found that Stubbs sexually molested the female victim over the course of a three and a half year period from 2010-2013 when the she

was 9-12 years old. The other victim, now an adult, was able to provide testimony regarding her abuse by Stubbs over a decade ago.

Assistant District Attorney Jason Smith credits the hard work of Detective John Leatherwood of the Pender County Sheriff ’s Office and the actions of two brave victims for

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Roy Lee Stubbs

Election update From Staff Reports Pender County Board of Education member Brad George has filed for reelection to the board. George currently holds the District 5 seat, one of the two seats on the board that will be on the ballot March 15.

Karen Rouse, who holds the District 3 seat, has announced she will not seek reelection.

Don Hall has filed for that seat.

In the November county commissioners race, two candidates have filed for the District 4 seat. Democrat Demetrice Keith has filed for reelection.

Burgaw attorney Jacqueline Newton has also filed for the seat as a Republican.

Democrat Sheree Shepard has filed for the District 5 seat, currently held by Republican Fred McCoy. Pender County Register of Deeds Sharon Willoughby(R) has filed for relection Filing for the 2016 elections will remain open through Dec. 21. The above information was as of Dec. 11.

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Arrest report Breanne Marie Benson, 22, 143 Marley Drive, Currie. Driving while license revoked, expired registration, no inspection.

Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office. Released under $500 secured bond.

Ronald Bernard, 47, 7801 Slocum Trail, Atkinson. Simple assault. Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office. Incarcerated under $500 secured bond.

Manuel Heronic Bordeaux, 56, 301 S. Wright Street, Burgaw.

Trespassing. Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office. Released under $10,000 secured bond.

Kenneth Peter Buffkin, 20, 306 Howards Landing, Holly Ridge.

Breaking and entering a motor vehicle, larceny, possession of stolen goods, unlawfully obtaining a credit card, identity theft, obtaining property under false pretense. Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office. Incarcerated under $180,100 secured bond.

Jimmy Came, 19, 3223 NW 2nd Avenue 5, Miami, FL. Forgery of instrument, attempted uttering, attempting to obtain property under false pretense. Arrest by Surf City Police Department. Incarcerated under $45,000 secured bond.

Otis Ray Campbell, 50, 1803 Lincoln Road, Leland. Assault with a deadly weapon, violation of domestic protection order.

Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office. Released under $2,000 secured bond.

Antwan Dominique Carr, 32, 3926 Highway 117 Lot 6, Burgaw.

Probation violation. Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office.

Incarcerated, no bond.

Smith Joseph Carr, 18, 157 Gail Road, Willard. Breaking and entering. Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office. Incarcerated, no bond.

Dianna Michelle Carter, 44, 205 Raccoon Road, Willard. Financial card fraud, identity theft, obtaining property under false pretense. Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office. Released under $22,000 secured bond.

Nathan Elwin Christy, 33, 161 Renee Drive, Hampstead.

Breaking and entering, larceny, possession of stolen goods, financial card fraud, obtaining property under false pretense.

Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office. Incarcerated under $180,000 secured bond.

Mary Beth Cole, 32, 745 Lea Drive Ext., Hampstead. Breaking and entering, larceny, possession of stolen goods, breaking and entering a motor vehicle, identity theft, unlawfully obtaining a credit card. Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office. Incarcerated under $180,000 secured bond.

Joe Cummings, 39, 219 Clayston Street, Washington. Driving while impaired. Arrest by Burgaw Police Department. Released under $2,000 secured bond.

Larry Dixon, Jr., 42, 2560 Halfway Branch School Road, Ivanhoe. Driving while license revoked. Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office. Released under $800 secured bond.

Gene Edmondson, 38, 813 E. 12th Street, Roanoke Rapids.

Driving while impaired, unsafe movement. Arrest by Burgaw Police Department. Released under $800 secured bond.

Robert Leroy Gentry, 61, 161 Renee Drive, Hampstead. Probation violation. Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office.

Released, no bond.

Ryan Scott Grimes, 25, 106 Old Farm Road, Hampstead. As-

Pender EMS & Fire Report Dec. 6-12 EMS Report Total number of Patient Contacts: 239 Calls per station Burgaw Station 1 64 Sloop Point Station 14 31 Hampstead Station 16 26 Surf City Station 23 23 Topsail Beach Station 4 5 Union Station 5 19 Rocky Point Station 7 33 Maple Hill Station 8 7 Atkinson Station 9 27 Scott Hill Station 18 3 Hwy 421 South Station 29 1 Type of Calls Cancelled: 37 Cancelled en-route: 2 No Patient found: 5 No treatment required: 3 Refusals: 65 Stand by: 4 Transported: 115 Treated and released: 8 Fire Department Reports Total number of Fire Calls: 11 EMS First Response: 18 Motor Vehicle Crash (MVC): 11 Cancelled Response: 4 Calls per station Rescue Station 1 Burgaw EMS 0 Motor Vehicle Crash 3 Cancelled 4 Fire Station 14 Sloop Point Fire 4 Motor Vehicle Crash 1 EMS Assist 4 Fire Station 16 Hampstead Fire 0 Motor Vehicle Crash 5 EMS Assist 1 Fire Station 18 Scotts Hill Fire 3 Motor Vehicle Crash 0 EMS Assist6 Fire Station 21 Long Creek Fire 3 Motor Vehicle Crash 1 EMS Assist 5 Ocean Rescue--Beach Assist EMS 0 Fire Station 29 Hwy 421 South Fire 1 Motor Vehicle Crash 1 EMS Assist 3

sault, communicating threats. Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office. Incarcerated under $500 secured bond.

Lisa Danielle Hamilton, 46, 1971 Sloop Point Road, Hampstead. Possession with intent to manufacture, sell, or deliver a controlled substance, selling controlled substance, delivering a controlled substance, maintaining a place for controlled substance, possession of a controlled substance. Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office. Incarcerated under $40,000 secured bond.

Michael Bradford Healy, 33, 8911 US Highway 17, Holly Ridge.

Driving while impaired, no operator’s license. Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office. Released under $1,000 secured bond.

Dante Lamont Hobbs, 18, 220 Jordan Lane, Wilmington. Driving while impaired, unsafe movement. Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office. Incarcerated under $600 secured bond.

Johnnie Montaz Jackson, 24, 740 New Road, Burgaw. Possession with intent to manufacture, sell, or deliver a controlled substance, maintaining a place for controlled substance, manufacturing marijuana, possession of marijuana, possession of marijuana paraphernalia, post release violation. Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office. Incarcerated under $30,000 secured bond.

Perdita Elaine James, 58, 56 Henry Pridgen Road, Burgaw.

Probation violation. Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office.

Released under $10,000 secured bond.

John Hendry Jenness, III, 30, 237 Kel Ash Extension Lot 32, Rocky Point. Probation violation. Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office. Released, no bond.

James Alan Keefer, 29, 150 Bellhammon Drive, Rocky Point.

Larceny, obtaining property under false pretense, expired registration, driving while license revoked. Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office. Incarcerated under $15,100 secured bond.

Timothy Earl Kenon, Jr., 26, 196 Bubble Gum Lane, Salemburg. Breaking and entering, possession of stolen goods, possession of a firearm by a felon. Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office. Released, no bond.

Ethan Lawrence Lavalle, 16, 270 West Craftsmanway, Hampstead. Injury to real property. Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office. Released under $1,500 secured bond.

Shera Layne Lockamy, 62, 1485 Mill Creek Road, Hampstead.

Possession with intent to manufacture, sell, or deliver a controlled substance, selling a controlled substance, delivering a controlled substance, maintaining a place for controlled substance, possession of a controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia, trafficking in opium/heroin, possession of marijuana, possession of marijuana paraphernalia. Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office. Released under $97,000 secured bond.

Nathaniel Lofton, 61, 601 Timberly Lane 1, Burgaw. Driving while license revoked. Arrest by Burgaw Police Department.

Released under $500 secured bond.

Jessica Leigh Meadows, 26, 809 Croomsbridge Road, Burgaw.

Child support. Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office. Released.

Jeremy Scott Meeks, 36, 561 Beckys Creek Road, Surf City.

Identity theft, obtaining property under false pretense, financial card fraud. Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office. Incarcerated under $120,000 secured bond.

Amber Leigh Messer, 28, 431 Holmes Road, Rocky Point. Obtaining property under false pretense, breaking and entering, possession of stolen goods, larceny. Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office. Released under $14,000 secured bond.

Mitchell Murphy, 49, 1282 Union Chapel Road, Burgaw. Driving while impaired. Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office.

Released, no bond.

David Wayne Murray, 26, 242 South Channel Haven Drive, Wilmington. Aiding and abetting impaired driving, spotlighting, taking deer unlawfully. Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office. Released under $3,000 secured bond.

Jesus Juan Negron, 24, 675 Bay Harbor Drive, Hampstead.

Robbery with a dangerous weapon, kidnapping, assault with a deadly weapon. Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office.

Incarcerated under $125,000 secured bond.

Jonathan Ryan Norris, 31, 85 Jerico Road, Rocky Point. Assault on a female. Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office.

Released under $2,000 secured bond.

Gary Parsley, 39, 314 Electric Lane, Hampstead. Assault on a female. Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office. Released under $5,000 secured bond.

Dashaun Jamar Pearsall, 19, 175 Church Street, Willard.

Probation violation. Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office.

Incarcerated under $10,000 secured bond.

Deonte Jamal Pearsall, 21, 175 Church Street, Willard. Probation violation. Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office.

Incarcerated under $20,000 secured bond.

Timothy Wayne Prax, 25, 321 John Humphrey Lane, Burgaw.

Breaking and entering, larceny, possession of stolen goods, breaking and entering a motor vehicle, obtaining property under false pretense, receiving of stole goods, probation violation.

Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office. Incarcerated under $60,000 secured bond.

Matthew Brantley Pridgen, 23, 2851 Highway 132, Rocky Point. Probation violation. Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office. Incarcerated, no bond.

Randall Travis Roberts, 35, 168 Long Branch Lane, Burgaw.

Trespassing, disorderly conduct. Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office. Incarcerated under $865.00 secured bond.

Michael Donnell Robinson, 43, 1125 Carnation Court, Wilmington. Child support. Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office. Incarcerated.

Tayvinn Tyrone Scott, 26, 205 Progress Drive 10B, Burgaw.

Child support. Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office. Released.

Brennon Chase Sills, 20, 126 Sandy Sills Road, Wilmington.

Probation violation. Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office.

Incarcerated under $5,000 secured bond.

Information taken from reports from county municipal police department, Highway Patrol, and the Pender County Sheriff’s Office. Arrest reports are public record. Not all arrests result in a determination of guilt.

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History comes to life at the Pender County Museum

By Lori Kirkpatrick Post & Voice Staff Writer The Pender County Museum is bringing history to life. Visitors can stop by the museum every Saturday between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. to see a blacksmith in action. The blacksmith shop has been up and running since Blueberry Festival weekend. Volunteers Adrian Mignone, Craig Brown and Tom Fyfe alternate weekends to provide demonstrations.

Items created by the blacksmiths are sold in the museum, and proceeds benefit the Pender County Historical Society and the museum.

Blacksmith Adrian Mignone, of Hampstead, helped rebuild the shop. “The shop was not operational. We got it up and running. ,� began Mignone. “The Pender County Museum had an ad in the paper for anyone wishing to volunteer. I inquired about volunteering, and along with two other builders I was awarded to repair the shop. We put a whole new tin roof on it. Our next goal is to rebuild these walls and make some sliding doors in the middle so it will all be one shop. Maybe in the future we will have a carpenter’s shop on that side, and we can start restoring all these wagons and farm equipment for the museum.�

Jeanette Jones, President of the Pender County Historical Society and Volunteer Coordinator at the museum wants people to know the blacksmith shop is open every Saturday. “As the visitors come, we send them out, but we need to get the word out that it’s here. It’s a fun place to bring kids and let them watch the blacksmiths work.

A lot of children have read about it in books, but have never actually seen a blacksmith working,� said Jones.

Blacksmith Craig Brown has a shop of his own, in addition to volunteering at the museum. He specializes in oyster knives, as well as lawn art and custom items made to order. He has an Etsy shop online and can be found on Facebook

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Blacksmith Adrian Mignone works in the shop at the Pender County Museum.

under 11/24 Blacksmithing. “My brother has been a farrier for 30 years. I started with him shoeing horses when I was eight years old, and as soon as I put that first horse shoe in the fire it was in my blood. I started out mostly making things around the house, and I decided why not try and make a go of it. More than anything, it’s the self-gratification of seeing a piece of raw steel and turning it into something useful,� said Brown.

Mignone got into blacksmithing about eight years ago, and currently owns an ornamental and traditional blacksmithing shop called Iron Gate and Hammer. “I was building flintlock rifles, and my youngest son asked me how they made Kentucky rifles back in the day. I told him a blacksmith made them, and he asked me what a blacksmith was. I went through the whole spiel of what a blacksmith is, and he asked me, ‘Why don’t you have a blacksmith shop, dad?’ So I did. I

built a full working blacksmith shop in our backyard. I didn’t go to school for it.

I just went to the local library, got a book and read up on it, and just dove right into it right off the diving board. You learn by your mistakes and practice. The last page in the book said, ‘Let me warn you, once you start this craft, you’ll never leave it alone.’ And it was right. It’s stressreliever, there’s a feeling of gratitude of making something from a piece of steel - and it’s fun,� said Mignone.

The resourceful blacksmiths start with old car parts, railroad spikes and various items they use to create tools and other items. They make plant hooks, oyster knives and other items that can be purchased in the museum. Dealing with forge temperatures of up to 4,000 degrees, Mignone explained how dangerous the craft can be and the importance of treating every piece of steel like it just came out of the forge. “We’re trying to keep it as primitive as possible, from the period. Blacksmithing is a thing of the past, and a lot of people don’t even know what it is. It’s a lost art, a trade that needs to be kept up. It is history come to life,� said Mignone.

Jones said that she is proud of what the museum has to offer. “We have between 35 and 40 volunteers, they’re very dependable, and that makes it so much easier for me. We have such special people, and we are very thankful for every one of them; like Adrian and other people that have special talents that are God-given. They come to share with us, and we just appreciate it. I think people appreciate Pender County, enjoy living in Pender County, and when we all work together it’s wonderful,� said Jones.

The Pender County Museum is located at 200 W. Bridgers St. in Burgaw. The museum is open Thurs. and Fri. from 1 - 4 p.m., and is open along with the blacksmith shop every Sat. from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. For more information, call (910) 259-8543.

Huntington Health celebrates Christmas with residents

By Barbara Hazle Contributing Writer Huntington Health Care in Burgaw recently celebrated the arrival of the holiday season by decking the halls in a grand manner. For the past 13 years, Pender High School JROTC members volunteer their time setting up holiday vignettes throughout the facility, adorning every door with pine garland and putting up large ribbon wreaths.

The students work many hours over a three-day period decorating every area of the facility. They start immediately after Thanksgiving, bringing cheer and excitement to the residents and preparing the facility for the hundreds of guests that attend two resident family parties held over the weekend. “We started decorating the whole place about 18 years ago, but it became too big of a project for just the staff, “said Dellwood Herren, activities director. “We started thinking about who in the community might give us assistance and this group had always been a big help with the residents during our annual Spring Parade so we asked them, and they have been here every year since. The residents look forward to seeing the young people every year, they bring energy with them. Some are even the grandchildren of

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bows so each one looks like a wrapped present before being hung in the hallways. “I think it’s a wonderful design for a nursing home, it makes every square inch look festive.� said Ms. Herren. “They are actually the hardest decoration to do by the kids, because they have to remember where the hanger is. That decoration was started 18

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Opinion Thursday, December 17, 2015, Page 4A

Grant could be a chance to turn things around Throwing money at a problem is never a reliable way to solve it, but hopefully the state will make good use of a grant to manage a growing, pernicious problem in North Carolina.

Efforts to overhaul the state’s mental health care system have repeatedly It’s not a cure-all, by failed, or at least come up any means, but it’s an lacking. With federal health important start toward reform requiring more access getting North Carolina to mental health care – and back on track with mental the courts finding mental health an easy dumping health care. We sincerely ground for minor substance hope the state’s current abuse cases – our state has leadership will do a better only had more help making job than their predecesthings worse, when the politisors in seeing mental cians were doing a perfectly health not as a political adequate job of that on their tool, but a serious issue own. affecting families across It’s sad that our state the state and nation. has gone so far down in the rankings. We once led the nation in mental health care; back in the dark ages when the mentally ill and handicapped were viewed as little more than circus sideshows, Dorothea Dix and others advocated for the less fortunate, and their efforts showed for years.

Now North Carolina is dragging, to say the least. The highly-touted mental health care revolution of a few years ago meant more people who needed help couldn’t access it, without traveling an hour or two each way. The state’s misguided efforts meant families trying to help their loved ones had even more struggles than before, and in the end, those in need were just left untreated, un-institutionalized, and lost.

Gov. Pat McCrory was among those political hopefuls who promised to begin a turn-around in our state’s efforts to help those with mental illnesses. That’s why it’s important to note the announcement last week that the state has been awarded a grant for planning more local mental health care centers.

The $978,401 grant, part of the 2014 Excellence in Mental Health Act, provides funds for North Carolina and 23 other states lacking in mental health care to determine what’s needed to get these forgotten citizens the care they need.

