r4UBMMJPOTSJEFQBTU/PSUIJO 5PEBZJT )PNFDPNJOHWJDUPSZr7JLFT QVMMTIPDLFSPWFS'BJSNPOUr3FE 4QSJOHTTQPJMT(BUPS)PNFDPNJOH $PMVNCVT r1BDLTVĒFSTGPVSUITUSBJHIUMPTT Banks and post Sports 4FFQBHF# %BZ ofces are closed. ThePublished News since 1890 every Monday and Tursday forReporter the County of Columbus and her people. Monday, October 8, 2012 County Fair celebrates 33rd season Volume 122, Number 29 By CLARA CARTRETTE only $3. Sunday admission is also $3, lunch before they board their buses and Whiteville, North Carolina News Editor but bring some pop-top canned food, go back to school. crackers and other foods that kids Wednesday is Special Friends Columbus is a rural county, but there are people can open and serve themselves and Day, with free admission for groups 75 Cents here — especially kids — who don’t know much deduct another dollar. The food is of mentally and physically chal- about farming and farm animals. for Blessings in a Bag, a project to lenged. They will have enter- The Columbus County Agricultural Fair has been provide food for kids who might not tainment, a few rides and lunch. helping to bridge that gap since 1980, and this is the have any when they aren’t in school. Wednesday is also Senior Citi- Inside Today fair’s 33rd season. Where else can people get up close Armbands will also be reduced to zens Day, with free admission for 4-A and personal with farm animals and get a feel for $13 on Sunday. seniors 60 and older beginning r.BOQMFBETJO things that grow on the farm? Tuesday is Kindergarten Day at 3 p.m. Seniors will have enter- The County Fair will be held Tuesday through and every kindergarten student in tainment and lots of contests at the +BOVBSZNVSEFS Sunday, Oct. 9-14 at the fairgrounds on Prison Camp the county will go on a field trip to the Main Stage. Road south of Whiteville. Admission is $6 and arm- fair. They will see cows milked, guin- A full schedule of entertainment is bands for rides on the midway are $15. However, there eas, chickens, ducks, rabbits, geese and plannned, consisting of professional groups are some bargains. more at Old MacDonald’s Farm. There will be stage Thursday is half-price night, so admission is entertainment, hayrides, a few midway rides and See Fair, page 2-A Whiteville council, public to consider Waterbrooke recycling Tuesday targeted for By JEFFERSON WEAVER Staff Writer Today’s Whiteville trash customers closure American Profle could have the chance to go By NICOLE CARTRETTE green in the near future. Staff Writer features “Chili The city council Tuesday Chow Down: Five will hold a public hearing on Lying on his bed in a fetal position, his face a recycling initiative through was black and blue and he was cold to touch. great recipes for the Waste Management, the city’s Those are the words in a 58-page State Divi- buckaroos in your contract solid waste hauler. sion of Health Services Regulation deficiency City manager Larry Faison report used to describe resident 10 of Water- clan.” said that recycling was includ- brooke Assisted Living facility who was found ed in the original request for dead in his bed on the morning of Sept. 6. proposals (RFP) to waste haul- The report suggests via an interview with DIDYOB? ers last year. Lake Waccamaw an unidentified employee that the resident Did you observe ... has a voluntary, free recycling had been dead 12 hours but Columbus County program through Edwin Russ’ Coroner Linwood Cartrette wrote in a Sept. 26 recycling service, but other memo that the “the time of death could not be Danielle Monroe of towns in the consortium and determined” upon his examination. Lake Waccamaw the county have not broached The incident is just one of many detailed winning the SCC Lady See Recycling, page 2-A See Waterbrooke, page 2-A Rams Sofball Hit-a- Ton Saturday with a County moves County adopts 341-foot hit? ... More to make water than a dozen Colum- connections to new zoning maps Staff photo by Nicole Cartrette bus County residents nCalls for changes to 1965 ordinance. enjoying Bill Cosby’s Chadbourn WTS fundraiser By NICOLE CARTRETTE By NICOLE CARTRETTE The Williams Township Educational Foundation held its annual per- show in North Myrtle Staff Writer Staff Writer forming arts dinner fundraiser Thursday night at the school. This little Beach Saturday night? student leads the audience in the Pledge of Allegiance. Columbus County commissioners approved Contractors will begin work new zoning maps for property near Southeast- ... Te driver of a soon on making four separate ern Community College this week. interconnections between Co- pickup truck passing The vote came after the matter was tabled lumbus County Water District Planner, mom, turtle guard, weather in recent weeks in order for County Planner cars on N.C. 130 and II and several Chadbourn Ru- Robert Lewis to