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COMMUNITY NEWS

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 201275 CENTS

CHAPEL HILL The feld inthe District 50 state House seat isgetting crowded on the Republi-can side o the ballot.

On Monday Jason Chambers,25, joined three other GOP can-didates in the race to fll the seatcurrently held by Bill Faison(D-Orange), who will leave hisHouse seat to run or governor.

The fling period closes at noontoday.

Chambers, a lab technician, has

never held political ofce, but wasthe GOP nominee in the 2010 Dis-trict 30 House race won by incum-bent Paul Luebke (D-Durham).

I think I have a decent shot atwinning [the Republican nomina-tion], said Chambers, noting thathe is the only Republican in therace rom Durham.

Th e ot he r thr ee Re pu bl i -can candidates Rod Chaney,

W. Lewis Hannah Jr. and Thom-as Samuel Wright all live inOrange County.

The winners o the Republicanand Democratic primaries in May

will ace o in November.So ar, only two candidates Orange County Commissioner

Valerie Foushee and Travis Phelpso Durham have fled or elec-tion to the District 50 seat on theDemocratic side o the ballot.

Chambers said that becauseabout 40 percent o the registered

voters in the district live in Dur-ham, and because he has namerecognition rom the 2010 election

SEE SEATS/PAGE 3

Republicansjockey forAssembly

seatsBY GREGORY CHILDRESSGCHILDRESSHERALDSUN.COM; 419-6645

CHAPEL HILL The TownCouncil on Monday unanimous-y approved a rezoning and spe-cial-use permit that paves theway or a 7-story mixed-use proj-ect planned or West RosemaryStreet.

The councils approval cameater a parade o citizens, includ-

ing UNC basketball royalty Len-nie Rosenbluth and his wie,

Diane, appeared beore thepanel to express support or theproject, called Shortbread Lots.

My husband and I are hop-ing that maybe one day wemight live on the seventh oorand we welcome some o youto be our new neighbors, saidDiane Rosenbluth.

Lennie Rosenbluth, the All-American who led UNC to the

schools irst national basket-ball championship, also said he

looks orward to moving intothe apartment building one day.

I think it looks great andI hope someday to live in thatapartment building, LennieRosenbluth said. It really looksnice.

Larry Short, the develop-er, clariied Tuesday that theRosenbluths dont have a fnan-cial relationship with the proj-

ect, but are riends.But Rob Stephens, chairman

o the housing committee o theChapel Hill-Carrboro NAACP,said there was a similar paradeo people who came orwardto support the controversialGreenbridge project in 2005.

You saw exactly what wereseeing today the peoplecoming orward, riends o thedeveloper, people who havefnancial interests in the devel-

opment coming orward oneater another and praising this

without any neighbors or poorpeople, in particular, having anysay in this, Stephens said.

He said Shortbread, Green-bridge and the 140 West mixed-use project now under construc-tion will anchor the gentriica-tion o the area.

What you see in gentrii-cation is you have a squeeze,Stephens said. Thats how it

SEE COUNCIL/PAGE 3

Council approves Shortbread buildingBY GREGORY CHILDRESS

GCHILDRESSHERALDSUN.COM; 419-6645

Dear Kristen andKatherine: Happy25th birthday, my

sweet nieces. We called youout there in Coloradoduring dinner to sing toyou hope you got themessage, because youdidnt answer the phone.I miss you, twins!

I didnt send you apresent this year; notsure i you noticed, Ididnt even send a card.

his is partially because Imabout a thousand years old andorget things, like names, dates

... shoes.But, its also because at this

point in your lives (all grownup, out o college) I eel like it

doesnt matter to you or toany o your cousins, includingmy own children whether

we (parents/aunts/uncles)ever send anything at all.Like were losing eachother.

That makes me so sad,girls. Because I want tobe a part o your lives. I

want to stay bonded withyou, all o you, frmlyand orever, even though

youre ar away.And, so, in honor o your

25th birthday:The Top 25 Reasons To

Stay Connected to Your OlderGeneration (especially Your

Aunts!)25. You were born into a big,

Italian/German Catholic amilyflled with love, dysunction,laughter, tears and insanity. Youare so lucky!

24. Your aunts and uncles and heaven knows, yourgrandparents need constantashion, technology andbehavioral advice, or oneday we will embarrass you

irreparably.23. We can be hilarious.

Admit it.22. We (most o the time)

smell nice.21. We can cook.20. We (most o the time)

believe in the same things.19. Your cousins are all in

the same boat. Their storiesmay dier in the particulars;

their rustration, anxiety andangst is the same as yours and,united, you may all one daybe able to put your parents inhomes.

18. We love you heart-twistingly.

17. We miss you heart-wrenchingly.

16. We changed your

diapers, ed you strainedcarrots (which still stain ouravorite blouses or maybethats just me), came to everybirthday party, and huntedbackyard bugs with you.

15. I you ever need $50 ast(in my case, maybe $15), aslong as its not illegal, immoral,or stupid, we will always help.

14. You may still resent the

completely ignorant rules andrestrictions to which you wereabusively exposed growingup which were mostlysupported by your aunts anduncles but I wager youllraise your children almostexactly the same way. (Mosto you realize that now, even i

you wont admit it.)

13. We babysat or you andtold you even better bedtimestories than we told our ownchildren.

12. We kept almosteverything our children wore,and swapped the best with oursiblings so that you could allhave cute clothes even i your

SEE CHILDREN/PAGE 3

A letter to all of our children

CHAPEL HILL Animal rightsactivist Wayne Pacelle was a boy, hisuncle bought him and his cousins WestHighland White Terriers, or Wes-ties. Pacelle and his cousins ell inove with their new outdoor puppies,

Brandy and Randy, which were bornin Kansas, the largest puppy mill stateat the time. And when Pacelle and hisamily fnished playing with the pups,

they would tether the dogs without asecond thought.

Now as president and CEO o theHumane Society o the United States,Pacelle works to raise awareness othe contradictory ways many animal-loving Americans treat animals. As adog-lover who tethered his puppy-mill

Westie as a child, Pacelle argues thatthe bond humans have with animalshas been broken.

And he came to Chapel Hill to elabo-

rate on the relationship.On Friday, a packed room Chapel

Hill-Carrboro community membersgathered at FlyLea Books to hearPacelle speak about his book TheBond: Our Kinship with Animals, OurCall to Deend Them.

I thought it was time or some-body to oer a big picture on whatsoccurring with our relationship with

SEE ANIMAL/PAGE 3

Arguing for animal rightsHumane Society president speaks, signs books in Chapel HIll

BY KAYLEE BAKER

CHHHERALDSUN.COM; 419-6675

VICKI

WENTZ

Seven-story project on West Rosemary Street will include shops, apartments

Photo courtesy Humane Society o The United States | Michelle Riley

his puppy was ound during the largest puppy mill rescue ever conducted in Tennessee, which was set into motion when theHumane Society o the United States took tips about animal cruelty to local and state investigators. Nearly 700 animals wereremoved rom the acility. Last week in Chapel Hill, Wayne Pacelle, the president o The Humane Society o the United States, readrom his new book The Bond: Our Kinship with Animals, Our Call to Deend Them, in which he wrote that stories like the one in Tennessee have a ip side. Our human instincts can run in the opposite direction.