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Things and Stuff: 04/06/06
Notes from our business community
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FARM BUREAU is featured this week in our Business Spotlight. See their ad on the back page of this section to learn how the agency can help with all types of insurance.
SYLVA HERALD READERS SHOULD take note of the newspaper’s upcoming Easter holiday, slated for Friday, April 14, the day after the final deadline for entries into The Herald’s ninth annual spring photo contest. Advertising and most news deadlines will not be affected, but society news (wedding, anniversary, engagement and birthday announcements) will be due at noon Thursday, April 13, rather than on Friday for that week only.
NANTAHALA REAL ESTATE CO. is a new firm that’s opened behind Zaxby’s. Broker Kelly Stribling is celebrating her grand opening all month and invites everyone to stop by and get acquainted. Nantahala is looking for new agents, and Stribling invites anyone interested to give her a call at 587-5263.
HANNACOLE’S is a new shop that’s also located behind Zaxby’s. Owner Misty Fisher features department store overstocks for men and women. The store is open Monday-Saturday from 10 a.m. until 7 p.m. Call for more information at 586-1586.
LIL’ HARVEY’S RIBS & BARBECUE will begin serving lunch on Monday, April 10. Lunch is from 11 a.m. until 2:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday. See the ad in this issue for more details and for dinner and Sunday brunch hours.
COPE CREEK ANIMAL HOSPITAL has a new veterinarian, Dr. Joe Bill Mathews, who graduated from Auburn University in 1998. He and his wife, Kathy, a biology professor at Western Carolina University, have one son, Benjamin.
THANKS TO ALERT READERS Ty and Jerri (Eller) Cathey who recognized Irene Hinds as the young lady who was pictured with last week’s Ruralite Cafe. Hinds, now Irene Robertson of Carrollton, Ga., e-mailed us to say the event was the Jaycee Awards Banquet in 1960 or 1961. She was a member of the Cullowhee High School Class of 1961 and was named Teenager of the Year at the banquet. Irene has lived in Carrollton since the 1970s but said her dream has always been to return to the Western North Carolina mountains. She said she grew up hearing that her great-great-great-great-great grandmother Countryman was the first white woman to cross the Balsam mountains into what is now Jackson County and said she is proud to have special connections to Jackson County, Cullowhee, and Western Carolina University, home of A.K. Hinds University Center, which was named in honor of her father. “I keep in touch with many of my Cullowhee friends who stay in touch with Jackson County through the Sylva Herald,” Irene wrote. “It was truly overwhelming to know how many of them recognized me in the photo. It’s been a fun experience for me.”
THANKS ALSO TO FORMER SYLVA resident J.D. Patterson of Winston-Salem for pointing the way to this week’s “Then and Now” photo, which was loaned to us by Steve Cody. Patterson, who captured the image the year before he graduated from Sylva High School in 1957, said he used to take a lot of pictures back then. His father, Floyd Patterson, managed the old Sylva Laundry that once stood on Railroad Avenue lot.
UNITED COUNTRY-MOUNTAIN CREEK PROPERTIES of Sylva was recently recognized for outstanding sales achievement in 2005, with the presentation of the Master Salesman Award at the United Country Training and Awards Convention San Antonio in February. The office is owned and operated by Judy Milkey, broker, and Joe Dries serves as broker/partner.
HALEY HAMPTON is looking for information about the history of vocational agriculture/agricultural education in Jackson County schools and the beginnings of the Cooperative Extension Service in the county. A graduate student at N.C. State University, Hampton needs the information for one of her class assignments due at the end of April. Those with old newspaper clippings, personal experiences, newsletters, pictures, or any other information are asked to contact her at (828) 399-1756. |
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