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Trump rally rocks Asheville From Staff Reports

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump packed his campaign rally with enthusiastic supporters Sept. 12 in downtown Asheville’s U.S. Cellular Center.

Trump spoke in front of a full-house crowd of about 7,000 people, according to a City of Asheville estimate. The event lasted about 40 minutes and included an appearance by former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani.

During his speech, Trump repeatedly addressed Democratic presidential rival Hillary Clinton’s recent comments that about half of his supporters are “deplorable.” Indeed, Trump even brought a few attendees onto the stage to show that they are decent — perhaps even adorable — people.

In a surprise to some observers, Trump did not comment on Clinton’s recent health problems, despite in the past frequently suggesting that she is not healthy enough to serve as the president.

In an unusual twist, those entering and exiting the rally had to walk through a gauntlet of hundreds of people behind baricades near the front doors. Protesters were yelling, holding signs and screaming “bigot” and “racist” at Trump rally attendees who walked past them.

One female protester, with her nailpainted chemical violet and sharpened into long points, kept the middle finger on each hand raised in silent defiance, while another protester nearby shouted at a crowd filing into the arena, “Keep the bigot line moving.”

Regarding the subject of race, Trump addressed Clinton’s Sept. 9 statement that half of Trump’s supporters are “racist, sex-

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He added, “Every American is entitled to be treated with dignity and respect in our country. Whether you vote for me or whether you vote for someone else, I will be your champion in the White House.”

About a dozen Trump supporters joined him onstage to say they are not deplorables. They included a preacher, a working mother and former school principal. They did not identify themselves by name.

Throughout his remarks, Trump worked to create a connection between Clinton’s “basket of deplorables” and the working class, saying they were the ones who had been slighted by her remarks.

“She talks about people like they’re objects, not human beings. She said half of our supporters are irredeemable and not American,” he said.

See TRUMP, Page A8

GOP presidential nominee Donald J. Trump (top left) addresses the crowd at the U.S. Cellular Center in downtown Asheville, while outside protesters (top right) expressed their opposition to Trump. ist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic — you name it.”

At a New York fundraiser, the Democratic nominee for president called Trump supporters a “basket of deplorables.”

In response, Trump told the Asheville crowd, “While my opponent slanders you as deplorable and irredeemable, I call you hard-working American patriots who want a better country.”

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Views clash over refugee resettlement in Buncombe From Staff Reports

A contingent of Asheville Tea Party members attended a meeting of the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners on Sept. 20 “to lay out the legitimate concerns and stark facts regarding the security health, and financial risks of refugee resettlement to our area,” the ATP said in an email Sept. 21 sent to its members and the Daily Planet.

However, others spoke in favor of accepting refugees — and the packed chambers erupted into applause after county resident David Brown expressed his strong sentiment favoring their resettlement in Buncombe.

The applause prompted commissioners’ Chairman David Gantt to admonish, “If you could not clap, I think the meetings go better.

We are very tolerant, and everyone has the right to their opinion. If we could just listen.”

The meeting began, as usual, with a public comment session on any issues the public wished to discuss. Three people then spoke out against the proposed resettlement of refugees from Middle East countries in Buncombe.

One speaker, citing security and budget issues, said the refugees would be a “drain on county resources.”

See REFUGEES, Page A9

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Subdivision law changes given overview

By JOHN NORTH

john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com

Recent changes made to the Buncombe County subdivision ordinance were given an overview by Assistant County Manager Jon Creighton during the Sept. 9 meeting of the Council of Independent Business Owners at Chick-fil-A in North Asheville.

About 60 people attended, including CIBO members, local elected and appointed officials, political candidates and others.

“It’s been a long time since we’ve updated these ordinances,” Creighton said. “ I can’t say we’ve made major impact changes.”

Among the changes are the addition of conservation developments. “We give you bonus points for leaving wetlands alone” — and the same with not trying to develop steep slopes.

“There are a couple of other things the county planning board is considering,” Creighton said, such as setting a 300-unit housing level, at which point “a traffic impact study would have to be made. And if it gets a D grade or worse, a turn lane would have to be installed.

The city has hills, we really have mountains.”

Creighton added, “As far as legislative changes that affect us, there are a few,” such as “fracking legislation, which is not a worry here.

Basically, you can’t enact zoning to stop that....”

Also, he said, the statewide changes mandate that “the county may not allow a private contractor to increase its employee pay or sick leave as a condition of doing a contract” and “open-burning is permissible without a permit,” under certain circumstances.”

In reviewing a number of other examples of statewide changes, he noted that, on the matter of aesthetics, “no longer can cities or counties say all houses must be painted this color” and

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that “fence-wrapping is allowed for 24 months on a project.”

In conclusion, Creighton said, he had reviewed a number of changes that had been passed by the state legislature, but “there are a couple changes from the county end — but not much change.”

During a brief question-and-answer session after Creighton’s talk, CIBO member Mac Swicegood began by complimenting the county official, saying most of what he said sounded good.

Then, Swicegood asked, “How would it affect lots since before ‘the big crash?’ How will these affect them?” (Swicegood’s reference was to the so-called “Great Recession” — running from December 2007 to June 2009 — that began with the bursting of an $8 trillion housing bubble.)

“It really won’t” affect the lots to which Swicegood was referring, Creighton replied.

A woman asked, “If you have 300 or more units before you do a traffic study for a complex — what provisions do you have to help alleviate the traffic situation?”

“Counties don’t own roads — they’re either state-owned or DOT-owned,” Creighton an-

swered. (DOT is the acronym for Department of Transportation.)

“I really can’t dictate that you’ve got to put a turn lane here. But overall, when you look out into the county, the roads with the biggest problems are mostly in the city. Obviously, the major interstates have some problems, too.”

A man then asked, “So the purpose of requiring a traffic impact study is what?”

“To say there have to be improvements in the road to accommodate this many cars — at a service level of ‘D’ or worse,” Creighton replied.

On a separate matter, a report on the Buncombe County Tourism Development Authority was presented by TDA Executive Director Stephanie Brown.

“Just last week, the TDA took steps where the CBD (Asheville’s Central Business District) would report directly to the TDA,” she said. “The (new) occupancy tax in North Carolina requires the TDA to administer funds.”

She also noted that spending for advertising Buncombe County to outsiders was $183 million in 1983, but has skyrocketed to $2 billion now.

“The TDA, the Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce and the CBD have always been very collaborative partners, protecting the economic vitality of our businesses here.”

“About three years ago, the TDA embarked on a new strategic plan,” resulting in its adoption last spring. “That included establishing a new fiduciary task force. “Today the CDB employs 25 people with budget of about $14.5 million.”

She added, “Buncombe County is the fiscal agent for the TDA. So the money his held by the county — and that’s not going to change.

One of the major focuses of this process is to identify the resources. The consultant did that tracking. So that was kind of the first phase.

“Then we went to ‘best practices.’ Then that committee made the recommendation to the board to create an independent board. One was management and oversight.

“The TDA has outgrown the chamber. And today is there is no place in North Carolina that still has this (old) model” of a TDA working under a chamber.

“The last factor was executive level leadership and its ability to direct its staff,” Brown said.

During a Q&A, Swicegood told Brown, “You’ve done an excellent job and are to be commended. My concern is you have a large pot of money. My concern is ... what safeguards are in place” for the money?

“There are some very tight definitions by the city and the county on making those appointments to the board,” Brown replied. “From an employment perspective, the occupancy tax could be considered a bid. The TDA is an administrative body. So we’ve put some measures in place to maintain those municipal funds. The great thing, though, in this model.

“So far we’ve added 6 percent (increase in hotel rooms in Buncombe County) — and we’re headed for 25 percent.

“So the money the TDA is investing in advertising, which is helping to fill those rooms ... Tourism is growing, revenue is increasing.”

A man asked “if Airbnb pays taxes?”

“Yes,” Brown replied. “It’s great that they’re paying in Buncombe County,... They’re doing about 150,000 room nights in BC — it about doubled from the year before.”

A man asked, “How does Asheville rank in the state from the TDA in (terms of) money?”

“I think we’ll be fourth,” Brown answered.

“In just pure advertising dollars, we’re number one, I think... We’re a leisure destination, so that makes our job a little more difficult.”

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From Staff Reports

Southern Conference presidents and chancellors did not make a decision about the future of the league’s basketball tournament in Asheville during a conference call on Sept. 22.

The league was expected to announce to either keep the tournament at the U.S. Cellular Center or move it out of the state because of HB2, the controversial law that prevents cities and counties from passing protections based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

The league discussed the basketball tournament and also other tournaments scheduled in North Carolina – the men’s soccer tournament at UNC Greensboro in November and the men’s golf tournament scheduled to be held at Pinehurst in April.

The news release issued by the SoCon said the league’s council of presidents requested additional information from the league office and will reconvene in the near future to continue discussions.