provide more detailed maps ral water lines. spotter: Nelson wears many hats missing an oncoming related to the measure intended to “clean Columbus County commis- dreds of baby up” zoning that was put in place around the Nakina ambulance sioners approved low bidder By JEFFERSON WEAVER turtles. Nel- mid-1960s. Frank Horne Construction Staff Writer running emergency son, her hus- “Everyone knows land use rules have not with a bid of $44,640 to com- band Michael been enforced in Columbus County,” Lewis trafc by a split sec- plete four interconnections Amy Nelson is a busy woman. and their chil- said the night of the vote, explaining the need to the system formerly main- As the planner for the City of dren volun- for the adoption of the new maps. ond? ... tained and operated by the Whiteville, she helps guide develop- teer with the The area affected encompasses the college, Town of Chadbourn. ment and construction in the city. O a k I s l a n d many residential areas, Southeast Industrial Connections will be made Nelson works for the Cape Fear turtle watch. Park and Georgia Pacific property, among at Georgia Pacific, near South- Council of Governments, which The family others. County Deaths eastern Community College, at has a contract to provide planning patrols beach- The 1965 ordinance noted an Industrial I Sweet Farm and Midway roads, services for the city. Amy Nelson es in Bruns- (light industrial use) and Industrial II (heavy Public Utilities Director Kip When she isn’t making sure devel- Whiteville wick County industrial use) but maps failed to clearly iden- McClary said. opment works in Whiteville, Nelson looking for nesting sea turtles, or tify which areas were Industrial I or II. Linda Ferguson McLam All of the Chadbourn Rural is mother to her son and daughter, The planning board had requested that Chadbourn and a godmother of sorts to hun- See Planner, page 9-A Dora K. Walls See Water, page 3-A See Zoning, page 3-A Evergreen James Ray Turner Tabor City Pamela Tomas Vegetarians fare well eating meatless meals By RAY WYCHE this area and I can find something Vegetarians lean heavily on le- Staff Writer vegetarian,” says Charlene Berry gumes – beans and peas, mainly – to Index who with her husband, Dr. Richard provide the protein the human body Most grocery shoppers have meat Berry, and their two daughters eat needs. And there are companies &EJUPSJBMT" or a meat product on their shop- very well without any kind of flesh that produce meat-like, flavorful 0CJUVBSJFT" ping lists but there are households in their meal choices. foodstuffs from vegetables. 4QPSUT# around who live well without meat. Some eating establishments have Vegetarians make good use of Vegetarianism is alive and well special vegetarian items, usually a tofu, the cheese-like curd of soy- $SJNF" in Whiteville and Columbus County meat substitute made from vegetable beans after the oil has been pressed -JGFTUZMFT" as a certain small percentage of our products. out. Tofu is a versatile product that population does not serve or eat When it comes to finding food to readily accepts flavors from a va- meats or meat products of any kind. prepare for meals at home, Berry riety of spices and other non-meat One might think that eating out says she has no problems; some items in a restaurant would present a Whiteville supermarkets have spe- Berry, who holds master’s de- challenge for these people but these cial sections featuring meat substi- grees in business administration dedicated souls say it is no problem tutes, but she says with a little ad- and in medical technology, has been to order a vegetarian meal from vance meal planning, the vegetarian on a meatless diet for about 20 years local food-serving establishments. grocery shopper can put together and her husband for about 19 years, One local fast food restaurant offers the makings of a meatless meal she says. a veggie burger. from the regular offerings of most She quickly answers the ques- “I eat at every restaurant in grocery sellers. See Vegetarians, page 3-A Charlene Berry 2-A – The News Reporter, Monday, October 8, 2012 This week, on... This week, on... Waterbrooke Continued from page 1-A in a report compiled by the death rattles.” to an anonymous report of sound so much that staff homes in North Carolina, and state. The DHSR, a division On Aug. 31, Resident 10 fell bedbugs on Sept. 17, a physi- ignore them,” the report read. the DSS staff work closely October 8, 2012 of the Department of Health on wheelchair-bound Resident cian had ordered the residents Wandered with state Adult Care Section and Human Services, is seek- 9, in the television room, ac- be moved out of the room and One resident wandered to staff when problems arise,” Do you like Sports ing to terminate the Tabor cording to various accounts an exterminator called.