Living Well

What can a newspaper and a community accomplish together?

Create healthier, more active and responsible lifestyle.

According to a 2004 NCHS study, 66.3 percent of all US adults (ages 20+) are overweight or obese.

According to a 2007 a NC DHHS report, 64 percent of adults reported being overweight or obese. If current trends continue, researchers estimate that approximately half of all adults could be obese by 2030.

In Buncombe County, almost 52 percent of adults are either overweight or obese.

Mission Health System saw a community on the verge of a health crisis.

The Asheville Citizen-Times saw a community unconnected to the healthy lifestyle options of the region.

The Chamber of Commerce, the YMCA and YWCA, Biltmore, governmental agencies, nonprofits and businesses wanted to help...

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ASHEVILLE’S COMMUNITY HEALTH CHALLENGE BEGINS Mission Health System created Lighten Up 4 Life, a five month community weight-loss challenge.

Mission enlisted the help of businesses and the Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce to sign up four-person teams.

The finale of the weight loss competition was the Chamber Challenge 5k run and walk.

Supported by team members and motivated by monthly prizes, about 300 people signed up for Lighten Up 4 Life by January 1.

The Chamber and other businesses in the community set the tone by embracing workplace health.

The Asheville Citizen-Times began coverage of Lighten Up in early January with daily profiles of teams and features on health, wellness and fitness.

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As the competition came to end, the newspaper challenged people to run or walk in the Chamber Challenge 5k, the finale of Lighten Up 4 Life in June.

Understanding how difficult it was for many people to literally take the first step toward forming healthy exercise habits, the newspaper continued to feature the faces of “people like me” with profiles of teams that planned to run or walk in the Chamber Challenge.

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The Asheville Cha Rick Lutovsky, far mber of Commerce “Dream Team ” heads out Damore, Michae right, president and CEO of the Asheville Chafor its first training run for the l Rauchwarg, May STEPHEN MILLE Chambe mbe R/SM or Terr y Bellamy and Buncombe r of Commerce, will be training r Challenge 5K scheduled MILLER@CITIZEN-TIMES.COM to County Commis the other team sioner Nathan Ram members. From take place Friday. left, they are Joe sey.

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Chamber Challe Don’t let the nge 5K Challenge 5K beginning of the Chamber lining up at the The Chamber Cha course fool you downhill star llenge 5K is Friday starting line. t, it gets a lot . After a at the Asheville Area Cha more challenging. mber of Commer ■ If it’s warm, don’t Get ce, Mon 36 tford Ave. Registration “It’s one of the begins at 3 p.m., tougher 5K’s aro the race will star simply becaus and wear a cotton shirt und, t at 4:30 p.m. e or socks. Stay awa said Andrea Lenof the deceptive start,” To register online, y from gym shorts visit www.ashevill that go Mission Hospit cse, a personal trainer at echamber.org. below the knee. tion and sports.als’ outpatient rehabilita■ Eat lunch at leas Preparation pro t files “It’s got some of the race but noth four-five hours in advance hills that are dec See ing Pag that long.” e C3 for profiles will hurt your eptively ach. For a 5K, ther of Chamber Cha e is no need to carb stomparticipants and llenge ■ Hundreds of how each are prep o-load.

Get there early so aring for companies aro runners and walkers from Friday’s race. you are not rush und Asheville ■ Be courteous. ed. ready for the are Don gett ’t star ing t out team-based rac at the front unless you think e on Friday.

Although not you Ho are w to prepare for going to win. Wat for other runners ch out routine, experts everyone has a prerace the race when passing.

■ Don’t do anything enough sleep say runners should get Source: Aaron Saft, out of the ordinary and Foot Rx; Jane Roan ■ Don’t run too . the days leading drink lots of water in Wayne Stanko, e, Jus’ Running; hard the day befo Asheville Track up to the race.

Club; Andrea Lenc Mission Hospitals. re the ■ Try to get at leas And for new se, t eight hours of slee race. against a com runners, they warn night before and p the mon two nights before “The first tim error. the race.

