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Jacob Wilson, Tandi Mahn, Kristi Southern, and Brad Hufford have been friends and neighbors in Greenville for over a decade.

Dinner, Drinks, and Friends NEIGHBORS BRING NEW LIFE TO DICKINSON AVENUE DISTRICT

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Story by JULES NORWOOD • Photography by RYAN WEBB

here’s a buzz in the evenings on Dickinson Avenue, and the story behind it is one of convergence, of timing, of partnership.

Once a busy business district, the area, located just outside Reade Circle on the fringes of Uptown Greenville, is seeing a resurgence as an arts and entertainment district.

The two couples who have teamed up to open Dickinson Avenue Public House — Tandi Mahn and Jacob Wilson of Christy’s Euro Pub, along with Kristi Southern and Brad Hufford — may well have established the street’s new cornerstone, judging from the public’s positive reaction to its unique atmosphere and menu.

Changes “I think Tandi was just biding her time, waiting for me,” says Kristi.

“She knew it was coming.”

The two couples had been friends and neighbors on Library Street, and remained neighbors when they both bought homes in the Englewood neighborhood (they claim it wasn’t planned). They often

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Jalapeno slaw adds a kick to the dry-rubbed baby back ribs with beef-fat fries. Trustan Hamilton and Ian Buro are the anchors of a talented kitchen staff, says Chef/Owner Jacob Wilson.

shared meals, both at home and at restaurants around town.

Kristi had been teaching for 10 years and was in need of a career change. Tandi and Jacob had re-established the reputation of Christy’s and were considering a new venture. Brad, who spends his days promoting the area with the Pitt County Development Commission, was eager to be part of the kind of project that helps attract and retain businesses and industries.

Rewind to 2009, when Tandi, then a waitress, bought in as a partner at Christy’s. It had become the kind of place where you only

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drink the bottled beer, she admits.

Jacob came on board a few months later and began experimenting in the kitchen.

“Just making the food from scratch altered Christy’s as a whole,” she says. They introduced new items, ran specials, and worked hard to bring customers back in to give the dive bar another chance. By 2014, with a strong staff in place and the kitchen operating at full capacity, Tandi and Jacob were talking about starting a food truck or opening a new restaurant — perhaps in Chapel Hill or Asheville.

“A good friend of mine said

something we’ve all heard before,” adds Jacob. “Be the change you want to see. Tandi and I thought about that and decided we could go open up somewhere else, or we could help build Greenville.”

Kristi finished up her last semester teaching in spring of 2014, and started working at the pub to get reacquainted with the food and beverage industry. The wheels were turning.

Timing That’s when Tandi ran into Bianca Shoneman of Uptown Greenville and Holton Wilkerson of CommunitySmith, the historic

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Most recently Remember When antique store, the rehabbed storefront of has upgraded the appearance of Dickinson Avenue.

redevelopment firm responsible for the Superblock project.

“It was sort of a … ‘funny you should mention that, we may have just the place,’” says Tandi.

CommunitySmith was already working on plans for the three-bay building on Dickinson that had formerly been home to Remember When Antiques. Trollingwood Taproom & Brewery had signed on for one bay, and there was a floorplan for a restaurant in the remaining space. With a few alterations — most notably using all of the remaining two bays rather than a much smaller portion — it became Dickinson Avenue Public

House.

“We like how it’s been dubbed the arts and entertainment district,” says Kristi. “We like that feel; it goes with the audience that we are looking for, and what we’re interested in. I like the idea of revitalizing an area, being part of taking back an old Main Streettype area.”

The demolition portion of the project began in October 2014, and it wasn’t long before the workers discovered what has ended up being the centerpiece of the restaurant’s décor — underneath the plaster was a giant advertisement for the

general store that once operated next door. The brick had been an outside wall and had been painted: “VERY REFRESHING” reads one portion, in tall, bold letters.

The team immediately set out to figure out how to save the ads and incorporate them into the plans.

“It would be a whole different space without it. Even just exposed brick, it would still be entirely different. I guess it would just be pictures of Tandi and me,” jokes Kristi.

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Once an exterior wall of the next door building, the ads are living history.

Houston, Texas for the DAPH menu.

He and Tandi were thrilled with the opportunity to build their own kitchen, team and menu from scratch.

“The food influence is just a melting pot of really good food,” he says. “It’s Mexican, it’s Asian, it’s Creole, it’s Southern. We love Christy’s, and it was a great learning experience, but we had so many ideas about the way about the way we wanted to do things, so this is just a dream.

“The team is a huge part of it, across the board, both the partnership and the expanded team, everybody that works here. My dad taught me at a young age, find good people, treat them right, and good things will happen.”

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A thick layer of damaged plaster hid these painted ads, now an unmistakable part of the public house atmosphere.

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Whisky-bent banana pudding

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The bar was built with reclaimed wood from the renovated buildings at Fifth and Cotanche streets.

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The Bone-In Duroc Pork Chop is served with white bean ragout, braised red cabbage and apples, and maple mustard glaze.

Try not to drool.

The staff sits down for an early dinner each evening before the restaurant opens, and everyone has a chance to offer input.

“Everybody in the kitchen has a say and can bring something to the table, and we’ll try it,” Jacob says.

Appetizers and salads include jalapeno deviled eggs with candied bacon, seared scallops with a green pea puree, and an apple and walnut salad with watercress, arugula and goat cheese. Entrees like the pan-seared trout and a smoked duck and andouille gumbo ensure the dining room is packed from open to close each evening. There will be seasonal changes as the team experiments and different fresh ingredients are available.

The impressive bar, created with reclaimed wood from CommunitySmith’s project at Fifth and Evans, features specialty cocktails and North Carolina beers on tap. There’s also a small stage for occasional live music. The mix of dinner, drinks and music maintains a sense of balance.

“You don’t need an occasion to come in; you can come in jeans and a t-shirt for dinner and a cocktail,” Jacob says. “The idea of a public house is that it’s for the public at large. An upscale pub, what we’re doing here, that didn’t really exist in Greenville, so it’s really fun to bring it in.”

Brad says he’s thrilled to be part of the renewed energy along the Dickinson Avenue corridor.

“I took karate here when I was a kid, and we’d go to the bakery after,” he says. “There was a comic book store, and later, in college, I started collecting vinyl records, so I would hit up all those antique stores. So I’ve spent a lot of time on Dickinson Avenue, and I always saw it as the hip, urban area of Greenville.”

It’s the type of place, he adds, that should be hot real estate — young professionals and edgy businesses.

