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Best Use of Local Tax Dollars Festival Park www.ci.fayetteville.nc.us Every community has to have a rallying point, a meeting place. And for Fayetteville residents that place has become Festival Park. It’s a place where families can gather on blankets, kids can run and play frisbee or football while their parents chat, and great music whether it’s country, rock or the sounds of our very own Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra can fl oat through the air. Up & Coming Weekly readers concur that Festival Park is one of the best uses of local tax dollars. Best Local Non-Profi t United Way 222 Maiden Ln., Fayetteville 910.483.1179 www.unitedway-cc.org Did you know that last year the United Way of Cumberland County’s more than 102 locally funded programs and services provided assistance to 98,071 individuals and families, including 24,089 military families? Apparently our readers did, as they voted the United Way the Best Local Non-Profi t. For those not in the know, the United Way isn’t a service provider, instead it is a funding agency that serves as a clearing house for charitable donations within the community. Once the annual campaign is complete, the agency funds the various programs of our community non-profi ts to ensure that they can meet the needs of the community. The tireless work of the volunteers who knock on doors, make call phones and get people to open their wallets to give during the annual campaign is what makes the agency a success, and those people are your neighbors, your friends, and could even be you! Check out the United Way United Way of Cumberland County HOW TO UNITED. GIVE INVEST IN THE BUILDING BLOCKS FOR A GOOD LIFE. EDUCATION, REACH OUT A HAND TO ONE AND INFLUENCE THE CONDITION OF ALL. LIVE UNITED Best Local Station and Best Local Traffic Reports WKML 95.7 508 Person St., Fayetteville 910.486.4114 www.wkml.com Self-proclaimed Carolina’s best and most country WKML provides listeners with entertainment, music, and reliable traffic reports. The station also has a variety of contests to give out a plethora of goodies to their faithful listeners — and obviously the listeners appreciate it. So on your way to work do what the cool kids do and tune into WKML for the Best Local DJ and a great traffic report. You will be entertained, possibly save some time in traffic, and who knows, maybe you’ll win a prize. According to the voters of Fayetteville, it will be well worth your time. Best Local DJ Don Chase WKML 508 Person St., Fayetteville 910.486.4114 www.wkml.com Don Chase is something of a Fayetteville legend. If you listen to country at all, then you probably drive to work with Don, wake up with him or have come to know and love him over the airwaves. Don is a friend that you don’t really ever see, but one that you count on. As 24 BEST OF FAYETTEVILLE SEPTEMBER 8-14, 2010 WWW.UPANDCOMINGWEEKLY.COM TM INCOME & HEALTH. Want to create opportunities for everyone in Cumberland County? United Way is creating lasting changes by focusing on the building blocks of a better life –education, income, and health. Visit us at www.unitedway-cc.org. For more than 14 years, Operation Inasmuch has impacted our community through a volunteer, one day, hands-on mission blitz as local churches have come together to be the hands and feet of Christ. With programs designed to meet the needs of the whole community, the organization holds an annual Blitz Day each year in a moderate to low income neighborhood is chosen to be the recipient of home repairs for owner occupied houses with a focus on the elderly and disabled. Volunteers host a block party for the neighborhood children with food, crafts, and games. In church fellowship halls, volunteers use their gifts for sewing projects, letter writing to prisoners, hand- crafting memory books for foster children and performing a multitude of mission projects to meet vital human needs. In the community teams of volunteers serve by performing blood pressure checks, serving communion, singing in nursing homes, laundromat ministry and casserole ministry. In January 2007, Operation Inasmuch opened its doors as a 501(c)(3) non-profi t organization to continue the mission but with the vision to be a year round ministry to the Fayetteville area. website to fi nd out how you can be involved in an agency that your neighbors rated the best. Best Local Community Program/Civic Club Operation In As Much 531 Hillsboro., Fayetteville 910.433.2161 www.faoiam.org his listeners have dubbed him Uncle Don, he is a comfortable and comforting presence in our community. He makes us laugh, and let’s us blow off a little steam. Don Chase is Fayetteville’s Best Local DJ. Best Local Columnist/Writer Bill Kirby Fayetteville Observer 458 Whitfield St., Fayetteville 910.323.4848 www.fayobserver.com Okay, so in the Battle of the Bills, Bill Kirby came out on top this year, but that doesn’t mean Up & Coming Weekly Publisher Bill Bowman wasn’t nipping at his heels. It’s been that way for quite some time, although Kirby has called Fayetteville home a lot longer than Bowman. Kirby has worked at the Fayetteville Observer since 1971 in many capacities. He currently writes columns about people and places in the Cape Fear region, and has a blog at http://blogs.fayobserver.com/kirby called The Gospel Truth, I Think. Kirby has quite a following and was voted Best Local Columnist/Writer by Up & Coming Weekly readers. Congrats, Bill.