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🌱 How a $100,000 gift could reshape end-of-life care in Swannanoa
Swannanoa, North Carolina Patch AM: a 4 min readHi Swannanoa! We have the latest buzz right here. Let's keep you in the loop and get this morning started right! ☀️
In today's newsletter:
- How a $100,000 gift could reshape end-of-life care in Swannanoa
Also on today's calendar: White Horse Black Mountain - Co-bill with Zoe & Cloyd and 1 more event.
Today's riddle: What do sweet potatoes wear to bed? 🤔 (Answer below!)
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- Friday: An afternoon thunderstorm, with a high of 90 and low of 67 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
- Saturday: Rather cloudy and warm, temps: high: 86, low: 64.
- Sunday: Partly sunny, a stray t-storm, with a high of 87 and low of 65 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
• Philanthropists give $100,000 to Swannanoa end-of-life care nonprofit (wlos.com) — A Swannanoa nonprofit providing community-based end-of-life care just received a $100,000 gift that will create its first endowment and secure long-term support for local families. Emberlight: Center for Conscious Living & Dying celebrated the donation this week, highlighting how it will sustain compassionate care, caregiver support, and education for Swannanoa-area residents facing some of life’s hardest moments. 
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★ Featured events ★
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Big Something →
Pisgah Brewing Company, 2948 US-70, Black Mountain
6:00 pm
Saturday June 20
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Other local events
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Holiday Closing - Juneteenth →
Swannanoa Library 101 West Charleston Street, Swannanoa, NC 28778 -
White Horse Black Mountain - Co-bill with Zoe & Cloyd →
White Horse Black Mountain, 105c Montreat Rd, Black Mountain
7:30 pm -
Swannanoa Gathering →
Warren Wilson College, 701 Warren Wilson Rd, Swannanoa
9:00 am
Friday June 19
Friday June 26
Monday June 29
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🗓 Events Nearby
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Graduation Rehearsal-Required for Seniors
IC Imagine Asheville, NC 28806
9:00 am -
Gardening with an Ecological Mindset
The North Carolina Arboretum 100 Frederick Law Olmsted Way, Asheville, NC 28806
9:30 am -
Watercolor for Beginners: Spring Petals
The North Carolina Arboretum 100 Frederick Law Olmsted Way, Asheville, NC 28806
10:00 am -
Summer Tree ID
The North Carolina Arboretum 100 Frederick Law Olmsted Way, Asheville, NC 28806
10:00 am -
Toddler Story Time
North Asheville Library - 1030 Merrimon Ave. - Asheville
10:30 am -
More than Mountains: Ranger-Led Talks and Activities (Craggy Gardens Visitor Center - Milepost 364)
Blue Ridge National Park This talk will be outside the visitor center. In high winds or inclement weather, the talk will be canceled and we will set up an informal educational table indoors.
10:45 am -
Naturalist Walk and Talk - Butterflies
The North Carolina Arboretum 100 Frederick Law Olmsted Way, Asheville, NC 28806
1:00 pm -
What Good is that Plant? - (Doughton Park - Milepost 238.5)
Blue Ridge National Park Brinegar Cabin is located at milepost 238.5 in Doughton Park on the Blue Ridge Parkway.
4:00 pm
Friday June 12
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- GPM Investments, LLC posted a job opening for Cashier/Sales Associate - Midday/2nd Shift in Black Mountain. Apply here.
- CRH Plc. posted a job opening for Forklift Operator (Asheville, NC, US, 28803) in Asheville. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Swannanoa here.
🗞 Nearby News
Black Mountain
- Black Mountain Primary students head into summer break as staff plan next school year (wlos.com)
- Black Mountain faces nearly $2M budget shortfall as officials weigh layoffs, tax increases (wlos.com)
- Valley Rewind: Downtown Black Mountain November 1912 fire (blackmountainnews.com)
Asheville
- PGA TOUR's Biltmore Championship Asheville opens Birdies for Charity registration for WNC nonprofits (mountainx.com)
- After Hurricane Helene outage, NC bookstore installs microgrid for Asheville community (solarpowerworldonline.com)
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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Yammies! (Thank you Lynda S. for sending it in!)
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