There’s also the historic aspect, since some of the buildings have escaped the wrecking ball.

“You’ve got that urban fabric as far as zero lot lines and the non-grid pattern with the funky streets that come in, and wrap around and curve, so the area is unique,” he says.

With the popularity of celebrity chefs and food shows on television, everyone gets to see the cool restaurants in other cities.

“It just takes some entrepreneurs saying, ‘Let’s do it.’ We need more of that. In economic development, we’re trying to sell Greenville and Pitt County. … To have those unique places that you can only find here shows that we’re a community that invests in itself and has something to offer beyond what you can find anywhere else,” Brad says.

It took a combination of factors to bring it all to fruition, and the sum total is a new destination for good food, good drinks and a positive atmosphere in Uptown Greenville.

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Tandi also has a plan to bring a new bottle shop to Greenville, serving a market niche that was once filled by a group of establishments on Jarvis Street.

“You would go put in a load of laundry and walk down to Christy’s or Main Street, and have a beer and some food,” Tandi says. “And then when your laundry was done, you’d go to City Market and get a six-pack of the good beer that you were drinking in the pub.”

Now, she says, there is almost nowhere in town to buy a keg, and there’s no single shop that sells craft beer and wine, as well as kegs. She hopes to create just such a shop on Jarvis, near the pub.

“My vision is all the beers, all the wines, all the kegs, and then a few taps to fill up growlers,” she says.

Minor zoning changes were needed and have been approved. There’s no name yet, but the target is to be open for fall 2016.

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LOCAL PRODUCT

ÁLARITA Fresh salsa, jams, and jellies Since 2003, Ayden’s Johnson family has been

Banana Jam. The business started with fruits

making and selling salsa at the Pitt County

and vegetables from the garden, prepared in

Farmers Market. Now found at other Eastern

the family’s kitchen. Today, they use space

North Carolina farmers markets and retailers,

in a commercial kitchen to meet the greater

álarita salsas, jams, and jellies are made fresh

demand.

in small batches.

The salsa customers see in the markets on Saturdays and Sundays was made on Thursday, cured overnight, and packaged on Friday, says owner LaRita Johnson.

Popular favorites include Cucumber Mango

LaRita’s parents, husband, and children all have a role to play, from cutting tomatoes to creating new recipes.

Currently álarita products can be found at Jefferson’s in Greenville, Simply Natural Creamery in Ayden, Living Well Down East in Winterville,

Salsa, Spicy Black Bean Salsa, and Salsa

The Village Butcher in New Bern, and KD’s

Con Queso. The jelly selection features

Garden Market in NewBern, as well as the Pitt

combinations such as Pineapple Pepper

County Farmers Market, New Bern Farmers Market

Jelly, Cabernet Blueberry Jelly, and Jammin’

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TIME FOR TROLLINGWOOD Conceived in 2012 and opening soon next to Dickinson Avenue Public House, Trollingwood Taproom & Brewery aims to bring brewing back to Greenville.

Featuring a three-barrel natural gas brewing system, a long bar and outside seating, the space has been completely renovated. Test batches are under way, and it won’t be long before the patio is filled with satisfied beer lovers. Hops, the dog of headbrewer Grayson Williams will be ready to greet you.

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NEIGHBORHOOD

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Drew Steele has been a fixture on the Pirates’ sideline since the Holtz era, folding towels and inspiring the players. The support of the Greenville community has made it home for Drew and parents Mike and Sandy.

A Pirate’s Life for Drew

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t’s game week, and Drew Steele can fill you in on all the details.

“Who do we have this week?” asks his dad, Mike.

“Temple.”

They’re undefeated, and they’re ranked. Number 18, 2-0 in the conference and 5-0 overall. The game’s at 7 p.m. on ESPN2.

“And what time should we get

there?” Mike asks.

Drew pauses, but only for a second: “Four-thirty.”

“I think five will do it,” laughs his mom, Sandy. “For the last noon game, he got up and wanted to go at 7 a.m.”

Game days are a big deal in the Steele household. Recently Drew called his dad, who was out of town, on a Saturday morning.

“GAME DAY!” Drew exclaimed.

“I said, ‘Yeah, game day,’ and he goes, ‘Dad, that’s no good, try again.

GAME DAY!’ So I had to shout, ‘GAME DAY!’” Drew, who has Down’s Syndrome, had to miss a few games last year after having heart surgery, but otherwise, he has been on the Pirates’ sideline for nearly every home game since the tradition GREENVILLE TIMES DEC 2015/JAN 2016

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Formerly the Elm Street Gym, the renovated Drew Steele Center includes a gym, weight room and accessibility modifications.

The Drew Steele Center was a community collaboration made possible by multiple donors.

started during the Skip Holtz era.

What did he miss the most while he was out? The answer is emphatic: seeing the Pirates stomp the Tar Heels.

“He missed going to the football games, that was tough,” Mike says.

“But Coach Ruff has been really great.”

McNeill circled the date on the calendar that Drew’s medical team thought could mark his return.

It was a game against UConn on ESPN. “So whenever he’d get a little tired, we’d remind him that he had to come back for that game,” Mike says.

“So he did all his exercises, and then his cardiologist, the day before the game, he says, ‘Drew you’re released, you can go to the game, but you’ve got to be very careful, because you’re not all the way healed.’ And Drew says, ‘Dr. Sang, I don’t play football.’”

Drew finishes the story: “I fold the towels,” he told his doctor.

Drew Steele Center Enthusiastic as he is, it’s not every football fan that gets to fold towels for the team and watch the games from the sidelines. It was Holtz who first brought Drew into the fold. The two met during a Special Olympics

golf tournament.

“Coach and Drew just hit it off,” Mike says. “Skip had been here for probably three weeks. He had so much to do, and he knew the team was going to need a lot of work, but he came out and played in this thing, and it was raining and nasty. He told a group of people afterward that he was so glad he came, that it was so much fun because of Drew Steele, his energy and excitement.”

Holtz told Drew during the awards ceremony that he wanted him to come talk to the football team before one of the games. Drew, who was working at Chick-fil-A at

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Across the street from the Drew Steele Center are an accessible playground and ball field.

the time, told him he wouldn’t be able to do that, because he already had a job.

“So Skip immediately says, ‘I’ll have my people talk to your people and see if we can work it out,’” says Mike.

“It was Coach Holtz’s idea to do some type of fundraiser and to put Drew’s name on something,” says Sandy, who was on the Parks and Recreation Board when the renovation of the Elm Street Gym was being discussed. The gym wasn’t air conditioned and was in need of major work.

