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CHAPEL HILL — Trish Hussey and Rita Leadem stretched a ribbon in front of a solar panel set up just outside the front door of the Freedom House Recovery Center on Thursday afternoon.
State Sen. Ellie Kinnaird stood beside them, wielding a blue-handled pair of scissors.
They stood – a bit incongruously, considering the event was a ribbon-cutting for a solar power project – in the shade, under the building’s overhanging roof.
Fortunately, the actual working solar panels on the roof overhead, which crews were installing as Kinnaird dispatched the ribbon with one efficient snip, were bathed in full summer sunshine.
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