Special Event Parking Information for Merchants

As a result of merchant's concerns about the $20 special event parking rate at the Wallace Parking Deck on home football game days, the Downtown Partnership has asked the Town of Chapel Hill to change the rates to make it more accessible for downtown visitors that want to shop and eat before and during home football games with out having to pay the full special event rate for parking. Map of downtown parking lots. Special event parking rates are only in effect three hours before kickoff and one hour after kickoff. Normal hourly rates are in effect before and after these time periods.

The Town has responded positively to the idea of restructuring the special event parking rates but with short notice for the last home football game of the season, they are not able to reprogram ticket readers in the lots. For tomorrow, Saturday, November 20th - your patrons need only tell the gate attendant at Wallace Parking Deck that they are not parking for the entire game the attendant will charge them the normal hourly rates when they leave. The game has a noon kickoff against NC State...Go Heels!

We will continue to work with the Town to adjust the special event parking rate for next football season. We are proposing that the rates would be $2 for the first hour, and $5/hour up to $20 maximum.

If you have any questions please contact us at 919-967-9440 or partnership@downtownchapelhill.com.

READY...SET...SHOP!

Start your holiday shopping with great sales at many downtown businesses this weekend! Plus get your calendar out and start marking down all the amazing holiday events you won't want to miss this season.

Check out our weekly email 'What to Do & See Downtown This Week!'

What Do you See for 523?

What do you see for 523? The Town is inviting the public to share ideas on potential future uses for the town-owned building at 523 East Franklin Street on Tues, Dec. 7 from 5:30PM to 7PM. Open house from 1PM to 5PM prior to meeting. Or send ideas to info@townofchapelhill.org.

There are many ways to get involved with downtown organizations that help others this holiday season. Below is a listing of some of the ways to help those in need. If you know of any others please tell us so we can add to the list - partnership@downtownchapelhill.com.

SHARE YOUR HOLIDAY MEAL WITH SOMEONE IN NEED
This Thanksgiving season the Inter-Faith Council for Social Service (IFC) aims to raise $21,000 to provide 840 Holiday meals to local households who are struggling in this economy. For only $25 you can provide a turkey or ham, stuffing, vegetables, bread and dessert to a local family in need. And this year for the first time the IFC is partnering with Farmer FoodShare to include some fresh, locally-grown produce such as sweet potatoes, greens and squash. Please help ensure that all our neighbors enjoy a healthy, nutritious meal over the upcoming holidays. Go to http://ifcweb.org/HolidayCoupon.pdf to print a coupon to enclose with your gift. For more information contact John Dorward at (919) 929-6380, ext. 14 or visit www.ifcweb.org.


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BLANKET ORANGE COUNTY DRIVE
Blanket Orange County Director, Jan Bolick, announces that the 7th annual blanket drive begins on November 15 and ends on December 3. This year, the goal is to collect 400 new or gently used blankets for The Interfaith Council (IFC), The Neighborhood House of Hillsborough and The Maggie Alvis Halfway House. The blanket drive will run from November 15 through December 3, 2010. For more information, visit: http://www.blanketorangecounty.com/.

New and gently used blankets can be dropped off at:
The Chapel Hill-Carrboro YMCA on Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard
The Children’s Center at Carol Woods – 7511 Sunrise Road
The Orange County Visitor’s Bureau - 501 W. Franklin Street, Chapel Hill
The Wellness Center at Meadowmont

Cash donations, 100% of which are used to purchase new blankets should be made payable to Blanket Orange County and mailed to:
Blanket Orange County
c/o Business Class Inc
PO Box 2037
Chapel Hill, NC 27515

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BOOK FAIRY DRIVE FOR PEDIATRIC PATIENTS AT UNC HOSPITAL
Children undergoing cancer treatment will find comfort in new books thanks to a book drive on the UNC campus that runs now until Friday, December 10th. Several UNC departments and organizations are sponsoring the drive on behalf of the Book Fairy, an organization that donates children's books to the Pediatric Oncology Clinic at UNC Hospitals. All new or gently-used books for ages one through mid-teen are welcome. The need is especially great for Spanish-language books at the preschool level and picture books or easy readers in English. For complete details and information on drop-off locations - click here.

