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What We're Doing
We
have an active team of volunteers who are working to oppose the airport on many
fronts. We welcome your help and ideas on all of them. Here's some of the
things we are working on:
* Mobilizing
an informed, county-wide opposition to the airport through an educational
program, petitioning and other activities. We are starting in SW Orange County - which is most
vulnerable to the airport. We will soon expand into the municipalities and
north county. Yard signs are being
printed and petitions are available online and at key neighborhood locations.
* Working with Orange County officials to tighten up zoning and environmental and, possibly the natural resource protection features of our land use ordinances.
* Opening
a dialog with UNC officials to express our concerns and encourage them to move
AHEC air operations to RDU - as their consultants suggested.
* Working with local media to assure that reporting on the airport is balanced and accurate. We are directly providing news and correcting misreporting. Plus many of our volunteers have been writing great letters to local papers.
Please consider joining our active volunteer group. Organize
your neighbors and encourage them to join us. Start a petition in your family,
church, workplace or neighborhood (copies are online). Put out a yard sign - especially if it's visible from a main road. If you'd like to join our
volunteer team, please contact Laurice Aramoonie
(laurice@orangecountyvoice.org).
Please remember - it costs money. Everyone who's working for our
community is a volunteer and many of our local businesses, like Harry's
Market, are printing for us at cost or less. Consider donating $25 or whatever you can spare per family to support
us. We promise to use your money wisely. Visit our "Please Donate" tab for additional details.
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