Chatham Chatlist Highlights

Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 23:09:04 -0400
From: Debbie Roos
Subject: New pollinator exhibit at NC Botanical Garden

I was thrilled to collaborate with the staff at the North Carolina Botanical Garden to create a new pollinator exhibit: Behold the Humble Pollinators. The exhibit highlights Cooperative Extension’s demonstration pollinator garden at Chatham Mills.

You can see the NCBG’s press release about the exhibit at http://bit.ly/9qX3tZ

Learn more about the pollinator garden at http://bit.ly/95ZS1C

Have a great weekend,
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: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 22:36:55 -0400
From: “Lawrence F. London, Jr.”
Subject: I don’t live in Chatham but am only a few miles from the county line.

On 8/23/2010 9:56 PM, Chatham Chatlist wrote:
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> Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 19:08:23 -0400
> From: Roger Spencer chainbrakers@gmail.com
> Subject: Ban The Bunky
>
> I see Bunky has been using his wealth to pay for huge advertisements in
> the local papers. Do we really need to endure him on the Chatlist too?
> If he or his ghost writers had something valid to contribute for The
> Common Good, sure. But to keep hammering away with a single issue used
> as a tool for political revenge is wearisome…..Life is tough
> enough…..let’s limit the negativity here if we can…….ChainBreaker

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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: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 08:07:09 -0400
From: Tom West
Subject: Chatham Coalition kicks off it’s “Campaign of Hate”

I was forwarded the following campaign fundraising email from John Hammond, the vice-chairman of the Chatham Coalition PAC.

I have never gotten an email from a special interest group before.

This certainly makes for some very interesting reading. Tells you a lot about where the Chatham Coalition Political Action Committee is coming from, doesn’t it?

They surely won’t be getting any money from me.

Tom

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Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 09:49:56 -0400
From: Karen Sirls
Subject: Dog Days of Summer – Yappy Hour at Carolina Brewery!

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Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 16:53:34 -0400
From: Ann Kaiyala
Subject: Woods Charter School Holding Science Mini-Camp for Students from Grades 4 Through 7

*Date*: Saturday, May 1st

*Time*: 10 am to 2:30 pm

*Cost*: $30 for Woods Charter students/siblings and $40 for non-Woods Charter students if you’re supplying your own T-shirt.  Please add $5 to camp fee if you need one, please indicate T-shirt size.  This is an 8th grade field trip fundraiser.

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Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 15:07:55 -0500
From: Mary Donna Pond
Subject: Hygiene Kits for Disaster Assistance

In light of the recent earthquakes in Haiti and Chile, Chapel in the Pines Presbyterian Church will join churches across America to create Gift of the Heart hygiene kits.

Presbyterian Disaster Assistance, an emergency and refugee program of the Presbyterian Church U.S.A., is working with Church World Service to provide these needed essentials. Kits are kept on hand to enable quick movement of the supplies in the wake of a national or international crisis.  Current supplies have been depleted. The national group creates baby, cleaning and school supplies kits as well.

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Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 14:28:05 -0500
From: Mary Donna Pond
Subject: Theology on Tap Discussions for Young Adults

Young adults in their 20s or 30s are meeting in a casual setting twice a
month to talk about what matters.  Theology on Tap, offered by Chapel in the
Pines Presbyterian Church, meets the first and third Thursdays of every
month at 5:30 p.m. at the Town Hall Grill in Southern Village.

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Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:53:06 -0500
From: Victor D’Amato
Subject: Re: Chatham Chatlist #3662

What organization or government entity is coordinating this survey and  what will it be used for?  Despite your claims of non-partisanship, it  sure sounds like you are interested in a specific outcome, which will  quite undermine the validity of the survey results.  Reeks of junk  science and political spin.

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Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 08:46:41 -0500
From: Janet Place
Subject: Survey of Chatham Taxpayers

While I applaud anyone who asks for accountability in government, I have to comment on Tom Glendinning’s survey. I took the survey, and found it to be very one sided, especially the last question. An unbiased survey would have included more boxes for “need more information”.

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