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The Buncombe County Republican Party recently commissioned a poll and the results — released Sept. 12 — show that most voters believe Buncombe County is headed in the wrong direction, with only 28 percent of likely voters believing Buncombe is headed in the right direction, according to the BCGOP. “I think it’s a reflection of voters realizing that the path the Democrats have had us on, by voting to raise our taxes, handing out money to their friends in these non-profits, and voting to give themselves raises while county residents struggle to put pay their mortgage. People are waking up...” BCGOP Chairman Henry Mitchell said. “The chickens are coming home to roost.” The poll, which surveyed 600 likely Buncombe County general election voters on Aug. 28-29, revealed that voters are unhappy with recent actions of the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners
and are taking the election cycle seriously. More than 64 percent of respondents preferred cutting spending to raising taxes when faced with a budget shortfall, but the county raised property taxes on residents to cover their budget gaps. In a response requested by the Daily Planet, Kathy Sinclair, chair of the Buncombe County Democratic Party, wrote Sept. 29, “It’s sad that the BCGOP is focusing on push polls rather than explaining their positions to the voters, but we’re not surprised. “When the Republican majority in Raleigh, led by Representatives (Tim) Moffitt and (Nathan) Ramsey, cut $500 million from public education, it was the Buncombe County Commissioners, led by Democrats, that made the additional investments in our schools to close the gap, so that teachers’ jobs would not be lost and our kids would have the resources they need to be successful in the classroom.” See WRONG, Page A2
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impending perils, including potentially catasrophic electro-magnetic pulses, coronal mass ejections (serious solar flares) and, in general, a collapse of SALUDA — Sporting suspenders, newly engaged the nation’s antiquated electrical grid that could take years to repair and, in the meantime, would result in to be married and having finally released the followthe death of 90 percent of Americans within a year up to his New York Times best-seller, “One Second and leave the remainder living a lifestyle — with no After,” William “Bill” Forstchen predicted a scenario electricity — from two or more centuries ago. in the near future wherein Isis terrorists from the Forstchen was introduced as “the father of the Middle East bring their fight directly to the United prepper movement,” and given credit for inspiring States—where he said they already are embedded— Bill Forstchen so many Americans to prepare for a variety of calaand take aim at “soft targets.” Forstchen, author of The New York Times bestseller “One Second maties through his book, “One Second After,” as well as his EMP After”( in 2009) and a miltiary history scholar and professor at Mon- and power grid work. Forstchen spoke for about an hour, giving a brief address and then eagerly opening the event to a lively and treat College, shared his concerns about Isis in his keynote address lengthy question-and-answer session with the audience. to about 600 people who attended the three-day weekend Prepper “I was talking to a friend yesterday on EMP... that a doubleCamp on the night of Sept. 13 at Lake Orchard Campground. whammy-CME was on the way on the G3 level,” Forstchen said. “Preppers,” as they call themselves, prefer that label over “sur“The friend asked where I was going this weekend. I said I was vivalists,” a term which they feel has been stigmatized through going to a prepper conference... If the stuff hit the fan, I want to be the years by what they allege has been unfair coverage of particiaround ‘the preppers.’” His quip triggered laughter from the crowd. pants in the movement in the mainstream news media. In addition to the Isis threat, Forstchen warned of other possible See TERRORISTS, Page A9 john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com
A2 - October 2014 - Asheville Daily Planet
Speakers mainly oppose fracking in WNC
CULLOWHEE – Fracking would would pose a serious threat to the environment in Western North Carolina and proposed state rules are inadequate to prevent problems, speakers said repeatedly during a public hearing here Sept. 12. The hearing about hydraulic fracturing drew about 600 people who voiced an overwhelming opposition over four hours at Western Carolina University’s Ramsey Center. It was hosted by the N.C. Mining and Energy Commission Fracking involves pumping a mixture of sand, water and chemicals into deep shale formations, then fracturing the rock to release the gas. Opponents say it can pollute groundwater
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and leave property owners with useless land. Areas \where fracking to collect natural gas is considered most likely to be commercially viable are in the Piedmont and eastern North Carolina. The state had funded a preliminary study to determine whether fracking in a rock formation in seven of the state’s westernmost counties would be feasible, but an official recently said it is setting that aside for 2014-15. The N.C. General Assembly fast-tracked approving fracking last year, but it has not yet begun in North Carolina. At the earliest, natural gas extraction could start in March 2015, according to Jamie Kritzer, spokesman for the state Department
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Continuing, the BCDP’s Sinclair, wrote, “It is our commissioners that are providing economic incentives to employers like GE and Linamar that are bringing to bringing good jobs to our community, all the while, the Republicans in Raleigh have cut off additional economic incentives, crippling our state’s ability to compete for new industries and jobs. “Too bad the BCGOP didn’t want to ask the question of what the voters think of their representation in Raleigh, they might have been shocked at the answer,” Sinclair concluded. Regarding the poll results, BCGOP First Vice Chairwoman Patsy Gardin stated in a press release, “You vote to raise our taxes then raise your pay. That seems to be something residents are fired up about and more than 90 percent say elected officials shouldn’t be permitted to vote for their own pay raises. Yet that’s exactly what they did.” The BCGOP said it believes that “it is time for change, time for fiscal responsibility and time for new leadership and that is what this poll reflects.” The party “is proud of the Republican candidates running to help the residents of Buncombe and will continue its efforts to turn us in the right direction.’ On a separate matter, Buncombe County school officials say an innocent mistake caused a Reynolds High student to omit the words “under God” while reciting the Pledge of Allegiance during morning announcements at the school Sept. 25 — and the omission sparked a tweet from Nathan West, the BCGOP’s communications director. West tweeted: “Reports coming from students @BuncombeSchools Reynolds omitting ‘under god’ from pledge.” However, West’s Twitter account include a dislaimer stating that his tweets do not represent the BCGOP. “It was just an innocent omission,” Donald Porter, a spokesman for the school system, said in the aftermath. “There was no intent on the part on the student or the school to omit the words ‘under God’.” Porter said the pledge was read in its entirety the next day.
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of Environment and Natural Resources. Meanwhile, Asheville Citizen-Times columnist John Boyle reported that “Homeless men unfamiliar with fracking were bused from Winston-Salem to a state hearing Friday on the controversial technique for extracting natural gas, an effort to bolster a pro-fracking turnout, according to an environmental group and a published report. As for the pro-frackers, Bettie “Betsy” Ashby, a member of the Jackson County Coalition Against Fracking. was quoted in the AC-T as saying, “They were clueless,” said “At least two of them I met definitely came from a homeless shelter.”
Asheville Daily Planet — October 2014 - A3
City intersection rated among worst From Staff Reports
Asheville’s crossing at Patton Avenue and New Leicester Highway is one of the nation’s 12 most dangerous intersections, according to TIME Magazine. The nation’s most dangerous intersection is where Knights Road crosses Street Road in Bensalem, Penn., TIME reported. That crossing had seven fatal accidents in 10 years. The Pennsylviana intersection is in a commercial corridor in Bucks County, fringed by a Subway sandwich shop and a gas station, not too far from a Kohl’s. It’s plagued by poor signage, dim, lighting, discontinuous sidewalks, aggressive drivers and jaywalkers, according to a 2008 traffic audit. In a one-mile stretch of Street Road that includes the intersection, there were 144 crashes in the two years leading up to the audit, and 170 people died or were injured. “It’s a lot of volume,” Joseph Fiocco, a traffic engineer who helped author the audit, said of the Pennsylvania intersection. “The more
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Asheville’s intersection of Patton Avenue and New Leicester Highway recently was ranked one of the 12 most dangerous intersections in the nation. traffic that’s crossing and the more pedestrians That intersection narrowly beat out Patton and bicycles there are, the more likely accidents Avenue-New Leicester Highway’s crossing, are.” More than 36,000 vehicles, including bus- which recorded six fatalities in 10 years, TIME es that carry some 500 people a day, travel on noted. Two five-lanes converge at the crossing, Street Road daily. which is generally considered busiest between
4 and 7 p.m. Between 24,000 and 45,000 cars per day cross the Asheville intersection, according to the North Carolina Department of Transportation. “The fact Time has listed the location as one of the deadliest in the nation could now bring more attention to the ongoing problems,” Asheville’s WLOS-TV said of the crossing of Patton Avenue and New Leicester Highway. Eleven other intersections including Asheville’s were listed as runners up. The magazine and msn.com reported the findings in September, based on National Highway Traffic Safety Administration data. Time Magazine analyzed the most recent fatal accident data available up to 2012. The report examined the number of fatal accidents happening within 150-feet of each other. State Highway Patrol Trooper Kelly Rhodes was quoted by the Asheville Citizen-Times as saying, “Slowing down and realizing you have two, five-lanes converging right there” is important for drivers to understand.”
A4 — October 2014 - Asheville Daily Planet
A-B Tech’s new chief unveils his ‘vision’ By JOHN NORTH
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A-B Tech’s new president Dennis King discussed plans for the school’s future during a Leadership Asheville Forum meeting Sept. 24 at Country Club of Asheville. About 60 people attended the luncheon. Dr. David Brown introduced King, noting that “A-B Tech is of the community — and for the community... We are fortunate in North Carolina to have a superb community college system, and even more fortunate to have one of the shining stars in the system at A-B Tech” in King. Brown added that King “interviewed for his (current) job for 22 years. He has been at A-B Tech for 22 years. They tested him in every way... He was named the outstanding administrator by his colleagues at A-B Tech. He was raised in New Hampshire... and graduated from Rutgers... He got his doctorate from the University of Florida.” He said King — in his LAF address — would be sharing “some of his aspirations, some of his hopes, some of his dreams....” King began his 26-minute talk by alluding to Brown’s reference to his long tenure at A-B Tech, noting, “Yes, I’ve been there 22 years — and I’ve enjoyed every moment.... He said he was teased by family members, who wondered, “Would you trust $70m a year to this man?” So, King said, “you get humbled by the family. My brother has made it known that even though he’s proud of me, he’s still my older brother.” As for A-B Tech, “We are not less than a college. Therefore, we’re not a junior college. The (community college) system was created in the 1950s... Almost all community colleges are located within a very few miles of the homes of those who are using them.” Rhetorically, he asked, “What’s going on at A-B Tech?” In answering his own question, King said a recent story in the Asheville Citizen-Times focused on A-B Tech’s new craft brewing curriculum. “We have the first two-year brewing distillation and fermentation in the United States. We opened with 52 students wanting to sign up on first day, but we could only take 24 students.
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“Right now, we’re just brewing beer... They were individuals with degrees in other fields, such as English, and now they wanted to get degrees in fields in which they could get jobs,” King said. He added, “You can’t mention A-B Tech Dennis King without mentioning our world-class culinary program... Thursday is the only day they serve through the culinary program... This is a culinary lab for both lunch and dinner, but only on Thursdays. “Our culinary program has gone to the final four for eight times in last 10 years — only school with that status. We have won the award twice.” With obvious enthusiasm, King added that “what also is going on right now is something I think is fantastic. GE Aviation is training on our campus for students to make ceramic parts. The owners of planes will be able to save $1 million per year with these parts — that’s an amazing savings.” Further, he said GE Aviation is building a production facility on Sweeten Creek Road and “they’re gearing up making these lightweight parts that — they say — will revolutionize the industry.” As for other A-B Tech activities, King said there is “lots of construction on Victoria Road.” He praised the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners for backing a referendum that passed recently, earmarking a portion of the county sales tax. It is expected to generate about $120 million over 10 years “that we will put into the infrastructure of our campus.” With the growth spurt on the Asheville campus, “We are so crowded now (in many situations). All of that will change when our Allied Lab and Public Serbice building
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opens in about a year. It will be state of the art. There will be mannequins who simulate health problems.” King then said he did not want to fail to mention “two other buildings on our campus — one is a parking garage, which will be centrally located” and hold about 650 cars. “It’s similar to the one across from the courthouse on College Avenue. In addition, we’re building a multipurpose building... that will be able to seat 800 people at a time... So those are the construction projects that are going on now.” What’s more, he noted, “We’re opening up a training facility in Woodfin.... for police, emergency services. We’ll occupy it and start teaching there full bore in January.” In outlining his objectives for A-B Tech for the next 10 years, King cited the following: • Master facilities planning • “Security for our students,” which he labeled “the one I most worry about... We are very concerned about the A-B Tech campus. We have a two-lane road that runs through it. About 10,000 cars come through it on Victoria Road, daily. So we need a second exit
from the campus,” for security purposes. • “If my administration is going to be known for anything, it will be for support of the faculty. So I’d like to have an endowment for faculty development. If you think of a broken-down old English teacher like me, I probably don’t need as much development as, say, an engineering teacher. So it’s important that we train, and retrain, our faculty on a regular basis... Otherwise, we’ll be training people to fix eight-track stereos. We’d like to grow the endowment to a minimum of $1 million.” • “We’re looking at adding physical therapy, occupational therapy, aviation (the ground school of flying), environmental engineering, culinalogy (high-quality meals in medical situations). “That’s A-B Tech. We’re an intricate part of the community. We have a $70 million-plus budget this year,” with 1,100 full-time and part-time employees and 24,000 students per year... We awarded 1,800 degrees last year... “A-B Tech is the community’s college,” King said, triggering applause. “We belong to Asheville and Buncombe County... And I look forward to many years of serving you.”