The proposed community behavioral health clinics will eventually improve early intervention, and help those in need access the resources they need.

It’s not a cure-all, by any means, but it’s an important start toward getting North Carolina back on track with mental health care. We sincerely hope the state’s current leadership will do a better job than their predecessors in seeing mental health not as a political tool, but a serious issue affecting families across the state and nation.

More institutions aren’t the answer, any more than handing out a pharmacy of drugs to an over-excited child. Better local mental health care can prevent such tragedies as self-medicating through illegal drugs and other “cures” for mental illness.

We sincerely hope North Carolina’s leaders make good use of these grant funds for those who are in the most true need.

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Pender Stories, Part 2

Ed Wilson, Manhattan Express

Bill Messer The blizzard of ‘77 introduced Ed Wilson to his new route as a bus driver in the New Your City transit system.

“When I was 25, I was young and invincible,” I told Ed, remembering my introduction to the big city, when I was a sailor newly assigned to the USS Intrepid, then in dry dock in the Navy Shipyard in Brooklyn.

“Of course. You know, it didn't dawn on me until that day, when I was coming down 5th Avenue, near the Museum of Modern Art, and there was a gust of wind that came across 83rd Street, right in front of the museum, it

took the bus, and people were reading their papers, some were sleeping, and I looked in the mirror and saw the back of the bus sticking out, I was pushed up on the sidewalk by a gust of wind, just like a sailboat, because everything was covered with a sheet of ice, and I went between two light posts coming out of there, missed hitting people or objects, and I looked back and people were still sleeping. I came out of there unscathed.”

“Were you ever 'scathed'?

Did you ever have people run into you?” I asked.

“Run into me? Oh, yes.

Just before I retired, I was coming up to the Bronx, it was a beautiful sunny day, and I was driving on the Brookdale, and a woman driving a Cadillac, a big pink Cadillac, a Mary Kay Cadillac, and she was driving straight in the left lane, talking on her Mary Kay phone, and she caught a glimpse of the exit and

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Tom Campbell

Which wolf are you feeding?

The angel in the trash can I began writing this column a number of years ago, and many of you have been kind enough to request it every year. Some other folks were kind enough the other year to decide it deserved an award; I was flattered, but I didn’t write it for anyone’s praise. I wrote it for myself, and for my mother, the late Lois Weaver.

If you want some of my twisted humor, blunt opinions, or odd logic, you’ll have to go somewhere else today.

I’m leaving the politicians, the style makers, and the societal lemmings alone, since even they deserve a Christmas vacation.

Instead, please let me tell you about an angel in a trashcan.

The angel was found by a strong, stubborn woman named Lois. She was raising four children on her own.

Times were tight, but they didn’t really want for much.

Still, Lois was worried about having Christmas presents. She worked one full-time and two part-time jobs. Work was hard to find in a resort town in midwinter, when the north wind froze parts of the Potomac River and a light snow made everyone hope for a white Christmas.

Most of the town was shuttered and dark; it made the town sadder in many ways. The once-grand hotels had become frowzy and rundown. One by one the old houses, the stores, the boardwalk and pavilion she’d known as a bobbysoxer were fading away.

A handful of businesses stayed open through the winter – there were two grocery stores (she worked in one), a hardware store, a department store (where she also worked part-time) and a clothing store for the wealthier folks. They were all decorated for Christmas, and Lois enjoyed seeing the lights, even though the ice and snow were cold through her stockings and the heavy socks pulled up almost to the hem of a home-made skirt.

Her other part-time job was around the corner from the fire station, at a little one-horse weekly newspaper. She was trying desperately to learn how to write “real” news; the owner only let her cover the “women’s news,” which she hated.

The editor was also divorced; he lived alone up the river in an old farmhouse

Jefferson Weaver with a beagle named Driver.

He was a skinny, lonely man who wore sweatshirts under his suits to stay warm. He knew and loved her children, who reminded him so much of his own son and daughter he couldn’t see anymore. Lois knew he had gifts for her kids, and she was wondering how she could afford to give him something in return, something that wouldn’t seem forward.

Lois cut down an alley toward the back of the department store, taking a longer route but one that would avoid some of the wind off the bay. The alley went between a line of fading summer-houses and the business district.

Her mother had invited the editor over to share supper with the family one night. Lois wanted to pick up a few more small decorations for the big Christmas tree, and maybe the ingredients for an applesauce cake.

She thought the cake would be a good gift for the editor, and maybe it would help him put on some weight.

She was still thinking about Christmas presents when she spotted the angel in the trashcan.

The old doll didn’t look like much of an angel; it was a china doll thrown out with some other junk from one of the old homes. The paint was cracked, much of the hair was gone, and its legs were gone. The doll lay embarrassed in the trashcan, a body of stained white cloth stuffed with cotton.

The woman stopped for a moment, knocked the snow off the doll and quickly shoved it into her pocketbook, worried someone might think she was rooting through trashcans.

At the department store,

she bought a dollar’s worth of decorations with her week’s lunch money – some lace, gold embroidery floss, and tiny pearl buttons. The manager happily agreed to let her work some more hours through Christmas.

That night she used the lace and a scrap of old silk to make a dress for the angel. The floss made a tiny halo, and tinfoil and cardboard made a perfect set of wings. She wove a loop into the back of the dress to hang the angel on the tree.

She also made the cake for the editor, and the extra hours at the store bought some things for her mother and the children.

The angel was a gift to herself.

She married the editor a little over a year later, and they had a son. For decades, her family always knew the Christmas tree was finished when Lois hung the angel.

Even when Parkinson’s and dementia made it hard, Mother hung the angel to signify the tree was complete.

The angel was misplaced on the first holiday after my mother died, but Miss Rhonda found it at the last minute and made sure Mother’s angel was on our tree.

Each year, I think I will send the angel to one of my sisters, either Becky or Sharron, so they can tell their children and grandchildren about the angel.

They remember the year Mother made the angel. Yet I fear the angel might get lost in the over-decorating which helps both of them get in the Christmas spirit.

Next year, I think. I just can’t quite turn the angel loose this year. It’s hard to turn your back on a tradition.

There’s another tradition at our house, one I’m sure many of you share.

We always watch Jimmy Stewart’s movie, somewhere along the line during the season. A couple of times in that movie, someone will repeat the old saying about an angel getting its wings every time a bell rings.

That may or may not be the case – but I can guarantee that sometimes only a mother can see an angel in a trashcan.

Merry Christmas.

–Weaver is a columnist for the Post & Voice. Contact him at jeffweaver@whiteville.com.

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This is the supposed to be the season of peace on earth, good will toward mankind, but one is hard pressed to find much evidence of these qualities. At every turn we see war, unrest, depravation, distrust and incivility, leaving us individually and collectively to question what it will take for this to change. Perhaps two stories will give us clues.

A Cherokee legend tells of an old brave talking with his grandson about the battle and unrest that takes place inside us. Speaking the wisdom that comes from advanced age the Native American told the impressionable youngster that two wolves are present in each of us.

One wolf is evil and is exemplified by anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, lies, false pride and superiority. The other wolf is good and demonstrates joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith.

The young boy thought about this for a moment and asked his grandfather which wolf wins? The old Cherokee quietly and wisely responded “The one that you feed.”

Scott Peck, in his wonderful story of The Rabbi’s Gift provides a similar insight.

Peck tells the story of a once great monastic order that over time had declined to only five old monks and was in danger of extinction.

The Abbott of this monastery, desperate to save and restore the viability of his order, sought the counsel of a wise Rabbi, who commiserated that the spirit had gone out of his faith also. They wept together and as they parted the Rabbi apologized for not having advice or solutions.

But he concluded by telling the Abbot he was sure that the Messiah was one of them.

One of them? The monks pondered who among them might be the Messiah, speculating first on one, then another of their number. As they contemplated who that Messiah might be the old monks began to treat each other with extraordinary respect, on the off chance that one amongst them might be the Messiah, and on the off chance that each monk himself might be the Messiah, each began to treat himself with extraordinary respect.

Soon people in neighboring areas took notice of the extraordinary respect that surrounded and radiated from the monks, finding a strangely attractive, even compelling desire to be in their presence. Word spread and soon people brought their families and friends to this special place and loving Monks.

The Monastery began to thrive and once again became a place of rest, recreation, prayer and peace. All thanks to the Rabbi’s gift.

The message of these stories is similar. If we feed the good wolf within us, if we treat ourselves and others with extraordinary respect we will find the peace, love and hope we desperately want.

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Explore your family history

@ Your Library

By Mike Taylor Pender County Library Director Special to the Post & Voice Recently I was asked by Tammy Proctor, our Pender County Tourism Director, to compile a list of what I thought were some of the major historical facts of significance about our county.

There are many of course, but she was looking for a series interesting highlights in a brief format for marketing purposes. I came up with 12.

Many you may know of and a few perhaps not.

This list reflects my personal knowledge and opinion on what I thought was significant in some sense. With a few hours to consider further, I could add probably add more. Some facts I selected are about our rich natural environment, and not necessarily history. I thought I would share them with you. s&EW PLACE NAMES IN OUR county date back further than Rocky Point and Stag Park. They date to 1663 when explorer William Hilton and crew of the Adventurer came up the Northeast Cape Fear River and explored the area for several months. He wrote the first known description of what we today call Pender County calling it “a very pleasant and delightful place.� s0ENDER LAND WAS lRST permanently settled on the rich lands along its rivers beginning in the early 1720’s by people of English, African, and Welsh origins.

The County of Pender was formed until 1875 from New Hanover. s4HE 0ATRIOT VICTORY AT THE Battle of Moores Creek in 1776 led to North Carolina being the first American colony to take official action towards voting for independence three months later. s4HE OLDEST TRAIN STATION

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Continued from page 4A pulled over and caught the edge of her bumper, brand new car, off on my bus, hit three cars and spun out and I got away from it but couldn't avoid the car that stopped short. It was a mess. But nobody got really hurt. The lady that caused the accident walked to the gurney and got in the ambulance, went to the Einstein Hospital, signed herself out, got herself a smart lawyer. I don't know what the outcome was. It went on well into my retirement.� “Did you have any 'nervewracking' experiences?� “Yes, I had a bad one.

I had finished working and was going back to the garage, empty, I was merging onto an approach, a ramp, there was a box truck from Chinatown playing 'chicken' with a tractor-trailer in the left lane. I'm approaching.

So, what happened was the box truck cut off the tractortrailer and the tractor-trailer

in North Carolina is the historic Burgaw Depot dating from 1850, a survivor of hurricanes, fires, and military action during the Civil War. s4HE OLDEST 2USSIAN /RTHOdox Church in North Carolina was built in the early 20th century by Ukrainian immigrants in St. Helena reflecting a unique architectural heritage.

The first commercial Blueberry farm in the South was founded in Pender County in 1924. s0ENDERLEA WAS THE lRST planned farm/city community to open in the U.S. under New Deal legislation during the Great Depression era.

First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt visited in 1937 and ‘kicked up her heels’ in square dance fashion with the new residents. s/NE OF THE FEW GROUPS OF German Jews to escape from the Holocaust to America found a safe haven in the Van Eden farm community from 1939-1943.

Operation Bumblebee was a secret Navy testing operation for guided missiles on desolate Topsail Island 1946-48 before the island was opened for residential development. s4HE OLDEST TREES IN .ORTH America east of the Rocky Mountains grow in Pender County along the Black River near Atkinson. Hundreds of Cypress trees from 700 to 1,600 years old can be explored by boat. s! .ORTH #AROLINA NATURAL area inventory lists 83 plant species and 65 animal species in Pender County recognized as rare on the state or national level and some species are found nowhere else on earth.

The state’s fifth largest county in area, Pender County has more than 130,000 acres are conserved in natural areas, such as the Holly Shelter Game Lands.

Well that’s my list of 12.

Perhaps you would like to send me additional facts that I did not include. Write me by email at mtaylor@pendercountync.gov or by letter to PO Box 879, Burgaw, NC 28425.

Our Dallas Herring Carolina Heritage Research Center is a repository of rich historical documents, photographs, and of information in general about Pender and surrounding counties. We accept items (print and images, not artifacts) to preserve the rich heritage of stories about Pender people and places.

One interesting collection that came our way courtesy of the Moore family was a selection of personal papers of State Supreme Court Associate Justice Clifton Moore, Sr. (1900-1966) relating to a famous court case when he was a district Solicitor. In 1952 he prosecuted and won convictions for about 100 people in Columbus County for very good cause that put the Klu Klux Klan to flight for many years. It also prompted the state legislature to pass what was called the Moore Law making it easier to prosecute members of the KKK who, in essence, were American terrorists.

Just as interesting and important to preserve are photographs of every day scenes of people and places from times past, wartime letters, country store ledgers, diaries, family histories, and other such items. The collection is made possible through such donations, or copies, of materials.

Come by for a tour, or just to browse on Thursdays and Fridays from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. and on Saturdays from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. The heritage research center is at 108 S. Cowan St. in Burgaw across the street from the public library. We welcome you to come talk to us about your stories and how we might preserve them for future

went off into the right lane and stopped dead and I hit the back of the tractortrailer. “What happened to me was, what saved me was, I stood up and held the wheel and turned my legs like this (Ed stands and turns sideways) and when the trailer came in all I had was glass. I wasn't hurt. “My brothers are in transit, they're supervisors, and when they see, on the overhead, coming east on the expressway, they see 'bus accident, traffic closed', so one called the other on the radio, “Say, Tommy . . . that's Eddie, is he OK?� and they came up here in their company vehicles with other supervisors and they all thought I was dead. So, I'm sittin' in the third seat with glass all over me, and my brothers are running in to the bus, “What happened? Is he alright?� “So, I walk out, (brushing pieces of broken glass off) in shock. I felt my nerves tingling, shock,� he finishes, shaking his head.

We talked for a while

about close calls, as anyone who drives in city traffic will have, and got back to his story. “Our operation was school bus and express.

When I started out it was a private line, Edward Arrigoni was the owner. He built it from scratch. He had 500 drivers at the time, in the 1970s, because he had, say, 120 school busses and 130 coaches, you'd need spare drivers if someone called in sick, we also had racetrack runs, chartered runs, we had classroom vehicles.

Back in the day, there was separation of church and state, before it was allowed, and for the Catholic schools, there was a lay teacher on the bus, and it had a bell, and a clock on the wall, and you'd park across from the school and the driver would ring the bell and the kids would come out for class. It was a deal between the owner and the city.� “I've never heard of such a thing,� I said, amazed. “It's New York City!

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By Edith Batson Post & Voice Staff Writer Grand Marshal What a strange thing to have on a magnetized sign on both sides of the Burgaw patrol car. Not only that, but the car was being driven by my grandson, David Batson, a Burgaw police officer. Although I felt to humble to think I deserved such an honor, I accepted it with gratitude and love for Burgaw and Pender County Arthur Carr Batson and I were married in 1951.

Thank you very much for allowing me to start the Burgaw Christmas Parade on December 12 in our beautifully decorated downtown. It was great to see such a large crowd there. Our Christmas downtown decorations are the most beautiful to be found anywhere.

Most appreciated is all the hard work that went into decorating by our town’s fine workers, all the staff, committees, volunteers, floats, and bands, everyone who helped make it a success. Thanks to all who took the time to come to Burgaw to enjoy it. Thank you for letting me have the honor of having a part in it this year.

Merry Christmas to all as we remember that we can celebrate one of the holiest days in the year-the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Nativity A beautiful live nativity was presented on Burgaw Presbyterian Church’s lawn Sunday evening. Many shepherds and angels filled the space in front. There was music (a capella), narrations by Johnny Westbrook,

who has a wonderful voice, wisemen, donkey, lambs, instruments, and wonderful singers from three years and up. A lovely presentation organized by Nancy Rivenbark and Sadie Pollack with lots of helpers. That was the real meaning of Christmas.

Christmas is Coming When the paper comes out, there will be only eight days until Christmas will be here. Are you tearing your hair out trying to find the perfect gift for your family members? At my age, my needs are few. I have a nice home with a roof over my head. I have enough food and clothes to last for years.

One of the nicest gifts I receive at Christmas is a box of necessities-like canned soup, sharp cheese, canned French-style green beans, and whole kernel corn with which to fix the family’s favorite casserole. There are other surprises in the practical side, like paper towels, Kleenex, and paper utensils.

Sometimes a little chocolatedark chocolate is an especially nice surprise.

Other gift surprises would be to take someone out to lunch as a gift. It gets boring cooking for one, it’s nice when one has a lunch date with a friend or family member plus good company and one on one conversation.

Most of all, people just like to be loved. Cards are very nice to get as I realized when I was under the weather all summer. The love and attention to my health and nutrition needs was sometimes a strict love that kept me from eating salt and other things I should not have.

Words cannot say how much their help meant to me.

Visits to shut-ins at home or in nursing homes are a boon to many residents, who usually love company even if you have to wake them up (they can always go back to sleep when you leave).

Sometimes little stuffed animals are cuddly to snuggle up to-even talk to when there are no real people around. Home-cooked food is always tasty, but you should check with a nurse because

many are on special diets.

One friend tells me how much she enjoys her stuffed animals because they are soft and furry and they don’t talk back! They require no upkeep-except hugs-and they are always there with you.

