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  • Coastal Garden Club Flower Show is Friday and Saturday at Shallotte Presbyterian Church

    The Coastal Garden Club Flower Show is celebrating spring with a judged flower show this week.

    The Coastal Garden Club Flower Show, “On Broadway,” is 1-5 p.m. Friday, May 3, and 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, May 4, in the fellowship hall at Shallotte Presbyterian Church, 5070 Main St. in Shallotte.

    This event is a standard flower show, indicating it conforms to standards set by National Garden Clubs. Featured will be displays of horticultural specimens prepared especially for the show.

    The club hosts a flower show every odd calendar year.

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  • Sewer cost rises in Sunset Beach

    SUNSET BEACH—The cost of sewer service just got a little higher in Sunset Beach.

    Contrary to the $5,303.53 per-parcel assessment set for the town and announced by Brunswick County two months ago, the cost has now been adjusted an extra $50—to $5,353.

    In an April 22 email to Sunset Beach Town Council, county public utilities director Jerry Pierce attributed the $50-per-parcel increase to a reduced number of assessed parcels. Pierce also indicated it’s not unusual for that number to change between preliminary and final assessments.

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  • Sunset Beach police report

    Patrick Bryan-Driscoll Miller, 21, of 947 Elderberry Lane, Sunset Beach, was charged April 28 with driving while license revoked.

    Attempted breaking and/or entering was reported April 19 at a residential unit at 908 Resort Circle.

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  • Calabash FD seeks auxiliary members

    Ever want to be part of the fire department family, but don’t care to run into burning buildings?

    The Calabash Fire Department is looking for a few good men and women to become members of its new auxiliary.

    The auxiliary will be an independent organization, providing direct support to firefighters as they strive toward their goal of zero property loss and zero lives lost.

    Members will help the department with fire safety and fire-prevention education, fundraising and special events.

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  • Streetscape hearing on Sunset Beach agenda

    SUNSET BEACH—A public hearing for the town’s future streetscape project is on the Sunset Beach Town Council agenda for its monthly meeting Monday night, May 6.

    The session starts at 6:45 p.m. with a draft agenda review and general council discussion, followed by the meeting at 7 p.m. in the meeting room at town hall, 700 Sunset Blvd. N.

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  • Brunswick County Relay for Life timeline

    Friday, May 3

    6 p.m. opening ceremony

    6:30 p.m. survivor lap

    6:45 p.m. caregiver lap

    7 p.m. team spirit lap

    7:15 p.m. kids’ walk events

    7:30 p.m. kids’ lap

    8 p.m. dance party

    8:35 p.m. pinwheel lap

    8:45 p.m. survivor speaker Tony Caison

    9 p.m. luminary ceremony

    9:30 p.m. Gloria’s pink celebration parade

    9:45 p.m. cupcake-eating contest

    10 p.m. womanless beauty pageant

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  • Relay for Life ready to roll Friday and Saturday at WBHS

    It’s a festive yet bittersweet time as organizers prepare for the 20th annual Relay for Life to benefit cancer research this Friday and Saturday at West Brunswick High School.

    As of press deadline Tuesday evening, 68 teams and 725 participants had already raised $105,884.92 for the American Cancer Society, according to the latest tally on the Relay for Life of Brunswick County website.

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  • Birthdays rack up food donations for animal shelter

    For her seventh birthday April 5, Natalya Mewborn asked for a kitty-cat-themed party.

    The invited party guests in her age group wore cat-ear headbands, cat noses and painted whiskers on their faces and played kitty-cat games that rainy Friday at a kids’ gym.

    “It was her idea,” said Kevin Mewborn, Natalya’s dad. “That’s what she wanted to do.”

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  • South swimmer Van Noordt signs with Asheville

     BOILING SPRING LAKES—South Brunswick High School senior Rachel Van Noordt signed a letter of intent April 30 to attend UNC Asheville and compete in swimming.

    South athletics director Chris Roehner said he thought Van Noordt was the first Cougar swimmer to sign with a college. The program has been in existence 12 years.

    UNC Asheville brought women’s swimming back last fall after not having a program for 36 years.

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  • Beck's is back in Calabash

    CALABASH—Like a phoenix, a newly rebuilt Calabash eatery has risen from the ashes after burning in a fire last year.

    Beck’s Restaurant at 1014 River Road reopened at 11 a.m. Monday, April 29, following a ribbon-cutting ceremony led by the Brunswick County Chamber of Commerce.

    “We’re excited that Beck’s is back,” chamber president Shannon Viera at the start of Monday’s ceremony.

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