Summer is sizzling and we’ve got great events happening here in Swannanoa!
Swannanoa Shindig – The first Friday of each month…
Traditional Music and Dance
Bring a chair and your dancing shoes to the Swannanoa Shindig on Railroad Street in Beacon Village behind the main Fire Department.
FREE admission! Join in all the fun. Crafts, food, farmer’s market, contests, jump rope demonstration, pizza, baked goods, bingo by the Babe Ruth League, cake walk, BBQ, entertainment, music and dancing.
Friday, July 2nd will be “Patriotic Night.” Celebrate our nation’s birthday and wear your best Uncle Sam, firecracker, red-white-and-blue get up. A prize will be awarded to the most patriotic!
Vendors are welcome! For more information, call the Swannanoa Business Association at 337-3718.
Shindig dates are Fridays: July 2, August 6, September 3, and October 1st.
If you missed the first one, check out the great photo gallery by Barbara Hootman in the Black Mountain News at www.citizen-times.com/section/BlackMountainNews
First Swannanoa Shindig, June 2010 – photo courtesy of Black Mountain News
Fireworks and Carnival – Get an EARLY start on your Independence Day fireworks and celebration: 
The annual fireworks display and carnival at Black Mountain Neuro-Medical Treatment Center, located at 932 Old U.S. Highway 70, will be held on Thursday, July 1, beginning at 6:30 p.m. Festivities include carnival games and prizes for children, teenagers, and adults, barbecue, cotton candy, popcorn, snow cones, clowns, balloons, tram rides, and a 50/50 raffle. Live music will be featured throughout the evening by “Simple Folk.” Susan Mundy will be the master of ceremonies along with special guest, Black Mountain Mayor Carl Bartlett. The highlight of the evening will be a huge fireworks display beginning at dusk. The event is a tradition that is sponsored by the Black Mountain Center Foundation for the enjoyment of the residents of the Center, and the Black Mountain/Swannanoa community. Parking is available on campus until 8:30 p.m. No pets will be allowed on the grounds. For more information, call (828) 259-6700.
It’s Happening At the Swannanoa Library!
All Swannanoa Library events are FREE!
Fire Safety-
Splash Into Fire Safety – meet the Swannanoa Firefighters on Wednesday, June 30, at 11 a.m. at the Swannanoa Library. This is part of the library’s summer programming and is suitable for all ages.
Library Knitters –
The Swannanoa Library Knitters will meet on Wednesday, July 7, from 5-7 p.m. at the Swannanoa Library, 101 West Charleston Street, (828) 250-6486. This is a casual knitting and needlework group for all skill levels.
Fur, Feathers and Scales with the WNC Nature Center on Wednesday, July 7 at 11:00 a.m.
Bang a Drum with Terry Edgerton on Wednesday, July 14 at 11:00 a.m.
Wading Through Wetlands on Thursday, July 22 at 11:00 a.m.
Water Tales and Splishy, Splashy Songs on Wednesday, July 29 at 11:00 a.m.
ALL SUMMER LONG – WEEKLY STORIES AT THE LIBRARY:
Preschool Storytime – Thursday at 11:00 a.m. Ages 3 years – 6 years
Toddler Time – Thursday at 11:00 a.m. Ages 18 months – 3 years
Mother Goose Time – Wednesday at 11:00 a.m. Ages 4 months - 18 months
For more great information about Library Events, visit the website: I Love the Library
Fourth of July Carnival – Owen Park, Sunday July 4th
Brought to you by the Swannanoa Babe Ruth Softball and Baseball League. For more information you can visit their Facebook page.
Groovin on Grovemont – The 8th annual summer music concert series continues!
This summer the traditional three summer Tuesday nights are July 13, July 27 and August 10th. Bring a chair or a blanket to Grovemont Park and enjoy the festivities. This summer’s line up of entertainers includes: Laura Blackly (7/13), Ol’ Hoopty (7/27) and the Grovemont Players (8/10). Food and beverages are available for purchase. The music begins at 6:00 p.m.
The series is sponsored by the Friends of the Swannanoa Library and the Swannanoa Community Council. For information please call 686-5516.
Owen District Youth Football League
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Owen District Youth Football League is currently registering players for the upcoming 2010 season. Visit their Web site at www.odyfl.org for more information or call (828) 357-8335. Ages six to 13 are accepted for football and cheerleading. With registration players receive: complete uniforms, all necessary padding and helmets, and end of season awards banquet. The league is also accepting applications for coaching staff, volunteers, and board members. Many sponsorship opportunities are also available for local business owners who wish to support the league. The league will have game day programs, web banners, stadium banners, and game day sponsorships available. Please email heathpeek@yahoo.com or call (828) 357-8335 for more information on sponsorship.