■ Hydrate well befo COLUMN ONLIN e somebody rac re always make raci E ng. es they ■ Do a short warm the Visit CITIZEN-TIM start out too fast same mistake — they -up jog and stretch ES.com for Mich before elle president of the ,” said Wayne Stanko, Greenspan’s chir starting out at opractic column. the middle of Asheville Track Club. “By a the race, they it up at the end decent pace and picking find out it’s a mistake.” . he said.

Aaron Saft, coLencse said owner of Foo For Saft, an elit the most imp t Rx, said beginning can going too hard in the ortant thing is doing a shot of e runner, that means hur not doing anything out and lead to fati t a runner’s quadriceps of heading to the Gu Energy Gel before gue. She recom and hours bef the normal in the days starting line. ore the race. mends And his biggest pre -rac e superstition?

“Stick with wh at’s worked in “I the past,” bef don’t like to cross the fini sh line ore the race,” Saft said.

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When Lighten Up 4 Life kicked off in January, Mission Health System expected 150 people to sign up. In the end, nearly 3,000 adults from more than 200 employers in the region joined in the challenge and lost more than 20,000 pounds.

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The Chamber Challenge was a success with more than 600 runners and walkers, many of them first time 5k participants from Lighten Up 4 Life.

THINGS TO DO: A look at live music and theater this weeken d, what’s opened at plus the movies. Page D11 STEPPING DOWN: Carolina Day School athletic director Ernie Lasher, stepping down afte r 28 years on the job, is among three who will be inducted into the school’s Hall of Fam e today. Page C1

Over five months, Lighten Up 4 Life and the Asheville Citizen-Times created awareness about the importance of physical activity and healthy eating.

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SAVING LAND: A coalition of 13 land trus ahead of schedule ts is protecting 50,000 in in Western North acres Carolina from deve ment by 2010. lopPage B1 FOLLOW THE LEA DER: Between now and Election Day, Dem ocrats say they will use Congress to sho wca the kinds of cha se nge promised by Bara ck Obama. Page A2

How do we build on it in our community and encourage people to be physically active?

NEW HOPE: Can cer Centers of North Carolina hopes to have the radiation wing facility off Sweeten of its Creek Road up and ning after being runshu for more than two t years.

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ASHEVILLE — It is hard to believe that the McKeithan’s driv man on Jim er’s license is the same one wh ing on a bal o was standAsheville Are cony at the a Commerce Frid Chamber of ay afternoon.

McKeithan pounds and 16 has lost 80 inc waist since ent hes from his ering Mission

Hospitals’ Lig hten Up 4 Life weight-lo ss challenge in managed to shed the gre January. atest percentage of pounds “It’s amazing,” McKeithan and .

McKeithan his team, said. “It’s like which lost 126 bei high school aga ng back in cent of the pounds or 15 perir tota in.”

He walked more than 600 l weight, beat other team with not only away Friday the weight an award for the -loss competitio s in individual to n.

As mu ch lose the mo st looking goo as it was about weight during the five-month d, Mc competition, he entered the Keithan said but also as par com pet itio of a team from t he could n so feel Felkel Oil tha t longer. Bef better and live ore the com peti-

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LEICESTER — of the country While the rest the volatile was dissecting immigration, issues around five students at Erw foreign-born in High School were quietly w

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Electric rate hike sought in N.C.

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RALEIGH — grim econom On a day when ic nated nation news domiNorth Carolin al headlines, a a dose of mo consumers got re bad news the home fron on Progress Ene t as well, as rgy for permissio Corp. asked increase residenn Friday to rates in North tial electricity average of 16.2 Carolina by an to recoup risi percent, largely ng fuel expens es.

The propos rate increase ed $424 million subsidiary Pro requested by Carolinas wo gress Energy uld Dec. 1. It would take effect for energy-eff also help pay renewable-en iciency and ergy portfol standards ord io General Assem ered by the bly The change, wh last year. ich must be approved by the state Utilities Commission, monthly res would boost a ide $96.86 a month ntial bill of to $112.57, the Raleigh-based Commercial company said. customers in and industrial North Carolin would see a rate a least 13.6 percen increase of at t.

