Hi Brother,
You have nice site...but some of your hyperlinks doesn't work..try to make it once again.I couldn't log me to chat here ;)
Goodluck!
8/24/2004 7:04 am
afghangirl says "nice site"
Hi Brother,
You have nice site...but some of your hyperlinks doesn't work..try to make it once again.
Goodluck!
2/26/2002 12:00 am
Masoud says "can be better"
hi, everything O.K.? itīsa nice site but there are a lot of stof missing the hyperlink doesnīt work in the way it should
i can help you with improvments on your site if you have any question e mail me
agent_nl007@hotmail.com
11/16/2001 12:00 am
Chris Lawson says "greetings/a suggestion Job Opportunities in Wayne County, North Carolina, USA!!"
Dear Waleed Afghani Homepage c/o Sign The Guestbook
Pass this e-mail to everyone in your department!!
Add this e-mail to your Afghan classifieds section please!!
Pass this e-mail to every Afghan website on the internet!!
This e-mail is about helping us create a new Little Arabia community right here in Goldsboro, North Carolina. It is growing very fast...
For the Arabian Community to invest and help us build and create a Little Arabia Community here in Goldsboro, North Carolina. Many Arabian families are moving in and bringing a little bit of their culture. Soon we will have the 1st Annual Wayne County, North Carolina Arabian Festival in (Goldsboro, North Carolina)
This e-mail will be very helpful for the Afghan people and US! Your Afghan Businesses & Afghan Cultural Centers will do great here!! If you know any who is interested in restoring a syangogue call (919)-734-1111 (Look for the extension for David Weil, Weil Enterprises) or e-mail ahleder@earthlink.net which is Mr. Arnold Leder. This is a historical synagogue and is the 2nd oldest synagogue in our state of North Carolina. It was built in 1886. If you know any Afghan Jews who would be interested, please contact these 2 people!!
I have some more information that will be very helpful for the Afghan people and for US!! Here's what I got:
City of Goldsboro, North Carolina Taxi Service
CITY CAB COMPANY
406 N JOHN ST, GOLDSBORO, NC 27530, (919) 735-2202
Bussmann Division
210 Dixie Trail
Goldsboro, NC 27530
1 (919)-734-3900
Waukesha Electric Systems
2701 S US 117 Hwy 1 (919)-734-8900
Uchiyama America Inc.
494 Arrington Bridge Road 27530 1 (919)-731-2364
APV Baker a big industry in Wayne County, NC might go out of business here. If you know any Afghans or anyone in Afghanistan who are interested in working at APV Baker, here is the following information
Main Office 1200 W Ash St. Goldsboro, NC (919)-735-4570
Personnel 1200 W Ash St. Goldsboro, NC 1 (919)-736-4573
Receiving 1200 W Ash St. Goldsboro, NC 1 (919)-736-4537
Shipping 1200 W Ash St. Goldsboro, NC 1 (919)-736-4309
The following information will be very helpful for the Afghan people and US!!
http://www.esn.net/win/cherry.htm
http://www.waynecountyschools.org/
http://www.masonelectronics.com/
http://www.www.fuelaffect.com/
http://www.pdcn.net/
http://www.wcpl.org/
http://www.aimelectronics.com/
http://www.jenningstransmission.com/
http://www.newsargus.com/
http://www.bytebackinc.com/
http://www.hbsystems.com/
http://www.goldsbororentalsnet.com/ or www.goldsbororentalnet.com
Goldsboro Office Availability Line (919)-734-2168.
Please call and leave your name and phone number each day you are available for an assignment!
Goldsboro Flea Market Information 2102 Wayne Memorial Dr Goldsboro (919)-735-6505
Office (919)-736-4422 or Toll Free Dial 1 Then 800-282-3532
Berkeley Mall Goldsboro's Mall
Mall Management Office at (919)-778-4616 or FAX (919)-778-8556
& the Downtown Flea Market & Auction 217 N Center St Goldsboro call them at (919)-734-0641
Many of the Arabs here are from Yemen, and Lebanon, and other Arab nations!!
