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NATIONWIDE INSURANCE is featured this week in our Business Spotlight. Howard Allman and his staff can assist customers with a variety of insurance needs. For more information, see their ad on the back page of this section.
JACKSON COUNTY TRANSIT will be providing a shopping trip to Asheville on Tuesday, Nov. 24, for area senior citizens at a cost of $5 for the round trip. Others may participate at a $10 round-trip fare. Seating is limited and will be first-come, first-served. JCT will have a sign-up sheet and will take reservations through Friday, Nov. 20. The vehicle will leave the Jackson County Transit office at 8:30 a.m. and will return by 4 p.m. For more information or to reserve a seat, call the transit office at 586-0233.
THE FRIENDS OF THE JACKSON COUNTY MAIN LIBRARY will be raffling a Southern Living at Home basket to benefit the new library fund. The gift items, which include appetizer plates, a wine guide, a holiday door decoration, a Southern Living Christmas Cookbook, a book about kids’ room decorating and a two-year subscription to Southern Living magazine, are contained in an entertaining bucket with a tray. Retail value of the basket and contents, which were donated by Dale Cate, independent consultant for Southern Living at Home, is $196.60. The basket is on display at the Jackson County Public Library. Raffle tickets, which are priced at $1 each or six for $5, may be purchased at the library and the Friends Used Bookstore on Main Street. The winning ticket will be drawn at the conclusion of the Great Smoky Mountains Book Fair on Saturday, Nov. 14.
COATS WILL BE DISTRIBUTED to children who need them on Saturday, Nov. 7, from 8 a.m. until 1 p.m. in the lobby of Southwestern Community College’s Balsam Building. Coats will be given out on a first-come, first-served basis; anyone who has a child in need of a coat is invited to attend.
LOCUST FIELD BAPTIST CHURCH will host a WorldCrafts party on Saturday, Nov. 7, from 1 until 4 p.m. WorldCrafts makes a difference for victims of “modern-day slavery” by providing a sustainable income to people in poverty.
LOCAL BED AND BREAKFAST Mountain Brook Cottages is featured in the book “Cinnamon Mornings and Savory Nights,” the fourth book of the best-selling “Cinnamon Mornings” cookbook series, which comprises the most requested recipes from America’s bed and breakfast inns. Mountain Brook, owned by Gus and Michele McMahon and their daughter Maqelle, is featured for its recipe for spinach brownies. “We’re honored to be included in this prestigious cookbook – all of the recipes it contains are outstanding,” Michele McMahon said. The cookbook is also a Guidebook to America’s top rated bed and breakfasts as every recipe contains the location and contact information for the inn from which it originates.
THE JACKSON COUNTY SENIOR CENTER has relocated to its new facility and is having an indoor moving sale at the former Golden Age Center, which is located next to the Sylva Pool. Sale dates are Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, Nov. 9, 10, 12 and 13, from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. Nothing is priced; shoppers are asked to make offers. For more information call 586-4944. Open house at the new Department on Aging complex, which is located off N.C. 116 (Webster Road) behind the Department of Social Services building, is set for Friday, Nov. 20, from 1 until 5 p.m.
BELK’S CHARITY SALE will benefit Hawthorn Heights Emergency Youth Shelter, which serves youth from the seven western counties and the Qualla Boundary. Belk’s in Waynesville will be closed to everyone except those with Charity Sale tickets, which cost $5, on Saturday, Nov. 7, from 6 until 10 a.m. Find great bargains and help children and youth at the same time, said Mountain Youth Resources’ publicist Margie Allison. For tickets, call Allison at 586-8958.
THE WATERSHED ASSOCIATION OF THE TUCKASEIGEE RIVER will meet Monday, Nov. 9, at the Community Service Center to kick off a new conservation effort. The event will begin at 6:45 p.m. with a social time that will be followed by a business meeting from 7 to 8:15 p.m. Speakers will be Bill McLarney of the Little Tennessee Watershed Association and Steve Fraley of the N.C. Wildlife Resource Commission. WATR held training workshops this summer for fish sampling and macro invertebrate sampling, and these events will form the stepping stones for the new initiative, according to Director Roger Clapp. McLarney will speak to the importance of a comprehensive fish monitoring program and Fraley will speak to the issues of aquatic wildlife protection.
THE FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY’S Used Bookstore will have titles featuring Sherlock Holmes on display this week. Selections include novels by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and books about Doyle and Holmes. Books are in “gift giving” condition and are reasonably priced.
GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK’S Oconaluftee Visitor Center near Cherokee is now on its off-season schedule and is open from 8:30 a.m.until 4:30 p.m. Two of the Park’s three major campgrounds – Smokemont near Cherokee and Cades Cove in Tennessee – will remain open all year but are on a self-registration basis with a reduced number of available sites. Elkmont Campground in Tennessee will remain open through the Thanksgiving weekend and close Dec. 1. Seven picnic areas – Chimney Tops, Cades Cove, Cosby, Greenbrier, Metcalf Bottoms, Big Creek and Deep Creek – will remain open through the winter and picnic pavilions at Cosby, Greenbrier and Deep Creek will be open through the winter and can be reserved at www.recreation.gov.
THE JACKSON COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE has announced that due to county offices being closed on Wednesday, Nov. 11 for Veterans Day, there will be no fingerprinting at the Sheriff’s Office that day. The normal schedule for fingerprinting will resume on Wednesday, Nov. 18, from 1 until 4:30 p.m.
ORGANIZERS OF THE VIETNAM MOVING WALL’S recent visit to Dillsboro will be at the Huddle House on Veterans Day, Wednesday, Nov. 11, from 8 a.m. until 4 p.m. to collect donations for disabled veterans. In addition, they will have the “Missing Man” table set up and will also be taking orders for the Moving Wall 25th anniversary T-shirt. The shirts commemorate the wall’s Oct. 15-19 stay at Dillsboro’s Monteith Park, which coincided with the Moving Wall’s 25th anniversary. Cost of the shirts, which are olive green, is $10, with all proceeds going to help local veterans.
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