Enough about gifts-or the lack of them. Angels have always interested me and I love to get them, but at 88 my space is running out.

Angels At Christmas, angels take on special importance. An angel came to a young but mature teenage girl to tell her she was highly favored

by God and would bear God’s only son as a human being. Of course she was overwhelmed at such a thing, but she listened carefully.

But like any other engaged person who was a virgin, she wondered how such a thing could happen as she had not “known any man.�

The angel Gabriel told her that the “Holy Ghost (Holy Spirit) would come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee, therefore that holy thing which shall be born of you shall be called the Son of God.� Gabriel then told of her cousin, Elizabeth, wife of Zachariah who was in her sixth month with having a child in her old age.

The angel Gabriel came to Joseph in a dream and told him not to fear marrying Mary, because she would bear the Son of God. So they were married and Joseph did not “know her� until after Jesus was born.

A Savior is Born When Mary and Joseph went to the little town of Bethlehem to be taxed Mary was then “great with child.�

You remember the story. The Son of God’s family, who were humble but devout people just like us, could not even find a place to sleep in an inn.

Then someone told them of a stable for animals in which they could sleep and house their donkey that Mary was riding. Jesus, God, and Son of God was not born

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Pender County teachers attended the Jones-Onslow EMCBright Ideas awards grant event Dec. 9 at Jacksonville High School

Pender teachers receive Jones-Onslow EMC grants Pender County teachers were recognized as Jones-Onslow Electric Membership Corporation Bright Ideas grants recipients during a special banquet Wednesday, Dec. 9, at Jacksonville High School.

Combined, 23 Pender County teachers received more than $5,700 in grant funding.

North Carolina’s electric cooperatives have offered Bright Ideas education grants to teachers in K-12 classrooms across the state for more than 20 years.

Bright Ideas grants provide funding for innovative, classroom-based projects that would otherwise not be possible.

Since 1994, more than 1.8 million stu-

dents have participated in 9,200 Bright Ideas projects.

This year, Jones-Onslow funded more than $65,000 in Bright Ideas grants to 295 educators in 48 eligible schools in Jones, Onslow and Pender Counties.

Below is a list of Pender County’s Jones-Onslow Bright Ideas grant winners.

North Topsail Elementary School “Insects for Kindergarten.” Teachers Leah Smith, Gerald Thompson, Tina Holland, Patricia Mazzara, Renee Thigpen, Stephanie Martin, Leann Moore, Suzette Faldinski and Ellen Strother South Topsail Elementary School “Inquire and Inspire: Science, Math

and Literacy,” Teachers Elyse Rosenstock, Linda Donavan, Natalie Abraham and Kathleen Dickerson.

Topsail Elementary School “We Didgeridoo, Do you?” Teachers Laura Beth Payne and Carol Vincent.

“Bringing Light to Learning.” Teachers Vicky Nazelrod and Stephanie Burke.

“Stability balls in the classroom.”

Teacher Jessica Heffner.

Topsail High School “Probing Our Way Through Science.”

Teachers Ben Schosek, Margaret Burke, and Matt Perkins.

Topsail Middle School “Topsail T-Shirt Shop.” Teachers Danielle Bafunno and Mary Tobin.

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Cape Fear Elementary receives GE grant Photo contributed

The Science Fair Winners at Cape Fear Elementary School, grades 3-5 are (left to right) Ava Claar, Mckenzie Cleary, Faith Roderick, Adain Peeler, Abi Eason, Connor Gore, Hannah Hall. (Not pictured Austin Colclough.)

Topsail Elementary school honor roll Topsail Elementary School has released it’s A honor roll for the first nine-week grading period.

Third grade Finley Babb, Gabrielle Ball, Bradyn Brown, Yadhiel Cardona, Savannah Cook, Nya Coury, Georgia Ford, Ava Fowler, Isaiah Gibson, H a n n a h H u bb a rd , Re e c e Hunter, Jacob Kelderhouse, Gavin King, Grace McBride, Paige McGraw, Kendall Mills, Josie Orinko, Claire Qasem, Grady Raddigan, Talon Rob-

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Fourth grade Emma Burnash, Matthew Burns, Gianna Butrico, Kelly Byrd, Nick Chludzinski, Katie Dale, Ashley Espinoza, Isabel Flores, Griffin Frazee, Grace Fuller, Hope Gaither, Zachary Gaither, Landon Gwinn, Jackson Hoepner, Nelly-Grace Keziah, Sophia Lieski, Ben Lockwood, Ella Maloney, Carson

Major, Catherine McBride, Patrick McLoughlin, Kyle Nabors, Cooper Pierce, Jackson Pavkov, Jenna Rochelle, Lenora Simmons, Kennedy Sloan, Jax Smith, Sophia Wilson.

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um Hayden, Carter Henderson, Elijah Hicks, Anderson Holland, Michael Holloman, Jenna Holt, Blaine Joye, Tanner Kelly, Jackson Kessel, Hunter Korff, Jurnee London, Natalie Luchansky, Elvis Malinowski, Amelia Marshburn, John Meyers, Haedyn Mills, Lauren Pagans, Noah Perry, Allison Rooks, Helen Rooks, Diego Schein, Nathan Simmons, Brewer Smith, Quaid Teachey, Alyssa Valentic, Preston Walker, Slater Wiggins.

Cape Fear Elementary School has received a $6,962 grant from General Electric to further engage students in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math.

CFES Health/Physical Education Teacher Dr. Chris Wirszyla, who applied for the grant, said the funds will purchase STEM Lego Robotics sets. General Electric volunteers will teach students how to construct the figures and assist students in connecting them to a computer, where students will be able to program projects to perform simple actions.

“The grant will impact student learning by establishing a relationship with the volunteers who will be teaching the students STEM concepts, which they can apply to future learning,” Dr. Wirszyla said.

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Backyard Adventures

Parent’s survival guide for Christmas break

By Tammy Proctor Pender County Tourism Director The first few days of winter break are nice. The children are content to stay home, play video games, watch cartoons and sleep in.

By Wednesday, they are whining, “I’m bored. There’s nothing to do.”

Oh, there are plenty of things to do in Pender County, Children.

Here’s a survival guide for parents. In Pender County you can entertain the children and not go bankrupt. Here’s a list of four free things to do outdoors and four things to do indoors.

Outdoor activities Go to the south end of Topsail Island to Serenity Point and go shelling. Look for shark’s teeth too. Parking is free in Topsail Beach. Go to the furthest beach access and walk 3 miles around Serenity Point. If the children are too small to do the entire 3 miles, explore the Atlantic side for a mile one day. On another day, explore the Intracoastal Waterway side. The point is made up of windswept dunes, no homes, and sea shell trea-

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Messer

Continued from page 5A There's some important people there, powerful people.

Things happen, and we did it, willingly. We had a very good crew of workers, who had a lot of pride in their jobs.”

I told Ed about my parochial school experience, “We had the Jesuits and the Sisters of Mercy. There's not a tougher group in the church! I can tell you the 'Penguin' scene in 'The Blues Brothers' movie, was cast perfectly, as I remember my experience.”

I had noticed Ed's cap, and asked, “Is that an Irish cap?”

He took it off and held it out so I could see the label, “It's from my son. I put him through, the last six months, study abroad. He was staying in Germany, and the Swiss Alps, went to Mannheim University for six months, and he brought this back for me.”

“What experience was most fun?” I asked, thinking there had to be plenty of opportunities on a New York City bus.

“Most fun?” he echoed, and then, without hesitation, “Going to Jones Beach. We used to take these old buses out to Jones Beach on a hot day. We had to keep the buses running for two hours. Those were the orders, we had to keep them running because if they broke down it would be hours before we could get a mechanic out, the traffic is unbelievable on the expressway out there,

sures to be found.

Dust off the fishing gear and go fishing. Pender County has a plethora of fishing holes – ocean, waterway, two rivers and countless streams. This just may be the perfect time to explore Miller’s Pond, off 117 in Rocky Point. This park is being developed by the county and offers great fishing spots.

Visit Moores Creek National Battlefield. Admission is free. Located just minutes from Burgaw, Moores Creek is the only national park in Southeastern North Carolina.

If the children aren’t interested in history, the 1 mile path is paved and perfect for a walk. Along the way, view the bridge where the first Patriots’ victory occurred. See the only Revolutionary War memorial to women and the only memorial to Loyalists. Inside the visitors’ center are exhibits.

Make certain to watch the 11 minute video about the historical significance of Moores Creek.

Run off steam at any of our wonderful parks. The Town of Burgaw has a beautiful walking path and parks with playgrounds. Or explore the boardwalk at Soundside

Park. Be sure to select a good vantage point on the hour to watch the iconic Swing Bridge open. It won’t be with us forever. Kiwanis Park in Hampstead features a walking path and age appropriate playgrounds. Pick one you haven’t frequented in the past and explore!

Indoor activities Visit Missiles and More Museum. The children will love the pirate lore, the hands on beach and wildlife display, and the missiles on display.

Call ahead and verify hours of operation for the Missiles and More Museum. There’s no admission fee.

Hot Mess in Hampstead is a creative place for children and adults. Each day the staff has some sort of craft or activity.

Visit their Facebook page or give them a call. There will be some small fee involved, but the children can make gifts and decorations that will be treasured for many years to come.

Pender County is blessed with two libraries. Yes, pundits said the Internet would kill libraries. Well, the pundits are dead, but libraries are

als demonstrate friendship, humility, show mercy and charity toward one another.

The Cherokee brave and the Rabbi recognize the secret to world peace begins with me and with you. If enough of us demonstrate those qualities we might just see them spread across this state, nation and world.

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people going to the beach. We'd go out there, leave the buses running, go swimming, go out for lunch, wait for the people to come back. It was like a country club for us.”

“What about bad days, did you ever have a bad day?”

“You know what was a bad day I had once? I was getting ready to pull out, on 23rd Street, right? So I see all these emergency vehicles going up Madison Avenue, and the dispatcher says to me, “Make a right at the next corner, go up park Avenue to 29th Street, come across . . .” and I said, “What's goin' on?” and he says, “A woman went into an elevator, and the elevator went down and she was beheaded.” It was a noontime crowd, and the

elevator company was found liable. They took the safety off. It was nightmare traffic all afternoon, with investigators, it just shut down the whole of Madison Avenue for five or six hours, at least.

Fortunately, the good days far outweighed the bad ones.

Ed Wilson is proud of his time as a transit worker, and proud of his family's history.

He had laid out on the dining room table his collection of special reminders, badges and ID cards, a model bus, his union cap and jacket, and photographs of his father, and went through them for me, tracing his and his family's history as one of a select group of people who literally keep America moving, every day.

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William English WILLARD -- William English, 93, of Willard passed gently from his earthly life on Thursday, Dec. 10, 2015 at his daughter’s home in Sampson County.

He was born Sept. 7, 1922 in Pender County, the son of the late John James and Leona Rivenbark English.

Also remembered are his sons, James English and Don English; brothers, Norman, Dean, Snap, and Melvin English; and sisters, Annie Laurie Matthews and Joyce Norris, all who preceded William in death.

William is survived by his beloved wife of 75 years, Louise Rich English; daughter, Peggy Batts Wells (Earl); grandchildren, Kimberly English, Jennifer Matthews (Daniel), Grant Batts (Kelly), Dana Strickland (John), Heather Idol (Shannon) and Brooke Hardin; 14 g reat grandchildren; sister, Rev. Margaret Horrell and many extended family.

T h e f a m i l y r e c e ive d friends at 11 a.m. Saturday,

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Continued from page 5A as the people hoped would be befitting a King, but in a lowly stable where animals lived. Some writers portray it as smelly and dirty but I prefer to think of it as fresh and clean for our Lord and Savior’s birth.

Guess what?

Do you think Jesus birth was hailed as a king with trumpet fare and much rejoicing by crowds of people? No such thing. An angel came down to a group of shepherds guarding their flocks of sheep in the middle of darkness.

The shepherds saw a great light-the glory of the Lord, and heard a voice above them in the sky, and they fell down on their faces with fear.

But the angel said to them, Don’t be afraid. I have come to tell you the wonderful news.

You will be the first to know of the Savior’s birth. For unto you this day in the city of David, a savior which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you. You shall find Mary and Joseph and the child wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. And sud-

Dec. 12, 2015 at Quinn-McGowen Funeral Home Wallace Chapel with funeral service beginning at noon. The Rev. Margaret Horrell and Rev. Tim Register conducted the service. Burial followed in Riverview Memorial Park.

Shared memories and condolences may be sent to the family at www.quinnmcgowen.com. The family was served by Quinn-McGowen Funeral Home and Cremation Center of Wallace.

Robert Thurston DeVane CASTLE HAYNE -- Robert Thurston DeVane, 70, of Castle Hayne passed from his earthly life on Saturday, Dec. 12, 2015 at his home surrounded with love by family.

He was born April 9, 1945 in Bladen County, the son the late James Hybert DeVane and Naomi Henry DeVane.

Thurston is survived by his wife of 50 years, Bonnie Woodcock DeVane; daughters, Donna D. Sloan (David) and Robin D. Nabours denly there was with the angels a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God and saying, “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will to men.

The shepherds were shocked and yet thrilled (I’m sure) to be the first to be told of the Christ Child’s birth. So after the angels had gone away into heaven, they said to one another, let us go with haste and see this thing which has come to pass that the Lord has made known to us,” and they came with haste and found Mary,

(Shane); g randchildren, Madison Sloan, Allie Simmons, Emery Sloan and Colin Batson; brother, Hybert DeVane; sisters, Naomi Melvin (Bobby), Kathleen Colvin; Alberta Barbour (Jim) and Ida Lee; numerous nieces, nephews and extended family and a special friend, Matt Yousey.

T h e f a m i l y r e c e ive d friends at 12:30 pm on Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2015 at QuinnMcGowen Funeral Home Burgaw Chapel with service at 2 p.m. Burial followed in Haw Bluff Baptist Church Cemetery.

The family suggests that you consider a memorial gift to Shriners Hospital for Children, 950 W. Faris Rd, Greenville, SC 29605, or to Lower Cape Fear Hospice Foundation, 1414 Physicians Dr., Wilmington, NC. Shared memories and condolences may be sent to the family at www.quinnmcgowen.com. The family was served by Quinn-McGowen Funeral Home of Burgaw.

Joseph, and the Babe lying in a manger. And when they had seen it, they made known abroad the saying that was told them concerning the child. And all they that heard it, wondered at those things told to them by the shepherds. But Mary kept all these things and pondered them in her heart. And the shepherds returned glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen.

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Titan cagers sweep Topsail, lose close at Hoggard

By Bobby Norris Post & Voice Sports Writer Over the summer the Heide Trask High school men’s basketball program scrimmaged the 4A Wilmington Hoggard basketball team. The two teams were evenly matched and Coach Rodney Orr knew what to expect when the two teams met in a non-conference matchup early last week.

The only thing that he could not account for was the huge discrepancy in personal fouls. The Hoggard Vikings used a 15-12 fourth quarter to take a 47-45 win over the previously unbeaten Titans.

Later in the week the Titans hosted the Topsail Pirates in the second of a home and away series that has become an annual affair. The Titans had beaten the Pirates 70-50 at their place just a week ago in a game that Coach Orr admitted was not his team’s best performance. This time there was little doubt in the outcome as the Titans jumped out to a big lead in the early going before coasting to a 6340 win.

The Hoggard game was full of vintage home cooked officiating. The Titans played the Vikings tough and trailed by five points at the half. A 1913 third frame gave the Titans a one point advantage going into the final eight minutes.

A 15-12 fourth frame gave the Vikings the win.

“We should have won that game,” said Coach Orr. “We had a six-point lead and they made a three with about six minutes to play and I slowed it down and tried to hold the ball. That was my fault. We should have just continued

to play. Looking back I would have done it differently.”

Johnathan Jordan led the Titans with 15 points while Tynaffitt Davis added 14.

Kobe Owsley scored eight points and added seven rebounds.

The Pirates made the trip to Rocky Point with the intent of evening the season series up. Their game plan included slowing the Titans down. The Titans would have none of that as they ran at every opportunity early in building a huge lead in the first half and cruising to a 23 point lead.

“That may have been the best half of basketball that we have played, “said Orr. “We came out a little flat in the third quarter and had to regroup a little bit but overall we played well.”

The Titans jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the opening minutes behind the play of Jaquan London. The senior scored four of the Titans first eight points. The Pirates responded with four points to cut the lead to four. That was the last time the Topsail crew scored in the opening stanza.

Trask went on an 11-0 run with Kobe Owsley nailing a three pointer to end the period with Trask holding a 19-4 advantage.

The Titan lead reached 23 points early in the second quarter at 31-8 before the Pirates began to respond. A 9-1Topsail run to end the half set the score at 32-17 Trask going into the break.

The Titans had their way with the Pirates in the opening half. First-year Coach Jamie Rochelle’s charge came

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Patriots whip Topsail, lose to Laney, NH

By Bobby Norris Post & Voice Sports Writer

The Pender men’s basketball team continued its tough non-conference slate last week with games with New Hanover and Laney. In between those games they found time to play a rematch with cross county foe Topsail. The two games with the Wilmington schools did not go as planned as New Hanover took a 79-57 win over the Patriots while Laney edged the

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Trask’s Johnathan Jordan splits the Topsail defense on the way to the hoop.

