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Carrboro weighs myriad
options for its new park
Residents offer
input on usage
BY SHANNAN BOWEN
ASSISTANT CITY EDITOR
Recreation, education and
preservation are a few of the uses
Carrboro residents proposed for
the town’s Hillsborough Road
Neighborhood Park on Saturday
morning at a community input ses
sion.
Representatives from Site
Solutions, the design firm con
structing the park, heard sugges
tions from more than 50 residents
and allowed those attending to
vote on both their most unwanted
and preferred structures and
amenities.
The most popular suggestion
was the construction of a neigh
borhood swimming pool in
Carrboro.
“It gets pretty hot here,” said res
ident Koreen Billman. “With three
kids, we’ve looked for a pool. It
would be wonderful to have a pool
nearby, even if we have to pay.”
But many residents were quick
Shiite protest sends message
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BAGHDAD, Iraq Tens of
thousands of Shiite Muslims
marched in Baghdad on Monday
to demand early elections, the
biggest public display of Shiite
political power here since the col
lapse of Saddam Hussein’s Sunni
dominated regime.
The protest aimed to send a
message to the United Nations
and the White House that Shiites
will not accept a U.S. formula for
transferring power by July 1 to a
legislature selected in regional
caucuses instead of by a direct vote
as the Shiite clergy demand.
Hours after the march, U.S. and
Iraqi officials asked the United
Nations to send a team to study
the possibility of holding elections
in Iraq. Secretary-General Kofi
Annan said he wanted
details but acknowledged the issue
was urgent. He said he hoped to
make a speedy decision.
The protesters, estimated by
reporters at as many as 100,000,
carried posters of Grand Ayatollah
Ali al-Husseini al-Sistani, Iraq’s
most influential Shiite cleric, whose
opposition to the U.S. plan threat
ens to delay the July 1 deadline for
the end of the U.S.-led occupation.
Al-Sistani also wants an elected
assembly to ratify security accords
governing the presence of coalition
troops after July 1 as well an inter
im constitution to take effect until a
President
speech set
for today
Will ask Congress
for spending cuts
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON, D.C. -
President Bush put the finishing
touches Monday on a State of the
Union speech that calls for modest
expansions of voter-friendly pro
grams while telling Congress to
curb spending in the face of
record-breaking budget deficits.
Between rehearsals for the
Tuesday evening address, he told
reporters, “I’m almost finished, in
case you’re interested.”
Bush will open his address with
remarks on national security, then
move into domestic priorities, con
trary to past practice, aides say. He
will urge Americans to back him on
the war on terrorism, arguing that
the path he has chosen, including
invading Iraq, is the right one.
In a CBS-New York Times poll
earlier this month, people were
about equally divided over his
handling of foreign policy. But less
than half said the U.S. death toll in
Iraq, which has climbed past 500
amid continuing violence, was
worth it.
The second half of Bush’s speech
focuses on domestic priorities, with
an emphasis on the economy. He
will seek to convince Americans
that his series of tax cuts has
turned the economy around and
that he is now turning his attention
to job creation, aides said.
Education sources have said
he’ll call for new job-training
grants channeled through com
munity colleges to help prepare
workers for a changing economy.
to say that Hillsborough Road
might not be the best location for a
swimming pool.
Carrboro Mayor Mike Nelson
said that although a swimming
pool has been a top priority for
Carrboro, funds and an available
location has kept one from being
built. “They’re very expensive to do.”
Two years ago, the town esti
mated a cost of $2 million for a
standard neighborhood swimming
pool, Nelson said.
“We are determined on getting a
swimming pool, but a swimming
pool might or might not be the best
thing for this park,” he said.
On the list of choices, an out
door pool received 11 favorable
votes and 11 unfavorable votes, but
an indoor pool was unanimously
voted down.
Other ideas for recreation
included outdoor pingpong and
tennis tables, multipurpose playing
fields and picnic shelters. Only
three residents voted for a play
ground as a desired option, and
one resident listed it as an unwant
ed feature.
