We’d love to hear from all interested today regarding your business specials this shopping weekend. It’s important for our economy to encourage residents to spend money in town, and not out of town this year. I’m disappointed to hear many local business not offering any specials this weekend. We’ll be calling again during the day today to get deal info, but yesterday we only netted 4 businesses interested in sharing any specials this weekend. Please support your local businesses this year, you can find our running list of local shopping deals in our special article Henderson, NC Holiday Shopping.
North Carolina’s labor market is still struggling to recover from the recent recession, new numbers from the Division of Employment Security show. According to numbers released Tuesday, the private sector experienced only minimal job growth, creating just 700 jobs in October, despite an overall decrease in the unemployment rate from 10.5% to 10.4%. Perhaps even more troubling, the labor force—an estimate of all persons 16 years of age and older who are either employed or unemployed and actively seeking work—actually shrank by 2,500 jobs over the last month.
Of course, Thursday is Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving or Thanksgiving Day, is a holiday celebrated in the United States on the fourth Thursday in November. It has officially been an annual tradition since 1863, when during the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national day of thanksgiving to be celebrated on Thursday, November 26. As a federal and popular holiday in the U.S., Thanksgiving is one of the major holidays of the year. Together with Christmas and the New Year, Thanksgiving is a part of the broader holiday season. The claim of where the first Thanksgiving was held in the United States, and even the Americas has often been a subject of debate. Author and teacher Robyn Gioia and Michael Gannon, of the University of Florida, have argued that the earliest attested “Thanksgiving” celebration in what is now the United States was celebrated by the Spanish on September 8, 1565, in what is now Saint Augustine, Florida.
Many will be cooking turkey’s this year, and I’d like to share this public service announcement regarding safety if you decide to deep fry your turkey.
As a note, the City of Henderson City Hall will be closed Thursday and Friday. If you normally get your trash picked up on Thursday, it will be picked up on Wednesday instead. Friday will have normal trash pickup schedule.
Welcome to the open lines!