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Thursday, August 31, 2017

Volume 47, No. 47

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Cape Fear Habitat For Humanity has opened a Restore in Burgaw, and is now looking for a location for a construction site for a project in Burgaw. Read more on page 1B. After a dismal season last year, the Trask Lady Titan volleyball team is off to a 3-0 start this season. Read more in Sports on page 8A.

The Media of Record for the People of Pender County

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Tropical system skirts coast with rain, little else

By Andy Pettigrew Post & Voice Publisher Tropical system Invest 92, which was predicted to become a tropical storm by the time it reached the Pender County coastline, couldn’t get it’s act together in time to pose much of a problem for

Pender County.

A tropical storm watch was posted Monday for the Pender coastline, with tropical storm warnings to the north. Pender County Emergency Officials prepared for a possible hit by a tropical storm.

The county Emergency Operations Center activated on

Water issues in Hampstead neighborhoods continue

By Andy Pettigrew Post & Voice Publisher Water problems persist in the Belvedere neighborhood in Hampstead.

Utilities Inc., which owns and operates the water system in the neighborhood, as well as other systems in the Hampstead area, is seeking a rate hike with the N.C. Utilities Commission.

Local residents, plagued with water problems, are fighting the increase, and trying to get the company to fix the water issues. Discolored and foul-smelling water have been reported.

In an e ma i l t o Pe n d e r County Commissioner David Williams Aug. 23, Joyce Diggett said the “water is black.

We do not live in a third world country and something has to be done, not six months from now.”

Resident Frank Car roll wrote to Williams “Since Utilities Inc. appears to be incapable of managing our water system properly, what

is the chance the system can be taken over by Pender County? I would rather have GenX than the garbage we are receiving in our water supply.”

The water system is owned

by Utilities Inc. and according to Pender County Attorney Trey Thurman, ownership would have to be transferred to either the Belvedere HOA or Pender County in order to use county water.

Or, Utilities Inc. could make an agreement to buy water in bulk from the county and stop using the wells currently supplying water.

Pender County Manager Randell Woodruff spoke at the N.C. Utilities Commission meeting recently in Wilmington on behalf of the customers.

At the Utilities Commission meeting last week in Wilmington, Car roll said Utilities Inc. customers from Belvedere and Castle Hayne attended.

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a limited basis Monday night and the EOC was closed at 9 a.m. Tuesday morning.

“We kept someone in the EOC all night and I came in about 3 a.m. We can never let our guard down,” said Pender EM Director Tom Collins.

“Our folks are out getting everything ready. We have our

assets in place. People know to be ready and we can call them out quickly if needed.”

Collins says the center of the storm passed directly over Pender County Tuesday morning, but the heavy rain and winds remained offshore.

“This storm tried to pull

together from the time if came off the coast of Africa, but it just couldn’t, and that is a good thing for us. Tropical storms are heat engines and everything has to be just right before it will develop. We had one road closed in Hampstead, but that road closes just about every time it rains.”

Collins says another tropical wave about 10 days out from the U.S. is one that bears watching.

“This storm never got into a favorable environment to develop, but the next one, I just don’t know. It’s a long way out, but we are going to keep our eye on it.”

Sunflowers on a sunny day

Staff photo by Andy Pettigrew

Visitors at Old River Farms arrive by hay wagon at the farm’s sunflower field Saturday. See more photos from the day on page 16A.

Pender County part of AT&T N.C. rollout of rural wireless internet

By Andy Pettigrew Post & Voice Publisher Pender County boasts the first location in North Carolina in the AT&T’s rollout of its Fixed Wireless Internet system. The program is part of the federal Connect America Fund.

The high-speed wireless internet system will use existing AT&T cell phone towers to broadcast the wireless signal within an approximately three-mile radius of the tower site.

The first site in the state is in Pender County, a cell tower located on U.S. 421 north.

“Using the existing AT&T cell tower network, we can get high-speed internet out quicker than a wired system,” said AT&T’s John Lyon. “Where this becomes available, it is going to be very competitive with satelite internet.”

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Staff photo by Andy Pettigrew

Pictured above cutting the ribbon at the Burgaw Chamber of Commerce meeting Aug. 24 to mark the rollout of the AT&T rural wireless internet system are (left to right) Burgaw Chamber of Commerce President Jimmy Smith, Chamber Executive Director Emily Baker, Watha Mayor Needham Hall, Rep. David Rouser, Pender County Commisioner Fred McCoy, and AT&T representative John Lyon.

ITʼS TIME TO GET -

From Staff Reports Candidate forums for the November municipal elections are scheduled in Burgaw and Surf City.

The Burgaw forum, which includes all candidates for positions in Burgaw, will be held Oct. 12 at the Depot, and is cosponsored by the Burgaw Area Chamber of Commerce.

The Surf City forum, which

at the Surf City Welcome Center Oct. 19. Both forums begin at 7 p.m.

All candidates on the ballot in Burgaw, Surf City, and Topsail Beach are invited to attend.

“The format for the forum will be the same as previous forums,” said Post & Voice

opportunity to share their ideas and views, and we will take written questions from the public in attendance. It’s a good opportunity for the public to put a face with a name and talk with the candidates.”

Both forums will begin at 7 p.m.

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Pender EMS

Generator, chainsaw safety urged With peak hurricane season upon us and a tropical system looming off our coast, Pender County EMS and Fire and the Pender County Office of Emergency Management urge residents to use caution.

“Following any weather event, we receive the most emergency calls,” said Woody Sullivan, director of Pender EMS & Fire, Inc. “We respond to chainsaw accidents, carbon monoxide poisonings from generators, and anaphylactic shock from bees and fire ants.”

“Wear protective clothing when working with a chainPhoto contributred saw,” said Tom Collins, Pender Gov. Roy Cooper met with the film crew last week working on the TNT drama Good County Emergency Manager.

Behavior.

The crew has been filming in Hampstead.

“Wear goggles or safety glasses, hard toe shoes and leather gloves.”

Sullivan said never place a running generator inside a home or garage.

“This results in carbon monoxide poisoning,” said Sullivan. “Always read the manual before operating a chainsaw or a generator.”

12, 14, 15 and 19,” said Tammy Fire ants are a hazard afProctor, MST in a Day coorditer flooding. The ants form a nator. “Segment 14B is called mound to protect the queen. the Land of History and runs The mound of ants floats on the from Singletary Lake State water. Fire ants bite, causing a Park in Bladen County to the fierce reaction or anaphylactic Holly Shelter Game Land.” shock. Bees too are stirred by Some legs of Segment 14B wind storms and flooding. have been reserved by fami“Fire ants and bee stings lies who are walking together. can send people into anaphyOne family has family members along the route and they Continued on page 10A are going to relay from home to home.

From Staff Reports Zach White, the Burgaw Hundreds of people across North Carolina will hike, Parks and Recreation Direcwalk, jog, cycle, or paddle tor, will walk portions of the trail that traverses Burgaw. the more than 1,175 miles of Churches, Boy Scouts, Girl the Mountains to Sea Trail Scouts, clubs and civic orgaSept. 9.

The event is called MST nizations are urged to take a in a Day. It will commemo- leg on Segment 14B. “Participants in Segment rate the 40th anniversary of a speech by Howard Lee, 14B are not required to start at any particular time,” said the then N.C. Secretary of EMS Report Natural Resources and Com- Proctor. “The only requireTotal number of Patient Contacts: 234 ment is a quick photo on the munity Development.

MST posted with a Pender On Sept.

9, 1977 Lee told a Calls per Station National Trails Symposium County Tourism tag on FaBurgaw Station 1 57 in Waynesville that North cebook.”

Sloop Point Station 14 24 For more in for mation Carolina should create a “state trail from the moun- about MST in a Day, go to Hampstead Station 16 26 tains to the coast, leading MSTinaDay.org. Register by Surf City Station 23 17 through communities as well following the instructions on Top. Beach Station 4 8 the website or email Tammy as natural areas.”

Howard Lee’s vision has Proctor at tproctor@penderUnion Station 5 26 come to fruition. The MST, countync.gov.

Rocky Point Station 7 42 “This is an exciting opporwhich treks from Clingman’s Atkinson Station 9 22 Dome to Jockey’s Ridge, tra- tunity for families, churches, verses the length of Pender and organizations to be a Maple Hill Station 13 3 part of this historic event.

County.

Scott Hill Station 18 0 “In Segment 14B, we need The MST has not been hiked Hwy 421 Station 29 9 walkers, hikers, joggers, or in one day by hundreds of cyclists on legs 1, 7, 8, 10, 11, people,” said Proctor.

Type of Calls

Local hikers, walkers, joggers, cyclists, and you are needed

Pender EMS & Fire Report August 20-26

Cancelled: 30 Refusals: 63 Stand by: 0 Transported: 126 Treated/released: 15 Fire Department Reports Total Calls: 74 Calls per Station Rescue Station 1 Burgaw 18 Fire Station 13 Maple Hill 3 Fire Station 14 Sloop Point 9 Fire Station 16 Hampstead 12 Fire Station 18 Scotts Hill 4 Fire Station 21 Long Creek 15 Fire Station 29 Hwy 421 13 EMS St. 4 Topsail Beach 0 Fire Call Type Summary Fire 8 Motor Vehicle Crash 9 Search and Rescue 0 EMS First Response 46 Cancelled 11 Ocean Rescue 0

AT&T

Continued from page 1A AT&T plans to reach more than 13,000 locations across North Carolina by 2020, with a significant portion of that goal

Water

Continued from page 1A “Utilities Inc.’s lawyer asked me if I knew how much they were going to spend on the upgrades. When I told her no, she stated that the amount was $500,000 and asked if I thought that was reasonable. I answered that in my engineering experience, this amount appeared reasonable.

We still do not know how soft or how clean the water will be after the upgrades,” Carrol wrote in an Aug. 29 email to the Post & Voice.

online by the end of 2017. The service has already launched in nine states and is a publicprivate partnership with the federal government.

For more information on Fixed Wireless Internet from AT&T, vist www.att.com/internet/fixedwireless.

At a mid-August community meeting in Hampstead with residents and Utilities Inc. representatives, the company pledged to take care of the water problems.

“It seems we have had another episode with the water since the community meeting,” Williams said. “Randell (Woodruff) attended the Utilities Commission public hearing in Wilmington last week and relayed our displeasure with the situation. There will be another Utilities Commission meeting in Raleigh. We are not happy with treatment and the level of service our citizens are receiving.”

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Breast cancer benefit tournament Sept. 16 at Belvedere

By Lori Kirkpatrick Post & Voice Staff Writer A golf tournament to benefit the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Research Foundation will be held at Belvedere Country Club in Hampstead.

The event will take place Sept. 16 with a 9 a.m. shotgun start.

The golf outing was started last year by local resident Chris Murray, along with his family. Murray’s wife lost her battle to breast cancer after enduring three years of treatment with absolute courage and a smile.

Murray said that last year’s tournament raised more than $6,000 with the help of 80 generous golfers and many local businesses.

“The golf tournament was started last year, and what

a success it was! We had so many people who participated. Their generosity, their support and their love was just overwhelming. This is the second annual, and we are right in line to at least match what was done l a s t y e a r ; and obviously we want to make it bigger and raise more money,” said Murray.

Susan G. Komen Foundation sponsors many fundraising events, such as the 3-Day, which is held in six different cities nationwide to raise awareness and funds for breast cancer research. The 60-mile walk is completed over the course of three days.

During that time, the teams camp together in the Komen 3-Day community. In order to participate, each team must have raised $2,300 prior to the event to help in the fight

against breast cancer. After the tournament, Murray and his kids will participate in the 3-Day in Atlanta, Georgia.

“We will walk through the streets of Atlanta for three days, 60 miles. We’ll walk approximately 20 miles a day, and at the end of each day, we will camp out and just enjoy the thousands of people that do this. You get to meet other people and to hear about their experiences, trials and tribulations - those of friends or family, or people that just want to raise awareness for the cause and to find a cure for breast cancer,” said Murray.

Participants can register for the tour nament up to and including the day of the event. A $300 fee covers the cost of a foursome, or $80 per single. The fee goes toward a practice green, range balls

and beverages throughout the day. Food will be provided afterwards, and raffle prizes will follow.

“We all went to local merchants to get donations for gift certificates and merchandise. We will sell raffle tickets and then raffle them off later on. We will have food, and Jersey Mike’s has always been a big sponsor. It’s just a great event. To get so many people out there and to get that kind of support is just almost overwhelming. We are hoping to continue this event and just grow it,” said Murray.

Belvedere Golf and Country Club is located at 2368 Country Club Dr. in Hampstead. For more information about the tournament, contact Chris Murray at (516) 776-0448 or email him at birdiesforeboobs@gmail.com.

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Millis concerned with Cape Fear River water quality N.C. House Representative Chris Millis (R-Pender) released a statement Sept. 24 on the Environmental Review Commission’s findings this week about the unlawful discharge of GenX into the Cape Fear River.

In the letter, Millis wrote the Environmental Review Commission (ERC) took action on Wednesday (Sept. 23) afternoon to begin the process of addressing the cocktail of chemical compounds that were discovered by academia in the Lower Cape Fear River Basin. It was appalling to review the timeline of events and hear the testimony concerning Chemours illegally discharging chemicals into our state waters. It was clear from the hearing that Chemours did not list the toxic chemicals, loosely called

Rep. Chris Millis GenX, on their state permit and do not appear to have adequately disclosed their discharge in their applications – a requirement under the Clean Water Act. Even after the Environ-

mental Review Commission’s first meeting on the matter, I remain extremely concerned about a number of issues: s 4O THIS DAY THE .ORTH Carolina Department of Environmental Quality has yet to issue a Notice of Violation (NOV) to the entity that has polluted our water. It is my understanding that while Chemours may have been per mitted to produce the chemicals in question, they were not permitted to discharge those chemicals into the Cape Fear River. Due to this understanding, an NOV seems in order and overdue. s 4HE EMPHASIS OF Chemours voluntarily ceasing to discharge pollutants into our water may appear as a positive step, but it must be understood that the discharge should never have happened

in the first place. If the administration continues to refrain from issuing an NOV, an injunction, or any other legal action to the polluter, then for us citizens there is practically nothing preventing the continued discharge of more pollutants in our water.

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Flood prevention is everyone’s problem Pender is prone to flooding; that fact is evident to anyone who has lived here for more than a few months. Even a bad thunderstorm or a week of afternoon pop-up showers can fill some ditches and wash out some driveways.

The urbanization of our landscape – both in towns and rural areas – is a major cause for these woes. Poor management of forests in some areas, agricultural drainage systems designed to get water off the fields and send it anywhere but between the rows, and millions of square yards of asphalt and concrete mean water has nowhere to go.

The problem with drainage, however, is not all beavers or forest stewardship or drainage canals or roadside ditches or hardened surfaces. Elementary as it may seem, we have to realize that drainage woes always begin upstream, with the source of the water, while we still think in terms of downstream.

Upstream is often the only direction in our minds, since that is where the water comes from that swamps our driveways and parking lots and floods our homes. We want it gone, and we want it gone now. We have to realize, however, that the problems we alleviate in our own front yards began in someone else’s a few miles away.

Every drainage project has to take into account where the water will go; yes, this is another ridiculously simple thing, but simply knocking out a beaver dam or a bunch of fallen trees below your home, business or even municipality won’t solve the problem. All you’re doing is displacing the problem – much as your neighbors upstream already did. Consider the old-time small town cop giving a vagrant a ride to the town limits and sending him on his way; all he has done is made the vagrant a problem for the next town down the road.

If we are honest with ourselves, a lot of the drainage problems we see on our properties (as opposed to the major issues in rivers and streams) are products of our own making. No one likes an open ditch in their front yard, or a drain leading to a municipal system. We want manicured and landscaped lawns, not canals and laterals. We want and need fields and golf courses that drain, as opposed to the Carolina forest designed to absorb large quantities of rain.

This is not to say we should all pack up and move to the city, and let nature reclaim what is hers. What we need to do, however, is to find a balance between the needs and wants of man, and the natural function of everything from swamps to fields. We have to realize that what we manage to get off our patch of land has got to go somewhere, just as our neighbors a few feet higher in elevation moved their excess water in our direction.

There is no single, simple answer to drainage. There are some skilled folks in nearly every branch of the public service working on ways to improve drainage for the public at large, and it’s reassuring to have leaders who have finally realized that solutions are required, and don’t come cheap or easy.

At the same time, however, we have a responsibility as individuals to think about what happens to the water we don’t want. Drainage is a problem for everyone, and everyone has a piece of this mud pie that is theirs and theirs alone to eat.

Working together will make a distasteful job a little better for everyone.

Notes from the Field

People helping people

Bill Messer It’s not a perfect world, and for some people it’s not even a good world. The thought of a normal, largely uneventful life is a dream out of reach to many children.

For some it’s almost always an endless cycle of drugs, alcohol and violence.

This story is far too common. Even so, many manage to escape the hopelessness.

For some who made it, there’s a desire to share with others, to help them along.

This is basis for the Roots of Recovery project, which will offer safe shelter for

addict mothers with children to begin the process of recovery. Land has just been purchased, lot cleanup has begun. I had already talked to Catherine McDowell, one of the founders of the project, and now I had a chance to talk with one of the participant workers.

“I’m Jennifer Melton, and I live in Beaufort, NC. I love it. I’m originally from Virginia, about four years.”

“How did you get involved with the project?” I asked.

“Well, I’m a Yoga instructor, and I heard about the Yoga Festival, and started promoting it on my Facebook page, sharing the event, a great cause.

“I’m an independent, I teach all over. I teach at Uptown Yoga, mostly, and fitness centers, rec centers. I had posted a donation page on Facebook, and advertised classes where the proceeds

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Jefferson Weaver

Homes, hounds, and happiness About the only good thing one can say about moving is that you find things you thought were long since lost.

I guess technically this is the second time in a year that we have moved, maybe even arguably the third.

Matthew pushed us out of our home last October, and we ended up throwing away more than we kept, like many of you. Then we had to move out of the camper trailer back into our house, only to watch the water rising precipitously again.

A number of factors have led to us heading for a new home, one which doesn’t flood and doesn’t have any mold, even though it does become an island on occasion if the beavers work harder than the Department of Transportation ditch cleaning crews.

The living room at Meadowsweet has become shipping central, as box after box is assiduously packed, taped (I prefer duct tape, Miss Rhonda likes the heavy clear shipping stuff) and labeled. I have unmercifully harassed my friends at Herald Office and the Family Dollar stores, likely cornering the market on cardboard. I now have bottles of ibuprofen on my desk, in the truck, in the car, and at home. A few more things that we somehow missed during the dryout period have been tossed, and the sneaky nature of mold

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Jefferson Weaver has led me to dig deeper time and again into old family photos and documents that I was reasonably sure were safe.

I was down deep in one of those boxes the other night when I came across a handful of history – well, fairly modern history, by normal standards, and the kind that few folks even care about outside of our family.

The handful of pictures amazed me, I will admit.

