L UMINA N EWS luminanews.com YOUR COASTAL COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE MAY 2002 Source: National Weather Service A great connector Page 8 The Bunny Trail Page 7 Wrightsville Beach Biathlon Page 14 April 2–8, 2015 Volume 14 | Issue 14 | 25¢ For daily updates visit LuminaNews.com YOUR COASTAL COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE MAY 2002 L UMINA N EWS LuminaNews.com Find us on Facebook facebook.com/LuminaNews Follow us on Twitter @luminanews POLICE REPORT 3 FOR THE RECORD 3 EDITORIAL 4 SOLUTIONS 7 CLASSIFIEDS 11 SPORTS/MARINE 14 Budget talks cover showers, extra police officer By Emmy Errante Staff Writer Wrightsville Beach town leaders and staff met March 26 to discuss possible cuts to help balance the town’s proposed $10.77 million budget for fiscal year 2015-16. To make up the current $156,704 short- fall, the town could forego less urgent items like renovations to town council chambers in favor of constructing a shower facility for the town’s sewer workers. A restructuring of the police department proposed by police chief Dan House could also save money. The town’s proposed budget includes plans to upgrade its council chambers, where multiple town boards hold meetings every month. The renovations would cost $40,000. During the budget meeting, the aldermen agreed the renovations were not as critical as other building projects such as creating a shower facility for the public works depart- ment’s sewer workers. Right now, town manager Tim Owens said, the workers are getting sewage on their clothing and then walking through the fire department to use the showers intended for interns. “They’ve got the dirtiest job in town and they don’t have any means to go clean up,” public works director Mike Vukelich said. Until the town finds enough funds to build the shower facility, alderwoman Elizabeth King pointed out the trailer that serves as the N.C. Holiday Flotilla headquarters has an attached shower facility the sewer workers could use. Changes in the town’s police department could also be implemented during the coming “They’ve got the dirtiest job in town and they don’t have any means to go clean up.” n See TRIMMING Page 5 n See BUDGET Page 5 Nesting season opens for feathers and flippers By Miriah Hamrick Staff Writer A few American oyster- catchers were first to land on Wrightsville’s beach strand, kicking off the 2015 nesting sea- son late in March. The oystercatchers are typi- cally the first shorebirds to nest after pairing off and establishing nesting territory, said Audubon North Carolina Coastal Biologist Lindsay Addison. She expects black skimmers, least terns and common terns to arrive and nest later in April. “We hope to have the entire cast of characters back this year,” Addison said. The south end bird habitat, enclosed March 30 to keep nests safe from human disturbance, was home to hundreds of nest- ing least tern pairs in previous n See NESTING Page 5 Public notices bill sweeps house 115-4, next up the senate By Pat Bradford, Staff Writer A first hurdle was cleared this week in a decade-long fight by newspaper publishers to keep pub- lic notices in front of the public with a victory for HB 156 on the floor of the North Carolina House of Representatives. This vote fol- lowed a unanimous J-3 committee vote last week. Representative Ted Davis Jr. (R-New Hanover) co-chairs the J-3 committee. Coming in close succession, state Sen. Tom Apodaca (R-Henderson) also took a meaningful next step on behalf of open and transparent gov- ernment last week when he signed on as a primary sponsor of a Senate bill also preserving the publication of public notices in newspapers. Apodaca, who chairs the Rules n See NOTICES Page 5 n See AGENDA Page 5 Pelican Drive parking one of six public hearings in April By Emmy Errante Staff Writer Pay-by-phone parking on Pelican Drive, a permit for a temporary wire- less facility in Wrightsville Beach Park, a permit for a new boat club and an expansion request by The Surf Club are among the six issues on which the Wrightsville Beach Board of Aldermen will invite public input during its April 8 meeting. Pelican Drive paid parking The board is once again consid- ering charging beachgoers to park along Pelican Drive. During the last public hearing on the matter in 2013, residents opposed adding meters to the road. They said meters clutter the street and, since the road isn’t heavily used for park- ing, the revenue garnered by meters would take too long to offset the $30,000 cost of installing them. This time, the board’s proposition does not include installing meters or pay stations. Beachgoers would pay Tree pruning to proceed despite protest Legal action possible without cooperation By Miriah Hamrick Staff Writer Duke Energy officials plan to return to Live Oak Drive to finish trimming tree limbs entangled around power lines, with or with- out compliance from residents and Wrightsville Beach officials. “Legal action is an option,” said Duke spokesperson Paige Layne. “It’s certainly not our preferred approach, but it is an option we might have to consider if that’s what it takes to get the work completed.” Two weeks after a few dozen residents crowded around two remaining untrimmed live oaks to prevent crews from finishing maintenance work on trees in the street’s median, Wrightsville Staff photo by Allison Potter Will and Heather Beam walk their dogs at Wrightsville’s south end as kiteboarders and windsurfers take advantage of brisk winds Tuesday, March 31. With temps expected from a high in the low 70s to a low in the low 50s, sunshine and showers are forecast for the Easter weekend. Visitors should know that dogs are probhited on the Wrightsville strand April 1 through Sept. 30. MARCH GOES OUT LIKE A LAMB Lumina News file photo Alderman Hank Miller and Wrightsville Beach Mayor Bill Blair observe tree trimming efforts on Live Oak Drive by Duke Energy Tuesday, March 17. Staff photo by Allison Potter Audubon North Carolina has set up a perimeter at Wrightsville’s south end to protect nesting shorebirds.
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Wrightsville Beach town leaders and staff met March 26 to discuss possible cuts to help balance the town’s proposed $10.77 million budget for fiscal year 2015-16.
To make up the current $156,704 short-fall, the town could forego less urgent items like renovations to town council chambers in favor of constructing a shower facility for the town’s sewer workers. A restructuring of the police department proposed by police chief Dan House could also save money.
The town’s proposed budget includes plans to upgrade its council chambers, where
multiple town boards hold meetings every month. The renovations would cost $40,000.
During the budget meeting, the aldermen agreed the renovations were not as critical
as other building projects such as creating a shower facility for the public works depart-ment’s sewer workers.
Right now, town manager Tim Owens
said, the workers are getting sewage on their clothing and then walking through the fire department to use the showers intended for interns.
“They’ve got the dirtiest job in town and they don’t have any means to go clean up,” public works director Mike Vukelich said.
Until the town finds enough funds to build the shower facility, alderwoman Elizabeth King pointed out the trailer that serves as the N.C. Holiday Flotilla headquarters has an attached shower facility the sewer workers could use.
Changes in the town’s police department could also be implemented during the coming
“They’ve got the dirtiest job in town and they don’t have any
means to go clean up.”
n See trimming Page 5
n See budget Page 5
nesting season opens for feathers and flippersBy Miriah HamrickStaff Writer
A few American oyster-catchers were first to land on Wrightsville’s beach strand, kicking off the 2015 nesting sea-son late in March.
The oystercatchers are typi-cally the first shorebirds to nest after pairing off and establishing nesting territory, said Audubon North Carolina Coastal Biologist Lindsay Addison. She expects black skimmers, least terns and common terns to arrive and nest later in April.
“We hope to have the entire cast of characters back this year,” Addison said.
The south end bird habitat, enclosed March 30 to keep nests safe from human disturbance, was home to hundreds of nest-ing least tern pairs in previous
n See nesting Page 5
Public notices bill sweeps house 115-4, next up the senateBy Pat Bradford,Staff Writer
A first hurdle was cleared this week in a decade-long fight by newspaper publishers to keep pub-lic notices in front of the public with a victory for HB 156 on the floor of the North Carolina House of Representatives. This vote fol-lowed a unanimous J-3 committee vote last week.
Representative Ted Davis Jr. (R-New Hanover) co-chairs the J-3 committee.
Coming in close succession, state Sen. Tom Apodaca (R-Henderson) also took a meaningful next step on behalf of open and transparent gov-ernment last week when he signed on as a primary sponsor of a Senate bill also preserving the publication of public notices in newspapers.
Apodaca, who chairs the Rules n See notices Page 5n See agenda Page 5
Pelican Drive parking one of six public
hearings in April
By Emmy ErranteStaff Writer
Pay-by-phone parking on Pelican Drive, a permit for a temporary wire-less facility in Wrightsville Beach Park, a permit for a new boat club and an expansion request by The Surf Club are among the six issues on which the Wrightsville Beach Board of Aldermen will invite public input during its April 8 meeting.
Pelican Drive paid parkingThe board is once again consid-
ering charging beachgoers to park along Pelican Drive.
During the last public hearing on the matter in 2013, residents opposed adding meters to the road. They said meters clutter the street and, since the road isn’t heavily used for park-ing, the revenue garnered by meters would take too long to offset the $30,000 cost of installing them.
This time, the board’s proposition does not include installing meters or pay stations. Beachgoers would pay
Tree pruning to proceed despite protestLegal action possible without cooperation
By Miriah HamrickStaff Writer
Duke Energy officials plan to return to Live Oak Drive to finish trimming tree limbs entangled around power lines, with or with-out compliance from residents and Wrightsville Beach officials.
“Legal action is an option,” said Duke spokesperson Paige Layne. “It’s certainly not our preferred approach, but it is an option we might have to consider if that’s what it takes to get the work completed.”
Two weeks after a few dozen residents crowded around two remaining untrimmed live oaks to prevent crews from finishing maintenance work on trees in the street’s median, Wrightsville
Staff photo by Allison Potter
Will and Heather Beam walk their dogs at Wrightsville’s south end as kiteboarders and windsurfers take advantage of brisk winds Tuesday, March 31. With temps expected from a high in the low 70s to a low in the low 50s, sunshine and showers are forecast for the Easter weekend. Visitors should know that dogs are probhited on the Wrightsville strand April 1 through Sept. 30.
March goes out like a laMb
Lumina News file photo
Alderman Hank Miller and Wrightsville Beach Mayor Bill Blair observe tree trimming efforts on Live Oak Drive by Duke Energy Tuesday, March 17.
Staff photo by Allison Potter
Audubon North Carolina has set up a perimeter at Wrightsville’s south end to protect nesting shorebirds.
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Lost renourishment funding, lower property values?By Miriah HamrickStaff Writer
New research indicating a sig-nificant connection between beach renourishment funding and coastal property values could attract prop-erty owners to the table as local leaders investigate future fund-ing options for storm mitigation projects.
Completed by researchers from the University of North Carolina Wilmington, Duke University and The Ohio State University, the study states oceanfront home values could dip between 17 and 34 percent without ongoing fed-eral financial support for the beach projects, typically paying 65 per-cent of each multimillion-dollar project. Dylan McNamara, UNCW associate professor of physics and physical oceanography, said the research assumes coastal property owners will undertake project costs in the absence of federal contributions.
“If, all of a sudden, that local property owner had to pay for nour-ishment costs, then the net value of that property would change, and we wanted to see how much it would reduce. And it turned out that it reduced pretty significantly,” McNamara said. “So effectively, that nourishment subsidy is elevat-ing the value of the property, and if it disappears, the intrinsic property value would decrease.”
Local discussions about alter-native funding strategies for the projects, if federal financial assis-tance disappears, have not included relegating the cost to property own-ers. New Hanover County Shore Protection Coordinator Layton Bedsole said the cost to build the dunes and widen the beach strands every couple of years would likely be tackled by the state, the county, and the local municipalities.
Currently, the remaining 35 per-cent of each project’s cost is split by the state and an earmarked portion of the county’s room occu-pancy tax proceeds. If the proposed
2015-16 fiscal year budget is approved, Wrightsville Beach will have more than $1 million in a sav-ings fund dedicated for emergency renourishment costs by July 1, said town manager Tim Owens, gener-ated primarily from parking meter revenues.
Not all beach renourishment projects qualify for federal financial assistance; the cost of participation is weighed against the estimated cost of recovery and repairs the government could incur following hurricanes and other coastal disasters.
“That’s how the federal govern-ment decides whether to participate in one of these civil works proj-ects with the [U.S. Army] Corps of Engineers. ... For the beach proj-ects, they have to show a return on the investment. The benefits have to be greater than the costs,” Bedsole said.
Renourishment projects at Wrightsville, Carolina and Kure beach towns are federally autho-rized, or eligible for funds — but new federal guidance requires an updated analysis of projects, costs and benefits every few years, raising concerns from local stake-holders about the reliability of the funding.
