From Blue Mountain Pizza (55 North Main Street):

On Thursday April 1, 2010 Blue Mountain Pizza will be selecting one lucky diner to win FREE Pizza for one year (one large pizza per month for 12 consecutive months).
 
Sometime between 11 a.m. and 9 p.m., one diner will be randomly selected to win our Pizza for a Year Contest. Out of the hundreds of plates we use all day one will be specially marked as the winner. No one will know when it comes up until it is delivered to the winners table.

Open to everyone dining in house on Thursday April 1st.
 
This is no joke. There will be a lucky winner!

The Joyful Noise Community Music & Arts Center is raffling off this quilt as a fundraiser. The picture really doesn’t do it justice, so take a look while it’s on display at Shop Around the Corner (55 North Main Street). The raffle will be held March 21. More info:

Joyful Noise Community Music & Arts Center is raffling a queen size log cabin quilt to raise money for music and art scholarships. The quilt was made and donated to Joyful Noise by Gifts of Grace, a community ministry of the First Presbyterian Church of Weaverville.

The raffle will take place on Sunday, March 21, 2010 at the Joyful Noise Student Showcase at the Grey Eagle in Asheville at 2:30 p.m. You do not need to be present to win. Raffle tickets are $10 each or 3 for $25. The quilt is on display at Shop Around the Corner (55 North Main Street). Tickets are available until March 15th from Joyful Noise faculty, students/families, and at these fine business establishments – Shop Around the Corner, Zuma Coffee in Marshall, Soli Classica, Acoustic Corner, and West Asheville Music and Art.

Joyful Noise is a non-profit community arts center that serves Buncombe and Madison Counties. Their mission is to provide quality arts experiences that inspire creativity, cultivate connections to regional cultural heritage, and enrich the lives of all members of the community. Joyful Noise offers group classes in clogging, Irish step dancing, Appalachian music, chamber music, drama, and visual arts. Joyful Noise also offers private lessons on piano, voice, violin, fiddle, viola, cello, mandolin, guitar, banjo, bass, dobro, pedal steel, flute, other woodwinds, and percussion. Joyful Noise is based at the First Presbyterian Church in Weaverville with satellite locations in Marshall, Woodfin, and Mars Hill.

North Buncombe High School Earth Environmental Science teacher Kay McLeod sent me this information on how the community can help the school win solar panels in Progress Energy’s SunSense Schools competition. NBHS is one of 12 finalists in the competition, and 5 winners will be selected on December 16, 2009.  Here’s how to help them win:

HELP NBHS WIN SOLAR PANELS!!!!
We are finalists in SunSense Schools, Progress Energy Competition.

All you need to do is go to  www.progresscher.com.  Enter your Progress Energy Account Number and your zip code. Then select NBHS’s name from the drop down menu (this is the only way your help will count).  Complete the short survey online and that is it!

Remember, you must select North Buncombe High School from the drop down menu for your survey to count towards our winning the solar panels.

You can also help by asking neighbors, friends and coworkers to participate if they have Progress Energy service….just remind them to select NBHS from the drop down menu to make it count for us!

Please participate…..every completed survey counts and you will all receive a Home Energy Report later from Progress Energy.

If you need help with any of this please email kay.mcleod@bcsemail.org

Thank you for participating!

Here’s something for the downtown Weaverville businesses – a Holiday Decorating Contest, sponsored by the Weaverville Garden Club. Businesses interested in participating should contact the Garden Club via e-mail at Wmilling@aol.com.

Congrats to these teen division winners in last month’s Weekend in Weaverville Photography Contest. You can view the winning photographs here, or you can see all the entries on display at contest sponsor Art Accents (1 South Main Street).  There’s some really great shots there, so stop by and check it out if you can. It also sounds like they’re going to make this a yearly event, so keep your cameras ready for next year.

