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Two Pender County football teams will be on the gridiron Friday in the ﬁrst round of the NCHSAA state playoffs. Topsail is at home and Trask will travel. Read more in sports on 8A.

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By Andy Pettigrew Post & Voice Publisher Minor flooding is expected along the Northeast Cape Fear River in Pender County, with the river to crest by Friday, according to Pender County Emergency Management Director Tom Collins. “We are going to see some minor flooding at around 10 feet. We usually start worrying about flooding when the river hits 13 feet,” Collins said. “I’m hoping we are not going to see that. I don’t think we will. We are just going to have a lot of rain this week.” Collins expects flooding along the Northeast Cape Fear in the usual places – River Bend, River Birch – and flooding in other low lying areas. “As long as this tropical storm stays off the coast and we don’t get any rain from it, we should be fine,” said Collins. Wet winter expected Although the El Niño weather pattern currently developed in the eastern Pacific has a positive effect on hurricanes that can take aim at Pender County, it also can prove problematic during the winter months. The National Weather Service says an El Niño typically reduces the severity of the hurricane season due to increased wind shear across the tropical Atlantic and Caribbean. However its largest local impacts are noted during the winter with heavier precipitation typically occurring across the southern United States including eastern North Carolina.

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Veterans were honored across Pender County with several special programs. Bagpipes lead in the Hampstead Post 167 American Legion color guard Saturday at the Veterans Day program.

Operation Christmas Child in Pender County From Staff Reports Two locations in Pender County will serve as collection sites for Operation Christmas Child – the world’s largest Christmas project of its kind. The annual Samaritan’s Purse project is a favorite of many Pender County area residents, families, churches and groups who spread joy to millions of children around the world by filling shoeboxes with a “Wow!” item – like a doll or soccer ball – other fun toys, school supplies, hygiene items and notes of

Changes planned to help Factory Road intersection By Barbara Hazle Contributing Writer The North Carolina Department of Transportation presented a plan to allow safer access to Highway 17 at the Factory Road intersection deemed “the most dangerous intersection” along the Hampstead corridor. Hampstead Baptist Church hosted a meeting Nov. 5 with members of the church, residents of Majestic Oaks and residents from neighborhoods along Factory Road, gathered to meet with Representative Chris Millis, Pender County Sheriff Carson Smith and NCDOT representative Chad Kimes. Kimes presented a map that outlined a new

encouragement. “Through the simple act of filling a shoebox, someone in Pender County can make a tangible difference in the life of a child halfway around the world. Anyone can participate and bring joy to a child facing difficult circumstances,” said Wilmington Area Volunteer Paulette Fittshur, who has participated in Operation Christmas Child for 16 years.

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road to be built by 2020 originating on Factory Road east of the church, west of the Majestic Oaks subdivision, that would connect with Dan Owen Road, providing access to Highway 17 at the Hwy 210 interchange. This project has been fully funded by the NCDOT and is in the design stage with the engineering firm of Stantec headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina. “Believe it or not, this project is on a fast track,” said Kimes. “The schedule is for the design phase to be completed by 2017, then land acquisitions are slated for 2018-2019. This is a long process, land acquisition has a timeline of 18 months. Completion of the project is forecast for 2020. The new road will be in before the new traffic flow of right only in and right only out on Factory Road is put into effect.” Many in the audience spoke on having more immediate needs. “This is not just a Sunday need. On a daily basis we need more time to be able to turn left,” said Kerry Kenyon a resident and HOA Board Member of Majestic

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Pender County school officials made presentations before the Pender Board of Commissioners Monday outlining the school bond projects. At the top of the list was the Penderlea School project. Architects brought plans and artist renderings of a new 87,000 square feet K-8 school, which will be built on property behind the existing Penderlea School facing the intersection of Penderlea Highway and Racoon/Garden Road. The project is expected to cost $17.8 million and take 18 months to complete. The gym, auditorium, and media center of the old school will be saved, while the remainder of the building will be demolished after completion of the new building. Commissioner David Piepmeyer questioned School Board members about public opinion regarding a new facility as opposed to a renovation of the exiting historic building, wanting to make sure the majority of the community was in favor of a new building. “It is the School Board’s goal to do what the community wants. But also, number one, it is what is best for our children. We are in the business of educating children and we want to do our very best. They deserve that, the best,” said School Board Chairman Karen Rouse. Piepmeyer said the issue of the Penderlea School was an emotional one. “This is a well-established

community and the school has been the centerpiece of the community for almost 80 years now. I just want to make sure we are communicating, involving the right people, and the right decision for the majority of the stakeholders is made,” Piepmeyer said. Surf City school Commissioners heard a report on the proposed new K-8 school in Surf City from Paul Poney of LS3P Architects. The new facility, located on Atkinson Loop Road, will house 1,200 students in a building similar to Cape Fear Elementary and Middle schools, with a gym, multi-purpose room, and cafeteria in the center of the facility, and classroom wings on either side of the building. County Commissioners met in closed session Monday evening to discuss the land purchase for the school. Following the closed session, Chairman David Williams said there was no official announcement, but he hoped to have something on the land in a few weeks. Commissioners also heard reports on the Burgaw Middle, West Pender Middle, and

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Hampstead residents speak out at a public meeting on NCDOT plans for the intersection of U.S. Hwy. 17 and Factory Road. The meeting was held at Hampstead Baptist Church Nov. 5.

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Arrest report Rebecca Lynn Babson, 40, 22 Blue Bird Spur, Burgaw. Simple assault. Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office. Incarcerated, no bond. Cammi K. Bennett, 17, 407 Pond View Circle, Hampstead. Probation violation, disorderly conduct, resisting an officer, assault on a government official or employee. Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office. Released under $5,000 secured bond. Kaquan McKinley Brice, 21, 438 Johnson Avenue, Willard. Assault on a female, larceny, possession of stolen goods, probation violation. Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office. Incarcerated under $32,000 secured bond. Christopher Robert Burgess, 20, 210 Memory Lane, Burgaw. Probation violation. Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office. Incarcerated under $30,000 secured bond. John Ivan Calderon, 40, 414 Fawn Drive, Hampstead. Probation violation. Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office. Incarcerated, no bond. Juan Carlos Carransa, 27, 300 Hargrove Drive, Rose Hill. Probation violation. Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office. Released, no bond. Tammy Bloodworth Carter, 25, 102 Rouse Drive, Willard. Assault with a deadly weapon, assault by pointing a gun. Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office. Released under $500 secured bond. Joseph Michael Cesero, 33, 110 Wild Turkey Trail, Rocky Point. Driving while impaired. Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office. Released, no bond. Steven Bradley Cingano, 31, 100 Machine Gun Road, Hampstead. Probation violation. Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office. Incarcerated, no bond. Kevin Paul Dash, 47, 310 S. Smith Street, Burgaw. Larceny. Arrest by Burgaw Police Department. Incarcerated under $100 secured bond. Justin Lee Dlacich, 26, 145 Old Farm Road, Hampstead. Probation violation. Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office. Incarcerated under $25,000 secured bond. Jamie Lee Garner, 29, 238 Ennette Lane Apt. 6, Sneads Ferry. Breaking and entering, larceny, fictitious info to officer. Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office. Released, no bond. Shay Wagner Hampton, 45, 1021 Fillmore Street, Southport. Driving while impaired, driving while license revoked. Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office. Released under $1,500 secured bond. Henry Roosevelt Hatcher, III, 28, 202 Bellhammon Forest Drive, Rocky Point. Simple assault. Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office. Incarcerated under $1,500 secured bond. Nicholas Alexander Hodges, 19, 1161 Arvida Spur Road, Rocky Point. Assault on a female, communicating threats. Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office. Released under $1,000 secured bond. Ernest Lee Jacobs, 67, 13812 Allison Forest Trail, Charlotte. Driving while impaired. Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office. Released, no bond. Eugene James, 22, 1109 Stanford Avenue 102, Burgaw. Probation violation. Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office. Released under $10,000 secured bond.

Pender EMS & Fire Report Nov. 1-7 EMS Report Total number of Patient Contacts: 233 Calls per station Burgaw Station 1 50 Sloop Point Station 14 42 Hampstead Station 16 27 Surf City Station 23 19 Topsail Beach Station 4 5 Union Station 5 27 Rocky Point Station 7 37 Maple Hill Station 8 5 Atkinson Station 9 15 Scott Hill Station 18 5 Hwy 421 South Station 29 1 Type of Calls Cancelled: 23 Cancelled en-route: 4 No patient found: 1 No treatment required: 10 Refusals: 78 Stand by: 3 Transported: 104 Treated and released: 10 Fire Department Reports Total number of Fire Calls: 11 EMS First Response: 21 Motor Vehicle Crash (MVC): 11 Cancelled Response: 6 Calls per station Rescue Station 1 Burgaw EMS 3 Motor Vehicle Crash 4 Cancelled 6 Fire Station 14 Sloop Point Fire 3 Motor Vehicle Crash 0 EMS Assist 5 Fire Station 16 Hampstead Fire 1 Motor Vehicle Crash 1 EMS Assist 4 Fire Station 18 Scotts Hill Fire 0 Motor Vehicle Crash 2 EMS Assist 3 Fire Station 21 Long Creek Fire 6 Motor Vehicle Crash 4 EMS Assist 5 Ocean Rescue--Beach Assist EMS 0 Fire Station 29 Hwy 421 South Fire 1 Motor Vehicle Crash 0 EMS Assist 1

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Perdita Elaine James, 57, 56 Henry Pridgen Road, Burgaw. Probation violation. Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office. Released under $2,000 secured bond. Monica Donisha Johnson, 25, 150 Kimberly Court 8, Rocky Point. Child support. Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office. Released. Bruce Anthony Jones, Jr., 33, 103 Westwood Court, New Bern. Speeding, driving while license revoked, felonious restraint, assault on a female. Arrest by Surf City Police Department. Released under $5,500 secured bond. Joshua Lee Labarre, 33, 615 Ardmore Road, Rocky Point. Parole violation. Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office. Incarcerated under $25,000 secured bond. Charles Odell Laster, 49, 146 Heron Cove Road, Hampstead. Assault on a female. Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office. Incarcerated under $1,000 secured bond. Ernest Darnell McDuffie, Jr., 23, 12444 NC Highway 210, Rocky Point. Driving while license revoked, resisting an officer, following too closely, open container after consuming, failure to yield, driving left of center, flee/elude arrest, reckless driving to endanger, speeding, hit and run, failure to report accident, obtaining property under false pretense, probation violation, assault on a female. Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office. Incarcerated under $5,000 secured bond. Jeffrey Scott Mikos, 48, 501 Gum View Circle, Fuquay Varina. Driving while impaired, speeding. Arrest by NC Highway Patrol. Released under $1,000 secured bond. Raymond Allen Miller, 46, 4706 Malpass Corner Road, Burgaw. Probation violation. Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office. Released under $5,000 secured bond. Sylvester Murray III, 36, 4226 US Highway 117 S, Burgaw. Communicating threats. Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office. Incarcerated, no bond. Thomas Scott Seitz, 50, 617 Amanda Lane, Hampstead. Probation violation. Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office. Incarcerated under $5,000 secured bond. Crystal Lynette Smith, 29, 136 Maple Road #3, Burgaw. Driving while license revoked, no child restraint system, driving while license revoked. Arrest by NC Highway Patrol. Released under $1,000 secured bond. Howard Junior Smith, 45, 1178 New Road, Burgaw. Impeding traffic. Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office. Released under $800 secured bond. Jacob Dalton Smith, 23, 7947 Highway 53 W, Burgaw. Impaired supervision. Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office. Released, no bond. Richard Lee Sprow, 33, 506 N. Wright Street, Burgaw. Breaking and entering. Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office. Released under $1,000 secured bond. Jonathan Ryan Suggs, 20, 1018 B. South Anderson Boulevard, Topsail Beach. Statutory rape. Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office. Released under $50,000 secured bond. Shannon Nicole Watkins, 36, 850 Sloop Point Road, Hampstead. Probation violation. Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office. Released, no bond.

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

Sex crime arrest Detectives with the Pender County Sheriff ’s Office arrested Hector Medina Urieta, 34, of Rocky Point Nov. 6 on two counts of Statutory Rape of a 13, 14, or 15-year old with the defendant being six years older than the victim, two counts of statutory sex offense of a 13, 14, or 15-year old with the defendant being six years older than the victim and three counts of indecent liberties with a child. Urieta was given a $1,000,000 secured bond and is currently in the Pender County Jail.

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Continued from page 1A Pender High School bond projects. Williams also commented on the expansion of schools in eastern Pender County. “Someone on the outside looking in may not know the history of this community. The east side of the county gets the big number projects because

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Surf City looks for extra funds to help with beach repairs By Andy Pettigrew Post & Voice Publisher Surf City officials are working with the state and federal government to obtain funding to begin emergency beach repairs after the storms and high tides of the past several months. Surf City beaches sustained extensive damage due to the high water, cutting into the dunes and damaging beach accesses in many locations. “We don’t have any precise plans yet. We are still working with the state assisting us with some funding. We will be doing a sand push,” said Surf City Mayor Zander Guy. “We will also be repairing the beach accesses. We are

hoping to get the sand push done this month. We have a two to three week window for that work.” Guy said if the town does not receive funding from the state or FEMA, the project will still go forward using beach renourishment funds already on hand. “We need to try and do everything we can to secure additional funding,” said Guy. “The FEMA and Emergency Management people have been here and I think we probably have about a 50-50 chance of getting the additional funding.” A sand push is an emergency measure taken on the beach to shore up the dune line after severe erosion and

escarpment of the dunes. Bulldozers are used to push sand from the waterline up the beach to the dunes. No additional sand is added to the beach during a sand push project. A renourishment project involves dredging sand from an offshore location and pumping it onto the beach. Surf City beaches sustained damage during the astronomical high tides in September, along with the tropical weather systems that passed offshore. Guy said the town will conduct a special debris pickup Nov. 16 along the canal for large appliances and other debris from flooding in that area.

Poplar Grove readies for holidays By Lori Kirkpatrick Post & Voice Staff Writer Poplar Grove Plantation is decking the halls for the holidays in preparation for several Christmas & Candlelight festivities. An Arts and Crafts Festival will be held Dec. 5 from 10 a.m. until 7 p.m., and Candlelight Tours will be offered Friday and Saturday evenings on Nov. 27 and 28 and again on Dec. 4-5. The guided tours will begin at 5 p.m., and will run on the hour at 6, 7, and 8 p.m. Advance tickets are required for the special event, and tours are limited to 15 guests. Regular ticket prices apply. The nonprofit decided to expand its Christmas experience to include two of the Foy family’s favorite holidays, Thanksgiving and Christmas. The public is invited to share in two Victorian-themed candlelight weekends through the manor house to celebrate its preservation efforts. Each of the eight rooms of the house will be decorated by theme with vibrant colors using natural flora and greenery

inspired by the Foys’ Colonial through Victorian family history. A few contemporary accents will echo the family’s four centuries in coastal North Carolina. The grounds will be open Dec. 5 for a special day and evening for families seeking a local shopping experience. A variety of local arts and craft items to compliment hearth and home will be available during the Arts and Crafts Festival. Kettle corn, hot cider, wagon rides and inflatables for the kids are just a few of the treats being planned. The animals will be dressed in full regalia and available for nose-rubbing and picture taking. Rumor has it that Santa will also be making an appearance at the gazebo. The South Topsail Elementary School Choir, led by Samantha Rodgers, will perfor m during the event. Vendor spaces are available for arts and crafts, concession and food vendors, Interested vendors should contact Laura Leigh Bransford at lauraleigh@poplargrove.org for more information.

