Chatham Chatlist Highlights

Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:35:58 -0400
From: Sarah Kuhn
Subject: Call For Artists

Hotel Hadley Studios in Siler City is seeking artists from all media to exhibit in solo or group shows on a monthly basis. The shows are rotated around the Third Friday ArtWalk. The opening will happen on that evening. The first show opens September 17. For more info or to anyone interested please send a short artist statement and 3-5

images to sarahkuhn.art@gmail.com. Thanks!
www.hotelhadleystudios.com
Please pass along to anyone you think might be interested.

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Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:04:56 -0400
From: Tamara K Powers
Subject: High Five for Clark’s Septic Tank Cleaning Service

Thanks to all Chatham Chatlisters for your recommendations, we went with Clark’s and everything was great. They’re out of Siler City and can be reached at 919-742-3606 (Bruce Clark) or 919-742-3899 (Mark Clark).

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Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:12:35 -0500
From: Elizabeth M. Haddix
Subject: Elizabeth Haddix Withdraws from Chatham School Board Race

Although you may still see my name on the ballot this fall, I have withdrawn from the Chatham School Board election due to an exciting and very time consuming life change: I’ve accepted the Staff Attorney position at UNC School of Law’s Center for Civil Rights. This new position involves litigation and collaboration with community groups and organizations to ensure fair access to quality public education for all children.

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Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:47:47 -0400
From: Margaret Zwilling
Subject: CCCC Continuing Education

Continuing Education – a few of our September classes.

9.1.10-11.3.10: Poetry: A reading and writing workshop. Time: 6-8 pm. Pittsboro, Cost: $120. Molly Luby has taught literature and writing at CCCC since 2004. She is the managing editor of CCCC’s own literary magazine The Red Clay Review. Molly is also an award-winning poet whose work has appeared most recently in The Helen Burns Poetry Anthology: New Voices.

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Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:40:05 -0400
From: Teresa Garrett
Subject: Scratch’s Pizza

We ate at Scratch’s Pizza in the Wal Mart shopping center in Siler City the other night. I just wanted to say that the pizza was good, the salad bar was fresh, the restaurant was clean, and the service was excellent.

Check them out!

Teresa

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Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 21:04:24 -0400
From: Donna Kelly
Subject: NCDOT proposal for US64

For anyone that’s interested in the US64 proposal I strongly recommend going to the NC DOT website to view all the details about the plan, not just the talking points that CCEC and our current Board of Commissioners have been promoting lately. I was very disappointed to see that CCEC did not list the NCDOT site in their links for more information although it was mentioned in one of their bulletins at least. http://www.ncdot.org/doh/PRECONSTRUCT/tpb/shc/studies/us64/overview/

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Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 17:10:52 -0500
From: Tom Glendinning
Subject: US64 Corridor Improvements

The DOT presentation on the Superstreet concept to the planning board was complete. The timeline is twenty to thirty years for implementation of Superstreet, with long range option to change to a limited access highway, like US 421 to Greensboro. A necessary and needed improvement.

The NCDOT has always been proactive in soliciting public input. Thorough traffic counts are done continuously. For the Pittsboro by-pass project, meetings were held years in advance. One of our former commissioners sat on the highway project board at DOT. What a great highway and relief for Pittsboro traffic it has been. Newcomers do not realize that around half the traffic during weekdays and nights was heavy trucks negotiating the circle, limited to travelling through Pittsboro.

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Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 12:06:10 -0400
From: “William \”Chip\” Pate”
Subject: AP Schedule Debacle: Deb McManus’ Response

Five weeks after asking the Board of Education to change the school calendar so students don’t have to walk from spring break directly into Advanced Placement exams, I finally received a response from school board chair Deb McManus. Given the board’s failure, you can imagine the convoluted reply.

It began with a laborious description of the calendar process, which has no bearing on whether spring break could have been shifted one week earlier. The centerpiece of this paragraph was how the board considered an “electronic survey” that included responses from many who had no knowledge about the AP exam schedule or any stake in the scheduling conflict.

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Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 11:35:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ann Jones
Subject: DOT changing RT 64 to Interstate, cont

In response to Esta Cohen’s post in #3786:

I live in Chatham and work in Cary so this project will affect me superficially for my commute. However, it affects me most deeply in what could be lost for Chatham County.

This will affect you too. How will EMT/Fire gain access to your house quickly? Where will travelers spend money in Chatham County if they can’t easily pull into your business? How it will impact Jordan Lake, your drinking water and the wildlife?

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Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:15:49 -0400
From: Sam Groce
Subject: N.C. Cooperative Extension partners with 10% Campaign to promote local foods

Debbie Roos, Agriculture Agent with the Chatham County Center of North Carolina Cooperative Extension, will be Extension’s local foods coordinator supporting the 10% Campaign. The campaign is an effort to encourage North Carolina consumers to spend at least 10 percent of their food dollars on foods from local sources.

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