Finish the week at Mercato First Friday

CHARLIE With a refreshing nip in the air as cooler temperatures move in, Mercato First Fridays make for a night on the town that’s not to be missed. The North Naples center invites all to enjoy music, raffles, special merchant offers and more from 6-10 p.m. Friday, Nov. 6, and every first Friday.

To raise funds and awareness for 3-year-old Charlie Mootsipaw, the Neighbors Helping Neighbors recipient for this month, gift certificates from Mercato merchants and restaurants

will be raffled off, and the North Naples firefighters will donate a portion of proceeds from their 2010 calendar sales. Charlie, who has liver cancer, will be there, too. He received a liver transplant at Jackson

Memorial Hospital in Miami in July and still is undergoing chemotherapy treatments that require travel to Miami and Fort Myers. His family’s bills continue to mount.

Neighbors Helping Neighbors, an offshoot of www.iWannahelp.net, focuses its efforts on one individual at every First Friday event.

The Jacob Jeffries Band This month The Jacob Jeffries Band performs from 7-10 p.m. across from The Pub. The South Florida foursome was named 2008’s Best Live Band by the Broward New Times.

DJ Chris Ceron will spin tunes from 6-10 p.m. next to Whole Foods, which will offer wine sampling to swirl, sniff, sip and repeat, with up to 20 selections for only $5.

Other restaurants throughout Mercato — Bravo!, Capital Grille, AZN McCormick and Schmick’s and Blue Martini — will have specials starting as early as 4 p.m. and lasting through the evening. Various merchants in the center will offer discounts and gifts with purchases.