While my wife is still as young a beautiful as she was when we married 25 years ago, I can’t figure out who the smiling guy with the short dark hair and close black beard might be. Seems unlikely that the fellow is me, but the dates work out right. Plus, I don’t remember having a younger brother, much less one standing at the altar with

my bride on that miserably hot June afternoon.

That pile of paper and emulsion was a snapshot, if you will, of years long since forgotten in detail, even if they weren’t really that long ago.

Take for instance, a slightly crooked vertical shot of a mid-1870s West Indies influenced Victorian house with a real estate sign, a blue BMW and a blue Chevette parked out front.

Look between the slats of the balcony, and you can barely make out the noses of Dixie and Tigger as they tried to figure out this whole city-dwelling thing. It took us two years and a booming real estate market to realize our mistake and flee back where we belonged.

A little further down

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Check-in services for seniors Dear Savvy Senior, Are there any services you know of that check in on elderly seniors who live alone.

I worry about my 84-year-old father falling or having a medical emergency, and not being able to get to the phone to call for help. And he won’t wear a lifeline help-button.

Desperate Daughter Dear Desperate, Depending on where your dad lives, there are check-in call services, volunteer visiting programs, and a variety of technology options you can turn to that can help you keep tabs on him. Here are several to check into.

Daily check-in calls To make sure your dad is OK every day, consider signing him up with a daily check-in call service program. These are telephone reassurance programs run by police or sheriff ’s departments in hundreds of counties across the country and are usually provided free of charge.

Here’s how they work. A computer automated phone system would call your dad at a designated time each day to check-in. If he answers, the system would assume everything is OK. But if he didn’t pick up or if the call goes to voice mail after repeated tries, you (or whoever his designee is) would get a notification call. If you are not reachable, calls are then made to backup people who’ve also agreed to check on your dad if necessary.

The fallback is if no one

can be reached, the police or other emergency services personnel will be dispatched to his home.

To find out if this service is available in your dad’s community, call his local police department’s nonemergency number.

If, however, the police or sheriff ’s department in your dad’s community doesn’t provide a daily check-in call program, there are a number of companies you can turn to that offer similar services offered directly to consumers for under $15 per month.

Some to check into include the CARE senior calling program (Call-Reassurance.com), CareCheckers (CareCheckers. com) and IAmFine (Iamfine. com).

Volunteer visiting programs Another option you may also want to investigate is volunteer visiting programs, which are usually run by churches, community groups, or social service agencies.

These programs provide volunteers who will visit an older adult in their home usually for an hour or two once a week, providing companionship as well as the reassurance that someone is checking in on a regular basis. They can also alert you if they notice your dad’s health or living conditions start to decline.

To find out if these ser-

vices are available, check with local churches or the area agency on aging near your dad – call the Eldercare Locator at 800-677-1116 for contact information.

Technology solutions Technology also offers a number of ways to help keep your dad safe at home, and help you keep an eye on him from afar. For example, for safety and peace of mind there are medical alert systems, which provide a wearable “help button” that would allow him to call for help anytime he needed it. Some of these systems (like Bay Alarm Medical, BayAlarmMedical.com) also offer wallmounted buttons that can be placed near the floor in high fall risk areas like the bathroom or kitchen, if he didn’t wear a help button.

And to help you keep daily tabs on your dad, there are wireless sensor-monitoring systems (like Silver Mother, Sen.se/silvermother) you could put in his home that will notify you if something out of the ordinary is happening; and video monitoring cameras (like the Nest Cam, Nest.com/camera) that have built-in motion and sound detection that will let you know when something is detected, and two-way audio that will let you talk and listen to him.

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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Hot Hula Party I have enjoyed many events at Sound Side Park, but never one like this. Yes, years of festivals, concerts, movies and Easter sunrise services, but I have never even stepped on the stage much less dreamed of dancing on it.

Juliana’s Hot Hula party was just the ticket for kicking off a sunny Saturday on the island; it was a total blast.

Thankful I saw it in the paper Friday night, I considered staying in bed but opted for the adventure. What an energizing experience it was, dancing outdoors to tribal beats and beautiful Polynesian music overlooking the water while getting my workout in bare feet.

Some of us were obviously more experienced than others, and I was glad to see I was not the only first timer. Watching some of those women roll and shake their hips like that took me right back to the luau on our Hawaiian vacation earlier this year. They have obviously been doing this awhile, and I look forward to practicing.

I have always been a big Jazzercise/ Zumba kind of girl so this was right up my alley. Paired with a beautiful day outdoors and no shoes required, this is by far my new favorite workout.

The experience exuded the Aloha spirit; the core of the Polynesian and Hawaiian culture of love, compassion, sympathy and kindness. Aloha is more than merely a simple salutation. Aloha means mutual regard and affection, extending warmth and caring with no obligation in return.

“Aloha” is the essence of relationships in which each person is important to every other person for collective existence.

Aloha means to hear what is not said, to see what cannot be seen and to know the unknowable.

As I looked out over the water at the huge cranes, concrete and construction underway, I envisioned the completed high-rise bridge in full swing two years from now.

Tourists will be hustling and bustling, coming and going in both directions, and I wonder how likely we are to be here to offer the beautiful welcome of island women wrapped in bright floral sarongs sharing the aloha spirit through movement, music and dance.

The Aloha experience inspired ideas for my upcoming team-building program as well.

How perfectly it captures the essence of crafting a positive culture and the shared responsibility and reciprocity that comes with it. It is a perfect backdrop for our collaborative journey toward employee engagement, commitment, communication and creative collaboration.

You don’t even have to be on an island to experience the Aloha spirit, nor is trying Hot Hula required, though it will definitely take you one step closer. ALOHA. Keep your eye out for the next Hot Hula party at Soundside Park, I hope to see you there.

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Newsings & Musings

Edith Batson More reminiscing from the past Our neighbors across the street, Hawley Townes and Eugie Watters, called us little children over to their yard and had us dig a Fairy Hole.

We decorated the hole with flowers and leaves, and went to the front of the house where we could not see what was going on.

Later when we went to the

Weaver Continued from page 4A the stack, I found Tigger, his head cocked to one side in the permanently goofy expression created by a head injury when we moved back to the country, trying to figure out how to escape a litter of puppies, many of whom bore his face, pre-disaster. That picture was taken in the yard of another, even older house we called home for a while.

Wild roses are climbing the picket fence I made from salvaged packing crates, and a gnarled, angry-looking pear tree is in the background.

The new owners burned my fence and cut down the pear tree, thus giving me an even deeper distrust of some

Messer Continued from page 4A would go to the (Roots of Recovery) project. “I had put up three or four paragraphs about my own history. My mother was an addict. I grew up in a house of addiction and abuse.

Sometimes my mother would leave us for days at a time, sometimes with no food. We lived in an old school house, no running water, no electricity, no heat. My job was to try to take care of my siblings.

My mother would come back and act as if nothing had happened and all was OK. Catherine saw that post and reached out to me and asked if I would share my story with Roots of Recovery.� “How did you break away from that background?� I asked. “I left,� she answered. “Probably the best decision I ever made, to leave the environment. Once I was old enough to get a job. I had two jobs, I was sixteen, and I worked my butt off until I had enough to leave, and I left. “I think if I had stayed I wouldn’t be in much better position than my parents were. I don’t think it would have been easy to get out of. I had to leave.�

We talked for a while about growing up in household environments with addiction, and in my case, my father’s alcohol problems, and told Jennifer that when he joined AA it was a great relief, and when he invited me to his 10 year anniversary I was immensely proud of what he had done. “If you want to get out, you have to change everything,� Jennifer emphasized. “You have to change your whole life.� “What do you know about this project?� I asked. “It’s going to be a small community, to help women with children get out of their situation,� she said “Do you know how big the lot is, and the condition of the property?� I asked.

She laughed, “It’s eight acres, and the condition is very poor. It needs a lot of work. But with this group of people, it will happen

back yard, we found lots of candy in the hole. The fairies had left it for us. We were happy little campers.

In his later years, my Daddy decided he needed a new car. He went to the Ford place, and the salesman suggested he test drive a car. As soon as he started driving, the salesman saw that the speedometer was reading 85 miles an hour, while the car was going down Third Street in Wilmington, a main thoroughfare.

The salesman asked Daddy to pull over to the side and stop. He decided that Mr. Crowley did not need a new car. So Daddy went home without buying his new car.

My brothers once got in trouble for throwing tomatoes at school. The policemen came and got them and told them they would have to go to the police station. When they got there, one of my brothers said, “Now you just watch, my Daddy’s going to

get here and he’s going to pray for all of us.�

Sure enough, when Preacher Crowley came in, he prayed for all of the boys, he prayed for all of the policemen, and he prayed for everything he could think of.

He had a very long prayer, and the boys all fidgeted, but they were polite. I don’t think they ever got in that kind of trouble again!

Sometimes we would go to Greenfield Lake to swim.

Most of us got impetigo and had to get out and have green medicine put on us. After that, we didn’t go swimming there much.

I had an older friend who was in high school and had a car to drive. Unbeknownst to her parents, she would drive her boyfriend and me to Greenfield Lake. I was under age, but she let me drive the car while she and her boyfriend held hands and smooched in the back seat.

During World War II, all

of my brothers joined the service. While they were defending our country, I was working as a cashier at the USO. Lots of the boys would come up and talk to me and tell me about their girlfriends or their troubles back home. I just listened. I was a good listener. One night, one of the young Army men came to talk to me. He was very serious and said, “my name is not Norman Jones, as I told you. I am Jewish and I thought you would not talk to me, knowing that.�

I was extremely shocked when he told me. I told him that I had Jewish friends and a Jewish family lived on our block. I was glad that he decided to tell me the truth, so I could let him know I was not offended by his being Jewish. The Jewish people were God’s chosen people.

I knew that from the Bible.

I always loved the Jewish people I knew.

Shalom!

Yankees.

There are other dogs, too – Grizzly looking regal, Biscuit looking silly, Pitty asleep on the top of the couch, sprawling in the impossible way that only hounds can accomplish.

Our theory is that a house just ain’t a home without a dog and a cat underfoot.

Pass through a few more pictures, and there are my parents, both healthy and smiling (although she smiled and laughed a lot, Miss Lois didn’t often smile for the camera); in the same handful are my in-laws, also healthy, smiling and significantly younger.

There was the back of my 1955 Chevy, and the side of my second ’61 Chevrolet Apache 10, the one that had to have the fuel filter cleaned

after every fill-up.

There were a lot of pictures of my wife, not surprisingly holding kittens and puppies (we hadn’t started rescuing wildlife or horses back then). Apparently we had a surplus of cats during the March 13, 1993 nor’easter, or else we had nothing better to do than take pictures of cats and kittens when the lights went out and the temperatures plunged.

There were more pictures of that younger looking fellow, too – one with coal dust and soot ingrained in his face after a weekend in the blacksmith shop, another in a short sleeve shirt (horrors!) on some beach, and still others whose location or context have long since been lost.

Our new home has a long

hallway; as soon as Miss Rhonda and her buddies finish painting, and a few more chores are completed, I may have to take the time to put some of those pictures in frames. A photo-lined hallway may be seen as kitschy by some folks, but I rarely care much about the opinions of snooty folks who may or may not ever come in my house.

A home is meant to be lived in, not delicately preserved like a landmark, and what better way to show a place has life than to line a hallway with a bunch of memories of homes, hounds and happiness.

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quickly.�

Because of the nature of the project, the location will remain undisclosed. It’s best to remain a low profile as the population will be families in turmoil, and ‘undisclosed locations’ are safer. The lot was a mess, with abandoned and dilapidated structures, and mountains of discarded junk left behind. The central tool was an excavator and blade to pick up piles of debris and push it into a drive-in end loading refuse bin. Old mattresses, old furniture, old just about everything else quickly filled the container.

will be children, they may be a bit bigger, but I don’t know how much,� she explained. “When do you think it’ll be up and running?� I asked. “Hopefully within a year,� she answered. “Will you be involved in Roots of Recovery?� I asked. “I hope to be an advocate for the kids, raising funds, raising awareness, hoping to expand the project and maybe start in other locations because it doesn’t affect just Hampstead, it affects the whole nation.� “Is this based on a project you’ve seen somewhere else?� I asked. “No,� she answered, “I’ve not seen anything like this anywhere. There are similar programs, but they don’t allow children. “The problem is that a lot of women won’t reach out for help because they have no one to take care of the children, they don’t have the resources, a lot of them are single mothers, no families to rely on, and once the kids are in the foster care program, it is very, very hard to get them

back out again, especially if you’re an addict.�

I added, “Yes, there’s a history and background, and worse, searchable records.� “Yes, and the best predictor of future behavior is past performance, especially with the relapse rate being what it is.� “OK, what Yoga skills are you bringing here today?� I asked. “Today?� she questioned, then answered, holding her hands up, “Today I’m bringing these.� “Oh, yes,� I laughed, “I see, you’re bringing Yoga Hands! You’re hoping to bring spiritual oneness to the effort and help clear out all

I was familiar with the planned community, to be a cluster of ‘tiny homes’, in which a mother and her children would live during her program stay. This is the unique feature on Root of Recovery – it keeps the children with the mother. Usually, when a mother is involved in a treatment program, the children are removed by a state agency, and live in foster homes. “I imagine, because there

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Facts and myths about germs at school Everybody seems to have an opinion about germs -- what causes them, where they’re located, how to avoid them -- especially when it comes to children.

Experts say that American children miss 22 million days of school annually due to colds, flu and other infections.

“Avoiding germs at schools isn’t as simple as just washing your hands in the bathroom or sneezing into your sleeve,” says Charles Gerba, Ph.D., professor of microbiology and environmental sciences at the University of Arizona.

“Germs are on everything kids touch in the classroom, as well as around the hallways, cafeteria and playground.”

With this in mind, it is important to separate facts from myths about germs in schools. s &ACT $ESKS ARE AMONG the most germ-prone items.

It’s true! Students spend most of the day at their desks -sneezes, coughs and all -- and, in some schools, they often switch classrooms and share desks with others. At the end of the day, students bring home that cocktail of germs to their families. s -YTH !NY HAND SANITIZER will do. According to research from the University of Colorado at Boulder, people carry an average of 3,200 bacteria on their hands. While most hand sanitizers are 99.9 percent effective at killing germs, some only last for a few minutes or until the application dries on the skin. Therefore, parents should consider applying hand sanitizers for their children

By Karen Sota Sea Turtle Hospital Special to the Post & Voice

that last throughout the day, such as Zoono’s GermFree24, which is proven to last for 24 hours on skin and is available as both a foam and a spray. s &ACT 'ERMS CAN AFFECT kids outside the classroom.

Germs in schools aren’t just isolated to classrooms. They are everywhere, including cafeteria trays, playground jungle gyms and sports equipment.

In fact, the Clinical Journal of Sports Medicine found 63 percent of gym equipment is contaminated with rhinovirus, which causes the common cold. Reminding children to wash their hands before and after using these items (and wiping them down) will go a long way toward preventing sickness. s -YTH 3TICKING THINGS IN your mouth is child’s play.

Sure, curiosity might drive preschoolers to stick items in their mouths that don’t belong. However, older students who nervously chew on pen caps, especially ones they borrow from classmates, or on their own fingernails during

tough tests, are susceptible to picking up the germs that are traversing through school. s &ACT "ACKPACKS CARRY more than just books. Backpacks go everywhere – to classrooms, inside lockers, in the cafeteria, in locker rooms -- and collect various germs throughout the day. Periodically clean backpacks inside and out. And make sure lunches and other food items, as well as gym clothes, are packed in separate bags to avoid crosscontamination of germs. s -YTH 3HARING IS ALWAYS caring. Just about every school supply -- from pens and pencils to headphones to sport jerseys -- can be a vehicle for harmful bacteria. Make sure children are ar med with their own items, including mechanical pencils to avoid using the classroom’s pencil sharpener, and avoid sharing their supplies with classmates.

When it comes to germs, separating myths from facts can help you have a happier, healthier school year. (StatePoint)

Back-to-school organization tips for busy families The new school year brings hectic mornings, piles of homework, endless events, practices, games and school conferences.

When you’re a busy parent, day-to-day tasks can consume your thoughts and energy. Stay organized and sane by following these simple tips to handle the crush of the school year.

Centralize communication Communication is key when it comes to organization. Stay in sync with your family by using a digital calendar. Smartphone apps such as Hub allow multiple users to share to-do and shopping lists, appointments, commitments and more.

In addition, many apps have messaging capabilities to ensure users can share specific details and instructions (“Bring treats for the holiday party Tuesday”) and last-minute changes (“Grandma is picking up the kids today”) with one or more family members.

Organization station If your family prefers a physical calendar, incorporate it into a complete “home command station” in an area everyone passes, like a nook in the kitchen or a corner in the family room. Build out the space as the central location for organization. Use chalk-

board paint to create a reusable messaging wall for daily assignments and appointments.

Include a shelf or cubby with an inbox and outbox so permission slips, bills and important documents don’t get lost.

Make this station even more useful by adding a dedicated space for children to do homework. Include a desk, computer, school supplies and a bright desk lamp.

Encourage success by posting recent “wins” nearby, like that aced spelling test or impressionist masterpiece. Utilize file cabinets, labeled folders or pouches to separate print materials and USB flash drives by subject, so homework can be handled with less stress.

Modify meal prep Before heading to the market, map out meals for the week that share common ingredients, to increase efficiency and reduce waste; then create a shopping list packed with fruits, vegetables and whole grains. Maintain a consistent supply of fresh, delicious produce with subscription boxes or community-supported agriculture membership.

Prep breakfasts and lunches the night before to save time in the morning and ensure your family consumes healthy,

whole foods, versus pre-packaged convenience foods.

Smoothies provide a nutritious breakfast or snack at home or on-the-go. Prepare and freeze individual servings of chopped fruits and vegetables in resealable bags. When you’re ready to use, place the frozen produce into a high-powered blender, such as the Vitamix A3300 Ascent Series blender, add almond milk, soy milk or water and blend on high until the desired consistency is reached.

For lunch, prep powerpacked meals with items like almond and seed butters to provide protein, healthy fats, vitamins and minerals. Mix unsalted, roasted almonds and canola oil in a high-powered blender to create homemade almond butter; or blend sunflower seeds, flaxseed, sesame seeds and sunflower oil for an allergy-friendly no-nut butter.

Pair these delicious spreads with jam on whole-wheat bread for a twist on a traditional lunchbox favorite.

Staying organized is not easy. There might be occasional disarray, but making just a few small changes will help you reap the benefits of a more balanced life this back-to-school season. (StatePoint)

The Hospital tour schedule will be changing soon. We are open for tours through Saturday, Sept. 16 on our regular five day schedule with the following exceptions: Closed Saturday, Sept. 2, Monday, Sept. 4 and Thursday, Sept.

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As always our hours will be noon until 4 p.m. daily, except Wednesdays and Sundays.

Our tour schedule changes to fall hours beginning the week of Sept. 17 when we will be open only on Thursdays and Saturdays from 1-4 p.m. through the end of the year.

