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  • BCC graduates say farewell

    By Renee Sloan

    Staff Writer

    Brunswick Community College celebrated its spring graduation ceremony last Friday.

    Three hundred and twenty-five graduates received a total of 368 degrees, diplomas and certificates, and 180 students participated in commencement exercises.

    “It was definitely a spirited group of graduates,” said Susanne Adams, Brunswick Community College president.

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  • Stormwater dominates Shallotte meeting

    By Renee Sloan

    Staff Writer

    Stormwater drainage issues in the Brierwood Community were the primary topic of discussion at the Shallotte Board of Aldermen’s meeting last week.

    Alderman Alan Lewis introduced the issue as a discussion item.

    “There’s a bad problem in Brierwood, and it’s not something that has developed recently,” Lewis said. “This is something that has been going on for years.”

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  • Figuring out the perfect gift might just be saying thanks

    By Renee Sloan

    Staff Writer

    With Mother’s Day right around the corner, many of you are rushing to the mall to find gifts for your wives, mothers, grandmothers and mothers-in-law. After we make deadline, I will probably be right there with you in search of the perfect gift for my mom. However, there’s one person in my life that never wants any gifts—my grandma, Fay Wright.

    Every year, I always ask her what she wants, and she says, “Oh, don’t buy me nuthin’. I don’t need anything.”

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  • Keep calm and Relay on

    By Renee Sloan

    Staff Writer

    Despite the rain and cool temperatures, hundreds of people gathered at West Brunswick High School last Friday and Saturday for the 2013 Brunswick County Relay for Life.

    Team captain and long-time relay supporter, Norman Jean Gurganus said at first she was worried that the weather would affect this year’s attendance.

    “At the beginning, I thought it was going to be kinda slow,” she said. “But as the night went on, there were just as many people as before.”

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  • Writer examines the history of East Coast beach music, local personalities

    By Renee Sloan

    Staff Writer

     

    Write what you know.

    Author Howie Thompson gave that advice to aspiring writers last Thursday at Sunset River Marketplace in Calabash, where he was speaking as part of the gallery’s Coffee with the Authors series.

    However, Thompson wanted to write about beach music, and to follow his own advice, he had to spend a lot of hours researching and interviewing for his two books.

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  • Pondering Pentecost: What’s blowing in the wind these days?

    There is an unusual feast celebrated in many Christian churches. Bearing the name Pentecost, a name that is strange to many, its celebration simultaneously mystifies and lures us. It is also considered to be the birthday of the church. Special attention and homage is paid to God’s Holy Spirit on this day. This is clear. What remains a mystery is the meaning behind the nomenclature. Who, what, how and where is this entity that some call the Holy Ghost?

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  • Bananas are actually a large herb, not really a fruit

    The banana tree is not a really a tree, nor is what we call a banana actually a fruit. The “tree” is actually a large herb and the banana is seedless and thus, botanically speaking, not a fruit. Each banana tree produces one and only one bunch of 100-400 bananas during its lifecycle.

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  • Spring gardening: Now is the time to prune, trim and control

    By Judy Koehly
    Master gardener
    Bring some early springtime beauty into your home. Cut branches of forsythia, quince, spirea, redbud, dogwood, witch hazel, magnolia, flowering cherry and pussy willow to put in a vase of water and place in a warm, bright spot to force out the blossoms.

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  • Great food-preservation resources are available; classes also slated

    I can tell the weather is getting better, just by the phone calls and questions coming into the extension office about preserving foods.
    So far, people have been mostly interested in making jams and jellies, but I anticipate we’ll soon be getting the freezing and canning questions. That’s great. We don’t mind the calls because they are an important part of what we do.

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  • Wounded Warriors to participate in The First Tee Tournament

    Four foursomes of Wounded Warriors will participate in the Future Generations Tournament -n June at St. James Plantation.
    “We will once again have the honor of hosting our Wounded Warriors in the Future Generations Tournament, the largest charity golf event in the region with about 500 participants each year,” said Wayne Moody, tournament chairman. “Eight will come from Fort Bragg and eight will come from Camp Lejeune.”

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