The Carrboro CiTizen News Thursday, january 13, 2011 3
BriefsTowns reschedule meetings
TheCarrboroBoardofAldermen,ChapelHillTownCouncilandHillsboroughBoardofCommissionerscanceledtheirmeet-ingsthisweekduetoinclementweather.
MostagendaitemsfortheCarrboromeetingwillbemovedtotheboard’snextmeetingonTuesday.
MostagendaitemsfortheChapelHillmeetingarescheduledtobe takenupat a specialmeetingof the councilonTuesdayat7p.m.atChapelHillTownHall.Thecouncil’sdiscussionofproposedhomelessshelterguidelineshasbeenmovedtoacouncilpublichearingscheduledforWednesday.
TheHillsboroughBoardofCommissionersmeetingwill becontinuedtotheboard’smonthlyworkshoponJan.24at7p.m.intheTownBarn.
Bingham meeting changedAbriefingscheduledforMondayontheuniversity’schangeof
plansatitsBinghamresearchfacilityoffN.C.54waspostponedduetoinclementweather.Therescheduleddatewasnotavailableatpresstime.
Universityofficialssaidlastweekthattheyareseekingpermitstoreplaceafailedwastewatertreatmentsystematthefacility,butplanfornoexpansion.Higherinfrastructurecostsandashiftinstrategiesforlarge-animalresearchledtothechange.
Recycling rescheduled OrangeCounty’scurbsiderecyclingroute#2,takingplaceev-
eryotherTuesday,andallin-townrecyclingroutes,takingplaceeveryTuesday,werecanceledonJan.11duetoinclementweather.ThemakeupdaywillbeSaturday.Pleasehavebinsoutby7a.m.
Ben Chavis to speakBenChavis,alongtimecivilrightsleaderandoneoftheWilm-
ington10,willbethekeynotespeakerfortheannualMartinLu-therKingJr.serviceonMondayatFirstBaptistChurch.
AmarchandrallywillbeheldatPeaceandJusticePlazaat9a.m.,withtheservicetofollowat11.TheMartinLutherKingJr.CommunityServiceAwardandtheRebeccaClarkAwardforVoterRegistrationandCivicEngagementwillbepresented.
Thisyear’sthemeis“NotOneStepBack:RenewingDr.King’sCalltoConscience.”
King Day closingsMosttownandcountyofficeswillbeclosedfortheMartin
LutherKingJr.DayholidayonMonday.InCarrboro,residentialgarbageroutesscheduledforMonday
willbecollectedTuesday.InChapelHill,residentialgarbageroutesscheduledforMon-
daywillbecollectedonWednesday.TheOrangeCountyLandfillwillbeopenandrecyclingser-
viceswillremainonschedule,butthecounty’ssolid-wasteconve-niencecenterswillbeclosed.
Chapel Hill Transit will operate on a Saturday schedule(CM,CW,D,FGandJNroutes).TherewillbenoservicefortheUandNUroutes.
GarbagecollectioninHillsboroughscheduledforMondaywillbecollectedTuesday.
County seeks feedbackOrangeCountyofficialswillholdapublicoutreachmeeting
andapublichearingtogatherfurtherfeedbackfromthepubliconaproposedUnifiedDevelopmentOrdinance.
Thenewordinanceisanextensiverewriteofthecounty’srulesforlanduse,conservationanddevelopment.
TheoutreachmeetingisscheduledforJan.27at6:30p.m.attheWestCampusofficebuildingonMargaretLane.ThepublichearingisFeb.28at7p.m.attheDepartmentofSocialServicesinHillsboroughCommons.
Foradditionalinformation,contacttheOrangeCountyPlan-ningandInspectionsDepartmentat245-2575orvisitthedepart-ment’swebsiteatwww.co.orange.nc.us/planning
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“Wehadalotofblackiceinplaces that refroze overnight,”hesaidWednesday.
David Poythress, streets su-perintendent of the Town ofCarrboro, said the town hasbeen running two crews of sixpeople on 12-hour shifts tokeeptheroughly80lanemilesoftown-maintainedroadsclear.Anothercrewofbetweenthreeand five works on the town-owned facilities and the side-walks.
Poythress said that duringthestorm,thestrategyistore-store the bus routes and thenturn to the secondary roads.Like Howell, he said tempera-tures in theupper20smade ithardtoclearsomeplaces.
“The secondary roadwaysare the biggest challenge,”Poythress said. “Some morethanothers.”
