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Monday, January 23, 2012 Crash kills Incentive ex-policeman, Volume 121, Number 59 magistrate for pharmacy Whiteville, North Carolina nWayne Piver victim af- still under 75 Cents ter his vehicle hits wide farm disk Friday eve- ning. consideration Inside Today nProject Robot was tabled last year By BOB HIGH as business continues to grow. 3-A Staff Writer r8IJUFWJMMFOBUJWF By NICOLE CARTRETTE Longtime magistrate and Staff Writer MPPLJOHGPS former chief of Columbus NVTJDDBSFFS County Police Larry Wayne In February of last year, consideration of Piver, 60, was killed Friday eve- 4-A a $10,034 county grant to a local business that ning when his vehicle struck rѮSFFGFMPOZDBTFT was tied to the purchase of a robot for use in a the edge of a 16-foot-wide farm closed-door pharmacy raised some eyebrows. EJTNJTTFE disk being pulled by a tractor. Columbus County Commissioners ulti- Piver’s Jeep mately postponed a public hearing and tabled went off Gore any action on the matter. DIDYOB? Trailer Road Nearly a year later, Medicine Mart Long and over- Did you observe ... Term Care pharmacy at Tabor City has turned. invested about $700,000 in not one but two The wreck “robots” or automated dispensing machines Tabitha Etheridge h a p p e n e d and is under consideration for about $20,000 in just before at the Republican economic incentive grants. The hi-tech vend- 5:57 p.m. on ing machine-shaped equipment collates and Presidential Debate the western Larry Piver packages more than 500 different medications end of Gore in Charleston Turs- for patients of nursing homes, assisted living Trailer Road, about two-10ths day night? ... Earth- facilities and group homes and does the work of a mile east of U.S. 701. Piv- of several people. er’s death was the first fatality moving equipment in The system is integrated with software and place to grade, then See Piver, page 4-A is computerized with the capability of track- pave a parking lot ing everything from deliveries to the time of administration. It utilizes barcoded dis- of East Smith Street pensery packets that nursing home staff can that’s part of the new Agency works simply scan to automate some record keeping. Pharmacist Sterling Koonce’s staff of about courthouse annex to encourage project? ... Madison ‘medical homes’ See Incentive, page 2-A Gaskins, Whiteville High senior and Lake nNetwork looks to im- Staff photo by Mark Gilchrist prove health of Medi- Senate hopeful Waccamaw resident, care/Medicaid patients, Moving day opening a UNC letter and improve efficiency. Blake Spivey, left, and Joerardo Frazer load a coffn prop onto a fork- is subject of Tursday notify- lift Saturday from the old jail in Whiteville to take to the new offces of By JEFFERSON WEAVER Columbus County Parks and Recreation behind the health department. domestic ing her she has been Staff Writer The jail and a nearby building will be demolished for the courthouse accepted to continue expansion. A Wilmington-based medi- violence order her education there? cal care management group is By NICOLE CARTRETTE ... Matt Merritt quietly making inroads into Staff Writer the local medical community Parrett to appear on NBC’s dancing so hard at with a two-pronged goal – im- A former Marine who recently announced the Whiteville Junio- proving the efficiency of the his intent to file for the newly created District rettes semi-formal Medicaid/Medicare system by ‘Te Voice’ afer Super Bowl 13 N.C. Senate seat appears to have domestic improving the health of public troubles. Saturday night that medical care recipients. By FULLER ROYAL On Jan. 19, Christina Margus sought and he ripped the seat of Community Care of the Staff Writer was granted a domestic violence protective Lower Cape Fear serves Co- order in Columbus County on Nicholas Paul his pants from top to lumbus, Bladen, Pender, Columbus County native and Margus. The order, issued by District Court bottom? ... Meagan Brunswick, New Hanover and 2006 South Columbus High School Judge Scott Ussery, orders that Nicholas Mar- Onslow counties. Beth Adams graduate Nathan Parrett has made gus not have contact with his wife. and Morgan Rooks said the agency has more than it to the on-air audition portion of Margus, 45, a former Marine and part-time up at 4 a.m. Satur- 70,000 eligible clients in the NBC’s “The Voice.” The episode, college instructor,-– told The News Reporter service area. which has already been taped, is the recently he resided in the Acme-Delco area day waiting for their