INC NEWS - I need your help right now

[Melvin Whitley]

Randy we have Parks in the City now that the City can't find money to take 
care of. Who we take care of the Park and staff it? Where will that money 
come from? I' m home now and await the discussion on this and other 
important issue confronting our City.

Your Servant
Melvin Whitley
2614 Harvard Ave
Durham NC  27703
(919) 596-9691 - Home
(919) 308-2844 - Cell
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "RW Pickle" <randy at 27beverly.com>
To: <inc-list at durhaminc.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 5:09 AM
Subject: INC NEWS - I need your help right now


>I need your help with an email right now. I am going to talk to the City
> Council on Thursday and I want them to know I am not alone in my voice. I
> want them to know there are thousands of citizens in Durham that support
> this idea.
>
> If you will, just copy the message below and paste it into an email and
> send it to City Council at the address below. I left your neighborhood as
> a blank in the email that you'll need to fill in.
>
> Thanks for helping me out. If you need more justification to help me out,
> just read on below the message I need for you to send. It'll further
> explain why I need for you to help me out. Please pass this along to your
> list server for your neighborhood.This is something we all can get behind.
> Especially this electronic community we all are a part of. I know we can
> make a difference.
>
> Randy Pickle
> Forest Hills
>
>
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> council at ci.durham.nc.us
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> I live in ______________.  I support the efforts of EANG in the quest
> toward aquisition of the Duke University land so as to create a regional
> park. Historic preservation does not stop at buildings. It extends to the
> very land where Native Americans camped and on the roads that carried our
> first settlers. This land is a piece of history that will be lost forever
> if developed. Additionally it will aid in the preservation of the
> watershed. Cleaner water should be a goal for everyone.
>
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>
> Yesterday, it seemed like the City Council felt there wasn't a great deal
> of support for the Erwin Area Neighborhood Groups' (EANG) effort to get a
> park of their own (outside of the neighborhoods that were close by). We're
> not close. And neither are the other neighborhoods like Duke Park, Trinity
> Park, Rockwood Park, Morehead Hills Park, Oval Park, and so on, who I hope
> will accept the Neighborhood Challenge I put forth relative to raising
> $500 to support EANG in their goal to raise $100,000 for their park. Our
> money is a small jesture (in the scope of things),but a big message to the
> City that other neighborhoods do support this idea (and even with their
> dollars).
>
> As I understood it yesterday, City Council wasn't hearing from anyone. I
> want to change that today. I need for you to send them an email telling
> them you support the idea of the EANG in saving this Duke property from
> development and creating a natural regional park with the land.
>
> Not only has EANG raised more than $80,000 so far, they have more than
> doubled the size of the land area to be protected for this park. Wade and
> Carolyn Penny have said if this land can be purchased by the four
> municipalities involved, they will put a few more acres than the 44 acres
> of the Duke tract, into the park as well. So this really amounts to a
> milion and a half dollar gift EANG will contribute by themselves; doubling
> the size of the park. This to me is some kind of huge effort. They also
> have located 2 grants that will fund $500,000 each toward the purchase. So
> we're really only talking $100,000 (over three years; $33,333 a year) for
> each government involved. EANG will be paying the remaining $100,000 plus
> adding the additional land. But the 2 grants only will work if all 4
> governments (Orange County, Durham County, Chapel Hill, and Durham)
> participate. If Durham doesn't get on board, the whole thing collapses. So
> your email may be very important.
>
> Maybe this will send the message they say they are not hearing.
>
>
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