
{"id":15082,"date":"2011-01-06T12:36:33","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T17:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=15082"},"modified":"2011-01-06T12:36:33","modified_gmt":"2011-01-06T17:36:33","slug":"your-ideas-sought-for-carrboro-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2011\/01\/06\/your-ideas-sought-for-carrboro-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"Your ideas sought for Carrboro celebration!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Kirk Ross<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>News &#038; Opinion Editor<\/em><br \/>\nThis is the year that our little town of Carrboro turns 100.<br \/>\nThe community existed for years prior, of course, first as a collection of businesses and homes around the railroad spur and later as the incorporated town of Venable.<br \/>\nOn March 3, 1911, the community\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s name was changed to Carrboro and we began a century-long journey to become what you see all around you. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been a remarkable journey through a remarkable century extending from a time of mules and privies to one of fiber optics and a surge of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153urban farming.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\nCome March, we will have our first formal celebration, and on Carrboro Day, which is May 1 this year, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be a larger-than-usual shindig commemorating the anniversary.<br \/>\nA lot of citizens and officials are busy planning these events, and we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve no doubt they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be splendid and very Carrboro.<br \/>\nBut, to be honest, this was not the best of times for the town to throw a party, and the budget is a little tighter than many had hoped.<br \/>\nStill, we look forward to publishing updates on the plans for the festivities and will encourage your attendance with great enthusiasm.<br \/>\nIn the meantime, The Citizen would like to solicit our readers to contribute their ideas \u00e2\u20ac\u201c big, small, earnest and whimsical \u00e2\u20ac\u201c for the celebration of all things Carrboro.<br \/>\nWe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d also like our readers, especially you old-timers, to contribute anecdotes and reminiscences about our town and the characters that have inhabited it along the way.<br \/>\nIt will be our delight to publish your stories, along with any guidance you might wish to offer those in officialdom as they prepare for the centennial. And perhaps your idea will garner enough popular support to be folded into the festivities.<br \/>\nSo don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be shy. Send your thoughts and ideas on the subject to the email or snailmail addresses listed below.<br \/>\nAs always, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll print the ones we can and pass the others around the office to amuse our hard-working staff.<br \/>\nu u u<br \/>\nWe neglected to tell you that the gorgeous photograph of a cardinal in the snow that graced the cover of this month\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s MILL, folded into last week\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Citizen, was the masterful work of local shooter Stan Lewis. You can see Stan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s work at stanlewisphotography.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the year that our little town of Carrboro turns 100.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15083,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15082\/revisions\/15083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}