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Small Business Expo Set at Cross Creek Mall by BHAIRAVI BHATT Holidays are right around the corner and that means that you need to start on your gift list. A great way to start would be to visit the annual Small Business Expo held by the local North Carolina Center of Economic Empowerment and Development, otherwise known as CEED. Every year CEED gives local business owners an opportunity to show off their exclusive and limited products and have them available for individuals to purchase. This is a wonderful opportunity to start shopping for the holidays and get your hands on exclusive deals that no one else offers. Visitors to the event will fi nd a wide variety of goodies to give to their favorite someone — or even to keep for themselves. There will be a vendor from Pretty & Pink where one can get their hands on fashion accessories, handbags, clothing and more. D-Unique Jewelry and Accessories will be there along with Hope Thru Horses, which is an equine-assisted psychotherapy program. Diamond Home Essentials and Ways of Wellness will be in attendance as well. There are about 80 vendors who will be present during the expo this year including several food vendors. Chef Julius III, who is well known for the Bezzies Home-style Barbeque Sauce, is a local favorite and will be at the event. According to Laura Solano, who is a business consultant at CEED, "This is our third year for organizing the Small Business Expo, and it's our first time holding it at Cross Creek Mall. Our objective is to stimulate our local business growth and bring exposure." Cross Creek Mall, being a centralized location, will bring an increased amount of vendors and attendees this year. CEED has a main goal of finding ways to help individuals and businesses succeed. By going along with the mission of promoting growth, productiveness and well being through peer counseling, education, information and advocacy programs, CEED is anticipating a successful event that is sure to please both the vendors and the event attendees. CEED provides a variety of programs to the community, both on an individual and business level. Last year, according to CEED statistics, 2,407 small business owners attended 1,645 workshops and $285,000 was loaned to seven small business owners. Along with classes and workshops, CEED also provides many resources to displaced homemakers. Last year CEED helped 148 people in this category with resources like financial aid counseling, the career makeover workshop, the family law clinic and the computers for the workplace clinic. The North Carolina Center for Economic Empowerment and Development is located at 230 Hay St. Find out more about the organization by visiting the website at www.ncceed.org or smallbusinessexpo@ncceed.org. BHAIRAVI BHATT, Contributing Writer, Up & Coming Weekly, COMMENTS? Editor@ upandcomingweekly.com. Cumberland Oratorio Singers' Season Opens by STEPHANIE CRIDER It's been 20 years since the Cumberland Oratorio Singers debuted in Fayetteville. It's been 20 years of high quality performances and entertainment and 20 years of fun. On Oct. 14, the Cumberland Oratorio Singers open their 2011/2012 season with A Concert of German Masters: Bach, Beethoven and Brahms. "This is the fi rst performance of our season," said Maureen Yearby, of the Cumberland Oratorio Singers. "It is the German Master Composers — about 1/2 of the concert will be presented in German as it was written by the composers. A few peices will be sung in English." Ludwig van Beethoven's "Hallelujah," from Christ on the Mount of Olives is the fi rst number in the line-up. It's a piece that is set in the garden of Gethsemane right before the crucifi xion of Jesus Christ and explores the emotional turmoil that Jesus must have felt at the time. The piece is often considered more dramatic than religious. The piece ends when Jesus personally accepts his fate and focuses on the fact that it was a personal decision. The concert ends with Johann Sebastian Bach's "Wachet auf, ruft uns die On March 24, the Cumberland Oratorio Singers team up with the Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra, area university and community choirs to perform "Beethoven Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 125" at Reeve's Auditorium. The group of choirs is called The Spring Students of all ages are admitted free of charge to Cumberland Oratorio Singers performances. Festival Chorus and plans to work together in the future to make collaborative choral works a tradition in the community. Let Your Light Shine is the last performance of the season and will take place on May 11 at St. Ann 'sCatholic Church. They will perform Lux Aeterna by Morton Lauridson. "The concept of light is very powerful in both poetry and song. The five movements of Lux Aeterna are based on various references to light from sacred Latin texts. The power and finesse of Lux Aeterna will speak to each of us in its own way," says the Cumberland Oratorio Singers' website. The concert is at Highland Presbyterian Church and begins at 7:30 p.m. Stimme, BWV 140," a chorale contata which is also known as "Sleeper's Wake." Based on Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme by Philipp Nicolai, this hymn has been translated into English and enjoys popularity in English and German. The piece is about the parable of the ten virgins in the book of Matthew of the Bible. The rest of the season promises to be well rounded and packed with great entertainment too. On Dec. 4, the annual performance of Messiah Sing! will be performed at First Presbyterian Church. This classic is always fun for the audience because citizens of Fayetteville are invited to join the chorus on stage and sing with them. 8 UCW OCTOBER 12-18, 2011 STEPHANIE CRIDER, Associate Editor, Up & Coming Weekly, COMMENTS? Editor@upandcomingweekly.com. WWW.UPANDCOMINGWEEKLY.COM "We love to have students in attendance," said Yearby. "In fact, students of all ages are admitted free of charge. That has always been our commitment to the community. We take very serioulsly trying to spread the love of classical choral music and trying to make sure that we expose younger generations to the genre to inspire them to participate when they grow up and to introduce them to the classiscs." Visit http://cumberlandoratoriosingers.org to find out more about the Cumberland Oratorio Singers.