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By Emmy ErranteStaff Writer

Seven Wrightsville Beach residents spoke against proposed changes to the town’s parking rules during a Feb. 11 public hearing, but the board of aldermen approved nearly all the new rules, which added metered zones, extended hours of enforcement and raised the price of residential parking passes.

“I don’t think any of us like increases,” Mayor Bill Blair acknowl-edged, but said those increases are necessary to raise revenue for beach renourishment and create turnover at the town’s limited parking spaces.

One parking change residents did want to see — the removal of com-pact car spaces — was not included in the amended ordinance, because board members wanted to give parking staff another year to address residents’ concerns with stricter enforcement.

The new parking rules affect both residents and visitors, but only resi-dents voiced their opinions during the public hearing. One resident, Karen Dunn, did speak for those across the drawbridge, pointing out, “We are limiting people that may not be able to afford to come here and pay for parking all day.”

The need for meter moneyBy Emmy ErranteStaff Writer

Wrightsville Beach Mayor Bill Blair knew expanding the town’s paid parking would be unpopular, but the extra meters and regula-tions serve two purposes: forcing turnover in the island’s limited parking spots and bringing in revenue for beach renourishment so the anticipated multi-million dollar bill doesn’t drastically affect residents’ property taxes.

Wrightsville Beach’s park-ing program generated about $2.5 million in 2015. $437,000 went to the town’s back-up sand fund, a stash of money to pay the town’s share of beach renourishment when federal or state funding runs out. About $500,000 paid for parking enforcement. The rest, town manager Tim Owens said, funded services like police vehi-cles, extra summertime police

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A surfboard goes to WashingtonBy McCall ReederIntern

A surfboard containing hundreds of signatures from businesses up and down the East Coast, including several area businesses, opposing offshore drilling in the Atlantic traveled to its final destination in Washington, D.C., last weekend.

The surfboard went to the Secretary of the Department of Interior and the admin-istration at the White House, said Mary Baggett, co-owner of the Blockade Runner Resort in Wrightsville Beach. Baggett said it was her third trip to Washington to lobby against offshore drilling and seismic testing.

The Surfrider Foundation orchestrated the event called Coastal Lobby Day over Feb. 12 – 13 weekend to campaign against the newly passed bill to drill off of the Atlantic Coast.

“Our mission is to protect our beaches and waterways,” said Amanda Jacobs, marketing manager for the Cape Fear Chapter of the Surfrider Foundation.

The foundation campaigns across the country to ensure the oceans are being protected and respected by all. They also reach out to students by visiting cam-puses and classes. Surfrider welcomes involvement in its local chapter.

“We focus on doing things that anyone can do, anywhere,” Jacobs said. Jacobs is also the owner of a business that harvests Wrightsville Beach salt to

create sea salts for cooking as well as bathing or skin care. “So I would especially like clean waters,” Jacobs said.

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Dockside for permit upgrade to parkingBy Terry LaneStaff Writer

The owners of the Dockside Marina and Restaurant are pro-posing a change to their parking lot that will bring out some neighbors to protest the expan-sion before the Wilmington City Council next month.

The plan would modify the gravel parking lot that Dockside operates at 1308 Airlie Road by using part of 1303 Airlie Road in a remodeled parking area that would also include building three new small “patio homes.”

The Wilmington Planning Commission approved the proj-ect on Feb. 2 by a 6-1 vote, with only the commission’s chair Deb Hayes voting against. The city’s planning staff recommended that the commission deny the project. The Wilmington City Council is scheduled to consider the zoning request on March 1.

The project would expand the current gravel parking lot into the neighboring lot by adding paving, lighting, demarcating parking spots and providing a defined route to guide traffic in and out of the lot. It would also add three small homes in the area behind the new parking on 1303 Airlie Road.

During the meeting, city plan-ner Jeff Walton said the project would lead to further encroach-ment of commerce onto the west side of Airlie Road, where the city’s future land use plan restricts any further commercial development to help preserve the residential.

“It would threaten the liveabil-ity of properties in the immediate vicinity,” Walton said.

But attorney Matt Nichols, rep-resenting the Dockside owners, told the planning commission that the development was con-sistent with city standards, the future land use plan and the

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Amanda Jacobs, marketing manager for the Cape Fear Chapter of the Surfrider Foundation, holds a surfboard signed by busi-ness owners located on the East Coast who are opposed to offshore drilling and seismic testing.

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Parking changes approved by the Wrightsville Beach Board of Aldermen include adding pay stations to Wrightsville Beach Park. Two free hours will be allowed.

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By Terry LaneStaff Writer

As Friday, Feb. 19 marks the last day to register to vote in time for the March 15 primary, some candidates for local office see it as a deadline for getting new voters to support their campaign, especially as some local races become more heated.

One of those candidates is New Hanover County Board of Commissioners Chair Beth Dawson, who is one of three members of the board defending her seat. Another, Commissioner Woody White, is with Dawson

among the seven Republicans competing in the March 15 pri-mary to choose three candidates for the three positions on the board.

Dawson said part of her efforts were focused on convincing unaf-filiated voters to register in time for the primary. For Dawson, convincing unaffiliated voters to select the Republican ballot and choose her could be what secures a win in the primary.

“I’m asking folks if they are unaffiliated to choose the Republican ballot so that they can support me,” said Dawson, who added that she’s been helped

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Town talks playground, new parkingBy Emmy ErranteStaff Writer

Town picks design for accessible playground

I n N o v e m b e r 2 0 1 5 , Wrightsville Beach was awarded a $300,000 grant from a regional healthcare organization to add handicap-accessible playground equipment to Wrightsville Beach Park, and Feb. 11 town leaders selected a playground design that should be installed by the end of May.

Trillium Health Resources awarded the Play Together Construction Grant, which funds inclusive equipment meant for people of all ages and abili-ties. The grant allowed some flexibility over the playground’s appearance, so the town solic-ited design concepts from five vendors.

During its Feb. 11 meeting, the board of aldermen chose a design from PlayWorld with a variety of brightly colored equipment including teeter-totters, domes, slides and a wheelchair-accessi-ble swing called a Liberty Swing. The new playground will be con-structed in the footprint of the existing equipment, which will be removed.

Parks and recreation pro-gram supervisor Katie Ryan said the department plans to move some of the old equip-ment to the Harbor Way Garden

on the west side of Wrightsville Beach Park.

She said if all goes as planned, the playground would be con-structed in early spring and be finished by May 15.

Creating more parkingDuring its 2016 retreat,

Wrightsville’s board of alder-men identified two locations — Old Causeway Drive and Public Beach Access No. 1 — it could renovate to add as many as 80 new parking spaces, and during its meeting board mem-bers voted to allocate $15,000 to begin the permitting and engineering process for both projects.

The Old Causeway Drive

project is further developed, town manager Tim Owens said, but even that would not be con-structed until fall 2016 at the earliest. The north end project could be completed by sum-mer 2017, he added, but both projects still have obstacles to overcome.

About 24 spaces could be added to the west end of Old Causeway Drive, he said, by changing the parking configu-ration from parallel to angled side-by-side. To make room for the spaces, which abut a North Carolina Department of Transportation right-of-way, the existing bike lane would have to be removed.

The estimated cost of the proj-ect is $50,000. Lanier Parking estimated the spots would pro-duce $18,000 yearly in revenue.

The town could also add 55 spaces at the north end of the beach by adding angled spaces around the perimeter of the N. Lumina Avenue cul-de-sac in front of Shell Island Resort. Owens anticipated greater hurdles to completing

that project, starting with per-mitting, because while the land is town-owned, N.C. DOT and various environmental agencies will have input.

Lanier Parking estimated the 55 spaces would produce $160,000 yearly in revenue. Mayor Bill Blair said he had already heard concerns about the project, so the town should hold a public hearing before it gets too far along.

Resurfacing Pelican Drive and W. Henderson Street

The aldermen voted to allow the town to hire paving contrac-tor Highland Paving to resurface Pelican Drive and W. Henderson Street for $109,800.

The town budgeted $102,500 for resurfacing work this year but town manager Tim Owens said the extra cost could be absorbed into the town’s budget. The work will involve asphalt and concrete demolition and grading. Once resurfacing is complete, the roads will be relined just as they are now.email [email protected]

City tourism officials chasing bigger conventionsBy Terry LaneStaff Writer

Shovels pushed the first dirt for Wilmington’s next downtown hotel last Friday, and for city tour-ism officials, the work at selling Wilmington as a host for several larger conventions and trade shows has already begun.

“We can now go after more regional conventions and shows and even some of the national groups,” said Kim Hufham, president of the Wilmington and Beaches Convention and Visitors Bureau.

City officials and business leaders gathered behind the Wilmington Convention Center on Feb. 12, bundled in jackets to withstand the freezing cold and drizzly weather, to break ground on the 186-room Embassy Suites Hotel.

A visibly excited Wilmington

Mayor Bill Saffo pumped up the crowd and recounted more than a dozen years of work and plan-ning it took to get the point where officials were ready to pose with the golden shovels, signifying that construction on the hotel was ready to begin.

“How sweet it is! We are finally here,” Saffo exclaimed at the groundbreaking, referencing the delays and legal fights that stalled the development for years. “It was a long, hard road to get here.”

For Hufham, whose job it is to sell the city for conventions, the sales pitch has already begun, as the hotel is expected to be open by spring 2017, and the conventions the hotel attracts are usually sched-uled two to three years out.

“We’re already working with a couple of groups,” she said.

The final delay ended in June 2015, when the North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the city after the land deal for the hotel was challenged in 2014 by both a resident and Sotherly Hotels, Inc., owner of the Wilmington Hilton Riverside. The suit alleged that the $578,820 price the city charged Harmony Hospitality for the three-fourths acre of riverfront property was

below value and, thus, the city was unfairly subsidizing the project. The city contended the price was advertised and offered to qualified bidders on three occasions, with only Harmony Hospitality mak-ing the offer.

The ordeal leading up to the the long-awaited convention center hotel groundbreaking went back further than the lawsuit, as Saffo recalled the 2003 Wilmington City Council that first began working on plans for a convention center.

“It would have happened quicker, if not for the recession,” Saffo said. “It’s the culmination of a decade of work.”

The convention center opened in 2011, but without a nearby hotel to provide lodging for con-vention goers. Saffo commended past elected leaders and city offi-cials, whom he said followed through with the plan to bring a top-tier hotel to the location.

“There was a consistent vision,” Saffo said. “No mat-ter who was elected, they stuck with it. We could have gone with a lesser hotel, but that was not in the council’s vision.”

The hotel is expected to generate $6.4 million in tax rev-enue over 10 years, create 346

construction jobs and 207 hotel jobs once completed.

In looking forward, Saffo said in an interview that while the hotel deal was a hard-fought accom-plishment, there will one day be other projects the city can pursue to improve tourism, economic development and quality of life.

Saffo said he could envision a public-private partnership to bring a minor league baseball team to Wilmington. Adding more venues for music and concerts is another direction the city could go.

“The music scene is picking up steam here,” Saffo said, referenc-ing the popularity of the shows at the Brooklyn Arts Center and Greenfield Lake Amphitheater.

Fitting into that plan could include the development of the northern waterfront park on 6.5 acres of land the city purchased for $4.1 million in November 2013. The city is still seeking funding for the park’s develop-ment, but plans could include an amphitheater that could seat up to 7,000 audience members and host events and concerts.

“We could bring a band like the Red Hot Chili Peppers here,” he said.email [email protected]

County officials issue warning over Zika virusBy Terry LaneStaff Writer

New Hanover County health officials are sounding an early warning concerning the spread of the Zika virus, encouraging residents to help with mosquito control as the weather warms up this spring and summer.

The county invited local media to a briefing with senior health offi-cials, which they said shows the concerns over the potential for the Zika virus to spread this summer.

New Hanover County Department of Health Director Dave Rice said the county was prepared with a quick response should any cases occur in New Hanover County.

“We need help with source control,” Rice said. “We’re focused on prevention and protection.”

For most, the effect of a Zika virus infection is mild. The symptoms last only a few days, a week at most. Rest is usually all that’s needed to recover from an infection and 80 percent of people infected with the virus won’t show any symptoms at all, the Center for Disease Control reports.

But health officials raised worldwide concerns about the virus recently when a rise of birth defects in infants born in Brazil was believed to be connected to a Zika virus outbreak in the country. Officials are still studying whether the presence of the virus in pregnant women is behind a suspected rise in infants born with microcephaly, which results in an abnormally small head and brain.

Dr. Jessica Burkett, medical director of the New Hanover County Department of Health, said Zika can spread from a pregnant mother to her infant at any stage in the pregnancy.