Swannanoa Community Garden Is Growing
How does your garden grow this summer? In this case the newly established Swannanoa Community Garden is growing by leaps and bounds! This group has done an outstanding job of providing garden plots for Swannanoa residents and now helping kids learn about gardening while providing fresh produce for the Swannanoa Welcome Table. This week’s article from the Black Mountain News highlights all of the wonderful activity at the garden in Grovemont. Click here to read more…
Kids from First Baptist Church Swannanoa survey their efforts at the Swannanoa Community Garden – Photo courtesy of the First Baptist Church Swannanoa
Sunny garden plots are still available for a very reasonable fee. For more information please contact Donna Kelly at 299-4888.
Swannanoa Chamber Music Festival
Beloved chamber music returns to Swannanoa:
Swannanoa Chamber Music Festival
For many years, the Swannanoa Chamber Music Festival featured the same group of musicians, but slowly the faces have been changing. Pianist Inessa Zaertsky has been with the festival for more than a decade. The festival also features Tracy Rowell on contrabass, general director Paul Nitsch doing two performances on piano, new bassoonist Lynn Hileman, flutist George Pope, oboist Cynthia Watson and clarinetist David Bell.
The Parker String Quartet will return. Performing for the first concert is Trio Terzetto (cellist Tana Ell is the daughter the festival’s founder). Guest violinist Peter deVries will play the annual Frank Ell concert on July 11-13.
The festival plays each program at the Performing Arts Center in Waynesville and at Kittredge Theatre at Warren Wilson College. 7:30 p.m. June 22, 29, July 6, 13, 20, Kittredge Theatre, Warren Wilson College, Swannanoa. (Note earlier start time than past years). Free lecture-demonstration programs 7 p.m. Thursday, and June 24, and July 1, 18 and 15, Kittredge Music Building, Warren Wilson College.
Tickets: $75 season subscription. $20 single admission, free for students age 25 and younger with ID. For additional information, visit the Chamber Music Festival WWC website: www.warren-wilson.edu/~chamber/season.
Area Tailgate and Farm Markets
A Tailgate Market right in downtown Swannanoa would be great, however in the meantime we have several area markets within easy reach. Anyone up for organizing one here? We’ve got the space right on Hwy 70 near Ingles and Tolley Insurance. What great exposure!
Each Saturday from 9:00 – 12:00 noon, the 4th year of the Riceville Tailgate Market can be found at the Riceville Community Center and Volunteer Fire Department in the shade of the trees that line Bull Creek. The market will operate on Riceville Road weekly until mid-September. For additional information, visit their website at: ricevillemarket.wordpress.com. While on the website, be sure to read about the interestingScenic Riceville Advocates.
Then each Wednesday, visit the ABCCM’s Veterans Restoration Quarters Victory Tailgate Market from 3:00-6:00 p.m. Located in O’teen on Tunnel Road just off exit 55, I-40, the Victory Market, operated by some very nice and informative U.S. war Veterans, offers local produce and fruits.Visit the adjacent Veterans’ Victory Garden and learn how local vegetables are grown. Tour the beautiful garden. Tomatoes will be aplenty as soon as they ripen. 828-775-5593.
Veterans’ Victory Tailgate Market Video
This great video about the Victory Garden was provided on June 23rd. Click on the image above. And if you are interested in more information about this wonderful program for veterans, visit their webpage by clicking on this link: Veteran’s Restoration Quarters andTransitional Housing.
Warren Wilson College Garden Market – There are two weekly on-campus markets where you can buy delicious produce from the garden: Fridays from 11-1 outside Gladfelter and Tuesdays from 11-4 at the Garden. Markets typically take place May through November. For more on the Garden, go to www.warren-wilson.edu/~garden. In addition to produce, you will find fresh baked organic breads and cookies, local photo greeting cards and beautiful flowers.
Old Farmer’s Ball – Contra Dancing
This long-time weekly event takes place each Thursday in the newly renovated Bryson Gym on the Warren Wilson College campus. The dance starts at 8:00 p.m. with a beginners lesson each week at 7:30. The Old Farmer’s Ball is for all who wish to enjoy a sociable evening of music and dance. It is open to all ages and levels of experience. Newcomers to Contra Dancing are welcomed. Admission is $6. For additional information you can visit their website, OldFarmersBall.Com.
Swannanoa Gathering – a Tradition Since 1991
A series of summer workshops in various folk arts held on the campus of Warren Wilson College in Swannanoa in the heart of North Carolina’s beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains. Each week also features public concerts. This summer’s workshops run from July 4th through August 7th. Topics include Celtic, Old Time, Fiddle, Dulcimer, Guitar, Traditional Song, Contemporary Folk and the Swannanoa School of Culinary Arts. For details about the workshops and a concert schedule, visit the website:www.SwGathering.Com.
Ashes, the Swannanoa Fire Department Mascot Dalmatian, asks for the Community’s Help!
