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Here's the first part of the 2009 Best of Chatham County.
(Second half due out later this week)
Best local antique store
Beggars & Choosers Antiques
38 Hillsboro St, Pittsboro
CLOSED JAN 2010
Honorable mentions
French Connection
Best bed and breakfast
Rosemary House
76 West St, Pittsboro, NC 27312
Phone: (919) 542-5515
Honorable mentions
Laurel Ridge
Celebrity Dairy
Best local thrift shop
PTA Thrift Shop
11500 US Highway 15 501 N #103 Phone: (919) 969-9457
Honorable mentions
Habitat Home Store
Second Bloom
Pittsboro & Siler City PTA Thift Shops
Best day spa
Spa at Bell House
1016 Thompson Street, Pittsboro
Phone: (919) 542-0653
Honorable mentions
Aria Spa
Salon Blue
Antonella’s Salon
Best hair stylist/salon for women
Antonella's Salon
49 Hillsboro St, Pittsboro, NC
Phone: (919) 542-6661
Honorable mentions
Salon Blue
Kelly’s Salon
Best hair stylist/barber for men
Barker's Barber Shop
Downtown Pittsboro
Honorable mention
Antonella’s
Salon Blue
Best local hardware store
Lowe’s Hardware
121 Lowe's Drive Pittsboro, NC
Phone: (919) 642-4030
Honorable mentions
Pope’s Hardware
Siler City Ace Hardware
J Henry Paint & Hardware
Best place to hear music
The City Tap
89 Hillsboro Street. Pittsboro, NC 27312
Phone: (919) 545-0562
Honorable mentions
Pittsboro General Store Cafe
Bynum General Store
Shakori Hills in Silk Hope
Carolina Brewery
Reno Sharpe’s Store
Best place to see local art
ChathamArts Gallery
115 Hillsboro Street, Pittsboro, NC 27312
Honorable mentions
Siler City Arts Incubator
Pittsboro General Store Café
Carolina Brewery,
Raleigh Street Gallery
Best pottery studio/store
Mark Hewitt
424 Johnny Burke Road, Pittsboro, NC
Phone: (919) 542-2371
Honorable mentions
Janet Resnick
Lynn Morrow, Stone Crow
Raleigh Street Gallery
Best yoga instructor
Cathy Holt
Phone: (919) 542-4103
Honorable mentions
Helen Kern, Mary Ann Doty
Best local handyman
Jim Nitsch of HandyJim.com
Phone: (919) 548-0748
Honorable mentions
Freedom Handyman
Best local plumber
Clear Water Plumbing
175 Holly Glen Rd, Pittsboro, NC
Phone: 27312 (919) 837-5186
Honorable mentions
Pittsboro Plumbing, Partin Plumbing
Russ Jackson, Mark Crawford
Liles Plumbing in Siler City
Best heating and air conditioning specialist
Chatham Heating & Air
171 Thompson St. Pittsboro, NC
Phone (919) 542-5319
Honorable mentions
Miller Heating and Air
Tommy Snipes
Best window washer
Dwain Ritchie
Phone: (919) 636-0069
Honorable mentions
Window Wizard
Best local landscaper
Arbor Enterprises
Phone: 919-362-1047
Honorable mentions
Ginny Gregory, Tom Glendining
Specialized Landscaping
Best grading service
Collins Mountain
Phone: (919)929-3324
Honorable mentions
Ricky Beal, Jeff Scott Grading
Earl Thomas, Roger Bright
Best local doctor
Dr. William Garlick
200 E Salisbury St, Pittsboro, NC 27312
Phone: (919) 545-0580
Honorable mentions
Dr. John Corey, Dr. James Holt,
Dr. Bergert, Dr. Eric Butler,
Dr. James Holt, Dr. James Kurz
Best local dentist
Dr. Rouse Wilson DDS
767 West St, Pittsboro, NC
Phone: (919) 542-3502
Honorable mentions
Dr. Noah Wilson DDS
Dr. Paul Mitchum DDS
Dr. Michael Peele DDS
Dr. Paul Powell DDS
Best local chiropractor
Dr. Mindy Bradshaw
11312 US Hwy 15-501 North, Suite 104
Phone: (919) 969-0931
Honorable mentions
Dr. Roxanne Hollander
Dr. Elizabeth Freedman
Best local pharmacy
Pittsboro Discount Drugs
628 East St, Pittsboro, NC
Phone: (919) 542-7283
Honorable mentions
CVS Chatham Crossing
Siler City Pharmacy
Pittsboro Kerr Drug
Siler City Walgreens
Best local veterinarian
Hope Crossing
Animal Hospital
58 East Cotton Rd, Pittsboro, NC 27312
Phone: (919) 542-1975
Honorable mentions
Hill Creek Veterinary Hospital
