CLMS purpose is to enhance people’s lives by giving individuals and families access to the Cape Lookout National Seashore. We have been given this awesome privilege of enjoying such a beautiful place that is special to so many. We strive to be good stewards of this opportunity and spend time and resources helping with beach cleanups, dune restoration projects, and other enhancements to the island.
We have supported and will continue to support a number of initiatives, organizations, projects, and the local school. Our involvement consists not only of financial contributions but a team of members that give of their time and talents. CLMS and its members are committed and dedicated to giving back so that future generations will be able to enjoy the beauty of the island and have the opportunity to make lasting memories like we have been able to do.
At CLMS, our goal is to make a difference in people’s lives. We focus our efforts on 3 key events each year:
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Take-a-Kid Fishing Weekend (Special Needs) - we bring very special challenged clients from the R.H.A. Howell Home and give them the opportunity to visit the island for a weekend of fun, sun, and fishing.
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The Shelto Dixion Take-a-Kid Fishing Weekend (Orphans) - we bring orphans from the Masonic Home for Children at Oxford and give them the opportunity to visit the island for a weekend of fun, sun, and fishing.
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Take-a-Vet Fishing Weekend (Veterans) – we entertain veterans that were enguaged in foreign conflicts and provide one of the best weekends of their lives.
CAPE LOOKOUT MOBILE SPORTFISHERMEN, INC
The purposes for which this corporation is organized are as follows, to wit;
(A.) To act in the best interest of persons engaged in mobile sportfishing and other mobile beach activities on Core Banks and other barrier islands off the coast of North Carolina and the eastern coast of the United States of America;
(B.) To strengthen through organization the representation of persons engaged in mobile beach activities, in public and governmental forums, and by that organization to weld into an organized unit that many such persons utilizing Core Banks, Carteret County, North Carolina, and other barrier islands located off the coast of North Carolina and the eastern United States;
(C.) To maintain a continuing study of all legislative proposals and governmental regulations and rulings affecting all members who visit Core Banks, Carteret County, North Carolina, and to take whatever action indicated in the best interest of the said members;
(D.) To gather, compile, analyze and distribute to members, all information and data of whatever nature which bears upon the general welfare and activities of members;
(E.) To cooperate with all allied organizations, private, public and governmental, in the promotion of mobile beach activities on the Core Banks, Carteret county, North Carolina;
(F.) To promote responsible use of the Core Banks in order to protect the fragile environment and unspoiled beauty of the Core Banks;