BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//WSIC | Local Starts Here - ECPv6.17.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:WSIC | Local Starts Here X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://wsicnews.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for WSIC | Local Starts Here REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240209T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240209T203000 DTSTAMP:20240122T184120Z CREATED:20240122T184120Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240122T184120Z UID:124866-1707503400-1707510600@wsicnews.com SUMMARY:"Marriage In The Mirror" Conference DESCRIPTION:East Side Baptist Church is planning a free “Marriage In The Mirror” conference on Friday\, February 9th that is open to the community. The church is located at 310 Eastside Drive in Statesville\, NC. The conference will have two combined sessions for the couples and one split session. It is scheduled from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Childcare will be available. Tom and Terri Wagoner from Dunn\, NC will be ministering. Tom is the former pastor of Central Baptist Church in Dunn\, NC. He has been holding these marriage revivals all over the country. The registration deadline is Wednesday\, February 7th. For more information or to register\, please visit https://www.esbcstatesville.com/cc or call 704-873-6682. URL:https://wsicnews.com/event/marriage-in-the-mirror-conference ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wsicnews.com/wp-content/uploads/couples-conf-final.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240205T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240205T153000 DTSTAMP:20240103T122306Z CREATED:20240103T122306Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240103T122306Z UID:121777-1707125400-1707147000@wsicnews.com SUMMARY:In The Know: A Community Conversation About Substance Misuse DESCRIPTION:In its mission to flatten the line on drug and alcohol misuse\, the Drug Alcohol Coalition of Iredell will hold its second “In The Know” event on Monday\, February 5\, at the Statesville Civic Center from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Lunch is provided.\nThe FREE event features a keynote address by noted author and journalist\, Sam Quinones\, a leading expert on the real toll of the opioid crisis at the “individual” level.  \nDuring his colorful 35 year journalism career\, Quinones worked and freelanced for a variety of publications\, including the LA Times\, National Geographic\, The New York Times\, and Los Angeles Magazine.\nHe spent 10 years in Mexico covering Latin America\, later returning to the U.S. to cover immigration\, drug trafficking\, neighborhood stories\, murder\, gangs\, government\, and politics.\nQuinones’ latest books\, Dreamland and The Least of Us\, depict the real people’s experience of opioid crisis on people. \nDreamland won a National Book Critics Circle award for the Best Nonfiction Book of 2015 and was selected in 2019 as one the Best 10 True-Crime Books of all time based on lists\, surveys\, and ratings of more than 90 million Goodread.com readers.\nIn Dreamland\, Quinones depicts the rise of OxyContin\, an extremely addictive painkiller enthusiastically promoted by pharmaceutical companies\, and the simultaneous influx of cheap and addictive black tar heroin from Mexico.\nQuinones recounts the stories of pharmaceutical pioneers\, young Mexican entrepreneurs\, narcotics investigators\, survivors\, teens\, and parents and the massive opioid threat facing America.\nIn 2021\, GQ Magazine selected Dreamland as one of the “50 Best Books of Literary Journalism of the 21st Century.”\nThe Least of Us continues the story of America’s opioid epidemic to include the spread of deadly fentanyl as well as the flood of catastrophic Mexican-made methamphetamine\, responsible for waves of psychosis resembling schizophrenia and other mental illness and resulting in increased homelessness and tent encampments across the country.\nThe Least of Us also explores the neuroscience of addiction and the prevalence of legal addictive substances and services being ever-refined by consumer-product corporations.\nIn 2022\, the National Book Critics Circle nominated The Least of Us as one of the best nonfiction books of 2021.\nQuinones has lectured a more than 50 universities across the United States. He testified on the opioid crisis before the U.S. Senate Labor\, Education\, Health and Pensions committee in January of 2018.