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CSC Had a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year Too!

We hope everyone has been enjoying 2009 so far! We’ve finally recovered from the holiday rush and thought we’d give everyone a little glimpse of our CSC holiday party.

Charlotte Street Computers supported the local arts this year and gave its employees beautiful Stephen Lange pieces!

Matt and Angela, our gracious hosts.

Robert

Troncale

Joshua and Iza

And Joshua and Iza got gifts for their new home! It was a great party. We hope your holidays were filled with as much fun as ours were! Be sure to stop by and see us soon!

E-cycleme.com Write-up in Verve Magazine

The good people of Verve Magazine stopped by our downtown recycling center, e-cycleme.com, to do a little write-up on us and our CEO, Jennifer Mayer.  Check out our article in Verve’s November edition or just click here.

Jennifer showing off some recycled computers at e-cycleme.com

CSC at Halloween

At Charlotte Street computers, we love to celebrate the holidays! This year, we celebrated Halloween with LaZoom Tours on the big purple bus for their annual Halloween tour.

LaZoom Bus

This year’s tour featured some “undead” celebrity impersonators who haunt the riverbank after a fatal tour bus crash.

LaZoom performers

The CSC team had a great time on the tour. One of our best Halloween parties yet!

Charlotte Street Team on the bus

The amazing Hellblinki Sextet was also on board to provide some creepy background music for our creepy tour.

Hellblinki Sextet rocked the bus

Thanks to LaZoom Tours for a great ride! If you are interested in taking a LaZoom comedy tour, see their website here

e-cycleme.com on Asheville Area Focus

Jennifer was on the air recently with Bill McClement on Asheville Area Focus, talking about e-cycleme.com. (That’s our new computer recycling center, in case you hadn’t heard.) Bill and Jen discussed the importance of computer recycling and how e-cycleme.com refurbishes old computers in order to donate them to those in need in our community. You can hear the show here.

Also, visit www.ecycleme.com to learn more about how we recycle and refurbish our computers and how you are helping people in need just by dropping off your old computers and computer-related electronics.

E-cycleme.com Grand Opening Celebration

The Grand Opening of e-cycleme.com, our new computer recycling center, was a huge hit! We want to extend a big thanks to Mayor Bellamy and the Asheville City Council for attending our ribbon cutting ceremony. We are extremely grateful to have such tremendous support from the community.

Jennifer with Mayor Terry Bellamy

Ribbon Cutting

We also want to thank the wonderful people at Asheville Pizza and Brewing Company for the delicious refreshments, the extremely talented folks at Asheville Aerial Arts who kept us in awe, bands Wayfarers All, The Steamboat Theory, The Hellblinki Sextet, and Sonmi Suite, 96.5 WOXL, 1-800-GOT-JUNK, Warren Perdue and all the fabulous local artists who displayed their art in our art show, and the wonderful people of Asheville who came out to show their support. We had an amazing time and we hope you did too! And if you weren’t able to make it, check out all the fun you missed…

Asheville Aerial Arts put on an amazing show!

Asheville Aerial Arts

High above the e-cycleme.com parking lot!

The giant ketchup bottle was a BIG hit!

32ft. Ketchup Bottle!

Mmm...free fries!

All the bands were awesome!

Hellblinki Sextet Rocked!

Steamboat Theory

And a great time was had by ALL!

Beck with the Lee Anns

Party-goers

Officer, keep an eye on these three!

Matt loves Asheville Pizza!

CSC hanging out.

Sonmi Suite closed it down!

Whew! Now that was a good party! Thanks again to everyone who came out to support us and especially those who brought computers for us to recycle!! We look forward to helping you with all your electronic recycling needs. And stay tuned for our downtown Mac store….coming soon!

Tearing Down Walls!

The renovation process at our downtown location is in full swing! Remember those wood paneled walls and that bland concrete floor? They are almost a distant memory now. Check it out.

Storefront with new metallic walls!

Local metal artist Warren Purdue of Purdue Studios made the awesome metallic walls for our storefront!

