DURHAM -- All Interested Republicans (AIR) will hold its regular monthly meeting at 11:30 a.m. today at Hope Valley Country Club, 3803 Dover Road.
Reservations are required for the buffet luncheon and will be accepted until 10:30 a.m. today.
The event is open to the public, particularly conservatives of every political affiliation. Cost is $17 per person.
For details or to make reservations, call (919) 519-0761.
Today's guest speaker will be William Gheen, president of ALIPAC, the Americans for Legal Immigration political action committee.
Briggs Avenue garden forum
DURHAM -- N.C. Cooperative Extension's Durham County branch will host a Briggs Avenue Garden Community Forum from 10 a.m.-noon on Sept. 26 at R.N. Harris Elementary School, 1520 Cooper St.
The forum is designed to inform the public about a future neighborhood park and garden in the South Briggs Avenue area.
Guests will be given the opportunity to provide input and ideas about how to develop the South Briggs Avenue area.
A free spaghetti lunch will be served and door prizes will be given.
For additional information about the Briggs Avenue Garden Community Forum, contact Michelle Wallace at (919) 560-0525 or via e-mail at mswallace@co.durham.nc.us.
Students pose for Playboy
DURHAM -- Duke has one. So does Carolina.
That's not football victories (where Duke, actually, has none so far this season).
It's female students featured in the "Girls of the ACC" pictorial in the upcoming October issue of Playboy magazine.
When the magazine held photo auditions last spring at both schools, few potential bunnies nibbled at the carrot offered by the magazine. Only seven Duke students showed up to get photos taken and only one -- Candice Maria -- made it into the pictorial. UNC's one representative in the magazine is Stephanie Christine.
Each one of the 12 ACC schools is represented, with Maryland leading the league with three and Georgia Tech having two.
Car seat safety program today
DURHAM -- Durham County Library and Welcome Baby will host a car seat safety program at 6 p.m. today at the East Regional Library, 211 Lick Creek Lane, to kick off child safety week.
Carmen Reeves of Welcome Baby will discuss the importance of car seat safety and will check car seats immediately after the program.
The event is free and open to the public
For more information, call Placedia Nance at (919) 560-0214.
Fundraiser set for nonprofit
DURHAM -- One Durham Everybody Eats (ODEE) will host a fundraising party from 2-6 p.m. Saturday at 1703 E. Geer St. -- the former Hartman's Steakhouse.
Funds raised event will benefit operations for the nonprofit's community restaurant, organic foods garden and aquaculture facility on behalf of disadvantaged low income youth in North-East Central Durham.
The ODEE Restaurant will serve fresh organic foods to community members at prices they can afford, and train low income youth in food service, preparation and processing, organic gardening, and other f green economy skills that will allow them to find employment.
The fund-raising party will include a tour of the ODEE community restaurant facility, currently being renovated, and its organic garden and other green facilities, followed by a presentation and discussion of the vision of One Durham Everybody Eats, accompanied by fresh food and refreshments, and music by accordianist Leo Briere of Zydecopious, and the roots music of Terry Allebaugh and Milton Brasher-Cunningham with guitar, vocals and harmonica.
For more information, call (919) 491-9740 or visit http://www.onedurhameverybodyeats.org/ online.
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