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Caleb Johnson to be city’s holiday parade marshal
Readers name Asheville nation’s ‘quirkiest town’
From Staff Reports The Asheville Downtown Association recently announced that “American Idol” winner Caleb Johnson will serve as grand marshall for the Asheville Holiday Parade, presented by Bojangles, on Nov. 22. About 25,000 people are expected to attend the annual event. “That’s a huge honor,” Johnson, an Asheville native who just a few years ago attended the parade with Erwin High School classmates, told local news media. He added that leading the downtown parade “is a really awesome way to top off the year.” Following the parade, Johnson will stop by Ingles JingleFest for a meet-an- greet and sign autographs for fans. U.S. Rep. Mark Meadows will also honor Johnson with a Congressional Record for his significant contributions to North Carolina during Ingles JingleFest. Meanwhile, Meghan Rogers, interim executive director of Asheville Downtown Association, said of Johnson, “He’s a perfect fit because the theme of this year’s parade is home for the holidays. Johnson spent the majority of the last year away from home, either on the set of the popular singing competition show in Los Angeles, or on the subsequent Ameri-
Caleb Johnson can Idol summer concert tour. The Asheville Holiday Parade, which will feature about 100 entries from area nonprofits, schools and businesses, is “likely the largest community event all year,” Rogers said. The annual downtown parade typically draws 20,000-25,000 people. People come from all of Western North Carolina, eastern Tennessee and Upstate South Carolina. “I would certainly presume we are going to see even greater audiences” because of Johnson leading the parade, she said. After winning the 13th season of “American Idol” in May, Johnson visited home before entering the studio to produce his first album, “Testify,” which was released in August. “I am super proud of it,” Johnson said. “I can’t wait to perform it live” on my tour.
From Staff Reports Travel + Leisure readers have named Asheville the quirkiest town in the United States, according to the magazine’s September edition. The magazine noted, “Asheville, N.C., for instance, ranked highly for its booming craft beer industry and diverse dining scene — but here, ‘diverse’ goes well beyond a few Asheville is making — and even topping — many good places to eat pho. lists of best U,S. cities in many categories. “On his No Taste Like Home tour, Ashevillian Alan Muskat downtown’s Pritchard Park; and the seemlets visitors forage in the woods for — and ingly bottomless love of local beer. then sample — wild local delicacies like “To tap into their vibes, try the beer-and‘fairy potatoes,’ which grow on vines, and moonshine ‘hoptails’ at Grove Park Inn’s reishi, known as the Mushroom of ImmorGreat Hall Bar, the BRÖÖ shampoo at the tality. Earth Fare shop, or the port cake at Short “‘Asheville sits smack in the middle of the most biodiverse temperate bioregion on Street Cakes. “Asheville also ranked in the top 10 for the planet,’” Muskat boasts. “‘So even our great bakeries; Vortex Doughnuts offers plants are freaky.’ a local beer-of-the-day donut,” the maga“Is it the thinner mountain air or that the zine’s Asheville write-up concluded. locals are standing too close to a vorThe Travel + Leisure accolade came tex?” the magazine asks, rhetorically, of just weeks after Outside magazine named Asheville. “Either way, these North CaroAsheville is one of 16 Best Towns in the linians are tops for eccentricity thanks to both old and new charms: the vortex-laden country for vibrant cultural scenes and outterrain, which purports to send off good door spirit. This marks at least the sevenenergy; the Friday night drum circle in teenth list Asheville has made this year.
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Continued from Page A1 Somehow, people who find it perfectly reasonable to ask a deck of cards whether they should invest in a 401(k) will sneer at you for asking a mailbox for directions to the movie theater. The question is, as a guy who tries to live rationally, can you respect a woman who probably reads books like “The Healing Power of Pebbles” and “How to Ask the Universe for a Pony”? (Without respect, you have contempt, which researcher John Gottman finds is the number one killer of relationships.) Figure out whether you can compartmentalize -- focus on what you love and shrug off her planning her day based around whether she sees a sign in her toast. If you stay together, gently explain that you appreciate how sweet she is in wanting to help you but that you really don’t believe in all this stuff. Over time, if you let her see your thought process but don’t hammer her with it, she may come around to the merits of evidence-based beliefs. In the meantime, do your best to be polite when she introduces you to her relatives -- all her relatives, ever. (Are you free for a seance Friday night?)
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My roommate’s girlfriend is unemployed and just hangs around our place all week, even when he’s at work. (She has her own place but is never there.) She’s very wasteful with our utilities. Yesterday, after work, I found her in the living room watching TV with the air conditioning on full blast -- even though she also had all the windows open and, for some reason, had turned on our gas fireplace! When I muttered something to my roommate about her kicking in for utilities, he retorted that my girlfriend isn’t paying any extra. Well, she is here a night or two a week, has a job, and doesn’t run up our electric bill. —Feeling Scammed You need to establish a new house rule: “Residents and their guests can experience only one climate at a time.” Your problem started with going into a roommate situation without rules — without a written document spelling out how things would work between you and how they’d work if something weren’t working. Signing a roommate contract (like this example from Nolo’s “Every Tenant’s Legal Guide”: bit.ly/roommatecontract) might sound unnecessarily formal. However, it’s wise to do whenever you’re rooming with anything more animated than a cactus. Remember, to be human is to be annoying — like, for example, by letting another human move in and cause climate change in your living room. The fair thing is to get Jackie Brownout to start forking over for the utilities — before it occurs to her to run the dryer all night because the white noise helps her sleep. But the fair thing isn’t always the smartest thing. Consider what this is costing you — and what it could cost you. Compare bills from the previous year to get an idea of how much she’s actually sending the bill up. No, putting every power source in the house on full blast isn’t free, but her usage probably doesn’t add more than $10 or $20 to your monthly bill. And no, it isn’t fair that you’re paying half of that. However, getting into this with your roommate might lead to your putting the $10 or so you’d be saving on moocher energy charges toward doughnuts for the movers you’d be paying hundreds of dollars to haul your stuff to storage until you could find your next apartment. If you decide it would eat away at you too much to be paying for her, say something to your roommate, but in a mellow way, over a beer. Tell him you really like his girlfriend (because diplomacy, not truth, is life’s little lubricant). As far as you’re concerned, she’s welcome to stay over as much as she wants, but you’d like a new house policy: Girlfriends who stay over four or more days a week need to kick in for utilities. Stress that this applies to your girlfriend, as well, and add that the particular roommate, not the girlfriend, should be responsible for the payment. The last thing you need is to be going all collection agent on this woman — preferable as it might be to asking her to cut to the chase and heat the house by burning stacks of your money on the coffee table.
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Is it okay to keep your income a secret from someone you’re dating? I recently started seeing a girl I work with (at an advertising company). She believes women at our company get paid less on average, and I suspect she’s right. Yesterday she came right out and asked me how much I make. I’m pretty sure I’m the highest-paid person on our team, but her question made me really uncomfortable, and I told her I make a lot less than I actually do. I felt bad lying to a woman I could get serious with, but I don’t want her or other co-workers knowing my salary. — Johnny Paycheck Privacy
Asheville Daily Planet — October 2014 - A9 It’s normal to keep some personal information secret from the person you’re dating – like your exact income or the fact that you belt out Lynyrd Skynyrd in the car every day on your way to work. Unfortunately, your girlfriend decided it was time to bridge the gap between conversation and colonoscopy. She snookered you into going along by asking you pointblank how much you make. This is really rude — on the level of yelling across the office, “Hey, Steve, ya still got that weird rash on your balls?” Because of that, it catches a person off guard, leading to a reaction like yours — stammering out an answer, but not the one the prying person actually deserves: some version of “Up your butt with a coconut.” Maybe she doesn’t believe you’re entitled to boundaries in a relationship, or maybe she decided she could erase yours for a good cause. And sure, you, like most people, probably want the person you’re with to really know you. But really knowing the person you’re dating means understanding their hopes and dreams, not having the same information you’d get if you duct-taped yourself to the awning of the ATM just before they deposited their paycheck. Beyond one of the biggest problems with lying — the tendency to get caught — by not standing up for your right to keep select areas of your life private, you’re paving the way for future info-hooverings. To dial back your privacy settings, tell her you only revealed your salary because you were so unprepared for her to ask about it. Request that she keep a lid on it, and let her know the boundaries that work for you — like that the woman in your life has a right to know how much you make when you’re sharing a checking account, not a cubicle. You don’t have to turn your pay stub drawer into a petting zoo to show her you care about her concerns. You could offer to help her come up with tactics for negotiating a raise. Keep in mind that research shows that women tend to take the salary, raises, and opportunities they’re offered instead of trying to negotiate for more. A book you might get her is “Ask for It: How Women Can Use the Power of Negotiation to Get What They Really Want,” by Linda Babcock and Sara Laschever. Finally, prepare yourself for being put on the spot by her or anyone with what I call “The Power of Not Right Now” — recognizing that you can decline to answer a person’s question right then and there (perhaps with the exception of inquiries like “You gonna give me your wallet, or do I have to gut you with this rusty screwdriver?”).
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The girl I’m dating wears hair extensions, and feeling them creeps me out. She’s very pretty, and her hair is lovely without the extensions. Can I tell her they make me uncomfortable? — Mr. Natural When you’re running your hand through your girlfriend’s hair and a bunch comes out in your palm, it can be hard to keep straight whether you’re making out or snaking the shower drain. Your girlfriend joins an increasing number of women in planting non-native foliage in her hairgarden, probably because men tend to be attracted to long, lush hair. It’s actually an evolutionary sign of good health. (Hair suffers when a person eats poorly or has a disease.) Because complaints are most productive when reconstituted as compliments, start by telling your girlfriend she’s a natural beauty (as opposed to “If I wanted a girlfriend with interchangeable hair, I’d date Mrs. Potato Head”). Add that you’d love to run your hands through her real hair, and ask whether she’d consider going without the extensions. If she agrees, be sure you effuse when she’s hair naturelle so she’s inspired to keep it up. All in all, a little mystery is a good thing in a relationship, but it’s best if you’re wondering whether your girlfriend got her pretty hair from her mother and not suspecting she hired somebody to take a big scissors to Seabiscuit’s tail. • (c.) 2014, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved. Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405, or e-mail AdviceAmy@aol.com (advicegoddess.com). Weekly radio show: blogtalkradio. com/amyalkon
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“I did have a book come out a few days ago,” Forstchen noted. “My sequel to ‘One Second After’ is ‘One Year After.’” Then, he said, “Let’s just go to question-and-answer....” A woman said she was not familiar with his bestseller and asked Forstchen if he would “backtrack over his work” for her — and others — who would like to be brought up to speed. Forstchen, who slammed the mainstream media repeatedly during his talk, told of his interaction about a decade ago with his long-time friend Newt Gingrich (former speaker of the House) who said, “‘There is no constituency for EMPs — Bill, why don’t you write about it?’” “One Second After,” which Forstchen characterized as his “book on EMPs,” was published five years later. “The book kind of ‘hit.’.. Someone told me the book ‘flooded out,’” meaning it sold well. “It so overwhelmed me to write that book that I didn’t really want to go near it... I finally wrote a sequel this year... (it) will come out this year.” He then veered into his concerns about terrorists striking “soft targets” any moment in the United States — and his novella outlining a possible scenario. He told of a Besian school in Russia, which, on Sept. 1, 2004, was seized by Islamic terrorists who subsequently slaughtered 336 people, 180 of which were children. “What I was thinking was what three to five terrorists are going to do if they seize a (U.S.) school. I doubt a no-gunzone is going to scare them.... Isis is going to go for the ‘soft targets’ in America. They’re not going to go for the hard targets,” such as a gathering of preppers, many of whom are armed and proficient with their weapons. “It (the attack by Isis) could be schools, buses, synagogues. It’s a novella. It’s out on eBay... I’m a military historian. I’ve actually been to death camps in Europe. I’ve never seen anything like we’ve seen.. and in the next couple months... they’re going to bring it here... My next book is going to be ‘Happy Bunny Goes to Town.’” The crowd laughed at his joke about a happy book. Someone then objected to a comment from a woman who said that the terrorists “aren’t they already here” in the U.S. “They are already here,” the prepper said. “They’ve seized hard assets. They are here. They have a connection with Mexican drug cartels... This is asymmetrical warfare....” To that, Forstchen said, “Maybe someone like you will say, “The hell with political correctness... I’m going to do something.’ We’re so terrified of political correctness....” • EDITOR’S NOTE: The remainder of this story will appear in November’s Daily Planet.
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Wednesday, Oct. 1
CULTURAL AWARENESS SEMINARS, 5:45 p.m., Grace Lutheran Church, 1245 Sixth Ave. W., Hendersonville. To mark Cultural Awareness Month, a series of seminars will be held Oct. 1, 8 and 15. They will be led by the Rev. Alfredo Oviedo, exploring stories and traditions of other cultures. The seminars’ co-sponsor is the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, for which Oviedo is a local minister.
