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Walk with Jesus Celebrate Easter Sunday. Details on page 1-C ThePublished News since 1890 every Monday and Tursday forReporter the County of Columbus and her people. Tursday, April 5, 2012 Lake dealing Commissioners with chicken Volume 121, Number 79 support marriage Whiteville, North Carolina complaints amendment nA ‘crowing’ problem. 75 Cents nDomestic violence protective re- sources for unmarried will be threat- By JEFFERSON WEAVER ened, says Families First director. Inside Today Staff Writer By NICOLE CARTRETTE Town officials recently sent 4-A Staff Writer out code violation letters to r$IBECPVSO8IJUF eight Lake Waccamaw res- Columbus County commissioners have WJMMFDPVQMFGBDF idents who are apparently joined other boards, including Brunswick and keeping backyard flocks of GFMPOZDIBSHFT Wake counties, in endorsing a change to the chickens. state’s constitution regarding marriage. Town Manager Darren Cur- The measure that will soon go before vot- rie said that in the past, the ers across the state asks if the constitution Next Issue town office received a few of North Carolina should be amended to complaints about birds, and recognize only a marriage between one man “had dealt with them.” This and one woman. time, he said, Currie was rid- Monday night, Commissioner Charles Mc- ing through a neighborhood Dowell asked that the item (not on the agenda) and saw a number of chickens be added to the agenda. Commissioner James running at large. Prevatte seconded the motion. “When we found out how In Wake County such an endorsement vote many there were, we decided came along party lines, but in Columbus all we had to do something about seven Democrat commissioners voted in sup- it,” Currie said. port of the measure. Most seemed anxious Further investigation turned up eight locations See Marriage, page 2-A where residents were keeping chickens or allowing them to Monday’s roam on other people’s prop- erty. Board moves to American Profle The town’s zoning ordi- features “Historic nance forbids the keeping of any type of fowl or livestock name road for Trails: Pathways to within the town limits. The America’s Past” same animals may be kept in the extraterritorial jurisdic- McGlockton tion with some limits, but in Staff photo by Mark Gilchrist By NICOLE CARTRETTE DIDYOB? Staff Writer See Chickens, page 7-A Did you observe ... Dry run Walk With Jesus organizers held a test writing of scriptures in front of It is quite possible that the last time Matt Te mayfies joining Columbus Christian Academy Tuesday, then tested a broom with an Tedder was before the board of commission- Coburn’s greatest ers, he was just a teenager and co-captain of attached garden hose to erase the words afterward. News & Observer the midges at Lake pleasure was the Whiteville High School football team, with Waccamaw? Te photographer Chris Seward, right, writes the name of student Jacob co-captain Chester McGlockton by his side. sailing on Lake Smith, left. News & Observer writer Martha Quillin and Seward toured Monday night, decades later, Tedder stood mayfies are about Whiteville for an article in the Raleigh paper’s Sunday edition. alone in representation of classmates, friends one month early. Waccamaw and family members who want the late NFL great who grew up off Fruit Ridge Road re- ... Les and Becky nFounder of Waccamaw membered in a special way. High’s purchase of Sailing Club died at his Tedder, a local attorney, asked the board to Whiteville home Monday. New Whiteville chamber request that the name of the road be changed the Topsail Voice in honor of McGlockton, who died unexpect- newspaper Friday? By BOB HIGH edly last year at the age of 42 in his California Tey are merging it Staff Writer boss excited about job home. By JEFFERSON WEAVER See McGlockton, page 11-A Some of Dick Coburn’s with their Burgaw Staff Writer finest hours were spent sail- newspaper, Te ing his 16-foot Tanzer craft on Mary Lee Hudson was once sur- Lake Waccamaw, and he and Pender Post. ... Te rounded by, as she puts it, “all things crewmember Trudy Glass be- pink and green and polka dotted and It’s time to pray, K-LOVE Christian came so proficient in handling fluffy.” radio interview with the lightweight boat they won The new president of the Greater kneel and Walk seven national championships. Walk with Jesus Whiteville Chamber of Commerce, Jesse Marion “Dick” Co- Hudson owned a manufacturing com- organizer Mark burn, an 80-year-old local busi- with Jesus pany that produced “frou-frou” items nessman and banker, died at Gilchrist scheduled for the gift market. his Pinckney Street home here nSee page 1-C or Whiteville.com for “I tell a lot of the businessmen I to air to day? ... Monday morning after an ill- map and details. deal with, ‘Your