May - Morrisville

100 Town Hall Drive
PO Box 166
Morrisville, NC 27560
PRSRT STD
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PERMIT NO. 1910
PHONE 919 / 463.6200
FA X 919 / 481.2907
EMAIL [email protected]
MORRISVILLE TOWN COUNCIL
MAYOR Jackie Holcombe
MAYOR PRO-TEM Liz Johnson
COUNCIL MEMBER (DISTRICT 1) Michael Schlink
COUNCIL MEMBER (DISTRICT 2) Steve Diehl
COUNCIL MEMBER (DISTRICT 4) Margaret Broadwell
COUNCIL MEMBER (AT L ARGE) Steve Rao
COUNCIL MEMBER (AT L ARGE) Mark Stohlman
www.townofmorrisville.org
A LOOK Ahead
MAY 2013
Wednesday, May 1
•Yard Waste — Green
& Yellow
Tuesday, May 7
•Public Safety
Advisory Committee
Meeting, 6:00 pm
Wednesday, May 8
•Yard Waste — Red,
Blue & Purple
Thursday, May 9
•Planning and Zoning
Board Meeting, 6:30 pm
•Senior Advisory
Committee Meeting,
6:30 pm
Tuesday, May 14
•Town Council
Meeting, 6:30 pm
Wednesday, May 15
•Yard Waste — Green
& Yellow
JUNE 2013
Wednesday, May 22
•Community Appearance
Committee, 6:15 pm
•Yard Waste — Red,
Blue & Purple
Monday, May 27
•Holiday, Town
Offices Closed
Tuesday, May 28
•Town Council Meeting
(Public Hearing for
Budget), 6:30 pm
Wednesday, May 29
•Parks & Rec Advisory
Committee Meeting,
6:30 pm
•No Yard Waste Pickup
Wednesday, June 5
•Yard Waste — Green
& Yellow
Tuesday, June 11
•Town Council
Meeting, 6:30 pm
•Parks & Rec Advisory
Committee Meeting,
6:30 pm
•Yard Waste — Red,
Blue & Purple
Wednesday, June 12
•Yard Waste — Red,
Blue & Purple
Thursday, June 13
•Planning and Zoning
Board Meeting, 6:30 pm
Wednesday, June 19
•Yard Waste — Green
& Yellow
Tuesday, June 25
•Town Council
Meeting, 6:30 pm
Wednesday, June 26
•Community Appearance
Committee, 6:15 pm
SOLID WASTE COLLECTION Trash and recycling are collected weekly on Mondays (red route), Tuesdays (blue route), Wednesdays (purple
route), Thursdays (green route), and Fridays (yellow route). Yard Waste is collected on Wednesdays, twice each month for each route (see the
calendar above).
May 2013
ISSUE
Connection
MORRISVILLE
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What’s Happening in the Heart of the Triangle
Make Way for East Meets West
Morrisville Innovation
Foundation’s East Meets West
festival will be on Saturday,
May 18, from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00
p.m. along Town Hall Drive
featuring food, performances
and visual arts highlighting
Morrisville’s diverse
community.
Featured foods include Indian, Asian, American,
European and new trends in food fusion.
Participating restaurants and vendors include
Georgina’s, Taste Vietnamese Cuisine, 5 Hot
Chillies, Peppers Market and Sandwich Shop,
Mare, Buffalo Wings & Rings, Saffron Indian
Cuisine, It’s A Grind, Urbana Catering Concepts,
Doherty’s Irish Pub, Neomonde, and Muddy Dog
Roasting Company. Be sure to vote for your
favorite dish in our “Feast of the East and Best
of the West” contest.
Enjoy music from A Fifth of Blues, featuring
soulful blues, and The Will McBride Group,
featuring high energy funk, jazz, and rock will
be performing on the West Stage near the beer
garden. The East stage by the Indian Creek
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CONNECT WITH US!
Find the Pinecone
Utility News
Around Town
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Stay Pool Safe This
Summer!
Greenway Trailhead will feature Bollywood,
Indian folk and Asian dance groups and
performers showcasing a variety of cultures.
Kids activities make the event fun for the whole
family.
Morrisville Movies in
the Park
Admission to the festival is free, tickets will be
available for purchase to buy food, beer and
wine.
