L UMINA N EWS luminanews.com YOUR COASTAL COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE MAY 2002 Source: National Weather Service Hopeful bidders Page 6 Stache Bash brings out characters Page 7 Hundreds to race in festive 5K Page 10 Dec. 10–16, 2015 Volume 14 | Issue 50 | 25¢ For daily updates visit LuminaNews.com YOUR COASTAL COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE MAY 2002 L UMINA N EWS LuminaNews.com Find us on Facebook facebook.com/LuminaNews Follow us on Twitter @luminanews POLICE REPORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 FOR THE RECORD ................ 3 EDITORIAL ..................... 4 LIFESTYLES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 CLASSIFIEDS ................... 9 SPORTS/MARINE ............... 10 By Emmy Errante Staff Writer The Wrightsville Beach Planning Board voted to recommend the town make an exception to its driveway size regulations that would apply to several properties on the island. The amended ordinance would allow combined or recombined lots to have more driveways as long as those driveways don’t impede public street parking. Mark and Deborah Mitchell requested the change so their home under construction on south Harbor Island, which spans two combined lots, can have two driveways leading to S. Channel Drive and a third leading to Trent Court. The current ordinance allows lots to have two driveways not exceeding 12 feet each, and the amendment allows larger lots to have a third 12-foot driveway leading to a different street. Before the town’s Unified Development Ordinance was created, lots were allowed 32 feet of driveway, but that figure was reduced to n See DRIVEWAY Page 5 “There’s no argument that this is special treatment to us because it doesn’t affect the planning principal of the UDO.” n See SHARK Page 5 Study needed to evaluate rail realignment plans By Terry Lane Staff Writer A proposal for a major realign- ment of Wilmington’s rail system will take its next step forward when the task force in charge of examining the issue begins the search for a firm to put together a comprehensive study. Laura Padgett, who was until recently a member of the Wilmington City Council, will continue her involvement in local public policy as the chair of the task force examining a pro- posal to relocate the trains that run through the city and replace them with a trolley system that could help bring new economic opportunities to parts of the city. The first step in considering a proposal of its size is to commis- sion a comprehensive feasibility study to examine every step of the project while getting a clearer picture of the project’s costs and challenges, Padgett said. Even though the details are still murky, Padgett said the public is enthusiastic about the prospect of a major rail realignment in Wilmington. “The public has been rather overwhelmingly in favor of it,” Padgett said. “People see the opportunity to make different use of the rail right of way. It would be a transformative change for Wilmington.” The idea of a comprehen- sive rail realignment was first proposed by Glenn Harbeck, Wilmington’s planning director, in April, with the goal being to both improve safety and trans- portation within the city while also making the city’s port more competitive. The concept is to reroute the n See RAIL Page 5 By Emmy Errante Staff Writer The Wrightsville Beach Board of Aldermen will address several issues during its Dec. 10 meeting, including whether to approve further studies on Wrightsville Beach’s former landfill, remove pedes- trian signals on Causeway Drive and increase the town’s sand fund. Further studies needed on town’s old landfill The location of Wrightsville Beach’s old landfill off Military Cuttoff, located at 910 Old MacCumber Station Road, north of Sir Tyler Drive, needs more testing before the town can determine what to do with it. By Terry Lane Staff Writer Researchers still don’t know what killed the great white shark found stranded on Wrightsville Beach on Monday, Dec. 7, though marine biologists from the University of North Carolina Wilmington will test samples recovered from the carcass dur- ing a dissection on Tuesday, Dec. 8. The shark was approximately 11 feet long and weighed approximately 687 pounds, UNCW researchers announced on Wednesday, Dec. 8 after con- ducting a necropsy on the shark that was watched by nearly 100 students, including some who came from East Carolina University and University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. UNCW said this was a “rare specimen” for researchers to discover. Dr. Thomas Lankford, a UNCW associate professor of marine biology, said the shark COUNTY POLICIES CONFORM WITH RECOMMENDATION AT NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF TIDAL COMMUNITIES By Terry Lane Staff Writer New Hanover County already has in place many of the policies needed to help mitigate the more frequent flooding that is likely to occur as ocean levels rise, board of commissioners member Rob Zapple said after attending a national conference on the issue. The county has already adopted many of the policy recommenda- tions that federal officials promoted at the Rising Tides conference in Hampton, New Hampshire, said Zapple, who was one of two elected officials from New Hanover County to attend the late-October event, along with Carolina Beach councilmember Steve Shuttleworth. “We in New Hanover are ahead of the curve and should be proud as national leaders in these important strategies that benefit com- munities and protect lives,” Zapple said. “It was a confirmation of a lot of what we are already doing.” The event brought together mayors, council members, state leg- islators and other local officials from coastal communities from the East, West and Gulf coasts, who heard the latest policy proposals from federal officials from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. n See CONFERENCE Page 5 UNCW researchers still don’t know what killed great white shark Driveway size exception recommended by planning board Landfill studies, pedestrian signals on BOA agenda Staff photo by Emmy Errante During its Dec. 10 meeting, the Wrightsville Beach Board of Aldermen will vote whether to ask the NCDOT to remove two pedestrian signals on Causeway Drive. Staff photo by Emmy Errante A photo taken from Trent Court shows the back of Mark and Deborah Mitchell’s new home. They are applying with the town to be able to build two driveways leading to S. Channel Drive and a third leading to Trent Court. n See BOA Page 5 Staff photo by Terry Lane As word got out that a great white shark had washed up on Wrightsville Beach Monday, Dec. 7, onlookers gathered to see it and take pictures until it was retrieved by researchers from the University of North Carolina Wilmington. The female shark was moved by the fire department from where it washed up north of Crystal Pier to near the beach access just south of the Oceanic Restaurant.
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The Wrightsville Beach Planning Board voted to recommend the town make an exception to its driveway size regulations that would apply to several properties on the island.
The amended ordinance would allow combined or recombined lots to have more driveways as long as those driveways don’t impede public street parking. Mark and Deborah Mitchell requested the change so their home under construction on south Harbor Island, which spans two combined lots, can have two driveways leading to S. Channel Drive and a third leading to Trent Court.
The current ordinance allows lots to have two driveways not exceeding 12 feet each, and the amendment allows larger lots to have a third 12-foot driveway leading to a different street. Before the town’s Unified Development Ordinance was created, lots were allowed 32 feet of driveway, but that figure was reduced to
n See DRIVEWAY Page 5
“There’s no argument that this is special
treatment to us because it doesn’t
affect the planning principal of the UDO.”
n See SHARK Page 5
Study needed to evaluate rail realignment plansBy Terry LaneStaff Writer
A proposal for a major realign-ment of Wilmington’s rail system will take its next step forward when the task force in charge of examining the issue begins the search for a firm to put together a comprehensive study.
Laura Padgett, who was until recently a member of the Wilmington City Council, will continue her involvement in local public policy as the chair of the task force examining a pro-posal to relocate the trains that run through the city and replace them with a trolley system that could help bring new economic opportunities to parts of the city.
The first step in considering a proposal of its size is to commis-sion a comprehensive feasibility study to examine every step of the project while getting a clearer picture of the project’s costs and challenges, Padgett said. Even though the details are still murky, Padgett said the public is enthusiastic about the prospect of a major rail realignment in Wilmington.
“The public has been rather overwhelmingly in favor of it,” Padgett said. “People see the opportunity to make different use of the rail right of way. It would be a transformative change for Wilmington.”
The idea of a comprehen-sive rail realignment was first proposed by Glenn Harbeck, Wilmington’s planning director, in April, with the goal being to both improve safety and trans-portation within the city while also making the city’s port more competitive.
The concept is to reroute the
n See RAIL Page 5
By Emmy ErranteStaff Writer
The Wrightsville Beach Board of Aldermen will address several issues during its Dec. 10 meeting, including whether to approve further studies on Wrightsville Beach’s former landfill, remove pedes-trian signals on Causeway Drive and increase the town’s sand fund.
Further studies needed on town’s old landfill
The location of Wrightsville Beach’s old landfill off Military Cuttoff, located at 910 Old MacCumber Station Road, north of Sir Tyler Drive, needs more testing before the town can determine what to do with it.
By Terry LaneStaff Writer
Researchers still don’t know what killed the great white shark found stranded on Wrightsville Beach on Monday, Dec. 7, though marine biologists from the University of North Carolina Wilmington will test samples recovered from the carcass dur-ing a dissection on Tuesday, Dec. 8.
The shark was approximately 11 feet long and weighed approximately 687 pounds, UNCW researchers announced on Wednesday, Dec. 8 after con-ducting a necropsy on the shark that was watched by nearly 100 students, including some who came from East Carolina University and University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. UNCW said this was a “rare specimen” for researchers to discover.
Dr. Thomas Lankford, a UNCW associate professor of marine biology, said the shark
County poliCies Conform with reCommendation at national
ConferenCe of tidal Communities By Terry LaneStaff Writer
New Hanover County already has in place many of the policies needed to help mitigate the more frequent flooding that is likely to occur as ocean levels rise, board of commissioners member Rob Zapple said after attending a national conference on the issue.
The county has already adopted many of the policy recommenda-tions that federal officials promoted at the Rising Tides conference in Hampton, New Hampshire, said Zapple, who was one of two elected officials from New Hanover County to attend the late-October event, along with Carolina Beach councilmember Steve Shuttleworth.
