New hires

The newly opened Good Bye Body Fat Lean Life Enthusiasts Spa at exit 25  in Huntersville  has hired Marley Daniels as the healthcare / spa manager and Jeanne Blalock as the spa coordinator.  

Stagioni temporary closing 

Chef Bruce Moffett temporarily close dhis Italian restaurant Stagioni after one member of the staff tested positive for COVID-19. The staff member did not have any direct contact with guests.

Each member of the restaurant’s staff was sent home and were tested for COVID-19 despite showing no symptoms. The restaurant is being cleaned and sanitized. A decision on the reopening of the restaurant will be made once the test results come back.

If no other staff test positive, Moffett anticipates reopening on Tuesday, June 23.

Ag Biz Planner and Ag Biz Basics Applications Now Being Accepted

Carolina Farm Credit is now accepting applications for the 12^th year of the Ag Biz Planner program and the fifth year of the Ag Biz Basics program. These e-learning courses teach financial and business planning, budgeting, and other farm management topics that are essential to a farm’s success. The ten-module and four-module courses are facilitated by Farm Credit University, in conjunction with AgCarolina and Cape Fear Farm Credits in North Carolina and Farm Credit of the Virginias and Colonial Farm Credit in Maryland, West Virginia, and Virginia.

Ag Biz Planner and Basics aim to support Young, Beginning, Small (YBS), and Veteran farmers throughout our territory. Participants range from YBS and Veteran farmers who are just starting their farming venture, to those who have been farming for several years and are looking for guidance to improve their operation. The program offers online modules and videos, application exercises with relatable examples, and a fun and interactive final conference to wrap up the course. Several leading speakers and advisors in the agriculture industry will be the highlight at the final conference. The course topics include trends in agriculture, working with your ag lender, personal finances, farm growth and transition management, creating the most useful farm financial records, and much more. By the end of the course, each Ag Biz Planner participant will also have a complete farm business plan for their farming operation. Additionally, participants will be assigned a Carolina Farm Credit loan officer to serve as their mentor throughout the course.

Carolina Farm Credit will accept up to five participants for each program. All applications are due July 15, 2020. The program will begin with a kickoff webinar on September 21. The course will conclude with a conference in Raleigh, NC on January 6-7, 2021. Applications, a course outline, and program information are available at carolinafarmcredit.com/about/resources/educational-programs. Individuals selected for the program will be notified after August 15th.

Carolina Farm Credit is a stockholder-owned cooperative providing financing to full and part-time farmers and agricultural-related businesses and also provides financing for the construction and purchase of homes in 54 counties through 29 branch offices.  Other financial services available are credit life insurance, appraisal services, leasing programs, and financial planning.

For longer than 100 years, Farm Credit has been supporting rural communities and agriculture with reliable, consistent credit and financial services.