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Friends of Dorothea Dix Park Weekly Newsletter March 9, 2007 Hello Friends, Welcome to the sixth edition of our weekly newsletter. Please pass this along to all of your friends and ask them to become involved! Our goal is to keep all our members up-to-date on the recent developments related to Dix Park. We cannot thank you enough for your continued support in this campaign to create a destination park in our Capital City. #1 DIX PARK IN THE NEWS! Editorials flowing in, Jay Spain appears on “The State of Things” #2 “GET OUT THE YARD SIGNS” CANVASSING THIS SUNDAY, MARCH 11 #3 UPCOMING FESTIVALS #4 GETTING THE WORD OUT ACROSS NORTH CAROLINA #5 FDDP BOARD MEETING THIS WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14 ============================== #1 DIX PARK IN THE NEWS! Dix
Debate – “The State of Things” on North Carolina Public Radio,
3/6/07 Live interview with Jay Spain, president of Friends of Dorothea Dix Park; Tom Murphy, senior resident fellow at the Urban Land Institute and former mayor of Pittsburgh; and, Dan Gerlach, budget and economic adviser to Governor Mike Easley. Listen to the broadcast by visiting our Web site, www.dixpark.org and clicking “News Articles.” N&O, Editorial by Beckton James: Offices? Downtown – 3/8/07 http://www.newsobserver.com N&O, Editorial by Valerie Jones: Easley errs – 3/8/07 http://www.newsobserver.com N&O, Editorial by Will Hooker: All park -- 3/5/07 http://www.newsobserver.com N&O, Lead Editorial: Just a park – 3/4/07 http://www.newsobserver.com N&O, Editorial by Donna Shoffner: Dix, naturally – 3/4/07 http://www.newsobserver.com News 14 Carolina – No Park in Easley’s Plan for Dix Land, 3/3/07 http://rdu.news14.com/content ============================== #2 “GET OUT THE YARD SIGNS” CANVASSING THIS SUNDAY A new batch of yard signs are here and need yards to call home! We will be gathering this Sunday, March 4, at 1 p.m. to get these signs out to folks that have requested them. Please call Bill beforehand at 787-6378 if you would like to participate. ============================== #3 UPCOMING FESTIVALS We are looking for volunteers to man a booth or hand out information at the upcoming Shakori Hills festival in Pittsboro, NC, April 19-22. This is a great event with a lot of people attending. Please let Jay Spain know if you can volunteer any of those days or you can reply to this email address. More information available at www.shakorihills.org. If you and your family are planning on going to any other NC festivals this spring and summer and would like to represent FDDP there, please let us know! ============================== #4 GETTING THE WORD OUT ACROSS NORTH CAROLINA We have fantastic support across the Triangle for Dix Park, let’s not stop there though. There are newspapers wanting to talk to folks across the state – from Murphy to Manteo – who support a destination park in their Capital City. We need folks from across the state to stand up and speak their mind. Please contact Tess Hussey, who can coordinate media interviews for you as well as letters-to-the-editor at 919-277-1191 or thussey@fwv-us.com. This is everyone’s land and all citizens of the state play an important to help preserve the land as a destination park. ============================== #5 FDDP BOARD MEETING THIS WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14 Our next meeting is this Wednesday, March 14 at 7 p.m. at the House of Many Porches on Dix Hill. Board meetings are held the second Wednesday of each month at 7 p.m. These meetings are open to anyone, please come take part of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to help shape the future of a world-class destination park! As always, we ask you to pass this newsletter along to your friends and family. Thank you for your continued support and hard work! -FDDP Board Friends of Dorothea Dix Park – working together to share our vision of a world-class destination park – it's the right thing to do for your children, your economic vitality and your quality of life. To
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