Tearing down the walls!

We opened up the front room to make more space for all the Macs we’ll be selling very very soon!

The white hallway....

...becomes the blue hallway

Our beautiful new hardwood floors!

If you’ve recently taken a stroll down S. Lexington Ave, our building might have caught your eye with it’s new blue and silver paint job!

Looking hot in blue and silver

Fresh gravel for the parking lot

Vulcan Materials helped us lay down some gravel in our parking lot too!

We’re so pleased with how our new place is coming along and we know you will be too! Don’t forget to join us at our Grand Opening Celebration this Saturday, Sept. 13. And if you’ve got an old computer or computer part you want to get rid of, bring it to the party and we’ll take it off your hands!

E-cycleme.com’s Grand Opening Celebration This Weekend!

I just wanted to announce, via blog, our big Grand Opening Celebration for e-cycleme.com in downtown Asheville this Saturday, Sept. 13. Below is an excerpt from our recent newsletter with all the information you need about the party. SEE YOU THERE!!

Grand Opening of Asheville’s New Computer Recycling Center

E-cycleme.com, Asheville’s new computer recycling center, would like to announce its Grand Opening on Saturday, September 13. We will be celebrating at our downtown location, 101 S. Lexington Avenue, from 3 p.m. – 8 p.m.

Ceremonies will commence with a ribbon cutting at 3 p.m. and Asheville City Council members Bill Russell, Robin Cape, Holly Jones, and Brownie Newman will be on hand to enjoy the festivities. Asheville Pizza & Brewing Company will provide some delicious refreshments and we will have fun giveaways from other area businesses. There will also be music by three local bands; Wayfarers All, a jazz-fusion group; psychedelic jam band The Steamboat Theory; and The Hellblinki Sextet, best described as “Three Penny Opera meets Sesame Street”. In addition, there will be a show by Asheville Aerial Arts along with an art show displaying the work of several local artists including Warren Purdue.

At e-cycleme.com, we hope to raise awareness about the importance of recycling e-waste, as well as add to our cache of computer components that will be refurbished into working computers for disadvantaged community members. As such, the public is encouraged to bring a recyclable computer part to the party. 1-800-GOT-JUNK will be on hand to assist with the collection of all recyclables.

E-cycleme.com is a computer and electronics recycling facility established by the award-winning computer repair team at Charlotte Street Computers. We accept a variety of computers and computer-related electronics for recycling and refurbishing, including desktop and laptop computers, monitors, keyboards, servers, printers, scanners, etc. Knowing the great burden that electronic waste inflicts on our planet, e-cycleme.com takes pride in the fact that we will reduce the amount of waste in the landfills of western North Carolina by reusing equipment instead of throwing it away.

In addition, e-cycleme.com has joined with The Eblen-Kimmel Charitable Group and A-B Tech to provide computers to community members in need. Through refurbishing and donating repairable computers, we hope to ensure that computer literacy – and the doors that it opens – will be available to everyone.

The Offices of e-cycleme.com/the future Charlotte Street Computers Downtown Location

In addition to our warehouse, we’ve also got tons of office space to renovate! Here’s how it looked when we first got there. (Minus the orange carpet.)

Office Space

Daniel works tirelessly to get e-cycleme.com in shape.

Hallway

Sure it looks like a mess now, but we’ve got big plans for the place — picture some hardwood floors and brand new walls! Below, you’ll see our storefront (pre-renovation) where we hope to soon be selling Macs. Yes, Macs in downtown Asheville!

Future Storefront

Stay with us to see how things turn out!

VOTE!

If you just can’t wait till November to exercise your right to vote, we’ve got just the solution. Asheville’s Mountain Xpress has opened voting for the Best of WNC 2008! This is your chance to tell everyone what you think is best about our beautiful city. There’s even a place to vote for Best Computer Repair, so remember your friendly neighborhood computer repair shop, Charlotte Street Computers! Click here or on the picture above to vote. (And do it soon! The polls close September 11!)

(image credit: Mountain Xpress)