Up & Coming Weekly

MARCH 10-16, 2010 UCW 7 WWW.UPANDCOMINGWEEKLY.COM Enter for your chance to Enter for your chance to WIN tickets WIN tickets Enter for your chance to WIN tickets Name______________________________________ Phone Number___________________________________ Email_______________________________________ Please send completed entry form to Up & Coming Weekly, 208 Rowan St., Fayetteville, NC 28301 or fax to 910.484.9218. Enter for your chance to win tickets Name: _________________________ Phone Number: __________________ Email: _________________________ Please send completed entry form to Up & Coming Weekly, 208 Rowan St., Fayetteville, NC 28301 or fax to 910-484-9218 Mar. 19 at the CROWN THEATRE THE CITY O F F A Y E T TE V I LL E , NO R T H CAROLINA C A M P B E L LT O N CR O S S C REEK Calendar of Events www.ci.fayetteville.nc.us Earth Hour continued MARCH Sign Up for Our E-News Tell your friends about the Fayetteville Focus! Encourage them to sign up for it by going to www.ci.fayetteville.nc.us and clicking on Subscribe inside the E-Newsletter Service box at the top right hand corner of the page. event, so that they will turn their lights off when they can throughout the year in order to have a cleaner climate." The City is planning to get the word out about Earth Hour at the March 26 Fourth Friday in downtown Fayetteville. Sustainable Sandhills and PWC will be joining the City as partners for the Earth Hour event. Sustainable Sandhills will be at Fourth Friday signing people up for its Conservation Assistance Project, which helps low-income and elderly residents with measures OLNHLQVWDOOLQJHQHUJ\HI¿FLHQWOLJKWEXOEVDQGORZÀRZ VKRZHUKHDGVDQGUHSODFLQJDLU¿OWHUV For more information about Earth Hour, log onto www.earthhour.org. the word out about the Census. The Fayetteville Area System of Transit (FAST) has distributed drawstring bags with the Census logo on it, Fayetteville-Cumberland Parks & Recreation has given out Census-branded pens and the Fayetteville Fire Department will be handing out chip bag clips and pens. The City assisted the Cumberland County Complete Count Committee with a Census Bureau awareness event at the downtown Headquarters Library in early January. Mayor Tony Chavonne, Cumberland County Commission Chairman Billy King, Rep. Elmer Floyd and Al Howe, Census Bureau manager for Cumberland County, spoke at the event. A display board was setup to promote the Census and information was presented to citizens. For information on Census related jobs, call 1-866-861-2010, or more information on the Census, log onto www.census.gov. Census continued 10 - PWC Board Meeting, 8:30 a.m., PWC Administration Building, 955 Old Wilmington Road 10 - Redevelopment Commission Meeting, 12:30 p.m., City Hall Lafayette Room, 433 Hay St. 11 - Fayetteville-Cumberland Human Relations Commission Meeting, 5:30 p.m., City Hall Lafayette Room, 433 Hay St. 11 - Metropolitan Housing Authority Meeting, DP0HWURSROLWDQ+RXVLQJ$XWKRULW\2I¿FH 1000 Ramsey St. 15 - Board of Adjustment Meeting, 5 p.m., City Hall Council Chamber, 433 Hay St. 16 - Taxicab Review Board Meeting, 2 p.m., City Hall Cape Fear Room, 433 Hay St. 16 - Planning Commission Meeting, 7 p.m., City Hall Lafayette Room, 433 Hay St. 22 - City Council Meeting, 7 p.m., City Hall Council Chamber, 433 Hay St. 23 - Historic Resources Commission Meeting, 4 p.m., City Hall Lafayette Room, 433 Hay St. 24 - PWC Board Meeting, 8:30 a.m., PWC Administration Building, 955 Old Wilmington Road JOIN THE TEAM Keep Fayetteville Clean Annual Citywide Cleanup Saturday, April 17 Kickoff: 9 a.m. at the entrance to the MLK Freeway on Ramsey Street To sign up, call Lynn Hughes at (910) 433-1587 Visit our website at: www.fayettevillebeautiful.com APRIL 2 -*RRG)ULGD\&LW\RI¿FHVDQGUHFUHDWLRQ centers closed

• Cover