Este sábado es el Latino Festival en Durham, con torneo amistoso de fútbol. Torneo para adultos y otro para niños. Registrar para el torneo a las 1500H, el torneo empieza a las 1600H. ¿No le gusta el fútbol? Pásala bien escuchando y bailando a la buena música de Latin Project, Orquesta Gardel, Carnavalito y más. Baile. Actividades para niños. Información acerca de la salud, la educación y el trabajo. Gratis. Vendedores de comida típica. El sábado, 14 de junio 1500-2000H. Forest Hills Park, 1639 University Drive, Durham. Informes al tlf. 560-4355. Durham County Parks and Recreation Department

The ArtsCenter is offering a one-day opportunity on Saturday, June 14, to visit a very unique garden melding art and nature. Designed by Rick Hermanson, the garden incorporates sculpture with water features, mosaics, a collection of Japanese Maples and more. All proceeds benefit The ArtsCenter. Tours will start every hour from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and 50 tickets are available per hour. Tickets are $25 apiece. For more information or to buy tickets call 929-2787. More »

Board wants comment on rate raise

The Orange Water and Sewer Authority will hold a public hearing tonight (Thursday) to allow customers to speak to the board of directors about the proposed budget for fiscal year 2009, which starts July 1 and includes a 24 percent increase in monthly water and sewer rates. The meeting will be held at 7 p.m. at the OWASA building at 400 Jones Ferry Road in Carrboro.
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Entering The Uncommon Garden is like stepping into another world. Reality vanishes, and a magical, serene jungle takes its place.

You won’t want to leave.

The air is cool, and running water can be heard from all directions. Dead trees are transformed into sculptures, and Japanese maples grow at angles among cedars, ferns, pools, and rocks. The real magic is in the detail, in the parts you wont notice the first time you look. Dragons, snakes, and other creatures emerge from the plants. A nook in the wall houses stones from all over the world. Every rock is a work of art, and every detail holds a whimsical surprise.
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By Valarie Schwartz

After writing a story yesterday about Scott Adams’ quest to run across North Carolina, I hardly slept last night. Phantom aches in my lower torso kept waking me up, making me wonder if I shouldn’t be encouraging him in my writing to just run as far as Chapel Hill and the arms of his loving wife and son and call it a day, then spend the next year raising money and awareness about cancer before finishing the run to the coast.
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Special Events

The Secret Life of Turtles: A Family Program — Sunday, June 8, 2–4 pm, with Bob Palmatier, naturalist and environmental Educator. Learn about turtles living in the Triangle area. NC Botanical Garden, $22/family or $12/single. 962-0522.

Computer classes — free computer classes: Internet, Email, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, NC Live. Registration required. Wednesdays, Jun. 4 through Aug. 6, 7:00pm, Carrboro Cybrary, 100 N. Greensboro
St., Carrboro, 918-7387, cybrary@co.orange.nc.us, www.co.orange.nc.us/library/cybrary
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The Orange County Animal Services Department has organized four low-cost rabies vaccination clinics. They are:

Wednesday, June 11 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Orange County Animal Shelter at 1081 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd; Wednesday, June 18 from 8:30 to 10 a.m. at Fairview Community Park, Hillsborough; Wednesday, June 18 from 6 to 7 p.m. at the Orange County Government Services Annex in Hillsborough; and Saturday, June 21 from 10 a.m. to noon at the Orange County Animal Shelter.

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The Carrboro Recreation & Parks Department will sponsor a 2008 Fall Co-Rec Softball League on Tuesdays and Thursdays from late July through October. Each team will play one or two games per week, followed by a double-elimination tournament. A team fee of $608 is required, with at least $150 due at registration. To register, call 918-7364.

Actuaciones de Latin Project, Carnavalito, Los Gallegos mariachi y más. Fútbol para adultos y niños. Premios. Vendedores de comida. Información sobre los servicios en la comunidad de la salud. Toman la presión sanguínea gratis. El sábado 14 de junio, 3-8pm. Forest Hills Park, 1639 University Drive, Durham. Para más información, llame al 560-4355.

La orquesta sinfónica de Carolina del Norte presenta el noveno concierto anual de música clásica. El viernes, 13 de junio, 8pm. Market Square de Southern Village, Chapel Hill.
¿Qué opinas? ¿Cuáles son las cosas que le interesan? Díganos. Aceptamos sugerencias y comentarios al correo electrónico betsy@carrborocitizen.com.

UNC News Services

The National Newspaper Association (NNA) has named University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill professor Jock Lauterer its point person on community journalism for the trade association’s nationwide membership primarily of non-daily newspapers.

Lauterer is a lecturer in community journalism and news writing at the UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication, where he directs the Carolina Community Media Project, the school’s outreach program to 192 small North Carolina newspapers.
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By Valarie Schwartz

It’s already been a year since the Chapel Hill Senior Center on Elliott Road closed and the Robert and Pearl Seymour Center opened on Homestead Road. Not only did it move, the name has stuck — the seniors who use it have dropped “senior” from their vernacular when they refer to their center — it’s the Seymour Center (period).

The folks who delight in the activities there have planned several celebrations to honor the occasion, including the MayTime Merriment Gala Friday and Saturday.
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Special Events

Computer classes — free computer classes: Internet, Email, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, NC Live. Registration required. Wednesdays, Jun. 4 through Aug. 6, 7:00pm, Carrboro Cybrary, 100 N. Greensboro St., Carrboro, 918-7387, cybrary@co.orange.nc.us, www.co.orange.nc.us/library/cybrary

First Sunday — monthly celebration on historic Hillsboro Street in downtown Pittsboro. June 1st 12 – 4pm. Music by Rootsie 1–3pm. Arts and craft vendors will line the streets selling their work, local galleries and shops will be open. 919-260-9725 or pittsboroshops.com
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Our good old dog Corncake died a year and a half ago. Corncake had been, to put it politely, of a mixed variety. That was fine with us. We loved her and mourned her passing. After a while, we began to hanker for a dog again. One day I got a call at work from my mother. There was a man with a box of puppies in front of Weaver Street Market; my 11-year-old daughter had fallen in love; should they bring a puppy home? I said yes and it’s a good thing I did, for later Charlotte confided the following: “When I saw another kid pick up the puppy I wanted, I felt faint.”
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