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Elvis impersonator kills with machete
FROM STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS
The King may be back, but this time in a frightening, murderous rage.
When police answered an Elvis impersonator’s 911 call and found that
the King, Robert Daigle, had pinned a half-naked guest to his living
room floor with a 2-foot-long machete, he was immediately arrested.
Daigle entered court Monday morning for the Sept. 19, 2003 killing of James
Surette. The impersonator claims the act was in self-defense.
A witness claims he saw “chunks flying off the body” of Surette who was stabbed
through the heart with a knife, had his skull crushed, and was butchered with the
mail-order machete.
The witness also noted Daigle showered and changed clothes before railing 911.
NOTED. It must’ve been the latest from
Gucci. What else would’ve compelled a Florida
woman to hold onto her purse as a man in a
moving car grabbed it from her?
The w oman was dragged across the asphalt of
a parking lot for 15 feet before her pants caught
under the car’s wheels, forcing her to let go.
The purse was found later without the wom
an’s belongings inside.
THIS WEEK f
Women's health: At the launch
of the 2007 N.C. Women's Health
Report Card, legislators and wom
en's health care advocates will speak
at the state legislative building.
Contact Nikki McKoy at 966-9424
for more information.
Time: noon
Day: Today
Location: 16 West Jones St.,
Raleigh
A Look at Psychic Mediums:
Ruth Reinsel, of the Neuroscience
Laboratory in N.Y., will present the
results of recent research conducted
on psychic individuals. Free lecture
sponsored by the Rhine Research
Center. For details, call 919-309-
4600.
Time: 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Day: Friday
Location: Stedman Auditorium,
Duke Center for Living Campus, 3745
Erwin Road, Durham
Tomato Tasting: The Carrboro
Farmers Market will host its annual
tomato tasting. More than 60 variet
ies of tomatoes will be available,
along with growing tips and recipes.
Time: 8:30 a.m.
QUOTED. “He was well done. I stuck him
in his butt!”
—Linda Rhodes of Garland, Texas, after she
and her son accosted an alleged child rapist.
Rhodes’ son was barbecuing when he heard a
young boy call for help. He then saw the suspect
allegedly raping the child and ran to fight the
man. Rhodes jumped into the fight with a bar
becue meat fork and stabbed the suspect.
Day: Saturday
location: Carrboro Town Commons
Arboretum Tour: Meet at the
stone gathering circle near the cen
ter of the arbor on Cameron Avenue
on campus. No preregistration
required.
Time: 11 a.m. to noon
Day: Saturday
Location: Coker Arboretum
Film viewing: CHICLE will present
'Gitanos sin carpa/Gypsies in Chile’
in Spanish and English with English
subtitles. The event is free and open
to the public. Call 933-0398 for more
information.
Time: 5 p.m.
Day: Sunday
Location: 101 E. Weaver St.
Live music: Jack Sprat Cafe and Bar
presents the acoustic duo Alex and
Hugh throughout the evening.
Thne: 6 p.m.
Day: Tuesday
Location: 161 E. Franklin St.
Heels in Motion: Join our mall
walkers for a free breakfast while
learning about health and fitness.
Sign up to become a Heels in Motion
member at the Streets at Southpoint
Naurs
welcome desk.
Time: 8 a.m.
Day: Wednesday
Location: Maggiano's, Streets at
Southpoint
Pit and Pendulum: CUAB and
student groups are sponsoring food
and activites.
Time: 12:30 p.m.
Day: Wednesday
Location: The Pit
Friends of Dowtown: Tim Toben
will be our speaker and will explain
new sustainability efforts in a project
which will become part of the new
Chapel Hill skyline.
Time: 10 a.m.
Day: July 26
Location: Franklin Hotel, 311 W.
Franklin St.
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the day before they take place, and will
be posted online when received.
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noon the preceding publication date.
Conference
aims to help
small farmers
Focuses on local
food supplies
BY REBECCA FUTTERMAN
STAFF WRITER
DURHAM Big Mama’s
Restaurant is one of the few places
in West Louisville, Ky., where peo
ple can sit down to a healthy home
cooked meal.
With four grocery stores serv
ing 80,000 people in this poverty
stricken area, it isn’t the way the
food is cooked that keeps people
coming back to Big Mama’s table;
it’s the kind of food that’s cooked.
This restaurant is what the people
who attended last week’s Center for
Integrating Research and Action at
UNC-CH’s conference would call a
staple of the local food system.
The conference was held in order
to find solutions to the displacement
of small farmers and their markets
by corporate agribusinesses.
The fatback-smothered green
beans and honeyed yams served at
Big Mama’s are fresh off the farm.
They travel only a few miles from a
distribution center stocked by local
farmers and manned by commis
sioned youth from the area. The
produce then serves the people who
had been feeding themselves from
under-stocked convenience stores.
“There’s room. If you get rid of
all those people sucking up dollars
and cents, farmers can make money
and serve needs,” said Barbara
Webb, who represented Kentucky’s
Community Farm Alliance (CFA)
at the conference.
CIRA’s Collaboration on N.C.
Sustainable Development and
Poverty Reduction hosted the con
ference and invited CFA and oth
ers to share ideas, experience and
knowledge with a host of people
committed to revitalizing the farm
industry in North Carolina by bring
ing back local food as an integral
force in the market to compete with
corporate, importing entities.
“The pressure in agriculture
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is to get big, or to get out,” said
Claire Hermann, a representative
of Rural Advancement Foundation
International, USA, or RAFI.
Hermann further explained how,
after the big tobacco buyout 0f2004,
North Carolina found itself in a par
ticularly challenging situation.
“Small farms are having trouble
figuring out howto make a compara
ble income (to tobacco) and figuring
out how to stay around,” she said.
The relationship between con
sumers and producers played a large
role in the conference. Beginning a
local food system necessitates locat
ing points of connectivity between all
forces in the community, such as the
connection made between the needs
in West Louisville at Big Mama’s,
and the need for a living wage.
“The challenge is getting farm
ers a living price, competing against
highly-subsidized chains and getting
food to consumers in need,” said Tom
Philpott, an eastern N.C. farmer.
Concerned with the idea of the
independent farm becoming obso
lete, Philpott focused heavily on edu
cating consumers about the benefits
to be garnered by buying local food.
“People think that food appears
like magic in the grocery stores,”
he said.
The lack of a progressive, all
inclusive grass roots movement in
N.C., like that of the CFA, was a nag
ging presence at the conference.
When asked what could be done
in the next thirty days, people found
themselves without much to say.
They focused ahead on the statewide
summit that CIRA hopes to host to
finally bring localized food industries
to fruition.
But co-coordinator of the CIRA
coalition, Charles Price of the
Department of Anthropology at
UNC-CH, smiled as he addressed
the crowd.
“Don’t despair. People are taking
control. There’s a silent revolution
out there!”
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