Thursday, Oct. 2
GRIEF MINISTRY PROGRAM, 3:30-5 p.m., Grace Lutheran Church, 1245 Sixth Ave. W., Hendersonville. The church’s Grief Ministry program is launching a hope and healing support group meeting from Oct. 2 to Nov. 6. Facilitators Mike and Jan Hoffman are skilled counselors. APPALACHIAN SPIRITUALITY TALK, 7 p.m., chapel, First Baptist Church, 5 Oak St., downtown Asheville. The Rev. Brian L. Cole, an Episcopalian priest, will address “Spiritual But Not Religious Before Spiritual But Not Religious Was Cool: Reconsidering Hillbilly Faithfulness.” Cole is the former canon of the Cathedral of All Souls and the current rector of the Church of the Good Shepherd in Lexington, Ky. The event is sponsored by the Asheville History Center at Smith-McDowell House. Admission to the talk at FBC is free and open to the public.
Saturday, Oct. 4
MINDFULNESS-RECOVERY PROGRAM, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Cloud Cottage Community of Mindful Living, 219 Old Toll Circle, Black Mountain. Judith Toy, who has worked with addicts in recovery for 41 years, will join with Asheville’s Eddie LeShure to offer a day of mindfulness for folks in recovery in a program, “Stepping Into Joy! Mindfulness and Recovery.” Participants are asked to bring a light blanket, brown-bag lunch and yoga mat, if possible. Suggested donation is $40. Pre-registration is a requisite because space is limited. To pre-register, visit www. cloudcottage.org and click on “registration,” or call LeShure at 772-1746. CHICKEN DINNER, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., Asheville Mennonite Church, 49 Bull Mountain Rd., Asheville. The church will hold a smoked chicken dinner fundraiser and bake sale. More than 900 chicken-halves will be slow-smoked and sold as quarter- or half-chicken dinners. Chicken also may be purchased without a dinner. Dinners will include chicken, cole slaw, baked beans and a roll. The bake sale includes pies, breads, cakes and cookies. All items are in carry-out containers, but may be eaten under dining canopies.
Sunday, Oct. 5
ADULT DISCUSSION FORUM, 9:15 a.m., First Congregational United Church of Christ, 1735 Fifth Ave., West at White Pine Drive, Hendersonville. The Rev. Larry Anderson will lead the weekly Adult Forum on “What About Christianity for the Rest of Us?” The program will focus on the provocative ideas of Diana Butler Bass, who will be the distinguished lecturer for the Walter E. Ashley Memorial Lecture Series Oct. 10-12. PUMPKIN PATCH OPENING, noon-7 p.m., Grace United Methodist Church, 954 Tunnel Rd., Asheville. The pumpkins will arrive at noon for the annual United Methodist Women’s fundraiser. The Pumpkin Patch will operate — through Oct. 31 — 10 am.-7 p.m. Monday-Saturday and noon-7 p.m. Sunday. The pumpkins are grown and delivered from the Navajo People in New Mexico and sales benefit the Navajo and help support WNC organizations. CROP WALK, 1 p.m., First Baptist Church, 5 Oak St., downtown Asheville. The 34th annual Asheville-Buncombe County CROP Hunger Walk will be held. Registration and pre-walk events will
The Rev. Brian L. Cole will address Appalachian spirituality at 7 p.m. Oct. 2 at First Baptist Church in downtown Asheville.
Eddie LeShure will lead a mindfulness-recovery program from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Oct. 4 at Cloud Cottage Community of Mindful Living in Black Mountain.
begin at 1 p.m. Participants will collect pledges or donations and walk 2.5 miles to raise money for worldwide hunger relief efforts. A quarter of proceeds will benefit MANNA FoodBank, Meals on Wheels, Asheville-Buncombe County Christian Ministries and Loving Food Resources, with the remainder going to worldwide relief. EVENSONG, 5 p.m., St. James Episcopal Church, 766 N. Main St., Hendersonville. The church’s choir will sing Choral Evensong. The Rev. Dr. Joel Hafer will be officiating. The organist for the service will be Howard Bakken. The service will be followed by an organ recital by Patrick Pope, organist and director of music at The Episcopal Church of the Holy Comforter in Charlotte. Following the program, a reception will be held in the Parish Hall. Admission is by donation — no ticket is required.
Tuesday, Oct. 7
WORKSHOP, 2-4 p.m., chapel, Unity Center, 2041 Old Fanning Bridge, Mills River. Terri Crosby will lead an eight-week class (Oct 7-Nov. 25) on “I of the Storm.” PUB CHAT, 6 p.m., Mezzaluna restaurant, 226 N. Main St., downtown Hendersonville. The Unity Center in Mills River will hold “Truth on Tap,” a pub chat on matters spiritual and otherwise. The event is billed as “a great way to socialize as we explore the twists and turns of our spiritual paths. Enjoy the rich experience of sharing in the lively tradition of a pub discussion.” The host will be Unity Center board member David Penland. A love offering will be taken.
Sunday, Oct. 12
The musical duo Moors and McCumber will perform at 7 p.m. Oct. 12 in the Mountain Spirit Coffeehouse Concert Series at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville.
MEXICAN LUNCH, 12:15 p.m., Stull Hall, Grace Lutheran Church, 1245 Sixth Ave. W., Hendersonville. A Mexican meal, hosted by the Hispanic families of the congregation, will be served as the Second Sunday Lunch. MOUNTAIN SPIRIT COFFEEHOUSE CONCERT, 7 p.m., Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville, 1 Edwin Place, Asheville. The musical duo Moors and McCumber will perform during the monthly Mountain Spirit Coffeehouse Concert. The duo, which hails from Superior, Mich., and Gold Hill, Colo., respectively, switch instruments on almost every song, creating what are billed as “catchy melodies that are big, bright and electrifying to watch live.” The duo features almost all originals, with highlights including “Love & War,” “I Used To Run Around,” “Feeling in Your Belly” and its cover of “Martyr’s Lounge,” paying tribute to one of their songwriting heroes
— Ellis Paul. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $15 for adults, $10 for students and free for children under age 14. For tickets and more information about the concert, call 545-2260.
Wednesday, Oct. 22
MUSIC-DANCE-HEALING PROGRAM, 7 p.m., Lipinsky Auditorium, UNC Asheville. A program, “Sacred Music, Sacred Dance and World Healing,” will be presented by the monks of Atlanta-based Drepung Loseling Monastery, as part of “The Mystical Arts of Tibet” tour, endorsed by the Dalai Lama to promote world peace and healing.
Tuesday, Oct. 28
FALL FESTIVAL, 10:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., Groce United Methodist Church, 954 Tunnel Rd., Asheville. The church will host a fall festival, with games, music, entertainment, a bake sale and free hot dogs.
Friday, Oct. 10
SOCIAL JUSTICE FILM SCREENING, 7-9:30 p.m., Sandburg Hall, Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville, 1 Edwin Place, Asheville. The film “Proj. #1” with speakers will be offered during the monthly Social Justice Movie Night. SPIRITUAL PROGRAM, 7 p.m., Light Center, 2196 N.C. 9, Black Mountain. Bob Sima and Dale Allan Hoffman will perform, as a duo, upifting music, Aramaic toning and crystal singing blowls. Sima is known as “the transformational troubador,” while Hoffma is an ancient language mysic. For tickets, which are $20 in advance or $25 at the door, visit www.urlight.org, or call 669-6845.
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edly less in size than they were when I was in Tim Moffitt Brian Turner Nathan Ramsey John Ager Thom Tillis public school.” probably about two years old.” Each man grew up in rural The debate between Ramsey and Ager had a much Buncombe County and worked on separate farms, a comless-fiery aspect, perhaps because of the long-time permonality that each stressed in his opening statement. sonal history between the two men. “John’s my neighbor,” Ramsey said with a smile. “I’ve known John since I was See OVERDRIVE, Page A13
ENKA — The sparks flew — at least a little — when state Rep. Tim Moffitt, R-Arden, and Brian Turner, his Democratic challenger for the District 116 seat, finally met face to face during a voter forum Aug. 29 at A-B Tech’s Haynes Conference Center. The combination power breakfast-candidates debate was hosted by the Council of Independent Business Owners. Also squaring off were two long-time neighbors, Rep. Nathan Ramsey, R-Fairview, and John Ager, his Democratic challenger for the District, 115 seat. In addition, the state’s Speaker of the House Thom Tillis, the Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate, addressed the CIBO crowd. His Democratic rival, incumbent Sen. Kay Hagan, did not attend because of a schedule conflict. Moffitt, who owns and runs an executive recruitment firm in Arden, laid out his case for the vital role he has played in the Republican-dominated statehouse since it snapped the Democrats’ long reign in 2010. “When I went to Raleigh, our state was in shambles after essentially being run by one party for 140 years,” Moffitt said. “A lot of problems were before us. We have taken bold steps forward to get our state on the right path and the results are before you.” As evidence of success, he cited a lower employment rate and lower taxes. Conversely, Turner said Republican policies has “shifted (the state) out of balance.” Turner, a political newcomer, previously helped to run his family business Mills Manufacturing in Weaverville and served as assistant chancellor of UNC Asheville. “When we have public schools where kids are sharing textbooks that are 10 years old, we’re out of balance,” Turner asserted. “When major corporations like Duke Energy are getting quarter-billion-dollar tax cuts, while small businesses are seeing tax increases, that’s out of balance.” However, Turner also pointedly noted to the pro-business CIBO crowd that he is not aligned with the left wing of the Democratic Party. “There are those out there who try to paint me as some far-left, progressive liberal... but nothing could be further from the truth,” Turner said. While the district leans Republican and has elected Moffitt in the last two elections, Moffitt has frequently — and repeatedly — enraged Democrats in Asheville, with his legislative actions that include attempting to transfer the city’s water system to a regional entity. On a question about another topic that upset some city officials a few years back, Moffitt said he remains proud of taking action to end involuntary annexation “to reign in the overreach of our cities.” For his part, Turner voiced support for the move, noting, “Cities and other municipalities are not and should not be allowed to just unilaterally annex neighboring areas.. I think the annexation laws are good.” Another questioner asked if the two rivals support closing Duke Energy’s power plant at Lake Julian near Asheville, as some local environmental advocates are calling for. Both men said they did not support closing the power plant “in the near future.” Education spending, however, was an area Thanks, readers, for helping the Asheville Daily Planet achieve an all-time where they widely diverged. Moffitt blamed any inadequacies squarely record pressrun of 15,000 newspapers with this edition. on his Democratic predecessors for cuts that occurred before he took office. Ever since, he said, “the General Assembly has done a great This is — by far — the highest circulation in our nearly 11-year history ... job in regards to bringing funding back to and is based on reader demand. public education and doing the things that are necessary to make public education better.” Conversely, Turner asserted: “There’s a lot Also, thanks to our advertisers for choosing to promote their products and of numbers floating around out there. … But the fact of the matter is when you go into the services in our burgeoning print and digital versions of the newspaper. classrooms, it seems they’re larger than ever. They’re insufficient for giving our kids the education they need.” What’s more, Turner said, “Working at UNC Asheville, I saw first-hand the impact that the cuts had to our public university system. We are undermining the economic future of this state.” Moffitt then fired a subtle verbal jab at Turner for attending private school as a child, noting, “As someone who actually went to public school, the classes are decid-
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Sheriff’s, D.A. candidates clash From Staff Reports
ally hurting other people,” he said. Notwithstanding, Williams also emphasized the need to “bring a new perspective to the office” in an effort to restore a sense of integrity. Both candidates said they support the work of alternative court programs, such as drug treatment courts and veterans court. Williams said he thinks the creation of “a mental health treatment court is a fantastic idea.” Scales said he believes the district attorney is “doing good now” on prosecuting cases of child abuse. “The people who are brought up on child abuse charges are the lowest type of people we’ll come across,” he said. Williams said he would like to see the creation of a child advocacy center to help ensure children are protected and abusers face justice. Buncombe is the only county in the state that doesn’t have such a center, he said.
