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All County Football With the end of the football season in Pender County, The Pender-Topsail Post & Voice announces the All County Football Team, and Coach of the Year. Read about it in sports on page 8A.

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Filing open for 2016 elections School Board Chair Rouse will not seek reelection

By Andy Pettigrew Post & Voice Publisher Candidates filed for local elections at noon on Dec.1 when the filing period opened for the March primary and November general elections.

The filing period for elections in 2016 is open through Dec. 21. The primary election in North Carolina will be March 15, moved this year from May by an act of the state General Assembly.

The 2016 November election will see two Pender County Commissioner seats on the ballot, as well as two seats on the Pender County Board of Education in the March primary election.

The District 3 and District 5 seats currently held by Karen Rouse and Brad George will be on the March 15 primary ballot.

The local election will also include the Register of Deeds.

Candidates running for of-

fice must file with the county Board of Elections by Dec. 21 to be on the 2016 ballots.

The Pender County Commissioner seats in District 4 and District 5, currently held

by Fred McCoy and Demetrice Keith, will be on the November ballot.

Filing at noon Dec. 1 were Burgaw attorney Jacqueline Newton (Republican), running for the District 5 County Commissioner seat, as well as incumbent Keith (Democrat).

Sheree Shepard (Democrat) filed for the County Commission District 4 seat. Don Hall filed for the District 3 Pender County Board of Education seat.

Pender County Elections Director Dennis Boyles says the change in the primary election from May to March will pose some problems.

“It gives us less time to prepare for the election. There is always a lot to do before any

election. Moving the primary from May to March gives us less time to get everything in place,” Boyles said.

In other election news, Pender County resident and state District 16 Representative Chris Millis announced his bid for reelection Tuesday. Millis, a Republican, will seek a third term in the state house. No Democrat has filed as of yet to challenge Millis.

School Board Chairman Karen Rouse announced Tuesday she would not seek reelection.

In a statement released Dec. 1, Rouse said “It has truly been an honor and privilege to work for the children, parents, staff, schools and community of the county that I love so very much. However, at this time, I feel I must step away to focus on my own education. it is my hope to have an opportunty to return to public service in the future.”

County audit draft expected next week Audit to be submitted to Local Government Commission after review by county officials

By Andy Pettigrew Post & Voice Publisher

Staff photos by Andy Pettigrew

Children from Mission Baptist Church in Burgaw sing at the town’s tree lighting Nov. 27.

Burgaw Mayor Eugene Mulligan (photo left, left) and Commissioner Red Robbins (right) visit with the Grinch at the event. See more photos on page B4.

After all the trouble with late county audits in the past, Pender County officials are anxious to get their hands on this year’s audit draft report.

The audit, which was supposed to be submitted to the Local Government Commission Nov. 30, is a little late, due to delays at the auditing firm, according to County Manager Randall Woodruff.

Woodruff says the delay isn’t the county’s fault – all the materials for the audit were turned over to the audit firm in a timely manner. The firm is just very busy.

“Finance Director Kathy Brafford has been

on the phone with them a lot in the past few days. We are expecting to receive a copy of the draft audit next week,” Woodruff said. “We are a little annoyed that is has taken them this long. We are nothing like we were last year, facing months of delay.. The audit firm represents a lot of counties and towns and they are in a little over their heads.”

Once the county receives the draft audit and reviews the document, it is submitted to the LGC in Raleigh for review and approval.

Woodruff says due to changes in audit requirements, the LGC is having some flexibility in the deadline for the audits.

“The delays are not just a problem we are having, it’s all over the state,” said Woodruff.

More improvements at Miller’s Pond Park

By Andy Pettigrew Post & Voice Editor After making a number of improvements to Mller’s Pond Park, including bathroom facilities, a picnic shelter and playground, Pender County Commissioners approved nearly $16,000 for work to begin on a fishing pier and canoe launch at the park.

The board took the action at its Nov. 23 meeting.

The money will fund work on pilings for the pier and launch. Work on the 40-foot

pier project is expected to begin in January.

Pender County Parks and Recreation Supervisor Dee Turner said the fishing pier is the final project at the park, which has seen numerous improvements since it opening more than a year ago.

“This will finish construction on the fishing pier and the boardwalk portion of the canoe launch. The actual launch portion we will purchase,” Turner said. “This is the last phase of the PARTIF grant. The fishing pier will

be 40 feet long. Some of it will run along the bank and then out into the pond.”

Commissioner David Piepmeyer said the board needed to discuss future expansion of the park.

“The park is being used and there are some additional things we can do out there. I would be very interested in future plans. I think this is providing a service to our citizens and is something that can be enjoyed by many,” Piepmeyer said.

Staff photo by Andy Pettigrew

Filing at Noon Dec. 1 at the Pender County Board of Elections office in Burgaw were (seated left to right) Jacqueline Newton (Republican Dist. 5 County Commissioners), Demetrice Keith (Democrat, Dist. 5 County Commissioners). Don Hall (Dist. 3 School Board), and Sharon Willoughby (Register of Deeds).

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Arrest report Tristan Montgomery Brashear, 20, 2206 Brandon Road, Wilmington. Probation violation. Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office. Incarcerated under $10,000 secured bond.

Ashley Ann Carter, 26, 4803 Atlantis Court 4, Wilmington.

Driving while impaired, reckless driving to endanger. Arrest

by NC Highway Patrol. Released under $1,500 secured bond.

Timothy Carter, 22, 363 Lanier Avenue, Rocky Point. Probation violation. Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office.

Released under $10,000 secured bond.

Phillip Donate Cottman, 23, 2551 Anderson Road, Willard.

Flee/elude arrest, carrying a concealed weapon, speeding, possession of cocaine, possession with intent to manufacture, sell, or deliver cocaine, manufacturing a controlled substance, possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia.

Arrest by NC Highway Patrol. Incarcerated under $75,000 secured bond.

Gary Brandon Dixon, 35, 215 North Sunset Street, Atkinson.

Driving while impaired. Arrest by NC Highway Patrol. Released under $1,000 secured bond.

Georgeanna Dwiggins, 23, 2576 41st 4E, Astoria, NY. Driving while impaired, reckless driving to endanger. Arrest by NC Highway Patrol. Released under $1,200 secured bond.

Anthony Jerome Fennell, Jr., 58, 304 Mott Town Road, Atkinson. Parole violation, sex offender use of a social website.

Incarcerated, no bond.

Zachary Michael Fleer, 28, Forsyth County Jail. Larceny.

Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office. Released, no bond.

Nathan Eugene Green, 36, 220 Juniper Road, Rocky Point.

Violation of domestic protection order. Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office. Released under $1,500 secured bond.

Brandon Louis Gregory, 29, 217 Whispering Pines Court, Hampstead. Probation violation. Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office. Released, no bond.

David Earl Guthrie, 60, 221 Belvedere Court, Holly Ridge.

Trafficking in opium and heroin, possession of drug paraphernalia, maintaining place for controlled substance, possession with intent to sell, manufacture, or deliver a controlled substance. Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office. Released, no bond.

Allison Nicole Hall, 17, 91 Broken Spur Court, Rocky Point.

Violation of domestic protection order. Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office. Released under $1,000 unsecured bond.

Jessica Beger Kaplan, 34, 918 Balcombe Road, Rocky Point.

Driving while impaired, unsealed wine/liquor in passenger area. Arrest by NC Highway Patrol. Released under $1,000 secured bond.

Lisa Lund, 53, 513 S. Topsail, Surf City. Driving while impaired. Arrest by Surf City Police Department. Released under $800 secured bond.

Candis Ann McKinny, 35, 448 Saddle Ridge Road, Currie.

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

Gary Michael Reeves, 28, 323 Bordeaux Avenue, Wilmington.

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

Incarcerated.

Michael Scott Rivenbark, 19, 996 Arvida Spur Road, Rocky

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Point. Probation violation, possession of drug paraphernalia.

Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office. Released under $5,100 secured bond.

Stacy Allen Rodgers, 46, 5402 Andover Road, Wilmington.

Robbery with a dangerous weapon. Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office. Released, no bond.

Enadina Maria Rodriguez, 35, 5725 Brittain Drive 13, Wilmington. Probation violation, DWI. Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office. Incarcerated under $10,000 secured bond.

Ramon Rubio, 22, 800 NC Highway 133, Rocky Point. Driving while impaired, reckless driving to endanger. Arrest by NC Highway Patrol. Released under $1,200 secured bond.

Brett Alexander Simmons, 29, 1653 Watts Landing Road, Hampstead. Driving left of center, driving while impaired.

Arrest by NC Highway Patrol. Released under $1,200 secured bond.

Gary Lee Smith, 46, 153 Sheffield Drive, Four Oaks. Driving while impaired. Arrest by NC Highway Patrol. Released under $1,200 secured bond.

Lisa Marie Stonehill, 32, 30 Kel Ash Road, Rocky Point. Interfering with utilities meter/equipment. Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office. Released under $5,000 secured bond.

Antwon Dashwan Tatum, 22, 1196 Little Kelly Road, Rocky Point. Possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia. Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office. Released under $100 secured bond.

Joshua Kinchen Taylor, 30, 5803 Marshview Drive, Wilmington.

Driving while impaired, speeding, reckless driving to endanger, failure to comply. Arrest by NC Highway Patrol. Released under $3,000 secured bond.

Wanda Lee Tester, 45, 221 Belvedere Road, Holly Ridge. Possession with intent to manufacture, sell, or deliver a controlled substance, selling a controlled substance, simple possession, maintaining a place for controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia, conspiring to traffic opium/heroin. Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office. Released, no bond.

Solace Ulysses Walsh, 19, 275 Crystal Court Apt. B, Hampstead. Possession of marijuana. Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office. Released under $100 secured bond.

Thomas Matthew Ward, 33, 448 Saddle Ridge Road, Currie.

Child abuse, interfering with emergency communication. Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office. Released under $20,000 secured bond.

Fuquan Alijr Wright, 21, 8693 Little Hickory Circle, Leland.

Breaking and entering, larceny, possession of stolen goods. Arrest by Pender County Sheriff ’s Office. Released under $35,000 secured bond.

Information taken from reports from county municipal police department, Highway Patrol, and the Pender County Sheriff’s Office.

Arrest reports are public record.

Not all arrests result in a determination of guilt.

Four County customers Pender EMS & Fire Report to receive refund Nov. 22-28

EMS Report Total number of Patient Contacts: 186 Calls per station Burgaw Station 1 48 Sloop Point Station 14 29 Hampstead Station 16 13 Surf City Station 23 14 Topsail Beach Station 4 3 Union Station 5 14 Rocky Point Station 7 31 Maple Hill Station 8 6 Atkinson Station 9 22 Scott Hill Station 18 5 Hwy 421 South Station 29 1 Type of Calls Cancelled: 13 Cancelled en-route: 3 No patient found: 2 No treatment required: 0 Refusals: 54 Stand by: 1 Transported: 104 Treated and released: 9 Fire Department Reports Total number of Fire Calls: 16 EMS First Response: 21 Motor Vehicle Crash (MVC): 9 Cancelled Response: 6 Calls per station Rescue Station 1 Burgaw EMS 2 Motor Vehicle Crash 3 Cancelled 6 Fire Station 14 Sloop Point Fire 4 Motor Vehicle Crash 0 EMS Assist 6 Fire Station 16 Hampstead Fire 2 Motor Vehicle Crash 2 EMS Assist 2 Fire Station 18 Scotts Hill Fire 0 Motor Vehicle Crash 1 EMS Assist 0 Fire Station 21 Long Creek Fire 5 Motor Vehicle Crash 2 EMS Assist 6 Ocean Rescue--Beach Assist EMS 0 Fire Station 29 Hwy 421 South Fire 5 Motor Vehicle Crash 1 EMS Assist 5

From Staff Reports Members of Four County Electric Membership Corporation will receive a capital credit refund check from their electric cooperative in December.

The Cooperative is refunding more than $2.5 million to active and past members.

The refund represents 100 percent of each member’s share of the margins for 1987 and 1988. Members qualifying for these remaining margins will receive a refund check in

early December.

“Our members enjoy a significant benefit from the Cooperative way of business,” commented Chief Executive Officer Mitchell Keel about the not-for-profit company.

“At the end of each year, we allocate left-over earnings to our members.”

Fo u r C o u n t y E l e c t r i c Membership Cor poration serves over 32,500 members in Pender, Bladen, Duplin, Sampson, Columbus and Onslow counties.

Pender Democrat’s Unity Gala Dec. 5 From Staff Reports Tickets are still available for the Pender County Democratic Party Unity Gala, 7 p.m.

Dec. 5 at Heritage Place in Burgaw. An impressive turnout is expected for the event which features N.C. Democratic Chairwoman Patsy Keever as keynote speaker.

Keever resides in Asheville

where she taught in public schools for more than 25 years.

She has served on the Buncombe County Board, in the N.C. General Assembly from House District 115, and has twice run for Congress.

After being elected 1st vicechair of the N.C. Democratic

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Memorial Park Wandering turkeys find home at Poplar Grove Riverview 9332 Hwy. 117N. • Watha, NC 28478

By Lori Kirkpatrick Post & Voice Staff Writer

Poplar Grove Plantation’s Animal Sanctuary gained two new residents last week. They received a call from Shelly Jackson, of Wilmington, just days before Thanksgiving.

She was looking for a home for two white turkeys found wandering the small residential community of Tangle Oaks. The birds had been noticed by various neighbors, but no one knew where they had come from.

“I was driving home when I first saw the birds,” began Jackson. “I stopped and backed up. I saw them again later, and they were staying in the grassy areas of neighbors’ yards; but it was cold and it was also getting close to Thanksgiving, so I started to get concerned about them.”

Jackson decided to lure them into the neighborhood tennis court until she could find a better solution. The task was much easier than she had anticipated. As she walked towards the tennis court, one bird simply followed her in while the other ran into the court behind them. Once the turkeys were enclosed, neighbors and Jackson took turns keeping a close eye on them while she looked for a home for the birds.

“I put it on Facebook, and a friend saw the post and told me about a private livestock group. My friend posted about the birds, and most of the comments were people being smart. The turkeys seemed to

be someone’s pets. They were very docile and domesticated, and I had no intention of leading them to slaughter. I called around and that led me to Poplar Grove,” said Jackson.

The call was directed to Poplar Grove’s Site Manager Sherry Brink, who contacted her friend Carol Waldkirch who lived near Tangle Oaks.

Waldkirch was used to handling horses, but this would be her first hands-on experience with turkeys.

“We got the call about loose turkeys at Tangle Oaks. That’s down my way, so I said I’ll go get them. It was about 7 p.m., it was pitch black dark and I had taken a cat carrier to put them in. I thought they would be about 20 pounds. The whole neighborhood was on the lookout when I got there. The turkeys had gotten out of the tennis courts, but neighbors had been tracking them. I went over and looked, and there were these mammoth white things sitting under the bushes. So I said ok, wait a minute. I’m not sure one is going in the cage, let alone both,” said Waldkirch.

Waldkirch had a stadium blanket in her car from when her kids played soccer. She walked up to the turkeys and they turned around and looked at her, perfectly calm and tame. She put the blanket over one, and the bird didn’t move.

“I started to pick him up, and I swear he weighed at least 35 pounds. He started flopping, but he was never aggressive. He was scared. I took

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Two turkeys found wandering in a a Wilmington neighborhood were brought to the animal sanctuary at Poplar Grove Plantation. him back to the car, and two of us put him in the cage and shut the door. I still had one to catch. We cornered him in the bushes again, I got the towel on him and he weighed even more than the first one. We took him around to the back of my SUV. He just barely fit in, like putting something on a bookshelf. I left the blanket on him and I shut the back end, and I told the people thank you. They were very nice and very happy people,” said Waldkirch.

Waldkirch put a laundry basket in front of the loose turkey to kee p him from jumping over into the front of the car, and they stayed right there all night inside the garage. The next day she transported them to Poplar

Grove, where they seemed happy, but hungry. Waldkirch didn’t go into the details of her husband’s reaction to her adventure. She said he just shakes his head. Apparently this was not the first animal his wife has brought home.

“I put probably two quarts of food in their pan and they continued to eat for 30 minutes. When we were leaving, they were still eating,” Brink said.

“Those people in Tangle Oaks have no idea where they came from. They obviously have been around people and are not scared of people. These guys are just as sweet as they can be,” said Waldkirch.

“They’re going to live out their lives here at Poplar Grove,” added Brink.

