Continuing to set a new bar in convenient, healthy dining, Extreme Pita announces the opening of its newest restaurant in Charlotte. Located in Ballantyne Village, the new restaurant is the Canadian franchisor’s first franchise location in the area and part of an expansion initiative that calls for 15-20 restaurants throughout the greater metropolitan area in the next five years. Extreme Pita will be hosting a grand opening event January 29-30, during which time customers will receive half-priced pitas. In addition, the first 25 customers will receive free pitas for an entire year. “We’re extremely excited about bringing Extreme Pita’s fresh

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The internationally acclaimed Gokhale Method (sm) comes to Davidson, N.C., in a series of classes that will be held by instructor Maya White on Friday January 29 – Sunday, January 31. The Gokhale Method is a system for pain-free living developed by Esther Gokhale, renowned author of “8 Steps to a Pain Free Back.” The classes are six, 90-minute workshops in three days that will fix your posture, heal your pain and give you the tools to prevent injury without months of doctors’ visits, pills or therapy. Sessions provide lifelong tools for healthy, pain-free posture and movement. They teach participants

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One of the nation’s leading scholars in media and communication studies, Jennings F. Bryant, will present the annual McGaw Lecture at his alma mater, Davidson College, on Wednesday evening, February 3. There is no charge to attend the talk, titled “Why Did I Just Watch That?” which begins at 7 p.m. in Duke Family Performance Hall. For more information call 704-894-2528. Bryant is the Distinguished Research Professor and Associate Dean of the College of Communication and Information Sciences at the University of Alabama, and Director of its Institute for Communication Research. In his talk at Davidson, Bryant will combine research

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The Institute for Entrepreneurship at Central Piedmont Community College announces a free seminar for the week of February 8: Wednesday, February 10, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. at South County Library, Charlotte, N.C. How to Fund Your Start-Up SBX 7529-501 This seminar reviews the various forms of equity and debt financing, including conventional bank loans, SBA guaranteed loans, private loans, venture capital, factored receivables, credit cards and supplier trade credit. To register, visit www.cpcc.edu/e-institute and/or call 704.330.4223. The Institute for Entrepreneurship at CPCC is a member of the Small Business Center Network (SBCN) comprised of 58 Centers throughout North Carolina. The

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How did Charlotteans of the 1930s deal with sudden economic contraction and a prolonged depression? As businesses failed and personal fortunes were wiped out, the people of Mecklenburg County nevertheless organized themselves to address the crisis and plan for future growth. Hear what they did — and how we can learn from them as our region’s economy changes — in a free talk with librarian Tom Cole from the Robinson-Spangler Carolina Room of the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library. Economic transitions have been the key to our region’s growth and can be again. Cole will share an uplifting message, based on our

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The Mecklenburg County Register of Deeds has updated its website (http://meckrod.manatron.com) to provide County residents with more information about filing an Assumed Name certificate. Anyone doing business in Mecklenburg County under a name other than the business owner’s given name is required to file an Assumed Name certificate with the Register of Deeds. If a business operates as a sole proprietorship or a general partnership, it should file an Assumed Name Certificate, also known as a d.b.a. (stands for “doing business as”), for each name the business uses. If a business operates as a corporation, limited partnership, or limited liability

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Mecklenburg County Real Estate Services Director Mark Hahn and Board of County Commissioners Chair Jennifer Roberts are being recognized for their thinking, literally. Both were honored recently with the “Creative Thinker Awards” by the Chicago-based Counselors of Real Estate. Roberts, who is in her third term on the BOCC, received her award for “her forward thinking public policy initiatives that pave the way for the county to aggressively pursue sustainable development.” Since being elected, Roberts has been a vocal proponent of sustainable development and sound environmental policies. Hahn was “the orchestrator of a team… that converted the down and out

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Yn Wine Café will wrap up the month of January with another segment in its Emerging Artist Series with performances by Haley Dreis, Liz Howell and Dave Petty. The performances will take place on Sunday, Jan. 31, 2010 beginning at 8 p.m. There is no cover charge, and the doors will open at 5 p.m. About the Artists Haley Dreis Haley Dries has loved all types of music since she was 6 years old. Currently, Dries is a student at the University of South Carolina, where she is studying music and journalism. She uses her classical training as a base

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Bank of America today announced findings from the latest Merrill Lynch Affluent Insights Quarterly, a survey of the values, financial priorities and concerns of affluent Americans and the challenges and opportunities they face. Focused largely on issues related to retirement, the second in this series of quarterly surveys reveals that many affluent Americans are rethinking their vision of retirement and offers lessons learned from retirees and what they wished they had done differently when planning for retirement. Surprisingly, given the opportunity to do it all again, roughly half (51%) of retired respondents indicated that they would have focused more on

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Two leading New York and Charlotte hair transplant surgeons and researchers, Gary Hitzig, M.D. and Jerry Cooley, M.D.., have become the first medical doctors to successfully clone hair using an FDA-cleared wound healing powder called MatriStem®MicroMatrix™. Using this powder, Dr. Hitzig and Dr. Cooley have been able to create a technique that multiplies the number of hair follicles in an area that had previously stopped growing hair – a breakthrough that many hair restoration researchers have been trying to accomplish. MatriStem MicroMatrix, a product of regenerative medicine innovator, ACell, Inc., is a wound healing powder that promotes healing and tissue

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