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Things and Stuff: 09/21/06
Notes from our business community
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NATIONWIDE INSURANCE is featured this week in our Business Sotlight on the back page of this section. Local Nationwide agent Howard Allman invites everyone to stop by to discuss their insurance needs and see how Nationwide can provide the best coverage for the money.
SHIRLEY BRYSON of Sylva is this week’s winner in our “Have Dinner on Us” contest that’s part of the Great Smokies Dining Guide. Shirley won a $25 gift certificate to Spring Street Cafe. For information on the contest, see this week’s dining guide on pages 4 and 5 C.
DR. STEVE SLOTT, the Blue Ridge Mountain Health Project and Jackson County Department of Public Health will hold a free dental clinic at the Community Service Center Friday and Saturday, Sept. 22 and 23. The clinic will be a first come, first served arrangement and is for those without resources to pay for dental care. Dentists and dental staff volunteers are needed for both days. For additional information contact Paula Carden at the Health Department at 586-8994.
CULLOWHEE VALLEY SCHOOL’S fall festival will be this Friday, Sept. 23, from 4 until 8 p.m. at the school. The event will feature inflatable rides, carnival games, a dunking booth, a rock-climbing wall, jousting, a cakewalk and offers fun for the entire family. All proceeds will go to help support the school.
A BLOOD DRIVE will be held in the Harris Regional Hospital main lobby today (Thursday) from 1 until 5:30 p.m. Call 586-7404 if you’d like to make an appointment to give blood.
ERIK AND KATIE WILSON invite everyone to the grand opening of their new chiropractic office Friday, Sept. 22, at 12:30 p.m. The Wilson family, which includes daughter Eden, say they are excited to be a part of the Jackson County community. Dr Katie Wilson is a graduate of Life University Chiropractic College in Atlanta and worked there in family chiropractic the past six years. She provides care for the entire family and is certified in pediatric chiropractic care. She enjoys working with children, pregnant women as well as anyone with health concerns ranging from back and neck pain, headaches, and disk and joint problems. The new office is located behind Zaxby’s.
OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS is a fellowship of men and women who have a desire to stop eating compulsively. OA also welcomes those who have other food, exercise, and body image issues. The Here’s Hope meeting of OA meets Tuesdays at 5:45 p.m. in the Mary J. Patton House of First Presbyterian Church. For more information visit online at www.oa.org/index.htm.
SYLVA STORYTELLER GARY CARDEN has two speaking engagements this week. He’ll be at the Cherokee Chamber of Commerce today (Thursday) and at the Franklin Unitarian Church on Saturday, Sept. 23. The Cherokee Cham-ber event is their Fall Celebration Dinner at Oaks Restaurant in Whittier from 6:30 to 9 p.m. The Unitarian’s pie supper fund-raiser will be at 7 p.m.
THOSE PLANNING WEDDINGS in Great Smoky Mountains National Park need to know that a special-use permit is required and a $50 fee will be charged beginning Oct. 1. For more information or to obtain an application, contact the permit office at (365) 436-1266 or e-mail Susie_Ford@nps.gov.
THE SMOKY MOUNTAINS CHAPTER of the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association will meet at noon Saturday, Sept. 23, at the Waynesville Country Club. Windy Gordon will present a program on the rivers of Western North Carolina. All NARFE members and those eligible to become members (federal employees with five or more years of service) are invited. For more information, call Betty Brintnall at 586-9292.
WE RECEIVED A NOTE FROM Laurie Hyatt of Sylva. She lost her wallet after she placed it on top of her car while loading her purchases at the Merita Bread store on Main Street. While on her way back to work, she received a call from her husband telling her the Sylva Police Department had informed him that a Department of Transportation employee had found the wallet and turned it in with all contents intact. “I cried with relief,” Hyatt wrote. “This person did not leave a name, but I want him to know that his kindness and honesty is one of the greatest gifts I’ve ever received. There are good people who share this world with us, and those people help to make our time on this earth so much more enjoyable.”
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