North Carolina Now; 4419; Interview with Mick Mixon

It's Thursday. Didn't waste there. Tonight the remarkable success that both schools have been short of that has been fueled in part by the success that the other has enjoyed about the ball. Previewing the state's top college basketball rivalry in North Carolina. Yeah. Good evening everyone and welcome to this Thursday edition of North Carolina now. Tonight is the big

basketball showdown between the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University. So as a preview to this big event we take a look at this one of a kind rivalry that first began back in 1920 with our guest radio broadcaster Mick Nixon. Plus did you know that North Carolina is home to one of the largest concentrations of Quakers in the nation. Well tonight we'll go to the triad to find out more. But we begin with a look into a growing industry called deconstruction all over the state. There are older homes and buildings which are no longer usable in their present state. Some landowners look at these buildings as I source that need to be burned or bulldozed. Others however see these buildings as treasure troves full of high quality beautiful wooden fixtures. Tonight Derek long shows us how some Tarheel entrepreneur is are using a technique known as deconstruction to reuse the material from these old buildings rather than sending it all to the landfill.

So a real old beautiful home. And then haul to the dump and I thought that's kind of food to fill up a dump with something that can be used. Pete Hendrix a wake forest wood worker found an alternative to demolishing old homes and carting them off to landfill for 20 years we've been taken down. Oh farmstead the house is building and recycling the material that we retrieve and building new houses out of that area. Hendrix built three houses on his family's property in Wake Forest using materials from old buildings that he deconstructed Deconstruction is the reverse of construction. It's taking taking a building apart piece by piece and being able to salvage the materials for reuse. Judy Kincaid solid waste planning director with triangle J Council of Governments supports the efforts of people like Hendrix Kincaid sees the reuse of building

materials as a means of reducing construction and demolition waste. Going into our region's landfills one dump truck load every minute of every working day goes into one of our public landfills for with concern filled with construction and demolition waste. That's about 150000 tons per year on an average of three. You can probably reclaim and recycle about 80 percent of an old structure and Philip Paulson of Youngsville is also in the business of deconstructing old homes and building a 20 500 square foot house is going to be probably around 10 to 12 tandem truckloads in some cases we have literally reduced the waste down to a small six by 10 trailer lot. And that was the only thing that went through the landfill. There are facilities out there today that can just about take everything that comes out of the house whether it be aluminum old sheet rock the shingles the old wiring plumbing

plastic the wood concrete. Everything you can see around here is 10000 square feet of usable building materials. All of this will be in the landfill. You know if somebody were doing this with Don Oberg also saw all the wisdom in recycling and reuse of building materials. So about four and a half years ago he opened the building's supply Recycling Center in Durham. He sells reusable building materials from deconstructed older homes as well as from newer construction any kind of residential building material is is used is what I'm after. We're talking about doors windows mantles fireplaces sinks tubs molding lumber flooring I have lots of flooring and anything that you can see looking around your home that's attached to the building is probably something that we can recycle. I've been really pleased with the public reception to this business. A lot of people are interested in recycling and people come from quite a long ways around to

pick up materials here. Just give me a call and see if I have something I don't have everything that Lowe's or the other larger outfits retail outfits have. But I've got quite a few things to get a chance to come in and really get material and stuff that you need that you don't have to go and pay the full price for a lifestyle it takes just a little bit of plain a need and a lot of lot of material the same you know is a lot better than what you buy. Today as far as I'm saying the older doors the stuff that's whale Beeld the dove tail joints the stuff so it's nice. I really enjoy it. It's preserving architectural history. Kelly owns the summer bead company a shop which deals in salvaged architectural antiques. A lot of these things are are really works of art done by local craftsman. But there they were done a hundred years ago so really an interesting door looks great a new house but it's also great as a coffee table. So

really adaptive reuse of things is what I've tried to do here. A lot of times buildings are going to be torn down whether I or anyone else in this field want that to happen. And I think it's important for people to really take at least as much as they can from a building before it is torn down and try to recycle it and reuse it. I think there are a lot of people that are becoming more aware of the fact that the earth can't support unlimited use of resources and the impact that individuals have on the environment in the long term is significant and that they can make individual choices that have a beneficial impact on that. Triangle Day Council of Government and the Cooperative Extension Service produced a video on deconstruction for more information on deconstruction where you can find with cycle building materials contact Judy can Kate at 9 1 9 5 5 8 9 3 4 3. Coming up an insider's preview to

