County Opts to Truck Trash to Durham Millhouse Road Removed from Consideration for Future Waste Facility by Taylor Sisk the Commissioners Were Tasked in Orange County
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This Weekend FRIDAY Holiday Art Partly Cloudy 43/27 & Crafts SATURDAY Fairs Partly Cloudy 41/34 SUNDAY 40% chance of rain 49/31 See page 2 carrborocitizen.com DECEMBER 10, 2009 u LOCALLY OWNED AND OPERATED u VOLUME III NO. XXXVIX FREE County opts to truck trash to Durham Millhouse Road removed from consideration for future waste facility BY TAYLOR SISK The commissioners were tasked in Orange County. Jacobs agreed, The N.C. 54 site also has met Staff Writer to vote on whether to place a transfer and the motion passed 6-1, with with strong opposition. Opponents station on county-owned property Commissioner Steve Yuhasz in op- have argued, among other things, “Sometimes the best strategy — called the Paydarfar site (the name position. Yuhasz said he opposed that it’s too far from where the ma- is to punt,” said Orange County of its previous owner) — on Millhouse the amendment because he wanted to jority of waste is produced and too Commissioner Barry Jacobs, and Road or on a previously approved site leave all options on the table. far from a major highway. with those words he raised a mo- off N.C. 54 near Orange Grove Road, The Millhouse site has drawn op- tion at Monday night’s meeting or to pursue a deal with Durham position for a number of reasons, most ‘A long learning process’ that the county ship its garbage County to use its transfer facility. prominently because it’s within a half New County Manager Frank to Durham County’s transfer sta- Commissioner Mike Nelson mile of the county landfill. Supporters Clifton spoke Monday night prior tion for a three- to five-year period asked that an amendment be added of the Rogers-Eubanks community, to the vote, listing the pros and and to use that time to re-engage to the motion removing Millhouse which is adjacent to the landfill, say mostly cons of each option. the county’s municipalities in de- Road from future consideration as a that community has endured more veloping a long-term solid waste site for a transfer station, should the than enough, having lived with the ill strategy. board later decide to construct one effects of the landfill for 37 years. SEE MILLHOUSE PAGE 7 Robert Johnson’s nature note page includes details surrounding a miniature landscape. Board wants help for FLORA BY KEN MOORE Club Nova Taking a closer look BY BEth mEchUM with pencil and brush Staff Writer ext time you take a CarrbORO — Members of the woods walk, carry Carrboro Board of Aldermen say along a pencil and they’re worried about the future of a little notebook or Club Nova and other local programs, sketch pad. Wherever in light of the crisis in the state’s you pause along the way to take mental health system N Club Nova, a clubhouse designed a closer look, make some quick to promote rehabilitation and rein- sketches and written notes of what tegration into the community for you see and how you feel. Pay at- individuals living with mental illness, tention to details like bud shapes, is located on Main Street in Carr- round or pointed, whether a leaf is boro and recently has been reported dark or light green, perhaps a col- to be facing financial troubles. orful beetle in the path. A simple At its meeting Tuesday night at sketch with color notes jotted on Town Hall, the board heard from Natalie Ammarell, chair of former the sides guides you if you want to Chapel Hill Mayor Kevin Foy’s add color when you return home. Mental Health Task Force. Ammarell Some of you are thinking you’re spoke about the short-falls of the men- incapable of drawing and painting. tal health system in Orange County Beware, there is art in everyone. – the most prominent and pressing We simply need to rediscover that being a shrinking resource base. childhood freedom and creativity HOLIDAY fUN Ammarell said the 2010 North Carolina budget includes an ap- that lurks buried within. Reflect on This weekend kicks off the proximate $75 million cut to mental how we drew as children. Whether holiday season in earnest. Be sure health services. That means funding a tree or bird, we drew it. Then to get your spot along the route for to Orange, Chatham and Person along came the well-meaning parent the annual holiday parade, which counties is to be reduced next year by or other attending grown-up with starts in Chapel Hill at 10 a.m. and more than $2 million. an “Oh no, that’s not how a tree winds through the downtowns to Ammarell reported on the task Carrboro Town Hall. force’s recommendations, which looks!” and therein was the end of Also on tap: The Youth Perform- our artistic expression, sometimes, include the placement of more UNC ing Arts Conservatory and The School of Social Work students in lo- sadly, for the rest of our lives. Artscenter are teaming up to stage cal mental health agencies with paid Back in late September, North a play based on Dylan Thomas’ supervision; improved awareness of Carolina nature artist Robert classic poem A Child’s Christmas mental health issues among local law Johnson led a weekend class for a in Wales. Any fans