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AUGUST 2021 Ready to receive multiple offers on your property? The ONLY Real Estate Office in St. James Plantation Your property is worth more than you think! Inventory is low in this seller’s market. Call today for a home, homesite or marina drystack/slip estimate. Lisa Frye | Gail Lendvoyi | MaryGrace Mandaro | Lisa Nieves Call Us (910) 253-0045 www.stjamesplantation.com | [email protected] © 2021 St. James Properties, LLC. Obtain the Property Report required by federal law and read it before signing anything. No federal agency has judged the merits or value, if any, of this property. Void where prohibited by law. This product does not constitute an offer to sell real property in any jurisdiction where prior registration or advanced qualification is required but not completed. This is not to solicit property currently listed by another broker. 2 Editor's note By Marilyn Rudolph CONTRIBUTORS The weather at this time of year is tale. And Gina Mancinelli remembers Tom Alderdice often hot, humid and oppressive across when but then can’t remember. She’s not Bob Badertscher the United States, and St. James is alone. I’ve been there, done that. Steve Brocker no exception. According to The Old Ami Brown Arthur Hill’s ICYMI column mentions a Farmer’s Almanac, when temperatures Jim Carey very famous basketball team that many and humidity peak in the Northern probably remember. When reading his Kathryn Copley Hemisphere from early July to mid- column, I thought about my dad. This Nicholas De Gennaro August, we experience the dog days of team starred in the first basketball game Arthur Hill summer. This timeframe coincides with that my brothers and I went to with dad. Catherine Isaacson the rising of Sirius, the Dog Star, thus the Reading this story made me whistle. I Jerry Iverson name, dog days of summer. think you’ll know why when you read it. Bob Jensen When thinking about dog days, dog-eared Colleen Jordan This issue features an article written came to mind. Dog-eared usually refers by Nicholas De Gennaro that contains Merry Klinefelter to turned-down pages in a book, but also educational and safety-related Vicki Hamilton Lauziere means worn out. When a day of outdoor information about coastal currents. After Bett Lewis summer fun wears me out, sometimes I Ready to receive multiple reading the article, I perceive the ocean Lynn Maloney happily recall summers of my childhood differently, but as a child, a family beach Dennis Mancinelli but also think wistfully about the endless, vacation was the highlight of my summer. Gina Mancinelli offers on your property? youthful energy I had back then. The ONLY Real Estate Office in St. James Plantation As a kid, you may have thought the same John Muuss I rode my bike to somewhere or nowhere about your beach vacations. Peter Riekstins on summer days. I gathered siblings and Do you recall vacation highlights, special Judy Rubin friends to play freeze tag and pickup events or favorite activities from your Marilyn Rudolph games of baseball and kickball. Mom childhood? If you're feeling creative, James Storey drove us (me, my four brothers and sentimental, ambitious and/or inspired, Jean Toner two sisters) to the swimming pool in please submit a story about your fondest Jane Williams Wurm Your property is worth our Vista Cruiser. Those pool days were childhood memories for publication in a special, particularly during the dog days Russ Yarrow future issue of Cat-Tales. more than you think! of summer, but one was extra special for Inventory is low in this seller’s market. me. It was the July day when I met my Submissions for “Kids Say the Darndest future husband at the pool. Things” was a big hit. Let’s see if we STAFF Call today for a home, homesite or get the same reaction to stories about Sometimes, I’d walk to the river with my editor marina drystack/slip estimate. childhood memories. Stories should be fishing pole, usually with a few brothers Marilyn Rudolph approximately 250 to 500 words in length and sisters in tow, but wouldn’t fish. managing editor and submitted to cattaleseditor@gmail. Instead, we’d skip stones across the Ami Brown com over the next couple of months. water or wade at the edge and turn over photographic editor Lisa Frye | Gail Lendvoyi | MaryGrace Mandaro | Lisa Nieves rocks to see what might swim out. After Cat-Tales magazine is all about your John Muuss dinner (always be on time for dinner), home, your stories. This is a chance to associate editors we’d go back outside to play hide-and- share recollections of your childhood Bertie Belvin Call Us (910) 253-0045 seek and catch fireflies as dusk faded to home, your childhood story. Our staff Pat Broady dark. What a great way to end a day. looks forward to reading