Up & Coming Weekly

September 18, 2018

Up and Coming Weekly is a weekly publication in Fayetteville, NC and Fort Bragg, NC area offering local news, views, arts, entertainment and community event and business information.

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4 UCW SEPTEMBER 19-25, 2018 WWW.UPANDCOMINGWEEKLY.COM PUBLISHER'S PEN STAFF PUBLISHER Bill Bowman Bill@upandcomingweekly.com ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER/EDITOR Stephanie Crider editor@upandcomingweekly.com OPERATIONS DIRECTOR Paulette Naylor accounting@upandcomingweekly.com ASSISTANT EDITOR Leslie Pyo leslie@upandcomingweekly.com SENIOR SPORTS EDITOR Earl Vaughan Jr. EarlUCWSports@gmail.com REPORTER Jeff Thompson news@upandcomingweekly.com GRAPHIC DESIGNER Elizabeth Long art@upandcomingweekly.com CONTRIBUTING WRITERS D.G. Martin, Pitt Dickey, Margaret Dickson, John Hood, Jim Jones, Shanessa Fenner, Jason Brady, Lauren Vanderveen, Matthew Skipper, Shane Wilson SALES ADMINISTRATOR/ DISTRIBUTION MANAGER Laurel Handforth laurel@upandcomingweekly.com MARKETING/SALES Linda McAlister Brown linda@upandcomingweekly.com ––––––––––– Up & Coming Weekly www.upandcomingweekly.com 208 Rowan St. P.O. Box 53461 Fayetteville, NC 28305 PHONE: (910) 484-6200 FAX: (910) 484-9218 Up & Coming Weekly is a "Quality of Life" publica- tion with local features, news and information on what's happening in and around the Fayetteville/ Cumberland County community. Up & Coming Weekly is published weekly on Wednesdays. Up & Coming Weekly welcomes manuscripts, photographs and artwork for publi- cation consideration, but assumes no responsibil- ity for them. We cannot accept responsibility for the return of unsolicited manuscripts or material. Opinions expressed by contributors do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher. The publisher reserves the right to edit or reject copy submitted for publication. Up & Coming Weekly is free of charge and distributed at indoor and outdoor locations throughout Fayetteville, Fort Bragg, Pope Air Force Base, Hope Mills and Spring Lake. Readers are limited to one copy per person. ©2018 by F&B Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction or use of editorial or advertisements without permission is strictly prohibited. Various ads with art graphics designed with ele- ments from: vecteezy.com and freepik.com. Editor's note: Publisher Bill Bowman and the staff at Up & Coming Weekly look forward to celebrating our Best of Fayetteville winners every year. e excitement, the party and the memories we make each year are andintegral part of our company's identity. Hurricane Florence has other plans for us this year, though. We are still celebrating the Best of Fayetteville winners, but the party is off. And we are devastated – for the community and the destruction Florence has wrought. Below is the text from a press release announcing Bill's decision to cancel this year's Best of Fayetteville party as the community turns to rebuilding and recovering. For 21 years, Up & Coming Weekly has celebrated the very best in this community with a reader survey followed by a Best of Fayetteville celebration. is year's cel- ebration was scheduled for Tuesday, Sept. 18. Due to flooding and other damage by Hurricane Florence, the party has been canceled indefinitely. "We are devastated and heartbroken over the catastrophe facing our com- munity and our neighboring counties," said Up & Coming Weekly Publisher Bill Bowman. "However, we are a resilient and caring community. Hugo, Fran, Matthew and now Florence were all unwelcome guests that came and went, leaving paths of destruction in their wake and changing our lives forever by testing our mettle and strengthening our resolves. It is unfortu- nate that we face these challenges at a time when we are celebrating and congratulat- ing our Best of Fayetteville winners. Now, it's time to focus entirely on putting fami- lies and lives back together and rebuilding our homes and businesses." e Best of Fayetteville readership and community survey is sponsored by Up & Coming Weekly, the Greater Fayetteville Chamber and the Better Business Bureau. It is a comprehensive and rigorous process where local residents write in votes for their favorite people, businesses and organizations. ousands of readers cast their vote each year. Once the ballots are counted and validated, the winners are an- nounced and honored at a free celebration hosted by the sponsors. e Best of Fayetteville winners also receive feature write-ups in the Best of Fayetteville edition of Up & Coming Week- ly. is is the largest and most-read edi- tion of the year and is used year-round to introduce newcomers to the Fayetteville/ Cumberland County community. is edition also remains online all year at www.upandcomingweekly.com. All winners have hyperlinks back to their websites. "Winning Best of Fayetteville is a really big deal," said Best of Fayetteville Pro- gram Manager Don Garner. "e winners deserve to be recognized, and we will be contacting each winner in the com- ing weeks to make sure they are properly congratulated." Up & Coming Weekly is much more than a weekly community newspaper. Since its creation in 1996, its mission and focus has been to accentuate and illuminate the quality of life enjoyed here in Fayetteville, Fort Bragg and Cumberland County. Best of Fayetteville Celebration canceled by BILL BOWMAN BILL BOWMAN, Publisher, UP & COMING WEEKLY. COMMENTS? BILL@upandcomingweekly.com. 910-484-6200. FREE F&B PUBLICATIONS VOLUME 23 ISSUE 37 Sept. 19 - 25, 2018 Cumberland County's Community Newspaper Special Edition 21 st Annual

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