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New Neighborhoods Available To Tour
New Restaurants at Flowers Crossroads
McDonald’s Breaks Ground!
Construction is moving along on the future McDonald’s
located at the corner of Pineville Boulevard next to Flowers
Crossroads Dental. According to a company representative, the
anticipated opening will be July 2021. Interested in joining their
team? Apply at McHire.com or text NC142 to 38000.
Your Smile is in Good Hands With FC Dental
Flowers Crossroads Dental, one of the
newest businesses to be welcomed to Flowers
Crossroads, o cially opened in April. ey
will o er a variety of services including:
Cosmetic Dentistry, Dentures, Endodontics,
Implants, Orthodontics, and more!
Dr. Daniel Campolieto, DDS
Dr. Gilbert Carney, DMD
Call (919) 585-5333 to schedule your
appointment today!
e Grocery Bag Gets a Facelift
After 30 years, everyone’s favorite hot dog
spot nally gets its rst remodel. Donna,
Tommy Fitzgerald’s wife, their niece Hayley,
and all of their employees are excited to carry
on Tommy’s legacy with a new look. e
Grocery Bag will reopen on Friday, May 14th
at 5am. Please stop by, grab a hot dog, and
check out all the new changes! ere will be a
Grand Opening on June 5th with antique cars,
face painting, and more!
When Did We Give Yourself Permission To Succeed
Start Doing at?! Many of us don’t succeed in our goals because we don’t allow ourselves to. You
55+ Active Adult Townhomes You cross your ngers for good luck need to consciously give yourself permission to succeed. at way, you can overcome
subconscious self-sabotage. Here’s how to open your life up to greater success:
Cottages at Evergreen: is gated community is built for those e Crossings: is new community o ers homes with single or to excuse yourself from lying, but do • Spend time with people who support you unconditionally. We often have a
you ever wonder how customs like that
seeking an active retirement lifestyle. Featuring homes ranging in and double garages. Floor plans start around 1,760 square feet
distorted view of ourselves and are blind to many of our assets. Being with people
originated? e Cracked website explains
size from 1,670 to 2,890 square feet, prices start from the $300s. with prices beginning in the upper $200s. Built by True Homes.
who believe in you helps give you a clearer view of your strengths and weaknesses.
Hwy 42 Café & Hershey’s Ice Cream Now Open Built by McKee Homes. Coming Soon! the beginnings of everyday behavior we • Don’t cling to the past. Most of us have long-established patterns of behavior and
Hwy 42 Café Forge Creek: is community of 127 single-family homes is Copper Ridge: A single-family neighborhood built by True take for granted: thinking that have helped us in life—at one time. But people and circumstances
• Painting your ngernails. Babylonian
o cially opened on priced from the $300s. Home sizes range from 1,794 to 2,900+ Homes. e rst phase of lots have been recorded and model warriors in 3,200 B.C. would paint change. Bringing an apple to the teacher may have worked in rst grade, but
square feet. Built by Elevate Homes.
March 1st with great homes are going up now! is community will have 330 their nails before heading o to battle to your manager isn’t Mrs. Smith. Adapt your behavior and thought processes to the
success. is family- Single-Family homesites with homes ranging from approximately 1600 to signify their social class. present situation. Otherwise, old habits may just impede your success.
owned and -operated Bedford: is neighborhood features oor plans from 1,980 to 3600 square feet. More information coming soon! • Giving the thumbs up. English archers • Devote some time each day to nothing. Ironically, you can get in the way of your
café specializes in 3,100 square feet with three-to-six bedrooms. Prices start in the Whitley Corner: A community of single-family residences and in the Middle Ages would use the own success by being addicted to ceaseless activity. It’s important to give yourself
breakfast sandwiches $300s. Built by Mattamy Homes. townhomes built by Dan Ryan Builders. ese homes will be gesture, which was the correct brace space to do nothing without feeling guilty. is allows you to step back and assess
and specialty co ee. Forrest: A community of homes o ering three-to-four bedroom very similar to those in Ross Landing. height of a longbow, as a signal that they where you’re heading and how you’re doing it.
Breads and donuts are plans up to 2,700 square feet. Prices start in the $300s. Built by were ready to shoot.
baked fresh daily! ey Meritage Homes. • Yawning. Covering your mouth while One Form Of Exercise
also o er rolled ice yawning developed from an ancient
A man visited his doctor for a checkup. At the end of the exam, the doctor
cream and ice cream belief that evil spirits could enter your commented, “You certainly seem to get a lot of exercise.”
cakes year-round. For mouth during a yawn. “Oh, yeah,” the man said. “Just the other day I walked ve miles in rugged
more information • Blowing out candles. Making a wish terrain and climbed over rocks and trees. I waded along the edge of a lake,
on ordering and the while blowing out birthday candles pushed through tall thistles, and even got sand in my clothes sliding down
full menu, visit their derives from cultures which thought that slopes.”
website at www.hwy42cafe.com. smoke delivered prayers to the heavens. e doctor was impressed. “You seem to be quite the avid outdoor
• High- ving. e rst recorded high- enthusiast.”
ve occurred on October 2, 1977, when
“Not really,” the man replied. “I’m just a lousy golfer.”
Cottages at Evergreen Cottages at Evergreen Glenn Burke of the LA Dodgers reached
up to slap the hand of teammate Dusty
Baker, who had just hit a home run, and e Value Of Giving
Baker slapped his hand in return.
• Crossing your ngers. Crossing ngers Katharine Hepburn is said to have told this story about her childhood: “Once
to catch good luck originated in ancient when I was a teenager, my father and I were standing in line to buy tickets for the
pagan cultures. e practice for lying circus. ere was one family between us and the ticket counter. ere were eight
came from early Christians who wanted children, all probably under the age of 12. e way they were dressed, you could tell
they didn’t have a lot of money, but their clothes were neat and clean.”
to absolve themselves from lies they told When the family reached the front of the line, the ticket seller asked how many
their persecutors.
tickets they wanted. He proudly responded, “I’d like to buy eight children’s tickets
SPEED BUMP Dave Coverly and two adult tickets, so I can take my family to the circus.”
Forge Creek The Crossings e ticket lady stated the price.
supposed to turn and tell his eight kids that he didn’t have enough money to take
e man’s lip began to quiver. e man didn’t have enough money. How was he
them to the circus?
“Seeing what was going on,“ Hepburn continues, “my dad reached into his
pocket, pulled out a $20 bill, and then dropped it on the ground. We were not
wealthy in any sense of the word! My father bent down, picked up the $20 bill,
tapped the man on the shoulder, and said, ‘Excuse me, sir, this fell out of your
pocket.’”
e man took Hepburn’s father’s hand in both of his, squeezed the $20 bill
tightly, and with his lip quivering and a tear streaming down his cheek, he replied;
Forrest Bedford “ ank you, thank you, sir. is really means a lot to me and my family.”
“Although we didn’t get to see the circus that night,” Hepburn concludes, “we
both felt a joy inside us that was far greater than seeing the circus could ever provide.
at day I learned the value of giving.”