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ATTENTION ALL PARENTS (AND GRANDPARENTS: Whether your kids (and grandkids) are 50 years old or 5 months old, you can enter their holiday photos in The Sylva Herald’s first Christmas photo contest, titled “A Child’s Christmas.” Photos can be any size, black-and-white or color, digital or conventional film, and alll winners and as many other entries as possible will be published in a special holiday section. We do need some connection to Jackson County – born here, went to school here, grandparents live here, etc. – and those submitting photos are asked to fill out a brief entry form. Treasured family photos will be scanned while you wait between 11 a.m. and noon every Thursday from now through Dec. 8. Contest deadline is 5 p.m. Dec. 8.
BRANDON’S PAINTING is now serving Jackson and Macon counties. The company offers both residential and commercial painting and is fully insured. See the ad on page 2B.
LIL’ HARVEY’S PLACE has announced a weekday breakfast buffet from 7 to 10 a.m. Monday through Friday. Cost is $4.99 plus drink. For more information, see the ad on page 11A.
AND, ALSO AT LIL’ HARVEY’S, gingerbread house classes will be offered there Monday-Wednesday, Nov. 28-30. Participants in the classes will be eligible to enter their creations in a gingerbread house contest co-sponsored by Lil’ Harvey’s and the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce and the Hooper House Foundation. Entries will be displayed at the Hooper House from Thursday, Dec. 1, through Friday, Dec. 9. Competition will be held in three age groups: youth, teen and adult. One winner will be chosen from each group, and each winner will receive a blue ribbon, holiday gift basket from Li’ Harvey’s and media recognition. The three winning gingerbread houses then be displayed Friday and Saturday, Dec. 9-10, at Nancy Tut’s Christmas Shop during the second weekend of Dillsboro’s annual Luminaire. Cost for classes at Lil’ Harvey’s is $50 per person and includes supplies to make the houses. Contestants under the age of 17 must have adult supervision in baking the houses. To register for classes, contact Mandee Williams at Lil’ Harvey’s, 736-0318. For information on the contest, call the Chamber of Commerce at 586-2155.
UNITED CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES is seeking food items for Thanksgiving boxes for those who need them. Those who can are asked to donated canned peas, canned sweet potatoes, canned fruit, boxed stuffing mix, boxed cake mixes and prepared frosting and frozen turkeys. Items may be dropped off during UCM’s regular operating hours, Monday through Friday between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m.
JACKSON COUNTY SHERIFF JIMMY ASHE will hold a meeting of area ordained ministers on Tuesday, Dec. 13, at 6:30 p.m. in the Commissioners’ Board Room at the Justice Center. The purpose is to discuss expansion of the jail chaplaincy program. Speakers will be the Revs. John Bunn and Jeff Powell as well as Sheriff Ashe and Capt. Chip Hall.
DON’T FORGET the Golden Age Center’s annual crafts fair, this Friday and Saturday, Nov. 11 and 12, from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. both days.
THE ANNUAL CITRUS SALE continues at Smoky Mountain High School. Contact a band or FFA member to purchase Florida fruit. Those who don’t know a participating student may call FFA leader Jeremy Jones at 586-5392 or band leaders Bob Reid and Drew Umphlett at 586-4796.
ARTIST SUSAN LINGG will present a winter landscape demonstration in oils and watercolors, Saturday afternoon Nov. 12 from 1-4 p.m. in the gallery of It’s by Nature on Main Street. Light cider punch from the Linggs’ cider press will be served. The event begins a series of demonstrations, exhibits and shows planned throughout the season in the new “Home for the Holidays,” exhibit featuring Sylva and Cullowhee artists. For a schedule, call It’s by Nature at 631-3020.
LOCAL WRITERS KAY BYER AND SUE ELLEN BRIDGERS participated in the annual fall conference of The North Carolina Writers‚ Network, a state-wide organization for writers, last week in Asheville. Cullowhee’s Byer, the state’s poet laureate, led a master class in poetry and was a featured speaker. Sylva’s Bridgers led a workshop on writer’s block.
SONGWRITERS IN THE ROUND continues Saturday, Nov. 12, at Balsam Mountain Inn with Jerry Vandiver, Tim Buppert and Karyn Rochelle. Songwriters’ sessions are in the inn’s 100-seat restaurant and are accompanied by a gourmet dinner buffet. The evening begins at 7:30 p.m. Cover charge is $7 per person, plus dinner charge (about $25). Reservations are encouraged; call the inn at 1-800- 224-9498. |