tonight's big game. But first let's check in with Michel Louis for a summary of today's statewide news. I meant hello Shannon. Good evening everyone. Topping our news the state auditor's office has set a firm timetable for the completion of a review of the state board of transportation. State Auditor Ralph Campbell says the review will be completed by April 15th. Campbell says the audit will be carried out by the firm of KPMG peat Barwick at a cost of six hundred fifty thousand dollars while the outside firm is examining deal t and the board. Campbell's office will study the Highway Trust Fund and review the department's computer system. Two supporters of North Carolina's tobacco farming interests say it would be a mistake to not reach a tobacco settlement this year. U.S. Representative Bob Etheridge told fellow members of Congress there will be no winners unless there is some kind of settlement. A North Carolina farm bureau president W.B. Jenkins told an agricultural subcommittee in Washington D.C. that this year's tobacco markets will be chaotic without a settlement. A settlement could impact one hundred twenty four

thousand tobacco farms nationwide. The State Board of Education is considering adding science and social studies to the mandatory exam list for public school students. The two subjects will be tacked on to the current list of reading writing and math now being tested under the state's ABC as a public education. Some officials say that schools often spend more time and resources on the three Rs because that's what students are tested on. Leaving the other subjects short changed the Board of Education has agreed to hold a one day meeting later this month to discuss testing issues. Confederate supporters have been given permission to display an emblem of the Confederacy on a state license plate. The state has issued about 500 of these tags bearing the emblem of the Sons of Confederate veterans to members of the group. The group was originally denied permission to carry the plates. But in September a Wake County judge ruled the group meets the state's criteria for tax exempt civic organization. However the state attorney general's office is appealing the decision claiming the group is not a nationally recognized civic

group. Governor what is expected to recommend a former executive with Carolina Power and Light to chair the state Democratic Party. Barbara Allen is a retired Raleigh business executive at longtime party activists the state Democratic Executive Committee is expected to appoint her at their February 14th meeting in Raleigh. Allen retired as community relations director for Carolina Power and Light. She has also worked on all of Hunt's campaigns as well as the gubernatorial campaigns of Terry censored and Bob Scott if appointed she will succeed Liber Evans of Winston-Salem as party chairman. And now for a look at tomorrow's weather look for highs to range from the 30s in the mountains to the 40s across much of the remainder of the state. Wellington could see a high of 50. Friday will bring cloudy conditions statewide. A brief drizzle in some areas appears to be the only rain in tomorrow's forecast. In business news business leaders in North and South Carolina pulling out all stops to lure a new Federal Express distribution center to their state. Three hundred fifty people recently gathered at the global trance park in

Kinston to rally for the hub in South Carolina textile magnate Roger Milliken called a rare press conference to praise that state's Greenville Spartanburg airport. Currently Raleigh Durham and Charlotte Douglas airports are said to be the only two front runners because of their runway construction. North Carolina's favorite donut maker has plans to expand into the western United States West and Salem based Krispy Kreme has inked a deal with great circle family foods of Los Angeles over the next four to six years. The two companies plan to open as many as 42 new Krispy Kreme locations in Southern California. Krispy Kreme is also in talks with other firms to open 30 more stores in northern California. Krispy Kreme currently operates 60 60 stores throughout the southeast. And now for a look at what happened on Wall Street today. As basketball fans throughout the nation and especially those here in North

Carolina know tonight's the big match up between number one ranked Duke University and number two ranked University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This game has diehard basketball fans talking all week. So tonight we decided to do a little prognosticating of our own and we couldn't find anyone better to help us do that than tonight's guest radio broadcaster Mitt Mitt mix and the color commentator for the Tar Heels and thank you so much for joining us tonight. Like you said it's good to be here my name's a mouthful and I apologize for that and I do want to point out that we did invite Bob here as the color commentator for the Blue Devils to join us. Unfortunately he has been tied up at another event and couldn't get here. He was scared intimidated. Now we could and maybe he'll walk in maybe he'll come in late and we can that's where I pop him in but Bob's a great guy does a great job for Duke University and I'm sure it's going be a heck of a game tonight. One of the interesting things that you have been telling me about is as your job as a color commentator

