Amy Rickard

By Susan Dickson
Staff Writer

Amy Rickard, principal of Glenwood Elementary School, has been named principal of Chapel Hill-Carrboro City School’s tenth elementary school, which will open in fall 2008.

The school, which school officials have dubbed elementary number 10, will be located at the corner of Dromoland Road and Eubanks Road.

Rickard has served as Glenwood Elementary’s principal since 2004. Prior to her work at Glenwood, she was assistant principal at Rashkis Elementary and McDougle Elementary.

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The Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education will today (Thursday) consider a possible expansion to the district’s Spanish/English dual-language program.

The program, which was first offered in 2002 at Carrboro Elementary, has been very successful in terms of parent satisfaction and language skills. In addition, the district has received a high level of interest in the program, and school officials have recommended expanding the program to additional school sites for the 2008-09 school year.

The district also offers a Chinese/English dual-language program at Glenwood Elementary.

Fourth Potluck in a Pasture summer supper
The fourth “Potluck in a Pasture” summer supper will be held Sunday, August 19 from 6-8 p.m. at Harland’s Creek Farm west of Pittsboro.

ChathamArts sponsors the series of suppers, which take place every third Sunday of each month this summer. Participants can tour the hosting farm and meet local artists.

The public is also invited to attend the arts council’s annual meeting, which will begin at the farm at 5 p.m.

Featured artists include ceramicist Salinda Dahl, sculptor Susan Draughon, wood turner Joel Hunnicutt and potter Melody Troncale. Vocalist Laine Lipson and pianist Avis Autry will perform lyrical standards from the 1930s and ‘40s.

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By Kirk Ross
Staff Writer

The steady pleas for water conservation seem to be having an effect, according to officials with the Orange Water and Sewer Authority. So much so that the areas served by the utility may not see the same kind of mandatory conservation requirements as other locales.

As of Wednesday, OWASA’s daily account of how full its lakes are showed that University Lake is 53 inches below full and Cane Creek Reservoir 45.5 inches below full — about 76.7 percent of their capacity.

Ed Holland, planning director for OWASA, says that should be enough to get through the rest of the peak-demand season.

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Meteor shower
Watch the Perseid meteor shower at a special skywatching session on Sunday, Aug. 12 at Jordan Lake, hosted by UNC’s Morehead Planetarium and Science Center.

Planetarium educators will be at Jordan Lake’s Ebenezer Church Recreation Area (off U.S. 64) from 9 to 11 p.m. for this free public event. Participants can view Jupiter and some of its moons through telescopes and watch meteors streaming across the sky.

Bring family and friends, lawn chairs or blankets and a cooler of snacks and sodas for a fun evening of skywatching.
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Charleen Swansea phoned the other day to remind us that the annual summer documentary film series is spooling up its last set of reels. The American Summer series has shown some dandies this summer on the last Saturday of each month at the Century Center. The final two shorts promise more of the same and a grand finale for the festival as well.

So jot down August 25th at 7 p.m. and reserve the early evening for a seat in the climate-controlled comfort of the Century Center where the magic lantern will reveal Mark Twain’s America. The film includes a trip down the Mississippi during the tumultuous times in which Twain plied the waters aboard steamboats. And for local flavor, the series is sponsoring a talk by Carrboro filmmaker Cyndi Whisnant and a showing of Living Historians of the Battleship North Carolina, a splendid look at the life of re-enactors on board the historic old boat docked in Wilmington Harbor.

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Thursday August 9

Blue Horn Lounge:  Mark Wells & Jil Christensen. 9pm
The Cave: Early: Bob Funck. Late: Rift. $5
Reservoir: Caltrop, Backwoods Payback, Blag’ard. 10pm
Local 506: The Postmarks, Kaiser Cartel, Missy Thangs. 9pm. $8
Weaver Street Market: The Hushpuppies. 6pm

Friday August 10

Blue Horn Lounge: Dave Spencer Band. 9pm
Cat’s Cradle: Ted Leo & The Pharmacists, Birds of Avalon. 8:30pm. $14
The Cave: Late: William D. Burton, Salt to Bitters. The New Familiars.
Local 506: Cary Brothers, Stars of Track & Field, William Fitzsimmons. 9pm. $10
Open Eye Café: Avi Fox-Rosen. 8pm

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Greetings from NC: A Century of Postcards from the Durwood Barbour Collection - Through Sept. 30. UNC Campus: Wilson Library.

The Mirror of the Noonday Sun - paintings by Eduardo Lapetina. Through Oct. 21. Panzanella, 929-6626, panzanella.com.

Painting for Children - a celebration of play, whimsy, laughter & fun as seen through the eyes of some of NC’s Children’s Book illustrators & authors. Aug. 1-31. Pittsboro Memorial Library, 542-3524, pittsborolibraryfriends.org, Mon-Fri 10 am-6 pm (Tue 8 pm), Sat 9 am-5 pm.

Paintings by Debbie Harris - Aug. 1-31. Open Eye Cafe, Carrboro, 968-9410, www.openeyecafe.com, Mon-Sat 7 am-11 pm (Fri & Sat midnight), Sun 8 am-11 pm.

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Farmers’ Markets
Carrboro Farmers’ Market - Sat 7am-12pm through Dec 22; Wed 3:30-6:30pm through Oct 17. 932-1641, carrborofarmersmarket.com

Southern Village Farmers’ Market - Thu 4-7pm through Aug 30 at Market Street on the Village Green.

Hillsborough Farmers’ Market - Wed 3-6pm; Sat 7:30am-noon. Apr-Nov. 732-8315.

Fearrington Village Farmers’ Market - Tue 4pm through Nov 20. 8 miles south of Chapel Hill on US 15-501, Fearrington Village, Chapel Hill. 542-4000, chatham.ces.ncsu.edu/growingsmallfarms/fearrington.html

Pittsboro Farmers’ Market - Thu 3:30-6:30pm through Nov 29. Chatham County Fairgrounds, Pittsboro. chatham.ces.ncsu.edu/growingsmallfarms/pittsboro.html

Saxapahaw Farmers’ Market - Sat 5-8pm through Aug 25. On the hill over the river, Saxapahaw, Chapel Hill. rivermillvillage.com

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