Business Digest

MANUFACTURING

Company opens branch

ASHEVILLE — Heat Transfer Sales of the Carolinas has opened a Western North Carolina branch office located at 70 Woodfin Place, Suite 117B.

HTS is a manufacturers representative firm specializing in commercial, industrial and institutional hydronic HVAC equipment and engineered plumbing systems. HTS has been covering the Carolinas for more than 30 years and stocks a wide variety of TACO and Weinmann hydronic pumps, Raypak boilers, steam condensate pumps and many hydronic and steam specialty items in the 17,000-square-foot Greensboro warehouse.

The WNC branch office covers Hickory, Boone, Asheville, Hendersonville and counties west to the Tennessee state line. The office telephone number is 225-6608 and is staffed by Randy Mills, PE.

BUSINESS GROUPS

Freedom luncheon set

ASHEVILLE — The John Locke Foundation and Citizens for a Sound Economy will sponsor a “Freedom Agenda 2002” luncheon featuring Roy Cordato, the foundation’s vice president for research. It will begin at noon Friday at the Renaissance Hotel, One Thomas Wolfe Plaza.

Cordato will discuss river-buffer regulations, the new Clean Smokestacks bill and other policies he says sacrifice property rights and sound economics.

Cost is $10. For reservations, call Thomas Croom at (866) 553-4636 or e-mail tcroom@johnlocke.org.

Tourism group to meet

ASHEVILLE — The Asheville Area Tourism Association will meet at noon Wednesday at Blue Ridge Motion Pictures, 12 Old Charlotte Highway.

Members will tour the facility, which is being developed as a production location for the motion picture, television and sound recording industries.

For information about the meeting or joining, call Doug Sherry at 298-3719. For lunch reservations call the Comfort Inn at 298-9141. The cost is $12.

SEMINARS

Investment program

WEAVERVILLE — Bill Boughtton, an Edward Jones representative, will host a live program on stock investment opportunities broadcast on the company’s private satellite network.

It will begin at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Jones’ office in Weaverville. To reserve a seat for the free program, call Boughton at 645-0341.