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6 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2005 Local businesses gather for expo BY ALEXA DIXON STAFF WRITER Local business owners gave out samples, pitched their wares and got to know one another Monday at the fourth annual Orange County Business Expo launched at the Sheraton Chapel Hill Hotel. A collaboration of the Orange County Economic Development Commission and the Chapel Hill- Carrboro and Hillsborough/Orange County chambers of commerce, the expo is meant to showcase local busi nesses and promote local spending. “The business expo is designed to give the local community a chance to meet and greet business owners and build relationships with local owners and managers,” said Aaron Nelson, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce’s executive director. About 70 businesses were show cased to an estimated 3,000 people at the event. The convention encour aged locals to shop close to home through the Buy Local campaign, which organizers hope will benefit the area’s economy. ONGOING FROM PAGE 1 Medical assistance aside, help also needs to come in the form of social not medical factors, said Renae Stafford, a physician with the UNC Health Care Trauma Program. Mental health workers for those dealing with anxiety and post-trau matic stress are needed, she said. “You need to be resilient,” Stafford said, “And realize that it’s going to affect you in ways that you don’t understand.” From the admissions perspective, a national framework now is being established to look at how the high school students from the Gulf will apply to college, since most school records, including transcripts, were lost, said Allison Legge, associate mdBICYCIf Chain www.thebicyclechain.com ■ Sales, Service, Rentals ■ Certified Mechanics ■ Lifetime Free Maintenance ■ Trade In Program ■ Price Match Guarantee CHAPEL HILL: 210 W. 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The businesses presenting at the expo complemented the push to encourage local spending. “I am a local-based photographer,” said Chris Elam, proprietor of Playful Portraits Photography. “... I buy locally, I work with Southeastern Cameras in Carrboro. I’m actually based in Durham but I do most of my shopping between Durham and Chapel Hill.” Allison Nichols, of Maple View Farm, participated in the show to promote the farm’s new store in Carrboro across from Carr Mill Mall. She said that local spending director of admissions. John Blanchard, senior associ ate director of athletics, mentioned pairing displaced children in the area with mentors to attend future UNC sporting events through the Carolina Dreams program. Other ideas such as spring break trips to clean up the Gulf surfaced from the forum’s small-group discus sions. A focus on at-home help was encouraged strongly. “Pick a family, and make that family your project here,” Stafford said. “That’s as personal or even more personal than going down there on a bus.” University fundraising efforts from the last four weeks total $60,000, said Erica Curry, vice president of the UNC Red Cross club. Of that, at least $19,415 is important for the local economy. “We only sell products from Orange County. We use local products, local strawberries, honey and we feature a craft lady from Hillsborough,” she said. The event has become a staple for local businesses, providing a venue for local businesses to see and be seen. “This is the fourth year we’ve hosted this event,” said Anthony Carey, the Sheraton’s general man ager. “We placed food in the back of the room so that people have to go through the vendors to get to it and circle around for coffee and the bar. Hopefully it will draw people in to talk to the vendors.” The Sheraton also sponsored a two-hour networking session called Business After Hours for 350 busi ness leaders. “The event also gives us an opportunity to showcase what we can offer,” Carey said. Contact the City Editor at citydesk@unc.edu. comes from collections at the UNC vs. Wisconsin football game. “We want to get people to think more strategically about what’s going on,” said Elaine Tola, program offi cer for the Carolina Center for Public Service. “Saying you want to do a relief trip is great, but then you need to think of the logistics.” Contact the University Editor at udesk@unc.edu. OPEN HOUSE FROM PAGE 1 ing administrators adopt a team administration plan. Under the plan, administrators each would be given specialized tasks that they would perform fol lowing the guidelines of the team cleaning plan. “We would not expect our low est-paid employees to work under conditions which our administra tion themselves would not work under,” Hachey said. Moeser said he saw both posi- THeSo^. Carolina INN OVe are looking (or qualifiedindividuals iojo'm our (earn! OVe have severalfull-time andpart-time positions available. Contact our Job iline at (yts) q<B~2j6y or visit our Human sources office for more information. .... HISTORIC HOTELS (Stmti&ammS // AMKR^f T NATIONAL TRUST ** Historic PftgftnvAriaN www.carotinainn.com EOE/AA News CONSTRUCTION FROM PAGE 1 Escalating building costs are part of a long-term trend, Runberg said. Commodity products such as steel, concrete and plywood all have become more expensive during the last year —with a sharp price increase during the past month. He said plywood has increased in cost by up to 40 percent in just two weeks. The cost of some mechani cal work, including projects using steel and other metal products, is up by nearly 50 percent. UNC’s planning officials now are reviewing projects to determine if any should be delayed or canceled. Sidney Stone, contract admin istrator for construction manage ment, said some projects in the planning stage could face delays. He cited the proposed 300-car parking garage planned for the Arts Common, as an example. But Stone said most construc tion projects won’t face indefinite delays. “They’ll just be planned better for the future with realistic up-to-date cost data.” Runberg said the University will try to find bids for remaining con struction projects soon to minimize the effects of possible increases. “We have seen the marketplace become