No Heated Toilet Seats? Not!

This is a great article in the Chicago Tribune, which contrasts Las Vegas and Marshall but on the title point, I beg to differ. I know at least 2 citizens of Greater Marshall who have heated toilet seats. The seat's are kept by a crackling wood stove in the winter and when it's privy time, they carry the seat outside to do their business. Folks in Madison County have had heated toilet seats for at least as long as there have been outhouses. The seats, while excess in Las Vegas, are survival out the outskirts of Greater Marshall.

Chicago Tribune Article "No heated toilet seats in Marshall"

To all my friends - have a great holiday season filled with love, peace, family and friends! - Ben

Wanted by the F.B. I. ! This Sunday, December 12th, 2010 at 4pm

Neighbors In Need Concert This Thursday 12/9/10

Amazing Steve Davidowski's Christmas benefit concert returns Thursday, December 9, 7 p.m. at the Marshall Presbyterian Church. This mix of jazz, traditional, mountain and celtic Christmas music will feature fiddler Jamie Laval and bassist James Simmons.

Jamie is heralded as “One of North America’s finest practitioners of traditional Scottish music” (San Jose Mercury News) and “The next Alasdair Fraser” (Press and Post). The Asheville Citizen-Times writes, “One of the hottest fiddlers out there…this act has been turning heads wherever it plays.”

James Simmons' powerful dance with his string bass has delighted Madison County in past concerts with Steve.

Marshall's favorite Steve Davidowski is a pianist/saxophonist/flautist/

clarinetist. While living in Georgia in the 1970s, Davidowski was the original keyboard player in the southern fusion band The Dixie Dregs, and also performed and recorded with Vassar Clements and many others in Nashville. He is a master of jazz and is also developing a mountain music hybrid he calls Xenobilly.

Neighbors in Need is a Food Pantry and Crisis Fund serving Madison County. All concert monetary and food donations will go directly to Neighbors in Need.

Thank you to the musicians who are donating their talents and time!

January 2011 Small Business Classes

The following two classes will both start in January 2011 at our Madison location. Please share and if anyone has any questions, please have them contact Jill M. Sparks at 828.254.1921 Ext. 5849 or jsparks@abtech.edu.

NC REAL Sustainable Agriculture Entrepreneurship
This course is designed to strengthen the business savvy of area farmers to help them develop and manage a profitable, environmentally sound small farm or agricultural business. The course uses hands-on experiential teaching techniques and provides opportunities for consultation with instructors and guest speakers from the academic, small business, environmental, and agricultural sectors. The course provides intensive, interactive, professional-level small business and technical training to develop specific critical thinking and problem-solving skills needed for successful entrepreneurship. Emphasis is placed on market research, financing, time management, and the day-to-day activities of owning/operating a sustainable farm as a competitive, small business. Upon completion, the participants should be able to write and implement a viable business plan and obtain financing for an agricultural enterprise. (24 hrs) No fee exemption
Total Registration Fee: $65
Tue, Jan 18 - Mar 08, 6:00PM-9:00PM
127 Ramsey, Madison Site Course #: SEF-1055-200


Small Business Media Marketing Lab - Hands On in the Computer Lab!!
Know you need to jump in and blog and twitter with other business folks but don't know how or just can't make the time to do it regularly? Need to upload images but frustrated with the process? Then this Social Media Marketing Lab is for you! Spend three hours per week at this computer lab with a personal guide/instructor to help you navigate through the "blogs" and "tweets" and more. Watch your business grow! (30 hrs) No fee exemption.
Total Registration Fee: $50
Thu, Jan 27 - Mar 31, 9:30AM-12:30PM

Jill M. Sparks
Director, Small Business Center
Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College

828.254.1921 ext. 5849
828.418.1002 (fax)
jsparks@abtech.edu
www.abtech.edu/sbc