Town Hall Meeting for WNC Nature Center

March 17, 6:30PM - 8:30PM, City of Asheville Public Works Building, 161 S. Charlotte Street, Asheville North Carolina. Attend the meeting and help plan the WNC Nature Center's future! No RSVPs required, just come on down. The Western North Carolina Nature Center is currently working with a well know strategic planning firm to chart a course for our future development and we want to hear from you! This special Town Hall Meeting is for all interested citizens to come and share ideas and suggestions to help grow our wonderful Nature Center. For more information, contact Chris Gentile at the Nature Center at 828 -298-5600

It's a Crock!

Jan 23, 5:50PM-8:30 PM, West End Bakery, Asheville North Carolina. Start your new year off right by getting to know your Slow Food Community! This is a great opportunity to share your favorite soup and meet your Slow Food community of friends. Paper products will be available, but we ask that everyone bring a bowl and spoon. We will have our new bumper stickers for sale and would greatly appreciate donations to offs the cost of paper products and use of space. We would like to donate the unused soup to the shelter, so please bring a plastic container that we can pack up your wonderful soup with. http://www.slowfoodasheville.org/

Volunteers help Riverlink Rain Garden Project on MLK Day

Jan 18, 9am-4pm, Malvern Hills Park in West Asheville North Carolina. Volunteers will be helping RiverLink to install a rain garden along Buttermilk Creek to improve water quality of the French Broad River. The Rain Garden Project is one of the many good works by Riverlink which needs local volunteers. Read more...

Volunteer Information Session for Riverlink in Asheville

Asheville 12 at 10AM and 5PM at the Riverlink Offices in Asheville NC. The information session will detail all of RiverLink's volunteer positions in a 30 minute Powerpoint presentation. Volunteers will have a chance to fill out a volunteer application, and the Volunteer Coordinator will be available to answer questions and help volunteers find their best fit at RiverLink. 828) 252-8474 ext. 118 http://www.riverlink.org

Tic-n-Time Relocation to Grove Arcade

Tic-in-Time. A dealer for an exclusive collection of heirloom clocks, Tic-n-Time has relocated to the Grove Arcade from its original Hendersonville location. Tic-n-Time features a variety of fine clocks, including Ridgeway, Howard Miller, Bulova, Infinity and Hermle. The collection includes multiple styles, from grandfather clocks and mantle pieces, wall, desk, gift and unique miniature clocks, with a host of other styles to round out the selection. Tic-n-Time is the authorized service center for both Howard Miller and Ridgeway Clocks. Tic-n-Time is also the region’s dealer for the Biltmore™ Collection, eight masterpiece clocks handcrafted from hardwoods with heirloom details and signature finishes inspired by significant design motifs and artifacts found on the historic Vanderbilt estate.
828-257-2281
http://www.ticntime.com/

Voluteers Still Needed For RiverLink Fundsaiser

July 17 Asheville, HomeTrust Bank parking lot located near intersection of Broadway and Woodfin. Volunteers are needed to help collect money from public to park in HomeTrust Bank parking lot for Downtown After 5 event with all proceeds going to RiverLink. Listen to some great tunes from the Jen and the Juice, King Johnson and Hill Country Revue!
(828) 252-8474 ext. 118.

RiverLink Supporters- Still Needs Help!

We only have $6,500 more to raise to complete our annual fund! Our annual fund ends tomorrow Tuesday June 30 at 5pm so if you haven't donated yet or would like to contribute more, now's the time especially with our anonymous donor matching dollar for dollar. Your $100 donation becomes $200, $500 now becomes $1000! Be part of the excitement and help us achieve our goal to raise $200,000. Donations can be made:

Online through our secure donation site with Visa or Mastercard. Click here.

You can call it in. (828) 252-8474 ext. 110 for Karen Cragnolin, Executive Director, or ext. 115 for Carrie Allen, Operations Manager.

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Asheville Wins East Coast Title for Beer City USA

Over the past month, more than 16,000 craft beer enthusiasts from 46 countries cast votes for “Beer City U.S.A.” in an online poll posted by founder of the American Homebrewers Association Charlie Papazian on www.Examiner.com. With roughly 30% of votes each, the top honor of Beer City U.S.A. was ultimately split between two cities--Portland, Oregon on the west coast (an epicenter of American brew culture with more than 30 breweries) and, unexpected underdog, Asheville! The vote results coincide with American Craft Beer Week, May 11 – 17, a national celebration highlighting the culture and contributions of craft beer.