Teen winners:

• Human Interest Category: Sullivan Brady
• Architecture/Structure Category: Sullivan Brady
• Nature/Animal Category: Lauren Eddins
• All In A Days Work Category: Kayleigh Evans

Blue Mountain Pizza’s (55 North Main Street) Annual Halloween Costume Contest is Saturday, October 31, 2009. There will be a category for adults and another for kids under 13. It’s free to enter, and three prizes will be awarded for each category:

• 1st: $50 BMP Gift Certificate
• 2nd: $25 BMP Gift Certificate
• 3rd: $10 BMP Gift Certificate

To enter, stop by anytime between 6-9 p.m. on October 31 and have your picture taken. Winners will be announced at the end of the evening. You don’t need to be present then to win.

The North Buncombe Athletic Booster Club is running an Ultimate 50/50 raffle now through October 26, 2009 as a fundraiser to support the school’s athletic programs.  They have 400 tickets, which will be on sale at the NBHS-T.C. Roberson varsity football home game on October 9, as well as at The Corner Store (1 Dula Springs Road).  Tickets are $20 each, and if all 400 are sold they will have $4,000 in prizes to give away:

• Grand Prize (1 winner) – $2,000
• Second Prize (1 winner) – $500
• Third Prize (2 winners) – $250 each
• Fourth Prize (10 winners) – $100 each

(If all tickets are not sold, the prize amonts will be reduced on an equal distribution of the percentages above)

Prizes will be drawn on October 30, 2009 at 7 p.m.  before the Asheville-North Buncombe Varsity Football home game, but ticket holders do not need to be present to win.

The 62nd Annual Craft Fair of the Southern Highlands is scheduled for July 16-19, 2009 at the Asheville Civic Center, and they’ve given me 5 pairs of tickets to give away. To enter, either leave a comment or submit your name and e-mail in the form below. Winners will be randomly selected at Noon on Tuesday, July 14. I’ll post a list of winners here, and I’ll contact you via e-mail if you win (the info you submit will be not kept or used for any other purpose).

This contest is now over. Congrats to ticket winners: Daniel Markham, Linda Payne, Rachel Smith, Cheryl Kotecki, and Vickie Lemonds!

Details about the show:

At a Glance
What:  The 62nd Annual Craft Fair of the Southern Highlands
Where:  Asheville Civic Center, 87 Haywood Street
When:  July 16-19 & October 15-18, 2009
10 a.m.-6 p.m. Thursday – Saturday, and 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday
Admission:  Adults $7, children under 12 free.  Group discounts available
Additional information:  www.craftguild.org or 828-298-7928

For four days each July and October, the Civic Center in Asheville comes alive with fine traditional and contemporary crafts.  The Fairs, a local tradition since 1948, showcase the work of members of the Southern Highland Craft Guild and feature craft demonstrations, regional music and entertainment.

Over 200 craftspeople fill the two levels of the Civic Center selling their works of clay, fiber, glass, leather, metal, mixed media, natural materials, paper, wood and jewelry. As members of the Southern Highland Craft Guild, the exhibiting artists have passed a rigorous jury process to become a part of the organization.  Membership is open to artists who live in the mountain counties of Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, the Carolinas, Tennessee, and the Virginias.

While locals and visitors can find crafts at numerous galleries, the Fairs are unique in that they offer people the opportunity to connect with the artists by purchasing directly from them.  The community this fosters is important to craftspeople and patrons alike.  In an age of mass production and imports, the connection to fine American craft and the individual maker is more relevant than ever.  The Fairs help the Southern Highland Craft Guild fulfill its mission to bring together the crafts and craftspeople of the Southern Highlands for the benefit of shared resources, education, marketing and conservation.

Dali Wall Decals, a Weaverville-owned online business specializing in some pretty cool wall and outdoor decals, has given me another gift certificate to give away for use at www.dalidecals.com.  This time it’s a $25 gift certificate.  Same rules as last time — leave a comment below for your chance to win.  One winner will be randomly chosen from all comments received by Friday, May 1 at Noon ET.

