Chatham Chatlist Highlights

Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:38:27 -0400
From: Gene Galin
Subject: New Chatham Hospital To Hold Open House

The public is invited to view the new Chatham Hospital in Siler City on Sunday, July 20 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Tours will be provided in English and Spanish.

This family-friendly event will feature a clown and a strolling Dixieland band. Kids can climb aboard UNC Air Care’s helicopter and ambulance, as well as a fire truck.

The hospital is located in the Central County Business Campus, adjacent to the Super Wal-Mart at the intersection of U.S. 64 and U.S. 421.

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Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:58:26 -0400
From: Tony Blake
Subject: Airport in Southern Orange or North Chatham Counties?

This is to let you know about a proposal to put an airport (replacement for Horace Williams) somewhere in South Western Orange, North Chatham or East Alamance Counties and to Give UNC the power of Eminent Domain through an “Airport Authority”.

Apparently the local County commissioners have been kept in the dark about the details but there is a State Senate bill 1925 (just gone to conference and championed by Joe Hackney), giving UNC eminent domain powers.
http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2007&BillID=S1925

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Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:05:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: Darryl Wally
Subject: Re: Chatham Chatlist #3172…TIRES

If everyone would just go to Pittsboro and use ANY of the tire services there, they will do themselves a big favor.

In 22 years of using various automotive services there, I have never been disappointed in the quality of product or service.

Darryl

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Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:25:07 -0400
From: Joy Hewett
Subject: Random acts of Kindness

My thanks to the woman in front of me at Al’s Diner this morning who paid for my bacon egg biscuit! When I got to the drive in window, the cashier said it had been paid, and this woman (Tammy?) sometimes paid for people behind her! So sweet!

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Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:29:48 -0400
From: Sally Bond
Subject: lacrosse balls

Here’s a mystery for you:  A milk crate filled with 100 (fairly new) lacrosse balls slid off the back of a friend’s truck somewhere between Dorcurt Hills Road (off Hamlet Chapel, about 1 mile north of Perry Harrison school) and Lamont Norwood Road (about 2 miles east of Jones Ferry).  He has combed that stretch of road, even searching in drainage ditches, and hasn’t found a single ball.  If anyone has come across this bouncy bounty, please get in touch!  The balls are the property of the new Northeast Chatham Youth Lacrosse League (http://www.northeastlax.com/index.html).

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Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:53:08 -0700 (PDT)
From: Lynn Hayes
Subject: hammer dulcimer lessons!

Five years ago I fulfilled a lifelong dream and purchased a hammer dulcimer, and then found myself unable to teach myself how to play the thing  It sat in my living room, sad and lonely, until last fall when I found a great teacher, Sue Wilson, right in Pittsboro.  She has been endlessly patient with me yet keeps pushing me so that I find I am actually learning music theory and other things that I have resisted for years.  Plus, I’m playing songs and having a fantastic time.

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Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 14:26:51 -0400
From: Laura Lauffer
Subject: Twilight Tour of Green Homes, CCCC Class starts Thursday July 17

The GreenBuilding program is offering a unique opportunity to tour numerous green homes Thursday evenings from July 17 to August 7, plus a Saturday trip on August 2nd.

Join us as we visit a rammed earth home, an off grid family farm in the monastic tradition, a farm house deep in the woods with a 2kw solar pv array, rainwater catchment systems and green building features, a community of homes with various unique, green elements and a 100 Watt home- they used only 100 watts of electricity during an entire year !

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