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Holtz helped sponsor an annual golf tournament that raised half a million dollars over three years.

State and federal grants, local contributions, and in-kind help from some of the contractors helped ensure the project’s success. The scope of the work included gym and restroom renovations, a new weight room, visitor reception area, multiuse area, offices, and accessibility modifications.

“It’s not just for special needs people,” Sandy points out. “It’s a community center that’s designed to accommodate people with special

needs. Now it’s a place where there’s a lot going on, from bridge to ballroom dancing.”

Drew, who works at the center once a week, has been known to claim it on occasion.

“When people come in from out of town, he’ll say, ‘Have you seen my building?’” explains Sandy. “I’ll say, ‘It’s not your building,’ and he says, ‘Well it has my name on it!’”

Community Support Drew was two and a half when the Steeles moved to Greenville. Mike had been offered the job of coaching

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the ECU basketball team.

“We weren’t going to move here if they didn’t have services for Drew,” Sandy says. “ECU had a preschool for children with special needs, and the special education professors were wonderful. They pretty much recruited me, and it turned out that there was more here than where we had been before. What I’ve found is that this community is very accepting of persons with special needs.”

Drew has developed a network of friends in the community, and he has a list of people he calls on a daily basis.

“He keeps that list right in his pocket,” Mike says. “He’s got a big list. Some people are on the list once a day, some twice a day, and some are on three times a day.

People like to be on the list, but you get what you wish for. When he calls, he’ll keep calling.”

One friend who was in New York for work checked his voicemail after a meeting and had 21 messages from Drew.

“I hate the Yankees,” Drew explains.

When he calls, they talk about his favorite subjects — food and football.

“He asks them what they had for dinner, they talk about food; it’s universal,” say Mike. “And who’s playing who. Drew’s in two football pools, and he’s pretty good. Nobody helps him, and sometimes they ask him who he’s taking.”

Drew reads up on all the teams;

he knows who’s good at home, who’s struggling on the road, whose defense is suspect. He tends to favor his favorite teams, which has paid off pretty well this year. On the other hand, Mike’s alma mater, Purdue …

“Purdue stinks,” Drew chimes in.

Tony Khoury of the East Group is on the list for multiple calls each day.

“The best part of my day is when I receive one of my three phone calls from Drew, because regardless of how my day went, I can always count on Drew to bring a smile to my face,” he says. “He’s such a loving person, and I am so blessed to have him in my life.”

It’s those friends and the community’s support that have kept the Steeles in Greenville long after Mike moved on from coaching.

A Minor Setback Mike and Drew have an annual summer tradition of playing pool football (Drew is ECU, and always wins). Last year, Drew said he felt tired at halftime and the game ended early. The next time, the same thing. Mike felt that something wasn’t right, and at their next visit to the cardiologist, X-rays showed a muscle growing into a valve in his heart. Surgery was needed to remove the interfering muscle, and possibly to repair or replace the valve. Fortunately, the valve started working once the muscle was shaved back.

As usual, Drew wasted no time winning over the hospital staff.

When he met the surgeon, Drew insisted that he should listen to his heart.

“He says, ‘Drew, I don’t need to, that’s why I’m here. Plus I don’t have my stethoscope,’” Mike says.

“Drew tells him he better find one.

So he’s got nurses scrambling to find a stethoscope, and he listens to his heart, and then as he’s leaving, Drew says, ‘Dad, I like that guy.’

“As we were walking out I heard him tell one of the nurses, ‘I can promise you this, I’ll never see another patient without my stethoscope!’”

Even heart surgery couldn’t dampen Drew’s enthusiasm for food. The morning after, he requested Waffle House — and the nurse made an exception for him. A day or two later, when most people would still be on Jello, Drew wanted Jersey Mike’s.

When Mike and Drew looked at the scar for the first time, Mike says, “I’m thinking, ‘That looks tough,’ but he goes, ‘Hey, not too bad!’”

He made it to that UConn game, by the way, and the Pirates won, 31-21.

The team feeds on Drew’s energy, and he has fast friends in the equipment room. They’re the ones who helpfully told him girls love a scar, so Drew is quick to show it off.

“Having Drew’s energy, enthusiasm and positive attitude brings the same qualities to the football team,” says former coach Ruffin McNeill. “We love having him around!”

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Treasure

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Surrounded by his collection of everyday finds, the craftsman heats a copper disc to make it malleable.

Lost and found

THE LEFT-BEHIND BECOMES JEWELRY IN GOLDSMITH’S HANDS Story by JULES NORWOOD • Photography by RYAN WEBB

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car-crushed tobacco tin, a broken piece of glass, or an animal bone could be picked up from a sidewalk on campus and end up in an art museum with Robert Ebendorf around. Trained as a goldsmith, he finds his gold and diamonds in the objects others walk by.

“Where I grew up in Topeka, Kansas, there were alleys, and in the alleys were trash cans,” he says, “and I used to take my little wagon and go up and down the alleys, snooping in the trash bins.”

The big score then was glass liquor bottles.

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Cross broaches, Robert Ebendorf

go to Missouri and buy alcohol … so if I found liquor bottles in someone’s trash, I knew they were naughty, because they would drink that stuff,” Ebendorf chuckles. “So I found myself bringing things back that I found that were interesting, and I would put them on the shelf that my father let me use in the garage, kind of like a display room.

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paint, and I’d take my bicycle and dribble paint on it.”

From Topeka it was off to Lawrence for Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Fine Arts at Kansas University, and a Fulbright Scholar grant took him to the State School of Applied Arts and Crafts in Oslo, Norway, where he trained as a goldsmith. Back in the U.S., he began to test the limits of what he could create with what he had learned.

Gold and jewels took a back seat

everyday objects.

Showing his work, he says, “If you look at these, there’s some gold here and some gold here, but most of this is either from the beach or the street – there’s a hinge, there was a photograph here, it’s broken, so taking the photograph out and tearing it and collaging it into here … a spoon handle, a piece of coal, a can lid off the street. You can see that … I try to make order out of chaos. My world is very much about chaos, but then putting my

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Walk on the Beach, Robert Ebendorf

sensibility about design to it and making some of what I would consider order out of it.”

People viewing his work may recognize objects that they feel a connection to, as well, something they can relate to in Ebendorf ’s creative vision. He acknowledges that his work can be challenging, and that it is outside of what people are used to when it comes to jewelry.

