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Friday, August 22, 1997
Police station awaits new location
■ An old church will be the
new home for Carrboro
police by September 1998.
BY JIM VINSON
STAFF WRITER
After weeks of debate, the Carrboro
Police Department may have finally
found anew home.
The department will be moving into
Carrboro Baptist Church, which the
town purchased in June. But it will still
be a while before the move takes place.
The church was supposed to be vacat
ed by Jan. 15,1998, but church leaders
asked for an extension which would give
them until September 1998, Carrboro
Alderman Hank Anderson said.
Coastal landmark waits for
■ The funds to save the
Cape Hatteras Lighthouse
must pass with the budget.
BY JONATHAN COX
ASSISTANT STATE & NATIONAL EDITOR
The mention of Cape Hatteras
Lighthouse sparks reflections of a sim
pler time for charter boat captain Ernie
Foster.
"I think it has come to symbolize the
Outer Banks and a way of life that does
n’t really exist anymore,” Foster said.
“It’s hard to put a dollar and cents value
on those types of emotional and senti
mental attachments.”
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Alderman Jacquelyn Gist said sever
al factors contributed to the delay. “They
have a location, but I don’t know if
they’ve broken ground yet,” she said.
Anderson said the church’s new site
is located in Southern Village, a housing
development located farther south
between Chapel Hill and Carrboro.
Carrboro town officials plan to reno
vate the church before the big move.
“The design will be based on many
community meetings and will be keep
ing within general Carrboro standards,”
Gist said. “It will be energy and envi
ronmentally conscious.”
Many of the town’s departments
were considered for the new location,
including Recreation and Parks.
But the police department is in need
of space. The current police department
is too small, police spokeswoman
But the destiny of this historical land
mark rests in the hands of U.S. lawmak
ers and state officials attempting to set
tle the federal budget. They must con
sider providing funds to move the light
house, protecting it from the ocean.
“The Senate committee has come out
with part of the budget that has $2 mil
lion to provide for the planning,” said
Bob Woody, chief officer of planning
and partnerships for Cape Hatteras
National Seashore. “If we can get this
$2 million approved, it will insure the
additional $lO million for fiscal year
1999.”
Several years ago the National
Science Academy made the costly deci
sion to move the lighthouse. However,
some felt moving the lighthouse was not
Captain Carolyn Hutchinson said.
“There is not enough space for us,”
she said. “We share space on the fire
department side with the fire depart
ment and are in two floors of Town
Hall. We’re spread all over the space.”
Currently the police officers take
breaks and eat in die same area where
general police activities take place,
Hutchinson said.
“Sometimes it’s hard to distinguish
between criminals to process and gener
al people who have just come in,” she
said.
For the police department to remain
in the town hall, renovations would be
required, but Carrboro can only afford
to renovate the church.
Anderson said that the town has not
yet selected an architect to renovate the
church.
rescue effort
the best alternative. N.C. Senate
President Pro Tern Marc Basnight, D-
Dare, created a committee to setde the
issue.
“Last year Marc Basnight called for a
committee from North Carolina State
University to revisit the National
Science Academy report and make their
own report," Woody said. “They
accepted the NSA report.”
Despite the committee’s findings,
opponents argue that moving the struc
ture is not the best alternative.
Those opponents have formed the
Save the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse
committee.
Members of the committee contin
ued to promote the use of a jetty-groin
system to prevent erosion around the
lighthouse.
Morton said the groin would cost
$1.7 million instead of the estimated
sl2 million to move it. He said the groin
would also be safer.
“Moving the lighthouse is a high risk
operation,” said Hugh Morton, chair
man of the Save the Cape Hatteras
Lighthouse committee. “The lighthouse
is 208 feet tall and 127 years old.”
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Jimmy Moore, in the part of Jesus, revels in the praise of his disciples during the Anti-Shakespeare Festival on
Thursday evening. The Somnambulist Project's annual event will continue through Sunday in the Forest Theatre.
Festival shakes up classic dramas,
offers original children’s musical
BY MARY-KATHRYN CRAFT
FEATURES EDITOR
A group of local thespians plans to
send summer out in style.
The Somnambulist Project of Chapel
Hill, a theater group that produces plays
throughout the year, will put on its last
performances in the annual Anti-
Shakespeare Festival during the next
two weekends.
The festival’s title is not a jab at the
legendary English poet but rather a way
to note a unique festival.
Suzy Radwan, co-founder of the fes
tival and director of “Jesus Christ
Superstar,” said the festival started five
years ago when about 20 theater enthu
siasts moved to Chapel Hill after grad
uating from college.
This year’s festival showcases “Jesus
Christ Superstar” along with “Hamlet,
The Prince of Central Park” and
“Satchmo & Izzy.”
Andrew Lloyd Weber’s “Jesus Christ
Superstar” runs Thursday through
Sunday at 7 p.m. in the Forest Theatre.
Radwan, who directs the play and
plays King Herod, said this summer’s
experience had been awesome.
“The last performance we got stand
ing ovations,” she said. “You see people
crying out there. It becomes a really per
sonal thing in rehearsal, and you get so
into it. It’s neat to do it in front of peo
ple.”
A comic adaptation of Shakespeare’s
“Hamlet” titled “Hamlet, The Prince of
Central Park” takes the Forest Theatre
stage Aug. 29 through Aug. 31.
Michael Smith, who plays a charac
ter modeled after King Claudius, said he
had enjoyed the acting experience. “It is
a lot of fun to act out there in that
space,” said Smith, who has dedicated
most of his time directing in recent
years. “It is unusual to act outside.”
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In “Satchmo & Izzy” Smith plays
the King of the Roaches. “He is a char
acter Satchmo and Izzy meet during
their adventures,” Smith said. “It was
my first musical. It was exciting and at
the same time frightening.’’
The children’s musical chronicles the
escapades of two housecats as they ven
ture into the outside world.
The last production for “Satchmo
and Izzy” is scheduled for 3 p.m. Aug.
31. The Aug. 30 production has been
canceled, said Todd Scofield, publicist
for The Somnambulist Project.
Scofield also said he anticipated that
the next two weeks would be busy and
exciting. “This summer has been great,”
he said. “It has been the biggest so far.
We already had as many people come to
the first performances as we had come
to all three last year.”
Evening performances begin at 7
p.m. Matinees start at 3 p.m. Admission
is a $5 suggested donation.