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Economic Leaders Put on a Brave Face This Weekend FRIDAY 60% Chance of Rain 68/58 SATURDAY 40% Chance of Rain 76/58 SUNDAY Carrboro Partly Cloudy 81/58 Music Festival Special Pull Out Section carrborocitizen.com SEPTEMBER 25, 2008 u LOCALLY OWNED AND OPERATED u VOLUME II NO. XXVIII FREE Economic leaders put on a brave face Downturn hits the charts throughout Orange County BY KIRK Ross ers assembled already knew or sus- impressed with the amount of build- “We do have strong assets in Or- Staff Writer pected: Commercial and residential ing taking place in a down economy. ange County, so I’m very encour- construction is down considerably Be he and others acknowledged that aged despite the current situation,” Closer ties with UNC and RTP, from heights hit in 2000. one of the big challenges ahead would he said. more coordination in recruiting be- As each took a turn at the lectern be finding businesses to fill the new Broadwell said the county needs tween local governments, setting up at the Chamber of Commerce-spon- spaces being created. to do a better job of “matching as- an economic incentive program and sored event, the charts displaying the Brad Broadwell, Orange County’s sets to opportunity,” citing UNC’s leveraging a new Orange County bad news came up front. They were new director of the Economic De- $700 million in annual research Airport were among the ideas dis- quickly followed by a more enthu- velopment Commission, said that funding. cussed Tuesday at an Orange County siastic presentation of what’s ahead, the county’s reputation as a difficult “We need to draw closer to UNC development briefing at UNC’s Fri- a litany of building projects that place to do business and the current to look for economic opportunities day Center. countywide would add millions of economic climate makes building and spin-offs from the university,” One by one, planners from Car- square feet of residential and com- jobs and increasing the commercial he said. “We haven’t done that very rboro, Chapel Hill, Orange County mercial space. tax base harder. But the county’s as- well in the past.”. and Hillsborough spelled out in de- Chamber of Commerce president sets, particularly the university, still tail what the 150 or so business lead- and CEO Aaron Nelson said he was make them possible, he said. SEE ECONOMY PAGE 10 New suds shop rises on Main Street BY SUSAN DICKsoN PHoto BY Ken Moore The Carrboro Beverage Com- Jimson weed flower opens in the late afternoon Staff Writer pany – also known as Tyler’s and continues through the night. Bottle Shop – opened a little Over the past few years, beer more than five weeks ago on drinkers in North Carolina have Main Street next to its parent seen their options expand on lo- company, Tyler’s Taproom, FlorA BY Ken Moore cal taps and grocery store shelves, bringing hundreds of differ- as breweries from all over the ent kinds of beers to Carrboro, world began distributing their just in time for beer season. A flower of the night beer in the Tar Heel state. Tyler Huntington, owner of Until several years ago, the Carrboro Beverage Company his time of year is borders were closed to many and Tyler’s, said he’s always beautiful beyond breweries’ beers because of a law been interested in beer, hav- description. I’m chal- that banned beer with 6 percent ing worked in breweries on the lenged to focus on a alcohol by volume or higher. Af- West Coast. He started Tyler’s single plant. ter groups like Pop the Cap lob- 10 years ago with a focus on TA morning glory, Ipomoea pur- bied for beverage options other beer, but “couldn’t fill 16 han- purea, is scrambling over a culti- than Bud, Miller and the like, dles with craft beers.” state lawmakers lifted the ban vated coastal beauty-berry, Cal- These days, Huntington and in 2005. his staff have to pick and choose licarpa americana. The vine’s pale Since then, different types of beers to limit the store’s selec- purple flowers call attention to beers have trickled into the area, tion to just a few hundred. the iridescent purple-pink berries challenging beer aficionados to PHoto BY ava BarloW try every type of brew they can SEE BEER PAGE 10 Tyler Huntington, a Carrboro native, is the proprietor of the new Carrboro Beverage of the shrub. The tall burgundy- Company. and-green-colored pokeweed, get their hands on. Phytolacca americana, towering over golden-yellow plumes of common goldenrod, Solidago BreakDOWN : A series on mental HealtH in NC altissima, make me thankful that I did not pull them earlier in the Reform creates a bewildering system Vote! summer. On the deck, several