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NC State Baseball – Opponent Preview: UNC-Asheville

Meet the Bulldogs… Their preview is short because I’m not good at time management Who’s the Pack playing? Opponent: UNC-Asheville Mascot: Bulldogs | School Location: Asheville, NC | Conference: Big South 2018 Record: 3-11 (0-0, T-1st) | 2018 RPI Rank: 221 2017 Record: 25-32 (11-13, T-5th) | 2017 RPI Rank: 197 2016 Record: 16-38 (5-19, 11th) | 2016 RPI Rank: 286 When? Where? How do I watch? Location: NC State’s Doak Field at Dail Park, Raleigh, NC Game Time(s): Tuesday, Mar 13 @ 3:00pm | Wednesday, Mar 14 @ 3:00pm Radio: WKNC 88.1 in Raleigh Live Stats: http://www.sidearmstats.com/ncsu/baseball/ Tell me about this team I’m not gonna lie to you. I was 99% sure the Tuesday game was going to be cancelled or moved due to the snow on Monday, so I kinda dismissed doing the preview thinking that I’d have time to get it up by Wednesday’s game. Welp, way to go, me. Good job. Anyways, this preview is going to be very light because of that. Apologies, y’all. As for Asheville, they’r...
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Asheville Yoga Center donates proceeds from upcoming paddlers workshop to Maria Noakes Foundation

From the Asheville Yoga Center: Asheville Yoga Center Dedicates Upcoming Yoga for Paddlers Workshop to Maria Noakes Foundation All workshop proceeds will be directly donated to the Live Like Maria Memorial Fund Asheville, N.C., March 7, 2018 — Following the passing of Maria Noakes, Asheville Yoga Center and Anna Levesque are dedicating the upcoming Yoga for Paddlers workshop to the memory and legacy of world-champion kayaker, wife, mother of two, and beloved member of the Western North Carolina community. All proceeds from the workshop, led by Levesque on March 18, will be directly donated to the Live Like Maria Memorial Fund. “We mourn the loss of Maria, and our hearts are with her family and friends both in Western North Carolina and worldwide,” says Melissa Pennscott, general manager of Asheville Yoga Center. “We are honored to help support Maria’s legacy in any way that we can.” The Live Like Maria Memorial Fund has been established at the Community Foundation of Western North...
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Remembering Chris Weaver, with the Weaver Hudson Family Fund

This announcement is part obituary, part “how you can help.” It was sent on behalf of former Pathfinder K-8 teacher Chris Weaver‘s family, by a longtime friend of his who also was a Pathfinder teacher: The Weaver Hudson Family Fund Chris Weaver was a founding teacher of West Seattle’s Pathfinder School, bringing vision, energy, and love to establishing Pathfinder in its fledgling years. Chris deeply loved his community. He gave greatly of himself to his students, their families and the wider Pathfinder family. After teaching at Pathfinder for many years, Chris and his family moved to Asheville, North Carolina. Three years ago, Chris was NC Charter School Teacher of the Year. In the years that followed what was a peak of his remarkable career, Chris struggled with depression and mental illness that culminated in his death on 9-20-2017. In spite of his own efforts and the profound efforts of others, this tragedy occurred. For his family, his students, his dear friends, and many, many ...
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Self-Directed IRA Administrator Explains Foreclosure Properties within a Real Estate IRA

Get instant alerts when news breaks on your stocks. Claim your 2-week free trial to StreetInsider Premium here. RALEIGH, N.C. (PRWEB) February 13, 2018 Holding real estate within an IRA is not news to some, but the idea of holding foreclosure properties within a retirement account can be foreign territory to many investors. Recently, Jim Hitt of American IRA in North Carolina released a blog post explaining the positives and negatives of handling foreclosure properties within a Real Estate IRA. One of the most obvious positives, points out Jim Hitt, is the fact that many foreclosed properties can be acquired for a discount. Because the properties were foreclosed upon, they’re often available for a fraction of the price they would have sold for in normal circumstances. This means that there are potential bargains in the world of foreclosure investing–which in turn can make for tremendous growth within a Real Estate IRA, says JIm Hitt. Jim Hitt does point out, however, that the margi...
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Asheville City Council members say better anti-sprawl rules needed at city’s edges

(Photo: Citizen-Times file photo, Citizen-Times file photo) ASHEVILLE – City Council members want tighter development rules outside city limits in unincorporated areas near South Asheville and possibly places such as the town of Woodfin. Because they are outside Asheville, those are not places over which the city government has any control, at least not any more. But council members during a two-day Thursday and Friday retreat said it would be good for zoning rules to be more consistent around the city border and for neighborhoods outside Asheville to have more input on projects that affect them. Mayor Esther Manheimer also said Woodfin, which abuts Asheville’s northwest side, should reduce mountaintop and steep slope construction. The main proponent of the idea was Councilman Vijay Kapoor, the first South Asheville councilman to serve in 13 years who was propelled into office in part by voter concerns from that area over traffic and development. "You have a situation where w...
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Tennis scene booming in Asheville, and Fed Cup will boost it even more

(Photo: Courtesy of Asheville Racquet Club) Sure, Asheville has been riding a tennis high. After all, an international tournament coming to town, headlined by the legendary Williams sisters, Venus and Serena, has created stellar buzz. The Fed Cup, an international women’s tournament that wraps up today at the U.S. Cellular Center, undoubtedly will give our fair city a serious prestige bump in the tennis world. But Asheville’s tennis scene has been hopping for years now — decades, actually. "You’ve got to to remember — tennis in North Carolina started actively in two places: one was Pinehurst and the other one was Asheville," said Kelly Gaines, executive director of the U.S. Tennis Association-North Carolina. The game came to North Carolina in the 1890s from Bermuda, after gaining popularity in England. A Chapel Hill professor built a sand court on his property, and the game slowly spread across the Tar Heel State. Wealthy travelers coming from Newport, Rhode Island, and...
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Asheville School to host 2018 Project Connect Summer Conference

There is no doubt that the brief but influential life of Black Mountain College produced many of the 20th Century’s most famous artists—painters, writers, musicians, dancers, weavers, ceramicists, and photographers—while also providing a scaffolding on which to construct many of our current ideas pertaining to interdisciplinary studies – and the centrality of the arts in curriculum. Come join the conversation at Project Connect’s three-day conference, Black Mountain College: An Interdisciplinary Experiment, held in June on the beautiful campus of Asheville School, in Asheville NC. Leading expert in the field, Mary Emma Harris, author of the seminal text, Black Mountain College and the Arts, will offer both a keynote address as well as a workshop: “BMC + Meaning in Contemporary Education.” Dr. Katherine de Vos Devine, former director of The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, will provide the second keynote. Her talk, entitled “The World’s Most Successful Failure: the Life Cy...
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