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Fifteen States in 10 Days for Two Men and a Trailer by Diana Matthews They Soon Agreed on the Price NEW D.A.R.E. CLEAR! MASCOT Whiteville Parks and Daren the Lion makes his Rec ready with AED. debut at Williams Township uuSEE PAGE 13A School. uuSEE PAGE 3A The News Reporter Published since 1890 every Monday and Thursday for the County of Columbus and her people. WWW.NRCOLUMBUS.COM Thursday, February 23, 2017 75 CENTS FATALITIES CONTINUE Speakers urge commissioners to consider indigent care in assessing home health bids By Allen Turner mitted bids for assuming op- [email protected] erations of the home health agency. Kindred Healthcare Only three speakers ad- of Louisville, Ky. has offered dressed the Columbus County to pay $3,500,000 for the agen- Board of Commissioners Mon- cy, Advanced Home Care of day night during a public High Point submitted a bid of hearing called to get citizen $2,301,000 to purchase it and input on bids received for the Bravada Home Health Care of home health agency currently Mooresville, N.J. has offered operated by the county health to purchase the agency for department and, while one of $1,300,000, while Columbus them urged commissioners Regional Healthcare of White- to use proceeds from the sale ville has proposed leasing the of the agency to renovate the agency from the county for $1 historic courthouse, the other a year for a period of 10 years. two pointed out stark differ- Commissioners received ences between the amount of the public input without mak- indigent care offered by the ing any comment themselves, bidders. and it is unknown when they Staff photo by Allen Turner Four entities have sub- Two women were killed Monday near Chadbourn when their BMW automobile went through a stop sign and collided uuSEE SPEAKERS 6A with this large truck. The truck driver was transported by helicopter to Grand Strand Memorial Hospital. Rescue workers had to treat and stabilize the truck driver before firefighters could cut him from the wreckage. Overcrowding becomes Two die in Monday crash critical at animal shelter year,” Prince said. “We seem has seen an increase in traffic The truck then went off the ing for A.J. Schultes of Caro- By Jefferson Weaver to be slammed with just the By Jefferson Weaver due to road improvements right side of the road, over- lina, lives in Hampstead. The [email protected] general variety mutt. There [email protected] underway in the town of Chad- turned, and landed back on BMW was owned by James doesn’t seem to be any rhyme bourn. the high- Wilmoth of Hillside Drive, A mild winter has led to a or reason to it. Two women died and a Mc- way on its North Myrtle Beach. population explosion in Co- The shelter saw a brief truck driver was seriously Clearn roof, fac- Both vehicles were demol- lumbus, and the result might surge with lost and abandoned injured after a collision near was head- ing east. ished, with the 2000 BMW The two women killed not be a happy ending. animals in the aftermath of Chadbourn Monday. ing south Myers listed as $2,500 in damages and Adoptions have been down Hurricane Matthew, but res- Sgt. Daniel Hilburn of the on N.C. 242 was not the truck at $15,000. Monday at Williams in recent weeks at the Colum- cue groups and individuals Highway Patrol said Kimber in a 1992 wearing The deaths were the eighth bus County Animal Shelter, helped handle that situation. Lee Wilmoth, 29, and Lesley Chevrolet Crossroads were the a seatbelt, and ninth in the county this while at the same time intake “We have already had 300 Rene Myers, 49, died when truck, pull- and was year. The seven previous has drastically increased, dogs come in this year and Wilmoth’s BMW crashed into ing a large eighth and ninth road ejected, deaths all occurred in Janu- according to Animal Control we are full right now. Last a flatbed truck driven by Col- trailer, Hil- Hilburn ary. Monday’s crash was also fatalities in Columbus Supervisor Joey Prince. year we had about 26 dogs per lin Alexander McClearn, 22, burn said, said. the second double-fatality this Since the county shelter is week, this year so far we are of Hampstead. McClearn was when the Wilmoth year. On Jan. 1, a man and County this year. a public animal shelter, it has averaging 42 a week. I have no airlifted to Grand Strand Me- westbound died in woman riding a motorcycle to take in any and all animals. idea why we have had such an morial Hospital. BMW failed the car. were killed at Boardman when The usual late winter spike in increase.” The 9:21 a.m. collision oc- to stop at the Wilmo- their Harley Davidson collided hunting