Day: August 29, 2007
CarePartners Adult Day Services
Established in 1986, CarePartners Adult Day Services offers participants a safe and stimulating daytime environment. While many participants have some form of dementia, individuals with a wide variety of impairments come to Adult Day Services. Participants maintain their independence by remaining in their own homes, while having an opportunity to enjoy a variety of planned … Read more
And then there were 15: Asheville Council field shapes up
As the new, nonpartisan filing deadline passed at noon on Aug. 20, Asheville citizens finally got a firm idea of who will be running for City Council. By the deadline, every Democrat, Republican and third-party or unaffiliated candidate who had previously filed or declared their candidacy threw their hat back in the ring, with one … Read more
Buncombe County Commissioners
In an otherwise routine meeting on Aug. 21, the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners heard from two descendants of local benefactor George Willis Pack. During public comment, both Barbara Pack Holcombe of Shallote, N.C., and Louise Pack Metcalf of Asheville raised questions about the county’s sale of public land to developer Stuart Coleman last November. … Read more
Signed off
The Aug. 15 arrest of Jonas Phillips on charges of obstructing a sidewalk has local activists up in arms. Phillips was taken into custody after displaying a 5-by-1-foot sign reading “IMPEACH BUSH/CHENEY” on the Haywood Road/Interstate 240 overpass. Freeway blogging: Jonas Phillips holds another sign on the Flint Street overpass, several days after his arrest. … Read more
The doctor is in
When Christy Potter developed a sinus infection a couple of weeks ago, she faced a decision: Get it looked after—which could mean waiting for an appointment, camping out at the doctor’s office for hours while missing work—or simply hoping that the condition would improve on its own. As it turned out, Potter faced no such … Read more
Lattes: Not just for liberals anymore
Republicans got great mileage from a political ad from the arch-conservative Club for Growth back in the 2004 presidential election that included this now-infamous and oft-paraphrased jab at the liberal elite: “Howard Dean should take his tax-hiking, government-expanding, latte-drinking, sushi-eating, Volvo-driving, New York Times-reading, Hollywood-loving, left-wing freakshow back to Vermont, where it belongs.” Something’s brewing: … Read more
