The Orange County Department of Social Services is recruiting sponsors and donors for the annual county holiday programs.
Community brief: VITA volunteers
The RSVP 55+ Volunteer Program of Orange County is recruiting adults with accounting-type experience to join the IRS Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program to train to prepare tax returns. Training is also provided for other positions. Bilingual speakers are needed. Volunteers will work four-hour shifts in Orange and Chatham counties.
Community Calendar 10/9/08
Special Events Fair Trade Expo — Oct. 25, 1 to 3pm. The Carrboro Cybrary brings you a Fair Trade Expo showcasing fair trade products available from local vendors. 918-7387, cybrary@co.orange.nc.us, www.co.orange.nc.us/library/cybrary
Family day Wednesday at the Farmers’ Market
Susan Dickson Staff Writer To celebrate its last Wednesday market of the year, the Carrboro Farmers’ Market will host an afternoon of family activities, food and pumpkin decorating at the market’s Family Day. This is the first year the market has hosted a Family Day to celebrate the last Wednesday market.
The Eater 10/9/08
Slow Food chicken There are still tickets left for Sunday’s big all-farm-raised chicken dinner, with pastured poultry from Castle Rock Gardens and Castlemaine farms, plus farm-raised sides, local bread, some bluegrass pickin’ and a guest chef from the acclaimed Asheville restaurant Table.
For the record 10/9/08
Our rapt attention Around town Tuesday night, the crowds were a little bigger — packed in at some places — and a lot quieter than usual. At least they were quieter for about 90 minutes as the two candidates for the presidency squared off in Nashville for the second debate.
The failing mental health formula
Chris Fitzsimon The last two weeks have been like the last seven years in the state mental health system, a discouraging, infuriating, frustrating mess that raises questions about financial management, access to services and patient safety.
Letter to the editor: Blighted by decree?
Eminent domain is the power to acquire land from property owners. Pre-2005, this power was granted only to governmental bodies in order to maximize the public good. Justification was required to be clear, factual and persuasive.
Letter to the editor: No new guy
I read Bonnie Hauser’s recent letter (Carrboro Citizen, Oct. 25) with interest, and was glad to learn that we have a creative young physician as the “new guy in town.†I suppose he has an excellent medical practice, but Ms. Hauser wants him in Congress. Her letter convinces me that underneath he is an old-fashioned…
Letter to the editor: Thanks
The 11th annual Carrboro Music Festival occurred on Sunday, Sept. 28. We experienced gorgeous weather and the largest crowd ever. I’ve received many congratulations over the last few days and I’d like to send out my personal thanks to all who contributed to Carrboro’s very special day.
Dell’s factory sell-off and North Carolina
Bill Schweke The recent announcement by the Dell Corporation that it was planning to sell its factories to cut costs should have come as no surprise. Today’s new global economy is characterized by a frantic effort by businesses in thousands of market niches to offer the cheapest, fastest and/or best product available. Any competitive advantage…
Missy Julian Fox now director of UNC Visitors’ Center
UNC News Services The new face at the front door of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will be a familiar one to the community. About a year and a half after handing over the reins to Franklin Street landmark Julian’s College Shop to her brother, clothing designer Alexander Julian, Chapel Hill native…
School briefs: Bullying lecture
Emerson Waldorf School will host a lecture by Kim John Payne, noted author and educator in the field of bullying, on Friday at 7 p.m. in the Brown Room of the high school building at Emerson Waldorf. Payne’s lecture is entitled “Social Inclusion and the New Rites of Passage: Addressing Isolation, Teasing and Bullying.†Payne…
School brief: Jazz combos
The jazz combos from Chapel Hill High School and East Chapel Hill High School will present an evening of jazz at Hanes Theater at Chapel Hill High on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. The combos will perform a variety of jazz standards, many of them arranged by students, as well as the music of Louis Armstrong,…
School brief: CHS concerts
The Carrboro High School Orchestra and Chorus Concert will be held Oct. 16 at 7 p.m. in the Culbreth Middle School auditorium. The concert will feature music by Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland and Randall Thompson. In addition, the orchestra will perform a medley from Wicked and the chorus will perform a campaign free-for-all with campaign…