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Healthy Coffee House (Murphy, NC US)

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In late December 2007, I created a new social networking site for Murphy NC 28906 on Ning.com.

If you live in, visit, or want to know more about Murphy, NC, come join us at the Murphy NC 28906 social networking site.

You can customize your profile, write a blog, discuss topics related to Murphy, NC in our forum, meet and get to know fellow residents, upload photos, and much more — all for free!

Anyone living in, visiting, or wanting to know more about Murphy, NC is welcome. Come join us today.

I want to thank my friend, Jerry Chautin, for alerting me to an article in the New York Times, A Basket Case in North Carolina, written by David Rakoff, and published on May 20, 2007.

In this article, the author talks about taking a week-long class at the John C Campbell Folk School, in Brasstown, NC.

Originally, like most men, he wanted to experience the thrill of blacksmithing, of smiting hot steel and shaping it into new forms with fire, hammer, and anvil, but (for reasons he details in the article) he changed to taking a basket weaving class.

As a true lover of the Folk School and all that goes on there, I felt the resonance of reading what I know to be true about the Folk School experience, not just what happens when taking a class and learning a new skill, or improving your ability to create pieces of art in your chosen craft.

Mr. Rakoff talks about the unexpected moments of silence and “getting into the zone” that artists strive for while transforming the vision in our minds into the item in our hands.

This is one of the best articles I’ve read about the Folk School, and I recommend it to you. I don’t know how long the New York Times keeps these articles archived, so maybe you should read A Basket Case in North Carolina, now.

(For more information about the John C. Campbell Folk School, its classes, crafts, and events, call 828-837-2775 or 1-800-FOLK-SCH (800-365-5724) or visit www.folkschool.org.)

“Funding Secrets to Start, Expand, or Buy a Business,” a free workshop, will be presented on 5/21/07 from 6:00 to 9:00 PM in the Patterson Building at the Tri-County Community College’s main campus in Murphy.

The instructor is volunteer SCORE business counselor Jerry Chautin. He has over 30-years business lending and commercial real estate financing experience. You can e-mail him for details at JKChautin@aol.com.

Pre-registration is required and space is limited. Please call Cecelia Crawford at 828-835-4318 to reserve your place.

Randy Burnett, non-partisan candidate for the Cherokee County NC School Board, has opened a new website that contains information about his platform, a survey, blog, photos, and other items of interest about the candidate and his campaign.

It is nice to see a candidate not only presenting information, but also inviting feedback.

Hopefully, other local candidates will create an online presence, as well.

If you know of any other 2006 election campaign websites for candidates in Cherokee County, NC, please leave a comment and I’ll point to them, too.

I’ve been working for a couple of weeks to create a new portal, CherokeeCountyNC.com, for Cherokee County, NC that will provide information to its visitors about the people, organizations, businesses, schools, and events in Cherokee County.

This portal will become much more valuable if you participate and help provide information about what you are doing. Get your own LoCalendar.com free calendar and publish your meetings and events as public items in your zip code. Submit press releases, news, and articles and we’ll do our best to publish those that are suitable for the site.

Over time, the goal is to make CherokeeCountyNC.com your first destination whenever you go online. You can help make the site that useful.