Free Warhol Screening this Thursday! @ The Varsity

Warhol on Film: 4 Snapshots -- Chelsea Girls (1966)

Thursday, November 18

6:00 PM, Pre-screening Tour with Peter Nisbet, Ackland Art Museum

7:00 PM, Screening, Varsity Theatre

Chelsea Girls is perhaps the most important underground film in American history and one that is very rarely screened. Shot in 16 mm and presented in a split-screen format, with a single audio track for one side of screen, the film presents a retinue of Warhol's "superstars" in a 3-1/2 hour series of vignettes: they chat, argue, confide, shoot up, cry, and show off for the camera. Filmed at the Hotel Chelsea -- a favored New York hangout for writers, artists and bohemians - and at Warhol's Factory, the film includes appearances by Nico (of The Velvet Underground) and Edie Sedgwick. At its release, Newsweek hailed Chelsea Girls as "the Iliad of the Underground."

Free admission.

The screening of Chelsea Girls will be held at the Varsity Theatre, 123 E. Franklin Street, in downtown Chapel Hill. The film will be preceded by a 6:00 PM tour of the Ackland Art Museum's three current exhibitions of portraiture, including Big Shots: Andy Warhol Polaroids, by Chief Curator Peter Nisbet.

"Warhol on Film: 4 Snapshots" was curated by Rich Cante, Faculty Director of the Interdisciplinary Program in Cinema at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It is part of the ArtNow/CinemaNow film series, sponsored by the Ackland Art Museum in collaboration with the ScreenArts Film and Media Series and the Interdisciplinary Program in Cinema.

Downtown Tree Lighting!

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2nd Fridy Artwalk is tonight Downtown!

Check out what's going down tonight in Chapel Hill in the Art Scene!

What to See & Do this Week Downtown!

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Helicopter Fly-Overs this Friday

As a notice to those who live and work Downtown please read the following from UNC's Director of Local Relations, Linda Convissor:

Dear Friends and Neighbors: 

The Tar Heels take on Virginia Tech this Saturday, November 13.  Kick-off will be at 3:30 p.m.  Just prior to kickoff, we continue the tradition of football fly-overs.   Two Sikorsky CH-53E Super Stallion helicopters will fly over Kenan Stadium just prior to the 3:30 p.m. kickoff. 

On Friday afternoon, the helicopters will do practice runs over the stadium between 12:30 and 2:30 p.m. Of course, bad weather or aircraft schedule changes could affect the flight plans for Friday and Saturday.

Captain Joe Elseroad, a 2003 Carolina alumnus and veteran of the Iraq war, will command the flight in the lead aircraft.  His copilot will be First Lieutenant Trevor Tingle.  The Wing aircraft will be commanded by Captain Mark Sutton, a veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan; his copilot will be Major Gary Wilds, also an Iraq War veteran.  Other pilots are Staff Sergeant Richard Grimm and Sergeant Sean Sandiford, both veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan.

The helicopters are part of the Marine Heavy Helicopter Training Squadron 302 from Marine Corps Air Station in New River, North Carolina.  Squadron 302 conducts helicopter flight training for all Sikorsky CH-53E Super Stallion Marine Corps pilots and aircrew. 

The Sikorsky CH-53E Super Stallion is the largest and heaviest helicopter in the United States military.   The CH-53E can transport up to 55 troops or 20,000 lbs of cargo and can carry external slung loads up to 36,000 lbs.  It has a cruise speed of 173 mph and a range of 621 miles. 

Whether or not you are attending the game, you might want to come to campus to enjoy Tar Heel Town, www.tarheeltown.com.  Tar Heel Town will open at 12:30 p.m.  Be there for the Old Well Walk at 1:00 p.m. as Coach Davis and the Tar Heels walk across Polk Place to Kenan Stadium. Stay and listen to the Drum Line rehearse in the Pit at 2:00 p.m. and the Marching Tar Heels play in front of Wilson Library at 2:30 p.m.  Kids’ activities, food and, of course, Ramses are a big part of Tar Heel Town.

Touch Downtown www.touchdowntown.com provides information for "park and ride" to the game.  You can ride the Tar Heel Express from four park and ride lots; this season the two lots on Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard will not be served by park and ride. 

Fireworks are now a regular feature at UNC home football games.  You may hear and see them approximately 15 minutes prior to kick-off, during the National Anthem, and about 10 minutes later as the team enters the stadium.  During the game, they will recognize touchdowns, field goals and of course, Carolina victories.

  

If you are a community group or neighborhood representative, please forward this email to your members and others who may be interested.

Have a great weekend and Go Heels!

Linda

Check Out Some New Stock at Goodbones Vintage

Film Screening @ The Varsity

Art Exibit @ FRANK

Andy Worhol - Big Shots @ The Ackland

Vetiver - Tonight at Local 506

Check out Vetiver tonight at Local 506 - 9:30 - $12