Pittsboro Animal Clinic
Jordan Lake Animal Hospital
Cole Park Veterinary
Chatham Veterinary Service
Best local place to board your pet
Companion Camp
3408 Castle Rock Farm Road, Pittsboro
Phone: (919) 545-2267
Honorable mentions
Pettsboro Groom & Room
Hope Crossing Animal Hospital
Pittsboro Animal Hospital
K9 Kindercare
Best new car dealer
Pittsboro Ford
1245 Thompson Street, Pittsboro, NC
Phone: (919) 542-3131
Honorable mentions
Welford Harris in Siler City
Best used car dealer
Smart Cars by Weiland
471 Hillsboro St, Pittsboro, NC.
Phone: 919-542-1599
Honorable mentions
Pittsboro Ford
Signature Auto Solutions
Welford Harris in Siler City
Best auto mechanic
Performance Automotive
1027 East Street, Pittsboro, NC 27312
Phone: (919) 542-5614
Honorable mentions
Doug’s Auto & Tire
Pittsboro Auto Care
Siler City Automotive
Diaz Automotive
Chapel Hill Tire
Best auto parts store
Advance Auto in Pittsboro
462 East St, Pittsboro, NC 27312
Phone: (919) 542-2899
Honorable mentions
NAPA in Pittsboro & Siler City
New Hope Auto Parts
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belle
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« Reply #1 on: February 28, 2010, 10:57:06 PM » |
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yea, Mindy Bradshaw, chiropractor!
yea, Companion Camp for dogs!
yea, the results are out!
(I only voted on a few)
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Gene Galin
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« Reply #2 on: February 28, 2010, 11:12:28 PM » |
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yea, Mindy Bradshaw, chiropractor!
yea, Companion Camp for dogs!
yea, the results are out!
(I only voted on a few)
That's okay. Didn't expect to have everyone vote in every category. |
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« Reply #3 on: February 28, 2010, 11:46:41 PM » |
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yea, Mindy Bradshaw, chiropractor!
yea, Companion Camp for dogs!
yea, the results are out!
(I only voted on a few)
That's okay. Didn't expect to have everyone vote in every category. well, I hope not, I voted on categories I had personal experience with. that gives the whole thing credibility. |
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« Reply #4 on: March 01, 2010, 09:20:51 AM » |
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Yeah! Yea! Dr. David Webster at Hope Crossing!
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More today than yesterday - Mindy
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« Reply #6 on: March 01, 2010, 10:11:00 PM » |
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Got an email with the question - Who decided this list?
Answer - Over 450 folks who took the time to fill out the survey.
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« Reply #7 on: March 02, 2010, 12:26:18 PM » |
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Congrats to Hope Crossing Vet! They truly deserve it.
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Gene Galin
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« Reply #8 on: March 05, 2010, 06:30:14 AM » |
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Everyone is eligible to vote.
We don't have the time, money or resources to go knocking door to door and ask folks questions. Doubt the US Census folks will add our survey questions to their list.
I started the survey years ago to help promote local business choices in Chatham County.
Actually a 450+ person sample is a pretty decent sample size.
Want YOUR business to do well in the survey? It's fairly simple Marketing 101. ASK YOUR customers to vote for YOU!