Luminary service Dec. 5 at Riverview Memorial Park

By Lori Kirkpatrick Post & Voice Staff Writer A special Luminaria Service will be held at Riverview Memorial Park in Watha Dec. 5 at 5:30 p.m. All area residents are invited to attend.

Boy Scout Troop 242 will be working all day to prepare for the service. In case of inclement weather, a rain date has been set for Dec. 12.

The entire park will be illuminated with candles that will be placed throughout the park at the entrances and along the drives. The candles will be lit

at dusk, and the luminary service and devotional program will follow. Reverend Bobby Smith, of Wallace Pentecostal Holiness Church, will lead the devotional service. The church choir will also present a music program and lead attendees in suitable religious Christmas carols.

The illuminating transformation of the park is expected to be a warm and radiant tribute to the memory of those friends and family members who have passed away.

The Boy Scouts will be placing the candles all through-

out the park, and additional candles will be available for those who would like to remember loved ones by placing luminaries on their graves.

Donations received will benefit Burgaw Boy Scout Troop 242. Checks should be made payable to Riverview Memorial Park.

Quinn-McGowen Funeral Home was established in 1919, and has remained family owned for nearly a century.

For more than 25 years, the Debnam family has continued that legacy.

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Outdoor Nativity at Burgaw Presbyterian Dec. 13 The true spiritr of Christmas will come alive Dec. 13 in an outdoor worship service held at Burgaw Presbyterian Church. The beautiful story of the birth of Jesus will be reverently portrayed, as real people become angels, shepherds, and wisemen and real animals become the beasts of Bethlehem.

Words spoken from scripture and instrumental and vocal music set the scene to issue a special welcome for the Holy Family with the newborn baby.

The community is invited to come at 5:30 p.m. for this unique presentation and that each one will receive a special blessing.

cemeteries have been serving the community since the late 1950s. They include Riverview Memorial Park, Rockfish Memorial Cemetery and Duplin Memorial Gardens. They have offices in Wilmington, Wallace and in Burgaw.

Those involved in the planning of the tribute are asking members of the community to help spread the word by sharing this information with family, friends and neighbors.

For further assistance, please call Alease Bridgers, the Cemetery Office manager, at (910) 285-3395. Donations will be accepted at the service, or they can be mailed or brought in to office at Quinn McGowan Funeral Home. The mailing address is P.O. Box 339 in Wallace, 28466.

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Shop local There is no question large chains can and do take revenues from locally owned and operated merchants, but as a customer and a neighbor, you can still shop for the big deals while showing your family, friends and local businesses that you care.

Big box stores are a part of the economy. One need only look at the holiday-shopping traffic flowing through our county to shopping destinations to know that’s true. The convenience, selection and price are irresistible to many.

At the same time—local We aren’t suggesting retailers have far more to that you only shop localoffer than we usually realize.

Choosing to do at least some ly—we’re encouraging, of your Christmas shopping however, that you shop at with local merchants means home first, and make it a you can usually get better merry Christmas that lasts quality merchandise (includall year, and keeps your ing the name brands sought revenues at home. and craved by so many) as well as unusual and thoughtful gifts you won’t find on prefabricated shelves stamped “Made in China”. You can be assured the gifts you buy at a local merchant won’t be the same cookie-cutter candidates for regifting that one will find in homes across the country on Christmas morning. Instead, you’ll have something that shows you put some time and care into selecting a present for someone important to you and your family.

Just as important, when you shop local, you support your neighbors, your schools and your community. You also get to enjoy the holiday season in a more personal way—the generic neon lighting acres of pavement, piped-in music and crowds quickly ruin the holiday spirit for many folks. You won’t spend an hour waiting in traffic or forget where you park when you shop at a locally-owned retailer.

We aren’t suggesting that you only shop locally—we’re encouraging, however, that you shop at home first, and make it a merry Christmas that lasts all year, and keeps your revenues at home.

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Pender Stories

The meaning of life – and all that

Bill Messer Once again, after spending much of the early autumn in Holly Shelter, in pursuit of the change of seasons, I am left with a profound sense of wonder into the meaning of it all.

During this time I often spend hours walking around, head down, deeply absorbed in what I am seeing.

“How in the world do such specialized plants come into existence in the first place, and why?” is a simplified version of the things that go through my head.

Here is the little dot of red of a sundew, on the ground.

Look closer, there’s more of them. Take a closer look and you can see feathery branches with tiny dots of liquid that glisten in the sunlight. Now, get even closer, and really see what you’re looking at. It is a ground hugging rosette, with arms splayed out around, and each of the spoon-shaped arms has hairs standing straight out tipped with a liquid attractive to small insects. A curious insect, attracted to the scent, or color, or moisture, noses the dewy liquid and is stuck fast, but not for long, as the mucilaginous secretions envelop the insect, and the

sundew’s enzymes go to work to break down the tissues of the curious insect into useful nutrients for the sundew.

“Why are these plant forms here, and what about the related carnivorous plants, why are they here, and why do they thrive here, and some not anywhere else but here?”

One question leads to another and pretty soon my brain is overloaded with more questions, and each unanswered question leads to another like the chain reaction of atoms splitting.

Look over here and let your imagination run loose.

Start with the sundew.

There’s the prostrate, ground hugging version, but there’s a tall and spindly upright version, too. Now, let’s do a fast-forward imaginary animation and see the spindly hairy leaf get bigger, and like a flounder’s eyes which migrate to the same side of his body, the leaf flattens out and all the hairs migrate to the top side of the leaf and bunch up into hard spikes along the edge, leaving a few sensitive hairs in the middle of the leaf to serve as a ‘trigger’. Now, a curious insect walks across the leaf, bumps a trigger hair and the leaf fold in on itself, making a cage around the intruder, locked in place by the stiff hairs. This is the flytrap, another specialized carnivorous plant totally unique to the Wilmington area.

Almost always, sundews and flytraps are found in the same areas with another

Regina Hill Post & Voice Columnist

Tis’ the season

Glitter is for girls As I have noted many times, I was bearded long before the Good Family Roberson’s duck calls and eccentricities made beards somewhat mainstream.

I actually appreciate the fact that Uncle Si and his kin have made beards popular again, moreso than anytime since the invention of the affordable razor. The Robersons gave many men the courage needed to finally let their faces grow free.

Then, sadly, the hipsters – which I assume must be the grandchildren of hippies, many of whom were also bearded—just had to get involved and mess things up.

Simply having a luxuriant beard wasn’t enough—they had to go girlify things. (Yes. I made that word up. Bearded men have been making up words for millennia, so live with it.)

It seems that some sad sack somewhere decided that filling his beard full of glitter was a good idea. Now what this feller did at home behind closed doors is his business, and between him and his Maker. I suspect a bored girlfriend had something to do with it.

The fact that he dishonored the beard was bad enough, but then he just had to go and share a photo of himself on social media, amongst photos of lunches, deep thoughts borrowed from other people, and pictures of cats.

And so accelerated the downfall of a generation.

More and more young men began coating their beards in glitter. Then others even began hanging things like tiny Christmas ornaments, charms from their girlfriends’ and wives’ bracelets, and other nonsense in their beards.

In a word – no. Not just no, but heck, no.

Glitter is for girls, not beards. Glitter is made for making sparkly posters. As a feminine fashion accessory, it is designed to make outfits more attractive, or to highlight makeup. Glitter can even be sprayed in a lady’s hair, if she wants to look like a unicorn sneezed at her hair dresser’s. Once upon a time, only a certain

Jefferson Weaver class of women wore glitter, but like tattoos, that has changed. There was a time earlier in my life when I was, sadly, spending a lot of time amongst women who wore lots of glitter (and often little else), but that’s a column for another day.

I repeat—glitter is for girls, not for beards.

In the first case, my beard occasionally gets in the way of meals; were my chin whiskers glittered, that would mean I would be ingesting the same. Do you know what’s in glitter? Neither do I. While I will happily eat things like watercress, barbecued coon, kippered herring, unlabeled cans of unidentifiable beans, nutria rat salad, and pigeons, I prefer to know what I am eating.

Glitter sticks in every thing—I wear a lot of linen, wool and silk, when I am not in the woods (and sometimes even then). I cannot imagine my beloved Miss Rhonda’s reaction were she to try to brush glitter out of the warp and woof of my favorite Italian Brooks Brother jacket, her language would likely approximate that of the patrons of the aforementioned place of glittered women, many of whom were likely kicked out of the Navy for cursing.

(The patrons as well as the women, that is.)

There are a few things which may, in my opinion as a longtime bearded man, be safely and properly added to a beard.

Slow match, for instance; Blackbeard and several lesser pirates were famous

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Public Opinion

Staff photo by Bill Messer

A single-celled animal plant, a protozoan, can move about, buy why? And where to?

I’m a truster. If the advertisement on television tells me that one application of Minute Makeover will make me appear twenty years younger, then sign me up. for doing so, and I have done This naivete extends to every the same (you soak one end in water, so the fuse, not your aspect of my life and has resulted in a number of poor beard, smolders). It keeps decisions and misjudgements. away the mosquitoes, by the I always take people at way, and frightens noisome their word and believe that small children, whilst fascieveryone has at least an nating good children.

Speaking of mosquitoes— ounce of good lurking within their souls. Empathy is a whilst it’s not technically positive trait which allows us decoration, bear or coon to see points of view which grease is acceptable in one’s may differ from our own. beard. When rendered propEmpathy forces us to walk erly, any fat from a member in the shoes of folks who may of the Procyon or Ursidae have traveled a much differfamilies makes a dandy ent path or have made choices beard-tonic, bug repellant, in life which run against the gun oil, and sharpening grain of our own. medium for knives. I keep a I recently discovered that small tin in one of my huntthere is a large gap between ing bags. If you can’t handle common sense and trust. Up the smell, such as it is, then you need to shave and go buy until last Saturday, I felt that I could trust my fellow man some glitter eye shadow. not to walk blatantly into my It’s acceptable to have the yard, open my car doors and blood of an animal in one’s beard, but only if the animal steal my purse and computer.

Several neighborhoods was trying to eat you when along Hwy. 210 in Surf City you finally won the battle. were violated as well, with I’ve done that, too. You’d be numerous reports of propersurprised at how tough a ty theft from vehicles which beaver or an otter can be to were left unlocked. kill in hand-to-hand combat Yes, my vehicle was in freezing, chest-deep water. unlocked and, although it Ice, snow and frost are acceptable, of course—that’s stands to reason that I may somehow deserve this bit of why God gave us beards in misfortune, it still made me the first case, to help stay feel completely violated. warm.

So, rather than spending Crumbs from homemade my Saturday decorating for poundcake, a mother’s bisChristmas, I lazed around cuits, and iron-skillet cornbread are fine, as long as they on my couch and cried over sappy Hallmark movies, imare not allowed to linger. mersed in self-pity and angry If one’s facial fur is long at myself for not locking my enough, braids are perfectly car door the night before. acceptable. I’ve done that, Eating almost an entire too. pumpkin pie dulled the pain Small bones, teeth and somewhat, but knowing that shiny stones are only acmy computer and my cute ceptable if one is truly a Kathy Von Zeeland purse Viking, or of a Pictish bent, in which case one must paint were floating around in the clutches of a stranger, a bad one’s entire body blue. I will neither confirm nor deny if I stranger, tossed me back into have ever worn otter baccula, the throes of anguish.

Then, my empathy light, boar’s tusks and coyote fangs which is located in my comin my beard. passionate heart, started to There may be a few more acceptable beard-decorations, emit a small pulse of positive energy and, suddenly, I began but a very few. Naturally, to imagine scenarios which anything offered by a small would force an individual to child to hang in one’s beard cross the boundaries of sois mandatory, since beardley men understand that kids are cially unacceptable behavior cool, and everybody wants to and steal from my sweet little family. be liked by the cool kids.

Perhaps this individual is For the most part, howa parent like me and has chilever, decorating one’s beard dren who need to be clothed, is, at least in my opinion, as fed and provided with a nice Christmas. Perhaps this Continued on page 5A thief has a wife with a love of high end Italian purses who has threatened to leave him right before the holidays if he did not ante up and provide her with a lush, leather Von Zeeland. fessional than any hospital I The torment that has been have ever been in. created

by Mr. Sticky Fingers The doctor they called could be due, in part, to an urwas Dr. Larry Dashow, a gent need for an organ transhighly skilled surgeon, with plant. In these situations, I’m a pleasing personality and certain that no kidney will be good humor. He is the kind doled out until the payout is of doctor who tells you your received. diagnosis and stays around Or, maybe this is part of long enough to answer your the thief ’s raising, something questions. I was pleased that was so engrained during with him as well. his younger years that it’s Jerry Autry impossible to escape. In some Burgaw families, survival takes prior-

Good job, PMH I was admitted to Pender Memorial Hospital through the Emergency Room last month.

A doctor was called, xrays were taken and read.

The doctor came in later and said they found the problem and told us what they had to do.

F rom the Emerg ency Room staff and nurses, to the second floor staff and

nurses, they were all so kind, friendly, and courteous.

When the nurses come into your room they give you their name and let you know they are there to make your stay more comfortable. They all are gracious and accommodating.

They come to work each day in a good mood with a positive attitude and ready to help. The quality of care in this hospital is more pro-

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Newsings & Musings Everyone is invited to come.

Refreshments will follow in the P.L. Clark Educational Building. You will not want to miss the beautiful organ music by Candace Williams, musical director of Windemere Presbyterian Church in Wilmington.

Soloists will include her husband, David Williams, David Sanderson, Karla Casteen, music director at Wallace Presbyterian Church, Joyce Rau, Krista Rivenbark Strickland, and her mother Debbie Ramsey Bruhn. We will see you Sunday.

Class reunion Holly Horton sent me some information about the recent reunions for classes 1979, 1980, and 1981. Listen to this account.

Reflections Of Our High School Days Carol Eakins Arrowood Pender High School, Class of 1979 Planning a class reunion can be a daunting task, especially if your school lacks an alumni or classmate association. But, have no fear, when classmates join together to form a team the end result can be astonishing!

Last night’s joint reunion for Pender High School classes of 1979, 80, and 81 was beyond astonishing! After many months of planning that included phone calls, obtaining addresses, selecting a venue, choosing a menu, soliciting door prizes, hours of posting fliers, sending emails, choosing speakers, entertainment and countless other details finally paved the way for a most successful, memorable, and joyous occasion.

As our classmates entered the beautiful banquet foyer of Mad Boar, Wallace, NC, they were greeted by the committee members with as much excitement as winning a football game! Yes, go Patriots!! The dining room stood magnificent in displaying our red, white and blue.

While visions of a letterman jacket, pom poms, and cheering uniforms graced the sturdy columns.

Indeed this nostalgia created a reflection of our days gone by. All eyes are taking in the many faces of those they have not seen in years, even decades. As our special guests arrive it is evident by

By Edith Batson Post & Voice Staff Writer Christmas Lights Friday night I had another appointment but as I rode down Fremont Street I was delighted to see cars parked all along the streets surrounding the Pender County Courthouse Square.

Everyone had come downtown to see the lighting of the Christmas tree. Mayor Eugene Mulligan was Master of Ceremonies. It was good to see a crowd assembled for such a festive occasion.

The lights on the small trees along the streets always look like a Christmas downtown should look. Please drive downtown after dark (which comes very early these days) and drive around slowly enough to take in the beauty and magical feeling that one gets when seeing the decorations.

Thanks to all the hard work put in by the town crews and others. The result was worth all of your hard work.

Messiah The lights remind me of what Jesus said of Himself, “I am the way, the truth, and the life-no one comes to the Father but by me.� He also is the light of the world. So enjoy the lights and think of all He did for us.

Sunday, Dec. 6, the community choir will sing the Messiah musical, written by G.F. Handel in just 24 days.

At the end of this amazing task, he said to his helper, “this day I have seen the face of God.�

The concert will be at Burgaw Presbyterian Church Sunday, December 6 at 4 p.m.

Weaver

Continued from page 4A much of a tasteless fashion faux pas as women using tights as pants.

A beard is a sign that one is a man, although many beardley men shave twice a day, and many men with beards are decidedly unmanly. At least this current trend will help the less informed more easily recognize poseurs who would hide behind their girlfriends if confronted by a real man – especially one with cannon fuse smoldering amidst boar’s tusks and baccula woven into the facial fur of a man who ain’t ashamed to be masculine.

