Special Events Join members of Vietnam Veterans Against the War and Iraq Veterans Against the War and VVAW National Coordinator Barry Romo as he talks about the upcoming historic event — Winter Soldier: Iraq & Afghanistan. Fri, Jan 25, 6pm. Carrboro Century Center, 100 N Greensboro St. Free. Visit www.vvaw.org/events for more info.
Category: Community
Community Brief: Bipolar seminar
The UNC School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry will host an educational seminar on bipolar disorder on March 8 at the Friday Center for Continuing Education. For more information, visit www.med.unc.edu/cme/events/ bipolar-disorders-conference or contact Jennifer Mayfield at 962-7399 or jennifer_mayfield@med.unc.edu.
Community brief: Free tax help
Volunteer Income Tax Assistance, a program that offers free tax service for low-to-middle-income clients, will begin taking appointments mid-month for tax services beginning in February. For appointments or information, call 968-2070 in Carrboro, 245-2015 in Hillsborough or 542-4512 in Chatham County. Spanish-speaking clients may call 245-2010 in Orange County or 742-1448 in Chatham County.
Recently: Women writers wooed by Chapel Hill
By Valarie Schwartz Two women came to Chapel Hill to write books. . . . Betty Smith, a petite brunette Brooklyn native, arrived in 1936 with two adolescent daughters. She had already risen from the brutal poverty of a childhood that included having to quit school after seventh grade to support her mother, brother and…
Community Calendar: 01/10/08
Special Events Orange County Bill of Rights Defense Committee will show a 54-minute DVD of a recent keynote talk, “Marisol Jimenez-McGee Addresses Current Situation Facing Undocumented Immigrants,†at the Chapel Hill Public Library. Thu, Jan 17, 7pm. Call 942-2535 for more info.
Martin Luther King Jr. Day Events
Carrboro/Chapel Hill Jan13 The Community Church of Chapel Hill Unitarian Universalist will hold a commemoration for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. entitled “The spirit of power and love†on Sunday, January 13, 2008, 9:30 and 11:15 am. With Rev. Curtis Gatewood, Associate Pastor, First Baptist Church in Oxford and 2nd VP of NAACP, at The…
Community Brief: Arts workshops
A free workshop on textile art will be part of an exhibit of textiles curated by local artists Anita Wolfenden, Linda Carmel and Nerys Levy at the Carrboro Branch Library. The exhibition features 21 local textile artists and is designed to present the range of possibilities in fiber art — from wool and felt to…
Recently: Hitting new highs
By Valarie Schwartz It was not as an interloper that I sang during the first rehearsal of the Women’s Voices Chorus on Sept. 3. Being amidst them seemed like a good way to learn how accepting the women were going to be of their new director, Allan Friedman — the first man involved with the…
Community Calendar: 01/03/08
Kids Preschool Story Time – At the Carrboro Branch Library. Every Saturday at 10:30am. Miz Moon will start off a new year of Toddler Times with an Anansi story and The Three Snow Bears by Jan Brett at the Carrboro Branch Library on Thursday, Jan 3. All preschoolers are invited to this free program. For more info,…
Community Brief: Volunteers needed for new ESL classes
The Orange County Literacy Council will hold an English as a Second Language training Tuesday, January 8, 2008 from 9:00 a.m to noon at the Seymour Center at 2551 Homestead Rd. in Chapel Hill. Attendees will learn how to help non-native English speakers improve their conversational, reading and writing skills in order to become better…
Community Brief: Wish granted
The Make-A-Wish foundation of Eastern North Carolina is granting the wish of 18-year-old Katherine Somerville to see a Tar Heel basketball game in person. Katherine, a triplet born at UNC Hospitals, uses a wheelchair and has cerebral palsy. She lives with her family in Michigan and is a huge Carolina basketball fan. She went to…
Community Brief: Blood drives
The American Red Cross will be holding several Blood Drives in the month of January at the following locations and times: Sunday, January 6 at Berrys Grove Baptist Church in Timberlake from 1-5 p.m. Call 336-364-8158. Wednesday, January 9 at Piedmont Electric in Hillsborough from 1-5:30 p.m. Call 732-2123.
Recently: One meal at a time over 29 years
By Valarie Schwartz The Meals on Wheels office at Binkley Baptist Church will seem a little less bright next year. Jeanie Arnel, who for the last 29 years has been director of the locally supported nonprofit, serves in that position for the last time on Dec. 31. It only took a spark for Arnel to…
Community Calendar: 12/27/07
Special Events The Eno River State Park will host several events this holiday season. Visitors to the park will be able to bird watch on Saturday, December 29 at 9 a.m. On Tuesday, January 1 at 2 p.m., the Eno River Association will host a New Year’s Day Hike at the Eno River State Park….
2007 in memoriam
Alfred Henry Baumhover, 85, who was known within Carrboro’s Webbwood community as “Sir Alfred†because he was knighted by Queen Juliana of the Netherlands in 1955, died Feb. 21. Former Carrboro city attorney and district court judge Lowry Matthews Betts, 76, died July 9, having practiced law in North Carolina for more than 50 years.