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It’s hard to believe, but it has been 5 years since DavidsonNews.net started as a pioneer of community news publishing on the Internet. To celebrate, we’re throwing a reception next Friday, Nov. 18, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Brickhouse Tavern on Delburg Street. It’s a drop-in, with hors d’oeuvres and cash bar – and we hope you’ll join us. But wait, there’s more … Read the full story

Erin Cobb

Friends from a local CrossFit training center are organizing a fitness-related fundraiser on Saturday, Nov. 19, for Erin Cobb, the 28-year-old Davidson woman who is recovering after she was shot by her ex-husband on Sept 24 at her east Davidson home. Read the full story

Map of the Summit 5K course, beginning on South Street. Click map for PDF of the course.

South Street will be closed at South Main Street Friday night for the running of the Summit Coffee Twilight 5K, a race on town streets and greenways. The road will close around 5 p.m., and the race is expected to begin at 6 p.m. Read the full story

One of the displays from the 2010 Over the Table Top event (NMWC photo).

The North Mecklenburg Woman’s Club on Friday hosts its annual “Over the Table Top” holiday fundraiser at the Peninsula Club, 19101 Peninsula Club Drive in Cornelius. This year, the funds raised will benefit HAMMERS (Hands Around Mecklenburg/Mooresville Making Emergency Repairs Safely), an organization that aims to reduce the immediate threats to life, health and safety in homes owned and occupied by lower-income residents of Cornelius, Davidson, Huntersville, and Mooresville. It was formed in collaboration with the Davidson Housing Coalition. Read the full story

About 100 people bundled up Saturday morning and walked in support of the Ada Jenkins Center, a non-profit health and human services organization serving Davidson, Cornelius, Huntersville and South Iredell. Individuals and teams gathered at the Antiquity neighborhood in Cornelius for a Walk-a-Thon fundraiser for the center, which last year served 19,454 individuals through its various programs. Read the full story

A series of events at Davidson’s Summit Coffee this month to raise money for the men’s health-focused “Movember” Foundation continues this Friday, Nov. 11, with a Twilight 5K run and festival. The race on local streets and the torch-lit Southeast Greenway could be the first of a regular series of Friday night festivals – a whole new kind of Friday night outing in downtown Davidson. See the story on our HEALTH & FITNESS page»

Red Wine & Bleu's organizers were (from left) Lina Komanduri, Laura Carey, Lou Berl and Elizabeth Morgan. (David Boraks/DavidsonNews.net)

Guests were sampling wine and cheese while listening to a classical string duo Thursday night at River Run Country Club during “Red Wine & Bleu”, the area’s first fund-raiser for 7-year-old Pat’s Place Child Advocacy Center, the county’s only advocacy center for children affected by sexual abuse. Read the full story

John Woods was behind the bar at Flatiron Kitchen Thursday night. Tips went to Ada Jenkins Center. (David Boraks/DavidsonNews.net)

Davidson Mayor John Woods was behind the bar Thursday night at Flatiron Kitchen + Taphouse in downtown Davidson, in the second of a planned series of monthly fund-raisers. A total of $300 in tips from the mayor’s work Thursday went to the Ada Jenkins Center, a social services center on Davidson’s West Side.

John Woods poured a fresh pint of something dark for your photographer (David Boraks/DavidsonNews.net)