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Letter: Community Dinner success

Posted on April 21, 2011April 21, 2011 by Staff

Thanks to everyone who played a part in making the 14th annual Community Dinner a resounding success. Close to 500 people gathered to eat food prepared by Mama Dip’s Kitchen, The Carolina Inn, Margaret’s Cantina and Bandido’s Mexican Café. Many local restaurants, together with many businesses and organizations, provided supplementary entrees and desserts. We would particularly like to thank Mama Dip’s Kitchen for cooking the lion’s share of 14 community dinners. All who attended enjoyed a poem by Carrboro’s poet laureate, Jay Bryan, and entertainment by the Cathedral of Hope Community Male Choir, KidZNotes, the Jigsaw 44 choir from Gravelly Hill Middle School in Efland and Grupo Capoeira Brasil North Carolina. Sound was by Erich Lieth, and Ron Stutts of WCHL1360 and Marlyn Valeiko from Orange County’s Department of Housing, Human Rights and Community Development were the emcees.

This year’s event was an overwhelming success, in part because of the efforts of so many people who have worked on dinners for the past 13 years. The event is designed to bring people together who might not ordinarily cross paths, and this year’s dinner shows that the event continues to be an important part of the community’s annual calendar. This year’s dinner reflected even more concerted efforts to include locally sourced foods on the menu and to be a zero-waste event (95 percent composted or recycled).

Without your help and donations, we would not have been able to offer such an exceptional dinner for so modest a ticket price. By keeping the event truly affordable (and by underwriting an unprecedented number of tickets), we were able to host citizens from every income level and every ethnic, special needs and age group. In this way, the dinner enhances the spirit of diversity in the community. To those of you who attended this year’s event, we are sure no explanation is needed regarding the benefit of such happenings as the Community Dinner. Our shared understanding and pride in community is, as we know, even stronger as a result of this year’s event, and we look forward to seeing you daily in the community and at the dinner next year.

Nerys Levy
Chapel Hill

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