All proceeds will benefit historic Poplar Grove, a nonprofit 501(c)3 Public Charity as of January 2015. Poplar Grove Foundation, Inc. is dedicated to conservation, education, and preservation. Photo contributed The nonprofit seeks the support of its visitors to help Burgaw Planning Director Rebekah Roth was the guest speaker at last week’s Burgaw ensure a quality experience Rotary meeting. Roth shared information about future planning for the town. Pictured for all families. with Roth is Rotary member Bob Hugh Corbett Sunday family portraits will also be offered Nov. 29 & Dec. 6. Visitors are invited to bring their families to the Manor House for a special portrait on the front porch or inside the front parlor in front of the tree. Poplar Grove will be closed during the week of Thanksgiving, and will open only for self-guided tours at a reduced rate on Nov. 28-29 and Dec. 5-6. The grounds, outbuildings, Manor House, gift shop, basket gallery and animal sanctuary will be open on these two weekends only. Poplar Grove is located at 10200 Hwy 17 N. Visit the website at poplargrove.org for more information or call 910-686-9518 for reservations for candlelight tours.

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Pender County finalists in health awards From Staff Reports Pender County Health Department Director Carolyn Moser has been named a finalist in the Greater Wilmington Business Journal’s annual Health Care Heroes Award. Moser was nominated in the Community Achievement category. “Carolyn Moser is a professional who wants the best possible health for every citizen of the county,” said nominator Tammy Proctor, the director of tourism in Pender County. “She runs an efficient operation. She makes certain proper entities are billed for services and she maintains her budget with integrity,” Proctor said. Additional reasons for Moser’s nomination included her concern for the employees in her department. She recently requested a deputy to ensure the employees’ safety. In addition to the health department, Moser also oversees the animal shelter. Moser is an animal lover. She took a poorly run operation and has turned it into a facility where adoptions are high and anmimal care is a priority. Moser has been in the health care field for 33 years. Prior to coming to Pender County, she was the health director in Madison County. She worked as a health consultant

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for the state and helped write the North Carolina Guide for the Early Years, a resource for local school systems. She is the past president of the NC Public Health Association and currently the president-elect of the Eastern District NC Public Health Association. Moser and her husband, Mike, reside in Pender County. “Carolyn’s life has been health and safety and she is a perfect person to receive a Heroes Award,” said Proctor. Stacey Wright, a Safety Officer/Training Officer at Pender Volunteer EMS and Rescue, is EMS division chief with Pender EMS and Fire. She was nominated in the Health Care Heroes First Responder category. Wright was nominated by Pamela Webster, the former

Human Resource director for Pender EMS and Fire. Webs ter s aid Wright’s legacy as a chief will be her passion and dedication to the community. Wright began her service as an EMS volunteer in 1990. She is currently an EMS Chief overseeing the division, the medical transport division, and training for all of the more than 300 volunteers and paid personnel, according to Webster. In addition to serving as an EMS Chief, Wright also serves as the Safety Officer for Pender EMS & Fire Inc. Wright does more than serve as an administrator. She can be found assisting more than 30 patient care calls per month. She understands that when a resident calls 911, they are in need and she responds.

To celebrate Respiratory Therapy W e e k t h i s y e a r, Pender Memorial’s Respiratory Care staff decided to do something for the c o m m u n i t y. T h e y chose Pender County Humane Society, a no-kill animal shelter in Burgaw, as their charity. Respiratory Therapist Kianna Ly l e s i s p i c t u r e d standing with the more than 200 pounds of dog and cat food and other supplies collected by the hospital’s staff.

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Changes in voting next year North Carolinians have complained for years that their primary votes don’t matter. That changes next year, unless legal action or political tomfoolery plays a larger role than expected. Tar Heels will join the growing number of Americans casting their ballots in March, rather than May, as has been the tradition for decades. AlWhether the voter ID though it seems as though the law or the early primaries election cycle is only slightly will cut down on voter shorter than the Christmas turnout remains to be shopping season, the time seen; the state does need really is growing short for the primary race. to do a better job about While it would make sense letting folks know what’s to hold all primaries on the going in this next cycle. same day, nationwide, some state laws and electoral terms would require those states to hold yet another election in years of presidential and state primaries. Then there are the career elected and powerbrokers who are interested in having some states – like North Carolina – as a backup to the “important” states. We’re glad to see our state moving the primary date up, even if it does mean a longer post-primary season. It won’t really be that much longer – just two months—but it will be good to know our state won’t be viewed as expendable by the candidates. Voters and candidates will be looking at North Carolina in March, as well as several other early birds, to get a feeling for what is trending, what people wanting government, and what works versus what doesn’t. Emotions and party loyalty always play a role, of course, although with the lack of an open primary in our state, crossing party lines doesn’t play a role in primaries, only in the fall races. March will also be the first time voters are required to prove their identity; extreme civil libertarians cry foul at our state’s voter ID laws, as do many on the left, but the rules are simple enough, and the availability is easy enough, that only the most irresponsible person can’t obtain some form of acceptable identification. With variations of nine different identification methods being acceptable, ensuring that each voter is actually legally allowed to vote should be no problem. The third month of 2016 should be an interesting one in our state; elections officials who have just gotten calmed down and rested up from the always-fractious municipal races in many communities will have to do it all over again. Challenges will abound against the voter ID laws, and even whether the state has the right to move its primary date. Then there are the political insiders who fear retribution on the national level if the date of our state’s primaries can actually be determined by the state, not the national parties. It’s sad that we have to pass laws and change rules due to the actions of others, but campaign strategies, party loyalty and post-election retribution make some necessary things uncomfortable. Had the system not been subject to abuse before, in different circumstances ranging from voters signing their names as “Daffy Duck” to entire states being disenfranchised due to a broken promise in the Halls of Congress—if folks had followed the rules, maybe we wouldn’t need new ones some find onerous. Whether the voter ID law or the early primaries will cut down on voter turnout remains to be seen; the state does need to do a better job about letting folks know what’s going in this next cycle. It could be as some pundits have claimed, that responsible, law-abiding voters who are more confident their votes will matter will return to the polls, due in part to the Voter ID law. We find it unlikely that turnout will be affected either way, really. What’s most important is that people begin considering now what they want out of the people we send to Raleigh and Washington, as well as who those individuals will be. An informed voter is always preferable to one who thinks with the heart, not the mind, but what’s most important is that the people take advantage of the ease with which they can cast a ballot—and that they turn out and vote.

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Bill Messer In the earlier part, Ken Marks started to talk about

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Autumn with Topsail

The eleventh hour of the eleventh day I grew up around WorldWar II veterans, but for the longest time, Mr. Jimmy was the only one I knew from the Great War. He lived with his much younger brother, in the house their father had bought from the mill. They lived an old man’s bachelor existence with a houseful of cats, ignoring the wrinkled noses of disgust from many of the ladies in the town. While my dad’s feet couldn’t let him serve in the Second World War, he was still a contemporary of the Saturday crowd in the barbershop. He could recall the problems and struggles at home while the other men waiting on a shave and a trim could describe the fighting on Guadalcanal, Monte Cassino, and in North Africa. That often left Mr. Jimmy with the other little kids like myself at the far end of the room, near the shoeshine stands where I tried (unsuccessfully) to make some spending money. It was easy for the men to forget about a little old bent man and an overweight kid sitting in the last chairs in the barbershop. Mr. Jimmy always smelled bad. Even in summer, he wore several jackets, often covered with a heavy coat. His shoes were beyond disreputable. Sometimes his brother helped him shave, sometimes he tried to do it himself, sometimes he didn’t shave at all. Folks said he came back from World War One talking to himself, and never stopped. He also never got warm— when a nosy young’un once asked why he wore a heavy coat in July, he answered simply, “Cold. So cold.” I don’t mean to imply that all World War One vets I met were shell-shocked. The fact of the matter is, there were very few still alive when I was a child, fifty years after they’d gone to France. My father’s father served in the same war; he drove a tank, one of the first hulking iron boxes to caterpillar across a battlefield. Tanks from the time when the designers thought adding more guns made a tank better, rather than just heavier. Aunt Eleanor, the keeper of the family treasures, could name some of the places he’d fought, great battles forgotten by the time of my childhood. Grandpa died, ironically, under the wheels of a trolley car while on his way to a veteran’s meeting in Washington, D.C., when my father was a small child. The man who survived gas attacks, artillery barrages, and burning tanks forgot to look both ways crossing the

Jefferson Weaver street. Papa had mentioned some of them, but most of the details so eagerly sought by a typically bloodthirsty Southern child were recalled only in old musty books whose pages were slowly being eaten by the very acid that helped print them when my father was a small child. Mr. Jimmy’s milltown accent brought home the names of Meuse Argon, Chateau Thierry, and others I could only read about. I never had it perfectly clear in which of those battles he’d actually fought, but I knew from the wall in his tiny living room that he’d fought in several, and fought hard. He recalled a fellow who had shipped out with him, how the man jammed his rifle in the mud of a trench and forgot to clear the bore, killing himself and a “Hun in a tin hat.” Jimmy’s voice cracked when he began talking about the way poison gas crept across a muddy, shell-torn field that he said was covered in flowers when his unit first started digging the trenches that would become their home. His conversations weren’t all about the war; there was the girl in the white dress, and swimming in the creek before the town used it for a sewer. Meeting one of the Duke family when their car had a flat tire. There were the stories about the “Frenchy” girl, stories that grownups usually managed to stop just as they became interesting. Sometimes my name was “Boy;” in his more lucid moments, it was “Little Tom,” after my father. Other times he asked me if I recalled the taste of soup made with rainwater, turnips and fat. One day, when Mr. Rip the barber was buzz-cutting a local policeman’s hair, Jimmy told me to keep down, because the Huns were firing mortars again. Sometimes he sat on his porch and talked to his cats. Sometimes he sat on his porch and talked to friends

long gone. Sometimes he just talked. Unlike a lot of folks in our town, Mr. Jimmy didn’t care if my dog came up on the porch when we stopped by. “We had a dog over there,” he said, one time. His rheumy old eyes glistened for a moment, and I waited, but he was content to pat Dudley’s head and let the story go with that. Mr. Jimmy died quietly on his front porch, bundled up, a cat sitting in his lap. He didn’t have to be cold anymore. I was in junior high before I finally realized that Veteran’s Day originally commemorated the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, when Jimmy and his buddies and a million others lifted their heads from below the earthworks and for once, didn’t have to worry about being shot if they let the sun shine on their faces. I like to imagine my Grandad opening the side door of the Mathilda and stepping outside, maybe leaning on one of the side-firing cannons and lighting a handrolled cigarette, like he is in one of those old bordered photos. While the World War I soldiers and sailors were dying off in my childhood, those of World War II, Korea, and even Vietnam are slipping away now. Our modern veterans teeter on the edge of being forgotten, and even more of them die far younger than their predecessors. With them go their stories and memories, unless parents will help their kids listen. Theirs are the stories of freedom, and can be delivered more effectively by a Grandpa who says, “Now, when I was in…..” Too many of our children already have seen and heard things we cannot imagine, sitting here safely at home. Hopefully, their kids won’t have to do so. Hopefully today’s children will never know firsthand what gas looks like creeping like a fog across a battlefield. Hopefully they’ll never know the modern equivalent of the sound of an empty clip being ejected from an M-1 Garand rifle in the middle of a cold dark night. Hopefully they’ll never hear the thump of a landmine going off under someone’s foot. Those are stories our children today need to hear, from the people who lived them. And if they listen, hopefully they’ll realize that freedom has to be defended if it’s going to have any value. –Weaver is a columnist with the Post & Voice. Contact him at jeffweaver@whiteville. com.

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I got down to the south end early on Saturday while they were still doing sound checks on the stage. It made shopping and getting up close and personal with the artists easy since the crowds were yet to roll in. I made my rounds in no time, long before the lunch rush arrived, which gave me plenty of time to contemplate my annual dilemma: chicken on a stick, hand cut French fries, gyro or something new? I was proud of myself for choosing the latter; not necessarily something new to me, but new to my Autumn with Topsail experience. Luckily, I was not even tempted by Mammaw’s crab cakes, my first choice last year, since I have a neighbor who makes the best crab cakes on the planet, and I can request them anytime. It was a fun and festive environment as always, and I enjoyed my meal as I watched the lunch lines lengthen. It was a perfect fall day full of sunshine with a nice cool breeze to keep it comfortable. I overheard one girl, all decked out in her cowboy boots and sweater, complain that she needed to go home and change her clothes. Well, duh, it was October on the Island, clearly still t-shirt and flip-flop season. Obviously, she was a tourist. Of course, I bought my six tickets for the curators raffle and deposited them in the appropriate cans. For a long time I won something every year, but unfortunately, they have been pulling the wrong names lately. I was hopeful they would pick me this time but that did not happen. A good mix of locals and tourists alike were on hand for this annual event. It is always fun making new friends and running into old ones, many of whom are now my neighbors. I wanted to stay for the band but exited early to attend my friend’s nuptials. Sunday we woke up to whipping cold winds and white caps on the intercostal waterway. And though I did not want to, I had to put on long pants, sleeves and shoes in preparation to revisit the festival. After sunny skies and seventy degrees on Saturday, this was a bit of a shock to my system. Of course, the temperature did not keep folks away, and I was thankful we had the warm weather on Saturday for my friends’ wedding on the beach I finally accept that fall has arrived. I’ve had mums and pumpkins on my porch for weeks and Halloween ghouls in my garage but this made fall official. Many of my friends look forward to fall; the crunch of the leaves and the fire in the pit, but for me letting go of summer after my September birthday is always bittersweet. Regardless, there is no doubt, it is autumn on Topsail Island.