The price Progress use of coal, which about half its s to generate electricity in the Carolinas, has soa months. Prices red in recent and fuel oil, wh for natural gas about 5 per ich account for cent of output have also rise , n drastically.

“Any price impact on our increase has an cus tom ers, and we are very sensitive to tha fact,” t Progre Energy Carolinas chie ss f Yates said in statexecutive Lloyd fuel prices are ement. “Rising reality, and we a new energy work to meet will continue to the a growing serv challenges of affordably and ice area reliably, mentally sound in an environmanner.”

Progress Ene said it doesn’t rgy Carolinas from the fuel make a profit cos of the rates. The t component annually to rec company files This year’s over fuel costs. anticipated futufiling reflects continued hig re costs given her prices.

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FOR SMART FOL KS: John Boyle gets up and inside a Sma close rt Car, one of the few in Asheville. Page B1

Janet Moore, Director of Community Relations for Mission Health Systems says, “My goal is that Lighten Up 4 Life will not wrap up. We hope (participants) continue the good habits they’ve developed over the last five months.”

GAY PRIDE: Rev elers at San Francisco’s gay pride parade Sun day celebrated their new found freedom to marry. Page A2 ZIMBABWE ELE CTION: President Robert Mugabe took oath office after claimin of g victory in a disc redi election. Page A2 ted

Mission is a sponsor of the annual Asheville Citizen-Times Half Marathon and 5K. The 5K was adapted to be a run and a walk and we invited Lighten Up 4 Life and the Asheville community to run the race.

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MONTREAT — Republican pre Presumptive nee Sen. John sidential nomiMcCain met wit the Rev. Billy h son Franklin Graham and his at home Sunday. Billy Graham’s McCain, wh courting religiouo is actively trying to reassure s voters and skeptical con servatives, visi ted privately wit h

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Nicholas Dematte is sits on the edge Police and emergen cy officials say a of an old wrecked car Thursday . Wea planned public ERIN BRETHAUE safety training faci verville firefighters practice extricating victims R/EBRETHAU@CITIZEN-TIMES.COM lity would improve from crashed vehi training. cles.

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ASHEVILLE plans to build — Buncombe County facility where a public safety training can sharpen officers and firefighters blazes, pursuintheir skills in dousing tims and firing g suspects, rescuing vicgun The $20 million s. center is old landfill property ow slated for ned by the county in Wo odfin. It would ed by Ashevil be operatle-B unc ombe Tec Community Col lege, giving the hnical school

g they need has been sorely nee be available to ded for years. It would cue agencies police, fire and local resand neighborin throughout Buncombe g counties.

“It’s going to it’s going to be be a lot better training, new options more consist for it offers in fire the numerous courses and it’s something that I ent training thin fighting, police use emergency me work and the d all the time,” said Jerr k will be dic y VeHaun, county’s dire Officials say al services. ctor of law enforcem a modern facility where services. “We don’t hav emergency ent and emerg e anywhere wh ere you can ency workPlease see FAC get all this training.”

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PHOENIX — chunky carry-oAdmit it. That would never n bag of yours fit ple box displayeinto the samd outside the airport gate.

Don’t expect that bag to get a free ride for long.

Checked bag s are now moneymaker for US Airway a American Air s, line Airlines, and s and United officials say they’re going to watch on how keep a closer on board as much you take the new baggage feesy begin their ning on hav . “We’re planing extra staf where possibl f e, peak times at especially at busy airports US ,” Airways spokesman Morgan Durran t said.

The airlines the carry-on pol point out that icy came from the Federal Aviation Administration try, and they hav, not the industo keep people e an obligation bulky bags ont from sneaking o fees. Not only planes to avoid is honest, fee-pa it unfair to the they say, but ying traveler, overload the oveit would also force gate crew rhead bins and offs while the s to delay takey checked exc ess bags.

