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Winston-Salem Fashion Week
Photos by Shot To The Head Photography
Winston-Salem Fashion Week (WSFW) concluded its fifth annual event this past weekend. During its celebration of fashion, WSFW featured a three-day showcase
of Urban Street Style on Sept. 27 at the R.J. Reynolds Power Plant Coal Pit and The Designer and Retailer showcases, which were held at the Wake Forest Innovation
Quarter Biotech Atrium on September 28 and 29. Winston-Salem Fashion Week is a multicultural community event that is devoted to providing a forum for emerging and
existing designers, new and existing boutiques and artists to grow.
Trellis Supportive Care honors Jeff Smith during annual luncheon
BY TEVIN STINSON
THE CHRONICLE
For his generosity
and dedication to uplift
the community during
the fourth annual Living
Your Best Life Speaker
Series last week, Winston-
Salem native Jeff Smith
was awarded the Best Life
award.
The Living Your
Best Life Speaker Series
event is a community
luncheon that benefits
Trellis Supportive Care,
formerly Hospice &
Palliative CareCenter.
The annual event, which
features keynote speakers
from around the world, is
designed to significantly
impact people’s lives,
bring energy to our
community, and encourage
us to ask ourselves: “Am I
living my best life?”
This year’s honoree,
Jeff Smith, is better known
throughout the community
as Smitty. In 1997 Smith
launched Smitty’s Notes,
a website and monthly
newsletter that prides itself
on providing information
on local events and a
community calendar: What
it helped show them
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Jeff Smith, founder of Smitty’s Notes, is presented the Best Life award during the Living Your Best Life Speaker Series on Wednesday, Sept.
25. The award is presented annually by Trellis Supportive Care (Formerly Hospice & Palliative CareCenter).
started out as a simple
email to friends with a
list of happenings in the
city, has grown to become
one the most powerful
and comprehensive
information sources in
Forsyth County. Today
Smitty’s Notes has more
than 16,000 subscribers.
During an interview
with The Chronicle,
Smith said the timing
during which he started
the newsletter played a
major role in the success
of Smitty’s Notes. He said,
“Things were happening
so fast and we had a lot
of new people coming
into the community that
didn’t know where to find
stuff, so I think that’s why
my newsletter has been
successful, because of the
timing. We had a lot of
new people come in and
newsletter, over the years
Smith has still found time
to serve on various boards
geared toward uplifting
the community as well.
After he was presented
the Best Life award during
the annual luncheon held
at the Benton Convention
Center on Wednesday,
Sept. 25, Smith thanked
Trellis, his family and
others throughout the
community for supporting
him and Smitty’s Notes
over the years. As he made
his way to the stage, a
video tribute featuring
stakeholders
several
thanking Smith for his
hard work was shown.
“Most of all I’d like
to thank you, Winston-
Salem, for what you’ve
done over the past 21
years by putting the hard
work in,” Smith said.
“We are now seeing what
we have bared as far as
fruit and that hard work
many people have given
contributions to that.”
Formerly Hospice &
Palliative CareCenter,
Trellis Supportive Care
has been providing care
since 1979 and is the
first hospice provider in
the state and the largest
nonprofit hospice center
in the Triad. Trellis
Supportive Care currently
serves patients in 13
counties and operates four
different offices and the
Kate B. Reynolds Hospice
Home located here in
Winston-Salem.
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