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Guarding against aortic aneurysms Dear Savvy Senior, My father died several years ago, at the age of 76, from a stomach aneurysm, which now has me wondering. What are my risk factors of getting this, and what can I do to protect myself, as I get older? Just Turned 60 Dear 60, Stomach aneurysms, also known as â&#x20AC;&#x153;abdominal aortic aneurysms,â&#x20AC;? are very dangerous and the third leading cause of death in men over 60. They also tend to run in families, so having had a parent with this condition makes you much more vulnerable yourself. An abdominal aortic aneurysm (or AAA) is a weak area in the lower portion of the aorta, which is the major artery that carries blood from the heart to the rest of the body. As blood flows through the aorta, the weak area bulges like a balloon and can burst if it gets too big, causing life-threatening internal bleeding. In fact, nearly 80 percent of AAAs that rupture are fatal, but the good news is that more than nine out of 10 that are detected early are treatable. Whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s at risk? Around 200,000 people are diagnosed with AAAs each year, but estimates suggest that another 2 million people may have it but not realize it. The factors that can put you at increased risk are: Smoking: Ninety percent

of people with an AAA smoke or have smoked. This is the number one risk factor and one you can avoid. Age: Your risk of getting an AAA increases significantly after age 60 in men, and after age 70 in women. Family history: Having a parent or sibling who has had an AAA can increase your risk to around one in four. Gender: AAAs are five times more likely in men than in women. Health factors: Atherosclerosis, also known as hardening of the arteries, high blood pressure and high cholesterol levels also increase your risk. Detection and treatment Because AAAs usually star t small and enlarge slowly, they rarely show any symptoms, making them difficult to detect. However, large AAAs can sometimes cause a throbbing or pulsation in the abdomen, or cause abdominal or lower back pain. The best way to detect an AAA is to get a simple, painless, 10-minute ultrasound screening test. All men over age 65 that have ever smoked, and anyone over 60 with a first-degree relative (father, mother or sibling) who has had an AAA should the business,â&#x20AC;? I answered. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My granddad was a house mover, started in Wilmington in 1945. By the time I was five I wanted to ride on those trucks everyday. By the time I was thirteen, I was working on those trucks. I started out at 50 cents a hour, and I learned everything I know from my granddaddy or my uncle, Jim, J C Parker. Of course, the whole family, all the brothers, sisters, twelve kids in my grandmotherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s family, just about everybody had somethinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; they did working with my granddaddy. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Probably one of my first real jobs that I was gettingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; paid for was movinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; the old safety boxes for Carolina Savings and Loan. They were located at 2nd and Princess, and had built the new bank, Cooperative Savings and Loan, at 2nd and Market. They closed the 2nd and Princess branch Friday afternoon, and all the safety deposit boxes had to be moved and installed in the new branch by Monday morninâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; at 8 oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;clock. We worked â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;round the clock for the entire weekend, and,â&#x20AC;? he laughs, â&#x20AC;?I was paid 50 cent a hour. That was my first paycheck! â&#x20AC;&#x153;So, every summer and whenever I wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t goinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; to school, I was workinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; with my uncle. I did that until I graduated from high school. Even when I was in the Air Force, I came home on leave, occasionally, to help my uncle move something. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t remember the name of the house, but it was a big house by the bridge (Cape Fear Memorial Bridge), a big gray house

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Continued from page 4A wanted to do was put it together, the two of us, was start buying and selling houses that had to be moved. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what my granddaddy had done. My uncle, who had his own business, took over from my granddaddy, he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t buy and sell houses. My granddaddy was the only house mover here from 1945 â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;til I started in â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;82.â&#x20AC;? We talked for a while about Camp Davis and how it wound up all over the place after it was closed and the camp disassembled, parts of buildings moved to Topsail Island, the lumber to warehouses, even a small chapel that wound up in Penderlea. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My dad was stationed at Camp Davis, and met my mom in Wilmington.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I started workinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; with my granddaddy when I was five years old. I remember, five years old, my teddy bear under my arm, my uncle Jimâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d parked the house movinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; truck at the end of the block with a lowboy hooked on to it, standinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; out there, I remember many, many days standinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; out there lookinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; up at that truck waitinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; for him to say, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Alright boy, tell your grandmomma youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re goinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; with me.â&#x20AC;? We paused, and I told him, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was afraid we were never going to get around to this part, but tell me about moving houses.â&#x20AC;? Ken asked me if I wanted to know about moving houses, or how he got started in the house moving business. â&#x20AC;&#x153;How you got started in

talk to their doctor getting screened. You should also know that most health insurance plans cover AAA screenings, as does Medicare to beneficiaries with a family history of AAAs, and to men between the ages of 65 and 75 who have smoked at least 100 cigarettes during their life. If an AAA is detected during screening, how itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s treated will depend on its size, rate of growth and your general health. If caught in the early stages when the aneurysm is small, it can be monitored and treated with medication. But if it is large or enlarging rapidly, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll probably need surgery. AAA Protection While some risk factors like your age, gender and family history are uncontrollable, there are a number of things you can do to protect yourself from AAA. For starters, if you smoke, you need to quit â&#x20AC;&#x201C; see smokefree. gov or call 1-800-QUIT-NOW for help. You also need to keep tabs on your blood pressure and cholesterol levels, and if they are high you need to take steps to lower them through diet, exercise and if necessary, medication. Send your senior questions to: Savvy Senior, P.O. Box 5443, Norman, OK 73070, or visit SavvySenior.org. Jim Miller is a contributor to the NBC Today show and author of â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Savvy Seniorâ&#x20AC;? book. that used to sit up on top of the hill, by the Solomon Towers. I came home on leave one time and my uncle was movinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; that house, on rollers, on wooden rollers, slidinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; it off the hill and rollinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; it out in the street, it was thirteen feet in the air when he got it out to the street, and he lowered it down on the street and rolled it along on wooden rollers to where it is now. We didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have anything but railroad jacks back then, and heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d holler out â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;downâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and everybodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d pull down, and we hauled it down to the street and set it down, on those wooden rollers.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Where on earth would you get wooden rollers?â&#x20AC;? I asked. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were always fortunate. We were able to get them from Corbett Packaging. They make baskets, and when they spin the wood offaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; a log, they end up with a wooden roller about this wide (Ken illustrates the diameter with thumb to thumb and middle finger to middle finger), about six inches, all of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;em identical. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve always give â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;em to us, never charged a dime. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We had the house on steel beams underneath it, and they rolled on the wooden rollers.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Did you ever have a house get away from you?â&#x20AC;? I asked. â&#x20AC;&#x153;How would you catch it?â&#x20AC;? He laughed, â&#x20AC;&#x153;No. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be a mess then. Anyway, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s how I got started. I would say I worked 10 years, doinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; that, workinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; with my uncle off and on, weekends and stuff.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;How many houses have

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By Edith Batson Post & Voice Staff Writer What can change us? Recently a story on TV caught my ear and I knew I had to stop and listen. A man who was addicted to alcohol, was homeless, dejected, and miserable, was sitting on a curb (I think in Charlotte) watching a parade go by. Suddenly, a young boy, possibly 8 or 9 years old handed him a bag of food. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Take this; you must be hungry.â&#x20AC;? The man was shocked and overwhelmed by the boyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kindness and generosity. The homeless man saw a lady he thought was the boyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mother pulling a red wagon with two small children in it. The man took the bag and carried it back to the homeless shelter. When he opened the bag of food he suddenly felt the love of God and his whole life changed. He said he knew how wrong he had been with his life and he turned himself over to God. He went on to straighten out his life and five the credit to the young boyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kindness. He would very much like to find the boy and thank him for showing him that God loved him in spite of his past mistakes. Let us pray that he will find the boy who knew that to show Godâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s love he could be kind and generous to a man he had never seen. God sent him to the right person to show His special love. Isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t that a wonderful story? We may never know when a simple act of kindness may change another personâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life. Thanks be to God. Sometimes we think we want to do something big and exciting to impress God, but it really is the little things we try to do to follow Jesusâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; example that turn out to be the most important. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What the world needs now is love, sweet love.â&#x20AC;? Veterans Did you attend the Veteranâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day service Wednesday at the Burgaw Depot flagpole? My parents were blessed with my five brothers and me. My oldest brother, Stephen Crowley, served in the US Army in WWII. My next brother, George Worth (Blackie), quit school and joined the US Navy, the next brother, James Buren (Booby) was in the US Army, John Wells served in the Korean Conflict in the US Air Force, and my youngest brother Robert Newton (Bobby), was in the U.S. Navy in the Korean Conflict. I recall that someone asked my mother if she prayed for their safe return

in WWII. She replied that she did, but that she had also prayed that all of the veterans would return safely-so she could not just pray for her own sons to come back. Fortunately, all of her boys came home, went back to school and lived productive lives. We all grew up around Third and Church Streets in Wilmington. One close neighbor, Victor Mintz, did not make it back from WWII. That produced overwhelming grief to not only the family, but to our whole neighborhood. Many of our veterans have come home from conflicts around the world and have not been understood or helped with their conditions. Please support our veterans. Thanksgiving Everyday we should be thankful and grateful for all of our blessings. God says He will provide for our needs (not necessarily our wants). If we have a roof over our heads, enough food to eat and clothes to wear, a vehicle to drive and the other simple things that God has given us then we are lucky. Many people have lost all of these things, especially refugees who are fleeing their beloved but chaotic countries because they fear persecution or death and want a better life for their families. Ah-with all of our countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s faults, I would not want to live anywhere else, would you? Rain, Rain Go Away Did you know that NC has a rule that you are supposed to turn on your car lights if it is raining? Andy says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;If your windshield wipers are on, your lights are supposed to be on also.â&#x20AC;? It is also easier to see an oncoming car with the lights on. I have blinked my lights many times when a car does not have the lights on, but I think people just think I am crazy instead of turning their lights on in the rain. So-do it, please! Widowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s luncheon Each November, Mt. Holly Baptist Church sponsors a luncheon for widows in the community. It took place last Saturday at 11:00am. The fellowship hall was filled with the aroma of good food and smiling faces. We were

happy to be invited to a lovely meal, good fellowship, and a speaker who encouraged us in faith. Bountiful tables were filled with tossed salads, cranberry congealed salad, a variety of sandwiches, soups, wonderful homemade desserts, and tea or water. The speaker was a young mother who said she was already talking to her threeyear-old son about God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit. She heard those names growing up, but really didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know who they were. Most of her audience had gray or white hair, but we also have grandchildren or great-grandchildren who need to know about the foundations of our faith. She also reminded us that we needed to praise the Father, Son and Holy Spirit for our many blessings and the great love God has for us. Her name was Rhonda Ambrose. She lived in Wallace for several years, but has recently moved to Wilmington and attends a non-denominational church called The Refinery. It presently meets in the Brigade Boyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Club. Following her talk, door prizes in colorful stand up bags were given out by numbers on tickets given to guests as they arrived. It was a delightful way to spend Saturday and a lovely gift to community widows by the ladies at Mt. Holly Church. The only man allowed was the minister who is Rev. Merrell McKoy who asked Godâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s blessing on the delicious food. I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mention all the ladiesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; names but the person in charge was Carolyn Watkins. We thank her and all of her helpers for their thoughtfulness. Trip to Pigeon Forge Joann Newman provided this information about their recent trip. Thanks, Joann. On Monday morning 42 members and friends of Burgaw Presbyterian Church left for Pigeon Forge. Rev. Davis met and had prayer with us before we left. We had prayer each morning with a different person saying the prayer. We stayed in Kodak at the Laquina Inn & Suites.

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I[W Jkhjb[ >eif_jWb D[mi By Karen Sota Sea Turtle Hospital Special to the Post & Voice We’re definitely going to need more wall space for yet another award. The North Carolina Travel Industry Association has proclaimed us the Visitor Attraction of the Year. We were kind of stunned, but thrilled when we got the news because it’s not like we have a lobbying organization or that we do a lot of advertising. In fact, we do no advertising. Until Tammy Proctor (Pender County Director of Tourism) called with the news we had no idea that we were even in the running. Tammy was a great supporter of our hospital when she served as director of the Topsail Chamber of Commerce and she nominated us for consideration. One of our goals is to make our hospital as welcoming as possible, as we are all ambassadors for sea turtles. We offer many opportunities for education with our learning stations, and there’s always a lot of interest and questions as visitors move through our great hall where our volunteers explain sea turtle species and anatomy, cold-stunning and nesting and hatching. Our trash turtle and the accompanying examples of ocean trash are real eye-openers and are very effective, pointed examples of the devastation occurring in our oceans, and how we can all take measures to mitigate the damage. Individuals not able to devote time to working in our hospital become active volunteers with our Topsail Turtle Project and many of them have been helping our hospital staff with tours. And of course all of our turtle releases are public and attended by hundreds of people cheering as critters big and small are given another chance to live as a real sea turtle. We consider the long hours and the blood, sweat and tears a labor of love and we do it not for any award. But it’s still nice to know that our work, and our mission is recognized far beyond this little island on the coast. The award was presented Nov. 4 in Charlotte. We’ll be sure to clear a space of honor for it in our great hall so we can show it off to all of our visitors. Now that we’re up there with previous winners like Grandfather Mountain and the Battleship our hope is that this recognition as a major state attraction will provide some impetus for the town to improve the road so that our visitors have a less adventurous trek to our facility. Late releases New regulations require us to release any turtle deemed fit to go by our vet, Dr. Craig Harms along with Matthew Godfrey of N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission. So in the past few weeks we first

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Turtle Hospital volunteers Gayle Childress and Sany Sly accept the N.C. Visitor Attraction of the Year award in Charlotte. bundled up little green Bristol followed a few days later by short-term Kemp’s patients Autumn and Sarafinn. On Halloween another little Kemp’s, Punkin was released by our Saturday UNCW interns. And last week yet one more little Kemp’s Vickie Rose, named after the two longterm volunteers who released her, hit the waves. It’s only because of these continuing warm days along with still turtle-friendly water temperatures that we felt confident that these little critters had enough time to find a nice warm place to spend the winter before cold weather sets in. Bon voyage little ones – stay safe out there. Last of the hatches The Topsail Turtle Project is officially off the clock after the last two nests, both greens, hatched a few weeks ago. The nests made it through the storm and with a lot of help from our volunteers and local surfers the stunningly beautiful turtles were ferried out through the rough surf into calmer waters to begin their long swim to the nursery area at the fringes of the Gulf Stream. Because we’re not on the beach 24/7 we continue to rely on our locals and visitors to report any sightings or strandings of sea turtles of any size. Sometimes hatchlings get washed back to the beach if the surf is rough. If you see any turtle in distress, injured or dead please call our Director of Beach Operations Terry Meyer at 910-470-2880, or Hospital Director Jean Beasley at 910-470-2800. The state hotline for stranded, sick and injured turtles is 252-241-7367. The state number picks up 24/7. Fall tour schedule We continue to welcome about 500 visitors each week even though our tour schedule has been shortened. And if there’s one thing we’ve learned it’s that the fascination with sea turtles and what we do is not bound by age. We

receive many compliments on our staff and facility and people literally visit from all over the world. We will continue to be open on Thursday and Saturday from 1-4 p.m. We will not be open on Thanksgiving but will open on the Friday after Thanksgiving. Admission is $5 adults for 13 and up, $4 seniors 65 and up, and active military with ID. Admisison for children under 13 is $3. We are on the mainland side of Surf City. From Rts. 210/50 turn onto Charlie Medlin Dr. Shipwreck Point Mini Golf is your landmark. Follow the road (it changes to Tortuga) to the only building back in the woods. Our volunteers are onhand throughout the building to greet you and answer any questions. We continue our battle with our finicky lift station so we appreciate your continuing support in complying with the disposal of wet wipes and sanitary products per the signs in our restrooms. If our pumps shut down we will have to close the building to the public until the issue can be resolved. At this writing the town road (Tortuga) remains in very rough shape. Drive slowly and watch for crater-sized holes and teeth-jarring washboard stretches. And although it may appear driving close to the edge is a viable option the sand is softer than it looks and the shoulders drop off quickly. And now the visitor-created “alter nate route” straight through the roundabout is also fraught with hazards. We’re just happy that the 60,000 visitors we see in an average year are brave enough to press on to our building. The town has not indicated a date for permanent improvement of their road: we can do nothing but offer our apologies because it’s not our road. Questions, comments, suggestions Please direct any questions, comments or suggestions regarding this column to me at flippers@att.net.

