DURHAM -- Triangle Residential Options for Substance Abusers -- TROSA -- will hold a yard sale Mar 4-6 from 7 a.m.-5 p.m. daily.
The sale aims to raise money to cover the costs of TROSA's comprehensive substance abuse treatment program, and is taking place on TROSA's main campus, 1820 James St.
Items for sale will include a wide array of household and office accessories, furniture, cleaning supplies, clothing (men's, women's, and children's), exercise equipment, construction materials, and more.
TROSA is funded by its resident-run businesses, donations, and fundraisers like the yard sale. The items for sale were all donated from various organizations.
TROSA is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that helps substance abusers change their lives through our comprehensive two-year residential program. For more information, visit www.trosainc.org online.
Coffee/Council date postponed
DURHAM -- Partners Against Crime District 2 has rescheduled its March 8 Coffee with Council meeting with City Council representative to 6 p.m. March 23.
The get-together will be held at the Durham Public Schools Training facility at 2107 Hillandale Road.
Social Services to talk budget
DURHAM -- The Durham County Board of Social Services meet to review the proposed budget for fiscal 2011 at 3 p.m. March 3 at the DSS offices at 220 E. Main St.
For more information, e-mail Montrella Springfield at mspringfield@dss.co.durham.nc.us or call (919) 560-8039.
Duke researcher wins lung grant
RALEIGH -- The North Carolina chapter of the National Lung Cancer Partnership has named a Duke University researcher as a winner of its 2010 Young Investigator Research Grant competition.
The competition was developed to drive research that will increase understanding of lung cancer and support scientists who choose to pursue lung cancer research, even in the face of a poor funding climate.
"Grant recipients will receive $100,000 total distributed over two years. The North Carolina chapter is co-funding two grants and since its inception in 2008, the national competition has awarded over $1.5 million to support lung cancer research.
Duke Medical Center assistant professor Mark Onaitis, M.D., was the local grant winner. He is seeking to better understand the complexity of lung cancer tumors by characterizing tumor-initiating cells and how they respond to certain molecular signals. He will investigate how the type and location of a tumor-initiating cell contributes to the aggressiveness of the cancer. A better understanding of the different types of cells within a tumor and how those cells are affected by cell signals could help develop more effective targeted therapies.
This grant is co-funded by the North Carolina Lung Cancer Partnership and LUNGevity Foundation and funding from Amgen, Genentech, Sanofi-Aventis and individual donors.
Immigrants to access fund
DURHAM -- The Southern Coalition for Social Justice, based in Durham, has partnered with the National Immigrant Bond Fund to provide zero interest matching loans to immigrants who cannot afford to pay a full bond.
The fund helps immigrants who are arrested to post bond and access legal services. It was created from a pool of private donors.
The coalition said it created the fund because most immigrants held by Immigration and Customs Enforcement must foot the entire cost of their bond, not the percentage paid normally to a bail bondsman.
Failure to post bond immediately can also result in a rapid transfer of detainees to courts outside of the state in which they were arrested.
The Southern Coalition for Social Justice empowers minority and low-income populations to defend and advance their political, social and economic rights.
For more information, visit www.scsj.org online.
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