5BLFUIF-BLF 953&.&UPSVO Te 2012-13 4BUVSEBZ6QEBUFT POFWFOUXFCTJUF UISPVHI8IJUFWJMMF HOMEROOM LISTS DPN are included in this issue. ThePublished News since 1890 every Monday and Tursday forReporter the County of Columbus and her people. Monday, August 20, 2012 Searchers seek missing man Tourists Volume 122, Number 15 in lake today Whiteville, North Carolina spending nFormer mayor David 75 Cents Burns “Bunny” Goldston Jr. missing, believed to have been in lake late more in Inside Today Sunday afternoon. 4-A By BOB HIGH Columbus Staff Writer r-PDBMUPCBDDPTIPQT nCamping, hunting opportunities SBJEFEBSSFTUTNBEF At presstime today (10 a.m. growing. Monday), there were four res- cue boats on Lake Waccamaw By NICOLE CARTRETTE searching for evidence of a Staff Writer missing man who could be for- mer Lake mayor David Burns Jellystone Park at Daddy Joe’s, a Tabor City “Bunny” Goldston Jr. campground, was the place to be Friday for The effort, headed by the many families from across the region. State Park, Lake Fire and Justin Kimrey and family of Albemarle Rescue and police, shut down shopped for T-shirts in the campground store shortly after dark Sunday, and while Michele Ray, husband Russell and girls enjoyed the pool. See Search, page 4-A “We just wanted to take a short little sum- mer vacation,” said Ray, who was renting a cabin. She said her family likes the camp- ground because it offers a lot for children and Today’s Tabor police is a convenient drive from home. American Profle “I just like the whole campground,” said note new names Kimrey, who first found out about the camp- features “Take Me ground from his captain on the fire depart- Out of the Ball- in recent gun, ment. “We have brought several families down with us.” park.” Vintage robbery cases Amelia Toberman, 5, was all smiles as she gave Boo Boo a big hug at one of the character venues hist the all- nSix males named, one Staff photo by Mark Gilchrist appearances at the park. arrested for involvement American game. Her dad, Tom, said the family, from Burl- in attempted robbery, Hard search ington, learned about the campground from shooting of victim on DIDYOB? Deputies, frefghters and rescue personnel set out Monday morning for surfing the Internet. “We go to a lot of the Jel- Aug. 9. a rescue operation turned recovery on Lake Waccamaw. An empty boat Did you observe ... owned by Lake resident and former mayor town commissioner David See Tourists, page 2-A By BOB HIGH “Bunny” Goldston Jr. was found late Sunday afternoon circling in the Staff Writer College students middle of the lake between the Wildlife boat landing and the state park. beginning class to- Warrants charging three day? ... Public school men have been issued in point- DSS director’s blank shooting and robbery of teachers returning to a man in Tabor City on Aug. Fair Bluf okays ABC vote on work today? ... Rain 9, and three more are being pay in limbo sought, according to Tabor keeping unharvested City Police Chief Donald Dow- permitting mixed drink sales By NICOLE CARTRETTE less. Staff Writer corn in the felds By ALLEN TURNER t h e y w i l l See Robberies, page 4-A Staff Writer be recorded A debate is brewing among the Columbus longer than area as having County Social Services board and county The Fair Bluff Board of Commis- voted in the farmers would like? commissioners. sioners voted Wednesday to ask the affirmative. The Social Services Board Chairman Mi- Columbus County Board of Elections Commis- ... Feds indict chael Lewis announced last week that a 21 to conduct a referendum to determine sioner Billy year employee of the agency had been named whether to permit the sale of mixed Hammond local grain director. alcoholic beverages in hotels, res- m a d e t h e Algernon McKenzie, the manager of the County Deaths taurants, private clubs, community motion to agency’s Work First program and child care dealer in theatres and convention centers. The call for the subsidy program, is set to make the transition Whiteville vote came at a reconvened session of referen- Sept. 4, but Lewis said now that McKenzie Helen S. Gainey mail fraud the recessed regular monthly meeting d u m , a n d H. Lee Brown has already been offered a starting salary of Charles Bernard Stephens of the board. the motion $75,000, he is being told to negotiate a lower nOperator of Gurganus With Mayor Randy Britt and Com- was second- Janie Lynn Spivey Graham salary. Milling here indicted missioner Clarice Faison not in ed by Commissioner Jack Meares. Margie O. Boone Lewis said Wednesday that commissioners on nine counts of fraud attendance because of work obliga- Mayor Pro Tem Carl Meares, as pre- want to pay McKenzie only $60,000 per year. Bolton involving Clarkton grain tions, the board voted unanimously to siding officer, did not vote. “That’s unacceptable. We are standing firm Margaret J. B. Godwin elevator. request the elections board to conduct The board’s vote was taken at the at $75,000,” Lewis said. Tabor City the referendum. request of North Myrtle Beach, S.C. Columbus County Board Chairman Amon By BOB HIGH Although Commissioner Lester businessman H. Lee Brown, who Christine Soles Watts McKenzie, (who says he is not related to Al- Staff Writer Drew announced he was abstaining owns residential rental properties Chadbourn gernon McKenzie) said the figure given to when the vote was taken, state law in Fair Bluff and who is considering the Social Services board was meant to be a Gertrude Edmund Floyd John Paul Smith, operator provides that a commissioner can purchasing a building at 48 Riverside “ceiling” should the board find someone with Lake Waccamaw of Gurganus Milling in White- be excused from voting only if they Drive which previously housed the prior experience as a director or someone ville, and owner of a similar have a personal financial interest in Masonic lodge. He intends to open an Renee’ Jacobs-Clarida “highly qualified.” business in Clarkton under the the matter at hand (which Drew does upscale restaurant there. Franklin David Larrimore County commissioner Edwin Russ “being business name of JPS Farms, not) and that if a member who has not Hammond said after the meeting Delco on the Social Services board wanted a pay has been indicted by federal been so excused does not vote, then Marsha Carroll Easter See Fair Bluff, page 8-A limit that the board could go to,” Amon McK- Clarendon See Dealer, page 4-A See Limbo, page 2-A Hubert Clinton Stanley Sr. John Floyd Nealey Nakina Selena Sue Smith County’s new Teen Court leaders take helm By NICOLE CARTRETTE Nicholson said she sees the position as an Staff Writer opportunity to “influence the lives of children Index in the community and help guide and steer Columbus County Teen Court has two new them in the right direction.” &EJUPSJBMT" faces. Nicholson, the daughter of Lewis and Lu- 0CJUVBSJFT" Katherine Nicholson of Hallsboro began cille Baxley of Tar Heel, moved to the county work as the director and Terri Register of three years ago with her husband, Steven, who 4QPSUT# Whiteville started as the coordinator this week. is a Lake Waccamaw police officer. The couple $SJNF" While the two agree they have a lot to learn, has one child, Chase, 3. -JGFTUZMFT" they are excited about working with young Register is a 2004 graduate of Whiteville people in the county. High School. She is a 2007 graduate of UNC Nicholson, a 2003 graduate of West Bladen Greensboro with a bachelor’s degree in sociol- High School, holds a bachelor’s degree in ogy and is working on her master’s degree in psychology from Troy University in Alabama global studies through Liberty University. and is working on her master’s in marriage Register said she has a varied background and family therapy from Liberty University in non-profit work as both a volunteer and in Virginia. employee. “This is my first position in a leadership Register was a volunteer with Columbus role,” said Nicholson, who previously worked County Teen Court in 2009 and has developed as a pharmacy technician at Southeastern an interest in non-profit work on a professional Regional in Lumberton. See Teen Court, page 3-A Katherine Nicholson and Terri Register 2-A – The News Reporter, Monday, August 20, 2012 Tourists Continued from page 1-A lystone Parks but this one has across the county. a lot more to offer than most,” Holcomb said several land- Tom said. owners are interested in offer- On a busy weekend, the ing eight to 10 tracts of land campground hosts as many as where groups can pay to hunt 1,000 people staying in cabins, and be taken on guided hunt- tents, campers, RV’s or yurts. ing tours. That is close to half the popu- “So many things require lation of Tabor City and the lo- mass amounts of capital but cal businesses feel the impact, this does not,” Holcomb said. owner Rick Coleman said. Southeastern Community “Our campers have learned College will offer a hunting that grocery stores are close by guide training course to help and they trade locally,” Cole- support the initiative that man said. “Tourism makes a farmers like Chandler Worley big impact.” of Fair Bluff sees as having While some businesses great potential here. were cutting back, the Cole- Worley said it would benefit mans continued to invest in farmers who are transitioning their business and find ways from tobacco farming and will to continue to attract families.