Things and Stuff: 11/20/03

Notes from our business community
- and everywhere else

COUNTRY ROAD FARMS Tack and Western Store and Nursery are featured this week in our Business Spotlight. See their ad on the back page of this section for great holiday ideas.

COMMUNITY FIRST MORTGAGE is celebrating 10 years in Sylva. Call Rick Balliot or Brenda Patterson for all your mortgage needs. See their ad on page 3A for more information.

DOMINIUM HOME PLANNING Seminar will be held today (Thursday) at Holiday Inn Express in Dillsboro. Call 586-9770 for information or to R.S.V.P.

BRADLEY’S GENERAL STORE will hold its second annual Customer Appreciation Day Saturday, Nov. 22. Customers will receive a 20 percent storewide discount on all purchases excluding food and sale items and are invited to bring children under 12 to meet Santa and enjoy free ice cream cones. Customers may also register for several door prizes, including gift certificates and a David Gates hammock.

THEY’VE BEEN WORKING at it for eight years, and the folks at First Baptist are pretty sure that on this ninth try they’re putting on the best Christmas Bazaar ever. The annual event will be Thursday-Saturday, Nov. 20-22, from 8 a.m. until 6 p.m. Thursday and Friday and 8 a.m. until noon on Saturday in the fellowship hall of the church.

MOUNTAIN PROJECTS will close Friday, Nov. 21, for its annual staff meeting.

ANYONE interested in joining the local Civil Air Patrol is invited to stop by the Cullowhee Fire Department Sunday, Nov. 23, between 3 and 5 p.m.

IN LAST WEEK’S Herald the wrong foundation was provided to send memorials for Sol Schulman who died Monday, Nov. 10. Instead, memorials may be sent to the Lillian and Sol Schulman Family Foundation of the North Carolina Community Foundation, P.O Box 2148, Sylva N.C, 28779. Call 586-4616 for more information. Also, we appreciate Sylva town clerk Tommy Thompson’s research that determined Schulman was a town board member for seven years, rather than five. Appointed to the board six months after the 1989 election, Schulman filled a board vacancy created when John Bunn was elevated to mayor after the resignation of T.C. Lewis. Schulman was elected to a four-year term in 1993, but lost a 1997 bid for re-election.

DILLSBORO’S 20th Festival of Lights and Luminaries is coming up the first two week ends in December. Dillsboro merchants will welcome thousands of visitors, both local and travelers, into town to enjoy the sights, tastes and sounds of the holiday season on Friday and Saturday, Dec. 5 and 6, and Friday and Saturday, Dec. 12 and 13, beginning at dusk.

CITY LIGHTS welcomes back Joan Medlicott, who returns to the store to read from and sign copies of her newest Covington novel, The Spirit of Covington, Saturday afternoon, Nov. 22, at 2 p.m.

THE COMMUNITY Table, Jackson County's non-profit organization dedicated to feeding the food insecure, is requesting donations of fresh vegetables and perishables for our Thanksgiving celebration. Donations of money are also welcome, and the Table is seeking cooks and servers on specific days in December and January. Call the Community Table at 586-6782 to schedule volunteer hours.

SYLVA POLICE Officer Shannon Ashe sent a note asking us to express his thanks to everyone in the community who remembered him with cards, calls and prayers after he was injured in the line of duty. “Please continue to pray for law enforcement officers and all emergency service workers that they may continue to make Jackson County a safe place to live,” Ashe wrote.

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