“We had an open discussion among the presidents and chancellors,” said Southern Conference Commissioner John Iamarino.

“This is a complicated issue that the group decided requires more time and further study.”

Rally organizer Jeff Johnson, flanked by two participants, poses for a photo at the 2015 Go Topless Rally in downtown Asheville.

Participation sags at Go Topless rally From Staff Reports

About a half-dozen women — a decrease from past years — went topless for they termed gender equality during the sixth annual Go Topless Day rally in downtown Asheville on Aug. 28.

Participants said the event is intended to draw attention to laws and social stigmas about women’s bare breasts in public.

Jeff Johnson, the Huntsville, Ala.-based rally organizer, opened the rally with a speech of politics and why is is important for women to be able to go topless in public.

“We want to keep the law equal,” Johnson told a cheering crowd. “We want to keep the law vigilant. If the city council or legislature wants to change it, we have our say.

We need to recognize the political power females have, especially with their breasts.”

A small group of spectators was there to take photos and pose with participants.

The Go Topless rally falls on the Sunday closest to Women’s Equality Day. While there has been interest in banning the rally from downtown, city officials have said that state law makes it legal for women to be topless in public.

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The Asheville life-science company will begin construction of its new corporate headquarters within about a year in Black Mountain Commerce Park, which is soon to be built at the site of the announcement — in the middle of a field outside Black Mountain.

The facility could open as soon as 2018, David Fann, Avadim’s president, said.

McCrory called the jobs announcement one of the biggest over the past decade in North Carolina, while Buncombe County officials said they could think of none larger in the Asheville area.

Average annual compensation for the jobs will be about $51,000, McCrory’s office noted. Those positions will include sales and marketing personnel, customerservice representatives and informationtechnology specialists.

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State plans wider I-26 in Skyland, Arden, Fletcher From Staff Reports

SKYLAND — The widening of Interstate 26 along the congested route from Ashevlle to Hendersonville cleared a major hurdle in mid-August, with some funding secured and construction scheduled to begin in 2020, according to local officials.

The aforementioned stretch of I-26 is one of Western North Carolina’s busiest roads.

The Federal Highway Administration approved the draft environmental impact statement for I-26 widening projects in Buncombe and Henderson counties. The statement was submitted by the N.C. Department of Transportation.

The 22.2-mile project is broken into two parts. Just the northern part, from N.C. 280 to I-40, has received funding. The southern section, from N.C. 280 to Asheville Highway, has not yet received funding. Construction work for the northern part is set to begin in 2020.

Proposed improvements include widening the existing freeway — from four lanes to eight lanes — to meet future travel demands for the I-26 corridor and to improve insufficient pavement structure and deteriorating road conditions.

Approval from the federal government allows NCDOT to begin a public review period for the statement and schedule public hearings near the proposed improvements.

At a Sept. 6 meeting of the Henderson County Board of Commissioners, Commissioner Grady Hawkins asked whether NCDOT plans to do any of the work at night.

“Yes, that’s one of the biggest concerns that

we have working on any of our interstates, is maintaining traffic while we’re out there” doing maintenance or construction, according to Brian Burch, Division 14 construction engineer for the N.C. Department of Trans-

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Burch added that plans for the I-26 widening project are to do bridge work initially and add lanes on the inside, then the outside, to keep two lanes of traffic open at all times during construction.

Next, a public hearing is set for 7 p.m.

Oct. 13 at Biltmore Baptist Church in Arden, where NCDOT will present three alternative plans: to widen it to six lanes for the entirety of the project, to widen it to eight lanes for the project’s entirety, or to use a hybrid of both, Burch said, adding that the hybrid is the preferred approach.

A recently completed NCDOT study also calls for widening to six lanes a second section of I-26, from south of Fletcher to the interchange outside Flat Rock where U.S. 25 veers off toward Greenville, S.C.. However, the agency says it does not have money to do that until sometime after 2025.

Combined with other projects planned along the I-26 corridor, the work would create a wide channel for traffic to cut through the heart of WNC.

The plan is also designed to take the guesswork out calculating the time needed to make an afternoon trip to downtown Asheville from Biltmore Park, the commercial and residential development on Long Shoals Road, which could take 15 minutes — or 75 minutes. Traffic on the I-26 corridor often slows during the afternoon rush hour and at other times, with Friday afternoons being particularly congested.

NCDOT plans to make a final decision on how wide the road needs to be next spring.

In 2002, the agency was close to starting work on a wider I-26 when environmental groups sued to block that work, saying NCDOT had not done a comprehensive analysis of the total impact of improvements planned up and down the I-26 corridor, including the I-26 Connector project and adding lanes or making other changes to U.S. 19-23 in Asheville and Woodfin.

A key concern was the impact of additional traffic on air pollution — a major problem in the region at the time. A judge agreed with the groups in 2003 and NCDOT shelved the project for a decade for lack of funding.

Now, the state’s long-range plan contains money to widen I-26 between I-40 and the U.S. 25/Asheville Highway interchange to eight lanes, said John Williams, a DOT engineer working on the project. However, there is no money to add two lanes from there to Flat Rock. The current edition of the plan, now under revision, runs through 2025.

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Activists blame city for rally ‘gauntlet;’ plan to sue

By JOHN NORTH

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Two local conservative activitists recently said that they are looking for a lawyer to file a class-action lawsuit against the City of Asheville for its failure at controlling protesters outside a Sept. 12 rally for Republican presidential candidate Donald J. Trump.

Carl Mumpower, a former Asheville City Council member; and Chad Nesbitt, a former chairman of the Buncombe County Republican Party; called a news conference outside the U.S. Cellular Center on Sept. 19 to announce their concerns and plans to file a lawsuit — a week after the rally that drew a full house of about 7,000 people inside, with many others outside.

About a dozen people attended the news conference, at which Mumpower and Nesbitt each spoke, and two local ministers read complaints from people who attended the Trump rally and felt they were badly mistreated by rowdy protesters who formed a gauntlet through which they had to enter and exit the building.

Also featured were enlargements of photographs of badly behaving protesters at the event which were positioned around the lectern. Covering the news conference were reporters from the Asheville Citizen-Times, WLOS-TV and the Daily Planet.

Mumpower gave to reporters a pamphlet with pictures of several female protesters making obscene gestures.

When the AC-T’s Emily Patrick asked about Mumpower’s picture selection, which appeared to emphasize women, he replied that the behavior of the women protesters was “most egregious.”

Mumpower added, “It was the women who felt they were in a more permissive environment and could get away with it — and did. The girls got by with things the guys couldn’t have got by with, and that’s the way it is in our country. That’s not the story. The story is: Why that was allowed to happen?”

Regarding their complaint, Mumpower noted that as rally attendees passed through the gauntlet, they faced verbal abuse,

Trump

Continued from Page A1 “The great majority of this country now sees right through these lies and deceptions of a failed political establishment.”

Trump did not address the Clinton campaign’s Sept. 11 announcement that she has pneumonia.

Outside the arena, Courtney Davis, a freshmen who lives at UNC Asheville, told reporters that “I believe in equality, and I believe everyone should be able to live comfortably in our country.”

Expressing less equanimity was Diane Matsumoto, who reiterated Clinton’s disparagement of Trump supporters.

“We’re teachers, and it’s like looking at one big failed IQ test, and it makes me speechless — and in need of therapy,” she told reporters.

Isaac Herrin, a volunteer for the Trump campaign and a junior at Western Carolina University, told the news media that he thinks protesters are exaggerating.

“The word racist, it’s overused in this campaign,” he said as he escorted rally attendees through the barricades lined by protesters. “I’ve seen a lot of people who are very sensitive about (being called a racist), but overall, the people knew it was going to be here.”

As Herrin worked the barricades, he cried out, “Do not respond to the angry mob,” and his voice carried beyond the barricaded protesters and into Haywood Street.

Carl Mumpower speaks on Sept. 19 about safety concerns at the Donald Trump rally, while Chad Nesbitt (to his right) listens intently. signs were waved in their faces and they generally were treated rudely by the protesters, who were allowed to stand just outside the entrance doors, behind barricades.

The barricades were moved even closer to the entrance doors after the rally. The Daily Planet witnessed some protesters calling the attendees “bigot,” “racist” and screaming obsenities at them before and after the rally. Tensions were high, but Asheville police reported few arrests. Indeed, five people were arrested during and after the rally and arrest warrants were obtained for two others, who were charged with assault.

Mumpower, who did not attend the rally, said the lawsuit is intended to address what he termed “either a lousy plan, or a bad plan poorly implemented, or both.” He added that, although local law enforcement played a secondary role to the U.S. Secret Service at the Trump rally, the Asheville Police Department deserves to be blamed for the insufficient exit access — and for the misbehavior of the crowd.

“Our police are the only people here with arresting authority,” he said. “They were paralyzed, and they did not do their job protecting the public.”

