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The Sanford Herald / Thursday, September 16, 2010 / 3A
Chatham County
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Monday is the deadline to donate to MLK memorial SANFORD — There’s still time to personalize a brick in the Horner Boulevard memorial for Martin Luther King Jr. City officials said residents have until Monday to contact the city if they want to emblazon a brick in the first shipment for the memorial located at Horner Boulevard and Washington Avenue. Individual brick personalization for the memorial sidewalk costs $50, and will allow locals to leave their name on one piece of the MLK walkway. The city is also accepting $500 donations for the memorial in order to be listed on a walkway brick paver with personalized inscriptions. An online application to donate can be found on the city’s Website, located at www. sanfordnc.net, or contact Sanford Public Works Administrator Laura Spivey at 919-775-8299 for more details. Spivey said there will be time to personalize a brick for another shipment after the first order is completed Monday. — by Billy Ball
SANFORD
East Sanford residents up for grant money
plus the whipped cream,� Olive said. In addition to the $970,000 state grant, which city officials applied for 18 months ago, Sanford leaders are looking to spend another $11,000 of city coffers on the project. City planners said efforts are underway to restore east Sanford neighborhoods and urge public-private partnerships for that cause. “We are identifying houses in the worst condition to come up with a plan to offer some aid financially,� Olive said. “It’s not going to be go in and tear down, but it’s going to be encouragement to upgrade.� Olive and other city leaders have already met with various nonprofits, including Habitat for Humanity and Brick Capital Community Development, to brainstorm improvement methods. “Although we’ve made a great deal of progress over the years, we felt like one large demonstration project in a particularly distressed area would help demonstrate the city’s commitment and encourage others to follow suit,� Bridwell said. “That’s what we hoped this grant would help us do.� Renovation work in the Maple Avenue community is expected to take three years to complete, with start-up beginning in the coming weeks, city planners said. — by Billy Ball
CHATHAM COUNTY
SANFORD — One lowincome east Sanford neighborhood is set to receive nearly $1 million in state grant funding for community revitalization efforts, city officials said. Sanford Mayor Cornelia Olive trumpeted news of the $970,000 Community Development Block Grant from the N.C. Department of Commerce for the Maple Avenue area at a City Council committee meeting Wednesday. City Planning Director Bob Bridwell said the money will be funneled to street, drainage, water and sewer work in the Sanford neighborhood, as well as the clearance and rehabilitation of some deteriorating structures. Olive said the Maple Avenue area near the intersection with Fourth Street has been targeted as one community in need of shoring up. “This is just like the icing on the cake plus the cherry
Carolina Meadows gives $10K for park PITTSBORO (MCT) — Kevin McLeod, president and CEO of Chapel Hill retirement community Carolina Meadows, paid a visit to the Chatham County Board of Commissioners last week to present a check for $10,000, the first of five to be given over five years. In keeping with its mission of being a good citizen of Chatham County, Carolina Meadows has long maintained a soccer field for use by county residents. Because the land will be developed as part of the Master Plan that includes the construction of new villas, Carolina Meadows is donating $50,000 to the county over five years, in $10,000 installments, to support the development of a new county park in the Northeast District of Chatham County. — Durham Herald-Sun
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Residents raise sewer plan concerns NEW HILL (MCT) — Chatham County residents packed the Moncure Fire Station Wednesday night to learn more about a sewage pipeline that Cary, Apex, Morrisville and Holly Springs plan to route through the county west of Wake. Chatham citizens voiced concerns about the impact of the pipeline on their land and their livelihood, as staff members of the Western Wake Partners -- representing those four western Wake towns -- outlined the plan for a $327 million sewage plant in New Hill, which would include a 12-mile effluent pipeline to the Cape Fear River. The project, a response to a mandate for the towns to return water to the Cape Fear Basin, would allow for continued growth in western Wake -- assuming Chatham commissioners OK the the pipeline through their county. “There is a sense of urgency to complete this project,� Apex Mayor Keith Weatherly, who is
