Residents are invited to a dedication ceremony for the Sculptural Climbing Wall at 11 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 28, at the Chapel Hill Community Center playground, 120 S. Estes Drive. The dedication also will recognize two sculptures recently installed at the Community Center as part of the Town of Chapel Hill Public Arts Office’s 2010 Sculpture…
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Ain’t I a Woman!
Women’s Voices Chorus will perform a winter concert titled “Ain’t I a Woman!†on Sunday, Jan. 24, at 3 p.m. at University United Methodist Church. The concert’s title comes from the words of Sojourner Truth at the Ohio Women’s Rights Convention in 1851 and features songs about heroines through the ages. The choir also will…
Mixed-media art at library
On display at the Chapel Hill Public Library now through March 29 is the second exhibition of the 2009-10 Juried Exhibitions, featuring the mixed-media work of William Dooley from Northport, Ala., and the polymer-clay mosaics of Chapel Hill artist Debi L. Drew. Dooley’s pieces are dedicated to a waterway form known as the “oxbow†and…
Help the homeless in the cold
The Come Out of the Cold donation drive is underway. Items will be distributed by Orange County street outreach workers and during the annual Point in Time Count.†The count is a one-night tally of homeless people that is required for federal funding assistance. Service providers count the number of homeless people in the emergency…
Time for Girl Scout cookies
It’s Girl Scout cookie time again. Girl Scouts are taking orders for cookies from Saturday, Jan. 9 until Sunday, March 14. The price per box is $3.50. If you did not have a Girl Scout visit your home or ask you via email to purchase cookies, you can visit cookie booths outside local businesses on…
Climate change talk at UNC
A student and a professor at UNC will talk about their experiences at the recent climate change conference in Copenhagen in a Jan. 19 lecture on campus. Victor Flatt, the Tom and Elizabeth Taft Distinguished Professor in Environmental Law in the School of Law at UNC, and student Mike Mian, a junior, will speak at…
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Healthy boundaries
A presentation called “Navigating the Challenging Issues of Parenting†will be held on Wednesday, Feb. 10 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at Chapel Hill High School Auditorium. It will include identification of age-appropriate expectations of children; guidelines for understanding developmental shifts in kids’ attitudes, interests and behaviors; and an overview of what constitutes healthy boundaries…
ECHHS offers tours
East Chapel Hill High School is offering information sessions and tours of the school for eighth-grade students currently in private or charter schools who are thinking about attending ECHHS in the fall. The event is on Wednesday, Feb. 3 from 10 to 11:30 a.m. in the school auditorium. The school will present information about its…
Darlene Ryan earns statewide award
The North Carolina Science Leadership Association presented the 2009 Herman Gatling Award for Outstanding Science Education Leadership in North Carolina to Darlene Ryan of Glenwood Elementary. The Gatling Award is presented to a person who has exemplified the high standards of the late Herman Gatling of Durham County. The recipient is someone who has gone…
Keep your pipes working in the cold
By Beth Mechum Staff Writer As the Carrboro-Chapel Hill area buckles in for one of the coldest stretches in recent memory, homeowners and renters have worries beyond their own frozen extremities. Frozen pipes would sure make those necessary hot showers harder to take and those mugs of hot chocolate harder to make. Orange Water and…
Smoking ban clears the air at some establishments while hurting others
By Beth Mechum Staff Writer The North Carolina smoking ban, which outlaws lighting up in most bars and restaurants, went into effect Jan. 2. Given North Carolina’s ties to tobacco, passage of the law took many by surprise, and could have a significant impact on many businesses. But in Carrboro and surrounding towns, it wasn’t…
