Hope for the Holidays!: The Beet, Weaver Street's E-Newsletter

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Hope for the Holidays!
When you shop at Weaver Street Market this holiday season, you'll once again have the chance to buy great gifts that also give back to our community. Hope for the Holidays Fund is back again after five successful seasons, and we're excited about the three local organizations we've chosen to be the recipients of this season's funds generated by special Hope for the Holiday sales. This season's organizations are Child Care Services Association, the Inter-Faith Council for Social Service and the Cooperative Community Fund. More

Hope for the Holidays:
Child Care Sevices
Sing & Hum Book Signing
Holiday Ornament Making
SV Annual Holiday 5K

Film Fest Winners
Carrboro Farmers' Market

Sparkling Wine Dinner
Winter Bar Specials

Weekly Produce Specials
Weekly Meat & Seafood Specials

Fair Trade Holiday Gifts



Hope for the Holidays continued

How it works: You make an automatic donation to the Hope for the Holidays Fund by buying specially marked gift items located throughout the store. Part of the purchase price of each gift marked with a special Hope for the Holidays sign will be collected in the Hope for the Holidays Fund. You are also encouraged to drop donations into the collection jars located near the cash registers.

Weekly Produce Specials


	Organic Fuji Apples	$1.79 lb	save $1.00 lb
	Organic Red Bartlett Pears	$1.59 lb	save 40¢ lb
	Organic Red Potatoes	99¢ lb	from Cal-Organic super low price

Weekly Meat & Seafood Specials

	Hans All Natural Pork Italian sausage	$4.99 lb	Hot or Mild save 1.00 lb
	Meyer All-Natural Ground Chuck	$3.49 lb	save 80¢ lb
	Local North Carolina Farm-raised Catfish Fillet	$7.49 lb	save $2.00 lb
Read more about other Weaver Street Market Specials.


Fair Trade Holiday Gifts

Basket Africa! The Wellness Department has gone all-out this year sourcing wonderful Holiday Gift ideas that are fairly traded. Each week we'll feature one of these fabulous companies that are working to help communities around the globe to receive a fair price for their goods. This week we look at Basket Africa, a member of the Fair Trade Federation that works with about 1,000 basket weavers in the villages near Bolgatanga. Bolgatanga is the largest town in the Upper East region of Ghana, about 20 miles South of the Burkina Faso border and very close to the edge of the Sahara Desert. The climate is extremely dry except for one rainy season which lasts about 2 or 3 months, making agriculture very difficult. As a result, basket weaving is the main income for this region. When you shop at Weaver Street Market in Carrboro or Southern Village, you'll see these colorful baskets just waiting to be picked for a present!
Read more about Basket Africa here.



Hope for the Holidays

Child Care Services Child Care Services Association (CCSA) is a nationally recognized nonprofit working to ensure affordable, accessible, high quality child care for all families through research, services and advocacy. They are more than just an agency working to improve child care; they are also an association of groups, individuals and volunteers committed to supporting the right of young children and their families to have the best possible life. In many important ways, our preschool years determine our future competitive role in the global economy, the public safety of our communities, the cost-effective investment of public and private dollars, and the success of welfare reform. When child care becomes necessary for families; quality child care becomes critical for children. If done well, child care benefits us all. Child Care Services Associates supports child care centers, staff, and families that use child care in a variety of ways: their nutrition program provides daily meals to the children, T.E.A.C.H provides staff the ability to attend continuing education classes, and they have many ways for families to receive scholarship money to pay for day care. The Child Care WAGE$® Project provides education-based salary supplements to low paid teachers, directors and family child care providers working with children between the ages of 0-5. Now, Child Care Services Associates would like to start a new program aimed at helping child care workers who themselves need child care to stay in the workforce. Your "Hope for the Holidays" dollars will kick-off their Child Care Workers Scholarship Program in Orange County enabling child care workers to receive help paying for child care so they can return to work. In Orange County, child care workers typically earn about $1,820 per month. Tuition for an infant in an Orange County child care program is typically about $901 per month. This means that paying for child care would cost a child care worker almost half of their gross income. Considering all the other expenses a family has, returning to work after having a baby is nearly impossible. Yet, we all need child care workers to return to work because it makes a difference for the 3,716 children attending child care in Orange County each day and the families relying on that care so that they can work in hospitals, schools, grocery stores, restaurants, government, construction, etc. There are currently 25 child care workers who need help to continue teaching our community's children.