Candidates for Buncombe County sheriff and district attorney squared off for the first time during a Sept. 25 voter forum at the Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce. The forum was organized by the League of Women Voters of Asheville-Buncombe County. In the sheriff’s race, incumbent Van Duncan Mike Bustle Todd Williams Ben Scales Jr. Democrat Van Duncan and Reproblem” and an attitude of “stuff ‘em and ‘cuff ‘em.” publican challenger Mike Bustle Scales said he would bring “compassion” to the posidisagreed over the budget and school safety. Duncan was first elected Buncombe sheriff in 2006, suc- tion, focusing resources on prosecuting violent offenders rather than those accused of nonviolent crimes. ceeding Bobby Medford, who was later convicted of ex“We need to save the handcuffs for people who are actutortion, money laundering and illegal gambling. Duncan said he inherited an office that was a mess — and has since turned it into “an office known for it’s best practices.” In contrast, Bustle, who previously served as chief of the Lake Lure Police Department, said that he’d like the office to slash its budget “and do more with less.” Regarding specifics on what he would cut in the budget and if he would terminate staff, Bustle said he was not prepared to mention specifics at this time. “It’s difficult looking from the outside in to determine at what point and positions you would cut,” Bustle said. “I’m not interested in cutting any positions at all. There would be a review. I am about saving money.” Duncan reported that the department’s budget has risen from $25 million to $32 million. “I feel I’ve been very fisWe offer code-approved cally responsible,” he said. buildings, manual & electric As for school safety, Bustle charged that Buncombe DON’T PASS panel doors & insulated schools “are far more dangerous than any of the schools in glass. We offer turn key UP OUR GREAT Charlotte, Raleigh, Durham … and these are much larger packages with grading and cities. And yet statistically, we’re far exceeding them on DEALS! concrete included. issues of drugs and violence.” He added, “Give me the opportunity — and I will stop these statistical reports.” We offer 100% financing. Free Delivery and Installation. While Duncan did not disagree that some of the statistics are high, he did disagree with Bustle’s conclusions To 2200 C West Vernon Ave. (Right off Hwy 70), Kinston that end, Duncan credited school resource officers with doing a particularly good job of reporting problems. “More interacting means more reporting of incidents, and I think that’s what you’re seeing,” he said. “I think our schools are probably the safest in North Carolina.” In the county district attorney’s race, Todd Williams, who beat longtime incumbent Ron Moore in the Democratic primary this spring, emphasized — during the debate — his role in that win, along with his experience as a public defender, in his pitch to be district attorney. In the Nov. 5 election, he faces a challenge from Ben Scales Jr., a local attorney in private practice who gathered more than 7,900 signatures after the primary to get his FREE SPECIAL SPECIAL SPECIAL name on the ballot as an unaffiliated candidate. CARPORT 30X60X12 30X48X12 20X20X8 At the debate, Scales emphasized his political indepen12 X 20 2 roll-up doors 2 roll-up doors-, 1 w2 roll-up doors-a dence, noting that he “will enforce the law without regard Vertical roof, 1- 36, 2 windows 1 walk-in door, 2 windows 1 walk-in door when you buy a to politics.” 30-, 40- or 50-wide $12,490 $6,985 $2,600 $10,830 w/ concrete with full insulation! $3,715 w/ concrete $16,495 w/ concrete Scales said that under Moore, the office “has an image
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Ramsey noted that he and his brother “milk about 170 cows a day. My wife (Robin) is here, too, and we probably wouldn’t have met if I hadn’t been made a county commissioner. When she first came out to my house, she asked if we could close the windows. I said, ‘Honey, that smells like money.’” (The crowd laughed at Ramsey’s levity.) For his part, Ager said, “I’m over at Hickory Nut Gap farm. When I first decided to run, my daughter-in-law told me, ‘I have two words for you: ‘personal grooming.’” Ager, who has not previously run for office, referred to himself as the “reluctant candidate.” While he enjoys his farm and family immensely, Ager said he feels he has to run because the North Carolina General Assembly is “giving tax breaks to the wealthy, privatizing education, taking the water system, whatever they could get their hands on. I will fight to protect our citizens.” Nonetheless, the candidates concurred on several issues, such as on a question of whether they would support the closing of the coal-burning Lake Julian plant near Asheville. Both men agreed that encouraging Duke Energy to push for renewable energy is necessary, as closing the plant is still decades in the future.
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Commentary
Ghostly Conversations near the Grove Park Inn, Part 3 On an optimum human population
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t was a windy and cloudy night at the Inn, and the Ghost of John D. Rockefeller, monopolist, union buster, eugenicist, racist, and arguably the richest man in history had in the afterlife apparently acquired a fair amount of humility. “Mr. Alex Haley, sir, regarding your assaults on my moral stature I’ve now had considerable leisure time to watch the unfolding of history, and to reflect on what I did in life, and I do indeed have several deep regrets. It is now of course clear to all of us that Adolph Hitler and the Nazis were a disastrous evil. For my part I am sorry Standard Oil cooperated with them in any way. But, the Nazis did (inadvertently) show the world that policies of racism and eugenics are not compatible with civilization. . .” He paused but his fellow Ghosts were silent. Apparently even for the dead in 2014 owning that cooperating with the Nazis was a bad idea is not considered a moral achievement worth commenting on. Rockefeller continued, “Mr. Thomas Wolfe, you spoke earlier about natural law and survival. I agree with you that the living are out of harmony with natural law. Scientist tell us, that relative to the history of life humanity has only very recently arisen on this earth. Perhaps in our short history humanity has never fully been alive. Because if you are not in harmony with the law of survival death is your partner to an extinct that is unnecessary.” “Hogwash! Balderdash!,” said Jennings Bryan, “How is it that the living cannot be alive? He looked at the other ghosts, “Don’t you agree that Rockefeller here is speaking nonsense?” “Actually Mr. Jennings,” said Wolfe, “much as I may respect you I agree with Rockefeller here. Life is not just something individuals possess, rather it is a process that moves from one’s ancestors, through oneself, and on to one’s descendants. And in order for the process to work with higher biota here on Earth many organism are continuously involved, mating with one another in the past, present, and future. Indeed the very definition of life indicates that the degree that life viably IS life depends on creatively attending to survival. Consider the definition: Life is, any individuated metabolic process that has become organized around creatively avoiding its own dissolution. . . If humanity wants to function in an enlightened fashion in the physical reality then, to a significant extent, the rational scientific definition of life must also be the existential Meaning of Life.” “Quite so!” said Rockefeller. “Now I may have been very wrong about eugenics, but the fact remains that the living do not adequately attend to the natural law of survival. As a central case in point, consider that when I was born the human population of this planet was less than one billion. Now, less than 150 years later it is seven billion. Madness! The population of this Buncombe County is now almost 250,000. If these people were conscious about the process of survival would they want a population another seven times larger (1.75 million) by 2150? Or, then, 12 million by 2300? They don’t seem to really care; virtually none of the living seriously plans for posterity. What humanity needs is to under-
Ben Yoke stand that on a finite planet there is no way that the population can, or should, continue to expand, particularly exponentially, in such an unconscious, half alive fashion. There is, logically, humanly, and reverently an optimum population that is NOT based on the number of people you can cram on this globe, and barely feed, with the latest technology! An optimum, should be based rather on what is physically and spiritually most conducive to survival and happiness.” “Who do you think you are?” said Bryan. Who are you to force your opinion on what the ‘proper’ population number should be?” “I am, or was, a citizen!” wheezed Rockefeller “Thinking about how life (survival) extended beyond just me, and my selfcentered desires. Who are you to have such a selfish, childish lack of concern for the future of the life process that moved through you? There should be a discussion among the living, and people should vote on an optimum sustainable world human population. I would vote for one billion.” “I think Mr. Jennings Bryan has a point,” said Zelda Fitzgerald (as it began to rain), “How would you maintain such a population Mr. Rockefeller, without becoming a totalitarian? And what of the fact that, as you say, there are currently seven billion people?” “I can answer that,” said Wolfe. “First, since being part of the ongoing process of life (survival) is the fundamental core of natural law the fight to reproduce should also be fundamental. But if the population is at, or greater than, the optimum then no one should reproduce more than themselves; that is to say no more than two children per couple. To do more would be like voting more than once, more than your share, for the future.” “But even if the living could ever agree to such a rigid policy you couldn’t enforce it,” said Fitzgerald, “because if you penalized parents who have more than two children, then their children, who are innocent of reproductive decisions, would suffer.” “Rockefeller, I think you and Wolfe are correct,” said Haley. “If humanity learns to take the long view, and democratically agrees to an optimum population, and that children are innocent of their parents reproductive decisions, then moral sanction in the arts and general culture, plus progressive taxation if needed, would (I think) be sufficient to fairly and with equal rights maintain a stable population.” William Jennings Bryan remained agitated, and began to speak, but lightning and a clap of thunder drowned him out. A moment later lightning flashed again, but fractious ghosts were gone. • Ben Yoke, a philosopher and writer, lives with his wife and two sons in Weaverville.
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The Daily Planet’s Opinion
Downtown buskers? A treasure
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e are pleased that Asheville’s Public Safety Committee recognizes local buskers “as an irreplaceable public good.” The aforementioned assessment was voiced during a presentation to the committee in late September after city staff researched possible new options for buskers. The examination was prompted by complaints from business-owners, visitors and residents. The presentation detailed what some other cities are doing, such as New York City, Savannah, Ga., Charleston, S.C. and Portland, Ore. After all was said and done, the committee told city staff not to explore new options for regulating buskers. Interestingly, the busking rules drew the most attention at the meeting, even though they were only part of a larger city staff discussion about sharing
public space downtown. While praising the contribution of the buskers to downtown, city staff noted negatives, including ambiguity of the noise ordinance, concerns about blocking sidewalks and business entrances, conflicts between performers, amplified sound and merchandise sales disguised as donations. To us, the street musicians and other buskers are one of the things that make our much-heralded “quirkiest town” in the United States so charming. While we are sympathetic with the sentiment expressed at the meeting that Asheville needs to look at busker-friendly rules to strengthen the city’s reputation as a destination for street musicians, we also want to be extra-careful not to kill the goose that laid the golden egg with overregulation.
Scotland connected N.C. to modern world CHAPEL HILL — Did North Carolinians have a stake in the outcome of last month’s referendum in Scotland? Maybe not the same kind of stake the residents of Scotland had, but our ties to that land are so close, so important, and so contemporary that perhaps we should have been entitled to vote on the question of its independence from the United Kingdom. New evidence of our enduring ties to Scotland comes in a few days with UNC Press’s release of “Wayfaring Strangers: The Musical Voyage from Scotland and Ulster to Appalachia” by Scotland’s Fiona Ritchie and North Carolina’s Doug Orr. Ritchie hosts National Public Radio’s “The Thistle & Shamrock.” Orr, a lifelong performer and scholar of Appalachian mountain music, is interim chancellor of UNCAsheville. UNC-Press explains that Ritchie and Orr “guide readers on a musical voyage across oceans, linking people and songs through centuries of adaptation and change.” If we should ever be tempted to forget our close ties, remember some North Carolinians’ love affair with all things Scottish. They celebrate those connections by dressing up in kilts and tartans for dinners in honor of poet Robert Burns, for special religious services, and for Highland games and festivals at Grandfather Mountain, Scotland County, “Loch” Norman, and all over the state. Sometimes we forget Scotland’s contribution to a long tradition of fostering intellectual inquiry and diverse viewpoints in our universities. In his book, “How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe’s Poorest Nation Created Our World & Everything in It,” Arthur Herman argues that the Scots are responsible for the modern world’s way of thinking and getting things done. He says that the Scots “created the basic idea of modernity” that “transformed their culture and society in the eighteenth century,” and “they carried it with them wherever they went.” Before the John Knox-led Scottish reformation in the mid-1500s, Scotland was a land of poverty, feudalism, illiteracy, and clan warfare. Knox taught that the people must read the Bible and come to know God personally through their own thoughtful study and prayer. Having been taught to read the Bible, many Scots began to read lots of other books.
D.G. Martin Having been taught the responsibility to develop their own relationships with God, they developed a self-confident pride in their ability to solve every kind of problem. By the 1700s, Scotland had become the center of philosophic and economic thinking, led by such familiar names as Adam Smith and David Hume, and a host of others. Its universities were the envy of every country in Europe. Scotland became the center of invention and business, What does this have to do with North Carolina today? Shortly before the American Revolution, John Witherspoon, a Scottish minister, came to America to become president of Princeton University. He took Princeton by storm. Although he represented the evangelical and conservative wing of Presbyterian thinking, he required his students to read the works of his intellectual and theological opponents, including Hume. According to Herman, “Witherspoon’s attitude was that even if you disagreed with a philosopher or thinker, you still needed to read him in order to appreciate his arguments and refute them. So Witherspoon’s students found themselves inundated with a host of thinkers Witherspoon disapproved of, but whom, ‘in the spirit of free inquiry,’ they were expected to understand and digest.” One of Witherspoon’s students was Joseph Caldwell, who became the first president of the University of North Carolina. Caldwell brought Witherspoon’s traditions to UNC. That tradition of vigorous intellectual inquiry and debate became a fundamental part of the state’s strong universities to the benefit of their graduates who made up a leadership core that helped make North Carolina a leader of the New South. All thanks to Caldwell, Witherspoon and Scotland. • D.G. Martin hosts “North Carolina Bookwatch,” which airs at 9:30 p.m. Fridays and at 5 p.m. Sundays on UNC-TV.
