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Community News

  • Calendar

    Thursday, Dec. 13
    Weight Watchers, weigh-in at 9:30 a.m., meeting at 10 a.m., Southport Presbyterian Church, 1025 E. Moore St., Southport. For details, call (800) 651-6000.
    Rotary Club of Shallotte, meets 12:30 p.m. at Starz Grill at Planet Fun, Whiteville Road, Shallotte. Visiting Rotarians welcome.
    VFW Post 7288 bingo, 5:30 doors open, early birds start at 6:30 p.m. Carter Drive, Calabash. Call 579-3577 for information.

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  • An open letter to readers

    To the editor:
    I’d like to share something with all of you
    I won’t take too much of your time.
    About a celebration I went to
    And I left there feelin’ so fine.
    I had no engraved invitation,
    Just an invite from a friend.
    I wasn’t charged any admission,
    Just hugged, and asked, “Come on in.”
    Turns out it’s a birthday party
    Filled with good cheer and emotion.
    So we clapped and sang “Happy Birthday”
    Then vowed to the host our devotion.

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  • Festival draws crowd to Shallotte following parade

    The Brunswick County Chamber of Commerce saw its first post-Christmas parade festival in Shallotte as a success.

    “We hoped to keep people out after the parade for some family fun,” Kelly Mathews, the chamber’s programs and events director, said Saturday.

    As Saturday morning’s annual parade wound down, families made their way to Shallotte Riverside park to see what was offered at the Christmas on the River festival.

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  • Emergency alerts coming to cell phones

    BOLIVIA—If a phone upgrade is on your Christmas wish list, that new device may come with a new emergency alert service.

    Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) is the latest method put in place to notify the public of emergency warnings.

    It will bring to your cell phone the Emergency Alert System—the next generation of the emergency broadcast system, which breaks into TV programs blaring a siren to draw your attention. It often endswith the announcement, “This is only a test.”

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  • Leland expands Christmas events to Friday and Saturday

    The North Carolina Christmas festival and parade in Leland celebrates 20 years this weekend by expanding to a two-day event.

    On Friday, Dec. 7, the Unity Group of North Brunswick, event organizers, will host their first street dance the night before the parade at the festival location—in the North Brunswick shopping center parking lot behind BB&T.

    Unity Group president John Crowder said the dance would be from 7-10 p.m. with local band Kicking Aces performing country, rock and other music.

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  • Community briefs

    New books at Hickmans Crossroads
    The following new books are now available at Hickmans Crossroads Library:
    “The Forgotten” by David Baldacci. After he receives a posthumous note from his aunt hinting things are horribly amiss in her Florida Gulf Coast town, Army Special Agent John Puller uncovers a shocking conspiracy.

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  • Calendar

    Thursday, Dec. 6
    Weight Watchers, weigh-in at 9:30 a.m., meeting at 10 a.m., Southport Presbyterian Church, 1025 E. Moore St., Southport. For details, call (800) 651-6000.
    Rotary Club of Shallotte, meets 12:30 p.m. at Starz Grill at Planet Fun, Whiteville Road, Shallotte. Visiting Rotarians welcome.
    VFW Post 7288 bingo, 5:30 doors open, early birds start at 6:30 p.m. Carter Drive, Calabash. Call 579-3577 for information.

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  • Community briefs

    New books at Rourk Branch Library
    The following books are now available at Rourk Branch Library in Shallotte. Reviews are courtesy of Friends of the Library.
    Fiction
    “The Twelve Clues of Christmas” by Rhys Bowen. She may be 35th in line for the throne, but Lady Georgiana Rannoch cannot wait to ring in the New Year before a Christmas killer wrings another neck in this Royal Spyness mystery.

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  • Calendar

    Thursday, Nov. 29
    Weight Watchers, weigh-in at 9:30 a.m., meeting at 10 a.m., Southport Presbyterian Church, 1025 E. Moore St., Southport. For details, call (800) 651-6000.
    Rotary Club of Shallotte, meets 12:30 p.m. at Starz Grill at Planet Fun, Whiteville Road, Shallotte. Visiting Rotarians welcome.
    VFW Post 7288 bingo, 5:30 doors open, early birds start at 6:30 p.m. Carter Drive, Calabash. Call 579-3577 for information.

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  • Community briefs

    Hospital seeks new volunteers
    For those interested in giving back to the community, Brunswick Novant Medical Center is now recruiting new volunteers to fill numerous volunteer roles throughout the hospital.
    Applications must be submitted by Friday, Nov. 30, to attend the next volunteer informational meeting from 1-4 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 6, at Brunswick Novant Medical Center.

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