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But the add means someth ed scrutiny ing Every passenger else as well. not used to che — even those going to have cking bags — is to the rules. Peo start following accustomed to ple who are boarding with large roller cas a themselves han e might find WANT TO PARTIC airline employeding $15 to an IPATE? get through sec e before they The Citizen-Times Half us to get to theurity. “It’s up to and 5K Run & Wal Marathon m before they k is Sept. 13. get too far For more informa in tion and to regis‘Ma’am or sir, line and say you need to ter, visit CITIZEN che -TIMES.com/ ck that bag,”’ said Mark race.

Dupont, Am erican’s senior vice president of airport services planning. nity to improv e on what we AMR Cor did and see how Airlines, the p.’s American much better we could do,” nation’s largest Haw carrier, was The Commu kins said. the nity ann ounce fees for first to Cup is only one of a a sing few changes checked bag. the ninth ann to It started cha le rging $15 each way Times Half-M ual Citize nfor the first arathon. bag on tickets Organizers hav pur cha sed June 15 or later. US walking compon e added a ent to the 5K Inc. will match Airways Group race in an effo ets booked on that fee for tickmore participan rt to attract UAL Corp.’s or after July 9.

Mission Hospit ts and build on United Airline als’ Lighten Up will follow late s r Please see RAC with the sam in the summer E on A6 domestic flightse bag fee for as of Aug. 18.

Citizen-Times 5 K builds on Ligh ten Up interest

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ASHEVILLE — Challenge 5K The Chamber Hawkins’ firs was Alisha won’t be her t race, but it A2-3 already has planlast. Hawkins B4 Bele Chere s to run in the A4-5 Asheville Citi 5K and the SPORTS zen -Times 5K. D1-5 “Since then YOUR NEWS Challenge), I’ve (the Chamber B3 interest in run developed an ning,” she said “I like being able . to go outside and exercise rath ing inside in the er than staygym.”

Hawkins and A GANNETT NEWS her three teammates PAPER | Alisha Hawkins, NO. 182 | 28 pages VOL. 139 | at Ma | © 2008 far Management Services will il Cindy Connor, at left, and her teammates, Deb SPECIAL TO THE CITIZEN-TIMES also ra compete for Mai the Community Times 5K on Sept. l Management Services, will Gregg, Kim Potts and QUESTIONS ABOUT Cup at the Citi take 13 after running zen the Chamber Cha on the Citizen-Tim es race. Cha CIRCULATION? The cup will be llenge 5K on June mb er Cha awa 6.

Call (800) 672-247 four-person team rded to the Citizen-Tim llenge 5K and the of 2 3 hours, 1 min es 5K on Sept. with the best ute and 25 sec combined tim 13.

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Republican pres idential candida te Sen. John McC LM OTERO/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS for a photo with the family mountaintop Rev. Billy Graham and his sonain, R-Ariz., center, poses Franklin at the Grah retreat in Montrea t on Sunday. am meeting was media or staff. private, without ization based in Boone.

Franklin Graham Mc Cai n asked for the is the president and chie meeting with the Gra f hams. of the Charlotexecutive officer About half an te-based Bill hour into Graham y Evangelistic senator’s visit with the faththe Association and son eva and Samarit ngelists, cou er an’s Purse, a worldw ide relief organ- singer Ricky Skaggs pul ntry led up Please see MCC AIN on A6

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We created a Community Cup Team race, challenging the Lighten Up Chamber Challenge teams to continue their good habits of physical activity.

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Diane Crowe of being ove was simply tired signed up to rweight when she com Hospitals’ Lig pete in Mission weight loss cha hten Up 4 Life llen Crowe manag ge in January. ed to lose pounds, win 90 ning her em ployer’s internal wei ght and dropping -loss competition down to 210 poufrom 300 pounds Today’s reader pho four months sin nds. In the nearly “My recent har to ended, the 56- ce the competition vest of buckey makes a wonde sistant has kepyear-old medical asrful table dec e nuts t the weight off. writes Gerda oration,” “I’ve gotten L. Shreve, of Franklin.