chairman of the Western Wake Partners policy advisory committee, told a crowd of about 100 people. The pipeline from New Hill would be five feet wide and would travel through Chatham County for more than eight miles. It would require about a 40-foot-wide easement through the southeast corner of the county near New Hill and Merry Oaks, continuing south near Christian Chapel Church Road and Buckhorn Road to the Buckhorn Dam on the Cape Fear River. The pipe would transport up to 38 million gallons of water per day, enough capacity to serve the needs of the growing Wake towns for at least two decades. If Chatham commissioners approve the pipeline, the Western Wake Partners can enact eminent domain to secure land for the easement. More than half of the land the pipeline would cross is owned by Progress Energy. The pipe would also cross Cha-
tham tracts owned by 14 private landowners. One of those landowners, Scott Smith, said the pipeline will steal value from his property. He asked that leaders research a more narrow easement. While Smith said he recognizes the need for the plant, he said the pipeline would restrict what landowners can do with their property longterm. Smith also worried that the recession would lead to a lower-than-fair offer for his land. Other residents said the pipeline comes at a cost to residents -- and with no benefit. Chatham County would receive no wastewater services from the facility. Others worried about potential pipeline breakages. “How would Chatham County citizens benefit from this pipeline?� said Mary Ann Perkins, who lives near the pipeline route. “What is your Plan B should Chatham say ‘No?’ “ Her questions drew applause from the crowd, and agreement from
Chairwoman Sally Kost. “We obviously don’t expect that to happen,� Weatherly said. “We haven’t planned a contingency.� Chatham’s answer now sits in the balance. Commissioners may begin formal discussion of the issue later this month. But Kost doubts a decision will come that soon. “There are still several important questions that we need to answer,� she said. About a dozen Cary employees, with maps of the proposed pipeline route, met with citizens in smaller groups before and after the meeting to address specific questions. Steve Brown, the Town of Cary’s public works and utilities director, highlighted the wastewater project’s final environmental approval, awarded at the end of July by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The approval paves the way for construction of the plant and pipeline in the next several months. — The Cary News
JOHNSTON County
United Way kicks off fundraising campaign SMITHFIELD (MCT) — Johnston-Lee-Harnett Community Action gets a lot of government funding for its wide range of programs, but it’s money from the United Way that allows the organization to help clients in the mostdire circumstances. Community Action director Marie Watson estimates her agency has helped about 3,000 clients in the past year who were in a crisis — they had immediate medical expenses they couldn’t afford, or they had no money to pay the rent, or they were a step away from becoming homeless. State and federal funds help the agency provide its chief services, including the Head Start
preschool program and home weatherization, but those dollars don’t cover clients’ emergencies. “We really don’t get much for crisis,� Watson said. The United Way of the Greater Triangle funds the bulk of that program, $11,572 this year. No United Way dollars go to staff salaries or adminstrative costs, Watson said. But to provide Community Action and other groups with similar amounts next year, United Way will need a successful fundraising campaign this fall. Its goal for Orange, Durham, Wake and Johnston counties is $17.5 million by the end of the year. “We’re looking for great support for our
agencies,� said Keith Dimsdale, who represents Johnston County on the charity’s board. He hosted a kick-off event last week at his Chik-fil-A restaurant in Smithfield. Where the money goes Local nonprofits apply for United Way funding annually, and a committee of Johnston County residents carries out a careful evaluation of the programs before deciding where the money will go locally. “They have to clearly articulate what they’re going to do with the
money, what difference the money makes,� said Angie Welsh, senior vice president for resource investment. That process for next year’s allocations is going on now, Welsh said, and it’s the first time the Triangle-wide organization has conducted the evaluations here. United Way of Johnston County merged with the larger arm of the national charity last year. This year, United Way doled out $232,798 in Johnston County. — The Smithfield Herald
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