To all you glittery bearded dudes out there—do the world a favor, and go buy a razor. –Weaver is a columnist for the Post & Voice. Contact him at jeffweaver@whiteville.com.

the swarm of these classmates that plenty of hugs will be given out tonight!

Coach Ray Horton with wife Holly, and Mrs. Bonnie Warner and husband Dave could not have been better received if they had been at the White House. Our agenda carried the theme of Reflections from our high school days throughout the evening.

From the class speeches to the tunes played gave way to how it was to be in school in the late 70’s and early 80’s.

A heartfelt moment was displayed when the former football players took center stage around Coach Horton.

A plaque was presented to him for their appreciation of his leadership and devotion to them in their youthful days. The love for Coach Horton was displayed and felt in the hearts of all who knew him. While the night is still young, nothing stirred me so deeply as when the The Tribute to Our Fallen Patriots was given. As the roll call began for the class of 1979, it seemed the list would never end.

Following with the names for classes of ’80 and ’81, the numbers grew. It was then at that very moment I realized how important a class reunion is. Our lives here on this earth are temporary.

The people from our past, whether classmates from high school, college, or those we meet later in life. All Matter!

It is my hope that these classmates of mine will meet again and very soon. It was my pleasure and honor to serve on this year’s joint class reunion committee. I will cherish this night of Reflections from our high school days for years to come!

Sounds like they had a wonderful reunion. Keep having them!

Traditional week The Harrell clan always has a spectacular Thanksgiving week, with lots of good food and fun being together. Victoria Harrell Teal, Charles’ sister is going to tell you about it right here, so enjoy.

The traditional Harrell Thanksgiving Family Reunion drew cousins from South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Seattle, Washington

Medicare costs in 2016

Dear Savvy Senior, I know there won’t be a cost-of-living increase in Social Security benefits next year but what about Medicare?

I’ve heard some beneficiaries will get hit with a big Part B monthly premium increase in 2016. What can you tell me, and who will this affect?

Planning Ahead

Dear Planning, All things considered, the news regarding your Medicare costs next year is pretty good. For about 70 percent of the nation’s 52 million Medicare beneficiaries, there will be no Part B premium increase in 2016. And thanks to the 2015 Bipartisan Budget Act that was signed into law

by President Obama on Nov. 2, the other 30 percent will pay much less than previously projected. Here’s what you can expect. s0ART " 0REMIUMS "Ecause the Social Security Administration will not be giving out a cost of living increase (or COLA) in 2016, the Medicare Part B premiums for most current beneficiaries will not go up either.

Thanks to the “hold harmless� provision in the Medicare law, which prohibits Part B premiums from rising in any year that there’s no COLA, the 2016 monthly premium will remain at $104.90 for most current Medicare participants.

However, this provision does not protect new Medicare enrollees (those who enroll in 2016), beneficiaries who are directly billed for their Part B premium, or to join the North Carolina cousins. Charles welcomed all 64 of them to his house for Thanksgiving dinner with preparations and dishes made by many loving hands.

Many came early for Sabra Bradshaw’s chicken chili on Wednesday night at the Bradshaw house and many stayed over to eat oysters at the Harrell’s’ on the river Friday night.

Other gatherings Rebecca Pitchford said she had 32 for Thanksgiving dinner. Thanksgiving is such a wonderful time to be with family. My family has

current beneficiaries who have deferred claiming their Social Security. This includes people 65 or older who are still working but have signed up for Medicare because their employer doesn’t offer health insurance. It also hits people who have filed and suspended Social Security benefits to allow a spouse to claim.

If you fit into any of these categories, your Medicare Part B premium will increase to $121.80 a month in 2016 – which is much lower than the $159.30 that it would have been, had the budget deal fell through.

The hold-harmless rule also does not protect high-income Medicare beneficiaries who already pay higher Part B premiums because their annual incomes are above $85,000 for an individual or $170,000 for a couple. If you fit into this category, here’s what you’ll pay for your Part B premium next year, based on your 2014 tax returns.

Individuals with incomes of $85,000 to $107,000, or married couples filing joint tax returns with incomes of $170,000 to $214,000, will pay $170.50 per month.

I n d iv i d u a l s e a r n i n g $107,000 to $160,000 (couples $214,000 to $320,000) will pay $243.60.

Individuals with incomes of $160,000 to $214,000 (coudwindled to a few. We did have twelve and with a small group we could talk to each other. Nieces who come now have children and grandchildren of their own and like to share them with the other side of the family. I always say I’ll take any of them at any time they can come.

Edith, Joe, and Katherine went to Greenville, SC to visit with Joe’s family. They will not be able to come for Christmas because Katherine just gets one day off for Christmas. Anyway, they hope to go to Rwanda sometime next year to see daugh-

ples $320,000 to $428,000) will pay $316.70.

Individuals over $214,000 or couples above $428,000 will pay $389.80.

Another increase highincome beneficiaries (those with incomes over $85,000, or $170,000 for joint filers) need to be aware of is the surcharge on Part D premiums.

Affluent seniors that have a Medicare Part D prescription drug plan will pay an additional $12.70 to $72.90 per month, depending on their income, on top of their regular Part D premiums. s$EDUCTIBLES AND #O 0AYS Other changes you need to know about that will affect all Medicare beneficiaries include the Part B deductible, which will increase to $166 in 2016 (it’s currently $147); and the Part A (hospital insurance) annual deductible which will go up to $1,288 (it’s currently $1,260) for hospital stays up to 60 days. That increases to $322 per day for days 61-90, and to $644 a day for days 91 and beyond. And the skilled nursing facility coinsurance for days 21-100 will also increase to $161 per day (it’s currently $157.50).

For more information on all the Medicare costs for 2016 visit Medicare.gov and click on “Your Medicare Costs� tab at the top of the page, or call 800-633-4227.

Send your senior questions to: Savvy Senior, P.O. Box 5443, Norman, OK 73070, or visit SavvySenior.org. Jim Miller is a contributor to the NBC Today show and author of “The Savvy Senior� book.

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Topsail Middle School honor roll The Topsail Middle School has released its honor roll for the first nine week grading period.

Sixth grade Finn Adams, Ivone Alexander, Alyssa Andrews, Lucas Austin, Amara Bailey, Alexander Balusek, William Bigham, Cheyenne Brown, Katherine Bullard, Lily Burnash, Riley Burns, Cooper Case, Kylie Chafin, Alexandria Citarelli, Dakota Cottle, Abigail Coursey, Nicole Coursey, Sarah Cox, Jacob Dibartolomeo, Ava Dickerson, Ethan Dinkins, Madison Elam, Audrey Everett, Avery Fair, Harrison Fibkins, Katherine Filer, Brody Fisher, Daniel Fisher, Caleb Funk, Chandler Futch, David Gardner, Emily Green, Madison Gregory, Bryn Gutch, Dukiro Guy, Zoe Haines, Joseph Hall, Ashlyn Hanson, Abrielle Herbert, Jacob Holland, Zachary Holt, Forrest Hoover, Wade Hughes, Kyra Hulst, Samuel Johnson, Tori Johnson, Adriana Kandabarow, Killian Kelly, William Keziah, Michael Kincart, Tyler Kroma, Savannah Lambert, Nathan Lau, Jaxson Livings, Skylar Loher, Brendan Lyons, Jakob Mackleer, Skyla Madison, Sophia Manning, Fisher Marshall, Hunter Marshall, Krista Martine z, Liam McBride, Marissa Memoli, Javier Mendoza, Hailey Muraca, Cassandra Myers, Mazie Nifong, Sadie Orinko, Lola Page, Evan Par rish, Evan Per ry, Bailey Peterson, Jordyn Reuter, Bella Robertson, Jordan Rochford, Dylan Roggeman, Penelope Rosenberg, Jordan Rosinbaum, Nicholas Rosinbaum, Tyler Ross, Selena Sanchez-Saucedo, Anthony Scalise, Carlos Schein, Caitlin Shepard, William Sholar, Dawson Smith, Quentin Smith, Dana Solomon, Ava Sorg, Jackson Spann, Julie Sydes, Abigail Talbot, Luke Tarter, Emma Teachey, Stella Thigpen, Jessica Townsend, Caroline Turner, John Utt, Gage Vincent, Olivia Visconti, Hailey Watson, Myla West, Jose ph Williams, Samina Wilson, Darius Woodward, Connor Wright Seventh grade Katie Arce, Lauren Ball, Samuel Beasley, Elizabeth Betts, Skylar Bickel, Anna Bloodworth, Jada Bowker, Amanda Boylan, Lydia Bradshaw, Carrie Brown, Robert Brunson, Isabella Bufalini, Hannah Caldwell, Daniel Canfield, Alexis Carnelley, Sarah Chandler, Leah Clem, Rachel Colby, Ruth Colby, Lauren Cole, Jason Colvin, Samantha Connolly, Lauren Coursey, Julia Davis, Kathryn Denning, Me gan Dolan, Addison Dostie, Spencer Dunthorn, Kylee Edwards, Aubrey Engle, Megan Ennis, Isabel Eppenbach, Michael Erickson, Michael Fellows, Elizabeth Fonvielle, Grayson Frazee, Shayna Frey, Madison Fussell, Colin Gallagher, Al-

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The Theatre Department at Pender High School has much to celebrate as they bring home honors from the 2015 NCTC State High School Play Festival, held Nov.19-20 at Greensboro College. The theatre program, led by Rochelle Whiteside, made the school and community proud with their presentation of Let’s Play House at the Festival, and the theatre department is thrilled to bring home superior rating and the Excellence in Scenic Design award.

The Malpass Corner Elementary School Run Club, coached by Cathy Claris, PE teacher at MCES, celebrated a nine week weekly running class by partnering with the Pender High cross country athletes and members of the JROTC to run a 5k on the grounds of Pender High School Nov. 18. Completed run times by the fourth and fifth graders ranged from 26 minutes to 45 minutes. Three staff members from Malpass also ran with the students encouraging them along the way. Thanks to Pender High School athletic director and cross country coach Bevin Pugh as well as Sgt. Major Phillip Price and Ret. Lt. Colonel Willie Themes, who along with their classes, designed the 3.1-mile course. The students ran with JROTC cadets along the course to be certain the students stayed on course.Pictured together are both Attention Licensed PHS and MCES students and teachers who participated Child Care Centers! in the run. Fifth grader, Kelvin Robinson, crossed the Are you interested in becoming finish line first along with his partner, Jose with a time a site for NC Pre-K? of 25:59. Fourth grader Bradley Hannell came in second and Veronica Sanchez Cruz finished third.

Jennifer Alicia King R e n s h a w, O T D , O T R / L , graduated summa cum laude with a Doctorate in Occupational Therapy from Rocky Mountain University of Health Professionals in Provo, Utah Aug. 1. Dr. Renshaw is the wife of J.B. Renshaw II, the daughter of Andrew and Martha Strickland King, and sister of Andy King of Wilmington.

She is the granddaughter of Beamon and Kathleen Strickland of Clarkton, Mary King and the late Homer King of Winnabow, the late Russell and Mary Pridgen of Whiteville, Hoyt and Amy Smith of Watha. Following graduation, Dr. Renshaw will continue to work in the OTA education as the Program Director of the Occupational Therapy Assistant Program at Cape Fear Community College in Wilmington.

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BURGAW -- Elizabeth Hamilton Batson, 99, of Burgaw passed gently from her earthly life on Monday, Nov. 23, 2015 at her daughter’s home in Milledgeville, Ga. She was born Sept. 3, 1916 in Salisbury, the daughter of the late James Baxter and Effie Claire Greene Hamilton.

Elizabeth was preceded in death by her beloved husband of 57 years, Harvey Lee Batson; son-in-law, William O. Mizelle, Jr. and brothers, J. B., Carroll and Max Hamilton.

Elizabeth is survived by her daughter, Nancy B. Miz-

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elle of Milledgeville, Ga.; grandchildren, Susan Wright and husband, Devin, Heather Pittman and husband, Greg, Sarah King and husband, Will and Will Mizelle III and wife Gini; great grandchildren, Emily Wright, Jacob Wright, Megan Wright, Julia Pittman, Joshua Pittman, Hannah King, Cole Mizelle and Matthew Mizelle; brother, Harry M. Hamilton; and several nieces, nephews and extended family.

Mrs. Batson attended Campbell University at Buies Creek. She worked 26 years with the Farm Service Agency, SPA, and eight years with Pender County Department of Social Services.

She was an active member of Burgaw Baptist Church as long as her health permitted.

Also Elizabeth was member of ARME Chapter 372 Order of the Eastern Star and Stamp Defiance Chapter of National Society DAR. Elizabeth’s most cherished accomplishment in life was being a wife, mother, grandmother, sister and friend. She will be sadly missed by all

who knew and loved her.

The family received friends from 6-8 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 27, 2015 at Quinn-McGowen Funeral Home Burgaw. Funeral service was held at 11 a.m. on Saturday Nov. 28 at Burgaw Baptist Church with The Rev. Nathan Morton and The Rev. Dr. Michael Parnell officiating. Burial followed in Riverview Memorial Park.

Casketbearers were Lawrence Blanton, James Blanton, Harry Marsh Hamilton, Fred Walker, Ben Horrell and Jason Wells. Honorary bearers were Deacons of Burgaw Baptist Church.

In lieu of flowers the family suggests that you consider a memorial gift to Burgaw Baptist Church, PO Box 385, Burgaw, NC 28425.

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

Virese “Reese” Newkirk III BURGAW -- Virese “Reese” Newkirk III, age 68 of

Burgaw, died Nov. 18, 2015.

A memorial service was held at 10 a.m. Nov. 26, 2015 at Nixon Lewis Funeral Home, Burgaw.

Lillian Morgan Gerganous HAMPSTEAD -- Lillian Morgan Gerganous, 90, of Hampstead passed peacefully from her earthly life on Saturday, Nov. 28, 2015 at Stonebridge at Woodbury.

She was bor n Sept. 10, 1925 in Pender County, the daughter of the late Elzer and Ida Jones Morgan. Also remembered are her husband, Clarence Gerganous, Sr.; daughter, Shirley G. Kibbey; and granddaughter, Julie Caison, all who preceded Lillian in death.

Lillian is survived by her sons, Clarence Gerganous, Jr. (Brenda) and Larry Gerganous (Purneil); daughter, Dianne G. Crews (Glenn); six grandchildren; sixteen great grandchildren; and six great great grandchildren; many extended family and friends.

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Chris Millis announces bid for reelection to N.C. House

By Andy Pettigrew Post & Voice Publisher Republican Rep. Chris Millis of Hampstead announced Dec. 1 his intention to seek a third term in the N.C. House District 16.

In a statement released Tuesday, Millis said “I take serious the responsibility that the citizens of the 16th District have entrusted me with, to serve them in the North Carolina House of Representatives. Since my first election to public office, I can state with confidence that I have remained true to the principles held by our

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Continued from page 2A Party in 2013 she became party chairwoman earlier this year.

“We are so pleased to have Patsy Keever come down to Pender County,” says Pender County Democratic Chair Steve Unger. “She represents the future of the party and has re-energized it at the state level.”

The pre-dinner reception at Heritage Place, 901 S. Walker St., begins at 6 p.m. with a silent auction featuring dozens of donated items including a gift certificate from the Pink Palace Bed and Breakfast on Topsail Island, refurbished antique chair, a Humphrey/ Muskie decanter bottle for the 1968 campaign, various artwork items including Ivy Hayes prints, gift baskets and many gift certificates.

This annual Unity Gala is the local Democratic Party’s principle fundraiser and proceeds will go to ongoing party activities including helping to fund campaign offices on both sides of the county in 2016.

Tickets for the event are $25

nation’s founders, which emphasize individual freedom and a limited government.

I am ready to continue this

commitment.”

Re p r e s e n t a t ive M i l l i s served on nine committees in his freshman term: Appropriations; Commerce and Job Development (Vice-Chairman); Environment; Public Utilities and Energy; Regulatory Reform; State Personnel; the Joint Legislative Economic Development and Global Engagement Oversight Committee; and the Environmental Review Commission.

In June of 2014, Representative Millis was chosen by the Lieutenant Governor to represent the state of North Carolina as a formal delegate at The Assembly of State

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Virgil Eugene “Gene” Smyers WILMINGTON -- Virgil Eugene “Gene” Smyers, age 62, of Wilmington passed away Friday Nov. 27, 2015 at New Hanover Regional Medical Center.

He was born in Pender County on Oct. 24, 1953, the son of the late John E and Edith Casto Smyers.

