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EBONEE SPEARS News from the African American perspective without fear or favor Wilmington Police are continuing their search for 30 year old Ebonee Spears of VOLUME 91/NO. 25 FIFTY CENTS Wilmington. The local JUNE 21, 2018 - JUNE 27, 2018 Crimestoppers organization has joined with the Wilmington Police Department in offering a reward WAKE COUNTY of up to $5,000 for information on Ebonee's whereabouts. If you know Audio confirms where Spears may be, call Wilmington Police at (910) 343-3600 or use Text-a-Tip. officers conspired to WILLISTON ALUMNI cover up assault DEPUTY CAMERON, TROOPERS BLAKE AND DAVIS JULY 4TH NEWS BY CASH MICHAELS Charges against him were eventually dropped. to lie about the use VICTIM OF THE WILMINGTON JOURNAL The two troopers, Michael G. Blake and Tabithia L. of force in the inci- KYRON HINTON Davis, an African-American, along with Wake dent in their offi- First, there was dashcam video showing at least Sheriff's Deputy Cameron Broadwell, were indicted cial reports. two North Carolina state troopers, and a Wake for felonies by a Wake County grand jury May 15, for An SBI affidavit, presented in Wake Superior County sheriff's deputy with a K-9 dog attacking their alleged excessive force on Hinton, which includ- Court last Friday,confirms that Sgt. Goswick told the Kyron Dwain Hinton on the night of April 4, in ed beating him with their flashlights and unleashing troopers that he had reviewed the video of their con- Raleigh. the K-9 dog on the unarmed man. frontation with Hinton and that "no use of force was Hinton, the video shows, was unarmed, even Troopers Blake and Davis were subsequently fired evident." though officers at the scene were told that he was by the State Highway Patrol last Friday. Defense attorneys for the two now terminated state before they arrived. However,now,according to published reports, there troopers did not object when the revelation was made The 29 year old Black man sustained a broken nose, is also audio from the dashcam recording from anoth- during the court hearing Friday. In fact, as Wake fractured eye socket, and several dog bite injuries er patrol vehicle on the scene that purportedly reveals District Attorney Lorrin Freeman began to reference after the encounter and spent three days in the hospi- that a Highway Patrol supervisor, Sgt. Rodney W. BY LINDA PIERCE-THOMAS tal before being transported to the Wake County jail. Goswick, may have advised troopers Davis and Blake Please see CONSPIRACY/Page 2 CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The Williston Alumni Association is selling its last tickets for the Douglas Irving Jazz Trio/Legacy Motown Revue Concert. This event is on Tuesday evening, July 3rd, at the Scottish Rite Temple on S. 17th Street. We will start promptly at 7:00, so please plan to be in your seats by 7:00 p.m. The Motown Revue begins at 8:00 p.m. and lasts until 10:00 LEWIS (R) ROBINSON (D) p.m., with a scheduled inter- mission. We will sell the newly designed license plates in the lobby before the event starts and during intermission. Attire for the concert is casual, so feel free to dress down even though it is a con- cert. For tickets, please call Barbara Adger DeVane a.s.a.p. at 910-200-6573. You still have a week to send your WADDELL (D) MICHAUX (D) check to WAA, P.O. Box 2, CONTRIBUTED PHOTO Wilmington, NC, 28402. We (L-R) KAREN CLAY-BEATTY, FOUNDATION MEMBER; NASEION K. BROWN AND CIRINITTI will not be able to send tick- P. MCCAIN, SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS, AND WAYNE MOORE, FOUNDER AND CHAIRMAN OF ets out after the middle of THE WILMINGTON TEN FOUNDATION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE, INC. next week. African American The next day, we will spon- sor the Mix from 10:00 a.m. - voters targeted 2:00 p.m. with the Dolores F. Moore Scholarship Fund Commemoration Program starting promptly at 11:00 Golf Tournament in its fifth year again by GOP a.m. lasting for one hour. This event is on the grounds SPECIAL TO Group, Piggly Wiggly (Leland, N.C.), Walmart BY CASH MICHAELS of Williston on S. 10th THE WILMINGTON JOURNAL (Leland, N.C.), New business sponsors this year OF THE WILMINGTON JOURNAL Street. We ask that, if you were Castle Bay Country Club, Compass Pointe have Williston attire, please he Wilmington Ten Foundation for Golf Club, Masonboro Golf Club, Wilmington To no one's surprise, Republican legisla- wear it. All activities will be Social Justice, Inc. hosted the 5th Municipal Golf, Dick's Sporting Goods (Landfall tive leaders, in their rush to end the short outside under a tent. Chairs Annual Dolores F. Moore location), and Whole Foods. session, have unveiled some last minute and a large fan have been Scholarship Fund Golf Tournament Individual sponsors included Gold - Robert laws designed to radically affect voting ordered for your comfort. TT on June 2, 2018, at Magnolia Greens Golf Course Loweth, and Wayne Moore, Silver - Joe Finley, across North Carolina as early as this fall's Teeshirts, etc. will be sold by in Leland, N.C. Opening remarks were brought Ironwood Press, LLC, and MLK Celebration midterm elections. the Class of '64. Williston And just like their predecessors, these buns will be sold as well as by Wayne Moore, founder and chairman of the Committee (Chairman: Hollis Briggs, Jr.), voting laws are designed to impact African- bottled water at the Mix by nonprofit organization. Bronze - Richard Ballard, Rick & Cynthia Carter, American voters just enough to help the the Alumni Association, The tournament was the most successful to Essie W. Clay, Mary Ann Doneth, Jean M. GOP maintain their majority in the NC along with the new license date! “We owe our success to our returning and Gailliard, Roger Gardner, John & Lori Kilbourne, General Assembly, critics say. plates. new tournament participants, and our numerous William Love, James & Eloise Mays, Stephanie And more are expected. As previously mentioned, sponsors. It is because of their continued and Moore, and Acquenetta Wheeler Hines & Lewis Last Friday, the Republican-led NC we will be honored with a generous support that we were able to meet, and Hines. General Assembly passed Senate Bill 352, couple of selections by the exceed our goal again this year,” states Wayne Patrons were Judy Francis, Danny & Mary which starts early voting in North Carolina renowned Williston Alumni Moore. Mitchell, Willie Moore, Cynthia Sedgwick, Helen this year on Wednesday, Oct. 17, and ends Community Choir composed Returning business sponsors were Magnolia Schussler, Gilda Waddell, and Pamela Wood. Also Friday, Nov. 2, eliminating the final mainly of former Williston Greens Golf Course, Direct Action Media sponsoring the tournament were the beloved Glee Club members. They Academy, Inc (co-founder Monzell A. Dunlap), have a few guests who have The Wilmington Journal, Pro Golf of joined them to help produce Wilmington, Stevenson Honda Automotive Please see SCHOLARSHIPS/Page 2 Please see TARGETED/Page 2 the fantastic sound that will take you back to the days of Williston. You will not want to miss this program honor- ing our former high school. Coastal NC Chapter of 100 Black Men Former Educator Bertha Todd and former student, to hold Awards and Recognition Breakfast, July 14, 2018

SPECIAL TO will also recognize and thank many Judge James H. Faison, III will be school will be given certificates rec- BRUNSWICK THE WILMINGTON JOURNAL of its sponsors, friends and support- the keynote speaker and Ms. Rhonda ognizing their advancement to the ers. The breakfast will Bellamy will serve as Coastal North Carolina Success COUNTY The Coastal North Carolina be held on Saturday, Mistress of cere- Academy. The Success Academy is UPDATE Chapter of the 100 Black Men of July 14, 2018, at 9:00 monies. designed for high school students America is holding an Awards and a.m. at the Shell Five mentees who and is held on two Saturdays each Recognition Breakfast to celebrate Island Resort on have completed area month during the academic year. BERNEST HEWETT IS the achievements of its mentors and Wrightsville Beach. high schools will be Cape Fear Community College has ON VACATION AND mentees during the recently com- Admission to the awarded scholarships generously hosted the Success pleted academic year. An additional event is free; however, as they transition to Academy for the past 4 years. WILL RETURN NEXT purpose of the breakfast is to raise all attendees will be college and university WEEK. funds to help sustain the organiza- asked for donations life. In addition, 20 stu- Please see tion. At the breakfast, the chapter during the program. The Honorable dents who have completed middle 100 BLACK MEN/Page 2

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Democratic Party filed against to stop a recently passed early NCNAACP. Virginia have done, North STATE BRIEFS the NC General Assembly for voting law that would elimi- "We're up to their schemes, Carolina Gov.Roy Cooper has eliminating NC judicial pri- nate the last Saturday in the we're up to their wiles and also reacted sharply to the maries. U.S. District Court early voting period - the most we're going to do all that we can national crisis of children ISSN 0049-7649 - AN Judge Catherine Eagles said popular early voting day for to expose them," Spearman being taken from their moth- INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER Dedicated to R.S. Jervay, she will release her findings African-Americans in the past continued. "We will use every ers at border detention cen- Founder of R.S. Jervay Printers, next week, but that she will two years. The civil rights ounce of strength and energy ters. 1901 and T.C. Jervay, Sr., rule in favor to the legislature organization also expects to that we have as North Carolina "The cruel policy of tearing Founder of The Wilmington COMPILED "with prejudice." One hundred- battle a new bill to put voter ID NAACP to oppose this. If it children away from their par- Journal, An offspring of the Cape BY CASH MICHAELS Fear Journal, 1927 twenty candidates filed on a public referendum this means litigation, that's certain- ents requires a strong Published Weekly At Monday for judicial seats. November. "We believe that, ly something that we will con- response, and I am recalling 412 South Seventh Street, Elections are scheduled to be most recently, the activity in sider." the three members of the Wilmington, NC 28401 By Wilmington Journal, Inc. FEDERAL JUDGE held Nov. 6th. the General Assembly certain- North Carolina National P.O. Box 1020, DISMISSES LAWSUIT ly announces to us that there is GOV. COOPER RECALLS Guard from the border," Gov. Wilmington, NC 28402 AGAINST NC JUDICIAL NCNAACP VOWS TO a continued quest to suppress NC NATIONAL GUARD Cooper said in a statement Periodical Postage Paid At Wilmington, NC 28402 PRIMARIES FIGHT NEW VOTER LAWS the votes of African- FROM SOUTHERN BOR- Tuesday. The state had (910) 762-5502, [RALEIGH] A federal judge [RALEIGH] The NCNAACP Americans and minorities," DER deployed three National Fax: (910) 343-1334, has announced that she is dis- is threatening to, once again, states Dr T. Anthony [RALEIGH] As the gover- Guardsmen and a helicopter Email: [email protected] missing the lawsuit the NC take the NC legislature to court Spearman, president of the nors of Maryland and to the U.S. southern border. Website: www.wilmingtonjournal.com Single Copy 50 Cents Freeman asked Judge Shirley recording. "(There are) several inci- placed on administrative duty Subscription Rates CONSPIRACY in open court. "[Sgt] Goswick told them dents that the State is already by the NC Highway Patrol last All Subscriptions $32 Yearly, Continued from Page 1 Except Foreign, $37 Yearly, "If, in fact, these individuals specifically what to put in. aware of, of prior use of force Friday, though no official rea- Payable in Advance.(Taxes went in, as discussed, and filed Ordered them. If you listen to investigations involving defen- son was given. Included for NC Residents) the newfound evidence, Judge reports reflecting that they had his order, his order didn't tell dant Blake. It is the State's posi- Defense attorneys for the Address all communications and make all checks and money Graham Shirley cut her off and not used force…," DA Freeman him to write the report. His tion, your honor, that this very troopers also petitioned for orders payable to: indicated that he, in fact, had continued, "… when they clear- order was 'this is what we're well may constitute a pattern of Kyron Hinton's medical records The Wilmington Journal, already heard the controversial ly had, otherwise, in the same going to put in the report. conduct which would be admis- to be kept intact, trying to build P.O. Box 1020, audio made admissions of Everybody agree on that', sible against him in a trial of a case that he had a mental dis- Wilmington, NC 28402 audio. "Having reviewed the video using force, then[the law] does essentially," Judge Shirley said. this matter," D.A. Freeman said. order, and history of drug use. and audio yourself and the peti- not protect a law enforcement Prosecutors filed motions to Judge Shirley indicated that Advocates for Hinton says he tion, you are aware that there is officer who comes and fraudu- have access to both Blake and he will consider the matter, and suffers from PTSD. WE ACCEPT discussion at the end of it lently and falsely files reports of Davis' personnel files for trial. It what personnel material, if any, Hinton is currently facing a regarding the filing of reports the incident." has already been reported that would be released for trial. possible misdemeanor charge that would have reflected no use Judge Shirley then recited Blake was involved in a previ- Meanwhile, Sgt. R. W. for allegedly kicking a deputy of force in this instance?" what he says he heard on the ous excessive force case in 2016. Goswick has reportedly been on June 2.