Letters to the Editor
Fracking in North Carolina? Death by a thousand pins
Oh, North Carolina, the short-sighted greed and lust for money that has come to roost on this beautiful state’s lawmakers will be sufered on all without lobbiests. We, the earth and nonmillionaire humans, are left without voice. Our common natural heritage (assets), such as clean water in streams, rivers, lakes, clear skies, even the quiet of the woods, has been reduced to the highest bidder. Forget the castle/home notion. That was before. Fracking bedrock to release methane is now law in North Carolina. The extracting of chemical liquids used (in addition to millions of gallons of fresh public water per well) are exempt from disclosure and the Clean Water Act. Nicknamed the Haliburton Loophole, the effect of this exemption means a homeowner can never claim the leaking wells (average 30 percent) damaged their land, water or health. What a deal for the same old, same old. The current debilitating scheme, when put in context, has one objective: exploit the present paradigm of energy sources at
any cost to our earth, common property and our future. Suppression of free energy machines and their inventors, wars without reason, pesticide extremism, pharmacological exploitation, social intolerance, intentional splitting of the family and native people from their cultures: this is planned, folks, a conspiracy, yes; or maybe it is just that we little simple people don’t know enough to understand. Time will tell. By the way, if your doctor determines your sickness is from a fracking operation near your home or work, she or he cannot tell you, the hospital or anyone else what chemicals are making you sick; corporate rules law. Death by a thousand pins. If you care, become informed. Films such as “The Ethics of Fracking” or “Gaslands II” at www.topdocumentaryfilm.org will explain much. For me, our earth is sacred and deserves the love of our mother. Do you wonder why our media does not report on Fukushima....? Curious, that. WILLIAM CHALK Asheville See LETTERS, Page A22
The Candid Conservative
Mediocrity does not deserve an ‘A’
“To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.” — Theodore Roosevelt
The Problem
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uncombe officials are failing in their charge to academically prepare our children. Commission and School Board shortcomings center on safety, resources and the most damning measurement of all – results.
The Facts
When opportunistic politicians seek justification for reaching into other people’s pockets, “It’s for the children” is a favored strategy. Per honest budget and performance measures, Buncombe County is extravagantly dedicated to just about every special interest but children. It’s as simple as 1,2,3 — 1. Buncombe is the 11th largest school system in NC. Last year we had the 3rd most criminal acts per student. The year before we came in 1st. You can’t learn in unsafe schools. 2. We’re 11th in size, but 34th in per pupil expenditures. This year Whistle Blower Buncombe County funding of public safety is up 21 percent; human services is up 14 percent; education – a mere 2 percent. County leaders are not walking their “kids come first” talking. 3. Last year, per the NC Department of Public Instruction, only 51 percent of Buncombe’s 3rd-8th grade students were reading at grade level. If you can’t read in school, you can’t learn in school.
The Mischief
One of the two most primitive paths to personal identity development is herding. Models of such can be found in two adolescent infused environments – politics and middle school. In both a desire to be part of the in-crowd guides most participants.
Carl Mumpower
That Buncombe’s school board functions as a herd is affirmed by minutes and voting records. What is less clear is why they are so frightened. What else would motivate going to such lengths to discourage dissent? Everything but duct tape is used to muzzle one member – mother of four Lisa Baldwin – who persists in raising questions, pushing for accountability and challenging her peer’s status quo dedications. Per their own incredibly complex documentation, Buncombe’s Commission similarly sells one set of priorities and lives another. Though declarative in affirming a dedication to education, budget numbers mumble. Comfort politicians serve the same purpose as comfort food – and result in the same outcome. There is a serious mismatch between the performance of our school system and the self-congratulating pronouncements of cheerleading officials. Habituated media outlets are cooperating as booster clubs by discarding investigative journalism as a crucial eye on this $250 million taxpayerfunded enterprise. Buncombe County has long been run by Democrats. Until the past decade, most were at least moderately conservative in managing government. Five of the seven current members, by pronouncement, voting record or both, are liberal-socialist-progressives who love to spend other people’s money. That they are spending more and more uplifting cronies and left-minded special interests over children reveals systemic mendacity. After Mission Hospital, Buncombe County’s school system is our community’s second largest employer. A lot of people are invested in keeping a happy face on this tax-funded monopoly. See CANDID CONSERVATIVE, Page A21
Commentary
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he attack on the Twin Towers was a shocking event to a country which hadn’t experienced foreign invasion since Pearl Harbor, but, as I and some others argued at the time, allowing politicians to use that tragedy to lead public opinion toward forfeiting constitutionally guaranteed rights was to permit the terrorists to win. A year or so before that fateful September day a popular film had stoked fear about the possibility of an asteroidal collision with earth. Despite both the very low probability of such a collision and the very, very low likelihood that anything meaningful could be done if such a strike were imminent, there ensued considerable public alarm and demands that NASA create a plan to deal with the terrifying threat. As it happened, that same summer also saw a mini-spate of shark attacks in U.S. waters, and again there emerged a wide swath of popular fear. Something must be done about the clear and present danger off our beaches! Never mind that driving to the beach posed far higher risk than swimming with large-toothed fishes — or, for that matter, that basking in the sun posed a far more real and potentially mortal risk to everyone on the sand or in the water — sharks must be feared! An uptick in wanton killing of the largely endangered animals by sports fishermen ensued. Writing about 10 days after the towers went down, I opined, “The terrorist attack is being, and will be, used to justify all manner of programs, concentrations of power, and stifling of criticism in the name of nationalism and patriotic duty.”
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Deserving neither Cecil Bothwell Further on in that op-ed, I suggested, “Billions of dollars are being diverted from other urgent needs, massive commitments of troops are being planned, deals are being precipitously struck with governments around the world seeking their cooperation, policy is being hammered out in hours and implemented in days. Oughtn’t we to think before we leap?” (I’m writing this column during Banned Book Week—which recalls to mind that piece, “Asteroids, Sharks and Heralds of War,” written for my regular monthly column for Rapid River, was turned down as too inflammatory, thus ending my association with that publication. It was later syndicated by AlterNet, and remains posted on their Web site.) As we have seen, my prediction was spot on. (Well, I was wrong about the money. Trillions not billions.) Under the USAPATRIOT Act, passed by Congress without debate and virtually without opposition, and signed into law by Pres. G.W. Bush, our civil liberties
were sharply curtailed. We embarked on what looks more and more like a permanent war. We endured months of artificial fearmongering with Codes Red and Orange. Air travel became briefly impossible (except for Saudis spirited out of the country in the dead of night) and remains painful. A Department of Homeland Security emerged, with a name redolent of 1930s Germany, and enormous powers of surveillance and incarceration. Today, thanks to Edward Snowden and others, we have learned much, much more about government spying on everyone, everyday, in every possible medium. Nor did any of that stop with the change of administrations in 2008. Each September we are encouraged to remember the victims and dead heroes of the Twin Towers collapse, assured that terrorists are everywhere interested in killing us, and that we must continue to outspend most of the rest of the world on a military impossibly tasked with destroying an idea. We have consequently seen the burgeoning militarization of local police, and the adoption of surveillance techniques and weaponry more suited to an occupying army than to municipal law enforcement. It’s the reason I am so deeply incensed that the Asheville Police Department has continued to use video surveillance of political gatherings (such
as the Mountain Moral Monday event in August) long after City Council unanimously endorsed a Civil Liberties Resolution in 2013 banning such practice. As Ben Franklin observed more than 200 years ago, “Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” I am honestly more afraid of my own government than of ISIS or asteroids or sharks. Our hard-won liberty is in peril. Human rights are on the line. • Cecil Bothwell, author of nine books, including “She Walks On Water: A novel” (Brave Ulysses Books, 2013), is a member of Asheville City Council.
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Commentary Reasons examined for voting for Republicans in ’14
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bate, lawmakers were uncertain of basic numbers about hy would somebody vote for Republicans in 2014? the state’s projected revenue.” Not easy as pie, this making This looks like a rhetorical question, where laws work. the intent is to make the reader think for a second before Along with budget mayhem, the gang who can’t shoot the writer gives his answer. A set-up question. straight also dragged our public schools down to the murky The Apostle Paul uses this device a lot in his writings bottom of national rankings. in the Bible – like in Romans 8:31, where he asks, “What Whatever a person’s reason might be to vote Republican Nathan Ramsey for the legislature – the gang who can’t shall we then say to these things?” He then goes on to say in ordinary times, they’ve GOT to wonder about voting shoot straight. what we shall say. Republican this year, voting for Meadows, Presnell, MofThese guys went to Raleigh and rushed through legislaThe opening question seems like a rhetorical question fatt and Ramsey, don’t they? tion that was written for them by the “deep interest in politbecause we know why people vote Republican. Much has Don’t they? been written on that. But it’s a real question. I don’t know ical theory” folks – eggheads in think tanks in Washington. • The newcomers high-fived. Easy as pie, this passing laws! the answer. Lee Ballard lives in Mars Hill. But trouble was, THEY DIDN’T UNDERSTAND One group of people vote Republican because their WHAT COMES NEXT. They were amateurs wearing big family has always voted Republican. It’s like growing up State Inleague uniforms. Baptist or an Atlanta Braves fan. spection They cut taxes, mostly on the rich and corporations, Second, there are those who are, more than anything, $25ºº and crowed that jobs and prosperity would come trickling against “liberals.” These people tend to watch Fox News General down. Whoops! Didn’t happen. The tax cut resulted in and listen to talk radio – sources that have a big interest in Brake Sera huge budget shortfall. The Raleigh News&Observer dividing everything into “conservative” and “liberal,” for vice headlined: “Budget disaster of gigantic proportions looms their ratings’ sake. $110ºº over North Carolina.” Third, there are people who have a deep interest in poHere’s the thing. The whole country has seen a rise in litical theory. They believe intellectually in small governemployment, and a majority of states are entering their ment, low taxes and free-market capitalism. new fiscal years better off than any time since 2008. North Fourth, religious conservatives. They vote Republican 889 Riverside Drive • Asheville • 255-5528 √ Free estimates √ Wholesale new tires √ Complete auto repair Carolina had a shortfall of $445 million last fiscal year, because they are theologically “conservative” and Re√ In business in Asheville since 1997 with even worse news coming up. publicans are seen as conservative. And also, the GOP, If these guys had done beginning in the 1970s, has taken stances on social issues, especially abortion and homosexuality, that are in line with NOTHING, we’d have a budget surplus. their beliefs. It gets worse. The News Last but far from least, the Tea Party. These folks despise authority of all kinds. They vote Republican when & Observer wrote in July: “In last week’s budget dethey can’t beat the mainstream Republican in a primary. That’s why people vote Republican – in ordinary times. And in ordinary times I wouldn’t be writing this. People vote Democrat and people vote Republican for their own reasons, and that’s cool. But my opening question wasn’t about ordinary times. It was about why people would vote Republican in 2014. That’s a Family-owned and operated for 40 years whole ‘nuther question. You see, voting Republican in 2014 means voting for Mark Meadows for U.S. 10:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Congress – the guy who led the shutdown on the federal government last year and I-40 to Exit 51, turn left, go 1.3 miles now says he regrets doing it. He thought he could juke Obama into shutting down Obamacare. He’s an inept bumbler. Holistic before it was cool! Voting Republican this year means votSince 1990 ing for Michele Presnell, Tim Moffatt and NATURAL AND ORGANIC FOODS AND TREATS Wellness, Solid Gold, Haven’t spent your tax Wysong, Nature’s Variety, refund money yet? Raw Frozen, EVO, Innova, California Natural
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Candid Conservative Continued from Page A18 In an age of contradictorily obsessive data collection and compulsive responsibility avoidance, spin skills are highly valued in public officials. Common techniques include highlighting positive statistics in summary reports, hiding uncomfortable facts amidst data clutter and minimizing bad stuff as temporary phenomenon. Buncombe’s administrative salaries are in line with state norms for eastern population centers. But discerning observers will note, as recently reported by Asheville’s daily paper, salary averages in our part of the state notoriously run 20-plus percent lower than eastern peers. Buncombe administrators thus receive incomes dramatically out of step with the taxpayers who fund them. Whenever other people’s money is in the hand of political powerbrokers, healthy skepticism is the name of the game. Consider Buncombe’s advocacy for a designbuild process with capital improvements. The correct equation for public works should always be design-bid-build. Here’s a million-dollar example of why. On a 6-1 September vote, the school board approved a no-bid preconstruction contract for site work on the Enka Intermediate School. Instead of the predicted $2.2 million, the guaranteed maximum price came in at $3.1 million. Owen’s new tennis courts are projected to cost $412,000 and are likewise being designed and constructed without an attached bidding process. With all high-dollar projects, healthy competition is central to containing costs and graft. One example of how Buncombe leaders manipulate the facts is the proud assertion we rank 17th in the nation in board certified teachers. To pull it off they compare large districts to small districts, use numbers instead of percentages and sidestep the real-
ity that North Carolina offers certification incentives that other states don’t. Most of the country’s school systems are arranged to be significantly smaller than the state’s. Applying Buncombe’s data manipulation to the rest of the state would find Wake County having a national ranking of 1st and Mecklenburg 3rd. For a more local comparison, in Henderson County 221 or 24 percent of their 914 teachers are board certified. At 489, Buncombe has twice as many certified teachers, but out of a total of 2000, about the same percentage. As with so many of Buncombe’s school performance measures, leaders are claiming an “A” when a “C” is a more accurate fit.
