Arts grant recipients honored by Orange County Commissioners

The Board of County Commissioners of Orange County honored the Orange County Arts Commission’s Fall 2011 arts grant recipients with the presentation of award checks at its Tuesday, Feb. 7, regular meeting.
The fall 2011 grant recipients are:
• A.L. Stanback Middle School
• ArtsCenter
• Christ Church Preschool
• Franklin Street Arts Collective dba FRANK Gallery
• Free Spirit Freedom Institute & Gallery (fiscal agent Hillsborough Arts Council)
• Friends of the Carrboro Branch Library
• Grady A. Brown Elementary School PTA
• Hillsborough Elementary School
• Historical Foundation of Hillsborough & Orange County
• Kristi Vincent Johnson
• McDougle Elementary School PTA
• Preservation Society of Chapel Hill
• Susan Simone
• WCOM-FM
• Sean Wellington
• Women’s Voices Chorus
These awards represent $23,251 in Orange County funds awarded to nonprofit organizations and artists for arts programming during calendar year 2012.
The Orange County Arts Commission is a county agency that strengthens the arts in Orange County, which includes the townships of Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Hillsborough. Created in 1985 by resolution of the Board of County Commissioners, the Arts Commission’s 15-member citizen advisory board meets the second Monday each month (except for July) from 6 to 7:30 p.m. The Orange County Arts Commission is housed in the Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau, 501 W. Franklin St. in Chapel Hill. For more information, contact Martha Shannon at (919) 968-2011 or visit www.artsorange.org.

Grady Brown's Sundaes for Slides at Maple View

Monday, March 7th – PTA’s Sundaes for Slides 3 to 8 p.m. at  Maple View Hampton Pointe (Wal-Mart Shopping Center). The Nutter Family, owners of Maple View Farms, has offered to host this GAB Playground Fundraiser at the Hampton Pointe Location (Walmart Shopping Center) from 3-8PM.  They will donate 10 percent of all ice cream sales to the GAB PTA for our playground!  The fifth graders came up with some great names for a custom sundae to buy that night only! It was an honor to have Ms. Jones, our wonderful principal, select the winning name of 'Cougars n' Cream' sundae! Come and try this delicious sundae and help support our playground!

grady a. brown lock-in

 Teachers and staff at Grady A. Brown Elementary School will be locking themselves into the school Thursday, Jan. 27, starting at 2:45 p.m. They will stay inside the school until the community helps them win a Pepsi Refresh Grant worth $50,000 to aid in their efforts to get a new playground for their third- through fifth-graders. Currently, those students must play on a cracked blacktop.
To learn how you can vote (up to three times per day), visit www.refresheverything.com/playgroundforgab until Feb. 1

little error

Somehow, the page 7 story about Grady Brown and Paws 4 Ever included incorrect attribution for Sharon Harkovy's dog, Tibby. It's right on the page, but it got in the paper wrong. So sorry, Sharon, but we'll have a correction next week.

But, here are some pictures from the event that didn't make it into the paper:





Once we put up the Web, I'll put some more photos up in the photo gallery. Just click on the blue and yellow button.

marsville link-up

So, one of the things I did today was head over to Grady A. Brown Elementary School to take some photos of their Marsville Link-up.

Here are a couple for your enjoyment:


Here's a picture of Grady A. Brown students deflating their Marsville habitat.


A sign on Grady Brown's door lets people know they're entering a strange new world.

For more information on the project, you'll have to catch Wednesday's News of Orange.