TARGETED called, "…just another attack pression" charge, as he blast- High Court sided with the suburban, majority White Shawn Jervay Thatch on freedom…," when it came ed House Republican col- Buckeye State in purging vot- neighborhood were removed." Chief Operating Officer Continued from Page 1 to the hard fought battle to leagues. ers who failed to vote in two "In North Carolina, this rul- Mary Alice Jervay Thatch achieve voting rights histori- Republicans bristled at consecutive federal elections ing has the potential to prompt Publisher/Editor Saturday of early voting, tra- cally. that ruling then, now insist- and then did not respond to Republicans to pass additional Johanna Thatch Briggs Assistant Editor ditionally the most popular "This General Assembly ing that all they are trying to notice mailed to them. from voting laws that will disenfran- Cash Michaels early voting day for African- should not be in the business do is bring uniformity to its voter registration rolls. chise low income and minority Reporter/Editorial Staff Americans. of taking away the freedoms early voting. NC Congressman G. K. voters as it has done over the Edward Crumdy In the State House, the of the people of the United The measure now goes to Butterfield (D-NC-1), in an op- past seven years," Butterfield Accounts Executive bill's sponsor, Rep. David States." Gov. Cooper, who is expected ed published last week, continued. John Davis Photographer Lewis (R-Harnett), lauded "We should not disenfran- to veto it. GOP lawmakers are warned that the Supreme "To that end, North DeShon Briggs how the measure was a much chise our voters in any way," expected to override that Court ruling now gives the Carolinians and all Distributor needed boon to early voting declared Sen. Joyce Waddell veto, and the law may ulti- green light to states like Americans should heed Joshua Allen across North Carolina. (D-Mecklenburg). This bill mately end up in court. North Carolina to follow Justice Sotomayor's call to Distributor What we set out to do was unfairly targets poor, work- And, per the new voter ID Ohio's example. action: "Communities that Opinions expressed by make it more reliable and ing class, and African- bill the GOP has introduced, "In her dissenting opinion, are disproportionately affect- columnists in this newspaper do not necessarily represent the dependable. The voters in a American voters." North Carolinians want the Justice Sonia Sotomayor cor- ed by unnecessarily harsh policy of this paper. county would know that their Other Black Democrats, integrity of the voting rectly points out that the con- registration laws should not The Wilmington Journal cannot early voting site was open like Rep. H. M. "Mickey" process protected, they still servative majority upheld a tolerate efforts to marginal- accept yard sale and dinner sale announcements as briefs. These are from a certain time to a cer- Michaux, Jr. (D-Durham) in insist. law that has been shown to ize their influence in the considered advertisements. tain time for 17 days." the State House, also fumed, Critics note, however, that disproportionately disenfran- political process, nor should Community and religious briefs are designated for public service The bill, which was origi- especially after noting in while evidence of in-person chise low income and minori- allies who recognize blatant announcements, which are free and nally related to something debate that the federal courts voter fraud is few and far ty voters," wrote unfairness stand idly by. open to the public. else before it was gutted in had struck down the GOP's between, the same can't be Congressman Butterfield. Today's decision forces these All news must be submitted two weeks in advance by Fridays at the middle of the night and earlier 2013 voter ID/early said about mail-in absentee "The statistics are stark: communities and their allies 5 p.m. There is no charge for rewritten last week, also voting law, calling it "voter ballots, which the referen- African-American neighbor- to be even more proactive and submitting briefs, news and photos. All briefs will run for a forces all early voting sites to suppression" that targeted dum does not address. hoods in downtown vigilant in holding their maximum of two weeks. open weekdays from 7 a. m. to poor Black voters who may Another issue on the vot- Cincinnati had 10 percent of States accountable and work- Please send news near the event 7 p. m. in all 100 counties. not have photo identification, ing front is the US Supreme their voters purged due to ing to dismantle the obstacles date. Briefs/news cannot be taken over the phone. Photos and sto- Sen. Gladys Robinson (D- with "surgical precision." Court's 5-4 upholding of inactivity since 2012, while they face in exercising the ries may also be emailed to us at Guilford) lamented what she Michaux repeated the "sup- Ohio's voter purge law. The only 4 percent of voters in a fundamental right to vote." [email protected]. News, but not photos, may be faxed to us at 910-343-1334. Photos may be picked up after appearing in the SCHOLARSHIPS tournament. The 2018 recipi- Justice, Inc. thanks all of paper. The publisher is not ents of the Dolores F. Moore the board members for their responsible for the return of unso- Continued from Page 1 licited news, pictures or advertising Scholarship Award are hard work, for their commit- copy unless necessary postage Cirinitti P. McCain of John T. ment and for sharing their accompanies the copy on a golfers. Golfers played in self-addressed envelope. Hoggard High School and knowledge and skill to make teams of four. Naseion K. Brown of New this tournament the best Member of the National Newspaper Publishers The organization awarded Hanover High School. one yet! A special thanks is Association, Inc. scholarship certificates to Cirinitti will be attending N.C extended to the devoted vol- Member of North Carolina scholarship winners after the Black Publishers Association Agricultural & Technical unteers: Rick & Cynthia University in Greensboro ,N.C Carter, Danny Mitchell, with plans to double major in Cynthia Sedgwick & to our biology and Arabic. Her new volunteer, Kim Cook. the 100 continue to serve as a 100 BLACK MEN career goal is to become an Planning is underway for strong force in the world by Continued from Page 1 FBI agent. the 6th Annual Dolores F. overcoming the cultural and Naseion will be attending Moore Scholarship Fund financial obstacles that have Averett University in Golf Tournament, which we The 100 Black Men of limited the achievements of America began in New York some African Americans, Danville, Va. with plans to hope will be better than ever. in 1963 when a group of con- particularly young African major in Business We sincerely appreciate the cerned African American American males. Members of Administration. His career support of the Cape Fear men began to meet to explore the 100 have made outstand- goal is to become a financial Region, and will look for- ways of improving condi- ing progress, proving that planner. Both students (pic- ward to your participation tions in their community. Blacks can, and do, excel as tured above) are very impres- in 2019. The Wilmington Ten These men envisioned an corporate leaders, communi- sive, and have excelled in aca- Foundation for Social organization that would ty leaders and as independ- demic achievement, character Justice, Inc., is a 501(c)(3) implement programs ent business owners. The and leadership. Both received organization. Donations are designed to improve the qual- motto of the 100 Black Men $1000.00 scholarships to be tax deductible. ity of life for African is: "What they see is what used to further their educa- For more information, Americans and other minori- they'll be." tion and assist them in pursu- please contact the foundation ties. They also wished to The Coastal North Carolina ing their quest for successful at wilmingtontenfounda- ensure bright futures for Chapter of the 100 Black Men careers. [email protected], or visit our their communities by con- of America is based in The Wilmington Ten website: www.wilmtenfoun- centrated youth develop- Wilmington and has 25 mem- Foundation for Social dation.org. ment. These pioneering bers. These members come members were successful from various professional dis- black men from various ciplines, such as medicine, walks of life including: David engineering, accounting and Dinkins, Robert Mangum, Dr. business management. The William Hayling, Nathaniel group has both active and Goldston III, Livingston retired professionals who pro- Wingate, Andrew Hatcher, vide valuable guidance to and Jackie Robinson. mentees, answering their Today the organization has questions by sharing real- grown to over 100 chapters world experiences, and fulfill- throughout the United ing valuable voids that help States, the Caribbean mentees develop bright Islands, and the United futures. During the 2017/2018 Kingdom. Those 100 chapters academic year, the chapter boast a membership of more mentored over 60 students than 10,000 persons who con- from Williston Middle School, tinue to improve the quality Leland Middle School and the of life in their communities Coastal North Carolina and enhance educational and Success Academy. economic opportunities for For additional informa- African Americans. More tion, reservations and/or than 125,000 youth partici- tickets contact: John Battle pate annually in 100 Black at 910-262-8208, jbatmanbat- Men of America, Inc. men- [email protected] or George toring and youth develop- Beatty at 281-543-5027, george- ment programs. Members of [email protected].