Admission is $5 for adults, $4 for active military and seniors 65 and older and $3 for children 12 and younger. The hospital is located at 302 Tortuga Lane in Surf City. From NC 50/210 turn onto Charlie Medlin Dr. (your landmark is Shipwreck Point Mini Golf) and follow it through the roundabout onto Tortuga.

Our gift shop is open during tours and we have a lot of exclusive hospital clothing and plush animal merchandise, as well as other sea turtle stuff. Come in and meet our turtles and our staff. We all speak fluent sea turtle.

Nesting ends, hatchlings busting out all over By the time you read this our turtle ladies will be offthe-clock and headed back to deeper waters for the winter. As of this writing we’re still hoping to break that 100 mark.

We had an end-of-season green mama nest last week, something relatively rare for Topsail as we are primarily loggerhead territory.

We ask that our locals and visitors be our extra eyes and report any turtle tracks, hatchings, turtles in distress, injured (or dead) to our Director of Beach Operations Terry Meyer at 910-470-2880; Hospital Director Jean Beasley at 910-470-2800 or the state hotline for stranded, sick and injured turtles at 252-241-7367.

The state number picks up 24/7.

A nest with a ramp constructed to point the baby turtles to the ocean.

Questions we can’t answer when you call the hospital Sorry, but there are some questions to which we just don’t have any answer. We have no specific nesting data on hand at the hospital, and even if we did there is absolutely no way for us to know exactly when and where a nest will hatch. It’s up to the babes; they come out when they’re ready.

If you’re on the beach look for a nest with a ramped area and our volunteers gathered around keeping vigil, you may get lucky. We also do not have any way of predicting exactly how many visitors we might have on any particular day or at a certain time. Visitors come whenever they and their family want to, so wait times vary.

Saturdays have historically been the least crowded.

Another question – can we interact with the turtles?

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Carolyn Rhodes Hinson BURGAW -- Carolyn Rhodes Hinson, age 82, of Burgaw

passed away Tuesday Aug. 22, 2017 at the Laurels of Pender surrounded by her loving family. She was bor n May 4, 1935 in Myrtle Beach SC daughter of the late Malcolm and Ruth Rhodes.

She is survived by her loving husband of 64 and a half years, Welburn Ezzel “Boots” Hinson; two sons, Charles Hinson and wife Beth of South Carolina and Daniel Hinson and wife Carol of Burgaw; grandchildren, Nicholas Hinson, Patrick and Dalyn Smith and Kevin and Rebecca Smith, Meredith and Ashley Dupalevich and Leanna Clark; great grandchildren, Reagan, Brantley and Ryanne Smith; sister Catherine Fontaine and husband

Teddy of Florida; and brother Carlton Rhodes and wife Ruth of South Carolina.

Carolyn was a Registered Nurse and was the Pender County School Health Nurse for many years. She devoted her life to giving and caring for others.

She was a member of Westview United Methodist Church. Carolyn liked flowers, loved to cook and enjoyed spending time with her family.

Carolyn’s Funeral Service was held Saturday Aug. 26, 2017 at Westview UMC at 2 p.m. Pastor Fred Roberts officiated. Burial followed at Riverview Memorial Park.

A visitation was held the day before, Friday Aug. 25,

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Shared memories and condolences can be sent to the family at www.harrellsfh. com.

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Alice Scarborough Boney WALLACE -- Alice Scarborough Boney, 92, of the Deep Bottom Community in Wallace died Monday, Aug. 21 at Autumn Village Assistant

Living in Beulaville.

Funeral services were held at 1 p.m. Friday, Aug, 25, 2017 at Union Missionary Baptist Church in Deep Bottom.

Burial was in the Burton Cemetery. Visitation was held from noon until 1 p.m. Friday at the church.

Survivors inclue a daughter, Mary Whitlock and husband Lee of Tampa, Florida; son Charles Scarborough and wife Nellie of Wallace, along with eight grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren, and a host of nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.

Electronic condolences may be left at nixonlewisfuneralhome.com. The family was served by Nixon Lewis Funeral Home, Burgaw.

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The Burgaw Parks and Recreation Department has installed the first Born Learning Trail in Pender County along the Osgood Canal Greenway in Rotary Park. This project was funded by the United Way of the Cape Fear Area and the Cape Fear Medical Alliance. On Volunteers of all ages came out Aug. 25 to dig holes for posts, paint inactive designs on the greenway and clean up the trail. Thanks to our donors and volunteers, Burgaw residents for decades will benefit from this great feature along the Greenway. A ribbon cutting ceremony will be held in Rotary Park Sept. 7th at 10 a.m. For more information contact Zachary White 910-300-6401 or recreation@townofburgaw.com.

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Continued from page 5A that junk and trash?”

“Yes, I hope to help clear all that negative energy out of there, make the environment clean and happy!” she laughed.

Curious about Yoga in general, I asked Jennifer about her training and what kind of Yoga she practices.

“I was trained at the Asheville Yoga Center. I’m at a 200 hour level, training for my 500 hour level.”

Once again, I was called to demonstrate how little I know about the differences in the terms Yoga, Yogi, Swami, Guru, and the various disciplines involved. It all involves an inward self-examination and physical discipline to find one’s place in the universe

of things, achieving a sense of purpose to get closer to an inner spiritual being and one’s relationship with the Creator.

Yoga is a means of selfdiscipline that can refocus a life at loose ends with itself, and is a tool to be used in the Roots of Recovery project.

“I think we need to break the cycle, and having a safe place where the children can stay with their mother is very important. I remember when my mother was an addict, and we were put in foster care, that really pushed her over the edge.”

That’s the dilemma Roots of Recovery hopes to alleviate, the desire to keep a mother and her children together throughout the recovery process, healing as a unit, and avoiding the uncertainty of foster care for the children, and the anxiety of separation

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Titans hammer West Brunswick 48-0

By Bobby Norris Post & Voice Sports Writer The Heide Trask Titan football team could have hung its head after losing their starting quarterback to injury in their season opening loss to Topsail. In fact the Titan teams of years past might have done just that.

But this is a different Trask football team with a different attitude.

Friday night they traveled to West Columbus and laid the hammer down on the Vikings to the tune of a 48-0 walloping.

“I can’t say enough about the resiliency of this team,” said Head Coach Jonathan Taylor. “We have a great bunch of guys. The coaching

staff went to work on Monday and did a great job of getting the team prepared to go.

We played well as a team. I am very proud of the guys.”

With senior quarterback Tyrease Armstrong in street clothes, the Titans depended on junior Jacob Johnson to run the vaunted triple option. Despite being the backup, Johnson had gotten plenty of repetitions and that showed as he had a full week

of practice before traveling to Columbus County. “We feel comfortable with Jake back there,” said Taylor. “We hope to get Tyrease back but we are waiting on the results of the MRI. The team has really rallied around Jake and so has Tyrease.”

Trask jumped on the Vikings early and often and took a 7-0 lead in the first quarter. They stretched that lead to 21-0 at the break.

The Titans continued to push forward in the second half and added two more touchdowns. The Titans took a 35-0 lead into the final period and added two more touchdowns to the final margin.

Senior Brian Sarvis led the Titans with 138 yards

rushing and a touchdown while B.J. Jordan chipped in two touchdown runs. Johnson was efficient in his first start, rushing for 79 yards on eight carries. He found the end zone once. The Titans rushed for 394 yards and had seven different players run the football.

Foster Williamson was back after missing the first game and led the Titan defense with seven tackles and 1.5 sacks while Mac Richardson had six tackles and a sack. The Titans had four sacks in the football game.

Trask (1-1) will travel to Brunswick County on Friday to engage the 3A South Brunswick Cougars of the Mid-Eastern Conference.

Game time is 7 p.m.

Pirates rout Patriots 34-6; move to 2-0

By Lee Wagner Post & Voice Sports Writer The night started poorly for the Pender football faithful when it was discovered early that the scoreboard clock wasn’t going to work.

It got a touch worse when the Patriots came on the field with gray uniforms with hard-tosee blue numbers that had viewers – and the home announcer – guessing as to who was doing what.

It went downhill from there because Topsail sophomore running back Noah LaValle was back on the field for Topsail after missing the Pirates’ opening game.

There was one bright spot for the Patriot faithful, and his name is Latrell Brown.

LaValle carried the ball 20 times for 145 yards and scored twice, and senior quarterback Jacob “Hurricane” Floyd ran for 71 yards and a score and was an efficient 5-for-7 passing for 37 yards and a touchdown as Topsail led from start-tofinish in a 34-6 victory over Pender in the season’s second game for both teams.

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Pirate quarterback Jacob Floyd plows through the Pender defense.

The win gave the Pirates (2-0) the mythical Pender County Championship after wins over both county rivals.

Pender fell to 0-2 despite the play of the ultra-talented Brown, who had 20 carries for 190 yards while running over, under, and around Pirate defenders.

Brown had a 60-yard scamper that accounted for the Pa-

triot’s only touchdown in two games following a 22-0 blanking at the hands of Lakewood in their season opener.

“If we stay healthy we have a chance to do some good things,” Topsail Coach Wayne Inman said. “We’re a little dinged up but we’ve played tough these first games. We weren’t going to play Noah that much but D. J. (junior

running back Montano) got hurt early-on and we lost Josh (senior fullback Smith), and we were without Hayden (junior running back) Walsh so we pretty much had to leave him out there.

“Don’t let the score fool you, that’s a pretty good football team over there, and before the year ends they’re going to win some football games. No. 3 (Brown) is one heck of a football player. But our defense, except for that one long run, did a pretty good job of shutting them down everywhere else. Overall I am pleased, but there is still a lot of work that needs to be done to get us better.”

Competitively, it wasn’t much of a contest. Topsail scored on their opening possession with an 11-play, 72-yard drive that ended with LaValle going in from five-yards out. It became 13-0 on the Pirates’ next possession after a bad snap on fourth down by Pender gave the Pirates possession at the Patriot one-yard line. Hersey “Munchie” Fennell went into

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Lady Pirates top Pender, Northside, fall to WCA

By Lee Wagner Post & Voice Sports Writer It’s still too early to assess where the young Topsail volleyball team is after just five games – especially with the tough Mid-Eastern 3A/4A Conference just beginning

this past Tuesday. But if you can look at Lady Pirates’ results from repeat encounters with Pender and Northside, the observation would be they are improving.

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In My Opinion

By Bobby Norris Post & Voice Sports Writer

Watching the little league World Series last weekend made me think back to the days that I played little league baseball. Those were the days. I remember sitting in class as a seven and eight year old during the spring waiting for the final bell of the day to ring so I could go home and begin getting ready for the night’s game.

Back in the day little league baseball was the big deal of the summer. If you were a baseball player of any caliber you looked forward to getting out on the field and trying to show the world that you were the big deal.

When I was young there was no minor league or machine pitch or even t-ball. It was little league from 8-12 and pony league from 1314. I started playing at age eight. My first team was Kentucky Fried Chicken.

How ironic, huh.

That first year I was scared to death. I played the minimum two innings in most games. I was not a bad ball player for my age. However, I was intimidated by the older kids. I struggled for most of the year. However, late that year something happened that changed my outlook on the game.

It was the final week of the season and we were in the hunt for the league championship. I remember it like it was yesterday. We were playing the top team in the league. We were in second place and we were up late in the game. It was the fifth inning and they had to put the subs in. You had to bat at least once and play six outs I believe. When I got up to bat the one thing that I feared the most happened.

I got hit by a pitch. Now this was hard to do because I was stepping out before the pitch was half way to me every single at bat. Anyway, I got hit and to my surprise I didn’t die or lose a limb. I trotted down to first base to the cheers of the fans. Man, I was in hog heaven. I scored that inning and when we went into the field in the top of the sixth I was inserted into right field. Yep, right field, the place where they put you when they tried to hide you. Well, I had just scored the go ahead run and I was Mickey Mantle, Hank Aaron and Babe Ruth all rolled into one.

While I was riding high there was still one problem.

I could not catch a fly ball.

As luck would have it the first two batters struck out or grounded out or something. All I remember was it didn’t get hit to me. Well, not so fast. The next batter hit a deep fly ball to right and there I stood, petrified.

I took two steps up and a couple of steps back and then stuck my glove up and closed my eyes. Pop! The ball hit my glove and stuck.

I had caught the fly ball that ended the game! Say Hey Willie who? I was the man!

That one game changed my baseball life. I worked hard and played as much as I could with the kids in the neighborhood through late summer and fall and winter and when next spring came along I was a different ball player. I started every game from then on until I started playing pony league ball.

I had the highest batting average on my team when I was 12 and also pitched a no-hitter. Looking back I think that the last week of my first year of organized baseball changed my life.

Confidence is a very important part of an athletes makeup. As a coach I believe that it should be one of the things that you should focus on.

Next time you see me on the sidelines ask me about the time I was tossed from a baseball game as a 12-yearold for arguing balls and strikes.

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After a dismal season last year, the Lady Titans are off to a 3-0 start this year.

Trask volleyball off to 3-0 start

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By Bobby Norris Post & Voice Sports Writer The first home game of the year should be a big deal. For the Pender Patriot football team it meant facing cross county rival Topsail. The field was wet and the scoreboard failed to fire up.

That should have been a precursor as to how the night would unfold as the Pirates used the return of sophomore sensation Noah Lavalle to run past the home team Patriots 34-6.

Topsail received the opening kickoff and proceeded to grind its way down the field.

It took 11 running plays to go 73 yards with Lavalle scoring from seven-yards out. The extra point failed but the Pirates had set the tone for the night.

The Patriots night started on a bad note. On their first series from scrimmage they went three and out. On fourth down from the 16-yard line a

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bad snap to the punter coupled with an illegal pass attempt gave the Pirates first and goal on the one-yard line.

Hersey Fennell plunged in from the one-yard line and the extra point sailed through the uprights. The Patriots found themselves down 13-0 with just over half of the first quarter gone.

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When the Heide Trask Titan volleyball team entered the summer high school volleyball league the plan was for the team to get acclimated to coach Cathy Claris and each other.

Coach Claris made it clear that the team would focus on getting better no matter what the scores were. That plan seems to have worked to near perfection as the Lady Titans are off to a 3-0 record after coming back from a 2-0 deficit to beat Cape fear Academy last Thursday. The scores were 16-25, 20-25, 25-23, 25-22 and 15-11.

Cape Fear Academy came ready to play and took the first game in easy fashion. They broke open a close game in the second set and came away with a five point win. From there the Lady Titans buckled down and played their style of volleyball.

“Once we won game three

we led in the other two games the whole time but we still had to battle for the win,” said Claris. “We seem to be a slow starting team and take a set or two to get warmed up. CFA is a good team. We just needed to start hitting the ball more and we did. Plus serving improved as the match went on.”

Emily Oyler had a good match. She hit the ball over 20 times and had eight kills for the match as well as three digs. Brittany Foy did a nice job on the back row as the libero. She had three 3 aces and four digs among her over 40 passes up. Libby Smith lead all servers will 20-21 serves good.

“Our setters Jordan Smith and Jordan Sholar did a good job of distributing the ball to all of our hitters,” Claris said.

The Titans are now 3-0 on the year, matching their win total for the previous three years and will open conference play on Thursday.

Week two of the high school men’s soccer season showed that the Topsail Pirate varsity team is pretty darned good.

The Pirates beat Trask and Jacksonville Northside.

Roberto Vasquez had a hat trick (three goals) and Sam Bell added a pair of goals as the Pirates went on the road and defeated Pender County rival Trask 9-2 Monday.

Sam Hackett, Quinn Black, Justin Lashin, and Jorge Lopez all got into the scoring column, with Blake Culig chipping in with three assists. Lopez had seven saves and Alex Hornthal had two saves for the Pirates.

Topsail stayed on the road Wednesday and brought home a 5-1 victory over Jacksonville-Northside. Bell ran his season goal total to four with a hat trick (three goals) and Vasquez pushed his early-season, goal-scoring total to five with two scores. Assists went to Hackett, Richie Tarter, and Vasquez. Lopez recorded 10 saves in goal.

The boys were at Coastal Christian Academy Tuesday and welcome Trask to Hampstead Wednesday.

The Heide Trask Titans took that loss at home verse

Topsail on Monday and then tied the North Brunswick Scorpions at their place midweek.

Against Topsail junior Ricardo Botello scored for the Titans. At North Brunswick Migel Paz scored the lone Trask goal off of an assist by Sebastian Bautista.

The Titans (1-2-1) hosted Jacksonville Northside on Monday and will be at Topsail on Wednesday. The Titans will play their conference opener on September 11. They will host Pender.

The Pender Patriots were scheduled to play South Columbus last week but the game was postponed. The Pats are 3-1.

First year coach Pierre Agena has the Pats playing a different brand of soccer than in past years and is pleased with the way the team is progressing. “We’re playing pretty well. We are adjusting to each other’s style of play. “ The Patriots hosted West Columbus on Tuesday.

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Pender County Football Preview Week Three

Topsail at home, Pender and Trask travel

By Bobby Norris Post & Voice Sports Writer Topsail hosts Dixon The Topsail Pirates have taken over Head Coach Wayne Inman’s brain. The team plays exactly the way Inman thinks. They are a tough bunch that plays a throwback style of football. So far that has translated into two wins and a 2-0 start.

The Pirates ran over and around Pender last week.

Sophomore sensation Noah Lavalle was back and rushed for 145 yards. The Pirates rushed for 265 yards on the night on a wet field.

Pirate standout Josh Smith went out with a knee injury and his status for this week’s game is unknown. This is a concern for a team that is already missing Hayden Walsh.

Jacob Floyd handled himself well again last week. He is becoming a force running the football and will spell trouble for the Bulldogs. Look for the Pirates to eclipse the 300-yard mark on the ground this week.

Dixon has a very good running game themselves. Senior quarterback Deante Jackson (199 yards) and junior Xavier Lee (129 yards) lead a very strong rushing attack. They will put some pressure on a run defense that gave up 196 yards rushing to Pender halfback Latrell Brown.

The Bulldogs problem will be stopping the Pirate smash mouth running game. Look for Lavalle to run wild on the Bulldogs. He will slap a buck fifty on Dixon in this game. Inman is working in a nice short passing game with Floyd throwing middle screens to his big fullback Munchie Fennell as well as Lavalle. When he is not finding his receivers Floyd is becoming a force with his legs. He had 71 yards rushing on just seven carries last week. He will score again

this week.

The wildcard for the Pirates is Cameron ‘Bam Bam’ Barras. The junior receiver is becoming a playmaker for the Pirates.

Topsail will have a little trouble stopping the Bulldog running game. However, Dixon cannot match the Pirates offensive firepower.

This will be a very exciting game for the Pirates fans. The score: Topsail 38 – Dixon 14.

Trask at South Brunswick The Heide Trask Titan football team bounced back from their shutout loss to Topsail in week one with 48 points and more importantly a shut out win over West Columbus.

While the Vikings may not be the best team in the state this win was very important to a Titan team that lost their starting quarterback to a knee injury in game one.

