Hello Friends,
Welcome to the 18th edition of our weekly
newsletter. Please pass along to your friends and family 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.
#1 CALLS TO ACTION!
#2 FUNDRAISER EVENT COMING UP ON TUESDAY,
JUNE 26
#3 DIX PARK IN THE PRESS
#4 ONLINE PETITION REACHES NEARLY 4,500
SIGNATURES
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#1 CALLS TO ACTION!
To support the recent media coverage we need
you to act immediately and complete these calls to action as soon as
possible - but they need to happen by Tuesday June 12th.
#1 Action Alert!
Letters to the editor needed
immediately.
Regardless of where you live, write your local
paper and express your support for Dix Park. Express your own thoughts
and say that the General Assembly should accept the city’s offer
immediately to create a world-class destination park. We owe this to our
community and future generations.
#2 Action Alert!
Write, call, fax or email your elected
representatives.
Ask them to accept Raleigh’s offer to buy
the 306 acres of Dix land to create a world-class destination park.
Please ask your friends and family to do the same!
#3 Action Alert!
Write, call, fax or email Gov. Mike
Easley.
Urge him to immediately accept and support
Raleigh’s offer to create a world-class destination park on the
306 acres on Dix Campus.
#4 Action Alert!
Websites and Blogs.
Visit the websites for all the media that
covered the press conference (see below) on Thursday June
14th and voice your support for the Dix destination park in
the comments sections after those stories.
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#2 FUNDRAISER EVENT COMING UP ON TUESDAY,
JUNE 26
Thank you to all of those who have pledged
their support and have bought tickets to our event! If you have
not done so already, please RSVP to thussey@fwv-us.com
It is critical for you to send in your
contribution now; please don’t let our efforts stumble!
These last two months could be the tipping point for creating a
world-class destination park and the time to act is now! Tickets
are $50 per person. Thank you!
The Friends of Dorothea Dix Park fundraiser will
take place at 6 p.m. Tuesday, June 26, 2007 at 333 Fayetteville Street,
the Capital Bank building, second floor. We want you all to attend! It's
not too late to make your contribution through one of the many levels of
sponsorship opportunities that are still available.
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>
) 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!
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#3 DIX IN THE PRESS
Following the press conference on June
14th the $10.5 million bid for Dix Park received widespread
media coverage:
City offers $10.5 million for Dix on
newsobserver.com
http:
//www.newsobserver.com/politics/dix/story/603742.html
Raleigh Mayor Pressing State Lawmakers to
Sell Land on WRAL.com
http://www.wral.co
m/news/local/story/1499212/
On WRAL news
http://wral.com/news/l
ocal/video/1501971/
Raleigh makes $10.5M bid to buy Dorothea Dix
campus in Triangle Business Journal
http://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/stories/2007/
06/11/daily32.html?f=et85&hbx=e_du
Dorothea Dix On The Mind Of Raleigh in The
Raleigh Chronicle
http://www.ralei
ghchronicle.com/2007061306.html
Mayor, groups offer to buy Dorothea Dix site
from state for park on ABC 13
http://www.wlos.com/template/inews_wire/wires.regio
nal.nc/32631da6-www.wlos.com.shtml
Thursday, June 14, 2007, at the North
Carolina General Assembly on MyrtleBeachOnline.com
http://ww
w.myrtlebeachonline.com/564/story/100120.html
Raleigh offers to buy Dorothea Dix on News 14
Carolina
http://news14.com/D
efault.aspx?ArID=583684
Raleigh makes $10.5M bid to buy Dorothea Dix
campus in msn.com Money section
http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/
provider/providerarticle.aspx?Feed=ACBJ&Date=20070614&ID=7034147
Raleigh pushing Dix question: Offers to
purchase the property in NC Spin newsletter
http://designhammer.bm23.com/public/?q=message_pre
view&fn=Key&type=tracking&id=asnyksahfigbrmjhgipuoybinxwabed&link=
ausgteetqhcnpekfehrhprjbcnjbbli
Dorothea Dix On The Mind Of
Raleigh - Raleigh Chronicle on NC Mental Hope News
Blog
http://mentalhopenews.blogspot.com/2007/06/doroth
ea-dix-on-mind-of-raleigh-raleigh.html
New direction for Dix on
Carolina Bits Blog
http://newsviewsandmore.blogspot.com/2007/06/new-direction-for-di
x.html
Raleigh, NC, Dorothea
Dix land. DIX306 Proposed and Bid by Raleigh City Leaders on Real Estate
Blog Active Rain
h
ttp://activerain.com/blogsview/123806/Raleigh-NC-Dorothea-Dix
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#4 ONLINE PETITION
REACHES NEARLY 4,500 SIGNATURES
Since the petition
launched on March 23 nearly 4,500 people have signed it. That's a
good start, but we are still reaching for our goal of 10,000
signatures. We need you to send the petition link to everyone in
your address book and encourage them to sign it. Each of us has
the power to see this number grow! Please take a moment and
forward this link now. We also encourage you to read the petition
and the comments that people are posting, these serve as more reminders
of what we’re all working towards.
<http://www.dixpark.org>
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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.
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