Wood Waste Electric Plant Seeks State Approval Well Driller Recovering
Total Page：16
File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb
r&$)4HJSMTHFUXJOPWFS&BTU#MBEFOr8PMGQBDL SVOTUPWJDUPSJFTPWFS8FTU$PMVNCVTr&$)4 #BTLFUCBMM5PVSOBNFOUTDIFEVMFEGPS%FDFNCFS r1BDLCPZTDSVJTFQBTU-BLFXPPE Sports 4FFQBHF# ThePublished News since 1890 every Monday and Tursday forReporter the County of Columbus and her people. Monday, December 17, 2012 Fair Bluf Wood waste commits Volume 122, Number 49 Whiteville, North Carolina to railroad electric plant 75 Cents By ALLEN TURNER Staff Writer seeks state The Fair Bluff Board of Inside Today Commissioners, meeting in regular monthly session on approval 4-A Tuesday, Dec. 11, voted unani- nCounty landfill is site of proposed r5XPNFODBVHIU mously to commit up to $1,500 facility. to help the Interstate Railroad GPSCSFBLJOHBOE Committee fund legal costs By NICOLE CARTRETTE FOUFSJOH in their effort to get local rail service restored. Staff Writer They also received a clean The Columbus County landfill may soon audit report for the fiscal year become home to a $22 to $26 million electric- that ended on June 30 and took ity producer. no action on a request from Columbus Renewable Energy, LLC (CRE) Fair Bluff Police Chief Justin filed an application on Dec. 3 with the state’s Hewett that the police depart- public utilities commission seeking a certifi- ment be moved from its cur- cate of public convenience and necessity. rent location in the Town Hall The 10-megawatt landfill gas and wood on Main Street to the old town waste biomass electric generating facility will hall building on Bardin Street. be located at the Columbus County landfill The board normally meets at New Hope and could begin operations as Today’s on the first Tuesday of the early as December 2013, according to state month, but the December meet- American Profle documents. ing was rescheduled to the Tom Koch is a member of CRE and working features “Acts of second Tuesday and the meet- as a developer of the project. ing location was switched from Kindness.” Shar- The operation will utilize about 150,000 the Town Hall to the Lumber tons of wood waste per year and will oper- ing good will with River Information Center so ate 24-hours a day with three shifts, he said. that board members and town people in need. It would employ 10 to 12 full time employees employees could participate in he said. the town’s annual Christmas “Trucks coming and going do not have to dinner. DIDYOB? 24-7,” Koch said. The Interstate Railroad Did you observe ... Committee, consisting of rep- Staff photo by Mark Gilchrist See Wood waste, page 3-A resentatives of Columbus, Hor- Te back-up donkey ry and Marion counties and Live Nativity Sarah Austin and Jaech Austin portray Mary and Joseph during Sun- breaking loose and See Fair Bluff, page 2-A walking up to the day’s night’s performance of the Live Nativity at Whiteville’s First Baptist County attracts Church. Performances continue tonight and Tuesday at 6:45 and 7:30 manger with the three p.m. Admission is free. wise men during the State says solar companies “Hallelujah Chorus” current fu By NICOLE CARTRETTE fnale of First Baptist Judge Barefoot retiring, Staff Writer Church’s Live Nativity strain is bad More than a half dozen solar farms planned for Columbus County have been permitted or performance Sunday By RAY WYCHE dinner here Tuesday are in the process of seeking approval from night? ... Joggers in Staff Writer By BOB HIGH Wake Forest University in 1982, and the N.C. Public Utilities Commission. shorts ignoring Sun- State law related to public utilities permit- No kind of influenza could Staff Writer was in private law practice until be- ting requires public notices be printed in a day’s rain? ... Cars be called good but the type of coming an assistant district attorney daily newspaper, so few of the notices have wintertime sickness that has A dinner to honor retiring Dis- in 1984. Married for 22 years to Kelly swering to avoid pot appeared in The News Reporter. affected many North Carolina trict Court Judge Napoleon “Poli” Simmons Barefoot, he and his wife A search of records available online with holes on North Madi- citizens this winter is a par- Bonaparte Barefoot Jr. is set here are the parents of three daughters the N.C. Public Utilities commission indicate ticularly bad strain. Tuesday, Dec. 18, at Dale’s Seafood – Lauren Winfree, Anna and Mary son Street? ... several limited liability corporations created The state Division of Pub- at 5:30 p.m. Boyd Barefoot. under Strata Solar are developing or have lic Health has repeated their The Dutch-treat meal is 13 days He is a former district chairman developed solar