Greetings, DRBA members, friends and partners!
As you may know, DRBA has received a dollar for dollar challenge grant from the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation.
There’s more good news! DRBA has an additional challenge from one of our very generous board members. For every $2 that you donate, up to $10,000, DRBA will receive an additional $1.
Put the two challenges together and a new $100 donation or membership will yield $150 in matching funds for a total of $250 to help protect the rivers we love, to build trails and parks, and to promote sustainable economic development for our region.
Please help us meet these challenges before the year end deadline! Even a small contribution makes a big difference.
Contribute online or download a contribution form at http://www.danriver.org/Members/Gifts_Donations.htm
or mail your contribution to DRBA, 413 Church St., Eden, NC 27288.
Thanks so much – see you on the river!
Katherine Mull
The giant "jaws" attached to the end of this track-hoe tear into the structure as the floors come tumbling down in a loud crash of concrete dust and twisted metal rebar.
Jenn and I met with Jim Franklin at the site today to find an old set of stairs in one of the adjacent warehouse buildings. Jeb Bassett has donated the stairs for use as a temporary river access point behind the corporate headquarters for use during the Bassett Heritage Festival in September. We will pick up the stairs next week and get them installed in time for a family fun float during the festival, from Bassett Historic Center down the river ½ mile to the Bassett Furniture Headquarters. The stairs will be removed after the event. 
Submitted by Brian Williams
