Press release From Park Ridge Health: Event Summary for 5/5/14 – 5/11/14 Please call 855-PRH-LIFE to register for any Park Ridge Health events. Free Support Groups Breast Cancer Survivors and Friends Support Group Tuesday, May 6 5:30 p.m. Park Ridge Health Breast Center 50 Hospital Drive, Suite 4B, Hendersonville Offered by the Park Ridge […]
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Woodfin’s first annual Read, wRite and Run 5k
Press release from Woodfin Elementary School: IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE NORTH BUNCOMBE ROTARY CLUB AND THE WOODFIN YMCA, WOODFIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IS HOSTING WOODFIN’S FIRST READ WRITE AND RUN 5K ON SATURDAY, MAY 31ST AT 9AM. THE RACE WILL BEGIN AND END AT WOODFIN ELEMENTARY, WHICH IS LOCATED AT 108 Elk MOUNTIAN RD, ASHEVILLE, […]
HandMade in America launches fundraising campaign to benefit female entrepreneurs in rural WNC
Press release from HandMade in America: Asheville, NC – HandMade in America (HIA) announces a new fundraising initiative aimed at benefitting female artisans and entrepreneurs from rural communities throughout Western North Carolina (WNC). This small fundraiser aims to help female artists and entrepreneurs access the education and business training provided through HandMade in America’s […]
Mission Health announces additional keynote speaker for H2T Healthcare Quality Conference
Press release from Mission Health: Marc Katz, MD, Joins Healthcare Technology Conference as Headliner ASHEVILLE, N.C. (April 30, 2014) – Mission Health is pleased to announce that Marc Katz, MD, one of Bon Secours Heart & Vascular Institute’s leading cardiothoracic surgeons, is joining the inaugural H2T Healthcare Quality Conference as a keynote speaker. Dr. Katz […]
A balanced good time
LEAF ticket holders may come for the music, but the healing-arts lineup has grown more and more robust, adding to a festival culture that puts a unique emphasis on wellness.
In the end
Kristin Scott’s mother had strong preferences about her own medical care as she neared the end of her life. She was able to make those wishes clear in an advance care directive, sometimes called a living will. When she passed away two years ago, Scott, facilitator for the WNC Health Network, says, “It was so much easier for us knowing what she wanted.”
Franklin VA Clinic seeks donations for Memorial Day display
Press release: CHARLES GEORGE VA MEDICAL CENTER, Asheville – The Asheville VA’s Franklin Community Based Outpatient Clinic is inviting people to honor our Veteran heroes from 8 a.m. – 3 p.m., May 23, by donating items that will be displayed in the Clinic. The clinic, located at 647 Wayah St., in Franklin, is asking relatives […]
NC’s March county and area employment figures released
From the North Carolina Department of Commerce: RALEIGH — Unemployment rates (not seasonally adjusted) increased in 23 of North Carolina’s counties in March, decreased in 59 and remained the same in 18. Three of the State’s metro areas experienced rate increases, while five saw decreases and six remained unchanged. Graham County had the highest unemployment […]
Rumbough Place summer one-way traffic pattern begins May 12
Press release from the City of Asheville transportation department: ASHEVILLE – The City of Asheville Transportation Department will initiate the annual change of Rumbough Place between Sulphur Springs Road and Harris Avenue to a one-way street for the summer on May 12, with traffic being directed south away from Sulphur Springs Road. This change is undertaken every spring […]
Asheville Fire Department members undergo firefighter survival training
Press release from Asheville Fire Department: ASHEVILLE – Approximately 50 members from the Asheville Fire Department are involved in a week long intensive Firefighter Survival Training which will finalize their 116 hours of rapid intervention training (RIT) requirements to fully staff AFD’s 3 RIT engine companies. The training is local both Monday and Tuesday at […]
Prison Yoga Project to offer training in Asheville
Press release from Asheville Yoga Center: Prison Yoga Project Aims to Share Yoga with Underserved Communities ASHEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA (April 23, 2013)–Asheville Yoga Center is collaborating with the Prison Yoga Project to offer an in-depth training on teaching yoga to individuals whose lives have been impacted by trauma, including prison inmates. Yoga instructors interested in […]
Asheville Parks and Recreation therapeutic program wins state award
Press release: Asheville, NC – The City of Asheville Parks and Recreation’s Therapeutic Recreation Program was the recipient of the Best New Program award at this year’s North Carolina Recreation and Parks Association’s Therapeutic Recreation Conference. The winning program is the new Therapeutic Recreation and Drums (TRAD) class held at the West Asheville Recreation Center and […]
Six schools recognized as NC Green Schools, Rainbow Community School earns highest recognition
Press release: Six Schools Recognized as NC Green Schools, Rainbow Community School earns highest recognition as NC Green School of Excellence Asheville, NC – April 29, 2014- Six North Carolina schools received NC Green School awards this year in recognition of the schools’ environmental leadership and engagement in sustainability activities. Rainbow Community School is the first […]
Red Cross update on Woodfin flash flood victims
RED CROSS UPDATE, as of 8:55 a.m.: · 25 displaced residents have been offered assistance by the Red Cross · 2 individuals are currently being treated at Mission Hospital. A Red Cross Disaster Health Services Responder is on-site to provide assistance as needed. · 21 people have been provided temporary lodging · 1 declined assistance Red Cross […]
Western Carolina Medical Society: Teens and skin cancer protection
From Western Carolina Medical Society: Teens and Skin Cancer Protection by Dr. Currie Custer May is Skin Cancer Awareness Month, a time to remind our patients and our friends to protect their skin and to be screened regularly. This year, however, doctors across North Carolina are also using May to focus on legislation to […]
AC-T: Storm causes Buncombe flooding
From the Asheville Citizen-Times: ASHEVILLE – Heavy rain caused flooding overnight in Buncombe County, primarily in the Woodfin area, authorities said. The American Red Cross says they have offered assistance to 25 Woodfin residents who were displaced by flooding, spokesman John Wareham said in a news release. He added that two people were being treated […]
Carolina Public Press: As state committee approves draft drone legislation, WNC reps Moffitt, Whitmire weigh in
From the Carolina Public Press: Known most commonly as drones, the emerging technology of unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs, will soon see widespread commercial use in the United States. In response, states across the nation are scrambling to craft legislation to regulate how UAVs can and can’t operate within their borders. In North Carolina, where a […]
Afropunk panel on The Nature of Creativity at the Millroom
The panel was titled “The Nature of Creativity,” but when artists and creatives Marcia Jones, Sanford Biggers, Saul Williams and Greg Tate took the Millroom stage, it was clear that the four weren’t concerned with sticking to any one subject. Photos by Tariq Zeidan
Durational performance with Gavin Russom
Gavin Russom spent nearly four hours on Friday afternoon pushing the limits of Moog synthesizers at the Center for Craft, Creativity & Design as part of a three-day series of Immersive, Improvisatory, Durational performances. Photos by Tariq Zeidan
Synthesized Sound and Voices: Malcolm Cecil
The majority of panelists and performers at Moogfest have been focused on the future of sound and technology. But we can’t know the future of electronic music without knowing its history.
The Blood Connection of Hendersonville announces grand opening
Press release from The Blood Connection of Hendersonville: The Blood Connection, Inc. (TBC) will formally welcome the public to its new blood donation center in Hendersonville this month. Located in the Brooklyn Village Shopping Center, the center will hold a grand opening the week of April 28 – May 2. TBC invites the public to […]