Sing & Hum Book Signing

Sing and Hum Bumblebee by Mari and Maya Weaver Street Market, Carrboro Sat. Dec. 2, 11:00-2:00 'Sing Your Tune' Karen Sorensen, 'Maya', co-author and illustrator of the vibrant inspiring children's book Sing and Hum Bumblebee, www.singandhum.com, and producer of the soundtrack 'Sing and Hum'', will be at Weaver Street Market, Carrboro, Sat. Dec. 2, 11:00 - 2:00, for a book signing. The book and CD utilize music therapy as a premise, inspiring children to 'sing and hum' through life's little challenges, like feeling different than everyone, or being teased, or even through the big challenges, like being scared or in pain. Queen Bee says, "sing your tune".

Holiday Ornament making with the Scrap Exchange!

Celebrate the Season at Southern Village! Saturday, December 2 1:00-3:00 pm Stop by Weaver Street Market in Southern Village on Saturday December 2 for some holiday ornament making fun! The Scrap Exchange will be on hand with oodles of recycling goodies to make this holiday event memorable and fun. Bring your children and lots of imagination for some creative holiday fun! 2-3 pm On the green, join Loren Miller, Minister of Worship Arts at Christ Church, and friends for a sing-a-long of Christmas favorites. 3:00-3:30 pm Kids hang ornaments on the tree, Santa will be on hand to take Christmas wishes, and a drawing for a free Christmas tree. 3:30 pm Tree lighting and singing of traditional Christmas carols, led by Rebecca Dyck.

SV Annual Holiday 5K

Sunday, December 10, 2:00 pm Come out for a day of exercise and fun as runners and walkers join together to support the Orange County Habitat for Humanity. The 5K race starts at 2:00 pm and the 1 Mile Family Fun Run/Walk at 3:00 pm.



Carrboro Film Fest Winners

The First Annual Carrboro Film Festival was a huge succes. Filmmakers Barbara Trent & David Kasper won in the Emerging Artist category with their documentary, Soldiers Speak Out. Stalker, Stalker by Filmmakers Kelly Katzenmeyer, Rebecca Kirsh, and Melissa Lozoff of Movie Makers took the K - 12 category. The Laugher by Film Festival organizer Nic Beery and filmmaker William Earnhardt won the College category. The Audience pick was Gemini World by Filmmaker Erika Simon.

Carrboro Farmers' Market

Saturdays from 8 am to 12 noon The Carrboro Farmers' Market is open until December 23, selling locally grown produce, meats, cheeses, eggs, baked goods, jellies, honey, plants, wool, furniture, and a variety of unique holiday greenery and gifts!


Sparkling Wine Dinner

Sparkling Wine Dinner Monday, December 11 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm Join us Monday, December 11, and explore the amazing world of sparkling wines. What is sparkling wine? Well according to the Oxford companion to wine it is "a wine which bubbles when poured into a glass". To so many people it seems like so much more than just that simple explanation. Sparkling wine, and more specifically, Champagne, has always been associated with a certain class or elegance and almost always associated with the occasion of celebration. The mystery of Sparkling wine carries on with the amazing amount of different styles it can come in. Just the tiniest hint of effervescence can change a simple white wine into something fun and exciting to drink. Sparkling wine can vary as much as still wine; it can be white, pink, and even red. It can be made in a sweet style like Italy's Moscato d'Asti, or bone dry like most French Champagnes. Other aspects of sparkling wines can vary immensely, like the alcoholic levels and the character and strength of the bubbles themselves. Join us for this exciting dinner and enjoy a vast array of sparkling wines and see just how well these wines match with elegant, delicious dishes prepared by Panzanella Chef, Chris Capron. The cost of this event is $40 per person; space is limited, so reserve early. Please pay in advance and pick up a ticket for this tasting at either Panzanella or the customer service desk at Weaver Street Market in Carrboro.
Visit Panzanella's website to view all menus (lunch, dinner and Sunday brunch).
Sign up for Panzanella's Enewsletter here.

Winter Bar Specials

Come in out of the cold and warm up with one of these party-starters! Grasshopper - White Creme d Cacao, Green Creme de Menthe, cream, shaken and served straight up. Highlander Coffee - Scotch and B&B in a mug of coffee, topped with whipped cream. Oatmeal Cookie - Bailey's, Goldshlager, Butterscotch Schnapps, and Frangelico, straight up. Multiple Slides - Kahlua, Bailey's, Amaretto, vodka, Frangelico and milk, on the rocks. Hot Buttered Rum - Dark Rum and spices, in a mug of hot water, with a pat of butter and a twist.