Chatham Chatlist Highlights

Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 11:20:44 -0500
From: Mark Stinson
Subject: making things personal

I have before and will again praise the people in the tax department. When they took over the water bill collections I no longer had issues with the water department. I have often blasted the water department and don’t foresee a time I wont with the quality of water I pay so much for.  When I set out to understand and that is the key word UNDERSTAND my new tax values I wanted answers. I now understand what the situation was when I made my call to the tax department.

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Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 09:06:33 -0500
From: Simon Lobdell
Subject: Re: Deer in Chatham.

I am sure a wildlife biologist could clear this up better than me but here is my understanding of deer life cycles.

1) Deer operate on a harum structure whereby a single dominant alpha male will control a group of females and not necessarily allow each of them to get pregnant each year

2) current hunting practice leads to elimination of the healthiest males and break down of these herd units

3) “young bucks” chase down every female in the area every season and they fawn

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Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:56:46 -0500
From: Debbie Roos
Subject: RE: local honey and eggs

Angelina,

This time of year, the easiest place to find local honey and eggs is Chatham Marketplace, the co-op grocery store north of the traffic circle in Pittsboro (see http://chathammarketplace.coop/). The honey is supplied by Chatham County beekeepers, and eggs are from pastured hens from various Chatham farms.

The Chatham County farmers’ markets will open in early April and will have eggs. Honey is harder to come by at the farmers’ markets in Chatham but the larger farmers’ markets often have it.

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Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:06:38 -0500
From: Gary Simpson
Subject: Burrito Bash on March 3 Supports Sierra Club and CCEC

Pittsboro’s General Store Café hosts the monthly Burrito Bash this Tuesday evening, March 3,  from 6-9 p.m.  This Pittsboro tradition supports non-profits by offering an evening of food and entertainment to community minded folk.  The Sierra Club (Orange & Chatham Group) and Chatham Citizens for Effective Communities (CCEC) have teamed up to present a special fun-filled event.

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Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:16:14 -0500
From: Gary Kibler
Subject: Free Small Business Seminars – March

Free business seminars continue to be offered by the Small Business Center at Central Carolina Community College.  They each run from 6:30 – 9:00 pm.  Seminars for this month are:

1)  March 3 – Creative Ways to Market your Small Business, by Emily Ballance
2)  March 19 – Traits of Effective Leaders, by Dr. Barnsley Brown
3)  March 24 – Public Speaking, Part I (How to and Impromptu), by Carl Baughman
4)  March 26 – How Smart Pro’s Beat Stress & Burnout, by Dr. Barnsley Brown
5)  March 31 – Public Speaking, Part II (5 minute presentations), by Carl Baughman

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Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:56:27 -0500
From: Susan Harris
Subject: Plants to Give or Trade

Hi Folks,

Its time to clean up in the garden and I’ve got plants to share, trade or give away.  All of these are flowering perennials that do well in this area.  What I’ve got:

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Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:42:30 -0500
From: John Dykers, MD
Subject: blood donation

Please give blood. If you have hemachromatosis, please don’t mention it. You are a great blood donor, but old rules, that are in the process of being changed, will prevent the bureaucracy from accepting you. And your donation is, of course,  therapeutic for your hemachromatosis.
John Dykers Jr. MD

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Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:27:48 -0500
From: John Dykers, MD
Subject: tick bourn diseases

fortunately the 3 main tick bourn diseases, Rocky Mt Spotted Fever, Erhlichosis, and Lyme disease are all susucptible to doxycycline in the early stages, usuallly 100 mg twice a day for 10 days. My premise is that I should rarely make the diagnosis of any of these because I accept the risk of overtreating tick bites, not all tick bites, but I have a high index of suspicion, especially if I think a tick may have been imbedded for near 24 hours.

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Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:19:44 -0500
From: Tom Winecoff
Subject: Deer over-population

Do we have an overpopulation of deer? Probably. Should we harvest more to control the population?

NO!

Nature seems to work really well when left alone. Wouldn’t you agree?

The reason we have an overpopulation, or so it seems, may be due to several factors. All pale in comparison to one.

Reason #1: Deer are hunted.

We love to watch the deer in our yard. We feed them and recognize many from previous sightings. I’m sure I’d recognize the albino fawn that was mentioned in an earlier post by
the taxidermist.

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Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:37:04 -0500 (EST)
From: Doug Berg
Subject: Eat more deer.

I’ve been around Chatham long enough to remember when NC Wildlife was live-trapping deer in Butner and releasing them here. Inadvertently, the deer brought the ticks, and the ticks brought the pathogens. This accidental release of pathogens by a well-intentioned government program back in the 60s was brought to mind recently when a germ warfare lab was proposed for that same Butner. An ironic twist, but, thankfully, the government decided to locate their lab elsewhere.

Meanwhile, we are left with the deer, the ticks and the disease.

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