Trask stayed with their option offense and turned the offense over to junior Jacob Johnson. He performed admirably last week and will only get better. B.J. Jordan and Anthony Tucker are the big backs for Coach Taylor but he has gotten quite a bit of support from converted punter Brian Sarvis. The senior standout had 138 yards rushing. Trask ran for 394 yards against West Columbus.

Defensively, junior Foster Williamson was back and led the Titans with seven tackles and a sack and a half. The Titans had four sacks against the Vikings. Simply put, the Titan defense is much better with Williamson on the field.

South Brunswick gave up a bunch of rushing yards against West Bladen including 238 yards to one back. The Cougars did score 36 points but just could not stop the run. That will not bode well in this contest.

Look for the Titan offense to improve again this week.

Johnson is not Tyrease Armstrong but he is smart and very fast. He will get better with each repetition.

B.J. Jordan and Anthony Tucker will run wild on the Cougar defense. Look for each of them to flirt with the century mark with each scoring a touchdown. The Titans are deep in the backfield. Watch out for Ray Adams. The senior is a powerful back with speed.

The Titan defense is much better than the West Bladen defense. South Brunswick will find the going tough this week. I will not predict a shutout this week but I do believe that the Cougars will struggle to move the football.

The Titans will win this football game handily. The score: Trask 34-South Brunswick 6.

Pender at Union The Spartans and the Patriots are former conference mates. There is no love lost between these two and this should be a barn burner.

Union lost to Midway last week and beat South Robeson in week one. However, the Spartans have not seen a running back of the caliber of Latrell ‘Flash’ Brown. The senior standout rushed for nearly 200 yards last week against Topsail.

Pender sophomore quar-

terback Jaheim McDuffie has a big arm and first year Coach Tim Smith is determined to throw the ball down the field.

At some point this is going to pay dividends.

The Patriot defense made some mistakes last week and that cost them in the loss to Topsail. However, this is a young and determined group of young men that will get better with each snap.

Look for Pender to go to Brown early and often. The flashy running back will run roughshod over the Spartan defense. He will easily eclipse the century mark while fining the end zone at least once.

McDuffie will find his mark and throw a touchdown pass as well.

The Pender defense will struggle late in the contest.

This is a thin group with only 23 players on the varsity roster. That will become a major problem as the season progresses. However, in this game the Pats will do enough to slow the Union offense down.

The Pender defense will force a couple of big time turnovers in this game. Those turnovers will be the difference in winning and losing. I am taking the Patriots to win their first game under first year coach Tim smith. The score: Pender 27-Union 19.

The Pender Lady Patriot volleyball team has made its usual run through the nonconference slate with limited success. Coach Matt Davis scheduled several tough opponents in an attempt to prepare his team for the rigors of a conference schedule.

Last week the Lady Patriots dropped two matches against some very tough competition.

The Patriots opened the week at home verse the Topsail Pirates. The Lady Pats had the Pirates on the ropes at their lace before falling in five sets. This time the Pirates were ready and bested the Patriots in four games the scores were 25-20, 23-25, 25-16 and 25-9.

Ashley Dupalevich led the

Barnhill coming on strong for Lady Titans

By Bobby Norris Post & Voice Sports Writer The game of volleyball is one of those sports that take many hours of practice before one becomes efficient at the game. It takes a very good athlete with an attention for detail. For Heide Trask Lady Titan sophomore standout Lanie Barnhill her time on the court has turned her into a fledgling star.

Miss Barnhill has the height and strength to become a very good volleyball player.

She is a very intelligent player with the will to become great.

She has shown great improvement over the summer and into the early portion of the 2017 season.

One of Lanie’s strengths is her ability to be in the right place at the right time. She is efficient at both the net and back line.

The Titans are an up and coming team under Coach Cathy Claris. Lanie Barnhill will be a force to be reckoned with for the next three years.

Patriots with 13 assists and one ace while Kam Thompson added six kills and three blocks.

Veronica Lewis chipped in two kills and six blocks for the Lady Patriots.

The Lady Patriots played Laney later in the week. The Bucs proved to be too much for the Pats in taking a 3-0 win. The scores were 25-16, 25-20 and 25-14.

Caroline Peterson had five assists to pace the Pats while Alex Gorsky had three kills and 10 digs. Jenna Harrell chipped in two aces and eight digs for the Patriots (1-4).

Pender will open Coastal 8 conference play on Thursday as they host Croatan. The Lady Cougars are 2-3 heading into conference play. Croatan finished second in the East Central conference a year ago behind Dixon. Both are now members of the Coastal 8.

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

Reds are still hanging around, no spots yet

By Bobby Norris Post & Voice Fishing Fanatic The redfish are still hanging around Topsail Island. They can be caught off of the beach as well as inland in the creeks and flats.

Most anglers are using cut baits off of the surf while the anglers fishing inland are using gulp baits as well as finger mullet.

The Flat fish are biting in a lot of the same spots as the redfish are inland. Gulp baits and finger mullets will work here as well.

The pier anglers are anxiously awaiting the arrival of some spots. While there have been a few caught here and there they have yet to show up in numbers.

The recent northeast winds may bring a little cooler air.

The spots should follow that cooler air.

There has been a mixed bag of fish being caught off of the beach as well as the pier. Black Drum as well as a spot or two have been hooked on shrimp and cut baits.

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By Lee Wagner Post & Voice Sports Writer The fall season continued on a positive note for a couple of Topsail tams as the boys’ soccer team (2-0) and women’s tennis team (4-0) remained unbeaten. The women’s crosscountry team opened with a second-place finish in its first meet, and the Ellen Wombleera got underway for the girls’ golf squad.

Cross-country The Mid-Eastern 3A/4A Conference held its first meet of the season at Hugh McRae Park Thursday on a hot and humid day, and all the con-

Lavalle works to improve for Topsail football

By Bobby Norris Post & Voice Sports Writer Topsail Pirate sophomore student-athlete Noah Lavalle had a great freshman year for the Pirate football team. He also had a fantastic year wrestling for the Hampstead school as well. However, the young strong man did not rest on his laurels during the off season.

He put himself in position to be even better this year. He spent countless hours working out. The hard work is evident as he has 20 pounds of muscle.

That new physique seemed to work well in the Pirates game verse Pender. Lavalle rushed for 145 yards and two touchdowns while breaking tackles and running away from people.

Noah is an accomplished wrestler as well. His new look will serve him well this winter.

Barring injury Noah should have a very good year both on the gridiron and the wrestling mat. Noah Lavalle strives to get better for the Pirates.

ference teams – along with White Oak, Cape Fear Academy, Coastal Christian Academy, and Southeastern Home School – were in attendance.

The Topsail girls had a very good showing, finishing second (66 points) behind victorious Hoggard (36). It was the highest place the Lady Pirates have attained since joining the conference in 2013.

Leading the way was freshman Makayla Obremski, who was fourth in 20:25.32 behind Hoggard’s Jenna Pellizzari (19:46.17), Ashley’s Paxton Chitty (19:47.58), and Hog-

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The fresh water scene is kind of dicey right now with the high water levels. There have been a few cats caught on cut up eel as well as your favorite stink baits. The panfish will bite red worms and crickets.

This week’s fishing tip I remember fishing off of the pier as a young fellow.

My dad used to take us to the pier in Southport every fall for a day or two of spot fishing. There was nothing like getting into the spots when they were running.

Catching two at a time on a bottom rig was as exciting as hooking a blue marlin. Those memories are something that I will never forget.

These days kids have video games to simulate almost everything. However, there is no video game that will simulate a kid catching a fish while hanging out with their mother, father or grandparents.

Load the fishing gear up and grab you kids, boy of girl and take them to the pier for a day of spot fishing. You will forge memories that will last a lifetime.

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Pender drops two nonconference matches

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ettin’ a Line

The second week of the high school fall sports season was a good one. The weather cooperated for the most part and the area teams were able to get in most of the action.

The Topsail soccer team won two matches last week.

They took to the pitch at Trask and came away with a 9-2 win and then beat Jacksonville Northside later in the week. Roberto Vasquez had a hat trick (three goals) and Sam Bell added a pair of goals in the win over Trask.

Sam Hackett, Quinn Black, Justin Lashin, and Jorge Lopez all got into the scoring column, with Blake Culig chipping in with three assists.

Against Jacksonville Northside, Bell had a hat trick while Vasquez had two goals.

The Trask cross country team ran last week with the duo of Vanessa Velasco Sanchez and Yaritza Villalobos finishing second and third respectively at Hobbton. The Lady Titans took first place in the team standings.

Speaking of cross country, the Topsail girls had a very good showing in the first MidEastern Conference meet of the year finishing second behind Hoggard. Leading the way was freshman Makayla Obremski, who finished fourth.

The Topsail volleyball team won twice last week.

Topsail beat Pender behind

Wood a serious playmaker for Lady Patriots

By Bobby Norris Post & Voice Sports Writer During the summer high school volleyball league Pender Lady Patriot volleyball coach Matt Davis talked about the play of his team and the potential that they had. One of the players that he mentioned as being much improved was sophomore outside hitter Mayce Wood.

Miss Wood has shown the ability to learn on the fly. She has become very proficient at both playing at the net and on the back line. She is improving with each and every time she takes the floor.

The Pender Lady Patriots have played a tough nonconference schedule. That will make Miss Wood even better as the team embarks on their initial trek into the newly formed Coastal 8 Conference.

As the season progresses Mayce Wood will become one of the best young players in the conference. Mayce Wood is a playmaker for the Pender Patriots.

the play of Cherish Brown (12 service points, six kills) and Julia Sullivan (22 points, six aces, four kills, two blocks, three digs, 34 assists.

They beat Northside later in the week behind the play of Sullivan (15 points, two aces, four kills, 31 assists, 11 digs) and Kensley Hagan (seven kills, 10 digs).

The Lady Titans from Trask earned two wins early in the week. Emily Oyler and Lanie Barnhill had good weeks along with the steady play of Brittany Foy. The Topsail Lady Pirate tennis team earned two sweeps last week including a 9-0 win over Ashley in their conference opener. Caroline Harris (No. 1) and Kasey Pfaff (No. 2) won 6-0, 6-0 to pace the Lady Pirates.

Anna Duckworth led the Pirates in their 9-0 win over Swansboro. Harris and Pfaff also earned wins.

The Trask Titan football team earned their first win of the season a 48-0 shutout of West Columbus. Brian Sarvis had 138 yards rushing to pace the Titans while B.J. Jordan had two T.D.s. Jacob Johnson had 71 yards rushing in his first start as a varsity quarterback.

Foster Williamson had seven tackles and 1.5 sacks to lead the defense.

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Bill Howard Outdoors

By Bill Howard Post & Voice Columnist There are few things that I anticipate more than opening day of dove season. The opening day is perfectly positioned as a precursor to all other seasons.

You know that after opening day, deer season is nearby, along with the appearance of the fall leaves, the chill of the autumn nights, the departure of the pesky gnats and mosquitoes, and the migrations of the various waterfowl.

I grew up dove hunting. It was by far my favorite activity with a firearm. Dove hunting provides the first classroom for many of our young hunters and new adult hunters.

First, it usually gives ample opportunity for shooting the shotgun. You may have spells of no activity, but when they fly, it is constant and quick.

Usually within a few shots,

you self-correct and begin to understand how far to lead, what the maximum distances of a successful shot are, and when to take the shot.

It also teaches us patience.

During the waits between flights, we enhance our peripheral vision. We spot the birds from great distances, able to recognize their flight pattern and silhouette.

Before ever hunting dove, that same bird would have gone unnoticed, not to mention unidentified. These are skills needed as the novice hunter advances to other game.

Dove hunting teaches us how to be safe. We quickly learn how to identify where other hunters are and instinctively know not to shoot in that direction. We let low flying birds pass, shouting it out in order to make other hunters aware that a bird is too low

to fire.

We learn the art of camouflage. We use natural colors in our clothing. We nestle in nondescript areas to help shield us from a flying bird’s view.

We recognize possible flight patterns and targets. A lone tree makes a great point of reference for a fast moving bird, as well as a hiding place to dodge the flying lead. This means it is a great location to set up as the birds will tend to target the location.

We learn the feeling of success. One bird or a limit, you will remember the shots made.

You replay them, sometimes many years later.

Doves are easy to clean and fairly tasty. Because of this, it is the ideal game for the new hunter to get their hands dirty.

Processing your own game, taking it from field to grill, makes the meal that much better. You worked for the nour-

ishment. It was not bought at the store in shrink wrap in the cooler section. It is exactly as God intended. It was taken by man from the land.

And lastly, dove hunting provides the memories for which you never wish to relinquish. The bridge of generations, hunting together, learning from one another.

Few other activities can teach so much. Few classrooms can provide so much enjoyment.

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

Please share your stories with Bill at BillHowardOutdoors@ gmail.com.

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CALL TO ORDER

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INVOCATION

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PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE

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“Be mindful of the equipment used in clean-up following a storm,” said Collins. “And be mindful of insects. Wear insect repellant with DEET.” Pender County Emergency Management will post updates on the Facebook page at facebook.com/penderem and on the website http://www. penderem.com. If you need assistance call the EM office at 910- 259-1210.

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Approval of Minutes: Regular Meeting: August 21, 2017.

7.2.

Approval of an Amendment to the Board of Commissioners Meeting Schedule for 2017.

7.3.

Public Hearing #2: The purpose of the hearing is to receive public comment regarding consideration of an application for a conditional use permit to construct a full service restaurant at 500 US-117 in Burgaw.

Applicant, Boddie-Noell Enterprises, LLC/Reggie Barnacascel is proposing to tear down and rebuild the Hardee’s Restaurant, currently zoned Highway Business and Gateway Overlay District (B-2 GA). All interested persons are invited to attend and oral and written comments are welcome.

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR PROMOTIONS/ SPECIAL EVENTS COMMITTEE The Town of Burgaw is accepting applications for the “Promotions and Special Events Committee”. Applicants must be residents of the corporate limits of Burgaw. Application may be downloaded from our website at www.townofburgaw.com >Government>Advisory Boards>Applications for Boards, Commissions and Committees. Completed applications must be submitted to the Town Clerk at 109 N Walker Street, Burgaw, NC 28425.

For further information, you may contact Sylvia Raynor, Town Clerk at 910-663-3441 between the hours of 8AM and 5PM Monday – Friday or via email at town.clerk@townofburgaw.com.

Approval of Tax Releases and Refunds.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

8.1.

Approval of a Purchase Order to Courthouse Computer Systems for Recording Software FY 17/18: $40,000.00.

8.2.

Resolution Authorizing Approval of NC Spot Festival Pyrotechnic Display on September 23, 2017, in Accordance with N.C.G.S. 14-413.

8.3.

Authorization to Submit an Application for Grant Funding Under the Disaster Recovery Act of 2017.

The public will take notice that the Town Council of the Town of Surf City, North Carolina, has called a public hearing at 7:00 pm, or as soon thereafter as possible, on th the 5 of September 2017, at Surf City Town Hall on: •

Rezoning Application Hwy 210 by Surf City Resorts Pin# 4225-46-5793-0000, 4225-65-7411-0000, 422566-7142-0000, 72.16 Acres

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Conditional Zoning Application Hwy 210/17 by Hwy 17 Holdings Pin# 4215-87-9642-0000, 4215-88-42110000, 40.56 Acres

APPOINTMENTS 9.1.

Approval of Appointment to the Pender County ABC Board.

9.2.

Approval of Appointment to the Coastal Resource Advisory Council (CRAC).

MAPLE HILL WATER AND SEWER DISTRICT Resolution Approving Submittal of an Application for Funding to North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality, Division of Water Infrastructure for Construction of a Required Alternative Water Source.

Town of Atkinson Public Notice

PENDER COUNTY BOARD OF HEALTH GenX Update.

SOCIAL SERVICES BOARD 12.1.

CALENDAR

Town offices closed in observance of Labor Day Grand Opening of Born Learning Trail 10:00AM Board of Commissioners Meeting 4:00PM Planning Board Meeting 5:30PM

MEETING TIMES Surf City Town Council 1st Tuesday of the month at 7p.m.

Planning Board 2nd Thursday of the month at 5:30p.m.

Parks & Rec. Advisory Committee 3rd Tuesday of the month at 3p.m. ________________________________________________________

APPROVALS AND RESOLUTIONS

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12.

Public Hearing #1: Consideration of approving Ordinance 2017-15 to authorize the sale of malt beverages, unfortified wine, fortified wine and mixed beverages beginning at 10:00AM on Sundays at licensed premises.

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touchdown run by Latrell ‘Flash’ Brown.

Topsail made it 2-0 to start the season with the win over Pender. Jacob Floyd had 71 yards rushing and was 5-7 through the air. Hunter Hall led the Pirates with 10 tackles while Brandon Clayton had four tackles and a sack.

Noah Lavalle was back from an injury and posted 145 yards and two touchdowns. He is this weeks top performer.

PUBLIC HEARINGS SCHEDULED The following public hearings will be held on Tuesday, September 12, 2017 at 5:30PM (or thereabout) in the meeting room of the Burgaw Municipal Building located at 109 N Walker Street in Burgaw, NC. All interested parties are invited to attend.

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

Presentation of Findings & Recommendations of IT Services Organizational Assessment.

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August 31, 2017

Sept 4 Sept 7 Sept 12 Sept 21

Agenda Board of County Commissioners Meeting Tuesday, September 5, 2017 @ 4:00 PM Pender County Public Assembly Room 805 S. Walker Street, Burgaw, NC

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Approval of a Budget Ordinance Amendment Bringing Forward Unexpended DSS Funds: $33,440.

13.

ITEMS FROM THE COUNTY ATTORNEY, COUNTY MANAGER, FINANCE DIRECTOR, & COUNTY COMMISSIONERS

14.

CLOSED SESSION (IF APPLICABLE).

15.

ADJOURNMENT

For full access to this agenda, please visit our new mobile friendly site at: https://pendercountync.civicweb.net/Portal/.

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: # of Name of Board Vacancies Positions/Categories ABC Board 1 District 3 Advisory Board of Health 3 Dentist***, Engineer***, Optometrist*** Animal Shelter Advisory Committee 1 Veterinarian Board of Adjustment 2 District 4, Alternate Coastal Resources Advisory Council 4 Citizen Representative Industrial Facilities & Pollution Control Financing Auth.

7 Business/Insurance/Attorney/Banking Tourism Development Authority 2 District 2, Collector District 1 = Upper Topsail; Surf City District 2 = Scotts Hill; Lower Topsail District 3 = Rocky Point; Long Creek

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 or write or call Melissa Long, Clerk to the Board, PO Box 5, Burgaw, NC 28425 (910) 259-1200, and complete an application.

