Ashvegas Hot Sheet: The Salvage Station, a new riverside food, music venue to open Wednesday

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Jason Sandford

Jason Sandford is a reporter, writer, blogger and photographer interested in all things Asheville.

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Some of what’s going around at the start of this short week coming off the holiday:

The Salvage Station officially opens on Wednesday. Here’s the official press release:

The Salvage Station is proud to announce that its doors will officially open on June 1st at 2pm. The full service bar and restaurant venue located along the French Broad River will be open to the public five days a week and available for rent to private parties and events. The venue will also serve as a hub for live music featuring local, regional, and national artists. Upcoming events include The Hip Abduction with Les Amis on Friday, June 3rd (free show), and an official Grand Opening Party on June 10th.

The new venture, developed by Danny McClinton and co-owned with Jimi Rentz, Patrick Huss, and Matt Ragaller, will incorporate many of the food service and outdoor traits that make Asheville great. “We will have the ability to serve delicious food and drink options and also provide a family-friendly outdoor experience for all of our guests. Plus, live music will play a huge role in our upcoming events calendar.”, said McClinton.

The food menu will feature a range of small, shareable Asheville street food items and full plate offerings including tacos, sliders, and house-smoked Appalachian BBQ served with Southern sides. The kitchen will be led by Josh Heald, formerly of Barley’s Taproom, and Gwendolyn Hageman from Artisan Cafe. The full-service bar will have liquor, can beer, wine, and hand-crafted cocktails.

The venue will be open to the public unless otherwise posted Wednesday-Thursday from 2pm – 12am, Friday-Saturday from 12pm-2am, and Sunday from 12pm-10pm. Only certified service animals are allowed. The live music calendar can be found SalvageStation.com/events.

-Registration for the Beer City Cup in Asheville opens on Wednesday. Beer City Cup is billed as the largest adult soccer tournament in the U.S., and it draws teams from across the country. The tournament, held over Labor Day weekend, offers big cash prizes to winning teams.

Asheville Negroni Week is June 6-12.

-There’s a new restaurant in the works for the Haw Creek community just east of downtown Asheville. Here’s a bit more information, from the Asheville Technical Review Committee agenda for June 20. The committee will take a first look at plans at that meeting:

A request for the review of a conditional zoning from RM6 to CBI to allow for the development of a new restaurant located on 1.53 acres known as 184 Haw Creek Road and PIN 9658.47.7429. The owner of the property is John Christoph, LLC and the project contact is Matthew Sprouse.

Asheville Brewing Co. is hiring a full-time person to work on its canning line.

-Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College’s Craft Beverage Institute of the Southeast’s Sensory Analysis of Beer class begins Monday, June 6, according to a press release. Here’s more:

This class is conducted Mondays and Wednesdays through June 15 from 6-9 p.m. at the college’s Asheville campus.

The class explores the origin of beer characteristics and teaches descriptive and critical tasting techniques — meaning participants will be able to tell people why they like a particular beer, or not. Students will learn how to identify raw materials in finished beers and gain a deep understanding of how ingredients affect flavors and aromas. Also covered are how to detect common “off” flavors and how to prevent them. Students must register in person at A-B Tech’s Asheville campus or A-B Tech Madison. Students must be 21 and provide a valid ID at registration. For cost and more information, call 398-7934.

-Here’s the latest from the Grail Moviehouse on what it’s showing. The Grail is Asheville’s new downtown movie theater:

Our Classic for the week will be another in our “lobby series” based on the paintings in our lobby by Gus Cutty – Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing!

We will keeping High Rise another week and splitting a screen with Elstree 1976 and highly acclaimed horror film Green Room starring Patrick Stewart.

Saturday matinee – June 4 – 1:00 – Orson Welles’ The Stranger – Introduced by film historian Frank Thompson in conjunction with the Asheville School of Film’s Directors Series.

6/7 – Tuesday night 7:30 Screening with the Asheville Film Society. Free for members and donations to the Asheville Film Society accepted.
6/9 – Thursday Horror Picture Show – 7:30 – Asheville Film Society

June 9 at 7 PM we will be screening Bringing it Home for Hemp History Week. The movie will be followed by a Panel discussion with the filmmakers and concessions will feature special edition hemp ale from One World Brewing, special edition Hemp ice cream from the Hop, hemp hummus from Roots, High Quality Hemp CBD Goods, and Rocky Mountain High Hemp infused beverages from Carolina Hemp Company plus much more! Tickets are available now online and at the box office $10

Showtimes and additional information at www.grailmoviehouse.com.

-During the month of June, Asheville Humane Society is partnering with Best Friends Animal Society to participate in a national adoption promotion for cats, according to a press release. More:

Adoption fees will be reduced for all cats 6 months of age and up! For $10.00, you can adopt a feline friend complete with all up-to-date vaccines, spay/neuter, microchipping, initial flea preventative, a free starter bag of food, one month of complimentary pet health insurance, and a free post-adoption veterinary office visit with a participating veterinarian.

Pam Burgess, Adoption Services Director, is hoping this promotion will bring attention to all of the adult cats who need homes. “Spring brings kittens, but there are also many adult cats who get overlooked during kitten season,” she said. “We are always excited to partner with Best Friends, and this is a great way to remind the public to adopt a cat during National Adopt-A-Cat Month!”

The promotion will run from June 1-June 30, making this Father’s Day a perfect opportunity to bring home a cat! Stop by Asheville Humane Society to meet all adoptable cats, or view them online by visiting ashevillehumane.org.

The Verner Center for Early Learning – an early care and education program of distinction fostering holistic learning environments where young children and families thrive – has been awarded a $1 million grant from Early Head Start enabling the center to provide Early Head Start services in the greater Asheville area, according to a press release. Here’s more:

The expansion includes a partnership with YWCA of Asheville and Asheville City Schools, increasing the overall number of children served by Verner from 200 to 272, a nearly 40% increase. Early Head Start programs will be offered in two new classrooms at the YWCA and three new classrooms at the Asheville City Schools Preschool – both five star licensed centers — as well as serving 32 children and pregnant women through its home-visiting program.
The EHS expansion will include children in the area served by Asheville City Schools as well as the county school districts of Emma, Johnston and Woodfin.
Established by the reauthorization of the Head Start Act in 1994, Early Head Start provides early, continuous, intensive and comprehensive child development and family support services to low-income infants and toddlers, pregnant women and their families. The principles are designed to nurture healthy attachments between parent and child, emphasize a strengths-based, relationship-centered approach to services, and encompass the full range of a family’s needs from pregnancy through a child’s third birthday. …
Verner, founded in the Swannanoa Valley region in 2001, is a model teaching program currently serving 200 children and their families through early learning centers in east and west Buncombe County and a home visiting program. Verner is characterized by a comprehensive approach to education, focusing on all aspects of a child’s development including emergent literacy, health and nutrition, and social and emotional health.
Children of all ability levels are welcomed. Specialists on staff offer consultation to teachers and families to support needs of individual children or classrooms.

Jason Sandford

Jason Sandford is a reporter, writer, blogger and photographer interested in all things Asheville.

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  1. luther blissett June 3, 2016

    The Salvage Station is a great space, as anyone who showed up for the Flea For Y’All on Sunday can attest. It’s like the Bywater on steroids with parking.

    “There’s a new restaurant in the works for the Haw Creek community just east of downtown Asheville. ”

    That would be the Bouchon-in-a-church that the C-T talked about on Tuesday.

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