The Zika virus is spread through the bites of two breeds of mos-quito, including the Asian tiger mosquito that is prevalent in New Hanover County.

“To do a good job of mosquito control, you have to do a lot of sur-veillance,” said Marie Hemmen, vector control for the New Hanover County Department of Health.

NHC vector control will survey for larvae and map for populations. The Asian tiger mosquito primarily bites in the daytime and is known for its aggressiveness. The mosquito is seasonal locally, generally from May to October, though Hemmen said the mosquito can come as early as April.

Hemmer urged residents to take extra precautions to prevent stand-ing water where mosquitos can breed, including buckets, tires, leaky faucets, trash containers, bird baths, flower pots and pools. She said one common source of mosquito breeding are the trays underneath planters that can collect water.

The county recommends residents “tip and toss” water at least every five days. It’s part of the county’s joint effort to both maintain source reduction and educate the public, including holding presenta-tions at school groups, home owners associations and community groups, Hemmen said.

There have been Zika infection cases in the United States, but so far, all are associated with travel to tropical areas where the virus is more common. The closest cases to North Carolina are located in Virginia, Georgia and Florida.email [email protected]

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Wilmington Mayor Bill Saffo, center, leads a group of city officials and developers in shoveling the first bits of earth for the long-awaited Embassy Suites Hotel, which will be located next to the Wilmington Convention Center, during the project’s ceremonial groundbreaking Friday, Feb. 12.

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NHC brings on firm to lobby for beach funds in WashingtonBy Terry LaneStaff Writer

With federal funding for coastal storm damage reduction programs threatened, New Hanover County recently introduced the lobbying team that will be working on con-vincing both the federal and state government to maintain dedicated funding sources.

During a Friday, Feb. 12 meeting of the county’s beach communities, Ruth Smith, New Hanover County’s chief commu-nications officer, said the county was expanding its lobbying efforts in order to try to ensure that fed-eral funding continues for beach sand replenishment projects or

that the state government steps in with more funding. Federal dollars pay for sand nourishment projects like the ones currently underway in Carolina Beach and Kure Beach.

The county’s lobbying effort is expanding to the federal level with the contract of Prime Policy, a Washington-based lobbying firm, where the firm’s associate Kevin Smith will be the county’s primary voice in meetings with influenc-ers in the nation’s capital. Smith said he recently moved to the Wilmington area. The county will continue to work with Tom Fetzer, the former mayor of Raleigh who now lives in Landfall and was currently on contract to represent

the county’s interest in the North Carolina General Assembly.

Smith said that his firm recently met the deadline for a crucial let-ter writing project for the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, which oversees beach renourishment funding. Participants at the meeting also had a lengthy discussion about how to persuade state representa-tives to fund coastal storm damage reduction.

“We have to convince Raleigh to move into the space that the fed-eral government will move out of,” Fetzer said.

One part of the discussion included the need to construct better data to take to Raleigh to

show the impact of tourism on the state’s economy. Any presentation will also need to include informa-tion on how the local towns that receive funding for coastal storm damage reduction would also ben-efit inland communities, meeting participants said.

Local communities need to con-sider how they are setting aside money, Fetzer said, adding that the state would likely have to find $40 million – $50 million in funding.

“The more skin we can put in the game, the more likely we can get 170 legislators to invest with us,” Fetzer said.

New Hanover County commis-sioner Skip Watkins commended Carolina Beach for expanding its

revenue stream through new paid parking spaces. The comments came the day after the Wrightsville Beach Board of Aldermen voted to add new parking meters in some areas, including the town’s park, and to expand parking fees and hours in some places.

“You need to look to your inter-nal resources,” Watkins said, referring to the beach towns. “If parking can be expanded, I encourage you to do so.”

David Heglar, member of the Kure Beach town council, said it was difficult for his town to get the same type of parking revenue that Wrightsville Beach and Carolina Beach could raise through their meters.

“If that’s hurting or helping the message, we need to know that,” Heglar said.

From the federal angle, Chance Lambeth, aid to Rep. David Rouzer, said the con-gressman’s focus was educating the House Transportation and

Infrastructure Committee mem-bers on the value of the beaches and equating them with other infrastructure projects. Rouzer, the Republican representative of North Carolina’s 7th District, is a member of the committee.

“Your turnpikes in New Jersey are the same as our beaches,” Lambeth said.

Wrightsville Beach Town Manager Tim Owens said the county needs an economic impact study that can help show how the revenues gener-ated from beach tourism benefits the larger regional economy. Owens said the study was nec-essary because he believed that the results of an ongoing cost-benefit study by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers would be unfavorable in helping to secure more federal funding.

“We may need some tool to fight back” against the Corps cost-bene-fit calculations, Owens said.email [email protected]

For The RecordQuestion and photographs by Logan Harle

Candidate campaign signs are starting to proliferate as the March 15 primary election gets closer. How do campaign signs and ads affect how you vote on candidates and issues?

Michelle MacKay Wrightsville Beach, N.C.

“They don’t play a huge role in who I vote for because there are so

many of them.”

Mark Cramer Wilmington, N.C.

“It doesn’t really affect me. It’s more annoying if anything.”

Zoe Vanderploeg Wilmington, N.C.

“Almost not at all. It’s just names on signs with nothing substantial to sway

my opinion.”

Carole Wolff Wilmington, N.C.

“If you don’t know what the candidate stands for then a sign with a name

on it is pointless.”

Priscilla Whitlock Wrightsville Beach, N.C.

“Not at all. I would rather read news articles or watch a debate to gain

information rather than being swayed by yard signs.”

IMPORTANT DATES

Thursday, Feb. 18

Wilmington Board of Adjustment regular meeting, 1 p.m., Lord Spencer Compton Room, 102 N. Third St.

Friday, Feb. 19

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Commissioners endorse career and technical school conceptBy Emmy ErranteStaff Writer

A career and technical high school concept for New Hanover County earned the support of the county’s board of commissioners Feb. 15, although commission-ers had questions about cost and security.

The CTE school would be built on Cape Fear Community College’s north campus in Castle Hayne and serve students from New Hanover and Pender coun-ties. The curriculum would emphasize career readiness with programs blending core classes with 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 inter-ests and they would graduate with what NHC Schools Superintendent Dr. Tim Markley described as “a certificate that they can take and turn into employment,” a National Career Readiness Certification.

The school would benefit stu-dents, Markley said, increasing graduation rates by offering non-traditional path for students who would thrive in that environment

while lessening overcrowding at other local high schools. But it would also boost the county’s economic development by draw-ing companies in need of specific skills taught in CTE schools.

“Vertex needs welders,” Markley gave as one example, and CTE students would learn skills like welding in CFCC’s lab spaces.

The commissioners supported the concept but questioned various aspects of the plan. Commissioner Woody White pointed out that with an expected enrollment of about between 450 and 500, the $10.9 million estimated price of such a school well exceeded the cost per student of a traditional high school.

He urged those involved to first explore ways to implement the CTE curriculum without building a facility. Later, as the success of the curriculum grows, the construction of a facility could be considered, he said. White’s other cost-minded suggestion was to eliminate redun-dancy between the CTE curriculum and classes offered in traditional schools.

“See if we’re doing a lot of these things in the school system already, so we can streamline it,” he said.

In response, Markley said the

courses to which White was referring were more exploratory, “where students dabble their feet” in the subject matter, but a CTE curriculum would let them become fully immersed. And the cost of the building and maintaining the CTE school would be lower because much of the school would be inte-grated into the existing CFCC facilities.

That integration could cause security issues, commissioner Rob Zapple said, because CTE students as young as 14 would be sharing a facility with a community col-lege population with an average age of 26.

Markley said that kind of integra-tion is already occurring at UNCW

and across the state. The younger students, he added, would be mostly contained within the high school portion of the facility and not until 11th and 12th grade would they start regularly using the shared lab spaces.

Despite their questions and con-cerns, the commissioners were supportive of the CTE school concept, which vice chairman Jonathan Barfield Jr. said would help not only young people but their families and the community.

“We can put tools in their hands and give them a skill,” he said. “It’s going to provide jobs for them, sta-bility for their families and a lower crime rate for our community.”email [email protected]

Weekend Police ReportFriday, Feb. 12Citations

• James David Holt was cited for an expired registration and inspection.

• Melissa Ann Atkinson was cited for an expired registration and inspection.

Warning

• Timothy Trenton Cooper was warned for an expired registration.

• James Edward Webber was warned for speeding.

Saturday, Feb. 13Citations

• David Charles Ridgeway was cited for speeding.• Dennis Lawrence Small was cited for speeding.• Derek Ralph Cirillo was cited for speeding.

Warnings

• Laura Fagan was warned for speeding.

Sunday, Feb. 14Arrests

• Jerry Rouse was charged with DWI.

Citations

• Alexander R. Wolf was cited for an expired registration.• Allan H. Andrews was cited for hit and run with property damage.


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Editorial/Opinion

The signs heralding the advent of a new season are everywhere.

Alas, not robins, the hopeful harbingers of spring. We’re talking yard signs, those ubiquitous mini-billboards trumpeting the names of various candidates for a variety of offices.

The proliferation of yard signs marks the advent of the political season in New Hanover County and North Carolina. Both parties hold their primaries on March 15, and prospective office holders are getting serious about their campaigns.

Sign, sign, everywhere a sign, seemingly sprout-ing up overnight. The once solitary “Dr. Ben Carson for President” sign at the corner of Oleander and Greenville Loop, which went up around the time he visited Wilmington for a private fundraiser in early January, is lonely no more. It’s been joined by a host of others, touting aspi-rants for school board, county commission, the N.C. house, state senate, judicial positions — although, oddly, Dr. Carson’s sign remains the only one for a presidential candidate.

Yard signs are a pervasive reality of every political sea-son. They no doubt make the candidates feel good about themselves when they see their names all over town. They announce the rooting interest of homeowners who plant them on their lawns. They often make the news for being removed or defaced.

But do they work as a political tool?No. And, frighteningly, yes.“Signs don’t vote” is an axiom among campaign

managers, and that’s more or less true in national and statewide races where the candidates are well known. In a 2015 study called “The effects of lawn signs on vote outcomes: Results from four random-ized field experiments” for the journal Electoral Studies, researchers found that on average, yard signs increase vote share by 1.7 percentage points — rarely enough to make a difference.

But in local politics, where voters know little about the candidates, they can swing a race.

In 2011, Vanderbilt political scientists Cindy Kam and Elizabeth Zechmeister created a fictitious can-didate, and posted yard signs with his name near a local elementary school. Parents of kids attending the school who responded to an Internet survey three days later put the fake candidate in their top three.

“Our study offers fairly conclusive evidence that, in low-information races, a candidate’s name rec-ognition alone positively affects voter support,” Zechmeister said in a story on Vanderbilt’s website.

With the passion seen nationally over the presi-dential race, turnout should be large for the March

primaries. It’s more than a little scary to think that the November ballots will be populated with candidates for county commission, board of educa-tion and judicial positions chosen by people who showed up to vote for (or against) Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton and put a checkmark by a down-ballot name they recognized from a yard sign.

As the Vanderbilt researchers pointed out, low-information races are the rule, not the exception, in American politics. Local candidates typically lack the budget for broadcast ads. Their debates aren’t aired on TV. So they rely on getting their names out there through yard signs, print and online news ads, direct mailings, buttons, and bumper stickers.

Good for them. And bad for us, if we elect our representatives because we saw their name multiple times dur-ing our morning commute.

Citizens should be involved in the process of selecting our servants in government —please note that is the way it’s supposed to work, not the other way around; they serve us, we don’t serve them. But only if the citizens are informed.

That can be a challenge, but it is possible with a little work.

By all means, look at the yard signs. See if they include a web address for the candidate, and if so go there. Promises to transform the county into

Shangri-La or to make an Einstein out of every student should be taken with several grains of salt, but site visitors should at least be able to glean information about basic political philosophy.

After reading all the good things the candidates say about themselves on their own sites, do a basic Internet search and find out what others are say-ing. There’s no shortage of interesting news stories about some of these men and women.

Check out the websites of the county’s two major political parties to see their slate of can-didates. Then after reading about how they’ll fix all of our problems and make our lives bet-ter — or, in the case of the Republicans, after being entertained by their infighting and name calling — go to ostensibly non-partisan sites run by the New Hanover County Board of Elections, Common Cause North Carolina, and the League of Women Voters.

Read your local paper and watch the news. Find out dates and locations of candidate forums, and attend.

Please, be informed. Be informed about the can-didates and their positions. Be informed about the new voter ID laws, and take appropriate measures if necessary.

But please, don’t vote because of yard sign name recognition.

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Wrightsville Sound small area plan.

