Event announcement: The group has invited organizations and individuals to join them on Monday, October 13th for an evening of “visioning and back casting.”
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Conscious Party Web Xtra: Hobo Ball for the Carl Sandburg Home
As the primary fundraiser for the Friends, the Hobo Ball not only raises funds for the site’s programs, it also honors the legacy of Sandburg — who often called himself “the eternal hobo.”
Giving Back: Back to school
School is back in session, and that means the Asheville City Schools Foundation has an immediate need for volunteers. Julia Shuster, director of volunteer training and outreach programs, tells us about the volunteering opportunities at ACSF.
Conscious Party: Contraceptive costumery
Planned Parenthood will hold its third annual fashion event that will not only raise funds for the organization but also raise awareness and promote the use of condoms by featuring garments made out of prophylaxis.
SeptemberFest celebrates the community harvest
The growing season is winding down, which means it’s time for gardeners to celebrate their harvests. In that spirit, Waynesville’s Frog Level will host the inaugural SeptemberFest on Saturday, Sept. 13. The event aims to celebrate and share the bounty of community gardens, while raising awareness of sustainability, preservation and community-building.
LEAF, Children First to participate in State Department program
Press release: The Community Solutions Program is a professional development program for the best and brightest global community leaders.
Web Bites: Garden wine with Nan Chase and DeNeice Guest
Nan Chase and DeNeice Guest, authors of Drink the Harvest, recently joined Xpress in the test kitchen at Selina Naturally for a demonstration on how to make wine from fresh blackberries.
Conscious Party Web Xtra: Runway ready
Since it began in 2003, Hope Chest for Women has provided more than $200,000 in assistance to women undergoing breast or gynecological cancer treatment in Western North Carolina — but organizers say they hope to do more.
Why I grow: Downtown rooftop gardening
More and more of Asheville’s downtown dwellers are finding creative ways to use their urban spaces for growing food. Russell Thomas, owner of the Flatiron Building, tells Xpress how he and his staff are converting the rooftop of the historic building into a hydroponic and raised-bed garden that is a source of both veggies and renewable energy for the building and its businesses.
Photo essay from Carolina Public Press: Asheville’s ‘Peace Rally’ focuses on local community
Report: The Peace Rally showcased several local community speakers and local talent.
OrganicFest, healthy eating festival, to be held Sept. 7 in Pack Square
Event announcement: The free, family friendly event will commemorate National Organic Month with local vendors and activities that spotlight organic farmers and businesses.
‘Celebrate the Block’ fundraiser moves to Berry Temple church
Eagle Market Streets Development Corporation and Asheville Lyric Opera have moved the Celebrate the Block Friendraiser to the historic Berry Temple United Methodist Church. The event will feature a performance by gospel singer Audrey DuBois Harris.
Forty years of strengthening ‘Our Voice’
Our Voice began as an all-volunteer, grassroots endeavor in 1974, focused on crisis intervention and counseling referrals for survivors of sexual assault. Today a small staff and over 50 volunteers work to provide a 24-hour crisis line, counseling services, community outreach and youth programs. The organization will celebrate its 40th anniversary on Sept. 4.
FEAST supplements the curriculum with garden-based education
Incorporating garden-based education with an emphasis on healthy eating into the regular curriculum is the goal of two in-school programs run by FEAST, an extension of Slow Foods Asheville. Funds gathered by FEAST and school PTOs will support faculty positions in two elementary schools this academic year where a FEAST Garden and Cooking Coordinator will work to bring the schools’ gardens into the classroom.
WLOS: Fairview man arrested for child molestation
From WLOS Thirty-one-year-old Jason Andrew Owenby of Fairview is facing several felony charges. Investigators at the Buncombe County Sheriff’s Office were unable to speak to News 13 about this case Friday. But we do have what warrants say about the alleged abuse. See the full story here.
AC-T: City council, Manheimer denounce topless rally
Report: Topless Rally loses mayoral support.
Asheville manufacturer to donate product to combat Ebola outbreak
Press release: Avadim Technologies will be donating its Theraworx product in the U.S. and abroad.
AC-T: Wake Co. judge says voucher program is unconstitutional
Report: A state program providing tax dollars to allow students to attend private schools has been ruled unconstitutional.
Giving back: Happy tails
Charlie’s Angels is an animal shelter and adoption network based in Fletcher. Kimberly Smith, president of the organization, tells us more about the volunteering opportunities.
Greening tactics: Different paths lead to gardens in abandoned spaces
Many gardens in Asheville rest on public property that was once overgrown and unused. These spaces have been transformed but the methods that brought the transformation sometimes differ. Some gardeners in Asheville have taken their spots through guerrilla gardening. In some ways it’s comparable to being a graffiti artist or even a squatter, but some say it’s preferable to jumping through the hoops of bureaucracy.
GreenWorks interns raise environmental awareness in public housing
Through the organization’s Water Quality Internship Program, six interns are learning how to test water quality in local streams. But that’s only the beginning, as the interns will also work as educators and advocates, raising awareness of environmental concerns in the public housing developments near the streams.