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NEIGHBORHOOD NEWSJUNE 2015
INSIDE: Pool Opening pix • Gas pipeline •
Wine Tasting Extravaganza • Foxes, crazy birds & barking dogs • Visible house numbers •
BLTs!! • POOL • TOP HATFalconbridge cocktail!?
Message from our president
June! June! June...
EVERY Monday & Thursday 1:30pm
MAH JONGG [email protected]
Wed. June 3 • 7:00pm BOOK CLUB
Wed. June 3 & 17 RECREATIONAL FACILITIES
COMMITTEE MTG. [email protected]
Thurs. June 4 & 189:30am - 11am
WOMEN’S COFFEE KLATCH [email protected]
Tues. June 9 • 7:00pm ALLIANCE BOARD MEETING
Thurs. June 11 • 1:30-4pmFALCONBRIDGE FILM SOCIETY“TOP HAT” • Chelsea [email protected]
Fri. June 12 & 26 • 5:30pm TRAVELING PUB
Sat. June 13 • 6pmDINING CAR CLUB
Mon June 15 • 7:00pmFHA BOARD MEETING
At the Clubhouse
Tues. June 16 • 11am-2pmSPORTING LIFE CLUB
for WOMEN & MENPool/Darts/Games @ Bailey’s
Wed. June 16 • 7:00pm POKER NIGHT
June is bustin’ out all overThe feelin’ is gettin’ so intense,That the young Virginia creepersHev been huggin’ the bejeepersOuta all the mornin’ glories on the fence!Because it’s June….It is as if Oscar Hammerstein
was channeling me when he wrote these lyrics. Indeed, walk around Falconbridge and see June busting out all over. The trees are alive, the gardens are ablaze with color. When you look at new housing developments going up around us they seem to be built on stretches of strip-mining. We are so very fortunate to be living in a community that was built with a vision, to be surrounded by and in touch with nature.As reminders of what it means to be
a part of this wonderful environment there are two very timely and informa-tive articles in this month’s newsletter about the foxes strolling the neighbor-hood and the birds that are crashing into some residents’ windows.This month’s newsletter is filled with
information about the many events and activities taking place in Falcon-bridge. It was terrific to see all the families, young and old, having such a great time at the pool opening. It was a wonderful atmosphere of great weath-er, food and people. It was especially satisfying to see all the volunteers from the FHA and the Alliance that came
together to make it all happen. I also encourage you to engage in the varied clubs and outings. These are all en-riching and stimulating social, athletic, and intellectual opportunities. We love Falconbridge for all that
it is and are more and more excited by what it can be in the future. We now have a strong movement in the neighborhood to continue to improve the clubhouse facilities and have more neighborhood events. The Alliance plans to help finance more improve-ments. Some exciting plans are under-way and will be made public soon.Travel safely, return safely to Falcon-
bridge.— John Noble
JUNEUPCOMING
EVENTS
Photo of flowering tree by Richard Perry
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The Falconbridge Alliance newsletter is distributed monthly to all
Falconbridge Alliance members.
Newsletter Editor: Larry Charny Newsletter Designer: Mia Prior
Copy Editor: Lisa Anthony
ALLIANCE-SPONSORED SOCIAL GROUPS
TRAVELING PUBFor all neighbors
Every other Friday, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Barb Carroll: [email protected]
THIS SPORTING LIFE CLUBGames at Bailey’s Pub
For all neighbors 3rd Tuesday of month, 11:00 am - 2:00 pm
Guy Hickey at [email protected]
BOOK GROUP* Monthly
Karen Fitzhugh: [email protected]
GAME NIGHT GROUP* Quarterly
Barb Carroll: [email protected]
GOURMET DINNER CLUB* Every other month
Liz Hallgren: [email protected]
MAH JONGG* Every Monday & Thursday 1:30 p.m.Paula Clarke: [email protected]
THIRD WEDNESDAY POKER* Monthly
John Noble: [email protected]
WINE TASTING GROUP* Every other month
Ron Hutchinson: [email protected]
WOMEN’S COFFEE KLATCH*Every other Thursday, 9:30-11:00 a.m.
