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News Friday, August 22, 2014The Daily Tar Heel 3
NO PLACE LIKE HOME
DTH/CHELSEA REEVES
The Charles H ouse cele brated it s 25th anniver sary by hosting an o pen house for its sec ond elderca re home bui lt in Orang e County. St aff, volunteer sand neighbors visited the home to congratulate the residents. Eloise Allison (center) is one of the residents at Charles House-Winmore.
By Trent HollandsworthStaff Writer
The future of alternative energyin Chapel Hill is getting brighter.
Beginning Sept. 3, the town will become a part of the Solarize move-ment.
Solarize Chapel Hill is a grass-roots program that connects solarenergy installers with homeownersand businesses. The program seeksto make energy less expensive in thelong run through group discountsand tax incentives.
The initiative has selected localsolar companies Southern EnergyManagement and Yes! SolarSolutions to complete the installa -tions. The companies will conductfree home assessments for those who sign up for the program, allow-ing each property owner to receive apersonal plan.
Solarize Chapel Hill is an exten-sion of Solarize Carrboro, which putsolar panels on 40 Carrboro rooftopslast spring.
Rob Pinder executive directorof NextClimate, a nonprofit focusingon climate change helps run theprogram. He expects to extend it toall Orange County due to populardemand.
People have long viewed solaras something that is just on thehorizon, but not quite attainable forregular folks, Pinder said.
In order to help spread this ini -tiative, Solarize Chapel Hill willhost free public information ses-sions, the first of which is Sept. 3at the Chapel Hill Public Library at6:30 p.m.
The organization is also promis -ing to donate an educational solarinstallation to a school in the ChapelHill-Carrboro City Schools district.
Each resident who signs up toparticipate is allowed to vote for aschool to receive an installation, andthe school with the most votes willreceive it, Pinder said.
The initial cost of the solar panelsis $16,000 per household or busi-ness, which is 20 percent less thanthe national average, but will con-tinue to decrease as more residentssign up for the program. With taxcredits, the final cost will be around$7,000.
The savings on your utility billcan easily pay back this cost well before the 25-year lifetime of yourpanels, Pinder said. The price forsolar has come down considerably inrecent years.
Gabriel Guillois, manager of
The Lundy Group, is involved with alternative energy throughthe groups GreenbridgeCondominiums, which already usesolar energy to heat water. As aresult, the building saves money onenergy costs and taxes due to gov-ernment energy credits.
We support anything that lowersenergy costs and promotes conserva-tion, Guillois said.
Chapel Hill resident Don Pinneysaid he also supports SolarizeChapel Hill. He said he does no tcurrently use solar energy but isinterested in how the program willdecrease the cost of energy.
Carla Banks, Orange Countydirector of public affairs, said mov-ing toward solar energy will benefit
Orange County residents.Any opportunity for residents totake advantage of state and nationaltax credits is a good thing, she said.
Solarize Chapel Hill is one ofmany similar movements through-out North Carolina, including thosein Asheville, Raleigh and Durham.
Solar lets people take charge oftheir electricity needs, Pinder said.It keeps our energy dollars in thelocal economy and supports localconstruction jobs.
By Graves GanzertSenior Writer
All it takes is a brand new housefor six elderly Orange County resi-dents to feel young again.
Charles House Association, anonprofit that provides constantpersonalized care for elderlypeople, opened their second homeThursday. This new home, knownas Charles House-Winmore, islocated off Homestead Road inCarrboro and is the newest additionto the growing nonprofit.
The house, which included ame-nities like granite countertops andstate-of-the-art appliances, costthe group about $500,000.
Sally Freeman, the programdirector for the Charles House Association, said the group started25 years ago with the vision ofCharles Jones, a historic civil rights
leader in Chapel Hill.Freeman said the elderly and
their families enjoyed the all-daycare offered by Charles HouseDaytime Eldercare Center.
People loved the day care somuch, Freeman said. We wanteda place that offered 24-hourcare and that is when we startedCharles House.
Yorktown Charles HouseEldercare Home was built three years ago to accommodate elderly with 24-hour care while offering ahome setting.
The Winmore home was builtin one year, and organizers areproviding it with its final furnish -ings. The idea of building a secondeldercare home materialized afterthe nonprofit saw the success ofCharles House-Yorktown.
Avery Young, social mediaand digital marketing intern for
Charles House Association, saidthe neighborhood setting is vital tothe groups care for its residents.
The Charles House EldercareHomes offer residents the oppor -tunity to socialize with others theirage while maintaining the avail-ability of 24-hour care, Young said.
I think the elderly will embraceit, Young said. The people in theCharles House-Yorktown live in anactual house. It is more comfortablethan clinical. Its truly a home.
Charles House ExecutiveDirector Paul Klever said the open -ing of a second elderly care home was a huge step for the nonprofit.
There were two main rea-sons to build the second home on Winmore, Klever said. It is a partof a receptive community, and there was a vision of a developer behind it.
Klever said he looks forwardto the future of this new Charles
House.We are thrilled to be a part of
the Winmore neighborhood andlook forward to the same close rela -tionship with our new neighborsthat we have found in Heritage Hill, where Charles House-Yorktown islocated, Klever said.
Eloise Allison, resident of thenew Charles House-Winmore, saidshe was glad to be able to socialize with others her age and is ready forthe new adventure.
From her room at the Winmorehouse, Allison would say hi to every -one who walked by and encouragethem to come again to visit.
