Things and Stuff: 10/16/03

Notes from our business community
- and everywhere else

VICKIE NESTLER of Sylva is this week's winner in our "Have Dinner on Us" contest that’s part of our Great Smokies Dining Guide. Vickie won a $25 gift certificate to Dillsboro’s Jarrett House. For information on how to enter, see our restaurant guide on pages 10 and 11C.

SYLVA’S CHRISTMAS PARADE will be Tuesday, Dec. 2, at 7 p.m. Grand marshals will be the children of Jackson County's active military personnel. To sign up a child or grandchild, call Betty Foxx at 586-2512 during business hours or 586-5608 in the evening. Theme for this year is "Christmas Salute to All Our Armed Forces."

CULLOWHEE FIREFIGHTERS need donated cakes for their annual barbecue dinner coming up Saturday, Oct. 25. Please deliver cakes to Cullowhee Valley School the day of the event. If you need to drop off a cake before noon on Oct. 25, please take it by the Cullowhee Fire Department. For more information, call 293-3174.

A DOWNTOWN PUMPKIN-CARVING Contest will be held for the first time ever. Carved pumpkins are due Monday, Oct. 27. See the ad in this issue for details and sponsors.

THANKS TO TOM TURRENTINE for sharing photos he took of his grandchildren Adam and Mary Kelly with the Monarch butterflies they reaised. Turrentine’s photos of the twins are on pages 1A and 1C.

MOUNTAIN CREEK Properties will hold its grand opening Friday, Oct. 17, with a ribbon cutting at 11:30 a.m. Owners Judy Milkey, Marybeth Druzbick and Joey Stokes have opened a full-service real estate office in the old Chamber of Commerce building on Grindstaff Cove Road. Call them at 586-6042.

E&S SEAFOOD Market is now open in Dillsboro Court. Owned by Ed and Susan Yashenko, the new store will try to "bring the shore to the mountains" by providing a variety of seafood products. The grand opening will be Saturday, Oct. 18, at 11 a.m. The Yashenkos moved to Jackson County six years ago and have two sons, Kyle, a Smoky Mountain High junior, and TJ, an eighth-grader at Fairview.

STRESSED OUT? One of our new health page advertisers can help. Joe Ward, formerly of First Union Bank in Sylva, is a licensed massage and bodywork therapist and is trained in the latest techniques to bring relief to tired, aching muscles and stressed-out bodies. Call Joe for an appointment at 631-9714 or at Caplinger Chiropractic, 586-9676.

TOMMY AND VANGIE Stephens will be cooking frybread at Fairview School Friday, Oct. 17, from noon to 2 p.m. and from 5 to 7 p.m. Diners can eat in or carry out, and the dinner is a fund-raiser for the Fairview PTA. Tickets are on sale now at the school or at the Jarrett House in Dillsboro and will also be available at the door. Cost is $5 per person.

BIANCA SHOOK MATTHEWS is now a stylist at The Hair Co. on Main Street. She has worked at New Attitudes and Sophisticut and has almost 10 years experience. Call or stop by for an appointment, and see the ad in this issue for a coupon.

A WESTERN Carolina University veterans' organization is seeking Gold Star Mothers – mothers whose sons or daughters have lost their lives while serving in the U.S. Armed Forces – to invite as special guests for the university's Veterans' Day observance on Tuesday, Nov. 11. Gold Star Mothers in Western North Carolina who would like to participate are invited to call Joan Dickson at 293-8036, contact her by e-mail at MD24568@wcu.edu or by mail at P.O. Box 2745, Cullowhee, N.C. 28723.

IF YOU MISSED Delbert McClinton's show during June's CulloWHEE! ArtsFest, or if you want to relive it, UNC-TV will broadcast "Delbert McClinton from Cullowhee" at 10 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 21.

SUPER FLU Saturday - The Jackson County Department of Public Health is recommending that everyone receive a flu shot this year. In order to accommodate all those requesting the flu vaccine, there will be a special clinic Saturday, Oct.18 from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m.

CITY LIGHTS will host the American Girls Club at 1 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 18, and a special author event for children at 2:30 p.m. Elizabeth Raffa and Annelle Rigsby, authors of the book "Race to Kitty Hawk" (for ages 8 to 12) will be on hand to read from the book and answer children's questions. The book, which is a historical novel based on careful research, has been endoresed by the First Flight Centennial Foundation. For more information, please call City Lights at 586-9499.

NATALIE ELDERS of Whittier, who was seriously injured in an April automobile accident near Smokey Mountain Elementary School, wants the entire community to know how grateful she is for all those who have helped her and her family during her long convalescence. Elders and her recovery were the subjects of a July Ruralite Cafe.

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