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  • Have a ball at hospital Flip-Flop Ball

    The Flip Flop Ball means just what it says.

    The second annual fundraiser for the Novant Health Brunswick Medical Center Foundation will incorporate dancing to music by the internationally renowned Landsharks Band, and flip-flops are welcome.

    The Flip Flop Ball: An Evening in Key West is the theme of the second annual ball to benefit the hospital foundation. The ball will take place 6-11 p.m. this coming Saturday, June 1, at Sea Trail Golf Resort & Convention Center in Sunset Beach.

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  • Sunset Beach Town Council mulls, debates budget

    SUNSET BEACH—Following debate that took up most of the day, town council has approved 4-1 incorporating a 2 percent cost-of-living increase for town employees.

    The decision came at council’s monthly workshop Tuesday.

    Along with the raise, council approved a $500-per-employee cash bonus in lieu of a 1 percent longevity (Christmas) bonus in its upcoming, estimated $5,194,600 budget for fiscal year 2013-2014, which takes effect July 1. No property tax increase is forecast.

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  • Farm donates strawberries to children's home

    Billy and Katherine Ingram wanted to have their usual day to give back.

    So last Wednesday, May 22, is the day the owners of Waccamaw River Farm Nursery in Ash had folks with the Odum Home in Pembroke come out to pick strawberries.

    The Baptist children’s home provides continuing care services for children in 10 counties, including Brunswick and Columbus.

    Childcare workers, accompanied by one of the teenaged residents of the Baptist home, came out to pick berries that morning to take back to the home that night.

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  • Hi-ho, Trigger: Rescued horse gets new home

    Trigger the horse now has a new home.

    Earlier this month, Brunswick County Sheriff’s Animal Protective Services issued a request for a new home on behalf of Trigger, a 25-year-old white quarter-horse mix rescued last September from starving, “deplorable” conditions at a Brunswick County residence.

    Trigger was eventually nourished and nursed back to health by his foster mom, Laura Konigsbacher of Wilmington. But Konigsbacher could no longer care for Trigger because she had to move.

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  • Sunset Beach crime report

    The Sunset Beach Police Department investigated two car break-ins reported in the past week.

    On May 26, larceny of a backpack, laptop, camera, passport, cards, prescription medicine, glasses and other miscellaneous personal items was reported to a motor vehicle on Kings Trail.

    On May 20, a pocketbook was reported stolen from an unlocked vehicle at Food Lion.

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  • Two Brunswick County teens killed in separate wrecks

    Two Brunswick County teenagers have died from injuries sustained in wrecks during the Memorial Day holiday weekend.

    Brittany Carol Rayl, 18, of Supply died following a one-car collision around 1:30 a.m. Monday on Mount Pisgah Road north of Shallotte.

    According to Sgt. E.C. Harris with the North Carolina Highway Patrol, Rayl’s 2005 Chevy Cobalt struck a mailbox, overcorrected, crossed the road and hit a tree. Speeding, drugs and alcohol did not appear to be factors. Rayl was not wearing a seat belt.

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  • Parrot Party June 5 in Sunset Beach

    The Sunset Beach Concert on June 5 will feature Parrot Party and benefit Brunswick Literacy Council.

    Parrot Party of Carolina Shores is a Jimmy Buffett tribute and impersonation show band performing all of Jimmy’s “songs you know by heart.”

    Parrotheads all over North Carolina and South Carolina have been “phlocking” to see this duo since early 2012. The musicians are Buffett impersonator Randy Knight and seasoned pro harmonica player Doug Cayton.

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  • Korean War veteran reveals 61-year-old flag 'secret'

    By Frank Richardson

    Frank Pinkerton, an 80-year-old Korean War veteran, kept a 61-year-old secret boxed up among contents of a duffel bag he brought back to the United States after serving with the 8th Army Division.

    Now the secret’s out.

    On Saturday, May 25, Pinkerton, who was distributing Memorial Day poppies for Calabash VFW Post 7288, put his secret on display for all to see.

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  • Re-creating one client at a time

    Health coaching is elementary to Beth Mincher.

    Maybe that’s why she calls her newly opened business in Brunswick County “Elemental Wellness.”

    From the East Coast to the West Coast, “I’ve done a lot of traveling in my career,” said the wellness coach and personal trainer, who has been conducting workshops at Body Edge in Ocean Isle Beach.

    The focus of Elemental Wellness is on “eating well and living a fuller lifestyle.”

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  • Sunset Beach seeks relief from 'unsightly' bridge fence

    SUNSET BEACH—Don’t fence me in.

    That might be the latest theme song in Sunset Beach, where town council is seeking to remove what it deems an unsightly chain-link fence from underneath the Mannon C. Gore high-rise Intracoastal Waterway bridge.

    Friday, NCDOT division engineer Karen Fussell didn’t make any promises, but told council members she’ll research the matter to see what, if anything, can be done.

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