Free composting demonstration
The Community Center Learning Garden will host its semiannual composting demonstration on Saturday, September 15 from 10 to 11:30 a.m.
Learn about composting outdoors with manufactured or homemade bins and indoor composting with worms.
The demonstration is free and open to the public with no registration required. The Orange County Solid Waste Management Department and the Chapel Hill Parks and Recreation Department sponsor the event.
The demonstration will be located behind the Community Center Learning Garden on Estes Drive in Chapel Hill, behind the rose garden.
Let’s eat
Cliff Collins of Cliff’s Meat Market, Mildred Council of Mama Dip’s Kitchen and Keith Allen of Allen & Son Barbecue have been honored with the Tabasco Guardians of the Tradition award by the Southern Foodways Alliance.
The award is presented at each Southern Foodways Alliance field trip to individuals who represent the “foundations of American cuisine in general and Southern cuisine in particular†— most recently to these local recipients at the Camp Carolina event held last weekend at locations throughout the area. Each was presented with a special award designed by artist and MacArthur Grant recipient John T. Scott.
Recycling site closing
The 24-hour recycling drop-off site adjacent to the county’s animal shelter will close permanently on September 30.
The site, which is located on Municipal Drive off Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, is on property owned by UNC that’s being redeveloped for the new Carolina North campus.
The site is the oldest public recycling site in Orange County and has been used since Boy Scout Troup 39 started its recycling program in 1970.
Residents are encouraged to use the recycling site at Cedar Falls Park on Weaver Dairy Road as the animal shelter recycling site prepares to close. For more information or a list of other recycling sites, visit www.co.orange.nc.us/recycling.