Cornelius gets its long-awaited Walmart

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Nearby, a crowd gathered to watch the ribbon-cutting festivities. Hillsboro High cheerleaders performed. A veterans group raised the flag. And a quartet sang the National Anthem.

And Mayor Bill Bash, speaking about economic opportunities, noted that other businesses already are talking about coming to town because of Walmart

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Anxious customers looked at their watches. A few pleaded with the locked doors, “Open. Come on, open.” Then, finally, at 7:30 a.m., the doors opened, and hundreds of people rushed into the 152,000-square-foot store, ready to buy everything from snacks to school supplies.

The celebration confirmed what Cornelius leaders have long suggested. Although most metro-area cities have vehemently rejected the retailer’s proposals to build stores — the superstore drives out local businesses and increases traffic, opponents say — Cornelius residents are embracing Walmart — the first in Washington County.

“We’ve watched this process from the ground-up,” Cornelius resident Bob Getz, 71, told cashier Amanda Nevills, 22. “We’re really excited.”

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Currently, about 40,000 cars drive through Cornelius each day. Police officials expect an extra 8,000 cars over the opening weekend.

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South Carolina, the organization said, is the only state where the spectator event, which awards prize money and trophies to winners, is still allowed, and dog owners come to compete from other states where the baying is banned. Supporters of baying described it as practice for the hunt and a useful way to evaluate dogs.

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He drives a loaded Range Rover and has $1.7 million in career winnings.

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The Lincoln Centre was the place to be last night to witness one huge hotbed of fashion talent as the best names in the industry gathered in New York for one of the hottest tickets on the style calendar – the 2010 CFDA Awards.

The annual ceremony hosted by the Council of Fashion Designers of America is like one big fashion love-in, celebrating the crème de la crème of US designers – and some international ones, too – so let’s get down to the nitty gritty and see who took home what, shall we?

The big award of the night, Womenswear Designer of the Year, went to Marc Jacobs, who beat off stiff competition from the likes of Donna Karan and Alexander Wang – but Wang didn’t go home empty handed.

He scooped the coveted Swarovski Award for Accessory Design, while First Lady favourite Jason Wu took home the prestigious Swarovski Womenswear Designer of the Year Award.

Accessories Designer of the Year was awarded to Alexis Bittar, beating Marc Jacobs, no less, and from this side of the pond, our very own Christopher Bailey took home the International Womenswear Designer of the Year accolade.

Special prizes of the evening went to Michael Kors, who received a standing ovation for his Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award; legendary model Iman, who won the Fashion Icon Award, much to the delight of her proud husband David Bowie; and of course, the late, great Alexander McQueen, who was posthumously awarded the Board of Directors Special Tribute Award, led by Sarah Jessica Parker.

“I don’t think one brief segment of the evening could really illustrate what he meant to the industry or to the people that worked with him or to his family – so it’s a very hard thing to try to be brief and substantive in a matter of two minutes,” SJP told Vogue UK on the evening. “But I think his work speaks for him more than I could.”

Following her moving tribute, a runway show of McQueen’s entire last collection ensued – a poignant moment, if ever there was one.

Congratulations to one and all from last night’s awards.

So last week was all about the semi-finals as we told you which budding designers had best impressed John Galliano for the final round of the Fashion Fringe, but Friday saw those eager 10 whittled down to three promising protegees who will soon be on their way to fashion stardom.

Galliano, along with his host of fashionable friends – Kate Moss, Gareth Pugh, Harold Tilman, William Tempest, Erdem – gathered at The Club at The Ivy on Friday night to unveil the three designers battling it out for one of fashion’s most coveted prizes, so with no further ado, the finalists of this year’s Fashion Fringe are: Alice Palmer, Corrie Nielson and Jade Kang.

And we suggest you familiarise yourself with these names now, because you’ll be hearing lots more from them in the coming months. They’ll each be showing their collections – which they’re no doubt working hard on as we speak – at London Fashion Week in September, where one will finally be declared the eventual winner, Elle UK reveal.

And with Erdem and William Tempest as previous Fashion Fringe alumni, we’d say the finalists are in good company. Watch this space…

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