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FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 2004
Stabbing incident
ends with arrest
Durham resident gets assault charges
BY TERRENCE JORDAN
STAFF WRITER
Chapel Hill police arrested a
Durham resident in connection
with a stabbing incident that
occurred Thursday just after mid
night, according to police reports.
Charity Peacock, 19, was appre
hended on Columbia Street at 1:06
a.m. after a stabbing that occurred
on Lindsey Street, reports state.
At 12:37 a.m., Chapel Hill police
responded to a call from a witness
to a stabbing on Lindsey Street,
according to reports. Police found
Ebony Sams, 20, lying in the street,
being attended to by EMS workers.
Sams was taken to UNC
Hospitals and is in critical condi
tion with major injuries to her
chest and torso. After searching the
area, police found a kitchen knife in
a nearby vacant lot. They also
received a physical description of
the suspect from witnesses.
Reports state that the incident
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occurred on Lindsey Street, right
outside Lindsey Street Apartments.
According to reports, witnesses said
that Sains and Peacock were in the
midst of a verbal altercation when
Peacock stabbed Sams in the chest.
Police apprehended Peacock as
she was running on Columbia
Street, away from the scene. Upon
being arrested, she confessed to
the stabbing, reports state.
One witness claimed that Sams
and Peacock are cousins, although
police could not verify the relation.
Peacock was charged with one
felony count of assault with intent
to kill. She was taken before the
magistrate, where she was issued a
$26,000 secured bond. She was
then placed in Orange County Jail.
Peacock was scheduled to appear
Thursday Orange County Court in
Hillsborough.
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New group to aid downtown
BY ASHLEY DUNCAN
STAFF WRITER
Plagued in recent years by empty
storefronts, high turnover and lim
ited parking, downtown Chapel
Hill gained anew ally Wednesday.
The Chapel Hill Town Council
approved anew economic devel
opment organization geared
specifically toward improving the
downtown business environment.
The organization will recruit
businesses that can maintain and
enhance downtown growth. It is a
nonprofit collaboration between
the council, the University and the
downtown business community.
It was recommended by the
Chapel Hill Downtown Steering
Committee, which called down
town the “social, cultural and spir
itual center of Chapel Hill.”
“This organization has great
promise and provides a different
Jail ‘inmates’ escape for charity
BY NORA WARREN
STAFF WRITER
Sweet-talkers, smooth sellers
and crafty slicksters can put their
skills to use this weekend in an
event that will take them miles
away from Chapel Hill.
At the same time, these students
can raise money for a nonprofit
Christian service camp.
Organizers from Crossßridge, a
summer camp near Wilmington,
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development downtown,” said
Town Manager Cal Horton.
Virginia Knapp, associate direc
tor of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro
Chamber of Commerce, said, “The
chamber is personally committed
to supporting the new organiza
tion’s mission. It is the embodi
ment of change, which can some
times be scary, and a bold step in
the right direction.”
The new commission also marks
cooperation between the town and
the University, which has been
scarce lately amid disputes over the
University’s expansion.
The group will include two rep
resentatives from the University on
its Board of Directors, and Horton
said the University has agreed to
provide staff to get the organization
off the ground.
While the group will be funded
are looking for persuasive students
to participate in a fund-raiser
called “Jail Break” this weekend.
Jail-breakers have eight hours
to get as far away from Chapel Hill
as they can without using any of
their own resources. They can’t use
their cell phones, their money or
help from their friends to bust out
of town.
“You have to try to convince
people to give you rides,” said Anna
mostly by the town, the University
will contribute one-third of the
cost: $70,000 per year for three
years. The town will cover the
remaining two-thirds of the orga
nization’s cost, allocating $70,000
in the 2004-05 General Fund
budget proposal and $70,000 in
the 2004-05 Downtown Service
District Fund budget proposal.
The group’s Board of Directors,
which will have a total of seven
members, also will include four rep
resentatives appointed by the town.
At least one member must own
property downtown and another
must own a downtown business.
