community service

6th Annual Neuse River Spring CLEAN UP

Submitted by Leslie H on Wed, 03/05/2008 - 9:48am.
5 Apr 2008 - 8:00am
5 Apr 2008 - 2:00pm

Last year over 200 volunteers hauled out more than 19,000 pounds of trash!

Click here to get Details and Directions to clean-up stations.

CONTACT INFORMATION:
Website: www.neuseriver.org (Click on NRF Annual Events)
Email: jackie.nrf@att.net
Phone: 919-856-1180

Saturday September 8th: Why You Should Attend a Young Democrats USO Day Event

Submitted by CCYoungDems on Wed, 08/29/2007 - 11:57pm.

Military families at heavily deployed bases like Fort Bragg and Camp Lejeune are communities at war without their country. Never in our history have so few been asked to sacrifice so much while so many are asked to do nothing at all. Too many Americans hear about the war in Iraq on the evening news, switch off their TV's and sleep well at night confident that the yellow ribbon magnet they bought for their car last week is a sufficient sacrifice. My two military children have sacrificed more before age 10 than the grown men in Washington four times their age who beat the loudest drums to send their Daddy off to war...

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And Helms begat Reagan...


Arguably, Ronald Reagan's Helms enabled win in the 1976 NC primary was all the encouragement he needed to try again in 1980, setting the stage for the Reagan Revolution and synergistic escapades like this one...

TrueMeckDem on Myers Park Pat

"My opinion of Pat has changed over the years. I used to think he was truly a man of the people but the longer he has been mayor, the less I think of him.

As with most cities, Charlotte has three political parties: Dem, Rep, and Chamber of Commerce. Pat is definitely the puppet of the COC here. What is good for business is good for Charlotte and Pat ... very personable guy, he has gotten a bunch of Dems in these parts to vote for him but I don't trust him."

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