BY TAYloR SISK It’s been a hell of a journey, one In sum, Jeff is very difficult to treat. H H volunteer bur marigolds, Bidens Staff Writer made worse, advocates say, by the For Valerie Kramer, that’s the bad 2 0 0 8 aristosa, in pots of peppers and privatizing of mental health care ser- news. The kicker is the dizzying mental tomatoes, stand head high with This story is the third in a vices in North Carolina. health care system through which she Registration is on the rise in Or- hundreds of bright yellow daisy- series about mental health care must navigate in hopes of finding the care ange County and One-Stop Voting in North Carolina. A new regime Jeff requires, the outcome of the General is just around the corner. Make sure like flowers. The still vigorously The numbers are staggering. you’re registered and ready for Elec- flowering near-by scarlet-red Assembly’s decision to overhaul the previ- According to the National Insti- ous system and introduce reform. tion Day. coral honeysuckle, Lonicera “There’s a lot of story,” says Valerie tute of Mental Health, 26.2 percent In 2001, Gov. Mike Easley appoint- Important dates for voters sempervirens, helps sustain linger- Kramer, assessing the narrative of her of Americans aged 18 and older suffer ed Carmen Hooker Odom as Secretary include: ing hummingbirds. The engag- only child, Jeff. each year from a diagnosable mental of Health and Human services with a Oct. 10 — The last day you can ing beauty of all this wild floral “I get really angry,” Kramer says. “I disorder. Based on the 2004 census, mandate to shake up the mental health register to vote on Nov. 4. You need extravagance is my reward for see him so sick, and my son is a very that’s 57.7 million Americans. care system. to be registered in order to vote. To bright person. He made ‘A’s in school; he encouraging nature’s impulses. The institute further reports that Nicholas Stratas, a psychiatrist in check online to see if you are reg- won awards. All his cousins went to col- “the main burden of illness is concen- private practice in Raleigh and former istered, visit www.sboe.state.nc.us In a grassy pathway is one lege and are very smart and successful in trated in a much smaller proportion of my favorite volunteers, the state deputy commissioner of mental and click “Voter Registration.” You life, and I thought, ‘Jeff will do that.’” – about 6 percent, or 1 in 17 – who health, recalls Hooker Odom coming can also find forms online to update poisonous annual jimson weed, At 19, Jeff Kramer, now 24, was di- suffer from a serious mental illness.” to speak at a North Carolina Psychiatric your registration. There is an excep- Datura stramonium. Unlike the agnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. Jeff Kramer is among those lat- Association meeting soon after she was tion for registering after this date, various garden varieties of “I don’t want to define my son with ter. He’s spent the past three weeks in appointed. which starts … angel trumpets, all of which are schizophrenia,” Kramer wrote in her Central Regional Hospital, his eighth “She starts off by saying, ‘Folks, the Oct. 16 — One-Stop Voting be- poisonous, the native datura journal earlier this year. “I want to or ninth visit (it’s hard for his mother train has left the station, and if you’re gins. One-Stop Voting is for those know more of who he is. I want to be to recall for certain) to a state mental has a smaller flower, only three- not on it you’re going to get left behind.’ who want to vote early or can’t make with him as he is, take every moment health facility. No treatment has proved That was her opening remark, and I it to a polling place on Nov. 4. If you to-four inches long, angled I have with him and cherish it. effective for long. Jeff refuses to take his upward in the axils of sturdy thought, man, who is this?” aren’t registered yet, you can regis- “But then when his symptoms get antipsychotic medication, which com- Hooker Odom had been a Massachu- ter here or update your registration branches on a three-to-six- really bad he becomes emotionally plicates his situation. Most, but not all, setts legislator and a health care lobbyist. with a form of identification includ- foot-tall plant. It seems more a and mentally altogether unavailable.” psychiatrists believe medication to be She put forth a plan, later passed into law, ing your name and current address. small shrub than a tall annual. For the past five years, Kramer a critical component in the treatment by which county mental health care area This is the easiest way to vote.
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