# D O I N ’ G O O D
The Burgaw
Autumn Harvest,
at the circa 1850
Burgaw Train
Depot, hosted
by Richard and
Carole Johnson,
November 2,
2019.
“I seem to have a knack for marketing and seeing how things can come together,” he
says. “I have moved away from the nonprofit work I have been doing, towards social
entrepreneurism.”
Johnson began purchasing buildings, some historic, in the downtown Burgaw business
area in proximity to the 1939 historic Georgian Revival county courthouse. He created Burgaw
Now, a nonprofit dedicated to revitalizing the Pender County community by creating economic
opportunity. It is behind the effort to open Fat Daddy’s Pizza, owned and run by Jay Kranchalk
(formerly at Cape Fear Academy) and Burgaw Brewing Company, owned and run by Art and
Robin Hill who are the owners of Panacea Brewing company, a Wilmington-based company that
makes kombucha.
“My vision for masonboro.org is mostly complete. BurgawNow.org is a new challenge. I feel
strongly I can make a difference in helping the town go through a renaissance,” Johnson says.
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