Because continued federal finan-cial support for the projects has been a hot-button issue locally, McNamara said the research-ers were motivated to explore the mathematical relationship between federal participation in the projects and nearby property values. To determine the role federal cost-share for beach-wid-ening projects plays in the value of oceanfront homes, researchers
analyzed different features and factors influencing property val-ues in coastal towns across North Carolina, separating the intrinsic attributes of the structure and the adjacent beach strand.
The study’s conclusions are not meant to be “the end of the story” or influence policy decisions, McNamara said, only to present empirical information about the value of federal renourishment funding for local property owners.
“It’s not our job as scientists and economists to suggest what the policy should be. We’re just try-ing to get as much information out there as we can,” McNamara said.
The findings on federal renour-ishment funding and property values are the latest installment in a years-long collaborative effort among the three univer-sities to better understand how natural and manmade processes will impact the Eastern Seaboard. McNamara said the study’s con-clusions apply to renourished beach communities along the Atlantic coast.email [email protected]
Lifeguards begin patrolling beachBy Emmy ErranteStaff Writer
While lifeguards don’t return to their stands until Memorial Day weekend, a limited force of Wrightsville Beach Ocean Rescue guards began patrolling the beach strand April 1.
Two lifeguards will patrol the beach 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily during April. On weekends when beach-going weather is forecast, Baker said an extra person will be added to the patrol.
During a recent town meeting, Wrightsville Beach Ocean Rescue Director Dave Baker reported no loss of life on the beach dur-ing guarded hours last summer. Another point of distinction for Wrightsville Beach lifeguards is a new drowning protocol imple-mented for summer 2014.
Baker said a large number of his lifeguards attended a seminar led by Dr. Justin Sempsrott detailing a new rescue technique for drowning victims. Sempsrott introduced the idea that rescue breaths should be performed before chest compres-sions on an unconscious drowning victim.
“When people have a cardiac event on land, we need to do our chest compressions, that’s what’s been taught,” Baker said during a March 26 phone interview. “But when they’re in the water, what is causing that problem is lack of oxygen. ... If you’re doing com-pressions ... you’re not circulating any oxygen.”
Now, the guards are taught to give five rescue breaths and then do compressions, Baker said.
Wrightsville Beach Ocean Rescue was the first program in the country to implement the new technique. Today, Baker said, it is the standard protocol for the state of North Carolina.
Baker said the water is warmer
right now than typical for this time of year, so in addition to wetsuit-clad surfers the lifeguard patrol will watch for children playing around the water’s edge and, soon, swimmers.
The ocean rescue guards don’t just respond to water-related inci-dents, he added.
“It’s anything east of the dune
line,” he said. “We’re out there patrolling, helping enforce the ordinances and keeping things safe.”
Lifeguard tryouts for summer 2015 will be held April 26 and May 2. Lifeguards will undergo training during May before the full seasonal staff returns to duty. email [email protected]
New sea level rise predictions availableBy Miriah HamrickStaff Writer
The ocean off the coast of Wilmington could creep as much as 6.8 inches landward over the next 30 years, states an anticipated update to a controversial 2010 state sea level rise report.
The report, released for public review and com-ment March 31, offers a range of sea level rise estimates by geographic location along the North Carolina coast and under three different climate change scenarios.
The original report offered a coast-wide estimate as high as 39 inches by 2100, which spurred state lawmakers to halt policymaking on the subject and order another report in a 2012 state law. The N.C. Coastal Resources Commission Science Panel, a group of scientists and engineers behind the origi-nal report, reconvened to generate estimates with a more regional scope and a shorter timeframe under directions outlined by the state law and Coastal Resources Commission Chairman Frank Gorham.
The panel analyzed data collected at tide gauges at Duck, Oregon Inlet, Beaufort, Wilmington and Southport. Higher rates of rise are offered along the coast north of Cape Lookout, an area more vulnerable to changes in ocean currents, especially the speed and position of the Gulf Stream, and land subsidence, or sinking. Assuming the same rate of historical rise observed in the gauge data, the report predicts the ocean could rise 2.4 inches around Wilmington and 5.4 inches around Duck over the next 30 years.
Considered the driving force of climate change by many scientists, the panel also accounted for the influence of greenhouse gas emissions using the latest numbers from the Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change, an organization oper-ating under the direction of the United Nations. The report predicts slightly higher rates of rise of 5.8 inches near Wilmington and 7.1 inches near Duck under a curbed emission scenario, compared to 6.8 inches near Wilmington and 8.1 inches near Duck if emissions continue at peak concentrations.
Predictions in the latest iteration of the report are lower than estimates included in a working draft of the report submitted for peer review in December 2014. N.C. Division of Coastal Management spokesperson Michele Walker said the panel recalculated some rates after peer reviewers Dr. James Houston, a retired U.S. Army Corps of Engineers research director, and the late Dr. Robert Dean, professor emeritus in the University of Florida’s coastal and oceanographic engineering program, identified a mathematical error in the panel’s calculations.
The report will remain open to public inspec-tion until December 2015, when the panel will incorporate public input into a final report due to the N.C. General Assembly by March 2016. No public information meetings about the report are currently scheduled, Walker said, but science panel chair Dr. Margery Overton will present the report to the N.C. Coastal Resources Commission during its April meeting in Nags Head, where the public is invited to attend and submit comments.
Comments are also accepted via email, directed to Division of Coastal Management Coastal and Ocean Policy Manager Tancred Miller at [email protected]
To read the report and other resources, visit portal. ncdenr.org/web/cm/sea-level-rise-study-updateemail [email protected]
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Researchers from the University of North Carolina Wilmington, Duke University and The Ohio State University have completed a study of the connection between beach renourishment funding and coastal property values. Renourishment was last completed at Wrightsville Beach, pictured above, in 2014.
Staff photo by Emmy Errante
Wrightsville Beach Ocean Rescue lifeguards patrol the beach strand near Johnnie Mercer’s Pier Wednesday, April 1.
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Weekend Police Report
dawn patrolAn officer patrolling drove up to the intersec-
tion of Lumina Avenue and Salisbury Street around 4:30 a.m. March 28 when he heard a commotion coming from a residence on West Salisbury Street. He saw two men fighting so he turned on his blue lights and ordered them to separate. The two men, George Holt and Jacab Laham, complied. Neither pressed charges but both were issued citations for an affray.
inside jobTwenty-one-year-old Kaley Weaver left her home
at 804 S. Lumina Ave. to go downtown March 28. When she returned, she noticed a bottle of Xanax
pills missing from under her bed. One of her other roommates, Morgan Gowarty, realized something was missing from her room as well. Chief Dan house of the WBPD said a third roommate has been identified as a possible suspect because no one else was home during that time.
the law wonAt 2:24 a.m. March 29, a fight broke out in the
alley between Vito’s Pizza and Tower 7. A bouncer from Vito’s was on the scene but the fight con-tinued, so a police officer approached. One of the fighters, 21-year-old Nicholas Buckley, continued to fight so the officer attempted to pull him away. Buckley continued to kick and fight so the officer arrested him for resisting arrest.
BEACH BLOTTER
march 27
citations
• Jessica Wilson was issued a citation for driving 50 mph in a 35 mph zone.
• Leanne R. Linnell was issued a citation for possessing a fraudulent identification.
• George E. Holt IV was issued a citation for a simple affray.
• Jacob A. Laham was issued a citation for a simple affray.
• Thomas B. Tartt was issued a citation for driving 48 mph in a 35 mph zone.
• William Miller was issued a citation for intoxicated and disruptive conduct.
Warnings
• Laura N. Hermes was issued a warning for speeding.
• Robert K. Register was issued a warning for an expired registration.
• Donald Skinner was issued a warning for an expired registration.
civil penalties
• Zachery S. Farrell was issued a civil penalty for impeding traffic.
reports
• Intoxicated and disruptive conduct was reported.
march 28
arrests
• Nicholas Buckley was arrested for resisting, delay-ing, and obstructing.
citations
• John Romulus was issued a citation for an expired registration.
• Alexandria Nixon was issued a citation for speeding.
• Janna Canel was issued a citation for expired registra-tion and inspection.
• James Hoffman was issued a citation for DDR.
Warning tickets
• Leah Branch was issued a warning for equipment.
civil penalties
• Kevin Wayne Musgrove was issued a civil penalty for impeding traffic.
• Daniel Ernst was issued a civil penalty for an open container.
• Paul Walker was issued a civil penalty for an open container.
reports
• Kaley Weaver reported a burglary.
• Resisting, delaying and obstructing were reported.
march 29
arrests
• William Merriman was arrested for underage consumption.
citations
• Jessica Collins was issued a citation for child restraint.
• Natasha Helen Pfeiffer was issued a citation for driving
53 mph in a 35 mph zone.• Thomas Gwyn Reich was issued a citation for a revoked registration and no insurance.
• Cassandra Burge was issued a citation for driving 51 mph in a 35 mph zone.
• Joshua Lanning was issued a citation for driving 50 mph in a 35 mph zone.
• Dorothy Creech was issued a citation for driving 53 mph in a 35 mph zone.
• Kevin Lally was issued a cita-tion for driving 50 mph in a 35 mph zone.
• Nicholas Monteleone was issued a citation for a DWLR.
• Elizabeth Edwards was issued a citation for driving 51 mph in a 35 mph zone and failure to register a vehicle.
Warning tickets
• Delwood Herren was issued a warning for speeding.
• Tess Elizabeth Haberl was issued a warning for failure to carry a driver’s license.
• Morgan R. Erkstam was issued a warning for a head-light violation.
• Megan Sleeper was issued a warning for a headlight violation.
• Michael Mangan was issued a warning for a headlight violation.
reports
• Underage consumption was reported.
• William Merriman reported property storage of a skateboard.
For the recordQuestion and photographs by Cullen Lea
What April Fool’s Day pranks have you experienced?
Rich Vena Wilmington, N.C.
“I was supposed to meet a friend at Lovey’s Market. He called and canceled on me and said that I should go ahead and eat. I went to the buffet and filled up my plate. In the checkout line he called me again and wanted to eat somewhere else, saying he changed his mind. He walked up behind me and laughed. He was watching me the whole time.”
Mia Smithley Wilmington, N.C.
“Years ago my dad called my family together in our living room. He had cam-eras set up and everyone was excited. He handed me a lottery ticket saying I had won $80,000. I was freaking out. Then my brother and father told me it was a fake and in fact worthless. I started crying.”
Kristi West Wilmington, N.C.
“I’ve told my husband that I’m pregnant again. The terror on his face is hilarious. We have two rambunctious boys. Two’s enough for the both of us.”
Rob Farrell Hampstead, N.C.
“When I was in the Marine Corps. I was in charge of a group of guys. We were sta-tioned in California and my friend called me late at night saying one of my troops was streaking and I needed to pick him up before he got arrested. I tried to get ready in a panic and then my friend revealed he was pranking me.”
Alan Boyd Wilmington, N.C.
“One year my son told me he had run over my prize Hobie surfboard when he pulled in from school. People have to have per-mission to touch this board. I freaked out, but I gained my senses and realized it was a prank. How would my surfboard end up in my driveway?”
monday, april 6New Hanover County Board of Commissioners meeting
4 p.m., New Hanover Historic Courthouse Assembly Room
Wrightsville Beach Parks and Recreation Advisory Committee meeting 4 p.m., Town Hall Conference Room
tuesday, april 7New Hanover County Board of Education meeting
5:30 p.m., New Hanover County Board of Education Center
Wrightsville Beach Planning Board meeting, 6 p.m., Town Hall Council Chambers
Wilmington City Council meeting, 6:30 p.m., City Hall Council Chambers
Wednesday, april 8Wilmington-New Hanover Port, Waterway and Beach Commission meeting 4 p.m., New Hanover County Government Center Finance Conference Room
Wrightsville Beach Board of Aldermen meeting, 6 p.m., Town Hall Council Chambers
imPortant dates
Beaches seek to save for promotionsBy Miriah HamrickStaff Writer
To prepare for recovery from major storms, mayors of New Hanover County’s three beach municipalities want flexibility to save annually allocated money dedicated to marketing.
The room occupancy tax, levied on temporary stays in rental prop-erties and hotels and the source of the marketing revenues, would feel a hit if disaster struck and prevented the communities from recovering visitors, said Carolina Beach Mayor Dan Wilcox.
“In the wake of a really bad disaster, we lose most of our rev-enues, if not all of them. We won’t have any revenues the following season, not only to promote our beach towns, but also to let people know that we’re fixed up and we’re open again,” Wilcox said.
