Based in Raleigh NC, GB4 is one of the area’s premiere cover bands with a diverse set list ranging from classic rock, to funk, soul, and blues.

What do a Mortgage Banker, An Insurance Salesman, a Computer Programmer, and an Elevator Installer have in Common? They are pioneers of the Garage Boogie Rock Movement.

With one foot in the blues…. they just have fun playing upbeat solid classic Rock and Roll from all eras.
Click Here To See All 2010 Ocean Isle Beach Events: Concerts, Festivals, Tournaments etc.!

Live beach view web camera overlooks the oceanfront pool, the Thirsti Tiki tikibar and the beach beyond.

The 2010 season for CAMP OIB officially begins June 1 and continues until August 19. If a heat advisory is issued on any particular day, camp will be cancelled for the safety of all participants. Be sure to check our Government TV Channel 8 for weather cancellations. Camp time is from 10:00 am to 12:00 noon. Camp activities will not be held on July 5th due to the holiday. All children must be accompanied by an adult during the entire program.

This summer, The town of Ocean Isle Beach is once again sponsoring a day camp for children. The “camp” is held at the Ocean Isle Beach Community Center every weekday from 10:00am until 12:00pmPM. The Community Center is located within a short walk up the beach from the The Winds Resort Beach Club.

The programs are free with a maximun enrollment of 35 children per day. Children between the ages of 3 to 10 are welcome and parents are asked to accompany their children. It’s a great time for family fun and togetherness.

Registration begins daily at 9:30 AM. Bring your children and join the fun!

CAMP OIB 2010 CHILDREN’S ACTIVITIES

10 a.m. – 12 noon An Adult Must Stay With the Child for the Entire Program

June 1 – August 21 (Check Channel 8 for Weather Cancellations)

Arts, crafts, games, and stories for children 3 – 10 years of age

Located at the OIB Community Center 44 East First Street

MONDAY – TROPICAL FUN
Dance the Limbo and play Where’s the Mermaid/Merman Game. Then it’s off to Mermaid Story time and craft making with beads and shells. “Gigi” grandmother of the mermaids will be on hand to share tales of the sea, so be sure to bring your camera.

TUESDAY – TURTLES AND BOATS
Dance to “Dora at the Beach” and play the Sea Turtle Game. Enjoy crafts and story time with “Baby Sea Turtle” and interact with turtle eggs. The Power Squadron will have boats and equipment on site to teach children hands-on water safety information.

WEDNESDAY – WACKY WEDNESDAY
Dance the Hokey Pokey and Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed. Enjoy beach games, making sun catchers and “Curious George” story time. Study our local shells with Ms. Gayle.

THURSDAY – PIRATE DAY
ARRGHH!! MATEY join us as we march to the Flag Parade and play the Cannonball/Treasure Hunt. Then it’s off to enjoy pirate flag crafts and “Jimmy and Pirate Talk” story time. You never know when Captain Greybeard will pay a visit.

Registration for activities will be held daily Monday – Friday at 10:00 a.m. and ending promptly at 10:20 a.m. to allow activities to begin.

Activity Participant Forms must be completed for all participants.

Ocean Isle Community Center * 44 East First Street * Ocean Isle Beach * (910) 579-4394

Gloria Hillenburg AKA as The Turtle Lady says conditions are right for the sea turtles to come ashore at night to nest on Ocean Isle Beach. And once again The Winds is “adopting” a sea turtle nest.

Once again we need your help naming our Turtle!

Last year we were overwhelmed with the response from people – every day the emails rolled in submitting names for our sea turtle.

If you’d like to participate please get your email to us by June 30th!

Email your Turtle Name suggestions to: garypope@thewinds.com by June 30th for consideration.

Sea turtle laying 209 eggs on bird island:

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Sea Turtles Hatching at Sunset Beach,NC during August, 2009 near midnight:

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A Sea Turtle makes his (or her) way to the ocean!:

More than 500,000 cubic yards of sand was placed on the Ocean Isle Beach strand during May 2010.

The project removed sand from a sand bar in the Shallotte River Inlet (near the waterway between Ocean Isle and Holden Beach) and moved the sand to the east end of the beach.

Also the widened beach at the east end will offer additional recreational benefits such as sunbathing, fishing and shelling, also the extra sand will create extra nesting habitat for sea turtles.

It was important that the project be completed by May 21st in order to not interfere with loggerhead turtles’ nesting season.

Mayor Debbie Smith said it is the largest project of the year.

The renourishment project, which is in conjunction with Carolina, Kure and Wrightsville Beaches, brought 509,200 cubic yards of sand to the beach, according to the town’s Web site. The sand was placed as far east as Shallotte Boulevard and as far west as Concord Street.
“This goes the furthest west than any renourishment has gone since original construction in 2001,” Smith said.

Ocean Isle Beach has contracted with the Corps of Engineers in a 50-year, $150 million contract for beach renourishment.

Originally the county’s plan was to be finished with the park by last by October, but construction on the park came to a standstill when the contractor on the project, Weaver Co. Inc., of Conway, S.C., went bankrupt, leaving the park’s fate hanging in the balance.

Liberty Mutual, the bonding company for the project, took over with Boggs Paving Inc., of Myrtle Beach, chosen to finish the job.

Although most of the park’s amenities have already been completed, including eight tennis courts, playground equipment and a 300-seat amphitheater, the park is still lacking infrastructure.

The new contractor will be responsible for completing the 15% of work that remains to be finished, including paving, landscaping of the entire site and tying sewer into the Ocean Isle Beach sewer system. Boggs Paving recently began work at the park.

According to Ocean Isle Beach Mayor Debbie Smith a town staff member recently met with the new contractor about the park’s wastewater connection linking its restroom facilities to the Ocean Isle Beach treatment plant, an important step in the project. Smith said she was happy the project now has a completion date in sight.

I think it is certainly going to be an asset to this end of the county. It’s got wonderful tennis courts and a wonderful playground for children,” Smith said. “Of course, with the amphitheater and event space it should add some activities in our end of the county.”

The county received a $500,000 Parks and Recreation Trust grant for the $2.9 million project.

Plan to come spend a day at Orton Plantation! The gardens will soon be in their glory. The historic landscape designed around the 1735 mansion and colonial rice fields overlooking the Cape Fear River and 20 acres of secluded walking trails surrounded by hundreds of acres of rice fields make Orton Plantation Gardens a wonderful place to visit.

Generations of locals and tourists travel to the historic property with its beautiful antebellum plantation house. Azaleas, dogwoods, camellias and various annuals bring a splash of color to the riverside oaks and pines.

One of the oldest plantations on the Lower Cape Fear and the only one with a manor house still standing, Orton has become a privately owned tourist attraction, celebrated for its elaborate gardens. In recent years, the plantation and its grounds have served as locations on a number of motion pictures.

When a cousin of the Sprunt family was seriously injured in an automobile accident In the late 1930s. Family members decided to open Orton plantation as a public garden for a long weekend to raise money for his medical bills, .

Visitors so enjoyed the gardens and grounds that the family continued to keep them open to the public. These days, the gardens are open each year, March through August and September through November.

The house and grounds are located at 9149 Orton Road S.E., Brunswick County just off N.C. 133, close to the Brunswick Town/Fort Anderson State Historic Site.

Get directions click here!

Hours are 8am to 5pm March – August and 10am – 5pm September – November (except they close for Thanksgiving Day).

Coastal Cinemas in Shallotte has just changed over from using the traditional 35 mm film to all-digital projection. Engineers there recently installed new Sony 4K Digital Cinema Systems technology into their 10-screen theater, providing for viewing in high-definition for regular and 3-D movies.

The new 4K format produces four times the number of pixels in its images than other digital projectors. The first major motion picture to incorporate this new technology was James Cameron’s recent blockbuster “Avatar.” Sony claims it will soon become the norm.

At Coastal Cinemas, three of the 10 screens will now show 3-D movies. Several of these are soon to premiere there. These include “Toy Story 3 and “How to Train Your Dragon”. Sony has created a partnership with RealD combining the 4K projector system with RealD’s 3D technology, creating an intense experience for moviegoers.

The new projectors also make the method of building film to be projected onto the screen obsolete and this will create an lighter workload for theater employees.

Before the installation of the digital projector, theater staff had to build the movies using film reels placed on circular tables called “platters”. The projectionist then fed the film through a number of rollers, then had to thread the film through the projector with it finally ending up on another platter.

With the change to digital technology the staff will receive movies on hard drives to be downloaded into the digital projectors instead of receiving large canisters of film every week to feed through the projector.

Using no film will mean there are fewer moving parts, no splicing and none of the wear and tear that gradually breaks down film.

“We loved how one shot, above all others, stood out. Photographer Geoff Wood captured the image of fisherman Tony DiFranco just as the early morning light illuminated his kind face. As viewers, we are drawn in to the scene and story — here, we are more than mere spectators but participants in the scene. It’s easy to feel a connection to this fisherman, and we feel as if we are standing right there with him on the Holden Beach pier, listening to the click of his reel, smelling the salt in the air.”

A great cover photograph should capture the character and personality of a place, and the fisherman cover reveals the essence of a favorite visit to the North Carolina coast.

Other coastal stories in the issue reflect the wistful nostalgia of memory — including a look back at the little Sunset Beach Bridge (at nearby Sunset Beach NC) to the fond recollections of a NC family as they spend another summer in their beach cottage.

Our State Magazine wanted a cover that reminded all of us of our past and the traditions we carry through from season to season. We think they achieved that at Holden Beach!