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LEESBURG -- When Rich Dixon became paralyzed from the chest down in 1987, he said it wasn't his physical handicap that slowed his recovery the most.

On Sept. 16, 1942, [Rich Dixon], a Navy plane captain, found himself floating alone in the middle of the South Pacific Ocean. The aircraft carrier he had been on was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine and sank off the coast of Guadalcanal. Last school year a total of 40,516 volunteer hours were recorded in Brunswick County, a nearly 28 percent increase from the 2004-05 school year, according to Ardith Shaw with Brunswick County Communities in Schools. Volunteers logged 190,632 hours in New Hanover County schools during the 2005-06 academic year, said Ellen Smith, coordinator of New Hanover County Community Schools.\"It's up almost 20,000 from the previous school year,\" she said. Staff photo | Logan Wallace. After-school volunteer Rich Dixon, 85, helps second-grader Amberlee Doan, 7, complete a homework assignment at Supply Elementary School on Thursday. Dixon has been volunteering since he was on an aircraft carrier that was sunk in the Pacific.

Dixon submitted a letter of resignation Thursday, said council President David Heffernan Sr.

Dixon submitted a letter of resignation on Thursday, council President David Heffernan Sr. said.

Dixon said they were lucky none of the bridges along the trail network was damaged, including the large wooden suspension bridge that crosses Roaring Run near the intersections of the Rock Furnace and Roaring Run trails.

The 100 parking spaces at the Roaring Run Trail in Kiski Township fill up on the weekend with a number of vehicles carrying kayaks, while the River's Edge reports a 20 percent increase in kayak rentals from last year.

Brunswick County sheriff's deputies charged Megan Lynn Edmondson, 19, with assault with a deadly weapon on a government official and fleeing to elude arrest with a motor vehicle, both felonies. She is also charged with failing to heed lights and sirens and reckless driving to endanger. Edmondson, of North Atlantic Avenue, Southport, hit a Brunswick County Sheriff's Office car head-on. Authorities said Deputy Brannon Gray was taken to the hospital as a precaution but did not suffer any serious injuries. Boiling Spring Lakes police first responded to the call, which led to a high-speed chase. Edmondson also struck a Boiling Spring Lakes police car during the pursuit, and additional charges will be filed by that agency, deputies said. Jane Kulesza, chairwoman of Oak Island's Tree City Advisory Board, said the tree bank will serve as a repository for local live oak saplings and other trees that might otherwise be lost to clear cutting. The bank \"will be a temporary holding area for trees removed from properties under development, as well as a nursery for trees grown from local genetic stock,\" Kulesza said.

When it came to his career, Eggers was extremely serious and motivated, according to Capt. James Alden, also with the 3rd Special Forces Group at Fort Bragg. As a quartermaster in charge of supplies, Alden was a notch below Eggers in the Army's pecking order, but Alden said Eggers never acted arrogant. Before their stint in California was over, Eggers could converse in those languages, Alden said.

Trammell Crow Co., America's No. 1 commercial developer with more than $7 billion in assets, is done dabbling in Indianapolis. The Dallas-based builder of warehouses, office buildings, strip malls and mixed-use centers quietly opened its 57th leasing office at Castleton Commercial Park early this month. Although that office is staffed with only one leasing agent, who has no splashy plans to announce, it is only a matter of time before Trammell Crow becomes a household word -- synonymous with P. R. Duke, says Dixon M. Rich, formerly of Trammell Crow's St. Louis office. (excerpt)

Indianapolis has become a very big deal to out-of-state developes, who, thinking the grass may indeed be greener on the other side, are investing an incredible amount of time and manpower in developing multimillion-dollar projects here. In the past year alone, six commercial developers have made a commitment -- a first for most of them -- to step outside their home turf and build in the untested waters of Indianapolis. Trammell Crow Co. The Dallas, Texas-based firm of Trammell Crow Co. is the largest commerical development company in the United States, with over $7 billion in assets. (excerpt)