Platinum sponsor: Town of Morrisville
Gold sponsor: Yelp
Bronze sponsors: Cricket, 919 Magazine, Legacy
Academy, US Foods
Friends of East Meets West: Allstate Insurance
Company-Ravi Reddy, Brickman, Primrose
School at the Park, Tekelec, Jackie and Rick
Holcombe and John Abram Agency, Inc.
For more information about East Meets West,
visit www.eastmeetswestmorrisville.org.
Operation Medicine Drop
The Morrisville Police Department and Safe Kids
North Carolina join forces to sponsor Operation
Medicine Drop, a pill take back event. Citizens may
drop off unused and outdated prescriptions (PILLS
ONLY – no fluids, needles or creams) from 10
a.m. until 2 p.m. on Saturday, May 11 at Target on
Market Center Drive in Morrisville. The intent of
the program is to keep dangerous drugs out of the
Inside
water system and out of the hands of children.
Officer Godwin
Honored in Law
Enforcement United
Ride
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A Look Ahead
Stay up-to-date on
the latest news,
events and more at
townofmorrisville.org.
Operation Medicine Drop is a program
administered by Safe Kids North Carolina and the
NC Department of Insurance, partnering with the
Drug Enforcement Administration. For more
information or a calendar of events, visit www.
ncsafekids.org.
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MORRISVILLE CONNECTION
Find the Pinecone
Contest
To continue celebrating 2013 being our Year of Community, we will be
holding a series of contests and events this summer. This month, we will
kick off with our Find the Pinecone contest. Hidden in this newsletter is a
Morrisville pinecone (actual size: ).
If you find it, visit www.townofmorrisville.org/newsletter and follow
the link to fill out the form correctly and be entered into a raffle. One
winner will be randomly selected to receive a History of Morrisville book,
written by Morrisville's local historian, Earnest Dollar. The deadline for
the contest is May 31, and the winner will be recognized in a future issue of
the Morrisville Connection. One entry per person will be permitted, and
the contest is limited to Morrisville residents only, please!
Each year, the Town of Morrisville chooses a theme that focuses on a
specific function or service we provide to our residents. Throughout the
coming months, we’ll highlight all of the opportunities Morrisville’s staff
and Council provides to give our residents a sense of community.
Town of Morrisville's staff and Council encourages the spirit of community
among our residents through current programs and events. Community
influences several of Town Council’s Priorities and Perspectives, such as
“Provide an Environmentally Sensitive & Livable Community”, “Community
Safety”, and Core Values like “Well Planned Community”; and Morrisville’s
staff and Council recognize the importance of providing programs, events
and resolutions that cultivate an identity and an attitude of fellowship.
Stay tuned to see what next month brings for the Year of Community!
UTILITY NEWS
FROM THE TOWN OF C ARY
Oasis: Your Life Saver
Oasis is a program designed to help those who find
themselves in financial hardship with their Town of Cary
utility bill. Dorcas Ministries administers the program in
partnership with the Town of Cary.
If you need one-time financial assistance, call 919.469.9861
or search “Oasis” at our website, www.townofcary.org.
Want to help? Donations are accepted at 919.469.4050.
Be an AquaStar!
This summer, “Beat the Peak” of high water consumption
by pledging to be an AquaStar.
•
Pledge online your commitment to waterwise habits.
Receive a free t-shirt (while supplies last).
•
Play “Don’t Drown the Ground” at our website. Save
ladybugs from an overwatered yard and earn free
water-saving tools/tips.
•
Login to the Aquastar Web Portal. The portal securely
shows how many gallons of water you’ve used, right
down to the exact hour of every day.
Search “Beat the Peak” at www.townofcary.org and call
919.469.4090 to join us in being water conscious.
Around TOWN
Police Department
Reaccredited
The Morrisville Police Department received
their reaccreditation in March from the
Commission on Accreditation for Law
Enforcement Agencies, Inc. (CALEA). The
Police Department has had their accreditation
since 2009.
"Being reaccredited means we continue to
demonstrate a commitment to professional
excellence in policy and practice," said Police
Chief Ira Jones.
Welcome to e-Morrisville:
We're Wired!
As of mid-March, Cedar Fork Community
Center (1050 B Town Hall Drive) and Morrisville
Aquatics and Fitness Center (1301 Morrisville
Parkway) have become wireless.
Now while you're attending Youth Basketball
practice at CFCC, or working out at MAFC,
you'll be able to use free wireless access
on your device! This means all of our Town
facilities with public access now have wireless
capabilities. Happy surfing!