PENDER COUNTY HOUSING DEPARTMENT PUBLIC NOTICE TO ALL HOUSING VOUCHER PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS: The U S Department of Housing and Urban Development asks residents to participate on the Resident Advisory Board (RAB) in compliance with Section 511 of the United States Housing Act and 24 CFR 903.13. According to 24 CFR 903, Public Housing Agencies (PHA) must establish a Resident Advisory Board(s) that may make recommendations regarding the development of the Public Housing Agency (PHA) Annual Plan, the PHA’s Five-year Plan and any modifications/amendment to it. According to the general statute, if there is no advisory board, all Section 8 recipients are considered a part of the advisory board and have the right to participate in the planning stage of the plan. The 2015 Five-year Plan and the 2016 Annual Plan remains in effect for 2017. A copy of the current Annual plans are available at the following locations for public viewing: • •

Town of Burgaw Government News

The Pender County Housing Department The Pender County Housing Department Website

All eligible participants of the Housing Choice Voucher Program are encouraged to make recommendation to our office no later than September 15, 2017. If you wish to serve as a representative on the Resident Advisory Board, please contact the Pender County Housing Department at (910) 259-1208. Our office is located at 805 S. Walker Street, Burgaw. The mailing address is P O Box 1149, Burgaw, NC 28425. The website is: http://www.pendercountync.gov/hse/

On September 7, 2017, during the open and public scheduled Town meeting, they will discuss a new Town ordinance that restricts some of the parking areas along Hwy 53 through Town. The meeting is to be held September 7, 2017 at 7 pm at the Town Hall. The public is invited to attend and give input on the new ordinance and adoption of.

August 31, 2017

8/31/2017 NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGS THE PENDER COUNTY PLANNING BOARD WILL HOLD PUBLIC HEARINGS AS FOLLOWS: DATE OF HEARINGS: September 6, 2017 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

Major Site Development Plan River Rock Farms, LLC., applicant, on behalf of HCT Pender, LLC., owner, is requesting the approval of a Major Site Development Plan for a Wastewater Treatment Facility (NAICS 221320) for the previously approved mixed use development known as Lane’s Ferry (Case 11369). The Major Site Development Plan for the Wastewater Treatment Facility is included in Phase I, approximately 31.7 acres. The portion of the property for the Wastewater Treatment Facility is north of NC HWY 210 and approximately 2,000 feet to the west of the intersection of Moore Town Road (SR 1518) and NC HWY 210 in the Rocky Point Township and may be further identified as Pender County PIN: 3245-84-0109-0000 Conditional Zoning Map Amendment Hardison Building Company, applicant, on behalf of Gerald D. Hardison, owner, is requesting the approval of a Conditional Zoning Map Amendment for one (1) tract totaling approximately ±326.15 acres from RA, Rural Agricultural zoning district to RM-CD3, Residential Mixed Conditional zoning district 3, and an additional three (3) tracts as part an overall Master Development Plan for a total of ±347.23 acres. This request is to allow for single family and single family townhome residential units. The subject properties are located along the south side of NC HWY 210 approximately ± 2,100 feet to the east of the intersection of NC HWY 210 and Island Creek Road (SR 1002) in the Topsail Township and may be further identified

by Pender County PINs: 3273-50-0693-0000, 3273-71-1319-0000, 3273-61-9426-0000, and 3273-32-7562-0000.

Zoning Text Amendment Pender County, applicant, is requesting the approval of Zoning Text Amendments to the Pender County Unified Development Ordinance. Specifically, the request is to amend the density calculation and provide clear standards for density bonuses for mixed-use developments in the RM, Residential Mixed and PD, Planned Development zoning districts.

Section 4.8.1.C shall be moved to Section 4.6.7 with further clarification of superior design elements for additional densities. A detailed description of the proposed changes is available in the Pender County Planning and Community Development Department Offices.

For Additional Information: Contact Pender County Planning & Community Development 805 S Walker St Burgaw, NC 28425 Phone 910-259-1202

www.pendercountync.gov

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Legal Notices Legal Notices Legal Notices Legal Notices Legal Notices Legal Notices 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 Elma White McCommas, deceased, of Pender County, This is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of said decedent, Elma White McCommas, to present them to the undersigned on or before November 16, 2017 at P.O. Box 414, Rose Hill, NC 28458 or be barred from recovery. All persons indebted to said estate, please make immediate payment.

This the 10th day of August 2017.

Sara M. Bryant P.O. Box 414 Rose Hill, NC 28458 #7862 8/10, 8/17, 8/24, 8/31/2017 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 Rose M. Skinner, deceased, of Pender County, This is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of said decedent, Rose M. Skinner, to present them to the undersigned on or before November 16, 2017 at 7202 Springer Road, Wilmington, NC 28411 or be barred from recovery. All persons indebted to said estate, please make immediate payment.

This the 10th day of August 2017.

Carolynne Skinner Smith 7202 Springer Road Wilmington, NC 28411 #7865 8/10, 8/17, 8/24, 8/31/2017 NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND DEBTORS STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, PENDER COUNTY IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION Having qualified as Administrator of the estate of Joseph Daniel Bannerman, deceased, of Pender County, This is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of said decedent, Joseph Daniel Bannerman, to present them to the undersigned on or before November 16, 2017 at P.O. Box 647, Burgaw, NC 28425 or be barred from recovery. All persons indebted to said estate, please make immediate payment.

This the 10th day of August 2017.

Kathryn Bannerman P.O. Box 647 Burgaw, NC 28425 #7866 8/10, 8/17, 8/24, 8/31/2017 NOTICE TO CREDITORS Having qualified as Executor of the Estate of MEYER MELLMAN, late of Hampstead, Pender County, North Carolina, the undersigned does hereby notify all persons, firms and corporations having claims against the estate of said decedent to exhibit them to Kenneth Ording, PC P.O. Box 2683, Surf City NC 28445, on or before the 14th day of September 2017, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons, firms and corporations indebted to the said estate will please make immediate payment to the undersigned.

This 17th day of August 2017.

SHARON ANN SPRAGUE Executor of the Estate of MEYER MELLMAN Kenneth Ording, P.C. Kenneth Ording Attorney at Law 14210 NC HWY 50 Surf City, NC 28445 #7872 8/17, 8/24, 8/31, 9/7//2017 NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND DEBTORS OF EDDIE JACOBS 16 E 473 Having qualified as Public Administrator of the Estate of Eddie Jacobs deceased of Pender County, North Carolina, the undersigned does hereby notify all persons, firms and corporations having claims against the estate of said decedent to exhibit them to the undersigned on or before the 16th day of November, 2017, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of recovery. All persons, firms and corporation indebted to the said estate will please make immediate payment to the undersigned.

This the 17th day of August, 2017.

Lawrence S. Boehling Public Administrator of the Estate of Eddie Jacobs P.O. Box 1416 Burgaw, NC 28425 910-259-3334 #7873 8/17, 8/24, 8/31, 9/7//2017 NOTICE TO CREDITORS STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF PENDER In Re the Estate of Wilma Hall Collum, Deceased Having qualified as Personal Representative of the Estate of Wilma Hall Collum, Deceased, late of Duval County, Florida, the undersigned does hereby notify all persons, firms, corporations and/or other legal entities having claims against the estate to present them to the undersigned at the address given below on or before 11/17/2017—or same will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate please make immediate payment.

On this day, August 17, 2017.

April Collum, Personal Representative c/o Sherman Law, P.C.

by Scott G. Sherman, Attorney for the Personal Representative 3965-B Market Street Wilmington, NC 28403 #7876 8/17, 8/24, 8/31, 9/7/2017

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF PENDER IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION COURT FILE #: 16-CVS-1035 PENDER COUNTY Plaintiff(s), v.

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

The nature of the relief sought is as follows: foreclosure sale to satisfy unpaid property taxes on your interest in the property sometimes briefly described as 8.4 acres Horseman Rd., Parcel ID Number 3256-59-52660000 more fully described in the complaint. Plaintiff seeks to extinguish any and all claim or interest that you may have in the property.

You are required to make defense to such pleading no later than October 2, 2017.

This date: August 17, 2017.

PENDER COUNTY, By and through its Attorney Richard T. Rodgers, Jr., State Bar #: 28777 ProTax, A Division of Sherman & Rodgers, PLLC PO Box 250; Burgaw, NC 28425 910-259-2615 (tel); chip@shermanandrodgers.com #7875 8/17, 8/24, 8/31//2017 STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA PENDER COUNTY IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE DISTRICT COURT DIVISIONSMALL CLAIMS JJM IV, L.L.C. d/b/a Patriot Tree Service, Plaintiff v.

JAMES MOSELEY, Defendant NOTICE OF SERVICE OF PROCESS

BY PUBLICATION TO: JAMES MOSELEY Take notice that a pleading seeking relief against you has been filed in the above-captioned action. The nature of relief being sought is as follows: claim for money owed in the amount of $3,217.50 for services rendered on or about February 1, 2017 for labor and fees regarding the cutting and removal of trees from the real property owned by James Moseley. You are required to make defense to such pleading not later than Wednesday, October 4, 2017 when a hearing will be held at 9:00 a.m. in Court Room No. 3, 2nd Floor, Pender County Courthouse located at 100 South Wright Street, Burgaw, North Carolina and upon your failure to do so the party seeking service against you will apply to the court for the relief sought.

This the 17th day of August 2017.

Robert C. Kenan, Jr. Attorney for Plaintiff Moore & Kenan Attorneys at Law PO Box 957 Burgaw, NC 28425 (910) 259-9800 #7870 8/17, 8/24, 8/31/2017

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 Anthony P. Antelo, deceased, of Pender County, This is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of said decedent, Anthony P. Antelo, to present them to the undersigned on or before November 16, 2017 at 116 Robert E. Lee Drive, Watha, NC 28478 or be barred from recovery. All persons indebted to said estate, please make immediate payment.

This the 10th day of August 2017.

Everett A. Antelo 116 Robert E. Lee Drive Watha, NC 28478 #7863 8/10, 8/17, 8/24, 8/31/2017 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 Joseph Joshua Parmalee Dean, deceased, of Pender County, This is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of said decedent, Joseph Joshua Parmalee Dean, to present them to the undersigned on or before November 23, 2017 at P.O. Box 2403, Surf City, NC 28445 or be barred from recovery.

All persons indebted to said estate, please make immediate payment.

This the 17th day of August 2017.

Hope Lucinda Dean 3271 Huntsman Drive Huntingtown, Maryland 20639 #7867 8/17, 8/24, 8/31, 9/7//2017 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 Luther Cleveland James, deceased, of Pender County, This is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of said decedent, Luther Cleveland James, to present them to the undersigned on or before November 23, 2017 at 671 Par Drive, Jacksonville, NC 28540 or be barred from recovery. All persons indebted to said estate, please make immediate payment.

This the 17th day of August 2017.

Terry K. James 671 Par Drive Jacksonville, NC 28540 #7869 8/17, 8/24, 8/31, 9/7//2017

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 Gladys Savedge Baker, deceased, of Pender County, This is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of said decedent, Gladys Savedge Baker, to present them to the undersigned on or before November 23, 2017 at 136 LaSalle Street, Wilmington, NC 28411 or be barred from recovery. All persons indebted to said estate, please make immediate payment.

This the 17th day of August 2017.

Thomas W. Baker, Jr. Wanda B. Prevatte 136 LaSalle Street Wilmington, NC 28411 #7868 8/17, 8/24, 8/31, 9/7//2017

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF PENDER IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION COURT FILE #: 16-CVS-1035 PENDER COUNTY Plaintiff(s), v.

BROOKE BRATTEN, owner et. al.

Defendant(s).

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

The nature of the relief sought is as follows: foreclosure sale to satisfy unpaid property taxes on your interest in the property sometimes briefly described as 8.4 acres Horseman Rd., Parcel ID Number 3256-59-52660000 more fully described in the complaint. Plaintiff seeks to extinguish any and all claim or interest that you may have in the property.

You are required to make defense to such pleading no later than October 2, 2017.

This date: August 17, 2017.

PENDER COUNTY, By and through its Attorney Richard T. Rodgers, Jr., State Bar #: 28777 ProTax, A Division of Sherman & Rodgers, PLLC PO Box 250; Burgaw, NC 28425 910-259-2615 (tel); chip@shermanandrodgers.com #7874 8/17, 8/24, 8/31//2017

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 Merritt Small, deceased, of Pender County, This is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of said decedent, Elizabeth Merritt Small, to present them to the undersigned on or before November 30, 2017 at 179 McKinley Merritt Road, Watha, NC 28478 or be barred from recovery. All persons indebted to said estate, please make immediate payment.

This the 24th day of August 2017.

Cynthia L. Eason 179 McKinley Merritt Road Watha, NC 28478 #7895 8/24, 8/31, 9/7, 9/14/2017

17 SP 126 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 Danielle Houfek and Stanislav Houfek to First American Title Insurance Company, Trustee(s), which was dated March 17, 2006 and recorded on March 24, 2006 in Book 2916 at Page 253, 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 September 5, 2017 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 40, Marlboro Farms, as shown on that map recorded in Map Book 22 at Page 107 in the Pender County Registry.

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

Said property is commonly known as 125 Marlboro Farms Road, Rocky Point, NC 28457.

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

relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale.

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

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.: 15-24965-FC02 #7889 8/24, 8/31//2017

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE COUNTY OF PENDER DISTRICT COURT DIVISION JUVENILLE SESSION FILE NO.: 16 JT 0010 In the Matter of: T.L.S., a minor child To: Respondent: Unknown Father, of a male child born to Joy Simpson on January 14, 2016 in Durham, North Carolina.

NOTICE OF SERVICE OF PROCESS OF PUBLICATION. Take notice that a PLEADING seeking relief against you has been filed in the above-entitled action. The nature of the relief being sought is TERMINATION OF YOUR PARENTAL RIGHTS filed by the Pender County Department of Social Services.

You are required to make defense to such pleading no later than the 2nd day of October, 2017, Said date being forty days from the first publication of this Notice; and upon your failure to do so, the party seeking service against you will apply to the Court for the relief sought.

You are entitled to attend the hearing affecting your parental rights.

You are entitled to have an attorney appointed by the Court if you cannot afford one, provided that you request an attorney at or before the time of the hearing. You may contact the Clerk of Juvenile Court for Burgaw, North Carolina to request counsel. This is notice to the above named respondent that FAILURE TO APPEAR may result in a decision adverse to your parental rights and adverse to any custodial or visitation rights.

This the 23rd day of August, 2017.

Tonya Lacewell Turner Attorney for Petitioner, PCDSS P.O. Box 1386 Burgaw, N.C. 28425 (910) 259-3180 #7871 8/24, 8/31, 9/7/2017

NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND DEBTORS OF HORACE LEON GORE, JR. 17 E 183 Having qualified as Public Administrator of the Estate of Horace Leon Gore, Jr. deceased of Pender County,North Carolina, the undersigned does hereby notify all persons, firms and corporations having claims against the estate of said decedent to exhibit them to the undersigned on or before the 22nd day of November, 2017, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of recovery. All persons, firms and corporation indebted to the said estate will please make immediate payment to the undersigned.

This the 24th day of August, 2017.

Lawrence S. Boehling Public Administrator of the Estate of Horace Leon Gore, Jr. P.O. Box 1416 Burgaw, NC 28425 910-259-3334 #7891 8/24, 8/31, 9/7, 9/14/2017

NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND DEBTORS OF LLOYD CORNELIOUS SMITH 17 E 47 Having qualified as Public Administrator of the Estate of Lloyd Cornelious Smith deceased of Pender County, North Carolina, the undersigned does hereby notify all persons, firms and corporations having claims against the estate of said decedent to exhibit them to the undersigned on or before the 22nd day of November, 2017, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of recovery. All persons, firms and corporation indebted to the said estate will please make immediate payment to the undersigned.

This the 24th day of August, 2017.

Lawrence S. Boehling Public Administrator of the Estate of Lloyd Cornelious Smith Attorney at Law P.O. Box 1416 Burgaw, NC 28425 910-259-3334 #7890 8/24, 8/31, 9/7, 9/14/2017 STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF PENDER IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION COURT FILE #: 17-CVS-527 PENDER COUNTY Plaintiff(s), v.

RAYMOND EARL JONES, owner et. al.

Defendant(s).

NOTICE OF SERVICE OF PROCESS BY PUBLICATION TO: RAYMOND EARL JONES Take notice that a pleading seeking relief against you has been filed in the above-titled action.

The nature of the relief sought is as follows: foreclosure sale to satisfy unpaid property taxes on your interest in the property sometimes briefly described as 0.62 acres, Parcel ID Number 2279-78-3485-0000 more fully described in the complaint.

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

You are required to make defense to such pleading no later than October 10, 2017.

This date: August 24, 2017.

PENDER COUNTY, By and through its Attorney Richard T. Rodgers, Jr., State Bar #: 28777 ProTax, A Division of Sherman & Rodgers, PLLC PO Box 250; Burgaw, NC 28425 910-259-2615 (tel); chip@shermanandrodgers.com #7897 8/24, 8/31, 9/7/2017 STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF PENDER IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION COURT FILE #: 17-CVS-801 PENDER COUNTY Plaintiff(s), v.

RAYMOND EARL JONES, owner et. al.

Defendant(s).

NOTICE OF SERVICE OF PROCESS BY PUBLICATION TO: RAYMOND EARL JONES Take notice that a pleading seeking relief against you has been filed in the above-titled action.

The nature of the relief sought is as follows: foreclosure sale to satisfy unpaid property taxes on your interest in the property sometimes briefly described as 2 acres, Parcel ID Number 2279-78-2790-0000 more fully described in the complaint. Plaintiff seeks to extinguish any and all claim or interest that you may have in the property.

You are required to make defense to such pleading no later than October 10, 2017.

This date: August 24, 2017.

PENDER COUNTY, By and through its Attorney Richard T. Rodgers, Jr., State Bar #: 28777 ProTax, A Division of Sherman & Rodgers, PLLC PO Box 250; Burgaw, NC 28425 910-259-2615 (tel); chip@shermanandrodgers.com #7896 8/24, 8/31, 9/7/2017 STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF PENDER IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION COURT FILE #: 17-CVS-489 PENDER COUNTY Plaintiff(s), v.

VICTORIA LEE SHARPLESS, owner et. al.

Defendant(s).

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

The nature of the relief sought is as follows: foreclosure sale to satisfy unpaid property taxes on your interest in the property sometimes briefly described as Tracts 3 and 4 Map Book 12 Page 6, Parcel ID Number 3392-84-6566-0000 more fully described in the complaint. Plaintiff seeks to extinguish any and all claim or interest that you may have in the property.

You are required to make defense to such pleading no later than October 10, 2017.

This date: August 24, 2017.

PENDER COUNTY, By and through its Attorney Scott G. Sherman, N.C. State Bar #: 17596 ProTax, A Division of Sherman & Rodgers, PLLC PO Box 250; Burgaw, NC 28425 910-259-2615 (tel); scott@shermanandrodgers.com #7901 8/24, 8/31, 9/7/2017

ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE Having qualified as Administratrix of the Estate of Marshall Allan Goff, 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 25th day of November, 2017, or this notice will be placed in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to the said estate will please make immediate payment.

