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OWASA aims to redefine public health term
■ ‘Adverse public health
conditions’ were the topic
of Wednesday’s meeting.
BY JOHN GARDNER
STAFF WRITER
The revision of a definition by the
Orange County Health Department
could lead to county residents receiving
help when their wastewater system is in
trouble.
Orange County Environmental
Health Director Ron Holdway present
ed anew definition of what the health
department terms an “adverse public
health condition” at a joint meeting of
the Orange County Commissioners and
the Orange Water and Sewer Authority
on Wednesday night.
Dylan family wins big at Grammy awards
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK Bob Dylan, who
made a strong musical comeback in a
year he suffered through a life-threaten
ing illness, won two Grammys and his
son, Jakob, also won two as the music
business handed out its top honors
Wednesday night.
Elton John also won a best male pop
vocal performance Grammy for
“Candle in the Wind 1997," his eulogy
to Princess Diana that became the best
selling single of all time.
Rapper Puff Daddy, Lilith Fair
founder Sarah McLachlan, country
bluegrass performer Alison Kraus, cellist
Yo-Yo Ma and the late newsman
Charles Kuralt were also multiple win-
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set an example for future black officers.
He said that as an officer he could
not become involved with the move
ment. In fact, he had to arrest some pro
testers.
“My hat was off to them,” he said.
“Anything I could do for them off the
record, I did it.”
Meanwhile, Hilliard became co
chairman of the Chapel Hill Freedom
Committee and established himself as a
central figure in the local struggle for
civil rights.
“(David) was in an awkward posi
tion,” Hilliard said. “He had to do his
part and we had to do our part as
demonstrators at a particular time."
Hilliard recalled one demonstration
on Franklin Street, where an elderly
preacher was arrested while demon
strating for the Chapel Hill Freedom
Committee. Hilliard said this event
inspired him. “If this 80-year-old man
could fight for us, it was time for me to
get arrested as a leader of the move
ment,” Hilliard said.
At the next demonstration, a sit-in in
front of the Tar Heel Sandwich Shop on
Columbia Street, Hilliard said he was
dragged from the protest by Lindy
Pendergrass, currently the Orange
County sheriff.
Pendergrass said the police and pro
testers in Chapel Hill had a good rela
tionship thanks to communication
between local civil rights groups and the
police department.
“There was a cause at that time,”
Pendergrass said. “They demonstrated.
There was no ill will on anybody’s part.
We understood why they did it.”
Pendergrass said he and Hilliard had
been friends for over 40 years.
“He’s just an outstanding individ
ual,” he said. “He’s someone who I like
to say is my friend.”
Hilliard said many places in Chapel
Hill integrated voluntarily because their
owners felt it was the right thing to do.
After his days with the civil rights
movement, he continued to play an
active role in the Chapel Hill and
Carrboro communities, including
spending 14 years working in the school
system.
“When I was working in the school
system, I think I touched a lot of young
sters lives,” he said. “I made them see
there is a better tomorrow. You can get
to that better tomorrow if you want to,
but it’s up to you.”
Carrboro Alderman Hank Anderson
worked with Hilliard in the school sys
tem.
“He’s a fine person and he’s helped
the young people in this community,”
Anderson said.
Although race relations have
improved considerably, racism remains
a problem in Chapel Hill, Hilliard said.
“It raises its ugly head every now and
then, even with me an adult who had
seen this community both segregated
and integrated.”
The Caldwells’ fight for civil rights
did not stop with desegregation.
In the last decade, Capt. Danny
Caldwell, who has worked for
University Police for more than 17
years, has fought against discrimination
in his department and at the University.
This past fall, he supported Lt. C.E.
Swain by filing a complaint against the
University with him in September and a
grievance in October.
Swain found himself at the center of
the controversy after issuing a citation
for underage drinking to Caroline
Holdway said that according to the
new definition, an adverse public health
condition could be declared when three
criteria are met.
“In the case of existing wastewater
systems, an adverse public health condi
tion exists where it meets all of ihe fol
lowing criteria: the wastewater system is
failing; the wastewater system is docu
mented to be failing by the Orange
County Health Department; there is no
on-site repair approvable or recom
mended by the Orange County Health
Department.”
County manager John Link said the
definition was very difficult to come up
with. “It’s always difficult to define what
constitutes a public health hazard,” he
said.
Link said some situations that the
current policy did not consider an emer
gency could be critical to citizens con
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ners in the 40th
annual awards
show, held in
Radio City Music
Hall.
The first award
handed out on the
air went to Will
Smith, for his
“Men in Black”
rap solo, from the
hit movie in which
he starred. He
dedicated the
prize to the late
rappers Tupac
Shakur and the
Notorious 8.1. G.
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won a best male pop
vocal performance
Grammy for 'Candle
in the Wind 1997,'
his eulogy for
Princess Diana.
Hancock, 19, daughter of Board of
Trustees member Billy Armfield.
A decade ago, Danny filed a brief
supporting Lt. Keith Edwards, a former
UNC officer who spent eight years in lit
igation against the University before she
was awarded back pay and attorney’s
expenses in a racial discrimination suit.
“It’s a long fight,” Danny said of his
efforts. “As long as I see something
that’s racist or wrong, I’m going to join
in the fight.”
Edwards said she and Danny did not
think they were taking a huge step when
she filed her grievance against the
University in 1987, but the struggle of
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fronted with adverse situations.
“Someone needs to address the citi
zens’ needs on this situation,” he said.
