Neighborhoods
After building
relationships across faith, ethic background and economic status for
almost three years, J.U.I.C.E. is ready to become a permanent
organization. Leaders of the Committee have been patiently putting
together the building blocks of collective power. They focused
on recruiting institutions, raising their own money, traininghundreds
of leaders, identifying priorities and developing a collective agenda.
The committee will become
a permanent organization at a Founding Ceremony scheduled for the night
of Monday October 26, 2009. Hundreds of leaders from across the County
have pledged to gather to officially launch the organization. The
Founding Ceremony will coincide with an important election time in our
County. All candidates seeking public office in the area will be
invited to attend.Our organization never endorses any of
the candidates, but we always ask the candidates to publicly endorse
our community agenda.
Founding Ceremony:
- Monday October 26, 2009 at 7:00 PM. United Church of Chapel Hill
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The Founding is a celebration of our collective commitment for Justice.
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The organization will be
launched by those that want to be Founding Members. Those that have
completed training will be recognized, and we will unveil our new name
and agenda.
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Those seeking elected office will be invited to endorse or speak against our agenda
Date:
Monday, October 26, 2009 - 3:00pm to 4:30pm
Location:
United Church of Chapel Hill
Visioning
Forums
The Town of Chapel Hill visioning project is
designed to engage the Chapel Hill community through a range of outreach
efforts to both inform and gather public comment on community values and
future growth.
The information will assist the Sustainable
Community Visioning Task Force, a group of volunteer citizens appointed by
the Town Council to prepare recommendations on what growth should look like
over the next 10 years.
The visioning forums are just one of a number of
ways that the Sustainable Community Visioning Task Force will be obtaining
information about the community over the next 7 months.
As part of this initial outreach, Chapel Hill
residents are invited to attend community forums, draw on visioning walls, and
participate in online surveys as part of "Chapel Hill 2020," a
community visioning project scheduled June 1-7.
Via UNC News Service:
For 37 years, the Rogers Road community in Chapel Hill has been at the center of a public debate about the impact of the Orange County Landfill, which borders the neighborhood.
An
exhibit opening June 12 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill will tell a deeper story, uncovering more than two centuries of
the community’s history.
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| | Irving and Frances Nunn with their children in 1927Photo credit: North Carolina Collection,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
The
exhibit, “We’re all Family Here: Preserving Community Heritage in the
Rogers Road Neighborhood of Chapel Hill,” will be open until Aug. 31 in
the North Carolina Collection Gallery of Wilson Library.
In a
free public program at 5:45 p.m. June 25 in the library, residents will
discuss their history. Panelists for the program, “Documenting
Neighborhood History in the Rogers Road Community of Chapel Hill,” will
include the Rev. Robert Campbell, other members of the community and
researcher Emily Eidenier. The program will follow a reception and
exhibit viewing at 5 p.m.
Date:
Thursday, June 25, 2009 - 1:00pm
Location:
NC Collection, Wilson LIbrary, UNC Campus
At a time when partisans seem to be cherishing antagonisms and keeping wounds open, it's nice to have a reason to celebrate a town treasure in common.
Rudy Tempesta, our 83-year-old letter-carrier on the Estes-West Coker Hills route (I think we're all the 2413 part of the zipcode), was honored yesterday for not one but two million miles without an accident over 63 years of service to the US Postal Service.
That's remarkable enough, but as "Rudy's people" have come to learn, there's a lot more to him than putting catalogues and bills in our mailboxes. At yesterday's ceremony amid the sorting stations at the Estes Dr. post office, Rudy showed off one of the five medals he got for flying missions in WW2, when he was part of the group covering the Tuskegee airmen, and he pointed out the other veterans he now works with.
I know that this is a "political" board but it seems like we have a lot of very "tech-savvy" people that post here. Is anyone else concerned that a contractor's mistake today, resulting in a cut in a fiber-optics network in Chapel Hill, resulted in a loss of communication amongst courthouses and county offices in all 100 NC counties?
Cut fiber line knocks out state courts' communications
http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/4949649/
I find this kind of disconcerting myself. It seems like the design of these systems has made us far, far too vulnerable. I think this is a political issue because it raises concerns for public health and welfare , at least IMHO.
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