“We in New Hanover are ahead of the curve and should be proud as national leaders in these important strategies that benefit com-munities and protect lives,” Zapple said. “It was a confirmation of a lot of what we are already doing.”
The event brought together mayors, council members, state leg-islators and other local officials from coastal communities from the East, West and Gulf coasts, who heard the latest policy proposals from federal officials from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
n See CONFERENCE Page 5
UNCW researchers still don’t know what killed great white shark
Driveway size exception recommended by planning board
Landfill studies, pedestrian signals on BOA agenda
Staff photo by Emmy Errante
During its Dec. 10 meeting, the Wrightsville Beach Board of Aldermen will vote whether to ask the NCDOT to remove two pedestrian signals on Causeway Drive.
Staff photo by Emmy Errante
A photo taken from Trent Court shows the back of Mark and Deborah Mitchell’s new home. They are applying with the town to be able to build two driveways leading to S. Channel Drive and a third leading to Trent Court.
n See BOA Page 5
Staff photo by Terry Lane
As word got out that a great white shark had washed up on Wrightsville Beach Monday, Dec. 7, onlookers gathered to see it and take pictures until it was retrieved by researchers from the University of North Carolina Wilmington. The female shark was moved by the fire department from where it washed up north of Crystal Pier to near the beach access just south of the Oceanic Restaurant.
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Platforms, campaign could get rollover fundsBy Emmy ErranteStaff Writer
The Wrightsville Beach Marketing Advisory Committee has a $45,807 rollover budget to spend and a new challenge of mar-keting online in a time when most browsers or devices block online display advertisements.
During its Dec. 8 meeting, the committee discussed getting around the ad blocking by using new platforms on Instagram and Facebook while joining with other local beaches in a large campaign aimed at attracting vacationers in late August and early September.
Instagram just recently started allowing advertising, and the ads have created some backlash when they are too obvious, said Steve Kelly, media planner for the town’s advertising agency Clean Design.
But the tourism industry has had great success in Instagram adver-tising because, with location being the product, tourism clients can create effective ads using nothing but beautiful imagery. That holds true for Wrightsville Beach’s latest campaign, which depends heavily on large, eye-catching photo-graphs of beach scenes with the tag line “Just another day on the island.”
The committee is also consid-ering a new kind of Facebook advertisement that appears in news feeds but has a button prompting users to enter an email address. Clean Design can then compile that information and follow up with newsletters or E-blasts.
To get around browsers block-ing online ads, Clean Design recommended a more subtle
form of marketing called native advertising. Native advertising is any ad that blends in with its platform, like a sponsored article about Wrightsville Beach on a travel publication’s website.
Links to Wrightsville’s tourism website can also be placed within or near real articles on similar topics.
“It’s really just a disguise for a display ad, but since it’s an arti-cle people are more likely to click on it because they don’t feel like they’re being sold something,” said Shawn Braden, Wilmington and Beaches Convention and Visitor’s Bureau vice president of marketing.
Another way to generate native advertising content is to hire a popular travel blogger in one of Wrightsville Beach’s target cities to write about the island.
“It could be a mom with a travel blog,” said French West Vaughan account director Leah Knepper, who handles the town’s public relations. The blogger would be provided with photos of Wrightsville Beach and guide-lines for tone and message.
In addition to new advertising channels, the committee could use its rollover budget for a new campaign aimed at attracting vacationers in late August and early September, when Blockade Runner Beach Resort owner Mary Baggett said the island experi-ences a sharp drop off in tourism.
To put enough money behind the campaign, Wrightsville Beach would join forces with other local beach towns like Carolina Beach. The campaign would target fami-lies in northern locations whose children don’t go back to school
until after Labor Day and draw them in with promises of sum-mer weather without the crowds.
“Just show them a picture of the beach on the Fourth of July as opposed to what it looks like in August,” said Alderwoman Lisa
Weeks, who sits on the committee.The rollover budget doesn’t
cover all Clean Design’s recom-mendations, so the committee will narrow down the list by its January meeting.email [email protected]
Career and technical high school proposedBy Emmy ErranteStaff Writer
New Hanover County’s school board heard plans Dec. 1 for a non-traditional high school with emphasis on career readiness and although the board won’t vote on the proposal until its next meet-ing, board member Bruce Shell called the concept “one of the most exciting things I’ve seen.”
New Hanover and Pender County students enrolled in the school would take classes at Cape Fear Community College’s north campus and, New Hanover County Schools Superintendent Dr. Tim Markley said, in addition to a high school diploma gradu-ates from the program earn “a certificate that they can take and turn into employment.”
The proposed curriculum blends core classes with career preparation like internships, job
shadowing and project-based learning. School advisors would help eighth and ninth graders develop a career pathway based on their learning style, aptitude and interests.
Laverne Pickett, career techni-cal education supervisor, listed plumbing, HVAC repair, auto body repair and network engi-neering as examples of career paths students could pursue. She said she tells parents it is cheaper to let students explore and narrow
down a career path in high school instead of in college.
“When they start exploring options in college, it is costing somebody money every time they change that major,” she said. “This gives them the oppor-tunity to explore without losing anything.”
Vice chair Jeannette Nichols wanted to know whether students would still be able to participate in sports. Pickett said they should be able to pursue extracurricular activities at their districted high school but the details haven’t been worked out yet.
Shell said the possibility of creating this type of program was one of the reasons he ran for office. Another important ele-ment of the program, he added, should be to “connect with the middle schoolers so they can get excited about this.”email [email protected]
“When they start exploring
options in college,
it is costing somebody
money every time they
change that major.”
Board against requiring teaching assistants to drive buses
Final decision postponedBy Emmy ErranteStaff Writer
New Hanover County school board members are worried that requiring teacher assistants to drive a bus route might solve the coun-ty’s bus driver shortage but deter quality assistants from applying.
During its Dec. 1 meeting, the board considered a proposal for a program mandating all teacher assistants earn a N.C. Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) so, if called upon, they can fill in as a bus driver. The board decided to postpone the vote because board mem-bers, especially Edward Higgins, wanted to amend the program to encourage — not require — teacher assistants to drive a bus route.
Board member Bruce Shell agreed, suggesting the program could do so by offering perks, like preferential treatment in the event of layoffs, for teacher assistants with a CDL.
The proposed program would mandate that all new teacher assis-tants obtain a CDL within 90 days of being hired. They would be full-time employees and have benefits, but six hours of their day would be spent in the classroom and two hours driving a bus route.
Vice-chair Jeannette Nichols said she didn’t want to turn away excellent teacher assistant candidates because they weren’t willing or able to complete the extensive requirements for earning a CDL: a background check, a physical fitness test, a written test and a driving test.
“If they are a great TA, how could we not hire them if we need them?” she asked.
Human Resources Assistant Superintendent Dr. John Welmers argued that not only would the program give the county more bus drivers, it would also allow them to hire more teacher assistants, because their bus-driving hours would be paid from a different source than the teacher assistant budget.
Many counties in North Carolina require teacher assistants to drive a bus route, Welmers added.
“Well, that’s fine, but we’re not one of them,” Higgins responded, earning cheers from the audience.
The board will hear the program proposal again during a future meeting. Nichols said in the meantime Welmers should survey cur-rently employed teacher assistants to determine their opinion of the program. email [email protected]
Santas welcome guests to the 19th annual Good Friends Luncheon Tuesday, Dec. 8 at the Wilmington Convention Center. ~ Allison Potter
Good Friends Luncheon
new pLaques instaLLed
Wrightsville Beach public works employees Randy Summerlin, pictured, and Bill Mason install new bronze-and-black plaques on the island’s seven trolley stop markers Wednesday, Dec. 2. ~ Emmy Errante
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Wrightsville’s new playground design takes shape
By Emmy ErranteStaff Writer
Wrightsville Beach’s Parks and Recreat ion Advisory Committee reviewed designs for the town’s new handicap-accessible playground Dec. 7, which will likely include four types of swings and a side-by-side slide.
Wrightsville Beach Park’s cur-rent playground will be replaced next year using a $300,000 Play Together Construction Grant the town received from regional healthcare organization Trillium Health Resources.
Parks and Recreation program supervisor Katie Ryan said she is working with different equip-ment vendors to design the playground, which will include both inclusive and non-inclusive equipment.
“The last we heard,” Ryan said, “the design had to be in by the end of January and then everything is installed by the end of July.”
The playground could have as many as four types of swings: regular swings, infant swings, a swing with a strap for extra sup-port and an expression swing, which seats two people, like a parent and young child, Ryan said.
Another likely piece of inclu-sive equipment is a slide with two ramps.
“That’s not for a wheelchair, but someone else could get in and slide down next to you,” Ryan explained.
While all the park’s current playground equipment will be replaced, some of the newer pieces, like the play set for
children ages 2 to 5, might be relocated to a different part of the park. Ryan said the equip-ment could go near the farmers’ market site.
The committee also narrowed down a list of recreational projects it would like the Wrightsville Beach Board of Aldermen to discuss during its annual retreat in January.
Projects at the top of the com-mittee’s list are a multi-use path near the park for walkers and cyclists and lights for the ten-nis courts or the path that winds behind the tennis courts. They also liked the idea of putting more exercise equipment in the park. Ryan said she gets requests to put equipment around the John Nesbitt Loop but it’s hard to find enough space that isn’t private property.