- Ashes, the Swannanoa Fire Department Dalmatian Mascot
Ashes, who has become quite a celebrity, needs our community’s help! She is twelve years old and has worked with the Swannanoa Fire Department teaching children the importance of fire safety and being an emissary for the department. The Fire Department staff is understandably fond of Ashes and is considered a member of their family, as are many local residents whom have been greeted at the door of the station by Ashes for years. Unfortunately she has been diagnosed with congestive heart failure compounded by arthritis. Her medication and special diet costs which amount to over $100 a month have been covered by the generosity of volunteer fire fighters and others at the department as well as her Vet, Dr. Otto Sharpe.
However resources for Ashes are running low and the Swannanoa community has the opportunity to help out. To help Ashes, you may take donations to the Swannanoa Fire Department, and label it for Ashes’ fund, or mail your contribution to Swannanoa Fire Department, P.O. Box 177, Swannanoa, N.C., 28778. For more information, call the Fire Department at (828) 686-3335. You can also find a great story about Ashes in the Black Mountain News by clicking on this link: BlackMountainNews.Com/AshesNeedsYourHelp.
MORE About the Swannanoa Fire Department – ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING Announced – 7/13/10 at 7:15 p.m.
On Tuesday, July 13, 2010 at 7:15 p.m. the Fire Department’s annual meeting will be held. An election for new Board Members will be held July 13th. Nominations must be sealed and sent to the Secretary of the Swannanoa Volunteer Fire Department at P. O. Box 177, Swannanoa, NC 28778 or sealed and hand delivered to the Fire Department at 103 South Avenue to the attention of the Secretary. All nominations must be received by the Fire Department by or before 12:00 p.m., Thursday, July 1, 2010.
The election of new Board Members will be held at the Fire Department at 103 South Avenue, Swannanoa, NC between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, July 13, 2010. All voters must be prepared to show proof of residency and proof of ownership of personal or real property that is located within and subject to the fire tax of the Swannanoa Fire Department. For more information, call the Fire Department at 828-686-3335.
Owen Middle School Cheerleaders Already Gearing Up for the New School Year
Welcome to the new team! The OMS Cheerleaders have their new team for 2010-2011! They took 20 girls! It is a bigger team and they are very excited about the talent this year. The girls are getting ready for camp in a few weeks and working hard on their home routine, tumbling and new stunt groups. They will post pictures from the Swannanoa 4-H Camp once they get back! Follow their progress on their blog at: omscheerleaders.blogspot.com.
We can all agree there is a LOT happening in Swannanoa, North Carolina. Hope everyone get out and enjoy!
Finally, SAVE THE DATE: Our Fourth Annual Mill Around the Village Bluegrass Festival will be held in the Downtown Village on Saturday, September 25th.
For additional information, please visit the MillAroundtheVillage.Com website. Vendors, sponsors and volunteers are welcomed !
Swannanoa North Carolina Baseball Cap
Swannanoa North Carolina Bumper Stickers
Swannanoa Mug
White T-Shirt
Christmas Noah the Swan, Swannanoa’s Mascot
Local Swannanoa Mini Vases – Handmade Pottery
Green T-Shirt
Swannanoa North Carolina Baseball Cap – Green
Noah the Swan, Swannanoa’s Mascot
Swannanoa North Carolina Baseball Cap
Street in Beacon Village behind the main Swannanoa Fire Station. Admission is free and all you will need to bring are your dancing shoes and a chair.
For a nominal fee of $10, you can continue growing all those wonderful fresh fall garden vegetables. The Swannanoa Community Garden is sponsored by the Swannanoa Pride Community Coalition. You can visit their website at
Directory. ALL businesses in Swannanoa will be listed, free of charge. If you would like to place a fabulous ad in the directory, the cost starts at $45 for a business card size (with a 10% discount on all ads for members of the Swannanoa Business Association). This directory is available free to the public and over 1,500 copies were distributed last year. The demand has been great and an increased printing and distribution is anticipated this year. Get your listing and ad placed as soon as possible. For more information, call the Business Association at 828-337-4718 or email info@swannanoaba.com.
Plow Day is an event for draft horse farmers to gather and demonstrate the use of traditional horse drawn agriculture equipment.
the Warren Wilson Farm (look for signs).The gates open for teamsters at 8am. Free for teamsters, students and kids under 15. Adults will be charged $3 per car. If you are interested in vending at this event or have any questions contact Christina Torquato at (804)514-9555.
This year’s Fall Tour falls on the last weekend of American
Craft Week. American Craft Week is a celebration of not only the aesthetic, but the economic value of hand made American crafts. The American public is invited to recognize the wealth, and benefits hand made American crafts has, not only on our everyday lives but also on the economy. The EAST Tour is the perfect way to participate and savor the arts and crafts of this regions diverse
artists in their studios.
like to see them listed here, contact us via the CelebrateSwannanoa.Com Website. Just send in the “contact us” form. Here’s the link: 