The request is the latest install-ment in an ongoing discussion among New Hanover County Tourism Development Authority board members about each beach town’s ability to save a portion of the room occupancy tax collec-tions vested to each community, but earmarked for promoting the
destinations. The latest proposal would enable the beaches to save up to 20 percent of their annual marketing allotment for five years, essentially creating a reserve of a years’ worth of spending.
The authority currently budgets a 25 percent emergency reserve annually, but the funds do not accumulate year-to-year; instead, they are rolled over into the fol-lowing year’s budget. Building up significant savings for emergencies is the fiscally responsible thing for the beach communities to do, Wilcox told the board. Wrightsville Beach Mayor Bill Blair, who was not at the meeting but involved in earlier discussions about the pro-posal, agreed.
“In the event that we have a hur-ricane that basically closes the beach, that means that the ROT generation of funds stops. . . . You need to have some money so that, as the beach gets back on its feet, we have the ability to advertise that we’re back in business,” Blair said in a March 25 phone interview before the meeting.
Some board members voiced concerns that diminished market-ing efforts could impact tourism. New Hanover County Board
of Commissioners Chairman Jonathan Barfield Jr. said more money should be spent on mar-keting, not less.
“I feel like we’re already in a weak position when it comes to marketing. If anything, we need to find ways to increase our resources coming in before we refigure the marketing funds we get,” Barfield said.
Wilmington and Beaches Convention and Visitors Bureau President and CEO Kim Hufham warned a cut in marketing could bring fewer visitors, and thus, less income through the room occu-pancy tax rolls.
Blair said he doubted the reserved funds would cause a noticeable decline in visitors to the area.
“That does take away some of the money from your operating account, but I don’t think it’s dra-matic enough to affect anything,” Blair said.
The board decided to table the motion after almost an hour of conversation. A subcommittee was created to meet and hash out concerns about the proposal before the board resumes the discussion at its next meeting May 27.email [email protected]
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As we head into the Holy weekend, controversy swirls around one Wrightsville elected official.
Mayor Pro Tem Darryl Mills, 61, has been called to step down by bartender Mia Banks, 31, for odious words he spoke to her two weeks ago as she tended bar on the Wrightsville strip.
Mills, known by Banks for his sharp-edged tongue, crossed a line in his degrading remarks to Banks, one of many in an ongoing exchange — acknowledged by both parties — of back and forth, frequently obscenity-laced “joking” that spanned close to two years. Mills expresses regret and remorse for what he said to Ms. Banks. He said on the night in question, when he saw that words he spoke in what he felt was “jest” had hurt her, he apologized.
Banks, her own language peppered with the f-word, acknowledges that Mills did apologize, but said his apology was not accepted, saying, “I am not big on apologies, apologies don’t fix things for me.” And, “You can’t apologize for something like that. And I am not going to accept it.” Mills later sent a second apology by email, but Banks said, “He says I am sorry. Apology not accepted. … You can’t call me a mixed-breed [female dog] and then apologize.”
There is no excuse for what Mills said, and to his credit, he has not offered one. It was totally inappropri-ate, even in “jest.” Everyone, including Mills, agrees about that.
It may have been a three-minute conversation, but it had a long-term, pointed-barb history. By all accounts, Banks gave as good as she got in this verbal relationship with Mills — until this night — when she said, as Mills sat at the bar, she gave him a hug as she began her shift, a watered-down drink sitting in front of him.
“We joke with each other quite a bit, but the conver-sation was a little off from what it regularly would be, something not right,” she said. Banks said she declared a time out, saying, “We are not playing at all tonight because something is not good.” But she said he kept on, even interjecting in her conversation with others. “Something weird was going on, just weird,” she said.
Banks, who volunteered to me she is “half black and half white,” is labeling Mills a “racist.” She wants what Mills’ said to her to cost him his seat on the town board, saying, “I don’t care what’s going on with you, you don’t get to talk to me that way … and I want you to step down.”
Does Mills use of tasteless, hot-button words that obviously hit a raw nerve make him a racist? I don’t know. Did he take it too far? Definitely.
Remember the schoolyard rhyme, “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me?” Countering that lie, scripture instructs us the tongue holds power of life and death.
But it also says love holds no account of a suffered wrong. (1 Corr. 13:5.) Two verses later: Love bears all things.
Let me insert here: Although I believe he is doing a good job in his elected position, I did not vote for Darryl Mills. His phone number is in my cell phone, but nei-ther of us have hung out together or viewed the other as “friend.” Even though I like to hug and be hugged, we have not hugged, that I can recall. But I will vehe-mently defend Mills’ right under our Constitution to say a stupid, hurtful, totally inappropriate, degrading,
loathsome remark, even if he didn’t apologize on the spot or exhibit remorse.
Not only do I strongly encourage forgiveness and turn-ing the other cheek, I adamantly believe in the First Amendment of the Constitution to the United States: I hold dear our freedoms as Americans to speak, publish or assemble, regardless of how dreadful.
You cannot call to restrict the speech of one group or individual without jeopardizing everyone’s rights. Free speech rights are indivisible, as are the words recorded in the Bible. You can’t pick and choose which part you like and discard the remainder. It is all or nothing.
The First Amendment is a hallmark of an open society. This country has increasingly become a place where only politically correct approved speak is permissible, where careers are destroyed in a blink of an eye — that is worrisome.
Most people will tell you they believe in the right to free speech, but balk at it covering flag burning, hard-core rap, heavy metal music, use of certain words.
Under the First Amendment, individuals have the right to speech we don’t agree with, or that is offensive and hateful. It is the First Amendment that allows the KKK to hold marches and spew hate in their offensive attire. The right for them to spew their hate is guaranteed under our Constitution.
Why Ms. Banks would not accept an apology from someone whom she knew and had a friendly relation-ship with up until this particular night is a puzzle. Mills said he believed they were friends. She said, “… People confuse their relationship with a bartender as friendship. You think someone is your friend because they get paid to talk to you.” This bar, she said, is a friendly place, with Banks hugging, “everyone I know comin’ into the bar.”
Mills, who is single, pegged by our reporters as a flirt, apparently was something of a fixture in the watering hole, there for breakfast, dinner and often late night a great deal of the time. Banks said the bar has a “family” atmosphere. It is apparent, until something went terribly wrong, Mills felt a part of that family.
Many will sing, “Hallelujah, the Lamb has over-come!” this weekend as residents and visitors flock to the beach for one of several beach strand sunrise services to remember the ultimate sacrifice Jesus Christ made: He took on Himself the sins of the world, was crucified, buried and raised again on the third day, Resurrection Sunday.
Jesus was spit on, mocked, reviled, called every slur word imaginable, His miracles called of the devil, but did He go on the evening news and call for the Sanhedrin and Priests’ removal from their positions of power? Not even when they then beat Him beyond recognition and nailed him to a tree. Instead He said, “Father forgive them, they do not know what they do.”
If Mills came into our business and called one of my employees the same thing, we would have been shocked to the core and wanted him to leave as Mia Banks’ and her co-workers did that night at the Neptune.
But to call for his resignation? No. Vengeance has no place in our lives. The forgiveness modeled by our Savior does.
Hurt for Mills, pray for him, yes! Hurt for Banks, pray for her, yes!
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Beach Town Manager Tim Owens and Mayor Bill Blair met with town attorney John Wessell and a Duke representative to dis-cuss options for moving forward.
Neither Duke nor town officials prefer to take the route of force, Blair said.
“I don’t think that’s the prefer-able way, but they’re prepared to do that,” Blair said. “Those trees will get cut, one way or the other, as a process of what they have typi-cally done, or they will force the issue if it’s necessary.”
Town officials relayed the out-come of the discussion to a few residents of the street after the March 31 meeting. Live Oak Drive resident and former Wrightsville Beach Mayor David Cignotti, selected as a representative of the neighborhood during ongoing negotiations, said residents wish they could have more actively participated in the conversation to convey their desired outcome.
“All that we are asking is for Duke to trim the remaining trees in the same manner that they did at the southern end of the median, where they did a really good job,” Cignotti said.
Contact between tree limbs and power lines is one of the leading causes of power outages, Layne said, and also poses a problem for line workers trying to restore and repair service following storms and other events. Layne acknowl-edged that some cuts to limbs are “not aesthetically pleasing,” but said they were designed to protect the tree’s health while training the limbs to grow away from the lines.
“We do V cuts. We do side cuts.
We do L cuts. But those are the appropriate cuts that have been developed for the utility industry to ensure communities can have trees while also benefitting from the electricity they need to main-tain their daily lives,” Layne said.
Duke and town officials dis-cussed other solutions during the meeting, including an offer from residents to hire an arborist and contractor to finish the work to the utility’s specifications, but Owens said that offer is not feasible.
“That’s just not a viable solution. It’s dangerous work. It’s something that’s going to have to be done to their guidelines, because they’re committed to doing this,” Owens said.
A solution that satisfies everyone involved is possible, Cignotti said.
“I’m an optimist, and I hope we can reach an outcome that works for Duke and the neighborhood,” Cignotti said.
Residents held a meeting Tuesday night to discuss Duke’s posture and their options.
Duke has not scheduled a day to complete the work yet, but Layne said town officials and residents will know before crews arrive.email [email protected]
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by phone, meaning the only cost to the town would be planting several signs along the road explaining the process of paying.
The board discussed the idea at its March 26 budget meeting, dur-ing the process of cutting items from the budget and searching for additional areas of revenue. Lanier Parking has consistently recommended adding paid parking to Pelican Drive, saying it could generate $28,000 during one eight-month parking season.
Town manager Tim Owens said enforcement would be light at first.
“We would just do warning tickets for a period of time,” he said during a March 31 phone interview.
Residents would still be able to park along the road using their hangtag, he added.
Temporary wireless tower in the park
VCI Group Inc., a representa-tive of Spring/Ericsson, submitted
a request to construct a temporary telecommunications tower in Wrightsville Beach Park.
Director of planning and parks Tony Wilson said the proposed tower would be a contained facility located near the soccer field dur-ing Sprint’s peak usage times, from April to September 2015.
Construction would be minimal, he said during a March 31 phone interview, because the facility is a mobile unit that would be trans-ported on a trailer and tied down in location. Town planning staff is in favor of the tower on the condi-tion that it is temporary, he said.
“Our other question is, are there other better locations, a better place to put it,” Wilson added.
Boat club permitScott Weismantel applied with
the town for a conditional use permit to open a location of the nationwide franchise Carefree Boat Club at 96 W. Salisbury St. The business would rent five boats, ranging in size from 18 to 27 feet, to club members.
If the aldermen grant the permit,
Wilson said, they will set specific conditions such as limiting the number of boats on site, setting a minimum age for captains and requiring boater competency on the water.
During previous town meet-ings, Weismantel has said each club member would have to complete both classroom and on-the-water training before operating a Carefree Boat Club vessel and no one younger than 26 will be allowed to captain a boat.
Surf Club deck awningThe Surf Club, located at
1 E. Mallard St., is applying for a permit to install an awning on its deck. Wilson said the mate-rial would likely be similar to that covering the Oceanic Restaurant’s outdoor seating.
The board could use the con-ditions on the CUP to regulate outdoor noise, outdoor music and hours of operation, he said.
Graffiti penaltiesThe board will decide whether
to classify graffiti as a public nui-sance in its ordinances in order
to mandate quicker cleanup and stricter penalties for offenders.
Vandals would be subject to both civil and criminal penalties that would escalate for multiple offenses — $100 for a first offense, up to $1,000 for a fifth offense.
The law would also require prop-erty owners to clean up the graffiti within a certain time frame. If the property owner does not comply, forcing the town to remove the graffiti, he or she would be charged the cost of cleanup.
School’s church leaseWrightsville Beach School
leases part of Wrightsville Beach Baptist Church for classroom space, but the school’s two-year lease runs out in 2015. The town will consider a text amendment renewing the lease until 2019.
Eventually, the school will use funds from the $160 million school bond approved by voters during the Nov. 4, 2014, election to expand its facilities and bring all classes back on site.email [email protected]
fiscal year.During the March 4 budget meet-
ing, House requested two new police officer positions to increase police presence in the downtown district during weekend nights. He said he perceived hesitancy from the aldermen during that meeting so he came back to the board with a new concept March 26.
The plan requires just one new officer position and would increase efficiency throughout the
department at no additional cost, he said.
One of his captains, Michael Core, is retiring in a month. Rather than filling the vacant captain position, House proposed hiring a lieutenant to replace Core and hir-ing one additional police officer.