\nEVENT DETAILS\nThis year’s day-long event will also include three afternoon break-out sessions on a variety of topics\, an expert panel Q & A\, and multiple opportunities to visit local agency booths to access information from local prevention\, treatment\, and recovery agencies. \nBreak out sessions include An Intimate Conversation with Sam Quinones\, Alcohol – The Silent Killer\, Clearing the Vapor – Facts About Vaping\, My Child is Using . . . Why and Now What?\, Hidden in Plain Sight teen bedroom \, The Rundown – Prevention and Harm Reduction\, In the Schools – Q & A\, The Science of Addiction.\nREGISTRATION\nPlease register on Eventbrite at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dacis-in-the-know-2024-community-conversation-with-author-sam-quinones-tickets-786850399727. \nVENDOR APPLICATION INFORMATION\nIf interested in being a vendor\, please e-mail kristin@daciredell.com with contact info\, the group represented\, and a brief sentence or two about why the organization wants to set up a table at “In the Know!”  \n If questions\, contact Kristin Blumenstein at kristin@daciredell.com. URL:https://wsicnews.com/event/in-the-know-a-community-conversation-about-substance-misuse ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wsicnews.com/wp-content/uploads/Screen-Shot-2022-12-07-at-2.39.43-PM.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240203T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240203T180000 DTSTAMP:20240117T141751Z CREATED:20240117T141751Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240117T141751Z UID:124455-1706947200-1706983200@wsicnews.com SUMMARY:Charlotte Racers Expo DESCRIPTION:The 12th Annual Charlotte Racers Expo presented by Circle Track Warehouse is February 3\, 2024. The Charlotte Racers Expo is designed to be a way for short track racers to meet the people who are behind the products and services they use every single week. Vendors from across the industry are available to sell products direct to their customers or educate the customers on new products\, concepts\, or other related items. When it started in 2012\, it was the first North Carolina auto racing show and auction dedicated to all types of racing cars in over ten years. Cost to attend is $10 and $5 coupons are available at SRI Performance in Mooresville. URL:https://wsicnews.com/event/charlotte-racers-expo ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://wsicnews.com/wp-content/uploads/Charlotte-NEW-Logo-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231010T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231010T100000 DTSTAMP:20230829T133911Z CREATED:20230829T133911Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230829T133911Z UID:96218-1696928400-1696932000@wsicnews.com SUMMARY:Lakeside Yoga DESCRIPTION:Free to the public on Tuesdays in October from 9-10am. No registration or fee required! Why do yoga by the water? Research shows that being by the water helps lower stress\, increases creativity and improves health! URL:https://wsicnews.com/event/lakeside-yoga-3 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wsicnews.com/wp-content/uploads/Lakeside-Yoga.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230901T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230903T230000 DTSTAMP:20230816T182232Z CREATED:20230816T182232Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230816T182232Z UID:94461-1693591200-1693782000@wsicnews.com SUMMARY:Morningside School Reunion Annual Banquet DESCRIPTION:Morningside\, Race Street\, and Alan D. Rutherford Schools will celebrate the classes that attended these school during the years of 1891 until 1968 and beyond. This year we are recognizing the class of 1973 at the Friday night and Sunday Banquet. We offer the opportunity to become a member of the Golden Tigers 100 Club for $100.00 to help deserving scholarship applicants. We have four days of activities lined up below: \nFriday night 9/2: School students and friends; Meet and Greet at the Statesville Recreation Center at 5:30 until 8:30 pm \nSaturday morning 9/2: Morningside parade starting at the old school building on Green Street at 9:00 am to line-up \nSunday evening 9/3: Annual Reunion and Scholarship Banquet at the Statesville Civic Center doors open at 5:30 pm cost is $40 a person \nFriday 9/8: The annual Golf Tournament presented by Morningside and Unity School at River Oak Golf Club at 8:00 am until 5:00pm \nFor more information contact: Seifullah El-Amin 704-880-8087\n Kenneth Byers 704-252-1710\n Regenia Skinner 704-657-4141 (about parade)\n Tony Johnson 704-650-0825 (about golf info)\n Robert Daye 704-657-3495 (about golf info) URL:https://wsicnews.com/event/morningside-school-reunion-annual-banquet-2 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR