Aiken lends voice to Dix park fight
RALEIGH - Count 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 the singer’s support. 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,” a 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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