Lady Pirates head into conference schedule unbeaten

By Lee Wagner Contributing Sports Writer

Lady Pirate Myia Jacobs battles under the boards in last week’s win over Trask.

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Three wins in three games last week put the Topsail High School in a position they have not enjoyed, at the very least, in this millennium – and possibly never – as records dating back before the 2005-06 season are not readily available.

A hard-fought win this past week over Coastal Christian, combined with repeat wins over Pender and Trask, have the Lady Pirates riding high with a 7-0 record. But first-year Coach Andrew Ellington and his girls, while excited about the positive start, are also realistic.

The Lady Centurions were the first team to challenge the Lady Pirates, hitting the 50-point mark (52), but Topsail managed to score 64. But now that the “soft” part of the schedule is history, it gets a lot tougher with defending Mid-Eastern 3A/4A Conference champion Hoggard at Topsail last Tuesday and a trip to always-tough Laney scheduled for tomorrow (Friday).

It will be an early pair of games to see just how good

Pats 52-51. However, the Patriots overcame a lackluster first quarter to run away from the Pirates 63-51.

In the New Hanover contest the Patriots were the victims of a bad first quarter. The Wildcats outscored the Patriots 27-16 to take a double-digit lead into the second period. The Pats righted the ship in the second eight minutes and kept pace with the 4A Cats, losing the frame by just three points. The visiting Cats took a 47-33 lead into the break.

New Hanover extended their lead to 20 points at 68-48 after three periods and coasted to the win.

Jarious Williams paced the Patriots with 18 points. He was the only Patriot in double figures. Alec Beatty added eight points.

Next up was the Pirates. In the first game of the year between the two county rivals the Patriots jumped out to a 25-7 lead in the ear-

this Topsail team really is but, for now, let them savor the enjoyment of what they have accomplished.

A 19-0 first quarter pretty much tells the tale of an easy 51-13 win over Trask Friday.

The Lady Pirates beat Pender twice and Trask twice by a combined total of 224-72 and hold a 404-64 disparity over their seven foes – an average win of 58-23.

Junior Dominique Bryant led Topsail with 16 points and seven rebounds and Keri White had 10 points in relatively limited action as Ellington substituted frequently. Off the bench, the Lady Pirates got strong efforts from freshman Payton Little (four points, seven rebounds, two steals), sophomore Rachel Kapiko (two points, two rebounds, steal), junior Miya Jacobs (two points, three rebounds), and sophomore Carmen Pyrtle (two rebounds, assist, three steals).

But Ellington, while pleased with his team thus far, knows the real work is about to begin.

“We decided before the game we were going to set de-

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With all of the stuff that you read about concussions in football these days it is no wonder that parents are starting to think twice about letting their kids play the game. While I realize that the sport is of a violent nature, I totally disagree with the majority of the stuff that has been written as of late.

I listen to sports talk radio on a regular basis. The other day I heard a gentleman come on the air and say that they should ban youth football and that a young man should not be allowed to play tackle football until he turns 18 years old.

He said that the brain was not fully developed until then. I would like to respectfully say bull malarkey!

My argument to that is that I find it hard to believe that a youth football player can get up enough momentum or speed to cause a collision that will cause a concussion. We’re talking about 85 pound kids now. I don’t think that they can get up enough speed to cause that type of damage.

By the time these kids reach high school age there may be some validity to their argument. High school players are bigger and stronger than they have ever been. However, the equipment is better and the rules are far more stringent. The coaches and first responders are more knowledgeable now and are trained to know the signs.

I would like to see the statistics on how many concussions there are in soccer

verse football. Of course, they have just made a decision that restricts headers in the youth soccer leagues, so maybe that will not be a fair comparison.

Back in the 1950s and 60s there were people that talked about the federal government overreaching their boundaries. They were worried that they were being spied on and that before it was over with that the government would make all of our decisions for us. I have never been one of those people.

However, I do think that the parent should have the final say as to what their kids do and what sport they play. I don’t think that this is something that the powers that be should concern themselves with. You can’t take the parents out of the equation.

I can remember learning to ride a bicycle. I fell a hundred times and skinned my knees, elbows and even my chin a few times. I never wore a helmet. I played many hours of sandlot football growing up. I don’t ever remember getting concussed.

Now all of the sudden these kids playing pop warner football are in imminent danger. In the words of former football great Chris Carter, Come on man!

It is beginning to look like there is an all-out war on the game of football.

There are people that are actually calling for a ban of the game of tackle football. I think that this is the craziest thing that I have ever heard of. What is next, a ban on riding a bicycle before the age of 16? someone recently said that the NFL may end up being the NFFL. The National Flag Football League. What is this world coming to? I will quote another great American, Mad Max. “Leave the kids alone, let them be kids and let them play their sports and quit ruining my life.”

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Another week of action and all three schools have full schedules. The Trask wrestling team defeated Clinton and Pender early in the week before traveling to Rosewood to participate in the Rosewood USAF Eagle invitational. The Titans finished 11 out of 23 teams. Bradley Johnson and Joseph Chung finished third in the respective weight class.

Daiquan Jones and Dakota Fredendall each went 2-0 at Clinton.

The Pender Patriot basketball team defeated Topsail last week behind 23 points from Tigga Hansley. Jarious

ly going. The Pirates could not run with the athletic Pender boys. This time the Pirates slowed the game down which played right into their wheelhouse.

The Pirate pace caused the Pats problems in the beginning. Pender did not score until the 4:36 mark of the first quarter. The Pirates opened up a 10-7 lead before the Patriots fired back. A 4-0 Pender run to end the quarter set the home team out 11-10.

The teams battled evenly to open the second frame before a Rodney Hansley trey gave the Pats a 19-16 lead. Topsail came back with a 7-2 run fueled by a D.J. Montano three pointer to retake the lead. Pender ended the half on a run and took a 31-28 lead into the halftime break.

Both teams struggled from the free throw line in the first half with Topsail going 6-18 from the charity stripe while Pender went

Williams 18 points in a loss to New Hanover while Alec Beatty added eight points.

The Pender girls got 10 points from freshman Ratavia Merritt in the loss to Topsail.

The Topsail boys’ team is struggling to keep up with the athletic teams on their schedule. Junior Kodiak NestorDowling led Topsail with seven points against Trask while freshman D. J. Montano had seven. Alec. Baker had 13 points against Pender while D.J. Montano had 12.

The Lady Pirates remained undefeated with three wins last week. Junior Dominique

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8-16. Oddly enough if both teams had made their free throws the score would have been tied at 39.

Topsail took their last lead at 34-33 before junior Justin Hooper showed the home team crowd that football was not the only sport that he excelled at.

Hooper started a run where he scored eight points in a row for the Pats in a variety of ways. Pender went up 41-36 before a NestorDowling put back stopped the run. Hansley nailed a trey and Williams scored to give the Pats a 46-38 lead. D.J Montano hit a three pointer at the end of the third to cut the Patriot lead to five at 46-41 going into the fourth period.

Hansley and Hooper continued to play well in the fourth quarter. The Patriot lead

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On the Mat

By Bobby Norris Post & Voice Sports Writer

The Trask Titan and Topsail Pirate grapplers participated in the Rosewood USAF Eagle invitational over the weekend. The tournament had 23 teams in the fray.

Bradley Johnson and Joseph Chung each went 4-1 on the day and finished in third place in their weight class. Dakota Fredendall, Jose Juarez, and Elvis Lopez each went 2-2 on the day. Topsail only had five wrestlers at the event and none placed.

The Titans wrestled at Clinton early in the week in a match that included Pender. The Titans defeated Pender 59-18 and Clinton 60-15. Dakota Fre-

dendall and Daiquan Jones each went 2-0 while Bradley Johnson went 1-1.

Johnson lost a match at 145 as Clinton didn’t have a 138 pound grappler.

Coach Johnson wanted to give his 138 pounder a tough match rather than a forfeit so he bumped his son up. He lost 8-4. Matthew Cather and Joseph Chung each went 1-1.

“It was a good night for us,” said Coach Chris Johnson. “All the tough matches for us lately against Dixon, Laney, North Brunswick and the like have started to pay off lately. We have won four of the last five and the kids are starting to get more aggressive. It helps that we finally have everyone on weight at their right class.”

The Pirates wrestled Hoggard early

Four County Conference breaks even in regionals

By Bobby Norris Post & Voice Sports Writer

last week, falling 53-18. Aaron Bloodworth(132), Colin Goudsworth (113), and Zarion McRae (120) each won their matches. The Pirates forfeited five weight classes.

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Winning elusive for Pirate cagers

By Lee Wagner Contributing Sports Writer

Three games and three more loses have doomed the Topsail High School boys’ basketball team to a 1-6 record through the first seven games of the season.

The Pirates have struggled against quick, athletic, fast-breaking teams (combine four losses to Pender and Trask), and things don’t promise to get any easier as the Mid-Eastern 3A/4A Conference schedule started last Tuesday at home against powerful Hoggard, and continues on the road tomorrow (Friday) at Laney.

First-year Coach Jamie Rochelle has been unhappy with many aspects of the Pirates’ games, but effort is not one of his complaints. His charges play hard and they never quit. But Rochelle said he and the team have broken the season the season down into four parts – pre-conference, 4A conference play, 3A confer-

ence play, and the conference tournament – and now that part one, what he designated as “The learning process,” and it’s time to see what they have learned.

Titans Jonathan Jordan (14 points), Jacquan London (12), and Kobe Owsley (11) all hit the double-figure mark to lead Trask to their second win of the season over Topsail, this one a 63-40 win.

The outcome really wasn’t in doubt after a 19-4 first period put the Pirates in a hole.

Topsail was unable to find the mark from the field (11for-44 or 25 percent), and combining that with 22 turnovers and a 35-21 shortage in the rebounding department, it left little chance of out of the early deficit.

The lead stayed at 15 (3217) at the intermission, went to 16 (44-29) by the end of the third period, and eventually became the 23-point loss when the Titans (3-1) outscored Topsail 17-11 over the final eight minutes.

Junior Kodiak NestorDowling led Topsail with seven points. Freshman D. J. Montano had seven, and seniors Drew Bagwell and Chris Byrd each had six points.

“We did a good job of getting back at Pender than we did tonight and it really hurt us,” “But We’ll get there,” Rochelle said. “Right now we have to look at these games as preseason, trying to get ready for next week. We need to put the preseason behind us and take away from it the things we learned, and everything else just let it go and move on.”

Last time Topsail and Pender played the Patriots jumped out to a 25-7 firstperiod lead and never looked back. This time around Topsail hung touch early, trailing by one (11-10) at the end of the first period, and by three (3128) at the intermission before getting outgunned by 32-23 in a 63-51 defeat.

Rodney Hansley was practically the sole reason Pender

was even in the game as he came off the bench early and scored 18 of the Patriots 31 first-half points.

Justin Hooper scored eight of his points in the third period and Jarious Williams score four as Pender increased the lead in the third period by two (46-41) heading into the final eight minutes of the contest. The final quarter did the Pirates in, however, as they committed five turnovers and could not find the range from field (three field goals.

Pender’s Andre Devane picked the final stanza to get hot by scoring eight of his 12 points as the Patriots put 17 on the board to Topsail’s 10 – resulting in the 12-point loss.

Neither team was effective from the charity stripe with Pender going 13-for-24 and the Pirates hitting on 13-of-26.

Baker led Topsail with 13 points and Montano had 12.

Hansley had 24 for Pender.

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Lady Patriots drop three non-conference games

By Bobby Norris Post & Voice Sports Writer The Pender Lady Patriot basketball team once again is falling victim to a tough non-conference schedule that is set with the boy’s team in mind. Last week the Patriots fell to New Hanover 54-18, to Topsail 55-23 and Laney 46-25.

In the New Hanover contest the Lady Pats could not find the bottom of the net as they scored two points in both the first and second periods to go into the break trailing 32-4.

The score was 44-9 after three quarters with Pender falling by 36 points. Freshman Ratavia Merritt led the Pats with five points.

Next up was a potent Topsail Lady Pirate team that had beaten the Pats soundly in their first matchup of the year. This time the Patriots played better. However, the Pirates were too much for the home team in taking a 55-23 win.

A 13-2 run early in the first quarter put the Patriots in a hole. The scoreboard read 19-7

Topsail after the first period.

Pender came out for the second period in a better frame of mind. They played with the Pirates for a while before the undefeated visitors pulled away. The Pirates led 33-12 at the break.

The Lady Patriot defense could not stop the fast paced Pirates and the lead bulged to 42-16 after three quarters of play and ended with the Pats falling by 32.

Merritt again led the Patriots with 10 points while Daje Lewis added 6.

The final game of the week pitted the young Patriots against the Laney Bucs. The 5-3 Bucs beat the Lady Pats by 25 points the first time they met. This time around the Pender ladies showed some improvement. However, that was not enough as the 4A Wilmington squad took a 4625 win.

The Patriots (0-6) played at Clinton in their first Four County Conference game of the year on Tuesday. They will host Midway on Thursday.

Lady Titan fall to Clinton, Topsail

By Bobby Norris Post & Voice Sports Writer The Heide Trask Lady Titan basketball team must feel like they are behind the proverbial eight Ball these days.

With just 10 players on the team and a winless slate so far they are staring straight down the loaded barrel of the Clinton Dark horses this week.

Last week the Lady Titans played at 4A powerhouse Hoggard before hosting a potent Topsail squad. Both

Brown set to outrun competition at Trask High

By Bobby Norris Post & Voice Sports Writer When Desire Brown entered high school at Heide Trask the talk was that she could be the fastest female athlete to ever to hit the track at the Rocky Point High school.

After three years she was in fact one of the fastest to ever grace a Trask uniform.

She has won conference and regional titles in each of the past two years in both the spring and winter seasons.

Coming into her senior year, Brown has one goal that she has yet to reach. She has not won a state championship as of yet.

That may change this year as she runs this winter in preparation for her senior year in the spring.

Desire will be a major player in the 1A ranks this spring as she prepares for the next level.

It is sure bet that Desire Brown is set to outrun the competition this year.

games ended up with big losses as the young Titans continue to take their lumps in the early season.

The Hoggard contest was over shortly after the opening tip as the Vikings used a 27-3 first quarter to end any hope for the Lady Titans. The score was 43-7 at the break with the Vikings going to their bench early.

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rules. The final score was 6310.

The second game of the week was a home affair with the undefeated Topsail Lady Pirates. Again the young Titans were undermanned and over matched.

Topsail jumped on the Titans early and often in the first eight minutes. The home team Titans failed to score in the first quarter and trailed 19-0 going into the second period.

The Pirates again took no

prisoners in rolling to a 36-5 halftime lead. The Trask team was reeling with the Pirates applying a smothering defense.

The third period was more of the same as the Pirate defense refused to give any quarter. A 12-3 quarter gave the Pirates a 48-8 lead and once again the Titans were looking at a running clock in the fourth period.

The Lady Titans are 0-4 on the year and hosted WallaceRose Hill on Tuesday night.

Williams a steady influence for the Lady Pirates

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By Bobby Norris Post & Voice Sports Writer When the Topsail Lady Pirates take the floor these days there is a steady influence in a group of seniors. The team is under the direction of first year coach Andrew Ellington.

He has changed the team’s style of play along with their outlook on things. One thing that has not changed is the leadership that senior Brandy Williams brings to the floor.

Miss Williams plays hard every minute that she is on the floor. She brings an intensity that is hard to match. She epitomizes the word hustle.

As the Lady Pirates begin their Mideastern Conference slate this week they will lean on a senior class that has a ton of talent along with a lot of confidence.

Brandy Williams will bring a steady and strong influence to the court in every contest. The Pirates are lucky to have the talented senior on the roster.

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The Four County Conference has been known for its football prowess in its short existence. The Clinton Dark Horses along with the East Bladen Eagles have been a powerhouse in the 2A ranks while the Wallace-Rose Hill Bulldogs have ruled the FCC along with the eastern region of the state for many years.

Last weekend two of three teams played for the eastern regional championship. One came away with a win and a date with the western regional champions while the other lost in overtime.

The Clinton Dark Horses played at Bunn High school with a chance to move on to the state championship. The Wildcats won the close contest 30-29 in overtime in what has been classified as a controversial call. Meanwhile the Wallace-Rose Hill Bulldogs beat the only team that had beaten them this year in the James Kenan Tigers 29-13.

Clinton took its first lead

of the game with Bunn with 51 seconds remaining. Bunn took over at their own 48 yard line after Clinton squib kicked the ensuing kickoff.

Bunn had one time out remaining with 46 seconds left in regulation. Clinton forced two incomplete passes. On third down the Bunn quarterback ran for 24 yards and a first down with just 19 seconds remaining.

Bunn completed a pass for nine yards, calling their final timeout with 13 seconds remaining. On the next play the Bunn quarterback rolled right looking for room to roam. He was stopped in bounds with seven seconds remaining on the clock.