Nichols said the project was needed to improve the park-ing access that already exists on Airlie Road and bring it up to 2016 standards. Nichols described the parking situation there as a “rodeo” that creates traffic, mess from the gravel and safety.

“There’s no rhyme or reason to it,” Nichols said.

The area is currently zoned for residential use, in the R-15 cat-egory, but to modify the parking lot, it has to be conditionally zoned for commercial business before a permit can be issued,

said Dockside owner Lionel Yow, who also owns the property at 1303 Airlie Road.

The Dockside parking lot at 1308 Airlie Road has been in use since before the city annexed the area in 1999, Yow said, and that the current zoning and land use rules prevents the owner from making reasonable upgrades to the property.

“We were annexed into the city,” Yow said. “The city owes us a fix.”

Some neighbors said they were concerned the project could reduce property values, as well as change the character of the neigh-borhood. Though other neighbors said they supported the project because of the improvements it

would make to parking.Neighbors said they worried

that by bringing in the smaller patio homes onto the property, they would set a precedent that would bring increased popula-tion density to the area. They noted there were several lots in the area where patio homes could be added and that city council approval would open the gates for more density in the area.

“The dam can break,” said neighbor Haywood Newkirk. “I worry about the long-term effects of five sites within a quarter mile of this location. The North Carolina scenic byway that is Airlie Road is going to become a patio home community.”email [email protected]

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by a tremendous amount of vol-unteers. “I’ve been doing a lot of education on my voting record and how it supports job creation, education, teachers, security and public safety.”

More voters register as unaf-filiated than for either the Republican or Democrat party, Dawson said. However, the chal-lenge will be convincing them to not only show up on March 15, but choosing the Republican pri-mary ballot.

Unaffiliated voters can choose either the Democrat, Republican or the more-limited unaffiliated ballot, which for this year’s primary election only offers a choice on whether to vote for the Connect NC bond. Dawson noted that the Republican presidential primary, which features the light-ning rod candidacy of Donald Trump, could draw unaffiliated voters to the Republican ballot. While this year’s Democratic pri-mary will have a national race for the party’s presidential candidate, the only significant local primary for Democrats will be the county board of education.

Several county races are show-ing increased tension between

candidates. After candidates White, Patricia Kusek and Jim Brumit announced they were run-ning as a slate under the name of the “Conservative Leadership Team,” they were targeted by another candidate in the race for their connection to the Cape Fear Public Utility Authority (CFPUA) board of directors.

Derrick Hickey, a Wilmington surgeon and candidate for the board of commissioners, cre-ated a website and Facebook page urging voters not to let “the CFPUA board takeover the New Hanover County commission.” White represents the commis-sion on the public utility board, while Kusek is the board’s chair and Brumit its vice-chair. The website criticizes the CFPUA for rate increases, fees, privacy and maintaining a $57 million surplus.

“There’s not one true fact on the website,” said Kusek, who added that her work on the utility board has helped prepare her for a role on the board of commissioners.

“It’s given me a broad perspec-tive on how the city and county works. We’re working with an $80 million budget, working on cost control and keeping rates reasonable. It’s one of the most active boards in the county as it

oversees an important and vital service to our area in providing water and sewer services,” Kusek said.

More accusations were lev-eled in the race to replace N.C. Rep. Rick Catlin for the District 20 seat. New Hanover County Board of Education member Tammy Covil tied her Republican primary opponent Holly Grange to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Covil launched a website under Grange’s name to highlight the connection found between Osprey Global Solutions, the defense contrac-tor owned by Grange’s husband, and a Clinton aide. The connec-tion was revealed in a memo discovered in the congressional Benghazi investigation, where Osprey sought a contract to oper-ate in Libya.

Grange, who works as Osprey’s director of com-munity affairs, held a press conference and issued a press release to defend herself on the accusations.

“My job with Osprey is now and has only ever been to pro-vide charitable funding to local area non-profit organizations,” Grange said. email [email protected]

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Jacobs signed the surfboard herself back in September 2015 and followed its journey to D.C. last weekend.

“A spill will happen, it’s inevi-table,” Jacobs said.

Jacobs said that research shows that there is only six months to one year’s worth of oil off the coast, making it a big risk for the ocean’s environment for a small cause.

The group, including Surfrider chapters from Florida, New Jersey, New York, and D.C., set up meetings with legislatures

to express their many concerns about offshore drilling on the East Coast.

Baggett and her brother Bill were in Washington to bring attention to the damage that would be done to Wrightsville Beach and North Carolina’s tour-ism industry if the drilling were to occur.

They also signed the surfboard.North Carolina Senators Thom

Tillis and Richard Burr, as well as U.S. Rep. David Rouzer have not opposed the plan to drill off the Carolina coast.

“We went to speak to the con-gressmen and senator, we all made calls to them,” Baggett

said. “Tillis and Burr said peo-ple across the state do not let them know how they feel about offshore drilling and seismic test-ing. They said they are having a lot of phone calls and emails that favor drilling and seismic test-ing. Especially David Rouzer, he said his district has not been very vocal in being opposed to it.”

Kure Beach’s Town Council voted unanimously to a resolution opposing it on Jan. 19. Carolina Beach did the same last February, and the city of Wilmington fol-lowed suit in July 2015.

“Out of all the chapters, we had the hardest agenda because it is off our coast,” Jacobs said.

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But her suggestion that pub-lic transportation should service Wrightsville Beach Park elic-ited grumbling from those in attendance.

Visitors will be most affected by extending the hours of enforce-ment until 7 p.m. in lots with restroom facilities — Crystal Pier lot, Johnnie Mercer’s Pier lot, L-Shaped lot and north end lot — and adding metered zones on Harbor Island.

The new metered zones, which will be enforced May 1 through September 15, are the Town Hall lot, Keel Street from Old Causeway Drive to Seacrest Drive and Marina Street from Old Causeway Drive to Short Street. Like other metered zones in the Harbor Island business district, Marina Street and Keel Street meters will only be enforced 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. to be less of a burden on those businesses.

Still, the business owners on those streets were opposed to the meters. Wrightsville Beach Chamber of Commerce board member Sue Bulluck spoke for them, saying “not only will it damage business, it will impair and impact safety with the load-ing of boats and coming of going of merchandise.”

Wrightsville Beach Park will also be a metered zone, but pay stations will allow two free hours.

The new rules also require

residents to pay more. Residential parking passes increased from $25 to $35 and vehicle tax decals raised from $5 to $15 before April 1 and $30 after. Parking passes will also no longer be allowed on the stretch of S. Lumina Avenue near South End Surf Shop.

“That’s probably the worst area for college kids sitting out in the paid meters,” Blair said.

Residents were most worried about a new rule the board passed prohibiting a resident from parking in a metered space for more than seven consecutive 24-hour periods. Several residents said they needed street parking because they had small driveways or no driveways.

The punishment is a $150 civil citation, but board members and parking staff agreed it would be enforced lightly. They created the rule to address eight to 10 instances last summer of residents storing cars in metered spaces for four or five months at a time, Blair said.

“Up until this ordinance we had no way to remove those cars,” he said.

Owens said only obvious offenders would get tickets, and town attorney John Wessel added specifics on how the ordinance should be enforced.

“If [parking staff] goes by there four times a day, seven days in a row, I think that’s sufficient,” he said.

Compact car spacesThe board did not approve any

specific changes to its compact

car spaces, despite residents’ reports that larger cars were squeezing into the spaces and blocking their dock or drive-way access. The spaces are relatively new, and town leaders and staff agreed to try to address residents’ concerns with stricter enforcement.

Previously, parking staff was more lenient about ticketing large cars for parking in compact spaces, as long as the car’s tires were within the white lines. But residents said cars’ bumpers were still blocking their accesses.

“So this year, [the spaces] are for compact cars only, and the entire vehicle must be parked in the space to avoid a citation,” Owens said.

The most frequent complaints came from residents of Waynick Boulevard and Oxford Street, the streets that gained the most compact spots when the spaces were relined. Charles Hunter said he couldn’t access his dock on Waynick Boulevard.

“It’s not an occasional problem, it’s almost every day during the summer,” he said.

E. Oxford Street resident Greg Campbell said seven compact spaces were added on his street, and in addition to blocking accesses, the extra street park-ing was damaging his yard.

Owens said certain spaces caus-ing repeated problems could be looked at and adjusted.email [email protected]

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presence, beach strand trash collection vehicles and employ-ees and general maintenance of bathhouses, lifeguard stands and beach accesses.

“It’s all the different things that go along with having visi-tors,” he said, “just general services for visitors.”

But an increasing urgency to save for beach renourishment is the main reason the town needs more parking revenue, Blair said. Every four years, sand is pumped onto Wrightsville’s beach strand to prevent long-term erosion. Currently, the state and federal governments fund most of the $10 million projects, with a local match from New Hanover County room tax collections.

But it appears federal and state support will soon disap-pear, leaving local governments scrambling to find their own funding solutions. If that occurs, an interlocal agreement between Wrightsville Beach and New Hanover County would require the county to pay 82.5 percent if Wrightsville Beach picks up the rest. The remaining 17.5 percent still equates to roughly $2 mil-lion, a fifth of the town’s annual budget.

Blair said finding that kind of money presents “the single big-gest problem we’ve had laid at our doorstep.”

Wrightsville Beach has two potential revenue sources for that cost — parking and prop-erty tax — and town leaders chose parking because it pres-ents less of a burden to residents. Wrightsville’s leaders have managed to keep property taxes steady for years while continually expanding their parking program.

Now, Wrightsville Beach resi-dents not only pay the lowest property taxes in New Hanover County, but Owens said they pay “the lowest property rate in the state, as far as coastal communi-ties go.”

That doesn’t mean property tax revenue won’t be needed eventu-ally to supplement the parking revenue, with beach renourish-ment costs rising, Owens added. Wrightsville Beach Chamber of Commerce member Sue Bulluck echoed that point during the Feb. 11 public hearing on park-ing increases.

“The [parking revenue] will not be enough,” she said. “While parking is a good revenue source for us, I want everyone in this room to understand that it is a Band-Aid.”

Since the mounting pres-sure to save for sand stems

from uncertainty over contin-ued federal and state support, New Hanover County has lob-byists working in Raleigh and Washington to convince those leaders that the shared benefit of beach renourishment is worth sharing in the cost.

At the state level, lobbyist Tom Fetzer is emphasizing the importance of coastal tourism to the state’s economy. Even inland counties get overflow revenue from people traveling to the beach, he said. Eastern North Carolina’s economy is driven by turkey farms, hog farms and coastal tourism, he added, “and we don’t pollute the environment.”

A sl ight surplus in the state’s budget might help the beach towns’ case, Fetzer told Wrightsville, Carolina and Kure Beach leaders, but that positive report was accompanied by a warning to local leaders. Even if state support were secured, Fetzer said, the local govern-ments would have to contribute as much as 33.3 percent.

“You, as elected officials, have to lead this process, he said. “You have to go back to your communities and, somehow, find that 33.3 percent, because you’re going to be held account-able for it.”email [email protected]

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recycle and win program

Local elected officials join representatives from Coca-Cola and Harris Teeter Monday, Feb. 15 at the Harris Teeter on Oleander Drive, to announce the Coca-Cola Recycle and Win program, a pub-lic/private partnership that aims to increase recycling among Wilmington’s solid waste customers. Wilmington mayor Bill Saffo, from left, U.S. Rep. David Rouzer, R-N.C., Harris Teeter district man-ager Dan Marett, Coca-Cola Bottling Company Consolidated senior vice president of corporate affairs Lauren Steele, and Coca-Cola Bottling Company Consolidated director of retail sales N.C. east coastal zone Shawn Hinson ceremoniously recycle oversized beverage containers to kick off the program. ~ Allison Potter

Supplied photo courtesy of the Wrightsville Beach Chamber of Commerce

On Tuesday, Feb. 16, Wrightsville Beach Chamber of Commerce representatives and sponsors pre-sented a check in the amount of $1,230 to Allison McWhorter, the PTA president of Wrightsville Beach School, pictured here. The contribution, raised through the chamber’s annual oyster roast every November, will be used for program funding for the children of the school. The oyster roast is the main fundraiser of the Wrightsville chamber and takes place each year on the Sunday prior to Election Day. This year’s Oyster Roast is scheduled for Sunday, Nov. 6 at the Oceanic Restaurant.

Oyster Roast raises funds for WBS


making a Difference in the cape fear region

LIFESTYLES

W H AT ’ S C O M I N G D O W N T H E P I P E L I N E T H I S W E E K E N D ?

Putt for DoughFourth Annual Pizza PuttFriday, Feb. 19, 6-10 p.m., $20Children’s Museum of Wilmington, 116 Orange St.