Surviving are a daughter,

Trisha Smyers Watson and husband, Travis of Rocky Point, NC; a son, Nick Smyers and wife, Christina of Wilmington, NC; one brother, Billy Katalinic of Burgaw, NC; two sisters, Brenda Carney and husband, Wendell of Wilmington, NC and Judy Katalinic of St. Helena, NC; two grandchildren, Kaden Smyers and Kennedy Haney; and many other family members; a close friend, Tom Britt of Wilmington, NC; aunts, Ethel Mattison, Edna Spencer, Inez Madden.

A celebration of life will be held 6:30 PM Friday December 4, 2015 at Epworth United Methodist Church, 409 5th Avenue Wilmington, NC 28401, Pastor Randy Wagner officiating.

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Post & Voice All County Football team

By Bobby Norris Post & Voice Sports Writer The 2015 football season has come and gone and the three area high school football teams have left their marks in one way or another. The Topsail Pirates were the top 3A squad out of the Mideastern Conference while both Trask and Pender struggled. In keeping with tradition the Post-Voice would like to recognize the best players for 2015.

Johnathan Jordan (Trask) Jordan scored five rushing touchdowns for the Titans and added 13 receptions for 255 yards and four scores.

He was the go-to guy when the Titans needed a touchdown.

Tyrease Armstrong (Trask) The sophomore quarterback came a long way in just his second year under center and first full year as starter. He threw for 816 yards and 10 touchdowns and added 316 yards and five scores on the ground.

Tynaffitt Davis (Trask) The senior athlete was a difference maker on both sides of the ball. He had 14 catches for 220 yards and two scores and added four rushing touchdowns as well.

Tony Holmes (Trask) Holmes came on strong toward the end of the year on the offensive side of the ball. He led the Titan defense with 75 tackles.

Kansas Bannerman (Trask) Was second on the Titans with 73 tackles and led the team with 10 sacks.

He also played on the offensive line.

Antonio Newkirk (Pender) A senior defensive end, Newkirk was easily the most consistent performer on defense and a defensive player that the Patriots could count on. He was among the team leaders in sacks and tackles for loss.

Thomas Deal (Pender) A senior offensive lineman, Coach Bob Via gave Thomas the ultimate compliment. “If it wasn’t for Thomas, Justin could not have accomplished what he did.” He was easily the biggest and best offensive lineman for Pender.

Linzie McAllister (Pender) A junior defensive lineman, Linzie played both defensive line and offensive line and was a consistent force for the Pats. He was a solid tackler and one of the team’s leading tacklers.

Matthew Ezzell (Pender) Ezzell played on the offensive line.

However, his greatest contribution was as a place kicker. His kickoffs were deep and he was very good inside the 20- yard line. He was easily the best place kicker in the county.

Danny McDonald (Topsail) The senior defensive specialist led the county with 75 tackles and had 10 tackles for loss in the tough Mideastern

After watching the Topsail High School girls’ basketball team complete a 30-point romp over the visiting Lady Bulldogs of Dixon, first-year Pirates’ boys’ Coach Jamie Rochelle was obviously hyped about his team’s chances against the already 3-0 Bulldog boys.

Rochelle’s enthusiasm heightened as his team jumped out to leads of 15-12 after the first eight minutes of the game, and as they entered the final eight minutes holding a slim 45-44 advantage. But suddenly Dixon senior Matthew Elmore – who has already inked a National Letter of Intent to play at UNC-Wilmington under Kevin Keatts next year – decided to take over, and the lead quickly dissipated under a barrage of long threepoint bombs from the 6-9 sharpshooter.

Elmore opened the final stanza with two top-of-the key treys, and added another from the same location with 3:53 remaining in regulation to lead Dixon

Pender’s Justin Hooper Conference.

Joe Sculthorpe (Topsail) The senior standout led a very good group of offensive linemen at Topsail.

Sculthorpe was a difference maker on both sides of the ball.

Hunter Potts (Topsail) Potts was very good on both sides of the ball. He had 11 catches for 155 yards and also had three interceptions and a blocked kick.

Drew Gaithers (Topsail) Gaithers rushed for 630 yards and eight touchdowns and also had 10 catches out of the backfield. He was the Pirates muscle.

Chris Byrd (Topsail) Byrd was a difference maker in all facets of the game. He tied for the lead in receptions with 12 and held his own on the defensive side of the ball.

Player of the Year Justin Hooper (Pender) Hooper finished the season with 198 carries for 1094 yards and 11 touchdowns. He also had six catches for 110 yards and one score. He also ran two kickoffs back for touchdowns.

He was also very good in the secondary for the Patriots. Although the Pats struggled in the win department, Hooper was often times the best player on the field.

Coach of the year Wayne Inman (Topsail) Coach Inman takes the talent that he

Topsail’s DJ Montano

Coach Wayne Inman has and builds around them. The Pirates were the top 3A team out of the Mideastern Conference and earned a home playoff game.

Freshman of the year DJ Montano (Topsail) The freshman standout led the Pirates with 976 yards rushing and added nine touchdowns. He is the future of the Topsail Pirate football team.

to a 25-point fourth quarter and a hardfought 71-67 win over host Topsail in the Pirates non-conference season opener.

The Bulldogs improved to 4-0 on the early-season ledger while the Pirates fell to 0-1 – but not before they put up a valiant effort. Topsail juniors Alec Baker (19) and Kodiak Nestor-Dowling (20) combined for 39 points, but a couple of late defensive lapses – along with a pair of inopportune (is there ever opportune) turnovers – helped the Bulldogs break away from a 54-53 early fourth-quarter lead with a 6-0 run, and a later 69-67 lead with 18.6 ticks remaining on the regulation game clock, to the final four-point margin.

“They didn’t quit and I’m proud of the way we played until the end,” said an obviously disappointed Rochelle.

“That’s what we had script, don’t quit, but we kind of dug ourselves into a hole and couldn’t get out of it. Elmore got hot. I thought the first two (threes) he hit we were slow to close out (defensively), and the third we were right there, he just

made a good shot.

“I think the fact they were playing their fourth game and this was our first was part of it, too. Our goal is to play fast but we also have to play smart. I think a little bit of it (15 turnovers) was jitters.

The referees called it both ways, and it is what it is. The game is 32 minutes long and if there had been another minute we might have won it. But some of the things that happened earlier came back to get us in the end.

“With the fouls we had (29 whistled against Topsail) at the end they were on the free-throw line a lot (27-for-42) and they made a lot of them there (12 in fourth quarter) at the end. Kodiak played hard and Alec played hard but we have to take care of the ball better. We’ll get back to work and get ready for Monday (home vs. Pender).’

Baker (6 points) and senior Liam Curran (4) were partly responsible for Topsail’s early lead, with the Pirate defense

returning wrestler for Hannah. He finished third in the state at 106 and is looking to better that spot this year. Barrow is off to a good start again this year with two wins in the Patriots first match of the year.

Another returning wrestler for the Patriots is Kristian Still. Still is physically imposing at 152 pounds and will be another grappler that Hannah is looking to advance deep into the regionals.

“Kristian has gotten himself in great shape and he has some experience from last year. He should have a good year.”

Lucas Bautista will wrestle at 145.

He performed well in the quad match

last week. Noah Blanton is also another grappler that has a bright future. He wrestled well at 182 pounds last week.

Coach Hannah has several weight classes that he needs to fill and has quite a few new faces that he will insert in those weight classes until he finds the right wrestler.

“I have a few guys I am looking at for the 132 and 138 weight classes right now.

I hope to have them filled pretty soon.”

Last week the Patriots were very competitive in the quad that included Trask, South Lenoir and South Brunswick. They will resume their schedule this week.

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Pender grapplers to be much improved

By Bobby Norris Post & Voice Sports Writer

Although the Pender Patriot varsity wrestling team lost quite a few people from a year ago veteran Coach Dave Hannah expects the team to be competitive as the season progresses.

“We have a few guys coming back that should do well and we have a bunch of fresh faces that I think will get better as the season progresses. I think we’ll be much better by the end of the season.”

Leading the way for the Patriots is the 106-pound Alpha Barrow. The slight but muscular built grappler is the top

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Elmore leads Dixon past Topsail in season opener

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I have been to literally thousands of football games in my lifetime. In the last 15 years I have followed Pender County high school football and have reported the results and the games in print and online.

Throughout this time I have watched some very successful teams and some not so successful teams.

I have met many coaches and their families and have enjoyed doing this.

The last couple of years have been tough as far as Pender County high school football is concerned.

Topsail is beginning to get acclimated to the 3A ranks and Coach Wayne Inman did an admirable job this year. Trask and Pender struggled in what I think is the toughest 1A-2A split conference in the state. Both coaching staffs were behind the proverbial eight ball from the beginning. I mean, when you are looking down the barrel of the likes of Clinton, Wallace and East Bladen on a yearly basis it is hard to get excited about your season.

In two years Trask will be 2A and could be thrown in the same conference as Wallace, Clinton and James Kenan. Talk about murderer’s row. If I was the coach of that team I might think about taking a long trip and never coming back. I do not envy Coach Johnathan Davis or whoever coaches that team in two years.

I had some idle time recently and thought about what I would do if I was charged with putting together a coaching staff for a new 2A school in Pender County. Now I want to make this clear, I am not trying to insinuate that Coach Davis is doing a bad job at Trask or that he is going anywhere. This is just me thinking out loud.

The rules for my choices would be that the coaches would have to reside in Pender County. That is easy for me because the coaches I have in mind are here.

Let’s get started with what I would consider to be my coaching staff.

Let’s start with Glen

Sellers. I compare Coach Sellers to a high school version of Steve Spurrier.

He is a former quarterback who knows the game and can just flat out coach. I would consider him to be the head coach/offensive coordinator. Coach Sellers is currently retired from coaching. However, I firmly believe that for my team he would come out of retirement.

Sellers is a man of high morals. He does things the right way. Yep, I am sure that he would be my man.

Next up would be former Pender head coach and former Trask assistant Tony Hudson.

Coach Hudson knows the game and has a connection with a lot of the kids in the county. Hudson can coach both offense and defense.

On this squad I would have him coach the backs, both offensive and defensive. He is also capable of being the head coach if Sellers was to turn down the big job.

The defensive coordinator is a man that many may have heard of but may not know personally.

I assume he still lives in Pender County even though his last coaching job was in New Hanover County.

Kevin Motsinger would be my choice as the defensive coordinator. He could be the head coach as well. Coach Motsinger is one of the most aggressive coaches in the state. He is a proven winner and can motivate. I guarantee you that he could get the most out of these kids.

I have some other favorite coaches that I would love to see in the county. Former Topsail coach Bryan Davis is one of my favorite coaches. He demands respect and gives it when it is deserved. Coach Davis always had time for me when I covered Topsail and I always admired his style of coaching.

However, Coach Davis is not in Pender County at this time.

Of course, I would love to have Trask A.D Ed Gilroy as the man to run it all. Ed crosses all of the T’s and dots all of the I’s.

Well, there you go.

That would be my dream coaching staff. Of course there would have to be a few more assistants. I would love to have Doug Rabalai and Desmond Jordan there somewhere. I also would not mind having former Trask and Pender coach Darren Lafon somewhere in there as well. Heck, I could go on and on but my boss Andy Pettigrew might have something to say.

New Hanover takes out Pender girls and boys

By Bobby Norris Post & Voice Sports Writer Before the season started Pender head coach Gary Battle thought he had a talented boys’ basketball team. After falling to New Hanover 83-49 the only that has changed for Battle is his practice days.

“For the first time in more than 30 years I practiced on Saturday,” said Battle. “We came out flat. We haven’t had a scrimmage and I think we came out a little bit overconfident. They’re not that much better than us.

We just didn’t play well as a team.”

The Wildcats came out on fire and jumped on the

Patriots early. The New Hanover lead reached 20 points at 31-20 after one quarter.

The Patriots settled down and began to play Coach Battles brand of basketball.

The result was a one point Wildcat advantage in the second quarter. New Hanover took a 47-26 lead into the break.

The second half opened with the Pats far more competitive than in the opening moments of the game. New Hanover used its home court advantage to take a 14-8 edge in the third stanza. The Wildcat lead was 62-34 going into the final eight

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On the Mat

By Bobby Norris Post & Voice Sports Writer Last week was a slow week on the mat although two of the three high schools were in action.

Trask and Pender attended quad match with South Lenoir at South Brunswick. The Titans won one of three matches with their win coming against an improved Pender squad.

In the match against Pender the Titans won the match 43-42. Each team forfeited three weight classes in the early season match.

“We had a few kids missing tonight but backups came in and did a good job,� said Trask coach Chris Johnson. “We are still making some mistakes that are costing us some matches but we are making less mistakes. Each match, we just have to learn to not get pinned when we lose, we can’t give up six points a loss, and we have to learn to give up three. That’s making a big difference in scoring.�

Winners for Trask included Destinee Robinson, Jesus Dominguez, Bradley Johnson, Matthew Cather, Joseph Chung, Kyle Hancock, and Gregorio Sanchez.

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Winners for Pender included Alpha Barrow, Kristian Still, Adrian Valasquez-Domingo, Joey Pulver, Eli Blanton, and Andrew Ocampo.

Trask fell to South Robeson, and South Brunswick. Johnson and Hancock went 3-0 on the night while Sanchez and Chung went 2-0.

Pender defeated South Lenoir behind the wrestling of Kristian Still and Alpha barrow.

Both of these young men went 2-0 on the day.

Other Pender grapplers that won were Noah Blanton, Lucas Bautista and Andrew Ocampo.

Trask was scheduled to wrestle at North Brunswick on Tuesday and at Laney on Sat-

urday while Pender was at White Oak on Saturday.

Topsail will be at Myrtle Beach for the Chief Duals that begin on Friday and will finish up on Saturday.

Lady Pirates rout Dixon in 2015 season opener

By Lee Wagner Contributing Sports Writer If you look back over the last eight or nine years, you will see it hasn’t been a regular occurrence for the Topsail High School girls’ basketball team to hit the 60-point mark in a victory.

Checking on Maxpreps in the 2011-12 hoops season, the Lady Pirates defeated county rival Pender 80-28 on Nov. 29 and 66-23 on Dec. 6. The closest the girls from Hampstead have gotten to the coveted 60s since then was on Dec. 19, 2013 when they defeated West Brunswick 58-52.

Recent history shows the 60-point plateau has been extremely evasive – until the opener of the 2015-2016 season a week ago Tuesday (1124), and it took major contributions from a par of seniors, a veteran junior, and a pair of very talented freshmen to make it happen.

Junior Dominique Bryant scored 15 points and yanked down 15 rebounds, and seniors Keri White and Brandy Williams scored 11 and 10 points, respectively, as Topsail opened the season with a 61-31 home victory over Dixon in a non-conference girls’ basketball game.

In addition to the efforts of the upperclassmen, the Lady Pirates (1-0) received a 12-point, two assist effort from freshman point guard

Lauren Caveness and a sevenpoint, 10-rebound game from ninth-grader Payton Little in running away from the Lady Bulldogs (2-2), who were playing their fourth game of the young season. “It was nice, it was an impressive start, and they are buying into the system,� Topsail’s first year Coach Andrew Ellington said. “We still have a lot of work to do. Defensively I thought that’s what pushed us to get 60. We had tremendous ball pressure, we were in the passing lanes, and we pushed where we could, and it was really predicated off the defense tonight. “We were working with a short bench tonight, a couple of kids didn’t do the right thing yesterday, and they had to sit out tonight. We were only working with eight so the foul trouble was obviously huge. I have a freshman (Little) as a post player, and she’s tough, but she has to learn.

Amberly was in the same position. But if they just buy into things like we want them to, and keep working, we just have to keep building on this.

It’s a nice start and all the credit goes to them (players).

I’m just satisfied that they are trusting in what we want to do here.�

The Topsail girls wasted little time in showing their superiority – especially on

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Post & Voice Top Performers

By Bobby Norris Post & Voice Sports Writer Last week the Thanksgiving holidays cut into the high school sport schedule. However, there were some sporting events going on.

Both Trask and Pender found time to hit the mat. The Titans and Patriots wrestled in a quad match that featured South Lenoir and South Brunswick along with the two Pender county schools.