More Facts
Bureaucrats and unscrupulous politicians count on the fact very few people have the tenacity to find needles in haystacks. Here are a few more needles: • Only 31 percent of Buncombe’s school budget is spent on classroom teachers. • It’s impossible to measure Buncombe’s budget for administration. Job titles, functions and other identifiers assure such. Budget tracking with school systems matters – for the same reason knowing only 7 percent of donations to the Firefighters Charitable Foundation go to service matters. • Approximately one in five of our children physically drop out of school before graduating. The number who psychologically withdraw and graduate without literacy and crucial skills – inestimable. • County funding for classroom supplies dropped from $1.88 million to $1.1 million over the past three years – that’s a 40 percent decrease. • Last year senior administrative bonuses totaled $600,000. In 2006, by a 7-0 vote, school administrators were provided a finan-
cial cushion with a “Principal and Assistant Principal Pay Plan.” This perk was implemented while teacher pay remained frozen from 2007-2013. For principals it amounts to about $12,000 a year in “extra duty pay” above and beyond their salary, county supplement and state longevity compensation. That’s 4.8 million since the program’s inception. Ask teachers about their extra duties and the absence of matching consideration. • While local Democrats criticize Raleigh Republicans, over the past year the percentage of property taxes in Buncombe going to education has fallen from 43.5 to 41.6 percent. At the same time those Raleigh Republicans have increased the state education budget and given NC’s teachers their first pay raise in years. • Buncombe’s County government initiated debt is fast approaching a half-billion dollars. We are enthusiastic about building buildings – not so much on building children. • Amidst this county wide construction boom, poor planning, resource management and timing has some schools operating at 139 percent capacity and others at 59 percent. This while expensive vanity schools are being built to satisfy political versus academic interests.
A Curiosity
One of the odder aspects of our community’s education bureaucracy centers on Asheville’s public schools. Through a very generous city education tax, a separate bureaucracy is maintained with no improvement in outcome. The dropout rate for black male students in the city of Asheville is nothing short of tragic. The city high school has to run a school within a school to maintain a safe place for kids seeking an island of normalcy amidst the thuggery. Asheville and Buncombe school systems share something in common – around
half of their respective students receive free or reduced cost meals. That number reveals systematic fraud on the part of careless officials and greedy parents. That’s a dangerous community equation – when it comes to government and offspring, we get precisely what we earn. Perhaps the greatest irony of the city school system is that it teaches less than half of the students living within city boundaries. Asheville taxpayers are funding a separate bureaucracy for the same reason we tolerate drug and crime infested public housing projects – habit and indifference.
Why it matters
We live in a world of growing predatory enthusiasms. Educated people are more equipped to dodge victimization. Whether they know it or not, the uneducated line up for it. Jobs are every society’s best social service. Jobs provide purpose and opportunity. Jobs stimulate personal growth. Jobs support liberty by translating personal labor into food, mobility and housing. An employed person controls a generous portion of his or her destiny – a state of grace that government dependency destroys. To get a good job one must have skills that add something meaningful to the world. Education – good education – is the fastest path to this source of personal power. The herds mentioned earlier run on instinct and habit. Soundly educated people run on reason. It’s easier to close the gate on herds constrained by the former than individuals unleashed by the latter.
Solutions
Over time people of the lie forget they are lying. We shouldn’t. There are no substitutions for an engaged citizenry. See CANDID CONSERVATIVE, Page A22
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Letters
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Parade of lies advances on the campaign trail
Here we go again with the parade of lies on the campaign trail. First from Senator Kay Hagan and now from Brian Turner, Representative Tim Moffitt’s opponent in his re-election bid from District 116. They both have said in campaign ads that the North Carolina General Assembly “cut $500 million from public education.” That’s simply untrue. The Washington Post knows it. They gave that canard two “Pinocchios.” FactCheck.org and PolitiFact.com know it. They flat out debunked the oft-repeated falsehood on their websites too. Even WLOS-TV has finally had enough. They recently broadcast a story that set the record straight. In his report, anchor Frank Fraboni said, “For viewers and voters, the deception is disturbing.” (http://goo.gl/ GqRAfw) Sarah Curry of the John Locke Foundation pulled the relevant numbers from the state Fiscal Research Division and determined that the legislature actually increased spending on public education this year by $302 million. In fact, over the last four years, education spending increased by nearly a billion dollars. What’s more, in the final two years of Democrat control, $610 million were cut from public education. So, there you have it: the current General Assembly did NOT “cut $500 million from public education.” TIM PECK Asheville
Van Duyn’s compassion, kindness triggers backing
My husband and I are many times a house divided in our political opinions. However, we certainly agree on Senator Terry Van Duyn! Politicians come and go and some seem to be motivated for the interest of only a select few. As we have come to know Terry Van Duyn over the years we realize she truly serves her constituents regardless of their economic status. We have always been aware of the countless hours she has donated to so many here in North Carolina. We have witnessed that she genuinely cares about all of us and our struggles. Not only have we taken notice of Terry’s dedication and commitment we have listened to other peoples testaments as to how she has cared for them too! Senator Terry Van Duyn is an amazingly kind and compassionate woman with a brilliant mind. North Carolina has a real chance to be great with Senator Terry Van Duyn in office. Jeff and Cricket Haake Asheville
Merrill’s conservative view termed needed on board
I have the pleasure to tell the conservative and moderate voters why we need to elect Christina Kelley Merrill, District 2 Buncombe County Commission. Christina’s main concern is that our current Board is truly failing our most vulnerable citizens, our seniors on fixed incomes, the young families who grew up in the area but cannot afford to live here and the underemployed. Increased real estate taxes approved by this board hurt many but those mentioned even more. Her opponent, Ellen Frost is “PROUD” of the bloated $360 mil-
lion budget approved by her and the TWO RAISES she has received as a Commissioner. As our Commissioner Christina says she will work hard for core services education, public safety, health and human services. She will NOT push for personal projects and agendas as her opponent does. As a mother of three who attended Buncombe County Schools Christina realizes the challenges of the parents, teachers and students face. Christina will be the CONSERVATIVE voice for District 2. In 2012 Christina was
Candid Conservative
Continued from Page A21 Unscrupulous politicians and bureaucrats count on complacency to insure their misdeeds. If parents put half as much energy into holding official’s feet to the fire as on selling coupon books, the facts would tilt from identified adult failures to student successes. There is great irony that in the midst of an unprecedented information age, investigative journalism has all but disappeared. There is simply no replacement for paid, dedicated and supported reporters turned loose on the truth. There is a strong need for more elected officials – think mothers of four with a courage button – willing to stand as independent voices. Comfort politicians travel in herds. Sheepdogs don’t. Those searching for a reliable flag on public official mischief need look no further than the expansive use of superlatives. The minute anyone uses words like “awesome”, you can bet there’s more air in the bag than potato chips. Conservative tip of the month – Growing evidence our society is losing its moral and economic high ground is a source of discouragement for value-driven Americans.
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announced the winner election night of District 2 only to have it taken away by 200 QUESTIONABLE votes. BETTY DURHAM HUDSON Leicester See LETTERS, Page A23
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Leaders promising something for nothing are clearly in charge and our national character is surrendering to the seduction. Focusing on something we can’t control – other’s nuttiness – leads to despair. Focusing on something over which we do have mindful influence – our work, our family and small groups of similarly minded folks – just the opposite. Adult thinkers should certainly try to slow our culture’s slide, but not as angry and depressed victims. Celebrating the creative challenges of our own life is one of the best ways to uplift our fellow man. The darker it gets, the brighter a small light shines. • Do you have information about a source of mischief in our community? You can safely contact us at 828-252-8390 or drmumpower@aol.com. We are offering a $500 reward for information on corruption, crime, or other harms you share in confidence and we reveal in print. Bad things grow in the dark. We have a flashlight – do you have a whistle? • Carl Mumpower, a former member of Asheville City Council, may be contacted at drmumpower@aol.com.
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Waldrop lambasted as political clone of husband
Nancy Waldrop, wife of Commissioner David King who lost his primary for reelection to District 3, stated at the CIBO debate on July 30 that she was “your independent voice.” Her husband David was elected by Republicans in 2012 to represent them. His voting record is exclusively with the Democrats. So no surprise that Nancy is supported almost exclusively by the liberals. Nancy is paired with liberal and progressive Democrat Brian Turner as guest speakers at an upcoming event. Of the 25 host names on the announcement, almost two thirds (15) are registered Democrats. Four are unaffiliated and a mere two are Republicans. The final four are not registered to vote in Buncombe County. Republican Miranda DeBruhl’s walloping defeat of King with her 63 to 37 percent of the votes in May’s primary sent a loud and clear message from conservative voters in District 3. No more liberal David King politics! Now Nancy wants to take his place. District 3 voters, we do not need a David King clone on the commission. A vote for his wife will continue liberal and progressive decisions. Do not be conned by the “Unaffiliated voice” rhetoric. Waldrop is in no way an independent candidate. Betty Bell Asheville
DeBruhl touted as offering a leveling of playing field
I am supporting Miranda DeBruhl because of her commitment to fiscal responsibility, local small business, and private property rights. A native of Buncombe County, Miranda lives in Leicester with her husband, Kelly, and their two young children. Miranda is a registered nurse and a small business owner. She knows that money spent by the government comes from hard-working people many of whom are struggling to make ends meet while working and raising a family. Miranda will work to eliminate spending that benefits only a handful of connected people. She will do everything she can to provide a level playing field so that local small business can compete and thrive. And, she will protect the rights of private property owners. Early voting starts Oct. 23. If you want a commissioner who will represent the hard-working citizens of Buncombe County, cast your ballot for Miranda DeBruhl. Beth Gurnack Candler
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Concert Reviews
Special Section PULLOUT
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The Beatles (circa early ‘60s) were arguably the most popular and influentual rock band ever.
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Ex-Beatle Paul McCartney recently turned 72.
A review
McCartney tribute show scores hit
By DAVE ROWE
Special to the Daily Planet
A world premiere took place Sept. 27 in Asheville, but few people witnessed it. The show, “The Many Moods of McCartney,” highlighting the work — via classical music — of Sir Paul McCartney (formerly of The Beatles), played to only half a house at the 2,300-seat Thomas Wolfe Auditorium. Those who did attend heard two classic McCartney pieces, “Nova” and “Tuesday.” Both were played by members of the Asheville Symphony under the direction of Daniel Meyer, and both were rich, romantic and enjoyable. An American premiere of a McCartney piano composition called “Leaf” was performed without sheet music by a stunningly beautiful pianist, Yongmei Hu from Shanghai, China. She made her instrument conjure visions of a leaf rustling in the wind. Drawing a bigger response from the crowd was the work of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member Little Anthony Gourdine. With 56 years in show business under his belt, Little Anthony, in his trademark high falsetto, sang his hits from the late ‘50s and early ‘60s, including “Tears on My Pillow” and “Going Out of My Head.” He also sang “A World Without Love,” written by John Lennon and McCartney in 1964, back in the days the two collaborated. Most experts contend the duo wrote — for the most part — separately in the final years of the band’s existence. If that’s the case, it was a bevy of strictly McCartney tunes that pianists Roger Kellaway and Peter Betts played as they faced each other behind their keyboards. With a jazz inflection, the two played
Yongmei Hu performed “Leaf” on piano — without sheet music — at Thomas Wolfe Auditorium.
Soul singer Little Anthony performed The Beatles’ “A World Without Love” at the concert in Asheville.
fragments of “When I’m Sixty-Four,” “Eleanor Rigby” and “Got to Get You Into My Life.” The show was produced by Kellaway who is a Grammy Award-winner. Also appearing was vocalist Bobby Caldwell who crooned well on the ‘40s standard, “Come Rain or Shine,” but butchered McCartney’s “Blackbird” by starting to sing before the acoustic guitar introduction was completed. Playing the guitar was Dennis D’Amingo, the show’s producer. He brought the show here from New York, based on a recommendation of a friend who lives here. “I came to town to check it out and I liked it. Daniel Meyer
(ASO music director) has been a pleasure to work with,” D’Amingo said. As for Paul McCartney, at age 72, he is still at work — currently on tour, playing nearly 40 songs a show. He looked and sounded spry on national TV on January’s televised commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Beatles’s first appearance on the “The Ed Sullivan Show.” McCartney’s Asheville tribute show, which ran for two hours, was a fundraiser for the Manna Food Bank, the Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservatory, the Asheville City Schools Foundation and the ASO.
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Wednesday, October 1
OPEN REHEARSAL, 7 p.m., Reuter Center, UNC Asheville.The Blue Ridge Orchestra, directed by Milton Crotts, will hold an open rehearsal. The event is free and open to the public. WATER PROTECTION PROGRAM, 7:15 p.m., Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville, 1 Edwin Place, Asheville. Sally Morgan and Julie Mayfield will address “Protecting North Carolina Water from Fracking and Coal Ash,” hosted by Asheville Green Drinks, the Sierra Club of Western North Carolina, and the WNC Alliance. Morgan is with Clean Water for North Carolina. Mayfield is co-director with WNC Alliance. Socializing will begin at 7 p.m., followed by the discussion. Admission is free and open to the public.
