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Looking for way to grow some fresh produce? The Cornelius Community Garden has a few garden boxes still available to rent. Photo courtesy of Cornelius PARC.
Virtual Art on the Green
(Through May 8) The Town of Davidson had to cancel its annual Arts on the Green Event in April, but because they still want to celebrate artists in the community, the town came up with a back-up plan that will now run April 24-May 8. Visit the link http://townofdavidson. org/1272/VIRTUAL-Art-on-theGreen and enjoy a special digital showcase highlighting artists and their works of art.
Cornelius Community Gar
den Cornelius PARC partners with the Smithville CommUnity Coalition and neighborhood volunteers to provide the Cornelius Community Garden, 20708 Catawba Ave. The garden has a few 4’ x 8’ garden boxes still available for rent. The fee is $50 ($25 may be refundable) and includes the raised bed, topsoil, access to tools, water and three growing seasons. You provide your own plants, seeds and labor! If you are interested, email Debby at debbyredding20@gmail.com or call her at 980.289.6880.
Call to Artists-Ice House
Reimagined The Huntersville Public Art Commission (HPAC) has collaborated with the Old Huntersville Historical Society (OHHS) to seek request for
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Scottish bagpipes at Loch Norman Highland Games.
proposals from qualified artists to commission a permanent public art display located at Veterans Park in the heart of downtown Huntersville. This project will utilize the remnants of what were the Huntersville Icehouse’s (Davidson Ice & Fuel and McCauley & Sons Ice) in a creative and reflective design capturing the embodiment of what the Huntersville Icehouse represented to the citizens of Huntersville. This project, in partnership with the Old Huntersville Historical Society, is funded by a $5000 grant provided by Electricities of North Carolina. The HPAC/OHHS will virtually review submitted ideas with a final decision made at the HPAC June 10, 2020 meeting at 6:30 p.m. (pending the COVID-19 stay-at-home order is lifted). Applicants will be updated if the meeting date is postponed. The target installation date is by Dec. 31, 2020. Learn more at www.huntersville.org.
Rescheduled Events That Were Canceled During COVID-19 Loch Norman Highland Games (Aug. 15-16, 2020)
Experience all the fun with activities and performances such as highland dancing, bagpipe bands, highland athletics, Scottish merchants and haggis. Historic Rural Hill, 4431 Neck Road, Huntersville, www.lochnorman.com.
The Lake Norman Hospice
Regatta Party (Aug. 14) Plan for a fun evening of charitable giving, cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, dinner, music, dancing and a live silent auction. 6:30 p.m. The Peninsula Club, Cornelius, www.hpccr.org
The Lake Norman Hospice
Regatta (Sept. 12-13) Sailing is open to competitive and non-competitive sailors with the anticipation of sailing for fun, competition, or in honor of a loved one. Lake Norman Yacht Club, Mooresville, www.lnyc.org.
Party at the Paddock (TBD)
Hinds Feet Farms’ newest fundraiser was originally planned to coincide with the Kentucky Derby.The staff has since decided to re-organize this event as a virtual silent auction online fundraiser. Check their website for updates. Hinds Feet Farm, 14625 Black Farms Road, Huntersville,www.hindsfeetfarm.org.
Asian Festival and Dragon Boat Race (Oct. 17, 2020)
Celebrate the culture, traditions and history of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the United States. Enjoy dancing and sharing traditional meals. Ramsey Creek Park, 18441 Nantz Road, Cornelius, www. charlottedragonboat.com.
North Carolina Brewers & Music Festival (May 7-8, 2021)
Enjoy live bands and more types of North Carolina-brewed beer than you can count. Historic Rural Hill, 4431 Neck Road, Huntersville, www.ruralhill.net.
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in my GLASS My Take on Take-Out
While meals are still wonderful, the dining experience is not the same
BY » Trevor Burton PHOTOGRAPHY BY » Trevor Burton
In general, we all are so fortunate to live in the Lake Norman area. But, more specifically, we all are so fortunate to live in the center of such a wonderful dining environment. Excellent food, excellent preparation, a casual and comfortable atmosphere and many wonderful wine lists to go along with it. And, then, along came a spoilsport, COVID-19, to temporarily take away everything we normally enjoy and love. Taking away has led to take-out.
My wife and dining partner, Mary Ellen, and I have certainly taken to take-out. First, I don’t want to give up the great dishes that we have at our disposal. Second, and this is vitally important, we want to be sure to support all our restaurants as we go through the misery that this virus has brought to our lives. But I miss the whole environment. I miss sitting down with Lupita and Sergio and talking about our families at Mestizo in Davidson. I miss talking to Jimmy Hermann about Italian wines at Il Bosco, also in Davidson. I miss sharing a glass of wine and talking about his paintings with Pasquale Caruso at his restaurant in Mooresville. I miss everyone.
A few days ago, we ordered take-out from Mestizo. We have a couple of go-to items there, a fajita for Mary Ellen and a burrito for me. Keeping with the Latin theme, when we dine at the restaurant, I usually have a glass or two of Carmenère from Chile with my burrito. Bringing home the dishes, I had to forgo two out of the three things I like about Mestizo— food, wine and atmosphere. I had to settle for just the food.
We decided to have our lunch on our patio, overlooking the lake. I had to come up with a wine to replace my Carmenère—I
I miss the whole environment. I miss sitting down with Lupita and Sergio and talking about our families at Mestizo in Davidson. I miss talking to Jimmy Hermann about Italian wines at Il Bosco, also in Davidson. I miss sharing a glass of wine and talking about his paintings with Pasquale Caruso at his restaurant in Mooresville. I miss everyone.
didn’t have any in our wine cellar. I decided we needed a treat. So I brought up a bottle of Zinfandel made by our friend, Michael Talty, in Dry Creek Valley in Sonoma. Fate looked after us. I had overlooked one of his wines. I didn’t know that I still had a bottle of 10-year-old wine. It brought back memories.
Zinfandel has a reputation of not aging well—and that you should drink them fast before all that snazzy fresh fruit fades into oblivion. Poppycock. I remember sitting with Talty, at the end of a long day, in his winery and putting this myth to the test. We sipped on several of his library wines that were, at least, 10 years old. It was a tasty delight. The wines had mostly retained their vibrant and spicy flavors. But they had, in my mind, improved since their release. They had softened, mellowed out and taken on additional and deeper layers of complexity and flavors. With our forgotten bottle of wine, we were definitely in for that treat we needed so badly.
This was a memorable meal. A beautiful spring afternoon overlooking the lake, two of our favorite dishes paired with a glass of memorable wine and some Latin music playing in the background. But, superb as it was, I missed being at Mestizo. I missed the contemporary Mexican art on the walls. I missed the hustle and bustle of the place, I missed Lupita and Sergio and the rest of the family. I miss all of our restaurants and the people that make them so welcoming.
COVID-19 has been a tragedy for our nation. It has robbed us of so many and so much. We’ll get by it and, when we do, we’ll appreciate, so much more, things that we have taken for granted in the past. Among many, many other things, I’ll drink to that.
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