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Happy Hanukkah! Weaver Street Market will have Hanukkah treats available soon! Look for Apricot Rugelach—a classic Hanukkah cookie made with rich cream cheese pastry, apricot preserves and cinnamon. Another favorite is Kupferlin, a rich pecan cookie that is rolled in powdered sugar. These delights will be available throughout the month of December. Round Raisin or Braided Challah will be available from Tuesday, December 4 (at 1:00 pm) until Wednesday, December 12. Place a special order to ensure that you have the Hanukkah treats you need. Call 929-0010 ext 113 or stop by the pastry case. |
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| Weekly Produce Specials Weekly Meat Specials |
Recipe: Apples & Sweet Potatoes |
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| Organic Broccoli |
$1.79 lb |
save $1.00 lb |
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| Organic Pink Lady Apples | 3 lb. bags 2/$8.99 |
super low price |
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| Florida Sunburst Jumbo Tangerines | 12/$4.99 |
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| Weekly Meat & Seafood Specials | |||
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Local, All Natural Pork Sausage | save $1.00 lb $4.49 lb | Local pork sale! Sweet/Hot Italian, or Country |
| Niman Ranch Beef London Broil | $4.99 lb |
USDA choice, All Natural save $1.00 lb |
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| North Carolina Catfish Fillets |
$7.99 lb |
All natural, Farm raised save $2.00 lb |
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| Recipe: Apples & Sweet Potatoes | |||
 This recipe was submitted by WSM Owner, Tensil Clayton. He likes to make this recipe for potlucks and says it goes great with turkey or ham.Ingredients: 3 or 4 sweet potatoes (raw)-sliced vertically or horizontally. 8 or more sliced apples - Virginia Winesap, Red Delicious, or Golden Delicious 3/4 cup sugar 1 tsp salt 1 tsp cinnamon 1 Tbsp cornstarch 1/2 cup water 2-3 Tbsp butter Slice sweet potatoes in a 2-quart casserole dish, then slice apples for the next layer. Repeat the sweet potatoes and apples as the final top layer. Mix together in a small bowl: sugar, salt, cinnamon, and cornstarch. Sprinkle this over the top of the apples. Pour water over. Top with dots of butter. Cover and bake one hour at 350°F. |
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| Christmas Parades | |||
 CarrboroSaturday, December 8 10 am, Morehead Planitarium The annual Chapel Hill Carrboro Christmas Parade will begin in front of the Planetarium on Franklin Street in Chapel Hill and parade to Town Hall in Carrboro. Hillsborough Saturday, December 1, 3:00 pm The parade will be held in downtown Hillsborough followed by the town tree lighting ceremony. |
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| SV Tree Lighting Event | |||
 Saturday, December 13:00 - 5:00 pm, Village Green, SV Market Street in Southern Village will hold a Christmas tree lighting ceremony on Saturday, December 1 from 3-5 p.m. on the village green. Students in the Culbreth Choral Group and the Carrboro High Acappella Group will perform holiday and seasonal music at 3 p.m. They will be followed by music from The Trekky Yuletide Orchestra at 4 p.m. Every year, this band brings together traditional rock instruments as well as strings, horns and woodwinds, and plays Christmas music for a good cause. Proceeds from their album, A New Old Fashioned Christmas, go to support the National Multiple Schlerosis Society. Hot cocoa will be served by La Vita Dolce, hot cider will be provided by Weaver Street Market, and hot popcorn from the Lumina Theater will be available for a dollar a box. |
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| SV Holiday 5K | |||
 Sunday, December 92:00 - 3:00 pm, Village Green, SV Late registration 1:00-1:40 pm Growing in scope and with more prizes, activities and refreshments than ever, this year's Holiday 5K has been organized with the assistance of the Chapel Hill Service League. This volunteer organization has been a part of the Chapel Hill community since 1939. Proceeds from the 2007 race will be donated to the Service League's many community projects. There are so many ways to be a part of the fun. The USATF-certified course presents a challenge to the serious runner while the Fun Run and other activities are sure to please the not-so-serious-runner. Sign up with neighbors or friends to run as a team. Children will have their own course to run. Businesses are encouraged to create running teams or donate items for prizes. To find out how to register, make donations or learn about sponsorship opportunities, check out the official Southern Village Holiday 5K and Family Fun Run website below. This event promises to be a great activity for the whole family and a chance to feel good while doing good this holiday season. |
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| Holiday Hours | |||
 For Weaver Street Market in Carrboro and Southern VillageChristmas Hours: Monday, December 24 EARLY CLOSE at 6 pm Tuesday, December 25, CLOSED Wednesday, December 26, Regular Hours New Year's Hours: Monday, December 31, Regular Hours Tuesday, January 1, LATE OPEN, EARLY CLOSE, 10 am - 8 pm. REGULAR HOURS: Southern Village 7:00 am - 9 pm, open 7 days Carrboro 8 am - 9 pm, open 7 days |
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| Leafy Greens Alert! | |||
 USDA Considers Uniform Rules for Leafy Greens "One-Size-Fits-All" Regulations Would Harm Sustainable Farmers/Environment In response to the E. coli 0157 outbreak last year in bagged spinach, the USDA is considering federal rules that could potentially require growers of all leafy green vegetables to follow specified guidelines in the fields and during post-harvest handling. Farm advocates are concerned that small and medium-sized growers will be placed at an unfair competitive disadvantage. The USDA has released an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) that they are accepting public comments on. Members of the public have until December 3 to weigh in on the controversial proposal. "Such one-size-fits-all requirements, while unproven in terms of their impact on food safety, would be disastrous for wildlife, biodiversity, and for the family-scale farmers who are producing some of the nation's highest-quality produce," says Charlotte Vallaeys, Farm and Food Policy Analyst at The Cornucopia Institute, a Wisconsin-based farm policy and research group. "If regulations dictate uniform growing practices and food safety measures, which might be appropriate for large-scale 'factory farms' but onerous and unnecessary for diverse family farms, we risk losing the very farms that grow leafy greens in a healthy and environmentally sustainable way," she adds. The rules would likely mirror those that are already in place in California, where farmers have been asked to take extreme measures with little or no scientific justification. While the rules themselves do not directly eliminate biodiversity on farms, they discourage wildlife and vegetation. As a result, some large produce buyers, such as processors, supermarkets and fast food chains, are using those rules as a precedent to come up with their own standards—often extreme measures without scientific backup. For example, farmers have been told to destroy hedgerows and other non-crop vegetation around farms that provide important habitat for beneficial wildlife, and to erect fences around their fields, which negatively impacts wildlife corridors. Such measures have not been shown to eliminate or reduce the likelihood of E. coli contamination. "We know natural vegetation surrounding farm fields, which is excellent habitat for birds and beneficial insects, reduces dependence on chemical pesticides and decreases possible ground-and surface-water contamination," Vallaeys stated. Many growing practices that are the cornerstone of organic and sustainable agriculture would also be discouraged or banned. In California, the rules discourage the development of microbial life in the soil, an outcome that has not been shown to reduce the risk of harmful bacterial contamination. In fact, sustainable farming methods, which promote healthy microbial life in soil, have been shown to reduce E. coli 0157, a deadly variant of the microbe, because the organism has to compete with other microbes and is therefore less likely to thrive. Farmers already report demands by large corporate buyers not to use certain organic fertilizers. "The aim of these rules seems to promote sterile fields that support few forms of life, except for the leafy greens," added Vallaeys. Small and medium-sized family farms selling whole leaf vegetables instead of bagged vegetables—farms that are almost never implicated in food pathogen outbreaks—would bear a disproportionate share of the financial and logistical burden of such regulations. For example, the rules would likely require testing for pathogens at every harvest. Large-scale, industrial mono-crop producers, which might harvest only one to three times per season, would pay proportionally much less than smaller and more diverse farms that continually harvest many types of vegetables throughout the season. "The contamination problem is in processed, bagged salad (which the industry calls "fresh-cut") and that's where the guidelines should focus," says Kira Pascoe, Family Farm Food Safety Coordinator at Community Alliance with Family Farmers. "All farmers should follow safe practices, but traditional, unprocessed leafy greens should not be in the same category as processed leafy greens or swept up into these inappropriate rules." Small-scale family farmers who employ organic and ecologically minded farming practices are frustrated by an unwillingness to tackle a primary pathogen source for the problem-animal "factory farms." "The alarming prevalence of the virulent E. coli 0157 in our food system is due to an animal industry allowed to raise cattle in stressful environments on unnatural diets. Allowing such practices to continue while burdening produce growers with the impossible task of sterilizing their farms is folly beyond belief," says Tom Willey of T & D Willey Farms in Madera, CA, an organic vegetable producer who distributes produce regionally. Willey adds that, "feeding ruminants what nature intended them to eat—grass—in low-stress, pasture-based environments would go a long way toward solving many of our most serious food contamination problems. Eliminating wildlife habitat and otherwise 'sterilizing' my farm will not." "There are a lot of similarities with the mandatory pasteurization of almonds," observes Will Fantle, Research Director at the Cornucopia Institute. "In the name of food safety, the government is enacting rules that would encourage a sterile food system at the farm level while doing little to address the root of the contamination problem, which is centralized and industrialized food production. Many of the strains of virulent pathogens involved can be traced back to feedlot-style, unhealthy livestock production." The Cornucopia Institute, a nonprofit farm policy research group, is dedicated to the fight for economic justice for the family-scale farming community. Their Organic Integrity Project acts as a corporate and governmental watchdog assuring that no compromises to the credibility of organic farming methods and the food it produces are made in the pursuit of profit. |
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| RSVVP Results! | |||
 For twenty years local area restaurants have joined together to fight hunger in our community by participating in RSVVP day.This year, Weaver Street Market in Carrboro and Southern Village and Panzanella raised over $1,163 to benefit the Inter-Faith Council's Community Kitchen and its Family Emergency Food Pantry. Thank you to all of you who ate out on RSVVP Day! |
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| ArtsCenter Gallery | |||
 Chatham Artists' Guild Studio Tour Preview Show:November 13 - December 18 All 52 juried artists are represented in this exhibit. Center Gallery at The ArtsCenter, 10 AM - 10 PM Get a snapshot of all the artists participating in the Chatham County Artists' Guild Open Studio tour. |
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| WCOM Radio | |||
 WCOM 103.5 FM, "your voice in the community," is an alternative to commercial radio made bland to reach the widest possible 'public'. WCOM represents the excitement of our own diverse population.They accomplish this in two ways. The first is by being open to new programming ideas brought by community members interested in producing vibrant community radio. The second is through the generous support of people like you who recognize the value of locally responsive media. WCOM offers some of the best radio available anywhere. When you explore their program schedule you will discover a wide variety - interviews with leading scientists in the area - a Sunday jazz line up - local musicians performing original compositions - classes teaching both English and Spanish as second languages and much, much more live radio open to call-ins. In addition, besides their local news show, West End Report, you can hear some of the most incisive nationally produced news shows available on the air today - Democracy Now, Free Speech Radio News, Counterspin and Alternative Radio. All of this depends on the continued support of you and others like you. Please click on the Donate Now button on their website at www.communityradio.coop to make a tax deductible donation now to help keep your community on the air. WCOM is all-listener-supported, all-volunteer-powered, non-profit community radio. If you have any questions please e-mail listener@communityradio.coop or call 929-9601. |
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