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The Wilmington Journal was founded on the principle of the Black Press Credo. The Black Press believes that America can best lead the world away from racial and national antagonism when it accords to every person, regardless of race, color or creed, full human and legal rights. Hating no person in the firm belief that all are hurt as long as anyone is held back. The Wilmington Journal welcomes letters from its readers. All letters are subject to editing. We will not publish pseudonymous letters. All correspondence must include a home address and a daytime phone number. All correspondence must be signed, unless it is e-mailed. Letters may be sent to our Physical Address: 412 S. 7th Street, 28401 or our Mailing Address: P.O. Box 1020, 28402. We also accept letters via e-mail at [email protected] or via fax at (910) 343-1334. OUR VOICE GUEST EDITORIAL RAINBOW COALITION Slave owners and Nazis quoted YOUR VOICE STUNNED parents at the US-Mexican do you agree with the policy sion? Where is your outrage? Romans 13 to justify immorality too border. And I'm stunned by of separating little children Have you no decency? I'm deeply saddened by the the silence of our congres- from their parents? Do you (Via TriceEdneyWire.com) detention and separation of sional delegation, especially support placing babies in JULIA SNADER innocent children from their David Rouzer. Congressman, cages? Where is your compas- Southport, NC he Trump administration has separated some 2,000 children from their parents, most of whom have T come to the United States seeking asylum. Attorney General Jeff Sessions cited the Bible, Romans 13, as justifica- tion for this zero-tolerance immigration policy. MATTERS OF OPINION The first verse reads: “Everyone is to obey the governing authorities, because there is no authority except from God and so whatever authorities exist have been appointed by God.” Votes that matter to us The Apostle Paul wrote the Book of (Via TriceEdneyWire.com) of Stacey Abrams for work in the best interest of our our own so-called leaders. That Romans. But Paul spent many days and nights Governor. There are other families and our communities. must stop and this is the per- in jail, so he did not always abide by the rule of ll of our lives we’ve cases, but these are the more What can candidates do this fect time to stop it. Black unjust governors. Romans 13 has been been told how notable ones. year to energize more voters women work too hard to elect invoked by scoundrels throughout its history. A important our vote Black women are fired up than usual? They can’t just candidates who are serious British Royals cited it to chastise rebellious is. Well, that’s not enough in and ready to go for the 2018 expect us to show up, vote, go about truth and justice to American revolutionaries. 2018. Everyone who has mid-term elections. Democrats home, complain about what’s stand by while this goes on. We Slave owners in early America justified the Rev. Jesse reminded us of the importance have no choice but to seriously not happening, and wait for the want and will demand more institution of slavery by quoting it. American of one vote is support Black women this year next election to go through the than empty promises. Jackson, Sr. law authorized slave owners to separate black correct, but if the Party is going to win. same motions. To name a few expectations- sons and daughters from mothers and fathers only partially There’s little doubt about the We’ll be engaged, checking - secure health plan for all, fair by selling them to another slave owner. Jeff correct. The Party needing the unified vote voting records, attending town wages for all, racial justice in Sessions is an old school Alabamian raised in the ways of the real impor- of Black women in order to halls, making whatever cam- all government services, demo- segregated South, so maybe such thinking is not unfamiliar tance of our win. We’ve so often voted just paign donations we can and lition of old dilapidated build- to him. vote is how for the Party—which is often demanding justice. We’re ings, clean water, grocery The Nazis in Germany and apartheid South Africa quoted we use it. We “for the lesser to two evils.” studying the issues and we’ll stores nearby, good schools Romans 13 to give religious authority to genocide and must now That has been true especially be remembering the promises. that offer our children a use- apartheid. Former first lady Laura Bush wrote in the vote in our in the South. This time is dif- No neighborhood bosses able education, decent hous- Washington Post on Sunday that warehousing children in a own best ferent because there’re so will determine how we vote ing—nothing special—just the former Walmart and a Texas tent city is “eerily reminiscent Dr. E. Faye interest. many well qualified Black because our voters will be edu- basics of life! of the Japanese American internment camps of World War II, That’s when women running for office cated. #45 has forced us to ana- I’m a Democrat, and I pray now considered to be the most shameful episodes in U.S. his- Williams our vote real- where they’re capable of mak- lyze promises and what they that Democrats are listening. tory.” ly matters. ing a difference not just for oth- mean. We want more, expect Just being better than “This zero tolerance policy,” she concluded, “is cruel. It is Black women definitely get ers, but for the Black commu- more and will demand more Republicans won’t be enough immoral. And it breaks my heart.” that. Testament to that can be nity,too. for our vote. to attract the votes needed to Even as President Trump was defending the policy, first seen clearly in Louisiana by Those of us who’re not run- We want and will demand take our country back to some lady Melania Trump called for immigration reform in a state- way of 19 Black women ning, but will be voting, will be accountability. We know our semblance of sanity. ment, saying she “believes we need to be a country that fol- Mayors, in San Francisco with voting for things that matter to vote is worth much more than Dr. E. Faye Williams is lows all laws, but also a country that governs with heart.” a Black female Mayor—same us. If candidates understand paying off a few people who National President of the Sessions says he is merely enforcing the law, but there is no in several other cities, in that, they will know what our sell our vote to the highest bid- National Congress of Black zero-tolerance immigration law. The law hasn’t changed; Alabama electing Doug Jones issues are. It won’t matter der with no expectation of any- Women. She is host of Wake Up Sessions invented a new interpretation to justify an immoral to the U.S. Senate, in New whether the candidate we sup- thing for the voters more than and Stay Woke on WPFW-FM policy change. He said the Justice Department would begin Jersey electing a Lt. Governor port is Black, white or other— a hotdog and a soda! I’ve run 89.3, and is a weekly columnist prosecuting everyone who crosses the southwest border and and in Georgia by playing a so long as their records show for office before and I know for the Trice Edney Wire separating children from parents as a deterrent. pivotal role in the nomination they’ll support our causes and how we get sold out by some of Service. Sessions said he wanted to send messages that if you don’t want to be separated from your children, don’t come. This immoral theory hasn’t worked in practice. Desperation, not calculation, drives parents to leave their homes and seek asy- lum. Asylum is enshrined in both the United States and inter- Shackled for praying national law. Seeking asylum because of government oppres- (Via TriceEdneyWire.com) King spent eleven days in the justice, is part of a larger People's campaign. Clergy and sion, domestic or gang violence, sex trafficking or natural dis- Birmingham jail in extremely movement to bring attention others are forcing the issue, asters is not a crime. aith and prayer have harsh conditions. But the to increasing poverty and lifting their voices, making Contrary to Trump, these parents are not illegally breaking been the backbone of oppressor does not learn from injustice, even in the face of connections, claiming the dis- the law. They are legally seeking asylum. The current immi- F the African Ameri- its excesses. On June 12, nine economic expansion. Like Dr. comfort and pain of the reject- grants coming to the U.S. are mainly poor people from Central can community since we came faith leaders were shackled and King's Poor People's cam- ed, embracing the fact that America escaping government or gang violence — boys upon these shores. We have held for 27 hours after being paign, this twenty-first centu- they, too, are among the reject- recruited by gangs, girls recruited for sex traffickers. They counted on our faith leaders arrested for praying at the ry Poor People's Campaign, ed. may or may not be granted asylum. (the roll call would include Supreme Court. The multicul- launched fifty years later, is an To shackle clergy simply But there is no justification — moral, legal or simply Revs. Richard Allen, Absalom tural group of men and women attack on poverty, racism, and for praying is to exhibit a human — for ripping their children from them as they wait Jones, James Walker Hood, are part of Rev. William militarism, and also ecological peculiar form of cruelty and for a hearing on their status. No subject in the Bible is men- Martin Luther King, Jr., Wyatt Barber's Poor People's devastation and our nation's inhumanity. Shackling is tioned more than caring for the poor — the stranger on the Tee Walker, Jesse L. Jackson, Campaign: A National Call for "moral devastation." reminiscent of enslavement, Jericho Road — treating them with respect and allowing them William Barber, Vashti Moral Revival At the 2018 Rainbow PUSH is a method of humiliation, is to maintain their dignity, which is the opposite of Trump’s McKenzie, (https://www.poorpeoplescam- International convention on an attempt to use the harsh and Session’s harsh immigration policy. In the New Barbara Wil- paign.org/). Their effort is to June 15, Rev. Barber railed lash of unjust law on the Testament, Matthew reports Joseph and Mary took Jesus to liams Skinner bring attention to the amazing interlocking injustices that backs of those who pray for Egypt to escape King Herod’s order to kill every newborn. and many oth- inequality and moral bank- did not begin with our 45th just law. Rev. William Lamar Jesus’ parents became immigrants in Egypt seeking asylum ers) to articu- ruptcy of our nation. Their President, but have been exac- IV, who has been arrested on for their son Jesus from Roman violence. late the just- prayers at the Supreme Court erbated by the depravity he three consecutive Mondays All major religions — Christianity, Judaism and Islam — ness of our were extremely timely given represents. In a rousing for protest action said that value keeping families together, rather than tearing them cause and to the court's recent actions to address that wove humor, sta- the June 12 arrests and treat- apart. Even conservative evangelical and Roman Catholic mobilize us to make it more difficult for peo- tistics, public analysis and a ment were the harshest he Christians allied with Trump are taking issue with his immi- Dr. work for the ple to vote in Ohio, and given scathing attack on our nation's has yet experienced. In gration policy. One of his strongest advocates, evangelist Julianne justice that is the injustices, this court con- immorality, Barber argued Washington, DC, people who Franklin Graham, called the separations “disgraceful; it’s ter- called for in tinues to perpetuate. that "the rejected", which may are arrested for protesting rible to see families ripped apart and I don’t support that one Malveaux the New Like Dr. King, the nine who comprise more than half of are usually given a ticket that bit.” Testament, were arrested -- Poor People's our nation, will lead to the requires a court appearance The Southern Baptist Convention passed a strong resolu- especially in Matthew 25: 35-45. Campaign co-chair the Rev.Liz revival of our nation. and a likely fine. What did the tion calling for immigration reform that maintains “the pri- Our ministers are revered Theoharis, D.C. clergy the Who would have thought shackling say about the hol- ority of family unity” and called for a legal path to citizen- leaders who often stand in the Revs. Jimmie Hawkins, that nine faith leaders would low sacredness of the ship. Trump keeps railing against immigrants, warning face of injustice. We are not Graylan Hagler and William be among the rejected? Who "Supreme" Court? Democrats that they should accept his policies before the elec- surprised, and indeed, encour- Lamar IV, and the Revs. Rob would have thought that Dr. Shackling clergy for pray- tion “because you are going to lose.” That reveals the foul aged, when their firm stands in and Hershey Stephens from King would have been? But Dr. ing is like condemning the motivation behind this human horror. the face of oppression lead to the Fort Washington King eagerly embraced the sta- sun for shining. Unjust law As former Trump strategist Steve Bannon has argued, as collisions with the law. Still, Collegiate Church in New tus of "rejected." He once enforcement can shackle long as Democrats are arguing about immigration, Trump is when faith leaders are treated York City) - were subjected to preached, "I choose to identify arms and legs, but not move- winning. Sessions and Trump are traumatizing innocent chil- harshly,it forces us to examine extremely harsh conditions. with the underprivileged. I ments. Harsh treatment of dren to serve their partisan political purposes — and trying to the injustice in our system. No threat to anyone, they were choose to identify with the leaders in the Poor People's use the Bible as a cover story. Congress will vote on two immi- When Dr. Martin Luther King, shackled! Placed in handcuffs poor. I choose to give my life Champaign only strengthens gration bills this week. Both give the president much of what he Jr. wrote the Letter from the and leg irons! Confined to for the hungry.I choose to give resistance against injustice, has demanded, including billions for the inane border wall Birmingham Jail in 1963, he roach-infested cells with noth- my life for those who have racism, poverty, and ecologi- (that he pledged the Mexicans would pay for). The more moder- chided white ministers who ing to rest their heads on but a been left out of the sunlight of cal devastation! ate bipartisan bill also would allow families to be detained made a public statement about metal slab! This is the 21st cen- opportunity." Rev. Liz Julianne Malveaux is an together. his methods, suggesting that tury, but you wouldn't know it Theoharris told Democracy author and economist. Her lat- As of this writing, it does not have sufficient Republican segregation should be fought in by the way these clergies were Now's Amy Goodman that the est book "Are We Better Off? support to pass. The trauma these children are experiencing the courts, not in the streets. treated. Yet, their actions and conditions she and fellow cler- Race, Obama and Public will scar them for a lifetime. Is there no shame? Are the hearts His letter moved the white faith those of the Poor People's gy experienced, while uncom- Policy" is available via of partisan politicians so callous that they will turn their community to confront some of Campaign are writing the con- fortable, were the same condi- www.amazon.com for book- backs on innocent children? the injustices of segregation temporary letter from the tions poor inmates experi- ing, wholesale inquiries or for Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr. is founder and president PUSH/ and to form alliances with the Birmingham jail. Their brief enced. That's the power, in more info visit www.julian- Rainbow Coalition. civil rights movement. incarceration, in the name of some ways, of the Poor nemalveaux.com. Thursday, June 21, 2018 5

TO BE EQUAL CRAZY FAITH MINISTRIES Separated by borders: Immigration policy rips families apart America's underwear unchanged

