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Credits: By Henry Gargan of News and Observer.
Article reworded for brevity.
In New Hill, a long-awaited community center needs help to finish interior.
Residents of the rural New Hill community in southwestern Wake County were supposed to get a community center in return for agreeing to drop their legal fight against a planned wastewater treatment plant. Three years after the plant opened, the community center is a shell of a building, and residents don’t have enough money to finish the project that they hope will help bring together the town’s black and white communities.
The 2,100-square-foot building on New Hill Holleman Road looks complete from the outside – so much so that community members who built it have had to turn away requests to rent the space. But inside, the wood framing and concrete floor are bare, and there are no air ducts, finishings or furniture.
New Hill Community Center, a nonprofit, needs to raise at least $50,000 immediately to finish the interior. For example: HVAC, plumbing, electrical, dry wall, painting, and flooring.
Western Wake Partners, made up of Cary, Apex and Morrisville, paid $500,000 toward the community center in 2011 after mediation about the Western Wake Reclamation Facility. The plant opened in 2014 to accommodate expected growth in Apex and Cary.
Much of the money from Western Wake Partners was used to buy the property for the community center and to pay attorney fees. Local fundraisers have helped some, but the community center is still short.
Residents hope the center will make New Hill more self-sufficient and provide a concrete sense of identity. They want it to be used as a polling place for elections, offer senior center type activities, an emergency shelter and a satellite campus for Wake Tech Community College so the area’s aging population can learn how to use computers.
Community Center leaders anticipate the increased gathering of New Hill’s black and white residents.
“We’d go back and forth between the two New Hill churches,” said the president of the community center’s board, recalling how New Hill came together in response to news of the wastewater plant. “We’d have the white people going to the black church and the black people going to the white church. We all mixed and became very friendly with each other, more so than before.”
“If we can get this building completed, we will be amazed at the mixture of the blacks and the whites coming together,” said a member of the community center’s board of directors. “Right now there’s nowhere for us all to gather, but the New Hill Community Center would do it.”
Reference: www.newhillcc.org
Physical Address: 3101 New Hill Holleman Rd, New Hill, NC 27562
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 63, New Hill, NC 27562
Credits: By Henry Gargan of News and Observer.
Article reworded for brevity.
In New Hill, a long-awaited community center needs help to finish interior.
Residents of the rural New Hill community in southwestern Wake County were supposed to get a community center in return for agreeing to drop their legal fight against a planned wastewater treatment plant. Three years after the plant opened, the community center is a shell of a building, and residents don’t have enough money to finish the project that they hope will help bring together the town’s black and white communities.
The 2,100-square-foot building on New Hill Holleman Road looks complete from the outside – so much so that community members who built it have had to turn away requests to rent the space. But inside, the wood framing and concrete floor are bare, and there are no air ducts, finishings or furniture.
New Hill Community Center, a nonprofit, needs to raise at least $50,000 immediately to finish the interior. For example: HVAC, plumbing, electrical, dry wall, painting, and flooring.
Western Wake Partners, made up of Cary, Apex and Morrisville, paid $500,000 toward the community center in 2011 after mediation about the Western Wake Reclamation Facility. The plant opened in 2014 to accommodate expected growth in Apex and Cary.
Much of the money from Western Wake Partners was used to buy the property for the community center and to pay attorney fees. Local fundraisers have helped some, but the community center is still short.
Residents hope the center will make New Hill more self-sufficient and provide a concrete sense of identity. They want it to be used as a polling place for elections, offer senior center type activities, an emergency shelter and a satellite campus for Wake Tech Community College so the area’s aging population can learn how to use computers.
Community Center leaders anticipate the increased gathering of New Hill’s black and white residents.
“We’d go back and forth between the two New Hill churches,” said the president of the community center’s board, recalling how New Hill came together in response to news of the wastewater plant. “We’d have the white people going to the black church and the black people going to the white church. We all mixed and became very friendly with each other, more so than before.”
“If we can get this building completed, we will be amazed at the mixture of the blacks and the whites coming together,” said a member of the community center’s board of directors. “Right now there’s nowhere for us all to gather, but the New Hill Community Center would do it.”
Reference: www.newhillcc.org
Physical Address: 3101 New Hill Holleman Rd, New Hill, NC 27562
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 63, New Hill, NC 27562
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