Up and Coming Weekly is a weekly publication in Fayetteville, NC and Fort Bragg, NC area offering local news, views, arts, entertainment and community event and business information.
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STAFF bbowman@upandcomingweekly.com PUBLISHER Bill Bowman editor@upandcomingweekly.com ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER Janice Burton caroline@upandcomingweekly.com MANAGING EDITOR Caroline Goins stephanie@upandcomingweekly.com MARKETING/SALES ASSOCIATE EDITOR Stephanie Crider kristy@upandcomingweekly.com Linda McAlister Brown ltmcmd01@aol.com Kristy Sykes OFFICE MANAGER Laurel Handforth officemanager@ upandcomingweekly.com accounting@upandcomingweekly.com ACCOUNTING art@upandcomingweekly.com GRAPHIC DESIGNER Alicia Miller www.upandcomingweekly.com 208 Rowan Street P.O. Box 53461 Fayetteville, NC 28305 PHONE: (910) 484-6200 FAX: (910) 484-9218 Up & Coming Weekly is a "Quality of Life" publication with local features, news and infor- mation on what's happening in and around the Fayetteville/Cumberland County community. Up & Coming Weekly is published weekly on Wednesdays. Up & Coming Weekly welcomes manuscripts, photographs and artwork for publication consideration, but assumes no responsibility for them. We cannot accept responsibility for the return of unsolicited manuscripts or material. Opinions expressed by contributors do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher. The publisher reserves the right to edit or reject copy submitted for publication. Up & Coming Weekly is free of charge and distributed at indoor and outdoor locations throughout Fayetteville, Fort Bragg, Pope Air Force Base, Hope Mills and Spring Lake. Readers are limited to one copy per per- son. Subscriptions can be purchased for $30 for six months or $60 for 12 months, delivered weekly by first class mail. ©2007 by F&B Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction or use of editorial or advertisements without permission is strictly prohibited. Heather Griffi ths, Shannon Angry –––––––––––– Up & Coming Weekly CONTRIBUTING WRITERS D.G. Mar tin, Pitt Dick ey, Margaret Dickson, John Hood, Erinn Crider, Karen Poppele, INSIDE PUBLISHER'S PEN by BILL BOWMAN Calendar ........................................... 14 Concert Connection ........................ 18 TV ..................................................... 20 Movie Review .................................. 21 Free Wheelin' Feelin' ....................... 22 Horoscopes/Advice Goddess ......... 23 Classifieds ........................................ 24 Games .............................................. 26 Big Government Can't Squash the American Dream Do you think there is really an assault on entrepreneurs and small businesses in America? No? Yes? Well, I do and I'm both an entrepreneur and an owner of a small business. I work with small businesses every day and witness daily the frustration that comes from trying to balance the operation of a profi table business with complying to hundreds of burdensome and costly state and federal regulations. When will it stop? Will it ever? When was the last time any politician (city, right up there with the locations of the Cumberland County Coliseum, JP Riddle Stadium and the county jail; the Prince Charles Hotel fi asco, the E-85 Ethanol Plant scandal, the Docks money grab, the demise of the Museum of Art and the dubious location of the Festival Park Building. America's traditional Jackie Pfendler of J.P. Electric struggles to keep her American dream. county, state or national) campaigned on a platform of getting rid of stifl ing, needless laws and regulations that would make it easier to do business? Never! And, now, most recent local and national developments have small businesses breathless and bracing themselves for the next round of governmental assaults. Here are a few examples: Currently, a profi table 50-year-old family-owned business in New Jersey employing 75 people in their manufacturing plant fi nds themselves "lawyered-up" in order to keep their local government from commandeering their plant and turning it over to a private developer for a shopping mall in the name of economic development. From the Market House to the White House the rules, restrictions policies, taxes and thousands of pages of laws regulating small businesses is stifl ing. Closer to home, entrepreneur and private business owner Jackie Pfendler of J.P. Electric struggles to keep the City of Fayetteville from snatching up her American dream in hopes of relocating the blighted Person Street bus station to create a new shiny government-funded blighted area on Winslow and Russell streets. Unfortunately, this situation will inevitably play itself out in the courts. Win or lose the encounter will leave every American with an entrepreneurial spirit skeptical of government intentions and forever unsure of the defi nitions of freedom and the American dream. In addition, the proposed multi-modal transportation complex has an excellent chance of being the next chapter in Fayetteville/ Cumberland County's book of most notorious mistakes. It ranks Fayetteville's Weather Forecast August 3 Fayetteville's Weather Forecast Friday Thursday August 2 Saturday August 4 Homemakers Furniture, Cameo Theatre, Up & Coming Weekly, Copiers Plus, Hercules Steel, Healy Wholesale, Holmes Electric, Gill Security, Huske Hardware, Arrow Pest Control, Bullard Furniture, the Haymont Grill, Chick-fi l-A and yes, even the threatened J.P. Electric Company. free-enterprise system, vision, hard work, risk, sweat equity and unselfi sh personal investment have built hundreds of local businesses like Townsend Realty, Ed's Tire, Circa 1800, The above list is by no means comprehensive, but all of the businesses listed are stellar examples of the American Way. These are the kind of people and businesses that have built America and paved the way to prosperity. The government has no claim on their success. To paraphrase what a very astute Congressman said appropriately "... take the heavy boot of government off the throat of American businesses." Government may be able to force you to give up your business and acquire your land through eminent domain. However, they cannot use eminent domain to acquire pride, prosperity and profi ts — all of which drive a prosperous and healthy economy. Again, good luck, J.P. Electric. Fight the good fi ght. You are fi ghting for all of us. Thanks for reading P.S. Good news! There is no truth to the rumor that Circa 1800 is closing. Circa's recent closure was to accommodate vacations, renovations and equipment upgrades and staff training. Come on down! Thank you, for reading Up & Coming Weekly. BILL BOWMAN, Publisher, Up & Coming Weekly, COMMENTS? editor@ upandcomingweekly.com. CalCall 910.354.1679l 910.354.1679 Sunday August 5 Monday August 6 Tuesday August 7 4 UCW AUGUST 1-7, 2012 Thunderstorms High 89° Low 73° Scattered Partly Cloudy High 90° Low 73° Thunderstorms High 90° Low 72° Scattered Forecast available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Thunderstorms High 91° Low 73° Evening Thunderstorms High 90º Low 71º Scattered Thunderstorms High 92º Low 72º Isolated WWW.UPANDCOMINGWEEKLY.COM 24 / 7