Judy Holland: [email protected]
* Must be a member of the Alliance to participate
Join Falconbridge Alliance
● ● UPDATE: Alliance-Sponsored Social Events • News Updates
Saturday, May 16 was a special day for the
Falconbridge Alliance and Falconbridge
Homeowner’s Association. Together they shared in
hosting the Pool Opening and Potluck, and based upon pictures and food consumption, “fun was
had by all.” Hamburgers, hotdogs and drinks
were provided; many sumptuous dishes were
brought by attendees.Brave souls swam,
Pool Party & Potluck Enjoyed by All
Mike Mayo grilled, grilled, grilled (he had help from great volunteers),
and Conni Rivers and Linda Sheer finished with the clean-up.
— Harriet CrispChair, FA Social Committee
Save the date for our annual
Falconbridge Parade and
Potluck at the clubhouse
and open swim!
More details will be sent
out soon!
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● ● UPDATE: Alliance-Sponsored Social Events • News Updates
How do you celebrate a sixth anniversa-ry? In style!! The wine tasting group nor-mally meets every other month to taste six theme based wines. We serve bread and cheese to accompany them and finish with coffee and dessert. For anniversaries however food plays an important role.
The event this year was Al Fresco Dining hosted by Anne Delorian and Bob Jackson whose home backs onto the lake. They did a brilliant job of seating all 17 of us at one long table on their patio.The menu started with two appetizers
followed by grilled flank steak and lamb chops. Pasta with a choice of sauces and asparagus were the side dishes and we finished with a choice of desserts and a cheese plate. Everyone shared the prepa-ration of the food.Now for the wine which is our “raison
d’être”. We started with a Cremant de Loire whose winemaker spent 15 years producing Bollinger Champagne, We then moved to whites, A Chenin Blanc from the Carmel Valley and a Chardon-nay from Santa Barbara Winery. For reds we chose a Chianti Classico Reserva and the Four Vines Maverick Zinfandel which were a perfect match to the grilled meats.Everyone went home happy, full of good
food, excellent wines and the perfect set-ting and weather for al fresco dining. — Ron Hutchinson
Wine Tasters Celebrate Sixth Year in Style
More POOL UpdatesWater aerobics, taught by Julia Rose,
has returned to the Falconbridge pool, Saturday mornings, at 9:00 am. A class of 15 generates a great deal of enthusiasm for the early morning peppy workout. Enrollment for this summer program is closed. How-ever, we do expect to continue next summer, so get your sign-up sheets in early when enrollment is next announced. If we have enough folks next summer, we may have 2 classes, possibly even more. Let the Falcon-bridge femmes show off their exer-cised physiques!
— Paula Clarke
. . . Did Someone Say “POOL”?
The Sporting Life Club – a most exclusive membership, admission limited to only women and gentlemen that show up. You will not need two sponsors to be welcomed to a very pleasant mid-month, mid-day diversion of pool, darts, ping-pong and conversation.
Conni Rivers and Diane
Waggoner hang out with several
Falconbridge gents at the pool hall...
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The Falconbridge Film Society will have its inaugural screening on Thursday, June 11, 1:30 PM at the Chelsea Theater (1129 Weaver Dairy Road in the Timberlyne Village shop-ping center). This is the very labored brainchild of Larry Charny and Mike Mayo who hope that it will become a regular feature on the Falconbridge calendar. The idea is simple. We’re going to show great older movies on the big screen, as they were meant to be seen.To begin this retro adventure we’ll
screen the Fred Astaire / Ginger Rog-ers classic “Top Hat” (1935). Roger Ebert wrote of the film:There are two numbers in “Top Hat”
where the dancing on the screen reaches such perfection as is attainable. They are by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers for “Isn’t This a Lovely Day?” and “Cheek to Cheek.” Because Astaire believed that movie dance numbers should be shot in unbroken takes that ran as long as possi-ble, what they perform is an achievement in endurance as well as artistry….To watch them is to see hard work elevated to effortless joy: The work of two dancers who know they can do no better than this, and that no one else can do as well.There will be an introduction to
the film, providing some interesting background material, such as:
• why Benito Mussolini banned the film in Italy.
