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4The Daily Tar Heel Friday, March Vote dims. chances for Pittsbbrp Street extension project-. By TRACY LAWSON Staff Writer . , The controversial plan to .extend Pittsboro Street received another setback when the Chapel Hill Town Council voted not to include the project in the Capital Improvement Process (C1P). Town officials said it was important to find a solution to the problem of traffic flow through Chapel Hill even though there has been controversy surrounding the extension plan. "We need to figure a way to move traffic in the north-south direction," town council member David Godschalk said. "If this project doesn't become reality, we need to figure out something else to get traffic around the bottleneck on Columbia Street." Last week, the Chapel Hill Planning Board voted to recom mend that the town council remove the project from the overall throughway improvement plan. At Monday's meeting the prop osal was not removed from the throughway plan but was removed from the CI P. The CIP is used by the town .council to determine how town funds will be used for capital improvements, like the through way plan. Council member Joe Herzen berg proposed to delete the fifth level of improvement plans from iealtth experts to sponsor By DANA CLINTON LUMSDEN Staff Writer Area health professionals, treat ment organizations and medical students will participate in Drug and Alcohol Information Day Saturday in the Student Union and the Pit. The event was organized entirely by UNC medical students, 11 of whom will receive academic credit for doing the research in preparation for the event, said Ed Wrenn, program Apply for office space All officially recognized campus Applications must be turned in by groups may now pick up applications 4' p.m. Friday, April 7. Groups now for office'space in the Student Union occupying an office in the Union must from the Union desk or from Suite re-apply, and groups that have never C in the Union. occupied an office are eligible. The Homeless in Chapel Hill," a three part series, starts in Monday's DTH V' . '.mi- itrr22Ma2K Cl!dL fcj.'j . Air WZt, TKnwy v,' , untied veej and Shrimp Kabobs -zf M-: ' Mir try You've Been Hungry Too Long Rich. Succulent. With a spritz of lemon, or a dollop of butter. Dripping with cheese, or laced thick with cream. Grilled, broiled, sauteed, or stir fried. Go ahead, give in to temptation. South Square Mall 31, 1989 the process. Godschalk said: "There are five different priority levels for request ing funds from the state govern ment. The first level is the only level to ever receive funding; so removing the fifth level, which includes the Pittsboro Street extension, was simply a symbolic measure." The only practical aspect Mon day's decision had on the proposal was that the plan is no longer considered for state funding, Godschalk said. Even though the project was removed from the CIP, Mayor Jonathan Howes said the Pitts boro Street proposal was still under the town council's consideration. "The important thing to remember is that the proposal still remains on the throughway plan. As long as it (the road extension plan) is there, it is still being considered." Howes said the town would draft a specific throughway plan and discuss the problem of travel through Chapel Hill. "My expectation is that while the town is considering the throughway plan they will discuss north-south travel in Chapel Hill, especially at the Columbia Street corridor. Although if we find a better alternative well be glad to consider it." coordinator. . The event will feature a symposium on drugs and health in the Union Auditorium from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. There will be speakers on the extent of drug and alcohol abuse at UNC and across the nation as well as on the health effects of various drugs. After a reception, displays, han douts and personnel from various groups that deal with the drug problem will be available in the Pit J' . m BKTAIIPAMt S Double Volunteers can delay closing By LYNN GOSWICK Staff Writer Time is running out for the landfill in Orange County. In hopes of delaying the landfill's closing, several Orange County residents are recycling materials and in some cases making money at the same time. Blair Pollock, solid waste planner for Chapel Hill, said the Orange County landfill would be full and would close in 1997. In an attempt to slow down the landfill's closing, resident volunteers like Craig Gammarino, a former consulting engineer on energy con servation projects and an environ mentalist, recycles materials he collects. Gammarino, who lives outside Carrboro, collects recyclable mate rials weekly to keep these materials out of the landfill. About five months ago, Gamma rino began collecting newspaper, aluminum cans and glass from 35 homes at The Trails, a subdivision at Dodsons Crossroads outside of Carrboro, he said. At those homes, Gammarino col lects around 350 pounds of news paper, 400 to 500 pounds of glass and a few pounds of aluminum, he said. For the newspaper he collects, Gammarino receives one penny per pound. For each pound of glass he picks up, he receives 2.5 cents, and the few pounds of aluminum he collects he gives to the Boy Scouts to recycle. About a month and a half ago, Gammarino began a second project from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Wrenn said that there were many reasons that the medical organiza tions decided to present drug infor mation to the University community. "Substance abuse is a very impor tant health problem in our country," he said. "People have gotten a lot of information about the various drugs from their family and friends. Most of this information amounts to propaganda. "We want to give out balanced information about the drugs and not just simply preach. We want people Drug, Ai Run to retrace route By AMY WAJDA Assistant University Editor This weekend, to benefit two local charities, UNC fraternity and sorority members will retrace the 13 1-mile trip Hinton James, UNC's first student, made to UNC in 1795. Participants in the second annual Hinton James Charity Run, spon sored by Alpha Delta Pi sorority and Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity, will run in one- or two-mile shifts from Wilmington to Chapel Hill. The runners will start today at 5 p.m. and finish Saturday at noon at the Old See something newsworthy? Call 962-0245 A 1 j 1 oasrUDu iTTi rT)r g elliotroad s y iimn A Jk VZA rSi C at E- franklin bl-Uli . UlilrOLgXnJ X 967-4737 X $3.00 UNTIL 6 PM DAILY ALL DAY TUES.