House said this would take administrative duties away from his sergeants, allowing them to be out on the road all day. The two lieutenants would take on the administrative duties during the week and patrol on the week-ends. They would rotate shifts, so
a lieutenant would always be on duty and patrolling downtown on weekend nights.
“So that would put five people on the road most of the times when we’re having problems, rather than three people on the road,” House said.
The department also currently has vacancies for five reserve officers, but House proposed not filling those positions and just uti-lizing the five reserve officers he currently has. House said cutting those hiring costs would help off-set the new police officer’s salary.
“The idea is to streamline the agency,” he said, adding the other purpose is to have more officers out patrolling after recent incidents in the bar district.
“Especially with the fight that happened downtown,” he said, “that could have gone really bad and the last thing we want to see is somebody hurt or killed.”
The board will continue to con-sider House’s request and other budget items during its next bud-get meeting April 14.email [email protected]
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Committee, joined Sens. Norm Sanderson of Arapahoe and Ralph Hise of Spruce Pine in his early support of the bill.
Like HB 156, modeled after a bill enacted by the Florida Legislature in 2012, Senate Bill 129 preserves the requirement that cities and counties publish notices about rezonings, eco-nomic development incentives and other public matters in a local newspaper in advance of govern-ment action on such matters.
The League of Municipalities and the state Association of County Commissioners have sought to change state law and move public notices to their own government websites.
Supporters of the House and Senate legislation have said the
change would weaken the public’s right to know. They argue no one surfs the Internet looking for pub-lic notices, a homeowner or his or her neighbor runs across them on the way to and from the crossword puzzle and the yard sale ads.
The counties Apodaca rep-resents have at least eight newspapers of record that ben-efit from public notices. New Hanover County has four. While publications remain viable with revenues from public notices, publishers have said their eco-nomic interest is secondary to the interest of the people and their right to know about and speak on actions their governments propose to take — in public hearings, on utility increases, CAMA notices, delinquent tax lien notices, whether it’s spend-ing tax money to attract industry, annexing new territory, closing a
road, rezoning property or selling public land.
The North Carolina Press Association has for two years pushed for a bill that would settle the ongoing debate.
A compromise bill, sponsored in the House by Rep. Marilyn Avila (R-Wake), cosponsored by Davis, passed the House Monday night with a 115 to 4 vote, allowing cities and coun-ties a price break on ads they are required to publish more than once, and requiring newspapers to also run the print ads for free on websites. Rep. Rick Catlin (R-New Hanover) and Rep. Susi Hamilton (D-New Hanover and Brunswick) along with Davis voted in favor of Avila’s bill.
The Goldsboro News Argus and the North Carolina Press Association contributed to this story.
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“All that we are asking is for Duke to trim the remaining trees in the
same manner that they did at the southern end of
the median, where they did a really good job.”
years, but hosted no successful nests in 2014. Six pairs attempted to nest, but Addison attributed the failure to disturbance from marine construction crews dredging sand from Masonboro Inlet to pump on the beach for Wrightsville’s coastal storm damage reduction project.
“We basically lost the entire least tern colony,” Addison said. Because the south end has accreted sand over the past year, providing more open sandy habitat preferred by the birds, Addison said some of the lost least terns should return for the 2015 season.
The chicks will fledge, or begin to fly, in June and July, a metric Audubon uses to determine the success of each species’ nesting efforts.
Information about nesting birds inside the south end enclosure is available via Audubon volun-teers, typically staffed around the enclosure perimeter. Beginning April 27, Audubon will also offer educational bird walks around the nesting habitat every Monday at 9 a.m., with groups meeting at the gazebo near Public Beach Access No. 43.
Addison said beach visitors are often excited to observe the nesting birds and baby chicks.
“Most of the time, especially people who don’t live around here don’t know birds nest on the
beach,” Addison said. “They didn’t know when they came to the south end they would get to see an egg or a chick, or adult birds court-ing and fishing. They’re doing all these different behaviors that are fun to watch, and it adds a different dimension to the beach.”
Sea turtles are next to nest, bringing Wrightsville Beach Sea Turtle Project volunteers to the beach strand at dawn each day from May through August to look for tracks in the sand. Loggerhead females crawl onto the beach at night to deposit a clutch of about 100 leathery eggs into a hole in the sand before returning to the ocean. Volunteers mark each nest site to keep the eggs safe until they hatch about 60 days later.
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Project Coordinator Nancy Fahey said the group’s efforts, which also include rescuing stranded turtles and raising money for The Karen Beasley Sea Turtle Rescue and Rehabilitation Center in Surf City, are intended to offset the challenges a developed coastline pose for the endangered species.
“We’ve thrown up a lot of obsta-cles as far as their ability to survive in the manner they used to, when they were relatively undisturbed. We definitely have, I think, put the turtles in a position that the odds are no longer in their favor,” Fahey said. “I feel like it’s important for us to give back, to increase those odds.”
Volunteers trek across miles of the undeveloped Masonboro Island Reserve coastline at dawn
with eyes peeled for sea turtle tracks beginning in May. The Masonboro beach strand also hosts shorebird nests, primarily laid by oystercatchers outside a nesting enclosure near the Big Bay area of the island. Reserve staff tries to alert island visitors to the nests, called scrapes, which are barely visible in the dry, open sand, said N.C. Coastal Reserve and National Estuarine Reserve Stewardship Coordinator and Southern Sites Manager Hope Sutton.
“We put out temporary signs about bird nesting on the island to provide some information to key people into the fact that these nests are just eggs in a little indentation in the ground,” Sutton said.
To get involved with Audubon’s efforts on the south end of Wrightsville Beach, email Marlene Eader at [email protected].
Newcomers to the Wrightsville Beach Sea Turtle Project are required to join veteran volunteers for an April 2 meeting in the Fran Russ Recreation Center at 7 p.m.
Masonboro will also hold informational meetings at the University of North Carolina Wilmington Center for Marine Science for interested volunteers, including an April 23 meeting for turtle nest monitoring and an April 30 meeting for bird volun-teers, both at 6 p.m.email [email protected]
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Sen. Tom Apodaca (R-Henderson) speaks during a press conference March 17 in Raleigh about bills in the N.C. Senate and House that would ensure continued access to public notices using both print and digital means. Access to public notices is under threat by local governments seeking to give governments the option to run public notices only on their own websites. Pictured from left with Apodaca are co-sponsors Rep. Pricey Harrison (D-Guilford), Rep. Ted Davis (R-New Hanover), Sen. Louis Pate (R-Wayne), Sen. Norman Sanderson (R-Pamlico), Rep. Marilyn Avila (R-Wake), and Rep. Chris Malone (R-Wake). The announcement came during National Sunshine Week, which highlights the need for greater government openness and transparency.
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Eggs in the Parkeaster egg huntHugh MacRae ParkApril 3, 10 a.m., Free
Winter Park Baptist Church and West Memorial United Methodist Church invite families for a hunt for eggs at Hugh MacRae Park Shelter No. 2. Come for the hunt, a raffle, craft making and more. The celebration will be canceled in the event of rain. Contact [email protected] for information.
Battleship Eggeaster egg hunt carnivalBattleship North CarolinaApril 3, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., $5
Kids are invited to search for eggs next to the Battleship USS North Carolina. The event guaran-tees children will find eggs and they are welcome to hunt as many times as they like. Buddy the Battleship Bunny will pose with attendees for photos. Kids two and under are admitted free. Call 910-251-5797 for details.
Empie Eggseaster egg hunt and Family Fun dayEmpie ParkApril 4, 1-3 p.m., Free
Welcome Home Angel and Lanier Property Group present an Easter egg hunt that will begin at 1:30 p.m. The search will accommo-date kids of all ages and abilities. Live music, face painting and pictures with the Easter Bunny will be included in the Family Fun Day. Email [email protected] for details.
Eggstaticeaster egg huntLittle Chapel on the BoardwalkApril 4, 10 a.m., Free
The Wrightsville Beach church is happy to invite kids of all ages to participate in a fun and exciting Easter egg hunt. Enjoy a joyous day of scavenging for eggs with something special inside. A puppet show will be featured as well. For additional infor-mation call 910-231-9378.
“Rabbits are not the simple, easy little pets the media and the public generally think they are,” Paula Watkins said. Watkins is a House Rabbit Society vol-unteer educator.
“I got into it the way a lot of people do: I got a rabbit for my son,” she said. Decades later, the memory is fresh.
She set the scene: Drive son to pet store, son sees rabbits, begs mom to buy one.“We had guinea pigs at the time,” Watson recalled. “The rabbit was about the same size
. . . and I thought, ‘How hard can this be?’ I’ll just have the rabbit and the guinea pig live together. What’s one more?”
Mom and son brought the chosen bunny home and placed it into a cardboard box with the guinea pig.
“Immediately the rabbit hopped out of the box because they have strong, powerful hind legs. I thought: ‘OK, this isn’t going to work,’” Watkins said.
Her son and husband built an indoor house for the rabbit; then they fed the rabbit all the wrong food — human junk food and treats, instead of hay, what rabbits are supposed to eat.
“His teeth grew too long because he wasn’t eating hay and I didn’t realize that; and I didn’t take him to a vet; and it was too late by the time I did. He was too far gone to save,” Watkins confessed.
She had wrongly done everything a person could possibly do with a pet rabbit. “I just felt terrible about this poor, innocent, little rabbit I had killed because of my igno-
rance,” she said.Her vet put her in touch with the House Rabbit Society, but Watkins was too embarrassed
to call right away. Through the House Rabbit Society’s education program, she learned how to care for rabbits
properly, how to house them, how to feed them; and she redeemed herself. That was many rabbits ago, in Columbus, Ohio, before she moved to Wilmington, N.C. When her grown children left home, fostering rabbits became her retirement thing.
“From then on, it was me who fell in love with the rabbits. We had a dog at the time and the new rabbit got along well with the dog. When we moved to Wilmington we had two rabbits. A bunny sitter who was into cat rescue was telling me about the rabbits in the shelters here that were euthanized because there was no one doing rabbit rescue in the area,” Watkins said.
Watkins started the House Rabbit Society’s Cape Fear chapter with one rabbit. For 10 years she fostered rabbits, adopting the ones that were sick. With the help of volunteers, she rescued unwanted bunnies and placed them in foster homes.
During the Great Easter Bunny Rescue of 2008, 20 unsold Easter rabbits were dumped along the railroad tracks near the intersection of Wrightsville Avenue and Dawson Street.
“After they did not sell as Easter pets, the rab-bits were left to fend for themselves,” Watkins said. “We have no idea who did this horrible act, but captured most of them.”
Four were found dead, one wounded with scars the vet said looked as if they came from the jaws of a large predator. The rest were in fairly good shape, Watkins said. With the help of various rescue groups, the rabbits were collected, spayed or neutered and adopted.
Watkins has since retired from her retirement thing.
“I got out of it about two years ago because I ended up with a houseful of rabbits that were unadoptable. When that happens you’ve used up your space, a lot of times your volunteers … come and go. If they’re really good volunteers, they fall in love with the rabbit and decide to keep it, then they’re no good anymore because they’ve used up the space,” Watkins said.
She’s still a volunteer with the House Rabbit Society and part of a network of rabbit rescuers in eastern North Carolina, Triangle Rabbits in Raleigh and another group based in Greenville. “They have a couple different shelters they pull rabbits from,” Watkins said. “If there’s a rabbit in need in the Wilmington area, if there’s a stray running loose that somebody tells me about, we catch it and we work to get it spayed and neutered and into a foster home whenever we can.”
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Top: Jessica Morrison of Wilmington has four rescue rabbits, including a lop-eared named Princess. Above left: Jessica Morrison’s California rabbit, George, and right, her lop-eared rabbit, Rambo.
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What to know before you adopt a rabbit this EasterBy Marimar McNaughtonStaff Writer
With Easter coming, what do people need to know before they adopt a rabbit as a gift?
Paula Watkins of the Cape Fear House Rabbit Society offers these tips about Easter bunnies.
A rabbit is a 10-year commitment. “They live 10 years if they’re fed and housed prop-erly. A child’s attention span is about 10 minutes. When a child wants a rabbit, it will be the parent’s rabbit.““I don’t adopt rabbits to the children, I adopt them to the parents,” Watkins said.
