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Things and Stuff: 05/04/06
Notes from our business community
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RAY’S FLORIST is featured in our Business Spotlight this week. Stop by the Dillsboro nursery and garden center for great Mother’s Day gifts and all your other floral and gardening needs.
MARK YOUR CALENDAR NOW for the Savannah Fire Department’s annual fund-raising barbecue dinner, which is slated for Saturday, May 20, from noon to 7 p.m. The event will include a 30-item raffle and live music. Raffle tickets can be purchased from any Savannah firefighter.
CITY LIGHTS BOOKSTORE is the sponsor for The Herald’s newest feature, a weekly crossword puzzle. A number of readers have requested crosswords over the years, and we’re pleased to be able to offer one with City Lights’ help. We’re trying the puzzles for three months, and reader response will determine whether we continue them into the fall and winter. If you enjoy the crosswords and would like for them to become a permanent feature, e-mail lynn@thesylvaherald.com or call the newsroom at 586-2611. And don’t forget to thank the folks at City Lights the next time you stop by to look for a new or used book. This week’s puzzle can be found on page 2C; to check your answers, look for the City Lights ad elsewhere in this issue.
SAVE-MOR FOODS has brought new life to an old grocery store with their operation in Sylva Plaza’s former A&P location. Sav-Mor’s manager is Dennis Roberts, and the store is open daily from 8 a.m. until 9 p.m.
THE JODY BROWN INDIAN FAMILY will be the featured singers during a 6 p.m. service on Sunday, May 14, at Cherokee Baptist Church.
A BLOOD DRIVE will be held Thursday, May 4, from 1 until 5:30 p.m. at Harris Regional Hospital in the Main Lobby. Call 586-7404 to make your appointment.
THE SECOND ANNUAL FAMILY FUN DAY is scheduled for this Saturday, May 6, from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m. at Fairview Elementary School. The event will be hosted by PTA and will proceed rain or shine. There will be inflatables and games (including a dunking booth for the principal). Bracelets can be purchased for $10 or individual tickets can be purchased for 50 cents each. Concessions, including barbecue, hot dogs, hamburgers, sno-cones, cotton candy and popcorn, will be available.
THE SIXTH ANNUAL MOTHER’S DAY Flower Show at Pomme de Terre Farm near Sylva will be Sunday, May 7, and on Mother’s Day, Sunday, May 14, from 2 until 4 p.m. each day. The farm is located at the top of Betty’s Creek Road, 6.5 miles south of Dillsboro off U.S. 441. For information, call 269-3050.
HARRIS REGIONAL HOSPITAL will hold a jewelry sale with all items $5 on Thursday, May 11, and Friday, May 12, from 7 a.m. until 9 p.m. in the Harris Regional Hospital main lobby. The sale is sponsored by the HRH Gift shop.
TWO AREA WOMEN were big winners at Harrah’s Cherokee Casino and Hotel last week. Sybil Clyatt of Bryson City won $25,000 and Teresa Gooden of Asheville won $100,000. “I really didn’t even intend on going to the casino, but we were in Pigeon Forge at the car show and just decided to stop by for an hour or so. That was at noon Sunday,” said Gooden. “They drew my name to be a finalist in the Treasure Hunt promotion at 1:30 p.m., and I just couldn’t believe it. So we stayed until the 8:30 p.m. drawing to see what I might win.” Just a few hours later, Gooden’s name was drawn again in Las Vegas – this time as the grand prize winner of $100,000. The other four Harrah’s Cherokee finalists – Linda Sutton of Waynesville, Barbara Hunt of Atlanta, Betty Ford of Titusville, Fla., and Carlos Hernandez of Charlotte – got $250 each as consolation prizes. Clyatt was the Grand Prize winner of a 2006 Sierra 1500 Extended Cab pickup truck in the Big Cash Big Trucks promotion. Instead of the truck, though, she took a $25,000 cash option. Harrah’s Cherokee Casino & Hotel is an enterprise of the Eastern Band of Cherokee and is open 24-hours-a-day to guests who are 21-years-of-age or older. For more information, visit online at www.harrahs.com.
SEBASTIANA HERNAN of Franklin wrote to ask if any of our readers have information about her mother, Concetta Litrico, who vanished Aug. 4, 2004, from St. Lawrence Catholic Church in Asheville while Hernan’s father, Frank, was in the hospital. Hernan has not seen her mother since then but believes she could still be in Western North Carolina. “My mother is an Italian woman, 76 years old. She does not know how to drive,” Hernan writes. “My father, my siblings, my children and I have exhausted every means to find her, without success. If anyone knows her whereabouts, I beg you to contact me immediately at the address below. If my mother reads this, I want her to know how desperately we have worried about her well-being.” Anyone with information may contact Hernan at P.O. Box 366, Franklin, NC 28744. |
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