Charles House, chairman of the
Downtown Commission and owner
of University Florist on Franklin
Street, wants to make sure the exist
ing commission has reasonable rep
resentation in the new group.
“We eat, sleep, breathe down
Carlton, Crossßridge organizer
and Jail Break participant.
Players will pair up and rely on
their persuasive skills to convince
people to give them rides or to buy
them round-trip plane or train
tickets to destinations as far away
from Chapel Hill as possible.
Carlton said her roommate,
Allison Stewart, suggested the
fund-raiser after studying in
Scotland last semester.
“Some friends of mine there had
told me about this,” Stewart said.
“It was in the back of my mind as
this really amazing fund-raiser.”
Stewart said that when Carlton
was looking for a fund-raising
strategy, she knew Jail Break would
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ty and businesses,” he said.
House requested that the coun
cil consider choosing two of its four
appointed members from a slate
chosen by the Downtown
Commission.
He said the new organization
will take on many of the roles that
the commission filled in the past
and now will serve mainly as an
advocacy group.
Horton reminded the council
that it will not be limited to a slate
from the commission. “You can
consider applicants as they arise.”
The council plans for the organ
ization to begin work on July 1. It
will nominate applicants for the
Board of Directors on May 24 and
appoint nominees June 14.
Contact the City Editor
at citydesk@unc.edu.
“It was in the .
hack of my mind
as this really
amazing
fund-raiser”
ALLISON STEWART, ORGANIZER
be a fun way to raise money and to
draw a fun group of crazy people.
“We said, ‘This is such a crazy
idea, it might actually work,’”
Stewart said. Participants raise
money through sponsors before
the trip and collect money
throughout their travels.
But this sly swindling and cun
ning use of charm is for charity.
Crossßridge, a summer camp for
high school-age youth, organizes
service projects for people in need.
Volunteers help build wheelchair
ramps for disabled people, who
can’t afford to have them built pro
fessionally and repair roofs for peo
ple who can’t afford to have them
fixed or do yardwork and chores for
people who can’t do it themselves.
“If we didn’t do it, things like that
wouldn’t get done,” Carlton said.
The money raised goes toward
buying the necessary materials to
complete these projects. Stewart
said the group would like to raise
at least S6OO, the cost of materials
to build a wheelchair ramp.
Junior exchange student Sam
Webb said he used his persuasive
skills when he participated in a sim
ilar fund-raiser through his home
university in Bristol, England.
Webb said he and his teammate
hitchhiked from Bristol, in the
south of the country, to the south
eastern English coast. From there,
they traveled through France and
ended up in Oostende, Belgium.
The two traveled a total distance of
about 400 miles and garnered
about S2OO profit for charity.
“I met lots and lots of crazy peo
ple,” he said.
Webb’s advice for this weekend’s
participants is to be honest, to
make a big sign advertising what
they are doing, to dress a little bit
crazy and just to have a laugh.
“The year is coming to an end,”
he said. “If you want to go wild,
this is the time to do it.”
Students can sign up to partici
pate in Jail Break by calling organ
izer Allison Stuart at 593-2198 by 5
p.m. Friday or by visiting
http://www.unc.edu/~acarlton.
Participants must attend a safe
ty orientation Friday, at which they
will learn travel strategies. Also,
for safety reasons, each pair par
ticipating in the fund-raiser must
include at least one male.
The event starts Saturday, April
16, with a 7 a.m. breakfast. Jail
breakers will start moving out of
Chapel Hill at 8 a.m. and will
check in with their final destina
tions at 4 p.m.
Prizes will be awarded to the
teams that travel the farthest, raise
the most money and come back
with the wackiest stories.
Contact the University Editor
at udesk@unc.edu.
CORRECTION
A front page photo caption in
Thursday’s paper should have said
author Alice Walker read poetry
Wednesday night. Walker did not
read any prose that evening.
To report an error, contact Managing Editor
Daniel Thigpen at dthigpenOemail.unc.edu.
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