Both teams rushed to the line of scrimmage with Bunn trying to get set and spike the ball to stop the clock for one final play. From there the clock was stopped twice in the last four seconds. The Bunn quarterback spiked the ball as the clock showed zeroes. The Dark Horses stormed the field

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Topsail grapplers struggle in two tournaments, lose at Hoggard

By Lee Wagner Contributing Sports Writer It was a long 10 days for the short-handed Topsail High School wrestling team as they won just one match at the Chief Duals in North Myrtle Beach on Dec. 4, dropped a 5318 Mid-Eastern 3A/4A Conference decision to Hoggard, and finished 20th out of 20 teams at the Rosewood Eagle Invitational this past Saturday.

The Pirates wrestled nine dual meets in the two-day

Chief Classic, losing eight times and winning once.

The successful match came against Gilbert with a 48-30 victory. The losses came to Aynor (65-18), Chilhowie (4233), Berkeley (60-24), Beaufort (71-6), Ashley Ridge (68-9), Swansea (40-33), Lake City (42-39), and host North Myrtle Beach (48-36).

A quartet of Topsail wrestlers did, however, come home with solid winning records,

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Sports news and notes

By Bobby Norris Post & Voice Sports Writer The Topsail wrestling team received a jolt when standout heavyweight Joe Sculthorpe left the team. Sculthorpe has won one state title and finished second and third in three years. Sculthorpe has signed with North Carolina State to play football next year.

The Four County Conference all-conference selections were announced last week.

For Pender, Justin Hooper and Thomas Deal were named all-conference from the football team while Lakirah Forney and Imani Newkirk were named from the volleyball team.

Josh Bannerman was voted all-conference in soccer.

Jose Cruz-Rodriguez, Alpha Barrow and Bradley Parton were named all-conference in cross country on the men’s side while Michaela Young and Abigail Lewis were

Hard work means improvement for Pender’s Beatty

By Bobby Norris Post & Voice Sports Writer When asked about his senior Alec Beatty, Pender men’s basketball coach Gary Battle had nothing but good things to say about the 6-6 senior.

“Alec has worked hard to get better. I never have to worry about that young man’s work ethic. He has gotten better and will continue to do so because of that work ethic.”

Beatty transferred into Pender last year and has worked hard on his game in hopes of becoming a playmaker for Coach Battle. He has had some good moments this year including scoring eight points against a very athletic New Hanover Wildcat team.

With the Four County Conference slate set to begin this week Coach Battle will depend on Alec to rebound the basketball and play tough interior defense.

With all of the hard work that Beatty has done he is a sure bet to provide that skill set for the Patriots.

named all-conference on the women’s side.

For the Titans, Tyrease Armstrong, Johnathan Jordan and Steven Jordan were named all-conference in football while Haley Smith was named all-conference in volleyball. Cesar Romero and Sebastian Bautista was named all-conference in soccer while Bradley Johnson and Edith Lechuga - Mendoza were named all-conference in cross country.

The winter track season will continue this week with a meet at Trask. Several athletes at both Trask and Pender have already qualified for the regional meet.

Speaking of Pender, former Titan and Patriot standout Desmond Jordan has formally joined the staff at Pender. He will be an assistant coach for the football team and Coach Bob Via. Don’t be surprised if he doesn’t surface on the track and field staff or even the baseball staff.

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Bill Howard Outdoors

By Bill Howard Post & Voice Columnist Several years ago I was able to take one of my bucket list dream hunts. This coming year, in 2016, I plan on doing a repeat. I guess you could say I enjoyed it so much that I decided it needs to be more than just a dream hunt.

After a few years of filling out applications for a lottery draw tag for an alligator hunt in Georgia, I finally landed one. I planned the hunt as a do-it-yourself style in one of the lower alligator population counties. I had to do a lot of planning prior to even applying as I would only have a month from the time of notification to the start of the alligator season.

It ended up being one of my favorite trips ever and I learned plenty in the process.

Now, North Carolina is considering an alligator season as well.

According to North Carolina Wildlife Resource Commission spokesman Ryan Kennemur, the upcoming public hearings will address

Topsail Beach

Continued from page 1A to where we know they are accurate,” said Commissioner Julian Bone. “Let’s know where we are and what we are doing and how we need to set up the BIS fund so we don’t get into this situation.”

Mayor Braxton explained that they had completed all accounting procedures pursuant to the letter showing how during 2014-2015 projects, which included beach reconstruction and dredging of the inlet, cost more than $10 million and created a shortfall

Adventures

Continued from page 7A thriving. Often there are story time and special activities.

Find the schedules online. Be sure to take a book bag or tote and load up on books. If there

the possibility of an alligator season allowing one alligator per permit holder.

While there were not much details given into the makeup of how the system would work, it likely would follow suit with states such as South Carolina and Georgia in which a permit or tag would be either randomly drawn or priority points could be used in future hunts. Priority points are given to those who were unsuccessful in drawing the tag and get bumped up on priority to be drawn the next time.

Priority points are how I am nearly 100% certain to draw a tag for Georgia this coming year. For instance, everyone with the highest number of priority points is chosen at random first. If there are 100 tags to be issued and there are 50 applying with say 5 priority points, then they all will receive tags and the next 50 go to the next plateau of 4 priority point applicants.

Having an alligator season could be a decent windfall for the NCWRC if done correctly.

Having just a small application fee of say $5.00 per application along with the eventual sale of the alligator permit for an even higher amount is the key.

The next question would be if alligator permits would only be allowed for residents, especially in the early years, or if non-residents would be able to apply. States such as Louisiana only issues permits to residents, however the permit is a group permit meaning

someone from out of state can hunt with a resident who has a permit.

However, before any of this can take place, the state needs to know if North Carolina can handle an alligator season. Two years ago biologists searched hundreds of miles by boat looking for alligators.

They are best seen at night and they have a distinctive red eye glow. I remarked on my alligator hunt how the eyes appeared to be dozens of demonic creatures floating on the surface or bedded on the shorelines.

While the biologists came away with the impression the numbers were greater than the previous count, there was no real count taken. This means we have an ambiguous guess that our numbers have increased and no real estimation on how many are in the state.

It also makes it very difficult for biologists to decide on how many should be allowed to be taken in a season. Other states that have adopted an alligator season in the past couple of decades such as South Carolina and Georgia started with very low numbers of available permits. Will North Carolina start out with 50 available permits or 500 available permits?

The only consensus as far as details thus far is firearms will not be allowed in the taking of the alligators if a season were to be established. They can be taken by bow and arrow (which is how I hunted them in

Georgia), harpoon or clubs. No details on whether the hunter will be able to use snagging devices in order to bring the alligator to the boat which is commonly used, or whether other parties in the group will have to purchase helper permits have been given.

One other issue with the absence of firearms is the dispatching of the alligator.

Harpoon and bow and arrow, as well as a club does not kill the alligator. Either it has to be shot behind the skull by a firearm or boomstick (a device that uses a bullet that is fired as the tube makes contact with the alligator), or the spinal cord has to be severed just behind the skull plate.

Firearms are the safest in the quick dispatch of the gator.

Using firearms at a distance

on paper.

While waiting on monies owed to the town from government sources, the bulk of which came in in July, August and September, along with paying out funds owed, the numbers took a drastic dip from $4.3 million to just under $400,000 in June of 2015.

“The town paid off all the expenditures for the project before the state and federal reimbursements for those projects came through,” explained Commissioner Steve Smith, and chairman of the town’s Beach, Inlet and Sound (BIS) Committee. “That money came through right after and was $7 million, so that

evened out the numbers. The notice from the state was like a bank sending a customer a notice of an overdraft. There was a timing problem. We were being good payers, paying all our debts, and in the process we used some of the general fund money. Once we received the refunds from the state and FEMA, that money replenished the general fund and the remainder would go into the BIS fund. We are now reconciling those funds. At that time, showing money in hand versus money owed, the net effect took us below what the treasurer deemed an acceptable sum of monies.”

Smith went on to say that

what the state was looking was how the town was going to reconcile the balance sheet and that there was “no indication of malfeasance” with the town’s accounting practices. “This is not an uncommon letter to be received, it happens most times with a project. The same thing happened when we did the water project. We need to be cautious as we move forward because this is the public’s money.” Smith said.

Mayor Braxton stated that the town was in the process of separating the BIS fund from the general fund and that a response is being prepared to the state including

isn’t a library card in the family, this is a perfect time to sign up everyone. The computers in the library are fun too, featuring educational games.

Visit the Pender County Museum. This museum is jammed packed with maps, toys, old gowns, and more.

Take the children to the medical exhibit. They will quickly appreciate today’s healthcare.

Visit on a Saturday when the museum volunteers are giving blacksmithing demonstrations. Or, if you’ve visited Pender County Museum, go to Penderlea and see what

life was like on the original Penderlea Homestead.

These are just a few suggestions that are free or almost free. With children, every day is an adventure. In Pender County, we have a lot of backyard adventures.

to shoot an alligator is very dangerous as the bullet can glance off the water or even the alligator and ricochet.

Hopefully if there is a season North Carolina will allow firearms simply for the dispatching of the alligator.

–Bill Howard is a lifelong North Carolina resident and hunter. He is a lifetime mem-

ber of the North Carolina Bowhunters Association, an associate member of Pope and Young, and an official measurer of both. He is a certified hunter education (IHEA) instructor and bowhunter education (IBEP) instructor. Please share your stories with Bill at BillHowardOutdoors@gmail.  com.

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PENDER COUNTY GOVERNMENT NEWS

WANTED! A FEW GOOD MEN & WOMEN! VOLUNTEER! The Pender County Board of Commissioners will consider appointments to the following boards/commissions/committees: Name of Board Advisory Board of Health

# of Vacancies 4

Animal Shelter Advisory Committee Board of Adjustment Council on Community Affairs EMS & Fire Board Housing Initiative Board Industrial Facilities & Pollution Control Financing Author.

Nursing/Adult Care Homes Adv. Board Parks & Rec Board Tourism Development Authority Wilmington Metropolitan Planning Organization

1 2 2 1 1 7 2 2 1 1

District 1 = Upper Topsail; Surf City District 2 = Scotts Hill; Lower Topsail District 3 = Rocky Point; Long Creek

Positions/Categories Optometrist***, Veterinarian***, Dentist***, Engineer*** Veterinarian District 3, District 5 District 1, District 5 District 1 Low-Income Representative Business/Insurance/Attorney/Banking Public Members District 4, District 5 District 5 Citizen Committee Member

District 4 = Union; Penderlea; Grady; Columbia; Caswell; Canetuck District 5 = Burgaw; Holly

*** These positions can be temporarily filled by someone associated with this field who may not be currently licensed.

Applications can be completed on-line at www.pendercountync.gov (click on “How Do I” on the home page); or write or call Ms. Melissa Pedersen, Clerk to the Board, PO Box 5, Burgaw, NC 28425 (910) 259-1200, and complete an application.

NOTICE OF HOLIDAY OFFICE CLOSURES Pender County Government Offices will be closed on the following dates in observance of the Christmas/New Year’s Holidays: Thursday, December 24 Friday, December 25 Monday, December 28 Friday, January 1, 2016 HOLIDAY HOURS AT ALL CONVENIENCE SITES AND TRANSFER STATION All County operated Solid Waste Convenience Sites will be closed all day Friday, December 25, 2015. All sites will open on Saturday, December 26, 2015, from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. th

The Transfer Station will be closed on Friday, December 25 and re-open again at 8:00 a.m. on Saturday, th December 26 .

DISPOSAL OF CHRISTMAS TREES Convenience site users wishing to dispose of Christmas Trees may do so at the Burgaw, Rocky Point and th Hampstead sites. Receptacles will be available from December 26 through January 31, 2016.

PENDER COUNTY GOVERNMENT AUCTION SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2015 LOCATION:

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ALL ITEMS MUST BE REMOVED ON THE DAY OF THE AUCTION.

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Legal Notices Legal Notices Legal Notices Legal Notices Legal Notices Legal Notices 15-SP-0041 AMENDED NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S FORECLOSURE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY UNDER AND BY VIRTUE of the power and authority contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed and delivered by Johnny Ray HodgTPO BOE 3PCJO 4VF )PEHTPO EBUFE November 7, 2002 and recorded on /PWFNCFS JO #PPL BU 1BHF JO UIF 0GmDF PG UIF 3FHJTUFS of Deeds of Pender 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 PG 1PPSF 4VCTUJUVUF 5SVTUFF -5% 4VCTUJUVUF 5SVTUFF XJMM PGGFS GPS TBMF at the courthouse door in the City of Burgaw, Pender County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, on %FDFNCFS BU ". and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Pender, North Carolina and being more particularly described in the above referenced %FFE PG 5SVTU "EESFTT PG 1SPQFSUZ (PEGSFZ Creek, Hampstead, NC 28443 5BY 1BSDFM *% 0000 1SFTFOU 3FDPSE 0XOFS +PIOOZ 3BZ )PEHTPO BOE 3PCJO 4VF )PEHson Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to POF IPVS BT QSPWJEFE JO / $ ( 4 §45-21.23.

The terms of the sale are that the real property hereinbefore described will be sold for cash to the highFTU CJEEFS 5IF 4VCTUJUVUF 5SVTUFF reserves the right to require a cash EFQPTJU PS B DFSUJmFE DIFDL OPU UP FYDFFE UIF HSFBUFS PG mWF QFSDFOU

PG UIF BNPVOU PG UIF CJE PS TFWFO IVOESFE mGUZ %PMMBST *O the event that the holder is exempt from paying the same, the successful bidder may also be required to pay revenue stamps on the Trustee’s Deed, any Land Transfer Tax, and UIF UBY SFRVJSFE CZ / $ ( 4 f " B

The real property described BCPWF JT CFJOH PGGFSFE GPS TBMF AA"4 *4 8)&3& *4 BOE XJMM CF TPME TVCKFDU to all superior liens, unpaid taxes, and special assessments. Other conditions will be announced at the sale. The sale will be held open GPS UFO EBZT GPS VQTFU CJET BT required by law. *G UIF 5SVTUFF PS 4VCTUJUVUF 5SVTUFF 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 title include, but are not MJNJUFE UP UIF mMJOH PG B CBOLSVQUDZ petition prior to the sale and reinstatement of the loan without knowledge PG UIF 4VCTUJUVUF 5SVTUFF T *G UIF validity of the sale is challenged by BOZ QBSUZ UIF 4VCTUJUVUF 5SVTUFF T

in its/their sole discretion, if it/they CFMJFWF T UIF DIBMMFOHF UP IBWF NFSit, may declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

Additional Notice where the Real Property is Residential with less than 3FOUBM 6OJUT An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to / $ ( 4 f JO GBWPS PG UIF purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the Clerk of 4VQFSJPS $PVSU PG UIF $PVOUZ JO XIJDI 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 by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the Notice that is BU MFBTU UFO EBZT CVU OP NPSF UIBO OJOFUZ EBZT BGUFS UIF TBMF EBUF DPOUBJOFE JO UIF /PUJDF PG 4BMF provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the Notice of Termination. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of such termination.

This is a communication from a debt collector. The purpose of this Communication is to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose, except as stated below in the instance of bankruptcy protection.

If you are under the protection of the bankruptcy court or have been discharged as a result of a bankruptcy proceeding, this notice is given to you pursuant to statutory requirement and for informational purposes and is not intended as an attempt to collect a debt or as an act to collect, assess, or recover all or any portion of the debt from you personally.

David L. Tkach, PLLC, Attorney for Poore Substitute Trustee, LTD 2020 S. Tryon Street, 2A Charlotte, NC 28203 (704) 930-0300 #7138 12/17, 12/24/2015

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NOTICE OF 14 SP 112 )25(&/2685( 6$/(É‘ AMENDED NOTICE OF 5 SP 222 FORECLOSURE SALE Under and by virtue of the power NORTH CAROLINA, of sale contained in a certain Deed PENDER COUNTY PG 5SVTU NBEF CZ -FPOBSE 4 #FMM +S Under and by virtue of a Power of BOE #BSCBSB 4 5PXOF BLB #BSCBSB 4BMF DPOUBJOFE JO UIBU DFSUBJO %FFE #FMM 13&4&/5 3&$03% 08/&3 4 of Trust executed by Jerry Tanner -FPOBSE 4 #FMM BOE #BSCBSB 4 #FMM BOE $ISJTUJOB :PVOH UP 1BNFMB 4 BLB #BSCBSB 4 5PXOF UP 'JEFMJUZ $PY 5SVTUFF T XIJDI XBT EBUFE National Title Insurance Co of New %FDFNCFS BOE SFDPSEFE PO :PSL 5SVTUFF T EBUFE UIF UI EBZ PG %FDFNCFS JO #PPL BU August, 2005, and recorded in Book Page 245, Pender County Registry, 2767, Page 060, in Pender County North Carolina.

