March 2009
From the Town of Chapel Hill web site:
Share your personal stories and family mementos as part of the Town’s 2009 Community Art and History Project. We invite you to bring your piece of history (a photo, a letter, etc.) to any of our four community workshops listed below, where we will scan or photograph your item to be included in a community “tapestry” created by local artists Leah Sobsey and Lynn Bregman-Blass. Your memento will be returned to you on the spot.
Further explore your personal and community history at these workshops by participating in oral history, genealogy, journal writing and story circle sessions.
Date:
Tuesday, March 3, 2009 - 7:00am to 11:00am
Location:
UNC Student Union Cabaret, 218 South Road, Chapel Hill
From the Town of Chapel Hill web site:
Share your personal stories and family mementos as part of the Town’s 2009 Community Art and History Project. We invite you to bring your piece of history (a photo, a letter, etc.) to any of our four community workshops listed below, where we will scan or photograph your item to be included in a community “tapestry” created by local artists Leah Sobsey and Lynn Bregman-Blass. Your memento will be returned to you on the spot.
Further explore your personal and community history at these workshops by participating in oral history, genealogy, journal writing and story circle sessions.
Date:
Saturday, March 21, 2009 - 6:00am to 10:00am
Location:
University Mall, 201 S. Estes Drive, Chapel Hill
From the Chapel Hill Public Arts Commission web site.
Share your personal stories and family mementos as part of the Town’s 2009 Community Art and History Project. We invite you to bring your piece of history (a photo, a letter, etc.) to any of our four community workshops listed below, where we will scan or photograph your item to be included in a community “tapestry” created by local artists Leah Sobsey and Lynn Bregman-Blass. Your memento will be returned to you on the spot.
Further explore your personal and community history at these workshops by participating in oral history, genealogy, journal writing and story circle sessions.
Date:
Saturday, March 28, 2009 - 8:00am to 12:00pm
Location:
Carrboro Century Center, 100 N. Greensboro St., Carrboro
I'm not off work today (go telecommuting), but it sounds like a lot of you are. What's going on out there?
Please share this information
CAROLINA NORTH
Public Input/Information Session
3:00 - 7:00 pm, Wednesday, March 4 * Extraordinary Ventures, 110 Elliott Road, Chapel Hill *
A Public Input/Information Session on Carolina North will be held at Extraordinary Ventures, 110 Elliott Road. Please note that in response to feedback from the public, the times have been modified and the session is now scheduled from 3 pm – 7 pm.
Carolina North is expected to be contained within about 250 acres of the Horace Williams Tract’s 1,000 acres and be built in phases over the next 50 years, as proposed. The property lies just to the north of Estes Drive adjacent to Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. The Town and the University are now engaged in the preparation of a new zoning district and a Development Agreement for the initial phase of Carolina North, expected to be 133 acres to be developed over approximately 20 years.
From the OrangeChat blog:
UPDATE: Preserve Rural Orange HAS POSTPONED tonight's meeting on plans for a solid waste transfer station due to the weather.
The meeting is NOW scheduled for 7 p.m. SUNDAY MARCH 15 at the White
Cross Recreation Center, 1800 White Cross Road west of Carrboro.
Speakers include Orange County Solid Waste Director Gayle Wilson. At
citizens' urging, the county is now looking at alternatives to a
transfer station such as hiring a contractor to haul trash to another
area outside the county and possibly exploring waste to energy
technology, although offiicals have previously said the county did not
generate enough trash to make that feasible.
Date:
Sunday, March 15, 2009 - 3:00pm
Location:
White Cross Recreation Center, 1800 White Cross Road
I admit I don't know much about the inner workings of our schools (just wait about 6 years), but it sure seems like the Chapel Hill-Carboro City Schools have had a hard time keeping principals around in the last few years. This just in from Stephanie Knott, Assistant to the Superintendent for Community Relations:
Former Assistant Superintendent for Support Services Steve Scroggs was appointed interim principal of Chapel Hill High School following a closed session held by the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education Tuesday afternoon.
Scroggs will finish out the school year until a permanent replacement is selected. The principalship is vacant as a result of the resignation of Jacqueline Boyd Ellis. Ellis will leave Chapel Hill High March 20 to become the Assistant Superintendent for Human Resources for the Durham Public Schools. Scroggs and Ellis will work collaboratively from Monday, March 9, through Friday, March 20.
From IFC:
23rd ANNUAL CROP WALK
Date: Sunday, March 22
Registration: 1:30 PM at Carrboro Town Commons
Step off starting time: 2:30 PM
Please consider joining with others in the community for a four- or two-mile walk through Chapel Hill and Carrboro. Funds raised will help to end hunger in our community as well as throughout the world through the Inter-Faith Council and Church World Service. Invite your friends, co-workers, or neighbors to walk with you or sponsor you. Especially during these rough economic times, your support is urgently needed!
WHAT'S NEW:
1) Shorter route option--to allow for more individuals and families to participate
2) Lighter "Environmental Footprint"--T-Shirts are all organic and we are encouraging folks to bring their own water bottle if you have one to reduce waste at water stations
3) CROP Walk Benefit Concert--two great performances at The Station at Southern Rail (by Weaver St. Market)
March 15, 7 PM (see attached flyer)
T-Shirts are $8 in advance and $10 the day of the Walk.
A CROP Walk Benefit Concert is the Sunday before the Walk-- see attached flyer!
Please contact Shannon Gigliotti for more information or to purchase a T-Shirt in advance.
Date:
Sunday, March 22, 2009 - 9:30am
If you have not already heard about the proposed legislation called the Healthy Youth Act, which would mandate a two-track system for sexuality education in North Carolina, you should look it up to read all the details. The two tracks would be abstinence-only until marriage (the current standard) and abstinence-based comprehensive sex education. This program would allow parents to decide which track their children will take. I think this legislation, if passed, will be an important step towards reducing the high amont of disease and unwanted pregnency among youth in North Carolina.
YES WE CANS Food drive sponsored by Orange County Campaign for Change-OC3
OC3 is continuing community service through regular food drives to benefit our local InterFaith Council and Orange Congregations in Mission.I encourage you to visit their websites to learn the many ways they address hunger, homelessness and the crisis that confronts the working poor.The recent economic condition has added to their rolls in staggering numbers.Since January we have collected 5,500 lbs for non-perishables for our local food banks. Be part of the solution in Orange County.
Please consider conducting a food drive in your neighborhood, place of business, book club or civic group.
Yes We Cans volunteers will be at the Carrboro Farmer's Market on March 21st, 9 am-12 pm to collect your non-perishable donations.
Date:
Saturday, March 21, 2009 - 5:00am to 8:00am
Location:
Carrboro Farmer's Market-free speech zone
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