“Often when they walk in and see a group of my pieces, they’ll

say, ‘Oh, I had one of those when I was a child. I played jacks; see the dice? I played Monopoly,’” he explains. “So there’s this tie-in — a baby doll, a comb, some parts from a Barbie doll. There’s a kind of connection sometimes to memories of childhood, in that sense.”

The art world has noticed as well, and museums around the world display his pieces, including the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Metropolitan Museum, and the Victoria Albert

Museum in London. Jewelry incorporating bones from roadkill has generated the full range of reactions; Ebendorf points out that relics from the hunt – a grouse’s feather in the hat or a necklace of tigers’ teeth – have a long and varied history as human adornment.

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In 2014, the Racine Art Museum displayed a retrospective of Ebendorf’s work and produced a hardcover book with more than 35 images, two essays, and an interview.

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in Raleigh and Greenville before landing at the Smithsonian. It also resulted in a hardcover book with the same title as the exhibit: “Ebendorf: The Jewelry of Robert Ebendorf : a Retrospective of Forty Years.” In 2010 he received the North Carolina Award, the state’s highest civilian honor.

Meanwhile, his work at East Carolina University as an art professor, which brought him to Greenville in 1998, affords him the opportunity to practice his craft while mentoring, influencing, and being influenced by young artists.

“I just turned 77,” he says, “but my world stays locked in between 21 and 28 years old. I deal with students with the same emotional challenges — pregnancy, credit cards, drugs or

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As he works, Ebendorf sets aside the fragments that might find their way into his project.

alcohol, where do I go with this piece of paper when I graduate? So that brings a flow of energy and an exchange of dialogue.”

The combination of roles and talents — artist, educator, goldsmith — works for Ebendorf, and he says the walk to work is never an unhappy one.

“I think that it’s a blend of those three,” he says, “and I’ve had the opportunity to have studio practice because East Carolina has been kind enough to keep me on board to use my gift in the educational field. I’m fortunate to have the luxury of being who I am.”

In his studio, the raw materials of

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his craft appear to have taken over.

The shelves, tables, and every other horizontal surface are covered.

Behind the door is a precarious stack of empty boxes — his shipping and receiving department.

He doesn’t need a large cleared space to work on a small piece of jewelry; just a bench pin, a source of heat, a saw, and a collection of files and hammers. The only powered tool is a tiny drill press.

“Everything else is wired, riveted, trapped using goldsmith techniques, and also using the heat for soldering,” says Ebendorf.

“Working on a project I’ll usually take it and … put the components

in that can so I’ll know exactly where those are. Because sometimes I get things lost in the bric-a-brac.”

When working on a specific piece commissioned for a client, he sometimes produces drawings to pin down the general idea, but often he just works from the materials he wants to use, letting them dictate the end result. As soon as picks something up, he adds, he’s turning over in his head what he might fabricate.

“When I go to the beach, I have a tendency to walk the beach and gather beach glass, or found materials like the crab claws and bones along the sand dunes.

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Concepts for broaches

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The theme of redemption is a part of nearly every piece.

In Greenville itself ... I never grew up around this material,” he says, picking up a Grizzly tin, “so all of a sudden I started seeing these can lids on the ground that had been run over … and I knew nothing about this world.”

His wife, Aleta Braun, is also an influence. They work very differently — her space is orderly and quiet, a stark contrast to the mounds of treasure in his lair.

An artist and a reflexologist, Aleta is creative as well, and her opinion carries weight when offered. She also helps keep his collecting in check; for each object brought into the house, two are supposed to go out.

“My gold and diamonds are the things that I find on the street, or in the dumpster,” Ebendorf says. “Things that are broken, and are cast off, and are going to end up in the landfill. I have a tendency to come back and deconstruct those objects … and clean them up, and use my goldsmithing and silversmithing skills to fashion them into something to go on the wall or put on the body. It’s about the passion for the unusual, and pushing the parameters of adornment.”

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The 1720 Paperwhite Narcissus became one of New Growth Designs’ first products and remains a best seller in the line.

Its product number is the street number of the original Jefferson Florist at 1720 W. Fifth St. in Greenville.

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lorists, Special Event and Wedding planners often find themselves in challenging situations when fresh flowers ordered specifically for the occasion fail to cooperate. With over 35 years of fresh flower experience, Ed and Jef Glenn of Jefferson Florist in Greenville, NC have first-hand knowledge of such situations. Realizing the need for and potential usefulness of high quality, lifelike artificials, Ed began designing and building his flowers, and New Growth Designs® was born.

Ed and Jef had a feeling that these lifelike, faux flowers and plants could “share the stage with fresh flowers and plants.”

Following a successful introduction of New Growth Designs® in a friend’s showroom at the 1996 High Point International Furniture Market, Ed began looking for factories that could build the components that would be used in his flowers. “That very first flower, #1720 Narcissus Paperwhite, remains one of our best sellers.”

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Now in it’s 20th year, Ed and Jef can say that the faux fresh® flowers and plants from New Growth Designs® “share many stages” and are often mistaken for the real thing.

Ed’s passion and aesthetic detail has garnered a loyal clientele with more than 1500 exclusive locations around the world including major retail stores, interior designers and architects. The success of New Growth Designs® can be measured by the number of clients that return time after time for these beautiful florals. For that success Ed credits his staff ’s commitment to complete customer satisfaction. “My team is totally committed to delighting our customers and their clients” he says, “which has been key to our success and growth.”

Ed is meticulous about every detail and his goal to capture the “spirit” of a flower or plant. “Each factory that I work with has

its own area of expertise and experience.

One might make better stems and trunks and another the best petals and leaves.” The components I have designed for the New Growth line are then manufactured and shipped to Greenville for final assembly and finish.”

“We are unique in this because most companies selling similar products as New Growth Designs are only importing a premade product from a single factory. Our approach can meet a customer’s specific needs and requests from inception to finish by bringing together the very best materials from many different factories to produce a truly unique quality and life like product.”

So, no matter where you might roam, if you see a New Growth Designs® tag on a product, “it came from right here in Pitt County, USA.”

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RETROSPECT

Before shopping centers FIFTH STREET STRUCTURE HOUSED PROMINENT RETAILERS Story by ROGER KAMMERER • Images CONTRIBUTED

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he advantages that Greenville has enjoyed as a wholesale shopping center over the years was due to the numerous quality mercantile stores that have called the city home throughout its history.

Each of these businesses added prestige to Greenville’s distinction as the “Shopping Center of Eastern Carolina.”

Most of these stores are gone now, but some of the buildings they were housed in have been restored and readapted, such as the Blount-Harvey building and Montgomery Ward-Belk Tyler building.

