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FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 2006
Board OKs First School delay
BY GRAY CALDWELL
STAFF WRITER
Members of the city school board
agreed Thursday that pushing back
plans to develop a progressive
elementary education program in
the district would be acceptable,
as long as the partnership with
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Superintendent Neil Pedersen
presented his recommendations
of how to move forward with the
project to the school board.
Pedersen emphasized his belief
that the district should move for
ward with creating a traditional
elementary school, which is needed
more in the district.
The proposal would push back
the First School to be the district's
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He said the First School could
either be built near Seawell
Elementary School after 2010 as
planned, or it could be incorporat
ed before then into another exist
ing elementary school.
“We would plan to develop a
process to work with the Seawell
community and to advertise this
to the broader community and
see if there’s interest in our other
elementaries,” Pedersen said.
School board vice chairwom
an Jamezetta Bedford said if no
schools volunteer that should not
stop the board from moving for
ward in an area such as Ephesus
Elementary School.
“If no one volunteers, we need to
look at other sites, and, as a board,
might need to make some decisions
that aren’t popular,” she said.
“If we can decide and include
that community in the decision
making, that will go a long way to
making that more effective.”
School board member Jean
Hamilton said she agreed with the
superintendent’s recommenda
tions, but said she felt she hasn’t
been kept informed.
“I also support pursuing (the
superintendent’s recommenda
tions), but I would like to have this
brought back to the board more
often to see how the process is
going,” she said.
“This is too important for the
board to not know what’s going on.”
Board member Ed Sechrest
voiced his concern that thus far
parents have been forced to take a
leap of faith in trusting the board
with the First School project based
on very little information.
“We need to define what the
benefit’s going to be for the parents
and the children ... up front.”
Board member Mike Kelley said
the board might not know every
thing about the pros and cons of
the projects they pursue, but taking
chances is what gets things done.
“You can’t make progress with
out taking some risks,” he said. “In
doing any kind of research there is
the unknown.”
“Someone has to try.”
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for Friday's AIDS march. Organizers are pushing needle-safety awareness.
AIDS
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The group said it hopes that
this march will be the final push to
legalize the programs, she said.
Thelma Wright, director of the
N.C. Harm Reduction Coalition
Inc., said the only programs that
exist in the state are underground.
Under the bill, syringe
exchange programs would replace
dirty needles with clean ones at
three state-sponsored health
facilities, preventing the spread
of diseases such as hepatitis C or
HIV. Fine said about 90 percent
of injection drug users have hepa
titis C.
“It’s not just needles; these pro
grams include education, preven
tion and treatment,” said Marce
Abare, a UNC graduate and cam
paign organizer.
The criticism of such programs
is that they not only facilitate drug
use but encourage it, Fine said.
But she said there have been
eight federally funded studies that
show that syringe-exchange pro
grams w’ork to educate people and
keep them safe from disease with
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She said that the group has
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BUSINESS
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Associate Realtors, which is han
dling the property, refused to com
ment on the property, stating that
the site was “under negotiation.”
Both Chip Browning and George
said they believed there was a list of
interested businesses that Griffin
had not yet settled upon.
“You never know, it could be a
biker bar,” George joked.
Two doors down, things are pick
ing up at the site of former concert
and art venue Temple Ball Gallery,
which closed July 31. The vacant
building soon will be home to the
Mill Town restaurant and bar.
Though building renovations
are still under way, Mill Town
scheduled to open officially for
business within the next three
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popular music, bringing R. Kelly or
somebody like that, because that’s
not the job of the performing arts
but maybe something more stu
dent-oriented,” Stallings said.
Three candidates applied for
the position and were reviewed by
the Union board of directors dur
ing a two-day process in February.
Stallings, who was informed of her
post Feb. 12, already has selected
anew board to plan programming
for next school year.
Departing CUAB President
Jonathon Benson, a member of
the board that elected Stallings,
will oversee CUAB’s programming
through April 24, when Stallings
officially will take the reins. His
board has programming scheduled
through the end of the school year.
“It’s a less formal changeover
process than you have with student
government,” he said.
Stallings said she wants to con
tinue the Carolina Comedy Festival,
which for the last two years has fea
tured comedian Lewis Black, and
to increase the prominence of the
Homecoming concert, tradition
ally a joint effort with the Carolina
Athletic Association.
Union Director Don Luse said
the board of directors was seeking
a candidate who could translate the
needs of students into the programs,
facilities and services of the Union.
“We look for someone who has
a vision and has the whole campus
in mind in the sense that they’re
using the Union to serve students.”
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at artsdesk@unc.edu.
weeks.
Located at 307 E. Main St.,
Mill Town will serve pastas, gour
met sandwiches and daily specials
from fresh, unfrozen ingredients,
co-owner Josh Wittman said.
“I think that you can have food
and a fun atmosphere, and you don’t
have to settle for bar food,” he said.
The new restaurant will focus
a good amount of its products
on specialty beers from America
and Northern Europe, specifically
Belgium.
But Wittman assured everyone
that the average customer could
still “order a (Pabst Blue Ribbon)”
if they wanted a cheaper option.
“We’ll do fine beer, but we’re not
going to be snobby about it.”
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