Calendar of Events

Our NEW Mobile Wellness Center is pulling into town Monday, October 16th, and we want everyone to see it! Please come AmeriHealth Caritas and our local vendors as we dance, tour the centers, and celebrate! EVERYONE IS INVITED!

2PM: Vendor Showcase & Activities, Center Tours, Feed Me Foam Recycling Starts

2:30PM: ZUMBA! Under the Mobile Center Awning

3PM: Center Tours and Vendor Activities: Change Your Palate Cooking Demo

3:30PM Change Your Palate Cooking Demo

4PM: Feed Me Foam Recycling Ends

4:30PM: Member Advisory Meeting

We hope to see you at 216 Asheland Avenue! Bring a friend :)

Kids 7+ are welcome to join. Younger kids can play in our kids room equipped with toys, a chalk wall, coloring books, books and Disney plus.

Our ACNC m?embers can receive free transportation to and from any wellness center event by calling ModivCare for a reservation: 1-833-498-2262

Let’s do better together!

This workshop is for anyone who wants to bring their real-life stories to the page, whether for publication or simply to record stories for family and friends. Through focused prompts, we will revisit and write about important moments from our lives. Our session will include timed writing exercises, group discussions, and an opportunity to read one’s work aloud in a supportive setting. Please bring paper and a writing implement and come ready to write!

Space is limited, so registration is required.

Lori Horvitz’ first collection of memoir-essays, The Girls of Usually, won the 2016 Gold Medal IPPY Book Award in Autobiography/Memoir. Her creative nonfiction has appeared in a variety of journals including Hobart, South Dakota Review, The New York Times, The Guardian, and Hotel Amerika. Professor of English at UNC Asheville, Horvitz has been awarded fellowships from Yaddo, Cottages at Hedgebrook, VCCA, Ragdale, Blue Mountain Center, and Brush Creek. She holds a Ph.D. in English from SUNY Albany, and an MFA in Creative Writing from Brooklyn College.

The World Trails Film Festival is a unique event showcasing the best short and feature films centering the stories of trails from around the globe. Join us as we bring it to UNC Asheville (premiering for the first time on the East Coast of the United States) to celebrate why trails matter.

This community-building event will support trails locally and globally by fundraising equally for two leading trail organizations, the first of which is the Southern Appalachian Wilderness Stewards, a local nonprofit equipping people to steward our wild landscapes, and the World Trails Ambassadors, a program of the World Trails Network.

Doors open at 6 pm, Program begins at 7pm and entry will be limited after 7:15 pm, during the screening. Program will include an intermission and ends at 9:30 pm.

Women Helping Women serves as a source of funds to offset the costs of diagnosis and treatment of cancer affecting underinsured and uninsured women served by the UNC Health Pardee health system who could not otherwise obtain and afford such diagnosis and treatment.

This celebratory event always sells out and tickets are going fast. I encourage you to get yours today before they are gone!

Your $125 ticket includes lunch, pre-event shopping at Retail Row and an opportunity to hear inspiring stories of how the Women Helping Women fund is changing lives in Western North Carolina. The average cost for a mammogram is now $562, so every ticket is making a difference!

Our program will also feature New York Times bestselling author, podcast host and Duke University professor Kate Bowler, PhD.

For more information about the luncheon, email us or call 828-233-2700 and we’ll be glad to assist you.

RiverLink, Land of Sky Regional Council, and the Town of Weaverville are hosting a hands-on workshop on invasive plant management techniques. Participants will remove invasive plants from Weaverville Main Street Nature Park.

Get ready to have some fun at the 9th Annual Trick or Trail 5k & Spooky Sprint 1 Mile, presented by Hunter Subaru! This Halloween-themed race will bring runners back to the heart of Hendersonville, NC, where they’ll start and finish in the Historic 7th Avenue District.

But that’s not all! The vibrant Fall Festival will be taking place at the Farmers’ Market, so you can expect a spooktacular atmosphere with costumes, decorations, and lots of great candy, snacks, and food!

This family favorite event promises a festive fusion of fitness and fall fun that you won’t want to miss. And, after the race, you can stroll over to the bustling Fall Festival for even more food, drinks, and vendors at the Farmers’ Market. So, come prepared to spook, sprint, and snack your way through this ghoulishly good time! (Don’t forget your cash for all the goodies!)

Costumes are highly encouraged, and prizes will be given out for the best ones!

Ever wanted to try improv comedy? Have you been going to the open mics and looking for advice to get to the next level? Or maybe just looking for other femme and queer friends interested in comedy.