• why Ginger Roger’s mother had to reprimand Fred Astaire during the making of the film
• what Irving Berlin said of Astaire’s influence on his song writing
• oh, and so much moreAdmission price: $10 (cheap) in-
cludes popcorn (Larry promises to treat for the extra salt and butter), a drink, a Warner Bros. cartoon and an episode of Buck Rogers with Buster Crabb. We do need to know, by June 6, how
many plan to join us so that arrange-ments can be made for the rental of the theatre. So please contact Larry or Mike.Again, as Ebert so wisely observes:Because we are human, because we are
bound by gravity and the limitations of our bodies, because we live in a world where the news is often bad and the prospects disturbing, there is a need for another world somewhere, a world where Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers live. And as Irving Berlin writes:Let the rain pitter patterBut it really doesn’t matterIf the skies are gray.Long as I can be with you,It’s a lovely day.
— Larry Charny914-260-4964,
— Mike Mayo973-722-4772,
An Afternoon at the Bijouwith the Falconbridge Film Society
Surveys and Meetings ahead for Gas Pipeline
As previously reported, PSNC will be replacing the existing high pressure gas line that goes through Falconbridge starting this sum-mer, after the surveys, which have been delayed, are completed. It is anticipated that those surveys will be completed mid- to late June. At that time John Gaffney of Utility Land Service, the company PSNC has hired to do the work, will be in contact with each individual land owner to discuss the project’s impact on their property – trees, bushes, shrubs, flowers, fences, etc. – what will be removed and what will be replaced. These meetings are intended to accommodate, as best as possible, the needs and ex-pectations of each property owner.Originally PSNC stated that there
is a 35’ wide easement for the line and PSNC intended to use most of it for the construction. John Noble did research on original documents regarding right of way and re-ported to PSNC that these records indicated only a 10 – 20 foot right of way. PSNC is now doing fur-ther research on this issue and will report back to John Noble.
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● ● What you’ve been sayin’: News for homeowners
AFTER
The Case of the Barking Dogs
Most of us love dogs. They are, after all, man’s and woman’s best friends. And they come in all sizes and temperaments to match our own needs and personalities. They can be wonderful companions and social ambas-sadors. Walking a dog in Falconbridge is a great way to meet neighbors and make friends. At the same time, because we live in a caring
community, it’s important to remember that very few of us enjoy listening to a constantly barking dog. So, just like it’s up to its owner to curb a dog’s desire to leave a deposit on a neighbor’s lawn here and there, it’s up to its owner to curb a dog’s enthusiasm for barking, especially when that barking occurs over an extended period of time—say 10, 20, 30 minutes or more. With the onset of summer, there’s an increase in dogs
being left outside for longer stretches of time. Even pets should be able to enjoy these beautiful days and eve-nings, right? Yet, while your dog may (quite naturally) want to “talk” to every passerby, your closest neighbors are often subjected to what seems like endless barking. Neighbors on nearby screened porches or decks end up having to go inside to talk on their phones, have a con-versation with a visitor, or concentrate on a good sum-mer read. Please be a good neighbor. If you choose to let your dog
outside for any length of time, please train it to refrain from barking at everything that moves. Or put it in the backyard where it can’t see every passerby. Or invest in one of those collars designed to subdue barking. Your neighbors will most certainly appreciate your consideration.P.S. There are many tips on the Internet about how to
prevent unwanted barking. One example: http://www.cesarsway.com/dog-behavior/barking/Dog-Barking-101
I Heard a Rhythmic Smashing On My Patio Glass Door
Birds cannot see glass, especially if it is reflecting the nearby habitat or sky. These reflections do not register as such to a bird. Here are some suggestions for making your windows
less deadly for birds.• Move your feeders. Many window-killed birds are
familiar feeder birds that use our backyards every day. There are two parts to this suggestion. Move the feed-
ers farther away from your win-dows or move them closer to your windows. This will disrupt the birds’ usual flight path to and from the feeders.
• Branches. Breaking up the reflective ability of a large expanse of glass is key to making it less deadly. A nat-ural way to do this is to suspend tree branches in front of the most-struck windows. Try to do this in a way that will give good coverage to the pane of glass but will not eliminate your view entirely.