The fundraiser for the Children’s Museum of Wilmington features an 18-hole miniature golf course. Participants can sample a variety of pizza and drinks from local restaurants. The event will also include a longest putt competition, longest cornhole toss competition, a silent auction and music. For details, visit www.playwilmington.org

Home Improvement Head StartSpring Home ShowFriday, Feb. 19 to Sunday, Feb. 21, FreeWilmington Convention Center

Meet with home improvement experts, view the latest products and trends, get ideas for home remodeling and compare prices. The show will include a selection of hot tubs on sale, as well as vendors highlighting the latest designs in kitch-ens, bathrooms, roofing, decks, pools, windows and other categories. For hours and additional information, visit www.wilmingtonhomeshow.com

Undersea AdventureAutism Friendly DaySunday, Feb. 21, 9 a.m., $10.95N.C. Aquarium at Fort Fisher, Kure Beach

The aquarium will host a program designed for children and adults with autism, featuring a dive program, educator-assisted opportunities to touch the animals, a calm space to provide comfort and a passport program to help guide visitors through the exhibits. The program will be assisted by the University of North Carolina TEACCH Autism Program. For details, visit www.ncaquariums.com

Shell Island Resort Second Annual Bridal ShowSunday, Feb. 21, 1-4 p.m., $5 Shell Island Resort, 2700 North Lumina Ave.

The Wrightsville Beach hotel and wedding venue will offer tours of its ballrooms, food and appe-tizers, door prizes, giveaways and a chance to meet with some of the area’s wedding ven-dors and professionals. To purchase tickets in advance, visit Shell Island’s Facebook page or go to www.eventbrite.com

Imagine you are locked in a room with only your wits to help you escape. Time is running out. It sounds like the plot to a video game. There are sev-eral games that use this strategy: figure out the puzzle, move up to the next level — or escape from a room.

Now, imagine such a game in the real, three-dimensional world, not the virtual world. Sound like fun? Steven and Kim Wilt of Wrightsville Beach hope so.

The Wilts first discovered the escape room phenomenon in 2014. People are locked in a room, and given a mystery to solve. They have one hour to decipher the clues and get out.

They fell in love with the concept, so much so that they started an escape room in Wilmington.

“Last summer, we were in Toronto to visit family. I Googled to see what was available for the kids to do and escape room popped up. I’d never heard of one before, but it sounded intriguing, so we decided to give it a try. We loved it,” said Kim Wilt, owner/operator of Cape Fear Escape Room.

Wilt said the escape room craze began about 10 years in Tokyo and then moved to Eastern Europe, where it is immensely popular. The phenomenon is slowly making its way to the United States.

“There are two escape rooms in Charlotte and one in Raleigh,” Wilt said. “I’m sure they’ll start popping up everywhere — they are just so much fun.”

Cape Fear Escape Room opened in October 2015, and Wilt said she is already getting return customers.

“Only 35 percent make it out of one of our rooms and only 23 percent succeed in escaping the other. Those who don’t get out the first time, want to try again. And they also are interested in the other room as well,” Wilt said.

Currently, the two puzzles available are “Time Traveler” and “Man Hunt.” Wilt said the plan is to change the puzzles about every six months.

While great fun, the escape room is also a good tool to use for team building. “We have a lot of corporations and organizations who send groups in to develop

their ability to work together for a common goal. It really does take everyone’s ideas to figure things out,” Wilt said. “It’s great for inter-generational fun, too. We often have entire families play.”

By Anne Barnhill, Contributing Writer

Mind games Wrightsville Beach couple’s new business turns customers into detectives

Wilt suggests children be at least 8 years old to compre-hend the challenge.

“What’s really fun is to see the kids come up with out-of-the-box thinking,” she said. “Most of the time, the children are able to help the grownups out. And seeing the grand-parents, parents and kids all working together to solve the puzzle is quite rewarding.”

So far, Cape Fear Escape Room has drawn people from many surrounding areas — Jacksonville (Marines seem to be the best at escaping quickly), Southport, New Bern — and, when the tourist season begins, Wilt expects people from all over the country to check out the new game in town.

Prior to starting Cape Fear Escape Room, Wilt owned Harbor Island Oyster, an online business selling accessories for oyster roasts. Her husband, Steve, works from home, too, for a marketing company in New York. Both are invested in the Wrightsville Beach community.

“We moved down here seven years ago,” Wilt said. “My parents had moved to Landfall, so we visited them often. We fell in love with the area. I especially loved the idea of my kids being able to walk to school at Wrightsville Beach.”

The Wilts became immediately active in the community as founding members of the WBS Foundation, which exists to support education at Wrightsville Beach School. This year, their house won Best Overall Residence in the Wrightsville Beach Holiday Home Decorating Contest.

“We love Wrightsville Beach,” Wilt said. She has no desire to escape.


In the “Time Traveler” game, players use clues to find a missing young couple in 1919.


Kim Wilt and her husband, Steven Wilt, opened Cape Fear Escape Room in October 2015.

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The Good News

Church Services NEAR THE BEACH

LITTLE CHAPEL ON THE BOARDWALK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (U.S.A.)

Rev. Patrick Thomas Rabun, pastor2 W. Fayetteville St., 910-256-2819, ext. 100

www.littlechapel.orgWorship: 8:30 a.m.

Sunday School (for all ages): 9:15 a.m. Traditional Worship: 10:30 a.m.

Nursery provided.

ST. ANDREW’S ON-THE-SOUND EPISCOPALThe Rev. Richard G. Elliott, rector

101 Airlie Road, 910-256-30347:45 a.m., 9 a.m., 11 a.m.

WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH BAPTIST CHURCHJohn McIntyre, senior pastor

601 Causeway Drive, 910-256-3682Traditional Service: 9-10 a.m.Sunday School: 10:10-11 a.m.

Celebration Services: 11:10 a.m to 12:20 p.m.

WRIGHTSVILLE UNITED METHODIST CHURCHDoug Lain, senior pastor

4 Live Oak Drive, 910-256-4471Worship Services: 8:30, 9:45, 11:15 a.m.

Sunday School: 9:45 a.m.

ST. THERESE CATHOLIC CHURCHFather Joe Vetter

209 S. Lumina Ave., 910-256-2471Mass: Saturday, 5:30 p.m., Sunday, 8 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.;

Monday, noon; Tuesday, 6 p.m.; Wednesday – Thursday noon;

Thursday noon followed by Eucharistic Adoration

ST. MARK CATHOLIC CHURCH Father Patrick A. Keane

1011 Eastwood Road, 910-392-0720Vigil Mass: Saturday 5 p.m.

Sunday Masses: 7:30 a.m., 9:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 1:30 p.m. en Español

Monday Mass: 8:30 a.m. Tuesday Masses: 8:30 a.m. and 6 p.m.

Wednesday Mass: 8:30 a.m.Thursday Mass: 8:30 a.m.

Friday Mass: 8:30 a.m. followed by Adoration with Benediction at 9 p.m.

BETH SIMCHA MESSIANIC JEWISH CONGREGATIONCongregational Leader/ Rabbi Marty Schilsky

7957 Market St.Wilmington, N.C. 28411

910-681-0117Shabbat Services 10:30 a.m. Saturday

DEMONS IN CHURCHFebruary 18

Mark 1:23, “And there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit; and he cried out;....”

MK. 1:21-28; LK. 4:33-37Many people don’t associate demon-possessed people with places of

worship. Yet most of the demons that Jesus cast out were encountered in the church. Why would demon-possessed people be in church?

In some cases, the people were there because they were seeking help. The church, like a hospital, offers people the cure and therefore, attracts those who are sick.

In other cases, the devil sows these types of people in the church

to spread spiritual disease. A church that is teaching the true Word of God should either try to evangelize these individuals or make them so convicted that they move on. Sad to say, demon-possessed people can thrive in most religious settings today.

We always need to show love for the sinner as Jesus did, but we should cut the devil no slack. If a person wants to keep an evil spirit on the inside of them, they should not feel at home in church.

Let the Spirit of God live through you as He did through Jesus and you will either make people mad or glad, but there will not be indifference.

Andrew’s Gospel Truth television broadcasts air M-F @ 6:30 a.m. ET on Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN). Help/Prayer Line: 719-635-1111

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ANDREW WOMMACK MINISTRIESteaching God’s unconditional love and grace

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February 1, 2016, 6:25 p.m.Virtue 2

When you add virtue to your knowledge and understanding you become a threat to the enemy’s existence

Keep strong your love for Jesus and accept His guidance with all persistence

Virtue is the one thing that will set you apart on a path of His gloryWorship with all that you are and your future will be a never

ending storyOf love and virtue only the faithful will understand and seek as

their ownHeaven will open and all that is good will be displayed before

the thronePure and simple are the things that give the most joy to the believerFree and without charge all are given with heaven’s joy to an

open receiverThe purity of your heart will be the final measure of your true

virtue displayedTo all those that surround your life and with love their hearts you

must persuadeThat the love of Jesus is the most important thing in their life

to learnAnd share it with every victim of distress and it will no longer

be a concernLet your virtue shine in all that you do for the power of loveAnd the frantic chaos that surrounds you will end, no more push

and shove

C ARL WATERSH2OLivingThe peace of heaven will appear suddenly and to every joyful

believerIt is with your heart full of virtue that you become heaven’s

receiver

(Mark 5:30 KJV) And Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned him about in the press, and said, Who touched my clothes?

(Luke 6:19 KJV) And the whole multitude sought to touch him: for there went virtue out of him, and healed them all.

(Phil 4:8 KJV) Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, what-soever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

(2 Pet 1:3 KJV) According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:

(2 Pet 1:5 - 8 KJV) 5 - And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; 6 - and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to persever-ance, godliness; 7 - and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love. 8 - For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE

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TO KENNETH W. MABE TRUSTEE

for SECURITY SAVINGS BANK

AND SUBSEQUENTLY JERRY A.

MANNEN, JR., SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE

DATED: July 16, 2008

Recorded in Book 5336; Page 774

New Hanover County Reg-istry

Substitution of Trustee Recorded

in Book 5858; Page 1097


NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE

BY VIRTUE of authority con-tained in a certain Deed of Trust from Kevin J. Hoey and wife, Mary Ann Cotrone a/k/a Mary Ann Catrone to Kenneth W. Mabe, Trustee, and subse-quently to Jerry A. Mannen, Jr., Substitute Trustee, dated July 16, 2008, and recorded in Book 5336; Page 774 of the New Hanover County Registry, and by virtue of the Order of the Clerk of Superior Court of New Hanover County, North Caro-lina, pursuant to Chapter 45 of the General Statutes of North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness thereby secured and failure to do and perform the stipulations and agree-ments therein contained, I will on Friday, February 19, 2016 at 12:00 P.M. (Noon) at the Court-house Door of the New Hanover County Courthouse, 316 Prin-cess Street in Wilmington, North Carolina or the usual and customary location at the New Hanover County Courthouse in Wilmington, North Carolina offer for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for Cash, the following described lands:

BEGINNING AT A POINT IN THE EASTERN LINE OF EIGHTH STREET 55 FEET SOUTHWARD-LY FROM ITS INTERSECTION WITH THE SOUTHERN LINE OF PRINCESS STREET; RUN-NING THENCE SOUTHWARD-LY ALONG SAID EASTERN LINE OF EIGHTH STREET 55 FEET; THENCE EASTWARDLY, PARAL-LEL WITH PRINCESS STREET 66 FEET; THENCE NORTHWARDLY, PARALLEL WITH EIGHTH STREET 55 FEET; THENCE WESTWARD-LY, PARALLEL WITH PRINCESS STREET 66 FEET TO THE EAST-ERN LINE OF EIGHTH STREET, THE POINT OF BEGINNING; THE SAME BEING PART OF LOTS 1 AND 2 IN BLOCK 172 ACCORD-ING TO THE WILMINGTON OFFI-CIAL PLAN; AND BEING THE SAME PROPERTY CONVEYED TO DAVID DURMAN AND WIFE LUCIDA M. DURMAN, BY THAT DEED RECORDED IN THE NEW HANOVER COUNTY REGISTRY IN BOOK 1184 AT Page 720.

THIS CONVEYANCE IS SUBJECT TO ALL VALID AND ENFORCE-ABLE EASEMENTS AND ENCUM-BRANCES OF RECORD.

And being the same property obtained by Grantor in Deed Book 1814; Page 561 of the New Hanover County Registry.

FURTHER SUBJECT, HOWEVER, TO ALL OUTSTANDING AND UNPAID

TAXES AND ALL PRIOR LIENS, ENCUMBRANCES OR EXCEP-TIONS OF RECORD.

