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HomeMy WebLinkAboutAgenda - 10-21-2003-6bORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: October 21, 2003 Action Agency Item No. SUBJECT: One Community Project DEPARTMENT: Human Rights and Relations PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No ATTACHMENT(S): Preliminary Publicity Flier INFORMATION CONTACT: Annette Moore, ext. 2254 Barbara Chapman, Chair, Human Relations Commission TELEPHONE NUMBERS: Hillsborough 732-8181 Chapel Hill 968-4501 Durham 688-7331 Mebane 336-227-2031 PURPOSE: To present the Board of County Commissioners with information on the "One Community Project", a project of the Orange County Human Rights Commission, and to promote and encourage widespread community interest and involvement. BACKGROUND: The Human Relations Commission, through the Department of Human Rights and Relations, applied for and received a $1,500 Martin Luther King Grant from the North Carolina Martin Luther King, Jr. Commission. This grant will help support a series of yearlong human relations activities -including the Community Dinner and Pauli Murray Awards. This year, in addition to regular Human Relations Month activities in February, the grant will support a film screening of "An Unlikely Friendship", a saga of interracial friendship in the south, and acommunity-wide book reading of Summer Snow by Dr. Trudier Harris, a Distinguished Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. There will be two screenings of the film, one in northern Orange and one in southern Orange, both to be facilitated by Florence Soltys from the UNC School of Social Work and the Orange County Advisory Board on Aging, who conducts the film interviews. November 5, 2003 @ 7:00 p.m. Horace Williams House 610 East Rosemary St. Chapel Hill, NC 27514 November 6, 2003 @ 7:00 p.m. Northern Human Services Center 5800 NC 86 North Hillsborough, NC 27278 FINANCIAL IMPACT: The Department has received grant funding in the amount of $1,500. RECOMMENDATION(S): The Manager recommends that the Board receive the information presented. t+`'7• is t~~~ ~ •4 b ~ ~ ~~ 4 br ~~ ~. vrar~~ vvuf~ay riu~~w~~ ~nrr~a v~rann~sss~rws.- ^s+ara ~..~....~... ..,. countywide activities. These vim era intended to ~irtg all residents of Can~6oro, Chapel liil, Nifisbarough and the ` unincorhorabed of tinge County taper t0 v~rah, r+~d, mink, talk, listen, and mow. This caountywide projE, C}NE, COMM~~ °~~ 3'Y, ~pation from Orange County's u+ng, oki, nlents of , ethn~ties, nationalities, income ls, and Nfe dircumst~n.` t3NE CQMMUNlTY Proms cea~nunity, ring cfiversiEy, any! understanding about vat~fous-polrs of view.. q1- AC771/iTiES ~ i • frlm scn~ening ~ +IT~c~~ke~y r~et~~ip E#y tine Broom tine-Book t~~-Cor~rmuniiy Project: t~jr Dr. 7"naer'l~n~ More specific 4NE GoMMUNm~ fliers are fo~haoming. For adder ancuor specific infomrt~iian contact the Chµange Count Department of Humes Rl~ta & Relations at X819) 24'2250 or emat James Spivey at lspnrcooran~e.ncus. You C©~cn~` ~c~n t.3rr~nge ~'a~r~y r! ri ~,, a ,.~ , ~ , . ,,,~.