Registry, North Carolina, default Default having been made of the having been made in the payment of note thereby secured by the said the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Deed of Trust and the undersigned, 5SVTUFF 4FSWJDFT PG $BSPMJOB --$ 4VCTUJUVUF 5SVTUFF 4FSWJDFT *OD IBW- having been substituted as Trustee ing been substituted as Trustee in in said Deed of Trust, and the holder said Deed of Trust by an instrument of the note evidencing said default EVMZ SFDPSEFE JO UIF 0GmDF PG UIF having directed that the Deed of Register of Deeds of Pender County, Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned North Carolina and the holder of the 4VCTUJUVUF 5SVTUFF XJMM PGGFS GPS TBMF note evidencing said indebtedness at the courthouse door of the county having directed that the Deed of courthouse where the property is Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned located, or the usual and customary 4VCTUJUVUF 5SVTUFF XJMM PGGFS GPS TBMF location at the county courthouse for at the courthouse door in the City conducting the sale on December of Burgaw, Pender County, North BU ". BOE XJMM TFMM UP Carolina, or the customary location the highest bidder for cash the foldesignated for foreclosure sales, lowing described property situated BU 1. PO %FDFNCFS in Pender County, North Carolina, and will sell to the highest bidder for UP XJU cash the following real estate situBeginning at a railroad spike ated in the County of Pender, North in the centerline of Pender County Carolina, and being more particularly 4FDPOEBSZ 3PBE EJSFDUMZ BCPWF EFTDSJCFE BT GPMMPXT the center of a large concrete culvert BEING 0.2607 acres, more or that accommodates the waters of a less, and being the southern portion canal beneath said roadway, said of Lots 11-A, 11-B, Block 2 of Hamp- railroad spike is further located at TUFBE PO UIF 4PVOE BT TIPXO PO B a point that is North 53 degrees 11 map recorded in Map Book 7 at Page minutes West 133.75 feet from an23 of the Pender County Registry, other railroad spike in the centerline and being more fully described by where the Easternmost line of J. W. metes and bounds in an instrument 0SS +S T i(VSHBJOPVT 5SBDUw DSPTTFT recorded in Book 2027 at Page 073 said road; and running thence from of the Pender County Registry. To- said beginning spike, so located, gether with improvements located XJUI B MBSHF DBOBM 4PVUI EFHSFFT thereon; said property being located NJOVUF 8FTU GFFU QBTTJOH BU 'JSTU 4USFFU )BNQTUFBE /PSUI PWFS BO JOMJOF JSPO QJQF BU GFFU

Carolina. to an iron pipe at the intersection of Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole two canals; thence with the interdiscretion, delay the sale for up TFDUJOH DBOBM 4PVUI EFHSFFT UP POF IPVS BT QSPWJEFE JO /$(4 minutes West 238.45 feet to an iron §45-21.23. pipe in said canal; thence North 08 4IPVME UIF QSPQFSUZ CF QVSDIBTFE degrees 18 minutes East 541.60 feet by a third party, that party must pay (passing over an inline iron pipe at the excise tax, as well as the court GFFU UP B SBJMSPBE TQJLF JO DPTUT PG 'PSUZ 'JWF $FOUT UIF DFOUFSMJOF PG 1FOEFS $PVOUZ 4FDQFS 0OF )VOESFE %PMMBST ondary Road #1112; thence with the SFRVJSFE CZ /$(4 f " B

DFOUFSMJOF PG TBJE 4FDPOEBSZ 3PBE The property to be offered pur- 4PVUI EFHSFFT NJOVUFT &BTU suant to this notice of sale is being 238.40 feet to the beginning, containoffered for sale, transfer and con- ing 2.27 acres, more or less, and is WFZBODF i"4 *4 8)&3& *4 w /FJUIFS BT TVSWFZFE CZ %PTIFS 4VSWFZJOH the Trustee nor the holder of the Company, Burgaw, North Carolina, note secured by the deed of trust/ JO 4FQUFNCFS security agreement, or both, being The above described tract of land GPSFDMPTFE OPS UIF PGmDFST EJSFD- is a portion of J. w. Orr, Jr.’s “C.E. tors, attorneys, employees, agents (VSHBOJPVT 5SBDUw UIF EFFE GPS TBNF or authorized representative of either being recorded in book 272, page the Trustee or the holder of the note PG UIF 1FOEFS $PVOUZ 3FHJTUSZ make any representation or warranty 4BWF BOE FYDFQU BOZ SFMFBTFT relating to the title or any physical, deeds of release or prior conveyenvironmental, health or safety condi- ances of record. tions existing in, on, at or relating to 4BJE QSPQFSUZ JT DPNNPOMZ LOPXO the property being offered for sale, BT 3JDIBSE 4XJUDI 3PBE $VSSJF and any and all responsibilities or li- NC 28435. abilities arising out of or in any way reA cash deposit (no personal lating to any such condition expressly DIFDLT PG mWF QFSDFOU PG UIF are disclaimed. Also, this property QVSDIBTF QSJDF PS 4FWFO )VOESFE JT CFJOH TPME TVCKFDU UP BMM UBYFT 'JGUZ %PMMBST XIJDIFWFS JT special assessments, and prior liens greater, will be required at the time of or encumbrances of record and any the sale. Following the expiration of SFDPSEFE SFMFBTFT 4BJE QSPQFSUZ JT the statutory upset bid period, all the BMTP CFJOH TPME TVCKFDU UP BQQMJDBCMF remaining amounts are immediately 'FEFSBM BOE 4UBUF MBXT due and owing. THIRD PARTY PUR" EFQPTJU PG mWF QFSDFOU PG $)"4&34 .645 1": 5)& &9$*4& the purchase price, or seven hundred 5"9 "/% 5)& 3&$03%*/( $0454 GJGUZ EPMMBST XIJDIFWFS FOR THEIR DEED. is greater, is required and must be 4BJE QSPQFSUZ UP CF PGGFSFE QVSUFOEFSFE JO UIF GPSN PG DFSUJmFE GVOET TVBOU UP UIJT /PUJDF PG 4BMF JT CFJOH at the time of the sale. offered for sale, transfer and conIf the trustee is unable to convey WFZBODF i"4 *4 8)&3& *4 w 5IFSF title to this property for any reason, are no representations of warranty the sole remedy of the purchaser is relating to the title or any physical, the return of the deposit. Reasons environmental, health or safety condiof such inability to convey include, tions existing in, on, at, or relating to CVU BSF OPU MJNJUFE UP UIF mMJOH PG B CBOLSVQUDZ QFUJUJPO QSJPS UP UIF DPOmS- the property being offered for sale. mation of the sale and reinstatement 5IJT TBMF JT NBEF TVCKFDU UP BMM QSJPS of the loan without the knowledge liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land of the trustee. If the validity of the transfer taxes, special assessments, sale is challenged by any party, the easements, rights of way, deeds of retrustee, in their sole discretion, if they lease, and any other encumbrances believe the challenge to have merit, or exceptions of record. To the best may request the court to declare of the knowledge and belief of the the sale to be void and return the VOEFSTJHOFE UIF DVSSFOU PXOFS T PG deposit. The purchaser will have no the property is/are Jerry Tanner and further remedy. wife, Christina Young.

Additional Notice for Residential An Order for possession of the Property with Less than 15 rental property may be issued pursuant VOJUT JODMVEJOH 4JOHMF 'BNJMZ 3FTJ- UP ( 4 JO GBWPS PG UIF dential Real Property purchaser and against the party or An order for possession of the parties in possession by the clerk of property may be issued pursuant to / $ ( 4 f JO GBWPS PG UIF superior court of the county in which purchaser and against the party or the property is sold. Any person parties in possession by the clerk of who occupies the property pursuant superior court of the county in which to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, the property is sold.

Any person who occupies the may, after receiving the notice of sale, property pursuant to a rental agree- terminate the rental agreement by ment entered into or renewed on providing written notice of terminaor after October 1, 2007, may after tion to the landlord, to be effective receiving the notice of foreclosure on a date stated in the notice that is sale, terminate the rental agreement BU MFBTU EBZT CVU OP NPSF UIBO by providing written notice of termina- days after the sale date contained in tion to the landlord, to be effective on the notice of sale, provided that the a date stated in the notice that is at mortgagor has not cured the default MFBTU EBZT CVU OPU NPSF UIBO at the time the tenant provides the days, after the sale date contained in OPUJDF PG UFSNJOBUJPO </$(4 f this notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default " C

> 6QPO UFSNJOBUJPO PG B rental agreement, the tenant is liable at the time the tenant provides the for rent due under the rental agreenotice of termination. Upon terminament prorated to the effective date of tion of a rental agreement, the tenant the termination. is liable for rent due under the rental If the trustee is unable to convey agreement prorated to the effective title to this property for any reason, date of the termination. the sole remedy of the purchaser is SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE the of the deposit.

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SERVICES, INC. of such inability to convey include, $ :HVW )UHPRQW 6WUHHW Â&#x2021; %XUJDZ 1& CVU BSF OPU MJNJUFE UP UIF mMJOH PG B SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE Â&#x2021; SRVWHGLWRU#SRVW YRLFH FRP Â&#x2021; ZZZ SRVW YRLFH FRP c/o Hutchens Law Firm CBOLSVQUDZ QFUJUJPO QSJPS UP UIF DPOmSP.O. Box 1028 mation of the sale and reinstatement 4317 Ramsey Street of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the Fayetteville, North Carolina 28311 sale is challenged by any party, the Phone No: (910) 864-3068 trustee, in their sole discretion, if they KWWSV VDOHV KXWFKHQVODZĂ&#x20AC;UP FRP believe the challenge to have merit, Case No: 1166554 (FC.FAY) may request the court to declare

NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF ELIZABETH H. BATSON The undersigned, having duly RVBMJmFE BT UIF &YFDVUSJY PG UIF &TUBUF Trustee Services of of Elizabeth H. Batson, late of Pender Carolina, LLC County, North Carolina, hereby gives Substitute Trustee OPUJDF UP BMM QFSTPOT mSNT BOE DPSBrock & Scott, PLLC porations having claims against said Attorneys for Trustee Services of estate to exhibit them to the underCarolina, LLC signed on or before March 16, 2016 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 or this Notice will be plead in bar of Wilmington, NC 28403 UIFJS SFDPWFSZ "MM QFSTPOT mSNT PS PHONE: (910) 392-4988 corporations indebted to said estate FAX: (910) 392-8587 will please make immediate payment File No.: 11-25496-FC02 to the undersigned Executrix.

This the 16th day of December, #7140 12/17, 12/24/2015 2015.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Nancy B. Mizelle, Executrix )BWJOH RVBMJmFE BT &YFDVUPS PG 185 Admiralty Way the Estate of James R. Turner, deMilledgeville, GA 31061 ceased of Pender-County, this notice Please submit claims and is to notify all persons having claims payments to: against the Estate of said decedent, Matthew T. Dill, P.L.L.C. James R. Turner, to present any Attorney and Counsellor at Law such claims to the undersigned on 3RVW 2IĂ&#x20AC;FH %R[ or before February 20th, 2016 at 338 Wrightsville Beach, 5PNCmFME 3E $BNEFO 4$ PS North Carolina 28480 this notice will be pleaded in bar of #7144 12/17, 12/24, 12/31/2015, 1/7/2016 their recovery. All persons indebted ADMINISTRATORâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S NOTICE to said estate will please make imme)BWJOH RVBMJmFE BT "ENJOJTUSBdiate payment to the undersigned.

This the 20th Day of November, tor of the Estate of Lorraine Monica Grace, deceased, late of Pender 2015 Dennis Turner County, North Carolina, this is to notify 7RPEĂ&#x20AC;HOG 5G that all persons having claims against Camden, SC 29020 the said estate to present such claims to the undersigned on or before the #7131 11/26, 12/3, 12/10, 12/17/2015 26th day of February, 2016, or this NOTICE TO notice will be placed in bar of their CREDITORS AND DEBTORS recovery. All persons indebted to the STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, said estate will please make immediPENDER COUNTY ate payment.

IN THE GENERAL COURT This 25th day of November, OF JUSTICE 2015.

SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION Stella R. Hansen Having qualified as Executrix 109 North Smith Street of the estate of Edward D. Betts, Burgaw, NC 28425 deceased, of Pender County. This Robert C. Kenan, Jr. is to notify all persons having claims MOORE & KENAN Attorneys at Law against the estate of said decedent, P. O. Box 957 Edward D. Betts to present them Burgaw, NC 28425 to the undersigned on or before (910) 259-9800 February 25, 2016 at 245 Waterfront #7127 11/25, 12/3, 12/10, 12/17/2015 Circle, Hampstead, NC 28443 or be barred from recovery. All persons indebted to said estate, please make immediate payment. This the day of November 16th, 2015.

Continued from page 8A Jean Betts 245 Waterfront Circle Hampstead, NC 28443 fensive goals for the game #7126 11/26, 12/3, 12/10, 12/17/2015 because we looked at film of the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

Lady Pirates

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA PENDER COUNTY NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND DEBTORS OF MICHAEL JUNE HALL 15 E 403 "MM QFSTPOT mSNT BOE DPSQPSBtions having claims against Michael June Hall, deceased, are notified to exhibit them to Jodie Bostic Hall, Executrix of the decedentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s estate, on or before March 4, 2016 at 22 Kings Landing Road, Hampstead NC 28443, or be barred from their recovery. Debtors of the decedent are asked to make immediate payment to the above named Executrix.

Jodie Bostic Hall, Executrix Estate of Michael June Hall c/o Mark I. Nunalee BIBERSTEIN & NUNALEE LLP Attorneys at Law P.O. Box 598 Hampstead NC 28443 910-270-4347 #7133 12/3, 12/10, 12/17, 12/24/2015 NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND DEBTORS STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, PENDER COUNTY IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION Having qualified as Executrix of the estate of Elmer F. Miller, deceased, of Pender County. This is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of said decedent Elmer F. Miller to present them to the undersigned on or before March 17, 2016 at 111 Circle Drive Hampstead, NC 28443 or be barred from recovery. All persons indebted to said estate, please make immediate payment. This the day of December 10, 2015.

Wendy L. Purser 111 Circle Drive Hampstead, NC 28443 #7141 12/10, 12/17, 12/24, 12/31/2015 NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND DEBTORS STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, PENDER COUNTY IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION )BWJOH RVBMJmFE BT &YFDVUPS PG the estate of Lieba M. Weingarden, deceased, of Pender County. This is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of said decedent, +BNFT 5IPNBT 4USPVE +S UP QSFTent them to the undersigned on or before March 3,2016 at 5045 NC Hwy. 210 Rocky Point, NC 28457 or be barred from recovery. All persons indebted to said estate, please make immediate payment. This the day of November 26, 2015.

Ronald Zuenen 5045 NC Hwy 210 Rocky Point, NC 28457 #7132 11/26, 12/3, 12/10, 12/17/2015

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the first time and realized we didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t play well in some of the quarters so we set team defensive goal tonight, and they exceeded it by leaps and bounds,â&#x20AC;? Ellington said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re ready for conference play, I think weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to surprise people. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think people see â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Topsailâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; on the jersey and think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; just the kids from the beach, they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know much. But I would take this group against any five in the state. I promise you, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re readyâ&#x20AC;?

Much like Fridayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s game, there was very little suspense as to the outcome as the Lady Patriots used as early 13-2 early surge on their way to a 19-7 first-period lead, and an eventual 55-23 victory. Bryant had six points. Brandy Williams and White each had four to lead the surge.

Acting like the game was over, the Topsail girls came out a bit sluggish in the second quarter but the Lady Patriots were unable to take advantage as Topsail outscored their hostesses 13-5 in forging a 3212 halftime advantage. Bryant had 11 and White seven at the break.

All nine Lady Pirates in uniform played before the first quarter ended, and eight girls scored in the game. Pender was unable to hit double-digits in scoring in any of the four quarters and Topsail cruised to the 32-point win.

Bryant led Topsail with 20 points and eight rebounds.

White had 12 points, two rebounds, four assists, and five steals, and Williams scored seven points. Jacobs came off the bench to score four points

Trask

Continued from page 8A out in a different frame of mind in the third frame and be gan to attack the Titan defense. Coach Orrâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s squad did not play with a sense of urgency and that showed on the scoreboard.

The Pirates cut the Titan lead to 14 and a Kodiak NestorDowling trey trimmed the lead to 11 before a Jordan three point play and a Tyrease Armstrong bucket gave the Titans a 15-point lead going into the final eight minutes.

A Kobe Owsley three pointer finished off a 7-1 Trask run early in the fourth period and the lead was again 20 points. the Titans coasted to their second win over the Pirates in a week.

Jordan led the Titans with 14 points and five rebounds while London finished the

NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND DEBTORS STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, PENDER COUNTY IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION )BWJOH RVBMJmFE BT &YFDVUPS PG the estate of James Leroy Walston, deceased, of Pender County. This is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of said decedent, James Leroy Walston to present them to the undersigned on or before .BSDI BU 8FTU %VSBOU Court, Wilmington, NC 28412 or be barred from recovery. All persons indebted to said estate, please make immediate payment. This the day of December 10, 2015.

Kelly L. Walston 3910 West Durant Court Wilmington, NC 28412 #7143 12/10, 12/17, 12/24, 12/31/2015

EARLY DEADLINE NOTICE The deadline for advertising in the December 24th andDecember31st edition is Friday, December 18th at Noon. and four rebounds. Ratavia Merritt scored 10 of Penderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 23 points.

Down to eight girls with a dismissal sending one girl permanently to the sidelines, and missing a key cog due to illness (freshman Payton Little), the Lady Pirates rallied in the second half to defeat Coastal Christin (2-3) 64-52 on the road on Tuesday.