On April 3, North Buncombe High School’s Odyssey of the Mind team took second place in Division III in the Odyssey of the Mind State Competition.  The team competed in the “Earth Trek” category, which required teams to design and build a small vehicle to visit four locations. Each time the vehicle left a location, it had to look different in appearance. Their second place finish in the state competition means they will now travel to Iowa State University May 27-30 to represent North Carolina in the Odyssey of the Mind 2009 World Finals.

Traveling to Iowa, of course, costs money, so the team will be holding the following fundraisers to help raise money for their trip:

Yard Sale
Saturday, April 25, 8 a.m.-2 p.m.
Yard Sale at Rodney’s Auto Service (37 North Main Street ).

Magazine Subscription Sales/Renewals
Stop by Art Accents and speak to Team Coach Carla for information.

Photo by mogmismo

The Blue Ridge Rollergirls are, as far as I know, Western North Carolina’s only all-female roller derby team.  Not sure if we have any Weavervillians on the team, but the Rollergirls have given me 5 pairs of tickets to give away this season, good for any of their home games.

For your chance to win, leave a comment by clicking the Comments link at the end of this post.  You don’t need to register to do so.  Say what you like, even if it’s just “enter.”  I’ll randomly pick one winner every Friday at 4 p.m. over the next 5 weeks, beginning today.  Winners will be notified by e-mail.  You can only win once.

2009 Schedule
All games are played at the Asheville Civic Center.  Doors open at 6 p.m.  Bouts start at 7 p.m.  Tickets are $12 at the door.  Kids 12 and under get in free.

• April 4 – Season Opener vs. Savannah Derby Devils (Savannah, GA)
• May 30 – vs. Hard Knox Rollergirls (Knoxville, TN)
• July 11 – vs. Low Country Rollergirls (Charleston, SC)
• August 22 – vs. Greenville Derby Dames (Greenville, SC)
• September 26 – vs. Richland County Regulators (Columbia, SC)

Did you know there’s a Doors of Weaverville poster?  I didn’t until I saw one at a friend’s house.  They were created by, and are available for sale at, Karpen Steel Custom Doors and Frames (181 Reems Creek Road ).  They sent me this information about the poster, how it came about, how you can purchase one, and even how you can win one this month:

Weaverville based Karpen Steel Custom Doors & Frames is a manufacturing company with an artistic flair. Not only do they work with the creative ideas of architects manufacturing one of a kind openings for the commercial industry (visit the photo gallery at www.karpensteel.com to see) Rachel S. Smith, President of Karpen Steel, took her love of doors and the community one step further by publishing the Doors of Weaverville poster pictured above.

The idea came about after buying door posters from places where Rachel had lived and visited. Among her favorites are Doors of Vermont and Doors of Tennessee.

The Doors of Weaverville posters are available for sale for just $10 each including sales tax. They can be picked up Monday thru Friday from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at 181 Reems Creek Road. Please note: shipping and handling are not included in cost.

Rachel is also giving away a poster through MyWeaverville.  Here’s those details:

Karpen Steel Custom Doors & Frames – Doors of Weaverville Poster Giveaway
We will be giving away one of these posters to a reader of MyWeaverville.com. To enter this contest, click the Comment link and leave a comment below. You don’t need to register to do so. Abide by the Comment Policy and say what you like, you can say thanks for doing the poster contest, or simply write “enter.” A winner will be randomly chosen from all the comments received by midnight ET on April 15, 2009.

Matt at Blue Mountain Pizza asked me to post the winning ticket number for his Free Pizza for a Year prize in their Here Comes the Sun Weekend of pizza and prizes.  If your ticket matches the number below, bring it to Blue Mountain Pizza within the next 7 days to claim your prize – free pizza at Blue Mountain for one entire year (that’s one large pizza per month for 12 calendar months).

