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WEAVERVILLE: ‘Fire On The Lake 2024’ Annual July 4th Celebration

🎉 Celebrate July 4th in Downtown Weaverville! Join the fun on Main Street this Thursday, July 4th, for an unforgettable evening!

🎶  Live Music by Datrian Johnson, a talented singer and songwriter from Asheville, starting at 7:00 PM.

🚧  Streets intersecting Main Street will be closed so you can bring lawn chairs, blankets, and dance the night away.

🎇  Fireworks Display at 9:15 PM!

🍔  Arrive early to grab food and beverages from Main Street establishments.

🍧  The municipal parking lot will feature food vendors and a tent for relaxation and shade.

 

 

2016 NCOBS Collier Lilly Ride

COLLIER LILLY RIDE FOR NCOBS
Sunday, May 29, 2016
Half Century 50 Mile ride @ 7:45am

North Carolina Outward Bound School (NCOBS) is hosting a half century bike ride in honor of Collier Lilly. The ride offers a beautiful Blue Ridge Mountain route, the 50 mile half century with 3,600 feet of climbing, that will start and end at Carrier Park in Asheville. In keeping with Outward Bound’s bedrock principles of “challenge and discovery,” the Collier Lilly Ride for NCOBS will take riders over challenging mountain passes and allow them to discover scenic roads for the first time. This exciting event is being held on Memorial Day Weekend and in conjunction with the ever popular Mountain Sports Festival.

Since 2003 thousands of riders have participated in the Collier Lilly Ride, an annual recreational bike ride honoring the memory of Collier Cobb Lilly, a graduate of the North Carolina Outward Bound School (NCOBS). In 2015 the ride moved from the “flat country” surrounding Davidson, NC to the rugged mountains around Asheville, where NCOBS is based. For the first time, proceeds from this year’s event will fund scholarships for Western North Carolina youth to attend a life-changing NCOBS wilderness course. North Carolina Outward Bound School is the leading provider of experiential and outdoor education programs for youth and adults. Outward Bound has helped people discover strength of character, an ability to lead, and desire to serve.

The first 100 participants are guaranteed a ride shirt if registered by May 14th.

Enter into our raffle for great prizes! 100% of proceeds will go towards WNC Youth Scholarships to attend an NCOBS course. You can purchase raffle tickets over at the registration page HERE. This year’s awesome prizes include:

Osprey Aether 60 in medium red backpack, retail $260
Osprey Ariel 55 in small brown backpack, $260
Industry 9 turquoise hubset, retail value of $575
Mountain Khaki gift cards

Ronald McDonald Live!

At these Asheville locations:

11:30am-1:30pm – 343 N Leicester Hwy

2:00pm-4:00pm – Biltmore Square @ 850 Brevard Rd

5:30pm-7:30pm – 950 Patton Ave

FREE cone or cookie with any Happy Meal purchase

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‘Eddie’s Dog House Turns 6’ Celebration

Memorial Day, Monday May 30th, is our 6th Anniversary! Come celebrate with us and enjoy 99 Cent Hot Dogs, $1.99 BBQ Pork Sandwiches, $2.99 Brisket Sandwiches, and $1.75 Bud Draft Pints. Double Check-In Day for VIP Club Members too!

12 Baskets Cafe Informational Feast

Join us for a Feast of Community.

Reducing Waste! Feeding and being Fed by Community!

The 12 Baskets Cafe receives donations of already prepared food from local organizations currently being thrown away. Quality food pulled from nightly hot bars, buffets, displays in grocery stores, etc, is picked up by an API companion and delivered to our Cafe to be re-purposed and shared.

We are very excited to announce the opening of our cafe in West Asheville!

Come enjoy a feast and learn more about 12 Baskets Cafe and ways to get involved!

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4th Annual Fletcher Firefly Festival

We are pleased to announce the 4th Annual Fletcher Firefly Festival, always occurring on the first Saturday of Summer!

This day marks the release of 2 Blue Ghost Summer Seasonals: Toasted Coconut Blonde Ale (5.1% ABV, 21 IBUs) and Tangerine Hefeweizen (5.0% ABV, 18 IBUs.)

