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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Council approves Shortbread building

Seven-story project on West Rosemary Street will include shops, apartments
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BY GREGORY CHILDRESS

CHAPEL HILL The Town Council on Monday unanimously approved a rezoning and special-use permit that paves the way for a 7-story mixed-use project planned for West Rosemary Street. The councils approval came after a parade of citizens, including UNC basketball royalty Lennie Rosenbluth and his wife,

Diane, appeared before the panel to express support for the project, called Shortbread Lofts. My husband and I are hoping that maybe one day we might live on the seventh floor and we welcome some of you to be our new neighbors, said Diane Rosenbluth. Lennie Rosenbluth, the AllAmerican who led UNC to the schools first national basketball championship, also said he

looks for ward to moving into the apartment building one day. I think it looks great and I hope someday to live in that apar tment building, Lennie Rosenbluth said. It really looks nice. Larr y Shor t, the developer, clarified Tuesday that the Rosenbluths dont have a financial relationship with the project, but are friends. But Rob Stephens, chairman

of the housing committee of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro NAACP, said there was a similar parade of people who came for ward to suppor t the controversial Greenbridge project in 2005. You saw exactly what were seeing today the people coming forward, friends of the developer, people who have financial interests in the development coming for ward one after another and praising this

without any neighbors or poor people, in particular, having any say in this, Stephens said. He said Shortbread, Greenbridge and the 140 West mixeduse project now under construction will anchor the gentrification of the area. What you see in gentrification is you have a squeeze, Stephens said. Thats how it
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Republicans jockey for Assembly seats

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BY GREGORY CHILDRESS

This puppy was found during the largest puppy mill rescue ever conducted in Tennessee, which was set into motion when the Humane Society of the United States took tips about animal cruelty to local and state investigators.Nearly 700 animals were removed from the facility. Last week in Chapel Hill, Wayne Pacelle, the president of The Humane Society of the United States, read from his new book The Bond: Our Kinship with Animals, Our Call to Defend Them, in which he wrote that stories like the one in Tennessee havea flip side. Our human instincts can run in the opposite direction.

Photo courtesy Humane Society of The United States | Michelle Riley

Arguing for animal rights

Humane Society president speaks, signs books in Chapel HIll
BY KAYLEE BAKER
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CHAPEL HILL Animal rights activist Wayne Pacelle was a boy, his uncle bought him and his cousins West Highland White Terriers, or Westies. Pacelle and his cousins fell in love with their new outdoor puppies, Brandy and Randy, which were born in Kansas, the largest puppy mill state at the time. And when Pacelle and his family finished playing with the pups,

they would tether the dogs without a second thought. Now as president and CEO of the Humane Society of the United States, Pacelle works to raise awareness of the contradictor y ways many animalloving Americans treat animals. As a dog-lover who tethered his puppy-mill Westie as a child, Pacelle argues that the bond humans have with animals has been broken. And he came to Chapel Hill to elabo-

rate on the relationship. On Friday, a packed room Chapel Hill-Carrboro community members gathered at FlyLeaf Books to hear Pacelle speak about his book The Bond: Our Kinship with Animals, Our Call to Defend Them. I thought it was time for somebody to offer a big picture on whats occurring with our relationship with
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CHAPEL HILL The field in the District 50 state House seat is getting crowded on the Republican side of the ballot. On Monday Jason Chambers, 25, joined three other GOP candidates in the race to fill the seat cur rently held by Bill Faison (D-Orange), who will leave his House seat to run for governor. The filing period closes at noon today. Chambers, a lab technician, has never held political office, but was the GOP nominee in the 2010 District 30 House race won by incumbent Paul Luebke (D-Durham). I think I have a decent shot at winning [the Republican nomination], said Chambers, noting that he is the only Republican in the race from Durham. The other three Republican candidates Rod Chaney, W. Lewis Hannah Jr. and Thomas Samuel Wright all live in Orange County. The winners of the Republican and Democratic primaries in May will face off in November. So far, only two candidates Orange County Commissioner Valerie Foushee and Travis Phelps of Durham have filed for election to the District 50 seat on the Democratic side of the ballot. Chambers said that because about 40 percent of the registered voters in the district live in Durham, and because he has name recognition from the 2010 election
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ear Kristen and doesnt matter to you or to Katherine: Happy any of your cousins, including 25th birthday, my my own children whether sweet nieces. We called you we (parents/aunts/uncles) out there in Colorado ever send anything at all. during dinner to sing to Like were losing each you hope you got the other. message, because you That makes me so sad, didnt answer the phone. girls. Because I want to I miss you, twins! be a part of your lives. I I didnt send you a want to stay bonded with VICKI present this year; not you, all of you, firmly WENTZ and forever, even though sure if you noticed, I didnt even send a card. youre far away. This is partially because Im And, so, in honor of your about a thousand years old and 25th birthday: forget things, like names, dates The Top 25 Reasons To ... shoes. Stay Connected to Your Older But, its also because at this Generation (especially Your point in your lives (all grown Aunts!) up, out of college) I feel like it 25. You were born into a big,

A letter to all of our children

Italian/German Catholic family filled with love, dysfunction, laughter, tears and insanity. You are so lucky! 24. Your aunts and uncles and heaven knows, your grandparents need constant fashion, technology and behavioral advice, or one day we will embarrass you irreparably. 23. We can be hilarious. Admit it. 22. We (most of the time) smell nice. 21. We can cook. 20. We (most of the time) believe in the same things. 19. Your cousins are all in the same boat. Their stories may differ in the particulars; their frustration, anxiety and angst is the same as yours and, united, you may all one day be able to put your parents in homes. 18. We love you hearttwistingly. 17. We miss you heartwrenchingly. 16. We changed your diapers, fed you strained carrots (which still stain our favorite blouses or maybe thats just me), came to every birthday party, and hunted backyard bugs with you. 15. If you ever need $50 fast (in my case, maybe $15), as long as its not illegal, immoral, or stupid, we will always help. 14. You may still resent the

completely ignorant rules and restrictions to which you were abusively exposed growing up which were mostly supported by your aunts and uncles but I wager youll raise your children almost exactly the same way. (Most of you realize that now, even if you wont admit it.) 13. We babysat for you and told you even better bedtime stories than we told our own children. 12. We kept almost everything our children wore, and swapped the best with our siblings so that you could all have cute clothes even if your
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