The town can apply for a North Carolina Parks and Recreation Trust Fund Grant for up to $500,000 but the grant requires a match from the town.email [email protected]
For The RecordQuestion and photographs by Lexi Schimelfenig
A great white shark washed onto Wrightsville Beach Monday, Dec. 7. What is the closest you have ever been to a shark?
Diana Smith Wilmington, N.C.
“I’ve seen them when I’ve been on the piers. Never a big one,
just the little ones.”
Nicole Giller Virginia Beach, Va.
“When I was a little kid, I almost got attacked by a shark, I had to be dragged
out by my parents. I don’t remember much of the ordeal.”
Jay Killnan Wilmington, N.C.“I’ve caught a couple
of sharks fishing.”
Stanley Horne Wrightsville Beach, N.C.
“Well I surfed all my life, I grew up here, so I’ve been pretty close.”
Eugenia Griswald Wilmington, N.C.
“Three feet.”
“The last we heard, the design had to be in by the end of January and then
everything is installed by the end of July.”
Thursday, Dec. 10
Meeting for candidates of Wrightsville Beach boards and committees, 4:30 p.m., Town Hall conference room
Wrightsville Beach Board of Aldermen meeting 5:30 p.m., Town Hall Council Chambers
Monday, Dec. 14
New Hanover County Board of Commissioners meeting, 4 p.m., New Hanover County Historic Courthouse
IMPORTANT DATES
Weekend Police ReportDec. 4Arrests
• Amber M. Graham was arrested for failure to appear.
Citations
• Amber M. Graham was cited for expired registration and giving false info to a law enforcement officer.
• Stephanie T. Sniffen was cited for expired registration.
• Alexander Karp was cited for expired registration.
Warning tickets
• Calvin E. Kaiser received a warning for speeding.
• Louise T. Montgomery received a warning for speeding.
Dec. 5Citations
• Lenin Y. Herrera Paguada was cited for no operating license.
• Felisha R. Walker was cited for no operating license and speeding.
• Paul W. Sitler was cited for driving with license revoked, expired plate and expired inspection.
• Maria Elvira Canela-Garcia was cited for no operating license.
• Juan Carlos Sevilla Nunez was cited for no operating license.
Warning Tickets
• Joshua M. McCrorie received a warning for a stop light violation.
Dec. 6Citations
• Cecil A. Creasy was cited for expired registration.
• Thomas S. Laundon was cited for a stop light violation.
• Maegan Barbee was cited for a stop light violation.
• Nicholas R. Cabral was cited for a seat belt violation.
• Allyson R. Mclamb was cited for a seat belt violation.
• Daniel P. Marx was cited for a seat belt violation.
• Ferdinand Vannynatten was cited for seat belt violation.
• Matthew G. Demetrious was cited for a seat belt violation.
• Michael G. Accattato was cited for an expired registration.
• Robert K. Register was cited for expired registration.
Residents and businesses enter holiday decorating contest
By Emmy ErranteStaff Writer
Wrightsvi l le Beach’s annual Holiday Decorating Contest is Dec. 15, and Parks and Recreation program supervisor Katie Ryan said as of Dec. 7, 13 Wrightsville Beach residents or businesses had entered.
The participants include four businesses: first-time entry South End Surf Shop, Sandpeddler
Inn & Suites, Jazzy Boy Art and Summer Sands Suites. Businesses or residents must be regis-tered by noon Dec. 15 to be eligible and judging starts at 6 p.m.
Prizes are awarded for most nautical, most cre-ative, best holiday lighting, best entryway, most traditional, most holiday spirit, best overall resi-dence and best overall business.
Resources Commission will have public hearings and com-plete a full rulemaking process before coming to a final vote on changing Coastal Area Management Act rules that would expand “grandfathering” rules on residential properties to include multifamily buildings, a North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality spokes-woman said. A story in page 3 of the Dec. 3, 2015, Lumina News indicated otherwise.
Lumina News file photo
The Wilt residence at 107 Island Drive won the award for Best Holiday Lighting at the 2014 Wrightsville Beach Holiday Decorating Contest sponsored by the Wrightsville Beach Parks and Recreation Department and the Harbor Island Garden Club.
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Who would have expected this December a great white shark would wash up just north of Crystal Pier? The dead great white, a juve-nile female, about 11 feet long, weighing just under 700 pounds, has garnered a great deal of attention statewide.
Love ’em or hate ’em, sharks do get people excited.
It has not been that long since it became a con-scious reality that great whites were in the southern Atlantic. In November 2011 a great white, estimated to be 18 feet long circled on the surface again and again around a local boat out fish-ing. The profanity-laced footage was posted online and generated news sto-ries with high viewing numbers.
When Ocearch.org went live with its shark tracker website, allowing people and school class-rooms to log on and follow the location of their favorite shark, first one then a second great white shark, which spend a good deal of time hugging the southern United States coastline, became widely known. The first, Mary Lee, tagged off Cape Cod in September 2012, measured 16 feet, and weighed in at 3,456 pounds. Mary Lee’s tracking device often records her off the Cape Fear River and New Hanover County beaches.
Then Katherine was tagged off Cape Cod 11 months later at 14 feet, and weighing 2,300 pounds. Both sharks have gained star status, with Facebook and Twitter accounts.
When a great white shark was reported having washed up dead, my first thought was, I hope it is not Mary Lee. Then, I thought the same about Katherine, but, looking at our photos it was not an animal wear-ing a visible tracking devise.
How is it we humans can have affection for a fish that would gladly bite us, given half the chance?
On Friday December 4, Mary Lee surfaced and pinged just south of the North Carolina/Virginia bor-der. Katherine pinged on Wednesday off Hallifax, Nova Scotia. Mary Lee loops a big circle from about the northern U.S. border out to Bermuda and south to Florida, and hugs the coast line; Katherine goes far further north. Katherine also spends a great deal of time hugging the southern U.S coast line.
Both sharks have pinged inside the Outer Banks on Pamlico Sound, all the way to the mouth of the Pamlico River, opposite Swan Quarter. Katherine pinged January 10, 2015, inside the banks oppo-site Cedar Island on the Cape Lookout National Seashore. This apex predator also ventured down
around Florida into the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico last May through early July.
While her tracking indi-cates a preference for the waters off the mouth of the Cape Fear River off Bald Head Island, Mary Lee has pinged inside the Ocracoke Inlet and on the sound on the lee side of Ocracoke Island. She has pinged fur-ther up the Albemarle Sound than one might imagine. Her treks hugging the Eastern Coast go no further south than about Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, but do go much further south out in deep water running along the same longitudes as the
Bahamas then up to Bermuda and on north.Tagging and satellite tracking the sharks has made
us more familiar with the fearsome creature forever typecast in the 1975 Steven Spielberg movie “Jaws,” with its unforgettable E and F, da-dum bass notes, forever immortalized as cueing in imminent and ter-rible danger. Three sequels followed.
It was perhaps this familiarization that prompted beachgoers on Monday to pose for photos then post on social media, holding the dead predator’s nose in the air to reveal its trademark rows of teeth. At least one straddled the shark. Others ripped teeth from the dead creature as perhaps some kind of grisly, “I touched a great white” trophy. One can assume this required pliers.
It did not hurt the shark, long dead before it washed up. Researchers said cause still unknown after being dissected and studied in a rare oppor-tunity for students and graduate students at the UNCW marine biology labs in the final week of school.
Anything to do with sharks draws a great deal of attention. This dead great white — with its bloody jaws — photographed beside the iconic Crystal Pier was no exception.
The manner in which some posed for pictures and posted them on social media was deemed unseemly by a few, unkind and pretty inappropriate by many.
Lumina News took criticism on Facebook for posting pictures of people taking pictures of oth-ers sitting atop the shark, and holding up its nose to show the bloody mouth. But we don’t make the news; we just report it, sad or glad — the good, bad and often the ugly.
The self-glorification picture posting on social media phenomenon does seem to have passed the point of good taste.
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The conference addressed what NOAA defines as “nuisance flooding,” where high waters cause road closures, overwhelm storm drains and oth-erwise cause inconveniences.
“In places like Texas, Louisiana, Oregon, New Jersey and California, they’re all facing the same issues we have here, like how to manage beaches, while protecting property values and small busi-nesses,” Zapple said. “It was an eye-opening realization. While federal officials were detailing important strategies for dealing with these prob-lems, I was checking them off, almost one for one, as things we’re already doing here.”
Many of these policies were what the Army Corps of Engineers described as “green method” for protecting coastal communities.
Zapple said those policies focus on renourishing beaches and fortifying dunes, as opposed to poli-cies that rely on hardened barriers, like seawalls and jetties.
“You can’t fight the ocean forever,” Zapple said. “It’s better to create a wider beach.”
Specifically, Zapple said the county was ahead of many other communities with policies that encour-age beach renourishment, strengthening dune lines and vegetating them, moving critical infrastructure out of floodplain zones, and strengthening build-ing codes to lift houses above flooding levels to ensure commercial structures have the foundation to withstand flooding.
“Not all communities do this,” Zapple said. “In fact, most don’t.”