In fact most of the Arabian families own most of the businesses in Downtown Goldsboro, North Carolina, USA. There will soon be a Little Arabia District!! I am a dreamer! There are also a lot of Hawaiians here in Goldsboro, North Carolina too!! There are a few Russians, Bulgarians, Greeks, Bosnian, Palestinian, Armenian, Turkish, Persian, etc. Maybe you can help us. We would love to learn about Afghan Culture & Heritage..There use to be a Lebanese/Syrian Club here in Goldsboro, North Carolina because of so many coming here, maybe in the future it will open up again!! There is also a Egyptian Coptic family here who also miss their culture and heritage. There is a Armenian who has been here in Goldsboro, North Carolina who owns a frame and art shop, and has been here for 20 years and was voted the best in Wayne County, North Carolina. Bring some more Afghan Businesses & Afghan Cultural Centers, I know there are a lot of Armenians in Asia. Tell them about him! His phone number is (919)-735-9128! Also there are a few Greek familes here in Goldsboro, North Carolina who miss their culture and heritage. Maybe you can help us..But I miss Afghan Culture & Afghan Heritage..Are there any Armenians in Afghanistan??
There are a lot of Chinese families here in Goldsboro, North Carolina. Majority are from Hong Kong and mainland China, up to 150 families and still growing. Many miss their Chinese culture and heritage. Maybe you can help us.. Your Afghan Businesses will do excellent here and along with Afghan Cultural Centers, and people will learn and enjoy as well...I can already see a Little Hong Kong Section here in Goldsboro and even Little Chinatown or Little Afghanistan!! There are a lot of families from Lebanon, Korea, Russia, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and a Sikh family also a Parsi lady here in Goldsboro, North Carolina! People do not know how to fun! Your Afghan music is beautiful!! There are a lot of Hispanic families from Central America, South America, and the Caribbean familes here in Goldsboro, North Carolina..
I have some more important information that will be very helpful for the Afghan people! I live the subdivision of Deerwood here in Wayne County, North Carolina USA! We have some houses for sale and a spot of land for sale here in Deerwood, here is the list: (919)-778-8001, (919)-778-4139 & (919)-778-3300 These 3 phone numbers are houses for sale in the subdivision of Deerwood.
I have two more important websites for houses for sale here in Wayne County, North Carolina. Enjoy...
http://www.goldsbororentals.net/
http://www.goldsborohomes.com/
Thank you and I wish the Afghan people good luck here in Wayne County, North Carolina in the wonderful U.S.A.!!
I am writing from Goldsboro, North Carolina! In the United States of America. I have some websites that will be very helpful for the Afghan people of and US!! Here is the list: http://www.waynecountyedc.org/ (This organization does business with thousands of international companies around the globe. Many have been very successful in boosting our economy and bringing excellent jobs for workers! Your Afghan businesses will do excellent here). The other website is http://www.dgdc.org/(This organization helps restore old buildings in our downtown area, you can invest in this property and use it for Afghan businesses & Afghan Cultural Centers too!). Your Afghan businesses & Afghan Cultural Centers will do excellent here and people will learn and finally enjoy life once again. We would like to learn about Afghanistan's history, language, religion, food, dances, etc.
Also I have a few more websites that will be very helpful for the Afghan people and US! Here is the list: http://www.esn.net/waynecounty/ This website has excellent choices for jobs and employment services. The other website is: http://www.waynehealth.org/ (We need well-educated doctors and nurses in every medical field!) & www.carolinaturkey.com Their phone number should be on the website.
Thank you and your people shall do excellent here.
Chris
P.S. Write back as soon as possible!! Also I have another important address that will be helpful for the Afghan people:
Chamber of Commerce of Wayne County
308 N. William St.
P.O. Box 1107
Goldsboro, NC 27533
(919)-734-2241
Fax: (919)-734-2247
e-mail:johnp@waynecountychamber.com
John S. Peacock, Pres.
I have one last website that will also be helpful:
http://www.newsargus.com/classified/index.html
& one last one: http://www.goldsboroonline.com/
I have a very important article that will be very helpful for the Afghan people and us! Here is the article:
Updated on Sunday, January 14, 2001 12:04:35 AM.
Wayne needs more industry sites, EDC told
ATLANTIC BEACH -- Wayne County is running out of products to sell in the fast-paced, competitive game of
industry recruitment, consultants say. And it's time to build up the inventory.
The products are industrial sites -- land and vacant buildings the county can use to attract companies.
"You need sites in a hurry," said consultant Robin Spinks of Greenfield Associates. "There is very little product in
your inventory right now."
Ms. Spinks and Mary Lilley of Greenfield Associates in Wrightsville Beach have been taking stock of potential
industrial sites in Wayne County under a $10,000 study commissioned by the Economic Development
Commission. The consultants, who are often hired by companies to find sites, presented their preliminary findings
during an EDC retreat Friday. The weekend retreat was the first one by the EDC in three years. It was held at
Atlantic Beach, with 27 government, education and business leaders in Wayne County attending.
The consultants recommended that the county! prepare four types of sites to attract companies: one with 500 or
more acres, one with 100 to 500 acres, one with 50 to 100 acres and several sites of 5 to 50 acres.
The consultants found nine potential sites, all of which are vacant land:
Two are in northwestern Wayne, one with about 500 acres and another with about 200 acres.
One is south of Pikeville with about 350 acres.
Three are west of Goldsboro, ranging in size from 100 to 250 acres.
One is at Grantham with about 375 acres.
One is between Goldsboro and Mount Olive with about 130 acres.
And one is south of Mount Olive with about 100 acres.
The exact locations were not revealed to the public, because the study is still under way. No property owners have
been contacted, and neither the EDC nor the county commissioners have decided to act on the recommendations.
But those attending the retreat seemed receptive to the idea.
The sites would serve as alternatives to ParkEast ! Business and Industrial Park off Martin Luther King Expressway.
Economic leaders say different types of property are needed to attract companies that are not interested in being in
an industrial park or that may want to be in a park that has fewer restrictions than ParkEast. The sites could
become industrial parks, or they could stand alone.
"Economic development is selling," Ms. Lilley said. "You are selling product, and your product is your site."
The message of having industrial sites isn't new to EDC members, who have been told the same thing over and
over by state officials and by visiting company representatives.
But the problem comes with finding land suitable for industrial development and getting the amount of investment
needed to prepare it. Land with all the amenities that companies want, like sewer and water lines, highway access
and natural-gas service, is not easily found in rural Wayne, Ms. Spinks said.
The land should b! e close to utility lines. And most important of all, it must have fast access -- now, or in the future
-- to Interstates 95 or 40. All of the potential areas are close to existing highways or future ones like the future
U.S. 117 and the proposed U.S. 70 Bypass.
Companies also want to be away from residential areas, to avoid potential conflicts, Ms. Lilley said. Only about
one-third of the county has zoning, which means that in most of the county, people can build whatever they want,
where ever they want.
Many companies are reluctant to build a plant where residential development could grow near them, Ms. Lilley
said. They foresee neighbors complaining about noise, traffic or other problems. The consultants said the nine sites
are far enough from residential areas to avoid conflicts.
Some county leaders have pressed for zoning that would provide orderly growth and preserve potential industrial
sites. Without zoning, the other option to ! buy enough land to provide a buffer between the business and
surrounding property, Ms. Spinks said.
Then comes the problem of how to obtain the land. So far, the county commissioners have been the lead
organization in funding industry-recruitment projects. One possibility is for the county to buy the land like it did with
the back portion of the ParkEast Business and Industrial Park.
Ms. Spinks said another way may be to take out options. This works by the county paying a certain percentage of
the price of the land. The property owner gets the rest of the money when the property is sold to a company. The
property owner also agrees to let the county market the land to industry. Ms. Spinks recommended that the county
take out options for at least five years with automatic renewals.
The county could also obtain a letter of intent from the land owner guaranteeing the property's sale. But some
companies are uncomfortable with that, she said! .
Once the property is available for sale to companies, it must be prepared. Companies want land that is ready to be
built upon, Ms Lilley said. That means conducting surveys, preparing maps, soil tests and other preparations. It
costs about $50,000 to prepare each site. The county can get state grants to pay for it, she said.
But the bottom line, the consultants said, is that companies expect cheap -- or free -- land and buildings. And once
they own them, they want to be able to act fast to construct a new building or to move into an existing one.
"They're in a hurry," said Ms. Spinks. "And they want to be able to get it as cheap as possible."
These community leaders attended the two-day, EDC retreat at Atlantic Beach:
From Wayne County government -- Arnold Flowers, county commissioner and EDC member; Borden Parker,
county attorney; Ken Gerrard, county commissioner and EDC member; Efton Sager, county commissioner;
Connie Price, planni! ng director.
From Goldsboro government -- Chuck Allen, city councilman and EDC member; Hal Plonk, mayor; Lee
Worsley, assistant city manager; and Richard Slozak, city manager.
From Mount Olive government -- Town Manager Ray McDonald; Mayor Louis Pate; Commissioner Ora Truzy;
and Paul Smalley, town commissioner and EDC member.
From the chambers of commerce -- John Peacock, president of the Wayne Chamber; Patti O'Donoghue,
executive director of the Mount Olive Chamber; and Dave Quick, Wayne Chamber member.
From the EDC -- President Joanna Thompson; Dr. Ed Wilson, EDC chairman and president of Wayne
Community College; Jimmie Edmundson, EDC member and member of the state economic development board;
Dr. Bill Byrd, EDC member and president of Mount Olive College; George Kornegay; Buddy Pope; and Jimmie
Ford.
From Seymour Johnson Air Force Base -- Steve Wagoner, commander of the 4th Support Group.
From Carolina Power & Light Co. -! - Fred West, community relations manager, and Dan Oliver, with Progressive
10/14/2001 12:00 am
wasitahir says "This is great"
UR site is realy great.I am pakistani but I love with all muslims.
9/26/2001 12:00 am
Barbara Johnston says "The Future"
Hello Waleed and all who read this. Congratulations on putting information on the web that will educate the ignorant Americans who condemn what they do not understand. There are those that speak against all Arabs as if they are one person and condemn all Muslims for the actions of a few. There are those who have twisted the peaceful teachings of Islam and seek revenge against all who believe in Allah and the prophet Mohammed. Thank you for shedding the light into the darkness. Much success to the brave Mujahadeen who have struggled alone to rid Afghanistan of their terror.
8/11/2001 12:00 am
hameed says "An advise"
Hi, Waleed
I wanted to give you an advise about decoration of your page. I would like to mention to you that the flag which decorates the map of Afghanistan is a simbol of Afghan tragedy. Actually it is not the flag of Afghanistan. It is the flag of a bunch of criminals brought up by Pakistani Military with the mission to destroy our country. These people, I mean the Rabani government is nothing else but Thiefs, looters and killers, who are responsible for the destruction of Afghanistan and turning it's people into ebiggars. They are responsible for the death of at least 60000 innocent people only in Kabul and razing to the ground 70 % of our Kapital. Soon they will be tried and punished as war criminals. The most notorious criminal of Afghan history Masoud will be the first one who stand trial and others criminals will be tried after him.
So my advise to you is to remove that dirty flag from your page immediately.
6/7/2001 12:00 am
Chris Lawson says "greetings/a suggestion Job Opportunities in Wayne County, North Carolina in the USA!!!"
Dear Waleed Friends Page c/o Guestbook
Pass this e-mail to every Afghan Website on the Internet!!!!
This e-mail is about helping us create a new Little Arabia community right here in Goldsboro, North Carolina. It is growing very fast...
For the Arabian Community to invest and help us build and create a Little Arabia Community here in Goldsboro, North Carolina. Many Arabian families are moving in and bringing a little bit of their culture. Soon we will have the 1st Annual Wayne County, North Carolina Arabian Festival in (Goldsboro, North Carolina)
This e-mail will be very helpful for the Afghan people and US! Your Afghan Businesses & Afghan Cultural Centers will do great here!! If you know any who is interested in restoring a syangogue call (919)-734-1111 (Look for the extension for David Weil, Weil Enterprises) or e-mail ahleder@earthlink.net which is Mr. Arnold Leder. This is a historical synagogue and is the 2nd oldest synagogue in our state of North Carolina. It was built in 1886. If you know any Afghan Jews who would be interested, please contact these 2 people!!
