4 - Morrisville and Preston Progress, Thursday, Oct. 30,1997
A RIDE IN THE HAY—Stacy Lessard and chil- and Lynn Bowman of Cary were among the area
dren, Alex and Steve, of Carpenter, and Josh
residents taking part in Harvest Days.
Harvest Days attracts crowds
BY MARY BETH PHILLIPS
“It’s a great setting,” said Melodic
Woolet, who was selling American
Girl, Bitty Baby and Magic Attic
doll clothes at the second annual
Harvest Days festival in Carpenter.
Hayrides pulled by a tractor
wound around a large pond next to a
field where various plows were
working the ground all day. Old
steam engines, tractors and hay
balers filled the grassy area. A sim
ulation still, a working apple press
making cider, a mechanical corn
shellcr crushing the corn, and a rusty
blacksmith forge were on display.
Ms. Woolet of Cary was among the
vendors, who presented everything
from leather and yarn craft to sculp
tures made out of scraps of iron.
Children delighted in the goals, rab
bits, chickens and other farm ani
mals in the petting zoo. Pony rides
also brought smiles to their faces.
The menu was country—jambalaya.
barbecue, pinto beanss...and the
weather was perfect.
“We patterned this after an event in
Silk Hope,” said the Carpenter
Ruritan Club President Tom
Goodwin. “We talked to the people
who put it on, and got their list of
vendors.”
All of the proceeds go to the
Ruritan Club scholarship fund,
which will benefit a Carpenter resi
dent going to college.
It was a large undertaking for a
club with only 16 members.
But the reward for all of their hard
work was great.
The event raised about $1,500,
about the same amount that was
raised last year. During the course of
the day an estimated 700 people
enjoyed the festival. Three hundred
adults bought tickets, and an esti
mated 400 children came along.
(Children under 12 were free).
The total includes T-shirt sales.
sales of pumpkins and mums and
money made from a pumpkin, hay
and mum sale held at Lowes Foods
the previous weekend.
Goodwin said the club hopes to
hold the event earlier next year,
because the Ferrell family, which
owns the farm, takes their mules to a
Mule Day festival in Ohio during the
week before the fair. Next year, mules
may be an added attraction. Also, the
club hopes to get an automatic ice
cream machine, which makes ice
cream five gallons at a time.
Ruritan members can’t take it too
easy now that the Harvest Days fes
tival is over. The semi-annual fish
fry will be held Nov. 1 at the
Carpenter Fire Station. Money from
the fish fry is used for community
projects such as food baskets at
Thanksgiving and Christmas.
The fish fry will be held from 11
a.m. to 7 p.m. Plates are $6 and may
be purchased at the door.
BY ROXANNE POWERS
The early part of this month was a
busy time for our family, and
indeed, community.
I've always loved a good work in
contrast, and living out here where
“country meets city” is no excep
tion.
For the past six years, I’ve
enjoyed being able to raise kids in
an area that offers an array of edu
cational and extracurricular activi
ties while also extending the shared
values of the community.
I’ve also found it intriguing that
local residents can walk out their
back door and pluck fresh produce
from a garden, or walk out their
front door to enjoy fine dining.
Right in the middle of this con
junct are the Carpenter Ruritans,
who also seem to delight in the
offerings of rural life, in fact, they
are part of the offerings.
The Ruritans provide parks (and
their maintenance), recreation and
college scholarships. I admire their
work, and agreed to help bring
awareness to their “Old-Time Farm-
Days” event that provides funds for'
their college scholarship program.
On Oct. 4, you could have seen me
operating a skid-steer loader in the
Lowe’s Food’s parking lot in a
“country meets city” kind of way,
in a cocktail dress and workboots.
Now, don’t knock it if you’ve
never tried it. I think everyone
should let their hair down and get a
little silly sometimes, and this was
a great opportunity for that, but it
was also a great educational experi
ence as well. Or, should I say,
empowering.
I learned that when I’m dressed in
the above-mentioned attire, I can
get men to agree to anything; all I
have to do is agree to “un-link” my
arm from theirs.
My first victim was Henry
Starney, then Bruce Pease, Tom
Goodwin, and Bob Lucas. Now, if I
can just remember what it was I got
each of them to agree to as their
eyes darted around wildly and fear
fully (while my grip tightened, and
my smile widened) until I finally
extracted promises of a clean
garage, a newly installed mailbox,
brass address numbers affixed to
the house.. .hmmm, wonder if there
are any other promotionals lurking
on the horizon.
Thanks in part, to the combined
efforts of Lowe’s Foods,
Prestonwood Country Club, and
Revels Tractor in Fuquay-Varina,
this was an entertaining and suc
cessful fund-raiser, and promises to
be even more successful as more
exhibitors and good neighbors get
involved.
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A subdivision that would double
the population of Morrisville will be
considered in November by the
town board.
ParkSide development would be
located on a 246-acre site at Davis
Drive and Old Maynard Road, just
below RTP and near the planned
Outer Loop.
McNeely Associates, a Raleigh
architectural firm, submitted a site
plan to the town in September on
behalf of Juno Beach, Florida-based
ParkSide Development, LLC.
Although the current resisdential
management zoning allows up to 10
units per acre, the subdivision’s den
sity will actually be 4-and-a-quarter,
barely over single-family denisty,.
said Hal McNeely of McNeely and
Associates.
The subdivision is slated to have
1,147 residential units. McNeely
said it will have about 36 acres of
internal buffers and open space
because of the type of land it is.
“It’s typical Carolina rolling land
with narrow ridges, drainage ways
that bisect it and so forth. The plan
tries to yield to the topography. The
open space fundamentally preserves
these drainage ways, and works well
with the topography of the land
“I don’t think that site is conducive
to massive changing of the topogra
phy. The developer feels it is more
important to save trees and drainage
ways.”
The site plan calls for single fami
ly homes, townhomes, condomini
ums, patio homes and apartments.
The developer will extend and
pave Old Maynard Road, although
it will not be a primary road
through the subdivision. McNeely
said the property is a very good
area for residential development,
and that the RTP would make a nice
neighbor.
—By Mary Beth Phillipss
Powell resigns to spend more time with family
Morrisville Planning Director
Leisa Powell resigned in October to
take a part-time Job with a consult
ing firm and to spend more time
with her young daughter.
Mrs. Powell was the town’s first
planning director. She came on
board in April of 1994. Before she
was hired, planning duties were han
dled by other staff or a consultant.
“She was the planning department,
since the time she came on, she han
dled the day to day planning and
zoning duties, coordinated the
review process, a number of things,”
said Town Manager David
Hodgkins.
“She came in at the ground level.
The department has grown. She has
been the lead person in defining
what that department did and does.
She has been the main point of con
tact through the years for the devel
opment community and has served
the town well in that capacity.
“We’re sorry to see her go; we are
actively recruiting a replacement,”
he said.
Mrs. Powell said she will work
part time for the town until her
replacement starts.
Hodgkins said the closing date for
resumes is Nov. 21. He said he has
received one or two so far that he
would be interested in talking to.
Mrs. Powell will be working for
Hobbs, Upchurch and Associates,
consulting engineering firm, of
Southern Pines.
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