House rabbits are prey to predators, just like their backyard cousins.“Everything is out to eat them,” she said. “They have that prey animal mentality. They’re different from dogs and cats in that aspect and even though they are more domesticated than the wild rabbits in the yard … they’re not ideal pets for small children. Starting about age six or seven, they’re OK pets for children, as long as the parents are engaged and are
willing to be the primary caretaker.”
Understand the rabbit’s personality. They’re more like cats; they’re friendly, they’re social, but you have to let them approach you on their terms.“You can’t just run over and pick them up. They’re ground loving creatures,” Watkins explained. “They’re very frightened if their feet are off the floor. They associate that with a bird of prey; that’s not something they like. Children like to pick up and carry around an animal because that’s what they do with their stuffed toys. That’s probably the total opposite of what a rabbit wants to have done to them.”
Let the rabbit come to you. “They love to sit on the couch and watch TV. The rabbit is going to be naturally curious, see what the kids are up to, and hop all over them,” Watkins said. “It’s when they’re being chased, they don’t like it.”
Once they’re spayed and neutered, rabbits use a litter box. ”They don’t need to be confined to a cage.”
They’re high-energy animals so they need three to four hours of good exercise every day.“We recommend they get out of their enclosure and interact with the family,” Watkins said.
Rabbits dig and chew by nature. Wild rabbits in the yard dig burrows. Domestic rabbits have that same instinct. “A lot of times people will give up rabbits to shel-ters because, ‘They’ve destroyed my house, they’ve chewed my cords, they’ve dug under my carpet, they’ve gotten under my couch.’ That’s probably
the No. 1 reason rabbits are given up to shelters,” Watkins said.
Bunny proof your home. The rabbit only needs one room.“They prefer the room you’re in,” Watkins said.
Adopt mature rabbits.“Don’t go to a pet store, or a feed and seed store, and adopt a baby rabbit. You don’t know what the per-sonality of that rabbit’s going to be,” Watkins said. email [email protected]
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A greAt connector By Miriah HamrickStaff Writer
Wielding pencils, paintbrushes, scissors and glue is fun for Wrightsville Beach School art teacher Jennifer Crafts and her students, but couched in each project is a larger lesson to help students succeed in the classroom and in future careers.
Art, Crafts said, is an opportunity to reinforce important concepts in other subjects and develop broader skills like problem solving and critical thinking.
“I think art is a great connector between all other subject areas,” said Crafts, who works with other teachers to incorporate the content students are learning in their main classrooms into the art projects she plans.
A more accessible approach for some students than traditional educational methods, Crafts said art overlaps particularly well with social studies and math concepts.
“Especially for a kid, if math is not their favor-ite, if we can integrate it with something that is enjoyable to them and get those concepts across, that’s a good tie-in,” Crafts said.
Some students recognize the educational oppor-tunities in art class, including third-grader Neale McIntyre.
“Sometimes because you learn about all these things, if you do a project on it, you know some more of the answers,” McIntyre said.
But mostly, students said they like Crafts’ class because it is fun.
“I like the projects we do. It’s fun to paint,” said third-grader Ella Boyer.
Students are acquiring important skills needed for career-readiness while having fun, Crafts said.
“They’re learning to creatively solve problems, and if it doesn’t work the first time, to try it again. That is what the careers of the future, and even right now, are about: how do we solve this par-ticular problem? We have to think about all the different solutions. We do things in here with a lot of different processes and a lot of problem-solving,” Crafts said.
Students are not the only ones who notice something special occurring in the school art room; Crafts was voted 2015-16 Wrightsville Beach School Teacher of the Year by fellow Wrightsville Beach teachers.
Because teachers rarely have the opportunity to leave their classroom to observe one another in action, they earn a reputation as a strong teacher through the noticeable impact they make on stu-dents, said Wrightsville Beach School principal MaryPaul Beall. Other teachers see that Crafts brings a lot of creativity to the school, Beall said, and uses a positive attitude to help students feel confident in their creative potential.
“The students, when they go into her class-room, feel successful. She doesn’t put them down if they don’t have art ability. She works with each individual child and she does some really neat things,” Beall said. Every school in the district names a teacher of the year, who can then complete an application and interview process to be considered for the countywide teacher of the year. New Hanover County Schools’ Teachers of the Year will be honored and announced during a June banquet. email [email protected]
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Jennifer Crafts, Wrightsville Beach School’s Teacher of the Year, instructs a third-grade class Friday, March 27.
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The Town of Wrightsville Beach will be holding a FREE clean yard waste disposal day for the Residents/Businesses of Wrightsville Beach. In order to participate in the drop-off event, vehicles must have either a Town decal or display a Wrightsville Beach resident parking pass, or owner-provided utility bill. Vehicles will enter the checkpoint opening to the post and rope area to drop off acceptable items for disposal; items must conform to the list in order to be accepted.
• Grass, leaves and other loose items shall be placed in heavy PAPER refuse bags.
• Plastic bags will have to be opened and contents removed for acceptance for disposal.
• Tree limbs and other similar materials for collection shall be cut in four- to five-foot lengths, with protruding branches trimmed down.
• Absolutely no trash can be mixed with yard waste (i.e. drink bottles, candy wrappers etc.).
• Only yard waste will be accepted. No wood boards or manufactured wood products.
Location: municipal Complex — across from old Fire station; 10 seawater lane date: saturday, april 11, 2015 time: 8 a.m. – 3 p.m.
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Large Fruit & Cheese displaySmoked Salmon with Bagels and cream cheese
Children’s museum launches fundraising campaignBy Pam CreechContributing Writer
The Children’s Museum of Wilmington plans to raise $3 million to fund exhibits and programs, community out-reach projects and building maintenance. Joan Clarke, the museum’s chief development director, said the museum con-ducted a feasibility study that showed they can raise $3 mil-lion in three to five years.
“We received a challenge from one of our corporate sponsors who wishes to remain anonymous right now,” Clarke said. “We’ll raise $700,000 and they’ll match it, which will bring us to $1.4 million. … We’re very excited. We’re calling the campaign Play with Purpose because one of the most valuable ways children learn is through play.”
The Play with Purpose cam-paign goals are divided into three initiatives: fun and learn-ing, community connections and museum permanence.
“Fun and learning includes the renovation of existing exhibits,” Clarke said. “Literacy and for-eign language programs will be ramped up.”
STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) activities are also a part of the fun and learning initiative.
The second initiative, com-munity connections, includes off-site exhibitions. It includes funding a bus to transport chil-dren and their family members to and from the museum.
“It’s for children who can’t get here easily — possibly chil-dren in Pender and Brunswick counties. … We believe that every child in the Cape Fear region should have access to the museum, but a lot of them don’t because of financial situ-ations. Twenty-four percent of our memberships are through grants,” Clarke said.
Community connections also includes a plan to benefit the Wounded Warriors Project.
“That will be working with the families — the children and spouses of the Wounded Warriors — to bring them in to the museum. We’d give them free passes and do some really exciting things with them,” Clarke said.
Families of children in the hospital will also receive free passes, Hospital Healing Passes, to the museum.
“They can come and enjoy the museum without having to worry about the stress of the cost,” Clarke said. “The third part — museum permanence — is for building maintenance. We are housed in a 17,000-square-foot historic building, and so it constantly needs care and updat-ing. … Also, it’s for paying off
the mortgage,” Clarke said.The Children’s Museum has
planned a series of fundraisers to benefit the Play with Purpose campaign. One event includes the Fourth Annual Fore the Children Golf Tournament that will take place April 20 at the Cape Fear Country Club.
“We’re going to have 128 golfers,” said Kellie Furr, the Children’s Museum’s marketing and development coordinator. “Each hole will have two spon-sors. … Those are good ways for people to get advertisements and connect with the museum.”
Registration and practice start at 10 a.m. and the match begins at noon. Tickets to play are $150 per person. For more information about the Children’s Museum or Fore the Children Golf Tournament, visit www.playwilmington.org
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The Good News
March 29, 2015, 6:17 p.m.Powerful
My love is the most powerful medicine I can leave for youFrom My presence here and all over the Earth it will doMiracles no one can deny could only have one sourceThey are freely given to all who worship and honor Me of
courseSing from your hearts and present your petitions with freedomKnowing the One Most Powerful will control the things to
comeGlory, honor, peace and salvation are available to those who
believeOnly I can sacrifice Myself for your sin, it is hard to conceiveThat We are One, Father, Son and Spirit available twenty-
four seven To listen and use Our most powerful love sent forth from
heavenTo unify My people one with another to believe change is
at handWhat will change will be the most powerful change seen in
this landHold fast to your faith that the refreshing will last till the end
of time
carL WatersH2OLivingAll your knowledge of what is and what can be needs to be
redefinedLift your voices to the most powerful High God ever to beOpen before you is the salvation of Jesus and the cross to seeThat death is not part of life but dying to the cross is lifeMy Son was the final sacrifice, a powerful love to remove all
the Earth’s strife
(Psa 29:4 NRSV) The voice of the LORD is powerful; the voice of the LORD is full of majesty.(Mat 3:11 NRSV) I baptize you with water for repentance, but one who is more powerful than I is coming after me; I am not worthy to carry his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.(Mark 1:7 NRSV) He proclaimed, “The one who is more pow-erful than I is coming after me; I am not worthy to stoop down and untie the thong of his sandals.”(Heb 1:3 NRSV) He is the reflection of God’s glory and the exact imprint of God’s very being, and he sustains all things by his powerful word. When he had made purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,(Heb 4:12 KJV) For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
March 30BEING YOKED TO JESUS
Matthew 11:28-30, “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”
MATTHEW 11:20-30Yokes were made of wood with two hollowed out sections on the
bottom portion that rested on the necks of oxen, which used to plow or to draw a cart. Figuratively, a yoke symbolized servitude or sub-mission. Jesus is admonishing us to submit ourselves to Him, for true rest comes from serving Him — not ourselves.
A new ox was often trained for plowing or drawing a cart by yoking him with an experienced ox. The yoke kept the young ox from “doing his own thing” and he soon learned obedience to his master. In like manner, we are to commit ourselves to being yoked to Jesus. “It is not in man that walketh to direct his steps” (Jer. 10:23). Therefore, we have to “bear the yoke in our youth” (Lam. 3:27) if we want to
become mature Christians. The comparison ends at this point, though. Unlike the, sometimes, harsh treatment oxen are given to bring them into subjection, Jesus is “meek and lowly in heart,” and wins us by love. Jesus pulls more than His “share” of the load; therefore, our burden is light.
The most loving father in the world cannot compare with the love our Heavenly Father has for us. And yet, many times we find it easier to believe in the willingness of a father or mother or mate to help us than in the willingness of God to use His power on our behalf. Relatively few people really doubt God’s ability, but rather, it is our doubt of His willingness to use His ability on our behalf that causes most people to do without. Jesus assures us that God’s love, and His willingness to demonstrate that love, is far greater than we can ever experience in any human relationship. Not only does He want our love, but wants you to let Him love you today.
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LITTLE CHAPEL ON THE BOARDWALK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (U.S.A.)
Rev. Patrick Thomas Rabun, pastor2 W. Fayetteville St., 910-256-2819, ext. 100
Early Worship: 8:30 a.m.Sunday School/Children’s Choir: 9:15 a.m.
Traditional Worship: 10:30 a.m.Children’s Church: 10:45 a.m.
Nursery provided
ST. ANDREW’S ON-THE-SOUND EPISCOPALThe Rev. Richard G. Elliott, rector
Easter Sunday ServicesWrightsvile Beach area churches will celebrate Easter Sunday with
two special sunrise services on the beach strand.The 15th Annual Easter Celebration at the Beach sponsored by
North Pointe Community Church will take place at 7 a.m. at Crystal Pier. It will be a casual gathering with hot coffee, juices, pastries and donuts at the breakfast tent. The service will include live music, an Easter message and kids’ activities like puppet-toons, clowns, balloon sculpturing and Easter treats. For more information, call 910-617-0796.
Continuing a long-standing tradition, Little Chapel on the Boardwalk Presbyterian Church, Wrightsville United Methodist Church, Wrightsville Beach Baptist Church, St. Therese’s Catholic Church and Pilgrim’s Rest Baptist Church will hold a sunrise service at 6:30 a.m. on the beach strand at the end of East Oxford Street, Public Beach Access No. 19. Attendees are encouraged to bring a blanket or lawn chair to sit on. In years past, the service has attracted an average of 2,000 attendees. Donuts and coffee will be served after the service in the Little Chapel fellowship hall.