The above-described prop-erty contains the land and improvements together with all the appurtenances and fix-tures thereunto, appertaining of Kevin J. Hoey and wife Mary Ann Cotrone a/k/a Mary Ann Catrone; and, is more common-ly known as 16 North Eighth Street, Wilmington, North Carolina, New Hanover Coun-ty, 28401.

To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned the current owner(s) the prop-erty according to the New Hanover County Register of Deeds not more than ten (10) days prior to the Posting of this Notice is/are Kevin J. Hoey and wife, Mary Ann Cotrone a/k/a Mary Ann Catrone.

The terms of the sale are as follows: A cash deposit of the

greater of five percent (5%) of the amount bid or seven hun-dred fifty ($750.00) dollars will be required at the sale; balance due upon delivery of the Deed. Any successful bidder shall be required to tender the full bal-ance of the purchase price so bid in cash or certified check at the time the Trustee tenders to him a deed for the property or attempts to tender such deed. This sale will be held open for ten (10) days for upset bids as required by law.

This sale will be made subject to all outstanding and unpaid taxes and all prior liens of record and any assessments that may be due or past due. There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmen-tal, health, or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale and the property will be sold “AS IS”, “WHERE IS”.

If the Trustee is unable to con-vey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons for such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of Bankruptcy prior to the com-pletion of the sale and/or the reinstatement of the loan.

NOTICE TO OCCUPANTS:

1. That an Order for Posses-sion of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the Clerk of Superior Court of the County in which the property is sold.

2. Any tenant who resides in a residential real property con-taining less than 15 rental units that is being sold in a fore-closure proceeding who occu-pies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination. Upon ter-mination of a rental agreement under this section, the tenant is liable for the rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termi-nation payable at the time that would have been required by the terms of the rental agree-ment. The tenant is not liable for any other rent or damages due only to the early termina-tion of the tenancy.

This the 12th day of January, 2016.Jerry A. Mannen, Jr. Substitute TrusteeNorth Carolina State Bar No. 17498102 N. Fifth Avenue, Wilming-ton, NC 28401Telephone: (910) 762-2421Facsimile: (910) 251-9247Email: [email protected], FOX & MANNEN, L.L.P.ATTORNEYS AT LAWFebruary 11 and 18, 2016

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA




BEFORE THE CLERK


IN THE MATTER OF THE

FORECLOSURE OF LAND

COVERED BY THAT CERTAIN


KEVIN J. HOEY AND MARY ANN

CATRONE, husband and wife

TO KENNETH W. MABE TRUSTEE

for SECURITY SAVINGS BANK

AND SUBSEQUENTLY JERRY A.

MANNEN, JR., SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE

DATED: September 18, 2009







BY VIRTUE of authority con-tained in a certain Deed of Trust from Kevin J. Hoey and wife, Mary Ann Catrone a/k/a Mary Ann Cotrone to Kenneth W. Mabe, Trustee, and subse-

quently to Jerry A. Mannen, Jr., Substitute Trustee, dated Sep-tember 18, 2009, and recorded in Book 5438; Page 1730 of the New Hanover County Registry, and by virtue of the Order of the Clerk of Superior Court of New Hanover County, North Carolina, pursuant to Chapter 45 of the General Statutes of North Carolina, default hav-ing been made in the payment of the indebtedness thereby secured and failure to do and perform the stipulations and agreements therein contained, I will on Friday, February 19, 2016 at 12:00 P.M. (Noon) at the Courthouse Door of the New Hanover County Court-house, 316 Princess Street in Wilmington, North Carolina or the usual and customary loca-tion at the New Hanover Coun-ty Courthouse in Wilmington, North Carolina offer for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for Cash, the following described lands:

Tract 1: BEGINNING IN THE EAST-ERN LINE OF FIFTH STREET, ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-ONE FEET SOUTHWARDLY FROM THE INTERSECTION OF THE SOUTH-ERN LINE OF CHURCH STREET WITH THE EASTERN LINE OF FIFTH STREET, RUNS THENCE SOUTHWARDLY AND ALONG THE SAID LINE OF FIFTH STREET TWENTY-EIGHT AND ONE HALF FEET; THENCE EASTWARDLY AND PARALLEL WITH CHURCH STREET SIXTY-SIX FEET; THENCE NORTHWARDLY AND PARAL-LEL WITH FIFTH STREET TWEN-TY-EIGHT AND ONE HALF FEET; THENCE WESTWARDLY AND PARALLEL WITH CHURCH STREET SIXTY-SIX FEET TO THE EASTERN LINE OF FIFTH STREET, THE POINT OF BEGINNING; THE SAME BEING PART OF LOT 3 IN BLOCK 91 ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL PLAN OF THE CITY OF WILMINGTON, N.C.

Tract 2: BEGINNING AT A POINT IN THE WESTERN LINE OF PRICE’S ALLEY 141 FEET SOUTH-WARDLY FROM THE SOUTHERN LINE OF CHURCH STREET AND BEING THE NORTHEASTERN MOST CORNER OF TRACT 3 OF THE PROPERTY ACQUIRED BY KAFAFAS BY DEED RECORDED IN BOOK 1133 AT PAGE 1297 OF THE NEW HANOVER COUN-TY REGISTRY, AND RUNNING THENCE WESTWARD PARALLEL WITH CHURCH STREET FORTY TWO FEET; THENCE SOUTH-WARDLY PARALLEL WITH PRICE’S ALLEY TWENTY-EIGHT AND ONE-HALF FEET; THENCE EASTWARDLY PARALLEL WITH CHURCH STREET FORTY-TWO FEET TO THE WESTERN LINE OF PRICE’S ALLEY; THENCE NORTH-WARDLY ALONG THE WESTERN LINE OF PRICE’S ALLEY TWEN-TY-EIGHT AND ONE-HALF FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING, THE SAME BEING PART OF LOTS 2 AND 3, IN BLOCK 91, ACCORD-ING TO THE OFFICIAL PLAN OF WILMINGTON, NORTH CARO-LINA.

TOGETHER WITH AN EASEMENT TEN FEET IN WIDTH, RUNNING ALONG THE ENTIRE SOUTHERN BORDER OF TRACTS 1 AND 2 OF THE PROPERTY ACQUIRED BY KAFAFAS BY DEED RECORDED IN BOOK 1133 AT PAGE 1297 OF THE NEW HANOVER COUNTY REGISTRY, AND BEING BOUND-ED ON THE SOUTH BY THE SOUTHERN BOUNDARY LINE OF SAID TRACTS, SAID EASE-MENT TO BE FOR THE PURPOSE OF INGRESS AND EGRESS TO AND FROM THE HERETOFORE DESCRIBED PARCEL OF PROP-ERTY, AND ONLY FOR SAID PUR-POSE.

THIS CONVEYANCE IS SUBJECT TO ALL VALID AND ENFORCE-ABLE EASEMENTS AND ENCUM-BRANCES OF RECORD.

And being the same property obtained by Grantor in Deed Book 1818; Page 116 and 1819; Page 462 of the New Hanover County Registry.


TAXES AND ALL PRIOR LIENS, ENCUMBRANCES OR EXCEP-TIONS OF RECORD.

The above-described prop-erty contains the land and improvements together with all the appurtenances and fix-tures thereunto, appertaining of Kevin J. Hoey and wife Mary Ann Catrone a/k/a Mary Ann Cotrone; and, is more common-ly known as 509 South Fifth Avenue, Wilmington, North Carolina, New Hanover Coun-ty, 28401.

To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned the current owner(s)

of the property according to the New Hanover County Regis-ter of Deeds not more than ten (10) days prior to the Posting of this Notice is/are Kevin J. Hoey and wife, Mary Ann Catrone a/k/a Mary Ann Cotrone.

The terms of the sale are as follows: A cash deposit of the

greater of five percent (5%) of the amount bid or seven hun-dred fifty ($750.00) dollars will be required at the sale; balance due upon delivery of the Deed. Any successful bidder shall be required to tender the full bal-ance of the purchase price so bid in cash or certified check at the time the Trustee tenders to him a deed for the property or attempts to tender such deed. This sale will be held open for ten (10) days for upset bids as required by law.







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NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE

NORTH CAROLINA, NEW HANOVER COUNTY

Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that cer-tain Deed of Trust executed by Clarence C. Chahoc, Jr. to John C. Warren, Trustee(s), which was dated December 8, 2005 and recorded on December 9, 2005 in Book 4949 at Page 1665, New Hanover County Registry, North Carolina.

Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the hold-er of the note evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the court-house door of the county court-house where the property is located, or the usual and cus-tomary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on February 23, 2016 at 10:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the fol-lowing described property situ-ated in New Hanover County, North Carolina, to wit:

BEING all of Lot 24 of WES-THILLS, as shown on a map thereof recorded in Plat Book 26, Page 106, in the Office of the Register of Deeds of New Hanover County, reference being made thereto and the same being incorporated here-in for a more particular descrip-

tion.

Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior con-veyances of record.

Said property is common-ly known as 425 McQuillan Drive, Wilmington, NC 28412.

A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED.

Said property to be offered pur-suant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representa-tions of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environ-mental, health or safety con-ditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assess-ments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or excep-tions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are All Lawful Heirs of Clar-ence C. Chahoc, Jr..

An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursu-ant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the prop-erty is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, ter-minate the rental agreement by providing written notice of ter-mination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termina-tion [NCGS § 45-21.16A(b)(2)]. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rent-al agreement prorated to the effective date of the termina-tion.

If the trustee is unable to con-vey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan with-out the knowledge of the trust-ee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no fur-ther remedy.

Trustee Services of Carolina, LLCSubstitute TrusteeBrock & Scott, PLLCAttorneys for Trustee Servic-es of Carolina, LLC5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200Wilmington, NC 28403PHONE: (910) 392-4988FAX: (910) 392-8587File No.: 15-16960-FC01February 11 and 18, 2016

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Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that cer-tain Deed of Trust executed by James E. Conlon and Tracy Pope Conlon to Rebecca W. Shaia, Trustee(s), which was dated March 16, 2006 and record-ed on March 16, 2006 in Book 4993 at 89, New Hanover County Registry, North Caro-lina.

Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the hold-er of the note evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the court-house door of the county court-house where the property is located, or the usual and cus-tomary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on February 23, 2016 at

10:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the fol-lowing described property situ-ated in New Hanover County, North Carolina, to wit:

All of Lot 18A in Block 24A in the Town of Carolina Beach as the same is shown on map recorded in Map Book 3 at Page 67 in the New Hanover County Registry, and being the same lands described in the deed recorded in Book 3999 at Page 318 in said Registry.


Said property is commonly known as 1315 Canal Drive, Carolina Beach, NC 28428.


Said property to be offered pur-suant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representa-tions of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environ-mental, health or safety con-ditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assess-ments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or excep-tions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are James E. Conlon and wife, Tracy Pope Conlon.




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Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Jor-dan Beale Cullifer to Jonathan Washburn, Trustee(s), which was dated August 30, 2002 and recorded on September 4, 2002 in Book 3419 at Page 122, New Hanover County Registry, North Carolina.

Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said

Deed of Trust, and the hold-er of the note evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the court-house door of the county court-house where the property is located, or the usual and cus-tomary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on February 23, 2016 at 10:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the fol-lowing described property situ-ated in New Hanover County, North Carolina, to wit:

BEING ALL OF LOT(S) 33, SEC-TION 1, GREENVIEW RANCH-ES SUBDIVISION, RECORDED IN MAP BOOK(S) 8, PAGE(S) 25, NEW HANOVER COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA.


Said property is commonly known as 515 Rochelle Road, Wilmington, NC 28411.


Said property to be offered pur-suant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representa-tions of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environ-mental, health or safety con-ditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assess-ments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or excep-tions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are Jordan Beale Cullifer and Robert Glenn Cullifer, Jr. and wife, Margaret Powell Cullifer.





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Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Benjamin S. Smith and wife, Kathleen L. Fitzgibbon, (Ben-jamin S. Smith, Deceased)(Heirs of Benjamin S. Smith: Kathleen L. Fitzgibbon, Vance

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Franeis Smith and Unknown Heirs of Benjamin S. Smith) (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Benjamin S. Smith) to PRLAP, Inc., Trustee(s), dated the 29th day of August, 2005, and record-ed in Book 4899, 06, in New Hanover County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trust-ee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of New Hanover County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evi-dencing said indebtedness hav-ing directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the under-signed Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in the City of Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, or the customary loca-tion designated for foreclosure sales, at 12:00 PM on February 23, 2016 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the fol-lowing real estate situated in the County of New Hanover, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as fol-lows:

Being all of Lot #2 in Block #25 of the Belvedere Extension Sub-division as same is shown on the official map of said subdi-vision recorded in the office of the Register of Deeds of New Hanover County in Map Book #5 at Page #97.

