The grant will be used toward the Safelight building roof replacement.
“Safelight’s Emergency Shelter has assisted over 4,250 survivors of abuse since relocating in 2008,” Executive Director Lauren Wilkie said in a news release. “The grant from the Community Foundation of Henderson County will give us the ability to repair the roof of our Emergency Shelter so we can continue to provide a safe environment for those fleeing abuse.”
Safelight was founded in 1984 and has helped more than 37,000 survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and child abuse in Henderson County. Paul Tobias is the President of the Board of Directors. For more information about Safelight, go to https://www.safelightfamily.org/.
New documentary explores untold stories of local moonshine history
Special to the Times-News
Everything we know about moonshiners and moonshining history is wrong.
That’s one of the themes of the Center for Cultural Preservation’s new documentary film on regional moonshine history, The Spirits Still Move Them.
David Weintraub, award-winning director/producer of 40 history films interviews nearly three dozen moonshiners and their families in Western North Carolina, East Tennessee and the Dark Corner of South Carolina to tell a story about moonshine history that’s never been relayed before.
“The myth that all moonshiners are violent, lazy, drunk criminals hiding in the woods wearing long beards and longer arrest records has been recounted by the media for over 100 years, said Weintraub. In reality, liquor production was hard, backbreaking work that only the most entrepreneurial farmers conducted which they did in order to survive difficult circumstances and put foo
Stephen Kindland, Times-News correspondent
Local manufacturers have increased their supply chains during the past several months despite the COVID-19 pandemic, but they’re having difficulty increasing production due to lack of manpower.
Brittany Brady, president and CEO of the Henderson County Partnership for Economic Development, estimates that supply chains among the partnership’s 133 listed members have increased 10 to 30 percent, but an unemployment rate of 3.1 percent prior to the pandemic that began early last spring has risen to 4.9%.
“There should be more people in the labor force,” Brady said. “However, there are (fewer) people returning to work, and so we are just doing anything and everything that we can think of to make it easier for job seekers and employers.”
From staff reports
United Way of Henderson County announced the recipients of distinguished awards to community leaders and corporate giving partners at its virtual Annual United Way Celebration Wednesday. While we couldn’t gather in person this year, we wanted to celebrate the great things that support from individuals and companies made possible last year amid an ongoing pandemic,” Executive Director Denise Cumbee Long said in a news release.
Three awards were presented to individuals receiving special recognition. The Rob and Ginger Cranford Community Service Award is presented annually to an individual or couple who exemplify the extraordinary community service that Rob and Ginger Cranford demonstrated throughout their lives.