The Island Packet from Hilton Head Island, South Carolina • 2

Th Island Packet Thursday December 19 IMS Page 2 A Christmas (Continued from Page 1 A) some have When tragedy hits some one on the island the Deep Well "Christmas und can start to help within hours since there is no red tape involved Simply a telephone call to Mrs Heinrichs has been the means of ob taining aid for hundreds of needy is landers for more than 15 years Mrs Heinrichs telephone number is 785 2849 Contributions payable to the Deep Well Christmas und should be mailed in care of The Island Packet PO Box 5727 Hilton Head Island SC 29938 Cash donations in any amount are welcome but should be made in per son at the office atPope Avenue Mall or at Island Chev ron on Palmetto Bay Road Island car wash oro ceeds through Christmas Eve will also be donated to the fund Island Chevron owner Maurice Wid dows has encouraged those buying a car wash to contribute any additio nal cash amount at the same time Island Chevron is providing receipts for donations and all contributions to the Deep Well Christmas und are tax deductible The Island Packet and Island Chevron are accepting contributions to the Deep Well Christmas und through next Tuesday which leaves only six days for those who have not contributed already Mrs Heinrichs said money col lected earlier in the Christmas un campaign already is being used to help needy islanders in need of food and other necessities this Christmas season ollowing are the latest contributors: Anonymous I 5 Grants Continued from Page 1 A two new rooms for a nursery and toddlers The day care center a donation corporation is asking for $72000 to assist with $179631 needed 'for the building addition now al most 90 percent complete more playground and parking area a se curity system and new air condition ing system among other items i Ms Kirtley said the center started 18 years ago and operating debt free accepts children ages six months to 64 years hA out 70 percent of families bringingan average of 150 children a day to center work in tourism relatedbusinesses she said Questions from the bed tax com mittee to Robert Tremonte presi dent of the Hilton Head Island Res wcue Squad led to a lengthydiscussion about Beaufort County i billing and reimburse ment system Money derived from ambulance runs go directly to thecounty which provides gasoline andsupplies to the squad Tremonte said The squad is asking for $139750 to erect a metal frame building it has purchased on land to be secured in the north end and for needed equip: ment to help train more personnel Stanley Holditch president of the Hilton Head Island Humane As sociation said inflation and popula tion growth have contributed to fi nancial burdens of the Hilton Head island Animal Shelter The association is asking for $34000 to help redtice its operating deficit projected to be $34870 in 1986 fgHolditch said the group intends to raise money to add to an interest bearing endowment fund and in creased public relations efforts The Rev Robert EH Peeples de scribed the Hilton Head Island His torical efforts to clean up after tornado damage in June at ort Mitchell on Skull Creek and oth er historic projects requiring repair The society has requested $17500 Patsy Hancock vice president of the Hospitality Association spoke about her $8000 request for a welcoming reception for the Mu nicipal Association of South Carolina conference in 1986 Thomas Ball Jr executive di rector for Hilton Head Island Special Events Inc described new events including a boat regatta and winefestival planned for the March 1986 Springest The non profit group is requesting $44425 from accommo dations funds Emory Campbell chairman of the Hilton Head Island Rural Water District described the five year ef fort to provide a municipal water system for the Stoney and Squire Pope Road communities on the north end of the island Harbour (Continued from Page 1 A) space 15000 square feet of confer ence space and 7500 square feet of lobbies constructed at the 135 acre tract according to plans filed at town hall The 100 hotel rooms would be added at the Harbour House building part of which would be de molished to make way for the hotel rooms and some commercial devel opment In addition 33 one bedroom villas would be built in a three to five sto ry building on Lighthouse Point An other building would include a three level 222 car parking garage sur rounded by 18600 square feet of commercial space 42 and two villas 4800 square feet of meeting and banquet space and a 5640 square foot health club with an indoor pool and other athletic facili ties The seven member Sea Pines Plantation architectural review board granted and pre liminary in October for the two buildings where the 75 villas and 75 units would go That same board reversed its deci sion Nov 26 revoking its prelimi nary approval The company filed its Beaufort County Courthouse lawsuit Nov 27 against the architectural review board and its seven members asking that they be prevented from reversing their previous