INC NEWS - Melissa Rooney among "Eight to Watch"

[John Schelp]

Way to go, Melissa! Bravo.


> 
> I don't know if it bad news that Durham's growth is
> so painful or good news that Durham's neighborhoods
> are so noticed, but congratulations to Melissa
> 
> MELISSA ROONEYIn 2006, Melissa Rooney was named
> "Neighborhood
> Hero" in Durham. In 2007, she made herself a sort of
> e-mail Paul Revere
> for the town as a whole, and in the process became a
> voice for
> ever-growing South Durham.In 2008 -- well, Rooney
> said she'll
> wait to run for public office until her children are
> in school full
> time, but, "I feel a sense of fate in that
> direction."Rooney, 37, has lived in the Fairfield
> subdivision off Herndon Drive for almost five
> years."My
> big concern is environmental," she said. Her
> activist horizons began
> expanding when woods just across the street were cut
> and graded for a
> new subdivision.She began to educate herself on
> development and
> the rules and processes that govern it in Durham,
> sharing what she
> learned by way of Durham's multitudinous e-mail
> lists.She also began campaigning to change the rules
> to give residents more information and more say
> about what's done around them."It's not so much my
> thoughts as a culmination of conversations with
> other people," she said.Rooney
> holds a doctorate in chemistry and met her husband,
> Mike, in graduate
> school at UNC-Chapel Hill. They have two children,
> Aiden, 6, and
> Seamus, 4."It's been a real whirlwind year [in
> 2007]," she said.
> "I get really frustrated, but I feel really good
> about the people I've
> met and the baby steps we've taken."
> 
> Full article:
>
http://www.newsobserver.com/print/tuesday/city_state/story/854716.html
> 
> 
>
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