Android Gathering in Wilmington

Press release:
THE ANDROID GATHERING INVADES WILMINGTON ON AUGUST 28
What: A free Android OS rally and conference, featuring door prizes, giveaways, consultations and expert-led breakout sessions, including:

Beginners Android OS for HTC Incredible owners
Beginners Android OS for Moto Droid and LG Ally owners
Beginners Android OS for Droid X owners
Favorite Android Market Applications
Android OS for the business [...]

Prescription Drug Turn-In Event on Saturday

From Jack Spruill, a notice about the New Hanover County’s prescription drug turn-in event. Prescription drugs, hormones, and other things that get into our waters cause problems.

I want to be sure you know about this great opportunity to turn in our unneeded prescription drugs this Saturday in Wilmington.
Below is a link to information provided [...]

Information Week: North Carolina To Privatize IT Operations, Jobs

Outsourcing, consolidation eyed as cash-strapped Tar Heel state looks to tech departments for savings, efficiencies.

Faced with a looming, $3 billion budget deficit, North Carolina is eyeing a major shakeup of its tech operations that could see the state outsource the bulk of its IT work to the private sector while consolidating other operations internally.

Exclusive: [...]

Cape Fear Economic Development Council: Feast for the Southeast

The Cape Fear Economic Development Council (CFEDC), which I’m involved with, is sponsoring a series of events on local projects that further economic development. The latest, on July 27th at 6PM at the WHQR Galleries, where we’ve sort of set up shop, is a presentation from the Feast for the Southeast people, who are trying [...]

WHQR back in the black

From the Greater Wilmington Business Journal:

For the first time in the past six years, local public radio station WHQR 91.3fm, is in the black.
“We’ve lost money since 2004,” said Jeff Hunter, WHQR board chairman, to members and staff of the station at its annual meeting on June 30. “We’ll break even this year.”

Read the whole [...]

Surfers Healing fundraiser at Carrabba’s, Friday July 16th

Our friends at Surfers Healing are having a fundraiser to support their efforts to get autistic kids and their families out to the beach and on surfboards!
They do great things. Various times and details for the event in the flyer below:
Flyer (PDF)

Time Warner will move local call center, taking more than 100 jobs with it

From the Star News:

A Time Warner Cable call center in Wilmington that employs 120 to 130 people is closing next year.
The center at 3809 Shipyard Blvd. will close in December 2011, said Andi Curtis, public affairs manager for Time Warner Cable’s coastal and Fayetteville operations. Sales, technical and billing calls for this area will then [...]

Wilmington resident’s response to Caster’s runoff defeat

From a response to a WHQR news piece about County Commissioner incumbent Bill Caster’s defeat in a runoff election yesterday with anti-Titan candidate Brian Berger:

Your report said: Bill Caster says he thinks the wave against incumbents helped end what will be 18 years on the New Hanover County Board of Commissioners once he steps [...]

Green Coast Recycling

I just redid buddy Clifton Cash’s Green Coast Recycling website here, brought the domain over, the email. Sort of quick and dirty, but looks good:
http://greencoastrecycling.com

As the tag line says, this business is “Recycling done right”. I can’t name how many pro-bono cleanup projects the company has been involved in — fund raisers, beach cleans, Masonboro, [...]

Community event: How to Build a Lifeboat: Financial Crisis, Peak Oil, and You

Peak Oil and the ongoing collapse of global Ponzi finance are a “perfect storm” of converging phenomena that threaten to trigger wealth destruction, social discontent, and global conflict. Please join Nicole Foss—“Stoneleigh” at The Automatic Earth—to discuss both our predicament and the ways we can build “lifeboats” to face these challenges together.

Tuesday, May25th, 7PM
Community Action [...]