approval for the 75 units Island attorney John McKay Jr lawyer for the review board countered with a motion asking a circuit judge to dismiss the lawsuit McKay then presented town plan ning commissioners with the ar chitectural review board's findings Commissioners huddled with town attorneys and land use planners be fore postponing a decision on wheth er to approve the Harbour Town pro ject A town decision was to come Wednesday The Planning Commission met in formally with Sea Pines Plantation Co officials last week when the firm agreed to revise its villa plans to conform more closely to the de sign of other plantation villas McK ay had told commissioners Dec 4 that the plantation's review board members considered the 100 room inn 75 villas and 75 lock out rooms as 250 room Marc A Puntereri a Sea Pines Plantation Co consultant presented new drawings Monday to the ar chitectural review board which then voted to reinstate "conceptual and preliminary for the villas EDITORIAL AND BUSINESS OICE: 1 Pope 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extradited They said the charge was not listed among 29 offenses calling for extra dition in a treaty between Australia and the United States The Australian High Court the equivalent of a national supreme court determined that anyone charged with operating a continuous criminal enterprise can be extra dited because the treaty calls for ex tradition of any federal offense where dealing with drugs was a sub stantial element of the offense Violation of drug laws is a substan tial element of operating a continu ing criminal enterprise according to the High Court There are no fur ther appeals in Australia after the High Court makes a ruling Lide said The charges against the men will be brought up in one trial within 70 days after they are returned to Co lumbia in January Lide said ire (Continued from Page 1 A) thick smoke A large crowd watched Hilton Head ire Department and Sea Pines orest Beach ire De partment firefighters working in the mid island residential complex Steve Burns of Unit 195 a one sto ry end unitrsaid: "I put some ashes from the fireplace in a cardboard box and put them outside I thought they were out But I guess it started the fire" Burns was at the nearby residence of his parents when the fire started He said the ashes were from a fire the day before He said he put the box outside earlier Wednesday The fire went straight up the out side wall then spread horizontally through the building through floors walls ceilings and attic space said Hilton Head ire Department Capt John Brown Greg McAbee of Unit 194 owned by Lottie Woodward of Hilton Head said he called 911 He was watch ing television when he saw smoke coming through the floor Hie said he went next door got no answer then went around back when he saw the fire Alfred and Betty Jackson live in Unit 193 They moved in Sunday just gotten nicely settled in with the Christmas decorations out and said Jackson an employee at Hudson's Seafood was a beautiful unit brand new never been lived in before The own er lives in New Jackson said he and McAbee and some others battled the fire with garden hoses for a while before the fire department was called were chopping hell out of the siding We was trying to get it out You could see the fire inside the wall red hot in Larry and Linda Yeargin live in the other end unit Unit 193 They knew something was going on when they saw flashing lights from the fire trucks About the same time the power was disconnected and they were asked to leave Mrs Yeargin left without getting shoes They got their two dogs Benji and Boomer Correction Marketplace in Beaufort over The Merry Marketplace in Beau fort ended Saturday Dec 14 and will not be Saturday Dec 21 as reported in The Island Packet on Tuesday Cable (Continued from Page 1 A) shown during the day are moving from channel 22 to channel 19 Renwick said the cable company has been studying programming changes since last July when a US District Court judge struck down the ederal Communications Commis rules requiring cable operators to carry all com mercial television stations within 35 miles of the community served The ruling sparked a battle be tween Plantation Cablevision and WTGS the Hardeeville independent that signed on the air Sept 1 The controversy gained national attention when Washington broad casting special interest groups brought WTGS general manager president and co owner John Bai lie to Capitol Hill to address prob lems the new independent faced as a result of the must carry ruling Last month the ederal Commu nications Commission agreed to in vestigate the possibility of a new must carry rule Renwick said Wednesday the decision was part of the reason Plantation Cablevision is picking up WTGS on the island cable system is some concern that the ederal Communications Commis sion will reinstate the car provision in some Ren wick said developments in Washington were important in our decision to introduce WTGS on the cable Renwick said the management of WTGS assured him