Nitty Gritty of Life in Columbus County, NC
Monday, September 6, 2010
Posted by Lisa on November 29, 2009
Lake Waccamaw’s own Council Tool Company was featured on TWO recent episodes of the DYI Network’s Cool Tools program.
In case you missed these great features you can see them by clicking on THIS LINK.
LOUD cheers to Council Tool! You make us proud!
Posted by Lisa on November 23, 2009
1. Protect Local Character and ProsperityColumbus County, N.C. is unlike any other county in the world. By choosing to support locally owned businesses, you help maintain Columbus County’s diversity and distinctive flavor.
Locally owned businesses build strong neighborhoods by sustaining communities, linking neighbors, and by contributing more to local causes.
Local ownership means that important decisions are made locally by people who live in the community and who will feel the impacts of those decisions.
Your dollars spent in locally-owned businesses have three times the impact on your community as dollars spent at national chains. When shopping locally, you simultaneously create jobs, fund more public services through sales tax, invest in neighborhood improvement and promote community development.
Locally owned businesses create more jobs locally and, in some sectors, provide better wages and benefits than chains do.
Entrepreneurship fuels America’s economic innovation and prosperity, and serves as a key means for families to move out of low-wage jobs and into the middle class.
Local stores require comparatively little infrastructure and make efficient use of public services.
Local stores help to sustain vibrant, compact, walkable town centers-which in turn are essential to reducing sprawl, automobile use, habitat loss, and air and water pollution.
A marketplace of hundreds of small businesses is the best way to ensure innovation and low prices over the long-term.
A multitude of small businesses, each selecting products based, not on a national sales plan, but on their own interests and the needs of their local customers, guarantees a much broader range of product choices.
Adapted and reprinted with permission of The Institute for Local Self-Reliance.
Posted by Lisa on November 2, 2009
is THIS weekend in Whiteville. Click HERE for all the fun details! 
Posted by Lisa on September 17, 2009
So the big holiday events are over. Fall is almost offically here. Bored?
If you’re in Columbus County - there’s no need to be bored!
You can start off with yoga at Earth Element.
Then have some coffee, tea or a great (and healty!) smoothie at Mae Coffee Shop.
Then swing by the Columbus County Farmers’ Market to stock up on locally grown veggies and visit with all of your friends who are also there.
After that you can gather your provisions at the many wonderful Columbus County Merchants.
And then maybe visit the Lake Waccamaw State Park.
THEN visit the North Carolina Museum of Forestry.
And don’t forget to explore Tabor City as they prepare for the 2009 Yam Festival!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO need to the bored in Columbus County!
Posted by Lisa on July 10, 2009
(reprinted from the News Reporter)
Forum to feature crime prevention expertA former New York City detective, who is now an education specialist with the state, will be the next guest speaker at the Greater Whiteville Area Chamber of Commerce Community Lunch Forum.
The forum will be held Tuesday, July 14 at the Interim Centre meeting room on North J.K. Powell Blvd. in Whiteville. The program starts at 11:50 a.m. and is scheduled to end at 1:15 p.m.
The guest speaker, Bob Poisella, is a member of the N.C. Governor’s Crime Commission Unit. He will address the lunch meeting on crime prevention at home and in businesses, and hold a free in-depth seminar on crime prevention.
Poisella is a certified criminal justice instructor at both the state and international levels. A graduate of the State University of New York, Poisella helped develop North Carolina’s Amber Alert regimen in 2003. In addition to his years as a detective, Poisella taught college in the Triangle area.
Tuesday’s meal will be catered by The Todd House. The workshop and forum are open to the public. Reservations are required, and lunch is $8.50. Contact the Greater Whiteville Area Chamber of Commerce, at 642-3171, for additional information.
Posted by Lisa on June 26, 2009
Our own Columbus County Farmers’ Market is in the running to become one of America’s Favorite Farmers’ Markets and you can help! Just click HERE to vote.