Addi Psioda, a student at Penderlea Elementary School, won first place in the Burgaw Lions Club Peace Poster contest. The contest is a Lions International project to promote peace worldwide. Brianna Willis, also a Penderlea student, won second place and Jauana Diaz won third place. She also attends Penderlea School. The first place winning poster will move up to the next level of competition. The grand prize winner internationally will receive $5,000. Local winners received $25 for first place, $15 for second place and $10 for third place. Pictured left to right front row are Burgaw Lions Club member Bill Wooddell, Brianna Willis, Addi Psioda, Jauana Diaz, and art instructor Doug Lloyd. Back row is Penderlea Principal Diego Lehocky

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By Bobby Norris Post & Voice Sports Writer For the first half of the Trask at Pender football game it looked as if the home team Patriots would ride junior Justin Hooper to their second consecutive win in the county rival contest. It was just a year ago that the Patriots won on a Matt Ezzell field goal as time expired. In that contest, the Patriots rode their sophomore halfback to victory. On Friday night they had the same game plan and it worked well in the first half. However, the Titan defense found a way to slow Hooper down while their own halfback Steven Jordan had his best game of the year in leading the Trask team to a 21-6 win. “This is a big win for the kids,” said Trask head Coach Johnathan Taylor. “We played hard and made some adjustments in the second half. The kids prepared hard for the game and really played hard.” In the early going both teams had several good drives that stalled. The Patriots first drive totaled 37 yards with Hooper breaking off large chunks of yards. However, that drive failed when a 4th and eight Hooper run turned into an 18yard loss. The Titans first drive also ended on a failed fourth down attempt as both teams were primed to win with a take no prisoner approach. The Pats finally scored the first points of the game late in the first half. Hooper took the handoff at the 27-yard line from senior quarterback Jake Rawls and found daylight on the left side. Once he hit the second line of defense he was off to the races. The PAT was no good and the Patriots were clinging to a 6-0 lead. The Titan defense had given up 151 yards to Hooper in the first half and had to find a way to slow the standout halfback down. The Pats were charged with playing a clean second half, void of penalties while finding the energy to finish. That has been a problem for the young Patriots crew. Trask finally lit their side of the scoreboard up on their second possession of the second half. Jordan reeled off two big runs in a row including a 29-yard jaunt that ended in the end zone. The extra point was

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Trask’s Michael Stroman breaks a tackle after pulling in a pass. good and the Titans had their first lead of the game. Pender answered with Hooper. However, the Titan defense had been tweaked over the halftime break and seemed to find their footing in slowing the Patriot running game down. Trask took over on the 36yard line on their next possession and went to work. This time the Titans spread the ball around with junior Tony Holmes doing most of the damage. It took the Titans seven plays to find pay dirt with Holmes rumbling in from four yards out. The PAT was good and the Titans were up 14-6 with 9:17 to go in the contest. The Titan defense continued their stranglehold on the Patriot running game while the Titan offense branched out with sophomore quarterback Tyrease Armstrong finding his range with the Trask receivers.

The final touchdown of the evening was an Armstrong pass that found senior Tynaffitt Davis across the middle. The play covered 28 yards and gave the Rocky Point crew a 21-6 lead with 3:08 to play. The Pats never found their rhythm from the first half with Trask taking the win. Jordan led the Titan running attack with 117 yards while the team tallied 206 yards on the ground. Armstrong was 8-14 for 87 yards with one touchdown. Davis had four catches for 61 yards. Defensively, Kansas Bannerman had nine tackles and a fumble recovery. Jordan led the Patriots with 168 yards and a touchdown. The Patriots had only 168 yards of total offense. With the win the Titans earned a playoff spot while the loss ended the Patriots season at 1-10.

As I stood on the sidelines of the Trask at Pender football game on Friday night, my mind kept wandering back to just a few years ago when the Patriots were winning football games and making a name for themselves under the tutelage of Coach Tom Eanes and his staff. Those teams were very good and had a killer instinct that is hard to find at the high school level. I remember when Coach Eanes came to Pender. The school had an impromptu meeting with the coach and the media was there as well as many of the players and this unknown coach named Randy Pugh. Coach Eanes talked about a lot of things that day including the fact that the team would be hitting the weight room in a hurry. All of the work in the weight room as well as the work of Eanes and Pugh translated into the Patriots run of success. I realize that Eanes ar-

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Kicker’s Corner By Bobby Norris Post & Voice Sports Writer All three Pender County high school teams made the 2015 North Carolina state 1A playoffs. Pender was the 28th seed while Trask was the 23 seed in the 1A while Topsail was the top 3A team out of the Mid-Eastern Conference. The Patriots drew James Staff photo by Andy Pettigrew Kenan and played the Tigers Patriot Latrell Brown ﬁnds respectable in falling 4-1. an opening in the Titan The Pats ended the season at defense. 8-14-1. Trask drew a trip to Manteo. The Redskins took a tough 2-1 win over the vastly improved Titan team in overtime. Fernando Aldama scored the lone

Pirates host Wilson Fike in first playoff round Friday

Hoggard defense dominates in Topsail loss By Lee Wagner Contributing Sports Writer One week after making great strides offensively in a 51-28 loss to powerful New Hanover, the Topsail High School football team entered Viking territory just three times last Friday – one journey resulting in a Pirate fumble, one trip ending with a missed field goal, and one venture ending when the not-very-good officiating crew chose to hit the Pirates with three-consecutive unsportsmanlike conduct penalties. It was definitely a step back for the Pirates, and they have just one week to make the corrections before a first-round home game in the NCHSAA 3A state football playoffs. Viking junior r unning backs Rashod Wallace (18 carries, 62 yards) and Tony Allen (12-for-76) combined for 138 yards on the ground, and the Viking defense did the rest as Hoggard blanked Topsail 17-0 in the final Mid-Eastern 3A/4A Conference game of the regular season, somewhat putting a damper on Topsail’s Senior Night celebration. Topsail (4-6, 2-4) was assessed 10 penalties accounting

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rival may have coincided with an influx of talent. However, it doesn’t matter how much talent you have, if you don’t put players in the right spot and in the right system it all falls apart. Eanes did both of those things. I was covering Trask most of the time back then. My partner in crime Ron Watson covered the Patriots. He was telling me every week about how good the Patriots were. For quite a few years I only got to see them when the playoffs came. They were a very good team that ran Coach Eanes system very well. Again, the players fit the system. Coach Bob Via has the reins at Pender these days. His team struggled in his first year at the helm. I don’t think that Coach Via has the players he needs to run the system that he wants to run. I do think he has some young talent returning next year. Pender High School has a lot of tradition. Coach Via needs to find a few more athletes in the next few months for the Patriots to become more competitive. I think he has some kids coming back next year. Give him a little time and I think he will make progress. It takes time and patience. I hope Coach Via has the patience and I hope the school gives him the time. He deserves it.

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Justin Smith follows his blockers through the Hoggard defense.

goal for the Titans while senior keeper ended his high school career in style, logging 23 saves in the loss. The Titans ended their first season under Coach Jason Hall with a 9-11-2 record. The Topsail Pirates lost a tough one to Southern Wayne by the score of 3-2. Saints’ sophomore Darwin Sure scored the tie-breaking goal with 2:17 left in regulation and Southern Wayne held on to advance to the second round of the state 3A playoffs. Topsail ended the 2015 season with a 4-13-2 record. The Post & Voice will name its 2015 all-county soccer squad in next week’s edition.

In all the sports outside of football, the fall high-schools season has come to an end. The boys’ cross-country team finished an outstanding year this past Saturday with a sixth-place finish at the NCHSAA 3A state meet –culminating what has been a very good fall season for the Pirate teams. What makes the results even better is that all of the teams will be returning outstanding individuals, and the future for the Black-and-Gold faithful looks very bright. Cross-Country Chad Campbell finished 19th (17:14.54) and Trent Pyrtle came in 27th (17:29.57) as the Pirate boys amassed 198 points – good enough for sixth place in a field of 16 teams. Last year the Topsail boys finished 11th in the state. Weddington won the team title with 52 points. Also competing for Topsail were Jackson Moore (60th, 17:59.44), Domenik Dibiase (76th, 18:14.19), Matt Estrada (90th, 18:31.47), Noah Dansby (104th, 18:54.88), and

Eddie Wofford (128th, 19:5.128). There were 140 boys participating. “What a day to run the state finals at Ivey Redmon Sports Complex in Kernersville,” Topsail Coach Wayne Rogers said. “The weather was a repeat from last year, rainy, and the course was slick and terribly muddy. We ran the afternoon races so the 1A and 4A had the morning session. There were five races run by the time the 3A race started, and the course was torn up. Everybody’s times were affected by the course conditions. “This concludes my fourth year at Topsail. Jackson Moore and Domenik Dibiase have run all four years and those two runners helped the team have an undefeated season (2012). This year the boys’ team went second in the (MidEastern 3A/4A) conference, second in the regionals, and sixth in the state. Not too bad for just our third year in 3A competition. The Lady Pirates did not qualify for the state meet, but Rogers said they made significant progress.

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State football playoffs

Topsail at home, Trask on the road in round one By Bobby Norris Post & Voice Sports Writer Two Pender County teams are in the NCHSAA state football playoffs Friday night. Topsail will be at home and Trask will hit the road for first round games.

Trask at Tarboro The Trask Titans won their big showdown with Pender last week and are now staring straight down the barrel of a Tarboro Viking team that averages a whopping 336 yards a game on the ground.

Tarboro has three running backs that have at least 655 yards or more. Senior Shamar Pippen leads the team with 851 yards on just 86 carries. The 5-3 135-pound scat back has scored 11 touchdowns. The Vikings have amassed 3,698 yards on the ground. They have only thrown the ball 19 times all year. This is a powerful running attack buoyed by a very good offensive line. The Titans first order of business will be to find a way to slow the Viking running game down. This will be a tall order as this seems to be one of the Titans weak points. That being said the Trask defense has made progress this season as was the case when they slowed Clintons Ryheem Skinner down. There is no gimmick defense that will work here

and the Titan coaching staff knows this. Coach Doug Rabalai will have to lean on his vast amount of knowledge and experience to find a way to keep the Titans in the game. The Titan offense has become a diversified squad that can pass the ball as well as run it. Sophomore Tyrease Armstrong has come into his own and the addition of Tony Holmes to the running game has paid dividends as well. Steven Jordan had the best game of the year against Pender. The Titans will need another effort like this to be able to stay close to the Vikings. Trask needs to hold the ball and methodically run right at the Vikings. The key is to keep the ball away from the Viking offense. Tarboro has scored 50 points or more at least four

times this year while eclipsing 60 twice. This is a tough one for the Titans. The score 48-12.

Topsail hosts Wilson Fike The Topsail Pirates have navigated their way through another season of Mid-Eastern 3A-4A football. This year they find themselves with the top 3A spot out of the conference and a home playoff game. This is no coincidence as the Pirates have taken to Head Coach Wayne Inman’s grind it out style of play. Wilson Fike is out of the Big East 3A conference where they finished fourth out of six

teams. The Demons are a run first team that relies on three backs to carry the load. The top back for the Demons is senior A.J. Hines. He is a bruiser that can turn it outside or run it up the middle. He averages 9.2 yards a carry and will test the Pirate defense. Fike does not throw the ball very often but has nine touchdown passes along with eight interceptions. Topsail relies on a big offensive line to go along with a bevy of talented running backs. Freshman D.J. Montano has more than 900 yards rushing while Justin Smith and fullback Drew Gaithers are very good at what they do as well. Montano has been nicked up late in the season. The Pirates need him healthy for the Demons. Topsail will try to push the

Demons around. Junior lineman Jarrett Radley missed the Hoggard game. Topsail needs him back and healthy. If that Pirate offensive line is healthy the Demons may be in trouble. Inman will try and hit the Demons in the mouth from the opening kickoff. The Pirates need to get off to a fast start. If Montano is healthy and Gaithers and Smith get off quickly the Pirates will have a very good chance of advancing to the second round. Remember, Topsail has played a very tough MEC schedule. I find it hard to believe that the Demons have faced the same caliber of competition. The Pirates take it to the Demons. When the dust is settled in Hampstead the Pirates stand tall. The score: Topsail 33, Wilson Fike 21.

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All County Volleyball Team By Bobby Norris Post & Voice Sports Writer The 2015 volleyball season was one of highs and lows. Both Trask and Pender struggled through the regular season. Neither team made the post season. The Topsail Pirate spikers played well and earned the top 3A seed out of the Mid-Eastern Conference. The Lady Pirates made it to the third round of the playoffs before bowing out. This is the top volleyball players in Pender County Lakirah Forney (Pender) Forney had 62 kills, three blocks, 51 aces, and 69 digs on the year. She is one of most consistent players on the Pender roster. Imani Newkirk (Pender) Newkirk had 70 kills, 46 aces, and 97 digs on the year. Imani is very athletic and can make a team better in many ways. Caroline Peterson (Pender) The sophomore setter had 148 assists 34 aces and 16 digs. She will be the next great setter at Pender. Coach Matt Davis raved about her improvement.

Brittany Foy (Trask) The sophomore standout averaged 21.7 digs a game and was among the team’s best servers. Brittany is a very smart player with athleticism. Emily Oyler (Trask) Oyler led the Titans in kills and was a force at the net. A very athletic player with tons of potential, she is part of a bright future at Trask. Kyra Holmes (Trask) The senior standout was among the team leaders in several categories including blocks and kills. Holmes makes people around her better. Angelica Biele (Topsail) Only a sophomore, the 5-11 Biele had 310 digs and 161 kills. She may be the next big hitter for the Pirates. Payton Schoenleber (Topsail) The super senior is a prime time player. She was a finalist for the all-county player of the year. She had 296 digs and 177 kills. Throw in 4.6 assists a set and she is a complete player. Marlee Marrotta (Topsail) Marrotta is a digger extraordinaire. She finished the

year with an astounding 595 digs to lead the MEC. She may be the best at that trade to ever wear a Pirate uniform. Player of the year Madi Ford (Topsai) Madi Ford is the most under rated player in the MidEastern Conference. She led the Pirates with 225 kills and in blocks with 106. She added 219 digs and 107 points serving, including 24 aces. This young lady does all of this with a fierceness that becomes a top-notch player. If the Pirates had a hall of fame Miss Ford would be on it with the likes of Carly Smith. Coach of the Year Hill Pearsall (Topsail) To describe Hill Pearsall is to describe the complete high school volleyball coach. He works well with the young ladies on his team and commands respect without raising his voice. He reached 300 wins this year and is on his way to becoming the best high school volleyball coach to ever lead a Pender County team. He is right up there with the legendary Ray Horton and is one of the best in North Carolina.