• Commercial stickers. There are a few products avail-able commercially that are designed to reduce or pre-vent window strikes. One of these is a static-adhering sticker that looks like a spiderweb; others are various designs meant to scare birds away with predator faces or with bright metallic reflective surfaces.
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• Mylar balloon/Mylar tubes. Get one of the long-last-ing metallic-looking Mylar balloons (often featuring messages such as “It’s A Boy!”, “Join the Alliance” or a well-known cartoon character). These shiny balloons will flap around in the breeze and spook birds from coming too close to your windows.
• Hawk/owl/crow silhouettes. These shapes of “dan-gerous” birds are scary enough to prevent small birds from flying toward them, but their effectiveness is debatable. In certain situations they seem to work, at least for a time. If you can’t find these at your local bird store, trace the outline of a hawk, crow, or owl from a picture, enlarge it on a copier, cut it out and trace it onto black paper or vinyl, and stick them onto your windows.
• Plastic strips/pie pans/ Christmas decorations/ CDs. Another method of scaring birds away from windows is to use something unusual suspended in front of the glass.
• Screens or netting on the outside. Stretch some mesh netting (also known as fruit netting or crop netting) across your problem windows.
See more at: http://www.birdwatchersdigest.com/bwdsite/learn/top10/windowstrikes.php#sthash.m745QGa3.dpuf
The Tale of the Fox – recent sightings in the neighborhood
Q. If I see a fox in the daytime, is it rabid?
A. No. It is now common to see foxes during the daytime and in urban or suburban areas. Foxes are responding to the lack of threats posed by people and the abundance of food available in suburban area. However, if the animal shows signs of rabies -- such as aggression, stumbling or foaming at the mouth -- call your local animal control.
Q. Should I rescue/approach a den of pups?
A. Do not approach foxes or fox dens. Do not approach, touch or feed a fox or its pups.Young animals, even if alone, are not necessarily aban-doned. Many animals do not stay with their young and only return to feed them.Q. Will foxes attack me, my pet or my child?
A. Fox attacks on people, including children, are rare. While it is in a fox’s nature to be curious, and even bold sometimes, they are not aggressive. But, like other wild-life, they will become habituated if people feed them, either purposely or inadvertently, such as with garbage or outdoor pet food.
Q. What should I do if I see a fox?
A. Simply seeing a fox is not cause for concern however, if you see a fox frequently, you and your neighbors should take steps to prevent conflicts with it, and other wildlife, by implementing the following recommended steps.• Don’t feed foxes or any wild animals, or they will
lose their fear of people. Feeding a fox rewards it for coming near people. Once a fox becomes habituated to people, it may become bold and aggressive.
• Secure garbage in containers with tight-fitting lids, and take them out in the morning of pick up, not the night before. Coyotes and other wildlife will scavenge trash.
• Feed pets indoors or remove food when your pet is finished eating outside. Foxes and other wildlife are attracted to pet food left outdoors.
• Keep bird-feeder areas clean, and use bird feeders that keep seed off the ground. Foxes are attracted to small animals congregating on the ground. If you frequently see foxes, remove all feeders.
• Close off crawl spaces under sheds, porches, decks and homes. Foxes may use these spaces to rest or to build their dens.
• Secure pets or keep them indoors. Dogs and cats can disturb dens, prompting aggressive fox behavior from the foxes.
• Yell, bang pots and pans to scare foxes from your yard. This will also maintain their wariness of people.
• Clear fallen fruit from around trees.• Educate your neighbors. Your efforts to prevent fox
conflicts will be less effective if neighbors are still pro-viding foods.
• If you think you have a problem with a fox:• Call local animal control if the fox exhibits signs of ra-
bies, such as aggression, stumbling and foaming at the mouth.
• If the fox has caused property damage, contact a Wild-life Damage Control Agent, a private individual who charges for his/her services. A list is available at www.ncwildlife.org under “Coexisting with Wildlife.”
