Things and Stuff: 07/19/01

Notes from our business community
- and everywhere else

VISAGE SALON ...

and Day Spa is featured this week in our new Business Spotlight. Owner Laurel Allen-Fisher and her staff are offering a number of July specials. See the ad on the back page of this section for more information. Check out the other ads on the page - several include coupons or information about special sales.

ELIZABETH ETHERTON ...

of Sylva is this week's winner in our "Have Dinner on Us" contest. She won dinner for two at the Holiday Inn in Cherokee. For information on how you can enter and win, see our Great Smokies Dining Guide on pages 2C and 3C.

BROAD STREET FISH ...

Camp is a new eatery now open on Broad Street in Sylva. Owned by Tom Garrett and Allen Cagle, the restaurant specializes in fish, shrimp and roast chicken. Side dishes include potato wedges, french fries and coleslaw, and the kids' menu features hamburgers, cheeseburgers and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Call 586-9366 for more information.

THE MARINES ...

have landed at 158 East Sylva Shopping Center, and the situation is well in hand. Marine recruiter Staff Sgt. Jimmy Massey has relocated to his new office in Suite C there from an office in Waynesville. Massey is settled in and is ready to further the lives of young men and women who are up to the challenge of becoming Marines. Anyone interested in finding out more about a career in the Marines can contact Massey at 631-2810. His pager number is 642-5043.

GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS RAILROAD ...

has announced the promotion of Barnett Blair as acting food and beverage manager and executive chef. Also hired was a new dining staff manager, Phillip Jones of Clyde. Blair will oversee the operation of the GSMR Conductor's Cafes in Dillsboro and Bryson City as well as the box lunch and luncheon service on the train. He will also be in charge of catering private parties on the train and will create specialty menus for the excursion railroad's Gourmet Dinner Train and Mystery Theatre Dinner Train.

ALMOND TWIRLERS ...

will host a regular dance Thursday, July 26, at 8 p.m. at the old Whittier School. Marty Northrup will be the caller, and Carol Pound will lead the line dancing. For information, call 497-2490.

TEACHERS! ...

Don't miss the Scholastic book fair at the Jackson County Resource Center Monday, July 23, through Friday, July 27. Support the FRC's literacy and respite programs and the Reading Rover bookmobile while finding wonderful materials for your classroom. For more information, call 586 2845.

THE RED CROSS ...

urges everyone to add donating blood to their summer activities. Blood donors must be 17 or older, weigh at least 110 pounds and be in general good health. A blood drive will be held in Sylva Friday, July 20, from 1 to 6 p.m. at Sylva's Community Service Center on Hospital Road.

NORTH CAROLINA'S ...

Museum of History in Raleigh needs your help to tell an important part of our state's history. The museum is developing an exhibit about North Carolinians and the Civil Rights movement. This major exhibition, scheduled to open in 2004, will highlight individuals, stories and events that lay at the heart of the cause. The exhibit will focus on the social and political changes initiated by African Americans and American Indians in North Carolina between 1945 and 1975.

The Museum of History seeks to acquire - through loan, purchase or donation - items related to civil rights experiences in North Carolina. If you have photographs, signs, documents, clothing and other items that reflect stories and events of the Civil Rights movement, please call curator Shawn Saunders at (919) 715-0200, ext. 204. The museum also plans to conduct interviews of participants in the Civil Rights movement. If you are willing to share your story, please contact the curator.

For more information about the Museum of History, visit online at http://ncmuseumofhistory.org; or call (919) 715-0200.