Public Health & Safety
**Cross posted on Amplify** (http://www.amplifyyourvoice.org/u/dandaman6007/2009/2/9/Healthy-Youth-Act)
Thursday, February 5th, the Healthy Youth Act (House Bill 88) was officially filed in the North Carolina House of Representatives. The Healthy Youth Act would require schools to offer a two-track system for teaching sex education in North Carolina- one for abstinence-only education and another for comprehensive sex education. Parents decide which track their child will take.
**Cross posted on Amplify** (http://www.amplifyyourvoice.org/u/dandaman6007/2009/1/27/Its-time-for-comprehensive-sex-education-in-North-Carolina--NCYLC-blog)
From the OrangeChat blog:
UPDATE: Preserve Rural Orange HAS POSTPONED tonight's meeting on plans for a solid waste transfer station due to the weather.
The meeting is NOW scheduled for 7 p.m. SUNDAY MARCH 15 at the White
Cross Recreation Center, 1800 White Cross Road west of Carrboro.
Speakers include Orange County Solid Waste Director Gayle Wilson. At
citizens' urging, the county is now looking at alternatives to a
transfer station such as hiring a contractor to haul trash to another
area outside the county and possibly exploring waste to energy
technology, although offiicals have previously said the county did not
generate enough trash to make that feasible.
Date:
Sunday, March 15, 2009 - 3:00pm
Location:
White Cross Recreation Center, 1800 White Cross Road
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CAROLINA NORTH
Public Input/Information Session
3:00 - 7:00 pm, Wednesday, March 4 * Extraordinary Ventures, 110 Elliott Road, Chapel Hill *
A Public Input/Information Session on Carolina North will be held at Extraordinary Ventures, 110 Elliott Road. Please note that in response to feedback from the public, the times have been modified and the session is now scheduled from 3 pm – 7 pm.
Carolina North is expected to be contained within about 250 acres of the Horace Williams Tract’s 1,000 acres and be built in phases over the next 50 years, as proposed. The property lies just to the north of Estes Drive adjacent to Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. The Town and the University are now engaged in the preparation of a new zoning district and a Development Agreement for the initial phase of Carolina North, expected to be 133 acres to be developed over approximately 20 years.
Rob Methorst to present "Quality for Pedestrians: Pitfalls in Policy Making"
CHAPEL HILL – Rob Methorst, a senior advisor with the Dutch Ministry of
Transport, will present a lecture titled "Quality for Pedestrians:
Pitfalls in Policy Making " on Friday, March 20 at 1:00 pm in the
Tate-Turner-Kuralt auditorium on the campus of the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The free, public lecture is being cosponsored by the UNC Highway Safety
Research Center, the UNC Injury Prevention Research Center, the
Carolina Transportation Program and the Department of City and Regional
Planning.
Methorst will discuss his international perspective on the ingredients
needed for successful policy making to improve conditions for
pedestrians.
Date:
Friday, March 20, 2009 - 9:00am
Location:
UNC Tate-Turner-Kuralt auditorium
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