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Board approves budget

By Andy Pettigrew Post & Voice Publisher Pender County Commissioners approved the 2019-20 fiscal year budget at Monday’s meeting.

The budget includes a four-cent reduction in the property tax rate, which is two cents above the revenue-neutral rate, and will generate an additional $1.5 million in additional revenue.

The budget includes funding for three additional School Resource Officers to work in the county’s high schools. The additional SROs will ensure all county schools have resource officers. It also includes an increase in teacher supplements, as well as a 1.5 percent pay increase for county employees.

The board approved a measure to spend $45,000 to lease tasers and body cameras for the county sheriff ’s office. Sheriff Alan Cutler said most of the tasers used by deputies need to be replaced.

Discussion regarding the budget centered on a request from the Atkinson and Shiloh-Columbia Volunteer Fire Departments for $125,000 each from the general fund to hire full-time firefighters for daytime duty. Fire departments are funded through fire taxes in their local fire districts.

Volunteer departments have found staffing daytime hours increasingly difficult as most volunteers work outside of Pender County.

Currently Pender EMS and Fire provides daytime firefighters for other volunteer departments in the county, which are paid with the local department’s funds.

Pender EMS and Fire provides training and certification for the firefighters. The controversy rose when Atkinson and ShilohColumbia did not want to use firefighters from Pender EMS and Fire, but wanted to handle it themselves.

Commissioner David Williams said the two volunteer fire departments needed to allow financial oversight from the board if they were going to accept general fund money. “I voted for the budget, but I’m not happy with the fire department situation,� Williams said. “If a fire department is going to accept general fund money, there needs to be some kind of financial oversight by the Board of Commissioners. This is not money from their district, but everyone is paying for this,� Williams said.

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Parking expansion and landscaping work continues along Roland Avenue in Surf City. The section of Roland Ave. from N. New River Dr. to the Intracoastal Waterway has been widened and on-street parking has been added.

A cul-de-sac is under construction at the end of the street where the swing bridge once stood.

Surf City Mayor Doug Medlin says the landscaping work is underway by the N.C. D.O.T. “The DOT said the work on stripes for the parking spaces along there should be done in time for the Independence Day celebration in Soundside Park,� said Medlin. “Those new spaces will help with parking at the event.�

With parking in Surf City a long-time problem, Medlin says a number of new parking locations in the immediate vicinity of Roland Ave. will help ease parking

Roland Ave. improvement progress in Surf City pressure. “About 132 parking spaces are being added in that area. There will be new parking on the mainland side for people who want to walk on the bridge,� said Medlin. “There will be parking where Crabby Mike’s restaurant used to stand after Balfour-Beaty finishes using it for a staging area.

When we get through dealing with FEMA and the insurance companies, we will tear down the old Ward Realty building and the old Surf City Town Hall and those areas will be used for parking. It’s going to make a big difference in the town’s parking situation. I believe it will nearly triple our parking availability.�

Surf City off to great summer Medlin says beginning with the Memorial Day holiday, Surf City has seen a big influx of vacationers and local businesses are doing well.

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Blueberries and Barbecue

Staff photos by Andy Pettigrew

Pender High School students prepare barbecue sandwiches at the Athletic Boosters booth Saturday at the N.C. Blueberry Festival in Burgaw.

The barbecue sale each year is a major fundraiser for the boosters. Pender Athletic Director Matt Davis (right) carries a pan of barbecue off the grill. See more pics on our Facebook page.

Possibly best attendance ever

Great weather boosts Blueberry Festival

By Andy Pettigrew Post & Voice Publisher

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Blueberry Festival helped Cowan.Trimmers & Chainsaws brought in from neighboringboost attendance to possibly Blueberry sales, which are towns and counties to help with record levels. always a big attraction, were the festival.

Those attending the event very good, along with vendor “Law enforcement was very joined thousands of others at sale. complimentary of the crowd,� the 16th edition of the annual “The blueberries sold out, Cowan said. “It was just a festival. and were sold both Friday and great day and I thank everyone “It was the greatest festival Saturday. Our barbecue sales who had a part in it.� we’ve ever had,� said Burgaw were good and many vendors Funds raised from the N.C. Mayor and longtime promoter sold out early Saturday after- Blueberry Festival are used for of the festival Pete Cowan. noon,� Cowan said. “I have scholarships for college-bound “The crowd was so large I don’t nothing but praise for all of high school seniors from Pendeven have an estimate.� our volunteers and workers.� er and neighboring blueberryCowan says despite the very Cowan pointed out the hard growing counties.

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Pender’s Ghost Walk receives award From Staff Reports Southeast Tourism Society (STS) named Ghost Walk: Ghosts of Pender’s Past as one of the STS Top 20 Events in the Southeast for October 2019.

Ghost Walk: Ghosts of Pender’s Past, an annual event, is set for Oct. 11-12.

It is an all-volunteer production featuring actors, sets, and tour guides. It is the collaboration of several organizations, including Moores Creek National Battlefield, Poplar Grove Plantation, Pender County Schools, Historical Society of Topsail Island, Pender County Historical Society, Pender County Library, Pender County Parks and Recreation, the Town of Burgaw, and Pender Arts Council.

The STS Top 20 Festival and Event Awards have highlighted programs around the Southeast since 1985. Travel industry experts select 20 events per month, and STS publicizes them throughout the United States. The complete list is published on two websites: Southeast Tourism

Society and Travel Media Press Room.

T h i s p re m i e r eve n t attracts more than 1,000 people over the course of two days from North Carolina and beyond. There are more 100 volunteers from the Cape Fear Region that bring to life stories of pirates, historical figures and events, area hauntings, supernatural creatures and scenes from famous horror movies that were filmed in Burgaw.

“It’s an honor to receive this recognition for our community,” Joe Cina, vice-chair of the Pender County Tourism Development Authority, said.

“None of this would be

possible if it wasn’t for the hard work that each member of the committee contributes in order to promote healthy attractions and events in our area.”

“The Ghost Walk committee and our many volunteers are ecstatic to be selected as an STS Top 20 Event,” Stephanie Key, Pender County tourism assistant and Ghost Walk artistic director. “We have a lot of fun but there are also countless hours of hard work that goes into planning a huge outdoor theater production.”

“The Top 20 Festival and Event Program is celebrating 34 years of spotlighting the best festivals and

events in the Southeast.

Our goal is to provide welldeserved accolades for the dedicated event organizers and additional media exposure for their events,” said Monica Smith, president and CEO of the Southeast Tourism Society. “The Southeast offers so many unique, year-round, opportunities for attendees to create memories and support an industry that is an economic generator for its community.”

“The Ghost Walk has sold out each year,” said Key. “In 2018 the Ghost Walk won the National Association of Counties Achievement award in the Arts, Cultural, and History category.”

STS, founded in 1983 and headquartered in Roswell, Ga., is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting travel and tourism within 12 states – Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia.

Pender Memorial Hospital holds monthly farmer’s market

By Lori Kirkpatrick Post & Voice Staff Writer Pender Memorial Hospital’s monthly farmers’ market was held last week. The market is held the second Tuesday of every month from May through October from 10:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. The market is free for the vendors. At this time, only food-related items are being accepted for the farmers’ market.

Vendors for the June market included: Seaview Crab Company, Brown Dog Coffee Company, Gluten Free By The Sea, Laura Gayle’s Popcor n, TCBY, Elderberry Syrup Mamas, Mizerak Nursery, Coastal Tides, Lizzy Lou’s Family Farm, Laysan Bay Farm, Rocky Point, NC, Clover Meadow Farms, Preservation Point Farm, Martin’s Blueberry Farm (“Home

Of Pa’s Berries, Cider & Juice”), Piney Woods Farm and Ben’s Organics.

“It seems that we’ve gotten a lot of interest recently,” said Market Manager Annie Pound. “This is the third year that we have done it. The employees really like it, and the community is starting to notice that we have the market here every year in the summertime. Also, we always have a lunch special when we have the farmers’ market.”

Pender Memorial Hospital’s dietary coordinator collaborates with the vendors.

He usually works with one of the local meat vendors to feature one of the meats each month; planning a meal around it for lunch.

A typical lunch special on market day includes a few sides and a drink and costs $7 or $8. .

“It is always extremely

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reasonably priced. It’s great that we get to help the vendors by using their food here and by helping to get people to try some of their food. With the employees, we can do a payroll deduct.

They don’t have a very long lunch break, but they can come down and get a few things and be rung up inside. It’s really helpful in encouraging people to try some things they may not normally get - some different types of vegetables or even meat or seafood products that they wouldn’t typically buy. It gives them the chance to try something new, ” said Pound Pound said that so far, the vendors have mostly been from the Burgaw and Rocky Point communities.

Some of the local vendors from last year were hit hard

by Hurricane Florence, and are not yet ready to be up and running. However, those from the immediate area who are able to participate have rallied, and other vendors are starting to come out from Hampstead, Leland and Wilmington as well.

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some of the items offered at the market.

“St. Helena Farms raises mangalitsa pigs. They have curly hair and they look like little sheep. The farm sells breakfast pork, bacon, tenderloins, Boston butts and spareribs. She’s got a variety, and it is a really great product. Martin’s Blueberries is from the Clinton area. Preservation Point Farm has a variety of herbs, garlic, pasture eggs and squash. Lizzy Lou’s Family Farm does beef, pork and fresh cut flowers.

TCBY is here this month, and I have been trying to get an ice cream vendor or something cool on the hot days. Next month Ben and Jerry’s will be here from Jacksonville,” said Pound.

The far mers’ market is held in PMH’s Ability Garden, which faces Fremont St. There is plenty of parking just across the street, and plenty of seating for those who would like to come inside to get some lunch. Next month, they are planning a meal with spareribs. The next farmers’ market will be held July 9 at 507 E. Fremont St.

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certification of firefighters was important and Pender EMS and Fire does a good job with both. Personalities do not need to enter in to decisions regarding the fire departments.

“I don’t understand why they won’t use Pender EMS and Fire for their firefighters. I think we need to keep a close watch on how the money is spent,” Williams said.

Continued from page 1A Both fire departments agreed to place Commissioner Jackie Newton on their department boards as a non-voting member.

Both Atkinson and ShilohColumbia are in Newton’s district.

Williams said training and

Surf City Continued from page 1A “I think we are going to be way ahead of where we were last summer. Everyone has seen better business than last year,” Medlin said.

Medlin’s business, East

Coast Sports, was heavily damaged by Hurricane F lorence and remains closed while repairs are made.

“We are still working inside.

They told us they would be finished this week, but we will have to wait and see.

I’m looking forward to a fantastic year once we get into the store”

Correction

Last week’s edition of the Post & Voice in the BOC budget story, reported the 2.3-cent increase in the tax rate above revenue neutral would generate $15 million.

The correct figure is $1.5 million. The decimal point was inadvertently omitted. Our apologies for the error.

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Opinion Thursday, June 20, 2019, Page 3A

Welcome to my world

Regina Hill Post & Voice Columnist

Love, Teacher Dear Parents It’s time for me to watch your child move on to more adventures and challenges. It has bought me immense pride and happiness watching this group of children come together as a familycaring for one another, sometimes experiencing disagreements and tears, but always taking care to protect their friends and to raise each other up in times of sadness or distress.

Thank you for entrusting your child to my care and for supporting our little classroom family.

Despite the challenges bought about by the hurricane and the transition to another grade, we had an incredible year. Although your child would have been successful without me, watching my littles mature and overcome obstacles was a privilege.

I hope they will remember the importance of selfcare, the power and necessity of mistakes, and the thrill of overcoming frustration through grit and perseverance. I hope they remember that they will always have a soft place to land in this sometimes chaotic world of ours. I hope they understand that the opinions of others or a test score will never define who they are or the potential they hold. I hope they appreciate the beautiful gifts given to them daily and will dwell on the bright spots in life rather than the hardships.

Although my official job title is teacher, I’ve been so much more. I was nurse, therapist, advocate and referee. Despite the hurried chaos around me and the exhaustive list of to-dos, I sat with your child and listened intently to stories of lost pets and disagreements with friends, I wiped tears when family members passed away and celebrated when your child dashed into the room with trophies or medals.

I’ve fussed and lectured in times when work ethic suffered or when the high standards I’ve taught them to hold for themselves slipped.

They’ve taught me volumes, too. I’m reminded daily that these children are sensitive and curious and equipped to solve problems sometimes more effectively than adults.

They are not vessels to fill with facts nor a group of youngsters who must be trained to sit quietly and produce work. In terms of creativity, they run circles around me.

Despite their young ages, they are wise. I’ve learned to listen to them with intent. Sometimes, in the middle of a lesson, I’ll notice a distracted child stare out the window, followed by another and then another. While my first instinct would be to redirect, I’m glad that I Continued on page 4A

Jefferson Weaver

Where the wildflowers grow It was almost exactly 14 years ago; I was trying to make prayer meeting on time when I saw her in the long summer shadows cast across the steaming blacktop by a golden yellow sunset.

Well, to be precise, I saw movement in a bramble beside the road, a riot of blackberries, tiny roses and wildflowers.

I dropped the truck out of gear, hit the flashers and stopped just a few feet away from the puppy.

She was maybe four and half weeks old, fleabitten and tick-infested, terrified of the road and trapped in the bramble. Her fur was the color of old, soft gold, with stripes and spots and an undercoat that made her what’s called a brindle. Her ears were larger than she was, or so it seemed.

My first thought was that somehow she was a coyote pup, but on closer inspection I had no moral quandary to solve beside that hot highway. She was a hound, a Plott to be exact, or at least a Plott mix. I carefully pulled her from the thorns, and she immediately settled in my arms. Before I hit third gear, she was sucking on a finger. I dashed home, and unceremoniously dropped her in Miss Rhonda’s lap on the couch before speeding back down the road to church.

For a good two weeks, Cleopatra rarely left the couch. She was in a strange new world, where multiple big dogs stared at her, cats alternated between washing and whapping her. At least nothing was trying to eat her. Cleo was bathed almost daily for a while, and before long learned the joy of chewing toes.

For a hound, Cleo was rather epicurean, almost effete. She didn’t like to run for long distances, she hated being dirty, and unlike most Plotts, she had no desire to fight, either with coons or other dogs. She had a good life, and saw no reason to work any harder than necessary. In short, she was the least houndish hound I have ever known.

Cleo was a dog who smiled; I’m not just

Jefferson Weaver and Cleo saying she was a happy dog (although she was, most of the time) but the ends up her mouth drew up into a smile when she was most content. She would greet us with a wagging tail and that smile, whether we’d been gone a few minutes or all day.

From the start, Cleo was more Rhonda’s dog than mine, although she loved me too.

Auto insurance discounts Dear Savvy Senior, I’ve read that many car insurance companies offer a variety of discounts to older drivers when they retire or reach a certain age. What can you tell me about this?

Discount Seeker Dear Seeker, Most auto insurance companies offer policyholders a wide variety of discounts, many of which can benefit retirees.

Auto insurers love older drivers because they’re experienced behind the wheel and they drive less than younger age groups, which makes them a lower risk for accidents and a safer bet for insurance companies.

While discounts will vary by insurer, many of these benefits can reduce your overall premium by 15 to 20 percent or more, and you are usually allowed to combine discounts to increase your savings, though total discounts are often capped at around 25 percent.

To find out what discounts may be available to you, contact your auto insurer and inquire about these benefits, and any others that may benefit you.

Age discount: Many auto insurance companies offer a general “senior” discount that will reduce your premium just because you’ve reached a specific age. The actual name and amount of the discount will vary by insurer.

Allstate, for example, provides a “senior adult discount” of up to 10 percent to drivers who are at least 55 years old and

Her place was beside Rhonda on the couch, or in an oversized chair. She slept at the bottom of the bed by Rhonda’s feet every night from that first hot June evening.

One thing she never cared for was cold weather; she and Rhonda share that tendency. As she grew older, she expected to be partially covered with a blanket at night. It was her right, of course, or at least she saw it that way. I often wondered if her tolerance for kittens, cats and the occasional well-behaved puppy was more due to using them as her own personal heaters than any maternal instinct.

The odd snowfall in Southeastern North Carolina was an absolute affront to her dignity. Not only was it cold, but it was wet.

Her favorite times were when she could wander the yard, surveying her domain, indulging just a bit of her less civilized hound side, following random smells, lightheartedly harassing chickens, or perhaps, in a fit of whimsy, chasing a butterfly. She also liked to sleep in the sunshine on the porch, in a manner befitting a pampered old hound who had no need to hunt.

She walked with us when we visited the horses, or attended any of the tasks that come with country living, but unlike most of our other dogs, she never required a leash. She had lost very little away from her humans, and aside from the occasional stroll on her own, she was happiest with her family, as we were with her.

Cleopatra was what we called a “little old lady dog;” a kind of maiden aunt, or widowed grandmother, who was set in her ways but still loving and fun. We allowed her a single litter of puppies, one of whom was Toni, who is offended if I don’t share my pillow at night.