Winning Ticket #:  260139

For the list of other winning ticket #’s, click here.

March 26-29 the North Buncombe High School Theatre Department will be putting on a production of The Pajama Game, a musical based on the novel 7-1/2 Cents by Richard Bissell.  Performances will take place in the DeBruhl Theatre at NBHS (890 Clark’s Chapel Road ).  There will be 7 p.m. performances on March 26, 27, and 28, and a 2 p.m. performance on Sunday, March 29.  Tickets will be available at the door, $6 for students and $8 for adults, or you can purchase them in advance (before March 25) for $5. All seating is general admission.  For further information or to reserve advance tickets call Mr. Webb at 828-645-4221 ext. 200.

If you would like a chance to win free tickets to the show, I have a pair to give away courtesy of Brown’s Floral Design.  These tickets are good for any performance.  For your chance to win, click the Comment link below and leave any comment.  Entries will be accepted until midnight ET Tuesday, March 24.  A winner will be randomly chosen and notified on Wednesday, March 25.

Here’s more about the production:

The Story of The Pajama Game takes place around a small mid-west town in 1954. A strike is imminent at the Sleep-Tite Pajama Factory. The Union is seeking a wage raise of seven and a half cents an hour. Sid and Babe are in opposite camps yet a romance is born between them. Many famous ballads and dance numbers, such as “Hey There” and “Hernando’s Hideaway” bring back memories as we watch the factory workers play around at a picnic, in a nightclub and even stop the show with Bob Fosses’ unforgettable dance, “Steam Heat”. Hines, the popular efficiency expert, is in love with Gladys the President’s secretary. Periodically, he brings a more optimistic outlook to the life of the factory, when he is not becoming too jealous of Gladys and throwing knives. The plot develops with Sid trying to find a way to get his boss, Hasler’s, consent to a pay raise for the workers. Come out to see this two-time Tony award winning musical, The Pajama Game, and find out if Babe, Sid, Gladys, Hines, Prez, Mabel and Hasler can “sew back together” the situations that make up this musical comedy, The Pajama Game.

Dali Decals is an online business newly based here in Weaverville.  Owners David and Alicia (they combined their names to come up with their business name) relocated to Weaverville in January, and they create and produce these decals in their studio.  No small task when what they’re creating includes large-scale decals for walls such as the one pictured above.

As a way of introducing themselves to their new hometown they have offered a $100 Dali Decals gift certificate for me to give away to one lucky winner this month.  It can be used on any order from their website, and with the majority of their products priced under $100 it’s a pretty nice prize (I’d like to win it, but of course I’m not eligible).

To enter this contest, click the Comment link and leave a comment below (you don’t need to register to do so).  Doesn’t matter what you say, so long as you abide by the Comment Policy.   You can welcome them to the community, say thanks for the contest, or simply write ‘enter’.  A winner will be randomly chosen from all the comments received by midnight ET on March 31, 2009.

Blue Mountain Pizza manager Michael Vanhoose today presented a $1000 check to Manna Food Bank’s Josh Stack. The donation was the end result of Blue Mountain Pizza’s “Presidential Pizza” contest, which the Obama pizza won 155-44. Blue Mountain had chosen Manna Food Bank to be the donation recipient if the Obama pizza won. Had the McCain pizza won, Blue Mountain would have donated $1000 to the USO.

WLOS was also on hand for the check presentation. I didn’t catch which newscast would include the story, but I’ll include a video link here should they make it available on their website (they usually do).

