INC NEWS - Donate shoes by 7/14; ticks; EVENTS: reading re: Hayti, Sommerhill opening, plays

[Laura Drey]

Some of these events are occurring today. Please spread the word!

Ends July 14

El Centro Hispano needs your old shoes

Donating your old shoes can help raise money for El Centro Hispano.  They
can¹t have holes in them-but other than that we will take them.  ³El Centro
Hispano is a FABULOUS and very effective, impactful community nonprofit
working with and serving Durham¹s Latino Community!² carolyn kreuger

El Centro Hispano's Shoe Campaign to raise funds to serve the Durham Latino
Community ends July 14.  Please tell your friends and bring your used shoes
(without holes) to El Centro today!  Nadeen Bir  919-687-4635 x32

El Centro Hispano
201 W. Main St. Suite 100
Durham, NC 27701

El Centro Hispano is a grassroots community based organization dedicated to
strengthening the Latino community and improving the quality of life of
Latino residents in Durham, North Carolina, and the surrounding area. El
Centro Hispano accomplishes its mission through education, community
support, leadership development, community organizing and by establishing
alliances with other communities and organizations.

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Other suggestions for tick removal

³The key is to check thoroughly after (and even during) being in woods or
high grass for ticks. When you pull a tick off that's attached make sure you
have the head, so get right down by the skin. Low percentage of ticks carry
disease. 

A School Nurse wrote the info below ­ good enough to share -- it might work
for you.

I had a pediatrician tell me what she believes is the best way to remove a
tick. This is great, because it works in those places where it's sometimes
difficult to get to with tweezers:  between toes, in the middle of a head
full of dark hair , etc.

Apply a glob of liquid soap to a cotton ball. Cover the tick
with the soap-soaked cotton ball and let it stay on the
repulsive insect for a few seconds (15-20), after which the tick will come
out on it's own and be stuck to the cotton ball when you lift it away. This
technique has worked every time I've used it (and that was frequently), and
it's much less traumatic for the patient and easier for me.

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And wash it with alcohol.  Ticks are easy to loose and hard to kill so I get
a piece of scotch tape and stick it to them and fold them up and throw them
away.  I even keep tape in the glove compartment in my car because there
have been a few times I've found one crawling on me while driving down the
road.²

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People can help safely and effectively decrease the number of mosquitoes by
limiting their breeding sites --- removing sources of standing water. Spring
is the time to begin taking action. A bottle cap can hold enough water for
mosquitoes to breed. Clogged roof gutters are a key source for mosquitoes.
(If gutters are not hung at a proper downward slope water will accumulate.)
Check carefully for standing water in your yard than drain or fill areas
where stagnate water has been located. If you have any culverts or ditches
try to clean them so that water moves freely. Empty, remove, cover or turn
upside-down any container that will hold water. For more info about actions
you can take to prevent more mosquitoes see Mosquito Control document sent
around May 15. 
 
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Events

July 11  7PM
 
Lewis Shiner: Author reading about a book set in Durham¹s Hayti
(quoted excerpts from Exploring the gray between: Author will read July 11,
7PM @ The Regulator
By Dan Kois, 29 June 2008, News & Observer)

³The shame of Hayti reverberates through Lewis Shiner's new novel "Black &
White," just as it still does through modern-day Durham.

Hayti, Durham's first and greatest black neighborhood, fell victim to
economic disinvestment and to the urban renewal wrecking ball in the 1960s.
As the Durham Freeway cut through the black-owned businesses on Pettigrew
Street, the city bought and razed homes and businesses throughout the
neighborhood, effectively killing one of the most prosperous centers of
black culture and entrepreneurship in midcentury America.

In "Black & White," Shiner -- a novelist and comics writer who lives in
Raleigh -- tells the story of Hayti's fall from the perspective of the
present.

In the world of "Black & White," secrets aren't the only things buried under
that freeway embankment-- a real dead body is, too, the corpse of a
long-disappeared civil rights leader.

Given the novel's title, and its obvious racial and moral implications, it's
worth answering a question prospective readers may have about this novel:
Shiner is white. Some observers may take umbrage at a white man attempting
to tell this story, but Shiner approaches his story honestly. Even while
training its eye on one man's shocking family history, "Black & White"
admirably takes in the big picture, and it's the rare book that pays
attention to the machinery of change -- not only the backroom political
dealings that doomed Hayti but the actual cranes and bulldozers that
devoured it. The men who directed and drove those machines have stories to
tell; that unique view of Hayti's destruction is a fascinating one, and one
I'm glad Shiner chose to tell.

Shiner packs in a bomb, a white supremacist rally, a race riot, voodoo
ritual, a romance, an affair, a fight at a funeral, more murders, a suicide,
a stolen baby, Southern politics, a savage beating, incest, a resurrection,
and a character who moves from one side of the title's racial divide to
another.²

The Regulator 
Ninth St.

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Friday - Sunday July 11 - 13 &
Wednesday ­ Saturday July 16 - 19

The Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern invites you to its funkiest, most
soul-powered story yet: GOIN' A BUFFALO
by the legendary Ed Bullins. A classic honor-among-thieves caper, Bullin's
sensual "tragi-fantasy" play follows a ragtag collection of small time
criminals as they strive for the last big score that will get them out of
haunted Los Angeles and to the city of their dreams: Buffalo. The
inspiration for subsequent "Blaxploitation" films of the 70's and hipster
wannabes like Quentin Tarantino and Guy Ritchie.

8:15 p.m. Except for Sunday July 13 at 3:15

Manbites Dog Theater
Foster (between Trinity and Greer streets) Durham

TICKETS 
$17 Fri/Sat/Sun; $12 Wed/Thur

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Saturday, July 12  6 ­ 9 pm. Reservations requested

Somerhill Gallery Grand opening

³Somerhill Gallery is one of the most prominent galleries in the Southeast.
Abstract and representational artwork in all visual disciplines ...
[featuring] fine art glass and art jewelry.... Somerhill Gallery is an art
source for the first-time buyer as well as the seasoned collector.²

Somerhill Gallery 688-8868
Venable Center 
303 South Roxboro St., Durham
www.somerhill.com/

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July 18 ­ 19  8 pm
July 25 ­ 26  8 pm
July 20 & 27  2 pm

a touch of sugga, A Play about Diabetes in the African American Community

³The play takes  a look at the reality of type 2 diabetes as it impacts one
African American family.  According to the American Diabetes association,
African Americans are disproportionately diagnosed with the disease.
Between the ages of 65 to 74, one in four African Americans is stricken with
the disorder but there is hope! Much is known about how to manage diet and
exercise so that you can continue to enjoy a full life. Ultimately the
choice is yours.
   Playwright Howard L. Craft delivers another in her series of
truth-telling plays intended to light the way out of this epidemic.²
Admission is free.
For more information, call 530-6761 or 530-7776.

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Reception: Friday, July 18  5 - 7pm
July 18 - August 31

Durham Art Guild's Annual Members' Show

Durham Arts Council 560-2713
120 Morris St., Durham
www.durhamartguild.org/schedule.html


Laura Drey (³dry²)



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