Cleo was one of the happiest dogs I have ever known; I don’t mean a silly, goofy, run-into-the-wall type of happiness, but a Continued on page 4A

My Spin

7669), which offers the Smart Driver Course to members and non-members.

aren’t actively looking for full-time work. And Liberty Mutual offers a “newly retired discount” to drivers who reach that employment milestone, regardless of age.

L ow m i l e a g e d i s count: Most insurers offer discounts to customers who drive limited miles each year, which is often beneficial to retirees who drive less because they don’t commute to work every day. The fewer miles you drive, the lower your odds of getting into an accident.

The parameters of low mileage differ by insurer, but generally about a 10 percent discount is available for driving less than 5,000 to 8,000 miles each year, although smaller discounts may also be available to seniors who drive more than this but less than 15,000.

Drivers Ed discount: Many states require insurance companies to offer “defensive-driving” discounts to drivers who take a refresher course to brush up on their safety skills. The discounts vary usually ranging between 5 and 15 percent.

Driver safety courses are inexpensive, usually costing around $20 to $30 and can often be taken in a classroom or online. To locate a class contact your local AAA (aaa.com), which operates a Driver Improvement Course for seniors, or AARP (aarp. org/driversafety, 888-227-

Club member discount: Insurers of fer discounts to members of clubs and associations with which they have partnered. These could include professional associations, workers’ unions, large employers or membership organizations such as AAA, the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association, the Seniors Coalition, AARP, etc. You could even qualify for savings based on the college you attended or the fraternity or sorority you belonged to decades ago.

S a f e d r iv i n g d i s count: Many insurance providers now offer discounts based on how and when you use your car. To do this, they would place a diagnostic device in your car that transmits wireless data on how you drive (including how fast you’re going and how hard you’re braking), when you drive and how much you drive. Drivers are rewarded for safe driving, low mileage and for not driving late at night.

In addition, many insurance providers also offer discounts to drivers who do not have any violations or accidents for three or more years.

Send your senior questions to: Savvy Senior, P.O. Box 5443, Nor man, OK 73070, or visit SavvySenior. org. Jim Miller is a contributor to the NBC Today show and author of “The Savvy Senior”

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Tom Campbell

All hands on deck for the opoid epidemic More than 800 gathered in Raleigh this week to address the Opioid epidemic.

Five lives are lost each day and more than 13,000 deaths occurred between 1999 and 2017 due to Opioids. In addition to the heartbreak to families, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimates it cost North Carolina some $2.5 billion in 2017.

DHHS Secretary Mandy Cohen said this public health crisis requires “all hands on deck.”

Opioids are common painkillers like oxycodone, hydrocodone and codeine, but also heroin and fentanyl. We’ve been aggressively fighting this crisis with some success.

Opioid prescriptions have been reduced by 24 percent. 12,000 have been treated for overdose and emergency room visits have decreased by 20 percent. More than 3,000 providers have been trained, 29 syringe exchange programs have been established and 20,000 Naloxone kits have been dispensed throughout the state. A $54 million federal grant helped achieve these results and establish effective partnerships with care providers, law enforcement, mental health, social service, treatment centers and other professionals.

But the face of the Opioid epidemic is transforming, and the campaign must

also transform.

Secretary Cohen stated the federal grants have helped immeasurably but are only a temporary solution. Those overdosing on or addicted to Opioids need more extensive treatment. Sadly, more than half those needing help don’t have health insurance. Governor Roy Cooper, addressing the summit, emphatically reinforced that fact, saying this is another compelling reason why we need to expand Medicaid.

The Governor recognized that neither the House nor Senate had included Medicaid expansion in budgets they passed, adding talks are going on behind the scenes that might lead to expansion. Democrats in both chambers support the expansion and a growing number of Republicans are open to some form of expansion, but it is being blocked by Senate Republican leadership.

The major opposition has two prongs. First, and maybe most importantly, Medicaid expansion is associated with former President Barack Obama and Republicans don’t want anything that smells of Obama. There is the additional concern about costs. The federal government promises to provide 90 percent of the costs; many say the federal government is already broke and they don’t want to add to federal deficits.

Further, they fear that a cash strapped federal government will drastically reduce the 90-10 match. But 37 states, many with Republican governors and/or legislatures have joined, convinced the benefits outweigh the risks. They also know that once a benefit has begun it never gets repealed or even greatly reduced.

Congress won’t likely risk losing voters in 37 states, even if it means more deficits.

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The Surf City Community Center tap dance class traveled to Wilmington May 13 to join the New Hanover County Senior Center classes for a complimentary show. Instructor Judy Kelley (center front kneeling), arranged for the dancers to volunteer their time and talents as a gift to the nursing home residents of Liberty Commons. Judy, a long time resident of Topsail Beach, is a former professional dancer and is co-chairman of the Ms. North Carolina Senior America Pageant Program. She held the title of Ms. North Carolina in 2000. She drives between the cities weekly to teach tap dancing at the centers.

Pender Health Department WIC employee appointed to task force Claudette Hayes-Sowers, Processing Assistant for the Pender County Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program was recently appointed to the National WIC Association’s “Task Force on the Inclusion of Dads in WIC.�

The task force is a newly formed committee to assist state and local

agencies in addressing best practices and steps to include dads and other caretakers such as grandparents, partners and same gender couples in the WIC process. Members serve on the Task Force for a two-year term.

The Pender County WIC program is located at 803 S. Walker Street,

Burgaw NC 28425 and is open 8 a.m.- 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. The Hampstead Annex WIC office is located at 15060 US HWY 17 Hampstead, NC 28443 and is open every Tuesday and Wednesday from 8 a.m. – 12 p.m. and 1 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Call 910-259-1230 or visit health.pendercountync.

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should all take a lesson in that.

We have spent 10 months together and that time has been a gift to me.

I will always be there for your child-to give hugs, redirect, encourage and advise. They are precious and brilliant, displaying the highest degree of patriotism and compassion.

Marvel at the unique person they are becom-

ing because, before you know it, they will grow independent and selfsufficient-just as you’re raising them to be. While you will always carry the memories and the small moments, they look to the future with eyes full of possibility- and that future looks bright to this teacher.

With Much Love, Teacher

makes a pretty compelling case for Medicaid expansion, saying we could provide coverage for an additional 500,000 people, lower costs for private insurers and plan participants, while creating 43,000 new jobs.

The Opioid Action Plan that was updated at this week’s summit would benefit greatly from Medicaid expansion and make another giant step to help prevent, reduce harm and

aid the access to care for our people.

Tom Campbell is former assistant North Carolina State Treasurer and is creator/host of NC SPIN, a weekly statewide television discussion of NC issues that airs on UNC-TV main channel Fridays at 7:30 p.m., Sundays 12:30 p.m. and UNC North Carolina Channel Fridays at 10 p.m., Saturdays at 4 p.m. and Sundays at 10 a.m. Contact him at www.ncspin.

smiling at Rhonda, after a flashlight search of at least 20 minutes.

Cleo came back in the house, and immediately jumped on the couch. She was happy.

She went home gently the next night, in her place on the bed. We both thought she was just sleeping extra hard when we found her in the morning. We buried her in a place where wildflowers grow and Chinese chestnut trees break the afternoon heat of a summer sun.

I have said many times that I think the road into Heaven is not necessarily a golden street through pearly gates, but down a dirt path where a disused gatepost halfheartedly guards the way to a comfortable house among shade trees. The road is just bumpy enough to be interesting – after all, this is Heaven we’re talking about – and it runs between pastures where donkeys loll in the sunshine and sleek horses race the truck up the drive.

The house has a porch where loved ones wait in comfortable chairs, and as you pull up, dogs bay happily and chickens scatter and cats look

disdainful.

And if my vision is true, there will be a brindle hound watching all of the hubbub from a spot where there’s just enough sunshine and just enough shade – a place where the wildflowers grow.

Continued from page 3A didn’t. Rather, we tiptoed to the window to watch cardinals gather at our bird feeder. I’m glad that my students know that slowing down to enjoy the natural wonders around us sometimes trumps multiplication facts. We

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Continued from page 3A contented happiness. She could lie on the couch above a room or yard full of bouncing, barking puppies, and just watch, that smile on her face. Even when we were forced out of our house by Hurricane Matthew, she was content to doze by the fire with us in the evening, and somehow fit herself into her place on the tiny bed in the camper we called home for a month.

Those times when I stole a few minutes to halfway sleep on a chair outside, she was right there under one hand, happily accepting whatever attention I paid her as her due.

She had a bit of a mischievous side; sometimes she would disappear for a bit longer than we thought advisable whilst enjoying her evening constitutional. Most times, however, she would beat us back to the house, and be waiting, grinning, on the porch. Cleo went on just such a walkabout with the Dangpuppy the evening before her only bad day. The two of them were sitting on the porch,

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Contributing Writer Poached pears 1½ Cups apple cider or apple juice 1 Cinnamon stick, broken into three pieces 1 Teaspoon Chinese Fivespice powder or ground cinnamon 3 Pears, halved cored, and peeled 2/3 Cup raisins, if desired (Optional), dusted with Chinese Five -spice or cinnamon In a saucepan combine together cider, cinnamon stick , and Chinese Fivespice cook over medium heat until boiling, stir.

Cool and discard cinnamon sticks after five minutes.

In a glass pie plate place the pear halves cut side facing up. Divide raisins evenly over openings in pear halves, if desired.

Pour hot mixture evenly over pears. Cover dish with plastic wrap, lifting up one cor ner, place in microwave and cook for 4-5 minutes. Serve hot or cold, as desired.

Crab cake burgers 12 Ounces drained crabmeat, cleaned and chopped ½ Cup sour cream 4 Tablespoons horse radish sauce 1 Tablespoon fresh parsley, chopped 2 Scallions, finely chopped, light parts 4 Tablespoons flavored breadcrumbs 1 Large egg 4 Tablespoons flavored panko crumbs 6 Tablespoons olive oil 4 Burger buns Lettuce leaves, thin tomato slices, and thin Vidalia or sweet onion slices.

Mayonnaise In a bowl mix together sour cream, two tablespoons horseradish sauce, parsley, and scallions.

In another bowl, stir together egg, crabmeat, a n d b re a d c r u m b s a n d remaining horseradish sauce. Form into four ½ inch thick patties, coat in flavored panko crumbs.

In a skillet fry in oil over medium heat crab burgers until golden brown, about 4-5 minutes per side. Place cooked burgers on buns and layer with lettuce, tomato, and onion slices.

Put mayonnaise or horse radish sauce on top bun.

Creamed spinach frittata with bacon 1 Cup sweet onion, finely chopped 2 Cloves garlic, minced then smashed ½ Cup heavy cream 2 Tablespoons prepared horseradish ½ Teaspoon dried crushed thyme 1 Tablespoon dried sweet basil, crushed 1 10-ounce package frozen chopped spinach, thawed, drained and pressed dry 6 Large eggs, beaten 4-6 slices smoked thick bacon, crisply cooked and crumbled Cook the bacon until crisp. Remove from skil-

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let, drain, and crumble bacon. Reserve one tablespoon drippings and sauté chopped onion until tender about five minutes, add garlic cook for one minute.

Add cream, horseradish, basil, and thyme. Cook and stir for 3-4 minutes.

Stir eggs, bacon, spinach, salt and pepper, to taste.

Vegetable spray a 9-inch pie plate, add the Spinach mixture, cover with a plate and microwave just until frittata starts to set around the edges, about 4-5 minutes. Uncover and microwave until the center is set, about 2-3 minutes. Let sit for about 8 minutes.

Oatmeal cookies with dried cherries and Heath chips 6 Tablespoons butter, melted 9 Tablespoons brown sugar 3 Large eggs 1 Teaspoon vanilla extract 9 Tablespoons all-purpose flour ½ Teaspoon baking soda ½ Teaspoon Chinese Fivespice or ground cinnamon Pinch of salt 1½ Cups old-fashioned rolled oats 9 Tablespoons Heath chips ½ Cup dried cher ries, blueberries, currants, or

raisins Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. In a bowl mix together butter, brown sugar, eggs, and vanilla. Set aside.

In another bowl whisk together flour, baking soda, Chinese Five-spice, and salt. Add flour mixture to egg mixture. Stir until evenly distributed. Fold in oats, add Heath chips and cherries, mix well.

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Bake until a gold brown, about 15-18 minutes. Let Cookies stand for 8-10 minutes. Eat warm or cold.

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Sea Turtle Hospital News

Summer Series Reflections of the school year, Part 1

By Dr. Chris Wirszyla Special to the Post & Voice It’s been a heck of a year…Let me say that again…It’s been a heck of a year.

Of course, we all came back in late August, full of renewal and energy from a glorious summer. My family went to England to visit my wife’s family for a couple of weeks. We saw her mother, ate British food (and learned how to make authentic sausage rolls), had some great fish and chips in one of my favorite places, Whitby by the Sea. We did some incredible hiking in the Dales of Yorkshire, and had a pack a day of my favorite “crisps”, the Real McKoy Grilled Steak Crinkle Cuts…stayed in a 400-year-old converted farmhouse and listened as Francisco Molinari won the British Open Golf Tournament. What a great trip.

Then it was back for a couple of days of technology training, followed by a week of workshops and getting ready for the kiddos…and then they came, all tanned and wide eyed and bushy tailed…my fourteenth year at Cape Fear Elementary School, and my third year at UNCW as an adjunct professor, teaching the elementary physical education methods courses…thirty-second year teaching…wow.

I was fortunate to have one of my former UNCW students, Corinna Sierra, as my intern. She was smart and motivated, and she started working hard right away on her edTPA, the new intern evaluation system adopted by UNCW and most teacher education programs in the United States.

Having a student who was in my class at UNCW, who did her field experience at CFES, and who was now an intern here was like “a pipeline from the university to the school”, as our former principal, Mr. Charles Chestnut, had told me.

Talking about Mr. Chestnut, he has gone through a lot of treatment to be where he is today, and to me, he is a hero, an inspiration, and a source of joy.

I love that man. And then it happened…two weeks into the school year, here comes Florence…I remember when school started, I had thought of other hurricanes, as it was the season…Ophelia the first year I got here, in 2005…Irene, Sandy, Charley…Matthew two years ago…and now Florence.

I remember thinking, as I watched the hurricane tracker, that one could be scary…And then it was getting closer and closer.

Category three, four, was predicted. We had to make a decision, what should we do, leave? Stay?

We talked with neighbors, some were leaving, some were already gone, some were staying put. My neighbor Joe, he is a man’s man. Multiple generators, big freezers, all the tools, materials, and resources to survive Armageddon. He wasn’t going anywhere. His wife, she probably wanted to leave, but Joe said they were staying, so they were staying.

We got the official word from the district, school was cancelled, I think it was Sept. 10…little did we know that we would be out of school for almost 30 instructional days. So, we made the decision to leave. We battened down the hatches at the house, put things in the shed, tied the basketball hoop to the tree, and went to Pawley’s Island first.

We stayed over night there, and it didn’t seem real, that there was a massive storm off the coast.

We got up the next day and decided to head to Charleston, where my brother’s family, my sister, and my father all lived. We got to see them, then stayed one night. The news was the storm was headed right toward Wilmington…or maybe Georgetown…or Charleston…there was no

clear forecast.

We decided to stay one night in Charleston then head up to central South Carolina. Surely it would be okay up there…all the while, wondering how people were doing at home… wondering if we made the right decision to leave.

Eerily, there was no traffic leaving Wilmington, or leaving Charleston.

It didn’t even seem like there was any weather approaching.

But then we got up to Columbia, and we saw what was happening in Wilmington. We briefly talked to Joe…he said it was crazy…but, ironically, we should have stayed in Charleston, as there was no impact from the storm.

They didn’t even lose power.

However, it was nice to visit with my friend Terry, and his wife, Jackie, who put us up for a week, as we waited to find out when we could get back to our house. The food was amazing, crock pots full of chili, and chicken and dumplings, smokehouse bacon wrapped burgers, casseroles, full fridge, desserts, we were eating southern soul food like it was going out of style.

We finally heard it was okay to get back in, and actually hit a one day window where roads were clear and we made it back in just an hour more than it would normally take us.

We crossed the bridge a n d s n a ke d o u r w ay through the city to get up 17th street. Wow, again.

We couldn’t believe the destruction. Trees down everywhere, huge piles of debris everywhere, power out everywhere…two houses down from us, three trees had gone through the roof of an elderly neighbor, she was inside when it happened.

Our house was spared, our yard was trashed, several big trees down, a huge branch fell on my neighbor’s roof…it was time to get to work.

By Karen Sota Sea Turtle Hospital Special to the Post & Voice This week we’ll share a few particulars on summer intern Matt Heinrich from Culpeper, Va. Matt grew up surrounded by a small menagerie of farm animals but found himself enchanted by the birds, chickens in particular.

Anybody who’s ever had a pet bird or duck will tell you that under those feathers is a pretty incredible little brain. And birds in general can be stunningly beautiful which is why Matt began raising and showing a variety of chicken breeds both locally and nationally.