New Hanover County is already dealing with nuisance flooding issues that haven’t yet hit some of the other communities. One NOAA researcher
had a map showing which coastal communities would experience 30 days of nuisance flooding per year, with many not reaching those levels until 2020 or 2030. But Wilmington was identified as an area already experiencing those levels of flood-ing, Zapple said.
Zapple said by attending the conference, he also had the opportunity to raise issues with federal officials that are affecting how New Hanover County manages its coastal policies.
Zapple said he was able to bring the issues of essential fish habitat studies to the attention of NOAA administrator Dr. Kathryn Sullivan. These studies are required for the county to receive beach renourishment funding, Zapple said, but delays in processing the studies often result in delays in receiving the study.
“I suggested allowing us to do the essential fish habitat studies locally,” said Zapple, noting there were NOAA biologists in Beaufort that could process the data. “It could potentially save us hundreds of thousands [of dollars] that are lost in the delays.”
Zapple said Sullivan was receptive to the idea and believes it could help foster policy changes.
Zapple also said that he raised with federal offi-cials the issues of the federal Jones Act in beach renourishment, which requires all federal funding for the project go toward U.S. contractors. The issue has also caused delays and raised costs for beach renourishment projects, Zapple said.
“Several officials were not familiar with the Jones Act and how it affects us,” Zapple said. “That’s the value of attending a conference like this and discussing the issues in person. It was one of the best conferences I’ve ever been to.” email [email protected]
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24 because, director of planning and parks Tony Wilson said, the town was running out of space for on-street public parking.
“Some of the houses had driveways from property line to property line,” he said.
The town’s concerns with los-ing street parking applied more to the beach strand than where the Mitchells’ property is located on Harbor Island, he added.
Parking was a greater worry for the town than stormwater runoff, Wilson explained, because all Wrightsville Beach homes must conform to stormwater runoff regulations that compensate for
pervious surfaces like driveways.Speaking for the Mitchells,
a t torney Joe Taylor of Murchison, Taylor & Gibson pointed out if the Mitchells’ lots were separated, four driveways would be permitted, so allowing three driveways on a combined lot creates fewer driveways.
“There’s no argument that this is special treatment to us,” Taylor said, “because it doesn’t affect the planning principal of the UDO.”
Having driveways leading to different streets creates easier access in emergency situations, Taylor added.
“When you can get to the front of the house and the back, that makes a difference,” he said.
The amended ordinance would apply to “a handful of lots” around the island, town planner Zachary Steffey said: several corner lots on N. Lumina Ave., Circle Drive, Parmele Blvd. and a few lots at the south end.
Lots must have 100 linear feet facing a public street to be eli-gible for the extra driveway, so Wilson said, “it would be diffi-cult to duplicate this, but there’s a possibility.”
The planning board’s favor-able recommendation will be given to the Wrightsville Beach Board of Aldermen, which will make the final decision Dec. 10. email [email protected]
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likely died three or four days ago before finally washing on shore Monday morning.
“It’s unusual,” Lankford said. “There’s not been a case of a stranded white shark around here in some time.”
The necropsy will provide researchers with valuable infor-mation about the storied species of shark.
“We will find out if it had any injuries or diseases that might have caused it to die,” Lankford said. ‘We’ll also collect tis-sue samples and do a genetic analysis.”
The Wrightsville Beach public works department used a backhoe to lift the shark and move it into a pickup truck for transport to the university. The shark was first spotted around 9:30 a.m. by Chris Marshall, the owner and operator of the Surfchex.com website that hosts a live feed of ocean condi-tions around Crystal Pier.
Marshall said the shark washed on shore north of Crystal Pier and he called Wrightsville Beach police to report it. Firefighters
then towed the shark to a spot south of the pier by the beach public access and behind life-guard stand No. 12.
A representative of the North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries also came out to see if the shark had any external tags from researchers.
The shark had bite marks as big as 15 inches on both of its sides and it also had its left pectoral fin torn off. Since the shark had been dead for a few days, Lankford said the bite marks could be from other sharks trying to scavenge off of the carcass. The shark’s liver is buoyant, which along with carbon dioxide gases that build up in the carcass, would have allowed it to float for days, he said.
“It could have died 50 or 100 miles north and not washed up until now,” Lankford said.
Crowds of more than a dozen had gathered around the shark, many posing for pictures while holding open the shark’s mouth.
Ryan McInnis, a local undersea photographer and videographer who has worked for National Geographic and Discovery Channel’s Shark Week, came to
the scene and said he frequently dives with sharks, including great whites. A 1997 UNCW marine biology graduate, McInnis said the discovery of the shark was a
great opportunity to learn more about a species that remains a mystery for many researchers.
“I submitted a paper that pro-posed a study of great white
populations in the northwest Atlantic. I got a C minus. The professor said that it was a well-written paper, but everyone knows there are no great whites
around here,” said McInnis, who jokingly wondered if the paper should be reevaluated given the find.
McInnis attended the necropsy on Tuesday.
“I’m glad that UNCW was able to establish jurisdiction,” he said. “There’s so little known about how they behave. I hope they are able to learn everything that they can.”
While onlookers gawked at the shark, surfers continued to hunt for waves just offshore, unde-terred by the apex predator.
Hunter Waff, of Wilmington, said he walked by the shark carcass and got a picture of it before heading into the waves on Monday morning.
“That’s a big mouth on that one,” said Waff, who added he has seen sharks while in the water, just none that big. “They’re always out there. The way I look at it, you have a greater chance of dying in a car crash getting here than getting bitten by a shark. But there’s a lot of fish jumping around today. It gave me that sharky feeling.”email [email protected]
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two east-west rail lines that run through the north and south ends of Wilmington, which would be replaced by a new north-south rail that would be located west of the Cape Fear River. The new placement would be safer, since the tracks wouldn’t cross through populated neighbor-hoods, while allowing for more rail traffic into the city’s port, which would have to be accessed
with a rail crossing over the river, Harbeck said.
In place of the rail would be a trolley system that would give residents a new public transit option that would reduce traf-fic while also potentially open up neighborhoods to new com-merce possibilities.
“The trains can be heard all over the city,” Padgett said. “This will create opportunities for new economic development, especially on the south side, where that property may not be at its best use.”
The plan is essentially two proposals, each with separate stakeholders, challenges and costs, said Harbeck and Padgett. The first is rerouting the rails, which would require the input of companies like CSX, which owns the rails. The second part of the proposal is building the trolley system.
The task force studying the issue has 10 members, includ-ing representat ives f rom CSX, the North Carolina Department of Transportation
and the Wilmington Urban Area Metropolitan Planning Organization. The next step will be a request for a proposal from consulting firms that can conduct the comprehensive study, Padgett said. The task force has $300,000 available to conduct the study, which includes $100,000 from the city, $100,000 from NCDOT and $100,000 from Wilmington MPO.
When the rail was first laid in Wilmington, it helped meet the industrial needs of the growing
city. But with the city’s projected population increase of more than 50,000 people during the next 25 years, Harbeck said the city needed new transportation options.
“For the first time in my lifetime, we’re seeing a rever-sal of migration back into the city,” Harbeck said.
New developments along the river, as well as downtown parks, the new performing arts center and several proposed new hotels downtown will bring more people downtown. A trol-ley system would make it easier for the city to meet the needs of a growing downtown population.
“All of those things require park ing ,” Harbeck sa id . “How much parking can we accommodate?”
Padgett said the proposal fits into the city’s ambitious growth plans.
“People are more interested in quality-of-life issues and want new bike and pedestrian paths more than they want big, new roads,” Padgett said. “There are few opportunities to build new roads and a lot of people are con-cerned about big interchanges that connect roads. A better solu-tion is to provide more public transportation.” email [email protected]
In the second of two studies performed on the 5-acre site so far, Catlin Engineering found the site contained “what you would typically expect from hurricane landfill debris, nothing sinister.”
“It’s not a clean bill of health,” a Catlin Engineering representa-tive added, “but it’s about as close as I can expect to get.”
Still, the North Carolina D e p a r t m e n t o f Wa s t e Management alerted the town it requires more information, like an estimation of the volume
of waste present at the site and an analysis of soil samples for metals, ammonia, nitrate and sul-fate. During the board’s Dec. 10 meeting, the aldermen will vote to allow town manager Tim Owens to negotiate a new quote and scope of work with Catlin Engineering.
Once studies are completed, the town can decide whether to sell the site or leave it alone. If the town wants to sell it, it can be cleaned up first or sold as is. The town can fund the cleanup out of its own budget or apply for help from the state, but if the town uses state money the site
can’t be redeveloped.
Removing pedestrian signals on Causeway
The board will decide whether the town should remove two older blinking pedestrian signals on Causeway Drive because, town manager Owens stated in a memo, there is no rational engi-neering reason for their current location.
Flashing pedestrian signals are typically installed at high-visi-bility crosswalks, Owens stated. One is located on Highway 76 opposite Surfberry and Mellow Mushroom, the second one
runs between the Landing and Intracoastal Realty’s Wrightsville sales office. Even though the two southern lanes are marked school crossing, this is not a school crossing, Mayor Bill Blair said Tuesday. The school crossing is located at the new HAWK light in front of Hardee Hunt and Williams. The North Carolina Department of Transportation pays to maintain and power the signals. The NCDOT has agreed to remove the two older signs at no cost to the town because of the money it would save without the signals.