Thursday, October 2
CROSSROADS PROJECT, 7 p.m., Lipinsky Auditorium, UNC Asheville. The Fry Street Quartet will join with physicist and educator Robert Davies in performances combining music, information, imagery and a dash of theater. The project is part of UNC Asheville’s Ecomusics 2014 Conference. Admission is $22 for the general public, $8 for non-UNCA students and free for UNCA students. PLAY, 8 p.m., Flat Rock Playhouse, 2661 Greenville Hwy., Flat Rock. The FRP will present “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” through Oct. 26. For other times and details, visit FlatRockPlayhouse.org, or call 693-0731.
Friday, October 3
HEALTH PROGRAM, 11:30 a.m., Reuter Center, UNC Asheville. The Fab Friday series will feature an address on “Headaches” by Alendria Hartshorn, neurologist at Asheville’s Mission Hospital and a board-certified neurologist and diplomat of the National Board of Medical Examiners. The presentation will explore the latest research on headache causes and cures. Lunch is available in the Reuter Café; brown bags are welcome. Admission is free and open to the public. HEALTH PROGRAM, 2-4 p.m, Reuter Center, UNC Asheville. “Medicare Choices Made Easy,” will be addressed by trained volunteers from the North Carolina Seniors’ Health Insurance Information Program. Space is limited, so reservations are recommended by calling 277.8288, or visiting olliasheville.com. PANEL DISCUSSION, 5:30 p.m., Lipinsky Auditorium, UNC Asheville. A keynote panel including Australian composer Leah Barclay and author Jeff Todd Titon will address “Sound-Centered Being, Knowing and Acting to Empower Communities.” The program is part of UNCA’s Ecomusics 2014 Conference. It is free and open to the public. BOBBY BARE CONCERT, 8 p.m., Don Gibson Theatre, 318 S. Washington St., Shelby. Country music star Bobby Bare will perform in concert. “In 1962 Bobby Bare stood in RCA’s Nashville Studio and recorded his first hit ‘Shame on Me.’ That song was a hit in both the pop and country fields; it rose to number 18 on Billboard’s Country Chart and number 23 on the Hot 100 Chart. During the ensuing years, Bare won a Grammy (for ‘Detroit City’), had 70 chart records, including landmark recordings of Shel Silverstein songs, hosted a TV program and performed in concerts all over the world,” according to the DGT. PAUL WINTER SHOW, 8 p.m., Isis Restaurant and Music Hall, 743 Haywood Rd., Asheville. Paul Winter will perform an evening of solos, duets and stories. The program by the acclaimed jazz musician and winner of seven Grammy Awards is part of UNC Asheville’s Ecomusics 2014 Conference. General admission is $30 at the door and $25 in advance. For tickets or more information, visit ecomusicologies.org, or call 250-2312.
Saturday, October 4
“INUKSUIT” PERCUSSION CONCERT, 12:30 p.m.,
quad, UNC Asheville. The “Inuksuit” percussion concert will envelope UNCA’s outdoor spaces with music from 99 percussionists. Composer John Luther Adams creates works inspired by nature. “Inuksuit,” written to be performed outdoors, will be played by Andy Bliss and the nief-norf project, joined by dozens of area percussionists on a vast array of instruments. Admission is free. INTERACTIVE DEMONSTRATION, 3:30 p.m., Room 18, Lipinsky Auditorium, UNC Asheville. The Ecomusics keynote lecture and workshop will feature Wayne Kirby, professor of music at UNCA. He will offer an interactive demonstration, where the audience will help generate rhythms based on approximate ratios found in nature. Audience members are encouraged to bring handheld percussion instruments. The program is part of UNCA’s Ecomusics 2014 Conference. Admission is free and open to the public. PANEL DISCUSSION, 5:30 p.m., LIpinsky Auditorium, UNC Asheville. The “Making Music with, for and at Animals” program will feature a keynote panel discussion by author Mark Pedelty and jazz clarinetist and composer David Rothenberg. The event, which is free and open to the public, is part of UNCA’s Ecomusics 2014 Conference. Ernie Haase & Signature Sound CONCERT, 7:30 p.m., Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts, 1028 Georgia Rd., Franklin. Ernie Haase & Signature Sound will perform. For tickets, which are $15, $18 and $24, call 524-1498 or toll-free at (866) 273-4615, or visit GreatMpountainMusic.com. ECOMUSICS SHOWCASE, 8 p.m., The Mothlight, 701 Haywood Rd., Asheville. Music and soundscapes in response to nature will be performed on acoustic instruments, electronics and voice. Works will be performed by James Anthony Owen, Nova Pon, Phillip Mimstein, Eric Angus, Matthew Burtner and Shane Perlowin. Tickets are $10 for the general public and $5 for students.
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Sunday, October 5
RALLY TO EXPAND MEDICAID, 3 p.m., Pritchard Park, downtown Asheville. WNC Health Advocates will host a Rally to Expand Medicaid. Attendees will learn “why access to health care is important and why it saves money, how much money North Carolina is losing because of its refusal to accept Medicaid expansion, and what the price of nonexpansion is in human terms,” a WNCHA press release noted. Voter registration also will be held. RECITALS, 3 p.m., Reuter Center, UNC Asheville. Brevard Music Center Sunday Concerts will be performed. The solo and chamber recitals by members of the Brevard Music Center’s faculty will last an hour each. Admissin is free and open to the public. AUDIO INSTALLATION PERFORMANCE, 3:30 p.m., LIpinsky Auditorium, UNC Asheville. An audio installation performance, “Invisible: Time Constraints,” will be performed. Using a combination of electronics, bamboo, water, a piano, drums, a repurposed clothes dryer and video projections, Mark Dixon will produce a musical and sensory experience in four movements. Admission is free and open to the public. CONCERT, 5 p.m., Isis Restaurant and Music Hall, 743 Haywood Rd., Asheville. The Mast will perform “Tidal,” a high-energy performance featuring vocals, electronics, percussion, beats and ancient instruments. UNCA’s Ecomusic Ensemble and Percussion Ensemble will open the program. Tickets are $10 for the general public and $5 for students. PANEL DISCUSSION, 5:30 p.m., Humanities Lecture Hall, UNC Asheville. “Ecology and Aural Technoculture” will be addressed by a keynote panel that includes professors David Cecchetto and Garth Paine. The program is part of UNCA’s Ecomusics 2014 Conference. Admission is free and open to the public.
Monday, October 6
PISGAH LEGAL POVERTY FORUM, 7 p.m., Diana Wortham Theatre, downtown Asheville. The 4th Annual Poverty Forum will be held. “Don’t miss social justice advocate, attorney and author Sister Simone Campbell, SSS when she and NETWORK’s other ‘Nuns on the Bus’ roll into Asheville,” a press release noted. A cocktail reception will be held at 5:30 p.m., followed by the forum at 7 p.m. Tickets are $50 for the cocktail reception — and $15 for the forum only. The reception will be catered by Chestnut/Corner Kitchen Catering.
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Monday, October 6
MOVE TO AMEND BUNCOMBE MEETING, 7 p.m., North Asheville Library, Asheville. A Move to Amend Buncombe County planning meeting is expected to focus on the David Cobb event.
Tuesday, Oct. 7
on October’s chosen book, “On Western Terrorism: From Hiroshima to Drone Warfare,” by Noam Chomsky and Andre Vitchek. The event is free and open to the public. ROBERT CRAY BAND CONCERT, 7:30 p.m., Niswonger Performing Arts Center, Greeneville, Tenn. The Robert Cray Band will perform in concert. For tickets, which are $40, $35 and $30, call (423) 638-1679, or visit www.NPACgreeneville.com. WORLD AFFAIRS LECTURE, 7:30 p.m., Reuter Center, UNC Asheville. The World Affairs Council will present a talk, “Ireland’s Political Future and the Strange Case of 2014’s Scottish Referendum.”
CHEROKEE INDIAN FAIR, 4 p.m., Cherokee Indian Fairgrounds 512 Tsali Blvd., Cherokee. The Cherokee Indian Fair will be held Oct. 7-11. It is billed as a cornucopia of sights and sounds. It is a carnival, agriculture show, art show and a game show. Featured will be food, music, rides and fireOPEN REHEARSAL, 7 p.m., Reuter Center, UNC works. For tickets, which are $10 per day, call (800) Asheville.The Blue Ridge Orchestra, directed by 438-1601, or visit www.VisitCherokeeNC.com. Milton Crotts, will hold an open rehearsal. The event AYN RAND PHILOSOPHY STUDY, 6:30-8:30 is free and open to the public. p.m., North Asheville Library, 1030 Merrimon Ave. LECTURE, 7 p.m. Laurel Forum, Karpen Hall, Asheville. The Asheville Objectivists group host UNC Asheville. “The Invention of Influence: An Dennis Simone’s last of four consecutive weekly Evening with MacArthur Fellow Poet and Translaprograms on Ayn Rand’s philosophy of Objectivtor, Peter Cole” will be presented. Admission is ism. Admission is free and open to public. free and open to the public. VETERAN FOR PEACE BOOK CLUB MEETING, See CALENDAR, Page B4 7 p.m., Malaprop’s Bookstore/Cafe, downtown Asheville. A 90-minute THANKS for reading the Asheville Daily Planet! discussion will be held
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Thursday, Oct. 9
Jazz Concert, 3 p.m., St. Matthias Church, just off South Charlotte Street at Max Street on the hill across from the Asheville Public Works Building (1 Dundee St.), Asheville. A jazz concert will feature the Rich Willey Quartet playing American standards. The ensemble includes Rich Willey on trumpet and bass trumpet, Richard Shulman on piano, Danny Iannucci on bass, and Russ Wilson, drums and vocals. A free-will offering will be taken for the band and for the restoration of the historic church. THEATER PROGRAM, 4:30 p.m., Reuter Center, UNC Asheville. Montford Park Players will offer a program that includes a performance, studying scenes from Henry V, Taming of The Shrew, and A Winter’s Tale, and going behind the scenes with the founder, directors, actors, fight choreographers and costumers. Admission is free and open to the public LECTURE, 6 p.m., Laurel Forum, Karpen Hall, UNC Asheville. Agnes Wilcox, founder and artistic director of St. Louis-based Prison Performing Arts, will speak on her experience with the program. Her talk is part of UNC Asheville’s “Engaged Humanities” lecture series, exploring the continuing importance of the traditional humanities disciplines for the problems of the 21st century. FILM, 6:30 p.m., West Asheville Library, 942 Haywood Rd., Asheville. Western North Carolina Physicians for Social Responsibility will present the film “Pax Americana and the Weaponization of Space” in commemoration of 2014 Keep Space for Peace Week. The film addresses the issue of space weapons and their politics, including interviews with several key United States military personal and other prominent persons. Admission is free and open to the public. LIBERTARIAN MEETING, 7 p.m., Oakleaf Furniture, 130 Miller St., downtown Waynesville. The Haywood County Libertarian Party meets on the second Tuesday of the month. Open discussion and debate are encouraged with all perspectives and
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persuasions welcomed, regardless of political or religious affiliation. PLAY, 7:30 p.m., Carol Belk Theatre, UNC Asheville. Theatre UNCA will present “Dead Man’s Cell Phone,” directed by Stephanie Hickling Beckman, managing artistic director for Different Strokes! Performing Arts Collective. The show will be performed at 7:30 nightly through Oct. 11 and at 2 p.m. Oct. 12. For tickets, which are $12, visit drama.unca.edu/ or call 232.6610. PAULA POUNDSTONE SHOW, 8 p.m., Diana Wortham Theatre, Pack Square, downtown Asheville. Comedian Paula Poundstone, who performs regularly on public radio’s “Wait, Wait... Don’t Tell Me,” will perform a show. She is one of Comedy Central’s 100 Greatest Stand Up Comedians. For tickets, call 257-4530, or visit www.dwtheatre.com.
Tuesday, Oct. 14
VETERANS FOR PEACE MEETING, 6:30 p.m., Phil Mechanic Studios, 109 Roberts St., Asheville. The local chapter of Veterans for Peace will meet.
Wednesday, Oct. 15
OPEN REHEARSAL, 7 p.m., Reuter Center, UNC Asheville.The Blue Ridge Orchestra, directed by Milton Crotts, will hold an open rehearsal. The event is free and open to the public. READING, 7 p.m., Laurel Forum, Karpen Hall, UNC Asheville. Fred Bahnson, author of “Salt and Sacrament: A Spiritual Memoir of Food and Faith,” will perform a reading from his work. Admission is free and open to the public.
Friday, Oct. 10
LECTURE, 11:25 a.m.-12:35 p.m., Humanities Lecture Hall, UNC Asheville. Scott Walters, a UNCA drama professor, will address “Incarceration Nation.” He will examine the reasons that the past 30 years have seen the number of inmates in federal custody grow by 800 percent. He also will discuss how the majority of these cases are for drug-related crimes, and more than 60 percent are racial and ethnic minorities. Admission is free and open to the public. LECTURE, 11:30 a.m., Reuter Center, UNC Asheville. A Fab Friday series program, “The Family Store, and Other Contributions of the Jewish Community in the Development of Asheville,” will be presented by Sharon Fahrer. Lunch will be available in the Reuter Café; brown bags are welcome. Admission is free and open to the public.
