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This week, we're talking... Welcome, summer ☀️ | No. 1 for summer road trips 🚗 | More Moore Square 🌳 | The "missing middle" housing 🏘️ | Openings to get excited about 🥐 | Negroni Week kicks off 🥃  | Hot ticket alert: Meek Mill + Future 🔥

Hi y'all.

Summer officially starts tomorrow, and I am ready for it.

Maybe it's because I grew up in Florida, but summer to me feels like the chorus of crickets heard on the Greenway or the blanket of humidity while sitting on my back porch with a cold beer.

What does summer in Raleigh feel like to you? Do you have certain traditions, favorite brews or beverages, road trip routes or patios on which you take up regular residency? 

Share them with me -- I'd love to compile a list of what makes an iconic Raleigh summer. 

To summer,
Sarah Day

Sarah Day Owen Wiskirchen, Editor & Publisher

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Even more on Moore Square

Y'all shared your excitement on Instagram and I learned about a few more fun things going on in the future for Moore Square:
  • Get an early peek: There's a "hard hat tour" of Moore Square Tuesday from the Downtown Raleigh Alliance at 4 p.m. or 4:30 p.m., but you need to RSVP here.
  • Made and Found: The Handmaidens shared an event Nov. 9 that they said will combine art & local talent from Handmade Market with vintage clothing and furniture from Urban Vintage Raleigh. Applications for vendors are live here.
  • Bring the fam: And before the grand opening date, there's a July 27 event for families, A Midsummer Fairy Faire, from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. by Paper & Stars Studio.

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YOU CAN'T ADDRESS INDIVIDUAL COUNCIL MEMBERS AT MEETINGS...
For now, at least. The Raleigh City Council voted to update the rules of decorum during council meetings that individual council members can't be addressed. INDYWeek reports this may be unconstitutional and is likely to be challenged. This comes after a series of anti-abortion speakers and police accountability activists who addressed councilors person-by-person, notes Anna Johnson of N&O, but the vote passed without discussion, so it's unclear the exact reasoning.

Here's the city council contact information for giving feedback on this or any other city-related issue. 

Speaking of sharing your opinion:
Give input on equitable development around bus rapid transit here.


COMMUNITY MEETING ON THE FUTURE OF GROWING AREAS... 
From city communications: Mayor Pro Tempore Corey Branch is hosting a community meeting on planning matters and the future vision for District C, which includes much of what's east of Capital Blvd., so think downtown, North Person Street District, Mordecai and Oakwood, Southeast Raleigh, etc.

The meeting will be 9 a.m. Saturday at Vital Link Private School, 1214 E. Lenoir Street. See a district map here (scroll down).

From the city email: "Branch will provide an update on City Council business, and attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions and share concerns. While the discussion may be of particular interest to residents of District C, all residents of Raleigh are invited to attend."


N.C. BEST FOR ROAD TRIPS...
OK, we're on a lot of lists. But this WalletHub ranking seemed topical as we reach summer. North Carolina is ranked first for a variety of reasons that fall under umbrella categories of costs, safety and attractions. But digging into where we ranked particularly high and you'll find access to scenic byways and low cost of three-star hotel rooms. 

There are a few scenic byways outside of Raleigh, according to this map. The one between Chapel Hill and Greensboro seems a likely day-trip opportunity, as does the "Devil's Stompin Ground Road," which is near Jordan Lake access.

Have you been down any ones you'd recommend?


AFTER NYT INVESTIGATION, NORTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL SUSPENDS SURGERIES...
After a report by the
New York Times that revealed concerns about the results of even low-risk procedures for pediatric cardiac surgery patients, the North Carolina Children's Hospital will stop performing complicated heart surgeries while an external group reviews its practices, the News & Observer reports.

A LOOK AT I.B. PROGRAM IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS...
Farmington Woods Magnet Elementary School was the first school in Wake County to have the elementary school version of the International Baccalaureate Program, known as the Primary Years Programme (PYP). So how did it go? EducationNC did a story on the school and the fifth grade projects.

Why PYP? It's one of the Wake Co. Public School System's Magnet School themes. There are also middle years versions and then the version you might be most familiar with in high school. The PYP is meant to "develop the whole child to be a responsible member of the community."