This 24th day of August, 2017.

Pamela Allan Goff Maloney 37 White Oak Drive Burgaw, NC 28425 Robert C. Kenan, Jr. MOORE & KENAN Attorneys at Law P. O. Box 957 Burgaw, NC 28425 (910) 259-9800 #7893 8/24, 8/31, 9/7, 9/14/2017 STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF PENDER IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION COURT FILE #: 17-CVS-527 PENDER COUNTY Plaintiff(s), v.

RAYMOND EARL JONES, owner et. al.

Defendant(s).

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

The nature of the relief sought is as follows: foreclosure sale to satisfy unpaid property taxes on your interest in the property sometimes briefly described as 0.62 acres, Parcel ID Number 2279-78-3485-0000 more fully described in the complaint.

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

You are required to make defense to such pleading no later than October 10, 2017.

This date: August 24, 2017.

PENDER COUNTY, By and through its Attorney Richard T. Rodgers, Jr., State Bar #: 28777 ProTax, A Division of Sherman & Rodgers, PLLC PO Box 250; Burgaw, NC 28425 910-259-2615 (tel); chip@shermanandrodgers.com #7898 8/24, 8/31, 9/7/2017 STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF PENDER IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION COURT FILE #: 17-CVS-801 PENDER COUNTY Plaintiff(s), v.

RAYMOND EARL JONES, owner et. al.

Defendant(s).

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

The nature of the relief sought is as follows: foreclosure sale to satisfy unpaid property taxes on your interest in the property sometimes briefly described as 2 acres, Parcel ID Number 2279-78-2790-0000 more fully described in the complaint. Plaintiff seeks to extinguish any and all claim or interest that you may have in the property.

You are required to make defense to such pleading no later than October 10, 2017.

This date: August 24, 2017.

PENDER COUNTY, By and through its Attorney Richard T. Rodgers, Jr., State Bar #: 28777 ProTax, A Division of Sherman & Rodgers, PLLC PO Box 250; Burgaw, NC 28425 910-259-2615 (tel); chip@shermanandrodgers.com #7899 8/24, 8/31, 9/7/2017 STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF PENDER IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION COURT FILE #: 17-CVS-489 PENDER COUNTY Plaintiff(s), v.

VICTORIA LEE SHARPLESS, owner et. al.

Defendant(s).

NOTICE OF SERVICE OF PROCESS BY PUBLICATION TO: ROSSEVELT LEE, JR., A/K/A ROOSEVELT LEE, JR. Take notice that a pleading seeking relief against you has been filed in the above-titled action.

The nature of the relief sought is as follows: foreclosure sale to satisfy unpaid property taxes on your interest in the property sometimes briefly described as Tracts 3 and 4 Map Book 12 Page 6, Parcel ID Number 3392-84-6566-0000 more fully described in the complaint. Plaintiff seeks to extinguish any and all claim or interest that you may have in the property.

You are required to make defense to such pleading no later than October 10, 2017.

This date: August 24, 2017.

PENDER COUNTY, By and through its Attorney Scott G. Sherman, N.C. State Bar #: 17596 ProTax, A Division of Sherman & Rodgers, PLLC PO Box 250; Burgaw, NC 28425 910-259-2615 (tel); scott@shermanandrodgers.com #7900 8/24, 8/31, 9/7/2017

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Legal Notices Legal Notices Legal Notices Legal Notices Legal Notices Legal Notices 17 SP 75 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 Russell Aderhold and Amy Aderhold to Cindy Roberts and Amy E. Johnson, Trustee(s), which was dated November 11, 2006 and recorded on November 28, 2006 in Book 3103 at Page 025, 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 September 12, 2017 at 11:30AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Pender County, North Carolina, to wit: ALL THAT PARCEL OF LAND IN THE TOWNSHIP OF GRADY, PENDER COUNTY, STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, AS MORE FULLY DESCRIBED IN DEED BOOK 2287, PAGE 341, BEING KNOWN AND DESIGNATED AS: TRACT 1: BEGINNING AT AN OLD RAILROAD SPIKE MARKING THE NORTHEASTERN CORNER OF THE TRACT OF LAND CONVEYED TO PEGGY ORR RICHARDSON AKA PEGGY ORR RICHARDSON JOHNSON,

BY DEED RECORDED IN BOOK 757 AT PAGE 129 OF THE PENDER COUNTY REGISTRY, IN THE CENTERLINE OF S.R. 1112, 60.0 FOOT RIGHT OF WAY, THAT IS NORTH 53-03 WEST 238.40 FEET FROM ANOTHER RAILROAD SPIKE IN SAID CENTERLINE OVER THE CENTER OF A LARGE CONCRETE CULVERT UNDER SAID ROAD; SAID POINT BEING NORTH 53-11 WEST 133.75 FEET FROM A RAILROAD SPIKE AT THE POINT OF INTERSECTION OF SAID CENTERLINE WITH THE EASTERNMOST LINE OF J.W. ORR, JR.’S “C.E. GURGANIOUS TRACT”, THE SAME BEING DESCRIBED IN THE DEED RECORDED IN BOOK 272 AT PAGE 219 OF THE PENDER COUNTY REGISTRY, SAID POINT BEING LOCATED WESTWARDLY, ALONG THE CENTERLINE OF S.R. 1112, 0.75 MILES FROM THE POINT OF INTERSECTION OF S.R. 1112 WITH THE CENTERLINE OF U.S. HIGHWAY 421; RUNNING THENCE FROM THE POINT OF BEGINNING SOUTH 08-18 WEST 34.19 FEET TO A POINT IN THE SOUTHERN RIGHT OF WAY LINE OF S.R. 1112; THENCE SOUTH 08-18 WEST, CONTINUING THE PREVIOUS COURSE, 240.80 FEET TO AN IRON PIPE; THENCE, NORTH 69-03-12 WEST 243.91 FEET TO AN IRON PIPE IN THE CENTER, MORE OR LESS, OF A DRAINAGE DITCH; THENCE, NORTH 12-15 EAST, WITH THE CENTER, MORE OR LESS, OF SAID DITCH, 306.63 FEET TO A POINT IN THE SOUTHERN RIGHT OF WAY LINE OF S.R. 1112, SAID POINT BEING NORTH 53-03 WEST, ALONG SAID RIGHT OF WAY LINE, 247.13 FEET FROM THE PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED POINT IN SAID RIGHT OF WAY LINE; THENCE, NORTH 12-15 EAST, CONTINUING THE PREVIOUS COURSE, 33.02 FEET TO AN OLD RAILROAD SPIKE IN THE CENTERLINE OF S.R. 1112; THENCE, SOUTH 53-03 EAST WITH SAID CENTERLINE, 244.54 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING, CONTAINING 1.6174 ACRES (GROSS), EXCEPTING THEREFROM 0.1693 ACRES WITHIN THE RIGHT OF WAY OF S.R. 1112, YIELDING 1.4481 ACRES (NET), EXCLUSIVE OF SAID RIGHT OF WAY, THE SAME BEING THE NORTHERN PORTION OF THE TRACT OF LAND CONVEYED TO PEGGY ORR RICHARDSON, AKA PEGGY ORR RICHARDSON JOHNSON BY DEED RECORDED IN BOOK 757 AT PAGE 129 OF THE PENDER COUNTY REGISTRY. TRACT 2: BEGINNING AT A RAILROAD SPIKE IN THE CENTERLINE OF PENDER COUNTY SECONDARY ROAD 1112, SAID RAILROAD SPIKE IS LOCATED AT A POINT THAT IS NORTH 53-03 WEST 238.40 FEET FROM ANOTHER RAILROAD SPIKE IN THE CENTERLINE OF SAID ROAD DIRECTLY ABOVE THE CENTER OF A LARGE CONCRETE CULVERT THAT ACCOMMODATES THE WATERS OF A CANAL BENEATH SAID ROADWAY, SAID CULVERT IS LOCATED AT A POINT THAT IS NORTH 53-11 WEST 133.75 FEET FROM A RAILROAD SPIKE IN THE CENTERLINE OF SAID ROAD AT THE POINT WHERE THE EASTERNMOST LINE OF J.W. ORR, JR.’S “GURGANIOUS TRACT” CROSSES SAID ROAD; AND RUNNING THENCE FROM SAID BEGINNING RAILROAD SPIKE, SO LOCATED, SOUTH 08-18 WEST 541.60 FEET (PASSING OVER AN IN-LINE IRON PIPE AT 35.30 FEET) TO AN IRON PIPE IN A CANAL; THENCE WITH SAID CANAL SOUTH 83-13 WEST 274.52 FEET TO AN IRON PIPE IN SAID CANAL AT THE POINT OF INTERSECTION WITH ANOTHER CANAL; THENCE WITH SAID INTERSECTING CANAL NORTH 12-15 EAST 732.11 FEET (PASSING OVER AN IN-LINE IRON PIPE AT 696.81 FEET) TO A RAILROAD SPIKE IN THE CENTERLINE OF PENDER COUNTY SECONDARY ROAD 1112; THENCE WITH THE CENTERLINE OF SAID ROAD, SOUTH 53-03 EAST

244.41 FEET TO THE BEGINNING, CONTAINING 3.92 ACRES, MORE OR LESS, AND IS AS SURVEYED BY DOSHER SURVEYING COMPANY, BURGAW, NORTH CAROLINA IN SEPTEMBER, 1970.

THE ABOVE DESCRIBED TRACT OF LAND IS A PORTION OF J.W. ORR, JR.’S “C.E. GURGANIOUS TRACT” DEED FOR SAME BEING RECORDED IN BOOK 272, PAGE 219, OF THE PENDER COUNTY REGISTRY. LESS AND EXCEPT THAT CERTAIN 1.4481 ACRES, MORE OR LESS, DEEDED TO LARRY W. SKIPPER IN DEED BOOK 791, PAGE 09 OF THE PENDER COUNTY REGISTRY.

BY FEE SIMPLE DEED FROM NOVASTAR MORTGAGE, INC. AS SET FORTH IN BOOK 2287, PAGE 341 DATED 11/24/2003 AND RECORDED 12/19/2003, PENDER COUNTY RECORDS, STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA. Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record.

Said property is commonly known as 865 Richard Switch Road and 871 Richard Switch Road, Currie, NC 28435.

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 Amy Aderhold.

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.: 17-05517-FC01 #7888 8/31, 9/7/2017 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 17 SP 115 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Ginger Shucher (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Ginger H. Shucher and John Kevin Teachey) to Allan B. Polunsky, Trustee(s), dated the 12th day of December, 2014, and recorded in Book 4507, Page 0202, in Pender County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Pender County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in the City of Burgaw, Pender County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 2:00 PM on September 12, 2017 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Pender, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows:

BEING ALL of Lot 39 as shown on the map entitled “The Forest at Belvedere Plantation Phase 4-A” recorded in Map Book 34 at Page 58, in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Pender County, North Carolina, reference to said map being hereby made for a more particular description. the above area described, Lot 39 is conveyed with a one eleventh (1/11) undivided interest in the “Common Area” shown and designated on the above described map. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 108 Post Oak Court, Hampstead, North Carolina.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of foreclosure sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in this notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE c/o Hutchens Law Firm P.O. Box 1028 4317 Ramsey Street Fayetteville, North Carolina 28311 Phone No: (910) 864-3068 https://sales.hutchenslawfirm.com Case No: 1202815 (FC.FAY) #7904 8/31, 9/7/2017 STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF PENDER IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE DISTRICT COURT DIVISION FILE# 17CVD594 PLAINTIFF LAKINDA JAMES VS. DEFENDANT ANTONIO LOFTON NOTICE OF SERVICE OF PROCESS BY PUBLICATION TO: ANTONIO LOFTON Take notice that a pleading seeking relief against you has been filed in the above entitled action. The nature of relief being sought is an absolute divorce. You are required to make defense to such pleading not later than October 19, 2017, and upon your failure to do so, the party seeking service against you will apply to the court for the relief sought.

This the 31st day of August 2017.

LaKinda James 63 John Pickett Road Maple Hill, NC 28454 #7910 8/31, 9/7, 9/14/17

15 SP 130 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 Phillip D. Wiltshire and Leslie Wiltshire to CTC Real Estate Services, Trustee(s), which was dated March 6, 2003 and recorded on March 7, 2003 in Book 2063 at Page 093, 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 September 12, 2017 at 11:30AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Pender County, North Carolina, to wit: Located in Union Township, Pender County, State of North Carolina, and described with bearings relative to the North Carolina Grid Meridian (North American Datum 1983).

Beginning at a railroad spike set in the old centerline of S.R. No. 1352 (Red Tip Lane), said spike being located with a tie line from the N.C. Geodetic Survey grid monument “PIGFORD” as follows; North 82 degrees 53 minutes 45 seconds East 773.95 feet to a subsurface railroad spike found in the centerline intersection of SR No. 1352 and NC Hwy No. 11, and North 05 degrees 09 minutes 05 seconds East 825.70 feet to the above described point of beginning, and runs thence With the center of S.R. No. 1352 North 05 degrees 09 minutes 05 seconds East 132.50 feet to ½ inch iron rod set, thence With the center of S.R. No 1352 North 07 degrees 37 minutes 10 seconds East 52.32 feet to a ½ inch iron rod set, thence To and with a ditch North 78 degrees 37 minutes 20 seconds East 172.04 feet to a 1 inch iron pipe found, South 82 degrees 46 minutes 20 seconds East 111.72 feet to a 1 inch iron pipe found and North 88 degrees 37 minutes 25 seconds East 86.93 feet to a ¾ inch iron rod set, a corner of the Angela M. Tate land (Bk. 1042, Pg. 274), thence With the Angela M. Tate line South 12 degrees 26 minutes 52 seconds West 241.58 feet to a ¾ inch iron rod set, thence North 84 degrees 50 minutes 10 seconds West 334.52 feet (passing a concrete monument set in line at 299.63 feet) to the point of beginning containing 1.77 acres more or less, as surveyed by Brent H. Whitfield L-3589 on May 04, 2001.

Also included herewith is that cer tain 2000 Hor ton manufactured home bearing serial number H815528GL/R. Being part of that land described in a deed to James Allen Carroll and wife, Willie Joanne Carroll, as recorded in Book 834 at Page 183,

of the Pender County Registry.

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

Said property is commonly known as 168 Red Tip Lane, Willard, NC 28478.

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 Phillip Wiltshire and wife, Leslie Wiltshire.

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.: 13-25527-FC02 #7903 8/31, 9/7/2017

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STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF PENDER IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION COURT FILE #: 17-CVS-527 PENDER COUNTY Plaintiff(s), v.

RAYMOND EARL JONES, owner et. al.

Defendant(s).

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

The nature of the relief sought is as follows: foreclosure sale to satisfy unpaid property taxes on your interest in the property sometimes briefly described as 0.62 acres, Parcel ID Number 2279-78-3485-0000 more fully described in the complaint.

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

You are required to make defense to such pleading no later than October 17, 2017.

This date: August 31, 2017.

PENDER COUNTY, By and through its Attorney Richard T. Rodgers, Jr., State Bar #: 28777 ProTax, A Division of Sherman & Rodgers, PLLC PO Box 250; Burgaw, NC 28425 910-259-2615 (tel); chip@shermanandrodgers.com #7908 8/31, 9/7, 9/14/17

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF PENDER IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION COURT FILE #: 17-CVS-527 PENDER COUNTY Plaintiff(s), v.

RAYMOND EARL JONES, owner et. al.

Defendant(s).

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

The nature of the relief sought is as follows: foreclosure sale to satisfy unpaid property taxes on your interest in the property sometimes briefly described as 0.62 acres, Parcel ID Number 2279-78-3485-0000 more fully described in the complaint.

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

You are required to make defense to such pleading no later than October 17, 2017.

This date: August 31, 2017.

PENDER COUNTY, By and through its Attorney Richard T. Rodgers, Jr., State Bar #: 28777 ProTax, A Division of Sherman & Rodgers, PLLC PO Box 250; Burgaw, NC 28425 910-259-2615 (tel); chip@shermanandrodgers.com #7907 8/31, 9/7, 9/14/17

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 Richard W. Johnson, deceased, of Pender County, This is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of said decedent, Richard W. Johnson, to present them to the undersigned on or before December 7, 2017 at P.O. Box 3374, Topsail Beach, NC 28445 or be barred from recovery. All persons indebted to said estate, please make immediate payment.

This the 31st day of August 2017.

Elizabeth G. Johnson P.O. Box 3374 Topsail Beach, NC 28445 #7909 8/31, 9/7, 9/14, 9/21/17

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Topsail football Continued from page 8A

the end zone on the first play.

Pender put together a decent drive after the score – going from their own 20-yard line to the Topsail 26 before an incomplete pass shut the drive down. Topsail then put together an austere five-play, 74-yard drive ending in Floyd’s four-yard scoring pass to junior wide receiver Cameron “Bambam” Barras for a 20-0 lead.

Pender – thanks to Brown – quickly answered with a threeplay, 65-yard drive with the

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Continued from page 9A Hoggard’s Sloan FlemmingHickey (20:15.85).

Other Topsail runners were freshman Isabella Bufalini (11th, 21:48), freshman Skylar Libretto (14th, 21:56), s e n i o r Ke r s t e n P a r r e l l a (21:57), sophomore Bailey Wells (22:31), junior Emma Filer (41st, 24:13, and sophomore Stephanie Simmons (45th, 24:38).

T he Topsail men were fourth (118) behind Hoggard (30), Laney (75), and New Hanover (85). The top Pirate boy was senior Eddie Wofford (18th, 18:42), followed by sophomore Travis Souza (21st, 18:47), freshman Hayden Rogerson (22nd, 18:48), senior Nathan Martinez (26th, 19:06), junior Connor Starrett (34th, 19:37), junior Bryce Dillon (44th, 19:43), and freshman James Campbell (19:55).

“The team does not have that big runner up front so this year it is more of a team of seven runners, so the race was a good start for the boys,” Topsail Coach Wayne Rogers said. “When the end of the season arrives the team is

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Continued from page 8A Pender finally found their footing on the soaked turf on their next possession. However an eight- play drive came to a halt on the Topsail 26-yard line when a fourth and five pass fell harmlessly to the ground.

Topsail made it 3-3 in the first half when they scored on their next possession. Jacob Floyd found Cameron Barras from five-yards out. The Pirates led 20-0 and the Patriots crowd seemed stunned.

The Patriots finally found some rhythm in the for m of Latrell Brown on their next possession. The senior standout took the handoff and bounced the play to the left side. He raced 58-yards to pay dirt and the Patriots were on the board.

Although the Patriot offense struggled at times Brown had showed his talents in a big way. The senior speedster had amassed 136-yards rushing in

going to be very competitive in the 3A regionals.

T he teams will r un at Nor th Br unswick T hursday with the host Scorpions, Laney, and New Hanover.

The first invitational will be the Jungle Run at Southview High School Saturday.