saturated with progres sively fewer contractors bidding on each project,” he said. “Then you throw in high commodity prices, and those two things are the fore most in what is making it difficult to bring projects within budget.” Officials also worry that contrac tors who are flocking to rebuild the Gulf Coast region might cause a tives and negatives in the plan aside from efficiency and costs. Student-housekeeper relation ships which he says can be as strong as family for some students would be hurt, but housekeepers would have the benefit of working at night with others rather alone. James Alty, director of the Facilities Service Division, said the program will be on trial in one building on campus for 120 days beginning in October. Contact the University Editor at udesk@unc.edu. shortage and raise labor costs. But officials from T.A. Loving, UNC’s general contractor, said they will remain in North Carolina. The company will try to lock down prices of materials early on in the construction process to mini mize costs, said Michael Richter, senior vice president and building division manager for T.A. Loving. Campus projects often face price increases because they take more time to complete, he said. “Long term projects are more risky because they are subject to more potential fluctuations and increases.” Only the next few months will determine whether costs will con tinue to rise, Runberg said. “Until the marketplace starts to settle out we won’t know.” Contact the University Editor at udesk@unc.edu. DISPLACED FROM PAGE 1 pletely destroyed. Thousands of people are crowded into shelters throughout Louisiana and neighboring states, in some cases joining those already displaced by Hurricane Katrina. Just outside the city of Shreveport, La., a group of special needs patients was being housed in the Bossier City Civic Center, after evacuating last Wednesday from the McNeese Arena in Lake Charles, La. Many of those who fled the arena had been sheltered there since Hurricane Katrina made landfall Aug. 29, said Susan Berry, medical director for the Bossier shelter. “I was in Lake Charles for sev eral weeks,” said Berry, who is from New Orleans. “It’s hard to keep track of time here.” She said her twice-displaced patients were unlikely to return to Lake Charles anytime soon. “They don’t want people to return to Lake Charles yet," she said, adding that the city is still without power. “They’re still in the assessment phase.” In New Orleans, where heavy rains from Rita were enough to break through patched levees and reflood several neighborhoods, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers continued to make steady progress Monday in drying out the city. “Today was a good day,” said Mitch Frazier, a spokesman for the corps in New Orleans. “I think that we’re going to be pretty much clear within the next week.” But it remains uncertain when residents will be allowed to return. “What we want to do is to pro vide an interim level of protection to get us through this hurricane season,” Frazier said Monday night, adding that the levees will hopeful ly be back to pre-Katrina Strength by June of next year. 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Submit resume to harri@duke.edu Peace Corps at UNC - Chapel Hill Celebrate The Many Faces of Peace Corps Guest Speaker Henry McKoy, Peace Corps Africa Region Director followed by a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer panel discussion j Wednesday, September 28 6:00 pm 105 Gardner Hall For information, con tad Christine Bixioncs at: peat ec.orpsfa uni edii Peace Corps. Life is calling. How far will you go? 800.424.8580 peacecorps.gov ffljp Sailg (Tar Uwl SELECTIONS FROM PAGE 1 said off the bench,” Gerhardt said. “Jones is intemperate in her remarks,” he said, adding that Owen is viewed by some to be anti-consumer, which could pose a problem for her if nominated. Michael Kent Curtis, profes sor at the Wake Forest University School of Law, said he also has heard speculation about Owen and Janice Rogers Brown, a judge in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The next candidate for the judicial office likely will be asked the same types of questions asßoberts, Curtis said, but specific questions would come from the personal actions and writings of the nominee. “They’ve left a paper trial,” he said. Both Curtis and Gerhardt said Bush likely will factor conserva tive beliefs and not public opinion when making his nomination. “In the lower courts, his primary concern has been judicial ideology,” Gerhardt said. He said Bush will announce his next nominee fairly soon. “He’ll probably announce it shortly after Roberts’ confirma tion,” he said. “Almost everybody expects that.” Curtis said Bush probably will choose a judge who reflects the judicial ideology of justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas. “President Bush seems to go with the wishes of his political base,” he said, adding that this type of can didate could split the Republican party between the moderates and the conservatives, Curtis said. “The court has been conservative, but conservative with some recogni tion of individual liberty,” he said. Curtis said a more conservative court could have the power to over turn cases that were ruled in favor of personal liberty and privacy. Curtis said controversial decisions such as Roe v. Wade and Lawrence v. Texas, which struck down sodomy laws in Texas and other states, might be overturned in a more conservative Supreme Court. Those types of cases are not con sistent with the agenda of the reli gious right, he said, and could be reversed eventually. “There could be more of an incremental change or one fell swoop.” Curtis said Bush’s next candi date for the Supreme Court would be confirmed despite fierce debate because Bush is not known to com promise and Republicans hold the majority in Congress. Many have said he should choose a minority or a woman for O’Connor’s seat, but Curtis said Bush will place ideology first. “You can find a woman or a minority who is ideologically con servative.” Contact the State & National Editor at stntdesk@unc.edu.
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