you really have to keep objective about both teams even though you are from right here in Chapel Hill. Yeah I think so there's really no secret as to who would be Durham and I want to win the game tonight and if Bob were here he'd say the same thing about Tony Haines himself but I think as a particularly as the color guy if you if you if you cross that line of objectivity if everything you say is through a light blue filter or in Bob's case a dark blue filter then sometimes you can lose some credibility with your audience and so we try to do a lot of work on on the opposition for example to know a lot about what the other teams coaches and players are like and what they'll try to do tactically in a game like tonight. Any game really that we work. And then also if the officials make a call that goes against your team if you've been getting on the official If you make an it seem like you're getting you're not getting a fair shake the whole game then when you really do need to point something out that might have gone against your team then you might not have the have the credibility with your audience that that you want to have.

Let's talk about this rivalry I think Sports Illustrated probably summed it up best in an article they did a couple years ago with the headline that reads a rivalry without rival. What is it about this match up between these two teams that is unique in its own sense of a rivalry. Boy that's a great question and I think people are much more eloquent and older and more knowledgeable than they have taken a stab at that. To me it's a couple things Number one it's the respect that the two schools have for one another that may not be a popular topic tonight especially among fans but I think that you never run faster than you run when someone is pursuing you closely. And so both Duke and Carolina would agree they would have to agree that the success the remarkable success that both schools have enjoyed in basketball has been fueled in part by the success that the other has enjoyed in basketball. These players have respect for one another their friends off the court the coaching staff have respect for one another and I think deep down inside the fans would would have to agree that

that they they respect what the other school has done as well. The other thing is the proximity that the schools have to one another. The other rivalries that we could sit here and name and talk about that are equally. Equally enthusiastic in where the states kind of galvanize around those rivalries the schools don't share a patch of square mileage that's as intimate as Duke and Carolina. And then I think the other thing will just be how long both schools have been really good if you look at how consistently excellent you know the hardest thing to do in sports is to be consistently really good and Duke and Carolina have both been for the better part of both of our lifetimes and this will continue for generations I'm sure. Both been awesomely good at basketball. When you get down to the heart of it is this rivalry stronger among the players or the fans. I think it's the faith. I think the fans I think that the

players. I think fans would be shocked to know how well the players get along. You'll see Duke players in Chapel Hill on a Saturday night or a Friday night tonight after the game you might even see if you go to Durham and you go to chapel hill you might see the players co-mingling. But among fans it seems to be you know the fans feel like they have to sort of carry the torch of the hatred is too strong a word to use to me but that sort of carry that banner of due to the Carolina fans or carry the banner of bragging rights Carolina fans do to Duke fan so I really think the rivalry is is stronger among the fans now tonight from 9 0 5 until 10:30 it'll be stronger. It'll be equally strong in the rankings for this particular matchup. Duke number one North Carolina number two. How does that come into play. It's it's it's important but it's not. I think it's a good good copy I think it's a good headline. But all the you know the reality of

basketball is that it's a tournament sport and it's a month of March sport. And so either one of these two schools would trade a victory in tonight's game. For some heroics in the month of March. Yeah I mean the fact that you've got number one versus number two right here in the triangle right here in our state I mean this is a rivalry that people who are listening to us talk tonight in any part of the state of North Carolina should be proud of just because you're not right here just maybe you might not have tickets to the game tonight. This is still a rivalry that that means something to you if you care about our state and care about college basketball certainly is right and we are proud to have both teams in the game tonight. Well thank you so much for joining us. I got to get over to you. I'm going to get over this Miss Honor. That's right and if you want to catch tonight's match up between Duke and Carolina It begins at 9 o'clock at the Dean Smith Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This past summer North Carolina Quakers recognized a major milestone by

quietly celebrating their 300 and a more serene that's 300 years as a religious society and a country that is only two hundred and twenty one years old. Who are the Quakers. Producer Anthony Scott decided to find out. And when I hope and you know we're gone so that I had nothing outwardly to help me nor could kill what to do. Then I heard a voice which said there is one even Christ Jesus that can speak to that condition. And when I heard it my heart did leap for joy. Those words spoken by a 17th century Englishman named George Fox set in motion a religious and social movement that for some remains as relevant today as it was three hundred years ago. Quakers began in England in the 16th forty six thousand fifty there's a movement to restore original Christianity so France returned

