Pictures From the Enka Village Sign Unveiling

Here are some more pictures from the unveiling of the sign a few weeks ago. If you have any of your own to add, please send them in!

Enka Village License Plates

You may have seen these license plates on your neighbors' cars over the past several months. The first batch of 100 (produced as a fundraiser for the Enka Village sign) sold out quickly! If you'd like to be on the list for a future order of the plates, please contact Amber Cook at ambercook714@yahoo.com.

Call for Volunteers

Interested in pitching in on new or ongoing Enka Village projects? We can always use help! There are all kinds of jobs, from helping care for the park to heading up or volunteering for clean-up days or a welcoming committee. If there's something you'd like to do (or if you'd like to be on a list of volunteers we can call on when something comes up), please contact one of the Commission members (see list on right), or e-mail us. It's a great way to get to know your neighbors, and we'd love to have you on board!

Thank You

Many, many members of the Enka Village community pitched in to help with the new sign. There were countless details to deal with, including fundraising, digging holes for concrete footings and plants, bringing food to our A-B Tech crew, and hauling water to the site for cement mixing and plant watering. We'd especially like to thank these folks for their help:

John Young
The Browning family
Bill and Jeanene Hawkins
The Cook family
Valerie Panton
John Wesley Cole
Tony and Emily Dezio
The Satterfield family
Daryl Hawkins
Dean Lancaster
Jo McGill
The Devore family

We also want to thank the students of Mark Bloomfield's A-B Tech masonry class, who volunteered their time, even after the school year ended, to see the construction of the brick pillars through to completion. Glenn Satterfield and Brian Cook attended the class graduation and presented the group with certificates of appreciation. These students are:

Matthew Dosio
Ben Hall
Vera Hall
James Russell
Rick Sharpe
Robert Walker

Weekend of August 4

This weekend was a busy one in Enka Village! Several dozen households participated in the community yard sale Saturday morning. At 1:00 that day, a crowd of current and former residents attended the unveiling of the new Enka Village sign. In attendance were several of the A-B Tech students involved in the construction of the brick pillars, as well as Enka Village's very first resident, Betty Brookshire. We are all excited to have this permanent reminder of our community's presence and history! We will post pictures from the event soon.

On Sunday morning, the Asheville Citizen-Times front page featured a picture of resident Tom Lovingood. The accompanying article was about local mill villages and company towns, and Enka Village was listed as the best preserved of these areas. George Lancaster is also interviewed in the article, which you can find here: http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200770804043.