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I IN YOUR AREA Fewer bikes fA TODAY'S REGIONAL NEWS SURFSIDE BEACH Car show draws visitors' SUNDAY Partly cloudy 77 Monday Partly doudy 79 FORECAST 8C 626-8555 Updated planetarium shows visitors the cosmos 1 4C Pest control companies notice bedbug trend ID more families LOCAL ic New rules bring changes to Atlantic Beach Bikefest $L50 MYRTLE BEACH SOUTH CAROLINA THESUNNEWSCOM I MAY 24 2009 'We're not people to look back we're looking forward' Bob Portteus Barefoot Resort resident who lost his house intheAprilfire Photob wt Ramdau Hm r1iffiglftinntncnni TIm MW Ikhim of Bob md Jo Ann Porttaus rise from ashss of ths SX 31 fir Just a month after several houses wars burned on Swift Stmt in Barefoot Resort "God la so arid Bob Portteus as Iw stood watching tin construction should appreciate the simple things In Nfo IHu holding your hand md roadbig a book Ufa Is ByKurtKnapek kknapekthesunnewscom People line up for new park ByMkeCherney Wearing a pink shirt and pink-rimmed sunglasses Nacfja McGkme 9 smiled at her father as she boarded one of the new rides at Freestyle Music Park for the second time in a row She and her sister Astrid 12 had the entire ride to themselves as the former Hard Rock Park opened Saturday for its second season The girls didn't seem to mind Astrid and Nadja came to the park with their father Felix McGkme 49 who drove from Charleston for the opening After buying annual passes last year the family came to the park at least 15 times he said ONLINE Find more photon stories md videos of Freestyle Music Park at Tfoaff am eeai inmmnmsMMH park did not because it was too McGkme said failed because it was expensive There was discounts for the After buying the $400 million rock roll theme park out of bankruptcy for million in February FPI Entertainment rimed to make the park more family oriented by expanding the and removing drug references in the decor The new ownership See PARK Page 6A fail just too no $25 MB area also Editor's note: The wildfire that chewed through Harry County one month ago destroyed 76 homes many of them in Barefoot Resort and many of those on Swift Street Through the next several months The Sun News will chart the progress of the recovery through the eyes of some of the victims i Couple loses eveiything but will only look forward 6 days to completely contain the fire 19600 acres burned 76 homes destroyed 96 homes damaged 2500 people displaced by the fire More than $25 million NORTH MYRTLE BEACH Bob Portteus stood in his front yard and listened to powerful shots as construction workers nailed shingles to the roof of his new house with air guns His wife of 47 years Jo Ann Portteus took a photo and smiled A few weeks earlier there was little to be happy about Vivid memories remain of the early morning hours of April 23 when a massive wildfire destroyed their 6-year-old retirement home on Swift Street and those of many of their neighbors in Barefoot Resort The fire ate up childhood photographs two grandfather clocks a lifetime collection of books nearly all their possessions Yet Portteus said he couldn't be happier alive and lode at he said motioning to his home which consists of a frame exterior walls and a roof hard to ignore the reminders left by the blaze that destroyed 76 homes and nearly 20000 acres in Horry County a month ago Skeletal arms of blackened trees line the woods some 40 yards behind their home A few ferns have started to grow Kym Brown 6 smiles as she rides Wheels In the Sky at Freestyle Music Park Saturday afternoon Wheels In the Sky allows riders to peddle through clouds in colorful hang glider certs feel Uke a Brown said SPREAD OF THE RECESSION Economic woes reach the commercial sector Bob Portteus (right) end his neighbor George LaCourse share a laugh outside the construction area of the Portteus family home Tuesday on Swift Street IlflPF Log on to ThcSunNcwuom to: mUIL view more photos of the construction of the Portteus home AMI IMC Yiew photos of the lire from one month ago UivLIilL Watch videos of people's reactions to the devastating fires See FIRE I Page 8A dama9e estimate By Jessica Foster jfbstergthesunncwscom get too attached to that coffee shop down the road or the hair salon either The monetary pinch that has clamped consumers since the recession started in 2007 has spread to the commercial sector in full force and neither golf courses nor shopping centers nor offices are immune Businesses of nearly all types and sizes are being sipieewd by the slowdown in consumer spending and a tough credit market examples of which have emerged this month at Legends Group golf courses The Market Common and GM and Chrysler dealerships nationwide is no longer just a housing said Frank Hefner a research economist at the College of Charleston housing bubble kind of started it and what we're now seeing is with the financial meltdown it's a problem with ECONOMY ftuv I2A Community support puts family back on track By Janelle Frost rent made the move vrith husband Josh their jfnstithesumewseom But just a week after the family moved two sons Matthew 5 and Jacob 6 and in a wildfire destroyed the house and 75 Cathryn Cushman's mom Judi Clegg NORTH MYRTU BEACH Cathryn Cushman others in its almost 20000-acre path we hadn't moved all of the and her family moved from Windy Hill to had 95 percent of our stuff moved Barefoot Resort to save some money on in" said Cathryn Cushman who had See FAMILY I Page 8A INSIDE Condcsbwlde Crosswords In comics kicfcsftoday 2A Scoreboard 7B Television inside Vi Vx 144 1 200? 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