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This is it: Your personal
invitation to Up &
Coming Weekly's biggest
community celebration:
our 18th Annual Best of
Fayetteville Awards Party.
Join the staff and
management of Up &
Coming Weekly, along
with special guests
Fayetteville Mayor Nat
Robertson, Cumberland
County Commissioner
Chairman Kenneth
Edge and Jimmy Keefe,
Fayetteville Area Chamber
of Commerce Chairman
George Breece, John
Meroski, president of
the Fayetteville Area Convention and
Visitor's Bureau and Mac Edwards and
Don Chase of Beasley Broadcasting, as
we meet and greet those people who
and businesses and organizations that
have gone the extra mile to establish
themselves as Fayetteville and
Cumberland County's Best of the Best.
For 18 years we have been
recognizing and honoring hundreds
who have contributed to Fayetteville's
honor, integrity and quality of
life.
This is not only our biggest
event of the year, but as
we celebrate our 20th
Anniversary as Fayetteville's
community newspaper the
Best of Fayetteville is our most
cherished contribution to the
community. For this we are very
proud and extremely grateful.
So, let's party!!!!
Fun, Food, prizes and
surprises. It's all happening on
Tuesday Sept. 15 from 5:30 - 8
p.m. at the newly renovated
Kagney's Night Club near
downtown on Bragg Boulevard.
This is your personal
invitation. Put it on your calendar and
bring your friends!
Join us for the Best Party In Town!
And, thank you for allowing Up
& Coming Weekly to serve the best
community in North Carolina as your
community newspaper!
PUBLISHER'S PEN
Your Personal Invitation to the Best Party In Town:
The Best of Fayetteville
by BILL BOWMAN
BILL BOWMAN, Publisher, UP & COM-
ING WEEKLY. COMMENTS? Editor@upand-
comingweekly.com. 910.484.6200.
STAFF
PUBLISHER
Bill Bowman
Bill@upandcomingweekly.com
ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER
Janice Burton
editor@upandcomingweekly.com
EDITOR
Stephanie Crider
stephanie@upandcomingweekly.
com
ART DIRECTOR/GRAPHIC ARTIST
Sara Smith
art@upandcomingweekly.com
CONTRIBUTING WRITERS
D.G. Martin, Pitt Dickey,
Margaret Dickson, John Hood,
Erinn Crider, Jim Jones,
Shanessa Fenner, Heather Griffiths
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER
Karla Allen
karla@upandcomingweekly.com
DISTRIBUTION MANAGER/
Laurel Handforth
laurel@upandcomingweekly.com
ACCOUNTING
Paulette Naylor
accounting@upandcomingweekly.
com
MARKETING/SALES
Kristy Sykes
kristy@upandcomingweekly.com
Linda McAlister Brown
linda@upandcomingweekly.com
Beverly Pone
beverlypone@upandcomingweekly.
com
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You are cordially invited
to attend the exclusive preview
AWARDS
Tuesday, September 15, 2015
5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
at the newly renovated
UP
&
COM
ING
W
EEKLY
'S
Guest Celebrity MC Don Chase of WKML
Carolina's Best and Most Country
Awards Presentation 6:30 p.m.
Welcome: Bill Bowman, Publisher, Up & Coming Weekly
Remarks:
Mayor Nat Robertson
State Representative John Szoka
County Commissioner Chairman Kenneth Edge
FACVB President John Meroski
Chamber Chairman George Breece
R.S.V.P.
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