But it’s not just chickens that captured Matt’s attention.

He also spent two weeks at career camps at Sea World in San Antonio and volunteered for a year as a Herpetology Educator at the National Zoo in DC. This year Matt began looking for opportunities to expand his experience and was encouraged by his advisor to apply for our inter nship. He said the requirements were pretty clear as to what was in store (lots of long hours and hard work) but the biggest reward is seeing our patients make progress every day. Little Kemp’s Mighty Mouse has stolen his heart. This little gal has been battling for more than a year and has overcome one obstacle after another to just wake up every day.

“Mouse is a fighter. She’s had a hard life and keeps pushing through. If she can do it I see no reason for me to give up on anything,” said Matt. “I love how this internship relates back to my major in Animal Science and stretches me to do more than I thought I could.”

Matt Heinrich Matt loves talking to our visitors during tours and relaying the stories of how our turtles got here and the work it takes to rehab them for release. His goal is to make our visitors feel that they, too can play an important part in the work we do and share in our success.

“You can see how excited people get once they understand that they are vital to the future of these animals.”

Matt fills any spare time drawing wildlife pictures and biology illustrations when he’s not hiking or playing the piano or flute.

He’ll return to Virginia Tech as a rising senior to complete his degree in Animal and Poultry Science.

He’ll also take the helm of the Zoo & Aquarium Club as President and continue to be a Peer Mentor for new students in the Animal Science Program. After gradu-

ation he plans to pursue a career in Zoo, Aquarium or Rehab.

We, well actually our loggerhead ladies, are having a banner year so far on Topsail’s beaches. We’ve already surpassed last year’s total nesting number (fiftyfour) and we still have more than two months to go in the official season that ends Aug. 31. As of this writing we have 63 nests.

We’re open daily for tours except Wednesdays and Sundays from Noon until 4 p.m. Lines can be long even early in the summer so prep for your visit by making sure that you are well hydrated and are wearing sunscreen.

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Jesus is the true Amen

By Dr. Ray Mendenhall Contributing Writer I am the Alpha and Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.

Revelation 22: 13 (Author’s note: the song can be sung to the tune “We Have Come to Join in Worship) Sometimes, when I cannot find a song to suit a certain occasion of worship time, I write one. The following is a song I wrote some years ago for a worship service focusing on Jesus’ life.

Verse 1: Jesus is the true Amen. He is faithful to the end.

He has brought us blessed salvation. He is our Savior and our friend.

Every song, every symphony, ever piece of music has a final note, a final chord, a grand finale if you will. In this life, Jesus is the final note in the song of creation.

Jesus is end of this world and the beginning of the next. He is the completion, the culmina-

tion, the last strains of this world. Jesus is the “Amen� on God’s prayer for us and God’s plan for us. As the Hymn declares, Jesus is the true Amen.

The refrain reminds of the sacrifice by which Jesus accomplished all of this.

Refrain: On the cross he bore our sorrows.

On the cross He bore our shame.

On the cross He bore our sinfulness And restored us to God’s claim.

The refrain points to all Jesus suffered on our behalf, how he took upon himself all that we truly deserve but could not bear. Jesus, by His courageous act on the cross, gather up all that weighed us down and kept us from being able to rise in God’s presence. He provided us a way into God’s favor again.

Verse 2: Jesus shared the prayer of the Father, teaching all God’s love and grace.

Jesus healed the sick and the wounded, revealing to all God’s true face.

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Jesus in His life did something else for us. He demonstrated, lived out, if you will, God’s true love for us. He showed us the grace of God; he taught about God’s mercy.

He healed our brokenness inside and out, physical and mental. He shows us as clearly as anyone could, the true face of God. He came to reveal a God of love, a caring Father, passionate about His children.

He in fact taught us to call God Father, to pray to Him in a most familiar and intimate way. Jesus shared God’s hope and promise for all of creation.

Refrain: On the cross he bore our sorrows.

On the cross He bore our shame.

On the cross He bore our sinfulness And restored us to God’s claim.

Jesus dealt with sin in all kinds of ways – one way was to absorb it. Jesus absorbed all that was weak, feeble and sinful in us so that the best in us could rise to the surface.

Jesus bore sorrows and shame and sin so that grace and mercy and love could find a prominent place is us and in our world.

Jesus restored to God. He enabled us to stand boldly in God’s presence so we could come again in to God’s service.

Verse 3: Now we bow and worship the Savior thankful we are free from sin.

Jesus gave us all salvation and He became God’s great Amen.

Jesus brought all things to a great crescendo, a resounding chord of God’s triumph through love.

He gathered it all up in His life and through HisisHis death and delivered it victoriously to God

by His resurrection. “He who knew no sin became sin that we might receive the righteousness

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Jesus whispered the great Amen to all of God’s desires for His creation and people. So that in the end He might accomplish these great things.

Refrain: On the cross he bore our sorrows.

On the cross He bore our shame.

On the cross He bore our sinfulness And restored us to God’s claim.

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18577 NC 53 E, Kelly, NC • 910-669-2488

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

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

HOLY TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH

107 Deerfield Road Hampstead, NC 28443 • 910-270-4221 Holy Eucharist Sunday 10 am Tuesday Healing Service w/Eucharist 10 am

HolyTrinityhampstead.com email: holytrinityhampstead@yahoo.com Like us on Facebook

MOORES CREEK BAPTIST CHURCH

3107 Union Chapel Rd. • Currie, NC 28435 Pastor Roger Barnes

CURRIE COMMUNITY BAPTIST CHURCH

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

Wednesday Prayer Service & Children’s Bible Study: 6:30 p.m.

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

Sunday Worship: 11 a.m. Children’s Church begins at 11:15 Community Bible Study, Wednesdays from 6-7:00 P.M.

ST. JOSEPH THE WORKER CATHOLIC CHURCH

BURGAW PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

WATHA UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

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

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

28396 Hwy. 210 W. • Currie (1/2 mile from Moores Creek Battlefield)

200 E. Fremont St. • Burgaw, NC 28425

160 Camp Kirkwood Road, Watha, NC

910-470-4436

Pastor John Fedoronko

1303 Hwy. 117 • Burgaw, NC • 910-259-2601

Sunday School: Sunday 9:45 a.m. Sunday Worship Service: 11:00 a.m. Adult Bible Study: 9:30-10:15 a.m. Children’s Biblical Studies (ages 3-12) from 10:45-11:30 a.m.

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

Men’s Breakfast, 2nd Sunday of Each Month, 8-9 a.m.

CAPE FEAR COMMUNITY FELLOWSHIP (CF2) Ladies’ Circle, 2nd Monday of Each Month, 6:30-8 p.m.

RILEY’S CREEK BAPTIST CHURCH 10509 US Hwy. 117 S., Rocky Point Business Park Choir Practice & Bible Study, Tues., 7:30-9 p.m.

Youth Group Every Other Wed. 6-7:30 p.m.

19845 NC Hwy. 210, Rocky Point, NC 28457 910-675-2127 Rocky Point, NC • 910-232-7759 Jim Herchenhahn / Pastor www.CF2.us Worship Hours: Sunday Morning, 11 a.m.

ROCKY POINT UNITED METHODIST CHURCH Worship Services: 8:30 a.m. & 10:50 a.m. Youth each Sunday at 6:00 p.m.

Wednesday Night, 6 p.m. Pastor: Dr. Ernie Sanchez located at the intersection of Hyw. 117 & 210 Pastor Mark Murphy Wednesday evenings: Meal at 6:00 p.m. / Study for all ages 7:00 p.m.

Services: Sunday at 10 a.m.

Bible Study: Tuesday at 6 p.m. www.RPUMC.org ALL SAINTS CATHOLIC CHURCH WESTVIEW UNITED METHODIST CHURCH 18737 Hwy 17 North, Hampstead • 910-270-1477 CALVARY CHAPEL COMMUNITY CHURCH 5610 Hwy. 53 W • Burgaw, NC 28425 (Across from Pender High) Monsignor Joseph Ntuwa, Pastor 54 Camp Kirkwood Rd. • Watha, NC 28478 • 910-448-0919 Pastor Fred Roberts Sunday School: 9:45 a.m. Sunday Worship: 11:00 a.m.

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

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

Surf City - SAT 5 p.m., SUN 9 & 11 a.m. (Memorial Day - Labor Day) MISSION BAPTIST CHURCH Bible Study: Wednesday 7 p.m. Youth Group: Wednesday 7:00 p.m.

Daily Mass - Hampstead: TUES & WED 4p.m., THURS & FRI 9 a.m.

607 S. Walker Street • Burgaw, NC 28425 Confessions SAT 4-4:30 p.m. or by appt. www.allsaintsccnc.org JORDANS CHAPEL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH Sunday Worship: 10:30 a.m.

4670 Stag Park Rd. • Burgaw, NC 28425 • 910-259-5735 Wednesday Evening Dinner at 6:00 p.m. and classes at 6:45 p.m.

CHAPEL BY THE BAY IN LANIER’S CAMPGROUND Sunday School: 9:45 a.m. Sunday Worship: 11 a.m. & 6 p.m.

216 Michigan Avenue • Holly Ridge, N.C. 28445 FAITH HARBOR UNITED METHODIST CHURCH Wednesday Bible Study: 7 p.m.

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

BURGAW UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

110 E. Bridgers Street, Burgaw, NC 28425 • 910-259-2295 Sunday School: 10:00 a.m. Sunday Worship: 11:00 a.m.

BARLOW VISTA BAPTIST CHURCH

“The Church on the Hill� (910) 329-3761 22340 US Hwy 17 N Hampstead, NC 28443

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

Wednesday Night Bible Study 7:00 p.m. www.barlowvistabaptistchurch.com

THE CHURCH AT WILMINGTON

Pastor: Don Myers

910-328-6252 Associate Pastor: Nathan Swartz

Services Sunday at 10 a.m. and Thursday at 7:30 p.m.

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.

Children’s Church 6:15 p.m. Choir Practice 7:00 p.m.

Thursday: Youth Group 6:30 p.m.

BURGAW BAPTIST CHURCH

BLAKE’S CHAPEL ADVENT CHRISTIAN CHURCH

Bible Based Community Fellowship NEW Pender County Location 16660 Hwy 17 N. • Hampstead, NC 28443 (American Legion Building) 910-526-7890 Pastor: Monte Suggs

100 E. Bridgers Street • Burgaw, NC 28425 • 910-259-4310 Sunday School 9:45 a.m. Worship Service 11 a.m.

Wednesday evenings: Meal at 6 p.m. Prayer and Bible study for children, youth and adults 6:45 p.m. www.BurgawBaptistChurch.org

88 Blakes Chapel Road • Hampstead, NC 28443 910-270-2576 Rev. Steve Spearing, Pastor Sunday School 10:00 a.m., Morning Worship 11:00 a.m. www.blakeschapel.org Find Us on Facebook E-mail Prayer Requests to: shareinprayer@gmail.com

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Edward “Eddie” Earl Carter ROCKY POINT -- Edward “Eddie” Earl Carter, 63, of Rocky Point passed from his earthly life Tuesday, June 11, 2019 at Liberty Commons Nursing Center.

He was born Dec. 21, 1955 in Rose Hill, the son of the late Adrian Lee Carter and Mary Jean McArthur.

Also remembered are Eddie’s maternal grandparents, Fannie and Alvah Horrell, who preceded Eddie in death and helped to raise him.

Eddie is survived by his daughter, Katlyn Carter; son, Matthew Carter; stepdaughter, Ashley Foster and husband, Ed; grandchildren Alexis Pate and fiancé, Bryce Guertin, Laynie, Kamryn and Kelsie Myers, Tyler Lunsford, Nathan Foster and James Foster; mother of their children, Donna Carter; sister, Linda Johnson; several aunts, uncles, cousins and many dear friends.

For 41 years Eddie worked in the Aircraft Division at General Electric Company, where he made many lasting friendships.

Most of all Eddie loved his family as he was a loving and caring daddy,

granddaddy, brother and friend. For fun times Eddie enjoyed truck pulls, motor and drag car racing, watching Westerns on TV and Beach Music. He loved all of God’s beautiful nature and Eddie always kept a well groomed yard. Eddie’s presence on this earth will certainly be missed.

The family received friends 6-8 p.m. Thursday, June 13, 2019 at QuinnMcGowen Funeral Home in Burgaw and at other times at 150 Jakes Drive, Rocky Point.

Funeral service was be 3 p.m. Friday at QuinnMcGowen Funeral Home Burgaw Chapel with Pastor Ben Horrell conducting the service. Burial followed in Haw Bluff Baptist Church Cemetery.

Shared memories and condolences may be sent to the family at www.quinnmcgowen.com Quinn-McGowen Funeral Home of Burgaw.

John “Jack” Henry Murphy BURGAW -- John “Jack”

Obituaries

Henry Murphy, Sr., age 93, of Burgaw passed peacefully Thursday, June 13, 2019 at his home.

He was born Sept. 12, 1925 in Atkinson, to John Alexander Murphy and Miriam Hall Murphy.

He graduated from Atkinson High School in 1942 and attended Oak Ridge Military Institute. Jack, a proud American, served his country honorably during WWII in the US Army as a Staff Sargent, Company B 24th Battalion Infantry until Sept. 26, 1945. At the age of 21 years, he served as Mayor of Atkinson from 1947-1953. He operated the J. H. Murphy Cotton Gin, also operated the Burgaw Produce Exchange and was buyer for the Burgaw Produce Market. In 1957 Murphy Brothers Milling Company opened with Jack as president, along with his brother, William “Billy” Murphy. Jack was dedicated to working with the farmers in Pender and Duplin Counties buying and selling grain, poultry, and hogs for 32 years. Jack was a blueberry grower in Pender County. He was also an egg and poultry producer, Murphy-Lanier Egg Farm of Burgaw.

Jack was involved in his Burgaw community. He served as vice president of the Carolina Blueberry Association, charter member of the Burgaw Rotary Club, charter and board member of Pender Memorial Hospital, charter member of Pender County Rescue Squad, and served on the Pender County Welfare Board and Board of directors of First National Bank, now Bank of America. He served on the Kirkwood Mission Committee to build

Camp Kirkwood in Watha and chairman of the building and grounds committee for Camp Kirkwood.

He was a faithful member of Burgaw Presbyterian Church and served as an elder in the church for many years.

Jack’s passion was to spend time at his Murphy “Murf-Surf ” fishpond. He enjoyed sitting on the front porch in his rocking chair, enjoying the pond and nature. He spent time sharing his love for the pond with his wife, sons, daughters, and grandchildren. He also shared good times with his friends. He enjoyed hunting and socializing with his lifelong friends at the Murphy’s Crossroads Hunting Club.

Most important in life was his family. He was devoted and married to his wife, Stella DeBaylo Murphy for 67 years. He always took time to teach his children important lessons in life.

Jack was a man of honor, integrity, generosity, consideration for others, and a faithful servant to his Lord.

Jack Murphy is survived by his wife of 67 years, Stella DeBaylo Murphy; daughters, Lynn Murphy Stephenson (Vann) and Deane Murphy Viola (Giuseppe Viola, deceased); sons, John Murphy, Jr. (Julie) and Ronald Murphy; grandchildren, Lauren Stephenson, Kirk Stephenson, Valerie Viola Basaly (Sammy) and Francesco Viola (Ashley); great grandchildren, Giuseppe Elias Viola and Lucas Karim Basaly; sister, Betty Ann Grigg (Irvin); brother, Billy Murphy (Barbara); many extended family and friends.

Jack leaves with us the importance of God, family,

friends, and country. His memory is blessed and will not be forgotten. He entered the heavens of eternity with peace.

The family received friends 2 p.m. Sunday, June 16, 2019 in the fellowship hall of Burgaw Presbyterian Church with funeral service in the church sanctuary at 3 p.m. The Rev. Will Davis conducted the service.

Burial followed in Burgaw Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers memorial gifts may be given to Burgaw Presbyterian Church, PO Box 565, Burgaw, NC 28425 or Caswell Presbyterian Church, PO Box 189, Atkinson, NC 28421.

Shared memories and condolences may be sent to the family at www.quinnmcgowen.com. The family was served by QuinnMcGowen Funeral Home of Burgaw.

Barbara Hall Rivenbark WALLACE -- Barbara Hall Rivenbark of Wallace departed her earthly life for her eternal heavenly home

during the morning of June 11, 2019 while at Lower Cape Fear Life Care Center in Wilmington. Born on July 15, 1941, she is the daughter of Gaitha Deburnia Hall and Annie Pearsall Hall.

Left to cherish her memory are her husband-Robert Turner Rivenbark, Sr; children--Robert Turner Rivenbark, Jr and wife Lesa of Lowell, NC and Shelly Rivenbark Hill and husband Lee of Cary; grandchildren-Tyler Rivenbark and Kayla Rivenbark of Lowell, Taylor Hill and Dunning Hill of Cary; sister--Lillian Hall Corbett of Wilmington; and many nieces and nephews.