Post & Voice Top Performers By Bobby Norris Post & Voice Sports Writer The state soccer playoffs started last week with all three high school teams involved. All three lost in the first round with Trask losing in overtime and Topsail and Pender falling in regulation. The Titan soccer team fell to Manteo despite 23 saves by senior keeper Blake Joyce. Fernando Aldama scored the Titans only goal. The Topsail soccer team fell to Southern Wayne. Topsail senior goalkeeper Tyler Davis had 13 saves while se-

Holmes steps up for the Trask Titans By Bobby Norris Post & Voice Sports Writer When the Heide Trask Titan football team began the 2015 season there were several players that were expected to be called upon to be movers and shakers. Among those that were not mentioned on the offensive side of the ball was junior Tony Holmes. Holmes has filled in for Coach Johnathan Taylor at different positions on the field. One of those spots was at running back. When starting halfback Steven Jordan needed a break Tony stepped in and had great success. All of the hard work that the junior standout has done over the course of the year has enabled the young man to become a very good running back. With the Titans heading to Tarboro to face what is considered to be one of the best 1A schools in the state, there will be a need to for several good backs. That is where Tony Holmes will be called upon to step up for the Titans.

nior Derek Bryant scored both of the Pirates goals. The Topsail football team fell to Hoggard 17-0. Senior Danny McDonald had 11 tackles while sophomore Trey Ayres had seven solo stops. Senior linebacker Tomas Canfield had eight tackles with junior Hunter Hall adding seven tackles for the Pirates on defense. The Trask and Pender football game was very competitive in the first half before the Titans scored two touchdown in the second half to take the win. Justin Hooper led the Patriots with 168 yards rush-

ing and a touchdown. Steven Jordan led the Titan running attack with 117 yards while sophomore signal caller Tyrease Armstrong was 8-14 for 87 yards with one touchdown. Tynaffitt Davis had four catches for 61 yards. Defensively, Kansas Bannerman had nine tackles and a fumble recovery. This week’s top performer is Titan senior Goal keeper Blake Joyce. He had 23 saves in the Titans overtime loss. He finished the year with 240 saves, averaging 11.4 saves a game.

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By Bobby Norris Post & Voice Sports Writer In the game of soccer, there are several layers of defense. The final layer of defense is always the goal keeper. He is charged with making sure the team has an opportunity to outscore the other team. At Topsail High School this year that person is senior goal keeper Derek Bryant. Although the Pirate kickers struggled in the mighty Mid-eastern 4A-3A Conference he never gave up and always played hard. He kept the Pirates in most of the games and was a constant source of energy for the young team. Last week the Pirates lost in the first round of the 3A state playoffs by one goal to a very good Southern Wayne team. Bryant had 11 saves in a solid outing. As Mr. Bryant’s senior season comes to a close, he can take solace in knowing that he gave his all for the Pirates.

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Late goal ends Topsail soccer season By Lee Wagner Contributing Sports Writer When you look at the overall statistics from Thursday night’s NCHSAA 3A state soccer playoff game between the visiting Saints from Southern Wayne High School and the host Topsail Pirates you almost had to assume the best – if you were a Topsail fan. The Pirates outshot the visitors 26-15, they played a good portion of the game in front of the Saints’ goalkeeper, and Topsail senior goalkeeper Tyler Davis came up with a solid 13 saves. Unfortunately on the scoreboard – the one place where the numbers count the most – the home team fell one number short. Saints’ sophomore Darwin Sure score the tie-breaking goal with 2:17 left in regulation and Southern Wayne held on to defeat Topsail 3-2 in the state tournament’s opening round. The 25th-seeded Saints (10-

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6-4) moved on to face No. 9-seed Terry Sanford, which defeated Gray’s Creek 5-1 on Thursday, last Saturday. The loss ended the season for the Pirates (4-13-2), but left the door open for the future as Topsail loses just two seniors that played a significant amount of time, with one junior (starter Josh Madole), 13 sophomores (seven starters), and a freshman back in the fold next year for first-year Coach Courtney Burghardt. “It was definitely a heart-wrenching loss,” Burghardt said. “We struggled all year with the ability to finish on the attack, and about halfway through the year we started being able to score but we were still a second-half team. “We struggled coming out of warmups and started by giving up that first goal. You can’t expect to give up early goals and comeback in the second half and be successful.

It’s a frustrating loss but they left their hearts on the field and I’m proud of them.” The early-game struggles that Burghardt referred to came quickly. Sure, who scored all three Saints’ goals, chased down a high ball on the right side of the Topsail goal, and sent it into the far left side of the net just 2:49 into the game for a 1-0 Souther n Wayne lead. It stayed that way until there was 4:48 remaining in the opening 40-minute stanza when Sure took a sharp pass from teammate Rodolph Enescar and punched it into the right side of the net, just out of the reach of Davis. The Pirates answered right back when senior Derek Bryant drilled a shot past Saints’ ‘keeper Michael Ponce with 2:47 left in the opening 40-minute first half, cutting the two-goal deficit to one at

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By Bobby Norris Post & Voice Sports Writer Last year the Pender Patriot women’s varsity basketball team found itself to be a work in progress. As the year progressed the team became better and head coach Gardner Eakins began to find players that fit his scheme and mold. One of those players is Kamaya Nixon. Miss Nixon is one of those players that have a good mix of athleticism to go with a motor that never stops. She has been known for her defensive intensity as well as her ability to run the floor with the best of them. Although some say that Kamaya’s best sport is softball, she is making her name on the hard woods at Pender High school. With the high school basketball season set to begin play in the next few weeks, look for Kamaya Nixon to become one of the Patriots better players. Kamaya Nixon will be tough to tame for the Patriots.

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Bill Howard Outdoors

By Bill Howard Post & Voice Columnist With November’s unseasonably warm streak and the waters not dipping in temperatures too quickly, I figured I would try one more trip to the coast for a little saltwater fishing from the kayak. Rain has been the one constant seemingly over the past few weeks, and the weather forecast was calling for an 80 percent

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Continued from page 5A you moved?” Ken thought for a moment, “Thousands. I move about 60 a year.” I asked Ken about the house that had first caught my eye, “When are you going to move the house on Country Club?” “I hope to move it week after next. The thing that’s been holdin’ us up is the height. It’s about 23 ½ feet tall, and the wires, the ‘hot’ wires are about 19 feet.” “Where are you movin’ it to?” “We’re movin’ it to Moore’s Landing Rd.” “At least, it’s not across Wilmington,” I said. “Thank the Lord,” he laughed. “So, you’ll have a guy on the roof ?” I thought, to help the wire up and across the moving house.

chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Maybe I could sneak at least a few hours in before the storms hit. As I approached my hunting grounds, or maybe it should be labeled fishing waters, the forecast had changed. Some sprinkles here and there and the threat of foul weather had subsided. I informed the wife I would likely be out a bit longer than I first anticipated. I had a goal. I was searching for gray trout, or weakfish as they are also called. The area was producing well a couple of weeks ago and I was hoping with the waters staying near the same temps that they would still be swimming in the depths below. I was targeting grays for a story coming up and I needed some photos. That, and I enjoy the pursuit. I was also going to test a couple of new rods by Denali designed for fish-

ing bottoms and catching big guys. The Bottom Feeder, as the line is called, was primarily developed for catfishing, but I wanted to see what it could do in the saltwater. It had not been tested for corrosion avoidance, so I knew they would be getting a good bath once I got back home. I was using Sting Silvers as my lure of choice. Basically 1½ ounce and two ounce versions with and without a bucktail. I was also going to run Gulp bait and cut bait hooked to them. In other words, I was going to throw whatever I could to the grays in hopes of finding what they liked. The water was very calm. Not flat like glass, but far from choppy. Small waves wide apart along with a reflection of light and dark gray cloud cover created a canvas of tranquility. The current was not bad either. I did not check

the tide tables, but the water stayed virtually the same depth throughout the day and at any given time the kayak would turn on the anchor and head the other way. It was a great day to paddle. I caught a few small croaker and as always got into eight to ten-inch black sea bass. However, the bite was just not hitting on all cylinders. After another hour or so, I had a decent strike on the Sting Silver. The strike was nice. The fight not so much. If it was a gray it was really small. Instead, I had the honor of unhooking a puffer from the trailing treble hook. He wasn’t real happy and puffed up. There is something humorous about throwing a puffer in and watching him float away like a wind caught beach ball in a pool. After a bit he released enough air in his bladder to slowly sink below

“No, we’re going to take part of the roof off. Our intentions originally was to pay Duke Power, as we’ve always done, to go in front of us, take the wires and lift ‘em up, and we go under ‘em, and set ‘em back down. Duke Power doesn’t want to do that any more. Duke Power wants to go out and take the wires off the pole, raise ‘em up enough for the house to have a foot clearance under it, pin ‘em to the pole, and do that for the whole route. Then we make the move, and they come out and put ‘em all back down where they were. Before, we always had ‘em take the wire off, or come out with two bucket trucks and lift the wire up and we went under ‘em.” I told Ken I had seen 2X4s along the front edge of tall loads, to act as a skid to help the wires up and over the front edge. “We use PVC pipe, 2 inch pipe, in a bow, that ties to the top of the house, all the way to the back.”

Ken wiped down one arm while with the opposite hand as he showed me how the wire hit the front of the pipe ramp, slid up and over, then slid smoothly down the length of pipe. “And off the back, without touching it.” Next: TKF moves a house.

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Notice of Acceptance of Bids Town of Surf City, North Carolina The Town of Surf City, North Carolina is currently accepting bids for Frontal Dune Restoration; which will require scraping the existing beach from the existing mean low water contour to the toe of the frontal dune and repairing escarpment. Bidders Instructions and Proposal Forms may be obtained from the Town Hall, 214 N New River Dr., Surf City, NC 28445, or by contacting Larry Bergman, Town Manager, (910) 328-4131. Deadline for submittal of bids will be 1:30PM on Tuesday, November 24, 2015 at which time a bid opening and reading will take place in a conference room made available in the Town Hall, 214 N New River Dr., Surf City, NC 28445. A non-mandatory pre-bid conference is scheduled for 1:30PM on Tuesday, November 17, 2015, also in a conference room of the Town Hall. The Town of Surf City reserves the right to reject any or all project proposals. Stephanie E. Hobbs Town Clerk

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Sealed bids may be submitted to the office of the Town Clerk, at 214 N. New River Drive, to be opened at that location on November 24th at 2:00P.M. The Council reserves the right to reject any or all bids. Inquiries regarding the sale may be directed to the Stephanie E. Hobbs, Town Clerk at shobbs@townofsurfcity.com or 910-328-4131. This notice is published in accordance with G.S. 160A268. NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The public will take notice that the Town Council of the Town of Surf City, North Carolina, has called a public hearing at 7:00 o’clock p.m., or as soon thereafter as possible, on the December 1st, 2015 at Surf City Town Hall on:  Annexation of Property on Hwy 17, being all of 1.00 +/- acres. Pender County Pin# 4226-216703-0000

the surface. Meanwhile, the Bottom Feeder started popping hard on my left. I snatched the rod knowing this wasn’t a trout. Once the hook set the reel started singing. Slowly I tightened the drag trying to get a handle on whatever was there. Then the sleigh ride began. I tested the backbone well on the new rod series. Whatever was there, I was able to get off the bottom. I was also able to keep him off the bottom. As I was pulled further out, even with the anchor still down, I passed a few boats. One asked if I thought it was a shark. “No, it’s staying in a straight line. Probably a ray,” I yelled back. After a good 40 minutes, maybe longer, I was able to get the creature to the surface. I large skate, with a wingspan of more than five feet, slapped the water with his wings. I

brought him to the side of the kayak with intentions of pulling him onto the yak. He was just too big. After continuing to tire it down I was able to finally wrap the steel leader around one of the plates on the kayak. It wasn’t my target nor was it my goal. But it was the largest I have taken by kayak. And it was fun bringing in a 100-pound monster. –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.

LOW INCOME ENERGY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM LIEAP (ENERGY) Pender County Department of Social Services will be accepting applications for LIEAP (heating/fuel) December 1, 2015 thru March 31, 2016 from 8:00am – 4:00pm at DSS. Applications will also be taken from 10:00am – 12:00pm on the following days at the following sites: Moore’s Creek Baptist Church, Currie Thursday, December 3, 2015 Topsail Senior Center, Hampstead Wednesday, December 9, 2015 Heritage Place, Burgaw Thursday, December 10, 2015 Willard Outreach Center, Willard Monday, December 14, 2015 Lee’s Chapel Baptist Church, Maple Hill Tuesday, December 15, 2015 Atkinson Town Hall, Atkinson Wednesday, December 16, 2015 Rocky Point Community Center, Rocky Point Tuesday, December 17, 2015 *Dec 1st thru Dec 31st are only for those who are 60+ and/or disabled adults who are receiving services. • Applications for those age 60 and above or disabled persons receiving a service through the Division of Aging and Adult Services (DAAS) will be taken from December 1, 2015 through December 31, 2015. • If funding is still available, others can apply from January 4, 2016 through March 31, 2016. • Households must make an application for LIEAP Heating Assistance. • LIEAP payments will be paid directly to the provider. For more information, contact Pender County Department of Social Services at (910) 259-1240. ITEMS NEEDED TO APPLY • Copy of most recent bill with account number • Copy of Awards Letter from Social Security • Copy of Awards Letter from Pension(s) • Income for everyone who lives in the household for the month prior to application (i.e. applying in December will need to bring November’s income information. • Bank statement may be requested for income veriﬁcation

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PENDER COUNTY GOVERNMENT NEWS WANTED! A FEW GOOD MEN & WOMEN! VOLUNTEER! The Pender County Board of Commissioners will consider appointments to the following boards/commissions/committees: Name of Board Advisory Board of Health Animal Shelter Advisory Committee Board of Adjustment Council on Community Affairs EMS & Fire Advisory Housing Initiative Board Industrial Facilities & Pollution Control Financing Author. Nursing/Adult Care Homes Adv. Board Parks & Rec Board Tourism Development Authority Wilmington Metropolitan Planning Organization District 1 = Upper Topsail; Surf City District 2 = Scotts Hill; Lower Topsail District 3 = Rocky Point; Long Creek

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

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*** These positions can be temporarily filled by someone associated with this field who may not be currently licensed. Applications can be completed on-line at www.pendercountync.gov (click on “How Do I” on the home page); or write or call Ms. Melissa Pedersen, Clerk to the Board, PO Box 5, Burgaw, NC 28425 (910) 259-1200, and complete an application.

