The Franklin Chamber of Commerce held a ribbon cutting ceremony recently to welcome City Plumbing & Electric Supply Company to the Franklin business community. Located at 266 Highlands Road, the Franklin store is the eighth addition to the 57-year old company.

City Plumbing & Electric Supply is one of the largest plumbing and electrical distributors in the nation and carries all of the top name brands. The store feature spacious showrooms displaying lighting, plumbing and appliances for the entire home.

A free seminar on Business Use of Your Home will be held Thursday, Sept. 29, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Southwestern Community College’s Macon Campus.

Sponsored by SCC’s Small Business Center, the course will be taught by Arlene Childers, assistant director of NC Rural Entrepreneurship through Action Learning (NC REAL). Childers will lead the class and help participants with procedures and forms required to figure and claim the deductions for business use of a home.

Combine the expectation of divorce for new couples hovering around 50 percent with a variety of studies that suggest money is the most divisive topic for couples, and you get a formula for disaster. But one expert thinks it doesn’t have to be that way.

Jane Honeck, CPA and author of “The Problem With Money? It’s Not About the Money!” (www.theproblemwithmoney.com), believes that while a SmartMoney Magazine survey revealed that 70 percent of all couples talk about money at least once a week, the communication isn’t very effective. Honeck has some good advice that can help couples make arguments about money a thing of the past.

The Franklin Chamber of Commerce welcomed Karen Kaleta Photography/Blue Ridge Art and Design recently with a ribbon cutting ceremony.

Owner, Karen Kaleta, offers a wide range of services from photography, design and publishing to event planning and organizational consulting. Kaleta can be reached at (828)369-5663 to set up an appointment.

Photography services includes fine art, natural setting portraits either in your home or location of choice, pet portraits, Event coverage (birthdays, anniversaries, reunions, graduation, races, etc.), residential real estate photography to include visual tour slide shows and advertising shots, as well as commercial and southeastern stock photography for your advertising and marketing needs. Kaleta is available for photography work seven days a week.