(Via TriceEdneyWire.com) hands.” After a night in the triggers the tragically common U.S/Mexico border. Heart- t is probably safe to say that all of us were told by our Starr County Jail, guards place forced family separa- breaking stories, like the mothers when we were little that we should always “The new policy is the latest found Mr. Muñoz lying on the tions. This new,vicious twist in story of Mr. Muñoz, are not I make sure our underwear was clean. They said the example of harmful actions by floor of his jail cell, unrespon- the Trump administration’s accidental, they are the reason was that we never know when or if we might be in an the Department of Homeland sive. The deputy’s office report- immigration policy is abysmal, byproduct of an inhumane, accident. "You don't want anybody to see that you've got on Security against immigrant ed his death as a “suicide in ahistorical and abhorrent. anti-family, value-deficient dirty underwear," my mother would say. families, hindering their right custody.” Staying true to his cam- policy—and there are many America, it seems, has never changed her underwear. to seek asylum in our country The inhumane separation of paign promises, Trump has more stories in the vein of The entire debacle of ICE agents ripping children from the and denying parents the right to desperate fam- doubled down on immigra- Mr. Muñoz’s story to tell. arms of their mothers, and of putting children in detention remain with their children. We ilies risking tion in all of its forms, partic- This weekend, many of us centers while concurrently sending their parents to jail is not can and must do better for these their lives to ularly from origin countries will celebrate Father’s Day. a new thing. More accurately, America's families. We can and must reach and of color. The zero-tolerance We should especially recog- power elite have a history of separating chil- remember that immigrant chil- cross our strategy follows a litany of nize the privilege of being dren from their families. dren are still children; they need southwest bor- actions and policies—such as able to do so when our gov- When Africans were brought to this coun- our protection, not prosecution.” der is neither the decision to end DACA and ernment is engaging in the try, it was common for those purchasing — American Academy of arbitrary nor protect DREAMERS from forced separation of families Africans would buy a mother or father, leav- Pediatrics, Statement aligned with deportation, reducing the and the traumatizing of inno- ing screaming and terrified children behind. In many cases, those parents never saw their Opposing Separation of Marc our nation’s numbers of refugees accept- cent children torn from their Children and Parents at the core, espoused ed into the country, and end- loved ones, penned into children again. Border, May 8, 2018 Morial values on the ing temporary protected sta- camps or sent to live with Rev. Susan It is America's underwear. sanctity of tus for Haitians and strangers. Children belong in K. Smith What allows anyone to separate families, am the lucky father of family.As of May of this year— Hondurans—intended to the loving arms of their par- ignoring the screams of mothers and their three beautiful chil- this is America—and is formal punish those deemed unfit or ents, not locked behind the children, is the presence of cognitive disso- I dren. It has been my American policy enforced by undesirable, purge our com- cold bars of cells. nance, defined as "holding onto contradictory ideas simulta- life’s work and great pleasure the Departments of Justice and munities and narrow legiti- The National Urban neously," according to Joy DeGruy, author of Post Traumatic to play a part in their develop- Homeland Security, also mate avenues of settlement League has joined forces with Slave Syndrome." ment into keen, compassionate known as the Trump adminis- and entry into the United sister civil rights organiza- In America, she says, people hold onto the ideal of freedom and successful individuals. tration’s zero-tolerance policy. States. But the last time I tions to call for an end to fam- while doing something which is totally in opposition to that And but for the “right” docu- Previously, adults appre- checked, our nation was in ily separation. If you agree ideal. Thus, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who would ments and legal status, Marco hended at the border would be the business of welcoming that destroying families staunchly defend his belief in democracy and Christianity Antonio Muñoz and his wife charged in civil court, detained those seeking to better their should not be a priority of could and did defend the policy of separating families of peo- could have experienced that in immigration facilities and lives, not weaponizing their the government that repre- ple coming to America from Central America. same, singular joy of parent- potentially face deportation children as deterrents to eco- sents you, get angry, get Mr. Sessions does not, cannot and will not allow himself hood. Instead, Mr. Muñoz, a back to their country of origin, nomic opportunity (that ben- engaged—tracking the votes to…consider that these people are human beings, parents who Honduran father who came unless they qualified for asy- efits all) and an escape from of your representatives on love their children and who would not even think of leaving a here seeking asylum as he lum. The new policy prosecutes violence, chaos or natural the issue of family separa- despotic political situation and leave their children behind. crossed the Rio Grande with adults caught crossing the bor- disaster. tion and comprehensive He does not relate to the immigrants as human beings. He his wife and three-year-old son, der as felons in criminal court, It is no small irony that the immigration reform, and be as disassociated himself from them and therefore cannot feel was taken into custody and sep- including those who qualify for party that has traditionally sure to hug your loved ones a their pain and worse, cannot believe that they are capable of arated from his small family. asylum. Felony criminal monopolized the “family-val- little tighter. feeling the same pain as does he and others whose humanity According to news reports, charges sends these adults to ues” moniker is the very Marc Morial is he respects. “they had to use physical force prison, and for those who same one orchestrating this President/CEO of the Heather Anderson Williams writes in to take the child out of his crossed with their children, it now-daily trauma at our National Urban League. "Compartmentalizing Slavery" that "most white slaveowners …would have only a limited sense of what enslaved people felt and they did not pause the morality of an institution that deprived humans of their liberty and wantonly destroyed their families." (http://www.slate.com/articles/life/the_his- Hate thy neighbor colors Sessions' immigration practices tory_of_american_slavery/2015/06/how_white_people_justi- (Via TriceEdneyWire.com) labeled "sh*thole countries." ocrites for "straining at gnats closed, immigrants who fied_and_struggled_with_separating_slave_families.html) Very boldly, however, Paul and swallowing camels" and come in order to support Likewise, there was no sense of how Native Americans felt tty. Gen. Jeff clearly states in that same pas- omitting the more important their families must live in the when the Europeans came to America, bringing with them Sessions has sage that love is the founda- areas of the law, which are shadows and in intense diseases to which Native Americans had never been exposed A reached down into tion of the Gospel, which "judgment, mercy and faith." exploitation and fear. In the which resulted in over 90 percent of the Native American pop- the garbage can of history to supersedes all other man- Sessions and his group - face of these unjust laws and ulation at that time dying off. Nor did they consider what twist passages of Holy made laws. Pharisees of today - go to the systematic deportation of Native Americans felt when their land was taken, or how they Scripture, once used by segre- As clear-cut are the writ- Scripture to find passages to migrants instituted by the felt when Europeans ignored their humanity in the quest for gationists to perpetuate slav- ings of Paul, Christians must support their harmful anti- Department of Homeland power and control of this country. ery, segregation, White look to a higher source, asking Black, anti-women, anti-poor Security, God's people must Martin Luther King said that there is a phenomenon called nationalism and Jim Crow, to what would Jesus do? The policies, which are so void of stand in solidarity with the "thingification." In an address to the Southern Christian justify separating immigrant Bible shows Jesus condemn- love and kindness they have migrants in our midst." Leadership Conference in 1967, he said, "A nation that will children from their parents, ing the "sin" of no relevance for today. So why are so many keep people in slavery for 244 years will thingify them - make many of whom Donald Trump legalism. Le- Trump's Attorney General preachers, pastors, bishops, them things. Therefore they will exploit them ..." dehumanizes as criminals. galists can clearly misses the a funda- megachurch leaders, not That "thingification" has contributed to the oppression of Reports show that thou- quote, pound mental message of Scripture pushing back, defending the blacks in this country for 300 years, for the decimation and sands of children are being and thump which Jesus quoted as Good sacred text and taking these genocide of Native Americans, for the oppression of women, tragically and traumatically the Bible, News, not the lies, harsh Pharisees to task, not only for members of the LGBTQ community, for Muslims, and now, separated from parents and while being words and the meanness we their punitive practices for the horrific treatment the current administration is met- held in cage-like structures, ignorant or see today. Declaring his mis- toward immigrants, but also ing out to immigrants coming to America seeking asylum. according to Democratic U.S. oblivion to the sion in Luke 4:18, Jesus said the transference of billions of Those ripping children from their parents have made these Senator Jeff Merkley. Some Barbara spirit of the that he was anointed to dollars from the needy to the people "things" in the classic sense. Though they hear the have traveled thousands of Law which preach the Gospel (good Trump oligarchy? children screaming for their parents, and the parents scream- miles to flee death threats , Reynolds infuses the news) to the poor, heal the Isn't sacred text worth ing back to their children, reaching for them, they have dis- gangs and rapes in their coun- soul and con- broken-hearted, and preach defending? How long will lov- tanced themselves from the human tragedy in which they are tries. science to be kind, merciful deliverance to the captives to ing and moral Americans tol- engaged. Like the Europeans decimating the Native Is the 'make America great' and charitable. set at liberty them that are erate hypocrisy, cruelty and Americans, and like white people thinking only of ways to rhetoric now calling them to Legalists most often over- bruised. sins against humanity? Is it use black people to further their economic goals, these people thump the Bible, stand self- look the sinful practices of Do the Sessions policies time for Sessions to have a today cannot conceive that the parents and children's screams righteously and piously prac- corporate greed and the cur- have anything to do with the Damascus road experience so they are hearing are genuine. ticing a new breed of spiritu- rent EPA policies of allowing Good News, Jesus, the Bible that he can get knocked down They have dissociated. These people are not true human ality that encompasses "hate corporations to leak or belch or anything sacred that is a off his high perch to see the beings, capable of feeling as do the law enforcement officers thy neighbor"? harmful chemicals into poor part of the Jewish, Christian, light of Jesus's love for the and government working against them. Paul, who wrote around neighborhoods or Trump Islamic faiths? least of these? America's underwear is dirty. She has never changed that A.D. 60, was an apostle of love using the budget to deny In fact, the bad news of As is often said, "The only part of her presence which was sullied and soiled from the reflecting the virtues of Jesus healthcare to the medically Sessions is at odds with the thing necessary for the tri- moment the Europeans landed on these shores. Christ. He wrote: "if there be indigent, who are at risk of official declarations of his umph of evil is that good men Sometimes, something is so dirty that it cannot be totally any other commandment, it is dying because of that lack of own United Methodist do nothing." cleaned. Because a garment has been dirty for so long, when summed up in this word, access. These kinds of tactics, Church. In 2016, it said, "The Keith Magee contributed to finally washed, it never gets fully clean. There is a gray film namely, love thy neighbor as no doubt, are why Jesus fear and anguish so many this commentary and is a pub- over it and no amount of washing or bleaching fixes the prob- thyself. Love works no ill to declares that it's easier for a migrants in the United States lic intellectual, ordained min- lem. his neighbor; love therefore is camel to go through the eye of live under are due to federal ister, and, serves as Senior This desire to protect whiteness, which is at the base of the fulfillment of the law." a needle than a rich person, raids, indefinite detention, Fellow in Culture and Justice, most of the oppression in this country, has sullied America's In Romans 13 Paul writes who thinks that wealth alone, and deportations which tear University College London. underwear for hundreds of years. Attacking a group of peo- that Christians are both citi- gives them access to heaven. apart families and create an Barbara Reynolds is an ple, ruining their families and causing a lifetime of hurt and zens of the state and the Jesus's social gospel was to atmosphere of panic. ordained minister, former pain, is part of what has stained the ideal of American church having a duty to obey awaken the Pharisees of his Millions of immigrants are startup editor and columnist democracy. It is a stain that was begun from the moment both. Sessions uses that pas- day, namely the lawyers and denied legal entry to the US for USA TODAY and author Europeans arrived here, and it continues to spread. sage to justify punishing legalistic communities. due to quotas and race and of seven books, the latest The Were America taken to an emergency room, sick and in immigrants-most of whom Having a heart for the injus- class barriers, even as Life, Love and Legacy of serious condition, it is a sure thing that those trying to treat are brown or Black, coming tices of humanity, Jesus con- employers seek their labor. Coretta Scott King. They are her would see the underwear…and know that the problem we from where Trump has demned that group as "hyp- With the legal avenues mother and son. have is very, very real. Rev. Susan K Smith is available for lectures, workshops and preaching. Contact her at [email protected], or visit her "We wish to plead our own cause. page at www.crazyfaithministries.org. VOICE YOUR OPINION!! Too long have others spoken for us." WRITE A LETTER TO THE EDITOR, TODAY! ---1827, FRONT PAGE OF

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New Hanover County HOMETOWN NEWS FROM BRUNSWICK COUNTY The New Hanover NAACP monthly meeting is Thursday,June History a narrative of events, a story 28, 7 pm at 2166 Kent Avenue, Wilmington. Information on voting registration efforts and other vital community and state issues hen we think of which I still recall. Happiness This information was given by lems of the present and the will be on the agenda, as well as an update on the Freedom Fund history, we think comes to us in different ways Ms. Pearl Stanley, CFCS. She future. Banquet in August and other New Hanover NAACP branch W of a narrative of and at different times. It may gave us the facts we awaited Verniece E. Stanley is a events. Members and friends are encouraged to attend. For more events, a story. We think of a occur on our way to work, or it regarding enrollment for the native of Brunswick County. information, call 910-765-0102 or email [email protected]. chronological record of may occur during our day at Medicare prescription drug She grew up on a farm but events. Sometimes it may be work or on our trip back home plan. The enrollment into this wanted more excitement in life. The Williston Class of 1960 will meet on June 16, 2018 from the development of a person, a from work. plan began November 15, 2005 She graduated from high 2:00 p.m.- 4:00 p.m. at the Cape Fear Museum, 814 country, an I remember attending a and ended May 15, 2006. By school in Brunswick County in Market Street, downstairs in the Exploration institution. We meeting some time ago for enrolling by December 31, 2005 1948 and graduated from Station. All classmates are encouraged to attend can go back to Brunswick County Retired and meeting the requirements Fayetteville State Teachers' and bring a classmate. another time. It School Personnel and other of the plan, one could enroll in College in 1952. She taught may be a differ- senior citizens at the the PDP, regardless of income school in Brunswick County for Community Pender County ent place or the Brunswick County Electric or assets. nine years. She moved to Briefs same place, but Membership Corporation. A person who has received Baltimore, Maryland, married, PCTS/SPH Alumni Association will hold its Bi an earlier time. One subject of great interest extra help needs to enroll in a and taught school for twenty- Annual Reunion beginning on Friday, July 6th For instance, was Medicare Part D. PDP or file for an application. five more years. She received with a dedication ceremony held on the grounds of the facility my mind goes Very pleasant greetings Those who need information her master's degree from form 10:00 a.m. - 12 noon. This event is open to the public. Verniece back to one were brought by Mr. Gene may contact the Brunswick Morgan State College in Stanley Thursday in the Allen and Mr. Joseph Butler. County Extension Family Baltimore City. She retired and Policies for briefs, news, & photos on page 2. year of 2005, we comfortably waited with Consumer Education Office at moved back to Bolivia, N. C. December 1 of happy expressions on our Post Office Box 109, Bolivia, where she enjoys writing arti- Compiled By Wilmington Journal Staff that year. That was one of the faces until up-to-date informa- NC 28422. cles for The Wilmington times in life when I experi- tion was presented on pre- Sometimes, a look into his- Journal and is an active mem- enced a level of happiness scription drug benefit plans. tory can help us solve prob- ber of the NAACP Board.

From March to May: Deltas on the move

BY JOHN DAVIS DELTAS POISED FOR BIG HAT BRUNCH

BY MARVA ROBINSON Parade. ship service at Warner Temple CONTRIBUTING WRITER The Wilmington Chapter cel- and a walk-a-thon with dinner ebrated May Month by hosting on the riverfront. A special sis- The month of May signifi- several activities which includ- terhood gathering celebrated cantly impacts the members of ed the second annual Big Hat our own Carolyn Lee for her Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Gospel/Jazz Brunch on May inexhaustible benevolent con- Incorporated as chapters 12th at Union Baptist tributions to the chapter and nationally and internationally Fellowship Hall. This event the community. Love prevailed celebrate the very essence of benefits the chapter's endow- as tributes conveyed our grati- NCDOT TO HOLD PUBLIC MEETING FOR PROPOSED the organization which is pub- ment scholarship for minority tude for her generous spirit. IMPROVEMENTS TO COLLEGE ROAD lic service. From March to students at UNCW and other Eliminating The BETWEEN GORDON ROAD AND SANDERS ROAD May, the Wilmington Alumnae philanthropic endeavors. Achievement Gap Project at IN WILMINGTON Chapter implemented a pletho- Guests were entertained with Lincoln Elementary concluded NEW HANOVER COUNTY ra of programs for the tri-coun- gospel and jazz by Sounds Of with a review session of the ty parameters of Brunswick, Praise, poetic reading from monthly activities along with STIP Project Nos. U-5881, U-5792, U-5702A, U-5704, U-5702B, U-5790 New Hanover and Pender. Spence Gutowsky and a dance presenting a goody bag con- On March 30, 2017, the chap- performance by Abundance. A taining note taking materials The N.C. Department of Transportation will hold a public meeting to present infor- ter presented the 68th promenade of unique and vari- and sweet treats. At D.C. Virgo, mation on the projects to improve College Road between Gordon Road and Sanders Jabberwock Scholarship ous hat styles worn by selected seventh graders enjoyed an ice Road in Wilmington. Pageant highlighting the guests delighted the audience cream and popcorn social for theme, "Enchanted Elegance: and the participants as sponta- their hard work efforts and as a The meeting will be held on Thursday, June 28, 2018 at the Burney Center at the The Magic Of Diamonds And neous parades encircled the send off for the new school University of North Carolina Wilmington, located at the corner of Riegel Pearls". Thirty young people hall. year. Delta Academy at Road and Price Drive, in Wilmington from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. participated in educational, Other chapter events Community Boys and Girls The six projects being presented include: cultural and fun related activi- involved members embracing Club and Delta Gems at Pender ties, culminating with the the spirit of sisterhood, inclu- High School ended their pro- •U-5881 - Improvements to N.C. 132 (College Road) from Gordon Road (S.R. Jabberwock Queens and Court sive of health concerns-mind, gram objectives for the year 2048) to New Centre Drive (S.R. 1272). Alternatives may include additional lanes, gracing the Delta Foundation body and soul, honoring sea- as part of May Month cele- possible interchanges at Kings Drive and Ringo Street and minor modifications of float in the Azalea Festival soned chapter members, wor- bration. the College Road/Market Street interchange.