Send in your scar scrubs and big rid of all my big we want pic ecrow photos: For October plan on never clothes because I tures of you using them aga r scarecrows and fall dec Crowe said. in,” ora ferred. Please tions. Close-ups preAnd Crowe the town you include your name and She plans to ent still isn’t finished. er the lution imageslive in. E-mail high-resonex t Lighten Up 4 Life cha to readerphotos TIMES.com. @CITIZENJanuary in hopllenge that starts in another 20-25 es that she can shed pounds.

“I was the Energy-saving wo wasn’t good top loser but that eno Learn no-cos rkshop “I’m determine ugh,” Crowe said. save on your t and low-cost ways to d Mission Hospito keep it off.” workshop, 6:30energy bills during free mu nity health tals hopes a comCounty Extens p.m. Oct. 7, Buncombe Sunday will hel rally planned for Asheville. Reg ion office, 64 Coxe Ave., p like Crowe get past participants ing 255-5522. Opister in advance by callcoming weight ready for the up$100 home ene portunity to sign up for while also attr loss competition rgy aud it; must attend workshop. did not take paracting people who weight loss cha t in the five-month llen The event wil ge last year.

Oktoberfest beer l feature suc din sto ner ries from cess It happens healthy food, past participants, varian Lodge, 7-9:30 p.m. Oct. 16 at Baact and other hea ivities for children Asheville. Ger 330 Weaverville Road, lthrela ted resources man food wil including boo with Oktoberfes l be paired ths featuring tal programs, Cost: $50. Res t beers from Germany. yoga studios hospiervations at 254 cal health clu and lo-6453. bs.

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JBOATWRIGHT@C from his job wit Thirsty Thu ITIZEN-TIMES.COM rsday, which Hoping to ing firm followi h a marketGoss Agency features disc ASHEVILLE ng the school, Clay wasbuild a new primary ounted liquor accountable and not hol — and beer.

Congressional d date’s criticisms of onecandi- director Jeff Goscreative the 20th county him accountab Mu can mp to triple the did owe s said of the Mump le, too,” he agency’s seeking ate and officer r told an said Asheville City land transfer ower’s clients. . a man everywhere hav tax Carl MumpoweCouncilman him, and he was mocking were untrue and accusations Mu e rejected the . Voters mp Ma owe tt r Mump he punched the tax The land tran acc his son from r dismissed man in the not be reached ower could leaders in the Eastern used prised the council was sursfer tax would. face, according his campaign raised about man was . He worked of Che Ban have d staf to brin $350 a f pol as gin ,00 rokee Indians Friday after ice incident rep a volunteer, g them up 0, covering than half the police more after charged pay campaign coo serving as a ruption in October of cor- almost a year.

He was cha ort. the school-construc ment on a $10 million rdinator rged with younger sim Mumpower reports the trib following Goss ple assault Mumpower said . in Board of Com tion loan, Clay County said e failed to he was- report at Matt with a bar figh connection on $300 bon and released n’t sure missioners Cha Mumpower was leas Cheeks said. t. d, according t if irman Hub $58 laid his ,000 in his off with political con to stances wer the magistrate’ Asheville pol supervisor e related to any datetributions to state candis office.

Matt Mumpowe ice arrested department wasbecause his insults against Mumpowe s since 2005. his son before being disgations he pun r, 24, on alle- heartbroken r said he was Thursday’s solved.

He said his son APD investigates incident. was told sexual assault man in the faceched another his son from by dismissing he wou “W A the campaign. about midASHEVILLE — Republican, Gos ld be fired from at the sor ith her [his supervinight at Wild Matt Mump Mumpowe s Agency, whi ] Win ing a reported City police are investigatch has a was being relieved, there Biltmore Avenue g Café on tell him ower called to incumbent r is challenging marketing no place con of the arre Democrat Hea old boy tha sexual assault of a 13-yearst, Shuler to a citation , according Mumpower t th tribe, a few tract with the work for himfor Matt and no said for Thursday in the occurred after 6 p.m. wee . to do, and the at ks after the ent the Buncombe 11th comments.

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The man is described as between 30-4 0 years old and Hispanic, 8 inches tall. The about 5 feet re was a dar safety seat in the back seat k blue childof the vehicle Anyone with info rma tion about the. incident is ask ed or CrimeStoppe to call police at 252-1110 rs at 255- 5050.

