"I keep wanting to ask if Durham doesn't need a city cultural initiative."----
Festival a celebration of oneness
BY GREGORY PHILLIPS : The Herald-Sun, Oct 28, 2006 : 9:16 pm ET
DURHAM -- It may not be the biggest festival in town, but the event put on by Southwest Central Durham Neighborhoods on Saturday afternoon is surely one of the most heartfelt.
"We call it a commUNITY festival," said David Ross, one of the organizers of the event at Lakewood Shopping Center on Chapel Hill Road. "We're hoping to bring all the ethnic groups in the neighborhoods together in a spirit of mutual appreciation." -jump-
The festival doubled as the culmination of Make a Difference Day, in which teams of volunteers worked on neighborhood cleanup and improvement projects in the surrounding neighborhoods. Volunteers who had been hard at work all morning got a free lunch and the chance to soak up the atmosphere.
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111 join forces to spruce up, assist the community at Make a Difference Day
BY GREGORY PHILLIPS : The Herald-Sun, Oct 28, 2006 : 10:34 pm ET
DURHAM -- The band of 111 volunteers spread across southwest central Durham on a bright Saturday morning cited myriad reasons for being involved, but they all had the same goal.
"We're just trying to make a difference in our community, building relationships," explained the Rev. Duane Hoskins of Durham Community Land Trustees, one of the agencies behind the second-annual Make a Difference Day in Durham. -jump-
UNC senior Joey Horne got involved in the effort through a service learning class and dragged along his roommate Daniel Lim, an exchange student from Singapore.
"I thought this would be a great opportunity to get to know this area and do some community service," said Lim, who had never been to Durham before.
"It's been quite an eye-opener," he said as he and Horne picked up trash along Chapel Hill Street. "I would have expected the streets to be more ... organized. Hence the need for this project."
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Said to be "devastating" to the prosecution.