Being the same property Devised to Benjamin S. Smith, from the Personal Represen-tative for the estate of Mil-dred S. Smith, date of death 07/19/1996, Estate Package/Probate Roll #96E553, final decree status closed, all of which is recorded in the NEW HANOVER County, NC Pub-lic Registry. Being the same property Devised to Mildred S. Smith, from the Personal Representative for the estate of Vance S. Smith, Jr., date of death 07/26/1988, Estate Pack-age/Probate Roll #88E574, final decree status Closed, all of which is recorded in the NEW HANOVER County, NC Pub-lic Registry. Being that par-cel of land conveyed to Vance L. Smith, Jr. and wife, Mildred Scott Smith from Agnes M. Mor-ton, acting by and through her duly appointed Attorney-in-Fact, Hugh M. Morton by that deed dated 02/25/1954 and recorded 02/25/1954 in Deed Book 523, at Page 506 of the NEW HANOVER County, NC Public Registry. Together with improvements thereon; said property located at 2405 Shir-ley Road, Wilmington, North Carolina 28405.

Tax Map Reference: R04812-002-004-000

Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §45-21.23.

Should the property be pur-chased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by NCGS §7A-308(a)(1).

The property to be offered pur-suant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being fore-closed, nor the officers, direc-tors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized represen-tative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warran-ty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the prop-erty being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condi-tion expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold sub-ject to applicable Federal and State laws.

A deposit of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale.

If the trustee is unable to con-vey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the

court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no fur-ther remedy.

Additional Notice for Residen-tial Property with Less than 15 rental units, including Single-Family Residential Real Prop-erty

An order for possession of the property may be issued pur-suant to N.C.G.S. § 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rent-al agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of foreclosure sale, ter-minate the rental agreement by providing written notice of ter-mination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in this notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the ten-ant provides the notice of ter-mination. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termi-nation.

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVIC-ES, INC.SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEEc/o Hutchens Law FirmP.O. Box 10284317 Ramsey StreetFayetteville, North Carolina 28311Phone No: (910) 864-3068https://sales.hutchenslawfirm.comCase No: 1151925 (FC.FAY)February 11 and 18, 2016


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Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Brie Edwards and Caro-line Fanelli to W. J. Kellam, Jr., Trustee(s), dated the 30th day of April, 2010, and recorded in Book 5483, Page 2642, in New Hanover County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trust-ee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of New Hanover County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evi-dencing said indebtedness hav-ing directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the under-signed Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in the City of Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, or the customary loca-tion designated for foreclosure sales, at 12:00 PM on February 23, 2016 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the fol-lowing real estate situated in the County of New Hanover, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as fol-lows:

BEGINNING at a point in the western line of Sixteenth Street 50 feet south of its intersec-tion with the southern line of Rankin Street and running thence southwardly along said line of Sixteenth Street 50 feet; thence westwardly and paral-lel with Rankin Street 165 feet to the eastern line of an alley-way; thence northwardly along the eastern line of said alley-way and parallel with Sixteenth Street 50 feet; thence east-wardly and parallel with Rankin Street 165 feet to a point in the western line of Sixteenth Street, the point of beginning, the same being a part of Lots 1 and 2 in Block 472 according to the Official Plan of the City of Wilmington. Together with improvements located there-on; said property being locat-ed at 313 North 16th Street, Wilmington, North Carolina.



The property to be offered pur-suant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being fore-closed, nor the officers, direc-tors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized represen-tative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warran-

ty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the prop-erty being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condi-tion expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold sub-ject to applicable Federal and State laws.


If the trustee is unable to con-vey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no fur-ther remedy.






15 SP 596

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Joy E. McClure to Lawyers Title Realty Service, Trustee(s), dated the 11th day of Janu-ary, 2008, and recorded in Book 5274, Page 2779, in New Hanover County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trust-ee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of New Hanover County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evi-dencing said indebtedness hav-ing directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the under-signed Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in the City of Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, or the customary loca-tion designated for foreclosure sales, at 12:00 PM on February 23, 2016 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the fol-lowing real estate situated in the County of New Hanover, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as fol-lows:

All that certain lot or parcel of land situated in the City of Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina and more particularly described as follows:

Being all of Lot 216, Section 12, Crestwood Subdivision, as shown on map of same record-ed in Map Book 19, at Page 42, of the New Hanover County Registry, reference to which is

hereby made for a more partic-ular description. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 608 Albemarle Road, Wilm-ington, North Carolina.

By fee simple deed from Wil-liam B. Allnutt, Jr. and Patri-cia Ann Allnutt as set forth in Deed Book 2516, Page 0086 and recorded on 2/3/1999, New Hanover County Records.

The source deed as stated above is the last record of vest-ing filed for this property. There have been no vesting changes since the date of the above ref-erenced source.











15 SP 864

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Peter Venth aka Peter E. Venth

(PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Peter Everett Venth) to Aaron Anderson Brock & Scott, Trustee(s), dated the 25th day of May, 2007, and recorded in Book 5191, Page 1110, in New Hanover County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trust-ee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of New Hanover County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evi-dencing said indebtedness hav-ing directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the under-signed Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in the City of Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, or the customary loca-tion designated for foreclosure sales, at 12:00 PM on February 23, 2016 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the fol-lowing real estate situated in the County of New Hanover, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as fol-lows:

In New Hanover County: Being all of Lot 66 Abbington Dale at Victoria Place as shown on map recorded in Map Book 33 at Page 155 of the New Hanover County Registry, reference to which is hereby made for a more particular description. Together with improvements located thereon; said prop-erty being located at 4172 Abbington Terrace, Wilming-ton, North Carolina.








Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rent-al agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of foreclosure sale, ter-minate the rental agreement by providing written notice of ter-mination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in this notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the ten-ant provides the notice of ter-

mination. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termi-nation.


13 SP 1221

AMENDED NOTICE OF FORE-CLOSURE SALE


Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Scott C. Spivey and Sheila P. Spivey to Charles Myers, Trustee(s), which was dated March 8, 2010 and recorded on March 12, 2010 in Book 5473 at Page 1, New Hanover County Registry, North Carolina.

Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the hold-er of the note evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the court-house door of the county court-house where the property is located, or the usual and cus-tomary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on February 23, 2016 at 10:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the fol-lowing described property situ-ated in New Hanover County, North Carolina, to wit:

Being all of Lots 12 and 12A, Section 7, Harbour Point, as the same is shown on a map there-of recorded in Map Book 41, Pages 394 of the New Hanover County Registry, reference to which is hereby made for a more particular description.


Said property is commonly known as 228 Silver Sloop Way, Carolina Beach, NC 28428.


Said property to be offered pur-suant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representa-tions of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environ-mental, health or safety con-ditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assess-ments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or excep-tions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are Scott C. Spivey.

An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursu-ant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the proper-ty is sold. Any person who occu-pies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination [NCGS § 45-21.16A(b)(2)]. Upon termi-nation of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

If the trustee is unable to con-vey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but

are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan with-out the knowledge of the trust-ee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no fur-ther remedy.


AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE

14 SP 673

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Acquenetta R. Smith to David Shumannfang, Trustee(s), dated the 17th day of Novem-ber, 2006, and recorded in Book 5107, Page 750, and Correction Affidavit in Book 5844, Page 1469, in New Hanover Coun-ty Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note there-by secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of New Hanover County, North Carolina and the hold-er of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be fore-closed, the undersigned Substi-tute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in the City of Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 12:00 PM on February 23, 2016 and will sell to the highest bid-der for cash the following real estate situated in the County of New Hanover, North Caroli-na, and being more particularly described as follows:

Being all of Lot 453, Section 8, as shown on a plat entitled “Apple Valley Section 8, and Revision of Lots 308A, 309A and 310A” recorded in Map Book 49 at Page 278 in the New Hanover County Registry.

Subject to Declaration of Restrictions for Apple Valley Section 8 and Walnut Hills, Sec-tion 11, recorded in Book 5032 at Page 288 in the New Hanover County Registry.

Together with improvements thereon, said property located at 3008 Old Barn Court, Castle Hayne, North Carolina 28429. Parcel ID R02500-003-092-00.





If the trustee is unable to con-vey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale






and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no fur-ther remedy.





017978-00516/FHLMC

15-SP-872

NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUST-EE’S FORECLOSURE SALE OF

REAL PROPERTY

UNDER AND BY VIRTUE of the power and authority con-tained in that certain Deed of Trust executed and delivered by Dayna L. Coon Shapiro and Robert G. Shapiro, dated August 20, 2008 and recorded on August 28, 2008 in Book No. 5342 at Page 2773 in the Office of the Register of Deeds of New Hanover County, North Caro-lina; and because of default in the payment of the indebted-ness secured thereby and fail-ure to carry out and perform the stipulations and agreements contained therein and, pursu-ant to demand of the holder of the indebtedness secured by said Deed of Trust, the under-signed Substitute Trustee will place for sale, at public auction, to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at New Hanover County Courthouse, Wilmington, North Carolina on February 24, 2016 at 11:00 AM that parcel of land, including improvements thereon, situat-ed, lying and being in the City of Wilmington, County of New Hanover, State of North Caroli-na, and being more particularly described in the above refer-enced Deed of Trust..

Address of property: 6204 Tree Toad Ct, Wilmington, NC 28411-8319

Tax Parcel ID:R04418-003-024-000

Present Record Owners: Dayna L. Coon Shapiro and Robert G. Shapiro

The terms of the sale are that the real property hereinbefore described will be sold for cash to the highest bidder. A depos-it of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale. The successful bidder shall be required to pay revenue stamps on the Trustee’s Deed, any Land Transfer Tax and costs of recording the Trustee’s Deed.

The real property hereinabove described is being offered for sale “AS IS, WHERE IS” and will be sold subject to all superior liens, unpaid taxes, and special assessments. Other conditions will be announced at the sale. The sale will be held open for ten (10) days for upset bids as by law required.

If for any reason the Trustee is unable to convey title to this property or the sale is set aside, the sole remedy of the purchas-er is the return of the deposit. Furthermore, if the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the Trustee, in its sole discretion, if it believes the challenge to have merit, may

declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. In either event the purchaser will have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, the Mortgagee’s attorney or the Trustee.

Additional Notice Where the Real Property is Residential With Less Than 15 Rental Units:

An order for possession of the property may be issued pursu-ant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the prop-erty is sold.

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rent-al agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the ten-ant provides the notice of ter-mination. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termi-nation.

Rogers Townsend & Thomas, PCSubstitute Trustee2550 West Tyvola Road, Suite 520Charlotte, NC 28217(704)442-9500February 11 and 18, 2016


COUNTY OF NEW HANOVER IN THE GENERAL COURT OF

JUSTICE


BEFORE THE CLERK


IN THE MATTER OF THE FORE-CLOSURE

OF LAND COVERED BY THAT CERTAIN


JNJ NC ENTERPRISES, INC.

TO D. ROBERT WILLIAMS, JR. TRUSTEE

for FINANCIAL HOUSING SOLUTIONS, LLC

AND WAGONER’S HOME IMPROVEMENT, INC., 401K

PLAN AND SUBSEQUENTLY

JERRY A. MANNEN, JR., SUB-STITUTE TRUSTEE

DATED: October 3, 2014



in Book 5941; 66



BY VIRTUE of authority con-tained in a certain Deed of Trust from JNJ NC Enterprises, Inc. to D. Robert Williams, Jr., Trustee, and subsequently to Jerry A. Mannen, Jr., Substitute Trust-ee, dated October 3, 2014, and recorded in Book 5843; Page 884 of the New Hanover County Registry, and by virtue of the Order of the Clerk of Superior Court of New Hanover Coun-ty, North Carolina, pursuant to Chapter 45 of the General Stat-utes of North Carolina, default having been made in the pay-ment of the indebtedness thereby secured and failure to do and perform the stipulations and agreements therein con-tained, I will on Friday, February 26, 2016 at 12:00 P.M. (Noon) at the Courthouse Door of the New Hanover County Court-house, 316 Princess Street in Wilmington, North Carolina or the usual and customary loca-tion at the New Hanover Coun-ty Courthouse in Wilmington, North Carolina offer for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for Cash, the following described lands:

BEING all of Lot 2, Block 9 of Sunset Park, as the same is shown on a Map recorded in Map Book 3, Page 40 of the New Hanover County Registry, refer-ence to which is hereby made for a more particular descrip-tion. Also being the same prop-erty described in that Deed to Benjamin Belmont recorded June 14, 2006 in Book 5036, Page 2915 of the aforemen-tioned Registry.


TAXES AND ALL PRIOR LIENS, ENCUMBRANCES, EASEMENTS, OR EXCEPTIONS OF RECORD.

