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COUNTRY ROAD FARMS NURSERY AND TACK & WESTERN STORE are featured this week in our Business Spotlight. Country Roads will hold its annual open house next weekend, Friday and Saturday, Nov. 27-28. Stop by for refreshments and 20 percent off clothing and 20-40 percent off in the nursery. The discounts apply to all Christmas items except live trees and fresh wreaths. For more information, see the ad on page 2A.
TOKYO RESTAURANT AND SUSHI BAR on Broad Street is now serving authentic Asian cuisine seven days a week for lunch and dinner. For more information, call 631-9991.
IRONSTONE GRILL on Main Street is offering a 10 percent discount through Nov. 27 with a coupon found in their ad. For more information, call 586-8934.
THE JARRETT HOUSE’S famous country ham is featured in the November issue of Our State magazine.
THE COMFORT INN AND HOLIDAY INN EXPRESS are offering accommodations to area holiday visitors at reasonable rates: $65 for the Comfort Inn and $75 for the Holiday Inn Express. See the ad for more information.
HIGHLAND EMERGENCY PHYSICIANS Occupational Health Branch is now offering services through employer contracts, including urine drug screenings, breath alcohol testing and pre-employment physicals. They offer sports physicals and DOT/CDL physicals by appointment. See their ad on this week’s Health pages (3-5C) for more information.
CAROLINA CLEANERS is now open on Mill Street next to Ward’s Plumbing and is offering a 20-percent discount through November. They offer dry cleaning, laundry, alterations and repairs. Call for information at 586-8889.
MORE THAN 100 ARTISANS will fill Western Carolina University’s Ramsey Center arena Nov. 27-28 for the Hard Candy Christmas Fine Art and Craft Show. This year’s 22nd show will include hand-made items from basket weavers, quilters, potters, silversmiths, blacksmiths, watercolorists, wood-crafters, glass blowers and heritage jewelers. Show hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day. Admission is $3 per person, with children under age 12 admitted free. Parking is also free. For information, call Doris Hunter at (828) 524-3405 or visit www.mountainartisans.net.
THE JACKSON COUNTY SENIOR CENTER invites everyone over 50 to a Thanksgiving covered-dish dinner on Wednesday Nov. 25, at 5 p.m. in the multipurpose room of the new facility off Webster Road. There is no charge, and the Senior Center will provide the meat. All participants are asked to bring a side dish. Call 586-4944 to R.S.V.P.
CHILDREN’S PROGRAMS at the Jackson County Public Library for the rest of November include: Nov. 17, Thanksgiving Stories; and Nov. 24, Thanksgiving feast. Children are invited to come as a Pilgrim or an Indian (if you want to dress up) for popcorn and pumpkin pie. These programs are co-sponsored by the Friends of the Library and are held at the library on Tuesdays at 10:30 a.m. for children up to age 5. For more information, call Elizabeth Beck at the library, 586-2016.
SYLVA’S EDWARD JONES OFFICE is supporting Toys for Tots. Sandra Beaver, Edward Jones financial advisor, is supporting the local Toys for Tots program by using her office as a drop-off location for this year’s toy drive. Area residents may help needy children by bringing in a new, unwrapped toy to the office, which is located in the Cope Creek area next door to the tag office, during regular business hours.
THE CHEROKEE NATIVE PLANT SOCIETY will not meet in November or December but will resume monthly meetings in January.
LISTENING STUDY VOLUNTEERS NEEDED: Volunteers are needed for the Ohio State and Western Carolina University Dialect Study’s newest study starting in November. Volunteers should be ages 18 to 30 and have been born and lived their entire lives in Western North Carolina. Volunteers will be asked to wear a headset and listen to sentences being spoken by various speakers. The subject will be asked to type or say what he has heard. The study pays $20 to each qualifying participant at the completion of the study. The study needs 24 participants to participant before the Christmas holidays. Plan to spend 45 minutes to an hour participating. If interested, call Janaye Houghton at 506-8276 to schedule an appointment.
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