The remarkable three-story Montgomery Ward-Belk Tyler building is located on Fifth Street and once held some of the most prestigious chain stores to ever come to Greenville. This unique building has the only polychrome terra cotta facade erected in Greenville and is one of only a handful of terra cottaclad buildings in Eastern North Carolina.

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This pen-and-ink sketch shows the Belk-Tyler storefront and signage.

Montgomery Ward-Belk Tyler building site in about 1890 was known as the Glascow Evans Livery stable and later as George King’s Stables.

In 1902, W.E. Hooker and Edward Flanagan tore down the stables and hired H.S. Pool, a contractor, to erect a three-story brick livery stable on the site. In March 1906,

the Greenville Wholesale Company formed, with owners David Stanley Smith and Whitt J. Hardee, who leased the building from Hooker and Flanagan. In 1909, S.E. Gates of Mount Airy, N.C., former salesman for the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., purchased a 1/3 interest in the wholesale company. Older residents may remember that the wholesale company used the first two floors, and that coffins were stored on the third floor. The company went out of business by 1926.

On Oct. 5, 1928, W.E. Hooker and his wife Annie leased the threestory, 40-by-164-foot building to Montgomery Ward Company of Delaware and Chicago for $500 a month. This information was kept secret until Mr. Hooker advertised for bids to rebuild the store.

The Montgomery Ward Company was at the time one of the largest chain store-mail order businesses in the country. In 1929, W.E. Hooker took down the old Greenville Wholesale Company building and replaced it with a new three-story

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The former retail location is now home to Crossbones Tavern at the street level and apartments upstairs.

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The neon sign shown in this photo of a bustling 1950s Fifth Street was added in 1938.

(Photo courtesy of ECU Manuscript Collection)

structure costing $65,000. Hooker hired J.J. Sawyer of Greensboro, N.C. as architect, advertised for bids in January 1929, and hired S.S. Tolar & Co. of Rocky Mount, N.C. to build the new building for the Montgomery Ward Company.

The Montgomery Ward Company used a polychrome terra cotta facade with a bas-relief of the “Spirit of Progress” at the top of the center bay on all of its stores as a symbol of the company. The facade of the Greenville store was described as one of the most beautiful and imposing of any mercantile structure in the state.

The Montgomery Ward Company sold everything for the home, farm, and school, and even sold modest kit-homes like Sears. On opening day, Saturday, Aug. 31, 1929, Montgomery Ward in Greenville employed 80 clerks to take care of the enormous crowd of 11,000 patrons who visited

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the store. Montgomery Ward closed its Greenville store in late January 1932 due to the economic pressures of the expanding Depression.

In 1932, Quinn-Miller Furniture Company moved into the store on Fifth Street from its former store on Dickinson Avenue. The Quinn-Miller Furniture Company had been in Greenville since 1913, and the officers in 1932 were J.O. Miller, J.M. Quinn, Lawrence A. Stroud, and Berry Bostick.

In the early morning of Sept. 14, 1932, a policeman saw smoke coming out of a second-floor window and sounded the alarm. Since the fire station was next door, the fire was put out quickly, which probably saved that section of the business district. It seems the fire started in the wiring between the second and third floors, and the fire had burned several large holes in the floors and

damaged several thousand dollars of merchandise from fire and smoke.

In January 1933, Quinn-Miller closed the second-hand furniture store on Dickinson Avenue and opened a Used Furniture Department on the third floor. It advertised elevator service to the second and third floors and had a “well-equipped ladies’ restroom on the second floor.”

Quinn-Miller’s lease ran out on Dec. 31, 1937, and the company decided to liquidate the business. The company reorganized as the Quinn-Miller & Stroud Company and built a store adjacent to the rear of the Belk-Tyler building facing Cotanche Street.

In January 1938, it was announced that Belk-Tyler had leased the building on Fifth Street and would open a department store at this location. By early August 1938, Belk-Tyler had remodeled the store, “erected a modern, attractive front,”

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Built after the stables were razed in 1902, the building still rises over today’s streetscape.

and had installed a large neon sign bearing the name of the firm.

The new Belk-Tyler store opened on Thursday, Aug. 25, 1938, with 143 salespeople to wait on the huge crowd in town for the opening of the Tobacco Market. When the Greenville store opened, it was the tenth Belk-Tyler store to open in Eastern North Carolina. On opening day, the Quinn-Miller & Stroud Company still had furniture for sale at the rear of the first floor of Belk-Tyler’s while Quinn-Miller & Stroud were waiting for their new store to be finished. The Belk-Tyler store remained on Fifth Street until 1979, when it moved to the Carolina East Mall.

At this time the building was bought by Bill Ipock, who in 1980 sold it to Jack Edwards for $125,000.

Ipock was a huge UNC fan, and he pledged the sum of the monthly payments from Edwards to the UNC Ram’s Club. In 1984, Don Edwards moved his bookstore, The Book

The first building on the site was a stable.

EARLY GREENVILLE RETAILERS C.T. Munford C. Heber Forbes Bowen’s Blount-Harvey Taft & Van Dyke Whites Stores Wilson’s Montgomery Ward Belk-Tyler Brody’s Quinn-Miller

Barn, from across the street into the old Belk-Tyler building. In 1985, the metal front was taken off of the building, exposing the beautiful tile work. The Book Barn closed in 1985.

In the fall of 1990, Jack and Don Edwards set about re-adapting the structure in order to renovate and save the entire building. The upstairs areas were changed into apartments,

and the first floor was adapted for restaurant space.

Remarkably, all the apartments still have the beautiful stamped-tin ceilings and moldings from the 1920s. The first restaurant business to come in was Granddaddy Rosser’s; then in 1992, Paul Gianino opened 5th Street Pasta Works; followed by Fillabusters and in 1994

by BW3s.

In 2006 the building was purchased by David Carpenter, who continued to lease the 12 large upstairs apartments with great views of the city. In 2007, BW3s moved to another location, and in August 2008 the Armadillo Grill restaurant moved in and erected its unusual 15foot vertical neon sign.

The restaurant space is now home to Crossbones Tavern, owned by Kelly and David Munoz. The house specialty is smoked meat, and there is live entertainment on weekends as well as a seating mezzanine with great views of Fifth Street.

