Thank you for reporting on the situtation with the Caring Family Network consolidation of services in Orange County. This is a disturbing development, and you did a service to the general public by bringing this to our attention. I think it’s important to add a few key points to your coverage, however.

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Jock Lauterer

By Jock Lauterer

Look, I’ll be straight up with y’all: this ain’t spin.

While I have no financial capital invested in this paper, I do have a vested interest in the well-being of The Carrboro Citizen. Because I was present at the moment of conception and birth, if you will, I consider myself this paper’s Fairy Godfather (think: Disney’s “Cinderella”).

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Holly tree that is located at Carrboro’s future fire station site is estimated to be 200 years old. Photo by Ken Moore

By Ken Moore

Please Note: In my enthusiasm last week for “hugging” that 200-year-old Persimmon tree on the university campus, I failed to credit Betsy Green Moyer, photographer and co-editor of Paul Green’s Plant Book, for the image of that grand old specimen. (Betsy Moyer’s photo of the seldom-noticed tiny Persimmon flower appears on The Citizen website.)

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Linda Hazel Rickman Comer, age 66, died Sunday, May 20, 2007, in Chapel Hill, NC, from complications related to Alzheimer’s Disease.  Linda was born August 14, 1940, in Durham, NC.  Her parents were Aylor Louis Rickman and Hazel Dowdee Rickman.  She was a graduate of Durham High School and Watts School of Nursing.  She was retired from UNC Hospitals.

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