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Wednesday, April 12,1995
County Officials Treat Fewer Pets
Than Expected as Rabies Spreads
BYKERRYOSSI
STAFF WRrTtR
Pet owners waited in line for more than
an hour Friday to have their dogs or cats
vaccinated at a reduced-rate rabies clinic
sponsored by Orange County animal con
trol.
The clinic, held at three sites, treated
.576 pets, more than 200 more than the
previous year. In Chapel Hill alone, 171
vaccinations were administered at the
Animal Shelter of Orange County.
Although this number exceeded past
totals, in light of the state’s growing rabies
epidemic, it did not exceed the expecta
tions of Orange County officials.
“We were expecting a big clinic mostly
because of the rabies scare and because of
■more media exposure than in the past,”
said John Sauls, director of Orange County
animal control.
Since April 1, there have been six addi
tional cases of rabies reported in North
Carolina, raising the statewide total to 117
cases for 1995. Seven cases were reported
in Wake County this year, which is a factor
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“We were expecting a big
clinic mostly because of the
rabies scare and because of
more media exposure than in
the past. ”
JOHN SAULS
Orange County animal control director
that Sauls said greatly contributed to the
larger number of vaccinations given in
Orange County this year.
“The increases in Wake County really
caught people’s attention around here, ”he
said.
A seven-night clinic held in Wake
County had an even greater response than
Orange County clinics, with 5,775 pets
vaccinated, a 78 percent increase from the
previous year.
Dicke Sloop, Wake County animal con
trol program manager said greater media
exposure of the recent increase in rabies
had helped with the success oflocal clinics.
Both Sloop and Sauls agreed that the tim
ing of clinics with the growing awareness
of the threat rabies posed led to the treat
ment of many pets that normally would
not have been taken to a veterinarian.
“The awareness level was up and, as a
result, I think, there were more pet owners
(at the clinics) with animals that had never
been vaccinated,” Sloop said.
Although these vaccination clinics will
not slow the rabies epidemic that is spread
ing unchecked through wold animals, pub
lic health veterinarian Lee Hunter said the
vaccinations were still beneficial.
“In most cases, the disease is spread to
humans by dogs or cats rather than wild
animals,” Hunter said. “By vaccinating,
we put a barrier of protection between us
and rabies in wild animals.”
At the animal shelter, the large number
of pet owners attending caused a backup of
work for the lone veterinarian administer
ing vaccinations at the clinic.
Sauls said, “There were long waits, tre
mendous lines, and people waited for up to
an hour.”
CITY
Aldermen and Residents Resurrect
Talk of Historic District in Carrboro
BY SARAH SHOWFETY
STAFF WRITER
Residents living on historical property
met with Carrboro aldermen at an infor
mal “kitchen table discussion” Monday
night to discuss their opinions about pres
ervation ofhistorical property in Canboro.
The discussion was held to express con
cerns about the resurrection of the “his
toric district concept,” originally introduced
in 1989 and adamantly opposed by resi
dents, that would impose guidelines on
what modifications could be made to the
facades of historic homes.
“We are trying to preserve the integrity
and character of these neighborhoods,”
Alderman Mike Nelson said. “Maintain
ing the history is important for our com
munity,” he said.
The proposal for a historic district and a
historic district commission was met by
fervent opposition from the community
and was tabled when it was first presented
in 1989.
The Carrboro town attorney and plan
ning staff then prepared a revised ordi
nance providing only for a neighborhood
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these neighborhoods.
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MIKE NELSON
Carrboro alderman
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hood preservation district.
Senior planner for Carrboro Lisa Pruitt
said the historic district concept was being
reintroduced to see whether public senti
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people were opposed to it because they did
not like being obligated to go in front of a
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To preserve the houses as they are is a
mistake because they have been modified
many times since they were built,
Pardington said. She said the provisions
proposed were based on romanticized
views of what the houses used to look like.
The guidelines proposed call for retain
ing the size and shape of traditional mill
windows, preserving roof lines, and hav
ing outside lighting and decorative fea
tures. Pardington said there was no outside
lighting, wooden fences or brick walkways
in Carrboro during the time the proposal
was trying to recapture.
She emphasized that Canboro had been
a stark, bare mill town without any frills or
landscaping. She said she was sensitive to
the wishes of the historic district commis
sion to preserve authentic historic homes,
but she said most of them had been altered
significantly since they were built.
Many of the homes in question are more
than 100 years old and were the founda
tion ofthe first neighborhoods in Canboro.
Some ofthe homes are “millhouses,” which
were built by the old Canboro hosiery mill
at the turn of the century to house workers,
that have been renovated.
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