Nesbitt, who attended the rally, said he had to wait in a single-file line to exit the rally because the protesters were crowded together, interfering with the normal departure of the crowd from the center.

While it appeared that everyone was yelling something, there was a rare lull — and Asheville Police Department officer Sarah McGhee quietly told a spectator, “Thank you for being peaceful.”

The U.S. Secret Service was in charge of the event, but Asheville Police Department officers working with the Secret Service were the main law enforcement presence.

Dozens of officers stood stoically among protesters, watching closely but obviously trying to avoid interfering unless needed.

Christina Hallingse, public information officer for the Asheville Police Department, said there had been no major incidents as of 6 p.m., when the rally inside the arena began.

Earlier in the afternoon, APD confiscated a firearm from someone outside the arena, Hallingse said.

Nathan West, chairman of the Buncombe County GOP, said he had witnessed one physical altercation between a protester and an attendee that was broken up by police.

Inside the rally, a protester walked around with a laundry basket on his head.

Later, agents escorted several protesters out of the venue, although there were no apparent significant physical conflicts.

As Trump spoke, protesters shouted, “Your ties are made in China,” and “We’re running out of oil.” However, the candidate ignored their heckling.

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Besides the threat of violence, he also expressed concern that the situation could have been dangerous if a fire had erupted. (The city has said the event was approved and monitored by fire officials.)

Meanwhile, the city said the Trump campaign determined the placement of the barricades. The Trump campaign leased the U.S. Cellular Center, so it could have forbidden protests on a large portion of the plaza, but it did not, city spokesman Joey Robison told local news media.

However, she added that she would find out who moved the barricades.

Mumpower and Nesbitt also slammed local news media coverage of the Trump rally for focusing on the “decoy issue” of assault charges as opposed to venue safety.

Meanwhile, a Sept. 29 statement emailed to the Daily Planet and others from Mumpower and Nesbitt was headlined, “Trump rally was a disgrace” and “Two largest media outlets continue to function as marketing arm for city government and liberal protesters.”

In another jab, the press release was referenced as “City authorities and everyone but Trump getting a pass.”

The statement begins by noting, “In the most recent effort by the Citizen-Times to grant the city a pass on their failure to uphold local ordinances during the Trump rally, city officials claimed that the ordinance on public cursing was not a viable law. This bit of silliness was preceded on Monday (Sept. 26) by a unilateral WLOS report, whereby city officials claimed that the misery at the end of the rally was caused by the failure of the Trump people to call the city’s people.

“May we share that we have better things to do than hold city officials accountable. Isn’t that the media’s job?

We’ll keep trying, but we are hoping that our local daily paper and TV station will give it some thought, too,” the Mumpower-Nesbitt statement asserted.

After listing a variety of records requests that they are seeking to be released by the city, the duo concluded, “We appreciate the opportunity to keep raising the question(s).

Wish the people who are paid to would, too.”

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Asheville Black Lives Matter stages a Blackout boycott

From Staff Reports The Black Lives Matter Asheville group called for a “Blackout” — an economic boycott against white-owned businesses — in Asheville Sept. 26-27, but the event did not appear to trigger much interest.

As of Sept. 27, the Blackout on Facebook was shared with 169 people — and about a third of those individuals said they “went” on the social media site, according to Asheville’s WLOS-TV (Channel 13).

“This is a stand of solidarity for the black lives that have been lost due to police violence and domestic terrorism,” a message posted on “The Asheville Blackout” Facebook page stated. “Spend with black vendors. Bike or walk. But we pledge to not spend nor support an economy that supports the deaths of black Americans with their corporate silence.”

In the wake of the fatal shooting of a African-American man by police in Charlotte, Black Lives Matter groups in cities nationwide have called on people to boycott public transportation and spend money at black-owned businesses. (The policeman in Charlotte who fired the fatal shot also was black, law enforcement officials have said.)

“When you start thinking this, then you’re thinking outside of what Dr. (Martiun Luther) King (Jr.) gave for us to be

because for any business to be successful, you need everybody — you need green,” John Hayes, who is the former head of the Asheville NAACP, told WLOS. Hayes now serves as chief executive officer of WRESFM (100.7), a radio station with a large black listening audience.

“Dr. King said that if we set out to be the best black doctor, the best black dentist, beautician, barber — he said we will flunk our entrance exam into the university of integration.”

Hayes added that he opposes the Blackout as a method of protest, stressing that to be successful and improve communities, African-American businesses need to attract all kinds of consumers without alienating any segments of the population.

“We’re playing into the hands of those who will continue to use hate to get what they want,” Hayes said. “We have got to break down these fears.”

Meanwhile, DeLores Venable, a BLMA organizer, told the Asheville Citizen-Times on Sept. 28, “Black lives do matter in this country — and so does black wealth and black money... Just like other cities, just like in Charlotte, just like in Tulsa, we have a dead man in this city as well,” Venable told the AC-T, referring to the July 2 fatal shooting of Jai “Jerry” Williams, 35, by a white Asheville police officer. The State Bureau of Investigation is reviewing the Williams case.

Continued from Page A1 Another speaker, Jane Bilello, chairwoman of the Asheville Tea Party, also spoke in favor of keeping refugees out of the county. “Security risks are way too high to accept security from terrorist nations,” she said. “It’s reckless to accept refugees at this time.”

She added, “It’s more practical to send resources to their country of origin.”

At that point, Brown, who noted that he has lived in the county most of his life, said he had not planned to address the commissioners, but felt compelled to offer a different opinion from the other speakers on the refugee issue.

“I appreciate the people who are concerned about health issues and the budget, but I would like to see our county embrace people who need a home, especially from people suffering from war,” Brown said to applause from the audience, prompting Gantt’s admonition for the crowd to listen and not clap — and thereby show tolerance of differing viewpoints.

Another speaker also offered support for refugees and said she would “be very happy to put up a bedroom for anyone in need.”

A final speaker added that he understands both sides of the issue, noting that he is partCherokee and his ancestors “didn’t have the best immigration policies,” but the other part of his ancestry benefited from immigration.

Some surrounding counties have approved resolutions stating opposition to accepting refugees, and some of the speakers asked that Buncombe commissioners adopt a similar stance. However, as of late September no such resolution was on any future agenda.

Meanwhile, in the email sent the day after the commissioners meeting, the ATP noted, “We also requested that, like the commissioners in Carteret, Craven and Henderson (counties), Buncombe County should also pass a resolution opposing refugee resettlement.

“They (the Buncombe commissioners) have an obligation and duty to keep our community safe. According to FBI Director (James) Comey, There is no way to vet refugees coming from failed terrorist states.

“The Asheville area and a 50-mile radius around it, is one of the top refugee targets in the federal and North Carolina refugee plans.

“Don’t become complacent,” the ATP email urged. “If you live in counties within that

radius of of 50 miles from Asheville, your community will be affected should refugee resettlement become a reality. That means Districts 10 and 11! There are two of the nine refugee-providers in Asheville that would like to get this program underway.

“Citizens like you can stop it. These agencies are set to receive close to three-quarter of a million dollars — of our tax money. All they have to do is fill out the paperwork.

“Many communities are led to believe by the sponsors and the State Department that most of the cost will be absorbed by the federal government. This is misleading. YOU pay federal taxes, so it’s your money. Also, state and local governments pick up most of the cost because the federal money runs out after three months. (Refugees have access to 15 federal programs just as U.S. citizens!) “ The ATP email then asks, “Why are we doing this when the cost to resettle one Middle Eastern refugee in the U.S. for five years, can help 12 in the Middle East for 5 years, or 61 helped for one year?

“Last but not least, these refugees pose a serious security risk. FBI Director Comey admits that they cannot be properly vetted. Think Boston, Orlando, San Bernadino, Paris, Munich. Think NYC, NJ, MN this past weekend.

In March of 2015, three children were hacked to death by a Burmese refugee in New Bern.

Moreover, they also bring communicable diseases, like TB, and pose a health risk.

“Only YOU can stop the risk to our lives and property. As our Congressman Mark Meadows underscored at the Tuesday, 8/23, Town Hall, we must get involved by speaking up. Other communities across the country have stopped refugee resettlement because they got ahead of the issue before it was too late by making their voices heard to their local government agencies, most importantly, county commissioners. We need to do the same.

“According to our N.C. State Refugee Plan (pg3), local agencies who are affected must be be notified, consulted and included in the planning “... to ensure successful resettlement and to minimize and potential negative impact within the community....”

The email ended by urging ATP members to contact the commissioners, emphasizing that “we need an army to make the point.”

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NCDOT TO HOLD A CORRIDOR PUBLIC HEARING FOR THE PROPOSED WIDENING OF I-26 FROM U.S. 25 TO I-40 HENDERSON & BUNCOMBE COUNTIES TIP Project No. I-4400/I-4700 The N.C. Department of Transportation (NCDOT) will hold a public hearing on Thursday, October 13, beginning with an open house from 4 to 6:30 p.m., followed by a formal presentation at 7 p.m. at the Biltmore Baptist Church, 35 Clayton Road in Arden.

