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A Dickens Christmas AutumnCare A NURSING & REHAB 1401 71st School Road | Fayetteville, NC 28314 | Admissions Coordinator: 910.867.4960 ing and rehabilitation facility is located in a quiet neighborhood surrounded by nature and privacy. At Autumn Care of Fayetteville we are putting a new face on rehabilitation with our state-of-the-art equipment. Our rehabilitation gym is equipped with innovated electrical stimulation, Ultrasound, Shortwave Diathermy, Virtual Reality Unit (Omni-VR), and the Biodex Balance System just to name a few. Autumn Care of Fayetteville looks forward to serv- ing our community as well as surrounding communities. UTUMN CARE OF FAYETTEVILLE is proud to be a member of the Autumn Care family. Our 90-bed nurs- 64 | November/December • 2012 Since 2000, a steadily growing crowd of Black Friday rebels has gath- ered in Downtown Fayetteville for The Arts Council's A Dickens Christmas celebration. Where shoppers at big box retailers on the notorious day after Thanksgiving are known to get violent over hot-selling electronics, those who find themselves Downtown on Black Friday are much more likely to stroll, sing Christmas carols and sip hot ci- der. The festival takes people back to a much slower time, the Victorian pe- riod of Charles Dickens. It was originally conceived as a way to draw shoppers Downtown on the busiest day of the year for merchants in the Skibo Road area. Downtown mer- chants say that it's an important day for them now, too, as all those slower- paced shoppers meander in and out of Downtown's specialty shops. The festival begins earlier in the day but really gains steam as dark ap- proaches. Throughout the afternoon ,role players in Victorian costumes, sometimes speaking with British ac-

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