LOCAL BUSINESS – Southern States Offers 10%
off on Tuesdays to Over 55 - I didn’t know until this week
that anyone over 55 gets 10% off at our local Southern States store.
If they don’t ask you if you are over 55, then remind them on
Tuesdays and they will apply the discount. I found this out this
past Tuesday while buying bird food!
Crown Castle Receives Permit to Build Cell
Tower on Longs Store Road – Crown
Castle is a tower owner who leases space to cell carriers such as
Verizon, AT&T, US Cellular and others. AT&T has
committed to installing their equipment on the Crown Castle tower
which has passed Person County Planning Board approval. The
tower is going up near the corner of the Semora Road and Longs Store
Road.
Also, American
Tower who is another tower owner has applied for 3 towers with one
being at Hyco Lake on Wagstaff Road. The report back from the
Counties Consultant is due any day now on these 3 towers. Once
they report back, a public hearing will be requested by American
Tower. Hopefully by March or April the permits for the 3 towers
will be completed and approved by our County Commissioners. Once
approval is obtained, the construction time is estimated to be less
than 30 days according to American Tower.
ENTERTAINMENT – The
Flaming Star is having The
Pizazz Band this Saturday night 2/6/10. Check out their
schedule at: www.theflamingstar.com/schedule.htm
Keep up with the latest entertainment on our
Calendar on the homepage. We’ve updated the calendar on
the site so check it out for local events. Click on an event to get
more detail.
COMMUNITY FUNCTIONS – The Blue
Ridge Parkway is 75 years old this year. They are
having a year-long celebration so check out their festivities at: www.blueridgeparkway75.org/
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ADVISORY – The Person-Caswell Lake Authority
reminds you to pick up your new boat dock tag at the office. All
docks have been reassigned new numbers so you’ll have to get the new
tag and put it up. West
and Woodall has volunteered to go get your tag and put
it up if you can’t get up here soon to do it or if you don’t have
the means to mount the tag. It is suppose to be located in a
place that can be viewed from the water. Call or contact West
and Woodall at: (336)322-5800 or email to: whit@westandwoodall.com
Thanks West and Woodall for providing this as a service to the
Hyco community! The numbering system use the logic of starting at the
North Hyco Hwy 57 bridge going counterclockwise around the shoreline
and ending up back at the bridge so if you are near St. Georges, your
number may be single digits and if near Tommy Middleton, then 2400 or
so.
Do you know what Cap and Trade is all
about? Most of you know I retired from Duke Energy having
spent some 23 years there in the power generation department. So I
follow what is going on in the energy field pretty closely especially
power generation. I worked in coal plants at Hyco and Mayo and
spent some time during startup at the Shearon Harris Nuclear Plant.
With the recent cold winter and resulting high energy bills, it is
important to know how the Cap and Trade Bill may affect us if passed.
Cap and Trade attempts to reduce carbon emissions by either adding
additional environmental equipment, cutting production or buying of
carbon credits. The bottom line is if it is passed in current
form, you could see your Duke Energy bill increase by 75% - if
your recent bill was $300, then under Cap and Trade it could be
$525/month! Now I’m all for clean air and water but there has
to be some sanity applied by our government or we will be spending the
bulk of our income on over aggressive environmental regulations. We
have to get back to building nuclear power plants also – if wimpy
France can generate 90% of their power needs from nuclear, why can’t
we? We can if the government reduces licensing time and the
public is educated on the benefits of safe nuclear power generation.
That’s the end of my soap box this week! Need more info,
contact me: randy@hycolake.com
ADVERTISER HIGHLIGHT – Each newsletter,
we highlight a paid advertiser on the www.hycolake.com
website. If it were not for these paid advertisements, the site
would not be dynamic as it is and provide local information for Hyco
Lake and Person County. Please support the advertisers! This
week we highlight West
and Woodall. They are our oldest advertiser at www.hycolake.com
We congratulate them on the achievement and also thank them for
volunteering to get the boat dock tags displayed.
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