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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.
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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.
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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.
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SUMMARY:Kissing Booth Event at Harbor Point Animal Hospital
DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to stop by Harbor Point Animal Hospital – bring your pet so they can give away some sweet kisses at the booth and get a cute digital photos of your furry one! \nStop in anytime from 8am to 5pm on Valentine’s Day! If you are new to our practice\, we will happily give you a tour and show you how we are changing the way pets see the vet.
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