The Sun News: MB leaders head to Ireland

Posted on November 16, 2007 
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Eighteen representatives of Myrtle Beach – including city and state elected officials – will head this weekend to another place known for golf but not for glorious weather.

They’ll be leaving Sunday for a week-long trip to Killarney, Ireland, Myrtle Beach’s newest sister city.

Representatives from Killarney visited Myrtle Beach earlier this year.

Myrtle Beach will foot the bill for its elected officials and city clerk, who is the liaison for the sister cities program. Mayor John Rhodes and council members Wayne Gray, Chuck Martino, Susan Grissom Means and Randal Wallace will go, but Phil Render and Mike Chestnut will stay at home. City Clerk Joan Grove is also going on the trip.

Airfare for the city group came to $4,672.22. That does not include extra expenses for hotel and lodging, for which each council member gets up to $800. Any unspent money will be returned to the city, city spokesman Mark Kruea said.

State elected officials Alan Clemmons and Thad Viers will also go, Kruea said.

Read tomorrow’s edition of The Sun News for more details.

MB leaders head to Ireland
By Lisa Fleisher – The Sun News