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Municipal posts up for
election
By Randall Rigsbee
The period to file for
elected offices in Pittsboro, Siler City and Goldston begins Monday,
July 6 at 8 a.m. and continues through noon Friday, July 17.
Filing will be conducted at
the Board of Elections Office at 984 Thompson St., Pittsboro.
State law requires that filing begin at noon
on the first Friday in July, but because the Chatham County Board of
Elections office will be closed that day for the Independence Day
holiday, filing will begin instead on July 6.
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Despite
parents’ concerns schools increase fees for facility rentals
John Hunter
The Chatham
County Board of Education (BOE) approved a new facility rental
agreement last Tuesday that will increase rental fees at school
facilities.
However some
Chatham residents, including Karen Heilman, are not pleased with the
new rates.
Heilman, a
parent of two Perry Harrison School students, created and coaches a
basketball team for 9- and 10-year-old girls. Heilman made an appeal
to the BOE at Tuesday’s meeting to reconsider the fee changes.
"There are not a lot of
local opportunities for young girls to play competitive basketball
all year round and I wanted to start an affordable program in our
area," Heilman said
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Sunday wreck
injures one
John Hunter
The driver of a vehicle that
crashed into a telephone pole in downtown Siler City Sunday morning
sustained injuries for which he was airlifted for treatment to UNC
Hospitals in Chapel Hill.
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Jeff Davis photo
By the road . . .
Cars whiz by a group of wildflowers on
Highway 15-501 near Northwood High School in Pittsboro. The flowers,
Calliopsis, bring a spot of color with their bright yellow petals
and burgandy colored center to the motorists as they drive by. The
flowers weren’t seeded there by the North Carolina Department of
Transportation, but seemed to have popped up naturally. The D.O.T.
does have a wildflower beautification program where wildflowers and
plants are grown in areas along our highways.
With
break-ins up, authorities offer advice to residents to deter
criminals
John Hunter
Residents of
the Westmont subdivision in Siler City recently started noticing
some things in their neighborhood that they didn’t like.
First there
were the people going through the neighborhood that they didn’t
recognize. Then the break-ins started. Cars, homes, outbuildings and
other property were not only getting broken into, but were also
being damaged.
That’s when
residents decided that they had had enough. A community of
approximately 30 homes, the Westmont subdivision’s Home Owners’
Association came together and decided that they needed more
protection. The members signed a petition asking for more police
coverage in their neighborhood.
The concern of the Westmont
residents comes on the heels of several break-ins around Siler City
and the county.
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Agency honors Schwankl
Bill Willcox
There was a
celebration of 15 years of Smart Start in Chatham County last week
that included the presentation of a special award to a Siler City
pediatrician.
The event,
held at the courthouse in Pittsboro, featured presentations by a
number of local officials, as well as a keynote address by Ashley
Thrift, board chair of the North Carolina Partnership for Children.
In 1993,
Smart Start was launched by Governor Jim Hunt to address the concern
that many begin school unprepared for school success. The same year
Chatham Friends of Children was started to study children’s needs
and applied for Smart Start funding.
The next
year, the organization was incorporated as the Chatham County
Partnership for Children (CCPFC). It was selected as a second-year
Smart Start county, one of the first 24 "pioneer" counties.
Over the years, the
organization won several large grants and spearheaded efforts to
improve the lives of hundreds of preschool children across the
county.
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