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Mega malls and outlet shopping centers are major tourist attractions in North Carolina. Visitor profile information for 2004, released by the North Carolina Division of Tourism, Film and Sports Development, shows that 24 percent of all travelers to the state listed shipping as a major activity. Attending family events ranked second at 20 percent. Concord Mills Shopping Center ranked as the state's top tourist destination with sixteen million visitors.
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North Carolina's food producers are expanding their products to many parts of the world. Wright discusses a number of companies and their products, including Carolina Cookie Company, Mt. Olive Pickle Company, Smithfield Foods, Atkinson Milling Company, and Bertie County Peanuts.
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This special NORTH CAROLINA magazine community profile supplement features Onslow County. The Marine Corps forms the foundation of the county's economy, contributing an annual $2.8 billion and employing more than 4,600 civilians. A growing tourism market and an agricultural tradition also contribute to the economy. As tobacco has declined, a number of farmers have turned to agritourism. The county is also attractive to retirees and new businesses, such as Wal-Mart, Home Depot, and Best Buy.
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The seven-story Onslow Memorial Hospital is the county's tallest building and only civilian hospital. The hospital offers a wide range of health care to the community, and all of its departments have high service demands. In 2006, a $140 - $150 million expansion will begin to meet the following needs: expanded emergency room space, updated surgical facilities, and a new patient tower with multi-purpose private rooms.
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Wright discusses the role Coastal Carolina Community College plays in attracting businesses to Onslow County. The college has an economic development team, which includes top-level representatives from the chamber of commerce, the sports commission, the military base, and the office of economic development. This group coordinates meetings between the county and interested businesses. The college's Center for Business and Industry Development is an essential part of planning an incentive package. The Industry Training and Small Business Center designs training programs for companies. The North Carolina Military Business Center helps match potential business partners with military business opportunities.
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This special NORTH CAROLINA magazine community profile supplement features New Hanover County. The population is expanding, business is hot, and Wilmington and New Hanover County are booming. The economy is strong and diverse, with a good manufacturing base, a good service base, and strong residential development. The New Hanover Health Network, with over 450 physicians and 4,700 employees, makes a $1 billion economic impact on the area. City and county leaders promote and support new growth by working to improve the community's infrastructure. Wilmington's National Register Historic Districts, covering over 230 blocks, attract many tourists.
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North Carolina towns celebrate New Year's Eve in a variety of ways. Raleigh lowers an acorn, and Charlotte lights up its crown. Other towns have more unusual ways. Brasstown drops a possum; Mt. Olive drops a three-foot, lighted dill pickle down the flagpole at the corner of Cucumber and Vine; and in Oriental, the Good Luck Dragon runs up and down the waterfront.
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North Carolina, the nation's most military friendly state, is home to some of the largest and best-known military bases, including Camp Lejeune, Fort Bragg, and Seymour-Johnson Air Base. Tourists are drawn to the state to visit military-related sites that include memorials, museums, restored aircraft, and a battleship. The Duplin County Veterans Museum recognizes men and women from that area who served in the military. A number of memorials on the grounds of the state Capitol in Raleigh honor soldiers who served in many wars. Fayetteville features the Airborne & Special Operations Museum, a $22.5 million, 59,000-square-foot building. The battleship NORTH CAROLINA, moored in Wilmington, honors the 10,000 North Carolinians who died in World War II.
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Artist Bob Timberlake of Lexington is featured in NORTH CAROLINA magazine executive profile. In 1970, at age 33, he left a successful business career to follow a lifelong dream of painting. In 2005, he marks thirty-five years as one of America's best-known artists. His paintings of rural scenes have a worldwide appeal that awakens in viewers nostalgic feelings and childhood memories. Lexington's new Bob Timberlake Gallery, a retail store, welcome center, gallery, and museum all in one, sums up the artist's career. The 16,000-square-foot facility contains examples of his world-famous work.
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Charles Kuralt's love of the outdoors developed from his years of growing up in North Carolina and his later travels across America. One of the most popular features of his CBS television program, \"Sunday Morning,\" was the last five-minute segment in which he brought the beauty of the nation's National Wildlife Refuges and other wilderness landscapes to millions of viewers. To honor his efforts, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service created the Charles Kuralt Trail, which links eleven national wildlife refuges and one national fish hatchery. The trail winds though the coastal plain of Virginia and North Carolina, and includes the Great Dismal Swamp and Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge.
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The Carolina Film and Video Festival is one of the nation's oldest. Now in its twenty-ninth year, the festival is hosted every February by the cinema and broadcasting school at UNC-Greensboro. Durham's Carolina Theatre holds a series of festivals through the year beginning in February and ending in October.
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The horse industry is good for North Carolina's economy, producing annual revenues of over $750 million and creating more than 10,000 jobs. Activities range from rustic trail rides in the Appalachians to elegant events. North Carolina's four steeplechases are the most elegant of all. They are Stoneybrook (Raeford); Block House Races (Tryon); Queens Cup (Mineral Springs); and Brookhill (Clayton). Racing is a small part of the industry. Horseshows are very popular, with state equestrian centers sponsoring them across the state every weekend.
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Currently there are fifty-three wineries in the state, with ten more expected in 2006, and another twenty in 2007. State winemakers face a formidable array of challenges: Pierce's Disease, grape root borers, Ph factors, Supreme Court rulings, the weather, budgeting, and marketing. Still, 600,000 gallons of wine, valued at $34 million, were produced and sold in 2004, making the state the twelfth largest wine producer in the country. Vineyards and wineries create around 835 jobs and have an economic impact of $79 million.
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Stanly County, situated in the Piedmont, is home to three wineries: Stony Mountain Vineyards, Dennis Vineyards, and Uwharrie Vineyards.
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A research study comparing diets of French and Americans revealed that the French had less heart disease than Americans. Wine, especially red wine containing resveratrol, was singled out as one of the most powerful antioxidants in combating heart disease. In 1999, a sample of muscadine wine from Dennis Vineyards was sent to Cornell University for testing. Cornell researchers discovered the wine had the fourth highest levels of the antioxidant resveratrol that they had ever tested.
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