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Batlg ®ar Hppl USMRG -\ ■* &• ' ' ■■■*■ ■':•■• y • * V &-' v **■>■ — lt J|l( j DTH/ERIK PF.RF.I Amy Webster, campaign manager of U.S. P.1.R.G., announces at a press conference June 1 the state of Chapel Hill's water supply. U.S. P.I.R.G. is a lobby group that fights for more measures to ensure clean water. Reports Indicate Violations of Safe Drinking Water Act in Triangle Area BY WENDY GOODMAN CITY EDITOR An environmental group said last week that local water supplies did not meet fed eral health standards for lead content. Statistics showed an “appalling” num ber of health violations in water supplies across the nation and that utilities in this area were also unsafe when compared with Environmental Protection Agency stan dards, said Amy Webster, the local cam paign director for the United States Public Interest Research Group. “In Chapel Hill, Raleigh and Durham, several water systems exceeded EPA’s ‘Lead Action Level’,” she said. The lead action level is the amount of lead that the EPA considers harmful to Franklin’s Flash Photo Lab Changes Hands But Not Style BY VIVIAN LO STAFF WRITER Flash Photo Lab in University Square Plaza was sold to anew owner May 16, but no major changes have occurred in the operation of the lab. Bob Allen, the new owner of Flash Photo Lab at 133 W. Franklin St., said he had not planned to get into film processing business before he purchased the business. “The opportunity presented itself and I just figured it was a good opportunity to expand a little bit,” he said. Allen owns a commercial and advertis ing studio in Raleigh and the photo lab was his first move into Chapel Hill. s Frisk To-Mix ih Nortk CkrolihA? : | ARMADILLO GRILL i ; : * Tortillas, EhckilaJas, Frcsk Salsas, ai>J tort! • J Coh\< ky tie Upstairs Bar for weekly specials! TV’s Upstairs! ■ S Patio Dihihy Eat-ih or Carry-out. ! * Blucyr&ss oh WtJmsJkysl ; 7 ao E. MAIN STREET CARRBORO 929-4*4? ? FEEL THE ENERGY University Square Chapel Hill 967-8935 consumers in water because it exceeds a minimum level. Webster said these were the most spe cific incidences of violations in the Chapel Hill area and that the report had been sent to utilities in the area detailing the prob lems and possible solutions. Kathryn Kalb, the general manager of operations at the Orange Water and Sew age Authority, said the news that Chapel Hill had problems with lead levels was a surprise. “There aren’t any problems with the water that we have sampled,” Kalb said. “I’m surprised because we use a corrosion inhibitor that coats all pipes so that lead won’t leak out into the water.” U.S. PlßGreleasedreportsFriday show ing that millions of Americans have been According to Allen, the majority of cus tomers of the photo lab are from UNC. “Our customer basis is sort of broad, but there is a big student as well as a UNC portion, the school itself,” he said. Allen said the prices charged on the services and operations of the lab were still the same. “Just a different signature at the bottom of the check, that’s the only thing that changed,” he said. “Just switched owners, that was all that happened.” “It’sbeen successful. The former owner had it for 10 years and he made a success outofit. There is no reason to jump in and change everything. It was going well.” Allen said future changes were possible. UNIVERSITY & CITY drinking from water supply systems that violate the EPA’s standards set by the Safe Drinking Water Act. The reports came out at a time when a bill to weaken the Act has been floating around Congress which PIRG says would be more harmful to American consumers. “This would impose new hurdles to protecting our water from contaminants that EPA deems an urgent threat to public health,” Webster said. “We need to send a strong message to Congress that this is not what we want to see happen, and that we want to see it strengthened.” cuff! ) r 4< East Franklin, I / IV / Chapel Hill | X. .7 967.2933 Still the ONLY m Place For Real Fun in Chapel Hill! FREE DRAFT! f ~ T t All Might Long! V S3STOpm; s4lopm-2am;J2JageT/J2GoU I i I ||j MUG NITE! ILLOM Bring any size draft mug if we'll fitl it for $1.00! " nitei au s $2 lager I NO COVER Dance AH Night ALL NIGHT! | $2.50 Highballs rf C| BIG SCREEN „) r p Oo L && 0*- Ai,r ,W eW r *te updated 9 TVs Sound System 157 E. Rosemary St (across (ram parking deA) • 933-7777 TAMMANY HALL'S available for Private Parties or Mixers! Call Britt! Murder Trials Flood Summer Court BY CARLOS DEMATTOS STAFF WRITER With three murder cases coming to court soon, Orange County prepares to clean up after the violence that has tom through this otherwise peaceful community during the past year. David Alton Lewis is scheduled to stand trial in Orange County Superior Court on June 20 for the