Weekly update, February 27

Happy Friday! Can you believe the month is almost over? We are putting the final touches on the March print edition which will be delivered to the usual places starting Tuesday. Here's what to look for:

Online this week

Carolina Literacy opened at 307 West Weaver Street and would love your support with volunteering, donations, and showing kindness to English language learners. And something different, a review of Joachim Trier’s Film, "Sentimental Value". If you would like to contribute an opinion piece or review, please contact info@thecarrborean.com.

The Carrborean Radio Hour on WCOM 103.5 (wcomfm.org)

The Carrborean Radio Hour was not live this week. We replayed the ctrl+alt+art interview with Keith Knight.

You may recall the blitz of interviews with Orange County primary election candidates we had last week. You can find those recordings and summaries of the interviews on the website.

On Monday (4-5pm), we'll welcome back Julia F. Green of Story Connection to talk more about the craft of storytelling, upcoming classes, and elevating underrepresented voices.

The Carrboro Film Fest

The Carrborean is a proud sponsor of The Carrboro Film Fest, taking place tonight through Sunday in the Drakeford Building. There will be people. There will be traffic. There will be films and free popcorn. It will be fun! There are still some tickets available and there will be standby lines for sold out shows.

News from Town and County

OWASA Open House March 7, 10am - 12pm at the Jones Ferry Road Water Treatment Plant. There will be demonstrations and educational activities.

Home Repair Lab and OWASA will host a workshop on ways to save energy and water to bring down your bills. Drakeford Building, 203 South Greensboro Street on March 5 from 6 - 7:30pm. RSVP here.

The Carrboro Music Festival performance applications will be accepted until April 30. The Festival will be held September 27!

Final Notes

The Community Bulletin Board has announcements and opportunities for giving and civic engagement and is updated weekly.

There's so much going on in Carrboro! Check out The Events Calendar to see what's happening and help us keep it up to date.

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Poetry Moment

"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" or "Daffodils" by William Wordsworth, 1815 [Editor's note: Like all great poetry, it's best read aloud.]

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine
and twinkle on the Milky Way,
They stretched in never-ending line
along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
in such a jocund company:
I gazed—and gazed—but little thought
what wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.