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GREENVILLE MEMORY

ICE COLD

Chilling in mid-century Greenville at City Ice

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he City Ice Company on Albemarle Avenue was a picturesque building and the last of the old-time ice companies. The wood from this structure now lives on in the River Dunes development on the Neuse River in Pamlico County, N.C. In 1936 there were three ice companies in Greenville: Citizens Ice Co., E. Augustus Rogers, manager, on Albemarle Avenue; Clarks Ice, Coal and Wood Co., William C. Clark, manager, on Atlantic Avenue; and Colonial Ice Company, Vernon M. Rawles, manager, on Church Street. These three companies remained the leading ice distributors in Greenville for many years.

The Colonial Ice Company, with its main offices in Greensboro, N.C., opened in Greenville in 1933. In 1948, the company began building a new 50-ton ice making plant near its old location on Church Street. The company operated a fleet of 10 delivery trucks, serving a 12-mile circle around Greenville.

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Ice was big business during hot summers in the mid-1900s.

Company appears to have stopped selling ice during World War II. In about 1966, the Citizens Ice Company moved to South Railroad Street, and the City Ice Company took over the old Citizens ice plant on Albemarle Avenue. By 1969, there were only two ice dealers in town, the City Ice Company on Albemarle Avenue and the Colonial Ice Company on Ninth Street.

Everyone in Greenville in the ‘50s and early ‘60s would go to

the City Ice Company to buy “ice-cold” watermelons that were always chilling in the summer!

This was also the place to buy shaved ice and fine crushed ice for homemade ice cream.

One summer, the hospital had problems with its ice machine and bought all that the ice company could provide.

The City Ice Company building, pictured here, was located near the existing Roxy Theater and was razed in 2006.

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Top chefs team up for infant health

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he Greenville Signature Chefs Auction was held on Thursday, Oct. 29 in Harvey Hall at The Murphy Center on the campus of East Carolina University. Event guests sampled delectable dishes from premier area chefs while bidding on unique and tempting auction packages, some of which featured the talents of the signature chefs. The evening of giving benefited the March of Dimes, dedicated to bringing healthy babies to families everywhere.

Major sponsors for the event included Barbour Hendrick Honda, WITN, and the Daily Reflector.

Heather Stepp of Keller Williams Points East was the event chair. Reid Haddock, along with his family, served as the 2015 ambassador family.

Reid was born nearly two months prematurely and experienced various health complications due to his early birth. He went on to spend the first four weeks of his life in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).

Premature birth is the most serious infant health problem in the United States today. It affects more than half a million babies nationwide each

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rin Barfield, Greenville resident and winner of the Uptown Retail Challenge, has fulfilled her dream of being able to open a storefront location in the Uptown District.

The Uptown Retail Challenge, an incentive program and showcase of business owners from Greenville and surrounding areas, was designed to award one promising startup with a $15,000 incentive to open a business location in Uptown Greenville.

Truly Yours is located at 403 South Evans St. in the Uptown

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Commercial District and opened its doors in October. The women’s clothing boutique offers the latest fashions for women, ranging from everyday wear to special occasions.

The retailer has an existing e-commerce site, and the Uptown location is part of its transition from clicks to bricks.

“This is a women’s boutique offering fun and trendy clothing, shoes, jewelry, and accessories at an affordable price,” says Barfield, President and General Manager of Truly Yours and graduate of the Merchandising program at East Carolina University.

“The Uptown Retail Challenge grant has played a big role in opening a physical location,” says Barfield. “It will give me the ability to allocate more hours for employees and increase my advertising budget, which will be very important in getting the brand out in the community.”

Barfield received matching advertising packages from the Greenville Times and Cooke Communications, Greenville Utilities Commission-sponsored utility support services, a Pirate Radio advertising package, rent subsidies sponsored by Uptown, the City of Greenville and Electricities, membership with the Greenville-Pitt Chamber of Commerce and with Uptown Greenville, and WOOW-AM 1340 radio advertising.

By adding Truly Yours to the array of Uptown businesses, the Uptown Retail Challenge program hopes to promote a vibrant city center full of cultural and economic opportunity by placing businesses in the midst of university foot traffic for a fraction of the traditional cost.

“Opening a retail store in Uptown will allow me to contribute to the growth of the place I call home as well as help give students a good option for shopping close to campus,” says Barfield.

The aim is not only to reseed the center city, but also to create a great place to live, work, play, invest, and shop.

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Festival of Trees

First Friday Artwalk

First Fridays, 5 p.m.

Uptown Greenville hosts First Friday Artwalks on the first Friday of every month for the local community.

This event provides the community opportunities to network with local artists while providing them with exclusive specials at surrounding restaurants and retail shops. Art galleries, artist studios and museums located in the Uptown Greenville area will highlight local artists for meet-and-greets with the local community interested in products produced by the artist. For more information, visit www. uptowngreenville.com.

Common Grounds

Every First Wednesday Common Grounds is a morning networking event for those small business owners and entrepreneurs located in Eastern North Carolina. It takes place the first Wednesday of each month at 9 a.m. at Art Avenue, 212 E. Fifth St.

Dec. 1-22, Monday-Friday 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Sponsored by Family Support Network at the Greenville Convention Center, 303 SW Greenville Boulevard. Enjoy the beauty of more than 100 trees donated by businesses and organizations with each expressing a different meaning and theme. Visit www.fsnenc.org or contact 252-328-9332.

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Jan. 18, 7:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.

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Steve Hardy’s Original Beach Party

Dec. 17, 6 p.m.

Held at Greenville Convention Center, 303 SW Greenville Boulevard. Visit www.originalbeach1.com or contact 252-321-7671.

Ballroom Dancing

Jan. 23, 7 p.m.

At Greenville Country Club. Lesson of the Hustle, Part One. Call 717-1112 for more information.

NEW YEAR’S CELEBRATIONS New Years Eve Bash with The Mikele Buck Band and Dauntless

Dec. 31, 9 p.m.

Join us at the award-winning Holiday Inn Greenville, for the biggest and best party in town.

Celebrate in style with The Band Dauntless at 9p.m. and the headliner, The Mikele Buck Band,

at 11:30 p.m. Advance tickets are $25 ($35 at the door) and can be purchased at the front desk. Don’t miss out on the champagne toast at midnight, party favors galore. Oh, and did we mention the photobooth sponsored by the Greenville Times? Tickets $25 advance/$35 door.

Visit higreenvillenc.com for more information.

Pitt Community College, highlight the benefits that the Connect NC Bond will have on higher education. The Connect NC Bond ($2M) is slated for the upcoming March 2016 primary. At HiltonGreenville, 207 Greenville Blvd. SW. Member Price - $16. Non-Member Price - $26. For more info, visit greenvillenc.org.