The project proposes to widen approximately 22 miles of I-26 in Buncombe and Henderson Counties from U.S. 25 (Greenville Highway) in Henderson County to I-40/I-240 interchange in Buncombe County, including reconstruction of the existing pavement.

The Blue Ridge Parkway structure over I-26 is proposed to be replaced as part of this project and the National Park Service-Blue Ridge Parkway is a Cooperating Agency for the project. The purpose of this project is to meet future travel demands for the I-26 corridor and to improve insufficient pavement structure and deteriorating road conditions. The Federal Highway Administration approved the environmental document; a Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS), in August 2016.

The purpose of this hearing is to provide information about the project and receive public input. Interested individuals may attend the pre-hearing open house at any time during the above hours. NCDOT representatives will display maps and be available to answer questions and receive comments. Written comments can be submitted at the meeting or later by November 14, 2016. The formal presentation at 7 pm will include an explanation of the location and design of each widening alternative, the state-federal funding relationship and right of way procedures. The presentation and comments received will be recorded and included in the alternative selection and design process.

A copy of the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) and maps displaying the alternatives are available for public review at the locations listed below.

• NCDOT Division 13 Office, 55 Orange Street, Asheville.

• NCDOT Division 14- District 1 Office, 4142 Haywood Road, Mills River.

• French Broad River Metropolitan Planning Organization, 339 New Leicester Highway, Suite 140, Asheville.

• National Park Service, 199 Hemphill Knob Road, Asheville.

• South Buncombe Library, 260 Overlook Road, Asheville.

• The document and maps are also available online at http://www.ncdot.org/projects/i26Widening and http://www.ncdot.gov/projects/publicmeetings/ • Document (DEIS) only at: • Asheville City Hall, 70 Court Plaza.

• Hendersonville City Hall, 145 5th Avenue East, 2nd floor.

• Fletcher Town Hall, 300 Old Cane Creek Road.

• Henderson County Planning, 100 North King Street, Hendersonville.

The US Army Corps of Engineers, Wilmington District, will be issuing a public notice describing the ongoing process in choosing the LEDPA (Least Environmentally Damaging Practicable Alternative) for the subject project, under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act. That public notice will be available at this website: http://www.saw.usace.army.mil/Missions/Regulatory-Permit-Program/ Public-Notices/.

For additional information, contact Anamika Laad at 1598 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, 27699-1598, by email at alaad@ncdot. gov, by phone at (919) 707-6072, or by fax at (919) 212-5785.

NCDOT will provide auxiliary aids and services under the Americans with Disabilities Act for disabled persons who wish to participate in this hearing. Anyone requiring special services should contact Ms. Laad as early as possible so that arrangements can be made.

Persons who speak Spanish and do not speak English, or have a limited ability to read, speak or understand English, may receive interpretive services upon request prior to the hearing by calling 1-800-481-6494.

Aquellas personas que hablan español y no hablan inglés, o tienen limitaciones para leer, hablar o entender inglés, podrían recibir servicios de interpretación si los solicitan antes de la reunión llamando al 1-800-481-6494. Если вы говорите только по-русски или вам трудно читать и воспринимать информацию на английском, мы можем предоставить вам услуги переводчика. Пожалуйста позвоните по тел. 1-800-481-6494 предворительно до собрания чтобы запросить помощь.

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The Daily Planet’s Opinion

County manager merits praise for giving up $34K

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uncombe County Manager Wanda Greene deserves praise for taking the high road by relinquishing an increase in benefits worth more than $34,000, explaining that the compensation, which had come under scruity, had proved to be a distraction.

The compensation package awarding Greene 300 hours of compensatory time was approved by the county Board of Commissioners during a June annual budget hearing without comment.

However, when Greene’s compensation came to light, it drew public criticism.

Also, after the vote, two commissioners said they did not even know about the financial award to the county manager. The 300 hours of time could have been cashed in for $34,000, only if Greene leaves her position.

In the aftermath, Greene showed good character as well as political savvy on Sept. 8 by emailing the Board of Commissioners and Curt Euler, director of human resources, noting she was voluntarily asking that her comp time balance be reduced and reiterated that the matter had been a distraction.

Greene earlier had provide the local news media with a balance sheet showing she had worked nearly 3,800 hours of extra time since 2009.

Comp time is a form of overtime in which employees receive time off in lieu of extra pay for hours worked beyond a normal work week. Buncombe offers compensatory time through a straightforward process for certain employees. Greene’s situation is more complicated.

“I am sorry I caused a distraction,” she said in the email “Via this email, I am asking Curt Euler to reduce my comp time balance. This eliminates any possibility that I would be compensated in the future for any of the comp time hours in question.”

We appreciate Greene’s willingness to be above-board on her compensation — and we are confident that her action will bring her good karma for a bright future here.

The election will be over, not HB2 CHAPEL HILL — What do you hate more?

The presidential election campaign?

Or the furor over HB2?

The good news is that one will be over in a few weeks. The bad news is that the other won’t.

On Nov. 8 the election campaigning ends. The heavy doses of drug-like campaign ads and cable news coverage the mean-spirited, misleading, and malicious barrages fired by and at the candidates will halt.

But HB2 will still be with us, tearing us asunder, holding our state up to ridicule.

Unnecessarily, because reasonable people could have worked out a commonsense solution that recognized, respectfully and practically, the needs and aspirations of transgender people, while protecting the public from danger and abuse.

But politics gets in the way.

The governor’s re-election campaign ads tout HB2 as necessary protection for children in public bathrooms who could be threatened by adults of the opposite sex.

Meanwhile, the Democratic challenger’s campaign energizes core supporters by calling for the immediate and unconditional repeal of HB2, exploiting its growing unpopularity in the sports and business communities.

Thus, a compromise solution would not serve the campaigns of either candidate.

Each side blames the other for the mess HB2 has created.

Conservative religious and “traditional values” groups are an important part of the Republican coalition in North Carolina.

They pushed for HB2 and resist its repeal.

But there are other important religions in North Carolina: sports and business.

The actions by the National Basketball Association (NBA), National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) to move important sports contests out of North Carolina sparked a new fire of concern about HB2.

D.G. Martin UNC President Margaret Spellings has been cautious and careful not to criticize HB2 directly. “We are surprised and disappointed by the NCAA’s decision and regret the impact it will have on North Carolina’s student-athletes, coaches, athletic staffs, fans, and the North Carolina communities previously chosen to host these championship events.” She says,. “We remain caught in the middle” On the other hand, a representative of a private college supported the ACC and NCAA. Davidson’s athletic director Jim Murphy wrote, “Davidson College has opposed the plainly discriminatory bill known as HB2 since the day it was hastily signed into law. The law harms many and protects no one….”

Meanwhile, other North Carolinians are counting the money that will not come to North Carolina because of HB2 and actions like those of the NCAA and ACC. A business recruiter told me recently that his community had lost several large business prospects who told him they could no longer consider North Carolina because of HB2. He said, “We are just no longer on their list.”

After November’s election is over, maybe common sense can prevail, and HB2 can be buried respectfully. But getting North Carolina back on the lists of sports events and businesses looking for good locations will not happen quickly.

The ghost of HB2 will haunt us for a long time.

• 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

Refugees being slipped in who oppose pro-choice?

I think the IRC (International Rescue Committee) is slipping in refugees who will threaten our pro-choice principles, so (David) Gantt (chairman of the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners) is dead wrong. alan ditmore Leicester

District elections could spread out representation

A common complaint from the establishment left is that district elections is a matter that should be left to the people of Asheville to decide in a referendum.

(Although this could have been done before under §160A, Article 5.)

But it seems the progressive ruling elite has only lately come to the idea of popular consent prior to taking actions. This was certainly the case in its attempt to annex Biltmore Lake to the benefit of its general fund.

The self-sufficient residents of Biltmore Lake were resolutely opposed being forcibly annexed. They needed none of the city’s services. Asheville took no vote on the matter yet the annexation proceeded — against the wishes of “the people”. The residents then sued Asheville, at their own expense, and it took legislation from Raleigh to de-annex the properties of Biltmore Lake.

With district elections, we have an opportunity to spread leadership across the expanding reaches of a growing city. Asheville

has exhibited a recalcitrant frame of mind in sharing power and this is offensive to justice. It will once again take legislation from Raleigh to give “the people” what they deserve. This time in the form of greater representative democracy in electing its leaders.

Tim Peck Asheville EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is a response to a news story headlined “Refugee resettlement in Asheville?” that appeared in August’s Daily Planet.

Refugee resettlement in Asheville? A terrible idea

It is important to understand that one of criteria that the State Department uses is the availability of “affordable housing.”

A study of 400 U.S. cities using a scale of 1 to 400 with No. 1 being the most affordable. Asheville is ranked at No. 394.