AndliketheircounterpartsattheDOT,thecrewsinCarrborohavebeenbusythisseason.
“TheseguyshavebeenputtinginextrahourssinceearlyDecem-ber.Someofthemhadtocutshorttheirholiday,”Poythresssaid.And
since those who live in Ala-manceorChathamcountiesornorthernOrangecan’tgetbackand forth reliably, some havespent their off hours campedoutatPublicWorks.
“It’sabouttheonlysafewayto do it,” said Dennis Fone,whosleptonacotatthePublicWorksofficesratherthanriskadrive back to his home in Ze-bulon.“It’salsoabouttheonlyguaranteed way to be back forthenextshift.”
All that comes at a cost,Poythress said, as does the15 tons of salt and 10 tons ofsandspreadonCarrboro roadson Monday and Tuesday. Thetownshaveyet toassess thefi-nancial impact of this storm,but the winter of 2010-11 isshapinguptobeacostlyseason.
Terrellsaiditwillbeawhilebefore thetallyof themostre-centstormisknown,HeexpectsacostanalysisoftheDecemberstormssometimethisweekandwon’t be surprised if it showsthe town already over budgetforsupplieslikesandandsalt.
“Wedon’tbudgetalotforit,knowingthatsomeyearswegeta lot of bad weather and someyears we don’t,” he said. Thisyear, he said, it’s a case of theformer.
Extra briningPoythress saidone thing that
has helped this year is increas-ing theuseofbrineprior to thestorms.Carrborostartedusingitonsomeroads in2004,hesaid,andsawpositiveresults,particu-larlyinthemostrecentstorm.
“Wefoundthatwithcertainevents, it makes a difference,”he said. If the storm starts offwith a lot of rain, he added,then at least his crew gets insomepractice.Fortunately,thisonestartedwithsnow.”
Inadditiontokeepingiceandsnow melted initially, the brine-treated roads are easier to plowandclearoffafterabigevent.
TerrellsaidthatChapelHillhas been increasing its use ofbrineaswell.Inthemostrecentstorms, he said, the town hasnotonly treatedprimary roadsand steep hills but extendedpretreatment to almost all thetown’ssecondaryroads.
“It’s more environmentallyfriendly and about 10 timesmore effective as anti-icing,”hesaid.
A Civil War diaryUNC News Services
What was happening in theSouth150yearsagoonanygivendateduringtheCivilWar?
A website posting just that,every day for four years, isplanned by the University Li-brary atUNC.The sitewill beamongnumerous library activi-ties commemorating the 150thanniversaryoftheconflict.
Activitieswillbeginwiththeexhibit“HomeFrontontheHill:Chapel Hill and the Universityduring theCivilWar,” on viewin the Melba Remig SaltarelliExhibit Room of the WilsonSpecialCollectionsLibraryfromFeb.1throughMay8.
The free exhibit will featureabout160itemsfromlibrarycol-lections.Highlightswillinclude:
•lettersrelatedtothefiringin1856ofaUNCprofessorforhisopposition to extending slaveryintonewterritories;
•an1860letterfromthepro-fessor’smother-in-lawdescribing
alocalsecessionistrally;• minutes from University
Baptist Church in Chapel Hilldocumenting when, in 1865,blackmemberslefttoformtheirownchurch;and
• three eyewitness accountsoftheApril1865occupationofChapelHillbyUniontroops.
OnApril12–the150thanni-versaryofthewar’sfirstmilitaryengagementatFortSumter,S.C.,in1861–thelibrarywilllaunchthewebsite“TheCivilWarDay-by-Day.”
The site, lib.unc.edu/blogs/civilwar, will use Wilson Li-brary’s rich collectionsof archi-val documents and publishedmaterials to present the war asitunfolded intheSouth.Diaryentries, correspondence, newsarticles,maps,photographicpor-traitsandimagesofartifactswillbeamongtheitemsposteddailyuntilApril9,2015,the150than-niversaryofGen.RobertE.Lee’ssurrender.
“We want toprovide a senseof how the warwas experiencedby people livingthrough it, whodidn’tknowhowit would end,or what mighthappen to themand their lovedones,” said BiffHollingsworth,archivist in theSouthern His-torical Collec-tion and one ofthe site’s cre-ators.
The site willinvite readers toshare their owninterpretationsof and reactionsto the docu-ments.
a handbill sent in 1863 to Thomas ruffin, a hillsborough resident who owned a large plantation in alamance County.
CourTesy of The n. C. ColleCTion, Wilson library
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