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See Rock City Acquires Sky Harbor Court

5/29/2018

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PictureSee Rock City Inc. has rebranded Sky Harbor Court as RiverView Inn. Visit the updated property during an open house takes places on June 4 & 5.
See Rock City Inc. is excited to announce its purchase of Sky Harbor Court on Lookout Mountain, rebranding the property with a new name: Lookout Mountain RiverView Inn. An open house is set for June 4 and 5, from 3-7 p.m. to showcase the updated space including 10 renovated rooms, pool, Skybox and other amenities.
 
"We are excited to continue to grow our hospitality business while also demonstrating our unwavering commitment to preserving the iconic history of Lookout Mountain,"said SRC President and COO Susan Harris. "The purchase of Sky Harbor Court, and its subsequent transformation to RiverView Inn is fully part of that commitment, and we look forward to facilitating one-of-a-kind, immersive experiences for our guests."
 
RiverView Inn is uniquely set along the Tennessee River on Lookout Mountain, with lodging near historic trails, allowing guests to connect with nature and with each other. The property offers breathtaking views of Chattanooga and is conveniently located minutes away from Rock City, Ruby Falls and the Incline Railway.
 
"RiverView Inn captures the nostalgia of the golden age of 'The American Road Trip' while meeting the needs of today's modern traveler," said Jonathan Humble, innkeeper for RiverView. "With great care we have worked to preserve and refresh the charm and enchantment of the buildings and gardens, a process that will continue over the next several years as we strive to enhance this special place. During this initial phase we focused on refreshing our boutique guest rooms which feature restored vintage furniture and brand new modern bathrooms. This inn serves as a place to relax, restore and explore all that beautiful Lookout Mountain and Chattanooga offers."
 
SRC purchased the property on Dec. 6, 2016 from Steve and Patsy Evans, who served as its innkeepers for over 20 years. The company has since worked to update the property, while remaining in operation for guests. For more information about RiverView Inn, visit www.stayatriverviewinn.com.

RiverView Inn is located at 2159 Old Wauhatchie Pike in Chattanooga. Call (423) 821-8619 to make a reservation.

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Spa Holding Mother's Day Essay Contest

4/25/2018

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PictureKids can enter the Mother's Day essay contest at Mountain Escape Spa.
Mother’s Day is coming up on May 13! Mountain Escape Spa is sponsoring its annual Mother’s Day essay contest. The theme this year is “What Makes Your Mom Special?” Children are invited to write a paragraph or two about why their mother is special.

The prize is a “Mom and Me” spa package for the mother of the winning essay writer! Email essays to mountainescapespa@ gmail.com or drop them off at the spa, 814 Scenic Hwy., by May 11.

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Mountain Stores Holding Holiday Open Houses

11/16/2017

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PictureShop Yessick's, Mountain Escape Spa and Fairyland Pharmacy for discounts during their open houses.
Remember, the weekend after Thanksgiving, there's a great shopping event right here on Lookout Mountain! That’s the weekend that Fairyland Pharmacy, Mountain Escape Spa and Yessick’s host their annual Christmas open houses.

The Spa and Yessick’s will have open house Thursday, November 30 through Saturday, December 2. Facials at the spa will be 20 percent off, and Yessick's is offering 20 percent off your entire purchase.

Head over to the pharmacy, where there are great items for holiday gifting or gifting yourself! The pharmacy is giving everyone 20 percent off their entire purchase on Saturday, December 2.


This open house weekend is always a great kick off for the holiday shopping season, and it helps support our wonderful mountain businesses! Happy Holidays to all!

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Lee Cureton's Culinary Creations Celebrates 10 Years

5/23/2017

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PictureLee Cureton's catering business is celebrating 10 years this spring.
by Ricky Bowers
Last summer and fall were some of the driest on record and led to some really frightening wild fires that spread through the Southeast. These fires raged from the highly publicized Gatlinburg fires to the fires in the Chattanooga area. Trees died, ponds dried up, and most areas in North Georgia were placed on a water-rationing schedule. Almost all of the fires were started by people, from careless campers to kids wanting to “see what a fire looked like.” Despite how they started, this is the first I have ever heard of forest fires in the Tennessee Valley of this proportion, and as you all may recall, it got a little dicey at times as communities fought these terrifying fires.

Back in November 2016, our hometown chef Lee Cureton heard about the forest fires on the radio, which had spread all over the Chattanooga area. She immediately went to the store to buy bottled water, snacks and other requested supplies, and delivered them to crews of firefighters working at the Slygo fire near Trenton, Ga. Ironically, it was from her good deed of donating water and supplies that a local forestry worker asked for her business card, and, soon thereafter, the Georgia Forestry Department asked if she could provides three meals a day of rotating lunches and dinners to the crews as they changed shifts.