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Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Acquenetta R. Smith to David shumannfang, Trustee(s), dated the 17th day of Novem-ber, 2006, and recorded in Book 5107, Page 750, and as correct-ed by that Correction Affidavit recorded on October 10, 2014 in Book 5844, Page 1469, in New Hanover County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trust-ee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of New Hanover County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evi-dencing said indebtedness hav-ing directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the under-signed Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in the City of Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, or the customary loca-tion designated for foreclosure sales, at 12:00 PM on April 7, 2015 and will sell to the high-est bidder for cash the follow-ing real estate situated in the County of New Hanover, North Carolina, and being more par-ticularly described as follows:
Being all of Lot 453, Section 8, as shown on a plat entitled “Apple Valley Section 8, and Revision of Lots 308A, 309A and 310A” recorded in Map Book 49 at Page 278 in the New Hanover County Registry.
Subject to Declaration of Restrictions for Apple Valley Section 8 and Walnut Hills, Sec-tion 11, recorded in Book 5032 at Page 288 in the New Hanover County Registry.
Together with improvements thereon, said property locat-ed at 3008 old barn court, castle hayne, north carolina 28429. Parcel ID R02500-003-092-00.
Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §45-21.23.
Should the property be pur-chased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by NCGS §7A-308(a)(1).
The property to be offered pur-suant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being fore-closed, nor the officers, direc-tors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized represen-tative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warran-ty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the prop-erty being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condi-tion expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold sub-ject to applicable Federal and State laws.
A cash deposit or cashier’s check (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the pur-chase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), which-ever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale.
An order for possession of the property may be issued pursu-ant 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 prop-erty is sold.
Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rent-al agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days’ written notice to the landlord. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rent-al agreement prorated to the effective date of the termina-tion.
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. Rea-sons of such inability to convey
include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy peti-tion prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowl-edge of the trustee. If the valid-ity 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 pur-chaser will have no further rem-edy.
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVIC-ES, INC.SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEEP.O. Box 10284317 Ramsey StreetFayetteville, North Carolina 28311https://sales.hutchenslawfirm.comCase No: 1140966 (FC.CH)March 26 and April 2, 2015
notice oF ForecLosure saLe
15-sP 62
Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made BRANDY BROWN AND KRISTIN KOZORA to MAURICE R. SMITH, Trustee(s), dated the 6TH day of DECEMBER, 2013 and record-ed in BOOK 5786, PAGE 1994, NEW HANOVER County Regis-try, North Carolina, Default hav-ing been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, ANDERSON & STRICKLAND, P.A., having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of NEW HANOVER County, North Car-olina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebted-ness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the Courthouse Door, in the City of WILMINGTON, NEW HANOVER County, North Carolina at 11:00 A.M. ON APRIL 7TH, 2015, and will sell to the highest bid-der for cash the following real estate situated in the County of NEW HANOVER, North Caroli-na, and being more particularly described as follows:
BEING ALL of Lot 62, of CORAL RIDGE, Phase 4, Section 10,
as shown upon a map recorded in Map Book 58 at Page 228 of the New Hanover County Regis-try, reference to which is here-by made for a more particular description.
Sometimes known as: 787 Bonaire Road, Wilmington, NC 28412
PART OF Parent Parcel # R08218-004-012—000
said property being locat-ed at: 787 bon aire road, WiLmington, nc 28412
Present record oWner being: brandy d. broWn and Kristin Jean KoZora
Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in N.C.G.S. 45-21.23.
Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or encumbrances of record and any recorded releases.
Should the property be pur-chased by a third party, that person must pay the statutory final assessment fee of forty-five cents ($0.45) per One Hun-dred Dollars ($100.00) required by N.C.G.S. 7A¬308 (a) (I), and any applicable county and/or state land transfer tax and/or revenue tax.
Any successful bidder shall be required to tender the full bal-ance 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 suc-cessful bidder fail to pay the full balance of the purchase price so bid, at that time he shall remain liable on his bid as pro-vided for in N.C.G.S. 45-21.30(d) and (e).
The property to be offered pur-suant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being fore-closed, nor the officers, direc-tors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized represen-tative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation of warran-ty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the prop-erty being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or
liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condi-tion expressly are disclaimed.
A cash deposit or cashier’s check (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the pur-chase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), which-ever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale.
That an Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.
Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rent-al agreement entered into or renewed on or after October I, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days written notice to the landlord. The notice shall also state that upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rent-al agreement prorated to the effective date of the termina-tion.
This the 10TH day of March, 2015.Michael W. Strickland, as Attor-ney for and President of anderson & stricKLand, P.a., substitute trustee210 East Russell Street, Suite 104 Fayetteville, North Carolina 28301 (910) 483-3300March 26 and April 2, 2015
notice oF ForecLosure saLe
Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Jessie spicer to Trust-ee Services of Carolina, LLC, Trustee(s), dated the 1st day of March, 2007, and record-ed in Book 5152, Page 393, in New Hanover County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trust-ee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of New Hanover County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evi-dencing said indebtedness hav-ing directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the under-signed Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in the City of Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, or the customary loca-tion designated for foreclosure sales, at 12:00 PM on April 7, 2015 and will sell to the high-est bidder for cash the follow-ing real estate situated in the County of New Hanover, North Carolina, and being more par-ticularly described as follows:
Beginning at an iron pipe at the intersection of two ditches, said pipe bearing North 46 degrees West 526 feet along a fence and hedge row from a point in the center line of Atlantic Coast Line--Railroad; the point on Railroad being located approxi-mately 100 feet West of St. Ste-phens Church.
From the above described beginning point runs with a ditch, Nora McIntyre’s western line North 46 degrees West 175 feet to a pipe; thence North 46 degrees 10 minutes East 80 feet to a pipe; thence South 46 degrees East 175 feet to a pipe at edge of a ditch; thence with the edge of the ditch South 46 degrees 10 minutes West 80 feet to the point of begin-ning, containing 0.3 acres more or less, and being a part of that tract of land described in a deed from St. Pauls Lodge No. 192 to Charles McIntyre and wife Nora McIntyre and record-ed in Book No. 355 at Page 478, in New Hanover County Reg-istry. Together with improve-ments located thereon; said property being located at 125 mcintyre trail, Wilmington, north carolina.
Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §45-21.23.
Should the property be pur-chased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by NCGS §7A-308(a)(1).
The property to be offered pur-suant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being fore-closed, nor the officers, direc-
tors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized represen-tative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warran-ty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the prop-erty being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condi-tion expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold sub-ject to applicable Federal and State laws.
A cash deposit or cashier’s check (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the pur-chase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), which-ever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale.
An order for possession of the property may be issued pursu-ant 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 prop-erty is sold.
Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rent-al agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days’ written notice to the landlord. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rent-al agreement prorated to the effective date of the termina-tion.
If the trustee is unable to con-vey 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 fur-ther remedy.
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVIC-ES, INC.SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEEP.O. Box 10284317 Ramsey StreetFayetteville, North Carolina 28311https://sales.hutchenslawfirm.comCase No: 1143835 (FC.FAY)March 26 and April 2, 2015
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notice oF ForecLosure saLe
north caroLina, neW hanover county
Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that cer-tain Deed of Trust executed by Jordan M Nason and Courtney Peele a/k/a Courtney A Peele to Ned Barnes, Trustee(s), which was dated September 25, 2008 and recorded on September 26, 2008 in Book 5349 at Page 657, New Hanover County Registry, North Carolina.
Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the hold-er 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 court-house door of the county court-house where the property is located, or the usual and cus-tomary location at the coun-ty courthouse for conducting the sale on April 7, 2015 at 10:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the fol-lowing described property situ-ated in New Hanover County, North Carolina, to wit:
Being all of Lot 75 in North-wood Estates Subdivision, as the same is shown on a map thereof recorded in Map Book 8, Page 19 of the New Hanover County Registry, reference to which is hereby made for a more particular description.
Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior con-veyances of record.
said property is common-ly known as 17 northwood drive, Wilmington, nc 28405.
A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of
the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED.
Said property to be offered pur-suant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representa-tions of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environ-mental, health or safety con-ditions 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 assess-ments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or excep-tions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the cur-rent owner(s) of the property is/are Jordan m. nason and courtney Peele.
An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursu-ant 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 prop-erty 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, ter-minate the rental agreement upon 10 days’ written notice to the landlord. The notice shall also state that upon termina-tion 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 con-vey 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 with-out the knowledge of the trust-ee. 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 fur-ther remedy.
Trustee Services of Carolina, LLCSubstitute Trusteebrock & scott, PLLcattorneys for trustee servic-es of carolina, LLc5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200Wilmington, NC 28403PHONE: (910) 392-4988FAX: (910) 392-8587File No.: 12-12774-FC01March 26 and April 2, 2015
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amended notice oF Fore-cLosure saLe
north caroLina, neW hanover county
Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Jack J. Coffman and Lisa D. Coffman to M. Scott Boyles, Trustee(s), which was dated May 1, 2008 and recorded on May 1, 2008 in Book 5308 at Page 2506, New Hanover County Registry, North Carolina.
Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the hold-er 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 court-house door of the county court-house where the property is located, or the usual and cus-tomary location at the coun-ty courthouse for conducting the sale on April 7, 2015 at 10:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the fol-lowing described property situ-ated in New Hanover County, North Carolina, to wit:
Being all of Lot 258, Section 6, Millbrook Subdivision as shown on map of same recorded in Map Book 16 at Page 29 of the New Hanover County Registry, reference to which is made for a more particular description.
Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior con-veyances of record.
said property is commonly known as 125 south colony
circle, Wilmington, nc 28409.
A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED.
Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, trans-fer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no rep-resentations of warranty relat-ing 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 assess-ments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or excep-tions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are Jack J. coffman and Lisa d. coffman.
An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursu-ant 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 prop-erty 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, ter-minate the rental agreement upon 10 days’ written notice to the landlord. The notice shall also state that upon termina-tion 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 con-vey 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 with-out the knowledge of the trust-ee. 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 fur-ther remedy.
Trustee Services of Carolina, LLCSubstitute Trusteebrock & scott, PLLcattorneys for trustee servic-es of carolina, LLc5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200Wilmington, NC 28403PHONE: (910) 392-4988FAX: (910) 392-8587File No.: 14-05326-FC01March 26 and April 2, 2015
notice oF ForecLosure saLe
15 sP 63
Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by terry allgood, an unmar-ried man to Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, Trustee(s), dated the 2nd day of May, 2008, and recorded in Book 5309, Page 1755, in New Hanover Coun-ty Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note there-by secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of New Hanover County, North Carolina and the hold-er of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be fore-closed, the undersigned Substi-tute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in the City of Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, or the customary location des-ignated for foreclosure sales, at 12:00 PM on April 7, 2015 and will sell to the highest bid-der for cash the following real estate situated in the County of New Hanover, North Caroli-na, and being more particularly described as follows:
BEGINNING at a point in the Western line of Seventh Street one hundred and ninety-eight (198) feet South of the South-ern line of Ann Street; runs thence Southwardly with the Western line of Seventh Street thirty-three (33) feet; thence
Westwardly and parallel with Ann Street eighty-two and one-half (82 1/2) feet; thence Northwardly and parallel with Seventh Street thirty-three (33) feet; thence Eastwardly and par-allel with Ann Street eighty-two and one-half (82 1/2) feet to the BEGINNING; and being part of Lot 4 in Block 118 according to the official plan of the City of Wilmington. Also being all of Tract 4 as described in a deed to Kisha Jordan recorded Sep-tember 18, 2007 in Book 5232, Page 1223 of the New Hanover County Registry.
Together with improvements thereon, property located at 314 s 7th street, Wilmington nc 28401.
Parcel ID: R05405-023-017-000
Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §45-21.23.
Should the property be pur-chased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by NCGS §7A-308(a)(1).
The property to be offered pur-suant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being fore-closed, nor the officers, direc-tors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized represen-tative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warran-ty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the prop-erty being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condi-tion expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold sub-ject to applicable Federal and State laws.
A cash deposit or cashier’s check (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the pur-chase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), which-ever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale.
An order for possession of the property may be issued pursu-ant 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 prop-erty is sold.
Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rent-al agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days’ written notice to the landlord. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rent-al agreement prorated to the effective date of the termina-tion.
If the trustee is unable to con-vey 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 fur-ther remedy.
