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“We knew he was coming close to the
end.” Crofton said. “We weren’t w aiting,
but-we were delaying the inevitable.”
Crofton said Kiill remained in high
spirits and kept hopes of recovery alive.
“He was very optimistic to see what the
doctors could do to get him through this.”
Kull enrolled at the University in fall
1997 and made an immediate impact for
the lacrosse team. During his freshman
vear. Kull earned a starting position on
defense in UNC’s fifth game, an 18-10
loss to Princeton. He started for the
remainder of the season.
He appeared in 14 games for the Tar
Heels and had 17 ground balls and 20
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takeaways while committing only three
turnovers. Last year, Kull started the Tar
Heels’ first six games before symptoms
of his illness forced him to sit out the rest
of the season.
“He loved to work hard," UNC
junior attacker Kevin Mehm said. “He
was inspiring.”
Kull, who was born July 3, 1979, in
Waldorf, Md„ was the son of Gary and
Denah Kull. He graduated from
Yorktown High School in 1997 and
earned All-America honors in lacrosse as
a senior before choosing to attend UNC.
"He was always a member of the
team,” Martin said.
“He never really left us.”
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Town Manager Proposes Tax Increase
By Tricia Barrios
Staff Writer
Chapel Hill residents could be in for
a five-cent increase in property taxes,
according to a preliminary assessment of
the town budget by the town manager.
Town Council members, though, said
they would not support such a drastic
increase and would try' to find alternate
sources of money to supplement any
additional costs.
Town Manager Cal Horton said the
tax forecast was the first step in culmi
nating the budget finalization in June.
“It’s based on the present conditions
and reasonable assumptions,” he said.
“It’s preliminary right now.
Town Council member Jim Ward
said he was not willing to accept the
N.C. Ski Season Picks Up After Swath of Snow
By Lam Harac
Staff Writer
Besides the snowmen, the snow
angels and the snowball fights, snow is
good for one other thing: skiing.
The recent snow accumulation in
North Carolina has meant good things
for local ski resorts, despite a late start to
the season.
Gil Adams, marketing manager at Ski
Beech Resort on Beech Mountain, said
business had picked up significantly in
the last few weeks.
“The number of calls has been off the
wall," Adams said. “We started out slow.
We opened the fifth of December, and
we usually open around Thanksgiving.
What happens is, when it snows away
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required, highlighting the fact that the
Constitution does not specify a two-thirds
vote in regard to voter referendums.
“The most fundamental rule is that you
go with the meaning of the text,” said
David Neal, counsel for the plaintiffs.
Graduate and Professional Student
Federation President Lee Conner said it
was wrong to assume that the two-thirds
vote was not required simply because it
w as not made plain in the Constitution.
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increase. “1 think it is alarming,” he said.
“We can’t expect the town citizens to
sustain that kind of increase.”
Ward said the increase would only
fund existing town programs.
“We have more people to serve each
year,” he said. “That means town ser
vices must accommodate more people.”
Ward said no one on the council
wanted to see the increase implemented.
“I don’t think any of us want to vote
for a property tax increase,” he said,
“but (Horton) is saying to just hold even
we have to have an extra five cents.”
A one-cent increase in property tax
would bring town government an addi
tional $300,000 alone. Council mem
bers said they were not sure of where
the money would come from otherwise.
“That’s the 04 million-dollar ques-
from (the mountains), people start to
think about skiing.”
Wintergreen Resort in Virginia was
expecting a lot of snow this past week
end. Communications Director Dave
Zunker said the resort opened all of its
slopes Friday, including 19 trails and a
snowboard park. “Everyone comes out
of the woodwork (when it snows), and
it’s party time,” Zunker said.
“It’s been remarkable this week.”
At Appalachian Ski Mountain, in
Blowing Rock, the last two slopes were
opened Saturday.
General Manager Brad Moretz said
Appalachian also opened late.
Before Christmas, business was “driz
zly,” Moretz said. But starting in late
December, it was ideal skiing weather
He said Title 1, Article VI, Section 1 of
the Constitution gave Congress an over
sight role in campus elections, but Tide II
of the Code explicitly spelled out how
representatives must carry out referen
dum procedure.
Kleinschmidt said the complaint
raised valuable questions, but in his
response to the court, defended his
actions under the Constitution.
Supreme Court Justice Ed Page said
he hoped to hear the case by Thursday.
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tion,” council member Flicka Bateman
said. “What do we do? No staff raises?
No town repairs?”
Council member Edith Wiggins sug
gested alternate means of generating
revenue than raising taxes, adding that
the tax increase would probably not
pass and was just a preliminary report.
“Em sure it’s not going to be that,”
she said. “The manager just throws out
the worst-case scenario at first.”
Horton said a change in fees, such as
increasing the price of downtown park
ing, would help generate revenue.
“The more revenue from fees, the less
the tax rate will have to go up,” he said.
Ward said anew method of trash col
lection would also help tile town by cut
ting down on the cost of town services.
“Curbside collection would require
and business this weekend was at nor
mal levels.
Moretz also said a lot snow-making
had been going on since Christmas.
With the temperatures so low, natural
snow is no longer a prerequisite for ski
ing. “We could not make snow for three
weeks, and still have a lot of snow left,”
he said.
Ski Beech also makes its own snow,
as does Wintergreen. “We have an awe
some system that can make snow really
fast,” Zunker said. But natural snow trig
gers an awareness of skiing, he added.
He said many people did not realize
that it’s always several degrees colder in
the mountains, so they can ski even if it’s
40 degrees where they live.
The mountains received an average
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Welfare.
Pendergrass said that even though
Hailey was found in Orange County,
the Orange County Department of
Social Services was not involved
because Hailey lived in Chatham
County with Christie. Christie could not
be reached for comment.
Orange-Chatham District Attorney
Carl Fox said he had been working with
the sheriff’s department to keep abreast
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residents to take their garbage carts to
the curb,” he said. “And it would be
once a week.”
Bateman said the curbside method
could save the town $700,000 in about
four years. “We know that that’s defi
nitely a way to save money,” she said.
Horton said it was too early to discuss
budget propositions in great detail.
“The council hasn’t even had its first
work session yet,” he said.
The council will hold budget hearings
that will be open to the public Jan. 25
and March 29. Ward said the budget
was scheduled to be finalized June 12.
“It needs a lot of work. We need to
find other ways.”
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of 4 inches this weekend, with as much
as a 6- to 8-inch accumulation in the
high points. More snow could also be
expected midweek, said Jim Hudgins, a
meteorologist at the National Weather
Service in Blacksburg, Va.
According to insiders in the business,
the best times to ski are during the week,
unless it’s a holiday, Zunker said.
Wintergreen gets about 1,000 skiers
Monday through Friday. That number
increases to about 4,500 on Saturdays.
Adams, of Ski Beech, said, “Watch
the weather. Don’t come up blind, with
out watching the weather reports and
being unprepared for snowstorms.”
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of the details in the event that charges
were filed. “I’ve conferred with the offi
cers and the investigator a couple of
times,” he said. “I have listened to the
evidence they have.”
Fox added that although the case had
received a swarm of attention, he would
treat the case no differently than any
other. “If charges were filed, we’d pros
ecute just like in any other case,” he
said. “This case has just gotten a lot
more attention.”
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at citydesk@unc.edu.