•U-5792 - N.C. 132 (College Road) and U.S. 74 (Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway) NCDOT TO HOLD A PUBLIC MEETING intersection improvements including converting the at-grade intersection to an REGARDING THE PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS TO THE EASTWOOD ROAD interchange. (U.S. 74) AND MILITARY CUTOFF ROAD (U.S. 76/U.S. 17) INTERSECTION NEW HANOVER COUNTY •U-5702A - Access management and travel time improvements along an approx- imately 2.6 mile section of College Road from New Centre Drive (S.R. 1272) to just STIP Project No. U-5710 south of U.S. 117 (Shipyard Boulevard). The N.C. Department of Transportation will hold a public meeting regarding the •U-5704 - Mobility improvements at the College Road and Oleander Drive inter- section and an approximately 2.0 mile section of College Road from Wilshire proposed conversion of the Eastwood Road (U.S. 74) and Military Cutoff Road (U.S. Boulevard to U.S. 117 (Shipyard Boulevard). This project may include a proposed 76/U.S. 17) at-grade intersection to an interchange in Wilmington, New Hanover interchange at U.S. 76 (Oleander Drive). County. The meeting will take place on June 25, 2018 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the College Acres Baptist Church, located at 702 Eastwood Road in Wilmington. •U-5702B - Access management and travel time improvements along an approx- imately 4.3 mile section of College Road from U.S. 117 (Shipyard Boulevard) to U.S. The purpose of this project is to alleviate traffic congestion at Eastwood Road (U.S. 421 (Carolina Beach Road). 74) and Military Cutoff Road (U.S. 76/U.S. 17) and improve traffic carrying capac- ity and operation. •U-5790 - Improvements at the N.C. 132 (College Road) and U.S. 421 (Carolina Beach Road) intersection. Alternatives may include grade separated improvements The public may attend at any time during the hours mentioned above. NCDOT rep- such as a flyover or at-grade intersection modifications. resentatives will be available to answer questions and listen to comments regard- ing the project. The opportunity to submit written comments will also be provided Interested citizens may attend at any time during the meeting hours. NCDOT rep- at the meeting or via phone, email, or mail by July 16, 2018. Comments received resentatives will be available to answer questions and receive comments regarding will be taken into consideration as the project develops. Please note that no formal the project. Please note that no formal presentation will be made. All comments received will be taken into consideration as the project progresses. presentation will be made.

As information becomes available, it may be viewed online at the NCDOT Public Project information and materials can be viewed as they become available online Meeting Website: https://www.ncdot.gov/projects/publicmeetings and on the proj- at http://www.ncdot.gov/projects/publicmeetings. ect website located at https://ncdot.publicinput.com/collegeroad-wilmington. For additional information, contact Michael Bass, NCDOT Division Design Engineer Anyone desiring additional information may contact Trace Howell, PE, NCDOT, by mail: 5501 Barbados Blvd., Castle Hayne NC, by phone: (910) 341-2000, or via Highway Division 3 Project Manager, at 5501 Barbados Blvd, Castle Hayne, NC email: [email protected]. 28429, by telephone at (910) 341-2000 or by email at [email protected]. Comments should be submitted by July 27, 2018. NCDOT will provide auxiliary aids and services under the Americans with Disabilities Act for disabled persons who wish to participate in this meeting. Anyone requiring NCDOT will provide auxiliary aids and services under the Americans with Disabilities special services should contact Caitlyn Ridge, P.E., Environmental Analysis Unit Act for disabled persons who wish to participate in this meeting. Anyone requiring Public Involvement Officer at [email protected] or (919) 707-6091 as early as special services should contact NCDOT Senior Public Involvement Office, Diane Wilson by email at [email protected] or by phone at (919) 707-6073 as early possible so that arrangements can be made. as possible, so that these arrangements can be made. Persons who speak Spanish and do not speak English, or have a limited ability to Persons who speak Spanish and do not speak English, or have a limited ability to read, speak or understand English, may receive interpretive services upon request read, speak or understand English, may receive interpretive services upon request prior to the meeting by calling 1-800-481-6494. prior to the meeting by calling 1-800-481-6494. Aquellas personas que hablan español y no hablan inglés, o tienen limitaciones Aquellas personas que hablan español y no hablan inglés, o tienen limitaciones para para leer, hablar o entender inglés, podrían recibir servicios de interpretación si los leer, hablar o entender inglés, podrían recibir servicios de interpretación si los solic- solicitan antes de la reunión llamando al 1-800-481-6494. itan antes de la reunión llamando al 1-800-481-6494. June 21, 2018 June 21, 2018 Thursday, June 21, 2018 OBITUARY 7

Darrell "Dro" Jerome Pilgrim Rest Missionary Baptist friends, Tyrone Battle and Michael ers, James Green, and Roy Green. Ms. Gwenda Whitaker; several He was born on December 31, 1959 Atkinson church where he was an active Sessions. A Service of John H. She leaves to cherish her memo- nieces, nephews, other relatives at James Walker Hospital in member. He was also an active Shaw's Son Funeral Home. ries: her children, Robert Evans and friends, including special Wilmington, North Carolina. He Darrell "Dro" Jerome Atkinson member of Progressive Lodge #830 (Debra) of Leland, NC, Angela friends, Mary Ann Keiser and Fred was preceded in death by his par- died June 5, 2018. Funeral services after becoming a Mason he was ele- Catherine "Rabbit" Wells Evans Newkirk (Ronnie) of Robinson (Juanita). A Service of ents, James E. Powell and Marth F. were held Wednesday,June 13, 2018 vated to Master Mason in 1994. Troy Jacksonville, NC, Roberta Evans of John H. Shaw's Son Funeral Home. Taylor. at Union Missionary Baptist He leaves to cherish his memo- the home and Tony Evans (Wanda) He graduated from Pender High Church. Burial followed in Calvary ries: his wife, Annie Rose Grissett Catherine "Rabbit" Wells Troy of Decatur, Georgia; ten grandchil- Sharyn Williams-Nowling School in 1978 and immediately Memorial Cemetery. of the home; four sons, Dana Evans died June 9, 2018. Funeral services dren; seven great-grandchildren; entered into the U.S. Army where Darrell, known as "Young" to of the city, Wayne Evans of were held 1:00 PM on Saturday, one brother, Curtis Green of Sharyn Williams-Nowling died he served his country for 12 years. some was born April 10, 1971 in Raleigh, NC, Linwood Murphy June 16, 2018 at Evergreen AME Wilmington, NC; three sisters-in- June 13, 2018. Funeral services He met his lovely wife Yvonne in Wilmington, NC to Roger Atkinson (Wanda) and Frank Grissett, Jr. of Zion Church. Catherine was born law, Mildred Spencer and Louise were held Wednesday,June 20, 2018 Augsburg Germany in 1988 and and Audrey Bridges Atkinson. He Rocky Point, NC; seven grandchil- December 13, 1954 to the late Williams of Wilmington, NC and at Warner Temple AME Zion married on September 8, 1990. was educated in the New Hanover dren, four great-grandchildren; Rudolph Wells, Sr.and Elma Louise Mary Evans of Petersburg, VA; a Church. Burial followed in Pine When his wife was discharged County School System and worked brothers, Kelly (Arnetta) Grissett Bowen Wells. She attended host of nieces, nephews, cousins, Forest Cemetery. A Service of John from the Army in 1991, she moved with Atkinson's Lawn Care. of Cooperas Cove, TX and Carlilse Columbus County Public Schools other loving relatives and many H. Shaw's Son Funeral Home. to Wilmington, NC to be with him. Darrell was preceded in death Grissett (Permetia) of the city; sis- and graduated from Acme-Delco friends, including special friends, They remained together until his by his grandparents, Cleo and ter, Carrie Mae Bernard of St. High School in 1973. She accepted Ernest and Alfonzo. A Service of Harlee Porter passing. Maybele Bridges and Minnie Albans, NY; two sisters-in-law, Christ at an early age and was a John H. Shaw's Son Funeral Home. Everyone who knew him, knew Atkinson. He leaves to cherish fond Lillie Mae Grissett of Myrtle member of Evergreen AME Zion Harlee Porter died June 13, 2018. what type of person he was. A lov- memories: his children, Darrell Beach, SC and Willie Cheathem of Church. Shortly after graduating, Funeral services will be Thursday, ing, caring individual and he would Ty"Kwan Atkinson, Joshua Lee Winston-Salem, NC; a host of she married John Leander Troy Michael Keith Baker June 20, 2018 at 1:00 p.m. at always lend a helping hand to any- Nixon and Hermione Davis; broth- nieces, nephews, other relatives and moved to the Phoenix Bloominghill FWB Church, one in need - he was a good man! ers, Anthony Atkinson and and friends. A Service of John H. Community. This union was Michael Keith Baker died June Richlands, NC. Visitation will be Dean is survived by his wife of DeLawrence Atkinson; sisters, Shaw's Son Funeral Home. blessed with three children. 10, 2018. Funeral services were one hour prior to the service on 27 years, Yvonne, one devoted Amanda Melvin, Audrica "Rabbit" held various jobs includ- held Saturday, June 16, 2018 at Thursday. Burial will follow in daughter, Oliva Yung of Atlanta, Atkinson, Myesha Atkinson, Janice Marie Taylor ing, Skinner & Daniels Bar-B-Q in Willie L. Shaw Jr. Memorial Onslow Memorial Gardens. A Georgia; a host of special cousins Keena Atkinson and Katia Wilmington, NC, she drove for the Chapel. Burial followed in the Service of John H. Shaw's Son who were like siblings to him; four Atkinson; fiancé, Veronica Avis; Janice Marie Taylor died June 8, Senior Citizen Transport Service Moore's Cemetery. Funeral Home. uncles, one aunt; a very special lit- aunts, Loretta Baile (Jerry), 2018. Funeral services were held in Brunswick and New Hanover Michael, son of the late George tle boy Jackson Richard Lee; a host Dorothy George and Constance Friday, June 15, 2018 at Bethel UH Counties and worked as a security and Martha Baker was born on Dorothy Montgomery of other relatives and friends. Atkinson; uncles, John Wesley Church. Burial follow in the Bethel guard for DAK Americas for over December 12, 1955, in Charleston, Funeral services were held on Bridges and Larry Atkinson and a Church Cemetery. 10 years until her health failed. South Carolina. "Keith' as he was Dorothy Montgomery died June Saturday, June 9, 2018 at Temple of host of nieces, nephews, other rela- Janice, daughter of the late She was a loving and devoted called, moved to Wilmington, 18, 2018.. Funeral arrangements are Truth, Light of Life Church, tives and friends. A Service of John Willie James Taylor, Sr. and Mary daughter, mother, grandmother, North Carolina at an early age and incomplete and will be announced Wilmington, North Carolina. H. Shaw's Son Funeral Home. Elizabeth Taylor was born mother-in-law, daughter-in-law, sis- made Wilmington his home. later by John H. Shaw's Son Arrangements by Adkins-Drain September 8, 1956, in Wilmington, ter, niece, cousin, aunt and friend. "Keith" was an avid fisherman as Funeral Home. A Service of John Funeral Service. Inc., 515 South Brenda Diane Corbett NC. She was a member of Local Left to lovingly cherish her memo- well as a die-hard Dallas Cowboy H. Shaw's Son Funeral Home. Eighth Street, Wilmington, North 1199 SEIU Union and a great work- ries are: her mother, Elma Wells of fan. He was also a lover of good Carolina 28401. Condolences may be Brenda Diane Corbett died June er for Columbia University Dining Delco, NC; a faithful and devoted western movies. "Keith" worked Dean Mark Taylor 7, 2018. Funeral services were held Services. She attended Hostos daughter, Franchesca Utopia Troy for nearly 20 years as a cook at the Thursday, June 14, 2018 at Community college in Bronx, NY (Larry) of the home; sons, Tracey Bridge Tender Restaurant and Dean Mark Taylor "Lil Sport" Please see Macedonia FBH Church. Burial fol- and was a servant at the United Leander Troy (Melodee) of Bolton, doing landscaping for St. Mary was called home on June 1, 2018. OBITUARIES/Page 8 lowed in Calvary Memorial Church of Deliverance in Harlem, NC and Dimitri Franklin Troy Catholic Church. He also worked Cemetery. NY. (Nicole) of Leland, NC; grand- for many local historians helping Brenda was born in Sumter, Janice leaves to cherish her daughters, Imani Troy of to restore old houses in South Carolina on October 11, 1953, memory: her only child, Janelle Wilmington, NC and Nevaeh Jones Wilmington. In addition to his par- to the late Sonny and Pearl Elizabeth Taylor; Janelle's father of the home; grandsons, Treleand ents, "Keith" was preceded in death Solomon Shaw. She was preceded and friend, John Adams; brother, Mikel and Greyson Leander Troy by a sister and a brother. in death by brothers, Robert Shaw, Willie James Taylor, Jr.; sister, of Bolton, NC and Devon and He is survived by: his daughters, Charlie Shaw, and Sonny Shaw and Delphine L. Taylor; nephews, Davion Troy of Leland, NC; special Kimberly Baker of Wilmington, sisters, Ruby Jean McKnight and Luther Smith, Jr. (Rachel) and mother-in-law, Curlia Troy of NC, and Nicole and Kishea Baker Audrey Faust. Brenda was a dedi- Nichols Brown; niece, Adrian Leland, NC; brother, Rudolph of York, PA; two sisters, Catherine cated, wonderful, and encouraging Young (Tyrell) and a host of special Wells, Jr. of Wilmington, NC; sis- Baker Mitchell and Euladene mother for 44 years. She was a lov- sisters, brothers, nieces, nephews, ters, Lonnie Jane Jackson and Baker Robinson both of ing wife for 43 years, who enjoyed cousins, work family and friends. Mary Alice Harvin of Wilmington, Charleston, SC; three brothers, accompanying her daughters to A Service of John H. Shaw's Son NC and Deniece Wells (Tony) of George Baker, Joe Baker and various events and celebrating Funeral Home. Leland, NC and a host of nieces, Bobby Baker, all of Charleston, SC; their accomplishments. nephews, cousins, other relatives his companion of twenty years, Brenda leaves to cherish her Will Sansbury and friends. A Service of John H. memories: a husband, Joseph N. Shaw's Son Funeral Home. Corbett; two daughters, Bridgit Will Sansbury died June 9, 2018. Denise Corbett and Joy Nicole Memorial services were held on Willie Blanch Evans John H. Shaw’s Son Funeral Home Corbett; one grandson, Tremaine Saturday, June 16, 2018 at Willie L. Ricardo Dixon, Jr. of Raleigh, NC; Shaw Jr. Memorial Chapel. A Willie Blanch Evans died June “A Temple of Service” two brothers, Eugene Shaw and Service of John H. Shaw's Son 11, 2018. Funeral services were George (Rose) Shaw, all of Sumter, Funeral Home. held on Sunday, June 17, 2018 at SC; one sister, Barbara Ann Jonas Enoch Chapel Missionary Baptist of Sumter, SC; three additional sis- Dennis Lee Elleyby Church. Burial followed in Mt. ters-in-law, Joanne Atcherson of Ararat AME Church Cemetery. Buffalo, NY, Delores Kerrin of Dennis Lee Elleyby died June 9, Willie "Blanch" Evans was born on Wilmington, NC and Geneva 2018. Funeral services were held December 27, 1937 in Pitt County, in service Jordan of Charleston, SC and a on Saturday, June 16, 2018 at North Carolina to the late Andrew host of caring nieces, nephews, Wrightsboro United Methodist and Carrie Green. "Blanch" met cousins and friends. A Service of Church. and married Robert Evans and John H. Shaw's Son Funeral Home. Dennis was born August 28, 1958 from that union came six children. in care to the late Ruby Eunice James Her love for upholstery led to a dis- 1895 2018 Frank Monroe Grissett Gattison of Wilmington, NC and tinguished career as a tailor and James Elleyby of Lexington, VA. designer---- just a few of her many in price Frank Monroe Grissett died He was preceded in death by two God given gifts. "Blanch" also June 6, 2018. Funeral services were sons, Recorian Gause and George owned "Family Affair," a family held Thursday, June 14, 2018 at Tarrant and his brothers, Willie business that thrived with the help Pilgrim Rest Missionary Baptist Mack and Nathaniel James. of her three beautiful daughters, Church. Dennis attended schools in New and granddaughter. She also Frank son of the late Henry Hanover County and later obtained taught Extension Programs at Foster Grissett and the late Alberta several degrees. He worked for Cape Fear Community College that Carter Grissett, was born on many years as a cook at K&W and I- consisted of Sewing and January 21, 1944, in Myrtle Beach, Hop. He attended Wrightsboro Upholstery classes. "Blanch" SC. Five siblings, John Henry United Methodist Church where he accepted Christ as her personal Grissett, David Grissett, Henry served on the usher board and Savior at an early age and spent her 123 Years of Continuous Service Grissett, William Grissett and enjoyed bringing his kids to life totally committed to spreading Lloyd Grissett preceded him in church. the Good News about a mighty, 520 Red Cross Street - Wilmington, NC 28401 death. He along with his family He leaves to cherish his memo- merciful, and matchless God; Phone (910) 762-2635 - Fax 910-762-8060 moved to Wilmington, NC in 1951 ries: wife, Mary Thomas; daugh- "Jesus," as she would always say. before finally moving to ters, Shavon Smith, Lashanda She was an active member of St. [email protected] Wrightsville Sound in 1958. He Thomas, Gabrielle Robison, Rose Paul Missionary Baptist Church attended New Hanover County Cromartie; sons, Roman Smith, until her health declined. “The Test of the Years Is Your Proof of Our Dependability” Public Schools and later gained Anthony Smith, Dennis Smith, She was preceded in death by employment with FP Fensel Dennis Holmes, Demectric Gause her husband, Robert Evans; son, Supply Company for a number of and Olajuwon Elleyby; sixteen Robert Evans; daughter, Wanda years. After retiring, he formed his grandchildren; a host of aunts, Evans; grandson, Ivan Freeman; William O. Boykin, Manager own company, Frank's Pumps and uncles, nieces, nephews, other rela- sisters, Vera Mumford, Carrie Sprinkler Repair. He joined tives and friends including special Wooten, Penny McKoy and broth- Adkins Drain Funeral Service

