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Business Today's 6th Annual Champagne Reception Oct. 6 for Women in Business

A power networking session and champagne reception will be held Oct. 6 at The Peninsula Club in Cornelius in honor of Business Today’s 2010 Top Women Business Leaders. The sixth annual event recognizes the contribution of women in business in the Golden Crescent. Former winners include Realtors Abigail Jennings, of Lake Norman Realty, and Diane Honeycutt, of Team Honeycutt in Concord; Pat Horton, president of Cabarrus Bank & Trust; Robin Smith of Lake Norman Chrysler Jeep Dodge; Dakeita Vanderburg Johnson, CEO of Southgate Masonry & Lumber in Concord; and Ginger Griffin of Ginger Griffin Marketing and Design in Cornelius. Business Today columnist and UNCC instructor Cheryl Kane will conduct the power networking sessions, after which the 2010 winners will receive their awards, complete with champagne toasts. The event, which starts at 6 p.m., is $12.50 to attend, Visa and MasterCard accepted at time of reservation. More info: Phone BusinessToday at 704-895-1335 or email nebiztoday@gmail.com for more information. Registration opens at 5:30 p.m.

Heart Group merges with Sanger Institute

Heart Group of the Carolinas, with offices in Concord and Albemarle, has merged with Sanger Heart and Vascular Institute. The practice will now begin operating under the Sanger name.

Denver Business Association luncheon set for Sept. 16

More than 100 Denver area business owners will meet at Verdict Ridge Golf Club Sept. 16  from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. for the annual Denver Area Business Association networking luncheon.  Non-members are invited to attend the event which will honor long-time Denver business leader Joe Turbyfill and his wife Jean. Michael Thompson, director of corporate communications for the Charlotte Bobcats, will discuss overcoming adversity in the business world. The cost is $17 for pre-registration at www.dabanc.org or $20 at the door. More info: Denis Bilodeau, dbilodeau@aquestainsurance.com

NC DOT official addressing LKN business leaders Friday

Jim Trogdon, the chief operating officer for NC DOT, will be the featured speaker at a Lake Norman Chamber of Commerce luncheon Friday at NorthStone Country Club.  Trogdon will discuss local road improvements including HOT lanes, commuter rail and the diverging diamond interchange planned at Exit 28 on I-77 in Cornelius. Tickets are $16 for members and $20 for non-members. More info: 704-892-1922.

RCCC receives $2.6 million in grants

During its 2009-2010 fiscal year, Rowan-Cabarrus Community College was awarded $2.654 million in grant funding from public and private organizations. From July 1, 2009 to June 30, 2010, the 21 grant awards produced a single-year grant-funding record for the college. Funded projects include scholarships for students with financial need, a major updating of RCCC’s IT infrastructure, the JobsNOW certificate programs, initiatives to develop new curriculum, and programs to help students quit smoking and assist local citizens adversely impacted by changes in the tobacco industry.The funding agencies include the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Margaret C. Woodson Foundation, the Blanche and Julian Robertson Family Foundation, the North Carolina Health and Wellness Trust Fund, the North Carolina Tobacco Trust Fund, the North Carolina Community College System, the Proctor Foundation, and the N.C. BioNetwork.

Small Business Toolbox

How to evaluate an event planner
LAWRENCE

What does a professional planner really do to help clients?

Let’s say you want to hold a customer appreciation event but you want it to be more than just a party. Your company’s reputation is on the line. You have to make a decision whether to leave this important function to a professional or to unskilled hands? In this case, a planner can be a valuable asset
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Savvy Business Owner —

August edition
DeMAO

In the last of this three part series, Sherre explains how reviewing your current involvements can help you achieve your goals through putting you in direct contact with your ideal target market, in direct contact with those who could refer you to your ideal target market, or to help you gain needed support or resources for growing your business.
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Boost Your Sales:

Effective questioning combats centuries-old selling problem

Since the dawn of mankind we have been buying and selling “stuff”, and over the centuries a predictable pattern has developed between buyers and sellers. The buyer-seller dynamic can spell “commission catastrophe” for the sales professional who lacks the artful skill of effective questioning.
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Mecklenburg home sales --

June issue

4/15/09 $387,000 Steven & Paige Knox, Colette & Charles Knox Jr. to Town of Cornelius, Lot 7 Phase II North 77 Business Park, Cornelius 28031

4/15/09 $288,000 Timothy & Kathryn Beach-Verhey, to Trustees of Davidson College, 112 Martin St., Davidson 28036

4/15/09 $337,500 Weekley Homes to George & Darlene Knab, 11322 Warfield Ave., Huntersville 28078