The One Fifty New Year’s Bash

Chamber Golden Gala

Dec. 31, 9 p.m.

Presented by Villedge Wood-Fired Kitchen and The Young Professionals of Pitt County from 9 p.m. - 1 a.m. Reserve tickets at 252-355-9500. Join us as we say farewell to 2015, and give a warm welcome to 2016. This is a celebration you don’t want to miss. Tickets include wine, beer, champagne and heavy hors d’oeuvres. Enjoy live music by Rowlette Green and Mercy Creek. This Event is limited to 150 guests. Dress: Black Tie Optional. Tickets: $125 per person. VIP lounges available. Cocktail Waitress - Bottle Service - Private Seating - Logo Placement Gold Lounge (8 Guest) $600|Platnium Lounge (24 Guest) $1800.

CHAMBER EVENTS January Business After Hours

Jan. 7, 5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.

Vidant SurgiCenter, 102 Bethesda Dr, Greenville celebrates the great business opportunities we have in Greenville and Pitt County at Business After Hours. Enjoy hors d’oeuvres and refreshments while building new business relationships and strengthening established ones.

For more info, visit greenvillenc.org.

January Power Luncheon

Jan. 19, noon - 1:00 p.m.

Dr. Steve Ballard, Chancellor of East Carolina University, and Dr. Dennis Massey, President of

Jan. 23, 6:00 p.m. Cocktail Hour 7:00 p.m. Dinner and Presentation Hilton Greenville Chairman Leo Corbin and the Board of Directors of the Greenville-Pitt County Chamber of Commerce invite you to celebrate talents, accomplishments, and dedication of our members. Presented by Suddenlink. Featuring the Citizen of the Year Presentation. Dress: Black tie optional. For more information, visit greenvillenc.org.

PERFORMANCES A Big Band Christmas

Dec. 18, 7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.

St. James United Methodist Church Family Life Center invites you to come and enjoy the Emerald City Big Band with vocalists in the Annual Public Christmas Concert! Adults $10 or greater donation is appreciated at door, Youth/Students are Free.

Lush Brush

Dec. 18, 19 Magnolia Arts Center hosts. All supplies included in the ticket price. This includes the wine. One bottle per ticket. All the money raised goes back into community arts through the Magnolia Arts Center. We are a 100% volunteer organization.

So, all the money left over after the expenses of the class, goes right back to help us have a greater impact in the local community. Magnolia Arts Center reserves the right to refuse beverages to any individuals for any reason. The projects

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brings musicians from throughout the world to Greenville to collaborate and perform chamber music, alongside world-renowned professionals. For more info, visit www.ecu.edu.

Music House Concert

Malpass Brothers

Dec. 18, 7:30 p.m.

R.A. Fountain General Store hosts The Goldsboro boys who have become one of the hottest musical acts in N.C,, and because their Fountain shows are always SRO, reservations are highly recommended.

General admission: $12.50. Reserved seats: $15.

Both prices include tax. This family atmosphere is smoke and alcohol-free. For more information about RAF’s events, phone 252-749-7974/3228 or visit www.rafountain.com.

Four Seasons Winter Workshop 2016

January 8-9, 7 p.m.

Held at ECU A.J. Fletcher Music Center. Faculty artists and festival participants perform together in ensembles. The second season of Winter workshop

Jan. 24, 5 p.m.

Occitania, the southern part of France, was a land unlike any other in Europe in the thirteenth century.

It was a land of tolerance, mobility, and equality where the seeds of a blossoming Renaissance were sown, only to be cut down tragically. Modern-day troubadour Rai d’Honoré interweaves music, poetry and history into this original dramatic and haunting performance. Rai narrates in English and sings in English, French, and Occitan. A tour de force, this is song that will touch your heart and transport you back in time to Occitania in the thirteenth century. Suggested per concert: $20, Seniors-$15, Students-$5. Any donation above the suggested is most appreciated. Reservations required. For more info, email themusichouse@suddenlink.net or call (252) 367-1892

Dance

Jan. 28 - Feb. 2, 8 p.m.

An evening of dance that’s as diverse as it is entertaining. Featuring choreography from renowned guest artists and original works by our creative faculty, our talented dance students always provide a show that second to none. The diverse range from classical ballet, to bold contemporary, to hot jazz and explosive tap provide a performance that is wide ranging and engaging. Public: $15; Current ECU student/Youth: $10. At McGinnis Theater, ECU.

Four Seasons Quartet Classics

Feb. 4-5 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s String Quartet in B-flat Major, Ludwig van Beethoven’s String Quartet in C Minor, and Felix Mendelssohn’s String in F Minor. At ECU A.J. Fletcher Music Center.

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Keep Greenville Beautiful presents Recycling Works!

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GET HELP RECYCLING: Ask us about how we can assist you with recycling. Contact Cheryl Tafoya at 252.329.4048 or ctafoya@greenvillenc.gov

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Beginning Jan. 11, sessions will be held on Monday and Wednesday nights The Greenville Recreation & Parks Department’s Sports Connection is now taking registration for Group Batting Lessons sessions 1 & 2. Lessons are for ages 7-12. Lessons will stress fundamentals of batting in baseball. For more information on dates, times, and location please call The Sports Connection at 215-9090 between 1 - 8 p.m., Monday-Friday. You may register at The Sports Connection 1 - 8 p.m. Monday–Friday. Spaces are limited in this program.

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Parent/Child/Individual Batting League Beginning Jan. 12 The Greenville Recreation & Parks Department’s Sports Connection is now taking registration for the Winter parent/child/individual batting league.

Child may sign up with a parent or as an individual.

Teams and individuals will bat and bunt for a score on a weekly basis for a six-week period. Individual & team champions will be determined and weekly prizes awarded. For more information on dates, times, and location please call The Sports Connection at 215-9090 between 1 - 8 p.m., Monday-Friday. You may register at The Sports Connection 1 - 8 p.m. Monday–Friday. Spaces are limited in this program.

RECYCLE Christmas Tree Lights Recycling Up and Going For The Fourth Year

Christmas tree light strands that no longer work, are a part of everyone’s life. The problem every Christmas season is “What to do with them?” You hate to just throw them away. This holiday season Martin Enterprises, along with three regional Walmart stores, is going to give you the opportunity to rid yourself of the lights. Blue collection carts, donated by Waste Industries, are set up in Walmart stores located in Greenville on E. 10th Street, Washington, and Williamston. This collection keeps the lights out of the land fill plus helps support the mission of Martin Enterprises. You can visit www. martinenterprises.org or call 252-792-8251 for more information plus like us or send us a pic of you with your burned out lights on the Martin Enterprises’ Facebook page. If you live in an area that isn’t listed above, you are welcome to mail your lights to us at Christmas Lights, P.O. Box 1042, Williamston, NC 27892 in a box or padded mailing envelope.

