CLEMMONS -- A group hoping to build a dog park in the Clemmons area has decided to approach the county for permission to use 2.3 acres at Tanglewood Park for that purpose.
Organizer Chuck Houska said that the land the group wants to use is a field on the north side of the road leading to the campground. Assuming the county gives its OK, the group would build the park with a combination of donated materials and labor and cash donations of from $80,000 to $100,000.
The completed dog park would be turned over to the county and be a part of Tanglewood Park.
The Winston-Salem Foundation is helping the fundraising effort, Houska said. In a letter to county officials, Houska said the goal is to put together donations during the fall and winter, begin work on the park in the spring, and open it in the late summer of 2010.
Houska said the group hopes to have a park that would include an area for people to do obedience training with their dogs. It would also have a water area for dogs to cool off and for dogs that enjoy being in the water.
The group has a Web site that gives information about the proposed dog park and making donations, at www.clemmonsdogpark.com.
Public Safety Committee won't meet
The Public Safety Committee of the Winston-Salem City Council will not meet Monday.
The committee meeting, usually held on the second Monday of each month, has been canceled because the only business the committee is considering is also on the council's Finance Committee agenda.
Two of the four members of the Public Safety Committee also serve on the Finance Committee. The Finance Committee will meet at 4 p.m. Monday at City Hall.
Brunswick deputy cleared in shooting
WILMINGTON -- A North Carolina district attorney has cleared a Brunswick County deputy in the fatal shooting of a man during a domestic-violence investigation at his home Sept. 6.
District Attorney Rex Gore said that officer Bradley Hardee fired one shot after Alton Walters pulled off a set of Taser probes and cornered him.
Gore says that officer Hardee ordered Walters to stop several times, and only fired when Walters was close enough to grab Hardee's gun.
Hardee was trying to arrest Walters for assault.
TVA board nominee sees little change
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- President Obama's Tennessee Valley Authority board nominee Neil G. McBride says he was surprised about how little had changed at the nation's largest public utility since the 1970s.
McBride, a public-interest lawyer in Oak Ridge, says that when he was concentrating on the TVA in the 1970s, problems included poor decision-making practices, environmental issues related to coal use, and modest programs to reduce demand for electricity.
After reacquainting himself with the TVA over the past year he has found that: "for better or for worse, almost all those issues are still there."
McBride was nominated along with Barbara Haskew, an economics professor at Middle Tennessee State University and a former manager of the rate staff at the TVA. Obama has yet to announce nominations for two more vacancies on the nine-member board.
Stargazers get to see planet Uranus
MOUNT GILEAD -- Stargazers got to see the illusive planet Uranus last night at the Town Creek Indian Mound in southwest Montgomery County, described as "one of the best dark sky sites" in North Carolina.
Looking through the site's 12-inch Dobsonian telescope, visitors could see the Milky Way and the planet Uranus, which was at its closest point to Earth for the year.
The viewing last night was part of a monthly series of astronomy programs at the site. Others are scheduled for Oct. 17, Nov. 14 and Dec. 12.
Town Creek Indian Mound is the state's only historic site dedicated to American Indian Heritage.
Free dental clinic attracts hundreds
LAURINBURG -- Hundreds of people came to a free two-day dental clinic at a North Carolina church.
Organizers said that the clinic at Stewartsville Baptist Church would likely help more than 400 people by the time it finished yesterday.
Sheila Hunt lost her health-care insurance after she was laid off and her current part-time job doesn't offer it. She says she wouldn't be able to go to the dentist without the clinic's help.
Missions of Mercy helped run the clinic.
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