For further information go to: www.ncwildlife.org
CRITTERS Continued
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● ● Neighborhood Watch: Notes
Visible House Numbers Can Save Lives
First, a few words about numbers.This is meant mostly for those of us
who live in single-family homes, but townhome owners should be aware of it, too.How visible are the address num-
bers on your house? Go ahead, step outside and take a look; you can finish this after you’ve checked.O.K., you’re back. Best case,
you’ve got large easy-to-read numbers at a place on the front of your house where they are well-lighted at night and easy to make out from the street. Maybe you’ve also got those white-and-black numbers on the curb. Those are good, too.But, are they enough?Imagine, for a moment, that an ex-
tremely unpleasant something occurs at your home, and it involves your calling 911, and a visit by the Emer-gency Squad. Now, imagine that this unpleasantness occurs late on a rainy, windy, snowy night during a sand-storm when visibility is limited.Do you want the EMS guys to spend
any extra minutes or seconds trying to figure out which house to find? Of course not. And if the main identifi-cation is a curb number, how can you be sure that a gargantuan SUV isn’t parked in front of it? Or that the trash can, or the recycling bin or the yard waste isn’t blocking it? Or that a tree, bush, shrub or hedge hasn’t grown up to obscure the number on your house?My point is that the men and wom-
en of EMS do difficult, important work, and we should do everything we can to make that one part of their job as easy as possible.
More on unwanted solicitors.
As we’ve noted before, Falconbridge is a non-soliciting neighborhood. Nobody should be knocking on your door and asking for your business.Recently, in nearby areas, salesmen
claiming to be from a home security outfit called Northstar seem to have been unusually aggressive in trying to talk their way into people’s homes. They may claim to be licensed but
they’re not. The same goes for the various tree com-panies who are cruising Falconbridge.Never, never, never let
anybody you don’t know into your home.If you feel at all uncom-
fortable about anything you see in Falconbridge, call 911. De-scribe the situation and the personnel at the 911 phone center will decide whether it’s an emergency situation or something less important. They’re trained to make that distinction. You don’t have to do it, and you need not feel any embarrassment at calling about something that might not be important. Better safe…
— Mike MayoNeighborhood [email protected]
919-908-6984
— Conni [email protected]
919-294-6703
IN THE KNOW:
FALCONBRIDGE & BEYOND
Water and Sewer Rates IncreaseWater and sewer customers will see a 3 percent overall increase in their monthly bill. The new rates go into effect on July 1 and will be applied to all bills sent to customers on and after August 1. Drivers to Pay More for Parking ViolationsThe price drivers will have to pay for a parking violation is going up. Any parking violation currently catego-rized as a $10 penalty will increase
to a $20 penalty. Downtown employees and visitors who need to park for long periods of time are encouraged to use the parking garages or surface parking lots.
Solid Waste Collection Moves to Summer ScheduleStarting June 8 solid waste custom-ers should put their carts and bulky items on the curb the night before their normal collection day. To help employees avoid the risk of heat-re-lated illnesses and injuries, the Solid Waste Management Department will begin collecting solid waste, yard waste, recycling, and bulky items at 6 a.m.
About City Hall This WeekCity Hall This Week, a news program ded-icated to informing residents about what’s go-ing on inside Durham’s City Hall, airs daily at 9 a.m., 12:30 p.m., & 8 p.m. on Durham Television Network (Time Warner Cable channel 8, 97-5 and AT&T U-verse channel 99) and on demand athttp://www.YouTube.com/CityofDurhamNC. For more informa-tion call (919) 560-4123, likehttp://www.Facebook/CityofDurhamNC, or follow http://www.Twitter.com/CityofDurhamNC.