wife probably has ness of two years. something we made in your house,’” Coburn, an easy-going man Organizers have prepared extensively for Hudson laughed. who used his intelligence, a first-of-its-kind event Easter morning, and Hudson has worked across the County Deaths guile and followed his heart having cleared a major hurdle, are ready for business spectrum, from the gift Mary Lee Hudson and his determination to be a tremendous and joyous turnout. Whiteville manufactory to Horry County’s eco- fair in dealing with all types “I believe we all can work together, One factor that could have ruined all the Charles Edward Singletary nomic development commission. She of people from all races, began and learn from one another,” she said. intricate plans for this unique outdoor event said the variety of experiences mesh Jesse M. “Dick” Coburn his business life working in “Everyone has experiences that have was rain, even just a little of which would well with her personality, which she Fair Bluf the original Waccamaw Bank have put a stop to any writing with chalk on calls “a circle. See Chamber, page 2-A Willie J. Goodman Sr. See Coburn, page 9-A See Walk, page 8-A James “Pete” Goodman Chadbourn Grace M. Vereen Register Cerro Gordo Invasive weed seminar kicks of observance Grover S. Edwards By RAY WYCHE tive plant life. Staff Writer Most of the damaging foreign plants were brought into the country by accident — seed finding their ways Index An afternoon of discussions about invasive weeds into shipping containers and packing materials, for followed by a field trip to observe growing examples of example — or as ornamentals that homeowners allowed &EJUPSJBMT" foreign-origin plants began an observance of Invasive to grow unchecked in wild areas adjacent to lawns and 0CJUVBSJFT" Plant Awareness Week Sunday at Lake Waccamaw gardens. 4QPSUT# State Park. Probably the most obvious of the damaging foreign $SJNF" Gov. Bev Perdue decreed the first week in April as plant hereabouts, Westbrooks said, is kudzu, a vine that the state’s Invasive Plant Awareness Week to emphasize originally was imported for the benefits from its thick -JWJOH$ the importance of keeping invasive plant life away from root system in erosion control. the state and nation. Westbrooks said that “in 1776, settlers found a wilder- Randy Westbrooks, recently retired from the U.S. ness here,” with all plant life being native to the area. Geological Survey as an invasive weed specialist and “What will southeastern North Carolina look like in now an associate with a private company that combats 2076?” he asked, if invasive plants are not controlled. invasive species, said the purpose of the special week is Rebecca Westbrooks, chair of natural and social sci- “to help make citizens aware of invasive species, and to ences at SCC, gave an overview on the summer camps show what Southeastern Community College (SCC) has for the last three years that dealt with invasive species. been doing in the past years” by holding youth camps The camps, attended by more than 90 students, were devoted to the study of invasive species. funded by a grant from the Burroughs-Wellcome Fund. Invasive weeds are defined as those plants not native to the U.S. and that can have a detrimental effect on na- See Weeds, page 16-A Randy Westbrooks 2-A – The News Reporter, Thursday, April 5, 2012 DSS board wants salary set for new director at $75K By NICOLE CARTRETTE McKenzie said. Staff Writer “We have not discussed it but will get into that next Though the Columbus time. It should be open for County DSS board has not discussion,” McKenzie said. yet selected a candidate for Former director Gerald the vacant director’s position Fogle resigned last year after and interviews have been 16 months on the job. postponed while one board The resignation followed a member is on medical leave, nearly two-month investiga- some DSS officials say they tion into a terminated work- want commissioners to give ers complaint that was later their blessing to a starting dismissed. Tim Jernigan, Director of Missions for the Columbus Baptist Association, asked Columbus County commissioners salary of at least $75,000 an- Longtime employee Joan to endorse an upcoming vote to change the state’s constitution to recognize only a marriage between one man and nually. Stephens is currently serving one woman. The issue goes before voters in May. Commissioner Edwin as the interim director. Russ serves on the DSS board. The county’s DSS direc- He said a previous director tor is selected and hired by Marriage search was hindered by the a five-member DSS board by Continued from page 1-A DSS board not having any statute. definite say as to what com- Commissioners set the missioners would be willing salary.

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