Some residents leaned toward
using the Hillsborough Road park
final charter can be drafted and rat
ified in 2005. Shiites are believed to
comprise about 60 percent of Iraq’s
25 million people. U.S. authorities
cannot afford to alienate a commu
nity that generally has avoided
attacks on coalition forces so far.
Of the protests, Bremer said in
New York, “There are demonstra
tions all the time, some of them
not always very friendly to the
coalition, I might add, but they’re
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as an educational center where
families could learn about species
in the area, such as deer and birds,
and study natural resources and
plant life.
Carrboro Alderman Jacquelyn
Gist suggested building a bird
identification center at the edge of
the park, along with nature infor
mation stations.
There were 17 votes for low
impact use of the park, which some
say will preserve the area and pro
vide use for residents of all ages.
Resident Giles Blunden said a
less-structured park would provide
a quieter, more pacifying type of
recreation.
“We have a lot of constructed
parks,” he said. “An open field
serves a lot of options.”
Anita Jones-McNair, Carrboro
director of parks and recreation,
said that there is no timetable for
the completion of the park but that
the votes will be tallied this week at
a meeting with Site Solutions, who
then will develop several concep
tual plans to be released in March.
Contact the City Editor
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peaceful and we welcome it.”
U.S. officials insist early elec
tions are not feasible because of
Iraq’s precarious security situation,
the absence of an election law and
the lack of voter rolls. An election
also could hand power to well
organized groups such as rem
nants of Hussein’s now-banned
Baath party and religious extrem
ists rather than Iraqis willing to
cooperate with the coalition.
News
Protests mark MLK events
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ATLANTA U.S. citizens
observed Martin Luther King Jr.
Day on Monday with some
activists claiming that the war in
Iraq and other Bush administra
tion policies run counter to what
the civil rights leader stood for.
“We have to be concerned not
just about us. We have to be con
cerned about all our brothers and
sisters throughout our nation and
world,” King’s son Martin Luther
King 111 said in a service at
Ebenezer Baptist Church, where
his father preached until he was
assassinated in 1968.
“How many Iraqi children have
been killed? When will the war end?
We all have to be concerned about
terrorism, but you will never end
terrorism by terrorizing others.”
Activities included an affirmative
action rally in Michigan, volunteer
ing campaigns in Washington, D.C.,
and Philadelphia and a Florida
protest against a speech by the pres
ident’s brother.
Criticisms of President Bush
popped up in several places.
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In Boston, the first woman bish
op of the African Methodist
Episcopal Church, the Rev. Vashti
Murphy McKenzie, said the nation
should adjust its priorities. “We
can find billions of dollars to
rebuild Iraq and Afghanistan and
we cannot find the money to
rebuild the infrastructure of the
United States,” she said.
Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin
brought forth a standing ovation
when she referred to a visit Bush
made last week to King’s tomb.
The visit was picketed by almost
800 people who said the president
should not have come because his
policies are inconsistent with
King’s principles of nonviolence.
Referring to the president,
Franklin said, “Perhaps some pre
fer to honor the dreamer while
ignoring or fighting the dream.”
But amid the criticisms was a
tone of hope. Martin Luther King
111 told congregants that his father
would have wanted people to work
together for peace and justice even
when they seem impossible to
achieve. “He had a policy of zero tol
erance for despair and cynicism.”
At the University of Michigan-
Ann Arbor, hundreds marched in
support of the school’s affirmative
action policy, which is under fire
from a group that wants voters to
decide in a Nov. 2 referendum.
In Tallahassee, Fla., a group of
college students protested the holi
day speech by Gov. Jeb Bush, the
president’s brother. Gov. Bush was
invited to speak at historically black
Florida A&M University, but stu
dents unhappy with his policies
walked out before his speech. They
criticized his views on affirmative
action, among other things.
The governor said the students
have every right to express their
views. He also said Florida A&M’s
success “could not have occurred
without the struggles that Dr. King
and many others a generation ago
undertook.”
In Washington volunteers
helped the homeless, delivered
meals to homebound people and
took part in other projects, saying
the best way to honor King’s legacy
was to give back to the community.
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