On Friday, June 15, Elevate Lifestyle will present Charlotte’s 2012 Top 30 Under 30 at SUITE, located at 201 East Trade Street in the EpiCentre. Doctors, lawyers, writers, athletes, activists and entrepreneurs alike will be celebrated as the region’s best young talent and future leaders. Nominees are judged on a range of criteria, including professional achievement, experience, innovation, leadership and community involvement. This year’s 30 Under 30 award winners include Carolina Panthers Quarterback Cam Newton, Morgan Fogarty of Fox Charlotte, Webb Simpson, professional golfer, Kimberly Kristin Hughes of 704Events.com, John Benjamin Designs Head of Sales, John Benjamin Shaul, Lady Cat

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Charlotte Regional Realtor® Association reports the number of closings for May 2012 (2,607) increased 19.0 percent compared to May 2011, when closings totaled 2,191. Both the average and median sales price showed positive increases for a fourth consecutive month. The average sales price in May 2012 ($217,561) was up by 4.0 percent compared to the same period last year ($209,288), and the median sales price ($165,000), the best measure of trends over a period of time, showed prices up by 8.6 percent compared to May 2011 when the median sales price was $152,000. The average list price in May 2012

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Charlotte Rescue Mission is collecting food and miscellaneous items to help recovering addicted men celebrate Father’s Day weekend. Campaign dates: June 11, 2011 – June 15, 2011. Drop off at Charlotte Rescue Mission – 907 West 1st Street (diagonally opposite the Charlotte Panthers practice fields). Enter through glass doors at the 2nd building on the left.

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It was an eye-opening spring semester for Davidson College students in Sociology 250. As part of the curriculum in the “Inequality in America” class, Assistant Professor Jessica Taft assigned her 15 students to each conduct an extensive interview with one of the 46,000 Charlotte-area people who is unemployed. After conducting and analyzing all the interviews, students compiled their observations on a public web site. Visit: http://prezi.com/0dgmbh4bmzcn/experiences-with-unemployment-in-the-charlotte-… They hope that shedding light on the plight of the unemployed through that site might lead individuals and agencies to greater empathy and help for those without jobs. The site focuses on how unemployed

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Mecklenburg County and the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Hospital Authority (DBA Carolinas HealthCare System) have settled the dispute that was the subject of a lawsuit filed by Carolinas HealthCare System on July 14, 2011. In the settlement, Mecklenburg County will transfer to Carolinas HealthCare System the Billingsley Road property currently operated as a behavioral health hospital known as CMC-Randolph, which Carolinas HealthCare System plans to continue to operate. The 66 inpatient beds at CMC-Randolph and the emergency department are licensed to Carolinas Medical Center, which is owned by Carolinas HealthCare System. Carolinas HealthCare System will dismiss the lawsuit and release the County from

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With no change from their straw vote decision a week ago, the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners adopted a budget for 2012-2013 on Tuesday that cuts the tax rate by 2.44 cents and provides a 3-percent raise for school employees. The $1.42 billion budget is $31.3 million more than the current year’s adopted budget. The new budget takes effect on July 1, 2012, with a new tax rate of 79.22 cents per $100 of valued property. The owner of a $200,000 home will pay $40 less in property taxes. The budget adopted June 5, 2012 by the BOCC mostly mirrors

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The City of Charlotte Solid Waste Services will provide garbage, recyclables, yard waste and bulky item collection services according to the normal schedule on Memorial Day, Monday, May 28. Residents are reminded of the following tips to ensure collection: · Bag all garbage before placing it in the garbage rollout cart · Please do not bag recyclables before placing them in the recycling rollout cart · Trimmings from shrubs and trees must be no longer than 5 feet in length and no larger than 4 inches in diameter · Yard waste should be separated in piles small enough for one

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The Mint Museum and two of its uptown neighbors are joining Blue Star Museums, a collaboration among the National Endowment for the Arts, Blue Star Families, the Department of Defense, and more than 1,600 museums across America to offer free admission to all active duty military personnel, including active Reserve and National Guard, and their families from Memorial Day through Labor Day 2012. All Blue Star Museums, including the Mint, Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, and Levine Museum of the New South, are offering free admission to all military ID holders and up to five family members. In addition, the

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The special exhibitions presented by Discovery Place during the past five years have contributed $27.2 million in tourism economic impact to the local economy. The blockbusters BODY WORLDS, A Day in Pompeii and most recently Mummies of the World were visited by a combined 562,000 people, more than half of whom lived outside of Mecklenburg County. Mummies of the World, which closed April 8, 2012 was responsible for $6.6 million of economic impact plus an additional $2.2 million in discretionary spending by local residents that was retained in Mecklenburg County. “The world class exhibitions that Discovery Place has invested in

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Mecklenburg County government offices and agencies will be closed on Monday, May 28, 2012 for the Memorial Day holiday. This includes all units of the Department of Social Services, the Tax Office, Elections Office, the Register of Deeds Office, and the Land Use and Environmental Services Office. Mecklenburg County Substance Abuse Center (Detox) is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The Department of Social Services Care Line (704-336-CARE or 704-336-2773) operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week to receive reports of suspected abuse or neglect of children, the elderly or disabled adults. The Health Department

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