Of the 15,305 Medicaid en- season premier of the hit show and but he and his wife were separated. mother Barbara and rollees here, 14,226 are eligible will air immediately following the The complaint filed against him and subse- for managed care through Super Bowl on Feb. 5. quent order issued on Jan. 18 shows a Wilm- brother-in-law Jona- Community Care, and of those, “‘The Voice’ was holding audi- ington address for Nicholas Margus. than Soles to bring 12,665 are enrolled in Commu- tions in Los Angeles,” Parrett said. “I Christina Margus alleges in her complaint nity Care, Adams said. had a handful of friends auditioning Nathan Parrett sings in a You- that on Jan. 7 Nicholas Margus came into her their new boat from The program’s services are and was convinced by my roommates tube video. home without permission and the following designed to help those with that I should be auditioning also.” day was seen in her yard “hiding and spying” Florida? ... producers, then had yet another Medicare and Medicaid do a He asked his friends to make sure on her. On Jan. 10, she claims, he grabbed her audition with label executives and better job of managing their they registered him. arm, shoved her and made threats. NBC executives and producers and health and health care, thus “Needless to say, I was going,” She claims that on Jan. 11 the defendant finally got the chance to sing for the County Deaths allowing for better use of dwin- he said. “I went and auditioned for came to her place of work in New Hanover Whiteville dling funds for public medical producers, then auditioned for more See Parrett, page 3-A County “demanding” she speak with him. Mary Faye White Arthur See Medical, page 12-A See Order, page 2-A Greg Cribb Chadbourn Kathleen H. Norton Nakina Larry Wayne Piver Homemade canoes are too pretty to paddle By RAY WYCHE woodworker’s glue. With skill and over the lake’s waters. Staff Writer patience, Slusarczyk, with his son “It paddles good and it sits high in helping, spent hours sanding his the water,” he says. The craft weighs Index The homemade strip canoe in Bill creation before applying several about 50 pounds. &EJUPSJBMT" Slusarczyk’s workshop shows supe- coats of epoxy finish and then cover- The canoe has no ribs or fram- rior workmanship, a fine example ing the entire craft with Fiberglas, ing, other than mahogany gunwales 0CJUVBSJFT" of his woodworking skills, almost inside and out. atop its sides. Its structural strength 4QPSUT# too fine to put in any body of water, Several coats of top quality ma- comes from a Fiberglas coating over $SJNF" even in the unblemished shallows of rine varnish finished off the out-of- the quarter-inch thick strips less -JGFTUZMFT" Lake Waccamaw. the-ordinary creation. than an inch wide –and from Slusar- The resident of Waccamaw The boat was not built to be only czyk’s knowledge as a professional Shores has built a 15-½-foot canoe a showpiece of Slusarczyk’s obvious engineer. out of Atlantic white cedar (juniper, woodworking talents but as a means How many of the miniature ju- locally) sawed into narrow strips of pleasurable transportation. He niper boards went into the canoe? and held together mainly by wood- and his wife Karen use the canoe to Slusarczyk did not count them. workers’ glue and a Fiberglas cloth paddle in the lake near their lake- “Many pieces -- a lot,” he says, “I coating covered with epoxy. side home, and he says he would not built it according to the plan.” The canoe, 3 feet wide at its hesitate to take the boat anywhere Slusarczyk sawed the strips from center, is made of ¾-inch strips of on the lake. juniper boards he had purchased, wood, ¼-inch thick. Each strip is “We fish from it,” he says, and and then used a router to round joined to the adjoining strip by a during the warm months the canoe “bead-and-cove” joint and regular is stored in Slusarczyk’s boathouse See Canoe, page 9-A Bill Slusarczyk 2-A – The News Reporter, Monday, January 23, 2012 This week, on... This week, on... Order Continued from page 1-A On Jan. 13, she alleges, he was “looking through her window” and on Jan. 14 was January 23, 2012 “knocking and banging” on her door. Christina Margus called Whiteville.com the police on Jan. 18 after she The Number received “several harassing phone calls with threats,” ac- cording to the filed complaint. Christina Margus sought that Nicholas Margus be or- dered not to come about her 9,957 place of work or her residence views of Danica Honeyc- and that he have no contact utt’s video on YouTube as with her.