According to county documents, the
need for the change in definition came
about due in part to a situation which
arose recently in the Brookfield neigh
borhood where the wastewater system
had malfunctioned.
Under the current County Water and
Sewer Policy, county officials were pro
hibited from extending water or sewer
utilities to the neighborhood.
The policy prohibits water and sewer
extensions into the area because it falls
under the jurisdiction of the University
Lake watershed.
The only exception to this rule pro
vided for in the policy is if the situation
is deemed a “public health emergency.”
Commissioner Alice Gordon said
this was why the new broader definition
Trisha Yearwood won for country
female vocal performance.
“You have no idea how important
this is to me tonight,” Yearwood said.
“This happened to me because of coun
try radio. I love you. Thank you for your
support.”
Bob Dylan’s album, “Time Out of
Mind,” won best contemporary folk
album and was in the running for the
more prestigious album of the year hon
ors. A song from that album, “Cold
Irons Bound,” won for best male rock
vocal performance.
Jakob Dylan won as a composer of
the best rock song, “One Headlight,”
performed by his band, the Wallflowers.
The same song was honored as the best
dealing with the lengthy litigation
helped make Danny the fighter he is
today, she said.
Danny’s family members said they
supported him as he continued the fam
ily tradition of fighting for civil rights.
“He’s a Caldwell, and I admire him,”
Hilliard said of Danny’s efforts. “I’m
behind him as an elected official and as
a family member.”
Danny’s brother Larry, also a
University Police lieutenant, said Danny
had seen more problems during his
career as a police officer than he had,
and Danny worked to correct them.
“Danny has done what he believes
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was needed. “We have been working on
anew definition since the phrase ‘public
health emergency’ is not well-defined.”
OWASA representative Dan
Vandermeer said the other major policy
change that would occur if the defini
tion was changed would be that the gov
ernment would have more of a say in sit
uations involving adverse public health
conditions.
“The health department would no
longer make the final decision (in public
health controversies),” he said.
“The government would have a huge
responsibility.”
OWASA representative William
Strom said it would be good for the citi
zens if the government had the final say
rather than the health department.
“Citizens who have been afraid to ask
for help can do so without fear of their
homes being condemned.”
rock vocal performance by a duo or
group.
Puff Daddy was hensred with the
best rap album Grammy for “No Way
Out.” His top-selling tribute to the
Notorious 8.1. G., “I’ll Be Missing You,”
won for best rap performance by a duo
or group. Known more as a producer,
Puff Daddy wasn’t even nominated in
the best producer category.
Grammy’s children’s music category
had a bittersweet tone. Kuralt, the for
mer CBS newsman who died on the
Fourth of July, and singer John Denver,
who died in a plane crash, both won
awards. Kuralt also won for best spoken
word album, beating out former
President Jimmy Carter.
in,” Larry said.
Before moving to University Police,
Larry served as one of the first blacks on
the N.C. State Highway Patrol.
Although he supports Danny’s
efforts, Larry said he saw the depart
ment’s problems as management issues,
rather than racial issues.
Although the Caldwell family has
remained influential in shaping the
Chapel Hill and Carrboro communities,
David Caldwell said he was reluctant to
characterize his family as extraordinary.
“We liked our name, and we’ve done
anything we possibly could to keep the
name clean and clear.”
Clinic bombing suspect
linked to other incidents
■ Similar bomb types have
linked a N.C. man to two
abortion clinic bombings.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.
Investigators have drawn a link between
the suspect in the bombing of a
Birmingham abortion clinic and a
bombing at a clinic in Atlanta in
January 1997, a federal agent familiar
with the case said Wednesday.
The agent said that 1-inch flooring
nails were used as shrapnel in the
Atlanta bombing and nails from the
same batch were found in a storage shed
rented by Eric Robert Rudolph in North
Carolina.
Laboratory analysis concluded that
both samples of nails came from the
same batch, “which was produced in
and sold in a small area,” according to
the agent, who spoke on condition of
anonymity. “These were not nails found
in every hardware store in America.”
Agents have been investigating
whether the Jan. 29 bombing in
Birmingham that killed a security guard
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something.
“All of a sudden, there were police
cars.”
Fernandez’s hall mate Ivan Canada
said, “We looked out the window when
we heard the boom.
“I saw the fire,” he continued. “It
looked huge to me maybe 15 feet
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is connected to three Atlanta bombings:
the abortion clinic, a gay nightclub a
month later, and the Olympic Park
bombing in July 1996.
The possible link between Rudolph
and the Atlanta clinic bombing came as
a government task force drastically
reduced the number of agents searching
in North Carolina for Rudolph.
About one-quarter of the more than
100 investigators who initially searched
for Rudolph around Murphy, N.C.,
remain in the area, said Brian Lett, a
spokesman for the Bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco and Firearms.
Agents have ended daily, blanket
searches of woods and caves and are
concentrating on tracking down leads
and checking possible sightings of
Rudolph, he said.
“They are scaling back in Murphy
but not totally withdrawing,” said Lett.
“There will remain a contingent of
agents in Murphy.”
FBI spokesman Richard Schott said
agents leaving the western tip of North
Carolina would return to normal duties
or continue working on aspects of the
bombing investigation other than the
manhunt.
(high).”
Smita Varia, a junior, was walking
with friends to an 8 p.m. dance rehearsal
when she saw the commotion.
She said she saw three police cars at
the intersection of Stadium Drive and
South Road and three more police cars
and a fire truck where the BMW was
parked.
She said, “We smelled the smoke and
everything.”
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