Proposed FedEx hub debated on Wednesday night
Daniel Fleishman
NEWS EDITOR
At a FedEx forum spon
sored and moderated by the
editorial staff of The
Guilfordian, two sides
stacked with highly qualified
representatives debated the
proposed hub and the myriad
effects it would have on the
local community.
A passionately opinion
ated crowd of about 200 filled
the New Garden Friends
Meeting, applauding often
and with a hearty enthusi
asm. The audience contained
a fairly even representation
of opponents and proponents
of the issue, differing from
the one hosted by the
Greensboro Jaycees last
month, which was filled pre
dominantly with those
against it.
The pre-arranged format,
strictly adhered to, allowed
each side 25 minutes to
present their main argu
ments and 10 minutes to re
but, and concluded with about
40 minutes of questions from
the audience.
Tribute to a friend: Will Link (1976 - 2001)
Will Link who graduated from Guilford College last spring with a B.S. in Justice
and Policy Studies, died in a Thomasville car accident last week on the way to
a job interview. He was 24. A memorial service was held yesterday.
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The two
sides made
many of the
same argu
ments that
have been dis
puted since the
hub was pro
posed exactly
three years ago
today.
The oppo
nents warned
of the pros
pects of unbear
able amounts of
noise pollution,
occurring most
predominantly
from midnight
to 2 a.m., and
from 4 a.m. to 6
a.m.
The propo-
nents of the hub, represented
by the Greensboro Area Cham
ber of Commerce, focused on
the number of new full- and
part-time jobs, replete with em
ployee benefits, that would be
created.
Don Kirkman, president of
Piedmont Triad Partnership,
which solicits corporate influx
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Mark Warren, executive director of the Alliance for Legal Action, presents argumetns against the
installation of a FedEx hub at the airport. The forum was held on Wednesday night.
to the area, gave most of the
pro-hub presentation. He an
swered the opponents' noise
pollution concern by maintain
ing that 90 percent of FedEx
flights would pass over the
area southwest of the airport,
"predominantly an industrial
area with relatively few resi
dents."
My friend Will died in a car
crash on Monday. The experi
ence of losing a friend is crush
ing in many ways, but perhaps
the worst is the way that your
memories go from fond trea
sures to suffocating prisons. As
you lie in bed at three in the
morning, wanting nothing but
sleep, one thought after another
floats through your head, each
carrying the sinking knowledge
that there are no memories to
come. And you are left with a
Dan Gatti
GUEST WRITER
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April 13, 2001
The opponents, led by
Mark Warren, executive di
rector of Alliance for Legal
Action, focused their argu
ments on the noise pollution
and the monetary cost to the
Please see FedEx Forum, page
3.
sense of total futility, that there
is nothing to do for your friend,
that there is nothing to do with
your emotional angst. And it is
for that reason that I write this
tribute to him, to be able to do
something with these feelings
and memories. Thank you to
those who read this, for partici
pating in this process, both of
Will's memory and of my cathar
sis.
I first met Will my fresh
man year, and from the very be
ginning it was clear that he was
Please see Will, page 3
LEAH KEFALOS