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THE COMMUNITY CUP As the Asheville Citizen-Times Half Marathon and 5k drew closer, Lighten Up 4 Life participants and Chamber Challenge participants were urged to register.

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Cherokee Trib Authorities charged a assault and bat al Council member with tery and injury al property. to personCherokee Kephart, 41, of police served Angela McLeymore Lan with the warran e, Murphy, County Sheriff ts on Tuesday, Cherokee was released Keith Lovin said. Kephart bond, he said. under $5,000 unsecured Arrest warran ts were not imm available. Lov ediately in circumstances said he did not know the sur Kephart’s hus rounding the charges. ban d, who file said he plans to drop the cha d charges, all just a big mis rges. “It was intend to persueunderstanding and I don’t it,” Mark Kephar t said.

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Progress Energystarted about 9:10 p.m., spokesman said. A total of 611 customers Drew Elliot were affected, he said. The Interstate 240, outage extended west of dow up to New Haw n to Fairview Road and Cre Crews expect ek Road, Elliot said. ed to restore before midnig power ht, Elliot said .

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ASHEVILLE Sen. Elizabeth Do — le got som kind words from e her closes confidant spe aking Friday t Asheville. in Former Sen spoke to abo . Bob Dole 50 Republicaut Party faithfu n l GOP campai at headquarters. gn “I think I’ve got a gre product,” Do at Marie Jones buys said of his wifle Bob Dole North Carolina Appa bag of honey crisp apples from le Tim STEPHEN MILLE Melton of Grandad “She’s worke e. ers, and of course, Festival in Hendersonville.

R/SMMILLER@CI ’s App TIZEN The les -TIME on apples. festival celebrat devoted her d hard, she’s es the recent app Friday afternoon at the 62nd S.COM life to public ann le harvest with service. local crafts, perf ual orm“I’ve seen a dates come and lot of candishow horses go. Some are workhorses. and some are She’s in the workhorse cat starts her day egory. She with what sheout every day calls quiet

By Barbara Bla time reading ke BBLAKE@CITIZEN she lives that her Bible, and -TIMES.COM downtown’s ma way in HENDERSONVILL Dole, elected .”

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Hendersonvill E — Henderson in 2002 as this County app yea the e, r, said state’s firs so I’m variety happy,” le apples being the early wearing big smi growers were Creasm said a smiling Daw senator, is stat t woman U.S. sold at the n ing day of the les Friday, open- Farms an, who owns Creasman festival are just the firs her race aga istically tied in t inst challenger Carolina App 62nd annual North husbanin Hendersonville with her fruit, with the pickin wave of Kay Hagan, g le Festival. d, Bob. “Last sea pea son kin g in October. year, we lost In sharp con state senator a Democratic 90 percent of trast to this from Guilford “They’r our crop. We last year — County. ’ve rain (earliee small because the an Easter wee time never had a loss of that magni freeze earlier r kend tude in Bob Dole, - late for the this week) came too our 22 years his party’s out the majori in the year wiped farm m, (ow pre but nin sid g that rain is ential the going to ),” ty hel the region — of apple crops in we’re she said. “But this yea 1996, said his nominee in r, Brooks saidp the later varieties,” going to have the festival kick wife is comoff on Main Stre a full crop.” . “More rain ed mitted The to ma intaining in abundant sup et with the fruit reduce ongoing drought has help, but even with just would President Bus the d the size of ply. h’s many of the we got, we’re going to be OK rain Sweet and tart “When it com tax cuts. apples .”

