FYI ....... Thanks to all for their help ..... for those that are interested there will a discussion on FM 107.3 in Morehead City tonight Feb 22, 05 from 5pm - 6pm.
Please pass this on to your local, county, state and federal elected officials,other fishing clubs, friends, radio, TV, newspapers, other websites, etc. to get the word out. The boaters, fishermen and homewoners inland have not been kept informed of what is going on, please include them in your mailings. We need to get the word out and fill the Civic Center on 3/3/05.
This Press Release was issued by Stan Jarusinski, Chairman of the Save Our Inlets Town Meeting.. You can contact me at 910 326 2392, Cell 910 340 0813.
seajay@ec.rr.com
Thanks again .......
PRESS RELEASE-SWANSBORO, N. C. , FEBRUARY 21, 2005
The President’s Office of the Budget did not have ample funding in its 2005 budget to
dredge all the shallow inlets of N.C. for the entire year. Only 2 inlets received funding
to dredge them each once in 2005 which will make them navigable for about 2 months. There is NO funding provided in the 2006 budget to dredge the N. C. shallow draft inlets next year. If emergency funding should be provided for 2005, the earliest the inlets can be dredged will be 10/1/05. Emergency funding is needed now.
The “Save Bogue Inlet” Town Meeting sponsored by the Onslow Bay Saltwater Fishing
Club and the Tideland News has expanded its base to include all the endangered Inlets between Bogue Inlet and Carolina Beach Inlet that are in dire need of dredging funds for 2005 and beyond. If emergency funding is not secured for 2005, the Inlets will be impassable. The Coast Guard has already removed the navigations bouys in Topsail and New River Inlets.
A Town Hall Meeting will be held in Swansboro, N. C. at the Rotary Civic Center on
rte. 24, at 7 PM on Thursday, 3/3/05. Everyone is welcome to attend to express their
views and concerns and to also seek solutions to this problem. The safety, economic and environmental impact the closing of the Inlets will have on the immediate area and the State will be devastating.
The Town of Emerald Isle funded the dredging for a new Bogue Inlet, however there is no funding for 2005 and latter years to dredge the 1 1/2 miles Connector Channel from the Intercoastal Waterway to the new inlet.
Those committed to attending are:
N. C. State Senators
Harry Brown
Scott Thomas (Unconfirmed)
N. C. Representatives:
George Cleveland-Onslow County
Robert Grady-Onslow County
Russell Tucker-Onslow County
Jean Preston-Carteret County
Carolyn Justice-Pender/New Hanover Cos.
County Commissioners:
Lionel Midgett- Onslow County Chairman
Paul Buchanan-Onslow County
Martin Aragona-Onslow County
Delma Collins-Onslow County
Pat McElraft-Carteret County
U. S. Senators:
Richard Burr (Unconfirmed)
Elizabeth Dole (Staffer Janet Bradbury)
U.S. Congressmen:
Mike McIntyre (Staffer Mary Ellen Stevens Simpson)
Walter Jones (Staffer William Moore)
The adoption of the Town Hall meeting format was selected so that all citizens will
have a voice in presenting the problems and also being part of the solutions and a short and long term action plan.
Questions and comments can be made from the floor, they can be mailed to:
OBSFC-Save Our Inlets, PO Box 1978 Swansboro, N.C. 28584, emailed to
jcameron@bizec.rr.com dropped off at the Tideland News, 774 West Corbett Ave.,
Swansboro, NC 28584 and can be presented to a Moderator to read at the Meeting.
Save Our Inlets Swansboro Town Meeting 