Saturday, Oct. 11
ART-Craft show, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., downtown Waynesville. The Church Street Arts & Craft Show will feature a juried art show, mountain music, clogging and food. COUNTRY’S FAMILY REUNION CONCERT, 7:30 p.m., Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts, 1028 Georgia Rd., Franklin. Country’s Family
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Comedian George Lopez will perform at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 18 in the Event Center at Harrah’s Cherokee Casino in Cherokee. Reunion will perform in concert. Country music legends featured will include Bill Anderson, Johnny Counterfit, Jeannie Seely and Jett Williams. For tickets, which are $20, $25 and $30, call 524-1498 or toll-free at (866) 273-4615.
Sunday, Oct. 12
CONCERT, 7 p.m., Flat Rock Cinema, The Singleton Center, 2700 Greenville Highway, Flat Rock. Gove Scrivenor will perform in concert. For tickets, which are $15, call 697-2463, or visit www.magnoliaconcertseries.com.
Tuesday, Oct. 14
DINNER, 6 p.m., North Carolina Arboretum, Asheville. The annual Friends of the River dinner will be held, benefiting the environmental programs of the Land of Sky Regional Council. Stephanie Brown, executive director of the Asheville Convention & Visitors Bureau, will give the keynote address. The event highlight will be the presentation of the Friends of the River awards. To make a required reservation for the dinner, which is $25, visit www.forWNC.org.
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JOHN DENVER TRIBUTE CONCERT, 8 p.m., Flat Rock Playhouse, downtown Hendersonvile. The FRP’s Music on the Rock series will feature “The Music of John Denver” from Oct. 16 to Oct. 19, and from Oct. 23 to Oct. 26. “With his unique style of songwriting, Denver composed over 200 songs including ‘Take Me Home Country Roads.’ These amazing nights of music will feature some of his greatest hits, performed by an extraordinary singer,” the FRP noted. For tickets, which are $24, visit FlatRockPlayhouse.org, or call 693-0731.
Friday, Oct. 17
BOOK SALE, 9 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Madison County Library, 1335 N Main St., Marshall. The Friends of the Madison County Library’s Fall Book Sale will be held Oct. 17-18. The sale will run from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Oct. 18. A presale for Friends’ members will be held from 3 to 5:30 p.m. Oct. 16. Anyone may join the Friends on Oct. 16 by paying the membership dues at the door. Featured will be hardcovers, paperbacks, fiction and non-fiction, CDs, DVDs and more. HEALTH TALK, 11:30 a.m., Reuter Center, UNC Asheville. Fab Friday at OLLI: “Personalized Genomic Medicine,” with Lynn Dressier, examining how doctors are using genomics to design specific treatments for various ailments. Free and open to the public. Lunch available in the Reuter Café; brown bags welcome. 11:30 a.m. at UNC Asheville’s Reuter Center. Info: 828/251-6140 or olliasheville.com. Symphony Talk, 3 p.m. Reuter Center, UNC Asheville. The Symphony Talk series will feature Daniel Meyer, music director of the Asheville Symphony Orchestra. Meyer will discuss the symphony’s next concert. Admission is free and open to the public. DANCE PERFORMANCE, 8 p.m., Diana Wortham Theatre, downtown Asheville. The Paul Taylor Dance Company will perform Oct. 17-18. Tickets are $45, $40 and $20.
Saturday, Oct. 18
LECTURE, 2 p.m., Reuter Center, UNC Asheville. “Arts and Crafts of Appalachia” will be addressed by Becky Anderson, retired director of Hand Made in America. Her talk will be presented in conjunction with the Asheville History Center’s exhibition
“Hillbilly Land: Myth and Reality of Appalachian Culture.” A $5 donation will be requested of attendees. COMEDY SHOW, 7:30 p.m., Event Center, Harrah’s Cherokee Casino, Cherokee. Comedian George Lopez will perform. For tickets, visit www.Ticketmaster.com, or call (800) 745-3000. BLUES CONCERT, 7:30 p.m., The Foundation Performing Arts Center, Isothermal Community College, Spindale. Three living legends and Blues Hall of Fame inductees will perform together on stage. Charlie Musselwhite, John Hammond and James Cotton will perform old-style blues, both individually and collectively. With 32 Blues Music Awards to his credit and a Grammy to his name, Musselwhite is one of blues music’s most important artists, according to The Foundation. Grammy Award-winning blues legend Cotton has recorded almost 30 solo albums throughout his career, and the legendary Hammond is generally regards as one of the world’s most important acoustic blues musicians. For tickets, which are $29 and $34, call 286-9990 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, or visit www.FoundationShows.org.
Sunday, Oct. 19
LIVING TREASURES CEREMONY, 1-4 p.m., Reuter Center, UNC Asheville. The Asheville Living Treasures Recognition Ceremony will honor the elders of Asheville and Buncombe County who have devoted their lives to making the communities a better place to live. Admission is free and open to the public.
Monday, Oct. 20
LECTURE, 11:25 a.m., Humanities Lecture Hall, UNC Asheville. “Death and Dying: The Tibetan Tradition” will be addressed by the monks of the Atlanta-based Drepung Loseling Monastery. Admission is free and open to the public.
Tuesday, Oct. 21
LECTURE, 7 p.m., Humanities Lecture Hall, UNC Asheville. “Meditation: A Tool for Conscious Living” will be addressed by the monks of the Atlanta-based Drepung Loseling Monastery. Admission is free and open to the public.
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Tuesday, Oct. 21
DAVID COBB SPEECH, 7-9 p.m., Jubilee! Community Church, 46 Wall St., downtown Asheville. Move to Amend of Buncombe County will host a talk by activist David Cobb, national leader of Move to Amend. The coalition of hundreds of organizations and tens of thousands of individuals believe that constitutional rights belong only to human beings, not to corporations, and that money is not a form of free speech and can be regulated during elections. Cobb is national projects director of Democracy Unlimited. He is a lawyer and political activist. Cobb has sued corporate polluters, lobbied elected officials, run for political office himself, and has been arrested for nonviolent civil disobedience. “He truly believes we must use all the tools in the toolbox to effect the systemic social change we so desperately need,” a press release noted. Admission is free and open to the public.
Wednesday, Oct. 22
OPEN REHEARSAL, 7 p.m., Reuter Center, UNC Asheville.The Blue Ridge Orchestra, directed by Milton Crotts, will hold an open rehearsal. The event is free and open to the public. PERFORMANCE, 7 p.m., Humanities Lecture Hall, UNC Asheville. “Sacred Music, Sacred Dance” will be presented by monks of the Atlantabased Drepung Loseling Monastery. They will perform ancient temple music and dance using traditional Tibetan instruments and vocal techniques, including overtone singing. Admission is $22 for the general public.
Thursday, Oct. 23
LECTURE, 7 p.m., Humanities Lecture Hall, UNC Asheville. “Symbolism of the Sand Mandala” will be addressed by the monks of the Atlantabased Drepung Loseling Monastery. Admission is free and open to the public.
Friday, Oct. 24
APPLE HARVEST FESTIVAL, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., downtown Waynesville. The Apple Harvest Festival will feature music, dance, craft and demonstration booths — along with lots of apples. LECTURE, 11:30 a.m., Reuter Center, UNC Asheville. A Fab Friday series talk, “Antiques, Appraisals, and Auctions,” will be addressed by Robert Brunk, founder of Brunk Auctions. Participants are invited to bring small items for possible appraisal. Lunch will be available in the Reuter Café; brown bags are welcome. Admission is free and open to the public. MUSICAL, 7:30 p.m., John W. Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee. “Broadway’s Next Hit Musical” will be performed. The stage musical is billed as “the only unscripted theatrical awards show,” as master improvers gather made-up hit song suggestions from the audience to create a
spontaneous evening of music and humor. For tickets, which are $21, call 227-2479 or visit http://bardoartscenter.wcu.edu. CONCERT, 7:30 p.m., St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, 337 Charlotte St., Asheville. The Opal String Quartet brings its passionate style to romantic masterpieces, as well as two new compositions by composer Tim Winter of Saluda. Winter’s works are billed as “jazzy, lush and intriguing and create the perfect contrast” for the deep sonorities of Johannes Brahms’ C minor String Quartet and Ernst Bloch’s plaintive “Prelude.” Guest violinist Seth Gangwer, billed as “a stunning multi-genre artist” who just moved to WNC by way of Nashville, will join OSQ founding members violinist Ginger Kowal, violist Kara Poorbaugh and cellist Franklin Keel. General-admission tickets are $16.50 in advance, $22 at the door and $5 for students AIR SUPPLY CONCERT, 9 p.m., Event Center, Harrah’s Cherokee Casino, Cherokee. The group Air Supply will perform. For tickets, visit www. Ticketmaster.com, or call (800) 745-3000.
Saturday, Oct. 25
MAGIC SHOW BENEFIT, 6:30 p.m., St. Mary’s Church, 337 Charlotte St., Asheville. A monthly benefit show, known as “Magic, Mirth and Meaning,” will be presented. Additional shows will be offered on Nov. 15 and Dec. 20. Each familyfriendly 90-minute show includes magicians, storytellers, musicians and theatrical entertainers, all helping to raise money for a local nonprofit, The Vanishing Wheel. The show is by donation, but for adults, the suggested payment is $10 — and $5 for children. Magician Ricky Boone and T.J. Shimeld, co-author of Boone’s biography, “The Four-Foot Giant and the Vanishing Wheelchair,” will be available to sign books after the shows. STARSHIP CONCERT, 7:30 p.m., Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts, 1028 Georgia Rd., Franklin. Starship, featuring Mickey Thomas, will perform. Among Starship’s hits are “We Built This City,” Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now” and “Sara.” For tickets, which are $20, $25 and $30, call 524-1498 or toll-free at (866) 273-4615, or visit GreatMountainMusic.com. CONCERT, 8 p.m., White Horse nightclub, 105-C Montreat Rd., Black Mountain. Pure Heart Ensemble will feature a piano, vocals, cello, flute and crystal bowls. For tickets, which are $15 in advance and $18 at the door, visit www.whitehorseblackmountain.com, or call 669-0816.
Monday, Oct. 27
STEM Lecture, 4:30 p.m., Reuter Center, UNC Asheville. “New Developments in Environmental Studies” will be addressed by Kitti Reynolds, professor and chair of environmental studies at UNCA. The interdisciplinary lecture series focuses on science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Admission is free and open to the public.
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Tuesday, Oct. 28
LECTURE, 7 p.m., Reuter Center, UNC Asheville. Award-winning Israeli filmmaker Duki Dror will address “Is There a Jewish Architecture?” Dror will explore the explosion of creativity from within Germany’s small Jewish population that took place between the end of World War I and the rise of Adolf Hitler. His talk is part of UNCA’s “Evenings at the Cabaret Weimar” series. Admission is free and open to the public. COMEDY SHOW, 8 p.m., U.S. Cellular Center, 87 Haywood St., downtown Asheville. Comedian Kevin James will perform. For tickets, visit www.Ticketmaster.com, or visit the U.S. Cellular Center box office.
to the talk is free and open to the public. Opera Talk, 3 p.m., Reuter Center, UNC Asheville. The Opera Talks series will feature Asheville Lyric Opera Director David Craig Starkey and a cast of industry professionals, who will guide attendees through their operatic world. Admission is free and open to the public. CONCERT, 8 p.m., White Horse nightclub, Black Mountain. The Asheville Jazz Orchestra, a 17-piece big band and swing group, will perform in concert. For more information, call 669-0816 or visit www.whitehorseblackmountain.com.
Thursday, Oct. 30
UNCA JAZZ ENSEMBLE CONCERT, 5 p.m., Lipinsky Auditorium, UNC Asheville. Studio 18 Jazz Ensemble Concert will perform. The ensemble is comprised of students performing under direction of Wendy Jones and Brian Felix. General-admission tickets are $5, while UNCA students will be admitted for free. POETRY-SONG PERFORMANCE, 7:30 p.m., White Horse nightclub, 105-C Montreat Rd., Black Mountain. “Nocturnal Omissions: An Evening of Poetry & Song” will be performed. Featured will be poet Gavin Geoffrey Dillard, bariton Roberto Flores and pianist David Troy Francis. Dillard is billed as “an iconic and celebrated poet within the gay community.” Dillard will read from his own works. Flores will sing songs with lyrics by the poet, accompanied by Francis on piano. For tickets, which are $15 in advance and $20 at the door, visit www. whitehorseblackmountain.com, or call 669-0816.
Friday, Oct. 31
HEALTH TALK, 11:30 a.m., Reuter Center, UNC Asheville. A Fab Friday program, “Lungs in Health and When Things Go Wrong,” will be presented by David Muow, Ph.D. in human physiology and M.D. in family practice. Lunch will be available in the Reuter Café; brown bags are welcome. Admission
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