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Carrboro May Look to Businesses to Help Cover Parking Needs This Weekend Friday Elections Partly Sunny 61/36 Keep up with filings, Saturday Mostly Cloudy stories and voter 49/31 Sunday information 60% chance of Rain 45/42 Page 7 carrborocitizen.com FEBRUARY 14, 2008 u CARRBORO’S COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER u VOLUME I NO. XXXXVIII FREE Local black history event this Friday at ArtsCenter Hidden Voices, an ArtsCen- telling the story of the local ter-based youth theater project black community through debuts the result of a two-year poetry, rap, photos, stories, collaboration between local creative movement and music. students, university classes and Participants include students the elders of the historic black who worked collecting the sto- neighborhoods of Chapel Hill ries of their elders and the resi- and Carrboro. dents themselves. The first part of the proj- There will be three perfor- PHoto BY KEN MoorE ect, entitled Because We’re Still mances on Friday, at 10 a.m., Red flowers of female Red Maple Here (and Moving), opened last 11:45 a.m. and 8 p.m. Admis- week with a photo and scrap- sion for the morning shows is book show and the distribution $6. The evening show is free, Taking a of a walking map that details with donations encouraged. the landmarks of the neighbor- Visit www.artscenterlive.org PHoto BY TITUS HEagIns closer look hoods. or call 929-2787 for more in- Longtime educators and community leaders R.D. and Euzelle Smith, for whom Smith Middle School is named, On Friday, Hidden Voices formation. are just two of the individuals who contributed their stories for the Because We’re Still Here (and Moving) project. FLORA premieres a multimedia event —STAFF REPORTS This portrait is one of dozens of community members photographed for the project. By Ken Moore In February, I love observing the daily swelling of buds, the bright coloring of stems and the Carrboro may look flowering of tiny winter annuals on the ground and shrubs and to businesses to help trees above. Simultaneously, this constant assault of springtime awakenings makes me panic cover parking needs with the realization that well- intentioned chores and worthy by Kirk Ross than current rules require. That projects set aside for the winter Staff Writer move was met with protests, with months are far from completed. several residents and business own- My moods of panic result in While stopping short of calling ers writing to the board asking that negative outbursts like “I hate outright for a Chapel Hill-style spe- the development not be granted a spring!” and “spring is highly cial taxation district for downtown, reduction in parking. over-rated!” My annual vocal Mayor Mark Chilton and mem- The board of aldermen held a springtime pronouncements are bers of the Carrboro Board of Al- lengthy discussion on parking at its by now expected by friends. My dermen said maintaining plentiful, recent retreat, sketching out a list of gardening friend, Sally, always free parking downtown will be dif- discussion points including: thoughtfully reminds me that ficult if funded only by the town. • the importance of free the word “hate” should be elimi- At a work session on parking public parking; nated from one’s vocabulary and at Town Hall Tuesday night, the • striking a balance between she offers sincere condolences board reviewed a parking study be- accommodating people who drive that I find anything but joy with ing conducted in conjunction with downtown versus encouraging ev- the re-awakenings of spring. the town by university planning eryone to drive downtown; On reflection, I realize that students. The study will examine • a desire to maintain an envi- my indoor winter projects never the availability, use and future pro- ronment where people can park get my necessary attention be- PHoto BY VALARIE SCHWARTZ jections for downtown public and and walk to multiple businesses; cause there is so much of interest Virginia and Milton Julian have laughed their way through the differences. private lots, and town planners are • a desire to look at multi- in the outdoors. hoping it will deliver some addi- modal solutions; For instance, in spite of the tional insights into solving an an- • interest in the Blue Urban continuing freezing weather, we Change wardrobes but keep your Valentine ticipated crunch for parking spaces Bikes program; are entering the peak season of as downtown develops. • integrating public transit; flowering of Red Maples, Acer RECENTLY . “Who are you?” Virginia age the Winston-Salem store in At least two projects in the pipe- • residential parking permits for rubrum asked in her native Greensboro his absence and stay in his home line will reduce spaces in widely downtown neighborhoods; . During the next several By Valerie Schwartz weeks, we will be seeing dense accent. with the maid and two of his used privately owned parking • the need to understand fiscal red clusters on leafless branches. Some of life’s occurrences “Well, who are