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Downtown wireless network slow to start
Dearmin pledges to help with effort
BY JAKE POTTER
iTAFF WRITER
A downtown wireless Internet
nitiative that has sat idle for sev
;ral months is slowly booting up.
The Downtown Economic
development Corporation and the
own’s Technology Committee are
liscussing the possibility of bring
ng wireless Internet access to the
lowntown sector.
After the corporation proposed
he idea earlier this year, the
3iapel Hill Town Council formally
eferred the issue to Town Manager
lal Horton and the committee on
une 27.
Corporation Executive Director
iz Parham, hired in late July, met
donday with committee Chairman
Jregg Gerdau and member Steve
rving to discuss plans for moving
head with the initiative.
“We need to find out how we can
;et this off the ground,” Parham
aid.
“We need to find out the best
vay to do this, what areas we
School rales combat obesity
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TAFF WRITER
State health and education offi
ials have encouraged schools to pro
ide more time for physical activity
a students’ schedules in an effort to
irevent childhood obesity.
The Move More School
Standards were announced Friday
ind include recommendations that
tudents should receive no less
. han 90 minutes of physical edu
ation per week and 30 minutes of
>hysical activity per day.
The initiative is a joint effort
>etween the N.C. Division of Public
dealth, the N.C. Department of
.’ublic Instruction and the N.C.
Cooperative Extension Service.
Joyce Harp, professor of nutri
;ion and medicine at UNC, said
ibesity, a major health problem
'acing Americans, can place indi
/iduals at higher risk to diabetes,
leart disease, high blood pressure,
arthritis and even sudden death.
And childhood obesity is becom
ing increasingly common across
the country and the state.
“North Carolina children are
more overweight on average than
their national peers,” said Sheree
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should start with.”
The corporation has thrown
around the idea of creating a wire
less zone within the downtown sec
tor since February, but inactivity
has caused some, including Irving,
to push the corporation to begin
work on the initiative.
“There’s a lot of people talking
about it, but there has been no
action,” he said.
Carrboro completed its down
town wireless setup last fall.
Parham said Chapel Hill and
the corporation will work to
develop surveys for business own
ers concerning the possibility of
making the Franklin Street area
wireless.
“We’re surveying them so we
can understand their needs, if they
really want Wi-Fi,” she said.
Businesses like Woody’s Tar Heel
Tavern & Grill and Jack Sprat Cafe
already offer wireless access to its
customers.
Residents of the Northside and
Pine Knolls neighborhoods might
Vodicka, Heavy Weight Initiative
Coordinator for the N.C. Division
of Public Health.
She said more than one in five
N.C. children between the ages of
five and 11 are now overweight.
“One reason is that kids these
days are more sedentary,” Vodicka
said, adding that more time is
spent playing video games than
playing outdoors.
Easier access to unhealthy foods
also is to blame, she said.
Harp said preventing obesity at
an early age is critical to ensuring
that children stay healthy as they
grow older.
“Once a child or adult becomes
obese, it is very hard to lose the
weight,” she said.
There is only a 15-percent chance
that an obese individual through
dieting and regular exercise will
be able to lose the weight and keep
it off, Harp said.
At Carrboro Elementary School,
children participate in 30 minutes
of physical education class three
days per week, with about 20 to
25 minutes of recess on the other
days, said the school's principal
Ibis Nunez.
also get a separate survey as some
within the committee have called
for those districts, which sit just
outside the downtown district, to
be included in the wireless zone.
“We want to make this inclusive,”
Parham said. “We’ll have different
surveys for different needs.”
But Irving said the addition of
residential networks could pose a
dilemma for the effort.
“Some people have talked about
including the Northside and Pine
Knolls neighborhoods, but at that
juncture, it becomes a political
issue,” he said.
Irving said that continuing the
group discussions would be vital to
the effort’s success.
“It’s very preliminary,” he said.
“We’re just trying to get a feel for
it.”
The process could emulate
Carrboro’s wireless initiative,
Irving said.
“Carrboro took two or three
years to establish their service,” he
said of the wireless zone that now
ranges from Carr Mill Mall to the
Century Center and Town Hall.
“It’s a long time frame.”
This is slightly short of the mini
mum physical activity time recom
mended by the “Move More” initia
tive, but it can be difficult fitting
more into the school day.
“The state dictates how many
instructional minutes have to
occur,” Nunez said. The remain
ing time must be divided between
recess, lunch and other activities.
But the Chapel Hill-Carrboro
City school system has taken the
extra step of creating a policy ban
ning the sale of unhealthy foods
such as chips, sodas and sugary
snacks on campus, she said.
Other recommendations of
“Move More” include reducing
elementary school physical educa
tion class sizes to one teacher for
every 25 students, ensuring that
instructors have the proper quali
fications and providing adequate
facilities.
“Lots where students used to
have recess are now filled with
mobile trailers,” Vodicka said.
“Physical education has taken a
back seat to academics.”
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Wireless Internet access downtown
Though several locations on Franklin Street already offer wireless Internet access, the Downtown Economic Development
Corporation and the town's Technology Committee are considereing bringing wireless Internet to downtown.
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Student Body President Seth
Dearmin, who included a wire
less initiative in his campaign last
spring, said he hopes his adminis
tration can help that process move
more quickly.
“We’re more than happy to
help out, whether it’s writing
grants or looking at budgets,” he
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said. “We definitely need to work
together.”
Since being elected in February,
Dearmin has consistently pledged
to contact the town regarding the
project.
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between the corporation and the
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said he had not heard of it.
The corporation will hold its
regularly scheduled meeting at
7:30 a.m. today at the Midway
Business Center, off West Franklin
Street.
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