BNI Business Attractors Meeting 2-3-2010

Our weekly Wednesday 8AM BNI Business Attractors meeting is held at Antonio's Pizza and Pasta Restaurant in Leland, NC. We had a several guests yesterday (and you're welcome to come visit, too, just call me, Bruce Brown, at (910) 297-8753 to let me know you're coming.

In the photo below are member Brad Hodges of Primary Capital, guest Brian Finegan of Handy Husbands for Hire, and member Scott Schmidt of Carolina Creations landscaping design company.


Chapter member Dr. Matt Bradshaw of the Leland Health Center gave a great presentation on stretches anyone can use (but especially people who spend a lot of time driving, sitting, or working on computers) to stretch their lower and middle back and legs. In the two photos below he demonstrates simple stretches with chapter member Eddie Hughes of ATMC.




Guest Melissa Hewett and member Eddie Hughes, both of ATMC.


Guest Randy Larson of East Coast Staging, member Marge Brown of Fat City Cards, and member Dr. Matthew Bradshaw.

A good meeting, thanks to you all. Oh, and we're going to have a huge event on March 3rd, so start gathering your business cards. In the meantime, you can come to any meeting, any Wednesday at 8AM. Call me.

Men Wanted to Do It Downtown!

Okay guys, so here's the deal. The Cotton Exchange is a pretty cool place to shop in downtown Wilmington because:

• you can park in the back for free while you're shopping there,
  
• you can find well made, well-crafted, very nice, no apologies needed gifts and artwork
• it's all in one building so you needn't run around too much
• the prices are fair
• the people who own and run the shops in the Cotton Exchange are very nice, they care about their work, they care about their customers and they want your business!

So check out the Cotton Exchange any time, but especially on February 10th from 5-8PM. Three shops in particular, each within hollering distance of the other, are sponsoring a Men's Night Out. The fine folks at

• Port City Pottery & Fine Crafts,
  
• Crescent Moon, and
  
• The Golden Gallery

will be looking out for you. If you know what you want, they've got good stuff. If you don't have a clue, they'll be honored to help you.

Makes it all easy, doesn't it? Of course you don't have to wait, you could go there today, tomorrow, or any other time before or after, but remember, on February 10th, from 5-8PM, it's Men's Night!

Oh yeah, and tell 'em Bruce sent you. It won't get you anything special, but they might laugh a little and I'm sure they'd like to know.

So guys, go on, I dare you to Do It Downtown!

New Sheriff's Station Opening Soon!

Midday today I spoke with Lt. Joe Scoggins and Keeana Haas, Victims Advocate for Domestic Violence cases, both of whom work with the Brunswick County Sheriff's Office.

A new substation is opening, probably sometime this week in front of Brunswick Forest, right next to Port City Java. Neither Lt. Scoggins nor Ms. Haas will be working directly from the office, they work from the main office in Bolivia, however they, like many other officers and professionals in the Sheriff's office will be able to use and reachable via this new substation.