farms in the county. advice to all citizens to take before Barefoot, who did of the Brunswick County Chauncey Farm LLC located at 1878 County Deaths advantage of the vaccinations not seek re-election this Boy Scouts of America, Chauncey Town Road in Lake Waccamaw is that will prevent the disease, year, ends 28 years and a former chairman of Whiteville among them. The 4.975-megawatt solar farm especially since this year’s ver- nine months service to the Brunswick Family Ralph Lacey Rogers is connected with a “purchase-sell agreement sion of the flu seems to be more the state on Dec. 31. Assistance Agency, and Clifon Alexander Jones with Eddie B. Mitchell, according to public potent than in past winters. A resident of Sup- also at one time headed filings. The farm is expected to be operational Roy Hayley Outbreaks of the disease ply, Barefoot served 22 the Criminal Justice by July 2013. Sandra Pridgen Weavil seem to be peaking earlier this years as a District Court Partnership program in Britt Farm. LLC is also a 4.975-megawatt winter than in the past, state judge in the counties Brunswick County. Elwood Price solar farm planned for 1416 Small Road in Fair officials added. of Bladen, Brunswick Barefoot was also ac- Chadbourn Bluff. The farm with a September 2013 pro- Columbus County Depart- and Columbus, after six tive in Brunswick Coun- jected completion date is leased from Spruell Ruth Inman Phillips ment of Public Health Director years and nine months ty’s schools, acting for “Randy” Britt and Johnny Page Britt. Betty Ann E. Maultsby Kim Smith repeats the advice work as an assistant dis- a time as a committee Barefoot Another 4.975-megawatt farm is planned for Walter Lee ‘Floyd’ Daniels and adds that there may be trict attorney. member of the county’s Flitter Hill road and identified as McKenzie more cases of flu in the county Barefoot became a judge in 1991 Communities in Schools program, Gladys Turbeville Dorsey Farm. LLC. The T.M. McKenzie heirs own this winter than is normal. and has served in various courts and is a former chairman of the Harry Stewart the property. “The hospital has told us during his tenure – domestic, crimi- county’s Teen Court program. Recently, The News Reporter learned that a Acme that they have seen a lot of nal, civil, child-support and special He is a master Mason with St. Mary E. Formy-Duval terms. John’s Lodge No. 1, and a former Charlottesville, Va. firm is seeking approval Fair Bluf See Flu, page 2-A He obtained his law degree at See Barefoot page 2-A See Solar farms, page 10-A George Moore Hallsboro Vangus Nichols Lake Waccamaw Johnnie Corbett Well driller recovering from horrifc injury By JEFFERSON WEAVER Soles was working on the well drilling tower when The men called Lambert along the way, so she Staff Writer he looked away for a moment, and his sleeve became could meet them at the emergency room. Although tangled in a cog. The chain began pulling Soles into he was badly injured, Soles’ lack of readily-visible Index Jimmy Soles is well-known for his hard work, the machine and lifting him into the air. injuries led to a few tense moments in the ER. His &EJUPSJBMT" honesty and willingness to help others, as well as “It had eaten to his collar when Lyndsay heard arm was still tightly wrapped to stop the bleeding. his pursuit of a healthy lifestyle. something that didn’t sound right and came over “Nobody wanted to help him because he was 0CJUVBSJFT" The Whiteville-area well driller has seen the to help,” Lambert said. “It was just like a wringer standing there,” Lambert said. “The guard stopped 4QPSUT# fruits of his generosity and physical fitness regimen washing machine.” him in the waiting area. It’s like he thought Jimmy $SJNF" in recent weeks, after an accident that mangled his Soles managed to calmly tell Smith how to put the was drunk or dangerous or something. They -JGFTUZMFT" right arm. driller in neutral, then reversed the gears so he could couldn’t see how bad he was hurt. They kept walking Doctors are calling his injury one of the worst be released and lowered to the ground. past him—but when he unwrapped that arm, they they have ever seen – and his recovery miraculous. “Whether it was adrenaline or what, he didn’t were flying everywhere. They scattered like ants.” At the same time, Pat Lambert said the outpouring know how bad he was hurt,” Lambert said. Doctors at the emergency room immediately went of offers to help has been “humbling.” Smith had to cut Soles’ jacket, shirt and under- to work stabilizing Soles, and called for a helicopter “You never know how many lives you touch,” shirt to get him out of the drilling machine. That’s to transport him to New Hanover Regional. High she said.