Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2012 08:12:07 -0500
From: Forrest Greenslade
Subject: Excellent food — exciting photography at the Pittsboro Carolina Brewery

Good morning folks:

Last night (Saturday) Carol-Ann and I had dinner at the Brewery. I guess in honor of Mardi Gras season, one of the specials is Shrimp PoBoys. They were really good. The beer is always really good. A new exhibit has been organized by the Chatham Artists Guild, featuring photographers Mark Bashista and Roy Lindholm. If you enjoy wonderful images wonderfully displayed, stop for a really good meal and see the art.

Regards,
Forrest
Open to anything — Skeptical of everything
Forrest C. Greenslade. PhD, DTM
Artist, Writer, Speaker
Past President, Chatham Artists Guild
919-545-9743
sculptor@forrestgreenslade.com
http://www.forrestgreenslade.com
http://chathamartists.blogspot.com/

Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 09:45:02 -0500
From: Wanda Crawley
Subject: Blood Drive

Silk Hope Farm Heritage Park Community Center  Blood Drive is scheduled for Friday, February 3, 2012~~2:30 – 7:00 PM. Join us at the Silk Hope Community Center for your life saving experience. Together, we can help save a life!

Silk Hope Farm Heritage Park
4221 Silk Hope Road
Siler City, NC 27344
(919) 663-0331

Check out our website: www.silkhopenc.org

Find us on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Silk-Hope-Farm-Heritage-Park/166924676666233?ref=ts

Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:49:36 -0500
From: Geoffrey Neal
Subject: pecha kucha pittsboro annouoncement

Pecha Kucha Pittsboro coming soon!!

Come join us for an evening of fast-paced presentations and lively conversation. PKN Pittsboro will stage our 9th event at The Eddy Pub in lovely Saxapahaw on Tuesday March 6th.

We are actively looking for presenters for the event. Ideas for topics are due Friday 2/17. Have something you feel 6 minutes and 40 seconds worth of passion about? Sign up! Details may be found at:

 http://theabundancefoundation.org/events/pecha-kucha

Questions? Email us directly at pknpbo@gmail.com.

Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:37:14 -0500
From: Marianna Spence
Subject: Love Shouldn’t Hurt

Family Violence & Rape Crisis Services is hosting its 4th annual Love Shouldn’t Hurt Open House [Party]. Please come enjoy tasty treats, drinks, and wonderful music by Marie Vanderbeck & Rusty Luthe, and Corn and the Colonels.

Friday, Feb. 10
4 – 7 p.m.
200 East Street, Pittsboro

Hope to see you there!

Marianna Spence
Development Coordinator
Family Violence&  Rape Crisis Services
919.542.5445
www.fvrc.org

Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:00:10 -0500
From: Bynum FrontPorch
Subject: Bingo in Bynum!

Mark your calendars – Bynum Front Porch Bingo is Back Saturday Feb 4th – 7pm.

Bynum Front Porch is bringing bingo again, once a month, first Saturdays through April! Join the fun on the first Saturday of every month (coming up this February 4th at 7 pm) for BFP Bingo. Win prizes or cash with our 50/50 games. Each game is $1 for 3 cards and you can play as many $1 cards as you wish. There will be 5 prize games (each prize worth at least $10), then a 50/50 game. This game costs $5 and the winner takes half the pot (hence 50/50). We’ll follow with 5 more prize games and a final 50/50 game to end the night and wrap things up at around 9 pm.

This is a great opportunity to gather with your friends and neighbors and get into some bingo action. Please tell your friends to come over and join in the evening activity. It’ll be huge fun and you’ll help support the programs, operation and educational grants that Bynum Front Porch ( www.bynumfrontporch.org) provides. See you on the first Saturday, each month for Bingo.

Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:07:53 -0500 (GMT-05:00)
From: Denise Dunn
Subject: Coupon Swap

This Saturday, February 4th we will have a coupon swap at Courtyard Coffee and Soda Shoppe in Siler City. We meet at 9:00 a.m. Please bring any coupons you can’t use in an envelope or box.

If you are attending a coupon swap for the first time, here are some swap basics:
* Bring your coupons already cut out in an envelope.
* You don’t need to sort them by product type unless you really want to
* The group usually site in a circle and passes around the envelopes to the person to the right. Take the coupons you want out and put the rest back in to pass on to the next person.
* Once you get your envelope back, you know you have been through all the coupons.
* In really large groups, usually folks sit in groups of 5 to 8 people to swap
For more information contact Denise at dunn1956@gmail.com

Denise Dunn
Realtor, Buyers Agent
Selling homes in the Chatham County and Surrounding Areas
919-548-3458 or 919-548-9477

Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:57:01 -0500
From: Debbie Roos
Subject: Register now for Ginger, Galangal, & Turmeric Workshops!

