Prodigal Recovery provides road to redemption for addicts in Wilmington
Recovery program provides road to redemption for addicts By Zach Solon | April 23, 2021 at 9:48 PM EDT - Updated April 23 at 11:49 PM
WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - After watching his son battle drug addiction and eventually recover, Mark Marcley decided to give other addicts an opportunity to do the same.
Together with his son, the two created Prodigal Recovery of NC, a halfway house in Wilmington for recovering addicts. Since 2017, they have been operating out of one, 12-bed location in the city.
“It came about as a result of addiction with one of my sons, which started probably about 10 or more years ago,” said Marcley. “And after a number of years of active addiction and some very difficult times, he finally admitted that he needed help.”
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Who among us thought it would last for an entire year?
Looking to March of 2020, when the strange new reality of the coronavirus pandemic began to grip the Wilmington area, the 12 months of what we ve collectively been through is not something many could ve begun to get their heads around back then.
Carla Turner, assistant director of the New Hanover County Health Department, said she remembers being at work on March 19 when the first case of COVID-19 in New Hanover County was confirmed. (The first case in the three-county area was in Brunswick County on March 13.) When we had our first case, we were all aflutter, Turner said. Never stopping to think we d be having days where we had 100 new cases.
Former New Hanover County Health Director Philip Tarte signs a beam at the now-finished Department of Health and Human Services headquarters. The reasons for Tarte’s departure are unclear. (Port City Daily/Courtesy New Hanover County)
NEW HANOVER COUNTY Phillip Tarte, the director of the New Hanover County Health Department, is no longer employed with the agency, a county spokesperson confirmed Friday. The county’s website lists David Howard previously Tarte’s deputy as interim health director.
Commissioner Rob Zapple said Friday that County Manager Chris Coudriet told commissioners Tarte is no longer employed by New Hanover County.
Tarte was hired in 2016 to lead an agency with 120 employees and a budget of nearly $11.6 million, according to a report at the time by StarNews Media. His starting salary was $130,000. Tarte is from Whiteville and worked as health director of Union County prior to coming to New Hanover.