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I have to admit that I don’t know much about golf. Even after twenty-two Verizon Wireless/Brad Johnson Celebrity Golf Classics and six Brad Daugherty Fall Golf Invitationals, I still am relatively clueless about much that goes on after the teams leave the clubhouse. It is not that I am not all that bright, it is just that I have been kept busy doing other things as everyone else is trying to play the game that no one I have ever … Continue reading
IN THE NEWS: ASHEVILLE CITIZEN-TIMES May. 1, 2012 ASHEVILLE — Life o’ Mike will present its first Michael T. Danforth Community Service Award to Joe Eblen at a luncheon, 1-3 p.m. June 8, in the Friendship Hall of First Congregational Church, 14 Oak St. Joe Eblen coached and officiated at children’s football games and other sports for more than 60 years and in 1991 founded Eblen Charities, one of the largest and most successful nonprofits in the region. “He wanted … Continue reading
VERIZON WIRELESS / BRAD JOHNSON CELEBRITY GOLF CLASSIC AT THE CLIFFS AT WALNUT COVE THIS WEEK This Tuesday sixty teams from western North Carolina will join Super Bowl XXXVII Champion Quarterback Brad Johnson and other celebrities as they “tee it up” to benefit the outreach programs of Eblen Charities. The 23rd Annual Verizon Wireless Brad Johnson Celebrity Golf Classic will again take to the links for the seventh consecutive year at the renowned Jack Nicklaus signature … Continue reading
She was known as the “Saint of the Gutter”, but her focus was as much on earth as it was in heaven. She was less than five feet tall and everyone who knew her or even briefly encountered her would testify to her soft heart and hard head. She was as practical as she was humble. As many of you know, I was fortunate to have corresponded with Mother for a number of years and it was, and is, her … Continue reading
Each day we are most privileged to work with so many wonderful families through our many outreaches at Eblen Charities. Each week we serve hundreds of children, adults, and families who come to us from other agencies and on their own. We are honored to serve our community and to partner with such great organizations such as Buncombe County Department of Social Services, Mission Hospital, Three Streams Family Health Center, Hearts with Hands, A-B Tech, and so many others. Last … Continue reading
This past winter was one again for the record books. But not as the last two we have experienced that brought us near record snow falls and single digit temperatures, but just the opposite with one of the warmest winters on record with virtually no snow at all. With warmer temperatures it is easy to forget about the heating and utility assistance needs of so many of our neighbors that we are so mindful of during our usual frigid winter … Continue reading
Eblen Center Joins Gable, Thesz, National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Presenting Layfield World Honors
As many of you know, in 2007 we were honored by the Dan Gable International Wrestling Institute by receiving the inaugural Lou Thesz World Heavyweight Championship Award in Waterloo, Iowa. It is a great honor to be chosen for an award that is named in memory of a great champion and gentleman who not only is held in high regard within the Eblen Charities, but with millions throughout the world for the past eight decades. It is even a greater … Continue reading
On Friday, May 4th Keller Williams Realty and the Andrew Institute for Leadership and Public Service will again be bringing some of the finest voices of leadership in the world to western North Carolina for the Second Annual Event Series at Biltmore Baptist Church in south Asheville. This year, the day long event will be broadcast from Atlanta and will feature eleven of the world’s most influential leaders including: Patrick Lencioni: Best-selling author of nine books with nearly three million … Continue reading
CENTER FOR SOCIAL ENTERPRISE JOINS NATIONAL WRESTLING HALL OF FAME / DAN GABLE INSTITUTE IN PRESENTING WORLD HONORS It has been ten years since the world lost six-time world heavyweight champion, Lou Thesz. L0u was renowned around the world not only as a great champion but as a gentleman whose heart for others exceeded his unparalleled accomplishments in the ring and in the business world. But as champion, Lou knew and exemplified that the most important thing that any wrestler, athlete, … Continue reading
Honoring a Beloved Educator Leonardo da Vinci, the 15th century Italian draftsman, painter, sculptor, and engineer who’s genius helped give birth to the Renaissance once noted that “Who sows virtue, reaps honor”. And as true as that has been throughout the ages, in every country and in every community, there can be no greater honor than a community choosing one of their own who has influenced not just the lives of those they have known but the entire community in … Continue reading
