This Weekend FRIDAY 60% Chance of Rain 74/54 SATURDAY 20% Chance of Rain ArtWalk 70/43 this Friday! SUNDAY Partly Cloudy 65/41 carrborocitizen.com APRIL 9, 2009 u LOCALLY OWNED AND OPERATED u VOLUME III NO. Iv FREE UNC plans to build hospital in Hillsborough BY KIRK RoSS Planners are working to finalize The alumni association article, building on campus around existing Staff Writer the scope and scale of the facility, she posted March 30, states that the new buildings is much more difficult than said, including whether to include facility will be a 100-bed full-service on new sites. UNC Health Care is finalizing in-patient facilities as well as ambu- hospital and cites health care systems “It’s not a question of not doing the plans for a new medical facility near latory care. CEO and UNC medical school dean tower, it’s not doing it now,” she said. the Durham Tech campus in Hills- The $17.5 million for the land will Bill Roper as saying it is moving ahead Like a new 25-bed hospital in Cha- borough. come from the UNC Health Care as a result of a decision in February not tham County, which opened last year, a Health care system officials have capital fund. to build a new 300-patient tower on new facility in Hillsborough will be easi- signed a letter of intent to buy 85 acres McCall said a recent article posted the main campus. er to construct and open, McCall said. in the Waterstone development just off online at the UNC Alumni Associa- McCall said the number of beds Once plans are finalized, UNC of I-40 at exit 261, according to Karen tion website was premature and that in Hillsborough has not been deter- Health Care will file for a certificate of McCall, UNC Hospitals vice president an announcement about plans will mined. She said the hospital still plans need and, if certified, could open the of pubic affairs and marketing. likely come later this month. to add the new patient tower, but that new hospital by 2014. PHOTO BY BETSY GREEN MOYER ChAMPIONS Mayapple flower is beautifully translucent following a soaking rain. flora BY KEN MOORE Mayapples odophyllum peltatum (sounds like: po-dough- FILL-lum pel-TAY-tum), now there’s a plant name that just lingers in your Pmouth before rolling off your tongue. Throw it into a spring- time conversation and you’ll attract immediate attention. The genus name for mayapple is derived from the Greek and Latin, podos (a foot), and phyllon (a leaf). How a “foot leaf” re- lates to the mayapple is obscure. Perhaps it refers to how the flat rounded leaves are borne on solidly footed petioles. Person- ally, whenever I see the leaves hovering above the forest floor Enjoying the victory (clockwise from top left) Nicholas Lindsey, 13, left, and his I think of a herd of light-footed brother, Jordan Lindsey, 15, from Fuquay-Varina were among elephants leaving green footprint those who ventured to town for the game (photo by Ava Barlow). impressions. At the Tuesday welcome home celebration, Tyler Hansbrough heads The species name, peltatum, to the stage; Coach Roy Williams thanks the fans; and Danny is more obviously descriptive, Green, with the help of Mike Copeland, jumps around one more referring to the Latin for shield; time. (Photos by Jeff Camarati, courtesy of UNC Athletics). the flat rounded leaf, sturdily attached to the petiole at the center of its underside, looks a bit like a shield protecting the A triumphant week A meaningful journey earth beneath. A peltate leaf is BY KIRK RoSS As everyone waited for the next BY FRANK HEAth uneven journey for a veteran team. distinctive enough to catch your Staff Writer big event, rounds of “Tar!…Heels!” were exclaimed, a couple of waves Sports Columnist But it was an unendingly enjoyable attention. Around 3 p.m. Tuesday after- journey nonetheless, for the fans and ap- The full arrival of springtime were performed and the progress of noon, a member of the attend- the team’s caravan from Raleigh Dur- “North Carolina is going to win ... parently for the players and coaches, who for me is the return of great ing crew at the Dean E. Smith ham International Airport — pro- the national championship!” showed unbridled emotion at game’s swaths of mayapple leaves in Student Activities Center placed jected on the large television screens Those words – uttered approxi- end Monday and afterwards, as the sig- the flood plains and lower forest a wooden table in the center of a around the dome — was cheered mately four times now from the lips of nificance of that moment sunk in. slopes. Even though some frosty stage set up on the floor of the bas- every time this turn or that brought the inimitable Voice of the Tar Heels, You