of hills made of enforcement and safety personnel; number of local outdoorsy types ice cream, dessert spoons, exces- and stronger leadership within the interested in keeping nature jour- sive balloons and tons of useless community on mental health, devel- presents should plan to attend. The nals. Robert is like a contemporary opmental disability and substance- show runs Dec. 11-13 And 18-20, abuse issues. Mark Catesby, except Robert does Fridays and Saturdays at 7 p.m. not have to rely on the harsh colo- And Sundays at 3 p.m. For more nial travels on horseback through information, visit artscenterlive.org SEE ALDERMEN PAGE 3 virgin territory. Robert makes long hiking and camping excursions into the wilds across America and from Alaska to New Zealand. In making his “nature notes,” he likes to “hike A walk on the Hollywood side light” to “keep it simple!” He goes RECENTLY . by Nicholas Sparks, prolific author of such equipped only with a small sketch BY VALARIE SCHWARTZ North Carolina-set books/movies (and in- pad and a pencil and a little color state movie productions) as The Notebook chart of his own design. Back at Taking the “perp walk” might have been the and Nights at Rodanthe. Sparks, who lives camp, he sets up for the evening to best thing that happened to Travis Kukovich, in New Bern, teamed with Cyrus for her add watercolors to his sketch notes, owner of William Travis Jewelry, during this non-Disney debut. He created the vehicle, recession. Such a humiliating walk generally writing the screenplay before the book, to sometimes redrawing several pages ends with doors slamming behind one; for Ku- accommodate the shooting schedule. It to make larger ones representing an kovich, some pretty marvelous doors opened. showcases Cyrus as the central character entire plant and animal community. This story twists together many threads, but in a love story between child and parents in its simplest telling begins about six months three years after their divorce. Her mother, ago, when Kukovich attended a cast party for played by Kelly Preston, insists that she SEE FLORA PAGE 12 Main Street, a movie shot in Durham, and star- spend the summer with her father, played ring Orlando Bloom. Kukovich was invited as by Greg Kinnear, who had moved from a local artist and found himself elbow-to-elbow New York City to Wilmington. at the James Joyce Irish Pub in Durham, where Props-meister Sanders wanted emo goth INSIDE to his surprise a gorgeous woman knew his (emotionally Gothic) jewelry for the charac- name upon introduction. She frequents Flor- ter Cyrus plays. Kleinschmidt sworn in ablanca, a Costa Rican resort where Kukovich Kukovich, a five-time Spectrum Award opened a second store three years ago (after winner – the Academy Award-equivalent See page 3 a customer’s husband – UNC trustee Rusty in jewelry design – and rated one of the Carter – offered him space there while visiting top five jewelry designers in the country, INDEX Kukovich’s University Square store. But that’s was up for a challenge, so he designed a another story). 32-piece line. Music .................................................................................... 2 Turns out the gorgeous woman is a super- “Rarely do you get a part in a movie where News ................................................................................................ 3 model and the girlfriend of Bloom, whom Ku- jewelry plays a big role,” Kukovich said. Community .........................................................................................4 kovich met along with movie property master But the part went to a cheap imitation Land & Table .........................................................................................5 John Sanders from Wilmington – a good con- before anyone even looked at his designs. Opinion .........................................................................................6 tact for a Chapel Hill jeweler. Kukovich hadn’t had time to get a good Obits .............................................................................................................7 Two days later, Sanders walked into the store, head of steam worked up over the loss of Honor Rolls .............................................................................................. 8 needing a simple repair. What he found was time and materials before Sanders called, Schools .............................................................................................. 9 an answer for the movie he’d spend the sum- inviting him to the set on Tybee Island off Classifieds .................................................................................... 11 mer on. He offered Kukovich an opportunity. PHOTO BY VALARIE SCHWARTZ the coast from Savannah. Almanac ................................................................................................ 12 Miley Cyrus plays a confused and searching After the ‘perp walk,’” Travis Kukovich, back in his University teen in The Last Song, the latest undertaking Square store. SEE RECENTLY PAGE 7 2 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2009 THE CARRBORO CITIZEN MUSIC CALENDAR Nightlight: Tickley Feather, Veelee, My Empty Phantom, Mike Dillon.