Mrs. Rivenbark grew up attending Hopewell Presbyterian Church near Burgaw and in later life attended Wallace First Baptist Church in Wallace. Raising her children in the proper way was always paramount in her philosophy of life.

Her love of all family members was obvious in the eyes and hearts of all who knew her and her amazing cooking abilities were captivating. The love of animals and caring for them was always a delight and pleasure for Barbara.

A service to celebrate her life held at 2 p.m. Saturday, June 15, 2019 in Hopewell Presbyterian Church Burgaw, The family will greeted friends after the service in the church fellowship hall. The family requests that, rather than flowers, a contribution in Barbara’s memory be considered to Lower Cape Fear Hospice Foundation--1414 Physicians Drive--Wilmington, North Carolina 28401.

Padgett Funeral & Cremation Services is serving the Rivenbark family.

Topsail Historical Society sponsors summer aquarium program

By Lori Kirkpatrick Post & Voice Staff Writer The Historical Society of Topsail Island will offer its weekly 2019 Summer Aquarium Program from June 26 through July 31. The program will be presented by the North Carolina Aquarium at Fort Fisher.

The interactive activities, designed for families with school aged children, will take place Wednesdays from 1:00 until 2:00 p.m. at the Assembly Building. A donation of $1 per child is appreciated to defray the cost and to enable the Historical Society to continue offering these events.

On June 26, the topic will Her mit Crabs, and the target audience will be kids between the ages of four and six. The remainder of the programs are designed for kids of all ages.

The July 3 event will be focused on Fantastic Fish, followed by Turtle Time on

July 10. July 17’s activities will feature Jammin’ Jellies. Scaly Survivors will be presented July 24, and Our Living Seashells on July 31.

The Historical Society of Topsail Island was established in 1989. The group’s mission is to preserve and interpret artifacts, photos and documents related to the fascinating history of Topsail Island for the education and enjoyment of the public. Monthly luncheons, seminars, The Jingle Bell Ball, the Autumn with Topsail Festival and Bingo are just a few of the activities that they offer.

The Historical Society also operates the Missiles and More Museum with exhibits that focus mainly on Operation Bumblebee, the secret US missiles testing project that operated on the island during the 1940’s; and on nearby Camp Davis, where soldiers practiced anti-aircraft firing.

The museum is housed in the Assembly Building, where many of the tested missiles were developed and built. Other exhibits interpret early Native American life on the island, along with the growth of the area as a vacation spot after government occupation; as well as the natural history of the island. The Museum also features other exhibits including a Pirate Exhibit and an Osprey Aircraft Exhibit.

The Assembly Building is located at 720 Channel Blvd in Topsail Beach. The Missiles and More Museum is open throughout the summer on Monday through Saturday from 2 p.m. until 5 p.m.

The museum also welcomes schools, church groups and other organizations to call for special arrangements for group tours. They.can be reached at (910) 328-8663..

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Bill Howard Outdoors

By Bill Howard Post & Voice Columnist

One of the great sights when fishing is seeing a fish walking on top of the water. I know, you may ask how does a fish walk since it has no legs or feet. You may also ask how does the same fish not only walk but do so on top of water.

Of course, it isn’t that kind of walk. They do so flailing their bodies up in the air and skim across the surface with the tails splashing the water about.

Many logos of sports teams, various products, or organizations use this type of profile.

Hooking into a nice largemouth bass can create this scenario when they are really fighting, and it takes a little skill from the angler to keep the fish from throwing the bait during this athletic move by the angry fish.

When I was a youngster, my friends and I always made whatever we were doing into something different in our imaginations.

If we were bird hunting, we pretended the birds were enemy aircraft and we were trying to bring them down before they attacked.

Or we might scan the surface of the lake for submarines surfacing, which were in fact turtles.

But when we hooked into a bass that was a real fighter, well, the bass became something even more majestic. Instead of hooking into a bucket mouth, we were instead hooked into a half ton billfish, a blue marlin to be more specific, and were having the fights of our lives.

Line screaming from the under adjusted drag would fill the air as the marlin made a line out to sea. We would adjust the drag to get the upper hand once again (especially when the bass was heading to a fallen tree rather than ‘out to sea’).

And then, as if in slow motion, we could see the water begin to bulge before finally parting as the fish took to the air wriggling side to side, thrashing its

head back and forth trying to toss the lure from its mouth.

Marlin and other billfish were the dreams of us flat water anglers. The biggest thing we may actually catch, other than a sunken log, would be a large catfish that basically felt like, well, a sunken log, when we reeled him in.

Marlin on the other hand, they were the great game fish. 500 pounds, 600 pounds, heck, 1342 pounds like the one mounted at the Oregon Inlet Marina seemed like the pinnacle of our fishing dreams.

One day maybe, when we would become adults and be rich, we could go after the same.

I imagine some of the weekend fishing shows that came on one of the three channels we had back then along with that marlin displayed at Oregon Inlet Marina gave a lot of kids, and adults alike, that dream.

Today however, that dream may be enticed by something different. Not that it is new, the Big Rock Tournament is in its 61st year, but it certainly reaches more people.

Social media and regu-

lar media along with ever increasing pay days have helped spread the word of the Big Rock. Close to live feeds of not just the boats coming in with a catch or not, but when a boat actually hooks up give the tournament a new sense of excitement that many can follow along with, whether at the event, near the coast, or across the country.

Dreams of hooking into a supersized marlin, landing in the fighting chair, muscling the fish in his element with rough seas pounds from the sides, and then in the end, holding a big check for big money are probably very abundant this time of year.

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

Town of Burgaw Government News June 20, 2019

ROAD CLOSURE DUE TO THE OSGOOD CANAL DRAINAGE IMPROVEMENT PROJECT East Fremont Street will be closed between Cowan Street and Campbell Street beginning Monday, June 17th until further notice. Access to and from businesses will remain open. We appreciate your patience as we continue to improve drainage issues throughout town.

VOLUNTEER NEEDED FOR THE PLANNING & ZONING BOARD The Town of Burgaw is accepting applications for the Planning & Zoning Board. There is currently one vacancy which requires an applicant that resides within the town limits or a qualified non-resident business or property owner. Applications may be downloaded on our website at www.townofburgaw.com. Applications should be submitted to the Town Clerk at Town Hall, 109 N. Walker Street or via email at kwells@townofburgaw.com.

MOSQUITO SPRAYING Mosquito spraying will begin soon. If you have beehives in the town limits, please let Public Works know so we can add you to the list of ‘no-spray’ areas. Please email your name, address and phone number to cabbood@burgawnc.gov so we can keep a digital record of where you’re located. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact our Public Works Department at 910-259-2901.

TOWN CALENDAR June 20 June 20 June 27

Planning Board Meeting Summer on the Square Concert: The Imitations TDA Meeting @ Town Hall

TOWN OF BURGAW Phone 910.259.2151 Fax 910.259.6644 Email: mail@burgawnc.gov Web: www.townofburgaw.com

Pender Girls Scouts named 2019 top sellers Girl Scouts – North Carolina Coastal Pines is pleased to announce that Patricia Polinski of Burgaw, N.C., is the Pender top seller for the 2019 Girl Scout Cookie Program. Polinski sold 1047 boxes of Girl Scout cookies in the annual cookie program that ended in March.

Alexia Beaulieu of Rocky Point placed second with 4241 boxes sold and Summer Gurganious of Rocky Point, N.C. placed third with 913 boxes sold. The 2019 Cookie Program was held January 12 – March 3, 2019.

Participating in the Girl Scout Cookie Program is a long-held and cherished tradition for girls, with recognition as a top cookie seller a coveted honor. Being named a top seller goes beyond what’s in the box as it highlights a girl’s determination to set and achieve goals, develop business and financial literacy skills, and enhance their entrepreneurial spirit.

This recognition also demonstrates a girl’s mastery of the five skills: goal setting, decision making, money management, people skills, and business ethics as she runs her very own

Patricia Polinski cookie business.

“The Girl Scout Cookie Program is about so much more than what is in the box. The girls that participated this year lear ned valuable life skills, like money management and goal setting, while raising funds to support future leadership endeavors with Girl Scouts,” said GSNCCP Product Sales Director Kelly Griffin. “Each Girl Scout that sold a box of cookies this year became an entrepreneur in the largest girl-led business in the world, and we are excited to celebrate all that they accomplished during the 2019 Girl Scout Cookie Program while recognizing our girlleaders.”

Girl Scouts – North Carolina Coastal Pines sold over 3 million boxes of cookies with over 11,000 Girl Scouts participating in the 2019 Girl Scout Cookie Program.

Approximately 2,100 girls sold more than 400 boxes of cookies each.

Additionally, more than 300 girls sold 1,000+ boxes each. Council-wide the average number of boxes sold per girl was 272.

Nationally the average number of boxes sold by Girl Scouts is approximately 150. This year, the council exceeded their Operation Cookie Drop goal by collecting donations to send over 108,000 boxes of cookies to the military men and women proudly serving our country and culminating in over a million boxes delivered through this councilwide service project since its inception in 2005.

The Girl Scout Cookie Program helps support girls in achieving the goals they set for program activities, community service projects and philanthropy, and ensures all girls are afforded access to the Girl Scout Leadership Experience.

For more than 100 years,

the Girl Scout Cookie Program has also provided life changing leadership opportunities for every G.I.R.L (Go-getter, Innovator, Risktaker, and Leader).

Joining the Pender Girl Scouts, the overall council top sellers are Alyssa Judkins, Ruth Lahl, and Madeline Fischer. Judkins of Durham County placed first by selling 12,474 boxes, and Lahl of Cumberland County placed second with 5,139 boxes. Fischer of New Hanover County placed third by selling 4,152 boxes.

“Cookie sales are so important to Girl Scouts. I tell all my customers that selling cookies helps my troop to do fun things like go on trips or have learning experiences together…for example, this year our troop is taking a 12 week Sign Language Class with our cookie money!” said top seller Ruth Lahl. “Cookie sales also help keep our camps open and affordable for all Girl Scouts! We are very lucky to have so many awesome camps in our council. I’d sell cookies to help pay for those camps even if I didn’t earn any prizes.”

Town of Surf City Government News June 20th, 2019 MEETING TIMES Surf City Town Council 1st Tuesday of the month Planning Board 2nd Thursday of the month ________________________________________________________

The Town of Surf City Town Council has called a Special st Meeting on the 1 day of July 2019 at 5:30 pm at the Surf City Welcome Center, located at 102 North Shore Drive.

For the purpose of:

Site Plan Approval: Surf City Crossing Apartments The public is urged to be present for this meeting. A copy of the site plan is on file with the Town’s Community Development Department for inspection by all interested citizens.

PENDER COUNTY GOVERNMENT NEWS

6/20/2019

WANTED! A FEW GOOD MEN & WOMEN! VOLUNTEER! The Pender County Board of Commissioners will consider appointments to the following Boards/Commissions/Committees: # of Name of Board Vacancies Positions/Categories ABC Board 1 District 1 Advisory Board of Health 3 Dentist***, Engineer***, Optometrist*** Board of Adjustment 2 District 1, District 4 Board of Equalization & Review 2 At-Large, Alternate Industrial Facilities & Pollution Control Financing Auth.

7 Business/Insurance/Attorney/Banking Parks and Recreation Board 1 District 3 Planning Board 1 Technical Southeastern Community & Family Services Board 1 At-Large Southeastern Economic Development Commission 1 Citizen Representative District 1 = Upper Topsail; Surf City District 4 = Union; Penderlea; Grady; District 2 = Scotts Hill; Lower Topsail Columbia; Caswell; Canetuck District 3 = Rocky Point; Long Creek 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 or write or call Melissa Long, Clerk to the Board, PO Box 5, Burgaw, NC 28425 (910) 259-1200, and complete an application. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________

NOTICE OF MEETINGS OF THE PENDER COUNTY BOARD OF EQUALIZATION AND REVIEW

Pursuant to N.C.G.S. 105-322, the Pender County Board of Equalization and Review will meet as required by law.

PURPOSE OF MEETINGS To hear, upon request, any and all taxpayers who own or control taxable property assessed for taxation in Pender County, with respect to the valuation of such property, or the property of others, and to fulfill other duties and responsibilities as required by law.

TIME OF MEETINGS The Board will convene for its first meeting on Monday, May 6th , 2019.

The Board will adjourn for the purpose of accepting requests for hearing at its last meeting on Friday, June 28th, 2019.

Meetings will be held Monday May 6 th The week of May 27th Monday – Friday The week of June 3rd Monday – Friday The week of June 10th Monday - Friday All meetings begin promptly at 9:00 AM In Tax Assessors Conference Room of the Howard Holly Building.

Requests for a hearing must be received no later than final adjournment which is scheduled for Friday, June 28th, 2019 at 3:00 PM. In the event of an earlier or a later adjournment, notice to that effect will be published in this newspaper.

The schedule for the hearing of appeals which were timely filed will be posted at the office of the Assessor, serving as Clerk to the Board, and will also be provided to individuals and organizations that have requested notice pursuant to N.C.G.S. 143318.12.

All requests for hearing should be made to: Justian Pound, Clerk to the Pender County Board of Equalization and Review Office of Tax Assessor PO Box 67 Burgaw, N. C. 28425 Telephone: (910) 910-1221

www.pendercountync.gov

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Legal Notices Legal Notices Legal Notices Legal Notices Legal Notices

Legal Notices

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF PENDER IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION COURT FILE #: 19-CVS-523 PENDER COUNTY Plaintiff(s), v.

TERRY ROBERT IKNER, owner et. al.

Defendant(s).

NOTICE OF SERVICE OF PROCESS BY PUBLICATION TO: UNKNOWN HEIRS AND/OR SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST TO ROBERT EARL IKNER Take notice that a pleading seeking relief against you has been filed in the above-titled action.

The nature of the relief sought is as follows: foreclosure sale to satisfy unpaid property taxes on your interest in the property sometimes briefly described as Lot 41, Kings Estate, Parcel ID Number 2277-875471-0000 more fully described in the complaint. Plaintiff seeks to extinguish any and all claim or interest that you may have in the property.

You are required to make defense to such pleading no later than July 29, 2019.

This day, June 5, 2019.

Scott G. Sherman, State Bar # 17596 Richard T. Rodgers, Jr., State Bar # 28777 ProTax, A Division of Sherman & Rodgers, PLLC PO Box 250; Burgaw, NC 28425 910-259-2615 (tel/fax); tammy@shermanandrodgers.com #8704 6/13, 6/20, 6/27/19

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF PENDER IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION COURT FILE #: 18-CVS-843 PENDER COUNTY et. al., Plaintiff(s), v.

UNKNOWN HEIRS AND/OR SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST TO WAGUS MOORE, JR., owner, et. al., Defendant(s).

NOTICE OF SALE In accordance with an Order entered in Pender County v. UNKNOWN HEIRS AND/OR SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST TO WAGUS MOORE, JR., owner, et. al., 18-CVS-843, (Pender County, North Carolina), the undersigned shall offer for sale to the highest bidder at the western door of the Pender County Courthouse in Burgaw, North Carolina at 12:00 Noon, June 21, 2019, that property located in Pender County, North Carolina, described as: BEING all of Lot 13 as shown on a map entitled “Composite Map of Survey for Wagus Moore and wife, Lillian Nixon Moore’ as recorded in Map Book 20 at Page 50 of the Pender County Registry.

TOGETHER with an undivided 1/6 interest in the Private Road as shown on the above mentioned map.

SUBJECT to and together with an easement for egress and ingress over the Private Road as shown on the above mentioned map.

(PID: 4214-28-3069-0000) This sale shall be for cash and a deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid shall be required of the highest bidder at the sale.

This sale shall be subject to any encumbrances which have priority over the tax liens of Pender County, all deferred taxes, and all outstanding city and county taxes and improvement assessments not delinquent as of the filing of the confirmation of sale, any State or Federal right of redemption, and all outstanding city and county taxes and improvement assessments not included in the above order.

This day, May 31, 2019.

Richard T. Rodgers, Jr., State Bar # 28777, Commissioner ProTax, A Division of Sherman & Rodgers, PLLC PO Box 250; Burgaw, NC 28425 910-259-2615 (tel/fax); tammy@shermanandrodgers.com #8715 6/13, 6/20/19

NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND DEBTORS OF WALTER ATKINSON WARREN All persons, firms and corporations having claims against Walter Atkinson Warren, late of Pender County, North Carolina, are notified to exhibit them to Houston Meares, Jr. and Carolyn Ashe, Co-Administrators of the decedent’s estate, on or before August 28, 2019, c/o Samantha Reichle, Attorney at Law, 205 Providence Road, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, or be barred from their recovery.

Debtors of the decedent are asked to make immediate payment to the above named Co-Administrators.

This the 30th day of May, 2019.

Houston Meares, Jr. and Carolyn Ashe, Co-Administrators c/o Samantha Reichle, Atty.