Samuel Drain, Jr. Connie Drain Green and Allene Drain Funeral Director In Memoriam 8 RELIGION Thursday, June 21, 2018

New Hanover County GET THAT DEED AND FLIP THOSE KEYS! Barry Smith & Company of Wilmington, NC will host The Father, Son & Holy Ghost on Saturday, June 30th at 6:00 p.m. at St. John Church of Christ "Skin in the Game" HOME INSPECTION Disciples of Christ, 106 Browntown Rd. Hwy 17 North in the Browntown Community. For more information call 910-550-7475 or 910-880-3062. fter the earnest something and you purchase to. Yes, I have seen plenty in and if roof shingles look Central Missionary Baptist Church, 702 Red Cross St., will celebrate their deposit and due and then discover HUGE prob- 20+ years, even with seasoned worn, not leaking but may Ushers Anniversary On Sunday,June 24that 4:00 p.m. The guest speaker will be A diligence fee are lems, that will be an expensive investors getting surprised start in near future, etc. Rev. Tony Harrington, pastor of First Baptist Church, paid, now it's time to start the lesson to learn. In NC, sellers after closings. Trust me, it's All of these things are Magnolia, NC. investigation of do not have to disclose any worth EVERY dime. The cost important to know especially Myrtle Grove First Born Holiness Church, 6601 Carolina the property to defects to you even though varies depending on the size for 1st-time buyers. You will Beach Rd., will hold their 64th church anniversary from see if it meets they must fill out a form called of the home, if 1-story or 2, if no longer have the luxury of Friday, June 29th- Sunday, July 1st. For more information your needs and Residential Property crawlspace or slab. I suggest calling a landlord to fix please call 910-23--7728 satisfaction. Disclosure. That form asks if budgeting between $350-$500 things so wisdom is to go into New Hope Missionary Baptist Church, 701 S. 12th St., will The 1st rec- they know of any problems in on average. The scope of this with your eyes WIDE Religious hold a musical program on Saturday, June 23rd at 5:00 p.m. ommended step specified categories and they work: An home inspector open. If you would like to to celebrate their pastor Carl McIntyre and First Lady is to have a can answer, YES, NO, or NO checks from roof to the crawl- have a pamphlet called "For Briefs Bertha McIntyre’s 17th anniversary. On Sunday, June 24th at 11:00 a.m. the celebration continues with guest speaker home inspec- REPRESENTATION. space and MUCH in-between your protection, get a home Rev. Ossie Webb of Townsend Temple, Bolton, NC and at 3:00 p.m. with guest Brenda tion by a Regardless of how they and beyond. You get a detailed inspection", contact me and speaker Pastor Cornelius Wesley of the Council and Burgaw 7th Day Adventist Dixon licensed inspec- answer, I recommend buyers report that includes photos of I'll mail/email it right out to Churches. tor or licensed to give no consideration to it any found defects and pictures you. Until next week, share St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, 600 Grace St., will begin Summer Services at general contrac- and get the home inspection. of defective equipment. The this article with 3 people and 10:00 a.m. on Sundays. tor. "LICENSED" was used two This is so important that if a reports go further and make reach out for your FREE per- times and it was intentional. buyer tells me they do not notes of any recommended sonalized action plan to OWN The Better St, Phillip A.M.E.Zion Church will hold their annual Building This is too serious of an pur- want to have one done, I've items to keep an eye on even if in 18 mos or less. Fund program on Sunday, June 24th at 3:00 p.m. The Rev. Kitty Jacobs and the Crysolite AME Zion Church Family of Lumberton, NC will be the special guests chase to call Uncle Bill who adopted a policy that they they are performing as intend- Brenda Dixon, Dixon along with their Mass Choir and congregation. Dinner will be served. has built and re-wired entire must sign a statement ed at the time of inspection. Realty Since 1991, 27 yrs. F/T homes for 30 yrs without ever acknowledging I advised them An example is if the HVAC is expertise. Brenda@getthat- Brunswick County using permits. If he misses to have it and they decided not old and nearing the end of life deed.com. 910-262-4836 . Crystal Spring Missionary Baptist Church will hold their annual revival from Wednesday, June 27th- Friday, June 29th. Devotional services start at 7:00 p.m. The guest pastor this great revival will be Rev. Gordon Griffin, pastor of Moore’s Creek Missionary Baptist Church, Currie, NC. TELL SOMEBODY