Everyone is friendly, whichhelps, Allison said as she showedoff her new room. Right noweverything is wonderful. I think it will feel like home.
Elderly care nonprot opens its second location in Carrboro
Solarenergy
initiativelaunchesThe organization looks toconnect Chapel Hill homes
with solar energy.
Southern Folklife celebrates anniversary
By Elise McGlothianStaff Writer
Unbeknownst to most on campus, a Barbiedoll still encased in its 1963 box, posing withteased blonde hair, wearing an oversized T-shirtand a pink and black leather jacket can befound in Wilson Library, of all places.
The doll is a part of the extensive SouthernFolklife Collection (SFC) that is now celebrat -ing its 25th anniversary with a three-dayfestival, which begins with a benefit dinnerThursday.
The celebration will include performances by Country Music Hall of Fame members MerleHaggard and Tift Merritt, a UNC alumna fromthe class of 2000.
Other items from the collection, whichhighlights aspects of the artistic South, includephotographs, poems and concert posters. Theseitems are on display in the librarys Melba RemigSaltarelli Exhibit Room.
Matthew Turi, a manuscripts research and
instruction librarian, said the librarys staff haschosen a wide variety of items from the collec -tion to display especially for the anniversary.
There are hundreds of thousands of materi-als, Turi said as he walked between huge shelvesof artifacts in the back room.
Its kind of an intellectual mess.The SFC made its way to Chapel Hill after the
University of California, Los Angeles couldntafford its upkeep, said Steven Weiss, curator forthe collection. It opened for research in WilsonLibrary in 1989.
Matt Sakakeeny, an assistant professor ofmusic at Tulane University, will give a lectureon the New Orleans Brass Band Sympo siumon Friday night, the second day of the anniver -sary celebration.
While brass bands dont usually fit into thetraditional genre of folk music, the celebrationaims to expand the meaning of the term folk,Sakakeeny said in an email.
During the course of the weekend, perform -ers such as Dumpstaphunk, Big Star, SierraHull, Dex Romweber Duo and Flaco Jimenez with Los Texmaniacs will pe rform in Wi lsonLibrary, Memorial Hall and Cats Cradle inCarrboro.
The library collections celebrationwill be three days of festivities.
ANNIVERSARY INFORMATIONTime: 5 p.m. tonight, 10 a.m. SaturdayLocation: Wilson Library and Cats Cradle at300 E. Main St. in CarrboroInfo: fc25th.web.unc.edu/
Sakakeeny said he first thought he would bea misplaced speaker at a folk event, but he soonchanged his mind.
When I saw the whole program with coun-try star Merle Haggard and rock band Big Star I realized that theyre really casting their net wide as far as what folk is, he said.
Weiss said the collection attracts interest froma variety students, faculty and staff.
Were dealing with music, art and culture ofthe American South or relating to the AmericanSouth, he said.
It relates to musical traditions, oral tradi-tions, religious beliefs.
Turi echoed Weiss sentiment.Its really anything people did in the South to
express themselves artistically, Turi said.
Yearlong World War I commemoration begins
By Kate AlbersStaff Writer
A century after the start of World War I, UNCprofessor John McGowan wants students toreflect on how the war changed the world just ashe reflects on how it changed his family.
My great uncle my grandfathers brother fought in World War I and came back from that war diagnosed as having shell shock, which is what we call (post-traumatic stress disorder) these days,said McGowan, who works in the Departmentof English and Comparative Literature. And heactually spent the rest of his life, which was almostanother 50 years, in a veterans hospital,
The University will honor stories like this one with the World War I Centenary Project, a year-long conversation on the cause, impact and legacy
of the Great War.My grandfather, (my great-uncles brother), was deaf in one ear because of a childhood ill -ness, and so they wouldnt let him sign up, hesaid. So Im probably here because my grand-father was deaf and did not have his brothersexperience as a soldier in World War I.
Dolly Wildes Picture Show, which premieredThursday in Swain Hall, is the first event that will remind students of the past and the lastingimpact of the first global war.
It will show again today at 8 p.m.Playwright Rebecca Nesvet tells the story of
Oscar Wildes supposedly identical niece, one of
the wars first female ambulance drivers.She said students need to understand the first
modern war and learn from the artists who havedivulged its secrets.We need as Dolly Wilde proposes in my
play a talking cure for war and for the break -downs of communication and empathy thatoften fuel conflict, she said in an email.
We have to be careful about devaluing thearts and humanities. They are our defenseagainst those breakdowns of communication,and they help us to pick up the pieces, if notalways to put ourselves back together.
The year of commemoration will include perfor-mances, events, classes, seminars and exhibitions.
(The war) is just a huge historical eventthat we feel like doesnt get enough attention,McGowan said. And this is a good opportunity 100 years later to pay attention to it.
Bill Balthrop, communication studies pro-fessor and co-coordinator of the project withMcGowan, said UNC is putting on these pro-
grams as a way to involve faculty and students ina common theme beyond the classroom.A lot of people are unaware just how impor-
tant World War I was in terms of shaping inter-national relations, in terms of shaping changesin art and literature, and also in terms of itschanges and influences domestically in theUnited States, Balthrop said.
Students can find more information aboutthe courses and events on the projects websiteon the Institute for the Arts and Humanitieshomepage.
DTH/MATT RENNPaula Nance, acting as Joe Carstairs, performsin Dolly Partons Picture Show at its premiereWednesday night in Swain Hall.
Dolly Wildes Picture Show
opened Thursday at Swain Hall.
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