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Summer Fest 2021

Downtown Pittsboro 9 Hillsboro St, Pittsboro, NC, United States

MARK YOUR CALENDARS for Pittsboro's Fifth SUMMER FEST Sunday, July 4, 2021 Proudly brought to you by The Pittsboro Business Association downtown.pittsboro@gmail.com   Activities: Waterslide, Dunking Booth, Corn Hole, hula hooping, balloon animals, a duck pond for prizes (for the very young), axe throwing, and more Musical Entertainment: The Dowdy Boys (5:30-6:30), 8-Track Minds (7:00-9:00) Pie Contest- Best All Around, Best Gluten-free, and Best Sugar-free Beard and Mustache Contest Beard-Most Creative, Biggest Beard, Saddest Beard Mustache-Most Creative, Creepiest To enter, email your name and contact information to downtown.pittsboro@gmail.com Winners will be announced at 6:45 pm. We'll have food trucks and local vendors, too. STAY TUNED AS WE ADD MORE DETAILS!!!!     Look for additional events happening at Member locations during Summer Fest. Thanks to our sponsors: BRONZE Chatham Homes Realty Carolina Tiger Rescue J & W Automotive Hobbs Architects SILVER Bold Real Estate GOLD The Sycamore Steakhouse at Chatham Mills target="_blank" Chatham Park Investors target="_blank" Mosaic Save Save

Reboot classes for Small Businesses: Hiring

Please share this information with business owners in your community. It is a free series and open to anyone! Links to register is in each session description below. *About the 3 Part Reboot 2021 Series: The Reboot 2021 Webinar Series is a 3-part workshop series on business recovery and resiliency following the COVID-19 crisis. Participants will learn from business advisors and experts in the key areas of (1) marketing, (2) finances, and (3) operations. This series is a partnership between the NC Main Street and Rural Planning Center, SBCN and SBTDC. Should have some good information that will be very applicable to your business owners. ***************************************************************** ***************************************************************** JULY 13, 2021: REBOOT 2021: HOW TO FIND, HIRE, AND RETAIN EMPLOYEES Registration and Course Description Coming Soon - Check out the Seminars and Workshop Page from the NC Small Business Center for this webinar and the MANY other offerings available to you!

Tiger Day Fun Run

Carolina Tiger Rescue is hosting a 5K fun run to celebrate Tiger Day! REGISTRATION OPENS JUNE 1st! Join Carolina Tiger Rescue in its 2nd Annual Tiger Day 5K fun run, with all proceeds benefiting the amazing animals who call the sanctuary home! Register yourself or your team, then walk, run, or ride a 5K, by yourself or with friends, anytime between July 22nd and July 29th. We’ll wrap up with a virtual celebration on July 29th for International Tiger Day! Your $35 registration fee benefits all of the cats at the sanctuary AND includes a Tiger Day 5K commemorative t-shirt!

Traffic Circle Improvements in Pittsboro

The Pittsboro traffic circle will be under construction through October 2021. The NC DOT advises taking the bypass around town to the north. The town's press release is attached.

Perch Coworking Happy Hour at the City Tap

The City Tap 89 Hillsboro St., Pittsboro, NC, United States

Join Perch Coworkers for happy hour on Wednesday, August 4, at 5 pm, just across the street at the City Tap.

Doris Betts Book Club at Pittsboro Presbyterian Church

Pittsboro Presbyterian Church 95 East Street, Pittsboro, NC

Last Tuesday of every month at 11am Fellowship Hall Join us for the Doris Betts Book Club meeting for a lively discussion of this month’s book. How does it work? Group members select books, both fiction and nonfiction, with themes and challenges that draw us to consider the role of faith and spirituality in our lives. Didn’t finish the book? (or even read it?!) Come anyway and enjoy the fellowship, conversation and intellectual stimulation. Have a book you’ve read that you’d love to discuss? Come and propose it to the group! We look forward to seeing you there. August 2021 Book: Caste by Isabel Wilkerson

Perch Coworking Ribbon Cutting

Perch Coworking 102 Hillsboro Street, Pittsboro, NC

Join us to celebrate the opening of the Chatham Chamber's Pittsboro office and Perch Coworking.

First Sunday!

Downtown Pittsboro 9 Hillsboro St, Pittsboro, NC, United States

First Sunday will return in September 2021. Downtown Pittsboro.

