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Current News (Looking for the news paper and TV articles? Click here)Friends of Dorothea Dix Park Weekly Newsletter May 25, 2007 Hello
Friends, #1 FDDP SEEKING HOST SPONSORS FOR THE JUNE 26 FUNDRAISER #2 WE NEED YOU! ADVOCACY DAY AT THE LEGISLATIVE BUILDING IS JUNE 13 #3 SENATE BILL 1541 ON DIX PROPERTY COMES TO FLOOR #4 FDDP’S ANNUAL MEETING TO BE HELD ON JUNE 13 #5 DIX PARK IN THE NEWS! #6 THANK YOU FOR CONTINUING TO HELP CIRCULATE THE DIX PARK PETITION #7 RECAP OF DIX PARK ROUNDTABLE ============================== #1 FDDP SEEKING SPONSORS FOR THE JUNE 26 FUNDRAISER The Legislature plans to add concrete or green space this session. The City Council is ready to ask for the property, but haven't yet. We have to act NOW! The Friends of Dorothea Dix Park fundraiser will take place at 6 pm Tuesday, June 26, 2007 at 333 Fayetteville Street, the Capital Bank building, second floor. Please help us continue our PR and Marketing efforts. The host list is shaping up nicely but we need your help! Please join us by making your pledge to be on the host list today – levels are: Host $1000 Co-Host $500 Sponsor $250 Patron $100 Please email us (thussey@fwv-us.com) by Tuesday, May 29 at noon to indicate what level of sponsorship you or your friends or family are interested in. Your check should be made payable to Friends of Dorothea Dix Park. We need to continue the momentum and we cannot do that without your support! ============================== #2 WE NEED YOU! ADVOCACY DAY AT THE LEGISLATIVE BUILDING IS JUNE 13 Please go ahead and mark your calendars for the Advocacy Day at the Legislative Building on Wednesday, June 13 from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. You do not have to be there for the entire block of time, but any time you can spend with us down at the Legislature between those hours will help! We will be sending more details in the coming weeks. ============================== #3 SENATE BILL 1541 ON DIX PROPERTY COMES TO FLOOR The NC Senate introduced Senate Bill 1541 this week, which is identical to House Bill 1644, so that both could make crossover. Both bills are broad enough to allow the General Assembly the opportunity to embrace and even enact our park plan. ============================== #4 FDDP’s ANNUAL MEETING TO BE HELD ON JUNE 13 FDDP's annual meeting and election of officers will be at Moonlight Pizza Co, 615 W Morgan St, Raleigh from 5:30- 7pm June 13. Please join us for pizza and cool beverages. ============================== #5 DIX PARK IN THE NEWS! State Government Radio Show, “People and Places” on WPTF Radio (News Talk 680 AM) to air this Sunday, May 27 from 4-5 p.m. Jay Spain, President of Friends of Dorothea Dix Park was interviewed on this show earlier in the week. UNC Public Radio, Wednesday, May 23 – Discussion about growing pains in Raleigh on “The State of Things”; Program addressed Dix property and year-round schools; (Note: Little was actually said about the Dix property, but it was mentioned.) Listen to archive here: http://wunc.org/tsot/archive WPTF Radio, Tuesday, May 22 – Jay Spain was interviewed by Mike Blackman WRAL-TV, WNCN NBC 17 and WTVD News Channel 11 all attended the Greater Raleigh Merchants Association in which FDDP, Dix Visionaries and DIX306 were all represented. Blog posting by Jack Betts, Associate Editor for Charlotte Observer, “Botanical Garden for Dix Hill?” May 25, 2007 – http://jackbetts.blogspot.com/ ============================== #6 THANK YOU! For your continuing help to circulate THE DIX PARK PETITION We are almost half-way to our goal of 10,000 signatures for the online petition to save Dix Park. Thank you to everyone who has signed it so far! Please continue you support of making this a world class destination park for future generations by getting everyone you know to sign the petition. You can access the petition here: www.dixpark.org ============================== #7 RECAP OF DIX PARK ROUNDTABLE The Greater Raleigh Merchants Association presented a public roundtable about the future of the Dix property this past Monday, May 21 at the City Council Chambers. Speakers were: Gregory Poole, president of Dix Visionaries; Jay Spain, president of FDDP; Bill Padgett, representative of DIX306; Mitchell Silver, planning director of the city of Raleigh; and John Tote, executive director of the Mental Health Association of N.C. The information presented by the three groups supporting the park (FDDP, Dix Visionaries and DIX306) was very well received. Some notable quotes: "The use of this property will reflect for centuries to come our values, our hearts--our compassion. This is all about doing something for children--It's all about families." – Mr. Gregory Poole “Just recently the NC General Assembly negotiated to buy Chimney Rock as a state park for 24 million dollars. It was the right thing to do. I don't live there. I don't have to live there to appreciate our state saving a natural resource for the public. The General Assembly does not have to buy the 306 acres at Dix. It will cost them nothing. It is already state land. With the stroke of a pen, they can create a 306 acre Dix Park for the people of our state and all who visit.” – Mr. Jay Spain A question from the audience started off with a reference to the Healing Place and asking why not including this and other services “in the park.” Response from Bill Padgett: “Everyone wants to be “in the park” – DHHS, mental health services, Wake Tech, Charter schools, condos, strip malls, office park, etc. – these are all good things but if you start putting these things “in the park” – the park is greatly diminished and soon gone. It’s the future generations we want in the park – visitors and tourists, young and old, rich and poor, all races and cultures. We want them to relax, play and enjoy the park – not live, work and shop in it.” ============================== Thank you for your continued support! Please contact us at this email address if you have any questions or would like to become involved. -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. Please check out the Dix Park Online Store for t-shirts, hats, mugs and car magnets, http://cafepress.com/dixpark. For yard signs and a list of pick-up points please visit www.dix306.org. To
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Friends of Dorothea Dix Park (FDDP), founded in 2004, is a 501(c)3 organization made up of thousands of individuals and more than 30 member organizations whose mission is to preserve the Dorothea Dix Campus as a world-class destination park. FDDP is dedicated to educating people across North Carolina about the value of preserving the land as a destination park and why it is the right thing to do for our children, our economic stability and our overall quality of life. For more information about FDDP, its people, plans and vision, please visit |
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