4/15/09 $250,000 Phyllis Garrick to Sherri Fletcher, 20230 Amy Lee Dr., Cornelius 28031

4/16/09 $287,500 Saxon Mortgage Corp. to Adam & Kim Gates, 14616 Northgreen Dr., Huntersville 28078

4/16/09 $ Richard & Joanne Randall to James & Diane Copio, 18830 River Falls Dr., Davidson 28036

4/17/09 $275,000 Renee Kidwell to Derek & Julie McKelvey, 9304 John Hawks Rd., Cornelius 28031

4/20/09 $285,000 Jessica Wolma to Adam & Teri Richardson, 10203 Edgecliff Rd., Huntersville 28078

4/20/09 $385,000 Marion & Rosa Brewer to William & Karen Stevenson, 8612 Excalibur Way, Huntersville

4/20/09 $265,500 Ryland Group to Daniel & Emily Leverett, 9933 Sky Vista Dr., Huntersville 28078

4/22/09 $750,000 Jeffrey & Jennifer Ross to Aaron Feinberg, 19614 Meta Rd., Cornelius 28031

4/22/09 $575,000 Paul Adkins to Jason & Susan Rowling, 18427 Dembridge Dr., Davidson 28036

4/24/09 $395,000 Felice & Adele Loverso to Christopher & Andra Montgomery, 8912 Leyanne Ct., Huntersville 28078

4/24/09 $355,000 Steve & Betty Moses to Harold & Begsaida Shapiro, 15919 Stonemont Rd., Huntersville 28078

4/24/09 $317,000 Frederick & Judy Hodgson to Trustees of Davidson College, 200 Chambers St., Davidson 28036

4/24/09 $292,000 Henry Howell to Colleen Hibbard, 178 Harper Lee St., Davidson 29036

4/27/09 $375,000 Catalin & Mirela Popa to Christopher & Jocelyn Helein, 19117 Glouster Ct., Cornelius 28031

4/27/09 $495,000 CARP III to Nickel Development Group, about 2 acres on Sam Furr Road, Huntersville

4/27/09 $230,000 DR Horton to David & Amanda Cooper, 17106 Hampton Trace Rd, Huntersville 28078

4/28/09 $285,000 Terri Clark to Jackson & Rebecca Rollins, 109 Three Greens Dr., Huntersville 28078

4/29/09 $417,000 Douglas & Serena Scroggins to Gregory & Kelly Geers, 10025 Devonshire Dr., Huntersville 28078

4/30/09 $272,000 Carl & Marilyn Pretty to Phillip & Clarissa Mahin, Lot 18 Spinnaker Point Condominiums, Davidson 28036

4/30/09 $950,000 Gary & Janice Drinnon to David & Kimberly Ritchie, 18900 Balmore Pines Ln., Cornelius 28031

4/30/09 $260,000 Mid-Atlantic Homes to Amanda & Joe Anders III, 15235 Waterfront Dr., Huntersville 28078

4/30/09 $505,000 Charles & Carie Van Dam to Christina Collura, 15634 Knox Hill Rd., Huntersville 28078

4/30/09 $380,000 Howell & Julie Michael to Richard Michaels, 19738 Hagen Knoll Dr., Davidson 28036

4/30/09 $287,500 Weekley Homes to Margaret Rohlik, 9611 Rosalyn Glen Rd., Cornelius 28031

4/30/09 $356,000 NVR to David & Forough Mirfakhrae, 7802 Wiltshire Ridge Rd., Charlotte 28269

5/1/09 $381,000 Justin & Amy Teckenbrock to Betty & Simon Brain, 8708 Devonshire Dr., Huntersville 28078

5/1/09 $379,000 Cunnane Group to Elzworth & Barbara Wiesenmayer, 21911 Riddles Ct., Cornelius 28031

5/1/09 $295,000 Brian & Amy Clary to Matthew McCurdy, 21129 Alto Terra Dr., Cornelius 28031

5/1/09 $389,000 Cunnane Group to George Vaughn, 21931 Riddles Ct., Cornelius 28031

5/1/09 $519,000 Cunnane Group to Perry & Lisa Oliver, 21835 Advocates Ct., Cornelius 28031

5/1/09 $542,000 Roderick & Kristin Hart to Justin & Amy Teckenbrock, 19633Meta Rd., Cornelius 28031

5/1/09 $258,000 Jason & Shelly Slagle to Courtney Harrington, 10115 Victoria Blake Dr., Cornelius 28031

5/1/09 $465,000 Timothy Connor & Jann Bolick to Jon & Kelley Brake, 13031 Westmoreland Farm, Davidson 28036

5/1/09 $277,000 Howard & Andrea Kaplan to Michael & Alison Smith, 21535 Ogden Cove Dr., Cornelius 28031