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WELCOMEto Falconbridge
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Welcome to Akinniran and Abby Abisogun who moved in at 2101 Ridgefield Drive in November 2014. Since their arrival to Falconbridge, they have given birth to a beau-tiful, now three month old gorgeous baby girl, Adesewa. Both are here for their Fellowships; Abby at Duke Endo-crinology, and Akinniran at UNC Cardiology. They met at Rutgers in NJ while in Medical School. They did their Residencies at Brown University, in Providence, in Inter-nal Medicine. Each of them has an interesting background. Akinniran
was born in Lagos , Nigeria where he lived for a couple of years, then for the next four years his family moved to Isreal, Philly, and Indiana while his father was in training to become a physician. They settled in Fairfax County, VA when Akinniran was 12 years old and thus he grew up there. He is a 2007 Graduate of William and Mary.Abby is from Liberia. Her family left Liberia when she
was young due to their Civil War, and moved to the Ivo-ry Coast for a couple of years. They then returned to Li-beria for a while, eventually moving to Minnesota when Abby was about 10 years old. She is a 2006 Graduate of Loyola in Maryland. They were married in beautiful Leesburg, VA in October
2013. When time permits, they enjoy a wide variety of ac-tivities such as: Basketball ( Akinniran mostly), discover-ing eateries, wines and beers, reading, biking, kayaking, and jet skiing. They are still adjusting to juggling work, leisure activ-
ities, and life with Adesewa on a few hours of sleep a night! They may be seen strolling with baby around the neigh-
borhood, so please greet them when you cross paths! Welcome to Falconbridge, Akinniran and Abby! Contact information: 2101 Ridgefield Dr. [email protected]. 703-909-9197
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● ● Dining Out & Dining In
Falconbridge Foodies: BLT’s! Wow they’re good!
Need a little help? Give a little help?Falconbridge Village Friends provides
practical, emotional, and spiritual support for people
who need help with caregiving so individuals and
families will not have to cope alone. Falconbridge Village
Friends form teams of neighbors, family, and friends
who work together to help with health-related needs—
temporary or longer-term. These support teams do not
replace professional services, but focus on the ways in
which friends and family members can help someone
get through a difficult time.
Join the Alliance - Now.
The annual Directory of Residents was published in April and distributed free only to Alliance members. It lists all known residents of Falconbridge and indicates those who are members. If you haven’t joined yet for 2015, send an email to [email protected] and let us know that you want to join. That will get you a copy of the directory and your listing in it. Then fill out a membership form (available on the website Falconbrid-geAlliance.org) and mail it with your check to the address on the form. Then you can relax and know that you have done your part to support your neighborhood.
— Jim Carroll
Falconbridge Alliance
YOU!Needs
The Falconbridge Alliance Board of Directors is looking for a fresh infusion of energy and ideas. If you’d like to contribute, please consider attending our Board meetings, which typically take place on the second Tuesday of each month at 7:00 pm in the clubhouse. Meetings are open to anyone and everyone – single family and townhome residents alike. These monthly meetings are an excellent opportunity to become more involved in the workings of Falconbridge – and also an excellent opportunity to consider becoming a future member of the Board of Di-rectors. For more information, please feel free to contact Falconbridge Alliance President John Noble at [email protected].
— Ed Holland The Falconbridge Village Friends Group welcomes new volunteers as part of our Aging-in-Place effort.
Please contact Paula Clarke at [email protected] or call 919-608-8560
Now everyone has had a BLT some-time in their life and proba-
bly everyone has an idea of how to make one and how they should taste. Do you slather each piece of bread with Duke’s or Hellman’s or Fleishman’s or Wasabe Mayo from Trader Joe’s followed by layers of lettuce
and tomatoes (fresh out of the gar-den is the only way) with X number of pieces of bacon? What kind of bread do you prefer and do you toast it? Hungry yet? Here in our area you can find some mighty fine BLTs
each with their own twist and some with hyperbolic branding. Let’s begin (and we could end) with Merritt’s, that old time but renewed grill on South Columbia St. in Chapel Hill. Even their tag line says it all: “MERRITT’S -Home of the World Famous BLT”. How can you argue
with that? Well, they just might be telling the truth with their single, double or triple layered BLTs on the artisanal bread of your choice with the freshest of tomatoes and lettuce and perfectly crisp bacon. And Merritt’s BLTs are served for breakfast too. Hurt me.Next, but no longer in the order of my preference is The
Weathervane with its BLT with fried green tomatoes, applewood bacon, basil aïoli, and seven-grain bread. Of course you can always shop at Southern Season before or after your BLT fix. The Pit, near the Farmers Market in Durham touts their
BLT as “The Best.” Sorry but even with house-cured jowl bacon and herb mayo on a brioche, they lose my support for not using fresh locally grown tomatoes. Boo. There are probably more but suffice it to say that Mer-
ritt’s is the biggest, baddest, best BLT. Period. End of review (but, occasionally, open to further discussion.)
