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HOWARD ALLMAN’S NATIONWIDE INSURANCE is featured in this week’s Business Spotlight. Howard and his staff plan to move to 447 W. Main St., the former Community First Mortgage location, on Monday, Oct. 3. See the ad on the back page of this section for more information.
PAT WARREN of Sylva is this week’s winner in The Herald’s “Have Dinner on Us” contest that’s part of our Great Smokies Dining Guide. Warren won a $25 gift certificate to O’Malley’s. See the restaurant director on pages 4 and 5C for information on how you can enter and win.
ZION HILL BAPTIST CHURCH members took up a collection for hurricane victims. The church sent a check for $2,000 to the American Red Cross
CULLOWHEE VALLEY SCHOOL’S Fall Festival will be Friday, Sept. 23, from 4 until 8 p.m. The event promises lots of food and fun and will include inflatable rides, rock-climbing walls, Bingo, carnival games, cakewalks and a dunking booth. Anyone who would like to volunteer may contact a CVS PTA member or call the school at 293-5667.
WESTERN CAROLINA UNIVERSITY history professor Richard Starnes’ new book, “Creating the Land of the Sky,” which was featured in last week’s issue, is also available locally at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva.
Cantata Inspired by North Carolina Poet Laureate scheduled for Web cast
A WEBCAST of the cantata, “Alma,” based on poems by North Carolina’s poet laureate, Cullowhee’s Kay Byer, is scheduled Sunday, Sept. 11, on Florida Public Radio. The cantata is based on poems from Byer’s book, “Wildwood Flower,” The Book of Job and The Song of Solomon. “While we struggle to comprehend the disaster in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, where entire cities have fallen apart, the creation of this cantata and the inspirational poems of North Carolina’s poet laureate are gentle reminders of the creativity and goodness in humanity,” said Debbie McGill, of the N.C. Arts Council. Harold Schiffman, a North Carolina-born composer who teaches at Florida State University, wrote the cantata. An interview with Schiffman is scheduled during the Webcast, which begins at 8 p.m. To tune-in, go to www.fsu.edu/~wfsu_fm/listen/index.ht. For more information on Byer visit www.ncarts.org.
HIGH HAMPTON INN will host a three-day wildflower workshop under the direction of the N. C. Botanical Garden. The event is scheduled for Sunday, Sept. 25, through Tuesday, Sept. 27, at the Cashiers landmark. Registration will be Sunday from 12:30 until 1:30 p.m. with the program beginning at 2 p.m. Registration on Sunday from 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. Sunday program begins at 2 p.m. Botanists from the N.C. Botanical Garden who will lead the event include Peter White, director; James Ward, curator; and Ritchie Bell, director emeritus. Cost includes a $100 registration fee plus lodging and meals at High Hampton. For information, rates and reservations, call 1-800-334-2551 or visit online a www.highhamptoninn.com.
ROBIN GUNNELS of Cullowhee has invented a tool that helps people working alone install heavy objects. His idea is now being made available for licensing to manufacturers interested in new product development. Additional information is available from the publicity department of Invention Technologies at 1-800-940-0020, ext. 2285 or by e-mail at products@invent-tech.com.
KAHTONNA ALLEN of Athens, Ga., is one of 86 students to enroll in the first class of the newest medical school in the south, Georgia Campus of Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. Classes began Aug. 15 at the 19-acre campus in Suwanee, north of Atlanta’s central business district in Gwinnett County. Allen is a 2005 graduate of the University of Georgia and is the daughter of Charles Allen of Sylva and Yvette Cordy of Augusta, Ga. |
