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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2004
Carrboro nonprofit
offers co-op living
BY RYAN C. TUCK
CITY EDITOR
For those who make $31,960
annually or $15.37 an hour and work
40 hours a week, owning property
in Orange County might be afford
able.
If not, an organization like the
Weaver Community Housing
Association could be helpful.
The WCHA, a nonprofit organiza
tion in Carrboro devoted to provid
ing affordable housing, recently pur
chased two one-story brick buildings
at the comer of Pleasant Drive and
Crest Street in Carrboro that it will
rent out starting in January.
Along with the low-cost housing
the organization already operates
at the Cedar Rock Cooperative and
the Hillsborough Road Cooperative,
both in Carrboro, the Pleasant Drive
Cooperative will provide an oppor
tunity for people with income below
the county median to own property
and earn equity.
According to the US. Department
of Housing and Urban Development,
the estimated annual median income
for Orange County is $69,800.
Karen Archia, executive director
ofWCHA, said residents of the coop
eratives have to make about $29,316
per year, or about 50 percent less
than the area’s median income.
“We want to target people who
provide services in the community
and work hard but who can’t afford
housing,” Archia said. “Just because
you make less money doesn’t mean
you should have less control over
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Archia said WCHA cooperatives
allow residents to buy housing at
below-market rates and still earn
equity, which renters cannot
“It’s really expensive,” Archia
said of property in the county. “Not
everything has to be open to market
forces.”
Ihra Fikes, director of housing
and community development for the
county, said a single person living in
the county would have to work 119
hours at minimum wage to afford
housing at fair market rent
“Tbe community needs affordable
housing,” Fikes said “People like (the
WCHA) are definitely welcome.’
The Pleasant Drive proper
ties were purchased in August for
$535,000, Archia said and will be
opened as 10 two-bedroom apart
ments early next year.
Archia said the apartments will
have similar lease rates to the other
cooperatives.
The Cedar Rock apartments on
North Greensboro Street go for
between $250 and S3OO a month,
and the Hillsborough Road apart
ments are between $240 and $330.
Archia said the group, which has
been helping to provide affordable
housing for three years, does not
actively seek new properties but is
always open to suggestion.
"We hope we can make an impact
long-term in housing,” she said
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Larceny leads to murder arrest
Investigation opens up new leads
BY SHANNAN BOWEN
ASSISTANT CITY EDITOR
Carrboro police were able to
make headway last week in an
almost seven-year-old murder
investigation through the suspect's
link to larceny from a hobby store.
According to court documents,
Andrew Douglas Dalzell, the prime
suspect in the 1997 disappearance
and presumed death of Carrboro
resident Deborah Leigh Key, was
wanted for committing several
acts of larceny from a hobby store
where he worked.
Dalzell became a prime suspect
in the case shortly after Key was
reported missing Dec. 1,1997. Key
was last seen socializing with Dalzell
at a local bar and then afterward
in a parking lot, but police could
not find enough evidence to arrest
Dalzell after questioning him and
searching his vehicle, reports state.
When Dalzell was connected to
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FORT BRAGG As many as
5,000 paratroopers from the 82nd
Airborne Division will be sent to
Afghanistan many for a second
tour —as part of the Army’s rota
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Monday.
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several stolen items, police were able
to make a break in their dormant
investigation and charged Dalzell on
Sept 9 with second-degree murder.
According to a search warrant
application
obtained Sept. 1
by Corp. Anthony
Westerbrook
II of the
Carrboro Police
Department,
Dalzell request
ed an officer’s
assistance Aug.
31 to move items
from his Royal
Park apartment
Westerbrook
met Dalzell at
Apt. B-4 at 501
Crime suspect
Andrew
Dalzell
will appear in
court Sept. 23.
N.C. 54 after Dalzell requested that
an officer assist him for security
reasons while he removed personal
property from his residence, the
a year. The paratroopers will be
assigned with troops from the Italy
based 173rd Airborne Brigade and
replace soldiers from the Hawaii
based 25th Infantry Division.
The deployment will begin with
about 3,000 soldiers and could
total about 5,000 once all the
needs are known and more orders
are issued, Army officials said.
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application states.
While inside the apartment,
Westerbrook noticed small black
jars of various colored paints, hand
painted human figurines, model
airplanes, model tanks, handbooks
on Dungeons and Dragons role
playing games and other hobby
items scattered throughout the
living and dining room. Dalzell
was packing some of the items, the
application states.
When questioned, Dalzell replied
that he worked at Hungate's Arts,
Crafts & Hobbies at University Mall
in Chapel Hill, the report states.
Westerbrook spoke with the
manager at Hungate's on Sept. 1,
according to the application. The
manager told Westerbrook that
Dalzell had worked at the hobby
store for less than two months and
was fired for taking money from
the safe. The manager also suspect
ed Dalzell of taking items from the
store without paying for. them, the
warrant application states.
Westerbrook informed the man
Some 65 percent of the soldiers
have been previously deployed to
Iraq and Afghanistan and will bring
valuable experience to this mission,
said Col. Patrick Donahue, who will
command the Fort Bragg soldiers.
The core of Donahue’s unit
comes from two battalions of the
504th Parachute Infantry Regiment
that will deploy as the Ist Brigade
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imly sar HM
ager that Dalzell had various items
located in his apartment, and the
manager said he would file a lar
ceny report, the application states.
After a warrant was issued, a
search was executed Sept. 2 at
Dalzell's Royal Park apartment.
Police seized several hobby
items that include paint supplies,
figurines, models, a chess set and a
magnifying glass. Police also seized
six miscellaneous documents from
the living room and a black leather
jacket from a closet, according to
court documents.
Information that developed from
the seized evidence led officials to
seek arrest and search warrants on
Dalzell in connection with Key's
disappearance, reports state.
Dalzell remains under a secure
$60,000 bond, according to
District Attorney Carl Fox. He is set
to appear in Hillsborough County
Superior Court on Sept. 23.
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Combat Team after artillery and
support units are added.
“Our paratroopers and our
families know firsthand that we
are a nation at war,” Donahue said
at a news conference Monday to
announce the deployment.
Donahue said his soldiers are
training for conditions they will
encounter in Afghanistan, but do not
plan to be overly reliant on lessons
learned in previous deployments.
Other units deploying to
Afghanistan include the 3rd
Battalion of the 319th Airborne
Field Artillery Regiment, the
307th Forward Support Battalion,
airborne engineers, military intel
ligence and headquarters troops,
said Col. Michael Ferriter, assistant
82nd commander for operations.