you?” Milton children. lots downtown — a lot leased by implications of any proposal. These clusters of tiny flowers can have a one-word explanation: tossed back with a quickening Milton, of Brockton, Mass., the town adjacent to the rail line The town is also collecting re- be fully appreciated only with a Fate. heart. “Is Ira home?” had just been discharged from on East Main Street and a por- sponses to a parking survey sent to close-up view with a sharp eye. That’s how Milton and Vir- Ira, an attorney and owner the Army Air Force after serving tion of the Carr Mill Mall lot on local businesses. I make use of a 10x hand lens, ginia Julian have looked at life of the Kent Street Bakeries in for three and a half years dur- Roberson Street. On Tuesday, Chilton said that though most any hand-held since meeting one spring day Greensboro and Winston-Salem, ing World War II. The young- A more in-depth review of if the board is serious about main- reading magnifiers will suffice. in 1945 after Milton knocked was away on a business trip and est of five boys, he returned to parking was initiated after the de- taining free parking, it will have to Maple flowers lack the obvi- on the door of his brother Ira’s had asked his reliable employee, Ira’s home, where he had lived in velopers of Roberson Place, at the find a way to pay for it that’s fair. ous petals we see on most flow- home and a delightful blonde Virginia, who was working her corner of Greensboro and Rober- ering plants. A close look will responded. way through college, to man- SEE RECENTLY PAGE 5 son streets, asked for less parking SEE PARKING PAGE 5 reveal that these clusters contain only female or male parts on each flower. Now we’re enter- ing a botany lesson as well as Learning by the book taking a peak at the sex lives of plants. Maple trees are described by Susan Dickson of many writers. as polygamous. Some trees have Staff Writer “You have to find a part where only male flowers, clusters of you can stop it,” she said. stamens; other trees have only On a Wednesday morning in Day And the best part of writing the female flowers, clusters of pistils. McLaughlin’s fifth-grade classroom, story? Sometimes a single tree will have the 10- and 11-year-old students are “You get to make up most of it,” perfect flowers – i.e., male and busy working on their first book, Skylar said. “You take some facts, female parts in the same flower. which will be published this summer. and then you mix it into what might The male tree of pollen-bearing For the book, each student is writ- happen.” stamens has an overall yellowish ing a story based on a memory told by McLaughlin’s fifth grad- tint. The female flowers have a member of the black community. ers at McDougle Elementary When asked what the hardest part School interviewed Lincoln High about writing the story is, student PHoto BY amY THomas SEE FLORA PAGE 5 Skylar Frisch expressed the struggles SEE BOOK PAGE 8 Members of the black community share stories with Day McLaughlin’s fifth-grade class. INDEX INSIDE Drought woes, Farm Bill focus of annual Ag Summit News ..............................................................3 Stop dumping deer by Susan Dickson that the people most affected are our farmers. representatives, who provided information re- Community..................................................4 carcasses in creeks, Staff Writer “We have a lot of work to do in this region, garding obtaining products from local farmers Land & Table ...............................................5 short-term and long-term, in preparing for our and the increasing demand for local foods. Opinion ..........................................................6 Saxapahaw man More than 100 farmers, county officials and water’s future,” Price continued. “This is not a “There is a lot more demand for product Commentary ..........................................................7 community members gathered on Tuesday to water-rich state. This is a state where we have to than there is local product,” said Paul Griswold, Schools ..........................................................8 asks discuss the drought and the changing face of shepherd our resources very carefully.” a buyer for Weaver Street Market. “The news is Sports ..........................................................9 See page 6 Classifieds ....................................................10 agriculture at the 10th annual Orange County Tom Konsler, environmental health direc- good and the outlook is really bright. I just see Agricultural Summit. tor for Orange County, said that while well re- an ever-expanding market on the East Coast.” Rep. David Price expressed his concerns re- placements have increased slightly recently, the Local growers provided information about HOw tO REACH US garding the drought to the crowd at the Orange increase is small compared to the spike in well their operations, also emphasizing the growing Enterprises Building in Hillsborough, which is replacements in 2002.
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