about your Jim Campbell youthful adventures and fond memories. Bob Dziuban This issue of Cat-Tales has two stories Don’t be shy, give it a try. Maggie Smith Roedema reminiscent of younger days. If you enjoy associate fishing, don’t miss Bob Badertscher’s www.stjamesplantation.com | [email protected] photographic editor Judy Wagner © 2021 St. James Properties, LLC. Obtain the Property Report required by federal law and read it before signing anything. No federal agency has judged the merits or value, if any, of this property. Void where prohibited by law. This product does not constitute an offer to sell real property in any jurisdiction where prior registration or advanced qualification is required but not completed. This is not to solicit property currently listed by another broker. AUGUST 2021 3 4 VOLUME 28 • ISSUE 8 What's inside AUGUST 2021 From the POA Around the area 6 President’s column 28 The Wild Horse Preserve 31 North Carolina backyard For your information naturalist program 33 Southport: A little love story 9 Mayor’s Column 35 Remembering 11 ICYMI 37 A MAD day 13 SJFD 38 The rip and the run Inside the community Just for now 14 The Tour of Ponds was a hit 40 A summer fish tale 17 Photo-Tales ON THE COVER: 43 Blueberries are brain food The winning photo of the 22 Wire, concrete and imagination Cat-Tales photo competition 44 It’s a Split Decision is on the cover this month. 27 Cat-Tales wins a third (photo by Colleen Jordan) national award Cat-Tales is published FEATURE ARTICLES monthly by the St. James Plantation Property Owners' Association (POA) of St. James, North Carolina to communicate information of interest to its property owners. Reproduction in whole or in part is prohibited without permission from the publisher, the POA. The views and opinions of the writers are their own and do not necessarily reflect that of the POA. Per the POA communications policy, the POA does not endorse commercial products, services, and does not publish 28 33 38 advertorial, partisan political The Wild Horse Preserve Southport: A little love story The rip and the run or religious belief articles. Take a day trip and connect The charm of small-town life Learn more about the with nature at this little attracts a growing number of dangerous currents of our hidden gem in Supply. residents. Find out why so many coastal waters and how to Advertising By Gina Mancinelli people call Southport home. stay safe in the ocean. By Russ Yarrow By Nicholas De Gennaro Information: Coastal Printing & Graphics 910-754-5929 or Please visit www.stjamespoanc.org to submit Photo-Tales or email [email protected] [email protected] for article submissions or comments. AUGUST 2021 5 President's column Jerry Iverson / President, St. James Plantation POA The St. James Plantation Property Owners’ The current POA staff consists of: Association (POA) was established on October 2, 1990, with the signing of the Articles of Incorporation John Thompson Community Manager by the North Carolina Secretary of State. This Jack Noland Staff Engineer document was amended on June 28, 1991, and again on December 17, 1998. The articles provide broad Renee Welsh Assistant to the guidance on membership in the association as well as Community Manager the authority and duties of the board of directors. Terry Ann Bramm ACC Administrator The POA is an association where membership consists Nancy Seyferth Compliance Coordinator of all property owners with one vote per property. The membership elects the board with two of the six Steve Fitzgerald Facilities Manager members being elected every year for a three-year Barbara Ward Client Services term. This staggered election process ensures that we have a minimum of four experienced board members Angie Hilburger Client Services at all times. The board then elects the officers of the Ami Brown Managing Editor, Cat-Tales association annually in the November meeting. The board has broad responsibilities as spelled out in We currently have 13 committees with more than the AOI and the Master Declaration of Covenants, 125 volunteers. These dedicated volunteers put in Conditions and Restrictions. The board exercises countless hours assisting the community manager and its responsibilities through the POA staff, resident advising the board on many different issues. For more volunteers and contractors. information about our committees, please see my The POA board of directors sets policy, establishes article in the February 2021 issue of Cat-Tales. priorities, approves the annual budget, acts as source selection authority for all contracts and has the ultimate responsibility for maintaining the common areas and amenities. The board meets on a monthly basis, has open meetings on a regular basis and hosts an annual meeting every October.