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WWW.UPANDCOMINGWEEKLY.COM NOVEMBER 27- DECEMBER 3, 2019 UCW 31 e Cumberland County Soil and Water Conservation District is accepting pre-paid orders for tree seedlings. To place an order, go to co.cumberland.nc.us/soil- water and click on the "Tree Seedling Sale" tab on the webpage. Anyone ordering seedlings must complete the order form and return it with payment. Seedlings are evergreen and native to North Carolina: • Longleaf Pine $5 per bundle of 15 seedlings • Loblolly Pine $5 per bundle of 20 seedlings • Eastern Red Cedar $5 per bundle of 5 seedlings Please make checks payable to: Cumberland SWCD Mail to: 301 East Mountain Drive, Suite 229 Fayetteville, NC 28306 Seedlings will arrive the second week of December fresh from the farm. Proceeds from the annual tree seedling sale are used to fund youth educational projects such as the annual Resource Conservation Workshop, Envirothon and Land Judging. For more information, call 910-484-8479, option 3, or visit the district's website at co.cumberland.nc.us/ soil-water. Tree Seedling Sale Tree Seedling Sale e Cumberland County Public Library celebrates Small Business Saturday by hosting a vendor event at Headquarters Library, 300 Maiden Lane, Nov. 30 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. is event is open to the public and focused on providing "artrepreneurs" the opportunity to exhibit their goods and interact with customers. Local artists will sell original, non-mass produced products in the Pate Room. Devon Wilson will demonstrate how to make alcohol-ink tiles at Fascinate-U Children's Museum, 116 Green St., and Marcos Mata will teach graffiti lettering art at the Arts Council of Fayetteville/ Cumberland County, 301 Hay St. Participants who visit all three events will be entered for the chance to win a gift basket. is project is made possible through a $1,000 grant from the Arts Council of Fayetteville/Cumberland County. For more information on this and other free programs available at the library, visit cumberland.lib.nc.us or call 483-7727. Artisan Alley Shop local vendors @ your library T he Board of the Mid-Carolina Council of Governments (COG) unanimously appointed Justin B. Hembree on Nov. 6 to serve as the agency's executive director. He will officially begin duties on Dec. 9. Hembree has been executive director of the Land of Sky Regional Council in Asheville since 2012. He replaces the late James E. Caldwell, who served as the Mid- Carolina COG executive director from 1997 until 2018. A native of Mitchell County, N.C., Hembree has served in positions of management in county and municipal governments for more than 20 years. His professional experience includes serving as manager or administrator of the towns of Catawba, Tryon and Taylorsville, N.C.; county manager of Mitchell County and assistant county manager of Henderson County. Hembree earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Community and Regional Planning and a Master of Public Administration degree, both from Appalachian State University. He served in the U.S. Army from 1992 to 1995. "We are excited about our new executive director and look forward to working with him to put into action our strategic plan to revitalize, expand and improve the range of services provided to our members and citizens," said Jeannette Council, Chair of the Cumberland County Board of Commissioners, who also serves as chair of the Mid-Carolina COG Board of Directors. e Mid-Carolina COG is the state-designated lead regional organization for Cumberland, Harnett and Sampson counties. Mid-Carolina is one of 16 regional councils in the state formed to provide various programs and services to their local governments and citizens including technical assistance for land use planning, zoning, administration, water and sewer studies, annexation reviews and community development workshops. Mid-Carolina Council of Government Board members, left to right, are Harnett County Board of Commissioners Chairman Gordon Springle, Cumberland County Board of Commissioners Chair Jeannette Council (Mid-Carolina COG Chair), Town of Salemburg Commissioner Arnold Page, Sampson County Commissioner Sue Lee, Town of Erwin Mayor Patsy Carson and new Mid-Carolina Council Executive Director Justin B. Hembree. Mid-Carolina Council Names Mid-Carolina Council Names New Executive Director New Executive Director News for Cumberland County Residents co.cumberland.nc.us Cumberland Matters