APV Baker a big industry in Wayne County, NC might go out of business here. If you know any in Afghanistan or any Afghan who are interested in working at APV Baker, here is the following information
Main Office 1200 W Ash St. Goldsboro, NC (919)-735-4570
Personnel 1200 W Ash St. Goldsboro, NC (919)-736-4573
Receiving 1200 W Ash St. Goldsboro, NC (919)-736-4537
Shipping 1200 W Ash St. Goldsboro, NC (919)-736-4309
The following information will be very helpful for the Afghan people and US!!
Here are a list websites that will be very helpful for the Afghan people:
http://www.ci.goldsboro.nc.us/
http://www.waynehealth.org/
http://www.esn.net/
http://www.goldsboro.net/
http://www.newsargus.com/
http://www.newsargus.com/classifieds/index.html/
http://www.esn.net/pacc10/index.html/
http://www.goldsboro.com/
http://www.bytebackinc.com/
http://www.esn.net/hart/
http://www.hbsystems.com/
http://www.samirsystems.com/
http://www.goldsboroonline.com/
http://www.waynecountyedc.org/
http://www.dgdc.org/
http://www.esn.net/waynecounty/
http://www.seymourjohnson.af.mil/ Also with Wayne Community College they also have base classes too if interested!! They also have a great list of jobs available at the base,
ACTION temporaries
Goldsboro
2419 E. Ash Street
P.O. Box 1312
Goldsboro, NC 27533
(919)-734-2111
1-800-344-TEMP
Goldsboro Office Availability Line (919)-734-2168.
Please call and leave your name and phone number each day you are available for an assignment!
Goldsboro Flea Market Information 2102 Wayne Memorial Dr Goldsboro (919)-735-6505
Office (919)-736-4422 or Toll Free Dial 1 Then 800-282-3532
Berkeley Mall Goldsboro's Mall
Mall Management Office at (919)-778-4616 or FAX (919)-778-8556
& the Downtown Flea Market & Auction 217 N Center St Goldsboro call them at (919)-734-0641
Many of the Arabs here are from Yemen, and Lebanon, and other Arab nations!! There is a girl I know at my Wayne Community College who is Gujarati and misses her Gujarati Culture & Gujarati Heritage..Maybe you can help us..
In fact most of the Arabian families own most of the businesses on William Street and Slocumb Street. There will soon be a Little Arabia District!! I am a dreamer! There are also a lot of Hawaiians here in Goldsboro, North Carolina too!! There are a few Pakistani, Palestinian, Armenian, Turkish, Persian, etc. Maybe you can help us. We would love to learn about Afghan Culture & Heritage..There use to be a Lebanese/Syrian Club here in Goldsboro, North Carolina because of so many coming here, maybe in the future it will open up again!! There is also a Egyptian Coptic family here who also miss their culture and heritage. There is a Armenian who has been here in Goldsboro, North Carolina who owns a frame and art shop, and has been here for 20 years and was voted the best in Wayne County, North Carolina. Bring some more Afghan Businesses & Afghan Cultural Centers, I know there are a lot of Armenians in Asia. Tell them about him! His phone number is (919)-735-9128! Also there are a few Greek familes here in Goldsboro, North Carolina who miss their culture and heritage. Maybe you can help us..But I miss Afghan Culture & Afghan Heritage. Are there any Armenians in Afghanistan??
There are a lot of Chinese families here in Goldsboro, North Carolina. Majority are from Hong Kong and mainland China, up to 150 families and still growing. Many miss their Chinese culture and heritage. Maybe you can help us.. Your Afghan Businesses will do excellent here and along with Afghan Cultural Centers, and people will learn and enjoy as well...I can already see a Little Hong Kong Section here in Goldsboro and even Little Chinatown or Little Afghanistan!! There are a lot of families from Korea, Lebanon, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and a Sikh family also a Parsi lady here in Goldsboro, North Carolina! People do not know how to fun! Your Afghan music is beautiful!! There are a few Hispanic families from Central America, South America, and the Caribbean familes here in Goldsboro, North Carolina..
I have some more important information that will be very helpful for the Afghan people! I live the subdivision of Deerwood here in Wayne County, North Carolina USA! We have some houses for sale and a spot of land for sale here in Deerwood, here is the list: (919)-751-1942; (919)-778-4139 & (919)-778-3300 These 3 phone numbers are houses for sale in the subdivision of Deerwood. The last phone number is land for sale here in Deerwood, here is that phone number (919)-751-8550!
I have two more important websites for houses for sale here in Wayne County, North Carolina. Enjoy...
Thank you and I wish the Afghan people good luck here in Wayne County, North Carolina in the wonderful U.S.A.!!
I am writing from Goldsboro, North Carolina in! the United States of America. I have some websites that will be very helpful for the Afghan people of and US!! Here is the list: (This organization does business with thousands of international companies around the globe. Many have been very successful in boosting our economy and bringing excellent jobs for workers! Your Afghan businesses will do excellent here). The other website is This organization helps restore old buildings in our downtown area, you can invest in this property and use it for Afghan businesses & Afghan Cultural Centers too!). Your Afghan businesses & Afghan Cultural Centers will do excellent here and people will learn and finally enjoy life once again. We would like to learn about Afghanistan's history, languages, religions, foods, dances, etc.
Also I have a few more websites that will be very helpful for the Afghan people and US! Here is the list: This website has excellent choices for jobs and employment services. The other website is: (We need well-educated doctors and nurses in every medical field!) & www.carolinaturkey.com Their phone number should be on the website.
Thank you and your people shall do excellent here.
Chris
P.S. Write back as soon as possible!! Also I have another important address that will be helpful for the Afghan people:
Chamber of Commerce of Wayne County
308 N. William St.
P.O. Box 1107
Goldsboro, NC 27533
(919)-734-2241
Fax: (919)-734-2247
e-mail:johnp@waynecountychamber.com John S. Peacock, Pres.
I have one last website that will also be helpful:
& one last one:
I have a very important article that will be very helpful for the Afghan people and us! Here is the article: Updated on Sunday, January 14, 2001 12:04:35 AM.
Wayne needs more industry sites, EDC told
ATLANTIC BEACH -- Wayne County is running out of products to sell in the fast-paced, competitive game of
industry recruitment, consultants say. And it's time to build up the inventory.
The products are industrial sites -- land and vacant buildings the county can use to attract companies.
"You need sites in a hurry," said consultant Robin Spinks of Greenfield Associates. "There is very little product in
your inventory right now."
Ms. Spinks and Mary Lilley of Greenfield Associates in Wrightsville Beach have been taking stock of potential
industrial sites in Wayne County under a $10,000 study commissioned by the Economic Development
Commission. The consultants, who are often hired by companies to find sites, presented their preliminary findings
during an EDC retreat Friday. The weekend retreat was the first one by the EDC in three years. It was held at
Atlantic Beach, with 27 government, education and business leaders in Wayne County attending.
The consultants recommended that the county! prepare four types of sites to attract companies: one with 500 or
more acres, one with 100 to 500 acres, one with 50 to 100 acres and several sites of 5 to 50 acres.
The consultants found nine potential sites, all of which are vacant land:
Two are in northwestern Wayne, one with about 500 acres and another with about 200 acres.
One is south of Pikeville with about 350 acres.
Three are west of Goldsboro, ranging in size from 100 to 250 acres.
One is at Grantham with about 375 acres.
One is between Goldsboro and Mount Olive with about 130 acres.
And one is south of Mount Olive with about 100 acres.
The exact locations were not revealed to the public, because the study is still under way. No property owners have
been contacted, and neither the EDC nor the county commissioners have decided to act on the recommendations.
But those attending the retreat seemed receptive to the idea.
The sites would serve as alternatives to ParkEast ! Business and Industrial Park off Martin Luther King Expressway.
Economic leaders say different types of property are needed to attract companies that are not interested in being in
an industrial park or that may want to be in a park that has fewer restrictions than ParkEast. The sites could
become industrial parks, or they could stand alone.
"Economic development is selling," Ms. Lilley said. "You are selling product, and your product is your site."
The message of having industrial sites isn't new to EDC members, who have been told the same thing over and
over by state officials and by visiting company representatives.