dogs and pregnant The shelter earned praise curred at the intersection of stop sign at Princess Ann. The th’s address was listed as 54th with a pickup truck. cats hasn’t really held true in recent months for drasti- N.C. 242 and Princess Ann sedan struck the truck in the Avenue North, North Myrtle Last year, 21 people died in this year. cally reducing the number Road, also known as Williams left front at around 50 miles Beach. Myers lived in Rocking- vehicle crashes on Columbus Crossroads. The crossing is a “We seem to be about aver- per hour, Hilburn said. ham. McClearn, who was driv- County highways. uu frequent spot for wrecks, and age on hunting dogs for the SEE OVERCROWDING 2A Fifteen states in 10 days for two men and a trailer By Diana Matthews they soon agreed on the price. immediately got in touch with [email protected] Alpacas are grass-eating friends and family he hoped to herd animals, domesticated see along the way. Glenn Williams of White- thousands of years ago in the McPherson is retired from ville recently received an Andes mountains. They are the U.S. Air Force and also unusual assignment from his raised for their soft, wool-like from Smithfield Foods. He employer that turned into a hair, which is spun into yarn works part time for Mintz 10-day cross-country road trip. and knitted or woven into Farms. He notified his boss Jackson Gore, owner of clothing and bedding. that he’d be gone for more than Gore Trailer Manufacturers, Williams, who retired from a week. asked Williams to haul a 14- the N.C. Forestry Service, A long-distance runner, foot alpaca trailer to a cus- has worked part-time at Gore McPherson was training for tomer in Olalla, Washington Trailer Manufacturers for two the All-American Marathon to the last week of January. years. be run in Fayetteville March “We do a right good busi- He has delivered trailers to 26. ness with alpaca trailers,” Lexington, Ky., Athens, Ala., He specified that he needed Gore said. and Tazwell, Tenn. The Olalla to incorporate daily runs into Alpaca breeders Harlie trip is the longest assignment the traveling routine so he and Cindy Hanke live on a he has received since begin- wouldn’t set back his demand- peninsula overlooking Puget ning his job. ing training schedule. Wil- Sound, west of Seattle. They Williams needed a co-pilot, liams agreed to allow time for became interested in owning and he called his friend Larry the runs each morning. a Gore trailer for their herd McPherson, who had accom- “It’s an addiction,” McPher- when they saw another alpaca panied him on a delivery trip son said. owner transporting his ani- to Boston last spring. The two mals in one. serve as deacons together Day One: Sunday, Jan. 22 Harlie Hanke called Jack- at Pleasant Plains Baptist Whiteville to Paducah, Ky. son Gore to inquire about the Church. “Larry is a super fun “We’ve got Jackson Gore’s guy,” Williams said. credit card and a bunch of cost of a modest-sized trailer, Staff photo by Diana Matthews delivered to his door. The mod- McPherson, a Beaverdam snacks, and we’re off to have el he wanted was in stock, and native, accepted the invitation Jackson Gore, Jon Walker, Glenn Williams and Keith Benton with a larger alpaca trailer to share the driving again and uuSEE TRAILER 16A under construction. Volume 126, Number 68 Lynne Inman and daughter Ashlyn Cox skiing near Lake Tahoe, California, and getting 41 inches of snow in one day? Whiteville, North Carolina DIDYOB SCC ambassador and baseball player Ryan Dudney hoping to get away from a doubleheader he played in Wednesday DID YOU OBSERVE? in time for the 9 pm UNC-Florida State basketball game? Ryan is a big UNC fan... Lawnmowers coming out of hiber- nation across the area as early spring-like weather replaces the winter that never was? 2A • The News Reporter • Thursday, February 23, 2017 Staff photos by Grant Merritt Puppies are placed in open cage areas to avoid their accidental escape from under the bars of larger kennel cages. not seem to have a lot of time saw some success in reduc- plaints have placed the en- down due to illness, injury or an overpopulation of pets.” OVERCROWDING for it, and transport out of ing the number of cats being tire feral to farm program in aggression. Adoptable pets can be seen Continued from 1A the county creates manpower euthanized, but has since run jeopardy. Prince pointed out that on the Shelter’s Facebook of animals euthanized due to issues,” he said. “We are still into some problems, Prince “The goal has always been Robeson County euthanized page, through Petfinder.com space concerns.
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