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGS THE PENDER COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS WILL HOLD A PUBLIC HEARING AS FOLLOWS: DATE OF HEARINGS: November 23, 2015 TIME OF HEARINGS: 7:00 p.m. LOCATION OF HEARINGS: THE PUBLIC HEARING NOTED WILL BE HELD IN THE PUBLIC MEETING ROOM AT THE ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE BUILDING ROOM 145, 805 SOUTH WALKER STREET, BURGAW, N.C. 28425 TOPICS OF HEARING: Special Use Permit (tabled from 10/26/2015) Four Points Recycling, LLC., applicant, on behalf of Stacy Hollis Family LTD. Partnership, owner, is requesting approval of a Special Use Permit for the operation of a vegetative recycling center (NAICS 562219; Other Nonhazardous Waste Treatment and Disposal). The property is zoned GB, General Business zoning district and according to the Pender County Unified Development Ordinance §5.2.3 Table of Permitted Uses; NAICS 562219, Other Nonhazardous Waste Treatment and Disposal are permitted via Special Use Permit in the GB, General Business zoning district. The subject property is located at 25540 US HWY 17 and may be further identified by Pender County PIN 4226-97-4215-0000. Special Use Permit Revision Bearford Solar II, LLC, applicant, on behalf of Bearford, LLC, owner, is requesting a revision of a Special Use Permit (SUP 11451) for the construction and operation of a solar farm (NAICS 221119) originally issued September 28, 2015 (SUP 11451) for a ± 32.81 acre project area. The requested revision to the SUP will modify the aforementioned project area to include an additional ±53 acre solar farm. The property is zoned RA, Rural Agricultural zoning district and according to the Pender County Unified Development Ordinance §5.2.3 Table of Permitted Uses; other electric power generation (NAICS 221119) is permitted via Special Use Permit. There is one (1) tract associated with this request and is located at 478 Old Savannah Road (SR 1347). The subject property may be further identified by Pender County PIN 3321-14-2767-0000. Special Use Permit Hope Lettieri, applicant and owner, is requesting approval of a Special Use Permit for the operation of a cottage occupation for the use of gunsmithing (NAICS 322994). The property is zoned RP, Rural Performance zoning district and according to the Pender County Unified Development Ordinance §5.2.3 Table of Permitted Uses; cottage occupations are permitted via Special Use Permit. There is one (1) tract associated with this request and is located at 9180 Old River Road (SR 1411). The subject property may be further identified by Pender County PIN 3246-28-7530-0000. Conditional Zoning Map Amendment Grey Bull Inc., applicant, on behalf of Linda Taylor, owner, is requesting approval of a Zoning Map Amendment for a conditional rezoning of one (1) tract totaling approximately 120.87 acres from RP, Residential Performance zoning district to RM CD1, Residential Mixed conditional zoning district. The subject property is located to the east of US HWY 17, to the south and west of the residential subdivision Forest Sound, and to north of the residential subdivision Hampstead on the Sound in Hampstead and may be further identified by Pender County PIN 3292-27-2690-0000. Zoning Map Amendment David A. West, applicant, on behalf of David West et al, owner, is requesting approval of a Zoning Map Amendment for a general use rezoning of four (4) tracts totaling approximately 65.56 acres from GB, General Business zoning district to RP, Residential Performance zoning district. The subject properties are located near the intersection of US HWY 117 and Anderson Rd (SR 1315) in the Union Township and may be further identified by Pender County PINs; 3313-88-8748-0000, 3313-99-5261-0000, 3313-79-6117-0000 and 3313-98-3668-0000. For Additional Information: Contact Pender County Planning & Community Development 805 S Walker St Burgaw, NC 28425 Phone 910 259-1202

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Legal Notices Legal Notices Legal Notices Legal Notices Legal Notices Legal Notices NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND DEBTORS OF BEULAH CATHERINE BRITTAIN HARRELL 15 E 216 Having qualified as the Administrator of the Estate of Beulah Catherine Brittain Harrell 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 22nd day of January, 2016 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 22nd day of October, 2015. Lawrence S. Boehling Administrator of the Estate of Beulah Catherine Brittain Harrell P.O. Box 1416 Burgaw, NC 28425 910-259-3334 #7096 10/22, 10/29, 11/5, 11/12/2015 IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF PENDER SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION 15 CVS 987 RUDOLPH-MOORE PROPERTIES, LLC Plaintiff v WESTON S. ATKINSON, LACY N. ATKINSON, MELISA A. LIQUORI, WOODY L. ATKINSON, STEPHANIE GRAFIUS, SHELIA A. SLATER and all other individuals or legal entities claiming a right to use the roadways on Tract 3 of the W. S. Atkinson Division Defendants NOTICE OF SERVICE OF PROCESS BY PUBLICATION TO: All individuals or legal entities claiming a right to use the roadways on Tract 3 of the W. S. Atkinson Division in Topsail Township, Pender County, North Carolina: Take notice that a pleading seeking relief against you has been filed in the above entitled action. The nature of the relief being sought is as follows: To determine whether roadways crossing the lands of the Plaintiff as described below constitute an easement in favor of other land and landowners, and if so, whether such easement has been abandoned. The following described lot or parcel of land located in Topsail Township, Pender County, North Carolina: BEGINNING at an iron stake in the center of the run of Ring Branch, said beginning being the Northwest corner of Tract No. 1A, running thence with the northern boundary line of Tract No. 1A South 86 degrees 45 minutes East passing through a traklin bed 2371 feet to an iron stake in the eastern boundary line of the said division also the southeast corner of Tract No. 3 and the northeast corner of Tract No. 1A; thence North 27 degrees 43 minutes East 900 feet to an iron stake; thence North 52 degrees 20 minutes West 1056 feet to an iron stake; thence North 27 degrees 43 minutes East 415.5 feet to an iron stake in a stump hole which is on the eastern side of a woods road, said corner being referenced by a marked gum known as the Batt’s corner, running thence North 59 degrees 13 minutes West 1171 feet to an iron stake know as the Batt’s corner, also the corner of John Jacobs’ land; thence South 40 degrees 18 minutes West 2543 feet, passing under an old live oak near a woods road to a 30 inch in diameter marked maple with markings approximately 100 years old, also being referenced by pointers on an 8 inch gum and a 16 inch gum in angles to the aforesaid corner; thence down and with the run of Ring Branch a southeasterly course approximately 600 feet to the Beginning, containing 111.44 acres, more or less, and known in the division as Tract No. 3 as shown on “Map of Property of W.S. Atkinson (Deceased) Division Between Miss Lessie Beulah Atkinson, Lacy Norman Atkinson, and Edward Dennis Atkinson, Upper Topsail Township, Pender County, North Carolina, January 14, 1955,” prepared by Roscoe Sandlin, Registered Surveyor. See Deed Book 2973 at page 74 of the Pender County Registry for a copy of the map of the W. S. Atkinson Division. You are required to make defense to such pleading not later than forty (40) days after 29 October 2015 (8 December 2015) and upon your failure to do so the party seeking service against you will apply to the court for the relief sought. Dated: 20 October 2015. R. V. Biberstein, Jr. Attorney at Law P. O. Box 428 Burgaw, NC 28425 Tel. No. 910-259-2175 Attorney for Plaintiff #7102 10/29, 11/5, 11/12/2015 State of North Carolina County of Pender In the general Court of Justice Superior Court Division 15 E 338 Notice to Creditors and Debtors Having qualified as Executor of the Estate of Augustine Walter Funigiello deceased of PenderCounty, this notice is to notify all persons having claims against the Estate of said decedent, Augustine Walter Funigiello to present any such claims to the undersigned on or before February 12th, 2016 at 102 Mill Dam Rd. Hampstead, NC 28443 or this

notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment to the undersigned. This the 30th Day of October, 2015 Patrick P. Funigiello Executor 102 Mill Dam Rd. Hampstead, NC 28443 #7110 11/5, 11/12, 11/19, 11/26/2015 IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF PENDER 2015 E 356 Having qualified as Co-Executors of the Estate of Virginia Casey Williams of Pender County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against the Estate of said Virginia Casey Williams to present them to Whrens C. Williams, P.O. Box 576, Burgaw, NC 28425, Samuel L. Williams, III, P.O. Box 719, Burgaw, NC 28425, and Edward Stephen Owens, III, 5704-101 Oleander Drive, Wilmington, NC 28403, Co-Executors by January 25, 2016 or same will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate please make immediate payment. This 15th day of October, 2015. R.V. Biberstein Attorney for Whrens C. Williams, Samuel L. Williams, III, & Stephen L. Owens, III Co-Executors P.O. Box 428 Burgaw, NC 28425 #7097 10/22, 10/29, 11/5, 11/12/2015 NOTICE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF PENDER The undersigned, having qualified as Executor of the estate of Seth E. Lippard, deceased, of Pender County, North Carolina, does hereby notify all persons, firms and corporations having claims against the estate to exhibit them to the undersigned on or before the 29th day of January, 2016, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons, firms and corporations indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment to the undersigned. This 29th day of October, 2015. Jonathan S. Lippard, Executor of the Estate of Seth E. Lippard 3745 Rotherfield Lane Chadds Ford, PA 19317-8919 MURCHISON, TAYLOR & GIBSON, PLLC 16 North Fifth Avenue Wilmington, NC 28401 #7107 10/29, 11/5, 11/12, 11/19/2015 STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF PENDER PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE’S NOTICE TO CREDITORS In Re The Estate of BENNIE FRANK WILLIAMS, Deceased Having qualified as Personal Representative of the Estate of BENNIE FRANK WILLIAMS, Deceased, late of Pender County, North Carolina, the undersigned does hereby notify all persons, firms, corporations and/ or other legal entities having claims against the estate to present them to the undersigned at the address given below on or before 02/01/2016 -- or same will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate please make immediate payment. On this day, October 29, 2015. Angela B. Campbell, Personal Representative c/o Sherman & Rodgers, PLL C by Richard T. “Chip” Rodgers,Jr., Attorney for the Personal Representative PO Box 250 Burgaw, NC 28425 #7103 10/29, 11/5, 11/12, 11/19/2015 IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION PENDER COUNTY 15SP175 IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY MELANIE M. MILLER AND ERIK H. MILLER DATED NOVEMBER 14, 2012 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 4166 AT PAGE 113 IN THE PENDER COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in the above-referenced 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 November 20, 2015 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: The following real property situate in County of Pender and State of North Carolina described as follows: Beginning at an iron pipe in the Northern line of Ash Street, said Street having a 60 foot wide right of way, said iron pipe is located along the Northern line of Ash Street at a point that is South 77 degrees 30 minutes West 240.00 feet from, the intersection of the Northern line of Ash Street with the Western line of Smith Street (Smith Street having a 75 foot wide right of way) running thence from said Beginning iron pipe, so located with the Northern line of Ash Street, South 77 degrees 30 minutes West

80.00 feet to an iron pipe in said line; thence North 12 degrees 30 minutes West 240.00 feet to an iron pipe; thence North 77 degrees 30 minutes East 80.00 feet to an iron pipe; thence South 12 degrees 30 minutes East 240.00 feet to the Beginning, containing 19,200 square fee, and is as surveyed by Dosher, Surveying Company, Burgaw, North Carolina, in May 1972.. And Being more commonly known as: 408 West Ashe St, Burgaw, NC 28425 The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are Melanie M. Miller and Erik H. Miller. 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 10 days written notice to the landlord. You may be liable for rent due under the agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination. The date of this Notice is August 25, 2015. Grady I. Ingle or Elizabeth B. Ells Substitute Trustee 10130 Perimeter Parkway, Suite 400 Charlotte, NC 28216 (704) 333-8107 http://shapiroattorneys.com/nc/ 15-071566 #7029 11/5, 11/12/2015 NORTH CAROLINA PENDER COUNTY Special Proceedings No. 15 SP 228 Substitute Trustee: Philip A. Glass NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE Date of Sale: November 17, 2015 Time of Sale: 11:30 a.m. Place of Sale: Pender County Courthouse Description of Property: See Attached Description Record Owners: Steven Andrew Moon and Katharine L. Moon Address of Property: 115 Woodcroft Lane Rocky Point, NC 28457 Deed of Trust: Book : 1145 Page: 312 Dated: June 18, 1996 Grantors: Steven Andrew Moon and Katherine Lena Moon Original Beneficiary: Green Tree Financial Servicing Corporation 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 shall remain liable on his The time, Media ofhe Record for the People of Pender County. bid as provided for in North Carolina 201-A West Fremont Street • Burgaw, NC 28425 General Statutes Section 45-21.30 910.259.9111 • posteditor@post-voice.com • www.post-voice.com (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. 4521.29 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. Dated: 10/20/2015 Philip A. Glass, Substitute Trustee Nodell, Glass & Haskell, L.L.P. Posted on 10/20/2015 EXHIBIT “A” BEING all of Lot No. 40 of WOODCROFT SUBDIVISION, Section II as shown on a map of same title, prepared by Southern Land Services of Faison, N.C. Said map is duly recorded in Map Book 30, at Page 37 of the Pender County Registry reference to which is hereby made for a more complete and accurate description. TOGETHER WITH a security interest in that certain 1996, 60 X 28 LXP160 home, serial number VPNC10241. #7104 11/5, 11/12/2015 15 SP 50 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, PENDER COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Richard Lee Davis and Glenda Davis to, Trustee(s), which was dated October 2, 2009 and recorded on December 31, 2009 in Book 3725 at Page 0215 and rerecorded/modified/corrected on January 16, 2014 in Book 4369, Page 0188, Pender County Registry, North Carolina. Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on November 17, 2015 at 11:30AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Pender County, North Carolina, to wit: All that certain Lot or Parcel of Land situated in Rocky Point Township, Pender County, North Carolina and made more particularly described as follows: Being all of Lot Number 4 as shown on a map of Swann Plantation prepared by Robert H. Goslee and Associates, dated January, 1982, and recorded in Map Book 20 at Page 10 in the Office of the Register of Deeds, Pender County, North Carolina. Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Richard Lee Davis and wife, Glenda Davis by Ronald G. Mullins and Bobbie Lee Mullins in a North Carolina General Warranty Deed executed 2/28/1985 and recorded 3/7/1985 in Book 646, Page 148 of the Pender County, North Carolina Land Records. Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record. Said property is commonly known as 115 Goose Neck Road, Rocky Point, NC 28457. A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are Richard Lee Davis and wife Glenda Davis. 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 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 [NCGS § 45-

