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OC Farmers' Market a little bit of everything The fledgling Orange County Farmers' Market is underway at the new Public Market House, tucked behind the courthouse buildings on Margaret Lane in Hillsborough. Hoping to take pictures without impeding customers, I arrive early. And it's a good thing because Whitted-Bowers Farm's strawberries sell out in the first hour. Rob and Cheri Bowers are committed to selling at the new South Estes Market in Chapel Hill, but they hope to have enough resources to sell in Hillsborough as well. Today Cheri is behind the table, and she's brought her about-to-bloom clivia plant to share with everyone. She tells me the last of the strawberries may linger into June, although the rain and cold of May has been hard on them. More |
Jazz Brunch! After Hours Begins! New Events Coordinator Movies on the Green We're turning 20! NC Symphony June 13 |
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 The rain's also been hard on the Bowers' world-class melons, which may appear by the end of the month. Although the Orange County market is small, there's a little bit of everything: fruits and vegetables, meat and eggs, plants and flowers, cheeses, and crafts. A few tables down from the strawberries, Greta Clark of Baby Dreams is knitting and selling strawberry-shaped baby hats. Greta thinks of her knitted clothes not just as baby gifts, but as heirlooms: they'll survive far longer than the average item bought at the mall. She has booties and knitted cupcakes for doll parties. She sews dresses, including some with "smocking," a hard-to-find heirloom embroidery technique. Greta also sells crocheted sweaters, blankets, and baby balls, made by a friend stationed in Burma in the foreign service.
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| Weekly Produce Specials - THESE SALES ARE EFFECTIVE Tuesday, June 3 through Monday, June 9. |
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| Organic, Red or Yukon Gold Potatoes |
New Crop 99¢ lb |
super low price |
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| South Carolina Peaches | New crop $1.49 lb |
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| Organic Broccoli | $1.99 lb |
save 80¢ lb |
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| Weekly Meat & Seafood Specials | |||
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From our freezer Pacific Yellowfin Tuna fillets |
$7.99 lb |
Carrboro only save $2.00 lb |
| Plainville Ground Turkey | 1 lb. pkg $3.99 each |
All Natural save 60¢ each |
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| Niman Ranch London Broil | USDA Choice $5.49 lb |
All Natural save $1.00 lb |
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| 20th Anniversary Specials | |||
 Weaver Street Market has been in business in Carrboro for twenty years. To celebrate this milestone we're offering in-store specials!Look for Celebrity Dairy goat chesse, Da Vinci Italian Pasta, Giacomo's Sausages, Alcion Wines, Extra Virgin Olive oil, and much more! |
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| Jazz Brunch! | |||
 Every Sunday11 am - 1 pm Jazz & More Brunch at Weaver Street Market is here! Hot food, with cool tunes is a great way to start your Sunday. Inside, we'll have fresh scones, muffins and sweet pastries in our bake case; fresh, hot coffee and a barista to make that special coffee drink; and an array of eggs, grits, pancakes or French Toast to fill you up! Outside, under the oaks, you'll hear a range of local bands playing Jazz, Americana, Blues, and Bluegrass; keeping everybody happy and dancing. June 8- Laura Ridgeway and Friends - jazz, swing, oldies, pop June 15- Jeff and Benares - folk and soulful acoustic June 22- The Guilty Pleasures - traditional American music June 29- Dana & Susan Robinson - original Old Time |
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| After Hours Begins | |||
 Start your weekend early with music on the Weaver Street Market lawn on Thursday nights! Pack up your blanket and get ready to hit the lawn!June 5- Saludos Compay - original and South American music June 12- The Maudlin Brothers- Songs from way-back, harmonies that are up-close, and fun that's here-now! June 19- Edsel 500 - rockabilly, blues, and swing June 26- The Tim Smith Band - original Jamaican-style ska and reggae |
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| New Events Coordinator | |||
 Hello to everyone at Weaver Street Market! My name is Jason Baker, and I'm the new Events Coordinator. I've been a customer almost since day one of moving to the area in 2002, and consumer-owner from shortly after, so I'm thrilled to be working at what's not only one of my favorite stores but one of my favorite hangouts as well. I just finished up an extended tour through the UNC undergraduate experience where I studied political science, city planning, and environmental studies.Before coming to WSM, I spent the past seven years traveling the East Coast helping to put on events at colleges and universities. It was a blast, but I'm ready to start spending some more time in the community I love here in Orange County. When I'm not at work, I spend a good amount of time reading, exploring the outdoors, and probably a little bit too much time playing SimCity and serving on committees. It's an exciting time to start working here, with a whole new store on the way offering lots of possibilities for adding to and diversifying the kinds of events we put on, and of course keeping good things going at the Carrboro and Southern Village locations. Feel free to come say hello next time you're at After Hours or Jazz Brunch this summer. I'm always looking for new ideas for bands, events, or just generally fun things we can do here at Weaver Street Market, so let me know what's on your mind! |
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 At Southern VillageEvery Friday and Saturday, 8 PM Iron Man - Friday, June 6 and Saturday, June 7 NC Symphony on the lawn, Friday, June 13 - 8 pm Leatherheads - Saturday, June 14 only. Movie starts at 8:30 pm. Tickets are $3.00. Stop by Weaver Street Market for a picnic dinner. Please, no glass containers or pets. |
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| We're turning 20! | |||