The Lady Centurions actually led Topsail at the end of the first quarter (14-8) â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the first time they have trailed by more than one or two points all year â&#x20AC;&#x201C; before the Lady Pirates put up 18 second-quarter points to forge a 26-26 deadlock at the intermission.

Bryant (15 points, 17 rebounds heated up in the third period with five points. Williams equaled that amount and freshman Lauren Caveness added seven as the Lady Pirates took command of the game by outgunning their hostesses 19-10 â&#x20AC;&#x201C;producing a 45-26 advantage heading into the final period.

Caveness (career-best 19 points) drilled a trey and White followed with another long-range bomb as the leaded increased to 14 at 56-52. White (10 points, six rebounds, seven assists, five steals) hit another trey, along with a deuce, as the lead continued mount.

Centurion senior Sabrina Sims was a thorn in Topsailâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s side all night with 24 points, 11 rebounds, two steals, and a blocked shot. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We started out slow but we picked it up after halftime,â&#x20AC;? Caveness said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;After halftime we dropped 38 points on them to finish the game. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know how or why I got 19, just luck I guess. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been playing ball since I was a little girl and I guess it comes from hard work. It helps that my teammates and my coach have that kind of faith in me, too.â&#x20AC;? night with 12. Owsley scored 11 points as the Titans had three players in double digits.

The Titans are 3-1 going into their first conference game of the year against Union on Thursday. Coach Orr likes what he sees out of his team but is weary of the tough Four County Conference slate ahead. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our conference is awful tough. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve gotten better at some things and still need to work on some things. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll see what happens.â&#x20AC;?

The Wallace game scheduled for Tuesday was rescheduled due to the Bulldog football playoff schedule.

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Pill splitting do's and dont's Dear Savvy Senior, Is pill splitting safe? I have several friends who cut their pills in half in order to save money, but I have some concerns. What can you tell me?

Cautious Kim Dear Kim, Pill splitting â&#x20AC;&#x201C; literally cutting them in half â&#x20AC;&#x201C; has become a popular way to save on pharmaceutical costs but you need to talk to your doctor or pharmacist first, because not all pills can be split.

The reason pill splitting is such a money saver is because of a quirk in the way drugs are manufactured and priced. A pill thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s twice as strong as another may not be twice the price. In fact, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s usually about the same price.

S o, bu y i n g a d o u bl e strength dose and cutting it in half may allow you to get two months worth of medicine for the price of one. But is it safe? As long as your doctor agrees that splitting your pills is OK for you, you learn how to do it properly, and you split only pills that

Wrestling

Continued from page 8A led by 7-2 marks from 160pounder Jacob Raynor, 145pounder Nathan Martinez, and Ethan LaValle, who split time at 132 and 138 pounds.

106-pounder Ethan Rivenbark brought a 4-1 mark back to Hampstead.

Raynor recorded wins by fall against North Myrtle Beach, Lake City, Swansea, Beaufort, Berkeley, and Chlilhowie, and won by forfeit against Gilbert.

His losses were by fall against Aynor and Ashley Ridge.

LaValle won by fall three times at 138 against North Myr-

Football

Continued from page 9A in celebration as it appeared that time had expired. That was not the case.

The game officials huddled together and after several minutes ordered one second be put back on the clock. Bunn had an opportunity to kick a field goal and made the most of that opportunity, making the 26-yard field goal.

Clinton won the coin toss and elected to defend first in

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Overall, there were more positives than negatives.

Last Tuesday at Coastal Christian, the Pirates played hard, especially in the first half, but still fell 71-56 to the Centurions (41). Baker was hot in the first period with seven points, and Bagwell added six as Topsail enjoyed a four-point

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tle Beach, Gilbert, and Aynor, and by fall three times at 132 against Lake City, Berkeley, and Chilhowie. His other win was by forfeit against Swansea, and his losses came by technical fall (26-8) against Beaufort and by decision against Ashley Ridge.

Martinez was pinned against Ashley Ridge and Beaufort, won by fall against North Myrtle Beach, Lake City, Gilbert, Berkeley, Chilhowie, and Aynor, and by a 10-2 decision against Swansea. Rivenbark won by fall against Lake City, Gilbert, and Chilhowie, and by forfeit against North Myrtle Beach. His loss came by fall against Berkeley.

Wednesday the Pirates traveled to Hoggard but it did not go well. Topsail gave up 24 points by forfeit and had a double forfeit at 106. Winners were Aaron Bloodworth at 132, Collin Goudswaard at 113, and Zarion McRae at 120.

Last Saturday the Pirates went to Rosewood for the Eagle Invitational. Holly Springs won the team title with 193 points.

Trask finished 13th with 57.5 points, and Topsail was 20th with 10 points.

Most of those points came at 160 where Raynor went 2-2.

Raynor lost by fall (0:27) to Clevelandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s John Mejia in his opening bout, got a bye in the first-round of wrestle-backs,

overtime. Bunn scored on third down from the six yard line and made the extra point kick. Clinton took only two plays to answer the Bunn score. However, the point after kick failed and the Wildcats prevented the Dark Horses from appearing in the state championship for the second year in a row.

The Wallace-James Kenan game was not as close as the Bulldog defense held the potent Tiger offense to 286 total yards from the line of scrimmage. The Bulldogs are the

defending state champions.

The Mitchell Mountaineers earned the western regional title and showed up with a state championship on their minds. The defending champion Wallace-Rose Hill Bulldogs were not to be denied as Joey Priceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s crew handed the Mountaineers a 48-28 defeat.

With one season left before the state realigns the area teams, there is no doubt that the Four County Conference is the best split 1A/2A conference in the state.

lead (20-16) after the opening eight minutes, forcing seven turnovers in the quarter.

The Centurions did a better job of protecting the ball the rest of the way (13 total turnovers), however, and the Pirates could find no answer for Coastal Christian senior Brian Howell as the Centurions tied the 31-31 at the half by outscoring Topsail 17-13.

Six more points from Howell, who also finished with 18 rebounds and two blocked shots, helped fuel a 15-point third period as the Centurions took a 46-39 lead into the final eight minutes. Coastal Chris-

tian continued to increase the advantage, thanks in no small part to trips to the free-throw line as the Pirates found themselves in a position where they needed to foul.

Baker led Topsail with 15 points and Montano added 11. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We did not perform the way we are capable of in the second half, and I told them that in the locker room,â&#x20AC;? Rochelle said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In the first half we played hard but we got down a little bit at the start of the second half. We got down a little bit and faces dropped and shoulders drooped and we canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t come back like that.â&#x20AC;?

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by Richlandsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Brandon Shane (1:59).

No other Pirate wrestler had a winning record.

Topsail played host to Ashley in a conference match yesterday (Wednesday) and heads to the Raleigh area for the WRAL Invitational at Athens Driver High School tomorrow (Friday) and Saturday.

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The Topsail Basketball Association was in full swing this past weekend. Two youngsters in the third-ďŹ fth grade division are pictured above. TBA will be on holiday break through Jan. 9

The Surf City BeautiďŹ cation Committee Business of the Month is Island Family Medicine, 13567 Hwy. 50. Pictured above is Mayor Zander Guy, Councilman Mike Curley, Linda Honke, Michael Ott, Dr. Blair and staff. The Home of the Month (belove) is the home of Otis and Judith Collier, 1806 N. New River Dr. Pictured are Guy, Curley, Honke, and Ott.

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Cooper-Rivenbark speak vows Nov. 13 Miss Haley Ann Cooper and Mr. Zachary Slate Rivenbark, both of Clinton NC, were married Friday, Nov. 13, 2015, at five o’clock in the evening on the Verandah at River Landing Country Club in Wallace,.

The bride is the daughter of Mr. Douglas Cooper of Salemburg and Ms. Car rie Ann Cooper of Clinton. She is the granddaughter of Mrs. Della Ann Holland and the late Mr. C a r y Ja m e s Holland of Roseboro and Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Glenn Cooper of Salemburg.

The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. William Gene Rivenbark of Burgaw. He is the grandson of Mrs. Naomi Andrews Slate and the late Mr. Bobby Alvin Slate of Mount Airy and Mr. and Mrs. Billy Osby R i v e n b a r k o f Wi l l a r d .

The Reverend Ellen McCubbin of Burgaw United Methodist Church officiated the wedding. Program attendants were Miss Hannah Faith Cooper and Miss Gracie Elizabeth Cooper, cousins of the bride of Valdosta,Georgia. The wedding music was provided by Mr. Geoffrey Tart, trumpeter and Ms. Christina Brier, harpist. The wedding was directed

by Mrs. Susan Cottle Rouse and Mrs. Catherine Gattis Harrell, honorary aunts of the groom.

The bride, presented in marriage by her father, wore a formal ivory lace trumpet gown adorned with pearls and crystals. The dress featured sheer long sleeves with beaded lace applique’ and a keyhole back. Her single tier fingertip

veil was accented with beaded edging. The bride carried a bouquet of white roses with the intertwined wedding bands of her deceased grandfather Cary James Holland and her grandmother Della Ann Holland.

Mrs. Darcy Little Cooper, sister-in-law of the bride, of Chapel Hill served as the matron of honor and Miss Claudia Frances Holland, cousin of the bride, of Salemburg was the maid of honor. Miss Taylor Marie Rivenbark and Miss Charleigh LeAnna Rivenbark, nieces of the groom, of Burgawserved as flower girls and Master Cody Grant Rivenbark, nephew of the groom, also of Burgawserved as ring bearer.

Serving as bridesmaids were Miss Ashton Rose Barry of Washington, D.C., Miss Kathleen Gail Freeze of Richmond, Virginia, Mrs. Leslie Cottle Hobbs of Wilmington, Mrs. Elizabeth Ivy Evans Johnson of Wallace, and Miss Nicole Alejandra Rodriguez of Raleigh.

Mr. William Gene Riven-

bark, father of the groom, served as best man. Serving as groomsmen were Mr. Kyle Cooper, brother of the bride, of Chapel Hill, Mr. Daniel Robert Eldredge of Washington, D.C., Mr. Connor David Holland, cousin of the bride, of Salemburg, Mr. Matthew Grant Rivenbark and Mr. William Scott R ive n b a rk , brothers of the g room, o f B u r g aw and Mr. Bradley John Wynalek of Austin Texas.

Following the ceremony t h e b r i d e ’s family hosted a rece ption and dinner in the Grand Ballroom of River Landing County Club.

On Thursday evening the groom’s family hosted a rece ption and dinner at the Mad Boar Re s t a u r a n t i n Wa l l a c e.

The bride graduated from Elon University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology and received her Juris Doctor, cum laude, from N.C. Central University School of Law in Durham. She currently practices law as an Assistant District Attorney in the 4th Judicial District of North Carolina.

The groom graduated from Methodist University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Political Science and received his Juris Doctor and Juris Masters from the Appalachian School of Law in Grundy, Virginia. He currently practices law as an associate attorney at Briton, PA in Fayetteville, North Carolina.

Following a honeymoon to Cancun, Mexico the couple will reside in Clinton.

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In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through Him, And without Him not one thing came into being. John 1:1-2 When Johnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gospel talks about the Word, it is not referring to the written word or the spoken word. It is not referring to a common word or just any word. It is talking about the Word, the Living Word, alive from the very beginning and working hand in hand with God. The Greek word for Word is Logos and means something like the intelligent force at work in the universe â&#x20AC;&#x201C; living and active at the very beginning with God. What has coming into being in Him was life, and the life was the light of all people.

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overcome it. John 1:3-5 Life is the gift Jesus brings, the first gift of Christmas.

This life is not merely physical but spiritual life which enlivens and illumines everything. The light of the life that Jesus brings cannot be extinguished by anything in this world or beyond it. No darkness within or without us can overcome the light of life that Jesus brings us.

He [John] came as a witness to testify to the lightâ&#x20AC;Ś the true light which enlightens everyone was coming into the world [through Jesus]. John 1: 8, 9 John the Baptist comes in the garb of the prophet to prepare the way and proclaim the coming of Christ. Like prophets of old, John speaks not for himself but for God. The unique thing about Godâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Word is that it always comes true. John is the witness to Godâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new presence in the world. He points us to the new light shining in Jesus Christ.

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world, and the world came into being through Him, yet the world did not know Him. He came to what was his own, and His own people did not accept Him. John 1: 10-11 Christina Rossettiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Christmas poem Before the Paling of the Stars catches the sense of this passage. The refrain goes like this â&#x20AC;&#x153;Born in a stable, cradled in a manger, in the world His hands had made, He was born a stranger.â&#x20AC;?

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But it is this simple and humble manner of birth that makes Jesus one that we can identify with, that anyone can identify with. He is one of us, common as the most common among us; and yet Jesus lifts each of us to new heights,

to the spiritual realm of our Most High God. And the Word became flesh and lived among us. John 1: 14 The amazing new thing that God is doing in Jesus is to come to live among His people, not just to visit or to send a messenger, but to live fully among them. The word translated â&#x20AC;&#x153;livedâ&#x20AC;? in this passage means literally â&#x20AC;&#x153;to tabernacle.â&#x20AC;?

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But tabernacle is used in another way in the Bible. It is the movable Tent of Presence where God dwells with His people. In and through Jesus, God is fully present with us. What a marvelous thing indeed, God with us now and forever.

A Night in Bethlehem at Hampstead UMC Dec. 19

By Sue Keylor Hampstead UMC Special to the Post & Voice Come to an outdoor community hands-on Christmas family experience at Hampstead United Methodist Church. Donkeys must be tied on the north side of the building and all should enter through the proper gate to be counted.

Then, begin your journey by walking a dirt path similar to one Mary and Joseph took on the night of Jesusâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; birth. You will see, taste, touch and hear what life was like in Bethlehem when everyone entered the town for

the census.

Listen to the buzz of bustling villagers as you meander from shop to shop to see what merchants are selling. Many will be displaying their wares and demonstrating how various colored dyes were created.

You will see how grain was ground into flour and watch bread being baked on an open fire. As you wander through the streets of Bethlehem and explore the marketplace, the children will have the opportunity to make perfume, rope, or a toy to take home as a memento.

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You will finish your journey at a lowly stable with live animals. Mary, Joseph and little baby Jesus will be waiting. Discover that God used regular people to fulfill His promise.

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Intrepid Hardware 910.675.1157, Rocky Point

FUNERAL HOME & Cremation Service

Office of Rocky Point Mini Storage Climate Control â&#x20AC;˘ First Month Half Price â&#x20AC;˘

S. Dickerson St. Penderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s212 Original Funeral Service Burgaw, NC 28425 910.259.2136 Affordable Prices www.harrellsfh.com Dignified Funeral Services

NEW BEGINNING CHURCH

corner of Fremont & Wright Street (Courthouse Square) Burgaw, N.C. â&#x20AC;˘ 910-619-8063

Sunday Service 10:30 a.m.

Burgaw Vape

All are welcome! Pastor Bill Howell

Church Directory BURGAW UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

FRIENDLY COMMUNITY BAPTIST CHURCH

110 E. Bridgers Street, Burgaw, NC 28425 â&#x20AC;˘ 910-259-2295

1730 US Hwy. 117 N. â&#x20AC;˘ Burgaw, NC 28425 910-259-3046 Sunday School 9:45 a.m. Sunday Worship 11 a.m., 6 p.m. www.fcbcb.org

Sunday School: 10:00 a.m. Sunday Worship: 11:00 a.m.

ST. M ARYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S CHURCH

18577 NC 53 E, Kelly, NC â&#x20AC;˘ 910-669-2488

CURRIE COMMUNITY BAPTIST CHURCH

28396 Hwy. 210 W. â&#x20AC;˘ Currie (1/2 mile from Moores Creek Battlefield)

Sunday School: 9:45 a.m. Worship: 11 a.m. Bible Study Wednesday: 7 p.m.

Rev. Roger Malonda Nyimi, Pastor Sunday: 11 a.m., 1 p.m. Mass Wednesday: 8:30 a.m. Mass Thursday 8:30 a.m. Mass

WATHA UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

CAPE FEAR COMMUNITY FELLOWSHIP (CF2)

Adult Bible Study: 9:30-10:15 a.m. Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Biblical Studies (ages 3-12) from 10:45-11:30 a.m.

Worship: 10:30-11:30 a.m.

Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Breakfast, 2nd Sunday of Each Month, 8-9 a.m.

Ladiesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Circle, 2nd Monday of Each Month, 6:30-8 p.m.

Choir Practice & Bible Study, Tues., 7:30-9 p.m. Youth Group Every Other Wed. 6-7:30 p.m.

www.CF2.us Worship Hours: Sunday Morning, 11 a.m.

Wednesday Night, 6 p.m. Pastor: Dr. Ernie Sanchez

200 E. Fremont St. â&#x20AC;˘ Burgaw, NC 28425

WESTVIEW UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

160 Camp Kirkwood Road, Watha, NC

910-470-4436

Pastor John Fedoronko

ROCKY POINT UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

located at the intersection of Hyw. 117 & 210

Pastor Mark Murphyw

5610 Hwy. 53 W â&#x20AC;˘ Burgaw, NC 28425 (Across from Pender High)

Services: Sunday at 9 a.m. and 11 a.m.