Bradley Johnson and Kyle Hancock went 3-0 on the night while Greg Sanchez and Joseph Chung both went 2-0 for Trask. For Pender, Alpha Barrow is off to a fast start, going undefeated in the match while Kristian Still also went 2-0. Noah Blanton, Lucas Bautista and Andrew Ocampo also picked

Owsley ready for a good senior year at Trask

By Bobby Norris Post & Voice Sports Writer When Kobe Owsley stepped onto the floor last year for the Trask Titan varsity basketball team there were very few that thought the quiet young man would be able to crack the talented Trask lineup.

However, Owsley put in the time and hard work and before the season was over he had earned his place in Coach Rodney Orr’s rotation.

This will be Mr. Owsley’s senior year and his swan song for the Titan basketball team. he has worked hard and is set to be one of the Titans options when he is on the court.

Owsley’s game is much more than trying to score. He rebounds the basketball and plays good defense. With his height and long arms he defends the post well.

With the 2015-16 season set to get underway, Look for Kobe Owsley to be one of the most improved players in the county.

up wins.

The Topsail boys and girls hoops teams were in action last week. The lady Pirates beat down Dixon by 30 points while the boys lost a close one. Juniors Alec Baker (19) and Kodiak Nestor-Dowling had 19 and 20 points respectively to pace the Pirate men while Junior Dominique Bryant scored 15 points while grabbing 15 rebounds.

Seniors Keri White and Brandy Williams scored 11 and 10 points, respectively as the Pirates opened the season with an impressive win.

This week’s top performer is topsail junior sharp shooter Dominique Bryant. The standout guard led the Pirates with a double-double, dropping 15 points and 15 rebounds on the Dixon Lady Bulldogs.

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Returning veterans fuel high hopes for Pirate swim teams

By Lee Wagner Contributing Sports Writer Shannon Crate begins her fifth season as the boys’ and girls’ swimming coach at Topsail High School and this one is fraught with high expectations as both squads return a plethora of not only talented swimmers, but experienced ones.

Gone from last year’s girls tem, which finished second in the mid-Eastern 3A/4A Conference, are Gabbie Black, Emilie Garner, and Hailey James, but Crate will welcome back six solid veterans that are fueling hopes for another top-of-the-conference finish. “The girls are a deep team from top-to-bottom, and we have some talented newcomers that will be able to contribute right away,� Crate said. “It’s hard to say who the top teams in the conference will be at this point because most of the teams lost important swimmers, but I

Nestor-Dowling comes up big for the Pirates

By Bobby Norris Post & Voice Sports Writer Kodiak Nestor-Dowling spent the last two years on the Topsail Pirate varsity basketball team. He used his time to improve his game and learn the ropes.

As a youngster among the upperclassmen he navigated his way to the forefront of the Pirates lineup. Going into his junior year he will now be counted on to bring his best game on every night.

Nestor-Dowling has played a lot of basketball despite his young age. He has a vast knowledge of the game and it shows as he moves about the court.

He plays both on the perimeter and in the paint with an equal amount of effectiveness.

As the 2015-16 season progresses so will Mr. Dowling.

He will be one of the go-to guys for the Pirates as they begin their season in search of the top 3A spot in the Mideastern Conference.

think both our teams should finish in the top half of the conference.

Six key Lady Pirate returnees – Drew Marshall, Danielle Swiss, Ally Pagans, Scout Pennington, Kelsey Eaves, and Jessica Boyer – are the primary reasons for optimism. Crate took a moment to single out Lady Pirates Swiss, Pennington, and Marshall for their accomplishments of a year ago. “Drew is a returning individual and relay participant from last season,� Crate said. “She qualified for states in the 200-meter freestyle, the 200 medley relay, the 200 freestyle relay (which placed eighth in the state), and the 400 freestyle relay. She placed third in the conference championships and seventh in the region in the 200 freestyle, and set the team record in the 200 freestyle. “Danielle qualified for regional meet in both the 50 and 100 freestyle last season, and qualified for states in the

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200 medley relay, 200 freestyle relay, and 400 freestyle relay. Scout qualified for the regional meet in the 200 and 500-yard freestyle, placing in the top 16 in both events. She was a member of the state team on the 400 freestyle relay.�

The Pirate boys were third in the conference a year ago and return 12 swimmers from that team, but lost Case Marshall, Grayson Venters, and Michael Nelson to graduation. “The boys are a largely experienced team, wellrounded with strong swimmers for every event,� Crate said. “But both the boys’ and girls’ teams lost some key relay swimmers and event winners.�

Brandon Croom, Mason Sessions, Payton Rice, Ryan Gallagher, and Sam Miller are five of the stronger returnees, with Crate speaking highly of Croom, Sessions, Gallagher, and Rice’s previous contributions.

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By Bobby Norris Post & Voice Sports Writer When a high school wrestler begins the season there is a lot of work to be done. There is physical conditioning and working on technique.

Then there is the mental aspect of the sport. There is no doubt that the sport of wrestling is very demanding.

Pender standout Kristian Still seems to have taken all of the hard work and dedication in stride. Through the early part of the season he has shown that he is a tough out.

Mr. Still wrestles at the 160-pound weight class where he will be facing many of the area’s best athletes. So far he has more than held his own. He went 2-0 at a quad meet last week that included Trask, South Lenoir and South Brunswick.

The wrestling schedule will pick up as the holidays wind down. Kristian Still will be in the mix as the season takes flight.

“Brandon swam the 100 butterfly and the 200 individual-medley at the regional meet last season, and was also a member of the 200 medley relay team that swam at states. Mason qualified for the regional meet in the 50 freestyle, 400 freestyle relay, and the 200 freestyle relay, and swam on the 200 freestyle relay that placed at states. “Ryan swam the 100 backstroke at the regional meet and was a member of the state team on the 200 medley relay, and Payton qualified for the regional meet in the 50 freestyle and the 200 freestyle relay, and swam on the 200 freestyle relay that placed at states.�

The swim teams opened last Wednesday (Nov. 18) against Hoggard, Laney, and New Hanover at the UNCWilmington Natatorium, and will pick up again on Dec. 1 at the same location against Ashley, Laney, and New Hanover, with a start time of 7 p.m.

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Eastern Carolina Human Services Agency, Inc. (ECHSA) Awarded SSVF Grant ECHSA, Inc., a non-profit organization serving Onslow and Duplin counties since 1964 has been awarded funds through the Supportive Services for Veteran Families (S.S.V.F.) Program to serve veterans in Onslow, Duplin and Pender Counties. Under this grant the following services will be offered; outreach, case management, assistance with obtaining VA benefits via referral and assistance with receiving other public benefits. Also offered is temporary financial assistance which include; security deposits, rent payments, utility payments, moving cost and emergency housing assistance. For more information on how to apply for the SSVF program, visit or call one of our three offices. Ask to speak with a Veteran Representative.

By Bill Howard Post & Voice Columnist Some of the animals we regularly see do not get the respect they deserve. One such creature that you can run up on regularly is the opossum.

It is just not that attractive of a fellow unless you really look into the beast.

First of all, the spelling has been butchered over time.

The opossum was one animal we were taught to make sure we spelled correctly when we were in grade school. The silent ‘o’ was embedded into our tiny minds. But something happened. I guess other schools other than mine did not share the same emphasis.

Over time, possum became an accepted way of spelling it as well.

And here in the south we always used the term ‘playing opossum.’ This term came from the habit of the opossum to freeze and fall over, completely still, in times of high stress. Where most species have the ‘fight or flight’ instinct, the opossum would win the battle by not battling.

Of course, that is not always the case. I remember one of the most horrifying sounds when I was a child.

We had an old vacant house where we stored things and

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Continued from page 4A ity over morals or socail norms.

I’m blessed not to have ever know this, but I’ve witnessed it.

What about Robin Hood? His name has a heroic ring and he was a thief, yet his mission was celebrated. Take from the rich and give to the poor.

Although rich is certainly a stretch, the possibility lurks in my naive psyche that a societal equalizer is romping around the neighborhood, feather in hat, ensuring that those in need will be provided for, compliments of the folks like myself who are blessed beyond measure.

While these thoughts help me to deal with the idea that someone can just snatch what’s mine in the span of a minute,

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occasionally we would have to go find something in there.

My mother and I went over to the old house and meandered our way through the various piles of stuff and opened a close door at the back of one of the rooms.

On the floor, staring into the beam of our flashlight was a long muzzle and a mouth full of pointed, jagged teeth with saliva dripping from the bottom jaw. A hiss that would make Satan’s cat envious filled the small room.

The various shades of gray from the animal’s fur added to the horrific scene in front of us. Picture any of the first person horror flicks in the past decade and that is what the scene was like.

Even with these attributes of the opossum, it deserves a bit of respect.

As the Europeans inhabited the land, the opossum

played an important part of their survival. The opossum is not particularly fast, and they are very abundant, which made for easy pickings for a hungry settler. After all, many times the creature would just lie down instead of run.

The meat was dark and layered with fat. It was a great supply of both protein and calories. The fat and grease from the fat was used for things such as soap, candles, and lanterns. This was great help to the settlers.

The opossum withstood the test of time through the early 1900s when people in the south still regularly trapped and ate the critters. It was noted that the meat was much like chicken (doesn’t everything taste like chicken?) however it was considerably greasier.

One thing that unnerved the Europeans was the fact that

it still pains me to know that someone has my Mary Meanbutt (not her real name) walked up to me on the playground and grabbed my Barnum Animal Crackers (the authentic ones whose box looked like animal cages with the string at the top) right out of my hands.

I immediately ran and told Mrs. Heath what she had done and so Mrs. Heath immediately retrieved my animal crackers from Mary’s wretched little hands. But, she had already bitten the heads off of my elephants and chewed the humps off of my camels.

Although my teacher had intervened and had saved a small herd of African plain dwellers, the damage was irreparable. In that moment, I understood that the world was comprised of givers and tak-

ers. Although I knew I would never be a heartless taker, this singular event caused me to develop a strong sense of sarcasm and passive aggressiveness so that I could at least provide a shred of defense against the evildoers of the The Media of Record for the People of Pender County. world-including Mary.

Therefore, I would like to 201-A West Fremont Street • Burgaw, NC 28425 extend a message to the steal-910.259.9111 • posteditor@post-voice.com • www.post-voice.com ers of my stuff and the stuff of all of my wonderful neighbors.

You may steal our joy for a moment for the fleeting pleasure of a few dollars and all that it may buy.

But, I can lay my sleepy noggin’ down at night knowing that I’ve made this world a better place. I’m sorry if your circumstances prevent you from doing the right thing and I pray that you will find yourself in,a place of peace as the holidays approach.

PENDER COUNTY GOVERNMENT NEWS WANTED! A FEW GOOD MEN & WOMEN! VOLUNTEER! The Pender County Board of Commissioners will consider appointments to the following boards/commissions/committees: Name of Board Advisory Board of Health Animal Shelter Advisory Committee Board of Adjustment Council on Community Affairs EMS & Fire Board Housing Initiative Board Industrial Facilities & Pollution Control Financing Author.

Nursing/Adult Care Homes Adv. Board Parks & Rec Board Tourism Development Authority Wilmington Metropolitan Planning Organization District 1 = Upper Topsail; Surf City District 2 = Scotts Hill; Lower Topsail District 3 = Rocky Point; Long Creek

# of Vacancies Positions/Categories 4 Optometrist***, Veterinarian***, Dentist***, Engineer*** 1 Veterinarian 2 District 3, District 5 2 District 1, District 5 1 District 1 1 Low-Income Representative 7 Business/Insurance/Attorney/Banking 2 Public Members 2 District 4, District 5 1 District 5 1 Citizen Committee Member District 4 = Union; Penderlea; Grady; Columbia; Caswell; Canetuck District 5 = Burgaw; Holly

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

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

they relished in the opportunity the opossum brought to the table, so to speak, however the Native Americans never preferred the opossum the same way.

I guess after all those hundreds of years the Native Americans spent with the opossum, those dagger like teeth through an abnormally long muzzle dripping with spit turned them off.

–Bill Howard is a lifelong North Carolina resident and hunter. He is a lifetime member of the North Carolina Bowhunters Association, an associate member of Pope and Young, and an official measurer of both. He is a certified hunter education (IHEA) instructor and bowhunter education (IBEP) instructor.

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12/3/2015 NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGS THE PENDER COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS WILL HOLD A PUBLIC HEARING AS FOLLOWS: DATE OF HEARINGS: December 14, 2015 TIME OF HEARINGS: 7:00 p.m.

LOCATION OF HEARINGS: THE PUBLIC HEARING NOTED WILL BE HELD IN THE PUBLIC MEETING ROOM AT THE ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE BUILDING ROOM 145, 805 SOUTH WALKER STREET, BURGAW, N.C. 28425 TOPICS OF HEARING: Zoning Map Amendment Michael Pollak, applicant, on behalf of Capstone Ventures and Clair Reid Kalmar, owners, is requesting approval of a Zoning Map Amendment of two (2) tracts totaling approximately 45.4 acres from RP, Residential Performance zoning district to PD, Planned Development zoning district. The subject properties are located to the west of Sloop Point Loop Road (SR 1563) to the north and west of Friendly Lane (private) in the Topsail Township and may be further identified by Pender County PINs; 4214-22-75670000 and a portion of 4214-50-8387-0000.

Zoning Text Amendment

Dallas Harris, applicant, is requesting the approval of a Zoning Text Amendment to the Pender County Unified Development Ordinance. The request is to amend Section 5.2.3 to add Other Nonhazardous Waste Treatment and Disposal as a permitted via Special Use Permit in the RA, Rural Agricultural and IT, Industrial Transitional zoning districts.

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Legal Notices Legal Notices Legal Notices Legal Notices Legal Notices Legal Notices ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE Having qualified as Administrator of the Estate of Kaywood Williams Sparkman, deceased, late of Pender County, North Carolina, this is to notify that all persons having claims against the said estate to present such claims to the undersigned on or before the 13th day of February, 2016, or this notice will be placed in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to the said estate will please make immediate payment.

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Kaywood Williams Sparkman II,Administrator 51 Roland Court Burgaw, NC 28425 Robert C. Kenan, Jr. MOORE & KENAN Attorneys at Law P. O. Box 957 Burgaw, NC 28425 (910) 259-9800 #7111 11/12, 11/19, 11/26, 12/3/2015 State of North Carolina County of Pender In the General Court of Justice Superior Court Division 15 E 379 Having qualified as Executrix of the Estate of Jean B. Kunzenmann, deceased of the State of Maine, this notice is to notify all persons having claims against the Estate of said decedent, Jean B. Kunzenmann to present any such claims to the undersigned on or before February 28, 2016 at 767 Lakeview Dr., Dedham, ME 04429 or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment to the undersigned.

This 9th day of November, 2015 Tracy E. Ross Executrix 767 Lakeview Dr. Dedham, ME 04429 #7115 11/12, 11/19, 11/26, 12/3/2015 NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND DEBTORS STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, PENDER COUNTY IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION Having qualified as Executor of the estate of Elizabeth Farrior, deceased, of Pender County. This is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of said decedent, Elizabeth Farrior to present them to the undersigned on or before February 18, 2016 at 533 Powers Road, Wallace, NC 28466 or be barred from recovery.

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This the day of November 12, 2015.

J. Keith Farrior 533 Powers Road Wallace, NC 28466 #7116 11/12, 11/19, 11/26, 12/3/2015 NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND DEBTORS STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, PENDER COUNTY IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION Having qualified as Executrix of the estate of Ruby Lee Giddens, deceased, of Pender County. This is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of said decedent, Ruby Lee Giddens to present them to the undersigned on or before February 25, 2016 at 901 Coach House Circle, Goldsboro, NC 27534 or be barred from recovery. All persons indebted to said estate, please make immediate payment. This the day of November 19, 2015.

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND DEBTORS STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, PENDER COUNTY IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION Having qualified as Executrix of the estate of Kathleen J. Fitzpatrick, deceased, of Pender County. This is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of said decedent, Kathleen J. Fitzpatrick to present them to the undersigned on or before February 25, 2016 at 231 Dutchess Drive, Cary, NC 27513 or be barred from recovery. All persons indebted to said estate, please make immediate payment. This the day November 19, 2015.

Cathleen F. Hipps 231 Dutchess Drive Cary, NC 27513 #7122 11/19, 11/26, 12/3,12/10/2015 NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND DEBTORS STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, PENDER COUNTY IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION Having qualified as Executor of the estate of Lieba M. Weingarden, deceased, of Pender County. This is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of said decedent, James Thomas Stroud Jr. to present them to the undersigned on or before March 3,2016 at 5045 NC Hwy. 210 Rocky Point, NC 28457 or be barred from recovery. All persons indebted to said estate, please make immediate payment. This the day of November 26, 2015.

