We might not call the Big Easy home but nothing is stopping us from throwing our own Mardi Gras celebration!
Dress up in your finest green, purple, and gold. Don’t forget your beads, masks, and feathers and come celebrate in downtown Marion.
Lots of downtown businesses have all sorts of fun things planned. Check in with individual places for special happenings.
Round up your krewe and parade on down the sidewalks of Marion for this festive celebration.
Laissez le bon temps rouler!
Join us Sunday, January 26 for a community meal starting at 6:00. We’ll have cranberry glazed ham, cranberry orange salad, roasted potatoes and cabbage. This meal is supported by Bounty & Soul and Food Connection!
Donations welcomed!
It’s part of Sparky’s mission to divert resources back into our shared community. That’s why we’ve created Sparky’s Saturdays. We invite you to join us the 1st Saturday of every month for free family activities with all your friends and neighbors.
Come join “Jackson Farm Mobile Petting zoo” and friends, as we host an event free of charge, to help the Henson Family.
We invite all to bring all the help needed for the Henson family at the event.
please see The list of Items needed for the Henson family.
This event will bring the joy and Hope for the Henson children and their parents. It will also bring the love of humanity in our communities together.
I like to give a huge Thank you! to the hundreds of people sending beautiful messages, reaching out,
Showing their love, and helping.
This was a tragedy that has impacted the people in our communities and even people from out of state… A tragedy that has no words on how to express the pain and suffering the Henson’s have endured.
This tragedy has hit my heart and I needed to do something to help. The Henson’s are my naighbors whom just moved recently to their home.
I met them on the day this tragedy occurred.
I rush next door and it was like the saddest seen ive ever witness. I grabbed our new baby lamb and let the children hold it, for comfort.
I was holding back my tears and trying to breath as i seen the pain in their little eyes of the children. I talked to the children and promise that things will get better starting tomorrow . I had no idea what i was talking about, but i knew i needed to say something to give them hope. I knew also that God has control of what was happening.
The children became calm as they held the baby lamb.
I had to do more.
The event is in dedication to this family that lost everything including their pets. 😥
Its wonderful to see that we can all make a difference to help them rebuild their lives.
We hope to see everyone there to help, love, aid, give, and support this sweet family.
We will have a truck on site to load and deliver all items to their storage unit.
Food, refreshments, snacks are provided by our friends in our communities.
Entry for the event is free, the cost for the Petting zoo area is 5.00 All proceeds, funds and items will go directly to the Henson family.
This is a family friendly event to open our hearts and help this family who are broken hearted.
The Henson’s will be there.
Also “Zippy” the baby zebra will be there for the first time to meet and greet everyone!
Including all the animals from Jackson farm Mobile Petting zoo.
Thank you all for your love and support for this sweet family.
Please continue praying for the Henson family as each day may seem for ever to heal their broken hearts, suffering and have a normal life again.
We thank God for saving them and for all the people that will help. ❤
For questions please contact me at
mountainstylenc@gmail.com
0r call. 828 233 6399
A Winter Indoor Celtic Festival with Live Celtic Music and Sword Fighting at The Castle. Features also include Celtic Crafters and Artisans, Celtic Dog Breed Clubs, Celtic Food, Genealogy Research, Scottish Heavy Athletics, Whiskey Tasting, and more
Get Tickets at: www.ashevillecelticfest.com
Our very first PM Storytime in February is going to be a Valentine’s Day Tea Party!! We will be reading from The Tea Dragon Society and having a tea party picnic in the store, with cookies and tea from our cafe!
The Tea Dragon Society is the two-time Eisner Award-winning gentle fantasy that follows the story of a blacksmith apprentice, and the people she meets as she becomes entwined in the enchanting world of Tea Dragons!
Join us Friday, the 14th of February, at 7pm! Costumes or PJs are welcome. See you there, lords and ladies of the Tea Dragon Society!
