
{"id":15998,"date":"2011-02-17T10:27:28","date_gmt":"2011-02-17T15:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=15998"},"modified":"2011-02-17T10:27:29","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T15:27:29","slug":"fun-for-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2011\/02\/17\/fun-for-funds\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun for funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_16000\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16000\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2011\/02\/17\/fun-for-funds\/auditorium_after_b1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16000\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Auditorium_After_B1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Auditorium_After_B1\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Auditorium_After_B1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Auditorium_After_B1-113x84.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Auditorium_After_B1-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Auditorium_After_B1-360x270.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Auditorium_After_B1-106x80.jpg 106w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16000\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PHOTO BY EBETH SCOTT-SINCLAIR<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n<strong>By Susan Dickson <\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Staff Writer<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Murphey School Radio Show<\/em>, an old-style variety show, will be held Saturday at the Shared Visions Retreat Center, marking the first of what center directors hope will be many radio shows at the facility to benefit local nonprofits. <\/p>\n<p>The show \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the style of which organizers have likened to the<em> Grand Ole Opry <\/em>and <em>A Prairie Home Companion<\/em> \u00e2\u20ac\u201c will benefit four Triangle mental health agencies and will feature performances, comedy and readings by local musicians and writers, including Jill McCorkle, Daniel Wallace and Bland Simpson.<\/p>\n<p>Jay Miller and his wife, Ebeth Scott-Sinclair, opened the center last year after more than two years of renovations to the historic Murphey School. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I wanted to do a retreat center for a long time, and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d wandered across this old school that was in horrible, horrible condition,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Miller said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I love old buildings, and I decided to try to take it on.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n<p>The Murphey School has a rich history, opening in 1923, with the auditorium added in 1936 as one of Roosevelt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Works Progress Administration projects. It closed its doors in 1959 when students transferred to schools in Hillsborough; the building was subsequently leased to a church, purchased by a family and even used as a nightclub before sitting empty for many years. <\/p>\n<p>Following the recent renovations, the Shared Visions Retreat Center opened last year, providing space and services to local nonprofits and hosting programs and activities. The radio show, the first of its kind at the center, will benefit Club Nova, XDS, Freedom House Recovery Center and Mental Health America of the Triangle. <\/p>\n<p>Miller selected those organizations based on the similarity of their missions, as well as his involvement with each of them. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like for future radio shows, which he hopes to hold twice a year, also to benefit nonprofits that are similar to one another in their goals. <\/p>\n<p>The performers are donating their time for the radio show, which Miller promises will be a good time. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not one of those events where somebody\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going to get up and make you feel bad,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s all fun, 100 percent.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n<p>Miller is optimistic about future radio shows, as the upcoming show sold out earlier this week. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153What we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re looking to do is support nonprofits,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s awareness-raising and it is fundraising. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s for them.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.murpheyschoolradio.net\/murpheyschoolradio\/HOME.html\">murpheyschoolradio.net<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Murphey School Radio Show<\/em>, an old-style variety show, will be held Saturday at the Shared Visions Retreat Center &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15998","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15998"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16076,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15998\/revisions\/16076"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}