Weaverville undiscovered artists — looking for your big break?  WNC magazine and the Asheville Area Arts Council are in search of new or undiscovered artists in the Western North Carolina area.  The “On the Verge” competition is going on now, with submissions accepted through December 1.  Contest information is available at www.wncmagazine.com/ontheverge.html.  Here’s the press release:

WNC magazine and the Asheville Area Arts Council have joined to host the first-ever “On the Verge” competition, looking for new or undiscovered talent across the 23 counties of Western North Carolina. Artists of all media types are welcome to submit their works — from painters and potters to glassblowers and blacksmiths. “Western North Carolina is full of talented practitioners in nearly every medium — the only downside in having such a rich and deep pool of talent is that sometimes it is difficult for new artists to make their mark,” says WNC magazine editor Eric Seeger, “We aim to change that with ‘On the Verge.’”

Applicants can find more information, including eligibility criteria and entry guidelines, on WNC magazine’s website (www.wncmagazine.com). The competition is open to all artists who have yet to have a solo exhibit and have resided in WNC magazine’s coverage area for at least one year. Winners will be selected by a curator and panel of judges tapped from the regional arts community.

A month-long gallery exhibit will feature the winning works, and finalists will be featured in the May 2009 issue of WNC magazine. A percentage of sales will benefit the Asheville Area Arts Council, a non profit organization dedicated to educating the community about art and supporting local artists and organizations. The artists will also be awarded an exclusive consultation with Wendy H. Outland of “Who Knows Art” (www.whoknowsart.biz). They will receive contact and resource information and learn first-hand from this arts administration expert how to further their craft.

Submissions are accepted now through December 1, 2008. All pertinent information can be found on www.wncmagazine.com.

Blue Mountain Pizza (55 North Main Street ) is sponsoring their annual Halloween Costume Contest on Friday, October 31.  There will be two categories, Adult and Child, with first, second, and third place winners in each category.  Winners will receive $50, $25, and $10 Blue Mountain Pizza gift certificates, respectively.

To enter, put on your Halloween costume and stop by Blue Mountain between 5 and 9 p.m. to have your picture taken.  They will judge from those images at the end of the night and contact the winners by phone on Saturday. You do not need to be present at the end of the night to win.

The 61st Craft Fair of the Southern Highlands is coming up October 16-19, 2008.  The fall event will be held at the Asheville Civic Center and features over 200 artists, including some of Weaverville’s favorites.  Hours are 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Thursday-Saturday and 10 a.m.-5 p.m. on Sunday.  Tickets are $6, but the main reason I’m telling you about the Craft Fair is this:  I have 4 pairs of tickets to give away.  Want a chance to win them?   Go to www.myweaverville.com/CraftFairTix.html and fill out the entry form before midnight ET on Tuesday, October 14.  Winners will be randomly chosen Wednesday morning and notified no later than Noon on Wednesday (October 15).  Good luck!

Congratulations to Nancy Orench and Kelly Stafford, winners of the 2008 MyWeaverville Anniversary Contest.  Thanks to everyone who entered and especially thanks to everyone who has been reading and supporting MyWeaverville.com during this first year.

Nancy and Kelly — I’ve contacted you via email, but if you’re reading this before you have a chance to read your email, Congratulations!

Tomorrow is the last day you can enter the July Anniversary Contest. You have until midnight ET to enter, and by Noon on Friday, August 1, you’ll know if you’re one of our two big winners. If you’re interested, here’s how the contest winners will be chosen:

When you submit a contest entry, your Name and e-mail address are sent to me via email. All entries are marked “contest”, automatically assigned a number based on the order they were received (the first person to enter is number 1, the second person is number 2, third person number 3, etc.) and stored in a separate contest entries folder.

On August 1, a little before Noon, I will use the Random.org Integer generator to select two numbers. Once I have them, I match those numbers with the corresponding e-mail entry numbers, and I’ll have the winners. Check back here at Noon that day to see if you’re one of them. You will also be e-mailed directly for confirmation and so we can make arrangements for you to pick up your prizes. Once both sets of prizes have been given away, all other July contest entries will be deleted and the process will start all over again with the August contest (though with a smaller prize list).

Again, good luck to everyone who’s entered, or is about to enter. Rules, details, and entry form are here.