So, anyone with a brain should understand that Asheville should not even be consider for resettlement of refugees without means. There should be no government support for refugees.

Many countries have a requirement that an immigrant is able to support themselves from day one.

A refugee is nothing more then an immigrant and should be required to follow the same rules to come here as any other immigrant.

Being able to assimilate into American society and culture and learning English should be a requirement of any immigrant.

See LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, Page A13

The Candid Conservative

Conservatives are the real free spirits, Part II

“Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals.”

— Jesse Helms

The Problem

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ast month we covered five reasons it might be a good idea to get an early start on your New Year’s resolution on becoming a conservative.

Even if the best you can muster is rethinking lock-step liberalism, this round will provide some contrasting thinking to stir your prefrontal cortex. If you’re one of the left’s marching munchkins, your brain needs the exercise.

So here it comes. More right-wing extremism from a guy who believes the best time to be a conservative is when conservative isn’t cool. Here are five more reasons it should be.

Conservatives reach for the positive As surely as conservatives resist harms, we should illuminate blessings. Taking good for granted provides opportunity for the left to manufacture catastrophe, manipulate the facts, and introduce fears and doubts in order to secure greater power. Conservatives impair those missions by celebrating and highlighting the real American ideal and the successes that pour from our system of intentional versus accidental liberty.

The successful history of our free enterprise system is an example of a system in desperate need of positive attention. Capitalism has uplifted more people, by far, than any other social order in history. The corruptions of crony capitalism have enabled the left’s wealth redistribution advocates to

Carl Mumpower discredit the true liberties and opportunities of capitalism. Dividing up a pot of stone soup will never approach the potentials of a system whereby people are able to make their own soup.

There is so much about our country’s history and present that is right, just, and good. Left-headed thinkers delight in negative propaganda that convinces the unwitting our constitutional system of governance and heritage of success is fraudulent. This message of deception from People of the Lie merits enthusiastic resistance. That includes a keen emphasis on the overwhelming evidence America has a history meriting celebration – not mourning.

Conservatives are willing to challenge the opposition. That’s not a pass to surrender to the temptations of habitual attack, ignoring valid points, and otherwise vilifying those we disagree with. Anything by anyone that is constructive and on the right side of truth deserves our fullest congratulations.

Resist deceptions There are few more demanding challenges than avoiding the temptations of drama, dogma, and doctrine over higher-level thinking. The world is filled with seducers in all fields of endeavor intent on pulling us into a web made up of the 3-d’s.

See CANDID CONSERVATIVE, Page A18

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Commentary

Trump brings Mussolini to mind

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nderfoot rubbed his eyes.

He had clicked over to the Republican convention during a commercial, but the TV picture wasn’t Cleveland – or 2016, for that matter.

The outdoor crowd all wore black shirts. And they were chanting in a foreign language. Caught by surprise, Underfoot found his mind understanding: “Urrà per Fascismo!” (Hooray for Fascism!)

“Holy smoke!” Underfoot whispered.

“I’m watching the March on Rome in 1922!”

He shook his head, and the TV picture returned to Cleveland. The shouting thousands wore bright colors, and the speaker was Donald Trump: “Decades of progress made in bringing down crime are now being reversed by this Administration’s rollback of criminal enforcement!”

Underfoot, a strange man in every way, was a professor of government who had no interest in politics.

Quickly, time and space thinned again, and the fascist leader was speaking in Rome.

“Benito Mussolini,” Underfoot whispered, leaning forward now with his elbows

Lee Ballard on his knees. Italian had been his required language for his Ph.D. Mussolini was demanding that King Victor Emmanuel remove liberal prime minister Luigi Facta. He was personally to blame, Mussolini screamed, for rampant disorder across the country.

Blackshirts – no, they were Republicans now – were on their feet, urging the speaker on. Trump was reciting statistics on widespread crime and violence in America.

Nobody is safe! Massacres!

Underfoot wanted to go back to “Property Brothers,” but he could not. He could only get to his feet and look out his window into the moonlight.

Everything looked peaceful. But still…he half-turned his head toward the hall closet where he kept his father’s old hunting rifle.

He observed outside that his house location gave him an excellent field of fire.

On the TV, Trump was saying: “When I

Letters to the Editor Continued from Page A12 The Islamist refugee has no intention of assimilating.

Bringing in Islamist refugees is nothing more than spreading the jihadist and jihad throughout the USA. “Islam teaches that Muslims must wage war to impose Islamic Law on non-Muslim states.” So, I ask you WHY would our government wish to bring in those that believe in Islam, a theocracy totalitarian government and is not compatible with the U.S. form of government and wishes to destroy us?

The Islamist wish to KILL us. There are 57 states of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation. (http://www.oic-oci.org/ oicv2/states/.) No one from any of the 57 States of the OIC should be allow into the USA period.

The Muslim Brotherhood’s motto is “Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. The Qur’an is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope.”

And the Muslim Brotherhood’s goal in the U.S. in their own words is “a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and “sabotaging’ its miserable house.”

Did you note that the above Muslim Brotherhoods motto said: The Qur’an is our law. And did not claim it was their religion? Is it sinking in? Do you see the problem?

Following is important information about Islam (based on quotes are from “The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (AND THE CRUSADES)”:

there was nothing better (or holier) than jihad warfare.”

• “Muhammad told his men to offer nonMuslims only three choices: conversion, subjugation, or death.”

• “Islamic law mandates second-class status for Jews, Christians, and other nonMuslims in Islamic societies.”

• “The Qur’an and Islamic law treat women as nothing more than possessions of men.”

• “The Qur’an sanctions wife-beating” • “Islam also allows for child marriage.”

• “Islam allows for lying, as well as stealing and killing, in certain circumstances.”

• “The Qur’an Describes Paradise in terms that make it clear that it is a place merely to indulge one’s physical appetites” • “Paradise is guaranteed only to those who “slay and are slain” for Allah.”

As Asheville has a LGBT community — something they should consider is that Islamists like to throw LGBT people off of rooftops.

To learn more about “Sharia the Threat,” “Muslim Brotherhood & Islam,” visit http://tarheelteaparty.org/?page_id=470 Please, take the time and watch the video: “Understanding the Threat to America” at https://youtu.be/cAhrD1Tp-sw.

It is time to wake up and demand that all believers of Islam are deported from the USA and none are allowed into the USA. Fremont V Brown III Asheville EDITOR’S NOTE: Brown is chief executive officer of Tarheel Tea Party, LLC.

• “Muslim persecution of Christians has continued for 13 centuries (1,300 years) – and still goes on.”

• “The Qur’an commands Muslims to make war on Jews and Christians.”

• “Muhammad taught his followers that

America, like the rest of the world, continues down the path that will lead to destruction.

Man continues to deny the Creator, the Living God, and worships false idols, or humanistic ideas which leads Man away

America continues to take path leading to destruction

take the oath of office, next year, I will restore law and order to our country. Believe me!”

Underfoot spoke to the TV: “No, no, you can’t promise that! Public safety in America is state and local, not the president!”

Then he thought, “Unless… No, no, he’s a candidate for president. He can’t mean that! Can he?”

And Trump continued: “I will work with and appoint the best and brightest prosecutors and law enforcement officials to get the job properly done.”

Underfoot pounded both hands to his head as he processed what he was hearing.

He said in measured, thoughtful syllables: “The people in his audience don’t know that presidents can’t appoint local prosecutors – but what if Trump himself DOES KNOW? What if he is not spouting ignorance? What if he plans to nationalize law enforcement under the president?”

Italian on TV again. But not the March on Rome. Now Mussolini was elsewhere, clearly Naples, in front of a mammoth rally (60,000 people). Underfoot heard Mussolini saying in a serious staccato: “Our program is simple: We want to rule Italy.”

Underfoot wagged his head: “I can’t believe that Trump has a long-range plan like

from God’s Word.

Man’s failure to believe and obey God’s Word, his Just Commandments and Laws, will eventually bring God’s wrath upon Man. Moral corruption and chaos follows when man abandons God and his word.

America has to turn back to God or it will face the same destruction as the rest of the world. Separation from God certainly is not what the Founding Fathers had in mind.

Humanist and other unbelievers, have turned America into Sodom and Gomorrah.

They have turned America into a murderous country — seekers of pleasure, instead of seekers of God. The Word of God says that if you break one of God’s commandments you are breaking all of them. The First Commandment says we are to love God with all our heart, soul, and mind. The Second Commandment, “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.” Ask yourself, is the present America meeting God’s standards?

Contrary to those who believe the inhabitants of earth are going to die because of global warming, it will be God who will execute judgment.

Through his judgment, Heaven and Earth will pass away in X + 1,000 years (X represents the unknown period of time from now until Jesus Christ descends to rule the Earth).

The thousand years is the time Jesus will rule the nations, “with a rod of iron,” from the earthly Jerusalem.

