Chatham Chatlist Highlights

Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 12:53:01 -0500
From: Pam
Subject: Wa la la la la

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Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:26:24 -0500
From: Lynn Fass
Subject: Fwd: Urgent-Land Use Meeting

Joint land-use meeting with Cary, Tuesday, January 17, 6PM in the Agriculture Building Auditorium, Pittsboro

Open public meeting.  Please attend.

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Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 22:18:01 -0500
From: Gene Galin
Subject: Last Week’s Hottest Bulletin Board Topics

1. WCHL – Walmart Coming To NE Chatham County on 15-501 near Orange County line  (Read 3498 times)  at
http://chatham-county-nc.com/bulletinboard/index.php/topic,24679.0.html

2. Injury at Christmas parade  (Read 2524 times)  at
http://chatham-county-nc.com/bulletinboard/index.php/topic,24667.0.html

3. when is the christmas parade?  (Read 954 times)  at
http://chatham-county-nc.com/bulletinboard/index.php/topic,24600.0.html

4. CC – Carrboro residents oppose proposed Family Dollar  (Read 701 times)  at
http://chatham-county-nc.com/bulletinboard/index.php/topic,24681.0.html

5. Sportsman Lanes Bowling in Siler City is closing  (Read 567 times) at
http://chatham-county-nc.com/bulletinboard/index.php/topic,24674.0.html

6. 751 South project near Jordan Lake  (Read 469 times)  at
http://chatham-county-nc.com/bulletinboard/index.php/topic,24653.0.html

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Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 21:04:36 -0500
From: Tim Walker
Subject: Walmart in Chatham County

What a very thoughtful post from Ellen Pearson, re. making Walmart more a more responsible corporate citizen! It made think of the last time I was in Costco in Durham. They actually had Cackalacky sauce (a local product, out of Chapel Hill) for sale!

So, I would definitely agree with the point “Would you like certain products to be available to compensate for the excess traffic, the loss of local businesses, the loss of property values?  Tell Walmart what you think.”  And vote with your feet.

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Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 12:45:41 -0500
From: John R Dykers
Subject: New Walmart

50 years ago, even 60, that intersection was known as 5 points and has been commercial even longer. It was the sight of an ABC store, the closest for Chatham County residents. Gas station, massage parlor, appliance store, et al. The increase in traffic has come with the four lane of 15-501.

For comparison, Cole Park Plaza intersection at the time was only a side road west and all the other corners were woods and fallow meadows.

“Everybody’s gotta be somewhere”. The only resolution is pregnancy prevention.

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Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 15:48:33 -0500
From: Gene Galin
Subject: Walmart Coming To Chatham County on 15-501 near Orange County line

Chapel Hill Town Manager Roger Stancil says that “plans for a new Walmart had been filed with Chatham County, right over the line, which I think would make it very convenient for people to leave Chapel Hill, shop in Chatham County and then come back and live here.”
 
Orange County economic development director Steve Brantley says the average Walmart generates about $70 million in retail sales.
 
“The significant property tax and retail sales tax from that Walmart will be supported, probably in large part, by Orange County shoppers,” Brantley says.
 
The Walmart currently in Hillsborough pays $200,000 in county property taxes each year, and produces about 10 percent of Orange County’s annual sales tax revenue.

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Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 09:48:39 -0500
From: chathammatters
Subject: Response to Angela Blueskies and Lynn Fass

Response to Lynn Fass and Angela Blueskies:

- unfortunately you seem determined to promote fear-mongering instead of fact, Gasland for example is anything but fact.

State of Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission
“Because an informed public debate on hydraulic fracturing depends on accurate information, the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC) would like to correct errors in the film’s portrayal of the Colorado incidents.”

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Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2011 18:46:57 -0500
From: Beth Bale
Subject: Mr. Glendinning’s fracking post

What a ridiculous post comparing the pouring of fracking fluids deep under ground to women’s makeup and drips of antifreeze that escape into the sewer and onto the ground.  None of the chemicals you mention are being poured, pumped, into miles of underground spaces made by machines and high pressure to claim the natural gas there. 

Nor are the volumes even comparable.  This post seems a very flippant response to try to make light of a serious issue that needs to continue to be discussed seriously in our county.

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Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2011 09:56:39 -0400
From: Tom Glendinning”
Subject: Daryl Wally

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Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 21:48:27 -0400
From: Gene Galin
Subject: Last Week’s Hottest Bulletin Board Topics

1. Hit my fifth deer  (Read 2541 times)  at
http://chatham-county-nc.com/bulletinboard/index.php/topic,23584.0.html

2. Pittsboro needs anchor stores to draw enough traffic to support small businesses  (Read 1939 times)  at
http://chatham-county-nc.com/bulletinboard/index.php/topic,24078.0.html

3. Northeast Park: 2008 bad idea, 2011 great idea & thank you!  (Read 1754 times)  at
http://chatham-county-nc.com/bulletinboard/index.php/topic,23898.0.html

4. Chatham County high on list of polluted counties in NC  (Read 1220 times)  at
http://chatham-county-nc.com/bulletinboard/index.php/topic,24101.0.html

5. My car was broken into at Jordan Lake today  (Read 891 times)  at
http://chatham-county-nc.com/bulletinboard/index.php/topic,24120.0.html

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