For complete details and registration information for these workshops, visit the Growing Small Farms website at http://bit.ly/qb7UB.

I am excited to be teaming up again with Susan Anderson of East Branch Ginger to offer more specialty crop workshops for growers!

Please note that the March 7 workshop was previously announced (in an earlier “save the date” email) as being on March 6 but the date was changed based on facility availability. The construction of the new Chatham County Justice Center has severely restricted parking during the day time at our Ag Building so it made more sense to move it out to Silk Hope which has a bigger facility. I apologize for any inconvenience this date change may have caused.

February 29, 2012: Introduction to Ginger Production

The Chatham County Center of North Carolina Cooperative Extension will offer a ginger production workshop as part of its Enhancing Sustainability Series on Wednesday, February 29, from 1:00-5:00 pm at the Silk Hope Farm Heritage Center in Silk Hope, NC. Presenter Susan Anderson of East Branch Ginger will give a thorough overview of edible ginger production and talk about its growth as a specialty crop for North Carolina growers. Registration deadline is February 17.

March 7, 2012: Galangal and Turmeric Production (with Ginger Growers’ Roundtable)

The Chatham County Center of North Carolina Cooperative Extension will offer a galangal and turmeric production workshop as part of its Enhancing Sustainability Series on Wednesday, March 7, from 1:00-5:00 pm at the Silk Hope Farm Heritage Center in Silk Hope, NC. Presenter Susan Anderson of East Branch Ginger will give a thorough overview of galangal (Thai ginger) and turmeric production and talk about their potential as specialty crops for North Carolina growers.

The workshop will conclude with a roundtable for ginger growers (folks who grew ginger in 2011). Susan will present observations from the 2011 season in North Carolina and discuss strategies to improve crop performance with input and Q&A with growers. Registration deadline is February 24.

For complete details and registration information for these workshops, visit the Growing Small Farms website at http://bit.ly/qb7UB. Please follow the directions on the website to register.

Save the date for these upcoming workshops:

March 28, 2012: Using Smart Phones and Tablet Computers in Direct Marketing
7:00-9:00 pm
Silk Hope Farm Heritage Center in Silk Hope, NC

November 8, 2012: Piedmont Medicinal Herb Production Workshop
9:00 am-5:00 pm (tentative)
Silk Hope Farm Heritage Center in Silk Hope, NC

Details and registration information for these two workshops will be released later. We are not yet taking registrations for the March 28 and November 8 workshops.

Have a great week!

Debbie

Debbie Roos
Agricultural Extension Agent
Chatham County Center

North Carolina Cooperative Extension
919.542.8202
debbie_roos@ncsu.edu
www.growingsmallfarms.org
www.facebook.com/debbie.roos.nc
www.twitter.com/GrowSmallFarms
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Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:43:10 -0500
From: Lesley Landis
Subject: 2 Powerful Films for Black History Month

In February, the Chatham County Arts Council (“ChathamArts”) Sustainable Cinema Series honors Black History Month by showing two powerful films. Mark your calendars for this special SUNDAY Event, Feb. 26th, 2 pm, Fearrington Village Barn, Hwy 15-501 midway between Chapel Hill & Pittsboro

“THE LOVING STORY” by director & producer Nancy Buirski; Producer & Editor Elisabeth Haviland James (documentary feature) about “Loving v. Virginia”, a watershed civil rights case in which the United States Supreme Court declared Virginia’s anti-miscegenation statute unconstitutional in 1967.

A racially charged criminal trial and a heartrending love story converge in this documentary about the Lovings, an interracial couple who fell in love and married at a tumultuous social and political time in American history, yet nevertheless brought about change where previously no one else could.  Through stunning archival footage of the Lovings, the film revisits this public battle through the eyes of a private couple who simply wanted to have the right to get married and live in the place they called home.

“The Loving Story” is produced by Nancy Buirski’s production company Augusta Films, LLC, in association with HBO Documentaries. The film was made possible in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Buirski is the Founder and was the Director of the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. Producer/Editor Elisabeth Haviland James is based in Durham, NC, where her company, Thornapple Films, is headquartered. Additional local crew members include: Cinematographers Rex Miller and Steve Milligan; Sound: Mark Barroso. Co-producers Nancy Buirski and Elizabeth Haviland James will be in attendance for Q&A if possible.

“The Loving Story” screening is sponsored by The Southern Documentary Fund, an organization that encourages documentary media projects made within or about the American South. Through services like fiscal sponsorship, SDF aims to connect people, ideas, and resources — furthering their goal of growing a community of documentary artists.