TrustCounsel 205 Providence Road Chapel Hill, NC 27514 #8695 5/30, 6/6, 6/13, 6/20/19 NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND DEBTORS STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, PENDER COUNTY IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION Having qualified as Executor of the estate of Yvonne J. Ley, deceased, of Pender County, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of said decedent, Yvonne J. Ley, to present them to the undersigned on or before September 5, 2019 at 1827 S. Shore Drive, Surf City, NC 28445 or be barred from recovery. All persons indebted to said estate, please make immediate payment.

This the 30th day of May, 2019.

Phillip E. Houser 1827 S. Shore Drive Surf City, NC 28445 #8689 5/30, 6/6, 6/13, 6/20/19 NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND DEBTORS STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, PENDER COUNTY IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION Having qualified as Executor of the estate of Rosanne D’Avola Kennedy, deceased, of Pender County, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of said decedent, Rosanne D’Avola Kennedy, to present them to the undersigned on or before September 12, 2019 at 26478 Doverstone Street, Bonita Springs, Florida 34135 or be barred from recovery. All persons indebted to said estate, please make immediate payment.

This the 6th day of June, 2019.

Gina D’Avola Truax 26478 Doverstone Street Bonita Springs, FL 34135 #8696 6/6, 6/13, 6/20, 6/27/19 STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF PENDER NOTICE TO CREDITORS Having qualified as Administrator of the Estate of David Allander Williams late of 7608 Old River Road, Burgaw, Pender County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons, firms and corporations having claims against the Estate of David Allander Williams to exhibit them to the undersigned on or before the 90th day of this notice, August 28, 2019, or this Notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons, firms and corporations indebted to the said Estate will please make immediate payment to the undersigned.

Angela Pridgen, Administrator of the Estate of David Allander Williams (15 E 0189) c/o Jillian C.S. Blanchard Shipman & Wright, LLP. 575 Military Cutoff Road, Suite 106 Wilmington, North Carolina 28405 #8694 5/30, 6/6, 6/13, 6/20/19 PUBLIC NOTICE In accordance with NCGS 15812 the budget officer for the Village of St. Helena has submitted the annual 2019-2020 fiscal year budget to the governing board. The budget is available for public inspection by contacting the clerk of the Village Council at (336) 302-5890. A public hearing concerning the budget shall be held at 6:30 p.m. on June 20, 2019 at the Village of St. Helena Town Hall, St. Helena, NC at which time any persons who wish to be heard on the budget may appear.

Mary D. Bakan, Village Clerk #8701 6/6, 6/13/19 NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND DEBTORS STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, PENDER COUNTY IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION Having qualified as Executor of the estate of Jordan Mordecai Jablons deceased, of Pender County, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of said decedent, Jordan Mordecai Jablons, to present them to the undersigned on or before September 12, 2019 at P.O. Box 83, Flemington, NJ 08822 or be barred from recovery. All persons indebted to said estate, please make immediate payment.

This the 6th day of June, 2019.

Thomas F. DiBianca, Esq. P.O. Box 83 Flemington, NJ 08822 #8697 6/6, 6/13, 6/20, 6/27/19 SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S AMENDED NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL PROPERTY THIS ACTION BROUGHT PURSUANT TO THE POWER AND AUTHORITY contained within that certain Deed of Trust executed and delivered by James Johnson and Vaun S. Johnson dated February 22, 2010 and recorded on March 4, 2010 in Book 3746 at Page 139 in the Office of Register of Deeds of Pender County, North Carolina. As a result of a default in the obligations contained within the Promissory Note and Deed of Trust and the failure to carry out and perform the stipulation and agreements contained therein, the holder of the indebtedness secured by said Deed of Trust made demand to have the default cured, which was not met.

Therefore, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will place for sale that parcel of land, including improvements thereon, situated, lying and being in the City of Rocky Point, County of Pender, State of North Carolina, and being more particularly described in the heretofore referenced Deed of trust. Said sale will be a public auction to the highest bidder for cash, at the usual place of sale at the Pender County Courthouse, Burgaw, North Carolina, on June 25, 2019 at 11:00 AM Address of Property: 17627 NC Highway 210, Rocky Point, NC 28457 Tax Parcel ID: 3214-87-09420000 Present Record Owners: The Estate of Vaun S. Johnson The terms of the sale are that the real property hereinbefore described will be sold for cash to the highest bidder. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale. The successful bidder will be required to pay revenue stamps on the Trustee’s Deed, any Land Transfer Tax, and costs for recording the Trustee’s Deed.

The real property hereinabove described is being offered for sale “AS IS, WHERE IS” and will be sold subject to all superior liens, unpaid taxes, special assessments, and other encumbrances. Other conditions will be announced at the sale.

The sale will be held open for ten (10) days for upset bids, as by law required. The sale will not confirm until there have been ten (10) consecutive days with no upset bids having been filed.

If for any reason the Trustee is unable to convey title to this property, or if the sale is set aside, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the bid deposit. Furthermore, if the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the Trustee, in its sole discretion, if it believes the challenge to have merit, may declare the sale to be void and return the bid deposit.

In either event, the purchaser will have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, the Mortgagee’s attorney, or the Trustee.

Additional Notice Required for Residential Real Property with Less Than Fifteen (15) Rental Units: An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least ten (10) days, but no more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, 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 the termination.

Assistant/Deputy Clerk of Superior Court Albertelli Law Partners North Carolina, P.A., Substitute Trustee By: David W. Neill Albertelli Law Partners North Carolina, P.A. David W. Neill NC State Bar No. 23396 205 Regency Executive Park Drive, Suite 100 Charlotte, NC 28217 Tel: 704-970-0391 A-4695348 06/13/2019, 06/20/2019 #8699 6/13, 6/20/19 STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF PENDER IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION COURT FILE #: 18-CVS-108 PENDER COUNTY et. al., Plaintiff(s), v.

UNKNOWN HEIRS AND/OR SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST TO EDGAR ALLEN THOMAS, , et. al., Defendant(s).

NOTICE OF SALE In accordance with an Order entered in Pender County v. UNKNOWN HEIRS AND/OR SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST TO EDGAR ALLEN THOMAS, , et. al., 18-CVS-108, (Pender County, North Carolina), the undersigned shall offer for sale to the highest bidder at the western door of the Pender County Courthouse in Burgaw, North Carolina at 12:00 Noon, June 21, 2019, that property located in Pender County, North Carolina, described as: BEING all of Lot 8 of King’s Estates as the same is shown on a map of said subdivision, recorded in Map Book 25 at Page 150 of the Pender County Registry, reference to which is hereby made for a more particular description.

(PID: 2277-95-0746-0000) This sale shall be for cash and a deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid shall be required of the highest bidder at the sale.

This sale shall be subject to any encumbrances which have priority over the tax liens of Pender County, all deferred taxes, and all outstanding city and county taxes and improvement assessments not delinquent as of the filing of the confirmation of sale, any State or Federal right of redemption, and all outstanding city and county taxes and improvement assessments not included in the above order.

This day, May 31, 2019.

Richard T. Rodgers, Jr., State Bar # 28777, Commissioner ProTax, A Division of Sherman & Rodgers, PLLC PO Box 250; Burgaw, NC 28425 910-259-2615 (tel/fax); tammy@shermanandrodgers.com #8711 6/13, 6/20/19

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STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF PENDER IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION COURT FILE #: 17-CVS-669 PENDER COUNTY Plaintiff(s), v.

UNKNOWN HEIRS AND/OR SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST TO GEORGE EDWARD KEA, owner et. al.

Defendant(s).

NOTICE OF SERVICE OF PROCESS BY PUBLICATION TO: UNKNOWN SPOUSE OF FELICIA KEA Take notice that a pleading seeking relief against you has been filed in the above-titled action.

The nature of the relief sought is as follows: foreclosure sale to satisfy unpaid property taxes on your interest in the property sometimes briefly described as 3.15 acres, Parcel ID Number 2234-55-1610-0000 more fully described in the complaint.

Plaintiff seeks to extinguish any and all claim or interest that you may have in the property.

You are required to make defense to such pleading no later than July 29, 2019.

This day, June 6, 2019.

Scott G. Sherman, State Bar # 17596 Richard T. Rodgers, Jr., State Bar # 28777 ProTax, A Division of Sherman & Rodgers, PLLC PO Box 250; Burgaw, NC 28425 910-259-2615 (tel/fax); tammy@shermanandrodgers.com #8707 6/13, 6/20, 6/27/19 STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF PENDER IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION COURT FILE #: 17-CVS-1107 PENDER COUNTY et. al., Plaintiff(s), v.

LORA FLOWERS, owner, et. al., Defendant(s).

NOTICE OF SALE In accordance with an Order entered in Pender County v. LORA FLOWERS, owner, et. al., 17-CVS1107, (Pender County, North Carolina), the undersigned shall offer for sale to the highest bidder at the western door of the Pender County Courthouse in Burgaw, North Carolina at 12:00 Noon, June 21, 2019, that property located in Pender County, North Carolina, described as: Being all of Lot 2, Blackmore Estates, as shown on that map recorded in Map Book 31, Page 21 in the Pender County Registry.

(PID: 3313-97-2760-0000) This sale shall be for cash and a deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid shall be required of the highest bidder at the sale.

This sale shall be subject to any encumbrances which have priority over the tax liens of Pender County, all deferred taxes, and all outstanding city and county taxes and improvement assessments not delinquent as of the filing of the confirmation of sale, any State or Federal right of redemption, and all outstanding city and county taxes and improvement assessments not included in the above order.

This day, May 31, 2019.

Richard T. Rodgers, Jr., State Bar # 28777, Commissioner ProTax, A Division of Sherman & Rodgers, PLLC PO Box 250; Burgaw, NC 28425 910-259-2615 (tel/fax); tammy@shermanandrodgers.com #8710 6/13, 6/20/19

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA PENDER COUNTY NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND DEBTORS OF MERYL CHRISTINE BONNEY 19 E 192 All persons, firms and corporations having claims against Meryl Christine Bonney, deceased, are notified to exhibit them to Kathleen Bonney Payne, Executrix of the decedent’s estate, on or before September 21, 2019 at 3630 Carmel Road, Charlotte, NC 28226, or be barred from their recovery. Debtors of the decedent are asked to make immediate payment to the above named Executrix.

Kathleen Bonney Payne, Executrix Estate of Meryl Christine Bonney c/o Mark I. Nunalee MARK I NUNALEE PC Attorney at Law P.O. Box 598 Hampstead NC 28443 910-270-4347 #8725 6/20, 6/27, 7/4, 7/11/19

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF PENDER IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION COURT FILE #: 19-CVS-524 PENDER COUNTY Plaintiff(s), v.

TERRY ROBERT IKNER, owner et. al.

Defendant(s).

NOTICE OF SERVICE OF PROCESS BY PUBLICATION TO: UNKNOWN HEIRS AND/OR SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST TO ROBERT EARL IKNER Take notice that a pleading seeking relief against you has been filed in the above-titled action.

The nature of the relief sought is as follows: foreclosure sale to satisfy unpaid property taxes on your interest in the property sometimes briefly described as Lot 37 Kings Estates, Parcel ID Number 227787-6253-0000 more fully described in the complaint. Plaintiff seeks to extinguish any and all claim or interest that you may have in the property.

You are required to make defense to such pleading no later than July 29, 2019.

This day, June 6, 2019.

Scott G. Sherman, State Bar # 17596 Richard T. Rodgers, Jr., State Bar # 28777 ProTax, A Division of Sherman & Rodgers, PLLC PO Box 250; Burgaw, NC 28425 910-259-2615 (tel/fax); tammy@shermanandrodgers.com #8705 6/13, 6/20, 6/27/19 STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF PENDER IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION COURT FILE #: 19-CVS-525 PENDER COUNTY Plaintiff(s), v.

TERRY ROBERT IKNER, owner et. al.

Defendant(s).

NOTICE OF SERVICE OF PROCESS BY PUBLICATION TO: UNKNOWN HEIRS AND/OR SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST TO ROBERT EARL IKNER Take notice that a pleading seeking relief against you has been filed in the above-titled action.

The nature of the relief sought is as follows: foreclosure sale to satisfy unpaid property taxes on your interest in the property sometimes briefly described as Lot 39 Kings Estates, Parcel ID Number 2277-87-6311-0000 more fully described in the complaint.

Plaintiff seeks to extinguish any and all claim or interest that you may have in the property.

You are required to make defense to such pleading no later than July 29, 2019.

This day, June 6, 2019.

Scott G. Sherman, State Bar # 17596 Richard T. Rodgers, Jr., State Bar # 28777 ProTax, A Division of Sherman & Rodgers, PLLC PO Box 250; Burgaw, NC 28425 910-259-2615 (tel/fax); tammy@shermanandrodgers.com #8706 6/13, 6/20, 6/27/19 NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND DEBTORS OF ALVIS RAY LANIER 19 E 185 Having qualified as the Administrator of the Estate of Alvis Ray Lanier deceased of Pender County, North Carolina, the undersigned does hereby notify all persons, firms and corporations having claims against the estate of said decedent to exhibit them to the undersigned on or before the 13th day of September, 2019, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of recovery. All persons, firms and corporation indebted to the said estate will please make immediate payment to the undersigned. This the 13th day of June, 2019.

Lawrence S. Boehling Administrator of the Estate of Alvis Ray Lanier P.O. Box 1416 Burgaw, NC 28425 910-259-3334 #8702 6/13, 6/20, 6/27, 7/4/19 STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF PENDER IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION COURT FILE #: 18-CVS-519 PENDER COUNTY et. al., Plaintiff(s), v.

CURTIS WEST, JR., owner, et. al., Defendant(s).

NOTICE OF SALE In accordance with an Order entered in Pender County v. CURTIS WEST, JR., owner, et. al., 18CVS-519, (Pender County, North Carolina), the undersigned shall offer for sale to the highest bidder at the western door of the Pender County Courthouse in Burgaw, North Carolina at 12:00 Noon, June 21, 2019, that property located in Pender County, North Carolina, described as: Being a tract of land located in Union Township, Pender County, North Carolina, said tract being a portion of the Ethel N. Jacobs and Melvin T. Jacobs, Sr. property recorded in db 1077 at pg 71, and being more particularly described as follows: Beginning at a new 7/8” iron pipe, said pipe being S-34-13-36-W a distance of 288.05 feet from an existing 3/4” iron rod, said rod being the Northerly corner of the tract which this is a part of, proceed thence a new line S-55-43-20-E a distance of 156.34 feet to a new 7/8” iron pipe, said pipe being in the Easterly line of the tract which this is a part of, thence with said line S-34 -13-40-W a distance of 278.64 feet to an existing 5/8” rebar, said rebar being the Southerly corner of the tract which this is a part of, thence N-55-43-20-W a distance of 156.33

feet to an existing 5/8” iron rod, said rod being the Westerly corner of the tract which this is a part of, thence N-34-13-36-E a distance of 278.64 feet to the point of beginning. The above described tract contains 1.00 acres more or less.

Along with the above described tract there is included a 30.00 foot wide ingress and egress access easement being described as follows: beginning at the Easterly corner of the above described tract, proceed thence with the Northerly line of said tract N-55-43-20-W a distance of 30.00 feet to a point, thence N-34-13-40-E a distance of 272.17 feet to a point in the Southerly right-of-way S.R. 1001, thence with said road right-of-way S-48-33-20-E a distance of 30.24 feet to an existing 3/4” iron rod, said rod being S-43-3808-E a distance of 651.36 feet from the intersection of said road and S.R. 1306, thence S-34-13-40-W a distance of 268.39 feet to the point of beginning.

(PID: 2384-79-9996-0000) This sale shall be for cash and a deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid shall be required of the highest bidder at the sale.

This sale shall be subject to any encumbrances which have priority over the tax liens of Pender County, all deferred taxes, and all outstanding city and county taxes and improvement assessments not delinquent as of the filing of the confirmation of sale, any State or Federal right of redemption, and all outstanding city and county taxes and improvement assessments not included in the above order.

This day, May 31, 2019.

Richard T. Rodgers, Jr., State Bar # 28777, Commissioner ProTax, A Division of Sherman & Rodgers, PLLC PO Box 250; Burgaw, NC 28425 910-259-2615 (tel/fax); tammy@shermanandrodgers.com #8713 6/13, 6/20/19 NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND DEBTORS OF HERBERT HANSON REAVES, JR. 19 E 230 Having qualified as the Executor of the Estate of Herbert Hanson Reaves, Jr., deceased of Pender County, North Carolina, the undersigned does hereby notify all persons, firms and corporations having claims against the estate of said decedent to exhibit them to the undersigned on or before the 13th day of September, 2019, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of recovery. All persons, firms and corporation indebted to the said estate will please make immediate payment to the undersigned.

This the 13th day of June, 2019.