Watch the world transform from dusk to night while climbing in the trees at our Asheville Treetops Adventure Park. Trails will be illuminated to give climbing the obstacles a new perspective. Over 15,000 colored lights, plus colorful lasers sparkling on thousands of leaves, cables, rope, and platforms throughout the park will create a mystical tree climbing experience like you can’t imagine. For ages 4 and over. Reservations are suggested: www.adventureavl.com or 877.547.5539
Every Saturday this Summer from June 6-August 29 at 7:30
Halloween in the Treetops Oct 24 at 5:30
Thanksgiving in the Treetops Nov 28 at 4:30
Holidays in the Treetops Dec 27 at 4:30
Rates: $49/person
Watch the world transform from dusk to night while climbing in the trees at our Asheville Treetops Adventure Park. Trails will be illuminated to give climbing the obstacles a new perspective. Over 15,000 colored lights, plus colorful lasers sparkling on thousands of leaves, cables, rope, and platforms throughout the park will create a mystical tree climbing experience like you can’t imagine. For ages 4 and over. Reservations are suggested: www.adventureavl.com or 877.547.5539
Every Saturday this Summer from June 6-August 29 at 7:30
Halloween in the Treetops Oct 24 at 5:30
Thanksgiving in the Treetops Nov 28 at 4:30
Holidays in the Treetops Dec 27 at 4:30
Rates: $49/person
You are invited to Smart Start’s Annual Children’s Book Sale!
We accept donations of new and gently used books for children ages 0-18 all year long and sort and organize them for your shopping pleasure! Books organized by READING LEVEL and/or subject for ease of shopping.
Thousands of books at unbeatable prices. Most are $1 or less!
We accept CASH and CREDIT CARDS.
NEW THIS YEAR: Shop on Friday from 3-5!
Be sure to stop by the RAFFLE table to enter for a chance to win some great prizes, as well!
Proceeds provide books in the mail every month for children younger than 5 in Henderson County through Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library. Have a child younger than five? Register them today at smartstartpfc.org.
Thank you to WNC Bridge Foundation, FIRST BANK, and Mail Box & Pack for their sponsorship and support.
ASHEVILLE FRINGE FEST!
IT’S NOT JUST FOR GROWNUPS THIS YEAR!
It’s the 18th annual Asheville Fringe Arts Festival and they’ve got the biggest, most diverse line up yet, including 3 different shows for families!
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JAN 23RD 7:00PM
JAN 24TH 5:00PM
JAN 25TH 5:00PM
La Gaviota Teatro brings their multidisciplinary theatre work “URIKUBU: Language without Frontiers” from Mexico City to The Magnetic Theatre. “Have you ever seen a dragon being born or met the God of Time? Through puppetry, live music, dance and a language made up just for this show, experience the magic.” $14/Tickets. Learn more HERE: http://www.ashevillefringe.org/tickets/la-gaviota-thu
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JAN 25TH 7:00PM
JAN 26TH 6:00PM
“The Miraculously Inventive Machine of Charlie Mean” created by puppeteer and toy maker TOYBOX THEATRE, AKA Keith Shubert, is coming to the Wortham Center for the Performing Arts. “Poor Charlie. He is getting bullied everywhere. At school, at home, on the streets, everywhere! It is time for him to plot his revenge! He’s going to invent a new machine to make them rue the day they even messed with Charlie Mean! Funny and full of whimsy for all ages.” $14/Tickets. Learn more HERE: http://www.ashevillefringe.org/tickets/toybox-sat
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JAN 24TH 7:00PM
JAN 25TH 5:00PM
It’s the “Flying Catastrophe Circus”! “Aerial arts! Juggling! Cats on roller skates! Tap dancing contortion! Nine circus artists bring you a show overflowing with laughter, thrill and imagination.” 25-minutes of non-stop fun and child-like wonder at Empyrean Arts. FREE
👉 Learn more at AshevilleFringe.org