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SEPTEMBER 8, 2013 SERVING ORANGE AND NORTHERN CHATHAM COUNTIES CHAPELHILLNEWS chapelhillnews.com YOUR BEST SHOT BY RON PATAKY, PAGE 2A Recently there was an article in the New York Times entitled Advice to Graduates I was author George convocation speech at Syracuse University for the class of 2013. In it, he tells of events in his life that sound like things most peo- ple might regret, but he For example, he swam naked in a contaminated river in Sumatra, which resulted in his getting sick for seven months. Nor does he regret when ing hockey in front of a big crowd, including this girl I really liked, I somehow managed, while falling and emitting this weird whooping noise, to score on my own goalie, while also sending my stick flying into the crowd, nearly hitting that Oddly enough, he regrets something completely different. My family discussed speech at the dinner table. This got me thinking about what I re- gret in my own life.

What imme- diately came to my mind was a rather mundane regret, which was my missed opportunity to learn Spanish when I was youn- ger from Cristina, our babysitter from Colombia, who tried every week to teach it to me. There are regrets, and then there are regrets. Throughout my histo- ry there have been regrets. My great-grandfather Gordon Shafer regretted selling his share of General Motors stock in the 1920s in order to buy a new car. He calculated that it would have been worth a million dollars by the 1970s.

A more serious regret that his mother had a generation earlier was when she married his father, William Shafer. She had been married to a man named Frank Latty whom she divorced in the 1870s. Latty warned her that if she married William Shafer, she would regret it for the rest of her life. I always she later told her daughter-in-law. I asked my grandfather, Jim Hawfield, if he has any regrets.

He is now living with us under hospice care. He said no. He is satisfied with the good life he has lived. I was curious about what re- grets others might have, so I talked with a number of people. Two themes emerged.

One was regrets for things done, and the other was regrets for things not done. One of the people I talked with was Wongong So, the priest at the Won-Buddhism temple near Carrboro and Chapel Hill. Al- though she has many little re- grets, such as never learning how to swim, the first thing that came to her mind was regret for times in which she could have reacted, calmly and more compas- sionately, instead of reacting to some sensory conditions with my She shared the example of a time her nephew, WonDuk, spent a month in the temple as a part of his priesthood training. What will you regret the most? My View Lucas Selvidge SEE MY VIEW, PAGE 4A CHAPEL HILL The desire for detailed talks about growth comes at a cost, town offi- cials say. In less than a year, a bill for one of the smaller planning areas has grown to nearly 2.5 times the original $92,855 con- tract fee, Town Manager Roger Stancil told the Town Council in a recent email.

Central West, one of six small ar- eas identified by the 2020 Plan for possible development or redevelopment, surrounds the in- tersection of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Estes Drive. The council appointed a 17-member Steering Committee of residents, advisory board members and busi- ness representatives in December to work with the consultant and gave the group nearly a year to meet with the community. According to a town calendar, the committee was scheduled to meet nearly 35 times before a possible council vote in November, plus walking tours and community workshops. The town will hold a public hearing on the draft report in October.

Consultant Rhodeside Har- contract ran out in February. It called for four committee meet- ings and one community workshop, but the work grew to 16 committee meetings and three workshops, Stancil said. The bill is now $230,000, and while there is money in the planning budget, this will leave less to pay for planning in other areas, he said. Consultants to the 2020 growth plan are paid from a pool of money, said town Business Man- agement Director Ken Pennoyer. The town had $126,000 in last budget and spent $115,286.

The budget for July 2013 to June 2014 is $250,000, he said. Growth talks cost time, money Chapel Hill faces bigger bill for consultant than it had expected By Tammy Grubb Inside Chapel Hill residents can weigh in on options for busy intersection, 5A. SEE CONSULTANT, PAGE 5A INSIDE SPORTS chapelhillnews.com Science and Math nips Jaguars in come-from-behind thriller, 10A FABIAN RADULESCU newsobserver.com CHAPEL HILL The independent arthouse cinema is an endangered species these days. With the proliferation of ginor- mous multiplex theaters on one side, and expanding home video options on the other, the old neigh- borhood ar thouse i gett ing squeezed. In Chapel Hill, only one theater jectors, Stone had to hire a technician to come in and dismantle the old 35 mm units, then wire the new projec- tors into the existing sound system.