BTW, are you suggesting we should just scrap any type of "Best of Chatham" survey?
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« Reply #9 on: March 05, 2010, 08:14:23 AM » |
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I appreciate your efforts Gene and I like the survey.
tritech, just like politics, decisions are made by the people that vote.
PS. While there were no winners from Siler City, there were numerous Honorable Mentions.
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More today than yesterday - Mindy
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« Reply #10 on: March 05, 2010, 09:02:42 AM » |
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I just noticed a trend that bothers me about this first half of "best of Chatham" survey results. Not one single business chosen as "best" in any category is not in Pittsboro or somewhat north of it. Also, 450 people in a county with at least 20x that in population isn't a very large sample. I'm not making up conspiracy theories or anything...but it doesn't make sense to me that EVERY business that's the "best of CHATHAM" is in Pittsboro. Are most respondents from the general Pittsboro area, or does Siler City just stink that bad? I would love to know how many responses are from each city, so I can judge the results better. I would hate to think the city I live in has no good businesses just because it's not where the respondents live.  I rather like the local businesses I work with in Siler City. There are a lot of awesome people here and ever since I moved here I have always felt welcome. I think that most readers of the BBS, therefore most respondents, are from the Pittsboro or North Chatham area. That makes sense because that's where the bulk of Chatham's population lies. It's a simple question of majority. |
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« Reply #11 on: March 05, 2010, 10:49:48 AM » |
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I don't recall "where do you live" as being one of the survey questions so I doubt the answer to your question is even known.
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In all the ways you can,
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« Reply #12 on: March 05, 2010, 11:02:37 AM » |
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well I guess that shows you how good my recollection is  |
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“Do all the good you can,
By all the means you can,
In all the ways you can,
In all the places you can,
At all the times you can,
To all the people you can,
As long as ever you can.”
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« Reply #13 on: March 05, 2010, 11:10:53 AM » |
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I want to know where the PBO voters live. People in NE PBO may favor businesses in that area instead of the South PBO businesses.
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More today than yesterday - Mindy
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Gene Galin
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« Reply #14 on: March 05, 2010, 09:57:59 PM » |
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Everyone is eligible to vote.
We don't have the time, money or resources to go knocking door to door and ask folks questions. Doubt the US Census folks will add our survey questions to their list.
I started the survey years ago to help promote local business choices in Chatham County.
Actually a 450+ person sample is a pretty decent sample size.
Want YOUR business to do well in the survey? It's fairly simple Marketing 101. ASK YOUR customers to vote for YOU!
BTW, are you suggesting we should just scrap any type of "Best of Chatham" survey?
The majority of your statements are red herrings. I raised a very valid and important point about the results of this survey so far. You'll also note that my place of work is in a category which you haven't released results for before you continue to insinuate that I'm just complaining because "my place didn't win." You didn't address my primary question about where the 450+ survey responses are coming from, and that information is crucial. If a great majority of the responses came from Pittsboro and areas immediately north of Pittsboro, then the results are more useful to residents from there and less useful to Siler City, Bennett, etc. residents. If you are going to call it the "Best of Chatham County" then you need to at least make it clear how representative the results actually are of the entire county as a whole vs. a particular strip of the 15-501 corridor. I am fully aware that you don't have any money in the survey distribution, and I know what that means: whoever takes it, takes it, end of story. My point is that if a small minority of the responses were in Siler City, the results are inevitably not going to favor any Siler City businesses as "winners." Same for all the other smaller townships throughout the county. I want to know if 80% of your responses are Pittsboro citizens so I can decide i.e. that Siler City Automotive is not the "winner" because Performance Automotive happened to be where the majority of responses originated.If "it is what it is" then represent it as what it is. That's all I'm sayin'. Sorry. Don't buy the "Woe is me. The survey sucks because my business did not win" excuse. Want YOUR business to do well in the survey? It's fairly simple Marketing 101. ASK YOUR customers to vote for YOU! |
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