New ice scream aids United Way

CHAPEL HILL -- Maple View Farm has created a new flavor of ice cream: "United Way's LIVE UNITED," which will be available in free samples at the country store on the farm, at 3111 Dairyland Road, Hillsborough, between 6:30 and 8:30 p.m. today.

The ice cream is free when friends wear their LIVE UNITED T-shirts and/or clip the coupon from United Way of the Greater Triangle's Web site at www.unitedwaytriangle.org. This event is one of eight during United Way of the Greater Triangle's "Season of Kick Offs."

United Way of the Greater Triangle serves Durham, Johnston, Orange and Wake.

Rape Crisis Center meeting

CHAPEL HILL -- The Orange County Rape Crisis Center will hold its 2009 annual general meeting at 7 p.m. today at the Carrboro Century Center, featuring a presentation by Nia Wilson, local grassroots activist and director of Spirit House, and Mike Irwin, local high school educator and founder of the Scene & Heard Theater Collective.

The event is free and open to the public.

Patricia Heafner and Internationalist Books will receive the Mary Ann Chapp Award for Community Service for work on sexual violence issues. Shelley Golden, board president and professor at the UNC School of Public Health, will receive the Margaret Henderson Award for Service and Self-Care for improving the agency and fostering an environment of self-care for individuals working in traumatic fields. Campaign for a Safer Carolina will receive the Margaret Barrett Award for Advocacy for its effort to establish a Rape Prevention Education position at UNC Chapel Hill.

For information, call (919) 968-4647 or e-mail info@ocrcc.org.