21.16A(b)(2)]. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination. If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy. Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Attorneys for Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No.: 11-17887-FC02 #7106 11/5, 11/12/2015 15 SP 111 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, PENDER COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Robert F. Riker Sr. to National Title Network, Trustee(s), which was dated June 17, 2013 and recorded on June 28, 2013 in Book 4281 at Page 0087, Pender County Registry, North Carolina. Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on November 17, 2015 at 11:30AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Pender County, North Carolina, to wit: The land referred to herein below is situated in the County of Pender, State of North Carolina, and is described as follows: Lot 142, in Topsail Greens, as shown on a plat of the subject property recorded in Map Book 22, Page 143, Pender County Registry, reference to which plat is hereby made for a more complete description. Together with rights of ingress, regress and access to and over all streets, roads and rights-ofway in common with others in the Topsail Greens Subdivision as shown on maps recorded in the Pender County Registry. Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record. Said property is commonly known as 601 Outrigger Court, Hampstead, NC 28443. A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are All Lawful Heirs of Robert F. Riker, Sr.. 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 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 [NCGS § 4521.16A(b)(2)]. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination. If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confir-

mation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy. Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Attorneys for Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No.: 15-01794-FC01 #7109 11/5, 11/12/2015 ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE Having qualified as Administrator of the Estate of Kaywood Williams Sparkman, deceased, late of Pender County, North Carolina, this is to notify that all persons having claims against the said estate to present such claims to the undersigned on or before the 13th day of February, 2016, or this notice will be placed in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to the said estate will please make immediate payment. This 12th day of November, 2015. Kaywood Williams Sparkman II,Administrator 51 Roland Court Burgaw, NC 28425 Robert C. Kenan, Jr. MOORE & KENAN Attorneys at Law P. O. Box 957 Burgaw, NC 28425 (910) 259-9800 #7111 11/12, 11/19, 11/26, 12/3/2015 EXECUTOR’S NOTICE Having qualified as the Co-Executrixes of the Estate of Clara Anna Miller Hudson, deceased, late of Pender County, North Carolina, this is to notify that all persons having claims against the said estate to present such claims to the undersigned on or before the 13th day of February, 2016, or this notice will be placed in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to the said estate will please make immediate payment. This 12th day of November, 2015. Sandra P. Burger, Co-Executrix 2650 Clark’s Landing Road Rocky Point, NC 28457 Loretta Lee Kane, Co-Executrix 190 Old Bridge Road Rocky Point, NC 28457 Robert C. Kenan, Jr. MOORE & KENAN Attorneys at Law P. O. Box 957 Burgaw, NC 28425 (910) 259-9800 #7112 11/12, 11/19, 11/26, 12/3/2015 State of North Carolina County of Pender In the General Court of Justice Superior Court Division 15 E 379 Having qualified as Executrix of the Estate of Jean B. Kunzenmann, deceased of the State of Maine, this notice is to notify all persons having claims against the Estate of said decedent, Jean B. Kunzenmann to present any such claims to the undersigned on or before February 28, 2016 at 767 Lakeview Dr., Dedham, ME 04429 or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment to the undersigned. This 9th day of November, 2015 Tracy E. Ross Executrix 767 Lakeview Dr. Dedham, ME 04429 #7115 11/12, 11/19, 11/26, 12/3/2015 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 Elizabeth Farrior, deceased, of Pender County. This is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of said decedent, Elizabeth Farrior to present them to the undersigned on or before February 18, 2016 at 533 Powers Road, Wallace, NC 28466 or be barred from recovery. All persons indebted to said estate, please make immediate payment. This the day of November 12, 2015. J. Keith Farrior 533 Powers Road Wallace, NC 28466 #7116 11/12, 11/19, 11/26, 12/3/2015

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Continued from page 8A for losses of 95 yards and lost a fumble in the red zone. The Hoggard defense prevented any scoring damage, limiting the Pirates to 26 yards on the ground (on 31 carries, including three sacks) and 71 yards passing. “I’m not going to make any comments on the officials, everybody saw what I saw, and the only thing we can do is follow protocol and make a complaint to Greensboro, but that’s all we can do,” said Topsail Coach Wayne Inman, while refusing to assign some of the blame (although warranted) for the loss. “Our defense played well enough to win. “Offensively we were missing (6-foot-2, 285-pound junior two-way lineman Jarrett) Radley so we had a make-shift guard. When you miss Radley you miss an outstanding foot-

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Continued from page 8A “Four years ago, Topsail hired me to get the teams ready for the move to 3A and the new split conference,” Rogers said. “I am happy to report that the boys’ team is now doing very well, and the girls’ team is moving forward. The future of the program is real good.” Volleyball The Lady Pirates had another excellent year under the leadership of Coach Hill Pearsall, finishing with a 15-10 overall record, and a 7-5 conference mark, good enough for second place overall in the always-tough split 3A/4A conference, and good enough to emerge as the conference 3A champion. The Lady Pirates made it to the third round of the playoffs before falling to Cedar Ridge, who eventually lost in the East regional final. Topsail loses four outstanding seniors, but the cupboard is far from bare as a plethora of outstanding players return next year. “This year’s team exceeded my expectations,” Pearsall said. There was trepidation on my part after a starter who was going to be an integral part of our offense left. However, the team quickly moved on and set their mind to playing with who was here and focusing on our team. They quickly began to make adjustments. “The four seniors (Marlee Marrota, Payton Schoenleber, Madi Ford, and Hayley Woods) worked hard and pushed the underclassmen to

ball player, offensively, and they (Hoggard) were bringing linebackers in the “A” gap or looping outside with lineman, and we weren’t able to pick them up. You have to give them credit for solid defensive game plan.” The Topsail defense stood tall against Hoggard (7-4, 5-1) for the most part, giving up 154 yards rushing and 108 in the passing game, but the Vikings capitalized on two late pass plays when it appeared the Pirates were geared up to stop the run. Senior Danny McDonald had 11 tackles (6 solo), sophomore Trey Ayres had seven solo stops, senior linebacker Tomas Canfield had eight tackles, and junior Hunter Hall added seven tackles for the Pirates on defense. After a scoreless first period, Hoggard took a 3-0 lead on a 20-yard field goal off the foot of junior kicker Nick Orsa with 8:27 left in the first half. On the next series, the Pirates took over at the

Viking 23-yard line after senior Danny McDonald recovered a Hoggard muff on a punt Topsail moved to a first down at the 11-yard line but on third-and-eight at the Hoggard 9-yard marker, the center snap never got back to sophomore quarterback Jacob Floyd, and the Vikings took over and ran off the final 45.9 seconds of the first half. “T hat was my f ault, I should have called a timeout there right before the first half ended there,” Inman said. “They lined up in an unfamiliar defensive front and I knew we were in trouble, and I should have hollered for a timeout. That was my fault.” Hoggard sophomore signalcaller Josh Jones found Patrick Morrison for a 17-yard scoring hookup on Hoggard’s first possession of the second half, capping a nine-play, 48-yard drive after a Topsail threeand-out and an 18-yard Pirate punt to make it 10-0. It became 17-0 with 5:12

be better players, and to be accountable during practice and in the games. Everyone played a part, whether it was a practice player, or starter, or someone who ear ned a spot in the season.” The g roup also helped Pearsall reach a major coaching plateau with his 300th (301-144) career coaching victory. “Next year Kensley Hagan will be expected to be a force in the middle, Mackayla Howell has a powerful swing on the outside and good reach on blocks. Rachel Kapiko has played all over the court and is quick to the ball and has good ups. “Angelica Biele has good power and got better as a setter this year, and we hope Selena Biele can move into an outside hitter position. Kaylee Kyle can play defensive specialist, setter, and outside hitter, and Makenna Preville stepped up on the back line this year. We are also looking for major contributions from Shania Eckhardt (setter), Azia Anderson (outside hitter), and Victoria Elder (middle hitter).” Girls’ Tennis An outstanding 13-4 record made for an excellent season for the Lady Pirates in a season highlighted by first-ever wins over 4A powers New Hanover and Hoggard. “This group went aboveand-beyond everyone’s expectations, except mine,” Coach Troy McGee said. “I just knew these girls could win, and it turned out very well. Looking forward we return three (No, 1 Carmen Jordan (15-4), No. 2 Caroline Harris (16-4), and No. 5 Sierra Dougherty (15-3), and Carmen’s sister

(rising freshman) Summer is coming up, and she has already played a lot of very good tennis. “Along with (rising senior) Arianna Colon I believe we will have five girls that will be able to play with anybody in the area or in the conference. They have all indicated they intend to play a lot over the winter, spring, and summer months, and I am willing to work with them as much as I am permitted. We are looking forward to being even better than we were this past year.” Boys’ Soccer: The very young Pirates struggle mightily to find cohesion early in the year and finished with a somewhat disappointing 4-13-2 overall record with all four wins coming against the conference’s other 3A (South and West Brunswick). But there were just two seniors on the team that contributed on a re gular basis, and in the 3A playoff game against Southern Wayne (a tough 3-2 loss on a late goal), first-year Coach Courtney Burghardt started two seniors, one junior, and seven sophomores. “It’s a young team and they struggle seeing that, they are so negative about it, but we pulled them aside and told them it’s a good thing moving forward,” Burghardt said. “The more they play together the better they will become. “We held our own in the conference and we could have had a game or two here-andthere, so we’re definitely in the running and we’re looking to improve and catch up where we can.” Girls’ Golf The Lady Pirates were not

Topsail soccer the intermission The Pirates had the upper hand for most of the second half but couldn’t convert on a multitude of shots (14) until Bryant took a pass from Sam Bell and tied the game at 2-2 on a header with 5:44 remaining on the game clock. But Sure took advantage of a shaky call by the referee

and sent a ball high and just over Davis’ reach on a direct kick from around 30-yards out with 77 seconds left in regulation time. Topsail had two direct-kick opportunities after that but could not get the equalizer. “Well, I feel like, as a team, we had our opportunities to score,” said Bryant, who has aspirations of attending the U. S. Naval Academy next year and playing soccer. “I just tried to do what I could to help. the team but unfortunately

left in the game when junior Viking quar terback Bryant Sasser found Hunter Louthan behind the Topsail defense for a 32-yard touchdown pass on third-and-five from the Topsail 30-yard line when the Pirate defense was anticipating a run-out-the-clock running play. As the Mid-Eastern Conference’s 3A champion, the Pirates will play host to Ralph L Fike (6-5), the fourth-place finisher in the Big East 3A

(Rock y Mount, Souther n Nash, Hunt, Northern Nash, Nash Central, and Fike), this F r i d ay i n H a m p s t e a d . “We probably won’t see anyone as good as New Hanover or Hoggard early in the playoffs so we’ll make some adjustments and hopefully get Radley (leg injury against NHHS) back and go from there,” Inman said. “We can move the football if we do what we are supposed to do, no doubt.”

a contending team in a conference with many outstanding individuals, and some very good teams. But Coach Margaret Burke saw improvement in the individual scores, and will lose just three seniors (Lindsey Ocock, Claire Haller, and Danielle Parks)

from the squad. P ro s p e c t ive re t u r n e e s include rising senior Lauren Mintz, rising juniors Gracie Ocock, Gracie Pitt, Katie Flowers, and Julia Nasco, and rising sophomores Angela Linehan and Liz Sharpe.

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we couldn’t get the results we wanted. But I feel this is the best game we played as a team and we can definitely keep our heads up. “For my teammates, I am so proud of them. I see some great young men out there that have been working hard. They put in a lot of hard work this past off-season, and if they continue to work hard next spring and summer, they will do well. I can’t wait to see them grow and get better next year.

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L o r i D e B r u h l , S t u d e n t S e r v i c e C o o r d i n a t o r a t t h e S u r f C i t y c a m p u s , s a i d a l o t o f e x c i t i n g t h i n g s a r e h a p p e n i n g a t t h e f a c i l i t y. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We just got approved for a mini-grant to open a Veteransâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Center here, and we are waiting to see how our schedule looks to decide on the appropriate place to put it. Hopefully by January we will have it up and running. The Veteransâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Center will be a place for veterans to come and mingle and just be together. We have about 20 veterans on campus. We will have one of the veteransâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; coordinators from the downtown campus here once a semester to give counseling and help them apply for VA benefits,â&#x20AC;? said DeBruhl. In the current semester, the campus has 10 curriculum classes as well as various continuing education classes. In the spring, the facility plans to double the curriculum class offerings. 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The Boot Camp is a type of employability training where students can improve resumes and interview skills, polish up on computer skills, find their strengths and weaknesses and learn about networking. The course will be held Feb. 15-19. A Career Readiness Certificate (CRC) Lab is being offered as well. The CRC is a nationally recognized certificate for people in the workplace. It profiles a personâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s skill set based upon their scores on the test. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That is something that is being recognized more and more by places like General Electric, Corning, PPD and a lot of these bigger companies. The wonderful thing about the Basic Skills and the HRD and the CRC component, is that most if not all of those classes are fee-waived if you are out of work, if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve received a layoff notice, or if you are underemployed,â&#x20AC;? said Parris. CFCC wants parents and students to be aware that they can take the college credit courses under the Criminal Justice program while still enrolled in high school. Tina Swanno, Instructor for Criminal Justice program, said that the Pathways program has been around for years, but the name has changed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It allows any high school junior or senior in North Carolina who has a 3.0 GPA, with approval of their respective school and parents, and required college entrance scores to be dually enrolled at CFCC and take classes tuition free within various pathways that lead to either two or four-year degrees in both college transfer or technology. The Surf City campus is offering the Criminal Justice Pathway with a number of classes all taught by current and retired Law Enforcement Officers. Some of the classes are college transferrable automatically while others are on a college- by-college basis. The only costs are a CFCC student fee of about $43 and the required textbook. 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3107 Union Chapel Rd. â&#x20AC;˘ Currie, NC 28435 Pastor Roger Barnes

Sunday School: 10 a.m. Worship Service: 11 a.m. Wednesday Prayer Service & Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bible Study: 6:30 p.m.

1730 US Hwy. 117 N. â&#x20AC;˘ Burgaw, NC 28425 910-259-3046

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

Sunday School 9:45 a.m. Sunday Worship 11 a.m., 6 p.m. www.fcbcb.org

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

ST. M ARYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S CHURCH

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

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

CURRIE COMMUNITY BAPTIST CHURCH

CAPE FEAR COMMUNITY FELLOWSHIP (CF2)

CENTERVILLE BAPTIST CHURCH

Sunday School: 9:45 a.m. Worship: 11:00 a.m. Sunday Evening Discipleship Training: 6:00 p.m. Pastor Lamont Hemminger

An Episcopal - Lutheran Community 506 S. McNeil Street, Burgaw, NC 28425 910.259.5541 Sunday Worship Service with Holy Eucharist: 11 a.m. www.stmaryschurchburgawnc.org

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

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

BURGAW PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

WATHA UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

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

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

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

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

Jim Herchenhahn / Pastor Worship Services: 8:30 a.m. & 10:50 a.m. Youth each Sunday at 6:00 p.m. Wednesday evenings: Meal at 6:00 p.m. / Study for all ages 7:00 p.m.

160 Camp Kirkwood Road, Watha, NC

910-470-4436

Pastor John Fedoronko

Adult Bible Study: 9:30-10:15 a.m. Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Biblical Studies (ages 3-12) from 10:45-11:30 a.m. Worship: 10:30-11:30 a.m. Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Breakfast, 2nd Sunday of Each Month, 8-9 a.m. Ladiesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Circle, 2nd Monday of Each Month, 6:30-8 p.m. Choir Practice & Bible Study, Tues., 7:30-9 p.m. Youth Group Every Other Wed. 6-7:30 p.m.

WESTVIEW UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

ROCKY POINT UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

located at the intersection of Hyw. 117 & 210

Pastor Mark Murphyw

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

Services: Sunday at 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. Bible Study: Tuesday at 6 p.m. www.RPUMC.org

MISSION BAPTIST CHURCH

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

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

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

Sunday Worship: 10:30 a.m. Wednesday Evening Dinner at 6:00 p.m. and classes at 6:45 p.m.