Stashing away more for sand
For years, Wrightsville Beach has been stashing away money to fund beach renourishment in the event federal and state funding disappears. Dec. 10 the alder-men will vote whether to increase their yearly deposit even more to keep up with beach renourish-ment costs rising to $10 million per project.
The town’s sand fund currently contains $692,415, $350,000 of which was accrued last year due to a parking meter rate increase. This year, the town budgeted setting
aside $400,000, but Owens is recommending the board increase that to $437,500.
That figure was established deliberately. If federal and state funding run out, New Hanover County room occupancy taxes would pay 82.5 percent of each project while the town chipped in 17.5 percent, or roughly $1.75 million.
Since renourishment projects occur every four years, adding $437,500 to the fund every year would allow the town to pay its 17.5 percent allocation.email [email protected]
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“All of those things require parking. How much parking can we accommodate?”
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Supplied photo courtesy of Ryan McInnis
More than 100 students from the University of North Carolina Wilmington, East Carolina University and UNC-Chapel Hill watched UNCW researchers perform a necropsy on the 11-foot, 687-pound juvenile female great white shark Tuesday, Dec. 8. No cause of death was determined, but tissue samples may shed more light on how the shark died.
Boseman joins race in bid to return to county commission
Former New Hanover County commissioner and state senator Julia Boseman said on Wednesday, Dec. 8, she will attempt to make her return to the board of commissioners by running for one of the three seats on the board that will be contested during the 2016 election. Boseman’s announcement makes three Democratic candidates for the three seats, including Chairman Jonathan Barfield, Jr. and Nelson G. Beaulieu, who also registered as a candidate this week. Commissioner Woody White, a Republican, told Lumina News that he will make an announcement next week on whether he will seek re-election.
State Rep. Susi Hamilton, D, filed for re-election for District 18 last week, while state Sen. Michael Lee, R, registered to defend his seat in District 9. Andrew Barnhill, D, also filed as a candidate for the state Senate District 9 seat, while Holly Grange, R, registered as a candidate for the open seat for state House District 20, where she will challenge New Hanover County Board of Education member Tammy Covil to replace outgoing Rep. Rick Catlin, R. — Terry Lane
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Festive BitesThe 12 Tastes of ChristmasFriday, Dec. 11, 7 p.m., $30, 21 and upBrooklyn Arts Center
This annual event showcases seasonal food and drink pairings from more than 16 local restau-rants. Music will be provided by DJ Chill Bill and all proceeds go toward the Cape Fear Literacy Council. For more information contact Nina Bays at [email protected]
Jingle All the 5KJingle Bell RunSaturday, Dec.12, 9 a.m., $15-$30Wrightsville Beach Museum of History
The museum presents its sixth annual 5K walk and run, which winds around the loop and is wheel-chair, pet, sleigh and stroller friendly. Holiday apparel is encouraged. Festivities include a deco-rated stroller competition and prizes for a variety of best costume categories. To register or for more information visit https://its-go-time.com/jingle-bell-run/
Shabby ChicTurn a Door into a Dining Table WorkshopSaturday, December 12, 9:30-11:30 a.m., FreeLegacy Architectural Salvage
This beginner’s class will demonstrate how to sal-vage an old door by transforming it into a dining room table. Proper tools and techniques will be highlighted. For more information please visit www.historicwilmington.org
Spin, Bounce and RollFamily Science SaturdaySaturday, Dec. 12, 10 a.m., 11 a.m. and noon $5-$8Cape Fear Museum
Science Saturday features Toy Science as this week’s topic, featuring hands-on activities and experiments that explore toys. Parental participa-tion is required. Pre-K children attend the 10 a.m. time, children ages 5-14 attend 11 a.m. and noon times. For more information please visit www.capefearmuseum.com
T he 11th Annual Hope from Helen Surf Silent Auction on Friday, Dec. 4 once again drew a crowd at the Blockade Runner Beach Resort, where attendees circulated between food, fes-tivities and the bidding room where hundreds of items were displayed.
One attendee was there not just to support the organization’s mission, or because she iden-tifies with the charity’s namesake, but to also continue her tradition of buying a piece from artist Abby Spangel Perry.
“I’ve bought a piece of her art for the past four years,” said Heather Thornton, a breast cancer survivor. The organization is named for Helen Butler, who died after a prolonged fight against lung and breast cancer.
Thornton makes it a point to buy art from Perry each time she attends the silent auction. This year, she felt the pressure from other bidders.
“I had to bid six times,” she exclaimed, after finally winning the painting of an octopus. “I almost reached the max bid.”
Like many of the other attendees, Thornton was there to support a cause that raised at least $40,000 this year and has brought in nearly $680,000 in more than a decade of fundraising. Originally formed by Helen’s son Tony to bring in funding to help pay for her chemotherapy treatment, the organization now supports a variety of causes, including health, education, animal welfare, the environment, and individuals and families in need.
It also draws a variety of supporters to its annual fundraising event. They include Brandon Gay, of Wilmington, who had Tony Butler as a student-teacher when he was in fifth grade.
Gay said he comes to the event each year because of the number of surfing-related items up for sale. This year was no different, as there were several surfboards, paddle boards, wetsuits and other related items up for bid.
Gay won an Ian Balding surfboard for $580 that was valued at $750.
“You always get a good value here,” Gay said of the auction.Gay also won three hours of home maid service, noting that as a
bachelor, it was needed. He said winning bids during the auction required dedication to the online bidding system that attendees monitored from their mobile devices.
“I was watching my phone up to the last minute,” Gay said. “There’s a lot of bidding before the end.”
Another successful bidder was Dave Lemieux, who won a colorful Eavey surfboard with a glitter design.
“Have you ever seen a board like this?” Lemieux said, noting that he won the board at $595 and was bid up only once. “I’ve been looking for a board like this.”
Some of the most popular silent auction items were basketball tickets, including tickets to the North Carolina State vs. Duke University basketball game.
For winners Kaleb Wessell and Scott Davis, friends who teamed up to ensure they won the bid, it provided them their first chance to see a game at Duke’s Cameron Indoor Stadium. Again, the bid was about value, as a pair of tickets that were selling at $400 each from online ticket retailers went for $400 for the pair at auction.
“I’m a big Duke fan, so these are perfect,” Wessell said. While most attendees were bidding, several said they weren’t concerned as much
with winning as being a part of an event that has become a Wrightsville Beach institution.
“My strategy is to wait until the last minute and then hit it,” said John Gardner, who was bidding on a surfboard and yoga sessions. “The best part is that everybody from Wrightsville Beach is here. You get to see all of the cool cats.”
Patti Erkes, of Wilmington, said she has been coming to the event since it started 11 years ago and didn’t bring in near the crowds it does now. Butler estimated between 750 and 1,000 people attended this year. Lines for the free food provided by Tower 7 restaurant stretched out the door.
“It was much smaller at the beginning. You didn’t have to wait in line to eat,” said Erkes, who praised the contributions Butler is making to the Wrightsville Beach community. “Now it’s huge.”
At the close of the auction, $39,907 had been raised in proceeds, nearly reaching Butler’s goal of $40,000. However, Tower 7 was also collecting donations for the organization as its servers dished out tortillas full of beef, chicken and fish to guests.
For Butler, the event gives him a chance to connect with others who have been affected by cancer. On Friday night, he had a conversation with one bidder who had never been to the event, but had recently lost his wife to cancer after a three-year battle. He had heard about the auction and wanted to be a part of it, Butler said.
“You don’t know who comes here and for what reasons,” Tony Butler said. “When I hear the stories, it makes it worth it.”email [email protected]
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Above: Tower 7 Restaurant serves tacos during the annual Hope From Helen fundraiser at the Blockade Runner Beach Resort on Dec. 4. Left: Guests bid on silent auction items. Below left: Brandon Gay with the Ian Balding surfboard he won for $580. Below right: Abby Goldstein, from left, Heather Thornton and Emma Thornton with a painting by Abby Spangel Perry that she won at the auction.
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Stache Bash brings out characters while raising funds for kidsBy Terry LaneStaff Writer
This past Friday night in Wrightsville Beach, while an evening of fundraising at the Hope from Helen auction was ending just down the road, another was just getting started as the Mustaches for Kids Stache Bash”got underway at Banks Channel. For many of the mus-taches that were grown for the event, the event marked the end of the line, as several said the ’staches would be shaved the next day.
For the men that spent the month of November growing mustaches and raising funds, the Stache Bash was one last night to show off the lip hair that helped them sport a new style while pos-sibly annoying their significant other.
That was the case for Axel Erkes, who said on Friday night that he would be shaving on Saturday morning.
“It will be gone,” he said. “My wife doesn’t agree with it.”
While the contest may have been judged by the hair on the lip, the men growing mustaches approached the Stache Bash as a continuation of Halloween, as most came in costume that sup-ported their facial hair.
Lew Morgante came dressed as Inspector Clouseau, com-plete with a Pink Panther stuffed animal, while J. Todd Turner dressed as “The Simpson’s” Ned Flanders.
Chris Lienhop, of Wilmington, wore a wig and powder blue polo shirt to pull off the look of Kip, the older brother of famed movie teenager Napoleon Dynamite. Brandon Ball helped Lienhop complete the act by portraying Uncle Rico, while Lienhop had his lines down, especially when talking about his Internet girl-friend LaFawnduh.
