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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: October 21, 2003 <br />Action Agency <br />Item No. <br />SUBJECT: One Community Project <br />DEPARTMENT: Human Rights and Relations PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />Preliminary Publicity Flier <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Annette Moore, ext. 2254 <br />Barbara Chapman, Chair, Human <br />Relations Commission <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br />Durham 688-7331 <br />Mebane 336-227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To present the Board of County Commissioners with information on the "One <br />Community Project", a project of the Orange County Human Rights Commission, and to <br />promote and encourage widespread community interest and involvement. <br />BACKGROUND: The Human Relations Commission, through the Department of Human <br />Rights and Relations, applied for and received a $1,500 Martin Luther King Grant from the <br />North Carolina Martin Luther King, Jr. Commission. This grant will help support a series of <br />yearlong human relations activities -including the Community Dinner and Pauli Murray Awards. <br />This year, in addition to regular Human Relations Month activities in February, the grant will <br />support a film screening of "An Unlikely Friendship", a saga of interracial friendship in the south, <br />and acommunity-wide book reading of Summer Snow by Dr. Trudier Harris, a Distinguished <br />Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. <br />There will be two screenings of the film, one in northern Orange and one in southern Orange, <br />both to be facilitated by Florence Soltys from the UNC School of Social Work and the Orange <br />County Advisory Board on Aging, who conducts the film interviews. <br />November 5, 2003 @ 7:00 p.m. <br />Horace Williams House <br />610 East Rosemary St. <br />Chapel Hill, NC 27514 <br />November 6, 2003 @ 7:00 p.m. <br />Northern Human Services Center <br />5800 NC 86 North <br />Hillsborough, NC 27278 <br />FINANCIAL IMPACT: The Department has received grant funding in the amount of $1,500. <br />RECOMMENDATION(S): The Manager recommends that the Board receive the information <br />presented. <br />