Lee provided lunches and dinners for 12 straight days, until November 26, totaling almost 1,000 meals! Along with the meals, she organized donations of water and other supplies as fires raged from Wildwood to Lookout Mountain, Taylor’s Ridge to Signal Mountain and Fox Mountain to Sand Mountain. Volunteers she organized also helped assemble the lunch bags and packaged food into individual containers. As a state agency, the Georgia Forestry Department had certain nutritional guidelines that had to be met, but that was no problem for Lee with her years of cooking experience.

The forest fires weren’t the only challenge Lee jumped in to assist with in 2016; a Southeast Lineman Training Center student fell from a pole and was seriously injured. The young man, and his wife, who were expecting a child, suffered a real financial setback because of this injury and related surgeries. Lee immediately organized a luncheon fundraiser. A few years earlier, Lee did the same thing for a friend and church member who was diagnosed with a brain tumor.

While I have known Lee a long time, going back to days when she was at GPS and I was at Baylor, I have enjoyed getting to know her better recently. She has a real love for what she does and is willing to provide a very customized culinary experience. Her catering company, Culinary Creations Catering Company, is celebrating its 10th year, and I would like to congratulate her, not just for her successful 10 years in catering, but for being a loving, caring neighbor and friend to our community.  Anyone who can prepare a small side of squash casserole as a needed add-on for a prepared meal, as well as prepare a several-course seated wedding reception meal for 350 people, and do so with a constant smile and good attitude, all the while serving her community, deserves an award of recognition. Thank you for all of your community support, Lee, and congratulations!

For more information on Lee Cureton, visit the Culinary Creations website, follow it on Facebook, or call (423) 802-0695.

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Mountain Shops Holding Open Houses

11/28/2016

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PictureCindy Stiles at Mountain Escape Spa thinks Rustic House candles or McClain Made jewelry make great gifts.
by Gwin Tugman
Once again, the Christmas season is here, with all of its craziness. To take some of the hassle out of Christmas gift-giving, shop right here on Lookout Mountain!

The Fairyland Pharmacy has added many new items, including a battery-operated luminaire candle with an automatic shutoff, a bottle opener/corkscrew/magnet, a vinrella (a wine bottle with an umbrella inside), folding reading glasses in neon colors, picnic wineglasses, boot cuffs, adult coloring books (which are so hot right now), Gund soft stuffed animals, new Melissa and Doug toys, baby gifts, a big variety of sleds, Vitabath products, hilarious cocktail napkins, the nearly-famous Moo Mixer and lots of stocking stuffers, including travel products of all sorts. It always amazes me how one small store can offer so much variety.
 
Remember, despite our warm fall, snow will come, and the pharmacy has the best selection of sleds in town. The pharmacy’s open house is December 3 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., and there will be a 20 percent storewide discount and delicious food. I know I’ll be there because our granddaughter already picked out half of the Melissa and Doug toys!

The stores at the newly-named Lookout Mountain Village on the Tennessee side also have a big selection of gifts and will offer open houses on December 1 through 3. Yessick’s is the place to go if you want wardrobe accessories. You will find beautiful handbags, as well as lots of beautiful scarves and jewelry, and a new line of soaps that makes wonderful gifts. I found fur throws, lovely paper plates and napkins for the holidays, baby items, and a fiber optic safety leash for your dogs, which is awesome. New items will be arriving all through the holiday season, so be sure and stop by and see what they have.

Lots of new items are arriving daily at the Mountain Escape Spa, including Marigot pajamas and Faceplant Dreams satin and bamboo loungewear. You can also find fuzzy open-toed slippers, nightshirts, and satin sleep masks, as well as fingerless gloves/mittens, candles in brass coffee mugs, popular Royal Highnies products, cashmere scarves and machine-washable slippers for kids and adults indoor/outdoor play slippers. There are many things for the bath or shower, including fizzers for your bath that leave behind a surprise gift and very soft skin. The spa also carries local products, like McClain Made jewelry collection and Rustic House candles. Of course, there are the very popular Frasier fir candles, plus many other items. Expect deep discounts during the open house!

Market on the Mountain offers many new items, including Molly & Me Pecans from Charleston, which come in cinnamon sugar, bourbon, praline and salted and roasted. The Market also carries Betsy’s Cheese Straws and Miss Ginny’s English Toffee, both perfect hostess gifts. Grandma’s Coffee Cake is always great for out-of-town guests and it comes in several new flavors, including pumpkin spice, chocolate, and cappuccino. The Market has large Argentine red shrimp, which are perfect for shrimp cocktail. And, check out the chocolate Yule log; it would be beautiful on the Christmas table (it’s also delicious). The Market will also cater your Christmas dinner, as well as make gift baskets for any occasion.

