Clay Aiken backs Dix park
RALEIGH -
Count American Idol’s Clay Aiken among supporters of turning the Dorothea Dix Hospital campus into a park.
Friends of Dorothea Dix Park — a group pushing for the creation of an urban park on the 306-acre Dix grounds near downtown — touted Aiken’s support in a news release today. Aiken has signed a petition for the group.
“I am so excited about the opportunity that we have to protect such an amazing amount of open space right here in the Triangle,” the news release quoted Aiken as saying. “It’s an opportunity that won’t likely ever come again. It is an opportunity that the overdeveloped cities and towns around the country can only wish they still had, and that we are blessed with.”
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