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		<title>Blue Ridge Cabin Concert Series</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:31:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Randy &#038; Norma have been gracious enough to allow me to horn-in on their local cabin concerts, first by video streaming, now by co-hosting &#038; streaming them from our cabin-office.
The plan is to do live video and audio streaming of cabin concerts of independent ~ acoustical ~ singer songwriter ~ artists featured on wholewheatradio.org on [...]


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		<title>&#8220;Illuminate Aska&#8221; - bridge &#038; tree lighting in the Aska Adventure Area</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:48:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ll be live on justin.tv starting at around 4PM to stream the Shallowford Bridge lighting, then moving on to The Lilly Pad to stream Santa and the tree lighting. Attend in person or watch it live online:
4:00 PM – Festivities begin
5:00 PM – Santa arrives at Lilly Pad via Fire Truck
5:30 PM – Santa passes [...]


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		<title>Online cabin concert - Korby Lenker - 11-21-09</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:25:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kip Draper</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Online cabin concert tonight 7:30PM - 10:00PM EST featuring Korby Lenker. I&#8217;ll be running the cams, audio &#038; chat on ustream, and the host, my buddy Randy will simulcast high quality audio to wholewheatradio.org. Please stop in for some relaxing music &#038; chat coming to you from a cozy cabin in the North Georgia Mountains: [...]


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		<title>Bellied Up to the Blue Ridge Brewery</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:48:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kip Draper</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Consumed my first &#8217;served&#8217; beer in downtown Blue Ridge. Thought it appropriate to wait on the Blue Ridge Brewery and it was well worth the wait. When you go for beer and the food knocks your socks off you probably have a winner. I had the French onion soup, the shrimp app (served on a [...]


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		<title>Autumn color in Blue Ridge - 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:27:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kip Draper</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>City of Blue Ridge Passes Beer/Wine Pouring in Restaurants</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:37:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight the Blue Ridge City Council, with new council member Michael Eaton, followed Fannin County&#8217;s lead and passed a new city ordinance that allows beer and wine pouring in city restaurants . 2009 has been a bad year for the local prohibitionists. Hallelujah!!!


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		<title>Cucina Rustica pours the first glass in Fannin County</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2009 00:53:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kip Draper</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Wouldn&#8217;t you know I would miss the first night of dining freedom in Fannin County (on a Friday the 13th at that). I heard this afternoon via the ngaforum (thanks - Amos &#038; Andy) that tonight would be Cucina Rustica&#8217;s/Fannin County&#8217;s first night pouring; it would have been nice to auction-off that first glass for [...]


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		<title>Fannin County Commissioners approve beer/wine pouring in restaurants</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 01:48:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kip Draper</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Passed in the county by a 2-0 vote, failed in the city 3-2, more to come&#8230;
current discussion:
PASSED: http://www.ngaforum.com/blue-ridge/162-music-auditorium-hotel-development.html
FAILED: http://www.ngaforum.com/blue-ridge/137-blue-ridge-city-council-vote-beer-wine-pouring-3.html
*UPDATE: draft of pouring license regulations are here: http://www.fannincountyga.org/beerandwine.htm
*UPDATE 1/7: reportedly 17 of 25 available licenses have been applied for.


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		<title>Fannin County General Election Results</title>
		<link>http://www.blueridgegeorgia.us/archives/358</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:22:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kip Draper</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The News Observer has a link to election results. Based on past elections, they should start populating the lists with data after 7PM as the precinct returns roll in:
http://www.thenewsobserver.com/breaking_news/
The races to watch are the Fannin County Commission Chairman and the Fannin County Post 1 Commissioner. If Proctor and Ledford win, we should finally have beer [...]


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		<title>CNN Money cites Blue Ridge as prime spot for fall colors</title>
		<link>http://www.blueridgegeorgia.us/archives/355</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kip Draper</dc:creator>
		
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It&#8217;s easy to think that the Deep South, with its mild fall weather, might not be the best option for foliage fanatics.
But the leaves eventually turn color in this region just as they do elsewhere - and this small town of 1,000 less than two hours north of Atlanta, is a prime mountainous spot for [...]


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