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

NORTH CAROLINA Pender County NOTICE TO CREDITORS THE UNDERSIGNED, Cheryl A. Warren, having qualified on the 2nd day of November, 2015, as Administrator of the Estate of William L. Warren, Jr., deceased, this is to notify all persons, firms, and corporations having claims against said Estate that they must present them to the undersigned at GRAVES MAY PLLC, c/o Attorney David Anderson, 5700 Oleander Dr. Wilmington, North Carolina, 28403, on or before the 19th day of February, 2016, or the claims will be forever barred thereafter, and this notice will be pleaded in bar of recovery. All persons, firms, and corporations indebted to said Estate will please make prompt payment to the undersigned at the above address.

This 12th day of November, 2015.

Cheryl A. Warren Administrator ESTATE OF WILLIAM L. WARREN, JR David E. Anderson GRAVES MAY, PLLC 5700 Oleander Dr. Wilmington NC 28403 #7123 11/19,11/26,12/3,12/10/2015 NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND DEBTORS STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, PENDER COUNTY IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION Having qualified as Executor of the estate of Doris Gray Bannerman, deceased, of Pender County. This is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of said decedent, Doris Gray Bannerman to present them to the undersigned on or before February 25, 2016 at 1133 Potomac Court, Wilmington, NC 28411 or be barred from recovery. All persons indebted to said estate, please make immediate payment. This the 19th day of November 2015.

Marjorie B. Davis 1133 Potomac Court Wilmington, NC 28411 #7117 11/19, 11/26, 12/3, 12/10/2015 NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND DEBTORS STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, PENDER COUNTY IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION Having qualified as Executrix of the estate of Edward D. Betts, deceased, of Pender County. This is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of said decedent, Edward D. Betts to present them to the undersigned on or before February 25, 2016 at 245 Waterfront Circle, Hampstead, NC 28443 or be barred from recovery. All persons indebted to said estate, please make immediate payment. This the day of November 16th, 2015.

Jean Betts 245 Waterfront Circle Hampstead, NC 28443 #7126 11/26, 12/3, 12/10, 12/17/2015 ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE Having qualified as Administrator of the Estate of Lorraine Monica Grace, deceased, late of Pender County, North Carolina, this is to notify that all persons having claims against the said estate to present such claims to the undersigned on or before the 26th day of February, 2016, or this notice will be placed in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to the said estate will please make immediate payment.

This 25th day of November, 2015.

Stella R. Hansen 109 North Smith Street Burgaw, NC 28425 Robert C. Kenan, Jr. MOORE & KENAN Attorneys at Law P. O. Box 957 Burgaw, NC 28425 (910) 259-9800 #7127 11/25, 12/3, 12/10, 12/17/2015 NOTICE TO CREDITORS Having qualified as Executor of the Estate of James R. Turner, deceased of Pender-County, this notice is to notify all persons having claims against the Estate of said decedent, James R. Turner, to present any such claims to the undersigned on or before February 20th, 2016 at 338 Tombfield Rd, Camden, SC 29020 or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment to the undersigned.

This the 20th Day of November, 2015 Dennis Turner 338 Tombfield Rd Camden, SC 29020 #7131 11/26, 12/3, 12/10, 12/17/2015

Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on December 10, 2015 at 11:30AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Pender County, North Carolina, to wit: Being all of Lot 4 and Lot 4-A, Sunset Harbor, Section II, as shown on map entitled “Final Plat, Sunset Harbor - Section II, Topsail Township, Pender County, North Carolina”, prepared by John L. Pierce - Surveying, dated February 17, 1999, said map recorded in Map Book 32, Page 92, Slide 439, Pender County Registry.

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

Said property is commonly known as 106 South Harbor Drive, Surf City, NC 28445.

A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale.

This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are Henry Paul Barteck, Jr. and wife, Priscilla Lynn Barteck.

An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination [NCGS § 4521.16A(b)(2)]. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit.

The purchaser will have no further remedy.

Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Attorneys for Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No.: 15-15966-FC01 #7125 11/26, 12/3/2015

NORTH CAROLINA Special Proceedings No. 15 SP 249 PENDER COUNTY Substitute Trustee: Philip A. Glass NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE Date of Sale:December 8, 2015 Time of Sale: 10:00AM Place of Sale: Pender County Courthouse Description of Property: See Attached Description Record Owners: Alan C. Deserres, unmarried Address of Property: 121 Shelley Rd. Hampstead, NC 28443 15 SP 217 Deed of Trust: NOTICE OF Book : 3743 Page: 162 FORECLOSURE SALE Dated: February 11, 2010 NORTH CAROLINA, Grantors: PENDER COUNTY Alan C. Deserres, unmarried Under and by virtue of a Power of man Sale contained in that certain Deed Original Beneficiary: Mortgage of Trust executed by Priscilla Lynn Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., Barteck and Henry P. Barteck a/k/a as nominee for Mortgage Investors Henry Paul Barteck, Jr. to Alie Yates, Corporation CONDITIONS Trustee(s), which was dated Sep- OF SALE: Should the property be tember 15, 2006 and recorded on purchased by a third party, that The Media of Record for the People of Pender County.

September 20, 2006 in Book 3053 at person must pay the tax of Forty-five Page 233, Pender County Registry, Cents 201-A(45¢) West Fremont Street • Hundred Burgaw, NC 28425 per One Dollars 910.259.9111 • posteditor@post-voice.com • www.post-voice.com North Carolina. ($100.00) required by N.C.G.S. §7ADefault having been made of the 308(a)(1). note thereby secured by the said This sale is made subject to all Deed of Trust and the undersigned, unpaid taxes and superior liens or Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, encumbrances of record and ashaving been substituted as Trustee sessments, if any, against the said in said Deed of Trust, and the holder property, and any recorded leases. of the note evidencing said default This sale is also subject to any aphaving directed that the Deed of plicable county land transfer tax, and

the successful third party bidder shall be required to make payment for any such county land transfer tax.

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

Residential real property with less than 15 rental units, including singlefamily residential real property: an order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 4521.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

Philip A. Glass, Substitute Trustee Nodell, Glass & Haskell, L.L.P. All that certain lot or parcel of land located in the County of Brunswick, State of North Carolina, and more particularly described as follows: BEING all of Lot 23, BRIDGEGATE SUBDIVISION, SECTION 1, Revised as shown on plat thereof recorded in Plat Book 25, Page 24, Pender County Registry, reference to which is hereby made for a more particular description. #7128 11/26, 12/3/2015 15 SP 180 AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, PENDER COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Patience A. Pittman and John G. Willis to Pamela S. Cox, Trustee(s), which was dated May 27, 2011 and recorded on May 27, 2011 in Book 3928 at Page 0234, Pender County Registry, North Carolina.

Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on December 15, 2015 at 11:30AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Pender County, North Carolina, to wit: BEING ALL of Lot “A” as shown on a map entitled, “Map of Survey and Division for Salvatore Lana, Sr. and wife Enda E Lana and Salvatore Lana, Jr. and wife Svetlana Lana”, said plat being duly recorded in Map Book 52, Page 51 of the Pender County Registry, reference to which is hereby made for a more particular description.

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

Said property is commonly known as 1086 Penderlea Highway, Burgaw, NC 28425.

A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale.

This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are John Willis and Patience Pittman.

An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale,

terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination [NCGS § 4521.16A(b)(2)]. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

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

Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Attorneys for Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No.: 15-11869-FC01 #7129 12/3, 12/10/2015 15 SP 72 AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, PENDER COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by William T. Todd, Jr. to F. Blair Williams, Trustee(s), which was dated July 21, 2010 and recorded on July 27, 2010 in Book 3801 at Page 0225 and rerecorded/modified/corrected on September 2, 2015 in Book 4606, Page 1441, Pender County Registry, North Carolina.

Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on December 15, 2015 at 11:30AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Pender County, North Carolina, to wit: BEING all of Lots 32A and 32B, SECTION 1, BLOCK 10, of HAMPSTEAD ON THE SOUND, a map of which is recorded in Map Book 7 at Page 29, of the Pender County Registry reference to which is hereby made for a more particular description.

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

Said property is commonly known as 1323 Factory Road, Hampstead, NC 28443.

A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale.

This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are All Lawful Heirs of William T. Todd, Jr..

An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination [NCGS § 4521.16A(b)(2)]. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include,

but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit.

The purchaser will have no further remedy.

Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Attorneys for Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No.: 14-28373-FC01 #7130 12/3, 12/10/2015 STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA PENDER COUNTY NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND DEBTORS OF MICHAEL JUNE HALL 15 E 403 All persons, firms and corporations having claims against Michael June Hall, deceased, are notified to exhibit them to Jodie Bostic Hall, Executrix of the decedent’s estate, on or before March 4, 2016 at 22 Kings Landing Road, Hampstead NC 28443, or be barred from their recovery. Debtors of the decedent are asked to make immediate payment to the above named Executrix.

Jodie Bostic Hall, Executrix Estate of Michael June Hall c/o Mark I. Nunalee BIBERSTEIN & NUNALEE LLP Attorneys at Law P.O. Box 598 Hampstead NC 28443 910-270-4347 #7133 12/3, 12/10, 12/17, 12/24/2015 EXECUTOR’S NOTICE Having qualified as the Co-Executrixes of the Estate of Clara Anna Miller Hudson, deceased, late of Pender County, North Carolina, this is to notify that all persons having claims against the said estate to present such claims to the undersigned on or before the 13th day of February, 2016, or this notice will be placed in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to the said estate will please make immediate payment.

This 12th day of November, 2015.

Sandra P. Burger, Co-Executrix 2650 Clark’s Landing Road Rocky Point, NC 28457 Loretta Lee Kane, Co-Executrix 190 Old Bridge Road Rocky Point, NC 28457 Robert C. Kenan, Jr. MOORE & KENAN Attorneys at Law P. O. Box 957 Burgaw, NC 28425 (910) 259-9800 #7112 11/12, 11/19, 11/26, 12/3/2015 NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE Mini Storage on the Green at Cedar on the Green Shopping Center (Across from Olde Point) Hampstead, NC 28443 On Saturday December, 12 2015 at 10:00 a.m.

Mini Storage on the Green will sell various items of personal and business property, pursuant to the assertion of a lien for back rent at the self service storage facility.

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New Hanover kept their foot on the pedal for the remainder of the game in taking the lopsided win.

Lady Patriots The evening started with the Lady Wildcats hosting the Lady Patriots. Coach Gardner Eakins has a much improved squad but that was not enough

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Continued from page 8A the boards – over the smaller Dixon girls by jumping out to a 12-0 lead with 1:04 remaining in the opening eight-minute period before settling for a 12-5 advantage at the end of the quarter. Williams and Bryant evenly split eight points to spark the early surge.

With Bryant, Little, and senior Amberly Wolf (12 rebounds) controlling the boards, Topsail utilized a 15-6 effort in the second period to take a rather-insurmountable 27-11

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Continued from page 4A carnivorous plant, the butterwort, whose waxy leaves secrete a holdfast liquid that captures insects and which absorb the enzyme dissolved nutrients directly into the leaf.

These carnivorous plants are always found in association with another broad family of plants, the pitcher plants, green and yellow, purple and copper colored, tall and spindly, low and dumpy.

The pitcher pants are sometimes called ‘trumpets’ for their overall appearance, a tall, tapered cone, open at the top but with an extension of the cone neatly forming a cover above the open throat of the pitcher. The low pitchers look more like jugs, open at the top but with no cover extension. It’s the purple pitcher that exposes the mechanism of capture, a liquid filled cylinder lined with downward pointing hairs that will help a hapless insect fall into the liquid and make it impossible to climb out again. Bug soup, yummm.

Science explains the mechanisms, and can partly explain the why of ‘why here?’. These plants thrive in a nutrient poor environment because they have a way of using available nutrients, nutrients that are lacking in the soil. Most plants take in nutrients from their roots, and circulate the nutrients throughout the stem and leaves. The swamp plants take in nutrients from the leaves, which circulates eventually to the roots.

I understand all that, and I understand how they might have come to be able to carve out a niche existence in this area which was characteristically and continuously destroyed by fire from numerous lightning storms. Without the burning, the underbrush would quickly shade out many of the specialized plants that live in Holly Shelter.

All this is preamble to this question, as I peer through the lens of a microscope, at a critter oozing its way around on the glass slide, “Why is this animal plant doing what it’s doing?”

It’s an ameba, or amoeba, or ameboid. Once, it was thought to be a single classification, but it is accepted now that many different classes of life have amoeba-like forms.

The one I’m looking at is what is usually thought of as a ‘typical’ amoeba, and I’m not sure if it is amoeba proteus, or chaos chaos, or maybe chaos carolinensis. I’ll leave that to the professionals, and besides, I’m trying to decide not the ‘what’ but the ‘why’.

Why does this plant animal behave the way it does?

And, what’s up with ‘plant animal’? I always thought it

lead into the intermission.

White heated up in the second period with five of Topsail’s 15 points, with Bryant and Caveness each adding four points.

Dixon fought hard in the third period to cut into that 15-point Lady Pirates’ lead.

Keanu Lettley score five of her team-high 15 points in the period for the Lady Bulldogs, and Danielle Acree (6) added four. But every time the Dixon girls made a charge, the home-standing Lady Pirates answered.

A 16-12 advantage in the third stanza produced a 43-23 lead and – despite some foul

trouble (Wolf, Little, Bryant, and Williams all had three personal fouls) – the Lady Pirates continued to take charge.

Wolf, and Bryant each scored four points, Little tacked on five, and Caveness drained a long three-pointer as Topsail outgunned their visitors 18-8 over that final period to complete the 30-point romp.

“This year we have a whole lot of chemistry,” Bryant said. “Last year we had a good team but this year we have two new freshmen that are going to contribute a lot, we have our seniors from last year, and we are ready.

was one or the other.

Protozoans are single celled plants with animallike behavior, the ability to move, and the ability to capture prey.

What makes me want to spend so much time watching this critter at work is this.

Imagine a gummy ball that constantly changes shape, continually extending arms (feet? legs?) called pseudopods, with the innards flowing smoothly into the newly extended arm. And then, just as suddenly as it seemed to have a particular direction in mind, another pseudopod forms and the internal items start to flow in that direction.

The innards include objects like the nucleus, the water expelling vacuole(s), and bits of food particles interspersed throughout. The interior is fluid and constantly in motion. The cell membrane is both firm and discrete, like plastic wrap, but porous and pervious enough for the hunting amoeba to be able to track down food prey, envelop it with extended pseudopods and in a hug of surrounding cell wall, what was once on the outside is now on the inside.

Now, here are the questions. Does an amoeba have a destination in mind? To go from here to there? And where, at any rate, is there to go? In the bottom on a pond, or in a damp place, does there seem to be more food over there? Does it seem to be more comfortable over there?

And, remembering these are single celled organisms, they possess the ability to recognize food, to track it down, to engulf it, and to regulate the internal pressure with water expelling vacuoles, and they can move about.

All this from a plant animal of one cell. If you are a creationist, you have to wonder why a supreme being bothered to create such a spectacular and insignificant critter in the first place. Intelligent design suggests that it might have been specifically created to fill a niche environment, at the other end of the spectrum that includes the whales and elephants. Evolutionists might wonder if this is step two or step three along the path to developing flippers and a face.

All of this in a drop of water, and then I have to make the existential decision, return the critter to the ditch out front, wipe the microscope slide off with a paper towel, or just let the drop of water dry on the slide? The answer is that I have a paper towel near the microscope with whole families, generations of families of little protozoans, appearing as a dried smudge of gray and greenish gray with the echoes of micro-screams lingering.

The world through a microscope is just as enthralling as life through a telescope, deep into the inner space to the far reaches of outer space, and me in the middle, wondering “why?”

“It’s good to see some height on the team. I’m only 5-foot-8 and it’s hard sometimes to get rebounds, so they help a lot.

This year I’m trying to score a little bit more to help out, and sill get more rebounds. I still want to be aggressive. I think, the past few years we haven’t been able to compete with the 4A schools, but this year I am very confident we can play with them. One thing for sure, we won’t be walked over.”

