
{"id":19803,"date":"2011-07-21T09:26:27","date_gmt":"2011-07-21T13:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=19803"},"modified":"2011-07-21T10:16:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-21T14:16:00","slug":"community-ponders-johnny%e2%80%99s-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2011\/07\/21\/community-ponders-johnny%e2%80%99s-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Community ponders Johnny\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Brooke Parker<br \/>\n<em>Staff Writer<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nCARRBORO \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We want to see Johnny\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s exactly how it was \u00e2\u20ac\u201c a great place for the community,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Carrboro resident Maureen Berner. Berner, along with more than 50 community members, attended a potluck held Monday at Johnny\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s to discuss ideas for an improved and reopened Johnny\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19804\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19804\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2011\/07\/21\/community-ponders-johnny%e2%80%99s-future\/johnnys\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-19804\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/johnnys.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"johnnys\" width=\"350\" height=\"446\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19804\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/johnnys.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/johnnys-113x143.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/johnnys-88x113.jpg 88w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19804\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Renzo Amoni-Daro, 2, eats watermelon at a potluck at Johnny\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s on Monday. Community members gathered at Johnny\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s to discuss ideas for the future of the space.  Photo by Brooke Parker<\/figcaption><\/figure>The local coffee shop, music venue and community gathering place temporarily closed on June 23 and has yet to reopen. Owners Brian Plaster and Jan Halle parted ways in mid-June, and Halle, the majority owner of the property, is left to decide what happens to the local venue.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know how we can solve it, but I hope we can,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she said.<br \/>\nSeveral potential business partners have made proposals to Halle. She hopes to reopen Johnny\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153bigger than it was, with the same community flavor.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\nCarrboro Greenspace members hosted the Monday potluck for the community to come together to share food and propose ideas \u00e2\u20ac\u201c but the overriding sentiment was that most just want to see Johnny\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s reopened.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153This place is about celebrating communities and creating centers,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Greenspace member Michal Osterweil, who helped organize the event.<br \/>\nCommunity members brought homemade sandwiches, salads, pastas and more, and additional food was provided by local restaurants.<br \/>\nFriends and family enjoyed their meals, laughed and caught up. But when Callie Warner, a Chapel Hill resident and dedicated Johnny\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s customer, took the stage to start collecting ideas, it was time to get serious. Community members stood around a chalkboard and one by one raised their hands to have their ideas noted. Even children participated, proposing, for example, a pool with a waterslide.<br \/>\nOthers suggested improvements, including a food-truck commissary, an herbal garden, free wireless Internet and a children\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s play area.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The vision that Brian had for Johnny\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s was great, but we will rise again and open again soon,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Halle said.<br \/>\nHalle expects to reopen a familiar but improved Johnny\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s by September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Brooke Parker<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We want to see Johnny\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s exactly how it was \u00e2\u20ac\u201c a great place for the community,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Carrboro resident Maureen Berner. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":19804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19803","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=19803"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19844,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19803\/revisions\/19844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}