Before Jesus descends to reign, God, who loves Man and his creation, will pour his wrath upon the world, which Man, in his disobedience, has corrupted. Over 80 percent of the world human population will die, or be killed, as one can read in the Book Of Revelation. During this time, the heavens will pass away at God’s command ... earth at the end of the thousand years.

Manuel Ybarra Jr. Coalgate, Okla.

Mussolini’s! He’s got to be what he seems to be: a know-nothing bullmonger!”

The TV went back again to Trump, in another speech somewhere, saying that the military will obey him.

Underfoot couldn’t sit down. He paced the floor muttering, “What if…what if Trump IS ignorant? That’s worse! What if he actually thinks he CAN DO these things when he gets power? And he actually GETS power?”

Underfoot knew stuff the rest of us don’t know. He had written a book on the failure of the constitutional “checks and balances” system. He knew how easy, in fact, it would be for a strong leader to take total power in America – if he wins over the military with promises of glory, like Mussolini did and he has a large, loyal paramilitary force What Underfoot didn’t know was that militia groups, extreme gun rights groups and “Don’t tread on me” groups are the backbone of Donald Trump’s popular support.

He dropped his arms to his side and shrugged. “Politics,” Underfoot whispered as he sat down. “Well, let’s hope he’s wise in how he does it,” And he turned back to “Property Brothers.”

• Lee Ballard lives in Mars Hill. For more of his work, readers may visit his blog at mountainsnail.com.

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Advice Goddess

Continued from Page A1 He does sound like a good man — which doesn’t necessarily mean he’s a good man to make a life with (which is why everybody’s campaigning for you to ditch him).

Maybe you’re thinking, “Okay, so he’s kind of a laid-back dude. It’s 2016; can’t the woman be the breadwinner?” Well, yes…but his lack of drive is likely to be a problem — at least eventually.

Evolutionary developmental psychologist Bruce J. Ellis explains that there’s this notion by some social scientists — called the “structural powerlessness hypothesis” — that women only go for powerful men because they themselves lack power.

This, Ellis writes, is “directly contradicted” by research — on feminist leaders, for example — that finds that “high-power women (want) super-powerful men.” They aren’t all, “Well, I make plenty of money; I think I’ll marry Hot Julio, the pool boy.”

As for why this is, Ellis explains (as I often do) that ancestral women who went for moverand-shaker men were more likely to have children who survived and passed on their genes. “Over evolutionary time,” he writes, “evaluative mechanisms” were built into female psychology to push women “to detect and prefer males” with a “willingness and ability” to provide for them and their children.

A guy doesn’t necessarily have to be rich for you to get your “man with mate value!” box checked. What seems to matter is potential — that he is ambitious and has a reasonable shot at achieving what he’s going after.

Now, maybe you went for your sweet underachiever as a reaction to jerks in your recent past — or because it’s supposedly “shallow” to want a partner to be, say, at least a certain height or making some kind of mark in business. But, using the height example, if you really aren’t attracted to shorter guys, getting involved with one is basically benevolent cruelty. Sooner or later, your libido’s going to be all, “Okay, so you got drunk and went home with the garden gnome. But enough is enough.”

It is possible that you and Laid-Back Larry could live happily ever after. But ask yourself some questions: Where do you see yourself in five years? Could you count on him to put down the bong and go make money if you got sick? Will your friends and family come to accept him, or will you end up unhappily isolated? And finally, do you want kids? If so, consider that you can downscale your lifestyle but you can’t downscale your kid from needing dental care or hand him makeshift forceps to take the toy truck out of his nose.

Sure, this guy would probably be the ideal stay-at-home dad. But consider — in line with what Ellis explains — that a number of studies find that women married to a Mr. Mom often end up resenting and losing respect for him, and those marriages are more likely to end in divorce.

You probably need some time to figure all of this out. Because people read the words in letters (instead of yelling over them), maybe write one to your family to ask them to be kind to him at family functions —for your sake.

And finally, try not to be so dramatic about your options. You’re 35. The fertility train might be leaving the station pretty soon, but it’s not like this guy is your last chance before “Marriage is between a woman and her cat!” and “P.S. Snowball and I are registered at Bloomingdale’s and Petco.”

A mile in somebody else’s choose

I’m a woman who’s on the feminist dating app Bumble, where women have to make the first move. Men can only write back to women who message them.

I thought this would be empowering, but even pursuing a guy in this small way feels

unsexy and overly aggressive. Do I just need to get over my retrograde thinking?

— Uncomfortable The gazelle doesn’t wake up one day, decide it’s time for a change, and give the sleeping cougar a kick with its hoof: “Run for your life, you big ugly feline!” The cougar turns around, confused: “What are you doing, man? Haven’t you ever seen National Geographic?”

Who does the chasing in dating also isn’t some arbitrary thing. It comes down to what evolutionary biologist Robert Trivers, in 1972, called “parental investment.” His theory — borne out in research on humans, animals, and insects — is that the sex that has the highest cost from sexual activity (the female — in almost all species) will be choosier about whom they mate with than the sex that invests less (which is almost always the male).

In humans, of course, women are the ones who get pregnant and stuck with the kids, and men can, as anthropologists quip, just “inseminate and run.” So — over thousands of generations — women being choosier and men being, uh, chase-ier got wired into human psychology. We can’t just shrug off the emotional mechanisms that drive this behavior even today — even if Bumble founder Whitney Wolfe deems it “heteronormative” hooey that women damage their desirability by chasing men.

A trip to the Panamanian wetlands would show her she’s wrong — that what drives which sex does the chasing and which does the choosing really is about who gets stuck with the child care. Yes, in most species, that’s the female. But check out the role reversal in the wattled jacana, a long-legged South American wading bird.

Zoologist Stephen Emlen and his team found that it’s the male jacana, not the female, that sits incubating the eggs in the nest and cares for the chickies after they hatch. And right in line with Trivers’ parental investment theory, female jacanas are the ones who do the chasing, competing for the males, and some even have “harems” of up to five boy birds.

And it gets worse. The Emlen team found that as male jacanas sit tending their egg brood, they’re sometimes forced to watch while their girlfriend bird gets it on right in front of them with the other boy birds in her harem.

Getting back to Bumble, where the app goes wrong is in removing the filtering that comes from a man needing to lay his ego on the line and expend effort to pursue a woman. The notion that it’s “empowering” for women to do the chasing ignores that it’s in men’s genetic interest to not turn down a mating opportunity — even with a woman they aren’t that interested in.

Also, because men evolved to expect choosier women, even subtle forms of chasing like your contacting a man first may send a message that you’re not all that.

When push comes to love

I’ve been dating a 55-year-old guy for a year. I have two teenage boys; he has no kids. He initially mentioned marriage but now doesn’t want to “rush” moving in with me and my boys. As a first step, he’s moving closer. He just signed a lease on an apartment near me. I love him, but I’m overwhelmed handling two teenagers alone.

Should I tell him he needs to speed up the pace?

— Questioning His Commitment If a relationship leads to an outpouring of feelings, a man tends to prefer “You’re the love of my life!” to “Buzz off! You’re not my real dad!”

Perhaps because you’re seeing this through “I need a break!”-colored glasses, you confuse being careful with not caring.

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Continued from Page A14 But zoologist Amotz Zahavi has some good news for you. His research finds that when a message involves some expense to the sender, it’s more likely to be for real.

For example, anyone can claim they’re committed, but as the saying goes, talk is cheap.

Moving, however, is not. It’s costly. Stressful.

Horrible. Especially if you are older than 21 and own more than a sleeping bag, a Nintendo and a couple of bongs.

Your boyfriend may ultimately decide that the package here isn’t for him, but pressuring him is unlikely to help. In fact, it’s likely to pressure him right out of your life.

There’s a reason he doesn’t have kids, and it probably isn’t that he was too put off by the possibility of life imprisonment to kidnap a few at the mall.

The son also plagiarizes

I met this woman who’d dated my ex. In talking, we realized that he used the same romantic lines on both of us. Granted, these made me feel good at the time, but I feel angry and stupid for falling for them. How do you know when a guy is sincere?

— Scammed Understandably, you want a man’s loveydovey talk to come from the heart, not from a Word doc he saved on his hard drive.

However, a guy whose heartfelt remarks turn out to be a renewable resource isn’t necessarily some sneaky recycler.

Consider how personality plays into this.

Personality is a pattern over time of thoughts, feelings, and desires that shape how you behave.

Research by social psychologist Nathan W. Hudson suggests that you may be able to change aspects of your personality through behavioral change — like by repeatedly acting more conscientiously. Still, Hudson — along with about 10 truckloads of other social psychologists — sees a good deal of evidence that personality is “relatively stable.”

In other words, even a sweet, sincere guy is likely to use some of the same romantic wordery with any woman he’s dating. What tells you whether he’s a good guy or he just talks a good game is time — reserving judgment on what you have together until enough time passes for you to hold up the sweet things he says to what he actually does.

