The premiere screening of the documentary Change Comes Knocking: The Story of the N.C. Fund will take place at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 25 at Union Auditorium on the UNC campus. The showing will be followed by a discussion with filmmakers and professors. The documentary tells the story of the anti-poverty North Carolina Fund established…
Arts Calendar: 03/20/08
Carrboro El Sur Comes South — Pedro Lash with Los Artistas & local sonideros; Center Gallery. Kardelen (Snow Drop) — Works by Pelin Yazar Canez, Orhan Alpaslan, Asuman Dogan, Atanur Dogan and Nihal Kececi to celebrate International Women’s Month. The ArtsCenter. 300-G E Main St. 929-2787, artscenterlive.org Kardelen: Turkish-American Artists Celebrate International Women’s Month —…
Community Calendar: 03/20/08
Special Events UNC Friends of the Library Book Sale — Thousands of books of all genres are available. Thu, Mar 27, 5-8pm: preview sale for Friends of the Library Members; Fri, Mar 28, 9am to 8pm: Public sale; Sat, Mar 29, 9am to noon: $3 per bag of books. American Legion Building, 1714 Legion Rd,…
Youth poetry contest set to spark creativity
By Stephanie Kane Carrboro Commons Writer In an initiative to promote art among youth, the Town of Carrboro is conducting its first Carrboro Youth Poetry Contest. Three winners from the elementary, middle and high school levels will be announced on May 4 in conjunction with festivities for the 13th annual Carrboro Day. The awards ceremony…
Community Brief: Housing summit
The Chatham County Affordable Housing Task Force will host a summit on Affordable Housing at the Western Chatham Senior Center in Pittsboro on April 11. The gathering starts at 9 a.m. and lasts until 4 p.m. Registration starts at 8:30 a.m. The event is free and includes lunch. The summit features speakers, a panel discussion…
Community Brief: Compassion talk
Emerson Waldorf School will host a lecture and participatory workshop in Compassionate Communication (or Non-Violent Communication) on Friday, March 28 and Saturday, March 29. The facilitator is John Cunningham, certified trainer and Waldorf teacher. Cunningham will give a lecture on Friday, March 28 from 7 to 9 pm, donations accepted. The lecture is required for…
Peace: If not now, when?
By Anthony Fleg As our community feels the painful consequences of violence, with an unidentified 16 year old and UNC senior Eve Carson both being shot within walking distance from UNC’s tree-lined, picturesque campus, it puts an added perspective on the five-year anniversary of the violence of the Iraq war. As much as we are…
Coming home
By Robert Dickson  When Mary Beth, Kirk and I walked into last year’s Community Dinner, I felt a bit like a deer in the headlights. There were so many people I wanted to meet and talk with but in that big crowd I really didn’t know where to start. Somewhat audaciously, I had added the…
For the Record: 03/20/08
Welcome to Volume II You hold in your hands issue number I of Volume II of The Carrboro Citizen. Whether it is the first time you’ve picked up a copy of the paper or this is the 53rd time you’ve delved into one long enough to reach the Opinion page, please know that we could…
Letter to the Editor: Flagrant omission
While we were in your charming town this weekend to visit Camellia Forest Nursery, I picked up a copy of The Carrboro Citizen, drawn by the promise of a “Spring Gardening Special Section Inside.†Since we own a nursery in Southside Virginia, we are always interested in the gardening sections printed in newspapers in surrounding…
Letter to the Editor: Tax has positives
Mark Zimmerman’s guest column railing against the upcoming vote on a proposed land transfer tax [“The wrong tax and the wrong time,†March 13, 2008] paints this revenue-generating tool as regressive, unreliable, unfair and just plain awful. But to the average Carrborean, it just might be a pretty good thing. First, if you don’t own…
School Brief: Teacher breakfast
The fifth annual Teachers’ First Breakfast will be held May 2, from 6 to 8:30 a.m. at Squid’s Restaurant. Students, parents and others can honor teachers and other staff members with breakfast or a rose. The breakfast will kick off Teacher Appreciation Week.
School Brief: CHHS benefit
A benefit concert to support “Smiles for Tiles†will be held April 13 at Cat’s Cradle. The concert will raise money to test the ceiling tiles at Chapel Hill High School to determine if latex paint makes the tiles more flammable. Students at Chapel Hill High have painted ceiling tiles over the past 14 years,…
School Brief: Young leaders
John and Matthew Uehling of Culbreth Middle School attended the National Young Leaders State Conference March 6-9 in Spartanburg, SC. They were joined by 130 other eighth- and ninth-grade students from North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia. The Congressional Youth Leadership Council conducted the conference.
School Brief: Musical comedy
Chapel Hill High School students will present the musical comedy How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, April 24, 25 and 26 at 7:30 p.m. The comedy satires big business and all it holds sacred as it follows the antics of a window washer who climbs the corporate ladder.