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The 2009 Orange County
Democratic Party County Convention will be at Mt Zion AME Church
Fellowship Hall, located at 5124 NC Highway 86 North of Hillsborough.
New OCDP officers will be elected, and resolutions from precinct
meetings will be debated and voted on for referral to District and
State Conventions.
Date:
Saturday, April 18, 2009 - 7:00am to 12:00pm
Chapel Hill's Second Annual Earth Action Day Celebration, presented on location at UNC's Morehead Planetarium and Science Center.A free event for the whole family, Earth Action Day will provide a fun-filled afternoon of
learning more about our planet and the human relationship with the environment through demonstrations,
performances, and activities by and for all ages.
For more information see our Earth Action Day pages.
Date:
Saturday, April 18, 2009 - 8:00am to 1:00pm
Location:
UNC's Morehead Planetarium and Science Center
A Public Input/Information Session on Carolina North will be held at 7
p.m. Thursday, Feb. 19, in the Chapel Hill Town Council Chambers of
Town Hall, 405 Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.
Carolina North is a proposed satellite campus of UNC-Chapel Hill. It is
expected to be contained within about 250 acres of the Horace Williams
Tract's 1,000 acres and be built in phases over the next 50 years, as
proposed. The property lies just to the north of Estes Drive adjacent
to Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.
The Thursday session will provide an update on the status of UNC-Chapel
Hill's Carolina North plans and a description of issues being addressed
by policy-makers and Town/University staffs. These issues include the
following: design standards and public art; police/fire/EMS facilities
and services; school site; recreation facilities; greenways,
connections; historic, cultural features; stormwater management on
site; water use and reclamation; energy conservation, carbon credits;
Solid waste management; remediation of landfill; stream buffers; trees,
landscaping; sedimentation; neighboring lands, compatibility, buffers;
noise, lighting. A public comment period is scheduled. See the meeting
agenda:
http://townhall.townofchapelhill.org/agendas/2009/02/19/
This meeting will be aired live on Chapel Hill Government TV 18.
Additional informational sessions on Carolina North have been scheduled
for 1 to 5 p.m. March 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. April 1.
For more information, contact the Town of Chapel Hill Planning Department at (919) 968-2728 or
carolinanorth@townofchapelhill.org. Additional material is posted online at
www.townofchapelhill.org/carolinanorth.
Date:
Thursday, February 19, 2009 - 2:00pm to 4:00pm
The Board meets on the third Wednesday of each month in the Community Realty building on the northwest corner of Weaver and Greensboro Streets in Carrboro. Meetings run from 6:30-9:30pm and all owners of the Co-op are welcome to attend as observers. To confirm an upcoming meeting, please contact the board
here.
Date:
Wednesday, February 18, 2009 - 1:30pm to 4:30pm
I was just reminded today is Veterans Day, so I immeadiately contacted my stepson who is an Iraq War Vet. Then I looked on OP to post a calendar event and saw that two very special events were taking place tonight, both topics of which I have strong personal and professional interest.
However, I was also disapointed that Vets Day was chosen as the day for these events. A lot of social injustice and other problems have been committed by our military, but I think it would be good to set aside this day as a day to focus on the justice needs of Vets, rather than -- or at least in addition to -- what these two events are about.
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