The crowds yellow, green, , juicy and crisp, they in Henderson County, but ing, I think she es to spendstrolling alo are Ma red qua in ng lity fruit, Cre and pink said apples. Candie stream conser ’s in the mainasman wolfinStreet Friday morning wer . e g down with caramel d apples, apples ry,” he said. vative catego“They’re still forms, along witapples in myriad good smoothies. Appsauce and apple and juic “She’s big y,” she said. “Th— sweet festival foods, h all the standard le butter, app on cutting cider, apple spe ran le ey’r nding. She’s ging small.” e just nel cak pie concerned e to every ima from funand plain old s, apple slushies about the ginable variRenae Moss app ety economy and les of in me Bro bas and bags line at sizzling on taxes and the d the booths kets father, Keith Moss, oks, whose Along wit gril futu ls. re.” h the gyros, along Rick Dole also Moss, own Moand brother, candy and cot ton pra ised the Polish sausag ss Farms in GOP president es were Please see APP John McCain. ial candidate LES on B2 Please see DOL E on B2

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By Christopher Sherman and Pauline people, perhap s for weeks.

THE ASSOCIATED Arrillaga PRESS By evening, HOUSTON — Ike was not theit appeared that INSIDE Rescuers in sing boats, helico tou s stroke that fore le calamipters and hig water trucks hfear ed. But the full casters had ■ Gas prices will likel set y remain high extent of the for flood-stricken out across the damage the next few days — or even Texas coast in WNC, but a rou Saturday in sense of how many people gh crews hope to inspect effort to rea a monumental have per may refin Gulf Coast ch tens of tho ish ed erie — s soon, a AAA offic was still sands of people u- unclear, in ial said. ly ignored war who stubborn- roads wer part because many Meanwhile, local relief organizations e impassable. nings of “certai and Progress Ene death” and trie n Som e aut rgy hor plan to assist ities feared tha Texa Hurricane Ike d to ride out thousands s t reco very . of efforts. Page B1 The storm trapped in the victims could be ■ Rescues roared ash ir homes, put emergency resp hours before ondaybreak with ore for days to be rescued waiting ders in harm’s way. Page A3 mph winds .

110 “We wil waves, smashin and towering ably for l be doing this prob- ■ Economic damage from Ike could the next wee ing thousands g houses, flood- more,” k or be less than feared. Pag of said hom e A3 She es, blo riff ing out window w’s s in Houston’s Dennis Marlow in OraSgt. skyscrapers, County, nge was only power to mo and cutting off people where more than 300 compar “a drop in the bucket” ed with the re than 3 mil had to be resc lion flooded ued number homes. He said from still stranded. that Please see Edward Benavid IKE on A8 es Galveston, Texas, carries his dog as he walks to LM OTERO/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS check which was flooded

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NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR LIVING WELL AND LIGHTEN UP 4 LIFE Earlier in the year, the Asheville Citizen-Times saw an opportunity to reconnect the community to healthy lifestyle options that make Asheville unique: • • • • •

Plentiful outdoor events and races Bountiful locally grown food Beautiful terrain in every season A thriving and walkable downtown A community dedicated to alternative and holistic health options

Readers responded to our coverage of these topics and wanted more.

We saw the opportunity to create community, to connect the people interested in living well together.

In December 2009, prototyping and design of a digital community, Living Well was begun with a targeted launch with Lighten Up 4 Life 2009.

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To kick-off the event, the Asheville Citizen-Times, Mission and Biltmore partnered to bring in USA Weekend food columnist and cookbook author Pam Anderson, to share her story of weight loss through a healthy diet and increased activity.

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The fourfr ffrom om Biltmore person, all-female team Mission Hosp Oil will be competing in itals’ weigh ht-loss chall Lighten Up 4 Life day, day ay ay, y, aafter losing enge that begins Monduring last year’ more than 80 pounds s “I’m ready to competition.

“I’ go,” said Cind who lo y Rice, lost 17 poun five-month chall ds during last year’s enge but the weigh ht over the summgained back er and turning to food to deal with stres fall, The 46-year-ol s. d has alr already boug Weaverville resident ht and sta starting stock some exercise tapes ing her kitchen healthy h food. She with is healthy hy, especially determined to get h after seeing both parents strug her gle with healt this yea h problems year and deali ng with her own betes. dia“I hav have av a to get serio us about this,” said.

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We propose to take this one step further in 2010 by creating the Living Well Challenge The goal of the Living Well Challenge is to inspire an ongoing commitment to living well to create a healthier and happier community.

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