Topsail’s early season continued this past Monday when they played host to county rival Pender. On Tuesday they traveled to Jacksonville to face White Oak, and tomorrow (Friday) the Lady Pirates return to Hampstead to face Trask.

sail’s early lead, with the Pirate defense chipping in by causing five first-period tur novers. Senior Gunner Lunsford had a huge hand in keeping the Bulldogs close with five of his total nine points in the first period that ended with Topsail on top at 15-12. Elmore, who finished with 30 points, started to heat up in the second period with 11 of his team’s 19 points. But the Pirates were able to hold off the Bulldogs charge to a degree with senior Liam Curran (4 points) and Baker (6) hitting big baskets in allowing Topsail to stay with striking distance of the hard-charging Bulldogs. Dixon led 31-29 heading into the halftime break.

The Pirates stayed anywhere from one to six points back for a good portion of the third period before a basket

to overtake a talented New Hanover team. The Wildcats held the Patriots scoreless in the first quarter and took a 29-3 lead into the break. The Lady Patriots played the Wildcats better in the third period, losing that eight minute stretch by four points. with the score 39-9 going into the final period the Pats buckled down and kept pace with the Lady Cats.

However, the lopsided first period was too much for the Pats to come back from. by freshman D. J. Montano produced a 43-42 lead. NestorDowling scored around as pair of free throws from Dixon for a 45-44 Pirate lead heading into the final eight minute.

Bang went Elmore from the top of the key 1:09 into the fourth quarter, and he followed that up next time down the court – after another Nestor-Dowling bucket – to make it 50-49. Elmore l at e r m a d e i t 5 7 - 5 3 w i t h another highly-contested three with 3:11 remaining.

Dixon increased the lead to 62-55, mostly from the charity stripe (12-of-15 in the period), before the Pirates rallied to close to within two at 69-67 on a Johnny Tartaglione deuce with 18.6 left. Two Elmore free throws accounted for the final tally.

To p s a i l w a s h o m e o n Monday and at White Oak on Tuesday before a return home tomor row (F riday) against the Titans of Trask.

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_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GROUP/ORGANIZATION/INDIVIDUAL CONTACT PERSON _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ MAILING ADDRESS PHONE *EMAIL - REQUIRED The Burgaw Area Chamber of Commerce reserves the right to remove any participant, group, float, or other part of the parade if they do not follow the attached rules, delay or slow the flow of the permitted activity or cause a large gap which will make it unsafe for other participants. A law enforcement officer will remove you at the earliest convenience and at the safest place.

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Participants in the parade shall not distribute or throw any candy or other favors during the parade.

Make Checks Payable to: The Chamber’s Santa Claus shall be the only Santa in the parade.

Burgaw Chamber of Commerce NO SIRENS OF ANY KIND! This helps keep animals calm.

PO Box 1096 All entries shall be ready for line up at 5:30 pm for parade to start at 6:30. More information to follow as to where Burgaw, NC 28425 you line up for parade via email. No one permitted in line up after streets are closed.

Contact Us: No entry shall slow down the flow of the parade. info@burgawchamber.com Group and/or contact person will be responsible and held accountable for all individuals associated with your entry.

910-259-9817 For safety reasons, all vehicles and floats must have a substantial amount of lighting.

In case of bad weather parade will be subject to cancellation and all monies refunded. Information will be posted on Face Book and or email.

Your signature accepts responsibility for complying with the above regulations.

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Date: ______________________

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Living

There’ No PlaceTree LikeLighting Home Surf Citys Christmas Thisfor Saturday Holiday SHOPPING Burgaw Antiqueplace

By Lori Kirkpatrick, Post & Voice Staff Writer

The Burgaw Antiqueplace has always offered a variety of items from books, fine jewelry and furniture to glassware, china and collectibles. The 15,000 square foot facility is known as the largest antique mall in southeastern North Carolina, and it is also recognized for its delectable fudge.

Now it is likely to become known for its newest additions that make up what owner Johnny Westbrook refers to as “the safari.”

The store recently acquired a collection of mounted animals that belonged to a Wilmington man who traveled the world to hunt. The assemblage is sizeable enough to claim its own room in the antique mall, and consists of a Kodiak bear, a lioness and other exotic creatures from the wild. Westbrook explained how he came across the unique collection.

“It’s one collection from a gentleman in Wilmington who ran an insurance company,” began Westbrook. “He built an office building 43 years ago. Through the years he collected, shot, every one of these animals. He married a third time, and I got the feeling that his wife wasn’t real fond of the animals. They also built a smaller place and downsized, and over the years I had sold a good bit of his furniture from his home. When it came time to retire, he called me and said he had a desk and a credenza he wanted me to sell on consignment. I went down there, and all of a sudden I saw all these animals. They were all through his office when you came in the lobby and in the foyer. I asked him what in the world he was going to do with all these animals. He had sold the building and he said he couldn‘t take them home.

I asked if he wanted me to sell them for him, not knowing at the time what I was going to have to do to get all the approvals.”

A few weeks ago, Westbrook acquired the mounted animals. He contacted the Wildlife Commission in Raleigh, who asked him to take photos of each animal and send them in. The

WRC provided him with information about which ones could be sold, which could not be sold and the ones that had certain restrictions. Some required a trophy certificate. Fortunately for Westbrook, the restrictions were not as ominous as he had originally thought they might be.

“We can’t sell the turkey, even though that turkey was shot in Texas.

We can’t sell the cougar, even though it was shot in Africa. Anybody that buys the cheetah is going to have to agree to not take it out of state. The pheasants had to have a trophy certificate, but the rest of them have no restrictions at all,” explained Westbrook.

Originally the display was opened up completely and families were coming in to take pictures with the bear. Westbrook said it was ok for a while, but then a grandmother put a baby on the lioness to take a picture.

“That sort of changed things to where we had to actually wall it off. I allow people to come back here when somebody’s really interested or I can be back here to supervise,” said Westbrook.

The animals have been priced based on what it cost to have them mounted, not what it cost to get them. Westbrook said that the man who hunted the animals, back in 1995, paid $20,000 for the rights to hunt the bear in Alaska. All of the animals were mounted at the place of origin.

He explained that the reason for that was that the skins were still moist and would not wrinkle and crack. The way the animals were mounted was the way the man remembered it.

One story tells about the hunte r ’ s a d v e n t u r e w i t h t h e b e a r.

“When he originally shot the bear, it was running away from him. He got him in his haunches. The bear was so fat, the fat actually enclosed where the bullet entered and

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it didn’t bleed. The bear rain into the woods and they couldn’t follow the blood because there wasn’t any. They knew the bear was hit and probably dangerous. So they stayed another five days hunting that bear. All of a sudden, one day the bear raised up on a rock. The way the bear is mounted is the way the man saw him when it came at him.

The bear jumped off the rock and started at him. The first time he hit it on the top of the head. He said it didn’t even slow him down. The second shot fortunately caught him right in the chest and he went down.

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If that wouldn’t have got him, the bear would have gotten him,” said Westbrook.

Interested visitors can see a variety of animals from around the world, including a warthog from North Carolina and another from Zimbabwe. The names of the animals and the points of origin are identified.

Burgaw Antiqueplace is located at 101 S. Wright St. You can reach the store at (910) 259-7070 or visit the website at www.burgawantiqueplace.com.

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John appeared, baptizing in the wilderness and proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. I [John] have baptized you with water, but He [the Messiah] will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.

Mark 1: 4,8 Let me share with you something that comes out of the Shorter Catechism, one of the theological documents of the Presbyterian Church.

Baptism is a sacrament, wherein the washing with water in the name of the &ATHER AND THE 3ON AND THE (OLY 'HOST SIGNIlES AND seals our ingrafting into Christ, and partaking of the benefits of the covenant of grace, and our engagement

to be the Lord’s.

Baptism is the sign of our adoption in the family OF 'OD 4HE ACTUAL ADOPTION HAS ALREADY TAKEN PLACE 7E BELONG TO 'OD FROM BIRTH BUT baptism signs and seals this reality. More than that, baptism marks our place in the covenant of grace and demonstrates to the world our commitment to Christ.

By Baptism we acknowledge that we live in the Promise of Jesus Christ. Still, Baptism represents more than that. It in fact functions on several levels in the life of the church and the life of the believer.

Baptism is a welcome. It is how the church welcomes and acknowledges one of 'OD S OWN IN THEIR MIDST )T is when the church declares what is already and eternally TRUE YOU ARE A CHILD OF 'OD

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Forest Hills Baptist Church will be hosting a night of worship and Christmas music Dec. 5 at 7 p.m. Recording artists Tyrus Morgan, Jamie Jamgochian, Love Collide, and Alexis Slifer will be in concert as part of their Christmas 2015 Wonder Tour. Admission is free and a love offering will be received.

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December 12 Miracle Temple Deliverance Ministries Presents The Crucifixion Of Jesus Come and see this dynamic play and experience his love it is sure to bless you Dec. 12 at 3 p.m. at the Burgaw Elementary School. Admission is free with donations accepted.

December 13 s"URGAW (OLINESS 0 & 7 " 0RESENTS 4HE #HRISTMAS 3HOES Dec. 13, at 6 p.m. in the rear building. You are invited to join the celebration of Jesus’ birth through songs and laughter.

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Sunday Service 10:30 a.m.

and in to whom we are comMITTED *ESUS #HRIST 7E DECLARE THAT WE ARE (IS AND A servant of Christ’s way.

But most of all baptism is a remembrance and an anchor. It is said that whenever Martin Luther was faced with a problem or was perplexed, he would place his hand on his head and say OUT LOUD h) AM BAPTIZED v (E would remember his claim on Christ and Christ’s claim on him. Baptism reminds us to whom we belong and that his power and protection is never-failing.

In baptism, Christ claims US AS (IS OWN AND WE CLAIM Christ as our own, our Lord and Savior. )N "APTISM 7E ARE BORN

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an heir of the covenant.

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It is a time when an individual declares their intention TO LIVE IN AND FOR #HRIST 7E come to be baptized or to baptize our children to give witness to a life claimed by and dedicated to Christ.

Baptism is a blessing.

Christ pours out his blessing UPON US THROUGH THE (OLY Spirit and we are cleansed for new life. Our sins are forGIVEN AND 'OD S MERCY AND grace is given.

Baptism is a promise. It is a promise we make to Christ and a promise Christ makes TO US 7E PROMISE TO FOLLOW Christ, love Christ and serve Christ. Jesus promises to BRING US INTO (IS KINGDOM OF love and life.

Baptism is a witness. By baptism we show the world where our faith and trust is grounded, whom we serve

All are welcome! Pastor Bill Howell

Church Directory BURGAW UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

FRIENDLY COMMUNITY BAPTIST CHURCH

110 E. Bridgers Street, Burgaw, NC 28425 • 910-259-2295

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

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

ST. M ARY’S CHURCH

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

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

RILEY’S CREEK BAPTIST CHURCH

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

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

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

CURRIE COMMUNITY BAPTIST CHURCH

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

160 Camp Kirkwood Road, Watha, NC

910-470-4436

Pastor John Fedoronko

ROCKY POINT UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

located at the intersection of Hyw. 117 & 210

Pastor Mark Murphyw

5610 Hwy. 53 W • Burgaw, NC 28425 (Across from Pender High)

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

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

MISSION BAPTIST CHURCH

54 Camp Kirkwood Rd. • Watha, NC 28478 • 910-448-0919

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

607 S. Walker Street • Burgaw, NC 28425

Sunday Worship: 10:30 a.m.

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

FAITH HARBOR UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

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

MOORES CREEK BAPTIST CHURCH

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

ST. JOSEPH THE WORKER CATHOLIC CHURCH

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

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

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

Ladies’ Circle, 2nd Monday of Each Month, 6:30-8 p.m.

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

WESTVIEW UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

www.BurgawBaptistChurch.org

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

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

WATHA UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

200 E. Fremont St. • Burgaw, NC 28425

100 E. Bridgers Street • Burgaw, NC 28425 910-259-4310

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

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

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

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

212 S. Dickerson St. • Burgaw, NC 28425 www.harrellsfh.com

BURGAW BAPTIST CHURCH 910.259.2136

CENTERVILLE BAPTIST CHURCH

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

BURGAW PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

Dignified Funeral Services Our Family Serving Your Family Since 1913

CALVARY CHAPEL COMMUNITY CHURCH

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

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

JORDANS CHAPEL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

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

Wednesday Bible Study: 7 p.m.

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

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CAPE FEAR COMMUNITY FELLOWSHIP (CF2) 10509 US Hwy. 117 S., Rocky Point Business Park Call Rocky Point, NC • 910-232-7759 910.259.9111 For More ALL SAINTS CATHOLIC CHURCH 18737 Hwy 17 North, Hampstead • 910-270-1477 Rev. John Durbin, Pastor Information www.CF2.us Worship Hours: Sunday Morning, 11 a.m.

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

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

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

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

CHAPEL BY THE BAY IN LANIER’S CAMPGROUND 216 Michigan Avenue • Holly Ridge, N.C. 28445 910-328-6252 Pastor: Don Myers Associate Pastor: Nathan Swartz Sunday School 9:15 a.m. Sunday Worship 10:30 a.m.

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

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

Thursday: Youth Group 6:30 p.m.

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Cool weather recipes

Hope’s Cooking Corner

By Hope Cusick Contributing Writer As the weather gets cooler there is a desire to eat more comfort foods or hot dishes.

Leftover cooked chicken and turkey work well in some of these dishes. Enjoy!

Ricotta pancakes 1½ cups all-purpose flour 1 tablespoon granulated sugar ½ teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon baking powder Pinch of salt Ÿ cup milk stirred with one teaspoon vinegar ½ cup orange juice 2 large eggs 1 tablespoon grated orange zest ½ cup ricotta cheese In a large mixing bowl, whisk together flour, sugar, baking soda, baking powder, and and salt.

In another bowl whisk together milk, orange juice, orange zest, and eggs. Stir milk mixture into flour mixture until evenly mixed. Stir in ricotta slowly.

In a skillet over medium heat, coat with cooking spray and spoon three Âź cups of batter into pan. Cook until pancakes are lightly browned on the bottom, about 2-3 minutes, until bubbles begin to burst

around the edges and in the center, turn the pancakes and cook for one minute. Serve hot with butter and syrup, or confectioners’ sugar, if desired.

Slow cooker turkey and pumpkin chili Ground chicken may be substituted for the turkey meat.

2 cups chicken broth 1 15-ounce can pumpkin, not pumpkin pie mix 1 teaspoon chili powder ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon 1 pound ground turkey 1 large sweet onion, chopped 3 cloves garlic, chopped then smashed Fresh ground black pepper, to taste 1-2 jalapeno peppers, seeds and ribs removed and cut into small pieces 2 15-ounce cans white beans, rinsed and drained 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce Sour cream Shredded Cheddar cheese Fresh cilantro leaves In a slow cooker, stir together chicken broth, pumpkin, chili powder, cinnamon, and black pepper. Add the turkey and mix to combine.

Stir in onion, garlic, pepper, Worcestershire sauce, and beans. Cook, covered until turkey is cooked through about four hours on high or 6-7 hours on low. Serve hot with sour cream, Cheddar cheese, and cilantro, if desired.

Parsnip and chicken soup Cooked and shredded turkey may be substituted for the chicken. Dark meat will give more flavor.

2 teaspoons olive oil 2 medium parsnips, sliced diagonally

1 large sweet onion, coarsely chopped 1 4-ounce package white button mushrooms, sliced 2 cloves garlic, chopped then smashed 4 cups chicken broth ½ cup dry white wine or water 1 can garbanzo (chickpeas), rinsed and drained 1½ cups shredded, skinless, boneless cooked chicken or turkey Salt and fresh ground black pepper, to taste 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce ½ teaspoon thyme powder 3 tablespoons dried parsley flakes Heat olive oil in a large saucepan over medium high heat. Add parsnip, onion, mushrooms, and garlic; sautÊ for about three minutes.

Add broth and wine, chickpeas, chicken, Worcestershire sauce, thyme, parsley, salt and pepper, to taste. Bring to a simmer and cook for 8-10 minutes or until parsnips are tender.

Serve hot Rosemary- drop biscuits -AKES BISCUITS 1 cup all-purpose flour ž teaspoon baking powder Pinch of salt 2 tablespoons cold butter Ÿ cup milk Ÿ cup plain Greek yogurt ½ teaspoon garlic powder 1 teaspoon dried and crushed rosemary leaves Preheat oven to 450 degrees.

In a bowl combine together flour, baking powder, salt, rosemary, and garlic powder. Cut in cold butter and work until mixture resembles coarse meal.