Wanting to see any discrepancies is really the best way to protect yourself from serial romancers — or worse. (“I bet you say that to all the girls you put in your freezer!”)

Casualties of war paint

I dragged my boyfriend into the makeup store Sephora, and he said, “Save your money! You don’t need any of this stuff. I like you better without makeup.” Huh? Why is there a huge makeup industry when so many men say they don’t even like makeup?

— Pretty Confused A friend of mine, bioethicist Alice Dreger, tweeted, “True story: I was on Oprah for a show about how appearance doesn’t matter and there was a whole guy tasked with doing just her eyelashes.”

A whole lot of us are in some denial about makeup. And sure, there are men who really do like women better without a drop of the stuff. And then there are those who just think they do -- like the men on Reddit who posted all of these supposed “no makeup!” photos of female celebs. I particularly loved one of Jenna Jameson that a guy captioned “before all the surgeries and without makeup.” Meanwhile, tiny type below the photo lists the makeup and hair goo she actually has on. My other favorite was one of Rihanna, who also very clearly was not sans maquillage.

Guys, sorry, but cat-eye liquid eyeliner does not appear naturally on the female eye

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Biological anthropologist Douglas Jones finds that men are attracted to women with somewhat “neotenous” features — meaning somewhat babylike ones like big eyes, full lips, a small jaw and chin, and clear skin — which correlate with health and fertility. So, basically, what we call “beauty” is evolution’s version of a street-corner sign spinner: “Genes passed on here!!! Best babies in town!!!”

In other words, makeup is fake-up — a woman’s way of making herself out to have more neotenous features and thus a higher mate value than she actually does. (The male version of this is leasing a top-of-the-line Tesla while living in a tent in Grandma’s backyard.)

So, a man will think he has an aversion to makeup, but it’s really an aversion to being deceived by it.

This doesn’t mean you have to stop wearing it. Just keep in mind that — except for special occasions and those special dudes who are into your looking like your office is a pole — men generally prefer the “natural look.”

Of course, the reality is, this sort of “natural” is about an hour and a dozen products away from being “au naturel.”

What ultimately matters is that you don’t look so dramatically different in makeup that when your boyfriend bumps into the barefaced you at the fridge in the wee hours, he puts his hands up and yells, “Take whatever you want; just let me live!”

Buddy surfing

This guy and I have been friends with benefits for six months. We were casual friends for two years prior to hooking up, but we have gotten much closer since. So, can FWB things ever turn into real relationships, or did we blow our chance?

— Hoping Friends-with-benefits arrangements are, to some degree, replacing dating. Unfortunately, trying to turn an FWB thing into a relationship can be like trying to return a shirt. One you’ve worn. For a while. You march straight up to the counter and lay the thing out. The guy at the register frowns: “Ma’am, Macy’s closed six years ago. This is Chipotle now.”

It’s helpful to understand what anthropologist Helen Fisher and her colleagues have discovered -- that lust, love and attachment aren’t just emotions; they are motivational systems (ultimately for the purpose of reproduction and child rearing).

Lust eventually wanes (which makes sense, because “Ohhh, baby” needs to give way to feeding the baby).

The neurochemistry behind lust “can trigger expressions of attachment,” Fisher explains.

However, in men, high testosterone — in general or from having sex — “can reduce attachment.” This is probably more likely if a man has a “high baseline level of testosterone,” which is typically reflected in a strong jaw and chin, a muscular body, and dominant behavior.

Because you two were friends first and seem to care about each other, maybe you can be more than sex friends. Tell him you really enjoy hanging with him, and ask whether he’d be up for more than FWB. But take the low-pressure approach: You don’t want an answer on the spot; you’d just like him to think about it.

This should make you seem less desperate and possibly let him feel like having more was his idea. If he wants less, you should probably stop seeing him — at least naked — for a while. He may end up missing you, which could energize his interest in you in a way FWB tends not to do. (They call it “the thrill of the chase,” not the thrill of “you can text any day at 2 a.m. and she’ll let you come over.”)

• (c.) 2016, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved.

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Saturday, Oct. 1

OLD-FASHIONED COUNTRY BREAKFAST, 7-10 a.m., Carson’s Chapel United Methodist Church, 2561 Tom’s Creek Road, Marion. The church will hold an all-you-can-eat meals with three meats, homemade biscuits, grits, sausage gravy and drinks.

The meal cost is $6 for the general public, $4 for ages 6-12 and free for ages 5 and younger.

CRAFT BAZAAR/BAKE SALE, 8 a.m.-1 p.m., Tabernacle United Methodist Church, 385 Tabernacle Road, Black Mountain. A craft fair and bake sale will be held to raise money for ministries, including Swannanoa Valley Christian Ministry and Hand in Hand.

Sunday, Oct. 2

BLESSING OF THE ANIMALS, 4 p.m., chapel courtyard (on Aston Street beside the church), Trinity Episcopal Church, 60 Church St., Asheville.

A blessing of the animals will offer what is billed by the church as “God’s blessing on our beloved animal companions, using prayers and music from the tradition of St. Francis.”

BLESSING OF THE ANIMALS, 6 p.m., Grace Lutheran Church, 1245 Sixth Avenue West, Hendersonville. A blessing of the animals will be hosted by the church’s high school youth. All members of the community are welcome to bring pets. Light refreshments will follow the ceremony.

DINNER/CONCERT, 7:30 p.m., The Billy Graham Training Center at The Cove, 1 Porters Cove Road, Asheville. Following a buffet dinnner, a concert will feature a concert by the group Point of Grace. For tickets, which are $55, visit http://thecove.org.

Thursday, Oct. 6

WORKSHOPS/TRAINING SESSIONS, 6-9 p.m., Grace Lutheran Church, 1245 Sixth Ave. W., Hendersonville. “DifferentTogether,” a series of workshops and training sessions on race issues, will be held weekly through Nov. 10. The session will include dinner. Attendees will practice listening with the intent of being better able to understand how race plays out in America, and how it shaped our culture

Kirsten Buxten will discuss her book, “I Married a Mystic,” from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Nov. 13 at Unity of the Blue Ridge in Mills River. and history. To register, which costs $79, call 6934890, or visit bit.ly/differenttogether.

Saturday, Oct. 8

RUMMAGE/BAKE SALE, 8 a.m.-2 p.m., Church of the Redeemer, 1201 Riverside Drive, Asheville.

A rummage and bake sale will be held. The sale will feature household items and clothing, along with baked goods. Also featured will be tours of the 1888 church, which is in the National Historical Registry.

CONCERT, 7:30 p.m., Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts, 1028 Georgia Road, Franklin.

The group Sidewalk Prophets will perform in concert.

The group is billed as living by the spiritual practice of integrating worship with real life. For tickets, which are $18 and $22, call (866) 273-4615 or visit www. greatmountainmusic.com.

Friday, Oct. 14

SOCIAL JUSTICE MOVE NIGHT, 7 p.m., UnitarianUniversalist Congregation of Asheville, 1 Edwin Place, Asheville. The monthly social justice movie, which is to be announced, will be screened. A discussion will follow the screening. Admission is free.

Friday, Nov. 4

HIGHER CONSCIOUSNESS MINI-RETREAT, 7-9 p.m., Unity of the Blue Ridge, 2041 Old Fanning Bridge Road, Mills River. Suzanne Giesemann will lead a two-day workshop on “Your Emerging Soul.“ The Nov. 5 session will run from 9 a.m. to 8:30 p.m., with breaks for lunch and dinner. The Nov. 5 evening also will include a special session with sanaya. Giesemann, an author, metaphysical teacher and evidencebased medium, will explore higher consciousness, love and the greater reality. “Imagine waking up every day feeling loved, loving, and worthy of being loved!” Unity noted. “At the end of the course you will know: How to deal in a healthy way with fear, doubt, grief, and other unwanted emotions.” To register for two-day workshop, which costs $125, visit www.suzannegiesemann.com.

Sunday, Nov. 13

“I MARRIED A MYSTIC” BOOK TOUR, 4:30-6:30

a.m., Unity of the Blue Ridge, 2041 Old Fanning Bridge Road, Mills River. The “I Married a Mystic” Book Tour will feature Kirsten Buxten. She is a modern-day mystic, spiritual teacher and author who became devoted to awakening after a revelatory experience of such intense love that she realized nothing else mattered. In 2004, she was guided into a devotional practice of the modern-day spiritual text “A Course In Miracles.” Shortly after this, she met mystic David Hoffmeister and joined him in the U.S., travelling and living in service to Christ. One of her many spirit-led adventures involved learning to play the guitar, writing her first song with two chords and then putting out an album — all in one year. Buxten lives in a spiritual community devoted to peace of mind and forgiveness. She loves sharing and shining about the fruits of the mind training “A Course In Miracles” advocates through songs, gatherings and movies. She has just published her first book, “I Married a Mystic,” which is an intimate account of her own journey of transformation. This experiential and inspiring presentation is offered for a $20 suggested donation.

