SITTING ON THE PRIZE — The litter pick-up team from Interim Healthcare won the $25 cash prize from The News Reporter for finding the most unusual items during the spring’s Greater Whiteville Chamber of Commerce litter sweep. Among the items collected by the Interim team were a commode and a television. Chamber board members were in charge of 11 districts in and around the city during the clean-up campaign. The county also headed a litter sweep and reported more than 800 bags of roadside litter were collected.
TIME TO CELEBRATE — Whiteville Mayor Horace Whitley, left, and Brunswick Electric president David Batten, wearing Japanese robes, prepare to break open a barrel of Japanese sake during dedication ceremonies for the new Sumitomo facility near Whiteville. At center is Sumitomo Lightwave president Hiroaki Horima.
GETTING BOOKED — Freddy Norris gets a mug shot taken during his stay at the American Cancer Society’s Jail-A-Thon. A few “prisoners” were apprehended, locked in an open air cell and given a telephone directory to contact “bondsmen.” Whiteville citizens raised more than $9,000 for cancer research during the fun and frolic of the jail-a-thon.