Where is there PYP? There are four magnet schools currently offering the PYP. Besides Farmington Woods, in Cary, outside the Beltline there's Fox Road (north of Raleigh, headed toward Wake Forest) and Smith (west of Garner). Inside the Beltline, Joyner has a joint Spanish language magnet with the PYP in Five Points.

CONSIDERING BUYING A HOME IN RALEIGH? READ THIS...
In the conversation of affordable housing, there's been mention of the "missing middle" homes available. INDYWeek reported a first-person quest to purchase a home.  In Leigh Tauss' piece, she writes that with Wake Co. median household income at nearly $78,000 and reports that the median sales price in Wake Co. was upwards of $320K, "If you apply the common wisdom that you shouldn’t pay more than three times your income for a home, that means the county’s median household can’t afford the county’s median house."

RALEIGH PUBLIC ART UPDATES...
  • A series of murals over stormwater drains in Raleigh is making the connection between storm drains and the health of local waterways, US News reports.
  • A quote from Eudora Welty now graces the side of Transfer Co. food hall, part of a collaboration between the Raleigh Murals Project and the North Carolina Museum of Art. It's the beginning of a series of quote murals around the Triangle.
  • Find a gorgeous new "Y'all Means All" mural at Dawson and Morgan streets in Downtown Raleigh.
AND IN NEWS ABOUT FORTHCOMING NEWS...
Expect details and a specific location for a planned soccer stadium and nearby development in a big announcement Tuesday
. What's been reported so far, per WRAL
  • The people leading the project are Steve Malik, who owns the North Carolina Football Club and John Kane, of Kane Realty, who developed North Hills among other projects.
  • The stadium will seat 20,000 and the site will host other entertainment events. 
  • It's not in the location they previously looked at for the MLS stadium, it's bigger.
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Upcoming ways to find community, give back and celebrate what’s happening in Raleigh.

FRIDAY: Welcome the summer solstice with free yoga at Dix Park. Early risers, welcome the longest day of the year with sunrise yoga at 5:45 a.m. Register here.

FRIDAY: Make Music Day in Downtown Raleigh. The DRA has a map and list of all the places you can celebrate music, from "corner concerts" to kid-friendly Marbles activities to coffee shops and bars.

SUNDAY: Pop-up puppetry at NCMA exhibit "Southern Oracle" in Museum Park. At 9 a.m., "Beautiful Machines" with artist Jeghetto will be at the colorful rooftop temporary exhibit in the North Carolina Museum of Art's Museum Park. More info.

MONDAY: PineCone Bluegrass Jam at IMURJ. This monthly event invites musicians looking for a place to play and bluegrass enthusiasts seeking community. More info.

MONDAY-JUNE 30: Negroni Week. Sip the cocktail and join the Crude Negroni Scavenger Hunt, which includes locations like Apero, Bittersweet, The Haymaker and others. 

TUESDAY: Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit + Father John Misty. Somehow there are still tickets available (as of Wednesday afternoon) for this concert at Booth Amphitheatre in Cary. Get 'em while you can.

THURSDAY, JUNE 27: Community Voices on Gentrification. 6:30-8 p.m. at AJ Fletcher Theater. Details.

Who's on the panel: Kristen Jeffers, The Black Urbanist; Pamela J. Wideman, Housing & Neighborhood Services Director in Charlotte (who has experience with affordable housing); Kia Baker, the head of Southeast Raleigh Promise who works to break the cycle of intergenerational poverty by creating ways for children to thrive from cradle to college; and Yvette Holmes, of DHIC.

Hot tickets 🔥


Raleigh Boutique Warehouse sale: Get 'em while they last for the event this Sunday. Find Raleigh boutique's deeply discounted wares in one location. Tickets are for specific time slots and limited. 

Meek Mill + Future: Tickets for the Sept. 19 show at Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday. TICKETS.

The Alchemy Tour, coming to Red Hat Amphitheatre on Sept. 17 with NGHTMRE + SLANDER, Seven Lions and the Glitch Mob go on sale 10 a.m. Friday. TICKETS.

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