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The Cackalacky banner on the side of Cliff’s Meat Market at 100 W. Main Street in Carrboro was stolen last week.

The Cackalacky Classic Condiment Company is offering a free case of Cackalacky – a $60 value – to the person who returns the banner to Cliff’s, no questions asked. The banner cost the Chapel Hill-based company $300.

Cackalacky is a spicy condiment that was created in Chapel Hill.

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Retrograde in health care

A new study from the university’s Sheps Center confirms that North Carolina is falling further behind when it comes to health care.

The percentage of uninsured North Carolinians grew to 1,314,238 people, a rise from 15.3 percent of the population in 2000 to 17.2 percent in 2005.

The center produced maps of the state by legislative district to let each of our state senators and representatives know where their district stands when it comes to percent of uninsured.

The maps remind us in plain detail that around the tip of the state to the west and in vast swaths of the coastal plain, poverty still has a tight hold on many. In Tyrell County, more than 27 percent of the residents are uninsured. It’s one of dozens of counties where between 20 and 25 percent of the residents have no insurance.

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By Abdul Rasheed 

It’s encouraging to see the positive attention generated by a proposal in the General Assembly that could lead to the most important environmental initiative in the history of our state. Those of us involved with the project call it “Land for Tomorrow.” Others refer to it as the land-use plan in House Bill 990 and Senate Bill 1522, both introduced a few weeks ago with broad support from Democrats and Republicans alike.

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By Kirk Ross

Maybe we should all go pro.

When it comes to sports, this is that time of year I most dislike. This is when those thin walls that separate college and professional athletics come down and we start seeing dollar figures instead of majors and year in school in the descriptive clauses of individuals who’ve played loyally for our chosen schools.

I don’t begrudge anyone a bit for going pro and totally understand where they’re coming from. I was anxious to get into the professional world myself and left after my junior year for a six-figure salary. Of course, a lot of those figures came after the decimal point.

Given the circumstances, it seems perfectly sane for many of these young men to go pro. Less balanced is the fact that the rest of us haven’t. Under the circumstances, holding on to the ideal that all collegiate sports are an amateur enterprise, while certainly high-minded is both bizarre and expensive behavior.
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Return our banner

Hi, Carrboro Citizen.  We would love to enlist you for some help with the recovery of our stolen Cackalacky banner.

The banner was removed from the side of Cliff’s Meat Market last week. It cost us $300 to have made. We are offering a free case of Cackalacky (a $60 value) to the person who returns the banner to Cliff’s. No questions asked.

H. Page Skelton, Sr.
President
Cackalacky Classic Condiment Company

Football coach to meet with prospective players

The new football coach at Carrboro High School will visit with prospective players in Chapel Hill and Carrboro this week.

Coach Jason Tudryn will meet with students in the Culbreth Middle School cafeteria on Thursday from 12:30-1:30 p.m. and with students in the McDougle Middle School cafeteria on Friday from 12:30-1:30 p.m. In addition, Tudryn will meet current Chapel Hill High School athletes who are transferring to Carrboro High in the Chapel Hill High media center on Friday evening from 6-7 p.m.

Tudryn comes to Carrboro from Gulf Coast High School in Naples, Fl., where he served as football coach and exceptional education teacher.

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Peggy L. Cashwell, 76, of Carrboro, died Monday afternoon at UNC Hospitals.

A native of Orange County, she was a member of Carrboro United Methodist Church and was retired from Liggett and Myers where she had worked for 35 years.

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The Steep Canyon Rangers play Saturdays-in-Saxapahaw on May 5th

The Saxapahaw Rivermill Saturdays-in-Saxapahaw summer series begins this week and runs till Aug. 25. The weekly festivities include performances by top bands — featuring bluegrass, back porch, roots, americana and old time music — and a thriving farmer’s market, in which you’ll find fresh loal produce, cheese, eggs, baked goods, organic meat, locally produced wine, arts and crafts and more.

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John D. Boone, Jr., 78, of Carrboro died Saturday, April 28, 2007 at UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill. He was born in Durham County July 27, 1928 to John D. Boone, Sr., and Emma Gibbs Boone who preceded him in death.

John was a lifetime resident of Carrboro. He graduated from Chapel Hill High School and then went on to Appalachian State University on a football scholarship. He served in the
Korean War as a tank commander with the US Army.

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