PBA Member Meeting Sept21

Join us! Former Pittsboro Mayor Cindy Perry will be the guest speaker.

Holiday Hoop Art class at The Creative Goat

The Creative Goat 984 Thompson Street Suite F, Pittsboro, NC

Hoop art is so colorful and is the perfect project for beginner or expert stitcher. Over the fall season, we will create various fall and Christmas theme art projects August/September – Fall (Sunflower/Pumpkin) October -Halloween/Thanksgiving November – Christmas

Chatham 250: Sidewalk Chalk Art Show

Creative Arts Celebration Theme Event: Sidewalk Chalk Festival Saturday, September 11, 2021 Sponsored by Carolina Meadows Residents are invited to express their creativity by joining Chatham 250 at the Sidewalk Chalk Festival Saturday, September 11th from noon - 4:00 p.m. Community Members are welcome to participate on site at the Park at Briar Chapel or send in a photo of their masterpiece that they created at their own home. The competition will be split into age divisions and the winner will be selected by a panel of judges. "Whether participating or spectating, people can look forward to celebrating Chatham 250 using sidewalk chalk as a creative outlet. I am excited to have people from across the county, and of all ages, show off their creativity and love for Chatham County," said Mallory Peterson, Program Supervisor with Chatham County Parks and Recreation and co-liaison for the Chatham 250 Events and Activities committee. Learn more by visiting the Chatham 250 Sidewalk Chalk Festival event page. Learn more about Chatham 250 Events and Passport Experience For more information on Chatham 250 events and activities, residents may visit www.chatham250.com, or follow Chatham County on Twitter and Facebook. People may RSVP on Facebook for the events. Facebook events can be found on the Chatham 250 website: www.chatham250.com/chatham250-events. Another great way to stay up to date with Chatham 250 activities is to register for the Chatham 250 Passport Experience through the Chatham 250 website home page: www.chatham250.com or Passport page: www.Chatham250.com/passportoverview. Registered participants will receive monthly updates throughout the Passport Experience. Already more than 100 individuals have registered to participate in the Passport Experience, and more community members are encouraged to sign up for these fun, unique and memorable activities.

Vendorpalooza!

Chatham Mills 480 Hillsboro St, Pittsboro, NC, United States

This Saturday is week two of the market's Fall Vendorpalooza! We will be hosting local visiting farmers, artists, and craftspeople for two more Saturdays - September 18th and 25th! Check out the list of new friends that will be coming to market with us each week! https://www.chathammillsfarmersmarket.com/vendorpalooza/

Hewitt Pottery Pop up Shop

Hewitt Pottery 424 Johnny Burke Rd, Pittsboro, NC, United States

Saturday, September 18, 10 am - 6 pm. Pop Up Shop at Hewitt Pottery.

Chatham’s Black History

Chatham County Agriculture & Conference Center 1192 US-64 BUS, Pittsboro, NC

This month marks the 100th anniversary of an event that is part of what has been called Chatham’s “hidden history” — a part of our history that we would rather not acknowledge. That event was the last recorded lynching in Chatham County. On Sunday morning, September 18, 1921, Eugene Daniel (or Daniels) was taken from jail in Pittsboro and murdered by a mob of Chatham County men for a crime he was alleged to have committed the prior Friday night. It’s tempting to speculate that the telephone may have enabled the mob to assemble so quickly. A similar mob, reported to have come from a wide area, had rapidly assembled a few weeks prior in a thwarted attempt to lynch an accused murderer. That prisoner had been removed to Raleigh for safety. It may be that a general lust for “lynch law” found in Daniel an easy replacement. The crime that sixteen-year-old Daniel stood accused of was entering an occupied dwelling at night. It was surmised that he intended to harm a young white woman who lived there. Subsequently, some have speculated that perhaps, if indeed Daniel was in the house as accused, he was seeking the family’s Black maid. Because justice was subverted by the mob, which brutally murdered Daniels before any evidence was collected or he got to tell his side of the story, we will never know the truth of what happened on the night of the accused crime. We do know that no one was held accountable for the young man’s murder. Some people will remember that the Pittsboro jailer, Taylor, was deaf, and, lacking the power of speech, was unable to turn back the mob with the dramatic oral delivery often seen in movies and novels. We can only hope that he tried. The editorial […]