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FISHING FOR CHARITY
WHAT started as a few buddies
the biggest fishing tournaments in the area.
Jimmy Vass, Kit Taylor and Tripp Brice made frequent trips to “Sailfish Alley”
just off Wrightsville Beach each July. In 2000, they decided to hold a tournament to
promote the sport, and to do it in honor of a local legend.
This year’s Captain Eddy Haneman Sailfish Tournament — named in honor of
the man who operated a charter fishing boat out of Wrightsville Beach for nearly
50 years — is scheduled for July 26-29. Brice calls it a gentleman’s tournament,
with camaraderie and sportsmanship emphasized over competition. A portion of
proceeds always goes to charity.
“We got to talking, ‘Why don’t we make this thing something Eddy would really
love, and make it about raising money for a sick child or somebody in the community?’”
says Brice, dockmaster at Bridge Tender Marina.
It’s tradition — but not required, Brice emphasizes — for winners to donate
their prize money. Over the years, the tournament has raised more than $250,000 for local families and $130,000 for Lower Cape Fear
Hospice. — Amanda Forrester
BRIGHT FUTURE FOR GLOW
THE Girls Leadership Academy of
Wilmington (GLOW) plans to move
from its current location behind St.
Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church
to a new, five-building campus on a 30-acre
site near Maides Park in the fall of 2019.
Civic and school leaders braved the muddy,
stormy conditions the morning of May 24 to
attend the groundbreaking for the new location
between Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway
and Market Street.
Heavy rain and windy conditions delayed
the groundbreaking in April, but that didn’t
stop the tent from bursting with the love and
support of the Wilmington community this
time.
bouncing ideas off one another
while out on their own sailfish
excursions has become one of
GLOW became the state’s first single-gender
public charter school when it opened in 2016
at its temporary location off South College
Road (see “Girl Power,” August 2016 WBM).
Two buildings will make up the middle school,
and one each for the high school, administration
building, and media center. But principal
Laura Hunter emphasized it’s not all about the
structures.
“Schools are people, not just bricks and mortar,”
Hunter says.
Students filled the first two rows of chairs
and listened to the hopeful messages for
the future as their classmates watched via
Facebook Live back at school.
— Amanda Forrester
COURTESY EDDY HANEMAN COLLECTION
The Captain Eddy Haneman Sailfish
Tournament is a “gentleman’s tournament,”
just like its namesake (bottom
left), who was known for always wearing
his captain’s hat and tie even while in
command of his charter boat.
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WBM july 2018