to a basic understanding of the Christian life as it turned by the Sermon on the Mount. Jesus life and ministry and witness and taking seriously the teachings of Matthew 5 through 7 turn the other cheek. Love your enemy live simply don't be anxious. You know the teachings of equality and love compassion a concern for peace justice and that marks still you know the basic Quaker understanding of what it means to be a friend. By 16 65 Quakers venturing to the New World were settling in Pa. tank and park women's counties bands of the small coastal pioneer settlements. Eventually pushed their way west and by the middle 17 hundreds Quakers had established permanent front here communities in the Piedmont region of the state. Already by. 1751 you had a gathered meeting a friend what we call what you would call a church friends call a meeting. I was gathered

over and out of Alamance County and then 1754 the new garden friends meeting was established as an official monthly meeting here in what is now Greensboro through the 1750s 1760s into the light sampling hundreds of thousands of Quakers poured in here and this became a real center of American Quakerism. The official name for quite hers is the Religious Society of Friends. The often confused with the Amish and other similar sex. There are some very key differences. Theologically the Amish the Mennonites have a very different polity than Quakers do. Theirs is based on the authority of bishops. The authority of certain central creedal statements a reading of the Bible that is typically much more fundamentalist than Quakers. Be a friend. Friends focus on living. It's just a way of life. There is

no formal creed no ritual to practice just a way of life. Betraying yourself God and your fellow man. John Allen is a quiet man. He had Here's to a deeply held Quaker conviction of letting your life speak for itself as an example in the world. The peace conviction is another important Quaker Tenet. One that has kept friends from actively engaging in every major American conflict since the Revolutionary War and the Quaker belief in the equality of all people led to an anti-slavery effort that helped to change this country forever. Quakers as you know were anti-slavery the Manumission society was generally sponsored by them. This wagon that we have was given to us and is one of the few I think one of two that I understand. Restored it's a double bottom wagon. Either way the bottom of

the wagon has a place where the slaves could hide. And on top of it they put the produce the weed or whatever it was they were carrying this wagon would move from one underground station to another. That's called the Underground Railroad. While it is true some early colonial Quakers did keep slaves. The record shows as early as seven hundred seventy seven North Carolina Quakers were employing aggressive clandestine and often illegal methods to secure freedom for in slave blacks. In fact history credits a Guilford County Quaker named Levi Kaufman with the creation and success of the Underground Railroad. Opposition to the civil war drove thousands of Quakers out of North Carolina during those years and by 1866 a population of 15000 was down to less than 3000. But a number of dwellings and other structures have managed to survive over time.

Places like the Mendenhall plantation just outside of High Point have been lovingly cared for and preserved by Quaker descendants and others. It's a heritage steeped in 300 years of proud North Carolina history and one that John Allen would like to see passed down to future generations. We can create meaning have already set up a committee to plan our to her 50th Anniversary observing you know the one thing that we're going to have to deal we have to see a diversity of the people in the area for we're in a growth area. And in recent years they've been it's really been a change. The people we meet are no longer have because they're from many different areas many different background. Yes we are making part of their life.

Quaker numbers have been steadily growing and today the Piedmont triad and triangle regions represent the largest concentration of Quakers anywhere in North America. Approaching Twelve thousand people. Well that's it for tonight show please join us again tomorrow night when we continue our look at the Quaker religion in North Carolina. Plus our guest will be Ken Otis the president and CEO of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina. He'll be here to tell us about a proposed plan to set up a charitable trust fund if the insurer is allowed to convert from a nonprofit company to a for profit company. And as we mentioned last night the National BlueCross BlueShield Association is sponsoring an ageless Heroes awards campaign. If you know of anyone you would consider an ageless hero. Call 1 8 8 8 0 0 1 2 3 that number again is 1 8 8 8 Hero 1 2 3. Also tomorrow producer Paul Adelson will take us to the triad for the latest on efforts to bring a major league baseball team to the Tar Heel State. Have a great evening everyone we'll see you again

tomorrow night.