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Wednesday, February 26, 1997
Town Council awards contracts
for Hargraves Gym construction
BY GIBSON PATE
STAFF WRITER
The Hargraves Gymnasium Project
came a step closer to reality at
Monday’s Chapel Hill Town Council
meeting when council members voted
to accept bids and award contracts for
construction of anew gym.
Located at 216 N. Roberson St., the
Hargraves Center should have anew
gymnasium complex by May 1998. The
new facility also will be located on
North Roberson St. and will consist of
an 8,600 square foot building, two new
parking areas, an outdoor basketball
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In the Feb. 25 article, "United Voices,"
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saying in an earlier interview that Black
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"Educators to focus on gaps in learning"
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gram participants only as "students."
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court, an air conditioned indoor basket
ball court and a multi-purpose room.
The council awarded a series of con
struction contracts to Engineered
Construction Company, Mark
Henderson, Inc., Southeastern
Mechanical and Sparrow and Sons for a
total amount of $1,308,424.
After soliciting bids in November, the
town awarded contracts to companies
who gave the lowest bid. Nate Davis,
director of Hargraves Recreational
Center, said,"This project has been in
the works for years, and everyone
involved has been committed to the pro
ject.”
Although the project is being funded
with SBII,OOO from 1989 bonds,
$106,000 from an insurance settlement
and an Orange County commitment of
SIOO,OOO, a budget deficit of $484,000
still remains. Council member Joe
Capowski said the additional funding
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would come from the use of 1996
bonds, which placed the Hargraves
Project as a top priority.
“Although our anticipated cost was
overrun due to higher contracting prices,
we feel the project is still worth the over
run,” he said. “Building Hargraves Gym
has been a top priority of the council’s
for a long time.”
As future director of the gym, Davis
said he had developed programs for the
past two years. He highlighted music
lessons, crafts, recreational programs
and special interest seminars as ways the
gym will be utilized.
Mary Jones, who spoke for the
Hargraves Gymnasium Project at
Monday’s meeting, said the gym would
improve community interaction, deter
delinquency and enhance the town.“l
remember going to the center as a
child,” she said. “I wish earlier genera
tions had had a gym to go to.”
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UNC freshman nabs regional Emmy
BY JASON MORRELL
STAFF WRITER
Though her mantle may not glitter
like Helen Hunt’s or Candace Bergen’s,
Christine VanCott has got more Emmy
gold than the average undergraduate.
Christine VanCott, a freshman from
Raleigh, was recently awarded the
regional Midsouth Emmy Award for
her work last year on the Enloe High
School production, “On The Edge,” a
documentary dealing with teenage sub
stance use and abuse.
“We didn’t start off with the inten
tion of winning an award,” VanCott
said. “We just wanted to produce a
quality production.”
The students mailed the pilot tape in
to the National Academy of Television
Arts and Sciences to be nominated.
“Getting the nomination was a big
surprise,” VanCott said. “And winning
was an even bigger one.”
The Eleventh Annual Midsouth
Emmy Awards was telecast live from
Opryland’s Tennessee Ballroom in
Nashville.
The entire Enloe production crew
attended the Feb. 15 awards ceremony.
“Attending the awards ceremony was
quite an event,” VanCott said. “It was
amazing.”
Aaron Bare, a senior at Enloe who
also worked on the documentary, said
their entry garnered a lot of attention at
the Nashville ceremony.
“The people there really respected
what we did,” Bare said. “And that was
the most important part.”
An arts grant awarded to Enloe
enabled the students studying television
production to have access to a broad
cast-quality production facility.
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“On The Edge” is the first in a series
of eight documentaries to be produced
by Enloe students in the next two years.
And it was the only student production,
including colleges and universities, to be
nominated in the Midsouth region.
“(The series) came around interest
ingly,” VanCott said. “We started the
series with the goal of getting informa
tion to the people who need it.”
With two of her daily schedule’s
eight periods spent in production,
VanCott said work on the film was “def
initely a full-time job."
VanCott, who served as associate
producer of the documentary, designed
the set, oversaw the construction of it
and helped with the post-production.
“Christine was the guiding force in
this program,” said Curry Leslie,
instructor of television production at
Enloe. “She pulled together the efforts
of other producers and made this whole
thing make sense.”
Bare echoed this sentiment and said
VanCott made things flow smoothly.
“Christine was the mother of our lit
tle television group,” he said. “She was
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Freshman Christine VanCott displays the Emmy she won for a program about
teen drug use that she helped make while a student at Enloe High School.
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Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassus, the African,” a
work that marked the beginning of the genre in African-American literature.
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“The program is designed to be
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As for the impact of the award,
VanCott said winning the Emmy after
graduating from high school has made
no difference to her.
“It’s quite an honor,” she said. “I
hope it does a lot for the reputation of
the school and the television production
program there.”
Though she’s graduated from Enloe,
VanCott frequents the campus to offer
her advice to the relatively new crew.
“We are a very close-bait team,” she
said. “I’m always happy to give some
input.”
VanCott said she hoped to continue
in the production field after she gradu
ates from UNC.
She said, “I’d really like to be pro
ducing for television somewhere in the
arts area, perhaps broadcast designing.”
Olaudah Equiano