The following e-mail was forwarded to me by a friend. El Futuro works to help Latinos with mental health issues, it seems like an important program deserving of our support. Please take a moment to contact your favorite commissioner and ask that they restore funding.
Last night, the Orange County commissioners tentatively nixed $60,000
that had been approved by their subcommittee for El Futuro ( http://elfuturo-nc.org
if you're not familiar with the organization).
Please please please send the commissioners an email TODAY --their
meeting is tonight-- protesting this decision. Based on a conversation
one of our board members had with an OC commissioner, there is still a chance to restore at
least part of this funding if we can get people to object.
El Futuro is an amazing non-profit organization that serves a
population that otherwise would be ignored.
![[hog day]](http://www.hogdays.com/logo%202008.jpg)
As a vegetarian, I don't personally endorse this enthusiastic celebration of eating pig, but it seems like a great community institution.I do appreciate their effort to reduce the amount of waste being generated this year.
Hillsborough Hog Day, now celebrating its 26th Year,
is a fun-filled family barbecue and entertainment festival,
presented by the Hillsborough/Orange
County Chamber of Commerce. Hillsborough Hog Day is
Orange County's largest festival, and a major fundraiser for
the Chamber of Commerce.
In 2008, Hillsborough
Hog Day is going ZERO WASTE! This will be Orange County's
first zero waste, trash free festival. We plan to recycle
everything that can be recycled, including forks, spoons,
food waste - even the music is going to be a mix of old favorites
and new stuff!
- http://www.hogdays.com/about.htm
If you're into that kind of thing, you should check it out!
Date:
Friday, June 20, 2008 - 2:00pm to Saturday, June 21, 2008 - 2:00pm
UPDATE: UNC is buying University Square and Granville Towers.
Anyone want to guess what this is about?
Representatives from UNC-Chapel Hill and the Town of Chapel Hill will
hold a joint news conference at 1 p.m. today to announce details about
a major real estate acquisition. The event will be held at the Chapel
Hill Town Hall.
The news will have "significant positive
implications" for the future of the downtown Chapel Hill business
district, UNC officials said this morning.
![[Save Glen Lennox]](http://www.saveglenlennox.org/images/logosmall.gif)
Kudos to the Little Creek Neighborhood Association who are mobilizing to save the nearby Glen Lennox neighborhood from redevelopment by Grubb Properties. They have enough petition signatures to start the Neighborhood Conservation District process with the Town of Chapel Hill. I'm still not sure whether the NCD is the right tool for the job, but it should help to slow the momentum of the developers who want to raze the neighborhood for a new high-rise mixed use development.
Since the start-up of BlueNC, I haven't paid a lot of attention to local politics. So imagine my surprise to find that the Chapel Hill Town Council voted on Monday to give its members health insurance for life. I can't find the story covered here, so I apologize if this is old news to everyone besides me.
But old news or not, I have to say, I'm stunned.
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