FAITH HARBOR UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

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

CALVARY CHAPEL COMMUNITY CHURCH

Pastor: Tony Fontana Sunday School: 10 a.m. Sun. Worship: 11 a.m. & 7 p.m. Bible Study: Wednesday 7 p.m. Youth Group: Wednesday 7:00 p.m.

JORDANS CHAPEL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

4670 Stag Park Rd. â&#x20AC;˘ Burgaw, NC 28425 â&#x20AC;˘ 910-259-5735 Sunday School: 9:45 a.m. Sunday Worship: 11 a.m. & 6 p.m. Wednesday Bible Study: 7 p.m.

ST. JOSEPH THE WORKER CATHOLIC CHURCH

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

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

www.CF2.us Worship Hours: Sunday Morning, 11 a.m. Wednesday Night, 6 p.m. Pastor: Dr. Ernie Sanchez

ALL SAINTS CATHOLIC CHURCH

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

Weekend Mass Schedule: Hampstead - SAT 5 p.m., SUN 9 a.m. Surf City - SAT 5 p.m., SUN 9 & 11 a.m. (through Labor Day) Daily Mass - Hampstead: TUES & WED 4p.m., THURS & FRI 9 a.m. Confessions SAT 4-4:30 p.m. or by appt. www.allsaintsccnc.org

CHAPEL BY THE BAY IN LANIERâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S CAMPGROUND 216 Michigan Avenue â&#x20AC;˘ Holly Ridge, N.C. 28445 910-328-6252 Pastor: Don Myers Associate Pastor: Nathan Swartz Sunday School 9:15 a.m. Sunday Worship 10:30 a.m. Evening Service 6:00 p.m. Wedensday: Bible Study 5:45 p.m. Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Church 6:15 p.m. Choir Practice 7:00 p.m. Thursday: Youth Group 6:30 p.m.

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Pasta recipes

Hopeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cooking Corner

By Hope Cusick Contributing Writer Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something very comforting about hot pasta dishes. The inner food soul seems to be satisfied when eating a great dish of pasta. Here are a few pasta dishes to share with family and friends. Pasta meals are easy on the budget also. Serve these dishes with a green salad and use fresh Italian bread with green olive oil for dipping. I enjoy the flavor of the olive oils from Italy. Linguine Carbonara 3 eggs Âź cup butter, softened 1/3 cup heavy cream, room temperature Â˝ pound pancetta or bacon, cut up into 1 -inch pieces 12 ounces linguine or fettuccine, prepared according to package directions Âž cup Parmesan cheese, grated 3 tablespoons fresh parsley, chopped 1-2 teaspoons fresh sweet basil, chopped Prepare linguine or fettuccine according to package directions. Then while cooking the pasta make the sauce, so everything will be hot at the same time. Make sure eggs, butter, and cream are at room temperature, left out for about two hours. In a skillet cook pancetta or bacon until brown. Remove and drain on paper towels. Whisk together eggs

and heavy cream, until just blended. In a large warmed bowl mix hot pasta with softened butter. Pour egg mixture over hot pasta until blended well. The heat from the pasta cooks the egg mixture. Fold in pancetta or bacon, Parmesan cheese, parsley, and basil until well mixed. Serve immediately while hot. Pancetta is cured, not smoked, and has a pleasant mild flavor. Spaghetti with Garlic and Olive Oil 2-3 cloves garlic, minced 3 tablespoons olive oil Âź cup fresh parsley, chopped Salt and Pepper to taste 6 ounces spaghetti or angel hair pasta, reserve Â˝ cup water Grated Parmesan cheese Prepare pasta according to package directions. While pasta is cooking, in a skillet cook garlic in olive oil till golden brown about three minutes. Stir in parsley, heat and stir for two minutes. Drain pasta and pour into a large warmed bowl. Toss garlic mixture with pasta until coated evenly. Serve while hot, immediately. If pasta is not moist add reserved pasta water gradually until moisture has been balanced. Sprinkle with grated Parmesan cheese, salt and pepper, if desired. T h e s p a g h e t t i m ay b e served with steamed shrimp or heated canned and drained chopped clams. Pasta Primavera Pasta with vegetables 8 ounces dried linguine or fettuccine pasta, 1-cup pasta water reserved 2-3 tablespoons olive oil 1 - 2 cups fresh broccoli florets, cooked in pasta water 1 medium sweet onion, cut into thin wedges 1 pound thin asparagus, cut into 1Â˝-inch pieces Salt and pepper to taste

1 cup cherry or grape tomatoes, cut in half lengthwise 1 medium-size yellow squash, cut into one inch chunks 1-2 cloves garlic, minced Âź cup dry white wine or chicken broth 1 teaspoon dried sweet basil Âź cup fresh parsley, finely chopped Âź cup Parmesan cheese, grated Cook pasta as package directions state. Cook until tender but not soft. Three to four minutes before finished cooking, in a colander place broccoli florets, and place colander into boiling water along with pasta. The broccoli will add a nice flavor to the pasta. Remove calender and broccoli after 3-4 minutes and set aside. While pasta is cooking, in a skillet add olive oil, and on medium heat cook onions and yellow squash, until slightly tender, about 3-4 minutes. Add asparagus with a little salt and pepper, cook for one minute until bright green, stirring constantly. Add cooked broccoli florets, tomatoes, and basil. Stir and toss, cook for two minutes. Add Âź cup white wine, and from pasta pot take Â˝ cup water and pour into skillet with vegetables. Cook 2-3 minutes or until liquid is reduced. Add more pasta water if necessary. Drain pasta and pour into a large warmed bowl. Toss in vegetable mixture until well combined. Serve onto individual plates and top with fresh parsley and grated Parmesan cheese. Serve hot. Fettuccine with Shrimp and Oranges 8 ounces dried fettuccine pasta or angel hair 12 ounces fresh deveined shrimp, thaw if frozen 1-2 tablespoons olive oil Â˝ teaspoon orange peel zest 2/3 cup orange juice

1-2 tablespoons cornstarch 1 chicken bouillon cube Â˝ teaspoon sesame seed oil 2 oranges peeled and sectioned. Peel and section over a bowl to catch juices. 1 6-ounce package fresh pea pods or fresh snap peas Cook fettuccine 8-10 minutes or until tender, but still firm. Drain well and keep warm In a skillet heat olive oil and add shrimp, cook and stir about two minutes or until shrimp turn pink. Remove shrimp Combine orange zest, orange juice, cornstarch, bouillon, and sesame seed oil. Cook and stir until thickened and bubbly. Retur n shrimp to skillet and stir to coat evenly. Gently fold in pea pods and orange sections, heat through. Serve shrimp mixture over fettuccine. Serve hot. Sweet Italian Sausage and Spaghetti 12 ounces dried thin spaghetti 1 pound sweet Italian sausage, cut into one inch coins 1 m e d i u m sw e e t o n i o n , chopped 2 large cans tomato sauce Salt and Pepper to taste 2-3 teaspoons sweet basil, dried 2 tablespoons parsley flakes, dried Grated Par mesan cheese, garnish Prepare thin spaghetti according to package instructions. Meanwhile in a saucepan with three tablespoons of water place sausage coins and cook until water evaporates. Add chopped onion. Cook until sausage is browned. Add tomato sauce, salt and pepper. Cover and simmer on low heat for 30 minutes. Add basil and parsley, and stir. Serve over hot spaghetti. Sprinkle with grated Parmesan cheese.

COMMUNITY NEWS & EVENTS Holy Trinityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Annual Holiday Bazaar The Episcopal Church Women (ECW) of Holy Trinity Episcopal Church of Hampstead invite the community to do some early Christmas shopping. The churchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s annual Holiday Bazaar will be held Nov. 20 from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m., and Nov. 21 from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m., presenting a variety of unique handcrafted gifts and homemade baked goods at reasonable prices. The Bazaar offers beautiful pre-lit and decorated trees, holiday wreaths, swags and centerpieces, as well as one-ofa-kind handmade craft items, and many $10-or-less crafts that are perfect as gifts. A handcrafted wooden castle (complete with drawbridge, soldiers, and hidden compartments), a holiday wreath, and hand-quilted blanket will be raffled. There will be 14 additional amazing baskets to be raffled. A bountiful bake table will provide everything for your holiday table â&#x20AC;&#x201C; from candy and cookies, to pies and cakes. And homemade, frozen mealsin-a-minute take the stress out of fixing lunch or dinner during this busy time. An extensive White Elephant room will help you tur n someoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s trash into your treasure. Holy Trinityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s traditional luncheon of chicken salad and zucchini bread is available for $6 on Friday between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m., and the Holy Trinity Youth Group will offer a chili luncheon for $5 on Saturday, so shoppers can

spend the day. Profits from the Bazaar will be used by the ECW to extend their outreach efforts in this community, as well as support church activities. Holy Trinity Episcopal Church is located at 107 Deerfield Drive in Hampstead, behind the Port City Java on Route 17. For more details, please call 910-270-4221. DAR meeting Nov. 19 Daughterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s of the American Revolution Battle of Moores Creek Bridge Chapter meets Nov. 19 at noon at the Burgaw Public Library. The program will recognize a DAR Good Citizen chosen from each of the four High Schools in Pender County. These students exemplify the qualities of a good citizen: dependability, service, leadership, and patriotism. These students also may enter the Scholarship Contest. Chapter members look forward to entertaining these students, their family members as well as select high school facility and Board of Education staff. Chapter member Dayna Corcoran, is combining American History Essay Contest winners with DAR Good Citizen in an Awards Day special Program. The essay contest was open to fifth-eighth graders in Pender County schools. The winners are encouraged to read their winning essays. Special thanks to all Judges in these two award categories. Artist at St. Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in Burgaw You are invited to stop by St. Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Church in Burgaw

Nov. 14 from 8 a.m. until noon and meet Eddie Hayes. A selftaught memory and visionary artist from Atkinson, Hayesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; artwork portrays detailed scenes of rural life in eastern North Carolina. When Hayes shows his work, visitors are captivated by both the art and the artist. Hayes has been awarded a Re gional Artist Project Grant, was accepted into the prestigious Fearrington Folk Art Sale and Slotin Folk Art Auction, and has exhibited his work at the 14th Annual African American Cultural Celebration at the N.C. Museum of History. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t miss this opportunity to meet Hayes at St. Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Church, 506 S. McNeil St. Burgaw.

Arts Center at their downtown campus, and new additions to the north campus in Castle Hayne. Topsail Kiwanis meets Tuesday mornings, 7:30 a.m., at the Surf City Welcome Center.

Thursday, November 12 s4HE +IWANIS #LUB OF (AMPSTEAD WILL MEET AT A M AT THE Sawmill Grill on Hwy. 17 in Hampstead. s!LCOHOLICS !NONYMOUS WILL MEET FROM NOON P M AT THE Surf City Community Center. Call 328.4887 for more information. s0ENDER #OUNTY -USEUM IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC FOR FREE DONAtions are welcome) every Thursday and Friday from 1-4 p.m. and on Saturdays from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. Group tours are available at other times by contacting the Museum at 259-8543 by email at penderhist@hotmail.com. s3T (ELENA 0LANNING "OARD MEETS P M AT TOWN HALL Friday November 13 s!TKINSON "APTIST #HURCH (WY IN !TKINSON HAS A FREE bread giveaway Fridays from 4-5 p.m. All types of bread from white to multigrain to hamburger buns. s0ENDER #OUNTY -USEUM OPEN P M s4HE -ARINE #ORPS ,EAGUE $ETACHMENT MEETS FOR BREAKfast at the Sawmill Grill in Hampstead at 8 a.m. each Friday. Wednesday November 18 s!LCOHOLICS !NONYMOUS WILL MEET FROM P M AT THE Surf City Community Center, 201 Community Center Dr. Call 328.4887 for more information s4HE #OASTAL 0ENDER 2OTARY #LUB MEETS EACH 7EDNESDAY AT 12:30 p.m. at the Belvedere Country Club, 2368 Country Club Drive in Hampstead. s0ENDER #OUNTY &ARMER S -ARKET AT 0OPLAR 'ROVE 0LANTATION is open each Wednesday at 8 a.m. Thursday, November 19 The Kiwanis Club of Hampstead will meet at 7:30 a.m. at the Sawmill Grill on Hwy. 17 in Hampstead. s!LCOHOLICS !NONYMOUS WILL MEET FROM NOON P M AT THE Surf City Community Center. Call 328.4887 for more information. s0ENDER #OUNTY -USEUM IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC FOR FREE DONAtions are welcome) every Thursday and Friday from 1-4 p.m. and on Saturdays from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. Group tours are available at other times by contacting the Museum at 259-8543 by email at penderhist@hotmail.com. s6ILLAGE OF 3T (ELENA MEETS AT P M AT THE 4OWN (ALL s$!2 -OORES #REEK "RIDGE #HAPTED MEETS AT NOON AT THE Burgaw Public Library. Friday November 20 s!TKINSON "APTIST #HURCH (WY IN !TKINSON HAS A FREE bread giveaway Fridays from 4-5 p.m. All types of bread from white to multigrain to hamburger buns. s0ENDER #OUNTY -USEUM OPEN P M s4HE -ARINE #ORPS ,EAGUE $ETACHMENT MEETS FOR BREAKfast at the Sawmill Grill in Hampstead at 8 a.m. each Friday. Legion Building, 16660 U.S. Hwy. 17 in Hampstead. Tuesday November 24 s4HE +NIGHTS OF #OLUMBUS #OUNCIL MEETS THE SECOND AND fourth Tuesday each month at 7 p.m. at the American Legion Building, 16660 U.S. Hwy. 17 in Hampstead. Tuesday December 8 s4HE -ARINE #ORPS ,EAGUE $ETACHMENT MEETS AT THE Topsail Senior Center, 20959 U.S. Hwy. 17 in Hampstead the second Tuesday each month at 7 p.m. The Detachment is always looking for new member to help in its continuing mission.

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8K and 2-Mile Runs 1/2-Mile Kidâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sprint

Saturday, November 21, 2015, 9 a.m.

Thank you to our Sponsors Dr. Amanda Lee CFCC president speaks at Topsail Kiwanis meeting Cape Fear Community College President Dr. Amanda Lee was the featured speaker at the Kiwanis Club of Topsail Island Area meeting Nov. 3. L e e s p o ke o n c u r re n t developments at the Alston Burke Campus in Surf City, the new Humanities and Fine

Platinum Sponsors Surf City Crab, Realtor Lisa Mathews (Remax Essential), Goldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Gym, Harris Teeter Surf City, Food Lion Hampstead, Pender Post-Topsail Voice, Ship On Site Surf City Gold Sponsors Woodmen Life, Pierpan Family Dentistry, Thread FX, Hampstead and Sneads Ferry Physical Therapy, Bojanglesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, Breakaway Fitness and Performance, McDonalds Hampstead Down East CrossFit

Pre-Race Pasta Dinner And Runner Packet Pick-Up Friday, November 20, 5-7 p.m. Hampstead Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Club Building

www.HampsteadKiwanisPark.com Call Patricia Homa for more info 910-616-5195

All proceeds from the race go to improving the Park

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