
{"id":3527,"date":"2008-10-02T07:18:58","date_gmt":"2008-10-02T15:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=3527"},"modified":"2008-10-02T07:18:58","modified_gmt":"2008-10-02T15:18:58","slug":"festival-to-celebrate-bolin-creek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2008\/10\/02\/festival-to-celebrate-bolin-creek\/","title":{"rendered":"Festival to celebrate Bolin Creek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/davesbest1-008s.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/davesbest1-008s-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by Dave Otto\" title=\"davesbest1-008s\" width=\"280\" height=\"210\" align=\"left\" size-medium wp-image-3528\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/davesbest1-008s-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/davesbest1-008s.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe fifth annual Bolin Creek Festival will be held Oct. 14 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Umstead Park in Chapel Hill.<\/p>\n<p>The free festival hosts fun events to teach kids and their families about stream health, including the critters that live in the stream and the runoff which enters the stream.<br \/>\nWatercolor art depicting the creek will be raffled along with other prizes donated by local businesses.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe festvial features music by Club Boheme, a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153retro jazz\u00e2\u20ac\u009d band, Skeedaddle, playing swing music, and Project Mastana performing Bollywood dance music.<\/p>\n<p>Local conservation groups will share information about the environment and their activities.<br \/>\nRefreshments, including smoothies made using bicycle-power and treats from local restaurants, will be on sale.<\/p>\n<p>The festival this year follows Big Sweep, a project to clean up local creeks.<\/p>\n<p>Overflow parking for the event will be available at the Exchange Swim Club. The festival is sponsored by the Friends of Bolin Creek, a nonprofit group dedicating to preserving the creek.<\/p>\n<p>The creek extends through Chapel Hill and Carrboro, starting near Umstead Park and eventually flowing into Booker Creek, Little Creek and finally Jordan Lake.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the festival or the Friends of Bolin Creek, see www.bolincreek.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-land-and-table"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3527","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=3527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}