DURHAM -- Durham Technical Community College's Small Business Center is offering The Fast Entrepreneur course from 6-9 p.m. Wednesday nights, beginning tonight and continuing through April 21, at the college's Corporate Education and Small Business Center.
This small business start-up course is developed by SCORE high-tech entrepreneur John K. Wyman, with support from the Durham Tech's Small Business Center. SCORE is a national non-profit agency that provides support for start-up entrepreneurs and small business owners. Each student taking the course is supported by a mentor. Fast Entrepreneur class members learn how to write a business plan and a marketing strategy, create a budget, obtain additional money, and prepare for the challenges of building a successful business. Visiting experts discuss the basics of business law and accounting, as well as other subjects. Students also learn why 80 percent of small businesses in the Triangle fail within five years.
The cost of The Fast Entrepreneur course $149. The Small Business Center is located in the SOUTHBank Building, 3rd floor, 400 W. Main St. For more information, e-mail gulleyd@durhamtech.edu, call (919) 536-7241, ext. 4501 or visit www.durhamtech.edu/sbc online.
'Tea' discussion set at Duke today
DURHAM -- MaryAnn Black, associate vice president for community relations for Duke University Health System, will be the featured speaker at this year's "Tea With Trailblazers" events sponsored by the Duke Medical Center Library and Archives and the John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African-American History and Culture.
Black, a former Durham County Commissioner will give an informal chat about some of the experiences she's had at Duke and in the Durham community in general. She also will answer questions.
The public is invited to attend this free Black History Month event at 2:30 p.m. today in the Duke Medical Center Library's History of Medicine Reading Room. Tea and light refreshments will be served.
For information, call Jessica Roseberry at (919) 383-2653 or e-mail jessica.roseberry@duke.edu.
NAACP/ACT-SO fundraiser set
DURHAM -- The second annual NAACP/ACT-SO fundraiser breakfast will be held at 8:30 a.m. Saturday, at the Holton Career and Resources Center, 401 N. Driver St.
The keynote speaker will be state Rep. Larry Hall, D-Durham.
ACT-SO is youth initiative of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to provide a forum through which American youth can demonstrate Academic, artistic and scientific prowess and expertise, to gain recognition often reserved for entertainers and athletes.
The public is invited.
DAC grants are available
DURHAM -- Applications are available for the Durham Arts Council's 2010-11 Season Grants.
The grants are designed to support arts activities occurring between July 1 and June 30, 2011. Arts nonprofits or nonprofits planning an arts activity may apply. An applicant must have nonprofit 501c(3) status or apply under a fiscal agent that has 501c(3) status.
The applicant organization must be based in Durham or produce the majority of its programming in Durham County. An applicant may request cash and/or use of space in the Durham Arts Council building.
Season Grants are not awarded to support fundraising activities.
For more information or to schedule an appointment, call Margaret DeMott at (919) 560-2720 or e-mail mdemott@durhamarts.org.
An information session to introduce the program to new applicants is scheduled at 5:30 p.m. Monday at the Durham Arts Council, 120 Morris St.
Applications must be delivered to the Durham Arts Council building by 9 p.m. on March 1.
Applications are available at the front desk of the Durham Arts Council or may be downloaded at www.durhamarts.org.
Breastfeeding sessions slated
DURHAM -- The BEST for Babies Alliance will host weekly breastfeeding support groups for African-American mothers in Durham County through March 12.
African-American moms are invited to take part in sessions on Mondays from 6-8 p.m. and Fridays from noon-2 p.m. at Union Baptist Church, 904 N. Roxboro St.
These sessions will include information and resources and give mothers a chance to speak with breastfeeding experts who can answer questions.
Mothers are welcome to bring infants. Child care and food will be provided.
If you have questions or would like help with transportation to the meetings, contact Elizabeth Jensen, University Project Coordinator, Department of Maternal and Child Health, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health at ecjensen@email.unc.edu or (919) 966-1370.
CAARE benefit luncheon slated
DURHAM -- Healing with CAARE, Inc. will hold its first annual health awareness fundraising luncheon from 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. today at the Outback Steakhouse at 3500 Mt. Moriah Road.
The cost is $20 per person and includes lunch and giveaways.
Healing with CAARE is a private, nonprofit, community-based organization that operates a free health care clinic here which serves more than 1,000 people per month
For more information or to purchase tickets, contact Shirley Oates at (919) 687-0793 or caarehomehealth@aol.com; Darryl Hicklen at (919) 638-5100 or darrylhicklen@ymail.com; Penny Haley at (919) 614-7284 or pennyhaleynaa@yahoo.com; or Ebony Covington at (919) 519-8628 or ecovington78@gmail.com.
For more information about CAARE, visit www.CAARE-INC.org.
Governor to speak here
DURHAM -- Gov. Perdue will present the keynote address at today's 49th annual N.C. City & County Management Association Winter Conference at the Sheraton Imperial Hotel, 4700 Emperor Blvd., at 2:15 p.m.
Solid waste rescheduling
DURHAM — City solid waste collections have been delayed by two days for all customers because of the weekend’s winter storm.
Customers are urged to go ahead and place their carts on the curb by 7 a.m. the day after their normal collection day. In addition, bulky item and yard waste collection is canceled this week but will resume next week, weather permitting.
Customers can refer to the city’s Web site at www.durhamnc.gov, call Durham One Call at (919) 560-1200, or tune into DTV8 for updated information about collection schedules.
“The safety of our employees and the public, especially on the secondary roads, continues to be our primary concern,” said city official Robert Williams. “We are continuously assessing streets, especially our neighborhood streets, to make sure our trucks can travel on them safely and that they can maneuver as needed for collection purposes. [Tuesday] morning, we did not feel like the streets were passable enough for us to safely collect garbage and recycling carts. Right now, we are now two days behind schedule and plan to work this weekend to catch up. We ask for continued patience by our customers as we try to catch up the remainder of this week and this weekend.”
Recycling rescheduled
DURHAM — County Schedule B customers whose recyclables were to have been collected on Monday will have their bins emptied on Saturday instead because of the weekend’s winter storm.
Residential customers with excess recyclable material may drop off items at any of the four Solid Waste and Recycling Convenience Centers.
They include:
- N.C. 55 and T.W. Alexander Drive, (919) 560-0460.
- Redwood Road and Electra Road, (919) 682-8200.
- Quail Roost and Ball Road, (919) 477-8552.
- Bill Pools Road and N.C. 501 North, (919) 477-4325.
2,400 gallons of sewage spill
DURHAM — The city Department of Water Management responded Monday to reports that a sewer was found overflowing at 7:15 a.m..
Approximately 2,400 gallons of sewage spilled from a sewer at N.C.751 south of Constitution Drive and discharged into state waters at an unnamed tributary of Mud Creek.
City crews cleared the blockage caused by roots and rags by 9:15 a.m. Monday. The area was being cleaned and disinfected and the city said there were no immediately visible adverse environmental impacts or hazards to persons or property.
The N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources was notified.
County ops back to normal
DURHAM — Durham County issued a statement Tuesday afternoon declaring most major roads throughout the county were safe for travel during the early morning hours today.
The statement added that because of the easing of safety concerns, county government offices would operate on a normal schedule today.
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