Hi Bob,

Welcome to Pittsboro.

I am sorry that a few unconscious people on the Chatlist have made you uncomfortable about your choice to move here.

I moved here 20 years ago alone, and I have never felt so embraced by a community. We are a warm and welcoming, creative and eclectic group!

People that have written these hurtful and negative posts on the chatlist are not bad people…. I think that they are a just folks that are unaware of any other way to vent the pain in their lives. Unfortunately the way they choose to vent it is ineffective.

When you put someone on the defensive, their ears close down and they can’t hear you. When are we all going to understand that!

If we go into negotiations over things with well being for all as our goal, we won’t have to raise our blood pressure or our voices to be heard.

You’ll find more people in Chatham County on that path then most places that I have been. They just don’t bother responding to the unskilled communicators on the Chatlist that dilute their message with any attacks.
Hope you find that you love it here as I do. A team of wild horses couldn’t drag me away ……

Cathy Holt

www.cathyholtyoga.com

I have been seeing so much dissension going on this chatlist that I had to share a quotation that we all should heed.  I hope that whatever the outcome of the situation of opening the school is we should just accept and then we all have to move on.  I am sure things will work out in the end what is best for the children. 

There is so much good in the worst of us,
And so much bad in the best of us,
That it hardly behooves any of us
To talk about the rest of us.

Edward Wallis Hoch (1849 – 1925)

Like it or not, many of the folks that have shown their concerns on the Chatlist regarding the approval of Christian School- do not live within the voting boundries of Pittsboro. But many of us call Pittsboro our home.  Our mailing address is Pittsboro and that is where we go to shop. Many of us own businesses there.  And like it or not, many of us non residents know more about what goes on there than the “city limit” residents.
 
So you don’t like it that we voice our opinions about how the approval of the school is being handled by the town board? That’s tough.
 
And for those of you who think that I might have a child or children of school age or that I am in some way connected with the proposed school-  it is not true. Just speaking out against what appears to me (and many others) that the application for the school is being bamboozled by fans of the City Tap. They follow a well worn path. Eat, drink and be wary.
 
Folks, worry from others about the future of the City Tap is behind this whole probable veto of the application for the school.  I have no doubts that the City Tap will win out. They won out on the loud “music?”  problem a while back.  Mayor Voller also stood by the City Tap- allowing that he was an amature musician himself-
 
Get yor fiddle out Mr. Mayor, start practicing yor Victory tune! How About “The Beer that Made Milwaukee Famous– Made Pittsboro Drunk”?
 
Betty Black

It is sad to see the demise of the current General Store and I can only hope it will come back in another incarnation soon–it has been a store at a different location, a grocery/eatery over the years, and this restaurant under different owners–so we can hope the front at least could come back in business somehow.

I have fond memories of drinking coffee in the window watching autumn leaves and people passing, have had several birthday lunches, enjoyed music, story telling, films before they moved to Faerrington, burrito bashes and even luncheon dates to grade school work there! I’ve enjoyed their beet salad, chicken salad and a host of soups and sandwiches. Trilogy’s Christmas singalong has been an annual favorite there.

It has been the hub of the downtown community and I do hope it isn’t really gone for good!

I read with interest the comments on bottle water and just wanted to say that it’s not Chatham Co. well water it is all well water.
 
My father-in-love was the most healthy person I knew.  I once heard his doctor tell him (who was also a good friend and golfing buddy) that he had the body of a thirty year old.  I’m telling you this because the one and only time I every saw him not well was when he had a kidney stone.  My in-loves moved from Durham City out to Durham County and also to well water and with in no time was so bad off and in pain that my mother-in-love called us to come help her.  It turned out to be a kidney stone and his doctor gave him a prescription to take care of the problem, which it did.  He never had another kidney stone.  I think that drinking bottle water is a better idea, all we need in life is another pill to take.
 
I feel for those who have had a kidney stone because I know it must have been very painful, because that was the only time I watch my father-in-love crawling on the floor.

Carol Rigsbee
To everything there is a season,
a time for every purpose under heaven:
A time to weep, a time to laugh,
a time to mourn, and a time to dance.
Ecclesiastes 3:1-4

A child of God, would you like to
know him? Just ask me! John 3:16

When I read a letter on the chatlist like this one it makes me sick at heart the way human beings can treat each other. No matter what Voller has or has not done, is there any chance that you could write a dispassionate accurate account stating why you are upset?

This type of abuse does not convince me that Voller is a bad guy -  only that you enjoy putting people down..

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I want to raise two points about the proposed school in Pittsboro and add some comments.

The area or market served will be the county, not the town, and areas outside Chatham also, just as all the businesses in town.

The neighbors of the Academy are businesses, not residents.

I am familiar with quasi-judicial processes, sitting on the county planning board and attending BOC meetings for forty years.  The rules are no hurdle or blockage for such a use.  The process may change the use, as in CUP or SUP in a lacking set of rules.  The exception may be that there is a prejudice against a religious or Christian establishment.  A liberal agenda is supposed to include all law abiding religions, beliefs, practices. Or is that too American?

To protect the community from “certain uses which could have detrimental effects.”  Such as a school?  Yes, we have too much education in Pittsboro and Chatham.  Lord knows what the peons will do when they are educated. 

Traffic has no bearing on the issue.  At one time, everyone who had a PO box or mailed postal items went to the post office across the street.  Further, Piggly Wiggly occupied the building proposed for the new school.  There was never a traffic jam or too much traffic when these two businesses were on West Salisbury Street.  My memory recalls much more than one hundred cars going to those locations each day.  Why should cars from fifty parents dropping off students cause a problem?

The school would use 100% of the building.  The parking lot is large enough.  The property is privately owned and taxes are paid on it.  Why not consider the preference of the owner in the consideration of the issue instead of hiding it behind legal and planning jargon?  I do appreciate Mayor Voller’s explanation of the process.  Now, if the newly elected board will only approve a substantial improvement to our community, the argument can be put to bed.

Tom Glendinning

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