Women's Tennis: The Topsail girls finished the week with a secondstraight 9-0 victory, this one in the Mid-Easter n3A/4A Conference opener at home against Ashley. Caroline Harris (No. 1) and Kasey Pfaff (No. 2) won 6-0, 6-0, Anna Duckworth (No. 2) won 6-0, 6-2, Grace Martelli (No. 5) won 6-1, 6-2, and No. 6 Brooke Guderian won 6-2, 6-4. No. 4 Chely Pritt dropped a set 3-6 but came back to win her match 6-0 (10-8).

Harris and Pfaff kept the shutout streak alive with an 8-0 win at No. 1 doubles, Duckworth and Pritt won 8-1 at No. 2, and Martorelli and Guderian prevailed 8-3 at No. 3 doubles.

Harris led the Lady Pirates to their second win over Swansboro Wednesday – both wins coming by 9-0 scores.

Harris won 6-0, 6-0 Pfaff and Duckworth followed with 6-0, 6-0 victories.

Pruitt won 6-2, 6-2, Martorelli won 6-0, 6-4, and Guderian won 6-3, 7-6 (7-3) to complete the sweep of the singles’ matches. Harris and Pfaff (No. 1 doubles) won 8-2, Duckworth and Pritt (No. 2) won 8-5, and Martorelli and Guderian (No. 3) won 8-2 to complete the shutout.

The ladies were home to Coastal Christian Academy Monday and home to West Brunswick for a conference meet Tuesday before heading to Laney Thursday.

Women’s golf: The Lady Pirates opened their first year under new Coach Ellen Womble by finishing sixth (196) in a ninehole, Mid-Eastern 3A/4A at the 2,738-yard, Par 36 Masonboro Country Club course.

Defending conference champion Laney shot a 144 behind a 42 from Jayla Rogers and a 47 from Lady Buccaneer Grace Holcomb. Ho gg ard senior Anna Moore (41) was the Medalist.

Hitting the links for Topsail were Angela Linehan (58), Liz Sharpe (69), Gracie Ocock (69), Kristina Cala (70), and Ariana Blevins (71). The Lady Pirates next match is this Thursday at home.

the first half. The Pender faithful hoped he would continue his tricks in the second half of play.

The Pats received the ball to open the second half and found some success. However, the drive stalled at the 44-yard line. That would be the last successful drive of the night for the Patriots.

Topsail scored on their second drive of the night. Floyd bobbled the snap from the shotgun formation and picked the ball up and rumbled 14yards for a touchdown.

On the Pirates next possession they took over on the 28-yard line. Three plays later Lavalle scored from two-yards out to end the scoring for both teams.

Brown ended the evening with 196-yards rushing to lead the Patriots. Lavalle finished the night with 145 yards rushing and two touchdowns. The Patriots were held to 50 yards of offense in the second half.

Despite the loss Pender coach Tim Smith did not seemed deterred about the teams progress and seemed

determined to right the ship.

“We’re going through an adjustment phase right now.

They are trying to learn me and what I expect out of them and I am trying to learn them.

We have to clean up some things. We are going to eliminate the negatives and build on the positive things.”

As for Browns performance Smith hoped to find some help for the young standout.

“We have to find someone else to step up. We can’t just keep handing it to Latrell. We have to have more than that.”

The Patriots (0-2) will play at Union on Friday night.

sion to Wilmington Christian Academy Monday, the Lady Pirates beat Pender 3-1 (25-20, 23-25, 2516, 25-16) – a distinctly better result than the earlier 3-2 win over Pender.

Pender (1-4) took early leads in the opening game at 7-2 and 9-5 before a five-point Topsail run, highlighted by two aces from Cherish Brown (12 service points, six kills), to take a 10-9 lead. The teams traded points before a four-point surge, with Julia Sullivan (22 points, six aces, four kills, two blocks, three digs, 34 assists) getting a kill and a block. A three-point spurt was followed by a five-point finishing rush, behind kills from Sullivan and Gia Marinelli, securing the win.

Game two was a back-andforth affair that was tied six times – the last at 22-22. Kills

by Pender’s Alex Gorsky (five kills) and Taylor Marshall (two kills) preceded an unforced error by Topsail, tying the match.

Topsail (4-1) broke a 13-13 tie in game three with an eightpoint wave to put game three out of reach. The fourth game was tied early at 4-4 before a Sullivan-inspired 12-point outburst (three aces) ended the suspense. A kill from Kensley Hagan (13 kills, 12 digs) ended the evening.

“Julia really stepped up and I think she served 10 or 11 in a row, and our front line touched so many balls, that’s what I like about this team sending balls back. That makes it a lot easier on us,” Topsail Coach Hill Pearsall said.

Sullivan said she thought

pile-driving Brown breaking tackles and running around defenders on his way to a 60yard scoring jaunt, closing the deficit to 20-6 just before halftime. But that would be the Patriots’ last hurrah.

Topsail increased its lead to 27-6 on Floyd’s 12-yard scoring run, and the Pirates would finish the scoring with a 29-yard drive set up by a short Pender punt. LaValle culminated a four-play drive with a threeyard burst.

“I felt really good to be back out there, I’m super excited,”LaValle said. “There were no after effects and the line was really blocking good.

I was a little gimpy today but

it’s getting better. I was only supposed to play a, little but D. J. got hurt and Josh got dinged up so I was, ‘Yeah, I’ve got this.’

I think we have a chance to be really, really good this year.”

Defensively, senior linebacker Hunter Hall led Topsail with 10 tackles, with sophomore linebacker Jose Orellano, senior defensive end Evan Blanton, and senior linebacker Rance Creech each adding six tackles. Blanton also had a fumble recovery.

Topsail gets to play its first home game Friday when the Bulldogs of Dixon (1-1) come to Hampstead. Pender travels to Rose Hill to face Union Spartans (1-1).

the team just started playing together after the second-game loss.

“I think we made too many mistakes in the second game but we came out with more intensity after that,” Sullivan said. “In that last game I just hit the ball and they missed some and my teammates did the rest. I was getting kind of tired serving but I really wanted to finish it out.”

Mallory George (nine kills) was especially big in the run with a pair of kills. Libero Rena Marrotta finished with 33 digs- 14 in the final two games.

Topsail followed that win with a convincing 3-0 (25-23, 25-12, 25-14) over Northside (0-4) after needing five games to down the Lady Monarchs the first time around. The Lady Pirates did not start off well, falling behind 5-2 early and trailing 16-10 midway through.

Down 23-20, Topsail rode the serving of Sullivan (15 points, two aces, four kills, 31 assists, 11 digs) and kills by Hagan (seven kills, 10 digs), Ashley Hardee (one kill, 10 digs), and Marinelli (seven kills, two aces) to a five-point surge and the win.

The second game was a no-doubter as Topsail never let Northside mount any runs thanks to solid defense and passing from Marrotta (21 digs) and others. Successive runs of four, six, and five created an insurmountable lead, and a Marinelli ace end the game.

Junior Katie Ramsey (five kills, four digs) was one of the forces with some powerful hits – along with junior Abby Miner (eight kills) as Topsail cruised in the final game.

“I believe we are progressing as a team,” Miner said. You can see with our play tonight

it was a lot more fluid. After that first game I think we just seized the momentum and played really well. We had as good team vibe tonight. We absolutely have room for improvement but I think we’re moving forward well and we’re ready for conference.”

The Lady Pirates started off in upset mode against the powerful Lady Patriots of Wilmington Christian Academy – winning game on 25-23 – but that momentum dissipated over the next three games and WCA recorded a 3-1 (23-25, 2520, 25-15, 25-17) victory.

The Lady Patriots seemed unable to get untracked early as the Topsail backline dug up just about every hit and made good passes that resulted in points. The Lady Pirates held a 20-11 lead at one point but WCA battle back with an eight-point surge to close to within 20-19. The teams traded points from there before a kill from Sullivan provided the game-clinching point. The momentum gathered from that game-one outburst stayed with the Lady Patriots as WCA swept the next three games.

Hagan led Topsail with eight kills and 14 digs, George added seven kills and seven digs, and Kapiko (19) and Rena Marrotta (10) combined for 29 digs.

“The first game was probably the best game we’ve played all year, and in the second game we had opportunities to win,” Pearsall said. “I think we ran out of gas and they started connecting with their middle-and-outside hitters a little better as well.”

Mid-Eastern 3A/4A Conference play began Tuesday with West Brunswick (0-4) at home. Topsail then travels to 3-0 Laney Thursday.

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By Lori Kirkpatrick Post & Voice Staff Writer

Cape Fear Habitat for Humanity wants to build a house in Burgaw for a qualified family. The nonprofit organization will hold a Homeownership Information Session Aug. 31 from 6:00 until 7:30 p.m. The session will take place at Pender Memorial Hospital. All interested Pender County residents are invited to attend and learn if owning a Habitat Home is a possibility for their family.

Cape Fear Habitat for Humanity builds decent, energy-efficient houses that are sold at no profit to hard-working families in the Cape Fear Region. Habitat homes are sold to partner families through an affordable mortgage loan. Applicants must qualify based on their need, ability to pay, willingness to partner and residency. Space in the info session is limited, so those who are interested are asked to contact Amy to RSVP at (910) 762-4744, extension 114, or email her at amy@capefearhabitat.org with your name, address and phone number. “Pender County is in our geographical service area (GSA), and we would like to increase our building efforts in Pender County. We have previously built in Pender County, but more recently have been in the Hampstead area. We have realized there is a need in the Burgaw and Rocky Point area, as well.� Said Jane Roberson, Director of Homeowner Services for Cape Fear Habitat Applicants must meet specific criteria in order to qualify for the affordable mortgage loan offered by Cape Fear Habitat. Applicants must establish that they have a need for adequate housing for one of the following reasons: they are currently living in overcrowded or unsafe conditions, living in subsidized housing, living in substandard housing or are homeless. If current housing expenses are greater than 30 percent of the gross household income, or they are unable to get a home loan from any other source, those are also considered needs.

Other qualifications include an ability to pay a mortgage and a willingness to partner.

For example, a family with two adults must work 400 “sweat equity� hours, and a family with one adult must work 250 hours. Each adult family member is required to complete a minimum of 18 sweat equity hours each month. Sweat equity can be performed in a variety of ways, but the most significant way is on the build site. Home ownership classes must be attended, as well.

Applicants must be citizens or legal residents of US, and must have lived or worked in the Cape Fear region for at least one year. Once accepted into the Habitat Program, applicants are required to attend free quarterly financial verification meetings with a Credit and Mortgage Counselor. Families are approved by the Board of Directors in a way that does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, national origin, or because all or part of the applicant’s income is derived from public assistance programs. “In early June of this year, with the opening of our third ReStore in Burgaw, we are interested in identifying qualified families in the area for our Burgaw build. We would like to continue building our volunteer base there. We are just delighted to be in touch with some of our supporters there, such as area churches and the local hospital,� said Robertson. “We have some land, but we are always looking for additional properties. We are trying to heighten awareness of affordable housing opportunities, and to let people in the area know we plan to continue building in Pender County.�

Pender Memorial Hospital is located at 507 E. Fremont Street in Burgaw.

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Faith plus nothing equals salvation

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Now then, why are you testing God by putting a yoke on the disciples’ necks that neither our ancestors nor we have been able to bear?

Acts 15:10 Last week my mother was discussing with me about a recent sermon that her minister had preached. The topic was tithing and the role it has in a Christian’s life. The pastor proclaimed that one could not be a Christian if they lacked giving God 10 percent of their income. I was not surprised by this approach to the Scripture because so many people fall into this trap. The trap is when a person wants to add something extra in order to receive the free gift of salvation.

No matter if the extra requirement is tithing, church attendance or Bible reading, nothing can be added to the work that Christ has already done on the cross. We learn in Romans 6:23, “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.� Paul also proclaims in Ephesians 2:8-9, “For you are saved by grace through faith, and this is not from yourselves; it is God’s gift not from works, so that no one can boast.� When we study the Bible we discover that just as today people want to add to the work of the cross, they also wanted to during the days of the early Church.

While Paul and Barnabas ministered in Antioch, some Christians arrived from Judea who insisted, “Unless you are circumcised, according to the custom taught by Moses, you cannot be saved� (Acts 15:1).

Paul and Barnabas disagreed strongly and went to Jerusalem to settle the issue with the other apostles and elders of

the early Church.

At the Jerusalem council, Peter stood up and declared how the conversion of the Gentile Cornelius proved that salvation did not require circumcision. Peter wondered aloud, “Why require the Gentiles to keep the Law of Moses in order to be saved, which none of us Jews has ever been able to do? It’s impossible.� Salvation, he insisted, comes by faith, only “through the grace of our Lord Jesus�

(Acts 15:11) We must be very careful never to fall into the error committed by the early Judean Christians, who tried to put extra conditions on salvation. Sometimes our Christian leaders can get so fervent about some special issue that they say, in effect, “Unless you believe this particular thing, you cannot be a true believer in Jesus Christ.�

You can take any small

group of people from a congregation, and inevitably they will disagree on some issues in the Bible. There’s nothing wrong with that, but sometimes devout Christians get so entrenched in their beliefs that they want to include them almost as additional requirements for salvation. Billy Graham said “God’s mercy and grace give me hope for myself, and for our world.�

We must not add any of our

own personal requirements to accepting the grace and salvation offered from Jesus.

Instead, let us remember the words of Peter, “It is through the grace of our Lord Jesus that we are saved.� I encourage you this week to take a moment and remember the glorious message about our Savior and His loving grace, offered freely, and to apply this vital message to your own daily Christian walk.

Macedonia AME Church Burgaw will host a Rainbow Tea Event Sept. 30 at 6 p.m. Dr. Willie Mae Tuggle, pastor of Harvest Time Ministry in Wallace will be the speaker. Join the Rev. Dr. Dr. Geraldine Dereef and the church family for this exciting spiritual evening, sponsored by the Trustee Department.

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The 4C’s Food Pantry is open Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 9 a.m. until noon. Additionally, the 4C’s pantry will be open the last Saturday of each month from 9 a.m. until noon.

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Church Directory BARLOW VISTA BAPTIST CHURCH

NEW BEGINNING CHURCH

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

corner of Fremont & Wright Street (Courthouse Square) Burgaw, N.C. • 910-619-8063

Sunday Service 10:30 a.m.

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

Wednesday Night Bible Study 7:00 p.m.

Youth & Young Adults Recharge Group - Wednesday at 7:00 p.m.

All are welcome! Pastor Bill Howell

FRIENDLY COMMUNITY BAPTIST CHURCH

1730 US Hwy. 117 N. • Burgaw, NC 28425 910-259-3046

CENTERVILLE BAPTIST CHURCH

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

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

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

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

ST. M ARY’S CHURCH

CURRIE COMMUNITY BAPTIST CHURCH

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

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

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

BURGAW PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

200 E. Fremont St. • Burgaw, NC 28425

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

WATHA UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

160 Camp Kirkwood Road, Watha, NC

910-470-4436

Pastor John Fedoronko

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

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

RILEY’S CREEK BAPTIST CHURCH Choir Practice & Bible Study, Tues., 7:30-9 p.m. Youth Group Every Other Wed. 6-7:30 p.m.

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

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.

WESTVIEW UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

ROCKY POINT UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

located at the intersection of Hyw. 117 & 210

Pastor Mark Murphy

Services: Sunday at 10 a.m.

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

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

CALVARY CHAPEL COMMUNITY CHURCH

MISSION BAPTIST 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.

Sunday Worship: 10:30 a.m.

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

JORDANS CHAPEL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

Pastor Fred Roberts Sunday School: 9:45 a.m. Sunday Worship: 11:00 a.m.

607 S. Walker Street • Burgaw, NC 28425

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

BURGAW UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

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

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

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.

THE CHURCH AT WILMINGTON

Bible Based Community Fellowship NEW Pender County Location 16660 Hwy 17 N. • Hampstead, NC 28443 (American Legion Building) 910-526-7890 Pastor: Monte Suggs Services Sunday at 10 a.m. and Thursday at 7:30 p.m.

BURGAW BAPTIST CHURCH

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

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

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

MOORES CREEK BAPTIST CHURCH

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

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

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

ST. JOSEPH THE WORKER CATHOLIC CHURCH 1303 Hwy. 117 • Burgaw, NC • 910-259-2601

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

CAPE FEAR COMMUNITY FELLOWSHIP (CF2) 10509 US Hwy. 117 S., Rocky Point Business Park Rocky Point, NC • 910-232-7759 www.CF2.us Worship Hours: Sunday Morning, 11 a.m.

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

ALL SAINTS CATHOLIC CHURCH

18737 Hwy 17 North, Hampstead • 910-270-1477 Rev. John Durbin, Pastor

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

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

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

CHAPEL BY THE BAY IN 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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Tasty tomato recipes

Hope’s Cooking Corner

By Hope Cusick Contributing Writer So you have tomatoes overflowing in your gardens or at the markets or in your kitchen, so here are a few tasty recipes to help use them up.

Eat them fresh sliced with salt. Salt sprinkled on tomatoes sets off osmosis, releasing the tomato’s juices, concentrating flavor, and making the flesh taste even sweeter.

When storing fresh tomatoes turn them upside down.

Flipping them over prevents air from entering the tomato through the little spot where the stem used to be, which can speed spoilage.

Enjoy.

Tomato and onion Jam Makes approximately two pint jars. Serve over hotdogs, hamburgers, chicken, fish or pork.

2 pounds plum tomatoes, about 8-10, cored and chopped 2 cloves garlic, minced then smashed

2 medium sweet or Vidalia onions, chopped 1 cup granulated sugar 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice 1 tablespoon paprika Pinch of powdered thyme 1 teaspoon crushed dried basil 1 teaspoon ground turmeric powder Pinch of salt In a large saucepan combine all the ingredients and stir. Bring to a boil over medium high heat, lower heat to medium low and simmer, stirring occasionally, until the mixture is thick and jammy, about 1½ hours, stirring frequently during the last 30 minutes to prevent burning.

Pour mixture into pint-sized jars with lids and let cool.

Cover and refrigerate up to three weeks.

Broiled tomatoes Makes four halves.

2 large beef steak tomatoes, cut in half horizontally ¾ cup flavored bread crumbs ¼ cup flat leaf parsley chopped ¼ cup Parmesan cheese, grated 2 tablespoons olive oil 2 small garlic cloves, minced then smashed Salt and fresh ground black pepper, to taste In a bowl stir together bread crumbs, parsley, Parmesan, olive oil, garlic, salt and pepper, to taste.

Place tomato halves cut

side up on a foil lined baking sheet. Season with a little salt.

Pack cheese mixture lightly on top of each tomato half and broil until browned about 3-4 minutes. Serve hot.