“We’ve been chatting online for two hours a day,” Lienhop dead-panned. “You can say things are getting serious.”
Jeffrey Bousquet was among a group of four work colleagues who dressed as Lt. Dangle of
the television show “Reno 911,” complete with short shorts.
“If you’re going to go all in, go all in,” Bousquet said of the shorts. Getting serious, Bousquet said the event was a “great way to raise money.”
All told, this year’s Mustaches for Kids raised $33,500 for a variety of charities that focus on children’s welfare, includ-ing Ocean Cure, Brigade Boys & Girls Club, Make a Wish, Dreams of Wilmington, JDRF diabetes foundation, Communities in Schools Cape Fear and Hope from Helen, which also held its charity auc-tion on Friday night.
Mustache growers won awards for their fundraising efforts. Ryan Wegman, who raised the most with $1,300, won the Golden Stache award. First-time partici-pant Joey Hamm raised $1,021 and won the Rookie of the Year award. A veteran mustache grower, Arlo McLawhorn, won the Legendary Mustache award for his efforts at consistently rais-ing money for the group.
The fundraiser’s organizer, or Stache Master, Ryan McInnis said the charity helps bring “Christmas wishes for so many.”
McInnis said the fundraiser’s success comes partly due to peo-ple’s interest in the mustaches. To help keep those mustaches looking their best, they are tightly regulated by the orga-nizers. Beards, goatees and soul patches aren’t allowed, and nei-ther is stubble, McInnis said.
“If there’s stubble, there’s trou-ble,” he said.
To monitor the mustaches, participants had to either attend weekly events or send in photo-graphs. Participants would also wear buttons promoting the charity. But McInnis said the best promotion was the mus-taches themselves.
“It matters how many people are exposed to our mustaches,” he said. “When it’s in front of people, they donate.”
Donations can still be made a t w w w. c r o w d r i s e . c o m /mustacheswilmington2015/email [email protected]
Local veteran teaches about service dog benefitsBy Krys EstesIntern
When David Nilson was a Marine serving in Afghanistan, he learned firsthand the benefits of working with a service dog. Now, as a student on Cape Fear Community College’s downtown Wilmington campus, he is educating his fellow students about exactly how dogs can help veterans and other members of the community.
“I think service dogs serve a dual purpose on a college campus, especially if someone had a bad day, sometimes seeing a dog turns it around,” Nilson said.
To fulfill part of his educational psychology course, Nilson put together informational sessions about service dogs as part of a 10-hour service-learning project, which he delivered to students and visitors throughout November and December.
To help with the sessions, Nilson turned to his old friend. After he retired, Nilson adopted Sonny, the explosives detector dog that he served with while in the U.S. Marine Corps.
He explained service dogs are required to serve a specific purpose, either mentally or physically, for someone disabled who needs help with the direct response of the dog, which will then provide immediate help for the handler.
“His job was to search for military-grade explosives and home explosives and to go out there and make an area safe,” Nilson said. “I think to get a service dog is beneficial for any veteran with a disability such as post-traumatic stress disorder and other serious medical conditions.”
Service dogs are also known to help with suicide prevention, especially with veterans. Nilson cited a report from the National Journal that highlighted U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs sta-tistics showing an average of 22 veterans commit suicide every day, resulting in approximately 8,030 lost veteran lives each year.
“The dog can really comfort you and either revert dangerous thoughts or prevent suicidal thoughts,” Nilson said. “Suicide pre-vention is a big awareness focus we had last month. We carry out the tradition and go out to really connect with our fellow brothers and sisters to make sure they are OK.”
Nilson said his goal is to earn a Bachelor of Arts in sociology and afterward, to find ways to connect to the community. One way may be to create a program in other schools where more people can learn about the benefits of having a service dog.
He said many people don’t have a fully understand service dogs and how they react with other people. For instance, many people
will try to pet service dogs, though that can interrupt with the dog’s mission for its handler.
“I wanted people to know the ins and outs about service dogs, what to do and what not to do, their rights and get feedback on what others thought assistant dogs might be,” Nilson said.
Photo by Krys Estes
Cape Fear Community College student and U.S. Marine Corps veteran David Nilson educates CFCC students about the importance of service dogs with Sonny, a former explosive detection dog.
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Mike Loveless, from left, Andrew Ferraro, Kevin French and Jeffrey Bousquet all portray Lt. Dangle from the television show “Reno 911” during the Stache Bash at Banks Channel Pub and Grille on Friday, Dec. 4.
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Brandon Ball, from left, and Chris Lienhop portray Uncle Rico and Kip, from the movie “Napoleon Dynamite,” during the Stache Bash at Banks Channel Pub and Grille on Friday, Dec. 4 to conclude the month-long Mustaches for Kids fundraiser.
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December 6, 2015, 5:45 p.m.Kindness
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Luke 23:43 “And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.”
LUKE 23:43The paradise that Jesus spoke of must have been the same place that
Jesus called “Abraham’s bosom,” when He told the story of the rich man and Lazarus. Jesus descended into the lower parts of the earth after His death, and John 20:17 shows that it was some time after His resurrection before Jesus ascended back to His Father. Therefore, this paradise was “Abraham’s bosom” located in “sheol” in the lower parts of the earth.
The phrase “led captivity captive” from Ephesians 4:8, refers to Jesus liberating the Old Testament saints. When Old Testament saints died, they went to a place in the center of the earth which is called “sheol” in Hebrew. It is the Hebrew word “sheol” that is translated “hell” in Psalm 16:10, which prophesies Jesus saying, “For thou wilt
not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption” (Acts 2:27-30).
The ungodly dead also went to “sheol” but the teaching of Jesus in Luke 16:19-31 shows that there was a great gulf fixed between the two, and those in torment (hell) envied those who were enjoying the blessings of the Lord in the part of “sheol” that was called Abraham’s bosom or Paradise.
Even though these Old Testament saints were blessed, they were not able to enter into the presence of the Lord because the atonement of Christ had not been completed. So, in that sense, they were captives. When Jesus died, He descended into “sheol” and took the captives captive. He took them to heaven, into the very presence of God and vacated that part of “sheol.” Now, all that’s left in “sheol” is hell. In the New Testament, the Greek word that is used to refer to this area is “hades” and it is only applied to the place of torment.
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(Prov 21:21 NRSV) Whoever pursues righteousness and kind-ness will find life and honor.
(Acts 28:2 NRSV) The natives showed us unusual kindness. Since it had begun to rain and was cold, they kindled a fire and welcomed all of us around it.
(Rom 2:4 NRSV) Or do you despise the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience? Do you not realize that God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?
(Rom 11:22 NRSV) Note then the kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen, but God’s kindness toward you, provided you continue in his kindness; otherwise you also will be cut off.
(Gal 5:22 NRSV) By contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness,
(Col 3:12 NRSV) As God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, meek-ness, and patience.
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STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
COUNTY OF NEW HANOVER
IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE
BEFORE THE CLERK OF SUPE-RIOR COURT
EXECUTRIX NOTICE
The undersigned having quali-fied as Executrix of the Estate of Richard Henry Marston Jr. of New Hanover County, North Carolina, does hereby notify all persons having claims against said estate to present them to the undersigned at the address shown below on or before the 19th day of February 2016, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All per-sons indebted to said estate will please make immediate pay-ment to the undersigned.
This is the 19th day of Novem-ber, 2015.Katrina Marston Morton, Execu-trix608 S. Lumina AvenueWrightsville Beach, NC 2848011/19, 11/26, 12/3, 12/10/2015
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF NEW HANOVER
IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE
BEFORE THE CLERK OF SUPE-RIOR COURT
The undersigned, having quali-fied as Executor of the Estate of CHRISTIANE V. DYBVIK, Deceased, of New Hanover County, North Carolina, does hereby notify all persons, firms and corporations having claims against said Estate to present them to the undersigned at the address shown below on or before February 20, 2016, or this Notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All per-sons indebted to said Estate will please make immediate pay-ment to the undersigned.
This the 19th day of November, 2015.RUSSELL E. DYBVIK, Executorc/o Richard A. Horgan, Esq.Attorney at Law1213 Culbreth DriveWilmington, NC 28405-363911/19, 11/26, 12/3, 12/10/2015
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Having qualified as Executor of the Estate of Horace Lee Wil-liams, late of Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, the undersigned does hereby notify all persons, firms and cor-porations having claims against the estate of said decedent to exhibit them in care of the under-signed at 93 Remington Road, Wilmington, NC 28409, on or before February 26, 2016, or this Notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons, firms and corporations indebted to the said estate will please make immediate payment to the under-signed.
This the 26th day of November, 2015. Harold Lee Williams, Executor of the Estate of Horace Lee WilliamsJerry A. Mannen, Jr., Attorney
The undersigned having quali-fied as Executrix of the Estate of Betty Midgett Boggs of New Hanover County, North Caro-lina, does hereby notify all per-sons having claims against said estate to present them to the undersigned at the address shown below on or before the 26th day of February 2016, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All per-sons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment to the undersigned.