Come out to Catawba Brewing South Slope on Sunday 8/27 for a one day workshop let by Marlene Thompson (Second City, Asheville Improv)

Open to all femme and non-binary identifying people and all comedy levels

ages 18+

Participants must meet the following guidelines:

1. 40 years of age or older
2. Not have had a mammogram within the past year
3. Be uninsured
4. Have no breast problems or concerns

HCA Healthcare is committed to bringing frontline solutions to curb the tide of opioid
misuse and addiction in the communities that we are proud to serve. On Saturday,
anyone in the community can safely and anonymously drop off unused and expired
medication for proper disposal. Prescription drug misuse is a public health crisis in the
United States. In fact, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
109,170 Americans died from drug overdoses in 2022, an increase from 2021.
HCA Healthcare’s Crush the Crisis events across the country will align with National
Prescription Drug Take Back Day, sponsored by The United States Drug Enforcement
Administration (DEA).
During last year’s event, Mission Heath collected 270 pounds of unused and expired
medication as part of Crush the Crisis.
Items that will not be accepted are: Needles, Syringes, Lancets, Illegal drugs. Together,
we can help make our communities safer and healthier. Find out
more: HCAhealthcare.com/CrushTheCrisis

front entrance of Angel Medical Center at 124 One Center Court

HCA Healthcare is committed to bringing frontline solutions to curb the tide of opioid
misuse and addiction in the communities that we are proud to serve. On Saturday,
anyone in the community can safely and anonymously drop off unused and expired
medication for proper disposal. Prescription drug misuse is a public health crisis in the
United States. In fact, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
109,170 Americans died from drug overdoses in 2022, an increase from 2021.
HCA Healthcare’s Crush the Crisis events across the country will align with National
Prescription Drug Take Back Day, sponsored by The United States Drug Enforcement
Administration (DEA).
During last year’s event, Mission Heath collected 270 pounds of unused and expired
medication as part of Crush the Crisis.
Items that will not be accepted are: Needles, Syringes, Lancets, Illegal drugs. Together,
we can help make our communities safer and healthier. Find out
more: HCAhealthcare.com/CrushTheCrisis

HCA Healthcare is committed to bringing frontline solutions to curb the tide of opioid
misuse and addiction in the communities that we are proud to serve. On Saturday,
anyone in the community can safely and anonymously drop off unused and expired
medication for proper disposal. Prescription drug misuse is a public health crisis in the
United States. In fact, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
109,170 Americans died from drug overdoses in 2022, an increase from 2021.
HCA Healthcare’s Crush the Crisis events across the country will align with National
Prescription Drug Take Back Day, sponsored by The United States Drug Enforcement
Administration (DEA).
During last year’s event, Mission Heath collected 270 pounds of unused and expired
medication as part of Crush the Crisis.
Items that will not be accepted are: Needles, Syringes, Lancets, Illegal drugs. Together,
we can help make our communities safer and healthier. Find out
more: HCAhealthcare.com/CrushTheCrisis

HCA Healthcare is committed to bringing frontline solutions to curb the tide of opioid
misuse and addiction in the communities that we are proud to serve. On Saturday,
anyone in the community can safely and anonymously drop off unused and expired
medication for proper disposal. Prescription drug misuse is a public health crisis in the
United States. In fact, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
109,170 Americans died from drug overdoses in 2022, an increase from 2021.
HCA Healthcare's Crush the Crisis events across the country will align with National
Prescription Drug Take Back Day, sponsored by The United States Drug Enforcement
Administration (DEA).
During last year’s event, Mission Heath collected 270 pounds of unused and expired
medication as part of Crush the Crisis.
Items that will not be accepted are: Needles, Syringes, Lancets, Illegal drugs. Together,
we can help make our communities safer and healthier. Find out
more: HCAhealthcare.com/CrushTheCrisis

HCA Healthcare is committed to bringing frontline solutions to curb the tide of opioid
misuse and addiction in the communities that we are proud to serve. On Saturday,
anyone in the community can safely and anonymously drop off unused and expired
medication for proper disposal. Prescription drug misuse is a public health crisis in the
United States. In fact, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
109,170 Americans died from drug overdoses in 2022, an increase from 2021.
HCA Healthcare's Crush the Crisis events across the country will align with National
Prescription Drug Take Back Day, sponsored by The United States Drug Enforcement
Administration (DEA).
During last year’s event, Mission Heath collected 270 pounds of unused and expired
medication as part of Crush the Crisis.
Items that will not be accepted are: Needles, Syringes, Lancets, Illegal drugs. Together,
we can help make our communities safer and healthier. Find out
more: HCAhealthcare.com/CrushTheCrisis

HCA Healthcare is committed to bringing frontline solutions to curb the tide of opioid
misuse and addiction in the communities that we are proud to serve. On Saturday,
anyone in the community can safely and anonymously drop off unused and expired
medication for proper disposal. Prescription drug misuse is a public health crisis in the
United States. In fact, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
109,170 Americans died from drug overdoses in 2022, an increase from 2021.
HCA Healthcare's Crush the Crisis events across the country will align with National
Prescription Drug Take Back Day, sponsored by The United States Drug Enforcement
Administration (DEA).
During last year’s event, Mission Heath collected 270 pounds of unused and expired
medication as part of Crush the Crisis.
Items that will not be accepted are: Needles, Syringes, Lancets, Illegal drugs. Together,
we can help make our communities safer and healthier. Find out
more: HCAhealthcare.com/CrushTheCrisis