Will Raymond for Council in 2005

Community Sustainability House Party

4-7pm on Saturday, September 17th
at the home of James Protzman & Jane Brown in Chapel
Hill (451 Lakeshore Lane).

Come to enjoy the first SURGE House Party ever. The young nonprofit, SURGE – Students United for a Responsible Global Environment, will have a House Party Fundraiser to celebrate and engage friends in good work for a sustainable local community. There will be delicious fair trade food and drinks, opportunities to try out a hybrid car or a new bicycle, great books and t-shirts available, the chance to see a solar module and learn how it works, issue areas with details on our campaigns featuring the CRed program to address global warming through
local commitment, and great people working locally to improve the Chapel Hill/Carrboro community as a responsible and sustainable member of the global community. We recommend a donation of $20 or more per person to attend and request an RSVP ASAP to SURGE at 960-6886 or surgenc AT yahoo.com

If you can’t make it, but are still so generous you would like to tax-deductibly contribute, feel free to send a check to:
SURGE
P.O. Box 1188
Chapel Hill, NC 27514

SURGE, Inc.
Students United for a Responsible Global Environment
www.surgenetwork.org
(919)960-6886

A get together in one of Chapel Hill’s spectacular neighborhoods.

Chapel Hill Council and Mayoral Candidates meet at the 1st televised forum of the year. If you watch on the boob-tube, I’m the only one with a beard !

UPDATE:

Interesting forum with mostly good questions. Former Councilmember and continuing activist Joe Capowski did a great job moderating – firm but friendly. Besides an excellent turnout by our local Sierra Club membership, Joe Herzenberg, Cam Hill and Sally Greene also attended. Nice to see to their friendly faces.

Great ‘blog coverage by Tom Jensen at the two-year old OrangePolitics.

Rob Shapard’s HeraldSun coverage.

And the Daily Tarheel.

Quick comment on the DTH coverage. I actually did endorse the purchase of Erwin Trace – a great strategic move to preserve a natural corridor along New Hope creek. Eventually, 15, 20 years out, this corridor will be one of the backbones of our natural byways. I also said that Erwin Trace is a rare opportunity well worth seizing but now we need to turn our attention to preserving as many of our Town’s creek basins as possible – including creeks that might not even have a name.

Again, looking 15, 20, 50 years out, these creeks offer a “natural” (as in obvious) corridor for preservation. A number of these creeks actually connect with our existing greenways and will provide effective walkable connectivity between locales like UNC-North and the rest of Town.

Ruby’s site is developing a long tail. Embedded within its posts and comments is a timeline, an institutional memory of 2 years of Chapel Hill and Orange/Durham/Chatham County politics.

Here’s to many more….

Will Raymond, candidate for Chapel Hill Town Council, will continue his commitment to UNC’s students by discussing local issues with the student electorate in a series of Pit appearances over the next 6 weeks.

At his recent endorsement by UNC’s Students for a Progressive Chapel Hill, Mr. Raymond challenged students to triple their 2003 turnout with a 4-digit return.

“Turning out is the best way to get our Town’s attention”, said Mr. Raymond.
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