Don’t forget that you can purchase gift certificates at any of our shops or restaurants. Remember to support our local businesses and save yourself some stress. Merry Christmas! (I heard a rumor that there might be a special visitor in a red suit at the Open House!)



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Brzezinski to Speak at CWLI IMPACT Dinner

2/10/2016

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PictureMika Brzezinski
For the past 10 years, Chattanooga Women's Leadership Institute (CWLI) has hosted notable female leaders including: activist Gloria Steinem; FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair; Canadian Prime Minister Kim Campbell; the first female Chief of the Cherokee Nation, Wilma Mankiller; Stacy Allison, the first American woman to summit Mt. Everest; Dr. Mae Jemison, the first African American women in space; Emmy award-winning journalist Connie Chung; and HGTV-Co-Founder, Susan Packard.

This year, CWLI welcomes Mika Brzezinski as keynote speaker for its annual IMPACT Leadership Dinner. Brzezinski is co-host of MSNBC's "Morning Joe," a journalist and best-selling author.

The dinner is scheduled for Thursday, February 18 at the Chattanooga Convention Center. Tickets are $65 per person, and table sponsorships are available for $1,200, which includes preferred seating for eight and listing in the event program. Doors open at 5:30 p.m., and dinner and the program begin at 6:30 p.m. For more info or for tickets, click here.

CWLI's mission is to increase the leadership capabilities and influence women in the Chattanooga community. It aims to contribute to the growth and stability of of the Chattanooga business community through the broad range of women's talents and perspectives. For more about CWLI, click here.

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New Shop Opens in St. Elmo

1/7/2016

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PictureEve Williams in her shop, Finders Keepers St. Elmo
by Ferris Robinson
Folks may be surprised to see that St. Elmo’s Mojo Burrito is no longer tucked away on Tennessee Avenue. But probably not – most people watched for months as the old Slick’s Burger location on St. Elmo Avenue underwent an enormous transformation. Who could miss the new psychedelic-colored steps leading up from the highway, the gigantic Alice in Wonderland rocking chairs and the inviting wrap-around screen porch?

Mojo founder and owner Eve Williams thought about putting a little pub in the old Mojo spot since she still has time on her lease. But it didn’t work out. There aren’t enough parking places for the city to approve a restaurant in that spot, even though Mojo Burrito was there for several years. “My variance expired, and the city won’t allow another restaurant there,” she said.

Although Mojo Burrito is just about everything any diner could ask for – fresh leafy greens, crispy cheese-filled quesadillas, a slew of toppings from red, green or pineapple salsa and Texas caviar to homemade guacamole and killer chili, Eve did not grow up running a kitchen.

The native New Yorker grew up collecting. No stranger to flea markets, estate sales and side-of-the road garage sales, Eve Williams is a finder. And for many years she was a keeper. “I kept all my things in storage while I was busy with Mojo. But thanks to my wonderful managers, I have more time,” she said.

And just because she has running three successful restaurants down pat, that doesn’t mean she doesn’t know anything about retail. Little Eva’s was a shop in upstate New York that was sheer heaven to a treasure finder. Vintage jewelry, collectibles and keepsakes filled the store and attracted everyone from interior designers to browsers. All of it was lovingly collected by little Eva, aka Eve Williams, who shrugs and says, “Once you’re a treasure finder, it’s hard to get it out of your blood.”

She moved to Chattanooga in 2001 but lost her job shortly after 9/11. “I moved here so my daughter could be close to her father and had to figure out a way to help support  her as a single mother.”

Surprised Chattanooga didn’t have any mom and pop burrito spots, she decided to open one. “I knew I wanted a neighborhood restaurant, and St. Elmo fit the bill perfectly,” she said.

Instead of liquidating all of her treasures when she moved south, she stored most of it.

She also kept collecting, even as she opened her second restaurant in Red Bank. But she was not driven to collect, forcing herself to search for items others might want. On the contrary, shopping or picking is relaxing for her. “I realized that as I was browsing through an estate sale – it helps me just flatten out my brain. I went home much more relaxed than I was when I started,” she said.

Finders Keepers St. Elmo is indeed a treasure trove, and although you may find plenty of valuables, you probably won’t pay face value for them. “I don’t want to extract the value of things. I want everyone to feel good about the deal they found,” she said. So even though she knows she would be able to substantially upcharge each item, she doesn’t. Instead she just marks up the amount she paid, ensuring the merchandise moves. For example, she recently priced a pair of Herman Miller chairs at $150, even though they were worth $400, and she could have easily sold them for $250.

Finders Keepers St. Elmo features an outdoor courtyard with garden art and comfy chairs for taking a load off. And you are welcome to relax after you wear yourself out from treasure hunting.

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