Chatham Chatlist Highlights

Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:59:20 -0700 (PDT)
From: Robert Sprenger
Subject: Mushrooms Bye Extension

Hi Al Cooke,

I am the someone you refer to as gathering like minded souls that enjoy these “things” called wild mushrooms. I am Robert, but you already know that. Having had the good fortune of being a farm boy, I am quite familiar with the Extension Service. In fact, some of my best friends are leading Agents, and I vote for funding every chance I get.

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Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:35:21 -0400
From: Gene Galin
Subject: Video: Al the Shrimpman from Louisiana in Pittsboro

You’ve heard about him on the Chatlist and he comes to Pittsboro about once a month to visit his granddaughter from New Orleans.

I had a chance to stop by and talk to him outside the Neighborhood school.

Watch him talk about how to clean a shrimp and a quick garlic olive oil shrimp dish recipe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMc8eE0abjk

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Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:32:30 -0400
From: Gene Gallin
Subject: Get your political endorsements in

Election day is Tuesday, November 3rd.

Everyone is reminded to get their political endorsements in for their favorite Pittsboro, Siler City and Goldston candidates in by Monday.

If you feel a candidate is not qualified, you have to get your email in by Saturday. That way your least favorite candidate and their advocates have time to respond before the election.

Gene Galin
Chatlist moderator

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Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:30:39 -0400
From: Randy
Subject: A business having tenants registered to vote is a red flag

Independent Weekly reporter response “There was no harassment”

Follow-up on my earlier email.

Later this morning, the Independent Weekly reporter responses that “There was no harassment” on the Chatham Bulletin Board at http://chatham-county-nc.com/bulletinboard/index.php/topic,15716.0.html

1. I am Rebekah Cowell, and I live in North Chatham.

2. I am a freelance reporter for the Independent Weekly.

3. I had an off-record conversation, and looked into the address: 50 Chatham Forest Drive. When I googled the address, I pulled up a business – Voller Reality.

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Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:51:50 -0400
From: mary51802
Subject: Hunting issues…

We live on Eddie Perry Road off Russells Chapel and as usual when hunting season starts we have seen carcass dumps on our road. We hope getting word out will stop this as it is a residential area although wooded, and the one or two hunters who come here lease land from residents and are law abiding hunters.

This was obviously a head trophy as that was all the was missing.

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Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:54:45 -0400
From: Randy
Subject: Independent Weekly Reporter Harasses a Pittsboro Voter?

Excerpt from a letter submitted to the Pittsboro Town board and that appeared in whole at http://chatham-county-nc.com/bulletinboard/index.php/topic,15671.15.html -

10/26/2009

“Mayor, Commissioners, Town Manager, Attorney, Clerk, and residents, my name is Faythe Canson Clark, and this is my daughter, Maya Canson Clark.  We live at 50 Chatham Forrest Drive, Pittsboro, NC.”

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Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:39:19 -0400
From: Parent-Teacher Fellowship
Subject: Haw River Christian Academy link codes

Hi Gene,

Thank you for the reminder that people need to re-link their shopping cards every year. Haw River Christian Academy is also set up with the corporations you mentioned if anyone out there is interested in linking to us.

Harris Teeter:
http://www.harristeeter.com/community/together_in_education/link_to_your_school.aspx
School ID 7551

Food Lion:
https://www.foodlion.com/IntheCommunity/ShopandShare/secure/RegisterMVPCards
School ID 30592

Target:
https://sites.target.com/site/en/corporate/page.jsp?contentId=PRD03-005174
School ID 151140

Thank you!
Amy Bulbrook
Parent Teacher Fellowship Chairperson

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Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:15:54 -0400
From: Laura Young
Subject: mass transit

Whenever a debate about funding mass transit comes up, there are many who do not want to spend the money because the numbers do not justify the expense.  I would hope that we consider the monetary cost of not having a mass transit system.  In addition to previously mentioned factors-traffic, the environment, global warming pollution..,  what did it cost the taxpayers to widen 15-501 between Pittsboro and Chapel Hill?  What was the cost to the people who live on the 15-501 corridor and lost their home or a part of their homeplace and its value because of the widening.  The cost of doing nothing is not always nothing.

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Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:53:49 -0400
From: Al Cooke
Subject: Re:  ‘gnats in the house’

With these pests in the bathroom and kitchen, they might be drain flies.  Or fungus gnats.   Either could be reproducing indoors without the necessity of using your doors.  Have a look at these two websites to see if it helps you narrow your focus on where they are and how to control them:
http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/ent/notes/Urban/drainfly.htm
http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/ent/notes/Urban/fungusgnat.htm

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Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:49:59 +0000
From: Stephanie Peterson
Subject: Pittsboro Bus

I would like to thank Randy Voller, Chatham County Commissioners, Chapel Hill Transit, and everyone else responsible for the Pittsboro bus to Chapel Hill.  I ride this bus every day and am happy to say that the 7:15 bus is about half full every morning (a far cry from the 4 riders during the route’s first week in August).

A new bus route needs time to get the kinks out, so please be patient while the schedule and the number of buses is organized.  If you would like to ride the bus but the current schedule doesn’t fit your own, let Chapel Hill Transit know at:

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