one point I was going to do a bake sale or a fundraiser or some- Stone said. lot of other art theaters have done that they just ap- peal to their patrons. For $1,000 you get a coffee cup and T-shirt, or wha- tever. I thought about it. You have to dig up money where you Gesturing up the stairs to the newly outfitted projection booths, Stone winces slightly.

of this is from my retire- to digital projection systems. The new systems replace the old 35 mm projectors, standard in the movie exhibition business for decades. the way of the future: Virtually all of the bigger movie houses have con- verted to digital, and the entire dis- tribution model for 35 mm is fading away surprisingly quickly. Sitting at the counter of the Chel- concession stand on a recent weekday afternoon, Stone said the digital switchover almost happen and that the Chelsea al- most survive. a lot of Stone said.

In addition to purchasing the new pro- remains that still reg- ularly screens first- run specialty films independent and for- eign titles that nor- mally fly below the radar. Since 1990, the Chelsea Theater on the north end of town off Weav- er Dairy Road in the Timberlyne shopping center has catered to a particular segment of Chapel cinephile community. The Chelsea entered a new phase this summer when owner Bruce Stone took the plunge and convert- ed two of the three screens HARRY LYNCH Chelsea Theater Derek Lawson is lit by a touch screen on one of three new digital projectors as he begins the trail- ers and main movie in the Chelsea projection room. Chelsea owner Bruce Stone, 67, who opened the Chelsea in 1990, has had to dip into his retirement funds to buy digital projectors to enable his small independent theater to survive into the digital age. Chelsea Theater goes digital Owner taps retirement fund to modernize projection equipment By Glenn McDonald Correspondent SEE THEATER, PAGE 4A Stone CHAPEL HILL has been the ir uni ing pr inc ip le through the past year.

In this age of abundant electronic trackers cellphones, credit cards, security cameras, encoded building keys friends of Faith Hedgepeth, the UNC student found dead in an off-campus apartment a year ago, wonder how her killer could have escaped without leaving some sort of recorded trace that provides in- vestigators a path to arrest. But on the anniversary of Hedge- death, no arrest has been made and Chapel Hill police inves- tigators continue to hold key details close to the vest. Nine months ago, police released information about DNA evidence pointing to a male suspect who probably knew Hed- gepeth, but law en- forcement officers have persuaded a Durham judge to re- peatedly sea 911 calls, search war- rants and medical ex- aminer reports public documents that often outline the shape of an in- vestigation. guess people are having faith that this will be reconciled and that justice will be said Chel- sea Barnes, a UNC junior who helped organize a memorial walk on Saturday from the bell tower on the UNC campus to the Old Well. definitely frustrating; like somebody has to know In Chapel Hill, a college town that draws 25,000 students to the cen- trally located campus each year, homicides are rare.

Twelve murders were reported between 2000 and 2011, and though death last year and the 2008 mur- 1 year later, slaying remains unsolved Police still seek clues in death of UNC student Faith Hedgepeth By Anne Blythe SEE SLAYING, PAGE 8A Hedgepeth MEBANE Officials revealed the state and local incentives Thurs- day night used to woo Morinaga, the maker of top-selling candy, to Orange County. Morinaga the No. 2 candy maker behind has sold its products to U.S. consumers with a sweet tooth for the last five years. That candy soon will be pro- duced at a facility in Mebane that Orange County Manager Frank Clif- ton said could become the third-largest taxpayer.

U.S. subsidiary an- nounced last week that it plans to i 4 8 i i i a candy plant in Orange County that is expected to create 90 to 120 jobs over three years. U.S. sales growth of Hi- Chew a fruit-flavored, chewable candy like Starburst triggered the decision to build a plant in North America, said Masao Hosh- ino, CEO of Morinaga America. Hoshino declined to provide sales figures but said Hi-Chew SEE INCENTIVES, PAGE 9A MORINAGA Hi-Chew is a fruit-flavored, chewable candy similar in many ways to Starburst.

incentives too sweet to resist By David Ranii and Tammy Grubb We Changing Our Name. Living It. dukeregional.org living.