STAYING PROGRESSIVE IN THE 21st CENTURY ● A COMMUNITY FORUM ON SOLAR BUILDING TECHNOLOGIES ●
co-sponsored by Neighborhoods for Responsible Growth (NRG) and the Town of Chapel Hill

This forum will be held TONIGHT at the CHAPEL HILL TOWN COUNCIL CHAMBERS, 405 MARTIN LUTHER KING BOULEVARD at 7:00 PM.

The goal of the forum is to investigate ways to protect our neighborhoods and quality of life by promoting clean, renewable, and affordable building technologies. These technologies, if applied in future developments like town buildings, schools, development on UNC's Horace Williams property, other UNC buildings, etc., can cut the greenhouse gases being produced by coal- and gas-generated electricity, and reduce our dependence on these and on costly nuclear power. Our region should continue to lead in this direction toward a better future.

WITH SHORT PRESENTATIONS ON SOLAR HVAC, DAYLIGHTING, PHOTOVOLTAICS BY:

The Daily Tar Heel had a nice summary of the twelve candidates vying for Carrboro's vacant Board of Aldermen seat. Unfortunately the list was illegible online, and now isn't online at all. The applicants are: Alena Callimanis, David Beck, James Carnahan, Stephen Clossick, Dan Coleman, Catherine DeVine, Robert Kirschner, Lydia Lavelle, John Marold, David Marshall, Katrina Ryan, Albert Vickers.

They include three candidates from last fall, and four residents of the annexation area. Does anyone know these folks and want to give us some more information that we might not have on some of the relative new comers?

Carrboro's staff also plans to have all of the applications online... um any time now. I'll add a link to that when it becomes available.

Next step: the Aldermen will publicly interview the candidates a week from yesterday on Thursday, 1/19/06, and plan to vote on the appointment at their meeting on Tuesday, 1/31/06. There is some discussion of adjusting the process in light of the very large number of applicants.

This announcement via e-mail from Al McSurely:

I hope you will post an open invitation to everyone about the 23rd Annual Martin Luther King Service at First Baptist on Monday, January 16th at 11 am. Dr. William Joseph Barber, Jr. will be speaking on War and Poverty. He recently won the Presidency of the State Conference of the NAACP, ousting the sitting President, Skip Alston, from Greensboro in October 2005.

Dr. Barber held the Statewide Directorship of the N.C. Human Relations Commission in the early l990's. He is an outspoken opponent against the War in Iraq, and takes most of his scriptural texts from the Old Testament prophets, like Dr. King. The State Conference of the NAACP has over 80 Branches, over 15,000 members.

Dr. Barber was strongly supported by the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Branch 5689, under the leadership of Fred Battle, and the Northern Orange Branch, under the leadership of Keith Cook. Dr. Barber has named Al McSurely, local civil rights attorney, as the Chair of the Legal Redress Committee.