5/1/09 $269,035 Karen Wilson to John Heun & Susan Heafner-Huen, 8939 Parkcrest St., Huntersville 28078

5/1/09 $265,000 Michael & Jody Hanson to Devang & Anita Patel, 9407 Hillston Ridge Rd., Huntersville 28078

5/4/09 $775,000 Tyson & Deborah Bennett, Amir & Afsaneh Farany to Joeanne Properties, 3626 Latrobe Dr., Charlotte 28262

5/4/09 $512,500 Antonio & Frances Masci to Adam Slater, 16806 Lakeshore Dr., Cornelius 28031

5/4/09 $720,000 Emerald Cove II to Janice Salisbury Trust, Lot 31 Joy’s Serenity Point, Cornelius 28031

5/4/09 $452,500 NRV to Estevon & Takara Morris, 3126 Amesbury Hill Dr., Charlotte 28269

5/4/09 $255,000 Hovnanian Homes to Fahmi Nogura & Amany Ghanem, 13139 Purple Dawn Dr., Charlotte 28213

5/5/09 $598,500 Jeffrey & Laurie Stine to Halle Properties, Lot 12 Patrick’s Purchase Phase II, Cornelius 28031

5/7/09 $500,000 Bank of America to Eric & Courtney Stachowski, 7435 Norman Island Dr., Cornelius 28031

5/7/09 $335,000 Weekley Homes to Phillip Alhir, 11115 Warfield Ave., Huntersville 28078

5/8/09 $528,000 Sarah Armstrong to Charles & Caroline Campbell, 18610 Square Sail Rd., Cornelius 28031

5/8/09 $357,500 Weekley Homes to Tewodros Bekele & Michelle Manning, 11332 Warfield Ave., Huntersville 28078

5/11/09 $267,000 John & Amy Dewitt to Martha Taylor, Lot 66 Oakhurst subdivision, Cornelius 28031

5/12/09 $672,000 Barry & Deborah Baskins to Charles & Amy McLaughlin, 18605 Rollingdale Ln., Davidson 28036

5/13/09 $475,000 Joshua & Erica Phillips to John Way, 18613 John Connor Rd., Cornelius 28031

5/13/09 $375,000 Walker Madison Homes to Debbie Baskin, 15718 Laurel Oak Crescent, Davidson 28036

5/14/09 $267,000 George Hamilton to Todd & Shannon Cunningham, 120 Lake Davidson Cir., Davidson 28036

5/14/09 $330,000 Cher & Alvin Ferrouillet Jr. to Dajen Keefer & Erik Williams, 16133 Glen Miro Rd., Huntersville 28078

5/14/09 $257,500 Weekley Homes to Gregory & Christina Humble, 17825 Overland Forest Dr., Cornelius 28031
Opinion

Our regional recovery
RUSSELL

By Bill Russell
Wouldn’t it be nice to pick up a paper and read only pleasant headlines for a change?  The news in Washington this week is that we have retired the national debt, unemployment in North Carolina has sunk to it’s lowest levels since 2006, and a group hug broke out in the streets of Baghdad.

Unfortunately that’s not the headlines we read.  According to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the annual difference between what our federal government collects in tax revenue and what it spends will be $1.3 trillion this fiscal year alone. Combat troops are leaving Iraq, however, we are still a stretch from a tension free region.   Closer to home, North Carolina’s unemployment rate dipped to 9.6 percent in July and has declined for five consecutive months but still remains higher than the national average of 9.5 percent.
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North Line: Does it make any sense, really?
GILROY

Many of us were chilled to the bone a few weeks ago at what Charlotte City Councilman David Howard said at a Lake Norman Transportation Commission meeting. Howard, a Democrat who has focused on inner city affordable housing issues through his position as vice president of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Housing Partnership since 1997, was quoted several times:
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Hot Properties

High-end home sales run the gamut

in LKN; growing supply in Cabarrus

It’s a mixed bag in the luxury market. Some homes are closing at steep discounts, while some pristine homes in superb locations are closing near their asking prices.

Prices per square foot edged upward about 1 percent in Lake Norman during the second quarter vs. 2009 levels, but realized values are still off 20 percent to 25 percent compared to 2007 levels, according to Reed Jackson of Ivester Jackson Distinctive Properties in Cornelius.
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On the Record

Homes sales —

August 2010 edition

These home sales and property transactions in the Golden Crescent were recorded by the Register of Deeds in Mecklenburg, Cabarrus and Iredell.
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New corporations —

August 2010 edition

These new businesses in the Golden Crescent have registered with the N.C. Secretary of State.
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