The above-described prop-erty contains the land and improvements together with all the appurtenances and fix-tures thereunto, appertaining of JNJ NC Enterprises, Inc.; and, is more commonly known as

242 Central Boulevard, Wilm-ington, North Carolina, New Hanover County, 28401.

To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned the current owner(s) of the property according to the New Hanover County Register of Deeds not more than ten (10) days prior to the Posting of this Notice is/are JNJ NC Enterpris-es, Inc.

The terms of the sale are as follows: A cash deposit of the greater of five percent (5%) of the amount bid or seven hun-dred fifty ($750.00) dollars will be required at the sale; balance due upon delivery of the Deed. Any successful bidder shall be required to tender the full bal-ance of the purchase price so bid in cash or certified check at the time the Trustee tenders to him a deed for the property or attempts to tender such deed. This sale will be held open for ten (10) days for upset bids as required by law.











BEFORE THE CLERK


IN THE MATTER OF THE FORE-CLOSURE

OF LAND COVERED BY THAT CERTAIN


JNJ NC ENTERPRISES, INC.

TO D. ROBERT WILLIAMS, JR. TRUSTEE

for FINANCIAL HOUSING SOLUTIONS, LLC

AND WAGONER’S HOME IMPROVEMENT, INC., 401K

PLAN AND SUBSEQUENTLY

JERRY A. MANNEN, JR., SUB-STITUTE TRUSTEE

DATED: February 10, 2015






BY VIRTUE of authority con-tained in a certain Deed of Trust from JNJ NC Enterpris-es, Inc. to D. Robert Williams, Jr., Trustee, and subsequently to Jerry A. Mannen, Jr., Sub-stitute Trustee, dated February 10, 2015, and recorded in Book 5867; Page 1060 of the New Hanover County Registry, and by virtue of the Order of the Clerk of Superior Court of New Hanover County, North Caro-lina, pursuant to Chapter 45 of the General Statutes of North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness thereby secured and failure to do and perform the stipulations and agree-ments therein contained, I will on Friday, February 26, 2016 at 12:00 P.M. (Noon) at the Court-house Door of the New Hanover County Courthouse, 316 Prin-cess Street in Wilmington, North Carolina or the usual and customary location at the New Hanover County Courthouse in Wilmington, North Carolina offer for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for Cash, the following described lands:

BEING all of Lot 75, Section 6 of Highland Hills, as the same is shown on a Map recorded in Map Book 7, Page 80 of the New Hanover County Registry, refer-ence to which is hereby made for a more particular descrip-tion. Also being the same prop-erty described in that Deed to William Stacey Cherry and wife, Jean Lee Cherry recorded Book 1342, Page 923 of the afore-mentioned Registry.


TAXES AND ALL PRIOR LIENS, ENCUMBRANCES, EASEMENTS, OR EXCEPTIONS OF RECORD.

The above-described prop-erty contains the land and improvements together with all the appurtenances and fix-tures thereunto, appertaining of JNJ NC Enterprises, Inc.; and, is more commonly known as 1943 Knollwood Drive, Wilm-ington, North Carolina, New Hanover County, 28403.

To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned the current owner(s) of the property according to the New Hanover County Register of Deeds not more than ten (10) days prior to the Posting of this Notice is/are JNJ NC Enterpris-es, Inc.

The terms of the sale are as follows: A cash deposit of the greater of five percent (5%) of the amount bid or seven hun-dred fifty ($750.00) dollars will be required at the sale; balance due upon delivery of the Deed. Any successful bidder shall be required to tender the full bal-ance of the purchase price so bid in cash or certified check at the time the Trustee tenders to him a deed for the property or attempts to tender such deed. This sale will be held open for ten (10) days for upset bids as required by law.





2. Any tenant who resides in a residential real property con-taining less than 15 rental units that is being sold in a fore-closure proceeding who occu-pies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination. Upon ter-mination of a rental agreement under this section, the tenant is liable for the rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termi-

nation payable at the time that would have been required by the terms of the rental agree-ment. The tenant is not liable for any other rent or damages due only to the early termina-tion of the tenancy.


15 SP 856



Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Nich-olas Wayne Moss and Suzanne Moss to Douglas K. Simmons & Associates, Trustee(s), which was dated May 1, 2007 and recorded on May 2, 2007 in Book 5177 at Page 860 and rerecorded/modified/corrected on April 23, 2012 in Book 5634, Page 2874, New Hanover Coun-ty Registry, North Carolina.

Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the hold-er of the note evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the court-house door of the county court-house where the property is located, or the usual and cus-tomary location at the coun-ty courthouse for conducting the sale on March 1, 2016 at 10:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the fol-lowing described property situ-ated in New Hanover County, North Carolina, to wit:

BEING all of Lot 144, Section 2, of Fawn Creek Subdivision as shown on that map of section 2 of said subdivision recorded in Map Book 29, at Pages 169 and 170 in the Office of the Regis-ter Of Deeds of New Hanover County.


Said property is commonly known as 3712 Antelope Trail Drive, Wilmington, NC 28409.


Said property to be offered pur-suant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representa-tions of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environ-mental, health or safety con-ditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assess-ments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or excep-tions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are Nicholas Wayne Moss and wife, Suzanne Moss.


If the trustee is unable to con-

vey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan with-out the knowledge of the trust-ee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no fur-ther remedy.



15 SP 719

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Linda F. Eddie to PRLAP, Inc., Trustee(s), dated the 14th day of March, 2008, and recorded in Book 5305, Page 2005, in New Hanover County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trust-ee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of New Hanover County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evi-dencing said indebtedness hav-ing directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the under-signed Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in the City of Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, or the customary loca-tion designated for foreclosure sales, at 12:00 PM on March 1, 2016 and will sell to the high-est bidder for cash the follow-ing real estate situated in the County of New Hanover, North Carolina, and being more par-ticularly described as follows:

All that certain lot or parcel of land situated in the City of Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina and more particularly described as follows:

Beginning at a point in the eastern line of Anderson Street, 33 feet North of its intersec-tion with the northern line of Miller Street and runs thence northwardly along the eastern line of Anderson Street 33 feet, thence eastwardly and paral-lel with Miller Street 99 feet; thence southwardly and paral-lel with Anderson Street 33 feet; thence westwardly and paral-lel with Miller Street 99 feet to the point of beginning, the same being part of Lot 5, Block 255, according to the official map of the City of Wilmington. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 604 Ander-son Street, Wilmington, North Carolina.

Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Linda F. Eddie, single by First-Citizens Bank and Trust Company in a North Carolina Special Warranty Deed executed 9/27/2004 and recorded 9/30/2004 in Book 4510, Page 597 of the New Hanover County, North Caro-lina land records.



The property to be offered pur-suant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being fore-closed, nor the officers, direc-tors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized represen-tative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warran-ty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the prop-erty being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condi-tion expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or

encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold sub-ject to applicable Federal and State laws.







113081-06476/

15-SP-209

NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S FORECLOSURE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY

UNDER AND BY VIRTUE of the power and authority contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed and delivered by Dar-ren D. Taylor, dated Decem-ber 30, 1998 and recorded on December 30, 1998 in Book No. 2495 at Page 0669 in the Office of the Register of Deeds of New Hanover County, North Caro-lina; and because of default in the payment of the indebted-ness secured thereby and fail-ure to carry out and perform the stipulations and agreements contained therein and, pursu-ant to demand of the holder of the indebtedness secured by said Deed of Trust, the under-signed Substitute Trustee will place for sale, at public auc-tion, to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at New Hanover County Court-house, Wilmington, North Caro-lina on March 2, 2016 at 11:00 AM that parcel of land, includ-ing improvements thereon, sit-uated, lying and being in the City of Wilmington, County of New Hanover, State of North Carolina, and being more par-ticularly described in the above referenced Deed of Trust..

Address of property: 442 Cathay Road, Wilmington, NC 28412

Tax Parcel ID: R07816-002-007-000

Present Record Owners: Dar-ren D. Taylor

The terms of the sale are that the real property hereinbefore described will be sold for cash to the highest bidder. A depos-it of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale. The successful bidder shall be required to pay revenue stamps on the Trustee’s Deed, any Land Transfer Tax and costs of recording the Trustee’s Deed.

The real property hereinabove






described is being offered for sale “AS IS, WHERE IS” and will be sold subject to all superior liens, unpaid taxes, and special assessments. Other conditions will be announced at the sale. The sale will be held open for ten (10) days for upset bids as by law required.

If for any reason the Trustee is unable to convey title to this property or the sale is set aside, the sole remedy of the purchas-er is the return of the deposit. Furthermore, if the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the Trustee, in its sole discretion, if it believes the challenge to have merit, may declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. In either event the purchaser will have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, the Mortgagee’s attorney or the Trustee.

Additional Notice Where the Real Property is Residential With Less Than 15 Rental Units:

An order for possession of the property may be issued pursu-ant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the prop-erty is sold.

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rent-al agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the ten-ant provides the notice of ter-mination. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termi-nation.

Rogers Townsend & Thomas, PCSubstitute Trustee2550 West Tyvola Road, Suite 520Charlotte, NC 28217(704)442-9500February 18 and 25, 2016

12-SP-1546

AMENDED NOTICE OF SUB-STITUTE TRUSTEE’S FORE-

CLOSURE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY

UNDER AND BY VIRTUE of the

power and authority contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed and delivered by Ock-ert Van Heerden and Amy Van Heerden dated November 22, 2006 and recorded on Novem-ber 28, 2006, in Book 5110 at Page 1324, in the Office of the Register of Deeds of New Hanover County, North Caroli-na; and because of default in the payment of the indebtedness secured thereby and failure to carry out and perform the stip-ulations and agreements con-tained therein and, pursuant to demand of the holder of the indebtedness secured by said Deed of Trust, the undersigned of Poore Substitute Trustee, LTD (Substitute Trustee) will offer for sale at the courthouse door in the City of Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Caro-lina, or the customary loca-tion designated for foreclosure sales, on March 1, 2016 at 11:00 AM, and will sell to the high-est bidder for cash the follow-ing real estate situated in the County of New Hanover, North Carolina and being more par-ticularly described in the above referenced Deed of Trust:

Address of Property: 1201 Spring Valley RD, Wilmington, NC 28405

Tax Parcel ID: R04216-001-004-000

Present Record Owner: Amy Van Heerden

Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in N.C.G.S. §45-21.23.

The terms of the sale are that the real property hereinbe-fore described will be sold for cash to the highest bidder. The Substitute Trustee reserves the right to require a cash depos-it or a certified check not to exceed the greater of five per-cent (5%) of the amount of the bid or seven hundred fifty Dol-lars ($750.00). In the event that the holder is exempt from pay-ing the same, the successful bidder may also be required to pay revenue stamps on the Trustee’s Deed, any Land Trans-fer Tax, and the tax required by N.C.G.S. §7A-308 (a) (1).

The real property described above is being offered for sale ‘‘AS IS, WHERE IS’’ and will be sold subject to all superior liens, unpaid taxes, and special assessments. Other conditions will be announced at the sale. The sale will be held open for ten (10) days for upset bids as required by law.

If the Trustee or Substitute

Trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchas-er is the return of the depos-it. Reasons of such inability to convey title include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bank-ruptcy petition prior to the sale and reinstatement of the loan without knowledge of the Sub-stitute Trustee(s). If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the Substitute Trustee(s), in its/their sole discretion, if it/they believe(s) the challenge to have merit, may declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

Additional Notice where the Real Property is Residential with less than 15 Rental Units:

An order for possession of the property may be issued pur-suant to N.C.G.S. § 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the Clerk of Superior Court of the County in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rent-al agreement entered into or renewed on or/after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the Notice that is at least ten (10) days, but no more than ninety (90) days, after the sale date contained in the Notice of Sale, provid-ed that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the Notice of Termination. Upon termi-nation of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of such termination.

This is a communication from a debt collector. The purpose of this Communication is to col-lect a debt and any informa-tion obtained will be used for that purpose, except as stated below in the instance of bank-ruptcy protection.

If you are under the protection of the bankruptcy court or have been discharged as a result of a bankruptcy proceeding, this notice is given to you pursuant to statutory requirement and for informational purposes and is not intended as an attempt to collect a debt or as an act to collect, assess, or recover all or any portion of the debt from you personally.

