Helping Asheville small businesses this holiday season
CNN
You can provide some much-needed help to Asheville, North Carolina residents this holiday season by choosing to shop their online stores this year. It’s an easy way to do something good for a community that really needs a boost this year, and get your holiday shopping completed with the click of a computer button.
If you’re going to do some online holiday shopping this year, considering spending your dollars with small businesses in Asheville, North Carolina, where you’ll be directly impacting a community still struggling from the effects of Hurricane Helene. Almost every employer in Asheville was affected by the hurricane, whether their building was destroyed, their employees moved away, or they just didn’t have any water to do business. Residents worry that if their small businesses don’t come back, predatory real estate investors could move in, filling Asheville with chain stores and restaurants, completely changing the character of the mountain town. Asheville’s small businesses are counting on this holiday season to pay their employees and keep their businesses open for next year. Many are also donating a portion of proceeds to rebuilding efforts in their town. So if you’d like to help some people who really need a boost this year – and get your holiday shopping completed with the click of a button – here are some Asheville businesses you can support this year: East Fork Pottery started when Alex Matisse, a potter who is the great-grandson of painter Henri Matisse, decided to transition from making large vessels he hand-threw himself, to starting a business producing a multitude of home items – at a much larger scale.
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