— Bob Jackson
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The Alliance Wishes All A Happy Father’s Day
The GiftBy Li-Young Lee
To pull the metal splinter from my palm my father recited a story in a low voice. I watched his lovely face and not the blade. Before the story ended, he’d removed the iron sliver I thought I’d die from.
I can’t remember the tale, but hear his voice still, a well of dark water, a prayer. And I recall his hands, two measures of tenderness he laid against my face, the flames of discipline he raised above my head.
Had you entered that afternoon you would have thought you saw a man planting something in a boy’s palm, a silver tear, a tiny flame. Had you followed that boy you would have arrived here, where I bend over my wife’s right hand.
Look how I shave her thumbnail down so carefully she feels no pain. Watch as I lift the splinter out. I was seven when my father took my hand like this, and I did not hold that shard between my fingers and think, Metal that will bury me,christen it Little Assassin, Ore Going Deep for My Heart. And I did not lift up my wound and cry, Death visited here!I did what a child does when he’s given something to keep. I kissed my father.
Character Film/TV Cocktail
Victor Lazslo Saturday Night Fever White Angel
Roger O. Thornhill Breakfast at Tiffany’s Alexander Cocktail
Carrie Bradshaw North by Northwest Old Fashioned
The Dude The Godfather part II 7 & 7
Don Draper The Nutty Professor Gibson
Tony Manero Sex and the City Banana Daiquiri
Buddy Love The Big Lebowski Cosmopolitan
Anthony Blanche Casablanca Manhattan
Holly Golightly Some Like It Hot Alaskan Polar Bear Heater
Sugar Kane Brideshead Revisited Champagne Cocktail
Fredo Corleone Mad Men White Russian
Everyone agrees that the Clubhouse
Gala was an exercise in perfection. But is it possible to be perfect
and yet still be missing something essential? Bob Jackson and
I confronted this issue while we were tending bar at the party. Anne Noble asked us for the Falconbridge signa-ture cocktail. “Every establishment of distinction has one, like Harry’s Bar in Venice, Italy. The Bellini. It was concocted by Giuseppe Cipriani, the bartender and owner of Harry’s Bar. Ernest Hemingway frequented Har-ry’s Bar and had his own signature cocktail, Death in the Afternoon. Isn’t it time that Falconbridge had one?” Embarrassed, contrite, but resolved,
Bob and I decided to give it some careful consideration and open the
challenge to our Falconbridge resi-dents. A contest, with submissions no later than June 15, ([email protected]) listing the name of the cocktail, its color, the spirits used and if sweeteners and/or bitters, herbs, spices or fruits are included. Details of the juried selection process are presently in relatively coherent dis-cussions between Bob and myself.
The Quest for the
Falconbridge Signature Cocktail
To get you into the mood, see if you can match the person with the movie with the signature cocktail.
— Larry Charny
Falconbridge Alliance21 CharringtonChapel Hill, NC 27517
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help your family with transportation, meals, and other services if you have a short-term health or other crisis
www.falconbridgealliance.org
(Falconbridge Alliance) – [Constantly being improved, an increasingly vital source of information
– progressive and historical. Do visit often.]
www.FalconbridgeHOA.org (Town Homes)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/falconbridge (Listserv)
http://www.FalconbridgeAlliance.org/pool (Pool and Clubhouse)
2014-15 Falconbridge Alliance Board of DirectorsJohn Noble, President, Membership Chair • [email protected] • 770-313-0194
Mike Mayo, Vice President, Safety/Neighborhood Watch Chair • [email protected] • 973-722-4772
Lisa Anthony, Secretary • [email protected] • 919-402-1814
Jim Carroll, Treasurer, Finance Chair, Member Directory, Website • [email protected] • 919-419-0519
Larry Charny, Communications Chair • [email protected] • 914-260-4964
Paula Clarke, Neighbor Services Chair • [email protected] • 919-608-8560
Ed Holland, Neighborhood Liaison, Architecture Review/Landscaping Chair • [email protected] • 919-489-9809
Harriet Crisp, Social Committee • [email protected] • 919-490-2080
James Ashmore • [email protected] • 919-806-0730
CLICK HERE TO JOIN TODAYSingle-family homes = $50/year, $75 (2 or more)
Town-homes = $20/year, $30 (2 or more)