Support your local businesses & shops that are still open and operating at this time as the COVID-19 has impacted our business & tourist communities! Tourism is here to support your businesses. Tourism is working to also share other businesses & local shops throughout Pender County! #shoplocal #supportsmallbusinesses #shoppender
Eat Local Burgaw! Support your local Restaurants! The Town of Burgaw is still up and running just in a different way. Be sure to order your take out before you have to cook more! Stay tuned for our eateries that are open on Topsail Island , Hampstead, North Carolina and other area's of Pender County! A page designed with local resturant menus and information on open eateries. Call the restuarants for more...
There’s a song by the Who called “Who Are You.” And with 107 turtles in house we’re sometimes asking not only who they are but where they are. When I say that there are turtles everywhere I really mean that there are turtles everywhere! Normally we have turtles in two areas; Sea Turtle Bay (the big house) and Sea Turtle Sick Bay, the first stop for any new admits and turtles requiring on-going...
ROCKY POINT – For those under the age of 60, it’s almost impossible to imagine segregated public schools. African Americans were taxed to support a public-school system, but it was up to them to build schools and provide bus service for their children. In 1917, the African American citizens of Rocky Point collected $400 for a four-room school building. The county and the Julius Rosenwald Fund supplemented...
Sea Turtle Hospital News Update Space – the final frontier (Star Trek music plays in the background….) Maybe, but if you’re a sea turtle the chances of blasting to the moon are slim to none. However there is another frontier - our oceans - and our turtles have been exploring it for eons. They’ve seen things we humans will never see and they’re telling us about what’s going on...
