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WWW.UPANDCOMINGWEEKLY.COM MAY 30-JUNE 5, 2018 UCW 9 e legacy of a remarkable Fayetteville civic leader will likely be anchored by his devotion to nature conservation in his hometown. Harry E. Shaw died on May 19 at the age of 91. He served in numerous capacities, including as president and chairman of the City of Fayetteville Lin- ear Park Corporation. At Mayor Mitch Colvin's suggestion, the city's Cross Creek Linear Park will be named for Shaw. He founded the nonprofit organization and personally directed development of the park and trail that runs along Cross Creek from Festival Park to Eastern Boulevard. Shaw was a loan officer for Home Federal Savings & Loan for more than 30 years. He was elected to Fayetteville City Council in 1965 and won re-election four times, serving as mayor pro tem much of that time. In 1975, he was appointed by the governor to the board of Fayetteville Technical Community Col- lege, where he served for 29 years as its chairman. Shaw was a charter member of the Lafayette Society and a board member of Cape Fear Botanical garden. New gateway to downtown Fayetteville opens e new $24.3 million Rowan Street bridge in downtown Fayetteville is set to open June 5. Con- struction on the project is running six months ahead of schedule, according to North Carolina Department of Transportation. Once the adjacent, old bridge is torn down, workers will finish construction on the final two lanes. "Favor- able weather last year helped get the new bridge open half a year early, as did an internally compressed construction schedule by the contractor, S.T. Woo- ten Corporation of Wilson," said DOT spokesman Andrew Barksdale. e existing four-lane bridge was built in 1956 and had become functionally obsolete. e new bridge is made up of two spans. One crosses the CSX rail- road, and the other goes over the Norfolk Southern railroad. e project also includes realigning Rowan Street, Murchison Road and Bragg Boulevard into an intersection that will create a new gateway into down- town and a more prominent route to the Fayetteville State University campus. Cape Fear Valley launches clinical trials program A new partnership in Cumberland County will en- able Cape Fear Valley Health to have access to clinical trials. Carolina Institute for Clinical Research is the newly formed partnership between Cape Fear Valley Health and Wake Research/M3-Wake Research As- sociates, Inc., based in Raleigh. "A robust clinical research program is an important part of an academic health system," said Michael Nagowski, chief executive officer of Cape Fear Valley Health. "Our physician residency programs in obstet- rics and gynecology, internal medicine, emergency medicine, family practice, psychiatry and general surgery will benefit greatly from this partnership. Our patients and community will also benefit from having access to a wide variety of clinical trials." Access to clinical trials will be available for nearly all major therapeutic areas including internal medi- cine, dermatology, women's health, metabolic dis- eases, gastroenterology, men's health, neuroscience, pulmonology, rheumatology, vaccines and women's health trials. City fire station repositioned Fayetteville's new Fire Station 12 at 911 Hope Mills Rd. is adjacent to J.W. Coon Elementary School. It's three blocks east of the 65-year-old station it replaces, which was owned by the Lafayette Village Rural Fire Department until the city annexed the area in 2004. e land for the new station was donated to the city of Fayetteville by Cumberland County Schools. "e new facility includes updated features needed for today's fire service operations and resources, in- cluding our fire personnel," said Fire Chief Ben Major. e 10,000-square-foot building has two apparatus bays, a community/training room, a decontami- nation room, a kitchen and fitness room. e city paid more than $3.5 million for the station. Chief Major indicated response times will be shorter for the neighborhoods station 12 serves, which include Gallup Acres, Lafayette Village, Oakdale, South Hills, Ashton Forest, Quail Ridge, Queensdale and Ever- green Estates. Health Department offers free mosquito insecticide Mosquito season is in full swing in Cumberland County. e Cumberland County Department of Public Health is providing some relief by way of free mosquito insecticide to Cumberland County residents. ere are at least 60 types of mosquitoes in North Carolina. One of the most common and recognizable is the Asian tiger, with its distinct white and black striped legs and body. is pest feeds during dawn to dusk hours. Most of the mosquitoes native to North Carolina will reproduce in ditches, swamps, marshes and other natural bodies of water. But the Asian tiger mosquito tends to breed in pockets of standing water, sometimes in as little as 1 ounce. To aid in reducing the mosquito population, Cumberland County Department of Public Health is providing Mosquito Dunks all summer long. e Mosquito Dunks product, provided at no cost to Cumberland County residents, is a biological pest control agent that kills mosquito larvae. It is non- toxic to fish, birds, wildlife and pets. Another effective means to reduce the mosquito population is the "tip and toss" method. Tip over any containers that have standing water including tires, flower pots, buckets, jars and barrels. County residents can pick up a two-month supply of the Mosquito Dunk insecticide, with instructions on use, in the Environmental Health section on the third floor of the Health Department, 1235 Ramsey St., Monday through Friday between 7:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. Board of Health discusses priorities e Board of Health held its regular meeting on May 15. During that meeting, the agency discussed priorities previously established at the planning re- treat in April. Issues discussed included the governing structure of the Health Department. On May 4, a let- ter from the Board of Health was sent to the Board of County Commissioners indicating they would like to see the Health Department remain an independent department from the Department of Social Services and that the Board of Health would like to remain a governing board. Also discussed was a need for more school health nurses. An additional seven nurses have been re- quested to be added to the fiscal year 2018-19 budget. e Health Board also talked about an increase in transparency between the Health Department staff and the Board of Health and between the Board of Health and the Board of Commissioners and the community. e board also discussed issues includ- ing lowering the sexually transmitted infection rate in the county, providing better messaging around opioid misuse and becoming a leader in the effort to combat the opioid crisis in our community. e 2017 Annual Report for the Department of Public Health is available online at http:// co.cumberland.nc.us/health/community-resources/ reports. e Board of Health meets monthly on the third Tuesday of each month at 6 p.m. in the 3rd floor board room of the Public Health Center, 1235 Ramsey St. For more information, call 910-433-3705. Civic leader dies a STAFF REPORT NEWS DIGEST Harry E. Shaw