The festival will run from 1-10 PM; 20+ local artists and vendors will be set up 1-6 PM. Last call for alcohol will be at 9:30PM.

The event admission, kids’ bounce house (operating 1-8 PM), music and most vendor/organization activities are free. Tickets are not required.

Beer & Other Alcohol Purchases:
Blue Ghost Brewing Company Beer (https://www.blueghostbrewing.com/brews.html), Bota Box Wine, and Bold Rock Mills River Hard Cider will be available for purchase. The purchase of these drinks will require getting a $2 wristband at the ID Check Table by the brew house in the back of the building. Proceeds will be split evenly between the Fletcher Park Development Fund and funding the event. One of the goals of this is to speed-up beer line! 10% of sales from 1-6 PM will be donated to Fletcher Parks and Recreation.

Non-alcoholic drinks will also be available for purchase. These include bottled water, house-made root beer, sprite, coke, diet coke and juice boxes.

Music:
Remember to bring along your own lawn chairs and/or blankets!
The Paper Crowns 1PM
Christina Chandler 3PM
Soldado 4PM
Brian Hill 6PM
Bayou Diesel 7:30 pm

Food Vendors:
The Hungry Ghost – BBQ sandwiches, BBQ tacos, fried brussels, chicken salad sandwiches fries & more!
The Hungry Ghost Grille – charcoal grilled 1/3 lb. hamburgers & 1/4 lb. Nathan’s hot dogs & chips.
Amazing Pizza Co.. – wood-fired artisan pizza with a variety of toppings
The Hop Ice Cream Cafe – imaginative yet classy array of homemade 16% butterfat dairy ice cream, completely from-scratch vegan ice cream and sorbet
Mackyboy’s Italian Ice

Father’s Day at Blue Ghost

Celebrate the dad(s) in your life over craft beer, lobster, and live tunes! On Father’s Day we will be open 1-7:30 PM with all of your favorite BGBC brews on tap, seasonal releases, cider, wine, hard seltzer, ginger beer, and a variety of non-alcoholic beverages (including NA beer) available. Lobster Dogs food truck will be on site from 1:30 – 6:30 PM and Myron Hyman will take to the stage for a set of rockin’ tunes from 4:30 – 6:30 PM.

 

NC Gold Festival

It’s Official! We’re Bringing It Home to the NC Foundation Grounds and The Lucky Strike Gold and Gem Mine. Come and visit the location where miners have found gold for more than a century.

This is a festival to celebrate our North Carolina “Golden” Heritage. Come out and learn the latest techniques. Step back in time and learn the fine art of gold panning in the river. Visit the many vendors that will be on hand with the latest in gold mining equipment. We will have a lapidarist on hand to demonstrate the fine art of gem faceting. Watch as we stamp a Vein Mountain Gold piece similar to the way the Becthler coin was stamped. We will also have a live band, smoked BBQ, nugget races, horse shoes, and much, much more. There will be free admission. All ages welcome!

For More Details Contact The Lucky Strike Campground
1-828-738-4893

 

Asheville e-Sports Minecraft Saturday (8-14yrs)

Wow! Who DOESN’T know a kid who loves Minecraft and a parent worried that he’s missing out on interaction in person with others?

It’s the launch of Asheville e-Sports, brought to you by Tek-Kids. Never heard of e-Sports before? It’s a structured way for young people to use their gaming skills in competition with other people their age. But there’s also plenty of silly, good-natured fun along the way.

We are beginning with a Minecraft event. This event is intended for young people between ages 8 and 14. Children under 8 can participate, but we request that they have an adult on site. We will be playing Minecraft competitively on a closed server (not open to the public). In addition to the competitive games, we will also have some servers dedicated to more relaxed styles of play (creative/survival).

The server will be open the entire time to allow for ad hoc gaming throughout our time there. Periodically we will run more structured competitions. These events will get projected onto the big screen, so even if you’re not playing, you can still get into the action.
PC/Mac or Pocket Edition.

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