shooting death ofhis former employer, James “Buck” Jefferson Copeland, in McDonald’s on West Franklin Street, September 14,1994. Police said Lewis confessed to the mur der immediately afterward. Witnesses reported seeing a “young black male driving a pickup truck, ” leaving the restaurant after the shooting. He apparently drove to the Chapel Hill New Bus Line Ready for Fall, Finally BYTANIA CALDERON STAFF WRITER Chapel Hill Transit’s newest bus route, the North-South Express, may begin ser vice this fall, a year after it was scheduled to begin. The new route which will include every stop on Airport Road south of Estes Drive and north of Rosemary Street, may relieve the congestion of an already heavily trav eled route. It will not only services two new park and-ride lots, but will travel on Airport Road, where many students take the TANARUS, A, G and P buses to campus. In order for the route to have begun service last year, two newpark and ride lots needed to be completed. The lots would have 400 parking spaces and would be strategically located at one of the town’s corridors, said Chapel Hill Tran sit System administrative analyst Scott McCellan. The town chose the corridors where Interstate 40 intersects with N.C. 86, at Eubanks Road, and the point where N.C. 54 intersects with U.S. 15-501, at the hous ing development of Southern Village. “The sites were identified after Chapel Hill Town Council conducted a study of the city’s most active traffic arteries,” Police Department on Airport Road. The Orange County District Attorney Carl Fox said he would not seek the death penalty in Lewis’ case because aggravating circumstances were not met that are neces sary for capital cases. Fox said there were 13 aggravating cir cumstances that must be met before one can seek the death penalty. Fox said he would seek the death pen alty in the cases of Wendell Williamson and Sean Patrick Goble. They have both been indicted. Williamson, a former third-year law student at UNC and a native of Clyde, was charged with the shooting deaths of Kevin Reichardt, a UNC sophomore, and Ralph Walker on January 26. Williamson has undergone a psychiat ric evaluation at Dorothea Dix Hospital to “(The route will begin next fall) in time for us to have an influence on more people. ” SCOn MCCELLAN Chapel Hill Transit Administrative Analyst McCellan said. The study, conducted in 1991, helped the town work toward the goals set out in its “Capital Improvement Plan.” The 1991 plan proposed having public transportation available on every major corridor, said McCellan. Construction of the two lots began Au gust 1994, with a revised completion date of December 1994. However, the completion of the lots was delayed by poor weather conditions that “bogged down construction until March,” McCellan said. “Generally you can’t do construction on the ground when it rains and then A dresses fk 9 hats sunglasses 1 i more the most excitement for your money! HE’S NOT HERE on the Village Green presents... FRIDAY 9th- Mother Nature SATURDAY 10th- Rewind Karaoke Every Sunday at 10pm CHAPEL HULL* 942-7939 | DELICIOUS'^ Our bagels have to make the grade before they make the basket bagels are made with ] - ■ the freshest ingredients, ' i kettle-boiled, and baked to a golden finish on a real stone i hearth. And every single one has to be perfect. 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After the defense enters a plea at the June 19 arraignment, the district attorney will receive the report. The third murder case Orange County Superior Court plans to hear this summer involves a much-publicized truck driver. Goble confessed to strangling Sherry Mansur of Clearwater, Fla. at the intersec tion of Interetates 85 and 40, just south of Hillsborough. Her body was found in Guilford County in February. His arraignment date has not been set. freezes. It isn’t stable, and the concrete could later expand,” he said. The Eubanks Road lot has been ready since April 10, and the final walk through of the Southern Village lot was conducted last week. The development has yet to pave the lot’s only access road. “The one entrance is state mandated by the Department of Transportation because they didn’t want too many entrances right off of U.S. 15-501,” said Jim Earnhardt, Southern Village project manager. The town’s park-and-ride was located within the development, and its land was purchased by the town from Southern Vil lage, Earnhardt said. The main street that allowed access to the park-and-ride lot was set to be paved within the next 30 days, he said. McCellan said there were no plans to begin servicing the route until next fall, “in time for us to have an influence on more people.” The route has been in the works for over a year. 5
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