Moore’s Chapel AME Zion Church, 1492 Village Rd., will celebrate their annu- al Men’s Day on Sunday,June 24th at 3:00 p.m.. The guest speaker will be Rev. Dr. "If the Blind Lead the Blind" Jermaine Amour and the St. Luke Church family of Wilmington, NC . "And he spake a parable unto them, Can the blind lead the blind? Shall not they both fall into the ditch?" Luke 6:39 Policies for briefs, news, & photos on page 2. Blind - Being without sight and cast into the fire. 4. He was committed to lows a blind man will likewise Compiled By Wilmington Journal Staff Wherefore by their fruits ye their success, and willing to stumble and fall into the same ow do you know if shall know them." prepare them for the next ditch as the blind leader ! you are following Following leadership is level in life. "Where there is no vision, the OBITUARIES ment, including the Holy Land H good leadership? very important within the If a political leader begins people perish, so choose your Experience, Disney World and the We must be able to hear, and Body of Christ. The Bible tells to deviate away from the leaders wisely! You will have Continued from page 7 Crayola Experience. obey God's voice when choos- us to esteem our leaders high- truth, maybe it is time to to live with the consequences Eddie attended schools in New ing leadership . Proverbs ly, and to give honor to whom relieve him of his office. If a of the choices that are made shared at www.adkinsdrainfuner- Hanover County and graduated 3:5,6 tells us to "Trust in the honor is due. For conscious- Christian leader begins to by your leaders. Remember, alservice.com. from Williston Sr. High in 1966. Lord with all our heart, and ness sake, we should believe deviate away from the Word of what happens when the blind After high school he proudly lean not to that our leaders are also fol- God, we must remember to fol- lead the blind……Prayer: Falinthia Carter served our Country in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam Era. our own lowers of Christ. When they low the Word of God which Father open our eyes to see Falinthia Ann Nixon Carter, age Upon returning home he was understand- preach or teach the scriptures also agrees with the Holy what you want us to see when 43, of Wilmington, passed away employed by Southern Bell, cur- ing. In all to us, we should be following Spirit! We should pray for it comes to choosing our lead- Saturday, June 9, 2018. A memorial rently known as AT&T. He had an our ways to along with our own Bibles those in leadership and hold ers politically and spiritually. service was held on Wednesday, impeccable work ethic for forty acknowledge wide open to confirm God's God's Word higher than any Give us wisdom in Jesus June 13, 2018 at Davis Funeral plus years with the company. him, and he truth. man's opinion !!! Name we pray. Amen. Tell Home. Services entrusted to Davis Eddie was well respected and loved shall direct Our Christian leaders A good Christian leader is Somebody!!! Funeral Home, 901 S. 5th Ave, by his fellow co-workers. our path." should also be living holy. willing to model what their "Mrs. Sylvia B. Hooper is a Wilmington, NC 28401. Please share He became a member of First memories and condolences with the Baptist Church in April of 1981 The choices How can they lead us to victo- ministry teaches. A good native Wilmingtonian, mar- family at www.davisfuneralhome- after being inspired by his younger Sylvia we make in ry, if they are struggling with leader sets the example, and is ried to Pastor Johnson A. nc.com. sister, Carolyn. For decades he Hooper determining sin? We should also set high always seeking what is best Hooper, First Lady of Faith enthusiastically served in several leadership standards when choosing for his/her followers. Outreach COGIC, Jackson- Dr. Amir Ben-Solomon capacities in the church and com- reflect who those to lead us politically. . A good Christian leader ville, N.C. She is a mother of munity. His church activities we are, because we trust them Apostle Paul was a great may use other sources of three wonderful children and a Dr.Amir Ben-Solomon, age 74, of included; Transportation Director, enough to make decisions for leader and wrote quite a bit of information or inspiration, proud grandmother! She is a Carolina Beach, passed away Girl Scout Leader, Boy Scout us and our families . the New Testament, yet he but remains true to Holy Licensed Evangelist with Wednesday, June 13, 2018. A visita- Leader, Trustee, and "Iceman." He tion was held on Tuesday, June 19, helped out wherever he could. In (Ephesians 5:1-20) humbly stated. "Follow me as I scripture. His life is fruitful COGIC, International. 2018 at Davis Funeral Home. the community Eddie was ever Matthew 7:15-20 says, follow Christ." and he is concerned about the She is the President of P.W.E. Funeral services will be held in present at the 8th Street Center, "Beware of false prophets, The greatest leader this souls of his followers. He Pastors Wives Empo-werment New York. where he impacted many lives by which come to you in sheep's world has ever known, is the preaches good tidings to the Conference, an annual event Dr. Amir Ben-Solomon was born being a mentor, sounding board, clothing, but inwardly they person Jesus Christ. He was meek, he binds up the broken- held in honor of Pastors and in Wilmington, NC on August 2, confidant, and counselor. He was are ravening wolves. Ye shall and still is a perfect role hearted, and proclaims liberty ministers Wives. This support 1943 to mother, Elridge Teresa an assistant coach for Pop Warner know them by their fruits. Do model for leadership. In to those held captive by the group's focus is to Encourage, Owens and father, Wilbert W. Football and a referee for the men gather grapes of thorns Matthew 4:19, he said to Peter enemy. Embrace and Empower Elect Wilson. He attended grade school Annual Turkey Bowl. He was at Williston in Wilmington. After awarded "The Order of Long Leaf or figs of thistles? Even so and Andrew , " Follow me, and On the contrary, a leader Ladies to be all they can be in moving to reside with his father, he Pine", the highest civilian honor every good tree bringeth forth I will make you fishers of who is blind, will seek to influ- Christ Jesus, while providing attended high school at Coolidge in given by the Governor for good fruit; but a corrupt tree men. ence you more than Christ support to their husbands, who Washington, DC. His high athletic Exemplary Service to North bringeth forth evil fruit. A 1. Jesus was fully focused himself. Your life will be are Gospel preachers and pas- ability in football (among other Carolina. He became a lifetime good tree cannot bring forth on them individually. unfruitful and non productive tors. Her heart's desire is to sports) earned him several scholar- member of the Vietnam Veterans evil fruit, neither can a cor- 2. He knew the plans he had if you are following someone please the Lord, rescue the per- ships. While on the campus of of America. Despite his accolades rupt tree bring forth good for their future who is spiritually blind. A ishing, comfort the dying, and Michigan State University, he and accomplishments, it is most fruit. Every tree that bringeth 3. He recognized their blind man cannot help but live a life that gives God glory! gained interest in esoteric healing important to remember that and would eventually end his con- Brother Sellars was a man of God not good fruit is hewn down, potential stumble. Everyone who fol- ventional education to pursue what that loved everyone, loved to joke led to his profession as a Doctor of and tease, and would help anyone Clinical Hypnotherapy in the in any way. Even when his health Alternative Health Care Field. began to decline he maintained a Graduates and retirees honored at Chestnut Street Presbyterian Church (USA) Amir was honorably discharged positive outlook and continued to from the United States Marine serve in many capacities, includ- BY RITA TODD of Arts degree; Cohort 7; the Corps on February 11, 1966. He ing driving the church van and CONTRIBUTING WRITER student leaders' award; and then proceeded to establish himself assisting with the sound system. the Top Senior Volunteer with as an entrepreneur and focused on He leaves to cherish fond memo- business ownership in fields such ries, his wife of forty-seven years, On Sunday,June 10, 2018, six over 1900 hours of community as solar energy, banking, and the Rose Ann; four left handed chil- individuals were honored at service. employment industry. His true call- dren, Renee Graham, Christina Chestnut Street Presbyterian Margaret's future plans ing culminated with training and Sellars, Brian (LaShanna) Sellars, Church (USA). These individ- include attending East certification as a Doctor of Clinical Veronica (Fort) Clark; five grand- uals were Miss Margaret Ann Carolina University beginning Hypnotherapy through the daughters, PaShaun, Alajah, Everett, Ms. Alexandria Anne in August of 2018. She will pur- American Board of Hypnotherapy, Haniah, Miranda, Sabriya; sisters, Jackson, Mrs. Maya sue a degree in Psychology. the American Board of Neuro-lin- Janie Maynor, Lillian Lewis, Quattlebaum Padgett, Ms. Alexandria Anne Jackson guistic Programming, and the Mamie Polk, Carolyn (Cephus) International Hypnosis Federation. Gregg, Carrie V-Ann Sellars; broth- Janie Mae Anderson, Ms. graduated with an Associates Amir resided on Carolina er, Tommie (Bonnie) Jackson; sis- Aleysha Nicole Grady, and of Arts' degree from Cape Fear Beach, NC since 2006. He is sur- ters-in-law, Rev. Carrie Ross, Mrs. Jacquelyn Bryant Community College on Friday, vived by his wife of 29 years Wilhelmenia Robinson, Hazel Pearson. This group included May 11, 2018. Alex is the Azariah Solomon, his son Angel House, Joyce Adams; Valerie one high school graduate, two daughter of Ms. Angela Solomon, Angel Solomon's mother, Powers, Helen Hayes, brothers-in- community college graduates, Jackson. Her future goals Macy Patricia Edmunds, his five law, Herbert House, Robert Adams; two advanced degree gradu- include returning to school to grandchildren, Jasmine Solomon, a host of nieces, nephews, cousins, ates and one retiree. All were secure a Bachelor's degree in PHOTO COURTESY OF DR. BETTIE J. GLENN Angel Solomon, Jr., Brandon Ford- co-workers, and friends. Services recognized for their most business. Ultimately, Solomon, Anahvia Solomon and entrusted to Davis Funeral Home, CSPC(USA) Graduates and Retiree (left to right) Ms. recent accomplishments. Alexandria would like to open Xavier Solomon, as well as aunts 901 S. 5th Ave, Wilmington, NC Janie Mae Anderson, Miss Margaret Ann Everett, Ms. Betty Cam, Judy Poindexter & 28401. Please share memories and Margaret Ann Everett grad- a fashion boutique, design a Aleysha Nicole Grady, Ms. Alexandria Anne Jackson, Joanna Lewis, uncle Paul Owens, condolences with the family at uated from Cape Fear fashion line and establish a Mrs. Maya Quattlebaum Padgett and Mrs. Jacqueline and extended family loved ones. www.davisfuneralhomenc.com. Community College on fashion company. Bryant Pearson. Services entrusted to Davis Funeral Wednesday, May 11, 2018 with Maya Quattlebaum Padgett Home, 901 S. 5th Ave, Wilmington, Olivia Addison Davis an Associate's Degree and is the daughter of Benjamin NC 28401. Please share memories 2017, she was awarded a tled, "New Beginnings" by and condolences with the family at from Wilmington Early and Valita Quattlebaum. She Olivia Marie Addison Davis, age Masters of Health Science in Gertrude B. McClain. Mr. www.davisfuneralhomenc.com. 67, of Wilmington, passed away College High School on graduated from Cape Fear Thursday, June 14, 2018. Friends Saturday, May 26, 2018 with a Community College on Friday, Healthcare Management Theodore Johnson, Sr. Eddie Sellars are cordially invited to a visitation high school diploma. She is May 11, 2018 with an Associate Degree from Western Carolina Superintendent of Sunday with the family from 6:00 - 8:00 PM the daughter of Bonita Wright in Applied Science's Degree in University. Throughout this school presented our high Eddie "Pee Wee" Sellars, age 73, on Thursday,June 21, 2018 at Davis and Adrian Everett. Computer Technology program, Alyesha established school graduate with an of Wilmington, passed away Friday, Funeral Home. A celebration of Margaret's extracurricular Integration. Maya plans to and maintained an A average. engraved Bible; in addition to June 15, 2018. A celebration of Olivia's life will be conducted at activities include New work as a Help Desk She will begin the Doctor of providing words of contin- Eddie's life was held on Wednesday, 1:00 PM, Friday, June 22, 2018 at Physical Therapy Program at ued support. Ms. Ivy L. June 20, 2018 at First Baptist Hanover Regional Medical Technician. Davis Funeral Home. Services Winston-Salem State Murrain introduced the high Missionary Church. Interment fol- entrusted to Davis Funeral Home, Center Junior Volunteer, Janie Mae Anderson earned lowed in Greenlawn Memorial 901 S. 5th Ave, Wilmington, NC Brigade Boys & Girls Club a MS Degree in Higher University in January of 2019. school graduate; Ms. Leslie R. Park. 28401. Please share memories and Junior Volunteer; and Phi Education with a concentra- On July 1, 2018, Jacqueline Watson presented the com- Eddie "PeeWee" Sellars affec- condolences with the family at Theta Kappa. tion in College Administration Bryant Pearson will retire munity college graduates; tionately known by some family www.davisfuneralhomenc.com. This graduate's awards and and Leadership. This degree from the New Hanover Ms. Babette Boyd introduced members as Mr. Smith was born honors include High School was awarded to Ms. Anderson County School System having the advanced degree hon- April 20, 1945 to Haywood and Johnny Ford Summa Cum Laude with a from Kaplan worked 38.1 years. She served orees; and Dr. Bettie J. Glenn Carrie Sellars in Harrells, N.C. He as a custodian throughout the presented the retiree. The was called from labor to reward on GPA of 4.25; National Honor University/Purdue Global Johnny Dell Ford, age 84, of school system. Jackie's speaker for the morning wor- Friday, June 15, 2018, peacefully at Wilmington, passed away Sunday, Society, Phi Theta Kappa University on September 7, home, surrounded by family. June 17, 2018. A celebration of Mr. Honor Society, CFCC 2017. She was inducted into retirement plans include ship service, Rev. Sean In 1970, he married his high Ford's life will be conducted at 11:00 Distinction with a GPA over The Gold Key International traveling and becoming more Palmer, delivered a message school sweetheart, Rose Ann Faulk. a.m., Friday, June 22, 2018 at Davis 3.5 for the college curriculum; Honor Society. Janie's career involved in her church. She entitled, "Seven Impossible Within this union three children Funeral Home, 901 S. 5th Ave., State Employees Credit Union plans include fulfilling the is contemplating establishing Things Before Brunch" were born. The family experienced Wilmington, NC 28401. A visitation People Helping People requirements for the adminis- a daycare. which addressed the topic of many wonderful adventures in life, will be held one (1) hour prior to Scholarship; and the Civitan's tration exam as she works The ceremony began with moving forward with God. including annual trips up and the service. Services entrusted to a "Welcome" provided by Ms. Photos of our honorees down the coast. The most memo- Scholarship. Margaret has toward completing her disser- Davis Funeral Home, 901 S. 5th Ave, Rita D. Todd. Ms. Sheila E. and their families were rable trip was in December 2017 to Wilmington, NC 28401. Please share also received a Certificate of tation. Florida. The family, from the memories and condolences with the Academic Achievement in Alyesha Nicole Grady is the MacRae delivered an inspir- taken. Light refreshments youngest to the oldest, journeyed to family at www.davisfuneral- College for having the highest daughter of Samuel and ing prayer and Mr. Anthony were served following the Florida for several days of enjoy- homenc.com. cumulative GPA in Associate Sheila Grady. In December of Jackson shared a poem enti- worship service. Thursday, June 21, 2018 9 THE WILMINGTON JOURNAL

