The Carrboro Recreation and Parks Department is accepting volunteer coach applications for youth baseball and basketball programs. For information and an application, call 918-7364.
Community Brief: Youth leagues
The Carrboro Recreation and Parks Department is sponsoring and co-sponsoring a number of sports opportunities for kids. Classes and leagues involve: The Mini-kickers Soccer Camp, July 21-24 from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. for ages 3-5. $35. Half Day Soccer Camp, July 21-24 from 8:30-11:30 a.m. for ages 6-12. $95. Soccer C.L.A.S.S. (Children Learning Athletic Sports…
Community Brief: Church lectures
The Community Church of Chapel Hill, Unitarian Universalist, will present its 2008 Straley lecture series on Sundays in July and through August 10. The lectures start at noon with a lunch and end by 1:30 p.m. To register for childcare or for more information call 929-5983 or 942-5735. Speakers are members of the church that…
Community Brief: Femme Fest
From July 22 to 26 The Cave and Mansion 462 will host Femme Fest to benefit the Girls Rock Camp of NC and the Rape Crisis Center of Chapel Hill. Each venue will host two bands each night, all with female leads, and donate the proceeds.
Community Brief: International sale
Internationalist Books and Community Center will be holding a yard sale fundraiser on August 9 at 2408 Honeysuckle Road in Chapel Hill. The bookstore is accepting donations of books, clothes, furniture and other household goods and odds and ends at the store. Call 942-1740 first if you plan to donate large furniture. The sale starts…
Community Brief: Tents of Hope
The United Church of Chapel Hill will host Tim Nonn, national coordinator of Tents of Hope, an advocacy movement for the people of Darfur, Sudan. Tents of Hope are artistic tents created by congregations and other communities as focal points for learning about and helping war-torn Darfur. Tim Nonn will give a sermon, themed “We…
Obituary – Lillian Broox Manis
Lillian (Lilli) Broox Manis died in a tragic car collision in the early morning of July 12, 2008 on Glenwood Ave in Raleigh, NC. She was just one month shy of her 18th birthday, and was set to go to Earlham College in Richmond Indiana at the end of August. She is survived by her…
Comprehensive sex education makes for healthier kids
By Paige Johnson Kissing babies makes for a great photo op when politicians are on the campaign trail. Most legislators claim to care about children. But what happens when young people are beyond the age of a photo op, when their behavior is less than cherubic or when their needs run counter to a legislator’s…
Let’s stop pretending
Chris Fitzsimon is right to characterize my opposition to the bullying bill as “having nothing to do with bullying.†(“Standing up for all kids,†July 10, 2008) The flip side of this charge is that support for the bullying bill has nothing to do with bullying either. And therein lies the problem: The primary aim…
It’s all on the lists
Chris Fitzsimon Internal polls and worries about the November election hang over many of the important debates left in the General Assembly as lawmakers begin what may be the last week of the legislative session. Bills to address the role of race in the capital punishment system, protect children from bullying at school and make…
Letter: Small size limits Carrboro High
Your paper’s July 10th article on the reinstatement of some of the dropped AP courses at Carrboro High School is good news. However, the reintroduction of these courses for the coming year does not address the larger issue of the inevitable limitations posed by a small high school, apparently planned on the model of the…
The Carrboro Branch Library needs all our support
By Mark Chilton and Dan Coleman The normally quiet and perhaps underappreciated Carrboro Branch Library has been much in the news lately. The controversy was precipitated by a 35 percent cut-back Orange County made to the already minimal hours the Carrboro branch is open. Fortunately, we have a vigilant Friends of the Carrboro Branch Library…
A bumpy ride to a freestanding library
Jake Lehrer When an Orange County Official referred to the Carrboro Library as the ‘Carrboro Country Club’ in 1997, I knew our path to a freestanding library in Carrboro would indeed be bumpy. Though our public-service hours have(or should I say ‘had’) increased from 19 hours per week to 26 by 2008 and our circulation…
Library criticisms inaccurate
Margot Malachowski I am compelled to respond to the numerous inaccuracies regarding Orange County Public Libraries printed in local newspapers. I understand that the residents of Carrboro are upset by the recent cuts to the branch library. These cuts are not a hit directed solely at the Carrboro Branch as implied. BOCC’s Barry Jacobs publicly…
Free Fridays
OWASA will waive the fee for boat users on University Lake on Fridays from July 18 to August 15. There is still a fee for renting an electric trolling motor. For a waiver, bring in a recent bill to prove you are an OWASA customer. If you have OWASA service but not a bill, bring…
