Chatham Chatlist Highlights

Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2010 21:13:21 -0400
From: Jim Brooking
Subject: Chatham Bookmobile Services Terminated

I have not seen any notices posted about the termination of Bookmobile services. I first got wind of this early in June, and saw in a flyer handed out at the Bookmobile on Wednesday, June 29, that June 30 would be its last day of service.
Apparently the coup de grace was administered sometime after the Commissioners’ June 3 meeting.  There was an extended discussion of Bookmobile services and patronage at this meeting (minutes can be seen at http://www.chathamnc.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=13352 on page 16), including information I believe to be untrue, namely that the “the Chatham County vehicle had declined since the 1970s”. I understand the current vehicle was purchased in 2002. As a diesel-powered vehicle, I would think it has many years of useful life to give.

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Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 12:51:50 -0400
From: Davenport & Winkleperry
Subject: Hello & Introductions…

Greetings everyone!

I kept being told that I should join this chatlist, so here I am. My name is Emma Cabrera, and I own the new “steampunk” art gallery, Davenport & Winkleperry, in downtown Pittsboro. I’m really excited about being in town, and I’m looking forward to being involved in the community.  Presently, I’m in the gallery all of the time, so I’m sorry that I haven’t been able to make it into all of the other businesses in downtown to say hello, so hopefully my virtual hello will be enough… Hello!

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Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 09:59:10 -0400
From: Cindra Kerscher
Subject: New Location

Cindra Kerscher, Massage Therapist & Fertility Coach, formerly at the Spa at Bell House, has recently joined the Pittsboro Center for Natural Medicine. Her new office is located at 175 E Salisbury Street in downtown Pittsboro. She can be reached at 919-444-4141 or cindrakerscher@gmail.com. For more information about Cindra’s practice, visit www.bodyandbirthmassage.com. And please feel free to stop by the center anytime Monday through Friday, 9am to 5pm, for a tour.

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Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 12:11:35 -0400
From: Parker Stockdale
Subject: Courthouse restoration and statue

I too hope the courthouse is restored to exactly the way it looked before the fire.  As for the Confederate memorial, it had better stay right where it is.  Whatever one thinks of the motivations of the Confederacy, many brave men answered the call to fight for their homeland.   Let us remember that more North Carolinians than any other state volunteered for service and our losses were proportionate.  It was the band of the 26th North Carolina Infantry that played the last music that many Virginian’s heard on July 3, 1863 at Gettysburg.  I had a relative in Company C, 117th Illinois Volunteer Infantry, but regardless of where the sentiments of anyone’s dead relatives lay, Confederate memorials are eloquent and an essential part of our history and add much to the delicious, rich fabric of our beloved state.  Parker Stockdale.

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