This is the 26th day of Novem-ber, 2015.Susan Boggs Reynolds, Execu-trix5814 Ocean Hwy E.Winnabow, NC 2847911/26, 12/3, 12/10, 12/17/2015
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
COUNTY OF NEW HANOVER
IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE
BEFORE THE CLERK OF SUPE-RIOR COURT
EXECUTRIX’S NOTICE
The undersigned having quali-fied as Executrix of the Estate of Rodney Bruce Maslanka of New Hanover County, North Carolina, does hereby notify all persons having claims against said estate to present them to the undersigned at the address shown below on or before the 26th day of February 2016, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All per-sons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment to the undersigned.
This is the 26th day of Novem-ber, 2015.Carol A. Maslanka, Executrix222 Bayshore Drive Wilmington, NC 2841111/26, 12/3, 12/10, 12/17/2015
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
COUNTY OF NEW HANOVER
IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE
SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION
BEFORE THE CLERK
FILE NO. 15 E 001430
EXECUTRIX’S NOTICE
IN THE MATTER OF
THE ESTATE OF:
EUGENE ALBERT LEES
Having qualified as Execu-trix of the Estate of Eugene Albert Lees of New Hanover County, North Carolina, this
is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of said Eugene Albert Lees to present them to the undersigned on or before February 26, 2016, that being three (3) months from the first date of publication of this Notice or same shall be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate please make immediate payment.
This the 26th day of Novem-ber, 2015.Patsy Ruth S. Lees of the Estate of Eugene Albert Leesc/o Stephen E. CulbrethAttorney at LawP.O. Box 446Wilmington, N. C. 2840211/26, 12/3, 12/10, 12/17/2015
File No. 14 JT 33
NORTH CAROLINACASWELL COUNTY IN THE
GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICEDISTRICT COURT DIVISION
In the Matter of: “In Re Doe”
a Minor Child NOTICE OF SERVICE
OF PROCESS BY PUBLICATION
TO: The Father of a male juve-nile born on 6/24/1999 in New Hanover County, Wilmington, North Carolina, Respondent.
Take notice that a Petition has been filed in the above named Court seeking to terminate your parental rights as to the juvenile named above (and being more particularly identified in the origi-nal Petition filed in this cause).
You are Summoned and notified to answer the Petition in which the Petitioner asked the Court to terminate your parental rights to the above juvenile. Any written answer to the Petition must be filed with the Caswell County Clerk of Superior Court on or before December 28, 2015. A copy of the answer must also be served on the Petitioner’s Attorney named below.
The Court will conduct a Hear-ing to determine whether one or more grounds alleged in the Peti-tion for terminating your parental rights exist. If the Court finds if one or more grounds exist, the Court will proceed at that Hearing or a later Hearing to determine wheth-er your parental rights should be terminated. If you do not file a written answer to the Petition in this action with the Caswell Coun-ty Clerk of Superior Court at P.O. Box 790, 139 Church Street, Yanc-eyville, NC 27379 on or before December 28, 2015, the Court may terminate your parental rights. You have a right to be represented by a lawyer in this case. If you want a lawyer and cannot afford one, the Court will appoint a lawyer for you. You may contact the Caswell County Clerk of Superior Court at 336-459-4000 immediately to ask for a Court appointed lawyer. This is a new case and any law-yer appointed to represent you in another case will not represent you in this case unless the Court appoints that person again. (NOTE: If a lawyer is appointed for you and if the Court terminates your paren-tal rights, you may become liable for repayment for lawyers fees, and a judgment for the amount of the
fees may be entered against you).
This the 26th day of November, 2015.Stuart N. Watlington,Attorney for the Petitioner, the Caswell CountyDepartment of Social Services 114 Court SquareP.O. Box 1776Yanceyville, N.C. 27379State Bar No.: 9652Telephone: 336-694-1155 11/26, 12/3, 12/10/15
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
COUNTY OF NEW HANOVER
IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE
BEFORE THE CLERK OF SUPE-RIOR COURT
EXECUTOR’S NOTICE
The undersigned having quali-fied as Executor of the Estate of Ella Marie Rodman of New Hanover County, North Caro-lina, does hereby notify all per-sons having claims against said estate to present them to the undersigned at the address shown below on or before the 4th day of March 2016, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate pay-ment to the undersigned.
This is the 3rd day of Decem-ber, 2015.Robert E. Rodman, Executor 6 Lake Forest Court Greensboro, NC 2740812/3, 12/10, 12/17, 12/24/2015
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Having qualified as Executrix of the Estate of Wesley H. Har-relson, late of New Hanover County, North Carolina, the undersigned does hereby noti-fy all persons, firms and corpo-rations having claims against the estate of said decedent to exhibit them to the under-signed, c/o Brian G. Morri-son, 300 N. Third Street, Suite 301, Wilmington, North Caro-lina 28401, on or before the 7th day of March, 2016, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons, firms and corporations indebt-ed to the said estate will please make immediate payment to the undersigned.
This the 3rd day of December, 2015.Josette Denise Harrelson, Exec-utrix of the Estate of Wesley H. HarrelsonBrian G. MorrisonSmith Moore Leatherwood LLP300 N. Third Street, Suite 301Wilmington, NC 2840112/3, 12/10, 12/17, 12/24/2015
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
COUNTY OF NEW HANOVER
IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE
BEFORE THE CLERK OF SUPE-RIOR COURT
EXECUTOR’S NOTICE
The undersigned having quali-fied as Executor of the Estate
of R. Bertram Williams, Jr. of New Hanover County, North Carolina, does hereby notify all persons having claims against said estate to present them to the undersigned at the address shown below on or before the 11th day of March 2016, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate pay-ment to the undersigned.
This is the 10th day of Decem-ber 2015.R. Bertram Williams III, Executor2134 Gloucester PlaceWilmington, NC 2840312/10, 12/17, 12/24, 12/31/2015
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF NEW HANOVER
IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE
BEFORE THE CLERK OF SUPE-RIOR COURT
The undersigned, having quali-fied as Executor of the Estate of BRENDA M. BEST, Deceased, of New Hanover County, North Carolina, does hereby notify all persons, firms and corpo-rations having claims against said Estate to present them to the undersigned at the address shown below on or before March 11, 2016, or this Notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebt-ed to said Estate will please make immediate payment to the undersigned.
This the 10th day of Decem-ber, 2015.WILLIAM J. BEST, Executorc/o Richard A. Horgan, Esq.Attorney at Law1213 Culbreth DriveWilmington, NC 28405-363912/10, 12/17, 12/24, 12/31/2015
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
COUNTY OF NEW HANOVER
IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE
BEFORE THE CLERK OF SUPE-RIOR COURT
EXECUTRIX’S NOTICE
The undersigned having quali-fied as Executrix of the Estate of Donald Vaughn Micklos of New Hanover County, North Carolina, does hereby notify all persons having claims against said estate to present them to the undersigned at the address shown below on or before the 11th day of March 2016, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate pay-ment to the undersigned.
This is the 10th day of Decem-ber, 2015.Rebekah Lynn Micklos, Execu-trix501 Marsh Oaks DriveWilmington, NC 2841112/10, 12/17, 12/24, 12/31/2015
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
COUNTY OF NEW HANOVER
IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE
BEFORE THE CLERK OF SUPE-RIOR COURT
CO-EXECUTOR’S NOTICE
The undersigned having qual-ified as Co-Executor of the Estate of Donald A. Sellers of New Hanover County, North Carolina, does hereby notify all persons having claims against said estate to present them to the undersigned at the address shown below on or before the 11th day of March 2016, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate pay-ment to the undersigned.
This is the 10h day of Decem-ber, 2015.Donna S. Cudicio, Co-Executor348 Semmes DriveWilmington, NC 28412Susan Johnson, Co-Executor7429 Dunbar RoadWilmington, NC 28411J.C. Hearne, IIAttorney at Law265 Racine Drive Suite 104Wilmington NC 28403 12/10, 12/17, 12/24, 12/31/2015
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
COUNTY OF NEW HANOVERNOTICE OF SALE
MARTIN ORGANIZATION, LLC, PURSUANT TO NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL STATUTES, CHAPTER 44A, SHALL CONDUCT A PUB-LIC SALE OF THE UNITS LISTED BELOW AT IT’S FACILITY LOCAT-ED AT: 6020 CAROLINA BEACH ROAD, WILMINGTON, NC 28412, COUNTY OF NEW HANOVER DURING THE HOUR OF 10:00AM ON THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17TH, 2015 FOR CASH TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER.
TO: UNIT:
Randy Grimsley A0151
Terry Hurley A0168
Brooke Pittman B0225
Stanley Brown C0327
Alan Newton C0330
Roger Rutledge F0660
Franklin Jackson G0710
Keith Parker H0820
Lori Blake H0827
Elisabeth Bidlack K1102
December 10, 2015
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
COUNTY OF BRUNSWICKNOTICE OF SALE
MARTIN ORGANIZATION, LLC, PURSUANT TO NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL STATUTES, CHAPTER 44A, SHALL CONDUCT A PUB-LIC SALE OF THE UNITS LISTED BELOW AT IT’S FACILITY LOCAT-ED AT: 1725 SOUTHPORT-SUP-PLY ROAD, BOLIVIA, NC 28422, COUNTY OF BRUNSWICK DUR-ING THE HOUR OF 10AM ON WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2015 FOR CASH TO THE HIGH-EST BIDDER.