Bible Study: Tuesday at 6 p.m. www.RPUMC.org

MISSION BAPTIST CHURCH

54 Camp Kirkwood Rd. â&#x20AC;˘ Watha, NC 28478 â&#x20AC;˘ 910-448-0919

Pastor Judy Jeremias Sunday School: 9:45 a.m. Sunday Worship: 11:00 a.m.

Sunday Worship: 10:30 a.m.

Wednesday Evening Dinner at 6:00 p.m. and classes at 6:45 p.m.

FAITH HARBOR UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

14201 Hwy. 50/210 â&#x20AC;˘ Surf City, NC 28445 â&#x20AC;˘ 910-328-4422 Services: 8 a.m. and 9:20 a.m. Sunday School: 10:45 a.m. http://faithharborumc.org

MOORES CREEK BAPTIST CHURCH

3107 Union Chapel Rd. â&#x20AC;˘ Currie, NC 28435 Pastor Roger Barnes

ST. JOSEPH THE WORKER CATHOLIC CHURCH

Sunday School: Sunday 9:45 a.m. Sunday Worship Service: 11:00 a.m.

607 S. Walker Street â&#x20AC;˘ Burgaw, NC 28425

www.BurgawBaptistChurch.org

Sunday School: 9:45 a.m. Worship: 11:00 a.m.

Sunday Evening Discipleship Training: 6:00 p.m. Pastor Lamont Hemminger

BURGAW PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

Jim Herchenhahn / Pastor Worship Services: 8:30 a.m. & 10:50 a.m. Youth each Sunday at 6:00 p.m.

Wednesday evenings: Meal at 6:00 p.m. / Study for all ages 7:00 p.m.

100 E. Bridgers Street â&#x20AC;˘ Burgaw, NC 28425 910-259-4310

Sunday School: 10 a.m. Worship Service: 11 a.m.

Wednesday Prayer Service & Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bible Study: 6:30 p.m.

Sunday Worship Service with Holy Eucharist: 11 a.m. www.stmaryschurchburgawnc.org

RILEYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S CREEK BAPTIST CHURCH

212 S. Dickerson St. â&#x20AC;˘ Burgaw, NC 28425 www.harrellsfh.com

BURGAW BAPTIST CHURCH 910.259.2136

CENTERVILLE BAPTIST CHURCH

An Episcopal - Lutheran Community 506 S. McNeil Street, Burgaw, NC 28425 910.259.5541

19845 NC Hwy. 210, Rocky Point, NC 28457 910-675-2127

Our Family Serving Your Family Since 1913

CALVARY CHAPEL COMMUNITY CHURCH

Pastor: Tony Fontana Sunday School: 10 a.m. Sun. Worship: 11 a.m. & 7 p.m.

Bible Study: Wednesday 7 p.m. Youth Group: Wednesday 7:00 p.m.

JORDANS CHAPEL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

4670 Stag Park Rd. â&#x20AC;˘ Burgaw, NC 28425 â&#x20AC;˘ 910-259-5735 Sunday School: 9:45 a.m. Sunday Worship: 11 a.m. & 6 p.m.

Wednesday Bible Study: 7 p.m.

1303 Hwy. 117 â&#x20AC;˘ Burgaw, NC â&#x20AC;˘ 910-259-2601

10509 US Hwy. 117 S., Rocky Point Business Park Rocky Point, NC â&#x20AC;˘ 910-232-7759

ALL SAINTS CATHOLIC CHURCH

18737 Hwy 17 North, Hampstead â&#x20AC;˘ 910-270-1477 Rev. John Durbin, Pastor

Weekend Mass Schedule: Hampstead - SAT 5 p.m., SUN 9 a.m.

Surf City - SAT 5 p.m., SUN 9 & 11 a.m. (through Labor Day) Daily Mass - Hampstead: TUES & WED 4p.m., THURS & FRI 9 a.m.

Confessions SAT 4-4:30 p.m. or by appt. www.allsaintsccnc.org

CHAPEL BY THE BAY IN LANIERâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S CAMPGROUND 216 Michigan Avenue â&#x20AC;˘ Holly Ridge, N.C. 28445 910-328-6252 Pastor: Don Myers Associate Pastor: Nathan Swartz Sunday School 9:15 a.m. Sunday Worship 10:30 a.m.

Evening Service 6:00 p.m. Wednesday: Bible Study 5:45 p.m.

Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Church 6:15 p.m. Choir Practice 7:00 p.m.

Thursday: Youth Group 6:30 p.m.

Holiday cookies, bars and candy recipes

Pender-Topsail Post & Voice, Thursday, December 17, 2015, Page 3B

Hopeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cooking Corner

By Hope Cusick Contributing Writer Everyone seems to enjoy homemade baked goodies for the holiday season. Special recipes for cookies that are only baked for Christmas are made with the best of ingredients of unbleached flour, to taste like Grandmaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cookies; butter, and spices.

Small cookies may be enjoyed more than large ones so that guests may have more than one or two cookies.

Enjoy!

Peanut butter cookie cups -AKES 3ERVINGS 1 cup unbleached all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon baking soda Pinch of salt ½ cup granulated sugar 1/3 cup creamy peanut butter Ÿ cup butter, softened 1 large egg 2 t a b l e s p o o n s wh i p p i n g cream 1 teaspoon vanilla Ÿ cup chopped unsalted peanuts 1 12-ounce package miniature peanut butter cup candies, unwrapped Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease 36 mini muffin cups with shortening or cooking spray.

In small bowl, mix flour, baking soda, and salt; set aside.

In medium bowl, beat sugar, peanut butter, and butter with electric mixer on medium speed for two minutes. Beat in egg, whipping cream, and vanilla. On low speed, beat in

flour mixture until blended.

Stir in peanuts.

Shape dough into 3/4-inch balls. Place one ball into each muffin cup.

Bake 12-14 minutes. Immediately press one peanut butter cup into center of each cookie.

Bake two minutes longer. Cool in pan on cooling rack.

Christmas chocolate fudge with Grand Marnier -AKES ABOUT ONE INCH squares.

1 cup granulated sugar 1 cup brown sugar, packs 2 tablespoons cornstarch 2 ounces semisweet chocolate, chopped, or six tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder ½ cup heavy cream 3 tablespoons butter 1 teaspoon vanilla extract TABLESPOON 'RAND -ARNIER LIQUEUR OR +AHLUA OPTIONAL 1 c u p w a l nu t s, c o a r s e ly CHOPPED INTO PIECES OPTIONal) In a saucepan combine together sugars, cornstarch, chocolate, and cream. Bring to a boil over medium heat and cook for 2-3 minutes. Stir in the butter, vanilla, and Grand -ARNIER 2EMOVE FROM THE heat. Let cool to lukewarm and then beat with a spoon until the mixture holds its shape. Fold in the nuts, if desired. Pour into a foil lined and buttered 8 x 8-inch pan AND LET COOL 2EFRIGERATE UNTIL set. Cut fudge into one inch squares, pull up by edges of the foil.

Cranberry crumb bars -AKES BARS Crust and Topping 2½ cups unbleached all-purpose flour 1 cup granulated sugar ½ cup ground slivered almonds 1 teaspoon baking powder Pinch of salt 1 cup cold butter 1 large egg Ÿ teaspoon ground cinnamon Filling 4 cups fresh or frozen cran-

berries 1 cup granulated sugar Juice of ½ orange or four teaspoons 1 tablespoon cornstarch 1 teaspoon vanilla Heat oven to 375 degrees.

Grease 13 x9-inch pan with butter or cooking spray.

In large bowl, mix flour, one cup sugar, the almonds, baking powder, and salt. Cut in butter, using pastry blender, or by pulling two table knives through ingredients in opposite directions, until mixture looks like coarse crumbs. Stir in egg.

Press 2½ cups of crumb mixture in bottom of pan.

Stir cinnamon into remaining crumb mixture; set aside.

In medium bowl, stir all filling ingredients. Spoon evenly over crust. Spoon reserved crumb mixture evenly over filling.

Bake 45-55 minutes or until top is a light golden brown. #OOL COMPLETELY 2EFRIGERATE until chilled. Cut into six rows by four rows. Store tightly covered in refrigerator.

Easy cake mix red velvet cookies If you are short on time to make cookies try this quick AND EASY RECIPE -AKES ABOUT two dozen.

BOX 2ED 6ELVET CAKE MIX 2 large eggs, room temperature 6 tablespoons butter, melted 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 cup white chocolate morsels ) LIKE 4OLL (OUSE CHIPS Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

In a large bowl with a whisk stir together cake mix, eggs, vanilla extract, and oil.

Fold in chips. Blend well to form a dough.

Form one inch sized dough balls and place on a lightly greased cookie sheet or baking pan, about two inches apart. Slightly pat down the top of each cookie ball.

Bake in a 375 degree oven for 8-10 minutes or until the

top of the cookie cracks and is lightly browned on the edges. Cool cookies two minutes on pan then cool completely on wire rack.

For best results bake one cookie baking sheet at a time.

Old-fashioned ginger cookies -AKES ABOUT FOUR DOZEN &OR best results chill dough in the refrigerator overnight.

2/3 cup shortening 1½ cups molasses 1 cup butter, softened 1 cup granulated sugar 2 cups milk stirred with one tablespoon vinegar 5½ cups unbleached all-purpose flour Pinch of salt 1 tablespoon baking soda ½ teaspoon ground ginger 1 teaspoon Chinese Five-Spice or ground cinnamon In a heavy non-stick saucepan, heat shortening, molasses, butter, and ½ cup sugar over medium heat until melted. Add the milk, stir until smooth, and remove from heat.

In a bowl, whisk together flour, salt, baking soda, ginger, and Chinese Five-Spice.

Stir in the liquid ingredients until a smooth dough forms.

The dough may seem too soft, but donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t add more flour.

Chill dough in refrigerator for at least three hours or overnight.

Preheat oven to 350 deGREES 2EMOVE CHILLED DOUGH from refrigerator and roll into 2½-inch balls.

In a small shallow dish, pour the remaining half-cup sugar. Dip and roll the dough balls into the sugar and place 2½ inches apart on baking sheets. Flatten the dough gently with the back of a spoon.

Bake them in a 350-degree oven until the centers begin to turn dark brown, about 18-25 minutes.

Cool the cookies completely on a wire rack and put them into sealed containers.

COMMUNITY NEWS & EVENTS Holiday Cooking Workshop Dec. 18 A holiday cooking workshop with Hope Cusick will be held at the Hampstead Library Highway 17 in Hampstead Dec. 18 at 6 p.m. Dishes will include bread, cookies, bars, and dinner selections. Call 910-270-

4603 to register.

Breakfast With Santa Dec. 19 Hampstead Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Club and the Greater Topsail Area Chamber of Commerce will host Breakfast with Santa, Dec. 19, 9-11 a.m. at the Hampstead Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Club building, 14435

U.S. Hwy. 17 in Hampstead.

Tickets include all-you-can-eat pancakes, sausage, juice or coffee, and a visit with Santa. Cost is $5 per adult; $3 per child up to age 12; children two years old and under are admitted free with a ticketed adult.

Parents are invited to bring

their cameras for photos with Santa. For questions, call the Chamber at 910-329-4446 or the Hampstead Thrift Store at 910270-9549. Tickets are on sale at the Chamber or the Thrift Store.

Thursday December 17 The Kiwanis Club of Hampstead will meet at 7:30 a.m. at the Sawmill Grill on Hwy. 17 in Hampstead. s!LCOHOLICS !NONYMOUS WILL MEET FROM NOON P M AT THE Surf City Community Center. Call 328.4887 for more information. s0ENDER #OUNTY -USEUM IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC FOR FREE DONAtions are welcome) every Thursday and Friday from 1-4 p.m. and on Saturdays from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. Group tours are AVAILABLE AT OTHER TIMES BY CONTACTING THE -USEUM AT by email at penderhist@hotmail.com.

Friday December 18 s!TKINSON "APTIST #HURCH (WY IN !TKINSON HAS A FREE bread giveaway Fridays from 4-5 p.m. All types of bread from white to multigrain to hamburger buns. s0ENDER #OUNTY -USEUM OPEN P M s4HE -ARINE #ORPS ,EAGUE $ETACHMENT MEETS FOR BREAKfast at the Sawmill Grill in Hampstead at 8 a.m. each Friday. sTuesday December 22 s4HE +NIGHTS OF #OLUMBUS #OUNCIL MEETS THE SECOND AND fourth Tuesday each month at 7 p.m. at the American Legion Building, 16660 U.S. Hwy. 17 in Hampstead.

Wednesday December 23 s!LCOHOLICS !NONYMOUS WILL MEET FROM P M AT THE Surf City Community Center, 201 Community Center Dr. Call 328.4887 for more information s4HE #OASTAL 0ENDER 2OTARY #LUB MEETS EACH 7EDNESDAY AT 12:30 p.m. at the Belvedere Country Club, 2368 Country Club Drive in Hampstead.

Thursday December 24 s4HE +IWANIS #LUB OF (AMPSTEAD WILL MEET AT A M AT THE Sawmill Grill on Hwy. 17 in Hampstead. s!LCOHOLICS !NONYMOUS WILL MEET FROM NOON P M AT THE Surf City Community Center. Call 328.4887 for more information. s0ENDER #OUNTY -USEUM IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC FOR FREE DONAtions are welcome) every Thursday and Friday from 1-4 p.m. and on Saturdays from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. Group tours are AVAILABLE AT OTHER TIMES BY CONTACTING THE -USEUM AT by email at penderhist@hotmail.com. s6ILLAGE OF 3T (ELENA 4OWN #OUNCIL MEETS AT P M AT THE Town Hall.

Tuesday January 12 s4HE -ARINE #ORPS ,EAGUE $ETACHMENT MEETS AT THE Topsail Senior Center, 20959 U.S. Hwy. 17 in Hampstead the second Tuesday each month at 7 p.m. The Detachment is always looking for new member to help in its continuing mission.

Help support the

Pender Youth Competition Cheerleaders Compete in the 2016 UCA National High School Cheerleading Championships At Walt Disney World this coming February!

We Will Be Selling & Pre-Selling Barbecue Plates Featuring Mouth-Watering Southeastern, NC Barbecue!

When: December 18, 2015 11:00am-3:00pm Location: Family Dollar Parking Lot Across from Piggly Wiggly Burgaw, NC Cost: $8.00 per Plate Includes: Barbecue, Baked Beans, Cole Slaw, & Hushpuppies You May Fax Your Orders To: 910-338-3980 *Delivery Available For 10 Or More Plates* For Delivery Or Faster Pick Up, Orders Must Be Placed By: Wednesday, December 16, 2015 Make Checks Payable To: PYFCA For more info: Phone: 910-619-9767 Email: penderyouthcheer@gmail.com

Thank You For Your Support!

Federal Tax ID #: 80-0190872

Pender Youth and Cheer raises money for national competition The Pender Youth Competition Cheer Team won a bid to national competition on Nov. 21, during the Universal Cheerleaders Associationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 5#! #AROLINA #HAMPIONship. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s team received the highest score ever earned by a Pender Youth team,â&#x20AC;? said Tiffany Suggs, the competitive teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s head coach.

The 30-girl squad will adVANCE TO THE 3ENIOR 2ECREation division of the UCA National High School Cheerleading Championship. The competition is hosted by Disneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Wide World of Sports in Orland, Florida, Feb. 6-7. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is the fourth time a Pender Youth Competitive Team has competed,â&#x20AC;? said Trisha Newton, the cheer commissioner. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is not an

elite all-star team. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not Pop Warner. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re unique in that we are a youth recreation team, operated entirely by volunteers.â&#x20AC;?

The 30-member competitive team is an extension of the leagueâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more than 110 participants who wish to cheer competitively. In the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s four years of competing they have taken first place in Junior or Senior 2ECREATION #AROLINA #HAMpionships. â&#x20AC;&#x153; We t e a c h t e a m wo rk , sportsmanship, dedication and that hard work truly pays off,â&#x20AC;? said Suggs.

Newton said the Pender Youth Cheerleading Competition Team will need $19,500 to fund the trip to the competition. â&#x20AC;&#x153; We â&#x20AC;&#x2122; v e s t a r t e d a G o -

&UND-E DRIVE AND WE VE started fundraisers,â&#x20AC;? said Newton.

The team sold soups at the Burgaw Tree Lighting Ceremony on Nov. 27. They are currently selling Krispy Kreme donut cards in which the buyer receives a buy-oneget-one savings. They have created a calendar raf fle that gives supporters the opportunity to win numerous prizes. On Dec. 18 they will host a BBQ plate sale and the next day will host a Breakfast with Santa. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important to us that the girls participate in the fundraisers,â&#x20AC;? said Newton. â&#x20AC;&#x153;However, we need sponsorships from local businesses and g roups to make this happen.â&#x20AC;?

Newton said anyone in-

terested in purchasing fund12-year-old Isiac Lewis killed his ďŹ rst deer, an eight-pointer, raiser tickets or sponsoring the team can call 910-616-9312 Dec. 5 while hunting with his grandfather, Larry Henderson, on private lands. Isiac is the son of James and Sabrina or 910-619-9767.

Lewis of Burgaw.

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Scenes from the Burgaw Christmas Parade

Staff photos by Andy and Katie Pettigrew