This week's Mind Your Business brings our 4th of July calendar into focus, with the scoop on parades, fireworks, and other celebrations that mark one of the busiest tourism weekends of the year in our community. We'll also share details on some Chamber calendar items, including three ribbon cuttings planned for the month of July and information about our upcoming celebration to commemorate 150 years of business in Boone.

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The summer of music continues in the High Country.  After back-to-back successful weekends that included the High Country Jazz Festival and Boonerang, we settle in for even more quality entertainment over the next month.

On this week's episode of Mind Your Business, we talk with organizers of the 2022 installment of An Appalachian Summer. We'll hear about the festival's roots and development into a signature High Country event. We'll also get a comprehensive list of artists and shows for the entire month of July.

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Get the full scoop on the Booneerang Music Festival from Mark Freed, Director of Cultural Resources for the Town of Boone.

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As buzzwords and phrases like inflation, recession, gas prices, and market volatility permeate our daily conversations, many of us are asking what these economic trends truly mean to own financial realities.

This week's Mind Your Business aims to answer some of those questions, as we use our quarterly check-in with Jonathan Allen, of Allen Wealth Management, to gauge how the financial topics of the day are translating to living and working in the High Country.

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The High Country is center stage for some exciting music festivals and stage performances over the next few months. The High Country Jazz Festival gets the party started, with this showcase set for June 8-12th in various venues throughout the High Country.

Keith Martin, from the Appalachian Theatre, and High Country jazz legend Todd Wright join us on this week's installment of Mind Your Business to discuss how this festival came together and what spectators can expect in terms of performers and venues.

As we prepare for large events this summer, we have the latest information on the King Street resurfacing project, including more details on timing and parking disruptions that will occur over the next several weeks.

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The Boone Area Chamber of Commerce recently hosted Vision Northwest North Carolina, an annual summit focused on workforce trends in our region. The afternoon session focused on workplace culture, and how employees respond to the intentional efforts of employers that aim to create a friendly, engaging, and sincere environment for their staff.

This week's Mind Your Business recaps our Afternoon keynote session, featuring an excerpt from Adrienne Cole's presentation on Rethinking Our Approach to Talent, The Importance of Workplace Culture.

We then hear some follow-up comments from a trio of panelists that include Chuck Eyler, President, Peak Insurance Group; Kendra Blevins, Training and Recruiting Coordinator, GE Aviation; and Karen Warlick, Human Resource Manager, Blue Ridge Energy.

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On May 3rd,  The Appalachian Regional Healthcare System (ARHS) Board of Trustees and the UNC Health Board of Directors announced the approval of a comprehensive, long-term Management Services Agreement (MSA) between the two organizations to expand local health care services and improve access to resources for patients in the High Country region of North Carolina.

What does this agreement include? How will it impact access to quality health care in the High Country? To get the answers to these questions, and to put a few rumors to rest, this week's installment of Mind Your Business features Chuck Mantooth, President/CEO of Appalachian Regional Healthcare System. Here his comments about why this arrangement was sought and how it will change the way patients communicate with their heath providers.

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The sophomore campaign of Appalachian FC is just around the corner. The 2021 Boone Area Chamber of Commerce Startup Business of the Year is eager to build off a global brand release that was complemented by a NPSL playoff appearance in their first season on the pitch.

Michael Hitchcock, principal owner of Appalachian FC returns to Mind Your Business to discuss year two for a growing startup business. Hear how has the club worked to improve its market share, fan engagement, and brand penetration, while leaning in to traditions and nuances some minor league sports franchises can only see in their dreams.

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Following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, few experts could have accurately predicted what was about to happen to the entrepreneurial landscape in North Carolina and across the nation. While the early days of the pandemic saw many businesses shutter and close their doors, few expected that over the next two years new business formations in North Carolina would be at an all-time high.

Since 2020, the North Carolina Department of the Secretary of State has reported over 300,000 new businesses registered. In 2021 alone, the 178,300 new business creation filings were more than double the amount registered four years prior.

On this week's installment of Mind Your Business, we are joined by NC Rural Center President Patrick Woodie. A native of Northwest North Carolina, Patrick understands the issues confronting rural businesses from a first-person perspective. Hear about the NC Rural Center's upcoming webinar series: The State of Small Business in North Carolina. Patrick shares how the NC Rural Center is examining data trends related to this latest entrepreneurial renaissance and how his team is adjusting their own policy focus to ensure new businesses get the support they need as the move toward sustainability.

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As the temperature (maybe) warms up for good, businesses in the High Country are busy preparing for the hustle and bustle of the late spring and early summer. As people have less time to digest information about the various programs and seminars that dot the landscape, the Boone Area Chamber of Commerce has taken the opportunity to distill this information for you in what we are calling the Spring Organization episode of Mind Your Business.

On this week's program, we'll discuss the roll-out of Phase 2 of the N.C. Business Recovery Grant Program and the wide range of businesses that are now eligible for this COVID-19 economic recovery program. We'll also discuss an upcoming webinar series hosted by the NC Rural Center focused on The State of Small Business in North Carolina. This series will reveal some eye-opening statistics from the NC Secretary of State about the number of entrepreneurial starts since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. We also discuss Vision Northwest North Carolina, a one-day summit to be held next month in Boone, which focuses on cultivating the workforce of tomorrow.

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