Phillip Neal Reaves Executor of the Estate of Herbert Hanson Reaves, Jr. c/o Lawrence S. Boehling Attorney at Law P.O. Box 1416 Burgaw, NC 28425 910-259-3334 #8703 6/13, 6/20, 6/27, 7/4/19

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Having qualified as Executrix of the Estate of Peter C. Daniels, late of Pender County, North Carolina, the undersigned does hereby notify all persons, firms, and corporations having claims against the estate of said decedent to exhibit them to Kenneth Ording, P.O. Box 2683, Surf City, NC 28445, on or before the 3rd day of October, 2019, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery.

All persons, firms, and corporations indebted to the said estate will please make immediate payment to the undersigned.

This the 20th day of June 2019 Dana L. Clark Executrix of the Estate of Peter C. Daniels Kenneth Ording Attorney at Law Kenneth Ording, P.C. P.O. Box 2683 14210 NC Hwy 50 Surf City, NC 28445 #8724 6/20, 6/27, 7/4, 7/11/19

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Having qualified as Executrix of the Estate of David Michael Caputo, late of Pender County, North Carolina, the undersigned does hereby notify all persons, firms, and corporations having claims against the estate of said decedent to exhibit them to Kenneth Ording, P.O. Box 2683, Surf City, NC 28445, on or before the 3rd day of October, 2019, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons, firms, and corporations indebted to the said estate will please make immediate payment to the undersigned.

This the 20th day of June 2019 Cynthia Snyder, Executrix of the Estate of David Michael Caputo Kenneth Ording, Attorney at Law Kenneth Ording, P.C. P.O. Box 2683 14210 NC Hwy 50 Surf City, NC 28445 910-329-0214 #8723 6/20, 6/27, 7/4, 7/11/19 NORTH CAROLINA PENDER COUNTY Special Proceedings No. 18 SP 156 Substitute Trustee: Philip A. Glass NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE Date of Sale: June 25, 2019 Time of Sale: 11:30 a.m.

Place of Sale: Pender County Courthouse Description of Property: See Attached Description Record Owners: Charise Green fka Charise L. Dukes and Heirs of Russell Anthony Green Address of Property: 201 Hearthside Drive Rocky Point, NC 28457 Deed of Trust: Book : 1338 Page: 135, as modified by that Loan Modification Agreement recorded at Book 1437, Page 317 Dated: May 7, 1998 Grantors: Russell A. Green, unmarried, and Charise L. Dukes, unmarried Original Beneficiary: Associates Housing Finance, LLC CONDITIONS OF SALE: Should the property be purchased by a third party, that person must pay the tax of Forty-five Cents (45¢) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by N.C.G.S. §7A-308(a)(1).

This sale is made subject to all unpaid taxes and superior liens or encumbrances of record and assessments, if any, against the said property, and any recorded leases. This sale is also subject to any applicable county land transfer tax, and the successful third party bidder shall be required to make payment for any such county land transfer tax.

A cash deposit of 5% of the purchase price will be required at the time of the sale. Any successful bidder shall be required to tender the full balance of the purchase price so bid in cash or certified check at the time the Substitute Trustee tenders to him a deed for the property or attempts to tender such deed, and should said successful bidder fail to pay the full balance purchase price so bid at that time, he shall remain liable on his bid as provided for in North Carolina General Statutes Section 45-21.30 (d) and (e). This sale will be held open ten (10) days for upset bids as required by law.

Residential real property with less than 15 rental units, including singlefamily residential real property: an order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving 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 at least 10 days, but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, 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 the termination. ______________________________ Philip A. Glass, Substitute Trustee Nodell, Glass & Haskell, L.L.P. Exhibit A Located in Pender County, North Carolina and being all of Lot 20, Section 1 of Summit Ridge, as shown on a map recorded in Map Book 31 at Page 79, aforesaid County Registry. #8700 6/13, 6/20/19

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Legal Notices Legal Notices NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 19 SP 85 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Timothy Jay Zylstra (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Timothy J. Zylstra) to Pam S. Cox, Trustee(s), dated the 12th day of August, 2009, and recorded in Book 3669, Page 0150, in Pender County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Pender County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in the City of Burgaw, Pender County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 2:00 PM on July 2, 2019 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 as follows: BEING that certain tract or parcel of land lying and being situate in Pender County, North Carolina and more particularly described as follows: BEGINNING at a point in the centerline of a 45 foot road easement; said point being South 80 degrees 16 minutes 40 seconds East 348.30 feet from a railroad spike at the intersection of the centerline of the 45 foot road easement and the centerline of S.R. #1121; said spike being South 4 degrees 00 minutes 30 seconds West 33.70 feet from a railroad spike in the centerline of S.R. #1121 and above a concrete culvert; said concrete culvert being 0.65 miles in a southwardly direction from the intersection of S.R. #1121 and U.S. Highway #421; running thence from said beginning along the centerline of a 45 foot road easement South 80 degrees 16 minutes 40 seconds East 260.0 feet to a existing iron pipe; running thence North 11 degrees 06 minutes 30 seconds East 346.95 feet to a existing iron bar; running thence North 80 degrees 16 minutes 40 seconds West 260.0 feet to a existing iron bar; running thence South 11 degrees 06 minutes 30 seconds West 346.95 feet to the point of beginning; containing 2.0703 acres more or less and being site 1 of the Candice B. Swinson tract as surveyed by Thompson Surveying Company P.A. dated 26 May 1997. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 77 Major Jacobs Road, Burgaw, North Carolina.

PIN: 2279-22-7870-000 Pender County Tax Record #: 38440 Having a street address of 77 Major Jacobs Rd., Burgaw, NC 28425 Major Jacobs Rd. was previously known as Bell Williams Rd. and this property had a previous street address of 703 Bell Williams Rd. Being the identical property conveyed to Raymond January Perry via general warranty deed recorded in Book 1438, Page 1, Pender County Registry.

Reference is also made to 05 SP 48, Pender County Clerk of Superior Court.

There is also a 1998 Summit Crest Home Model #048-418, Manufacturer’s Serial Number 48-98-418-0047 A/B that is 48ft x 27ft (LxW) that is on this property and affixed as real property.

Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §45-21.23.

Should the property be purchased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by NCGS §7A-308(a)(1).

The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or prior encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws.

A deposit of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale.

If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

Additional Notice for Residential Property with Less than 15 rental units, including Single-Family Residential Real Property An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of foreclosure 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 at least 10 days but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in this notice of sale, 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 the termination.

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE c/o Hutchens Law Firm P.O. Box 1028 4317 Ramsey Street Fayetteville, North Carolina 28311 Phone No: (910) 864-3068 https://sales.hutchenslawfirm.com Case No: 1272188 (FC.FAY) #8719 6/20, 6/27/19 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 19 SP 45 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Paul C. Naples and Nicole Naples (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Paul C. Naples) to SCBT, Inc., Trustee(s), dated the 19th day of October, 2010, and recorded in Book 3839, Page 0093, in Pender County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Pender County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in the City of Burgaw, Pender County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 2:00 PM on July 2, 2019 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 as follows: Located in Surf City, Pender County North Carolina and being an interest in certain condominium premised known as Tiffany’s Condotel, duly established under Chapter 47-C of the North Carolina General Statutes (North Carolina Condominium Act) with the Declaration of Condominium recorded in Book 2835, Page 17; First Amendment thereto recorded in Book 2878, Page 219; and Second Amendment thereto recorded in Book 2930, Page 133, all recorded in the Pender County Registry; hereafter the “Declaration,” said premises more particularly described as follows: 1. Unit 1H (#31/32), Building 1 of Tiffany’s Condotel, a Condominium (the “Unit”), as described in the Declaration and as shown on the Plan of Condominium which is recorded in the Condominium Map Book 41, Page 103, Slide 557, Sheet 1-3; Amended Map#2 in Condominium Map Book 45, Page 38, Slide 607, Sheet 1-3, all recorded in the Pender County Registry; together with, 2.The Unit’s Allocated interest in all Common Elements of the Condominium, including the building the improvements on the land described in the Declaration and shown on the Plan of Condominium referenced above.

Including the Unit located thereon; said Unit being located at 1501 New River Drive, Unit 201 North, Surf City, NC 28445 Street Address: 1501-201 North New River Drive, Surf City, NC 28445 Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §45-21.23.

Should the property be purchased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by NCGS §7A-308(a)(1).

The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or prior encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws.

A deposit of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale.

If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

Additional Notice for Residential Property with Less than 15 rental units, including Single-Family Residential Real Property An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of foreclosure 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 at least 10 days but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in this notice of sale, 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 the termination.

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE c/o Hutchens Law Firm P.O. Box 1028 4317 Ramsey Street Fayetteville, North Carolina 28311 Phone No: (910) 864-3068 https://sales.hutchenslawfirm.com Case No: 1264026 (FC.FAY) #8720 6/20, 6/27/19

Legal Notices Legal Notices IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION PENDER COUNTY 19SP87 IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY JAMIE L. HAIRR AND AIMEE N. CRISP DATED MAY 25, 2017 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 4643 AT PAGE 2474 AND CORRECTED BY AFFIDAVIT RECORDED JUNE 15, 2017 IN BOOK 4645, PAGE 675 IN THE PENDER COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in the abovereferenced deed of trust and because of default in the payment of the secured indebtedness and failure to perform the stipulation and agreements therein contained and, pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the secured debt, the undersigned substitute trustee will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said county at 11:30AM on July 2, 2019 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, in Pender County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Being all of Lot 121, Section 4 of Cross Creek Subdivision, as shown on that map recorded in Map Book 38 at Page 17 of the Pender County Registry, reference to which is hereby made for a more particular description.

And Being more commonly known as: 389 Knollwood Dr, Hampstead, NC 28443 The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are Jamie L. Hairr and Aimee N. Crisp.

The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale.

Any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. This sale is made subject to all prior liens and encumbrances, and unpaid taxes and assessments including but not limited to any transfer tax associated with the foreclosure. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale. This sale will be held open ten days for upset bids as required by law. Following the expiration of the statutory upset period, all remaining amounts are IMMEDIATELY DUE AND OWING. Failure to remit funds in a timely manner will result in a Declaration of Default and any deposit will be frozen pending the outcome of any re-sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, the Substitute Trustee or the attorney of any of the foregoing.

SPECIAL NOTICE FOR LEASEHOLD TENANTS: If you are a tenant residing in the property, be advised that an Order for Possession of the property may be issued in favor of the purchaser. Also, if your lease began or was renewed on or after October 1, 2007, be advised that you may terminate the rental agreement upon written notice to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time notice of termination is provided. You may be liable for rent due under the agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

The date of this Notice is June 11, 2019.

Grady I. Ingle or Elizabeth B. Ells Substitute Trustee 10130 Perimeter Parkway, Suite 400 Charlotte, NC 28216 (704) 333-8107 http://shapiroattorneys.com/nc/ 19-105543 #8717 6/20, 6/27/19

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 19 SP 86 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Angelica F. Smith to BB&T Collateral Service Corporation, Trustee(s), dated the 20th day of December, 2004, and recorded in Book 2551, Page 261, in Pender County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Pender County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in the City of Burgaw, Pender County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 2:00 PM on July 2, 2019 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 as follows: All that certain parcel of land lying and being situated in the County of PENDER, State of NC, to-wit: A certain tract or parcel of land lying and being in Caswell Township, Pender County, North Carolina, and being a part of H.D. Hales land (Battleground Estates, Map Book 30, Page 29), and being more particularly described as follows: Beginning on an iron on the southern right of way of State Road 1100 Slocum Trail (100 foot public right of way), said iron being located South 24 degrees 34 minutes 45 seconds East 148.43 feet from the intersection of the Northern right of way of State Road 1100 and the western right of way of J.A. Hales Drive as shown on Map Book 30 at Page 29 of the Pender County Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 631 Slocum Trail, Atkinson, North Carolina.

Proceed from said point of beginning with the southern right of way of S.R. 1700 South 68 degrees 55 minutes 58 seconds East 39.63 feet to a point, thence continuing with said right of way a curve to the right having a radius of 904.84 feet a chord of South 60 degrees 58 minutes 27 seconds East 187.68 feet to an iron, thence leaving said right of way South 56 degrees 55 minutes 17 seconds West 332.60 feet to an iron, thence North 67 degrees 30 minutes 42 seconds West 110.00 feet to an iron, thence North 35 degrees 07 minutes 03 seconds East 304.89 feet to the point of beginning and containing 1.16 acres according to a survey by Hanover Design Services, P.A. in November of 1995.

All bearings and relative to Map Book 30 at Page 29.

Tax Map Reference: 2265-69-0738-0000 Being that parcel of land conveyed to ANGELICA F. SMITH from HARVEY DANIELS HALES by that deed dated 06/02/2004 and recorded 06/03/2004 in deed book 2401, at page 19 of the PENDER County, NC Public Registry.

Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §45-21.23.

Should the property be purchased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by NCGS §7A-308(a)(1).

The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or prior encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws.

A deposit of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale.

If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

Additional Notice for Residential Property with Less than 15 rental units, including Single-Family Residential Real Property An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of foreclosure 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 at least 10 days but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in this notice of sale, 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 the termination.

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE c/o Hutchens Law Firm P.O. Box 1028 4317 Ramsey Street Fayetteville, North Carolina 28311 Phone No: (910) 864-3068 https://sales.hutchenslawfirm.com Case No: 1272890 (FC.FAY) #8718 6/20, 6/27/19

Legal Notices Legal Notices STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF PENDER IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION COURT FILE #: 16-CVS-997 PENDER COUNTY et. al., Plaintiff(s), v.

MARY ANN LANKFORD HAYLER, owner, et. al., Defendant(s).

NOTICE OF SALE In accordance with an Order entered in Pender County v. MARY ANN LANKFORD HAYLER, owner, et. al., 16-CVS-997, (Pender County, North Carolina), the undersigned shall offer for sale to the highest bidder at the western door of the Pender County Courthouse in Burgaw, North Carolina at 12:00 Noon, June 21, 2019, that property located in Pender County, North Carolina, described as: BEING all of Lot 3 as shown on a map entitled “’Redevised Map of a combination and redivision of Tract 113 and 114 of Forest Sound for Harold A. Hill and Charlotte A. Hill,” recorded in Map Book 22, page 109 in the office of the Register of Deeds for Pender County, North Carolina.

(PID: 3292-47-6695-0000) This sale shall be for cash and a deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid shall be required of the highest bidder at the sale.

This sale shall be subject to any encumbrances which have priority over the tax liens of Pender County, all deferred taxes, and all outstanding city and county taxes and improvement assessments not delinquent as of the filing of the confirmation of sale, any State or Federal right of redemption, and all outstanding city and county taxes and improvement assessments not included in the above order.

This day, May 31, 2019.

Richard T. Rodgers, Jr., State Bar # 28777, Commissioner ProTax, A Division of Sherman & Rodgers, PLLC PO Box 250; Burgaw, NC 28425 910-259-2615 (tel/fax); tammy@shermanandrodgers.com #8708 6/13, 6/20/19 STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF PENDER IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION COURT FILE #: 18-CVS-642 PENDER COUNTY et. al., Plaintiff(s), v.

ROBERT B. CROOKER, owner, et. al., Defendant(s).

NOTICE OF SALE In accordance with an Order entered in Pender County v. ROBERT B. CROOKER, owner, et. al., 18-CVS642, (Pender County, North Carolina), the undersigned shall offer for sale to the highest bidder at the western door of the Pender County Courthouse in Burgaw, North Carolina at 12:00 Noon, June 21, 2019, that property located in Pender County, North Carolina, described as: Being all of Lot 9, Section A, Buccaneer’s Retreat as recorded in Map Book 21 at Page 54 of the Office of the Register of Deeds of Pender County.

(PID: 4215-35-4837-0000) This sale shall be for cash and a deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid shall be required of the highest bidder at the sale.

This sale shall be subject to any encumbrances which have priority over the tax liens of Pender County, all deferred taxes, and all outstanding city and county taxes and improvement assessments not delinquent as of the filing of the confirmation of sale, any State or Federal right of redemption, and all outstanding city and county taxes and improvement assessments not included in the above order.

This day, May 31, 2019.

Richard T. Rodgers, Jr., State Bar # 28777, Commissioner ProTax, A Division of Sherman & Rodgers, PLLC PO Box 250; Burgaw, NC 28425 910-259-2615 (tel/fax); tammy@shermanandrodgers.com #8714 6/13, 6/20/19

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF PENDER IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION COURT FILE #: 19-CVS-65 PENDER COUNTY et. al., Plaintiff(s), v.

ANN L. COOK, owner, et. al., Defendant(s).

NOTICE OF SALE In accordance with an Order entered in Pender County v. ANN L. COOK, owner, et. al., 19-CVS-65, (Pender County, North Carolina), the undersigned shall offer for sale to the highest bidder at the western door of the Pender County Courthouse in Burgaw, North Carolina at 12:00 Noon, June 21, 2019, that property located in Pender County, North Carolina, described as: BEING all of Lot 249, Section IV, Belvedere Plantation, according to the map of Section IV, Belvedere Plantation recorded in Map Book 18 at Page 64 in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Pender County, North Carolina, reference to which is hereby made for a more particular description.

(PID: 4203-48-8112-0000) This sale shall be for cash and a deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid shall be required of the highest bidder at the sale.

This sale shall be subject to any encumbrances which have priority over the tax liens of Pender County, all deferred taxes, and all outstanding city and county taxes and improvement assessments not delinquent as of the filing of the confirmation of sale, any State or Federal right of redemption, and all outstanding city and county taxes and improvement assessments not included in the above order.

This day, May 31, 2019.

Richard T. Rodgers, Jr., State Bar # 28777, Commissioner ProTax, A Division of Sherman & Rodgers, PLLC PO Box 250; Burgaw, NC 28425 910-259-2615 (tel/fax); tammy@shermanandrodgers.com #8716 6/13, 6/20/19 STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF PENDER IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION COURT FILE #: 18-CVS-381 PENDER COUNTY et. al., Plaintiff(s), v.

CECIL DEAN ATKINSON, owner, et. al., Defendant(s).

NOTICE OF SALE In accordance with an Order entered in Pender County v. CECIL DEAN ATKINSON, owner, et. al., 18-CVS-381, (Pender County, North Carolina), the undersigned shall offer for sale to the highest bidder at the western door of the Pender County Courthouse in Burgaw, North Carolina at 12:00 Noon, June 21, 2019, that property located in Pender County, North Carolina, described as: Located in Grady Township, Pender County, North Carolina and being 63.81 acres more or less and being more particularly described in Deed Book 730 at Page 239 of the Pender County Registry.

(PID: 2277-55-2763-0000) This sale shall be for cash and a deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid shall be required of the highest bidder at the sale.

This sale shall be subject to any encumbrances which have priority over the tax liens of Pender County, all deferred taxes, and all outstanding city and county taxes and improvement assessments not delinquent as of the filing of the confirmation of sale, any State or Federal right of redemption, and all outstanding city and county taxes and improvement assessments not included in the above order.

This day, May 31, 2019.

Richard T. Rodgers, Jr., State Bar # 28777, Commissioner ProTax, A Division of Sherman & Rodgers, PLLC PO Box 250; Burgaw, NC 28425 910-259-2615 (tel/fax); tammy@shermanandrodgers.com #8712 6/13, 6/20/19

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF PENDER IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION COURT FILE #: 17-CVS-892 PENDER COUNTY et. al., Plaintiff(s), v.

TOMMY LEE BAIN, owner, et. al., Defendant(s).

NOTICE OF SALE In accordance with an Order entered in Pender County v. TOMMY LEE BAIN, owner, et. al., 17-CVS-892, (Pender County, North Carolina), the undersigned shall offer for sale to the highest bidder at the western door of the Pender County Courthouse in Burgaw, North Carolina at 12:00 Noon, June 21, 2019, that property located in Pender County, North Carolina, described as: BEGINNING AT AN IRON PIPE ON THE Southwestern side of a dirt road which said iron pipe is located 989 feet Northwestwardly as measured along the Southwestern side of said dirt road from its intersection with the Northwestern side of N.C. rural road number 1115 at a point on said rural road 0.6 miles more or less from the intersection of said rural road with N.C. rural road number 1114 which said point of intersection on said N.C. rural road number 1114 is 3.4 miles more or less from the intersection of said N.C. rural road number 1114 with U.S. Highway number 421; and running thence from said beginning point and along the Southwestern line of said dirt road South 58 deg. East 145 feet to an iron pipe; thence South 29 deg. 30 West 150 feet to an iron pipe; thence North 58 deg. West 178 feet to an iron pipe; thence North 52 deg. East 15 feet to an iron stake, an old A.B. Lewis corner; thence North 41 deg. East 139 feet to the point of beginning; the same containing 0.55 acres more or less and being a part of a three acre tract conveyed by Raymond W. Lewis and wife, to Odell Daughterey and wife by deed recorded in Book 330 at Page 320 in the office of the Register of Deeds of Pender County.

For further reference refer to Deed from Everett Earl Daughtery and wife, Linda to Carolina Model Home Corporation recorded in Book 422 Page 156 of the Pender County Registry.

(PID: 2274-29-4627-0000) This sale shall be for cash and a deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid shall be required of the highest bidder at the sale.

This sale shall be subject to any encumbrances which have priority over the tax liens of Pender County, all deferred taxes, and all outstanding city and county taxes and improvement assessments not delinquent as of the filing of the confirmation of sale, any State or Federal right of redemption, and all outstanding city and county taxes and improvement assessments not included in the above order.

This day, May 31, 2019.

Richard T. Rodgers, Jr., State Bar # 28777, Commissioner ProTax, A Division of Sherman & Rodgers, PLLC PO Box 250; Burgaw, NC 28425 910-259-2615 (tel/fax); tammy@shermanandrodgers.com #8709 6/13, 6/20/19

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Legal Notices Legal Notices STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF PENDER IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION COURT FILE #: 18-CVS-330 PENDER COUNTY Plaintiff(s), v.

BRUCE EVERETT EVANS, JR., owner et. al.

Defendant(s).

NOTICE OF SERVICE OF PROCESS BY PUBLICATION TO: UNKNOWN HEIRS AND/OR SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST TO BRUCE EVERETT EVANS, SR. Take notice that a pleading seeking relief against you has been filed in the above-titled action.

The nature of the relief sought is as follows: foreclosure sale to satisfy unpaid property taxes on your interest in the property sometimes briefly described as Lots 26 and 28 Pine Oaks Estate, Parcel ID Number 323548-9110-0000 more fully described in the complaint. Plaintiff seeks to extinguish any and all claim or interest that you may have in the property.

You are required to make defense to such pleading no later than August 5, 2019.

This day, June 11, 2019.

Scott G. Sherman, State Bar # 17596 Richard T. Rodgers, Jr., State Bar # 28777 ProTax, A Division of Sherman & Rodgers, PLLC PO Box 250; Burgaw, NC 28425 910-259-2615 (tel/fax); tammy@shermanandrodgers.com #8722 6/20, 6/27, 7/4/19

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Topsail taps Barlett as basketball coach

By Bobby Norris Post & Voice Sports Writer

By Lee Wagner Post & Voice Sports Writer The movie Forrest Gump made famous the line, “Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re going to get,” Selecting a new coach – a process that is a lot like recruiting or drafting a player is, more-often-thannot, something where the results may not be immediately evident. Changes are a fact of life and they can happen quickly. Results – be they positive or negative –take time to materialize.

Like players, the choice is determined by history, and even that does not provide a successful 100 percent guarantee. But if past results hold serve, as everyone hopes they do, than Topsail High School Principal Chris Madden and Athletics’ Director Jeff Fipps may have picked themselves a winner.

Bob Barlett, a veteran, and highly-successful, basketball coach at both the high-school and collegiate level, was approved last Tuesday as the new Pirates’ boys’ basketball coach at the Pender County Board of Education meeting last Tuesday (June 11).

Barlett served as the head basketball coach in Pennsylvania at Montigeau High School in West Sunbury, Pa., at Butler Community College in El Dorado, Kansas, and at Division II Slippery Rock (Pa.) University, and as an assistant coach for the World Champion Youngstown (Ohio) Pride of the World Basketball League.

Coaching at Montigeau High School from 1969-79, Barlett compiled a 172-81 record while winning the only two conference titles in the school’s history, and winning five Coach of the Year awards. Barlett worked as an assistant basketball coach, and football

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Bob Barlett coach at Butler County Community College where his teams went 64-16 and won three conference titles to go along with two state junior-college crowns.

Barlett played his high school ball at Hickory High School where he was the team captain and Most Valuable Player his senior year before matriculating at Slippery Rock. He was named to the first team Pennsylvania Athletic Conference in both his junior and senior years, returned to his alma mater at Slippery Rock to coach the basketball from 198593.

His teams posted an overall record of 129-113 with four 20-plus win seasons. Barlett led Slippery Rock to its only two appearances in the NCAA Division II National Tournament. His 1990 team finished No. 2 in the nation, and he coached five AllAmericans with three of his players playing professionally.

In his career, Barlett won 12 Coach of the Year awards and he was chosen to speak at the NCAA National Championships in 1990-91, and was selected

by Adidas to speak at the

National Clinic in Chicago in 1990.

Since moving to Southeastern North Carolina, Barlett has been involved with the Surf City Recreational Center where he worked with, and coached, several of Topsail’s current players. Barlett has run basketball clinics all over North Carolina – and beyond.

“A lot of players on the Topsail team I have worked with since as early as the fourth grade and I felt I could give them a solid opportunity to be successful,” Barlett said. “While they may not have the same athletic set as some of the players they are playing against I feel I can work with them so they can realize the game does not always go to the guy who can jump the highest or run the fastest.

“You change the way the game is being played by emphasizing and playing in your athletic set, your highest level of proficiency, and that’s one of the things we’re going to try and do. I do feel that this is a group that has a big upside to it.”

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Pender volleyball team set to play summer ball Veteran volleyball coach Matt Davis has made it a habit of entering his volleyball teams in the high school summer league since he took over the program. Each year the Pats make a good showing while the veteran coach sits on the sidelines taking notes and encouraging his latest group of hopefuls.

This year will be no different as the Pats are set to go on June 18th at 6pm.

Pender will have to replace some important parts this year. The most important part being setter extraordinaire Ashley Dupalavich. Coach Davis has called Dupalavich the heart and soul of the team.

However, the cupboard is hardly bare.

Davis returns some size in Tyanna Holmes and Mayce Wood along with the athletic Riley Gurganus and Haley Schaffer.

Davis only loses one other

senior in Alana Buie.

The Lady Pats open play June 18 at 6 p.m. against Dixon.

Pender football coach Tim Smith begins second season If you were to ask second year head Coach Tim Smith how his first year at the helm of the Patriot football team went, he would be the first to tell you it was disappointing.

However, those that know Coach Smith say that he will not be satisfied with another disappointing season. With what the team loses to graduation, his work may be cut out for him.

The Pats lose twin standouts Lavell and Makhel Henry to graduation. Lavell was the teams leading rusher and Makhel led the defense along with

the receiving corp.

The team does return starting quarterback Bryson Stewart along with Jaheim McDuffie. The offensive line returns basically intact. This unit struggled last year but a years’ experience along with extensive time in the weight room will make this unit better.

The Patriots open their regular season at James Kenan Aug. 23.

Davis begins second year as AD Matt Davis will begin year two as the schools athletic director with the hope that things will go a bit smoother than last year.

With the storm wreaking havoc on everything from the availability of the gym to the schedule itself of all fall sports, Davis was forced to learn on the fly.

By all accounts he did an outstanding job.

One note of interest, with the departure of Ed Gilroy and the Topsail A.D., Davis will be the longest tenured high school athletic director in the county.

Trask Sports Notes

By Bobby Norris Post & Voice Sports Writer Titan spikers set to begin summer play The Heide Trask Lady Titan volleyball team struggled after long time coach Karen Byrd left the team. In the four years post Byrd the team compiled an 11-45 mark.

However, in 2017 veteran Coach Cathy Claris was hired and the team showed promise almost immediately. The team went 11-11 overall and 7-7 in conference play. Coach Claris maximized the teams talent and implemented several things that seemed to benefit the program as a whole.

Among them was reentering the summer volleyball league. Claris thought that it was very important to bring the student-athletes together during the summer months. It seemed to work.

Last year the team played an abbreviated schedule due to the hurricane. The Titans took a step back, finishing with a 4-8 record overall including a 2-5 Coastal 8 Conference mark. Claris made no excuses for the record, although the team lost several conference matchups that they could have won.

This year the Lady Titans will again be in the summer league. Claris brings a team that lost no seniors and at times started two freshmen.

Leading the way for Trask will be senior Lanie Barnhill. She is a very

versatile player that can hit from the outside or serve it up with power. Setter Brayden Smith is also back along with rising junior Emily Thomas. Rising sophomores Madalyn White and Lacey Jayne will also play an important role in the summer league as well as the fall schedule.

The Titans will open play June 18 at 6 p.m. against Topsail.

Pruitt to take over AD job Titan baseball coach Ronnie Pruitt has been named to take over the athletic directors’ job vacated by the retirement of Ed Gilroy. Gilroy held the position since the school opened in 2002. Pruitt will handle the day to day responsibilities starting on July 1st.

Coach Pruitt worked under North Carolina ath-

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Record-setting year for Topsail athletics

By Lee Wagner Post & Voice Sports Writer A successful season is primarily defined by numbers in the wins and loss columns, and for four of the 2018-19 Topsail High School sports’ program it was a record-setting year.

Along with that remarkable feat, there were two sports in which an athlete established new statistical standards to go along with the overall team accomplishments, and two more programs – swimming and track and field – that saw a multitude of individual records fall by the wayside.

Also, boys’ golf enjoyed one of its best years ever.

Football: Back in the fall of 2018, Coach Wayne Inman’s Pirate football team got the ball rolling with an overall record of 9-3 and a Mid-Eastern Conference mark of 5-2.

The 9-3 mark was the best overall record since Topsail was a 1A school in the old Coastal Plains 1A Conference in 2008. That team finished 5-4 in the conference and that was upstaged in 2011 and 2012 when the Pirates were 5-3 and 5-2, respectively, in the East Central 2A Conference.

This past year, Topsail finished 5-2 in the Mid-Eastern 3A/4A Conference, a definite competitive upgrade over the 5-2 East Central 2A mark. In the five prior years in the tough split conference, the Pirates were a combined 6-19.

Additionally, rising senior Noah LaValle is on the cusp of becoming the program’s all-time leading scoring and rushing leader. Entering his senior season LaValle has rushed for 4,125 yards, accounted for 48 touchdowns.

Swimming: There were three school records set in the 2018-19 campaign and seven new records established in 2017-18. Madison Hoover established a new mark in the girls’ 100-yard backstroke (1:00.21) this

past year, and Chase Davis set new standards in the 200-yard freestyle (1:49.47) and the 100-yard backstroke (56.95).In 2017-18, Delaney Popella set a new 100-yard breaststroke mark (1:09.02), and Madison Hoover broke school records in the 100-yard freestyle (54.84), the 200-yard freestyle (6.39), and the 500-yard freestyle (5:10.96). Popella, Hoover, Drew Marshall, and Tihani Contreras set the record of 1:56.01 in the 200-yard medley relay in 2-17-18.

Kennard MacVaugh set a new standard in the boys’ 100-yard breaststroke (1:07.64) in 2017-18, and Marshall set a new mark that same year in the girls’ 200-yard individual medley.

Girls’ Basketball: The Lady Pirates finished 19-8 overall and 10-4 as the 3A champions in the MidEastern 3A/4A Conference. The best overall record prior to that was 17-10 in the 2016-17 and 7-5 in the conference in the same year.

Girls’ Lacrosse: Since the inception of the Lady Pirates’ program in 2008, it has been a perilous, yet steady road in becoming competitive, especially since affiliating itself with strong, established teams like Hoggard, New Hanover, and Laney.

That’s what makes the 2019 such a success as the Topsail girls, under their outstanding Coach Courtney Burghardt, would up third overall (Hoggard, Ashley) in Conference One with an 8-4 record – part of a 13-5 overall mark.

Since Burghardt took over the program in 2015, the Lady Pirates have gone 5-8 (5-7), 10-8 (6-6), 10-7 (6-6), 10-8 (5-7), and now 13-5 (8-4) – a combined mark of 48-36 (30-30).

Additionally, graduating senior Delaney Popella has vaulted into the Topsail record books by establishing school records in goals (151), assists (59), ground balls (263), and draws won (233).

Boys’ Lacrosse: In 2013 the boys’ lacrosse team swung into serious ac-

tion with a 2-12 record. Since then there has been an upswing in just about every season except 2014 (1-13, 1-8) with marks of 6-11 (4-8), 7-9 (4-8), 8-7 (6-6), and 9-8, (6-6). The Pirates often made the playoffs but they never got past the first round.

Until this year. Topsail, under first-year coach Jamie Sliwa, the Pirates finished 13-6 overall and won the 3A portion of the conference (9-5). Not only did they make the playoffs, they advanced to the East Regional title game before dropping tough 7-5 decision to state runner-up Chapel Hill.

Individually, graduating seniors Jake Volpe and Eli Copeland both hit the record books. Volpe became the career leader in goals (195) and ground balls (188) in a spectacular four-year varsity career, while Copeland set a single-season standards in goals (61) and assists, and is the career-leader I assists (84) in just three seasons.

Track & Field: It was an individual record-breaking year for individuals on both the girls’ and boys’ teams as six records fell.

Graduating senior Payton Little added the school record in the discus to go along with her already-established shot put mark (36-11) – erasing the 20-year old record o0f 34-3 set in 1999 by Barbara Lee Palmer – by flinging the discus 109-92 in eradicating the old record of 97-5-1/2 set in 2003 by Yolanda Reilly.

Junior sprinter Madison Lofton set two new records. Lofton ran a 12.10 in the 100-meter dash and a 24.84 in the 200-yard dash – winning 3A regional titles in both events.

On the boys’ side, Clay Marks – who participated in both hurdles events for the first time this past year – set new standards in the 110hurdles (15.76) and the 300-hurdles (42.31).

Congratulation to all of the Pirate teams and student athletes.

American Legion Post 167 baseball report

By Lee Wagner Post & Voice Sports Writer Post 167 Senior Legion: The week started on a rally rough note for Post 167 when Post 10 opened its season by scoring 13 times in the fourth innings a base for an 18-1 win over Post 167 in Hampstead Monday.

Post 10 scored twice in the first inning and added three more runs in the third before sending 15 batters to the plate in the deciding fifth. Shane Nolan (2-for-3 six RBIs, 2B, HR) knocked in the second and third runs in the inning for Post 10 before launching a 2-1 pitch over the leftfield fence for a three-run homerun with one out later in the frame.

The inning consisted of six walks, three singles, two hit-batsmen, and Nolan’s round-tripper and double.

Down 18-0, Post 167 scored its only run in the topo of the fifth on a leadoff walk issued to Josh Barnhill, a wild pitch, a one-out walk to Jesse Madole, a passed ball, and a second wild pitch with Barnhill racing home.

Post 167 managed just four singles – by Walker Parks, James Visconti, Davis Hartman, and Banks Engle – while Post 10 made the most out of 11 hits and nine walks. Four Post 167 pitchers were touched up for runs before Samuel White (one IP, one hit, one K) pitched a scoreless fifth.

After inclement weather wiped out last Wednesday’s home game with Morehead City, Post 167 (3-5) bounced back from Monday’s loss with an 8-1 win over Morehead City in Hampstead behind starting pitcher Samuel Wolfe (5 IP, one hit, one walk, seven K’s) and relievers David Batson (1 IP, one hit, one run, one walk, two K’s) and Hayden Walsh (1 IP, one hit, one walk, two K’s).

Post 167 scored all of its runs early, taking a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the second on a two-out walk to Samuel Stowe and a RBI double by Peyton St. Ledger (2-for-2, R/S, RBI), before tacking on three runs in the third and four in the

fourth.

Post 167 scored its three third-inning runs without the benefit of a hit by parlaying four errors and a pair of walks in the three runs. Samuel Stowe started the fourth with a walk, followed by a free pass to St. Ledger.

Bryan Holland singled to score Stowe and, after a groundout moved St. Ledger to second, Marshall Sugden walked. St. Ledger scored and Sugden took second on an error just before Walker Parks singled to send Sugden and Holland scurrying home.

Wallace was at Post 167 Tuesday, followed by Whiteville Wednesday.

Post 167 Junior Legion: The week started on an extremely high note as pitchers Luke Cutler (S.E. Homeschool), Walker Dixon, and Cooper Cavanaugh combined on a one walk, three strikeout, five-inning, no-hit, shutout 10-0 win over visiting Dixon.

Cutler earned the win with three innings of nohit, one-walk, one-strikeout baseball. Dixon 0(clean line) and Cavanaugh (two strikeouts)

each pitched one inning in relief. The trio combined to throw 57 pitches, 35 of them for strikes.

Post 167 bunched all their runs into three innings, scoring twice in the second and four times in each of the third and fourth frames.

Davis Hartman (1-for-2, two R/S, four RBIs, W, 2B) got the second started with a walk. Luke Cutler reached base on an error with Hartman moving up a bag. Hartman scurried to third, and Hartman to second, on a ground out before both runners scored a single to center by Evan Lister.

Hayden Naylor ignited the third-inning rally by reaching second base on an error. Dominic Clinch was hit by a pitch. Errors on balls hit by Joseph Hall and Mason Myhand got Naylor home, Clinch scored on a passed ball, a ground out by Hartman plated Hall, and a Cutler sacrifice fly allowed Myhand to make it 6-0.

The game all but ended in the bottom of the fifth courtesy of a leadoff single by James Holland, who was eventually picked

off after stealing second and third), a fielders’ choice ground out by David Gardner, an error on a ground ball off the bat of Dixon that scored Gardner, a single by Christian Davis (1-for-1, R/S), and a three-run home run by Holland that made it 10-0.

Cavanaugh’s perfect twostrikeout to of the fifth ended the game.

Dixon was again the victim as Post 167 (8-2) traveled to Holly Ridge to hand their hosts an 11-6 defeat. Dixon scored single runs in every inning except the fourth, but Post 167 put the game on ice with seven runs in the top of the fourth – turning a 3-2 deficit into a 9-3 lead.

Jacob McFann was hit by a pitch and eventually scored on a fielders’ choice off the bat of Christian Davis in the second, and courtesy runner Luke Cutler – in for Isaac Henry, who was hit by a pitch – scored the third-inning run on an error.

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In My Opinion The day that every high school senior dreams of has come and gone and now comes the fun part, or in some folks mind, the most difficult part of growing up. While we as parents have tried to prepare our young folks for this day, there is one group of people that may have done more to prepare them than us. Those are the individuals that as a group have spent more time with our kids than we have. Our educators have devoted their lives to making sure our kids have the ability to be successful when graduation day comes.

These folks have spent more time than we as parents have spent with our kids on a daily basis. Think about it. 7 am to 3 or 330 every day of the work week. That’s eight plus hours a day.

This does not include after school things such as sports and tutoring.

How about those kids that are in the band, or cheerlead? They spend at least 10 hours a day with an educator. Take the eight hours or so that you sleep and that leaves us with around six hours a day.

Our educators and coaches are the most underappreciated people that I know. I have gotten to know literally thousands of these folks and I can tell you that they don’t get paid enough and they don’t get told that they are appreciated enough.

This year in particular has been rough on our community. For many of us, the whole year has been a blur. The kids were out of school for somewhere around four weeks and there are

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still some families that have not made it back into their home. Through all of this our educators have tried to play catchup. They have been teachers, counselors and in some instances just a shoulder to cry on.

With those few weeks out, it took the school system a while to get back to normal. In some cases, there has been no normal.

My granddaughter was one of those kids that struggled to get back into the swing of things.

Along with the storm, she was thrown a curve when her teacher left the school. Luckily for her, the incoming teacher was a God send.

Rocky Point Primary School fourth grade teacher Joy Manson stepped in and made a huge difference in my granddaughters life. She made a huge difference in quite a few fourth graders lives. She went above and beyond in many cases and it says a lot about her character.

Many of our teachers did the same.

I know school is out and you may not be thinking about school right now. However, if and when you see one of our educators out and about in our community take the time to thank them. It may mean more than you think.

September 2018

Top Performers review

By Bobby Norris Post & Voice Sports Writer The month of September was one of uncertainty last year. Hurricane Florence made her appearance late in the month, causing unheard of flooding and damage.

Week 1: The high school soccer schedule was light with Trask and Topsail only playing one match apiece. The Pender Patriots played twice.

The Heide Trask Titan kickers hosted a very good Laney Buccaneer team.

They found the going tough, falling 9-0. Ramone Cisneros had 10 saves for the Titans.

Speaking of Topsail, The Pirates (1-2) had a rare week off as they prepared for their next match, a

home nonconference affair against Pender county rival Trask Thursday (Sept. 6).

The Pender volleyball team beat Lejeune in the first conference game of the year. Ashley Dupalevich had 20 assists and served seven aces. Haley Schaeffer had eight kills while Mayce Wood had six kills and five aces.

The Topsail volleyball team lost for the first time this year, falling to Ashley.

They beat South Brunswick. Gia Marinelli led Topsail against Ashley with five aces, three kills, and a block, and Madison Lofton added three kills, and five digs.

In the win over South Brunswick Ashley Hard-

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Pender County’s weekly look at what’s biting and where

Warm water brings anglers

By Bobby Norris Post & Voice Fishing Fanatic

snakes will be looking for high ground. If you see a couple in a short period of time or in a small area, then it is best to move on.

There are only a few species of poisonous snakes in our area. The most common are the copperhead and the cottonmouth water moccasin.

The copperhead is a relatively small snake, with adults averaging less than three feet in length.

This snake has a tan or pinkish-tan background color that darkens toward the mid-body area. It has a series of darker cross bands.

The water moccasin or cottonmouth is a very aggressive snake. The “cottonmouth” name comes from the snake’s tendency to open its mouth and hiss when threatened.

The inside of its mouth is whitish-pink in color, which starkly contrasts the darker coloration of its body.

Like most of the pit vipers, this venomous snake has a broad head. It also has a blunt snout and usually a telltale stripe under each eye. Most cottonmouth are mostly black, and may appear completely black from a distance (aside from the aforementioned head pattern). Some specimens may have a tan, gray or brownish ground color with darker cross bands.

The water moccasin is found around water while the copperhead can be found in many places, from wood piles to piles of straw or brush.

If you are bitten by a poisonous snake, seek medical attention immediately. Never try and handle a poisonous snake.

The ocean waters are warming and the fishing is heating up as well. The area anglers are out and about on the beach as well as on the piers and in the boats.

The pier anglers are reporting a few blues and Spanish being caught on gotcha plugs while there have been a few croakers caught on a bottom rig baited with shrimp. I have heard that a few small spots have been caught as well.

The surf anglers are catching a few pompano on cut up shrimp while there have been a few blues caught in the breakers as well. Cut baits will work here.

The inland anglers are catching a few reds on everything from top water baits to live baits and gulp. Remember the size limits on the reds.

T he flounder have been biting fairly well.

Live mud minnows will work here.

The freshwater anglers are enjoying the recent cooler weather. They are hitting the water all times of the day. Be prepared guys, the heat is about to return. The bream have been biting. My daughter took my six-year-old granddaughter out to a little pond and tore the panfish up. She used red worms. The cats are hitting the usual cut up eel and chicken livers.

This week’s fishing tip With freshwater fishing comes the chance of running up on a snake.

These creepy critters will look for high ground like most other animals.

Remember, if the waters are high, then the

Photo courtesy of Surf City Ocean Pier

This nice sheepshead was hooked at the Surf City Ocean Pier.

Barnhill hopes to build on junior year at Trask

By Bobby Norris Post & Voice Sports Writer As a junior at Heide Trask High School, Lanie Barnhill made huge strides on the volleyball court. She was the Titan spikers go to player. When the team needed a point, it seemed that she stepped up.

Time and again, she made the plays that kept the team in matches. When the season ended, she was voted all-county as well as all-conference.

Lanie can play both the front and back line well.

She serves the ball well and can pass it as well as slam the ball over the net.

This season the talented young lady will be a senior on a team that did not graduate anyone. She will be charged with leading the team into what should be a much improved season.

Lanie Barnhill hopes to build on a very good junior season with the Lady Titans.

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Continued from page 1B letic director hall of famer Marc Payne of Ashe County before working under Gilroy, who by all accounts will be a future hall of famer. Pruitt will take what he has learned from both when he takes over in full.

“They are complete opposites, but they get the same result,”said Pruitt.

“Ed sits back and takes

Topsail

Continued from page 1B While he is getting a bit of a late start while waiting for the school board’s approval, Barlett is ready to hit the floor running.

“We’ll start this Saturday (June 15) and then we’ll take part in the Flight 22 tournament (June 23-

Performers

Continued from page 2B ee had 21 assists, 14 points, three aces, two kills and 15 digs.

Week 2. The Pender volleyball team split conference tilts last. Ashley Dupalevich had 42 assists in two matches while Mayce Wood had 10 kills and 13 digs against Dixon. Alex Colvin and Faith Lana each had five kills while Lana also had three blocks in the win over East Car-

Legion

Continued from page 2B Pierce opened the fourth inning. Cavanaugh and courtesy-runner Dominic

things in while Marc was straight by the book. I’m going to take what I learned from both.”

Pruitt inherits an athletic department that has some holes to fill. The Titans will have to or are in the process of hiring several coaches including a boys and girls soccer coach along with a girls basketball coach.

Although it is assumed that Pruitt will continue to coach baseball, that has yet to be announced.

Football coach named One of for mer Trask AD Ed Gilroy’s last chores was to find a replacement for former football coach Johnathan Taylor. The school announced last week that Branden Procter has been named to the position.

Procter’s last stop was at Latta High School in Latta, South Carolina. He has also coached at Dixon High School. He will be charged with replacing the bulk of the coaching staff including offensive coordinator

Randy Pugh. It is thought that long time assistants Lance Capps and Matt Wilcox will return in similar capacities.

Procter inherits a team that finished 5-6 last year after winning a school record eight games the year before. The team loses 16 seniors including their top rusher in senior quarterback Jake Johnson, top tackler Foster Williamson, and two-way starter Mac Richardson.

25),” Barlett said. “I was a little hesitant to get into that one so soon in case it would tur n out more negative than positive if we go in there and get our brains beat out. But if we can quickly identify some of the things we need to work on, then there is an upside.

“I’m excited to get going.

There are several players on this team that I am

anxious to work with while getting familiar with the ones I do not now. They just need to understand what is necessary for us to take the next step, and they need to learn to trust each other. I am anxious to get started. ” Top players returning for the Pirates include rising seniors Jackson Sullivan, Derek Gardner, Fernando Vasquez, James Stu-

art, Jamison Long, Ryan Morris, Charlie Combs, and E. J Carr.

Sullivan was the team leader in rebounds (158) and blocked shots (16), and was second on the team in points scored (185), and Gardner averaged 11.8 points-per-game (teamleading 296 points) and was second on the team in rebounds (104) and blocked shots

teret.

Julia Sullivan had 12 assists, 12 digs, four kills, eight points, and an ace, Gia Marinelli had seven kills, seven points and four digs and Rena Marrotta dug up an incredible 30 digs to go along with 11 service points and four aces as Topsail beat Laney.

Sophomore Kylee Edwards earned a 6-0, 6-0 win and Chely Pritt and Anna Duckworth added singles’ match wins as Topsail beat Laney in tennis. Edwards and Kasey Pfaff won 8-1 at No. 1 doubles, and Pritt and

Duckworth won 8-4 at No. 2 doubles.

The Trask football found their way into the win column. Jeff Stroesseneruther had five tackles, two sacks and a blocked punt while Foster Williamson had 14 tackles in the win over Union. Jake Johnson rushed for 163 yards and scored four times while Zion Cruse ran for 103 yards.

The Topsail football team is off to a 4-0 start after beating White Oak. Junior signal caller Cody Wallis threw two short touchdown

passes in the win. Johnathan Ward and Cameron Bam-Bam Barros caught TD passes.

Topsail junior Noah Lavalle had a great game. He carried the ball 26 times for 267 yards and three touchdowns.

Week 3: The story of week three was Hurricane Florence. She blew into the county and wreaked havoc. There would be no more sporting events in the month of September as we tried as a community to deal with the nefariousness of this storm of a lifetime.

Clinch (Davis) scored on an error, and Pierced scored on a fielders’ choice before Henry singled with Hayden and Clinch scoring on a double by Bryson Coleman.

McFann walked and

both Coleman and McFann scored on an error on a ball hit by Cavanaugh. Two seventh-inning runs finished off the scoring.

Post 167 was at Hoggard last Saturday. Results of

that game will appear in next week’s Post & Voice, along with results from back-to-back games with Pleasure Island Monday and Tuesday, and a game at Post 10 Wednesday.

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Barros left it all on the gridiron at Topsail

By Bobby Norris Post & Voice Sports Writer In the game of football, there are those that play the game and those that live for the game.

While the former can be proficient at the rough and tumble sport, it takes the latter to be successful.

In the case for recent Topsail High School graduate Cameron Barras, it can be said that he did a little of both.

Cameron was one of those players that did not seem to mind sticking his nose in every play. He would lay the lumber on you via the big hit or run around you.

The young man nicknamed Bam-Bam, had a nose for the game.

Cameron was a huge part of the Pirates most successful season as a 3A team last year.

He will be missed by his teammates. Cameron Barras left it all out on the field for the Pirates.

The Pender-Topsail Post & Voice presents this week’s

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Cameron Barras

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Harrell leaves Pender High School a success

By Bobby Norris Post & Voice Sports Writer When recent Pender High school graduate Jenna Harrell entered Pender High school she was determined to make her mark at the Burgaw high school. She was a freshman with great athletic ability.

As of last week, Miss Harrell will be Pender High School graduate with a lot of memories both on and off the athletic fields and courts.

Jenna played softball for two years and was very good. In her senior year, she concentrated on volleyball.

Her concentration on the sport enabled her to finish her high school career on a state 1A playoff team.

Jenna Harrell will be known for much more than her athletic prowess. She will be known for her kindness and generosity along with her grace and strength through both good and difficult times. She leaves Pender High a success.

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Athlete Spotlight

Jenna Harrell

Pender High School

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