Company Shops Market thanks the following for a great time @ Novemberfest
Thank you to everyone who came out and enjoyed the party. With over 500 attendees, it was literally and figuratively a huge success. As you can probably guess, it takes quite a bit of work to pull off an event of this size and scope. Luckily we had a lot of help. As board president Sharon Dent likes to say, “it takes a village.”
Special Thanks to:
- Liz Ross & Band, SOS, and Todd Sines for the audio setup and great live music.
- Red Oak Brewery, Cane Creek Farm, 9th St Bakery, G3 Sauce, Satisfy Your Soul, Counter Culture Coffee, Zack’s and Redbud Farm for the great local food.
- TS Designs, Saxapahaw General Store, Danny’s Cafe, and Bella’s House for volunteering the use of their chairs, ovens, cookers, lights, and more.
- Burlington Police for making sure everyone at the event was safe and secure.
- Meredith Gulley for the lovely video.
- Volunteers Eliza Sydnor, Charles Sydnor, and Ross Flynn for preparing the brats and burgers.
- Volunteers Eric Michel of TS Designs, JT Sharpe of J&L Bicycle, Nate Perry, Sharon Dent, Sarah Cook, Robin Showerman & Family of Bella’s House, Rusty Holt, Sam Moore, Tom Sineath, Megan Squire, Tony Crider, Matt Heidel, Eric Henry, Bob Hykes, Patrick Harmon, Caroline Ansbacher, Jan Henry, Jack Martin, Kevin Helsey for working behind the scenes to build stages, create rolling partitions, decorate, clean, set-up, run errands, and for handling the many small details that make an event like this run smoothly.
We know there are many others ………………if you got left out please let us know so we can add your name to the list.
(Board member Sam Moore helps unload the strawbales)
(Board member Eric Henry sweeps out the front doors)
(Tony Crider and Meghan Squire take a quick break from event set- up. In the background, Liz Ross and her band work with SOS to make sure the sound system is ready to go.)
(Burlington Police have a friendly chat with local business owner Tara Jones-LeGros of J&L Bicycles and Byron Neal)
(Meredith Gulley interviews Charles Sydnor: board member of company shops market, partner in Cane Creek Farm and burger grill master of the evening.)
Over 500 acres of creeks, pastures, and woods make up the collective Cane Creek and Braeburn Farm (Wells Branch LLC). After joining our farms in a working partnership in 2007, we’ve set about creating a special home for unique breeds of pigs and cattle, as well as our ever expanding family of goats, chickens, turkeys, sheep, and ducks. Our animals are rotated continuously through pastures and woods. This is an ethical way to raise livestock and minimizes our need to medicate them, which helps assure healthy animals. Healthy animals lead to healthy food for our customers, food which happens to have incredible flavor. This is why many area restaurants use our products. Come out to the farm and we’ll show you our bountiful gardens, playful animals, and our conservation easement along Wells Branch teeming with wildlife. Help support local and sustainable farms in the Piedmont and promote our local economy.
At Ninth St. Bakery we have been baking quality, hearty breads since we fired our first oven in 1981. All of our products are made from scratch using organic & unbleached flour, whole grains, stone ground flours, charcoal filtered water, unrefined sea salt, real honey, molasses, fresh yeast, corn oil, fresh eggs, sea salt, rolled oats and other natural ingredients, and no preservatives or harmful additives. All flours used in our bread and pastries is milled locally at historic Lindley Mills, Saxapahaw, NC – started by the Lindley family around the time of the Revolutionary War!
Story of Gthree: Ever since I was a kid, I have spent summer weekends and vacations at my families eastern North Carolina beach cottage. Friends and family come from all over the southeast to enjoy the fiestas. There are a few staples that have made their way into the repertoire…great music, lots of laughs, excellent drinks, and most importantly, incredible food. My father, a virtuoso and guru on the grill, and my mother, an absolute wizard in the kitchen, make an unstoppable pair when it comes to creating a gourmet feast for the crowds.
Susan Hearn is the founder of Satisfy Your Soul and the co-owner of 
Who says Oktoberfest is only for October? We’re continuing the fun with locally brewed Red Oak Beer and homegrown Bratwurst on Nov. 7th. 2009.
Sarah Cook
(Todd Sines)
(JT Sharpe)