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Almost 20 years ago, three brothers decided to honor the memory of their father Johnny William Rose, a U.S. Navy veteran and longtime firefighter, by carrying on with the family tradition of fishing and created Hillsborough Sportfishing Club.
For 17 years, the nonprofit s annual North Carolina Offshore Challenge, a public tournament held in Morehead City around Armed Forces Day, has been giving back through charitable donations and sponsoring fishing trips for veterans.
“If you want to help the veterans, you have to involve the general public,” said Terry Rose, club president. “We’re trying to do good.”
On Saturday, tournament co-sponsor Marine Federal Credit Union chartered the Nancy Lee out of Swansboro to take veterans from the Onslow County area offshore for a day of leisure bottom fishing. By the end of the day, the crew had a large cooler full of keepers, mostly sea bass and banded rudderfish, a few rare catches and a small shark.
Their decision, a man born and raised in Onslow County with decades of experience in law enforcement.
Donnie Worrell began his career with the Onslow County Sheriff s Office in 1989 and worked as a lead investigator until 2012. After a brief stint with Jacksonville PD, Worrell was brought back to the OCSO when Sheriff Hans Miller was elected in 2014. He officially retired in 2019 and has since enjoyed time with his family and traveling around the country.
He is now stepping back into a familiar realm, taking over as the new chairman of Crime Stoppers in Onslow. Altogether, Worrell has spent a total of 35 years in law enforcement and is excited to continue the work his predecessor has built.
If you’ve gone down US 70 through James City recently looking for signs of the US 70 project, you have not been able to see many.
There are a few: the McDonalds and service station ensemble is empty. Brices Creek Bible Church is boarded up and awaiting a wrecking ball and its future life as an exit ramp. A few signs are announcing future locations for other businesses-to-become-exit-access.
But otherwise, all seems quiet. But don’t worry, work is about to begin.
US 70 is destined to become Interstate I-42 connecting Morehead City and Raleigh with a 151-mile band free of intersections and traffic lights. The work is being done in bits and pieces over several years, replacing those intersections with exits that often include roundabouts and allowing beach runs or dashes to the culture of the big cities to be a 70-mph breeze.
He says he has only used the term twice throughout his entire life.
When describing the culmination of the moment during his final days as chairman of the Onslow/Jacksonville Crime Stoppers Program, Joe Yannessa comedically explained to a crowd of local law enforcement this is now the third time he has said something was bittersweet .
Twenty-one years after he joined the exploratory committee with Naval Criminal Investigative Service that would eventually become Crime Stoppers, Yannessa doesn t know a better way to say how he felt standing in front of the people he has worked closely with during that time. Vice-Chairman Bob Bright has given the program 19 years and beginning in 2021, the two will step down after building one of the most successful programs in the state.