-AKE A WELL IN CENTER OF mix; add milk, yogurt, and

rosemary, stirring until just combined.

Drop by heaping tablespoonfuls onto a vegetable sprayed baking sheet. Form 8-biscuits; coat tops with cooking spray. Bake in a 450-degree oven for 15 minutes or until golden brown. Serve hot with butter, if desired.

Coconut eggnog pie 1 prepared refrigerated pie crust 1 cup sweet baking coconut, flaked ½ cup granulated sugar Pinch of salt ½ teaspoon Chinese FiveSpice or cinnamon 2 large eggs 2 large egg yolks 1 1⠄2 cups milk 1 cup heavy cream 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

Place prepared pie crust into a deep dish nine-inch pie plate and flute edges. Set aside. Spread the coconut on a baking sheet pan and bake until very lightly toasted, about five minutes, stirring halfway.

In a medium bowl, whisk together sugar, salt, and Chinese Five-Spice or cinnamon. Add the eggs, yolks, and vanilla, and whisk to combine.

Heat the milk and cream in a saucepan until it starts to simmer. Gradually add this to egg mixture while mixing until smooth. Stir in 1/2 cup of toasted coconut. Transfer the filling to the prepared crust.

Bake at 375 degrees in the oven until the custard is set in the center, about 40 minutes. Cool to room temperature, then chill completely. Sprinkle with the remaining toasted coconut and serve.

COMMUNITY NEWS & EVENTS Hampstead Women’s Club Christmas bazaar Dec. 3-5 The Hampstead Women’s Club will hold its annual Christmas bazaar Dec. 3 from 12 noon until 6 p.m, Dec. 4 from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m., and Dec. 5 from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m.

The bazaar will be held at the Hampstead Women’s Club building at 14435 U.S. Hwy. 17.

Thousands of new and used items including trees, decorations, dishes, jewelry, clothing, gifts and much more will be on sale at great prices.

Come get your Christmas shopping done early and sup-

Dimitry George Easterling, son of Micky and Jill Easterling, will be graduating from Tarheel Challenge A c a d e m y ( T C A ) D e c . 11 .

Dima has completed the credits required to earn his high school diploma, showing great responsibility and determination. He will continue his education at either Magnolia Place in Goldsboro, North Carolina or the North Carolina Job Corps in Kitrell, North Carolina.

port the Hampstead Women’s Club which donates thousands of dollars to the community each year Burgaw Christmas Home Tour Dec. 5 The Pender County Historical Society is having their Burgaw Home and Tree Tour Saturday Dec. 5 from 3-7 p.m. Tickets are $15 for combination tree and homes or $8 for just the trees.

This year the trees will be at the Burgaw Community Building instead of the Depot as in the past.

Pancake breakfast Dec. 5 Cub Scout Pack 247 will

sponsor a pancake breakfast at the Highway 55 restaurant in Burgaw Dec. 5 from 8-10 a.m.All proceeds will go to benefit the local cub scout pack.Pancake plates with bacon are $5 each.

Holiday Cooking Workshop A holiday cooking workshop with Hope Cusick will be held at the Hampstead Library Highway 17 in Hampstead Dec. 18 at 6 p.m. Dishes will include bread, cookies, bars, and dinner selections. Call 910-270-4603 to register.

Christmas Parades Dec. 5 The towns of Atkinson and Topsail Beach will hold their

annual Christmas parades Saturday at 11 a.m. The Atkinson parade will be held on Hwy. 53 in Atkinson. The Topsail Beach parade will be held on Anderson Blvd.

Parent’s Day out at Surf City Community Center Dec. 5 Parent’s Day Out is Dec. 5 at the Surf City Community Center for children ages 4 and up from 1-7 p.m. There will be food, fun games, crafts dancing, movies and more for the kids. Cost is $7 per hour or $30 for the whole day. For more information, contact the Community Center at 328.4887.

Breakfast With Santa Dec. 19 Hampstead Women’s Club and the Greater Topsail Area Chamber of Commerce will host Breakfast with Santa,

Thursday December 3 The Kiwanis Club of Hampstead will meet at 7:30 a.m. at the Sawmill Grill on Hwy. 17 in Hampstead. s!LCOHOLICS !NONYMOUS WILL MEET FROM NOON P M AT THE Surf City Community Center. Call 328.4887 for more information. s0ENDER #OUNTY -USEUM IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC FOR FREE DONAtions are welcome) every Thursday and Friday from 1-4 p.m. and on Saturdays from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. Group tours are AVAILABLE AT OTHER TIMES BY CONTACTING THE -USEUM AT by email at penderhist@hotmail.com.

Friday December 4 s!TKINSON "APTIST #HURCH (WY IN !TKINSON HAS A FREE bread giveaway Fridays from 4-5 p.m. All types of bread from white to multigrain to hamburger buns. s0ENDER #OUNTY -USEUM OPEN P M s4HE -ARINE #ORPS ,EAGUE $ETACHMENT MEETS FOR BREAKfast at the Sawmill Grill in Hampstead at 8 a.m. each Friday.

Saturday December 5 sBurgaw Home and Tree Tour Saturday Dec. 5 from 3-7 p.m. s4OPSAIL "EACH #HRISTMAS 0ARADE $EC A M s!TKINSON #HRISTMAS 0ARADE A M Tuesday December 8 s4HE -ARINE #ORPS ,EAGUE $ETACHMENT MEETS AT THE Topsail Senior Center, 20959 U.S. Hwy. 17 in Hampstead the second Tuesday each month at 7 p.m. The Detachment is always looking for new member to help in its continuing mission. s4HE +NIGHTS OF #OLUMBUS #OUNCIL MEETS THE SECOND AND fourth Tuesday each month at 7 p.m. at the American Legion Building, 16660 U.S. Hwy. 17 in Hampstead.

Wednesday December 9 s!LCOHOLICS !NONYMOUS WILL MEET FROM P M AT THE Surf City Community Center, 201 Community Center Dr. Call 328.4887 for more information s4HE #OASTAL 0ENDER 2OTARY #LUB MEETS EACH 7EDNESDAY AT 12:30 p.m. at the Belvedere Country Club, 2368 Country Club Drive in Hampstead.

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

Friday December 11 s!TKINSON "APTIST #HURCH (WY IN !TKINSON HAS A FREE bread giveaway Fridays from 4-5 p.m. All types of bread from white to multigrain to hamburger buns. s0ENDER #OUNTY -USEUM OPEN P M s4HE -ARINE #ORPS ,EAGUE $ETACHMENT MEETS FOR BREAKfast at the Sawmill Grill in Hampstead at 8 a.m. each Friday.

Legion Building, 16660 U.S. Hwy. 17 in Hampstead. sion. sSaturday December 12 s"REAKFAST 7ITH 3ANTA 3URF #ITY #OMMUNITY #ENTER A M s"URGAW #HRISTMAS 0ARADE P M

Dec. 19, 9-11 a.m. at the Hampstead Women’s Club building, 14435 U.S. Hwy. 17 in Hampstead. Tickets include all-youcan-eat pancakes, sausage, juice or coffee, and a visit with Santa. Cost is $5 per adult; $3 per child up to age 12; children two years old and under are admitted free with a ticketed adult.

Parents are invited to bring their cameras for photos with Santa. For questions, call the Chamber at 910-329-4446 or

the Hampstead Thrift Store at 910-270-9549. Tickets are on sale at the Chamber or the Thrift Store.

CF Pope Alumni make contribution CF Pope High School, Class of 1964, made its annual donation in November to Burgaw Elementary School (former CF Pope High School), Pender High School, and to the Willard Outreach Center. A mission of the group is to give back to the community.

Pancake Breakfast With the Cub Scouts!

12/5/15 8am – 10am

â€œâ€ŚThe Cub Scout helps the Pack go. The Pack helps the Cub Scout grow.

The Cub Scout gives good will.�

~Help Support the Growth of Tomorrow’s Leaders~ Come join Pack 247 at HWY 55 on December 5, 2015 from 8:00am to 10:00am for Cub Scout Pancake Breakfast. Enjoy pancakes and bacon for only $5.00. All proceeds benefit your local Pack 247.

Hwy 55 is located at 409 US Hwy 117 South in Burgaw.

Please contact Allen Wilson at (910) 789-0292 if you have any questions.

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Celebrating the Town of Burgaw Christmas Tree Lighting

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Pender Adult Services director Wes Davis (right) poses with guests at the Silent Auction Gala Nov. 12 in Burgaw.

2015 Silent Auction and Gala a grand event

Pender Adult Services held another wonderful evening and fundraising event for the Meals on Wheels program Nov. 12. The staff, board and volunteers gathered more than 150 items for the auction including several autographed basketballs and a variety of gift items.

“We want to thank the community for their support,” said Wesley Davis, Executive Director. “Each ticket purchased, each item donated, each sponsorship given, all contributed to a very successful event. We wish to thank all of our sponsors for their generous support.

More than $29,000 has been received to date.”

Thanks to the group of volunteers who did a lot of leg work this year. The

2015 Auction Committee went out soliciting and gathering items from local businesses. Thank you to Adine Roberts, Barbara Murphy, Carlette Stanley, Cheryl Wooddell, JoAnne Casey-Summers, Laura Williams, Melrose Lewis, Tammy Sherman and our PAS board members.

They brought in sponsorships, items and sold tickets.

All those attending enjoyed a dinner set up in stations offering appetizers, soups and salads, meats, pasta, wine, beer and martinis. After the main course attendees enjoyed an ice cream bar or stopped by the s’mores station for an old-time favorite on their way to dancing in our tent.

We would like to thank Harts Flo-

rist for donating beautiful centerpiece arrangements for the tables this year.

Thank you to Brown Dog Coffee, our coffee sponsor for serving their delicious coffee. And finally thank you to the student volunteers from Heide Trask High School Key Club, CFCC OTA and UNCW who helped in many aspects.

The board of directors and staff of Pender Adult Services wish to thank all of the generous sponsors. s0LATINUM 3PONSORS Blueberry Festival Committee, Burgaw Rotary Club, Griffin Estep Benefit Group, Live Oak Bank, Lorraine Moore, Maple Hill Presbyterian Church, Ray and Roberta Bost.

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Heritage Place intern Ashley Richard "Y *ENNIFER -ATHEWS Pender Adult Services We have enjoyed our Heritage Place CFCC intern this fall. Ashley Richard has been with us for her field placement on Tuesdays in Burgaw. Ashley is in the Occupational Therapy Assistant program at CFCC. Ashley grew up in Hickory, but has been in the Wilmington area for 6 years. She has already ear ned a BA from UNC-W in Psychology and will complete her OTA program in May, 2016. She chose the OTA program because of the way it positively impacted my grandfather when he fell ill in 2010.

It has since helped with my nephew who has special needs.

Ashley has assisted us with various programs here at Heritage Place, including Geri-fit where she has taught alongside our instructors. As a part of her field experience Ashley presented a program on seated yoga for our senior fitness class. She has also worked one on one with seniors helping them to modify activities of

Believe it or not, most senior citizens report that death is not their biggest fear. According to a study commissioned by Clarity and The EAR Foundation most seniors fear losing their independence and having to move to a facility or in with a family member more than dying.

Not sur prisingly, with increasing popularity, baby boomers are choosing to remain in the comfort of their homes to live out their golden years. And with home care services on the rise, there are plenty of resources available to provide a way for them to do so safely.

If you are lucky enough to reach the time in your life where aging has made certain tasks difficult, then home care may be an option to help you keep your independence and continue enjoying your golden years in your favorite place – home.

Here are just a few advantages to aging at home s +EEPING THE #OMFORTS OF Home: Your morning coffee in your favorite chair with your beloved pet. Your own bed.

The place where memories have been made and your routine established. Your familiar things close by just makes you feel better! s0RESERVING )NDEPENDENCE As we age, certain tasks become more difficult. Changing the linens, carrying the groceries, and vacuuming the floors, are just a few tasks that become more challenging. Having someone handle the big tasks allows seniors to avoid the risks associated with the more strenuous home care tasks and keep their independence. s0ERSONALIZED 0ROFESSIONAL Care: Care in your home is planned according to your unique needs. A quality home care service offers a range of care services that is different for each client. From medication reminders to range of motion exercises, assistance

bathing or hair care, to shopping and meal preparation.

Whatever your needs are to continue living at home, your home care provider can work with you to create a plan.

When choosing a quality home care provider, you can rest assured that you are receiving competent and compassionate care from certified nurse aides under the supervision of registered nurses. s-ORE !FFORDABLE !GING AT home is the most cost effective option for seniors who can do so safely. This is especially true when you choose a home care provider committed to reasonable rates without contracts. s0EACE OF -INDxFOR YOU And your loved ones: Don’t worry about being a burden on your loved ones. Care in your home lets you enjoy your friends and family while receiving the assistance you need to continue living at home.

While most loved ones readily accept the responsibility of caring for aging family members, they may not be able to provide the level and regularity of care needed to keep you in your home. Taking advantage of home care services enables you to enjoy your family and still receive the assistance you need. They don’t have to worry about you and you don’t have to feel like another layer of responsibility on their already overscheduled days.

Pender Adult Services is committed to offering quality, dependable, and compassionate care in your home.

Regular exercise, maintaining a healthy weight, eating a diet rich in fruits and vegetables, and drinking lots of water will help you age well and stay active longer. But when the time comes and you need a little assistance to stay in the home you love, Pender Adult Services will be there to help!

Call today for more information or a free in-home assessment. Call 910-259-9119 extension 319.

RSVP veterans honored for serving twice "Y "ARBARA -ULLINS RSVP Director

Pictured above is Ashley Richard and Evelyn. Ashley helped Evelyn modify her cell phone to make it easier to open. their everyday life.

“I hate to see Ashley go. She has been a ray of sunshine to our seniors, spending time

with them after class and at lunch just getting to know them. Ashley will begin a full time field placement this

spring with Coastal Rehab and New Hanover Co Schools.

Thank you Ashley, we will miss you!

R S V P vo l u n t e e r s ( a n d Ve t e r a n c l i e n t s ) o n t h e western side of Pender County gathered at Alley Cat’s in Burgaw Nov. 3 for a wonderful breakfast. Thank you to the staff, especially our waitress Julia, for spoiling us and allowing us time to recognize our veterans on their special day.

Thank you to Catering by Saw Mill Grill (Hampstead) for the breakfast buffet enjoyed at our Topsail Senior Center

111 S. Wright Street, Burgaw, NC 28425 • 910.259.2116

Nov. 4 for the eastern side of our county that honored RSVP veterans and clients.

The warmth of friendships filled that room and we thank the RSVP board members for helping prepare this special day. David Menlo joined us with kind words of praise to our veterans. Daniel Manzo from Lower Cape Fear Hospice helped to organize this special remembrance of those who g ave so willingly to our country. There was a special recognition to our two oldest

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Saturday 9 a.m. - 1 p.m.

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Pender Adult Services will serve as a collection site for Toys for Tots until Dec. 11. Boxes are located at Heritage Place, Topsail Senior Center and Fitness Fusion.

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RSVP volunteer veterans – Van Reid (98 years young) and Bryant Huffman (94 years young). Both men still actively support the RSVP program in Pender County. Special pins were given to all our veterans that are now volunteering with RSVP. Thank you for serving

Myrtle Beach Shopping Trip Dec. 8

7:30 a.m until 7:30 p.m.

Shopping at Hamricks, lunch on your own at the Tanger Outlets A FEW SEAT ARE STILL AVAILABLE $25 per person Call 910.259.9119

East, Insurance People of Wilmington, MarKraft Cabinets, Middle Of the Island Catering, Peggy Casey, Pender County Far m Bureau, R. Kent Harrell, Revive Physical Therapy, Surge Media Group, William and Cheryl Wooddell.

twice – once to protect us, and now to care for someone less fortunate.

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ever thank you enough, but may the pin they received continue to remind them how special we think you are.

Pender Adult Services December Calendar No RSVP Perks this month- Merry Christmas December 7 – Medicare Open Enrollment for Part D ends December 8 – Shopping Trip to Myrtle Beach-space still available December 10 – Christmas Party with Santa (HP) – 11:30 a.m.

December 10 - Caregivers Support Group – 11:30 a.m., (contact Kay Warner for more information)

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December 11 – Last Day – Toys for Tots

December 15 – Topsail Christmas Party(TSC) – 10:30 a.m.

December 23 – 25 Offices Closed for Christmas

January 1 – Offices Closed for New Years

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