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Steps for Ashe County Pregnancy Center
There was excitement in the air as walkers gathered in the
parking lot of the Ashe Pregnancy Care Center for the 12th
annual Walk For Life.
Speak
Now…
Domestic Violence Month opens window for discussion
Last
chance for night market’s goodies
The Ashe County Farmers Market will open for its last “Nite
Time on the Backstreet” of the season on Friday. The
Oct. 12 gathering goes from 5 p.m. until 8 p.m.
Because
You Asked
Road work aimed at cutting collisions
Officials:
Fire death accidental
Firefighters with the Jefferson Volunteer Fire Department
found the body of a 55-year-old Ashe County man in the burned
out ruin of a Low Gap Road home Sept. 30
Phipps
Country Store Welcomes Musicians
The Phipps Country Store is open and ready to ‘Jam’;
not with preserves but homegrown musicians.
Ashe
County Free Medical Clinic in need of nurses
According to the National Coalition on Health Care, nearly
47 million Americans, or 16 percent of the population is
living without any type of healthcare.
Keeping
the Flow
New River group will pour grant money into healthy river
banks
Local Girls Win Crowns In Hickory
Madison Faith Osborne and Alexis Paige Howell competed and
succeeded in the 2007/2008 Princess of Hickory Pageant in
Hickory in late September.
Farmland is topic of workshops
The N.C. Agricultural Development and Farmland Preservation
Trust Fund will offer an educational workshop on farmland
preservation next month.
Ashe
County 4-H will Celebrate nat’l 4-H week
Oct. 7 to 13 is National 4-H Week. The annual event is held
to celebrate, promote and share with communities, the 4-H
program and the benefits it provides for young people.
ASU
Prof gets first fellowship
The inaugural Wayne D. Duncan Appalachian State University
Faculty Enrichment and Teaching Fellowship has been awarded
to Dr. Rick Klima in the Department of Mathematical Sciences.
Entrepreneurs
to gather at ASU summit
Anyone interested in owning their own business can learn
from the experts at the 6th Annual Carole Moore McLeod Entrepreneur
Summit on Oct.19 at Appalachian State University.
Workshop
looks at local foods
Interest in local foods has reached an all-time high, yet
the farmers who can provide that food must overcome barriers
such as costly land, complex regulations
BCHS
class of 1957 celebrates 50th reunion
Fifty years had come and gone, and from Aug. 31 through
Sept. 2, the Beaver Creek High School Class of 1957 celebrated
its 50th reunion with a class reunion weekend.
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