Signs Posted on Town Hall
Drive
Have you noticed the new directional signs
along Town Hall Drive?
To help get visitors to where they're going, the
Morrisville Public Works department installed
signs along Town Hall Drive and MorrisvilleCarpenter Road to help direct to Town
buildings. The signs will help direct people on
where to get their business licenses, find the
Town's car charging stations and where to
find Inspections or get permits, to name a few.
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Stay Pool Safe This Summer!
With the warm weather approaching, Fire Chief Todd Wright and
the members of the Morrisville Fire Department would like to
provide the community with pool and water safety information.
Drowning is the third leading cause of unintentional injuryrelated death for children 14 and under. Swimming pools are
the most common site for a drowning to occur among children
between the ages of 1 and 4 years. By following the safety
tips provided, you can help to make our community safer. For
these and other great safety tips, visit www.safekids.org.
Prevent Drowning:
• Actively supervise your children around water at all times,
and have a phone nearby to call for help in an emergency.
• Make sure your pool has four-sided fencing and a selfclosing, self-latching gate to prevent a child from wandering
into the pool area unsupervised. In addition, hot tubs
should be covered and locked when not in use.
• Install a door alarm, a window alarm or both to alert you
if a child wanders into the pool area unsupervised.
• From the start, teach children to never go near
or in water without an adult present.
• Enroll your child in swimming lessons after age 4 – typically the
earliest age when they are likely to practice and retain information.
Teach children how to tread water, float and stay by the shore.
• Learn CPR and know how to respond in water emergencies.
Morrisville Movies in the Park
The Town of Morrisville Parks and Recreation department is thrilled to
offer, “Movies in the Park,” held at Morrisville Community Park located
at 1520 Morrisville Parkway. Friday, May 17th bring the whole family out
for Brave beginning at dark around 8:30 and Friday, June 21st, The Hunger
Games also around 8:30.
Bring your chairs, blankets, drinks and APPETITES because we’ll have
some of the area’s finest food trucks offering their DELICIOUS cuisine for
purchase at the Park beginning at 6pm. Vendors will include Big Mike’s
BBQ, Captain Poncho’s, Mamadukes, Gussy’s Greek Food, American
Meltdown, Humble Pig. For more information, contact James Worsdale
at [email protected] or 919-463-7101. We hope to see you
there!
Rain dates will be held the Saturdays after both events.
Sgt. Earl Godwin Honored in Law
Enforcement United Ride
On May 6, Retired Raleigh Police Officer Randy Miller will embark on a
bicycle ride from Raleigh to Chesapeake, Virginia and will then continue
on Washington, DC. He is riding as a member of Law Enforcement
United (LEU), an organization whose purpose is to honor the service
and sacrifice of all law enforcement officers who have died in the line
of duty and support the survivors left behind. Their goals are to raise
public awareness of law enforcement officers who have died in the line of
duty, provide monetary support for concerns of police survivors (COPS)
and the officer down memorial page (ODMP) and assist other charitable
organizations that share their common goals.
This year Retired Officer Miller’s ride will honor Sgt. William Earl Godwin,
a Morrisville Police Officer who was killed in the line of duty on May
22, 1997. Sgt. Godwin was killed in an accident while responding to a
man with a gun call at a limousine service company on NC 54. While
en-route, another vehicle broadsided his Range Rover police vehicle at
the intersection of McCrimmon Parkway and Church Street, causing it to
roll over and eject him from the vehicle, killing him. Retired Officer Miller
chose to ride in honor of Sgt. Godwin because his son is currently an
officer with the Town of Morrisville.
Currently retired from the Raleigh Police Department, Retired Officer
Miller comes from a family of law enforcement officers. He has been
a member of Team Raleigh since 2010, which has been involved in LEU
since 2008. Their ride will include several stops in North Carolina before
continuing on to Chesapeake, Virginia to bring recognition of the Raleigh
Police Memorial that is currently being built. From there, the Team will
ride to Washington, DC and arrive on the first day of National Police
Week.
“It is a worthwhile event to honor, raise awareness of the sacrifices our
officers make, and what the families are left to deal with. COPS, concern
of Police Survivors are the only non-profit working to help these families.
Law Enforcement United provides funding to them as well as Officers
Down page, which tracks and remembers officers killed in the line of
duty,” said Retired Officer Miller.
For more information on LEU, visit http://www.lawenforcementunited.
org/.