Enlarge Habitat volunteers tear down wooden framing. (Photo: Matthews-Mint Hill Weekly.)

Posted: February 15th, 2012 Lee Howard

Some of the news that caught our eye in the last week:

• Churches throughout the area are teaming up with Matthews-based Elevation Church for its third annual LOVE Week. Founded in 2010, LOVE Week is designed to unite the region through volunteer work. This year’s initiative will reach out to a variety of nonprofits, including the Matthews Free Medical Clinic, Habitat for Humanity of Matthews and Thompson Child and Family Focus.
• Gene Robinson, the nation’s first openly gay Episcopal bishop, lead the St. Martin’s Episcopal Church Sunday, singing “We are All Welcome.” But the sentiment was not universal, as demonstrators gathered outside the church to jeer about “false profits.”
• Habitat volunteers are in the final stages of tearing down a 1949, 1,600-square-foot house on South Freemont Street in Matthews. Habitat plans to salvage the materials for resale at the Matthews ReStore or recycle them for other Habitat projects. Matthews Presbyterian Church donated the house, which it had been using as rental property.
• Mecklenburg County commissioners aren't likely to approve up to $30 million for across-the-board raises at Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. Commission Chairman Harold Cogdell said last week in a letter to the CMS board. Interim Superintendent Hugh Hattabaugh unveiled the proposal for 3% raises at a Jan. 10 school board meeting. But Cogdell says the plan would result in a 3-cent tax hike, which he says he won’t support.
• Mecklenburg County Manager Harry Jones acknowledged last week that he's being treated for pancreatic cancer. Jones, 62, announced the illness in an email to county commissioners and staff. In December he said he'd begun undergoing treatment for a serious illness, but didn't specify the condition.

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