Attorney at LawThe Hunoval Law Firm, PLLC

Attorney for Poore Substitute Trustee, LTDSubstitute TrusteeFebruary 18 and 25, 2016




BEFORE THE CLERK OF SUPE-RIOR COURT

EXECUTOR’S NOTICE

The undersigned having quali-fied as Executor of the Estate of Warren Harding Autry 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 29th day of April 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 28th day of Janu-ary, 2016.Ernest Wayne Autry, Executor6500 Oakley Drive Fayetteville, NC 283111/28, 2/4, 2/11, 2/18/2016





EXECUTRIX’S NOTICE

The undersigned having quali-fied as Executrix of the Estate of Louise Marks Cobb 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 13th day of May 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 11th day of Febru-ary, 2016.Anne W. Reiner, Executrix330 R L Honeycutt DriveWilmington, NC 284122/11, 2/18, 2/25, 3/3/2016

Executor’s Notice to Creditors

The undersigned, having quali-fied as Executor of the Estate of Gerda M. Smith, deceased, late of New Hanover County,

North Carolina, hereby noti-fies all persons having claims against said estate to pres-ent them to the undersigned on or before the 29th day of May, 2016, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recov-ery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment to the undersigned.

This the 11th day of February, 2016.Michael Brian Smith, Executor622 Bonham Ave.Wilmington, NC 28403February 11, 18, 25, and March 3, 2016





ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE

The undersigned having quali-fied as Administrator of the Estate of Jackie Louis Stevens 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 13th day of May, 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 11th day of Febru-ary 2016.Christine Louise Stevens, Administrator1221 Crooked Run RoadWillard, NC 284782/11, 2/18, 2/25, 3/3/2016




BEFORE THE CLERK OF SUPERIOR COURT

EXECUTOR’S NOTICE

The undersigned having quali-fied as Executor of the Estate of James Lee Musselwhite of New Hanover County, North Carolina, does hereby notify all persons having claims against said estate to present them to the under-signed at the address shown below on or before the 13th day of May 2016, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recov-ery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immedi-

ate payment to the undersigned.

This is the 11th day of Febru-ary, 2016.Daniel Musselwhite, Executor 1712 Field View RoadWilmington, NC 284112/11, 2/18, 2/25, 3/3/2016





EXECUTOR’S NOTICE

The undersigned having quali-fied as Executor of the Estate of John Francis Appaneal of New Hanover County, North Carolina, does hereby notify all persons having claims against said estate to present them to the under-signed at the address shown below on or before the 20th day of May 2016, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recov-ery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immedi-ate payment to the undersigned.

This is the 18th day of Febru-ary, 2016.Robert P. Balland, Executor7309 Fisherman Creek DriveWilmington, NC 284052/18, 2/25, 3/3, 3/10/2016

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Having qualified as Executor of the ESTATE MACK R. FANN, deceased of New Hanover Coun-ty, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against said estate to present them to the undersigned on or before the 18th day of May, 2016, or this Notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery.

All persons indebted to said Estate, please make immediate payment.

Claims should be presented or paid in behalf of the undersigned at 216 Gardenview Court, Leland NC 28451.

This the 17th day of February, 2016. Kristy Fann Boone, ExecutorEstate of Margaret V. LearyJames A. MacDonaldThe MacDonald Law Firm, PLLC1508 Military Cutoff Road, Suite 102Wilmington, NC 284032/18, 2/25, 3/3, 3/10/2016

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Having qualified as Executor of the ESTATE DAVID A. PYLE, deceased of New Hanover

County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against said estate to present them to the under-signed on or before the 18th day of May, 2016, or this Notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery.

All persons indebted to said Estate, please make immediate payment.

Claims should be presented or paid in behalf of the under-signed at 4209 Craven’s Point Road, Wilmington NC 28409.

This the 17th day of February, 2016. LINDA H. PYLE, ExecutorEstate of Margaret V. LearyJames A. MacDonaldThe MacDonald Law Firm, PLLC1508 Military Cutoff Road, Suite 102Wilmington, NC 284032/18, 2/25, 3/3, 3/10/2016

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Local athletes to be inducted into hall of fameBy Emmy ErranteStaff Writer

Four athletes — Gwen Austin, John Bunting, Larry Honeycutt and Charlie “Barrel” Niven — will be inducted into the Greater Wilmington Sports Hall of Fame during an annual banquet at University of North Carolina Wilmington’s Burney Center on May 1. The 2016 inductees were announced Feb. 10.

Gwen Austin had a decorated basketball career at Wallace-Rose Hill High School and UNCW that culminated in having her jersey retired. She was the first female UNCW athlete to achieve that honor.

At Wallace-Rose Hill High School, the 6-foot 2-inch center was named to the all confer-ence and all East teams every year. During her senior season she also gathered First Team All State and Player of the Year. From 1977 to ‘81 she participated in two District II championships, two East Central Conference

championships and two East Central Conference tournament championships.

She also garnered numerous accolades during her collegiate career at UNCW, including the distinction of all-time women’s basketball leading scorer. She set career records in 16 different cat-egories, including points at 2,056 and rebounds at 1,290.

John Bunting’s successful career in football lasted more than four decades as both a player and a coach. He played for the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill where his coach, Bill Dooley, called him an out-standing linebacker with “a tremendous ability to inspire his teammates.”

In 1972, Bunting was drafted in the 10th round by the Philadelphia Eagles and in 1981 he and his team played in Super Bowl XV. He was also named the Eagles’ defensive MVP in 1979.

In 1984 he switched to the coaching side of the game. He was assistant coach at Brown

University and Glassboro State College. When he became head coach at GSC his team won two conference championships and advanced to the NCAA tourna-ment semifinals in 1992.

After a few years on coach-ing staffs for professional teams he accepted the top job at University of North Carolina from 2000 to ‘06. He was the Tarheels’ only head coach to beat top five teams — FSU in 2001 and Miami in 2004.

Larry Honeycutt’s career in athletics also spanned multiple decades and sports. He was quarterback for the Raleigh Broughton team that won the 1961 state championship. He went on to play for UNCW where he was outfielder on the National Jr. College Baseball Championship team in 1963.

After obtaining his master’s degree from UNC Chapel Hill, he returned to UNCW as a faculty member and coach of baseball, soccer and tennis. He was voted NAIA coach of the year in 1975.

He then transitioned from coaching to officiating. During his 47-year officiating career he called nine state championships — two basketball, three football and four soccer.

Charlie “Barrel” Niven, whose induction comes posthumously, is remembered for his dynamic athleticism and speed that helped him excel at football, basketball and baseball in the 1950s.

He played for New Hanover High School where his suc-cess on the field earned him a football scholarship to Duke University. After his freshman season, the Canadian Football League offered him a contract. He returned to Wilmington, got married, and accepted a schol-arship to play for Wilmington College, where he led the nation in scoring with a 38.6 points-per-game average.

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2/19 Fri 04:41 AM 4.0 H 11:10 AM -0.42 L 05:02 PM 3.42 H 11:12 PM -0.64 L

2/20 Sat 05:31 AM 4.09 H 11:59 AM -0.49 L 05:50 PM 3.58 H

2/21 Sun 12:01 AM -0.67 L 06:15 AM 4.13 H 12:43 PM -0.56 L 06:34 PM 3.7 H

2/22 Mon 12:46 AM -0.68 L 06:56 AM 4.1 H 01:23 PM -0.59 L 07:15 PM 3.77 H

2/23 Tue 01:28 AM -0.66 L 07:35 AM 4.01 H 01:59 PM -0.57 L 07:57 PM 3.77 H

2/24 Wed 02:06 AM -0.59 L 08:15 AM 3.88 H 02:34 PM -0.51 L 08:39 PM 3.72 H

Last week of February might be fishable

Hook, Line & Sinker

By Skylar Walters

The winter weather for the past couple of weeks has finally taken its toll on the water tem-peratures, which are now reading in the mid-to-upper 40s. That, in essence, pretty much shuts any type of inshore fishing down, however with the forecast calling for warm-ing temps and sunny skies, this weekend might just be a great time to head out and try your luck, especially if you’ve got a case of cabin fever. While the water temperatures might not rebound overnight, the sunny skies will definitely improve your chances of getting a fish to bite. The other good news is that this weather appears to extend beyond the weekend and

while we don’t know what next week has in store for us, there’s only about one week left of the month and then things will start to get interesting once we’re into March.

If fishing this weekend is on your to-do list, it will be lim-ited to inshore or fishing from the shore or pier, as the off-shore weather forecast, while improving, doesn’t look all that fishable anytime soon. With that said, even though we’re right smack in the middle of winter, there’s two species that are almost always available no matter what the conditions are: red drum and speckled trout, both of which tolerate the colder water better than most. While they may be a lit-tle difficult to catch they will eventually bite. If you’re having a hard time deciding on what areas to target or what baits to use, then visit one of your local tackle shops and ask around. The shops will normally have

some fishermen hanging around who haven’t quite mustered up enough energy to head out and fish, not to mention the guys and gals working these shops hear all the info from those that are still fishing. If you don’t ask around you’ll never know if you’re just missing out on some good information or tips that might just make you a bet-ter angler.

One key tactic when fishing the cold waters this time of year is to use a bait that is scented. There are plenty of scented baits on the market and some work better than others. Adding some additional scent from the bot-tled ones available at your local tackle shops will only improve

your chances of having a fish take interest in your offering. The type of scent doesn’t really appear to matter but I wouldn’t put a fish scent on a shrimp bait nor would I put a shrimp scent on a minnow bait. Of course if there were only one scent avail-able, I’d use it regardless.

Another very important ele-ment to fishing this time of year is bait presentation. Slow and methodical will result in more strikes than a faster retrieve. Fishing during the warmer parts of the day will also increase your chances for success. Mud banks and shallower water will hold more heat during the day so there are some good areas to target as well.

Even if you don’t manage to bring home dinner after a day out on the water, just remember how lucky and blessed we are to have the opportunity to fish and maybe even catch some-thing, even if it is the month of February.

Personal record achieved in Valentine’s 10KBy Emmy ErranteStaff Writer

Local runner Tom Clifford said “championship weather” contrib-uted to the personal record he achieved during the inaugural Wrightsville Beach Valentine’s 10K Feb. 13.

Clifford, who is training for the Boston Marathon, averaged 5:07-minute miles while beating 256 other runners to the finish line in 31:45. Hugh Crews fin-ished second in 32:48 and Christa Iammarino was third in 37:17.

The air temperature was barely above freezing when the race started at 9 a.m. in Wrightsville Beach Park but Clifford said the chill helped.

“You don’t overheat,” he said. “You can thermo-regulate, so if you get warm you can take your hat off or take your gloves off.”

The 6.2-mile course took rac-ers down Causeway Drive to a turnaround point at the end of Waynick Boulevard. Clifford said some people find out-and-back races to be mentally challenging because they reach the turn-around and think, “I have to do the exact same thing again,” but he believes the format helps with pacing.

“You can see how the first 5K and second 5K fare,” he said.

Clifford is an integral part of Wilmington’s running com-munity as owner and coach at running business Without Limits. Many of the athletes he runs with

are training for the Quintiles Wrightsville Beach Marathon March 20, and between 20 and 30 of them used the Valentine’s 10K as a tune-up.

They work out together regu-larly, but Clifford said a few competitive races should also be

incorporated into training.“It’s always good to get two or

three solid races in before your ‘A-race,’” he said. “You can’t ever mimic a race in a workout.”

First-place female finisher and Without Limits runner Iammarino is following that

strategy. She’s running a half marathon in two weeks to prepare for the full Wrightsville Beach Marathon.

She hasn’t run a race in about four years, she said, so she wants to build up to a marathon distance.

While the race drew some of Wilmington’s most dedi-cated runners, the event also incorporated a fun aspect for the less serious athletes. To encourage participants to dress in Valentine’s colors, the event awarded prizes for best individ-ual Valentine costume and best couple’s Valentine costume.

Proceeds from the race benefit-ted Wrightsville Beach’s Parks and Recreation Department, and parks and recreation program supervisor Katie Ryan said this year’s funds would cover the 2016 WECT Sounds of Summer Concert Series. The concerts, which are free to the public, fea-ture live music in Wrightsville Beach Park every Thursday eve-ning during the summer.

Ryan said she hopes as the race gains popularity it will be able to fund some of the department’s many other projects around the island as well. Based on how well this year’s race went, she already has a date — Feb. 11 — picked out for the 2017 event.

“For the first year, we’re really excited,” she said. “We’ve been getting good feedback, and they really like the course.”email [email protected]

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If fishing this weekend is on your to-do list, it will be limited to inshore or fishing from the shore or pier, as the offshore weather forecast, while improving, doesn’t look all

that fishable anytime soon.

Staff photo by Emmy Errante

Runners race down Pelican Drive during the inaugural Wrightsville Beach Valentine’s 10K on Saturday, Feb. 13.

Staff photo by Emmy Errante

Tom Clifford achieves a personal record while winning the inaugural Wrightsville Beach Valentine’s 10K Saturday, Feb. 13.

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