(EXC. HOLIDAYS) . ; ; ; ; "" " 1111 y D I' S T i : W&w of HOFFMAN : SKSSSKS CRUISE 2:00 4:30 7:00 tfcSO . RAIN R X)iOOLBV -jgja 0. 1 IS r Y '-s ' ,, '-l ft. s'M earn profit, of landfi that required picking up office white paper from four Chapel Hill copy centers and publishing companies: Colonial Press Inc., Copytron, Kin ko's Copies, and Universal Printing and Publishing Co., he said. ' Every week he takes the 250 pounds of paper that he collects from the centers, plus 100 pounds of paper that he collects from FGI, an adver tising agency in Eastowne Office Park to Schwartz and Sons Scrap yard in Durham, Gammarino said. At the scrapyard he gets five cents for each pound of paper he brings and earns about $18 a week, or $72 a month, for his efforts. Extended office paper recycling is more profitable, Gammarino said. "There is potential for somebody there to make a living." The same is not true of residential recycling, he said. The reason for this is the low prices one receives when one sells recyclable goods to companies. The United States government sells forest timber for very low prices to housing companies, he said. The woodchips left over after the trees are cut down are donated to paper mills. Jf paper mills do not have to pay for woodchips to make new paper, they are not going to pay for old paper to recycle, Gammarino said. This is why newspaper recycling is less profitable. Another reason Gammarino makes more money recycling white office paper is the white paper is quality paper, he said. Newspaper does not have the same quality. John Kessler, general manager at to know the various health effects of drug usage." Information will also help people make political decisions on how drug abuse should be handled, Wrenn said. "The government under George Bush has taken it upon itself to address the nation's drug problem. We're con cerned that the way they're doing this is going to hurt people's political rights. Citizens should know about the subject of drugs." One of the purposes of the seminar is to inspire students at other medical schools to hold information days. Well. Proceeds from the run will go to the United Way of Chapel Hill and the Ronald McDonald House of Chapel Hill. The students hope to raise enough money to contribute $4,000 to each organization, said Brock Winslow, a member of Pi Kappa, Alpha. When Pi Kappa Alpha organized the first run last year, "we were looking to establish a tradition that would be carried down through the years," Winslow said. The fraternity asked Alpha Delta AefcBAwKi o MAN! STERCOl,, wmwwm There's a powerful conspiracy in the heartland of America. It's a war. 2:054:357:059:35 A WARNER COMMUNICATIONS COMPANY nmRNUt mot. CIMR Wm Itml Uc Al It CHEVY CHASE America's favorite multiple personality is back! 2:204:207:209:20 PG ( IMS DNIVtRSAL CITY STUDIOS. MC wm-wm !.;.v. r.y.v. v.v.v -v .-.v. v. v.' :S v. --. "v.V.v.vy. -. x- - - vV-.-.--1 . . . . . . .:.;.? V it vy " w , v -: - - - ..I... M I., Craig Gammarino picks up Copytron, said employees were enthusiastic about Gammarino's recycling program, and he tried several years ago to get a program such as Gammarino's started. A lot of the problem of starting such a program was finding someone who would come out and pick up the paper and take it to the recycling cohol Information Day "We hope to encourage other medical students to do this," Wrenn said. "We feel that students in AMSA (Amer ican Medical Student Association) will get involved after this one." Students said that they felt drugs were definitely a problem at UNC, but some said an Information Day won't solve all the problems. "I feel that the drug conditions at UNC are exacerbated by constant pressures that exist because of the competititive nature of students at an academicallly superior school," said Kim-Kim Foster, a freshman physical of 1st UNC -student Pi to help with fund raising and organization this year. The two organizations have been preparing for the run since last September, said Alpha Delta Pi member Charla Price. "It took a long time to get organ ized," she said. 'It's been hectic getting it together, but it's for a good cause. You realize it's worth it." Preparations included soliciting students, local businesses and frater nity and sorority alumni and parents for donations. "It's pretty much a tremendous undertaking," Winslow said. "We're looking very, very hopefully at that goal ($8,000)." , Runners have also been preparing for the run, said Alpha Delta Pi member Michelle Hoffman. for u,;it to 7 i if e A I vA if : 'vi V DTHRegina Holder paper from Kinko's Thursday centers, Kessler said. Pollock said it was crucial to have volunteers collecting recyclable mate rials in order to keep the landfill open. ' Since October, Chapel Hill has sponsored curbside recycling pro grams in which glass, aluminum and newspapers are picked up weekly to ' be recycled. therapy major from Charlotte. "Drug , Information Day will probably not, solve all the problems. Only a graphic example of the ill effects of drug abuse will change the situation." Chris Bracy, a freshman criminal justice major from Colombia, Md.,' said that he recognizes the drug problem. "Yes, I think that there' is a problem, and it definitely has to.' be dealt with. I experience it at frat ' court all the time. I once had a guy try to sell me some blow (cocaine). I think that students should know about drugs and their ill effects." "I don't run regularly," she said. UT1 1 f .1.. ie oeen running ior tne last two and a half weeks and going to the track to try and increase my distance.' I'm up to about two and a half miles." Donations for the run can be mailed to either the Alpha Delta Pi house or the Pi Kappa Alpha house," Price said. Checks should be made out to the Hinton James Charity Run. The run will start at the Hinton . James ' historical marker south of r Burgaw. near Wilmington, and con-, t tinue on N.C. Route 117 to Wallace.. The run will continue west on N.C. Route 41 to Harrells, then follow N.C. Route 421 to Erwin and turn umu rn.y. rvouie jj. i jlowcs vjrove the participants will take N.C. Route F A "11 1 TT'11 : - -t inio napei niu. v
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