are elated for the seniors on ketball court. them closer to their destination. Woody Durham – are the signal for the team, the guys with the most temperatures remain, spring is millions of fans of the UNC Tar Heels battle scars. here! That act, studied intently by Enthusiastic fans greeted the bus- the several thousand assembled that the stars are once again aligned In ‘82, that was point guard Jimmy Any plant sporting two leaves es as they rolled along the 100 block there, was followed by the ar- of East Franklin Street and made a properly and all is right in the world. Black, who had transformed during his will have a single heavy-textured, rival on stage of veteran broad- left at Columbia Street on the way Carolina won the national cham- four years at UNC from a flashy but cream-colored flower hidden be- caster Woody Durham, who an- to campus. Not long after, the team, pionship in basketball again on oft-wild freshman who only played neath the leaves. The flowers are nounced that the team would be coaches, chancellor and athletic di- Monday night, just one full cycle af- mop-up minutes to a steady, heady most easily viewed from your home shortly and was bringing rector were announced one by one ter its most recent title in 2005. Like floor leader who was almost a second on-the-ground “belly botany” something to set on the table. and made their way to the stage. the three other championship years coach on the floor by season’s end. that I have lived through (1982, 1993 position. In rainy weather, the Quite naturally, the fans went wild. SEE WIN PAGE 8 and 2005), this title represents the water-laden flower petals be- culmination of a long and at times SEE HEELS PAGE 8 come almost translucent, pre- senting a study in fragile beauty. Just now, the flowers are still mostly in bud. They’ll be ready School board approves budget request; Town hears for pollinators in the next week further reductions likely or two. The real joy of anticipa- goat petition tion is watching the slow emer- BY SUSAN DICKSON County officials have indicated that the school gence of the mayapple leaves as Staff Writer district could see a $2.3 to $2.5 million funding BY SUSAN DICKSON they emerge like tiny, opening reduction. In addition, Gov. Beverly Perdue’s bud- Staff Writer umbrellas above the leaf litter. Although the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools get includes about $1.5 million less in funding for Board of Education has approved its operating bud- the district. CARRBORO — The Carrboro Board of Al- dermen will consider changes to the town’s SEE FLORA PAGE 10 get request for 2009-10, changes and further re- And while the district could receive an increase ductions are still likely as county and state officials in federal funding from the education stimulus livestock ordinance that would allow residents have indicated large funding cuts are probable. package, the money would be earmarked for spe- to keep small livestock on smaller residential lots, board members said Tuesday. INSIDE The board voted unanimously to approve its bud- cific programs and services. get request last week, but in the same meeting delved “It doesn’t appear that we’d be able to plug many Resident Marianne Prince petitioned the into possible budget reductions. The $59.6 million re- holes with the increase in federal funding,” board board to modify the town’s ordinance to al- Southern Village hotel quest — nearly the same local funding level as 2008- chair Lisa Stuckey said. low residents to keep such animals as goats or on hold 09 — includes more than $700,000 in reductions to The school board won’t get an approved bud- pot-bellied pigs on smaller lots. The current make up for necessary new expenditures. get from county officials until they approve their ordinance, crafted by the board 19 years ago, page 5 Superintendent Neil Pedersen said the budget is budget at the end of June. Until then, Pedersen requires residents to have 40,000 square feet in unlike any he has ever drafted. said, school officials are simply trying to prepare order to keep any type of livestock. “Our budget request this year will not reflect for cuts. “[The ordinance] puts all livestock, except INDEX what we believe we need to meet the expectations “I don’t know that there’s really action that we for fowl and rabbits, in a single category requir- of all of our constituents, but rather it will be a can take until we hear more about our situation,” ing the same acreage for a 25-pound pygmy Music .........................................................................................2 plan for conserving resources and downsizing our he said.