But the problem comes with finding land suitable for industrial development and getting the amount of investment
needed to prepare it. Land with all the amenities that companies want, like sewer and water lines, highway access
and natural-gas service, is not easily found in rural Wayne, Ms. Spinks said.
The land should b! e close to utility lines. And most important of all, it must have fast access -- now, or in the future
-- to Interstates 95 or 40. All of the potential areas are close to existing highways or future ones like the future
U.S. 117 and the proposed U.S. 70 Bypass.
Companies also want to be away from residential areas, to avoid potential conflicts, Ms. Lilley said. Only about
one-third of the county has zoning, which means that in most of the county, people can build whatever they want,
where ever they want.
Many companies are reluctant to build a plant where residential development could grow near them, Ms. Lilley
said. They foresee neighbors complaining about noise, traffic or other problems. The consultants said the nine sites
are far enough from residential areas to avoid conflicts.
Some county leaders have pressed for zoning that would provide orderly growth and preserve potential industrial
sites. Without zoning, the other option to ! buy enough land to provide a buffer between the business and
surrounding property, Ms. Spinks said.
Then comes the problem of how to obtain the land. So far, the county commissioners have been the lead
organization in funding industry-recruitment projects. One possibility is for the county to buy the land like it did with
the back portion of the ParkEast Business and Industrial Park.
Ms. Spinks said another way may be to take out options. This works by the county paying a certain percentage of
the price of the land. The property owner gets the rest of the money when the property is sold to a company. The
property owner also agrees to let the county market the land to industry. Ms. Spinks recommended that the county
take out options for at least five years with automatic renewals.
The county could also obtain a letter of intent from the land owner guaranteeing the property's sale. But some
companies are uncomfortable with that, she said! .
Once the property is available for sale to companies, it must be prepared. Companies want land that is ready to be
built upon, Ms Lilley said. That means conducting surveys, preparing maps, soil tests and other preparations. It
costs about $50,000 to prepare each site. The county can get state grants to pay for it, she said.
But the bottom line, the consultants said, is that companies expect cheap -- or free -- land and buildings. And once
they own them, they want to be able to act fast to construct a new building or to move into an existing one.
"They're in a hurry," said Ms. Spinks. "And they want to be able to get it as cheap as possible."
These community leaders attended the two-day, EDC retreat at Atlantic Beach:
From Wayne County government -- Arnold Flowers, county commissioner and EDC member; Borden Parker,
county attorney; Ken Gerrard, county commissioner and EDC member; Efton Sager, county commissioner;
Connie Price, planni! ng director.
From Goldsboro government -- Chuck Allen, city councilman and EDC member; Hal Plonk, mayor; Lee
Worsley, assistant city manager; and Richard Slozak, city manager.
From Mount Olive government -- Town Manager Ray McDonald; Mayor Louis Pate; Commissioner Ora Truzy;
and Paul Smalley, town commissioner and EDC member.
From the chambers of commerce -- John Peacock, president of the Wayne Chamber; Patti O'Donoghue,
executive director of the Mount Olive Chamber; and Dave Quick, Wayne Chamber member.
From the EDC -- President Joanna Thompson; Dr. Ed Wilson, EDC chairman and president of Wayne
Community College; Jimmie Edmundson, EDC member and member of the state economic development board;
Dr. Bill Byrd, EDC member and president of Mount Olive College; George Kornegay; Buddy Pope; and Jimmie
Ford.
From Seymour Johnson Air Force Base -- Steve Wagoner, commander of the 4th Support Group.
From Carolina Power & Light Co. -! - Fred West, community relations manager, and Dan Oliver, with Progressive
Hope you are in good health. Found your site very interesting. In my view, there should me more information on the current situation in Afghanistan.
Long live Afghanistan,
Long live the Afghan patriot, Massoud.
Down with the Pakistani Puppets.
5/5/2001 12:00 am
M.Hakim says "Watandar Salam!"
4/26/2001 12:00 am
salim says "i am proud of you"
dear brother waleed
Asalamu aluikum!
first of all i want to thank you for you grate work. infact you did a grate job by creating this web page full of information for your afghan brothers. i hope you will continue your hard work and improve your site. wish you good luck in your grate work
your brother salim
