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This section shares information, tips, stories or ideas about parenting, family life, children, outings and trips, finances, self-care, customs, stories about cultural heritage and tradition, our furry pet companions (even hairless ones), and any other aspects of our domestic experience in Asheville and Western North Carolina.
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Local Independent Businesses recycle more money back into the local economy and give greater support to a community's non-profit and civic needs. Asheville Grown Business Alliance is a grassroots organization whose mission is to support independently owned businesses in the community, to continue growing a vibrant local economy while preserving the unique character of Asheville and to educate citizens on the critical importance of thinking locally first when considering the impact of national and global chains. more...
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Eight years ago on March 14, 2002, the five-member Federal Communications Commission voted 3-2 to weaken its regulatory authority over broadband Internet access via a cable modem. more...
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The Progressive Voice of the Mountains
A broadcast service of the Mountain Area Information Network more...
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MANNA FoodBank a private, not-for-profit service organization, links the food industry with 331 partner
agencies. MANNA assists partner agencies with acquiring food to serve those facing hunger. Please donate Please click here to contribute. more...
Lytingale
I'm really a Type-A personality; you know, the kind that wants everything done yesterday, in the absolutely most efficient way. I've read the books; I know it's bad for my health. My husband and co-workers aren't too crazy about living with it either... more...
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Animal Compassion Network, Asheville, NC — Heroes come in all shapes and sizes. For an animal in need, these heroes often come dressed as Animal Compassion Network foster parents. ACN places unwanted dogs and cats in loving foster homes while they await adoption. Often times these animals come into the homes neglected and lonely and leave as perky, beautiful animal companions. more...
 More Women doing Home Repairs
Sheville Staff
The Wall Street Journal reports that home repair activity by women is up substantially in this country. It appears to be driven in part by the greater number of single women buying houses. For more information, please see: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120001596712982785.html?mod=taste_primary_hs
 The WNC Adoption Network
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The WNC Adoption Network provides awareness, education and support to adopted persons, adoptive families and birth families through educational workshops, monthly get togethers and online resources. Contact: Mari Cochran at 828.989.4511 Email: mari@wncadoptionnetwork.org http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071223/NEWS01/71222124/1009
New Girl Order
Sheville Staff
Heard about the New Girl Order? It's a worldwide phenomenon. Even in a number
of quite sexist societies, women are discovering that marriage may not be the
best career choice! From New York to Poland to India to Japan to Korea, women
are staying single into their thirties as they pursue career goals - and also
as they reject many of the traditional ideas about marriage and female subservience.
This SYF (Single Young Female) trend has hit many cultures completely by surprise.
And it's not so easy for societies to try to reject it out of hand: the trend
has spawned considerable economic buying power. For more info, see http://www.city-journal.org/html/17_4_new_girl_order.html
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About Animal Compassion Network
ACN is the largest no-kill, non-profit animal welfare organization in Western North Carolina. It achieves its dual mission of eliminating companion animal overpopulation and finding homes for unwanted animals as a volunteer-driven foster network that is an alternative to traditional sheltering. more...
 Quotable - Alice Walker
Alice Walker
"How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers' names."
M. Linda Rowe
The handcraft tradition in North Carolina is a long one and includes items as diverse as dulcimers and pottery, knives and quilts. Handmade never meant that tools were not used, but that the tools ran on human power, not motor power. In the 20th century, electricity reached even the most remote mountain coves and hollows, and along with it came machinery that made crafting work easier. more...
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Fun things To Do List! more...
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Asheville Grown Business Alliance
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Animal Compassion Network - WNC's largest no-kill, non-profit animal welfare organization