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An open letter: Taste of Hope

Posted on October 2, 2008 by Staff

An open letter to the Chapel Hill-Carrboro community about the Taste of Hope program
Dear Fellow Citizen:

These are trying times for all of us, and especially the families in our community who are living from paycheck to paycheck.

The Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chapter of the NAACP appeals to you to do something that will take very little time and will have a minimal cost to you but will make a difference to local families who are most in need.

If you are an Orange Water and Sewer Authority (OWASA) customer, please sign up as a monthly donor in the Taste of Hope Customer Assistance Program sponsored by the Inter-Faith Council (IFC) and OWASA.

What will this mean? Your monthly OWASA bill will be automatically rounded up to the nearest dollar and the added amount will go to the IFC to help local families who are temporarily unable to pay their OWASA bill. Being a Taste of Hope donor will therefore cost you less than $12 per year.

To sign up, just call OWASA customer service at 537-4343, send an email to webmaster@owasa.org or visit the Taste of Hope section of the OWASA website, www.owasa.org.

If you prefer to give a larger amount, please send a check directly to the IFC at 110 West Main St., Carrboro, NC 27510, and note that the check is for the Taste of Hope program. The IFC is a 501(c)(3) United Way agency which has served local families in need for 45 years.

When a family reaches the point of being unable to pay a water bill, its financial situation is truly desperate. Your help, just a few pennies per month, will make a big difference to a family that otherwise would not have water for cooking, bathing and other essential needs.

Fred Battle
Former President, Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chapter of the NAACP,
Member of the OWASA board of directors

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