Call Susan Daughtry at 252-792-8251 or e-mail susandaughtry@martinenterprises.org for additional information.

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Dining Options in Uptown Greenville 501 Fresh

Krispy Kreme

The Blackened Kraken

La Benedicion

Buzz Coffee House

Marathon

Campus Cookies

Mi Cabana Express

Chico’s Mexican Restaurant

Pop’s Burgers

Christy’s Europub

Satellite Pizza

Cinnamon

The Scullery

Crave Uptown

Starlight Café

Crossbones Tavern

Sup Dogs

Dickinson Avenue Public House

Thai 360°

Fitzgerald’s

Trollingwood Taproom & Brewery

Insomnia Cookies

Uptown Nutrition

Jimmy Johns

Winslow’s Tavern, Deli & Market

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We invite you to visit Uptown Greenville for dining, shopping and relaxing in the heart of Greenville.

501 Fresh

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501 S. EVANS ST. 252.751.0799 Salads and wraps made with fresh produce.

The Blackened Kraken

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123 E. 5TH ST. 252.215.8822 Southwestern cajun cuisine featuring seafood, steaks, burgers and poboys. Open late.

Buzz Coffee House

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1201 S. CHARLES BLVD. 252.329.0871 A coffee house that serves Counter Culture coffee, donuts handmade fresh serveral times a day, and a great atmosphere for reading, answering emails, or catching up with friends.

Campus Cookies

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203 E. 5TH ST. 252.266.0024 Late night deliveries of warm, gourmet, bakedto-order cookies right to your door! They offer 16 flavors of cookies, brownies, cinnamon rolls, cookie cakes and milk.

Chico’s Mexican Restaurant

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521 COTANCHE ST. 252.757.1666 Authentic Mexican restaurant and cantina with ABC permits. Serving lunch and dinner.

Heated patio dining available.

Christy’s Europub

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301 S. JARVIS ST. 252.758.2774 Great pub atmosphere with patio seating available, serving breakfast, lunch, dinner, and a late night menu. $5 daily food specials, monthly feature menu.

Cinnamon

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419 S. EVANS ST. 252.551.3253 Indian dishes served in an elegant setting.

Serving lunch buffet and dinner.

Crave Uptown

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409 S. EVANS ST. 252.413.0087 A new Uptown restaurant and bar featuring fresh items from local farms by day and a variety of entertainment including bands, DJ’s and Comedy by night. With free wi-fi and charging stations, the upscale atmosphere is a great place to eat, drink and socialize.

Crossbones Tavern

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114 E. 5TH ST. 252.689.6199 Crossbones Tavern offers a variety of quality craft beers, paired with southern cooking with a new age spin, and local live entertainment.

Dickinson Avenue Public House

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703 DICKINSON AVE. 252.689.6388 Gastropub featuring chef inspired, modern American dishes that are scratch made using local ingredients. Full service bar with rotating North Carolina brews and unique craft made cocktails.

Fitzgerald’s

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113 E. 5TH ST. 252.355.0311 Americant tavern with an Irish twist. An eclectic mix of American comfort food with a few mouthwatering Irish classic selections that will bring satisfaction to diners seven days a week.

Insomnia Cookies

116 E. 5TH ST. No matter your cookies needs - from late night study breaks, sending gifts, or orders for your next event or meeting, Insomnia Cookies are available when you need them most.

Jimmy Johns

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540 COTANCHE ST. 252.329.0130 Freaky fast, freaky good... cold sub and club sandwiches. No minimum delivery order.

Open 10:00am to 3:00am.

Krispy Kreme

Satellite Pizza

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200 E. 5TH ST. 252.227.4425 New York style pizza and subs. Open lunch, dinner and late night.

The Scullery

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431 EVANS STREET 252-321-1550 Fresh Roasted Coffee. Home made ice creams. Delicious daily breakfast, lunch and dinner specials.

Starlight Café

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104 W. 5TH ST. 252.707.9033 A family run, neighborhood restaurant in the European tradition. Featuring an eclectic menu made fresh, in house, with local produce, meats and cheeses. Bar serves generous, top shelf cocktails created with fresh fruits and juices.

Sup Dogs

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213 E. FIFTH ST. 252.752.7682 Fast casual restaurant and bar with all ABC permits serves 100 percent beef hot dogs and burgers but also has some vegetarian options.

Thai 360°

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300 E. 10TH ST. 252.830.1525 Hot, delicious Original Glazed doughnuts, signature roast coffees, expresso drink and hot chocolate. Cool down with Krispy Kreme Chillers or Kool Kremes.

560 EVANS ST. 252.754.2244 Bringing culture and cuisine from the “Land of Smiles,” this restaurant sets the scene for an authentic experience with music, ambiance and language. Sit down or take out. Delivery available. Serving lunch and dinner.

La Benedicion

Trollingwood Taproom & Brewery

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220 COTANCHE ST. 252.717.7491 Authentic Salvadorian and Mexican cuisine.

Marathon Restaurant

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706 EVANS ST. 252.752.0326 A family Greek restaurant serving lunch and dinner. The oldest non-barbeque restaurant in town.

Mi Cabana Express

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214 E. FIFTH ST. 252.689.6175 Indulge your taste buds with authentic Mexican food. From fajitas and burritos to enchiladas and quesadillas, Mi Cabana brings you the best in Mexican cuisine.

Pop’s Burgers

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1011 S. CHARLES BLVD 252.329.0048 Fresh food served the old fashioned way, including burgers made with fresh angus beef.

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707 DICKINSON AVE. 252.210.6295 Locally crafted ales in a relaxing and welcoming environment.

Uptown Nutrition

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301 EVANS ST. SUITE 101 252.329.8789 Home base for healthy living. Come in for healthy meals and smoothies, energizing teas, aloe shots, and personal fitness coaching.

Winslow’s Tavern, Deli & Market

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120 W. 5TH ST. 252.364.8921 Winslow’s features 46 beers on tap, over 400 craft bottle beers, 22 wines by the glass as well as a large menu of appetizers, salads, sandwiches, burgers, desserts and full espresso bar.

Open 7 days a week with daily entertainment, drink specials and outdoor seating.

For more information, visit www.uptowngreenville.com

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