Chatham Chatlist Highlights

Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 21:22:29 -0500
From: Gene Galin
Subject: Last Week’s Hottest Bulletin Board Topics

Last Week’s Hottest Bulletin Board Topics

1. Springdale Drive  (Read 1332 times) at
http://chatham-county-nc.com/bulletinboard/index.php/topic,9672.0.html

2. Funding held for Elderly  (Read 1225 times) at
http://chatham-county-nc.com/bulletinboard/index.php/topic,9519.0.html

3. Referendum for countywide liquor by the drink  (Read 981 times) at
http://chatham-county-nc.com/bulletinboard/index.php/topic,9695.0.html

4. Chatham County Survey  (Read 730 times) at
http://chatham-county-nc.com/bulletinboard/index.php/topic,9637.0.html

5. Tax revaluations are ON for 2009  (Read 699 times) at
http://chatham-county-nc.com/bulletinboard/index.php/topic,9671.0.html

6. Recycle Your Prescription Drugs  (Read 638 times) at
http://chatham-county-nc.com/bulletinboard/index.php/topic,9577.0.html

7. Pittsboro express  (Read 354 times) at
http://chatham-county-nc.com/bulletinboard/index.php/topic,9680.0.html

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Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 19:35:50 -0500
From: Jennifer Sipe
Subject: Coat drive at Chatham YMCA

In efforts to assist those in need – the Chatham YMCA located at 964 East Street, Pittsboro is collecting adult and children’s coats to be given to those in need.  If you have coats you have outgrown or are not needing, please consider donating them.  All coats may be dropped off to the Chatham YMCA.

Our coat box is waiting to be filled!  The Coat drive is being held now through middle of December.  Questions, please contact the Chatham YMCA, 545-9622.

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Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:55:23 -0500 (EST)
From: Jeanette Mitchum
Subject: Holiday Party

The Arc of Chatham, in collaboration, with the Chatham County Council on Aging, invites community members to a holiday gathering at the Eastern Chatham Senior Center in Pittsboro. Please come Tuesday, December 2 from 6:00-7:30 pm. This will be a potluck style event. Everyone in invited to bring favorite finger foods or goodies.

We are expecting a visit from a favorite wintertime celebrity! So bring family and friends of all ages to join the fun!

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Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:22:49 -0500 (GMT-05:00)
From: Linda Allred Cooper
Subject: Liquor By The Drink

Ain’t It About Time!!!!  All these years my husband could enjoy a beer while eating but I was stuck with soft drinks. (Blech – just don’t like the taste of beer.)  Don’t get me wrong – I love diet pepsi/coke but I never could understand why he could enjoy a beer while I was not offered the opportunity to enjoy a mixed drink (vodka collins being my favorite).  Or a margarita at San Felipe.  Why? Why? Why?  Is there really some ignorant fools out there who believe that I would get drunk as a skunk from that mixed drink but my husband would remain stone cold sober after drinking his beer??  If so, my response is “Geez!!!  Grow Up!!!”

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Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 09:03:29 -0500
From: Pamela S. Kuder, DDS
Subject: Subject: Grading and road work in front of Chatham Marketplace

Beth -

You must have missed the sign reading: “SLOW men at work”.  When it is tax dollars we should require “SLOWER men at work” since it usually takes three to supervise and one to work.  They certainly cannot work too fast or they would not have the opportunity to tear it up and redo it in six months.

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Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:48:51 -0800 (PST)
From: Wendy Shadburn
Subject: Live Music event in Chatham

         Live music @ Chatham’s newest restaurant
                                Saturday evening 11/29/08
                      The Olive Branch Caffe presents the perfect escape…
      The chemistry between Robert Griffin (piano & vocals), Stu Cole (bass & vocals) & Taz Halloween (vocals) is undeniable! A potent cocktail of  humor, mischief & smokin’ sensuality, transports you back to a time & place where wisteria entwined magnolias canopied mint julep breathed gab sessions. The trio invites their audiences into their parlor of spur of the moment inside jokes makes everyone breathe a sigh of relief, between chuckles, that we all are human & washes away any pretentious notions. In any given set you may get driven to tears from belly laughs or pathos of a lost love.

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Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:51:48 -0500
From: Beth Bale
Subject: Grading and road work in front of Chatham Marketplace

Is anyone else as amazed as I am at how long a crew of heavy equipment operators have been working on the grading along the road in front of Chatham Marketplace? 

I could swear they have done and re-done the grading 3 times now.  Any grading company worth its salt could do that entire job in less than a week, easy, and these guys have taken over a month, maybe even 2 now!!  Are these our tax dollars at work??  Does anyone out there have information about what is going on and if it is county taxes at work? 

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Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:22:44 -0500
From: David Stallard
Subject: Re: Termite Inspection in Chatham Chatlist #3275

Responding to Jane Allen, we have had good experience with annual termite inspections over many years
from Clegg’s Termite and Pest Control, Inc. in Durham, tel. 919-477-2134.

Dave Stallard
Fearrington Village

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Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:32:00 -0800 (PST)
From: Gina Carapella
Subject: Food Drive

Our local food pantry, CORA, is in great need for some holiday restocking! Here is their current activity:

“CURRENT ACTIVITY:  Overall demand for help remains far ahead of last year. In the first quarter of our current fiscal year (July, August, September) CORA provided groceries for 3,440 people.  This represents a 70% increase compared to the same period last year.  In practical terms this amounts to about 26 tons of groceries (52,000 pounds!) in this three month period.” ~CORA

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Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:31:49 -0500
From: Randy Voller
Subject: Countywide Referendum on Liquor by the Drink

George Lucier, Chair
Chatham County Board of Commissioners
12 East Street
Pittsboro, NC 27312

Dear Chairman Lucier:

At our October 27, 2008 meeting the Town Board received an update on the current status of Pittsboro’s ABC Board. We are pleased to announce that with the hard work of the new ABC Board, new staff at the store, and cooperation with the County’s ABC Board and staff the store is once again profitable.  The aforementioned good news means the Pittsboro ABC Board will be issuing the appropriate distribution checks to the Town of Pittsboro, Pittsboro police department, and the Chatham County Law enforcement department.  (Please see the attached letter from the Chair, Harry Sugg.)

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