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVIC-ES, INC.SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEEP.O. Box 10284317 Ramsey StreetFayetteville, North Carolina 28311https://sales.hutchenslawfirm.comCase No: 1137836 (FC.CH)March 26 and April 2, 2015
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notice oF ForecLosure saLe
north caroLina, neW hanover county
Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Scott D. Brown and Sharon L. Brown to Henry V. Cunningham, Jr., Trustee(s), which was dated April 20, 2009 and recorded on April 24, 2009 in Book 5399
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at Page 1658 and rerecorded/modified/corrected on May 10, 2013 in Book 5735, Page 2251, New Hanover County Registry, North Carolina.
Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the hold-er 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 court-house door of the county court-house where the property is located, or the usual and cus-tomary location at the coun-ty courthouse for conducting the sale on April 7, 2015 at 10:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the fol-lowing described property situ-ated in New Hanover County, North Carolina, to wit:
BEING all of Lot 50 of Chandlers Place, The Cape, Section 1, as the same is shown on a map thereof duly recorded in Map Book 21 at Page 92 of the New Hanover County Registry, refer-ence to which is hereby made for a more particular descrip-tion.
Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior con-veyances of record.
said property is common-ly known as 8203 schooner Place, Wilmington, nc 28412.
A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED.
Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, trans-fer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no rep-resentations of warranty relat-
ing 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 assess-ments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or excep-tions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are sharon L brown and hus-band scott d brown.
An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursu-ant 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 prop-erty 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, ter-minate the rental agreement upon 10 days’ written notice to the landlord. The notice shall also state that upon termina-tion 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 con-vey 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 with-out the knowledge of the trust-ee. 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 fur-ther remedy.
Trustee Services of Carolina, LLCSubstitute Trusteebrock & scott, PLLcattorneys for trustee servic-es of carolina, LLc
5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200Wilmington, NC 28403PHONE: (910) 392-4988FAX: (910) 392-8587File No.: 10-17807-FC04March 26 and April 2, 2015
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amended notice oF Fore-cLosure saLe
north caroLina, neW hanover county
Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that cer-tain Deed of Trust executed by Timothy Lee Smith and Ellen Kay Smith to Daniel D. Mahn, Trustee(s), which was dated October 17, 2000 and record-ed on October 23, 2000 in Book 2823 at Page 0743, New Hanover County Registry, North Carolina.
Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the hold-er 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 court-house door of the county court-house where the property is located, or the usual and cus-tomary location at the coun-ty courthouse for conducting the sale on April 7, 2015 at 10:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the fol-lowing described property situ-ated in New Hanover County, North Carolina, to wit:
ALL of Lot 150 in Lansdowne Estates Subdivision, Section D, as the same is shown on map recorded in Map Book 12, at Page 1 in the New Hanover County Registry, and being the same lands described in instru-ment recorded in Book 1159, at Page 1178 in the New Hanover County Registry.
Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior con-veyances of record.
said property is common-ly known as 413 Lansdowne
road, Wilmington, nc 28409.
A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED.
Said property to be offered pur-suant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representa-tions of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environ-mental, health or safety con-ditions 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 assess-ments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or excep-tions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are timothy Lee smith and ellen Kay smith.
An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursu-ant 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 prop-erty 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, ter-minate the rental agreement upon 10 days’ written notice to the landlord. The notice shall also state that upon termina-tion 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 con-vey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the
deposit. Reasons of such inabil-ity 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 with-out the knowledge of the trust-ee. 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 fur-ther remedy.
Trustee Services of Carolina, LLCSubstitute Trusteebrock & scott, PLLcattorneys for trustee servic-es of carolina, LLc5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200Wilmington, NC 28403PHONE: (910) 392-4988FAX: (910) 392-8587File No.: 11-16546-FC02March 26 and April 2, 2015
notice oF ForecLosure saLe
Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by ted nobles, Jr. to Trste, Inc., Trustee(s), dated the 20th day of January, 2005, and record-ed in Book 4646, Page 814, in New Hanover County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trust-ee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of New Hanover County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evi-dencing said indebtedness hav-ing directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the under-signed Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in the City of Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, or the customary loca-tion designated for foreclosure sales, at 12:00 PM on April 14, 2015 and will sell to the high-est bidder for cash the follow-ing real estate situated in the County of New Hanover, North Carolina, and being more par-ticularly described as follows:
Being all of Lot 5, Block 6 of Woodlawn Subdivision as the same is shown on a map of same duly recorded in Map Book 4 at Page 19 of the New Hanover County Registry, refer-ence to which is hereby made for a more particular descrip-tion. Together with improve-ments located thereon; said property being located at 517 Woodlawn avenue, Wilming-ton, north carolina.
Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §45-21.23.
Should the property be pur-chased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by NCGS §7A-308(a)(1).
The property to be offered pur-suant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being fore-closed, nor the officers, direc-tors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized represen-tative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warran-ty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the prop-erty being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condi-tion expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold sub-ject to applicable Federal and State laws.
A cash deposit or cashier’s check (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the pur-chase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), which-ever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale.
An order for possession of the property may be issued pursu-ant 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 prop-erty is sold.
Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rent-al agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days’ written notice to the landlord. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable
for rent due under the rent-al agreement prorated to the effective date of the termina-tion.
If the trustee is unable to con-vey 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 fur-ther remedy.
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVIC-ES, INC.SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEEP.O. Box 10284317 Ramsey StreetFayetteville, North Carolina 28311https://sales.hutchenslawfirm.comCase No: 1153185 (FC.FAY)April 2 and 9, 2015
14-sP-299
amended notice oF sub-stitute trustee’s Fore-
cLosure saLe oF reaL ProPerty
Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in that certain Deed of Trust exe-cuted and delivered by brian e gray and margarette delga-do, dated February 10, 2006 and recorded on February 10, 2006 in Book No. 4977 at Page 869 in the Office of the Register of Deeds of New Hanover Coun-ty, North Carolina; and because of default in the payment of the indebtedness secured thereby and failure to carry out and perform the stipulations and agreements contained there-in and, pursuant to demand of the holder of the indebted-ness secured by said Deed of Trust, the undersigned Substi-tute Trustee will place for sale, at public auction, to the high-est bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at New Hanover County Courthouse, Wilming-ton, North Carolina on April 15, 2015 at 11:00 AM that parcel of land, including improvements thereon, situated, lying and being in the City of Wilmington, County of New Hanover, State of North Carolina, and being more particularly described in the above referenced Deed of Trust. address of property: 719 glenarthur drive, Wilm-ington, nc 28412. Tax Parcel ID: R08205-011-006-000 Pres-ent Record Owners: Margarette Delgado. The terms of the sale are that the real property here-inbefore described will be sold for cash to the highest bidder. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be ten-dered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale. The successful bidder shall be required to pay revenue stamps on the Trustee’s Deed, any Land Transfer Tax and costs of recording the Trustee’s Deed. The real property hereinabove described is being offered for sale “AS IS, WHERE IS” and will be sold subject to all superior liens, unpaid taxes, and spe-cial assessments. Other condi-tions will be announced at the sale. The sale will be held open for ten (10) days for upset bids as by law required. If for any reason the Trustee is unable to convey title to this prop-erty or the sale is set aside, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Fur-thermore, if the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the Trustee, in its sole discre-tion, if it believes the challenge to have merit, may declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. In either event the purchaser will have no further recourse against the Mortgag-or, the Mortgagee, the Mort-gagee’s attorney or the Trustee. Additional Notice Where the Real Property is Residential With Less Than 15 Rental Units: An order for possession of the property may be issued pursu-ant 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 proper-ty is sold. Any person who occu-pies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days’ written notice to the land-lord. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termi-nation. Any person who occu-pies the property pursuant to a bona fide lease or tenancy may have additional rights pursuant to Title VII of 5.896 - Protect-ing Tenants at Foreclosure Act
Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Walter Lee crouch, Jr. and melinda h. crouch to A. Grant Whitney, Trustee(s), dated the 27th day of July, 2004, and recorded in Book 4435, Page 25, and Modifica-tion in Book 5523, Page 2815, in New Hanover County Regis-try, North Carolina, default hav-ing been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trust-ee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of New Hanover County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evi-dencing said indebtedness hav-ing directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the under-signed Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in the City of Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, or the customary loca-tion designated for foreclosure sales, at 12:00 PM on April 14, 2015 and will sell to the high-est bidder for cash the follow-ing real estate situated in the County of New Hanover, North Carolina, and being more par-ticularly described as follows:
Being all of Lot 2 as shown on a plat thereof entitled “Map Of Division Of Property For W. Lee Crouch, Jr.”, dated August 13, 1997, prepared by Sherwin D. Cribb, N.C. Registered Land Surveyor and recorded in Map Book 37 at Page 158 of the New Hanover County Registry, reference to which plat is here-by made for a more particu-lar description. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 4 island drive, Wrightsville beach, north carolina.
Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §45-21.23.
Should the property be pur-chased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by NCGS §7A-308(a)(1).
The property to be offered pur-suant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being fore-closed, nor the officers, direc-tors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized represen-tative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warran-ty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the prop-erty being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condi-tion expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold sub-ject to applicable Federal and State laws.
A cash deposit or cashier’s check (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the pur-chase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), which-ever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale.
An order for possession of the property may be issued pursu-ant 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 prop-erty is sold.
Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rent-al agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days’ written notice to the landlord. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rent-al agreement prorated to the effective date of the termina-tion.
If the trustee is unable to con-vey 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
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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 fur-ther remedy.
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVIC-ES, INC.SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEEP.O. Box 10284317 Ramsey StreetFayetteville, North Carolina 28311https://sales.hutchenslawfirm.comCase No: 1141905 (FC.FAY)April 2 and 9, 2015
state oF north caroLina
county oF neW hanover
in the generaL court oF Justice
beFore the cLerK oF suPe-rior court
executor’s notice
The undersigned having quali-fied as Executor of the Estate of gloria vaught musselwhite of New Hanover County, North Carolina, does hereby notify all persons having claims against said estate to present them to the undersigned at the address shown below on or before the 12th day of June 2015, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate pay-ment to the undersigned.
This is the 12th day of March 2015.Joseph R. Musselwhite, Execu-tor206 Hatteras Ct Hampstead, NC 2844303/12, 03/19, 03/26, 4/2/2015
executor’s notice
state oF north caroLina
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The undersigned having quali-fied as Executor of the Estate of Jonathan troy harrelson, deceased, late of New Hanover County, this is to notify all per-sons having claims against said Estate to exhibit them to the
undersigned on or before June 15, 2015, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recov-ery. All persons indebted to said Estate will please make immedi-ate payment to the undersigned.
This is the 6th day of March, 2015.Tina Harrelson, Executorc/o Haman W. Holland106 North Water Street, Suite 106Wilmington, NC 2840103/12, 03/19, 03/26, 4/2/2015
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The undersigned having quali-fied as Executor of the Estate of sam henderson Parkerson, Jr., deceased, late of New Hanover County, this is to notify all per-sons having claims against said Estate to exhibit them to the undersigned on or before June 15, 2015, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recov-ery. All persons indebted to said Estate will please make immedi-ate payment to the undersigned.
This is the 6th day of March, 2015.Marye L. Hewett, Executorc/o Haman W. Holland106 North Water Street, Suite 106Wilmington, NC 2840103/12, 03/19, 03/26, 4/2/2015
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The undersigned having quali-fied as Executrix of the Estate of charles edward simmons of New Hanover County, North Carolina, does hereby notify all persons having claims against said estate to present them to the undersigned at the address shown below on or before the 12th day of June 2015, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All per-sons indebted to said estate will please make immediate pay-ment to the undersigned.
This is the 12th day of March
2015.Gloria F. Simmons, Executrix611 Larchmont Dr Wilmington, NC 2840303/12, 03/19, 03/26, 4/2/2015
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The undersigned having quali-fied as Administrator of the Estate of ernest L. spear Jr., of New Hanover County, North Carolina, does hereby notify all persons having claims against said estate to present them to the under-signed at the address shown below on or before the 19th day of June 2015, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recov-ery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immedi-ate payment to the undersigned.
This is the 19th day of March 2015.Steven S. Spear, Administrator1100 Aloha Ln Wilmington, NC 28403 3/19, 3/26, 4/2, 4/9/2015
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The undersigned having quali-fied as Executor of the Estate of rufus adolphus Pool, iii aka r.a. Pool, iii of New Hanover County, North Carolina, does hereby notify all persons hav-ing claims against said estate to present them to the undersigned at the address shown below on or before the 26th day of June 2015, or this notice will be plead-ed in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate pay-ment to the undersigned.
