Former Durham Mayor Nick Tennyson and Chapel Hill business executive Matt Springer have joined the board of directors of the nonprofit Triangle Residential Options for Substance Abusers Inc.
Carolina Ale House raised $22,000 for the Carolina Hurricanes Kids ‘N Community Foundation (KNCF) during the 2013 Hearts for the Hurricanes campaign.
This feature is brought to you by the Durham County Library’s North Carolina Collection, whose primary purpose is to preserve and make available the historical record of Durham County. If you have Durham-related files, photographs, or memorabilia and would like to donate them to the Collection, contact Lynn Richardson, (919) 560-0171, lrichard@dconc.gov . For more information about the Collection and its treasures, visit the web site at http://www.durhamcountylibrary.org/ncc.php .
Check out ways to volunteer on www.handsontriangle.org or contact Lynn Odom at 919-613-5105.
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A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the abundance of eggs at the farmers’ market in the early springtime. It has always interested me that this abundance of eggs in the spring coincides with Easter and Passover -- two holidays whose meals incorporate hard-boiled, dyed eggs.
In 2003, Durham Central Park was a five-acre area full of bramble bushes, weeds and trash.
On the east side of Foster Street, South Ellerbe Creek ran through the park but was so overgrown with kudzu and bushes you couldn’t even see it.
KONTEK Systems, an audio/video systems integrator based in North Carolina's Research Triangle area that provides design and installation services, recently donated a NED projector valued at $900 to El Futuro
Durham is a city that loves its sports, and that is especially evident with the North Carolina Central University (NCCU) Eagles. Formerly a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division II athletics program, NCCU now compete at the Division I level (Football Championship Subdivision) as members of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) with 14 men’s and women’s sports teams.
Partners Against Sexually Transmitted Diseases along with Beauty and the Bull Spa donated their time and services for a worthy cause, the ladies in Cornwallis Road Apartments (Durham Housing Authority) March 9 in honor of National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day.
This feature is brought to you by the Durham County Library’s North Carolina Collection, whose primary purpose is to preserve and make available the historical record of Durham County. If you have Durham-related files, photographs, or memorabilia and would like to donate them to the Collection, contact Lynn Richardson, (919) 560-0171, lrichard@dconc.gov . For more information about the Collection and its treasures, visit the web site at http://www.durhamcountylibrary.org/ncc.php .
