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El Sur Comes South — Pedro Lash with Los Artistas & local sonideros; Center Gallery. Kardelen (Snow Drop) — Works by Pelin Yazar Canez, Orhan Alpaslan, Asuman Dogan, Atanur Dogan and Nihal Kececi to celebrate International Women’s Month;. The ArtsCenter. 300-G E Main St. 929-2787, artscenterlive.org

Kardelen: Turkish-American Artists Celebrate International Women’s Month — Paintings by Pelin Yazar Canez and Orhan Alpaslan. March 9 - 30, 2008 East End Gallery at The Artscenter. Reception: Friday, March 14, 2008, 6 – 9pm.

Mixed media by Chief — a tribute to the artist’s new daughter. Showing through Mar. The Beehive Salon. 102 E Weaver St. 932-4483, thebeehive-salon.com

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Special Events

Annual Orange County Egg Hunt for children ages 2-10. Sat, Mar 15, Homestead community Park, 100 Northern Park Dr, Chapel Hill. Children’s entertainment begins at 9:30am and the 20,000-egg hunt begins at 10:30am. Games and a meet-and-greet with the Easter Bunny will follow. Sponsored by the Town of Chapel Hill Parks and Recreation Department. Call 968-2787×208 for more info.

Outdoor activities

Guided garden walk at Niche Gardens. Saturdays through June, 10am. Discussions on spring planting, garden maintenance, design & gardening for wildlife with bird and butterfly gardens. Special emphasis on drought-tolerant plants. Free, rain or shine. Niche Gardens, 1111 Dawson Rd, Chapel Hill. Call 967-0078 or visit www.nichegardens.com for more information.

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The annual Orange County Egg Hunt for children will be held Saturday, March 15 from 9:30 a.m. to noon at Homestead Community Park in Chapel Hill. The egg hunt is for children aged 2 to 10. Homestead Community Park is off Northern Park Drive off Homestead Road.

The celebration is free. Entertainment begins at 9:30 with the Sand Box Band and the egg hunt starts at 10:30 a.m. and will include over 20,000 eggs for three different age groups. The Easter Bunny will also be there.

The Friends of the Library will hold a book sale from Thursday, March 27 to Saturday, March 29. Thousands of books in all categories will be available, but particularly in art, history, biography and fiction, along with classical music CDs. Pre-K through 12th-grade teachers with identification are entitled to a 50 percent discount. Proceeds will benefit the University Library Endowment. On, Thursday only members of the Friends of the Library may buy. Friday is open to all, and Saturday is a Bag Day Sale, in which all books are $3 for a bag. More information at http://www.lib.unc.edu/spotlight/2008/BookSale.html

Wilson Library will hold a panel discussion and live music performance as it opens its new exhibit, “Paper Trail: The Poster Art of Casey Burns and Ron Liberti,” a show dedicated to poster art produced for the local music scene. The event is at 5:45 p.m. Monday, March 17 in Wilson Library. The two artists will speak alongside Frank Heath, owner of Cat’s Cradle. Performing will be Billy Sugarfix, Lud and Regina Hexaphone. The event is free and open to all. The show will be on display from March 17 through May 31. Call 962-1345 for information.

The premiere screening of the documentary Change Comes Knocking: The Story of the N.C. Fund will take place at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 25 at Union Auditorium on the UNC campus. The showing will be followed by a discussion with filmmakers and professors. The documentary tells the story of the anti-poverty North Carolina Fund established in 1963 by Gov. Terry Sanford. Fund employees worked to empower poor NC blacks and whites against a background of national racial unrest. The film was made by Durham’s Video Dialog Inc. and sponsored by the Southern Documentary Fund.

Cat’s Cradle will host a benefit for the Woods Charter School Music Department on Friday, March 14. Playing are Hobex, Great Big Gone and Lynn Blakey & Ecki Heins. Doors open at 8 and admission is $10.

The Chapel Hill Garden club will hold its biennial Spring Garden Tour Saturday, April 12 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday April 13 from noon to 4 p.m. The tour is self-guided and includes 10 private gardens. Refreshments, exhibits, a raffle, live music, demonstrations and plant sales will be held at the Botanical Garden. Tickets are $15 in advance, $20 day of. Children’s tickets are $5, day of only. For information and tickets, contact the Botanical Garden at 962-0522 or visit    www.chapelhillgardentour.net

Well, they’ve gone and once again prematurely sprung daylight-saving time on us, so let’s call it spring. And by way of making it official, your local farmers’ markets are swinging wide their doors.

At the Carrboro Farmers’ Market, springtime hours commence this Saturday — 7 a.m. to noon. The return of the Carrboro Wednesday Market is just around the corner: Mark your calendar for April 9.

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Cookbook author and radio personality Lynne Rossetto Kasper will visit the Fearrington Barn on Thursday, April 10 from 3 to 5 p.m. to read from her book The Splendid Table’s How To Eat Supper.
She hosts the radio show The Splendid Table and writes a column called Ask the Splendid Table for newspapers. Her third, and latest, book features simple and complex recipes and cooking advice. The event is free and open to the public and sponsored by McIntyre’s Fine Books. More information at www.fearrington.com

The 3CUPS coffee shop will host a forum on Wednesday, April 9 at 7:30 p.m. to discuss gaps in local agriculture infrastructure. Leading the discussion are Tim Philpott, food editor for the environmental website Grist and founder of Maverick Farms, and Jennifer Curtis, project director for NC Choices, which promotes sustainable local farming. The discussion will focus on continuing to expand local agriculture. The event is free.

The Haw River Watch will host a Macro-Micro Workshop on Saturday, March 29 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Bynum Beach. River Watch volunteers will teach those interested about collecting and inspecting water samples for microscopic creatures (with an interlude for lunch). Examining the creatures can provide information about water quality. RSVP and get more information from Cynthia Crossen at 967-2500 or riverwatch@hawriver.org

If the sentiment expressed in Peha and Lester’s article “Paper, pencil and chalk” (3/6/08) is the same perspective held by our school systems’ administrators, our children are being done a great disservice.

The authors admit “technology has revolutionized almost every aspect of our lives,” yet they conclude “we may all serve children better with paper, pencil and chalk.” They reach this conclusion by arguing that the technology we use isn’t designed for education.

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I would like to thank everyone who contributed to the success of the Eleventh Annual Community Dinner celebrating Orange County’s cultural diversity, held on Sunday, March 2.

The fact that between five and six hundred people attended the event bears testimony to the multicultural goodwill present in our very diverse community.

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By Holly Hardin

Spending time trying to hunt down graduates who may have had access to Chapel Hill High School keys and discussing how to curb cheating only addresses this problem at the surface. We need to ask ourselves, what about our educational system is causing our students to cheat? Should the students be held accountable for this problem or did the problem exist before it reached their level?

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