Chatham Chatlist Highlights

Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 17:58:28 -0400
From: Solid Waste and Recycling
Subject: Volunteers Needed for Litter/Trash Clean-up

The NC Department of Transportation is holding its Fall Litter Sweep from Saturday, September 17th through Saturday, October 1st. Groups or individuals that would like to participate and help clean up Chatham County roadways can contact the Siler City office at 919-742-3431 to sign up and get supplies. Visit http://www.ncdot.org/doh/operations/dp_chief_eng/roadside/beautification/littersweep/default.html for more details about the statewide effort.

Clean Jordan Lake is also recruiting volunteers to participate in the NC Big Sweep clean-up day on Saturday, October 1st. To sign-up and get more details, visit www.meetup.com/helpcleanjordanlake.

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Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 09:28:13 -0400 (EDT)
From: Donna Trimble
Subject: Deer Season

Nothing against deer hunting, only where the loose bullet end up. For the last three years, in my back yard deck.

Someone is out there that hunts or fires in the same direction without thinking of where that bullet is going to land.

Remember what goes up…..must come down. They can travel a long distance.

Please be careful !!!!! I fear for my family to use the yard during deer season.

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Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2011 16:21:36 +0000
From: Robin Kalish
Subject: Heritage Day at Jordan Lake

Heritage Day at Jordan Lake SRA is Saturday, October 1,   10 A.M. – 3 P.M. at White Oak Recreation Area.

Located on Hwy 64 just past the bridge.

Free fall family fun, good for all ages!

Celebrate the history and heritage of Chatham County and the Jordan Lake community past and present. Live music, cloggers, BBQ, make your own old fashioned crafts such as corn husk dolls, tin punch art, cane poles, pine needle painting and more. Exhibits and demonstrations such as local arrowheads, Native American life, flint knapping, farm life, tobacco crops, wildlife and natural resources, and more. Learn about life in the good ol’ days!

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Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2011 11:06:42 -0400
From: BRIAN BOCK
Subject: Lots of passion and competing petitions

Chatham County has been working with the Town of Cary for many years to develop a Joint land use plan for the area east of Jordan lake near the border of Chatham and Wake counties. I’ve recently posted  an update on the progress on my website. There are also a couple of older posts explaining my rationale for the plan. For those interested in the latest article you can visit

http://commissionerbock.com/initiatives/land-use/38-lots-of-passion-and-competing-petitions

You can also click on the “initiatives” tab along the top to read the other posts.

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Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 12:59:04 -0400
From: Haw River Assembly
Subject: DWQ investigated fish kill at Jordan Lake

I wanted to pass along to the Chatlist information I received from Danny Smith, supervisor of  the Raleigh Regional Office for the Division of Water Quality (DWQ), about the recent fish kill seen at Jordan Lake.

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Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 17:21:18 -0400
From: Haw River Assembly
Subject: Re: dead fish at Jordan Lake

In response to the sighting of dead fish at Jordan Lake (said to be between Ebenezer Beach and Poplar Point)

In general, it is not a good idea to swim where there are many dead fish. If they died from a toxin you don’t want to also be exposed to it . If, as is most likely in this case,  they died from lack of oxygen, associated with high temperatures and algae blooms,  you don’t want to be swimming with bacteria and other microbes associated with rotting fish.

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Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2011 13:11:12 -0400
From: Janice Britson
Subject: Habitat Praise

So sorry for negative post re: Habitat. Habitat offers regular and Americorps positions as stepping-stone positions for its construction positions.  It has been fortunate to have had outstanding young adults for years, and I would be willing to bet longevity has been above average among other Habitat
organizations.

Jack is leaving because his wife has a wonderful job opportunity.  One of the Americorps workers even said at a Jordan Lake Americorps celebration that she had learned so much from experienced volunteers, because when she came on board she hardly knew how to use a hammer.  It’s such a worthwhile organization where staff and volunteers learn from each other and receive joy from watching growth of young adults and working with them.

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Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 15:13:11 -0600
From: Fran DiGiano
Subject: Clean Jordan Lake Wins A BoatUS Foundation Grant

To all of you who voted for CleanJordanLake in the BoatUS funding contest:

*Thank YOU! Thank YOU! Thank YOU!*

Thanks to your votes, we finished in fifth place. Clean Jordan Lake will  receive $3,400 that we’ll use to reach out to the boating community in our shoreline cleanup activities and revamp our website so as to enlarge our volunteer base. My sincere thanks to all of you.

Fran DiGiano, President of Clean Jordan Lake

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Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 11:38:14 -0400
From: Haw River Assembly
Subject: Four Local Environmental Groups Blast Chatham County Budget

Four Local Environmental Groups Blast Chatham County Budget

Major environmental groups in Chatham County describe the new Chatham County budget as an environmental disaster. They believe the three newly elected commissioners – Brian Bock, Walter Petty and Pamela Stewart – are participating in a larger Tea Party inspired effort to dismantle local, state and national environmental protections first initiated in 1969 and 1972  when President Richard Nixon signed the National Environmental Policy Act, the Clean Water Act and the Clean Air Act.

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Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 20:57:44 -0700 (PDT)
From: Mark Stafford
Subject: Northwood Graduate “Making Strides for Autism”

Jordan Stafford, a 2005 Northwood graduate, is in the middle of a 260 mile run from Asheville to Cary to raise awareness of autism and to raise funds for The Mariposa School for Children with Autism in Cary.  He began his run on May 7 in Asheville and will enter Chatham County today, May 17 via Hwy 64.  Jordan will spend Tuesday night with Dave Simmons and Lisa Reynolds at what formerly was the Laurel Ridge Bed and Breakfast.  On Wednesday the 18th, he will run from Siler City to Pittsboro, stopping at the Circle, probably around noon.  Later on Wednesday, around 5:00pm, Jordan and some of the Mariposa staff will gather at City Tap where Jordan will get a henna tatoo of The Mariposa School put on his back for the remainder of the run (provided City Tap has no objection to the tatoo). 

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