If that name sounds familiar, it's because Jarvies was a member of the Chapel Hill Police Department for 32 years, the last seven of them as chief, before he stepped down in 2007.

The department he'll take over in Spring Lake is no ordinary police department.

Facing allegations of corruption and poor training, the Spring Lake department is under investigation by the State Bureau of Investigation. Things are so bad there that officers aren't even allowed to arrest anybody; the department's arrest powers were stripped last month after two of its officers were themselves arrested.

Why on earth would anybody sign on to lead an organization in such disarray? Precisely because it's in such disarray, Jarvies said.

He said no when he was first approached about the interim job, but the more he read about the troubles, the more he became intrigued.

"I just like challenges," the Fayetteville Observer quoted him as saying.

He'll be on the job only until September. But by the time he leaves, he said, he hopes to have the department upright and on the right track, on the way to regaining its authority and the public trust.

If anybody can turn the Spring Lake police department around, we're betting Jarvies is the guy.

He ran the Chapel Hill department with a very capable hand, with a keen understanding of the community he served.

We -- and the citizens of Spring Lake, we're sure -- wish him the best in his efforts there.

Roses to Rebecca Brinkley of Cedar Ridge High School and to the Chapel Hill High School orchestra, for their winning performances on the stage in recent productions.

The North Carolina Theatre last week announced the winners of the 2009 Capital Awards honoring high school musical theater excellence.

Brinkley was named the Outstanding Leading Actress for her role as Eva Peron in Cedar Ridge's production of "Evita."

The award automatically puts Brinkley in the running for the National High School Musical Theater Awards -- nicknamed "The Jimmy Awards" -- next month in New York City.

The CHHS orchestra won the Capital Award for Outstanding Orchetra for its performance in the musical "Urinetown." Chapel Hill High, incidentally, was nominated in every Capital Awards category.

Bravo!

Roses to Tar Heel Treasure, a new campus initiative designed to meet the fourfold goals of reducing landfill waste, providing usable goods at bargain prices, offering students and other residents the opportunity to serve the community and raising money for a good cause.

Every year, when the university students clear out after the spring semester, they leave behind an enormous amount of stuff -- furniture, televisions, rugs and carpets, clothes, books and so on.

Tar Heel Treasure collects all those things, organizes them and puts them up for sale at a giant community yard sale.

This year's sale on May 16 raised more than $10,000. Of that total, $7,000 goes to the Eve Marie Carson Scholarship Program.

Items remaining after the sale were donated to the N.C. Children's Hospital.

An estimated 14.5 tons of material was diverted from the landfill, and several hundred volunteers participated in the event. A whole host of university departments, businesses, organizations and individuals pitched in.

From the sounds of it, it was a win-win-win-win.

If you have suggestions for Roses & Raspberries, please call Dave Hart, associate editor, at 932-8744 or e-mail dhart@nando.com.