 Celebrate 20 years of community involvement and growth with Weaver Street Market! Saturday, June 21 11 am - 2 pm on the lawn in Carrboro Get ready for a bundle of birthday fun with the Scrap Exchange, music by ...Different Drum, Face painting, Balloonman Bob, Katie's Sno Cones, birthday cake, balloons, specials, samplings, t-shirts, sign the giant Birthday card and more! In Carrboro we'll have a special sand sculpture in honor of WSM's 20th Anniversary by world-renowned sand sculputors, Rik Hermanson and Damian Hoffman. Sculpting begins Thursday, June 19 and continues through to Saturday June 21 for the final unveiling. Friday, June 27 6 pm - 8 pm at our new Hillsborough Store Maple View Ice Cream, Face painting, Balloonman Bob, Marimba music, birthday cake, balloons, specials, samplings, t-shirts, sign the giant Birthday card and more! Look for details about Southern Village's celebration on July 19, in future Beets. Happy Birthday Weaver Street Market! |
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| NC Symphony June 13 | |||
 Friday, June 13on the green at Southern Village Come early to get a good seat for this summertime favorite! The NC Symphony returns to the green at Southern Village for a performance of Classical Favorites with William Henry Curry, Resident Conductor. Pick up a picnic dinner at Weaver Street Market before heading to the green for great classical music. This event is free and open to the public. Please, no glass containers or pets. |
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| Community Investment Initiative |
 Have you considered investing in Weaver Street Market?The expansion of our Southern Village store is nearly complete, the new store and commissary in Hillsborough are on track to open soon, and we're beginning a suite of improvements to the Carrboro store. Weaver Street Market celebrates out 20th anniversary this month, and we're sure working hard to make the next 20 better every day, but to keep everything moving along we need several more community members to make 5-year loans of $10,000 or more. We've nearly reached our member investment goal for this phase of the expansion project, but still need a few more members of the Co-op to make this additional investment; please contact us soon if you would like to receive more information about the Community Investment program, including the complete Offering Memorandum. Why should you loan money to Weaver Street Market? • Your investment stays with a local business you know and trust; where three times as much money filters back into the community as in a corporate-owned business. • Your investment benefits your Co-op, and supports our initiatives that include paying a living wage, and our long-time support of local agriculture. • Help us expand our Southern Village store, open a new store in Hillsborough, and improve our Carrboro store. More space! New products! • We'll pay 6% simple interest annually, and repay the principal after 5 years. |
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 at SEEDS!Saturday June 7 Saturday June 7 is the 12th annual garden party at SEEDS in Durham, "Art Grows in Durham." The events begin at 1PM with musical performances, activities for children, and displays by local arts and crafts vendors. There will also be food available (including Locopops and Cane Creek hotdogs and veggie dogs) and a SEEDS Plant Sale. Activities include Natural Dyed Eggs, Garden Tours by the DIG (Durham Inner-city Gardeners) Crew, Hand-made/Watercolor Postcards, and Birdhouse Building. Entertainment and most activities are free. |
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 The Sustainable Furniture Council SundayJune 15, 2008 at CHICLE 5:00 pm, Free and open to the public Susan Inglis, Executive Director of the Sustainable Furniture Council, will talk about the organization's work, with an emphasis on how this fairly new educational organization is making a difference in reducing the amount of illegal logging that the home furnishings industry is responsible for. SFC was founded by Gerry Cooklin, who manufactures South Cone furniture in Peru & Argentina. He greened his own operation and started several important sustainability projects when he realized what a large part the home furnishings industry can play in halting deforestation in the Amazon River Basin. Please call us at (919) 933-0398 if you want more information. You can also e-mail us. |
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 Book Signing!Friday, June 6, 2008 7:00 p.m. Regulator Bookshop Durham authors Rebekah and Stephen Hren will discuss and sign copies of their new book, The Carbon-Free Home: 36 Remodeling Projects to Help Kick the Fossil-Fuel Habit. "It's hard to imagine a more comprehensive, and comprehensible, guide to making your home work for you and for the planet, inside and out. It's frugal, it's sensible, and it will help," writes Bill McKibben, author of Deep Economy and Fight Global Warming Now. For more information see the publisher's website |
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 Walk and Bike This Year at Walkable Hillsborough DaySaturday, June 7, 8:30 am - noon Old Courthouse, downtown Hillsborough Join other pedestrians and cyclists in "Taking Steps to Connect" Hillsborough on June 7 in the 7th Annual Walkable Hillsborough Day, an event to celebrate National Trails Day sponsored by the Hillsborough Parks and Recreation Board. The event will include two bike rides this year along with three guided walks of varying lengths and exertion. The guided walks and a family bike ride will leave from the Old Courthouse at 9 a.m. A 20-mile bike ride, coordinated by the Carolina Tarwheels Bicycle Club, will leave from the Visitors Center at 9 a.m. Participants in that bike ride should meet at 8:30 a.m. After the walks and rides, participants will meet back at the courthouse at 10:30 a.m. for activities, prizes, games for children, and refreshments. Information from various organizations—such as the Eno River Association, Audubon Society and Special Transit Advisory Commission—also will be on display. Sunscreen, hats and suitable footgear are suggested for participants. Bringing water bottles is encouraged, although a watering station will be set up at Turnip Patch Park on Occoneechee Street. Hillsborough police officers will participate in the walks to ensure safety at street crossings. In the case of rain, the event will take place at Masonic Lodge, 142 W. King St. |
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 Sunday, June 8, 9:00 pm at our Carrboro StoreClassified ads for our July print newsletter dated: July 2-August 5, are due at our Carrboro Store by 9:00 pm on Sunday, June 8. The cost is $10/month for owners and $15/month for non-owners. Please limit your ad to 50 words or fewer. Weaver Street Market reserves the right to edit ads for length. |
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