that including the Hardeeville independent on the island cable system would age the station to add significantly to their local According to the opera tions manager Eric Bruer WTGS will broadcast a monthly 30 minute public affairs program entitled Special He said the station is working with Hilton Head High School's drama club to produce a monthly hour long show Bailie said in an interview he is pleased the controversy is He said his station's first rat ing period which was in Novem ber indicated viewers are pleased with WTGS programming The station captured an 8 percent share of all viewers for its 6 pm to 7 pm time slot with the science fic tion show By compari son Savannah television station 6 pm news program cap tured 5 percent of the viewing audi ence and Savannah station news show captured an 11 percent share of the viewing market Channel movie lineup also fared well in prime time against the network affiliates The Hardeeville highest rated movie cape rom the Planet of the achieved a 10 percent rating beat ing out such shows as and Elsewhere" The movie which aired at 9 pm captured the same rating as Night on ABC A share of the viewing audience refers to a percentage of viewers who were watching television at a given time The rating refers to a percentage of all television sets in a viewing area regardless of whether they are turned on at a given time While developments in Washing ton influenced Plantation Cablevi sion's programming revisions Ren wick said the changes are based on careful evaluation of the results of continuing viewer preference re search research clearly reflected our dissatisfaction with the duplication of programming on the ABC and NBC affiliate stations from Charleston and Renwick said fact that it is technically impossible to consistent ly deliver a first rate signal from Charleston is another oft stated He said while some programming is duplicated on Charleston's chan nel 5 station WCSC and channel 11 station WTOC both CBS affiliates Plantation Cablevi sion did not drop the Charleston sta tion because of news and sports pro gramming The cable company is continuing to offer public television stations WVAN of Savannah (channel 9) and WJWJ of Beaufort (channel 12) despite duplication because view ers a clear preference for Renwick said He said moving The Weather Channel to the basic cable service was natural for this area So much of the lifestyle of Hilton Head for residents and tourists alike is weather dependent the channel Ijas proved popular since we included it on our basic plus service last Jan uary Now all cable subscribers in cluding our hotels and vacation rent al units will have The Weather Renwick said Adding MTV was in response to a standing demand for this en tertainment by our younger sub he said Developing the programming menu was based in part on a viewer preference survey of 6600 Planta tion Cablevision subscribers in Octo ber Renwick said The survey re sponse was 237 percent and he said the results were carefully consid ered in the current revisions Subscribers who requested such distant signals as Chicago station WGN and New York station WOR may be disappointed because those channels are not part of the new is land lineup Renwick said But Renwick said copyright rules make it too costly to add distant sta tions the Hilton Head cable market Plantation Cablevision already car ries one distant station WTBS of At lanta on channel 7 Coastal panel permits appealed Three new appeals of SC Coastal Permitting Committee decisions were recently filed bringing the to tal number of appeals this year to more than two dozen The council denied a request from Wayne Huff of ripp Island to place fill in wetlands in the ripp Island Canal to the area be hind the bulkhead to saleable real Huff is appealing the denial claiming that he lost $54500 because his lot is now useless He says that the council used its powers unreaso nably and it without com The council issued a permit for an underwater sewage main to con nect Johns Island with a pump sta tion across the Stono River The Magnolia Garden Club is ap pealing that approval claiming that a failure in the piping system would jeopardize the health and well being of the public especially the garden club members who live in the area applications for various phases of construction have been at best piecemeal and fragmented thereby making it exceedingly diffi cult to assimilate the entire profi le of the proposed says the complaint The council denied a permit "for filling 25 to 30 feet of an existing ca nal and denied an after the fact per mit for filling of approximately the same amount of waterway leading to the Stono River Nina Parker appealed on the grounds that she is attempting to eliminate a neighborhood swiming hole which is a potential liability to the applicant Ms Parker complains that the wildlife resource agencies tinely take a negative attitude on all permits" and says already had one near at the site Everything in the shop 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