Enter the litter prevention contest to win $500.
RALEIGH – Did your organization put green ideas into practice in 2009?  Tell Keep North Carolina Beautiful about your environmental good deeds by entering the 11th Annual North Carolina Litter Prevention Awards contest.  Enter your application for a chance to win a $500 cash prize for litter [...]

TYPE O NEG AND B NEG BLOOD LEVELS DROP TO EMERGENCY LEVELS
Red Cross urging donors to give blood during critical time

GAINESVILLE, GA – As a result of the recent bad weather across the country, on the heels of the holiday season, the blood supply has drastically decreased in the Southern Region. Type O [...]

The John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown will present a free concert with hammered dulcimer and fiddle virtuoso Ken Kolodner at 7:00 pm Thursday, January 21 in the Keith House Community Room, Admission is free and open to the public . Donations are welcome.
Ken Kolodner has toured extensively, performing at performing arts centers and [...]

Jimmy Tallent, President and CEO of United Community Banks, recently announced that the Bank had made a contribution to the “Nurture Our Roots” Campaign of the Community Council of the Georgia Mountain Research and Education Center.  “On behalf of our associates in the United Community Banks in Union, Fannin, and Towns Counties, Georgia, and Cherokee [...]

Scott Anna
Last week, little did I know that sitting in the serenity of my home on a cold winter day would quickly turn chaotic, stressful, and informative. While studying for a college test in the comfort of my living room, my dog Gollum alerted me to an event that, after almost 5 years of living [...]

Beware of relief scams following Haiti quake, warns AG Cooper
Scammers known to pose as charities following disasters
Raleigh: Make sure money you donate to earthquake relief efforts in Haiti goes to disaster victims rather than scam artists, Attorney General Roy Cooper said Thursday.
“The lowest of the low use catastrophes like this to line their own pockets,” [...]

Journal of a Living Lady #363
Nancy White Kelly
My church is a comforting place. It is nice to know that not only is my spiritual heart covered, but my physical one as well. When I look upward over my left shoulder on Sundays, I quickly spot my cardiologist smiling down from the balcony.
If either Buddy or [...]

(Subsidiary of Mountain Regional Arts and Crafts Guild)
Located above the Holiday Inn off of Big Sky Dr. in Downtown Hiawassee
706-896-0932 – Call or Visit Store to Learn More About the Classes www.mtnregartscraftsguild.org

Registration for the following classes may be done
by calling 706-896-0932

CLASS  SCHEDULE AS OF  January 21, 2010

Thursday, January 21 – 1 [...]

Young Harris College to Present Faculty Artists Recital
YOUNG HARRIS, Ga. – Young Harris College’s Division of Fine Arts will present a Music Department Faculty Artists Recital on Monday, Jan. 25. The free concert is open to the public and begins at 7 p.m. in Glenn Auditorium of the Clegg Fine Arts Building on the Young [...]

Brasstown Valley Resort & Spa Asks: So You Think You Can BBQ?
Join Acclaimed BBQ Chef Troy Black for His BBQ School February 5th

Young Harris, GA —Turn your BBQ hobby into an award winning passion by learning the secrets of entering and winning competitions.  Acclaimed BBQ Chef, Troy Black, will be at Brasstown Valley Resort [...]