“What astonishes in Buirski’s docu is not just the quantity and quality of the black-and-white 16mm footage, but its unpressured candor, particularly in the harsh light of current media feeding frenzies…The Lovings’ unprepossessing affection, evident in every frame of their homemovies, forms a perfect intimate counterpoint to the historical upheaval and ultimate rendering of justice.”  VARIETY REVIEW, 05/11

shown with….

“WOLF CALL” directed by Rob Underhill; Starring Mike Wiley
“Wolf Call”  Raleigh Director Rob Underhill’s 12-minute
narrative transports us back to 1956 when William Bradford Huie of “Look”
magazine talks with the two men acquitted in the boy’s murder, Roy Bryant
Jr. and J.W. Milam. The previous year, 14-year old Emmett Till from Chicago
had gone missing in Money, Mississippi. Later, the boy’s mutilated body was
found in a river. This historic drama became a lightning rod for moral
outrage and pivotal in inspiring a generation of young people to work for
social change in the 1950s. “Wolf Call”  is the Winner of seven festival
awards, four nominations, dozens of official selections
and recently nominated for Outstanding Independent Short Film by the Black
Reel Awards. Director Rob Underhill, Actor Mike Wiley and
Cinematographer Aravind Ragupathi in attendance for Q&A.

Director Rob Underhill has written, directed, and produced dozens of short
films, numerous music videos, and several feature films.  WOLF CALL
stars Mike Wiley (a Chatham County resident) in multiple roles. Wiley is
the winner of Best Actor awards in 2009 & 2010 for his performance in
‘Empty Space,’ including Best Actor at the 25th Black International Cinema
Berlin. He is the 2010 Lehman Brady Visiting Joint Chair Professor in
Documentary Studies and American Studies at Duke University and the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In addition to his numerous
school and community performances, he has also appeared on Discovery
Channel, The Learning Channel and National Geographic Channel.

*
*** Purchase Advance tickets $8.00 online before 02/26/12 at:
http://www.chathamarts.org/sustainablecinema/
*
(Please print receipt for ticket. Admission will be $10 at door day of screening) *****

Lesley Landis

President, Chatham County Arts Council <http://chathamarts.org/>

Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:22:00 -0500
From: Lynn Contant Fass
Subject: Cary Council Land Use meeting

To All Residents of Chatham County,

On Tuesday, January 24th., at 6:30pm, a few Chatham County Residents attended a town hall meeting in Cary.  A very important subject of the Cary/Chatham County Land Use current map.  It is disappointing and embarrassing  that none of the Chatham County Commissioners attended the meeting to hear what their residents had to say.  Mrs. Sally Kost, as a private resident did attend, and she addressed the Cary Town Council eloquently and with purpose.  As did other residents of the areas in question.  Where was Mr. Bock, Ms. Stewart, Mr. Cross and Mr. Petty? I would have thought at least one of the CCC, that is responsible for this map proposal, would have attended.

There is another Cary Planning Board Meeting scheduled for Monday, February 20th., at the Cary Town Hall Bldg., at 6:30pm.  Please attend we need all, there is strength in numbers.   Don’t be sorry when it is too late.  We still have time and power to change this current map to what will work best for our land, lake and the residents.  I know it gets tiring, but it will be worth it.

Thank you Mrs. Kost for your informative address Tuesday to the Cary Town Council and Mayor Winebrecht.

Lynn

Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:39:45 -0500
From: Paperbacksplus
Subject: Farmers’ Market at Paperbacks Plus!

Valentines Day is getting closer!! Come out to the Farmers’ Market at Paperbacks Plus! this Friday from 11 – 1. MAZIE SUMMER SOAPS will be taking orders for custom baskets that can include her soaps, milk bath, room & linen sprays, lip balms, scrubbies, lotion bars and more. You pick the combo you want and she will supply the basket and arranging. Orders must be placed by Feb 3rd for Feb 10th pick up. She can also include items from JOAN THOMPSON such as jams, jellies, pickles, relishes or homemade fudge. Joan will be here this Friday, as usual, with all her sweet and yeast breads, muffins, cookies as well as a large selection of her jams, jellies, pickles and relishes. Make a Valentines Day basket with some of the most delicious jams and jellies for your sweetheart…or for yourself! While you are here look for a book to include with your basket and make someone’s day complete.

DONNIESBROOK FARMS and SILK HOPE ORGANICS will be here with sweet potatoes, broccoli, spinach, garlic, turnips, turnip greens, kale and chard, herbs, eggs and honey. OAK TRACE will be bringing free range eggs. SCREECH OWL will once again be providing some of the first tomatoes of the year.

If you wish to check availability of any items as it does vary from week to week or if you would like something held for a later pick up, please call 742-4033.

Come in, pick up something for lunch and later and support our local farmers.