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE OF SERVICE OF NOTICE TO CREDITORS M E E T I N G N O T I C E HCV WAIT LIST OPEN STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA PROCESS BY PUBLICATION STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF NEW HANOVER COUNTY OF NEW HANOVER STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF NEW HANOVER A meeting of the Wilmington Wilmington Housing Authority COUNTY OF NEW HANOVER Urban Area Metropolitan Planning Housing Choice Voucher The undersigned, having qualified as Having qualified as Administrator The undersigned, having qualified as Executor of the estate of Shirley Glenn IN THE DISTRICT COURT Organization (WMPO) Board will Program (formerly Section 8) of the Estate of Scott Williams Executrix of the estate of James McLeod, deceased, of the New JUVENILE SESSION be held on Wednesday, June 27, will open its waiting list for two (18-E-610), late of New Franklin Hughes, deceased, of the Hanover County, North Carolina, does FILE NO. 17 JT 112 2018 at 3:00pm in the 6th Floor days only, July 2, and July Hanover County, Wilmington, New Hanover County, North hereby notify all persons, firms and cor- Carolina, does hereby notify all per- Conference Room in the New 3, 2018. Applications maybe North Carolina the undersigned porations having claims against the IN THE MATTER OF: sons, firms and corporations having Hanover County office building at picked up from Wilmington does hereby notify all persons, estate to exhibit them to the under- claims against the estate to exhibit 320 Chestnut Street, Wilmington, Housing Authority's main office firms and corporations having A.F.C. (DOB: 07/24/2015) signed on or before the 31st day of them to the undersigned on or NC. located at 1524 South 16th August, 2018, or this notice will be claims against the estate of said TO: ARLEASE CROMARTIE before the 31st day of August, Street Wilmington, NC 28401, pleaded in bar of their recovery. All per- decedent to exhibit them to the 2018, or this notice will be pleaded The Board is comprised of elected 8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. or may sons, firms and corporations indebted undersigned at 701 Market in bar of their recovery. All persons, to said estate please make immediate Street, Wilmington, North Take notice that a firms and corporations indebted to officials from local governments be printed from our website at payment to the undersigned. Carolina, 28401 on or before pleading seeking relief against said estate please make immediate in the Wilmington area and the www.wha.net. Applications are September 21, 2018 or this you has been filed in the above- payment to the undersigned. North Carolina Board of MAIL IN ONLY on a first This the 31st day of May, 2018 notice will be pleaded in bar of entitled action. The nature of Transportation. The Board sets come, first serve basis. There their recovery. All persons, firms This the 31st day of May, 2018 the priorities for regional trans- will be no lottery. Edward B. McLeod III, Executor the relief being sought is as fol- and corporations indebted to the lows: portation planning and State and NO WALK-IN APPLICA- 721 George Trask Drive Marsha Hughes Humphreys, Wilmington, NC 28405 said estate will please make Termination of all Federal transportation infrastruc- TIONS ACCEPTED. Mail immediate payment to the Executrix parental rights you have to the 147 Horne Place Drive ture investments in the Applications to: Wilmington undersigned. May 31, June 7, 14, 21, 2018 above-captioned minor female Wilmington, NC 28401 Wilmington area. Housing Authority, HCV Waiting child. List 2018, P.O. Drawer 899, This the 14th day of June, 2018 NOTICE TO CREDITORS You are required to May 31, June 7, 14, 21, 2018 A 15-minute public comment Wilmington, NC 28402. STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA period will be available at the COUNTY OF NEW HANOVER Charlotte Noel Fox make defense to such pleading within forty (40) days following NOTICE TO CREDITORS beginning of the meeting. Please June 21, 28, 2018 Administrator of the Estate of STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA contact Tracy Manning at 341- The undersigned, having qualified as Scott Williams Thursday, June 7, 2018, which COUNTY OF NEW HANOVER Executor of the estate of Theresa M. c/o Craige & Fox, PLLC date is the date of first publica- 3258, in advance if possible, if NOTICE TO TRADE Walker, deceased, of the New 701 Market Street tion of this Notice. Upon your The undersigned, having qualified as you plan to speak during the pub- SUBCONTRACTORS Hanover County, North Carolina, does Wilmington, NC 28401 failure to do so, the party seek- Executor of the estate of Peggy lic comment period. ADVERTISEMENT FOR hereby notify all persons, firms and 910-815-0085 ing relief against you will apply Jones Hall, deceased, of the New corporations having claims against the Hanover County, North Carolina, Mike Kozlosky BID - PACKAGE D estate to exhibit them to the under- to the Court for the relief June 21, 28, July 5, 2018 sought. You have the right to does hereby notify all persons, firms Executive Director signed on or before the 31st day of and corporations having claims Wilmington Urban Area August, 2018, or this notice will be attend this hearing, and you against the estate to exhibit them to Sealed proposals will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All NOTICE OF SERVICE OF have the right to be represent- the undersigned on or before the Metropolitan Planning received by Balfour Beatty persons, firms and corporations PROCESS BY PUBLICATION ed by counsel. 21st day of September, 2018, or Organization Construction/Metcon for The indebted to said estate please make STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA You have been this notice will be pleaded in bar of University of North Carolina - immediate payment to the under- COUNTY OF NEW HANOVER assigned Attorney Alexis their recovery. All persons, firms June 21, 2018 signed. Wilmington to renovate the IN THE GENERAL COURT OF Perkins. Attorney Perkins may and corporations indebted to said Wagner Central Energy Plant JUSTICE be contacted at (910) 343- estate please make immediate pay- NOTICE TO TRADE This the 31st day of May, 2018 ment to the undersigned. as part of the Allied Health / DISTRICT COURT DIVISION 5415, PO Box 2560, SUBCONTRACTORS Veterans Hall Project in COURT FILE NO: 18 CV Ernest Walker, Executor Wilmington, NC 28402. This the 21st day of June, 2018 ADVERTISEMENT FOR BID - Wilmington, NC. Bids for the 711 Brunswick Street 001520 YOU ARE HEREBY MECHANICAL EQUIPMENT following packages will be Wilmington, NC 28401 NOTIFIED THAT A HEARING ON Charles Jones Hall, Jr., Executor PROCUREMENT opened on July 19, 2018 at Jasmaine Daquona Batts, PO 927 THE PETITION TO TERMINATE 2:00 PM: 23A Mechanical; May 31, June 7, 14, 21, 2018 Plaintiff Rose Hill, NC 28458 Sealed proposals will be received PARENTAL RIGHTS is SCHED- 23B Controls, 26A Electrical. v. ULED FOR MONDAY, JULY 23, by Balfour Beatty NOTICE TO CREDITORS June 21, 28, July 5, 2018 All bids will be received and Arillio Marcel Smith, 2018, AT 9:30 A.M., or upon a Construction/Metcon for The STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA opened publicly at UNCW Defendant University of North Carolina - COUNTY OF NEW HANOVER date and time set thereafter, at NOTICE OF SERVICE OF Wilmington to provide Mechanical Office of Facilities, Conference the Office of Juvenile Justice, PROCESS BY PUBLICATION The undersigned, having qualified as Take notice that a Equipment Procurement as part Room 1, 5150 Lionfish Drive, 138 N 4th Street, Wilmington, STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA Executrix of the Estate of Patricia pleading seeking relief against of the Allied Health / Veterans Wilmington, NC 28403. Bids North Carolina, 28401. COUNTY OF NEW HANOVER Hoversen, deceased, of New Hanover you has been filed in the Hall Project in Wilmington, NC. will not be accepted from bid- County, North Carolina, does hereby IN THE DISTRICT COURT above-entitled action. The Bids for the following package will ders that are not pre-quali- notify all persons, firms and corpora- This the 7th day of June, 2018. JUVENILE SESSION nature of the relief being be opened on July 19, 2018 at fied. On June 28, 2018 a tions having claims against the estate FILE NO. 14 JT 4 to exhibit them to the undersigned on sought is an absolute divorce. Regina Floyd-Davis 1:00 PM: 23C Mechanical. All bids Preferred Alternates, HUB or before the 7th day of September, will be received and opened pub- Outreach session & Pre-Bid Staff Attorney - New Hanover IN THE MATTER OF: 2018, or this notice will be pleaded in You are required to licly at UNCW Office of Facilities, Meeting will be held at 2:00 Co. Dept. J.M. J. bar of their recovery. All persons, firms make defense to such pleading Conference Room 1, 5150 PM at UNCW Office of of Social Services (DOB: 02/20/2011) and corporations indebted to said not later than July 31, 2018 Lionfish Drive, Wilmington, NC Facilities, Conference Room 2, estate will please make immediate 1650 Greenfield Street and upon your failure to do so 28403. Bids will not be accepted 5150 Lionfish Drive, payment to the undersigned. Wilmington, NC 28401 TO: RESPONDENTS: the party seeking service from bidders that are not pre- Wilmington, NC 28403. Bid (910) 798-3615 (phone) KIYANA JOHNSON, BIOLOGI- against you will apply to the qualified. On June 28, 2018 a This 7th day of June, 2018. (910) 798-3772 (fax) CAL MOTHER AND ANY Documents will be available court for the relief sought. HUB Outreach session & Pre-Bid UNKNOWN BIOLOGICAL June 25, 2018 at the following Krysten Hoversen, Executrix of the Meeting will be held at 1:00 PM at June 7, 14, 21, 2018 FATHER OF THE ABOVE CAP- link: Estate of Patricia Hoversen This the 21st day of June, 2018 UNCW Office of Facilities, TIONED MALE CHILD BORN https://bbcus.egnyte.com/fl/ 16102 McCormick Pl Conference Room 2, 5150 Huntersville, NC 28078 INVITATION FOR BIDS IN ORLANDO, ORANGE COUN- kIYpqWQol4. If you have any Jasmaine Daquona Batts Lionfish Drive, Wilmington, NC MURCHISON, TAYLOR & SOLICITATION NO.: TY, FLORIDA TO KIYANA questions/comments or 1118 South 9th Street 28403. Bid Documents will be GIBSON, PLLC HEO17.01 JOHNSON requests for information, 16 North Fifth Avenue Wilmington, NC 28401 available June 25, 2018 at the fol- please contact Jason Lovelace Wilmington, NC 28401 lowing link: HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE Take notice that a at jlovelace@balfourbeat- June 21, 28, July 5, 2018 https://bbcus.egnyte.com/fl/d1A CITY OF WILMINGTON pleading seeking relief against tyus.com (919-796-0314). June 7, 14, 21, 28, 2018 NORTH CAROLINA txGFUO6 . If you have any ques- you has been filed in the Bid documents will also be NOTICE OF SERVICE OF REMEDIAL REPAIR WORK OF tions/comments or requests for above-entitled action. The available for review at PROCESS BY PUBLICATION POND #4 information, please contact Jason NOTICE TO CREDITORS nature of the relief being http://www.cmdgroup.com; STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA AT SUNSET SOUTH Lovelace at jlovelace@bal- STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA sought is as follows: McGraw Hill Construction COUNTY OF NEW HANOVER COUNTY OF NEW HANOVER COMMUNITY fourbeattyus.com (919-796- IN THE GENERAL COURT OF 0314). Bid documents will also Dodge Termination of all http://www.fwdodge.com; The undersigned, having qualified as JUSTICE Sealed bids will be accepted at be available for review at Executrix of the Estate of Nancy parental rights you have to the Balfour Beatty Construction SUPERIOR COURT DIVISON the Housing Authority of the http://www.cmdgroup.com; Kemp Turner, deceased, of New above-captioned minor child. located at 406 S McDowell St, FILE NO. 17 CVS 4351 City of Wilmington North McGraw Hill Construction Dodge Hanover County, North Carolina, does Suite 200, Raleigh, NC 27601 hereby notify all persons, firms and Carolina (WHA Central Office), http://www.fwdodge.com; You are required to during normal business hours. corporations having claims against the JOSPEH NORMAN DOSTER, until date and time noted Balfour Beatty Construction locat- make defense to such pleading estate to exhibit them to the under- Plaintiff below. Bids will be publicly ed at 406 S McDowell St, Suite All Bidders are strongly within forty (40) days following signed on or before the 7th day of v. opened and recorded immedi- 200, Raleigh, NC 27601 during encouraged to include oppor- September, 2018, or this notice will June 7, 2018, which date is the MICHAEL BRANDON ately thereafter at the Central normal business hours. All tunities for Minority Business be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All date of first publication of this YWASKEVIC, Defendant Office, 1524 South 16th Bidders are strongly encouraged participation wherever possi- persons, firms and corporations TO: MICHAEL BRANDON Notice. Upon your failure to do to include opportunities for ble in their respective bid sub- indebted to said estate will please Street, Wilmington, NC 28401. make immediate payment to the YWASKEVIC, Defendant so, the party seeking service Minority Business participation mission. Minority Business is undersigned. against you will apply to the wherever possible in their respec- a part of this contract and Take notice that a Court for the relief sought. You •Bid Opening: Thursday, July tive bid submission. Minority must comply with the State of This 7th day of June, 2018. have the right to attend this Business is a part of this contract pleading seeking relief 5, 2018 at 2:00 p.m. North Carolina General hearing and you have the right and must comply with the State against you has been filed in •Specifications/Plans will be Statutes. The CM and Owner Bridget Kemp Thomas, Executrix of the the above-entitled action. to be represented by counsel of North Carolina General Estate of Nancy Kemp Turner available for pickup beginning reserve the right to reject any and can apply for court Statutes. The CM and Owner 6240 Turtle Hall Drive The nature of the relief being Friday, June 15th at the and all proposals. In accor- appointed counsel. reserve the right to reject any Wilmington, NC 28409 sought is as follows: Central dance with GS 133-3, Section Attorney Alexis and all proposals. In accordance MURCHISON, TAYLOR & Damages arising Office. 64 the following preferred GIBSON, PLLC Perkins has been appointed to with GS 133-3, Section 64 there from motor vehicular negli- •Fee; non-refundable charge brands are being considered 16 North Fifth Avenue represent Kiyana Johnson, and are no preferred brand alternates gence. of $15.00 or for Package D: Honeywell Wilmington, NC 28401 she can be reached at 320 being considered for this pack- You are required to •Download Project Manual BAS. Life Cycle Chiller Chestnut Street, Suite 201, age. June 7, 14, 21, 28, 2018 make defense to such plead- from our WHA website at Selection is required. Wilmington, North Carolina ing within forty (40) days www.wha.net 28401 or (910) 343-5400. June 21, 2018 NOTICE TO CREDITORS from the first running of this •Questions; E-mail to Ms. STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA notice, exclusive of such Burns no later than Monday, COUNTY OF NEW HANOVER YOU ARE HEREBY date, which was Thursday, July 2, 2018 at 2:00 p.m. to NOTIFIED THAT A HEARING ON The undersigned, having qualified as April 12, 2018, and upon your [email protected] It Pays To Advertise In THE PETITION TO TERMINATE Executrix of the Estate of Carol S. failure to do so, the party •Point of contact Jim Conlon Moore, deceased, of New Hanover seeking service against you YOUR PARENTAL RIGHTS IS County, North Carolina, does hereby SCHEDULED FOR JULY 9, will apply to the Court for the Upon written request to the notify all persons, firms and corpora- 2018, AT 9:30 A.M. or as soon relief sought. Chief Executive Officer, bids tions having claims against the estate to thereafter as it may be heard, will be available after contract exhibit them to the undersigned on or at the Office of Juvenile before the 31st day of August, 2018, This the 11th day of April, award. NO BIDS SHALL BE Justice, 138 N 4th Street, P.O. or this notice will be pleaded in bar of 2018. ACCEPTED AFTER THE DEAD- THE WILMINGTON JOURNAL Box 2560, Wilmington, North their recovery. All persons, firms and LINE DATE. FAXED NEITHER corporations indebted to said estate will Carolina, 28401. COPIES WILL BE ACCEPTED. please make immediate payment to the David F. Turlington undersigned. Attorney for the plaintiff This the 7th day of June, 2018. 1516 Dawson Street The WHA does not discriminate This 31st day of May, 2018. based on race, sex, age, color, Wilmington, North Carolina Karen F. Richards national origin, religion, or dis- 28401 Contract Attorney - New Elizabeth M. 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