Spaghetti with clams and tomatoes ¼ cup olive oil 4 cloves garlic, sliced 2 tablespoons tomato paste or ketchup 2 pounds plum tomatoes, cored and coarsely chopped ½ cup dry white wine or clam broth 2 pounds small clams, scrubbed Salt to taste ¼ cup Parmesan cheese, grated 12 ounces spaghetti Flat leaf parsley, chopped Bring a large pot of water to a boil In a large skillet, with a lid, heat the oil over medium heat. Add garlic and cook, stirring often, until the garlic is aromatic, about two minutes. Add the tomato paste and stir until it turns slightly darker in color, about 1-2 minutes. Add the tomatoes. Cook on low, stirring often, until the juices thicken, about 30 minutes.

Add the white wine, cook to reduce slightly about three minutes. Add the clams. Cover and cook just until clams open, transferring them to a large bowl as they open, about 5-6 minutes, discard any

that don’t open. Season the sauce with salt and Parmesan cheese.

Meanwhile add one tablespoon salt to pot of boiling water add spaghetti and cook until al dente. Drain, add the spaghetti to the skillet and toss to coat. Top with clams and parsley.

Fried green tomato, bacon and lettuce sandwiches 12 thick-cut bacon slices ½ cup fine cornmeal ½ cup all-purpose flour ½ cup milk or buttermilk 2 large green tomatoes, cut into ½-inch slices 8 slices whole grain bread, toasted Mayonnaise Romaine lettuce leaves In a large skillet cook bacon until crispy. Drain on paper towels. Reserve drippings an ad enough vegetable oil to measure ¼-inch.

In a bowl whisk cornmeal, flour, and salt.

Pour the milk into another bowl.

Dredge the tomato slices in the cornmeal mixture. Pressing to adhere, then in milk to coat, then again in cornmeal mixture.

Fry in the bacon drippings over medium high heat until golden, about 2-3 minutes per side. Remove and place on paper towels.

Spread 4 slices of toast with mayonnaise. Top with bacon, fried green tomatoes, and lettuce, and remaining toast.

Thursday, August 31 •The Kiwanis Club of Hampstead meets every Thursday at 7:30 a.m. at the Sawmill Grill on Hwy. 17 in Hampstead.

•Alcoholics Anonymous will meet from noon-1 p.m. at the Surf City Community Center. Call 328.4887 for more information.

•Pender County Museum is open to the public for free (donations are welcome) every Thursday and Friday from 1-4 p.m. and on Saturdays from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. Group tours are available at other times by contacting the Museum at 259-8543 by email at penderhist@hotmail.com.

•Women in Networking meeting every Thursday from 9:3010:30 a.m. at Olde Point Country Club.

•The Burgaw Rotary Club meets at 7 a.m. every Thursday at Heritage Place in Burgaw.

Friday, September 1 •Pender County Museum open 1-4 p.m.

•The Marine Corps League, Detachment 1321 meets for breakfast at the Sawmill Grill in Hampstead at 8 a.m. each Friday.

•The Sons of Confederate Veterans, Commander Joe Henson, Pender County Grays Camp 2174 meets the third Friday of each month at the Pender County Library, 103 S. Cowan Street in Burgaw at 6 p.m.

Tuesday, September 5 •AlAnon meets at Hampstead United Methodist Church every Tuesday at 7 p.m. in Room 9. The meeting is for family and friends of alcoholics. Everyone is welcome •The Burgaw Lions Club meets at 6:30 p.m. the first and third Tuesday of each month at Burgaw Presbyterian Church Fellowship Hall. Members do not have to live in Burgaw to be a member of this service organization. For more information, call Alan King at 910-789-1074.

Wednesday, September 6 •Alcoholics Anonymous will meet from 7:30-8:30 p.m. at the Surf City Community Center, 201 Community Center Dr. Call 328.4887 for more information •The Coastal Pender Rotary Club meets each Wednesday at 12:30 p.m. at the Belvedere Country Club, 2368 Country Club Drive in Hampstead.

•The Hampstead Lions Club meets on the first Wednesday of the month at Topsail Presbyterian Church, Hwy. 217, at 7 p.m.

Thursday, September 7 •The Kiwanis Club of Hampstead will meet at 7:30 a.m. at the Sawmill Grill on Hwy. 17 in Hampstead.

•Alcoholics Anonymous will meet from noon-1 p.m. at the Surf City Community Center. Call 328.4887 for more information.

•Pender County Museum is open to the public for free (donations are welcome) every Thursday and Friday from 1-4 p.m. and on Saturdays from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. Group tours are available at other times by contacting the Museum at 259-8543 by email at penderhist@hotmail.com.

•Women in Networking meeting every Thursday from 9:3010:30 a.m. at Olde Point Country Club.

•Northeast Ruritan Club meets the first Thursday of each month with breakfast for supper from 5-8 p.m. at The Pink Supper House NC 41, Wallace Friday Sept. 8 •Pender County Museum open 1-4 p.m.

•The Marine Corps League, Detachment 1321 meets for breakfast at the Sawmill Grill in Hampstead at 8 a.m. each Friday.

Tuesday Sept.12 •The The Marine Corps League, Detachment 1321 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.

•The Knights of Columbus, Council 12281 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, September 13 •Alcoholics Anonymous will meet from 7:30-8:30 p.m. at the Surf City Community Center, 201 Community Center Dr. Call 328.4887 for more information •The Coastal Pender Rotary Club meets each Wednesday at 12:30 p.m. at the Belvedere Country Club, 2368 Country Club Drive in Hampstead.

Community News & Events Hampstead Lions Club meeting changes.

If you always wanted to see what The Hampstead Lion’s Club is all about but could not attend a noon time meeting now is your chance.

The first meeting of the month will be held on the first Wednesday of the month at Topsail Presbyterian Church on Highway 17 at 7 p.m.

The second meeting of the month will still be held on the third Thursday of the month at

Topsail Presbyterian Church on Highway 17 at noon time.

Bring your brown bag lunch.

Lions fund raiser The Hampstead Lions Club is selling the Attractions local dining and value guide as a fund raiser for the club.

The book features many discounts and deals on local dining and services. To purchase a guide for $25, contact Val at 910.231.6003 or Elaine at 201.704.5604For more information call Val at 910-231-6003 or

Elaine at 201-704-5604.

Vendors wanted Vendors are wanted for the Flea and Craft Market at American Legion Post 167 Hampstead Sept. 2 and Oct. 7 from 8 a.m. until noon. Indoor setup is $15 for one table. Set up is at 7 a.m. Call or text Brad at 585-305-7490 or eamil at brad@ncalpost167.org or bmfdlf@gmail.com.

Knights of Columbus Council sponsor Youth Soccer Challenge All boys and girls ages 9-14 are invited to participate in the local level of competition

Veterans golf Tourney Sept. 16 Chapter 885 of the Vietnam Veterans of America in Wilmington is having a golf tournament Sept.16 at Olde Point Golf and Country Club, Hampstead.

The purpose of the tournament is to raise funds to benefit the Veteran’s Outreach Program. Despite the name Vietnam Veterans, the chapter is an advocate for all veterans regardless of when he or she served in the military.

To register contact Mike O’Day at mod199th@yahoo. com or 910-398-8635, or Curt Photo contrbuted Farrison at 203-515-0034. If Grace Ann Watkins threw out the first pitch at the Aug. 7 you would like to be a sponsor Wilmington Sharks baseball game. Grace is a sophomore of the tournament please use at Trask High School and a member and advocate for the the same contact information.

Cape Fear Epilepsy Support Group. The group sponsored VVA 885 hopes to see you in the game that night and asked grace to throw out the first September for golf and a lot of fun. pitch.

for the 2017 Knights of Columbus Soccer Challenge. The local competition will be held Sept. 23, at the DDT field at Kiwanis Park in Hampstead.

The Knights of Columbus Soccer Challenge is sponsored annually, with winners progressing through local, district, and state competitions.

International Champions are announced by the K of C International headquarters in New Haven, Conn., based on scores from the state-level competitions.

All boys and girls 9-14 years old are eligible to participate and will compete in their respective age divisions. All contestants on the local level are recognized for their participation in the event.

Participants are required to furnish proof of age and written parental consent. For entry forms contact Harry “Hap” Hanson III Council 12281. Rich Andrascik, 724-272-3354 or by

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NEWS RELEASE Heritage Place dining room For Immediate Release THE AMERICAN LEGION POST 167, 16660 Highway 17 N. HAMPSTEAD, NC. Contact: Brad Fisher-585-305-7490, bradf@ncalpost167.org

Public Welcome

Release by: Brad Fisher Event Coordinator

August ,2017 Immediate Release

American Legion Post 167 Hampstead Subject: CASINO MONTE CARLO NIGHT

Monte Carlo Casino Night

Please join us. On behalf of our members of American Legion, our first annual “Monte Carlo Casino Night” to be held on September 23rd, 2017.

This is your chance to join with the American Legion Veteran’s and their families to help repay the debt we owe, please support this fundraising event: Event Sponsored by the following:

Above All Roofing Carolina Beach Supreme Lending Wilmington

Mutual of Omaha Wilmington State Farm Hampstead

This exciting event provides an excellent opportunity for exposure to the Converse and surrounding communities. During this spectacular night, our Post will sponsor several events, including: Vegas style casino games, a silent auction, raffles, food, drinks and live entertainment. Doors Open 6pm, tables open 7pm. Cost $45.00 with Paid Reservations On-Line, $50.00 at door. See our website for complete details at ncalpost167.org call or text to 585-305-7490 Brad Fisher

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Helpful information to enhance senior living provided by Pender Adult Services

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September is Healthy Aging Month

By Rebecca Boggs, RN About 15 years ago Carolyn Worthington, editorin-chief of Healthy Aging Magazine, recognized a need to create resources aimed at educating people about the positive aspects of aging.

September is Healthy Aging Month was born and every year the Healthy Aging Campaign helps people become aware of all the factors that contribute to successful aging. Take time this month to celebrate life and tur n over a new leaf ! Need some ideas? Here are some tips from Healthy Aging Magazine: s$O NOT ACT YOUR AGE OR AT least what you think your current age should act like. What was your best year so far? 28?

40? Now? Picture yourself at that age and be it. Some people may say this is denial, but we say it’s positive thinking and goes a long way toward feeling better about yourself. (Tip: s$ON T KEEP LOOKING IN THE mirror, just FEEL IT!) s"E POSITIVE IN YOUR CONVERsations and your actions every day. When you catch yourself complaining, check yourself right there and change the conversation to something positive. (Tip: Stop watching the police reports on the local news).

Have negative friends who complain all of the time and constantly talk about how AWFUL EVERYTHING IS $ROP them. As cruel as that may sound, distance yourself from people who do not have a positive outlook on life. They will only depress you and stop you from moving forward.

Surround yourself with energetic, happy, positive people of all ages and you will be happier too. (Tip: Smile often.

It’s contagious and wards off naysayers.) s 7A L K L I K E A V I B R A N T

healthy person. Come on.

You can probably do it. AnaLYZE YOUR GAIT $O YOU WALK slowly because you have just become lazy or, perhaps, have a fear of falling? (Tip: Make a conscious effort to take big strides, walk with your heel first, and wear comfortable shoes.) s3TAND UP STRAIGHT 9OU CAN knock off the appearance of a few extra years with this trick your mother kept trying to tell you. Look at yourself in the mirror. Are you holding your stomach in, have your shoulders back, chin up? Check out how much better your neck looks! Fix your stance and practice it every day, all day

until it is natural. You will look great and feel better. (Tip: Your waistline will look trimmer if you follow this advice.) s(OW S YOUR SMILE 2Esearch shows people who smile more often are happier.

Your teeth are just as important to your good health as the rest of your body. Not only is it the first thing people notice, but good oral health is a gateway to your overall wellbeing. (Tip: Go to the dentist regularly and look into teeth whitening. Nothing says old more than yellowing teeth!) s,ONELY 3TOP BROODING AND complaining about having no FRIENDS OR FAMILY $O SOMEthing about it now. Right this minute. Pick up the phone, landline, or cell and make a call to do one or more of the following: Volunteer your time, Take a class, Invite someone to meet for lunch, brunch, dinner, or coffee. (Tip: Volunteer at the local public school to stay in touch with younger people and to keep current on trends, take a computer class or a tutorial session at your cell phone store to keep up with technology, choose a new person every week for your dining out.) s3TART WALKING NOT ONLY for your health but to see the neighbors. Have a dog? You’ll be amazed how the dog can be a conversation starter. (Tip: If you don’t have time for a dog, go to your local animal shelter and volunteer. You will be thrilled by the puppy love!) s-AKE THIS MONTH THE TIME to set up your annual physical and other health screenings.

Go to the appointments and then, hopefully, you can stop worrying about ailments for a while. s&IND YOUR INNER ARTIST Who says music lessons are for young school children?

You may have an artist lurking inside you just waiting to be tapped. Have you always wanted to play the piano, violin, or tuba? Have you ever wondered if you could paint a portrait or scenic in oil? What about working in wood? (Tip: Sign up now for fall art or music classes and discover your inner artist!)

Regarding Healthy Aging Magazine, Carolyn Worthington says “we are about vibrant, active 45-plus people who are taking charge of their lives, following their passion, and who are happily looking forward to what’s next in life.� Are you interested in more Healthy Aging resources? Sign up for a free Healthy Aging newsletter at: www. healthyaging.net

Have arthritis but want to move more?

No matter if you need relief from arthritis pain or just want to be active, the Arthritis Foundation’s six-week Walk with Ease program can teach you how to safely make physical activity part of your everyday life.

Studies by the Thurston Arthritis Research Center and the Institute on Aging of the University of North Carolina show that Walk With Ease is proven to: s2EDUCE THE PAIN AND DIScomfort of arthritis s)NCREASE BALANCE STRENGTH and walking pace s"UILD CONlDENCE IN YOUR ability to be physically active s)MPROVE OVERALL HEALTH The Walk with Ease prog ram is of fered as a selfguided course or may be held in a community setting.

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setting as you follow the six week Walk with Ease program. Classes will be taught at Pender Adult Services this fall.

Infor mational meeting will be held August 30 at 1 p.m. or call Jennifer Mathews at 910-259-9119 extension 303 for more information.

RSVP volunteers enjoyed the fall recognition dinner at Topsail Senior Center in August.

By Barbara Mullins RSVP Director Topsail Senior Center was in full swing with 70 RSVP volunteers celebrating a successful year volunteering in Pender County. Irv’s Signature Catering provided a wonderful feast of hamburgers, hot dogs, chicken and lots of fix-

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ins. Steve Merritt and Annie Sharp entertained us with their fiddle, bass, viola, guitar and singing. Thank you to the RSVP Board members for planning such a fun evening and to all our RSVP volunteers in Pender County that every day make a difference in the life of our seniors and school children.

Volunteering is a way to reward yourself with good health. Bryan Huffman (96 years old) and Jane Niederberger (92 years old) are perfect examples that there is no ceiling to stop you from being a volunteer. Both have birthdays this month and we are so thankful for the wisdom, love and patience they add to our

program.

RSVP consists of volunteers 55 and older. Our work in Pender County thrives by those wanting to be an intricate part of keeping our seniors living independently at home.

If you would like more info on volunteering 2-3 hours a week call Barbara at 910-2599119 (ext 329).

September activities, classes at Pender Adult Services August has been terribly hot and wet. We are hoping for a fall breeze to dry our area.

Some of our classes took a summer break and you did TOO $ONNA AND *ENNIFER HOPE to be giving you a hug soon as you come back into our Heritage Place and Topsail Senior Center soon.

A few classes are getting started back. Monday Art at Heritage will begin Sept.

11 at 9 a.m. There is a fee for this six-week class. You get 15 hours of instruction for $50. Please call Maureen McKenna at 631-312-6102.

She will tell you what supplies you need and more about your opportunity to lear n watercolors, acrylic or oil in this stress-free class where fun and socialization is en-

couraged.

We also have a regular Art group that meets at Topsail Monday morning at 9. Basket Class will start back with Peggy Casey Sept 12 (TSC) or Sept 13 (HP). Both of these classes begin at 9 a.m. The fee for this six-week class is $18 (60 and older) and $28 (59 and younger).

Jewelry Class (HP) has been shifted to Thursday morning from 10 a.m. until noon. Anna Eubanks will lead you in jewelry repair and creation. Cost for this class is $8 (60 and older) and $15 (59 and younger).

Quilting g roups meet weekly Tuesdays (HP) 1 p.m., Wednesday (TSC) 9 a.m. and Thursday (TSC) 1 p.m. Our Burgaw group has a new plans with several ideas com-

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Thank you to Duke Progress, Four County Electric and Fran’s fans For your support of Operation Fan Heat Relief 2017

ing from a new member and volunteer leader Patty Benjamin. They are working on a friendship quilt and have other projects lined up for the fall. Our Tree Top Quilters meet monthly at Topsail (second Monday at 1 p.m.)

We have many opportunities for you to socialize, learn or exercise at our centers.

Please look at the schedule.

Geri-fit, Pilates, Tai Chi and Yoga are all offered. We are looking at a new program called Walk with Ease. This is a program to get people walking that suf fer from arthritis and lack of motivation.

We hope this class will establish several walking g roups from our clients.

Walking is safer and puts less stress on the body than

most other forms of aerobic exercise. We will have an informational meeting at Heritage Place Aug. 30 at 1 p.m.

Healthy Aging Week is Sept. 25-30. Our centers have a Fall Prevention and Balance Education Program has been planned Sept. 26.

Topsail Senior Center will host their program at 10 a.m.

Heritage Place will hold their program at 11 a.m.

Area Rehab/Balance Specialists will be sharing helps and tips for preventing falls as a part of Healthy Aging Week. We also have an End Of Summer Social and Dance at the Topsail Senior Center Sept. 29. Tickets are IN ADVANCE TO COVER $* expense. Light Refreshments will be served.

Pender Adult Services September 2017

Save the date for our ANNUAL SILENT AUCTION November 9, 2017

Sept 4 – Closed for Labor Day Sept 5 – RSVP Perks 9 a.m. (HP) Sept 6 – RSVP Perks 9 a.m. (TSC) Sept 11 – Patriots Day Memorial Services – 12:30 p.m. (HP) Sept 13 – Blind Group Meeting,

Thank you for your contributions to our Memorial and Honorary Giving Program Holy Trinity Episcopal Church Wardell & Ruby McDuffie

For more information on Pender Adult Services Memorial and Honorary Giving Program please contact Wesley Davis at 910-259-9119.

contact Patricia Miller 259-1464, 1p.m. (HP)

Sept 18 – Bowling at Ten Pin Alley –sign up at front desk Sept 21- Health Checks (TSC) 11:30 a.m. until1 p.m.

Sept 26 – Fall Prevention 10 a.m. (TSC) 11 a.m. (HP) Sept 28 - Health Checks (HP) 11:30 a.m. until 1 p.m.

Sept 28 – Caregivers Support Meeting 11:30 a.m. (HP) Sept 29 – End of Summer Social & Dance 6:30 p.m. (TSC) For more information – call 910-259-9119 www.penderpas.com NC STATE FAIR TRIP – OCT 17 Medicare Part D Open Enrollment Oct 15 – Dec 7 Flu Shot Clinics Heritage Place on Thurs, Oct 19 Topsail Senior Center on Tues, Oct 24

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