This is the 26th day of March 2015.Murray P. Pool, Sr. ExecutorPO Box 1667Wrightsville Beach, NC 284803/26, 4/2, 4/9, 4/16/2015
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Having qualified as EXECU-TOR of the Estate of Jane L. Knight, deceased, of New Hanover County, North Caroli-na, the undersigned does here-by give notice to all persons, firms or corporations having claims against the said Estate to present them by giving evi-dence of same to the under-signed on or before the 30th day of June, 2015, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to the deceased or said estate will please make immediate payment to the undersigned.
This, the 26th day of March, 2015GENE R. KNIGHT, JR., Executorof the Estate of JANE L. KNIGHTc/oPAUL A. NEWTON, ATTORNEY107 N. 2nd Street, Suite CWilmington, North Carolina 2840103/26, 4/2, 4/9, 4/16/2015
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executrix notice
Having qualified as Executrix of the Estate of david a. aker-hielm, late of Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Caro-lina, this is to notify all persons, firms and corporations having claims against the estate of said decedent to exhibit them to the undersigned on or before June 26, 2015, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons, firms and corpora-tions indebted to said estate please make immediate pay-ment to the undersigned.
This is the 26th day of March 2015.
Betsy C. Akerhielm8416 Fazio Drive Wilmington, NC 28411W. Talmage JonesHogue Hill, LLPAttorneys at Law P.O. Box 2178Wilmington, NC 2840203/26, 4/2, 4/9, 4/16/2015
notice to creditors
Having qualified as Executrix of the Estate of thorveld ray torgersen, late of Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, the undersigned does hereby notify all persons, firms and corporations having claims against the estate of said dece-dent to exhibit them in care of the undersigned at 1707 Bellevue Drive, Wilmington, NC 28405, on or before June 25, 2015 or this Notice will be pleaded in bar of their recov-ery. All persons, firms and cor-porations indebted to the said estate will please make imme-diate payment to the under-signed.
This the 26th day of March, 20156Margaret Diane Torgersen, Executrix of the Estate of Thorveld Ray Torg-ersenDouglas A Fox, Attorney, YOW, FOX & MANNEN, LLP102 N. 5TH Ave. Wilmington, NC 284013/26, 4/2, 4/9 AND 4/16/2015.
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All persons, firms and corpo-rations having claims against the Estate of annabel d. ellis, deceased, are notified to pres-ent the same to the personal representative listed below on or before July 1, 2015 or this notice will be pleaded in bar of recovery. All debtors of the said estate are asked to make imme-diate payment. This the 2nd day of April, 2015.
Andrew Olsen, Attorney Elder Law Firm of Andrew Olsen6781 Parker Farm Drive, Suite 210Wilmington, NC 284054/2, 4/9, 4/16, 4/23/2015
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The undersigned having quali-fied as Executrix of the Estate of Jay vaughn miller of New Hanover County, North Caro-lina, does hereby notify all per-sons having claims against said estate to present them to the undersigned at the address shown below on or before the 2nd day of July 2015, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate pay-ment to the undersigned.
This is the 2nd day of April 2015.Teresa R. Hairston, Executrix1830 Birmingham DriveHillsborough, NC 272784/2, 4/9, 4/16, 4/23/2015
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Having qualified as Adminis-tratrix of the Estate of Jackie Lee baize, late of New Hanover County, North Carolina, the undersigned does hereby noti-fy all persons, firms and corpo-rations having claims against the Estate of said decedent to present them to the under-signed on or before the 2nd day of July, 2015, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons, firms and corporations indebted to the said estate will please make immediate payment to the undersigned.
This 2nd day of April, 2015.Robbie Thompson Baize, Administratrixc/o G. Frank Jones, EsquireBurney & Jones, PLLC 110 N. Fifth Ave.Wilmington NC 28401ATTORNEY:
Burney & Jones, PLLC110 North Fifth Ave., Wilming-ton, N.C., 28401April 2, 9, 16, and 23, 2015.
Please contact me if you would like to lease out a boat lift that can hold a 38 foot cen-ter console in the Wrightsville Beach area during the summer months of May through August. I will pay a premium rent if your lift will keep my boat safe dur-ing this time. I would need to access it one to two times per month during this time period and the vessel is in excellent shape. Please contact Bob Kent at 919-417-8763 if you can help me out.
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Sports/Marine
Repeat winner, first-time paddler in biathlonBy Emmy ErranteStaff Writer
It took Charleston paddler Jeremy Whitted one hour and 17 minutes to navigate the 4-mile paddleboard course and 4-mile beach run to clinch his second consecutive Wrightsville Beach Biathlon win Saturday, March 28.
At 10:30 a.m., 70 paddleboard-ers lined up their boards facing south across Banks Channel in front of the Blockade Runner Beach Resort. When race director April Zilg signaled the start of the race, they dug their paddles in, the cold north wind at their backs.
“Although we were going against the current, the north wind helped give us some runners to ride a little bit,’ Whitted said.
As the paddlers rounded Money Island and headed back north, local paddler Kevin Rhodes, who teamed up with runner Samantha Mifsud to compete as a relay team, had the lead. Whitted was not far behind.
“I was really close to him most of the race,” Whitted said. “But
the last mile or so he pulled away from me. At the same time, I knew that he was racing a relay and I was doing it solo.”
Despite that, Whitted said he wasn’t trying to conserve energy for the run. He was pushing him-self over the challenging course because the next time he and sev-eral of the other biathletes race over these waters, they will be taking on the best in the world at the April 25 Carolina Cup.
He said while it’s too late to make any dramatic changes or improvements between and now and then, the biathlon served as a good prep race and indication of his endurance.
The biathletes’ stamina was put to the test during the 4-mile beach run following the paddle. Whitted saved valuable seconds by wear-ing waterproof socks he could slip off without breaking stride on his way to the beach strand. Other competitors changed into tennis shoes or ran in neoprene booties.
The runners raced south to Crystal Pier, north to Johnnie Mercer’s Pier and finished in
front of the Blockade Runner. Mifsud had a head start on Whitted but he made up ground running on the hard-packed sand near the water’s edge and crossed the finish line first.
Many of the biathletes, like Whitted, were competitive pad-dleboarders who run as a part of their cross training. But the race also attracted the opposite: a competitive runner with limited paddleboarding experience. Terry Lane from Jacksonville, Fla., said he has competed in 10k and 5k races but he bought his paddle-board only two days before the biathlon.
Lane said he was visiting Wrightsville Beach and happened to be staying at the Blockade Runner the weekend of the biath-lon. He saw an advertisement for the race, so he went on Craigslist and bought a board. He said he has surf racks on his car already, so he can take the board home with him and keep practicing.
While other racers judged their paddle leg by how fast they com-pleted it, Lane said his goal was
to not fall in the cold water. He did that, and even managed to stay with the elite paddlers for the downwind part of the course.
“For a while I was like, ‘Yeah, I’m keeping up with them!’” he said. “And then we go around the back and it’s like, ‘Where are they?’”
Despite the chilly temperatures, nearly all of the participants remained on the beach for 45 minutes to cheer Lane on through his beach run.
“That’s one of the things I like about these kinds of events, peo-ple cheering you on,” he said. “It’s just for the fun of it.”
Even competitive paddlers like Whitted, in the midst of intense mental and physical Carolina Cup preparation, said the good community and abundance of high fives are the main reason he makes the three and one-half hour drive to race at Wrightsville Beach.
“If you’re within touching dis-tance, you’ll get a high five,” he said. “That’s pretty cool.”email [email protected]
March is over! What will April produce?
hook, Line & sinker
By Skylar Walters
Big buddies, belles and bunnies at 5kBy Emmy ErranteStaff Writer
An April 4 5k benefitting The Big Buddy Program features both
the Easter Bunny and the Azalea Belles.
The sixth annual Azalea Festival Big Buddy 5k, which also includes a 10k and a fun
walk, kicks off a week of Azalea Festival events culminating in the following weekend’s street fair and parade.
Cape Fear Volunteer Center executive director and race founder Annie Anthony said she created the race to encourage people traveling to Wilmington for the Azalea Festival to come for the entire week, not just the marquee events.
Anthony said she expects around 200 participants for the 2015 race through Mayfaire Town Center. The Easter Bunny will blow the air horn to start the race and bring a basket of Easter eggs to hand out to children.
“And if the kids are under 12, they get to run or walk for free,” Anthony said.
Azalea Belles dressed in color-ful gowns will pose throughout the course, she said, and the Azalea Festival princesses will hand out water.
“We’re using more festival colors in the T-shirts,” Anthony added. “We try to make sure the festival is honored in everything we do.”
The race usually draws a num-ber of casual runners, she said, but the cash prizes attract a few of the more serious athletes, too.
“We’ve always done $100 for the top female and top male in the 5k and 10k,” Anthony said.
Among the runners will be participants in the Cape Fear Volunteer Center’s Big Buddy Program, which matches at-risk children with volunteer mentors.
Proceeds from the race help
pay rent on the program’s downtown office space and the salary of its lead staff member, Christine Lancaster, but aware-ness created by the event could also attract sponsors for the pro-gram’s other smaller expenses.
One such expense is the monthly birthday party that cel-ebrates every little buddy who has a birthday during that month. Each little buddy receives a gift. Lifepoint Church donates the event space, Big Buddy intern Sarah Beavis said, and last month Bruster’s Real Ice Cream pro-vided a cake. Sponsor donations would help buy presents for the kids.
Beavis said these birthday par-ties — as well as other events at educational locations like the North Carolina Aquarium at Fort Fisher — provide a valuable opportunity for little buddies to match with big buddies.
Once a little buddy is matched with a big buddy, the pair can attend movies, do homework, or simply play outside. A lot of the children, Beavis said, come from households with many siblings and limited parental guidance.
“I actually just got matched yesterday,” Beavis said, “… with this little girl, and she’s got a lot of inconsistencies in her life. … Her smile just lit up the room when I said that I was going to be her big buddy. … A lot of them don’t get a lot of one-on-one time with any adults … so they’re kind of lost, and the big buddies can come in and be that role model.” email [email protected]
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Wrightsville Beach Biathlon winner Jeremy Whitted leads the competitors at the start of the paddleboard leg in Banks Channel Saturday, March 26.
Water temperatures con-tinue to slowly creep up, now reading in the upper 50s. And if the extended forecasts hold true for the next few days, we might even get to the 60 degree mark by the first full week of April, which would be a very good thing for fishermen. Unfortunately, what next week brings is anyone’s guess, as witnessed by lows dipping into the 20s this past weekend. As the days progress, it will be that much more unlikely, and now anglers can start getting excited for the fishing season to offi-cially begin.
Offshore fishing has been minimal due to brisk winds and rough seas. Unfortunately, this weekend doesn’t look all that promising, either. Hopefully as the cold fronts start subsiding, so will the sea conditions.
Inshore, the fishing has been good for some and slow for oth-ers, but those who know where to look and have some time to fish have been rewarded very nicely the past couple of weeks. The fishing is definitely not on fire, but those anglers getting out on the water are finding fish and the fish finding should improve as each day comes and goes.
Piers along Topsail and Surf City have reported some catches of Virginia mullet, and while these fish are not very large, there are some keepers in the mix if dinner is what you are looking for. Shrimp is the bait of choice, and the fresher the bet-ter. With the local shrimp season not yet underway, probably the closest to fresh is coming from
the Gulf, and that is a much better bet than something that’s farm raised from a foreign coun-try. If you can’t find anything halfway fresh, hopefully you’ve managed to store a little reserve of bait shrimp in the freezer. With it being so early in the sea-son, the tastier the presentation, the better chance you’ll have of a fish being interested in your offering.
Elsewhere, the red drum and speckled trout continue to bite fairly well on both natural baits and artificial. While there have been some fish caught around the Wrightsville Beach area, the better fishing is being found in the creeks and bays both around Topsail Island and in the lower Cape Fear River. The upper Cape Fear River is still holding some striped bass if that is more to your liking.
For the ladies out there, the Oak Island Parks and Recreation Department is holding a fishing school just for you. The Women Anglers in Training Program (WAIT) is April 25-26. Saturday will be classroom instruction followed by fishing on either a local pier or an inshore charter, depending on the instruction package you are interested in. The pier excursion cost is $49 while the inshore excursion is $129. Depending on weather, an offshore excursion to Frying Pan Tower may also be offered for $50 more. Lunch is included with every option. Contact the Oak Island Parks and Recreation Department at 910-278-5518 for more information or visit www.oakislandnc.com/recreation