TO: UNIT:
Alvin Allen A0136
Clayton Eagle C0360
Kathryn Henderson A0110
Jeremy Hughes B0222
Michael Kellett D0425
Lionese Martin A0109
Bridgette Munoz B0209
Kristin Tobin D0405
December 10, 2015
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
COUNTY OF NEW HANOVERNOTICE OF SALE
MARTIN ORGANIZATION, LLC, PURSUANT TO NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL STATUTES, CHAPTER 44A, SHALL CONDUCT A PUB-LIC SALE OF THE UNITS LISTED BELOW AT IT’S FACILITY LOCATED AT: 4851 CAROLINA BEACH RD, WILMINGTON, NC 28412, COUN-TY OF NEW HANOVER DURING THE HOUR OF 1PM ON THURS-DAY, DECEMBER 17TH, 2015 FOR CASH TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER.
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Hundreds to race in Wrightsville’s festive 5KBy Emmy ErranteStaff Writer
Families, friends and pets dressed in holiday costumes will race around the John Nesbitt Loop Dec. 12 for the seventh annual Jingle Bell Run 5K.
The event has grown every year since the inaugural race in 2009 and this year organizers expect between 500 and 600 runners. The fastest finishers win prizes and the honor of cutting down and keep-ing the handmade holiday wreaths hanging from the finish line.
In keeping with the festive spirit of the race, there are also awards for best holiday costume, best group costume, best family costume, best pet costume and best-decorated stroller.
The elaborate nature of many runners’ costumes suggests very few are out to achieve personal records. Race organizer Madeline Flagler said the most frequent feedback she gets from partici-pants year after year is they don’t want to miss this one because this is the fun run.
“And that’s nice,” she added.
“That’s what we’d like to be known as.”
Participants get especially cre-ative with the group costumes, she said. Last year, a team from Noble Middle School that partici-pates every year won the group costume category by dressing up as 16 Elves on Shelves.
Historic aspects are also incor-porated into the holiday event, because it serves as a fund-raiser for the Wrightsville Beach Museum of History. The course takes runners past some of the town’s oldest homes and one of
the costume awards is a nod to the island’s past.
In the 1930s and ’40s, the iconic Lumina Pavilion held beauty contests for babies. The mothers strove to give their babies an advantage by deco-rating the babies’ strollers with paper and garlands, so the Jingle Bell Run’s best-decorated stroller prize is a gentle allusion to that piece of history.
The race starts at 9 a.m. Saturday. To register visit www.Its-Go-Time.comemail [email protected]
Second week of December and anglers still happily catching fish
Hook, Line & Sinker
By Skylar Walters
Sports/Marine
While the fishing is not what it was a few weeks ago, anglers are definitely not complaining that it’s going into mid-Decem-ber and there’s still plenty of fishing and catching to talk about. Now, fishing opportuni-ties have dwindled, but with air temperatures forecast to reach into the mid 70s this week along with water temperatures that are still reading in the mid 60s, fish-ing in short pants a couple of weeks before Christmas doesn’t sound all that bad.
Offshore fishing, unfortu-nately, has taken a back seat the past couple of weeks as ocean conditions have not allowed a lot of boats to venture out past the mouth of the inlet. But you can bet there are plenty of
anglers waiting for the condi-tions to improve so they can see what is biting and that oppor-tunity might just present itself this coming weekend. A lot can change between now and then but fishermen will fish when given the chance.
Inshore, the trout fishing has remained steady, with a lot of reports of smaller fish being caught in the inside waters. There are still some larger fish being found mixed in, but it has become more difficult to find keepers while fishing the creeks and channels, particu-larly around the Wrightsville Beach area. That’s not to say that there aren’t any keepers, because there are, but expect to catch a lot of small fish before finding a keeper, not to men-tion the small bluefish that are still prevalent and will destroy your trout lure. Anglers are finding some bigger fish near the inlets, and when conditions allow, from the surf and around the Masonboro Inlet jetties.
The surf is also producing some hefty-sized Virginia mul-let the past couple of weeks, but it has really fired off the past week with lots of fish being reported. Mullet in the 1-2 pound range have been common along the beach, with fresh shrimp and sand fleas being the prime baits. Most of the anglers who are successful are fishing the deeper sloughs and holes at low water and remaining in their spot through the high tide. There’s no spe-cific tactic other than a two hook bottom rig and some like making their own rather than using a store-bought rig with a lot of hardware on it. Another reason anglers are fishing starting at low water is so they
don’t lose their spot when the water rises and covers the hole they found. Some anglers will set up at a prime location and remain there for hours until conditions get right. Then again, when the air tempera-tures are more like springtime, who’s blaming anyone for get-ting out and enjoying Mother Nature?
Elsewhere, a few red drum and other species such as black drum, flounder, and some croaker are still being encoun-tered. Conditions have not plummeted to the point that nothing is biting and fisher-men are still having luck with something, although it may not be what they were expect-ing to catch. Blowfish have also made a big showing and a lot of anglers are targeting them this time of year because of their tasty table fare. Sooner or later conditions will decline to the point of no fishing, but until then, enjoy what we’ve been given!
UNCW women’s basketball team focusing on defenseBy Terry LaneStaff Writer
As coach Adell Harris continues her work on turning around the University of North Carolina Wilmington women’s basketball team, she got a glimpse last week of what the team can become and a reminder of where the team is.
Now 2-3, the Seahawks earned an encour-aging victory during the Thanksgiving Classic round-robin tournament it hosted on Nov. 27-28 before suffering a resounding defeat at the hands of Davidson on Saturday, Nov. 28. And while the Seahawks also dropped a road game to Virginia Commonwealth University on Dec. 2, Harris said she was optimistic that her team was finding ways to win close games.
“I like where our team is,” Harris said after the team’s win over Jacksonville. “We have to make sure our defense is tough. We’ll continue to improve offensively, but defensively is what we want to hang our hat on.”
In a season where Harris’ goal was to get its team to play to the next level, she said the team’s win over Jacksonville University showed that it was making improvements over last year’s 14-18 squad.
“It wasn’t pretty. In late November, the wins aren’t going to be pretty. A year ago, that team would have lost this game. And that team did lose these games,” Harris said. “But we found a way, stayed tough throughout and we stuck together.”
The Seahawks got a key defensive play and late basket to propel it past JU 51-49 at Trask Coliseum.
With the game tied at 49, sophomore guard Madison Raque made a steal and passed the ball forward to senior guard Shatia Cole who hit the game-winning jumper with 9 seconds left on the clock, moving UNCW to 2-1 on the season.
“I was confident in my shot,” Cole said after making the game winner against Jacksonville.
Cole led UNCW against Jacksonville with 13 points while junior forward Jordan Henry added 12 points.
While Cole and junior guard Naqaiyyah Teague were billed as the leaders on the team, it’s Henry, a transfer from Iona, who has been putting up some of the most consistent play for the Seahawks.
Four games in, Henry leads the team in scor-ing, averaging 13.8 a game. Against Davidson, she scored a career-high 16 points and tallied her third “double double” of the season by grab-bing 10 rebounds. In the same span, Cole is averaging 9.8 points a game while Teague is contributing 9 points a game for the Seahawks.
“I think she’s making the most impact on our
team,” Harris said of Henry. “She’s mature in how she handles her business. You can teach her, you can tell her exactly what you need her to do and she really tries to go out and do those things. She had to be patient, but she’s getting her opportunity.”
Henry’s teammates have also been noticing her contributions.
“Jordan has been stepping up, since the first game,” teammate Cole said of Henry.
Harris said her emphasis for this year’s team is defense, which she said kept the Seahawks in the game against Jacksonville when the offense went cold.
“I think Teague is the heart of our defense,” Cole said. “When she’s playing good, we’re all playing good.”
Harris said it was huge that the Seahawks’ defense kept them in the game by holding Jacksonville to 49 points.
“Our defense kept us in the game. I hope we can say that at the end of every game,” Harris said.
The focus on defense showed with Raque’s steal, which provided the key play in the win over the Dolphins.
“Defense has been a big thing that we’ve
talked about,” Raque said after the game. “I saw an opportunity and I just took it.”
This year’s Seahawks will have to contend with a roster that will pose challenges for Harris, as it did in the Davidson game. With only eight players eligible to play, injury and fatigue can have an impact, as it did when sophomore cen-ter Rebekah Banks injured her ankle against Jacksonville, forcing her to miss the follow-ing day’s matchup against the Wildcats.
With Banks out of the lineup and Henry occasionally needing rest, the Seahawks at the time had no 6-foot-tall players on the court, partially contributing to the team being out-rebounded by the Wildcats, 45-23.
Harris said she would have pressed Davidson more, but coming off of a game the previous day, her team didn’t have the energy levels needed to execute the more-grueling game plan.
“We’ll see how much they learn from it,” said Harris of the Seahawks 77-50 loss at the hands of Davidson.
UNCW will look to even its record when it travels to Norfolk State on Sunday, Dec. 13.email [email protected]
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Joanne Harcke, left, and others showed their holiday spirit with festive attire for the Jingle Bell Run on Dec. 13, 2014.
Staff photo by Terry Lane
Senior point guard Shatia Cole drives the lane against Jacksonville on Friday, Nov. 27 during the Seahawks 51-49 win at Trask Coliseum. Cole made the game-winning shot with less than 10 seconds to play as part of her team-high 13 points.
... fishing in short pants a couple of weeks before Christmas doesn’t sound all that bad.
