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Letters to the Editor: 12/27/07

Posted on December 27, 2007 by Staff

Chaining wrong

In response to Mr. Stern’s letter of December 12, I am outraged that he thinks that a chained dog might be perceived as “spoiled.” There is no difference between his dog and the hunting dogs that he claims are the ones who are being abused. This issue is not due to the transgressions of a few. All dog owners who leave their dogs chained outside are committing an act of animal cruelty. Carrboro is right to outlaw this practice and fine those who continue to tether their dogs. Spoiled dogs are kept inside, away from the elements and the possibility of being injured by humans or animals in the area.

Mollie Coleman
Carrboro

Thanks

The Foundation for a Sustainable Community (FSC), the nonprofit partner of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce, is proud to announce a fourth quarter of record growth and community investment. This fall, the FSC received over $43,000 in funding through community events and grant support. We would like to thank all of our community partners who have helped make this fall such an exciting time for us.

Thank you to the Carlson Family Foundation for investing $10,000 in our Business in Education Partnership this October to support the partnership’s varied activities linking business leaders with our local school students and linking our students to jobs here in Orange County.

The FSC also recently concluded a challenge grant at the Triangle Community Foundation that raised $15,000 for the foundation’s local community work and its investment in a metric to certify small enterprises as sustainable. Frank Phoenix of the Fenwick Family Foundation and Greenbridge Developments launched the challenge with a $10,000 investment, and the Mark and Cynthia Kuhn Family Fund, the InSight Fund and the Noel Family Fund all invested in the FSC through the challenge.

We are grateful for our other community partnerships, especially Community Tuesdays with the Chapel Hill Restaurant Group, a partnership in the month of October that raised $4,000 for the FSC. Our online auction this year was our  most successful ever, garnering over $9,000 thanks to the many generous folks in our community and beyond who donated items and bid on items in the auction. And we were proud to partner with this year’s Leadership Chapel Hill-Carrboro class, the Carolina Inn and DSI Comedy Theater to raise more than $14,000 for eight other local nonprofits.

Our deepest thanks to all of you who work with us every day to build a sustainable community. Together, we are changing the way that organizations and individuals engage their communities and their environment and making them more successful for it.

Aaron Nelson
Executive Director
Foundation for a Sustainable Community

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