Wednesday, Nov. 30

TIBETAN SOUND HEALING PROGRAM, 6:30-8:30 a.m., Unity of the Blue Ridge, 2041 Old Fanning Bridge Road, Mills River. A program on “Tibetan Sound Healing: Healing with Voice and Visualization” will be led by Karen Patrick. An inspirational speaker, meditation teacher and seminar leader, Patrick will offer what is billed as an experiencial evening of Tibetan sound healing. “Using voice, intention and sacred anatomy, attendees will become aware of their vibrant, luminous true nature,” Unity noted .

“A natural confidence arises beyond regrets, fears, hopes, and accomplishments. By bringing our problems into this awareness, we experience a shift in consciousness. We rest in the silence of being.

We become more aware of peace, love and joy effortlessly occurring in our daily lives. Once learned, this this simple and powerful practicei s available to us moment to moment, so we may live in joyful open, clear expression.” The optional text “Tibetan Sound Healing” by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche will be used. A suggested love offering of $15 will be taken.

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Candid Conservative Continued from Page A12 Seldom do these deceivers appear with a tail and a pitchfork. More often they come with the confidence of the self-deceived and an outreached hand and a smile.

Anything that encourages us toward addiction, shame, victimization, anger or vanity should be suspect for deception. The worst things of man come with hidden agendas that run counter to our best interests and are designed to enslave versus uplift.

The search for right requires our best efforts. Comfort, familiarity and the attractions of belonging rarely serve that agenda.

Instead, we will become ripe targets for the enemies of truth, enlightenment and authentic liberty.

We live in a world filled with manmade paths to oblivion marketed as something special. God created man in his image, and ever since, to his detriment, man has been trying to return the favor.

Conservatism comes in many forms

The left and mainstream media have done an excellent job of distorting the authentic conservative message. In truth, pretend conservatives have been our greatest enemy.

Throughout history it has been demonstrated that defeated armies, cultures and countries are first destroyed from within.

Conservatism is a value system devoted to political governance. It recognizes that the selective introduction of conservative personal, social, and spiritual values into the administration of society is a dangerous precedent, once accepted, not easily restrained. Our mission is to preserve a superior model of governance – not to run things based on our personal preferences.

Selectively applying the constraints of the Constitution while we’re in power opens the door to our opposition when they’re in power.

As individuals, we’re capable of blending our personal, social, spiritual and political values. Values integration is a more complex undertaking for an entire society. Our growing indifference to shared values is fragmenting America and weakening our national spirit. Recovery necessitates that conservatives retain a sincere dedication to the political value system found in the Constitution. Ironically, a unifying allegiance to this document’s political principles offers the greatest security for the personal, social and spiritual values that ultimately matter most.

Conservatism is not about what is best.

It is about making sure we have a consistent and functional system of governance that allows us all to seek what is best. God encouraged man to avoid competing with Caesar. Conservatives do not compete

with God. We’re dedicated to preserving a system of governance that allows every man to pursue their liberated path to heavenly values or earthly ones – each in his own way as our Founders, and God, clearly intended.

Stand for something

Political principles should be attained with care, maintained with enthusiasm, and traded with restraint. Conservatives, to remain such, have to make a conscious and persistent choice to embrace their principles before all other considerations. Once you make the decision to make an exchange for power, popularity, prosperity, practicality, posterity and other “p” words, the slide into unprincipled territory becomes increasingly permanent.

Principles on governance are not like a change of clothes that comes in and out of style. True principles have been thought out, practiced and affirmed by the tests of time.

Political chameleons adapt their principles to their immediate needs. Conservatives do the reverse and adapt their actions to their principles. One flutters with the wind while the other weathers the storm.

Remaining true to one’s chosen principles remains an essential component of hope.

Conservative principles remain an essential component of America.

Don’t worry – be happy

Politics is not the essence of life. It is more a means to keeping man’s collective nonsense in check so that life can go on.

Conservatives do not live for politics, they engage in politics so that they and others may live freely through sound governance.

We have each been granted the gift of life and a set of unique skills, talents and abilities through which we are at liberty to

craft that life. It is our choices — above all other considerations including place of birth, upbringing, social influences and chance — that most influence our final outcome.

Conservatives know we must choose wisely if we are to live fruitfully.

If we are to be politically successful in securing a sound model of governance for our country, we must live a life that is more dedicated to creativity and delight than martyrdom. Above all, lest we be corrupted by our narrowness and obsessions, we must retain a close relationship with love as a motivation for action. Little good will come from much we do unless it’s filtered through a heart that seeks to make the world better for its beating.

America’s future rests on its conservative patriots. We have something to smile about as we persevere in that magnificent mission.

You have a pretty good start at stepping out of the dangerous ditches of progressiveliberal-socialism and political opportunism and up unto the road to reality, reason, responsibility and right.

Your timing is impeccable. You’ll one day be able to say that you were conservative when conservative wasn’t cool.

As the world gets more dangerous, and it will, we’ll all get more conservative. That’s because conservatism operates out of the core messages of nature. And in a dangerous world, working with the tenets of nature is the only way to have a future ....

• Carl Mumpower is a psychologist and former elected official. He thanks you for spending a few minutes with a candid conservative and invites you to reach him at drmumpower@aol.com.

In closing

There you go. In two short months you’ve taken the fast course on conservatism. You already know more than most conservatives who’ve called themselves such for years.

Having a few conservative positions doesn’t make you a conservative – it makes you a political toddler.

As Churchill noted at the conclusion of the Battle of Britain in 1942: “Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”

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‘Fashion from the Classics’ coming to Biltmore Estate

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From Staff Reports collection of classic literary works and the popular movies that brought them to life will be celebrated in “Designed for Drama: Fashion From the Classics,” Biltmore’s newest exhibition of award-winning costumes and objects from the Biltmore collection.

Set for Feb. 10 through July 4, 2017, the exhibition is inspired by favorite stories in George Vanderbilt’s 22,000-volume library.

More than 40 elaborate costumes from recent films will be displayed in Biltmore House, including a costume worn by Robert Downey Jr. in “Sherlock Holmes,” and Nicole Kidman’s Isabel Archer costume from “The Portrait of a Lady.”

The film fashions will be displayed along with the original books from Vanderbilt’s library that served as cinematic inspiration.

The clothing reveals the attention to detail involved in period costume design.

Vanderbilt began to read at a very young age, and years later he was once dubbed by New York media as “one of the best read men in the country.” At age 12, he started keeping a record of books read, numbered consecutively, including the title and author of each work completed. These journals log 38 years and 3,159 books, and will be on display dur-

Special photo courtesy of BILTMORE ESTATE

Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Alicia Vikander in a scene from “Anna Karenina.”

Costumes from the film will be among those on display in Biltmore House when “Designed for Drama: Fashion from the Classics” opens on Feb. 10. derbilt to collect more than 22,000 volumes before his death.

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‘Mastermind,’ filmed locally, opens — finally

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From Staff Reports

he satirical action-comedy film “Masterminds,” which was shot in Western North Carolina, finally opened Sept. 30 at cinemas nationally.

The movie was filmed in July and August 2014 in WNC, including downtown Asheville and in Waynesville’s Plott Creek area The big-budget film stars Zach Galifianakis (“The Hangover” franchise), Kristen Wiig (“Saturday Night Live” and “Bridesmaids”), Owen Wilson (“Midnight in Paris” and “Zoolander”) and Jason Sudeikis (“Saturday Night Live” and “Horrible Bosses”).

Galifianakis claims WNC as his home,

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ing this exhibition.

The exhibition will also give insight into the eclectic and varied interests that led Van-

as he was born in Wilkesboro in 1969. He spends his spare time at his 60-acre farm in the North Carolina mountains, where he hopes to open a writer’s retreat on a completely self-sustained farm.

The cast also includes Devis Ratray, Kate McKinnon, Mary Elizabeth Ellis, Ken Marino, Leslie Jones, Jon Daly and Ross Kimball.

The film, rated PG-13, was directed by Jared Hess and produced by Relativity Media.

Based on a true story, “Masterminds” follows the riotous misadventures of unlikely anit-hero David Ghantt (Galifianakis), as he pulls off — at that time — the largest cash robbery in U.S. history in Charlotte in 1997.

The trouble begins when David, a trusted armored-truck driver for Loomis Fargo, falls

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for beautiful guard Kelly Campbell (Wiig).

After she quits her job, Kelly, egged on by local petty thief Steve Chambers (Wilson), persuades David to clean out the company’s vault in Charlotte.

After stuffing a van with more than $17 million of stolen cash, David delivers to money to Chambers’ gang, and flees to Mexico to lie low while the FBI searches for the culprits.

Steve and his wife Michelle (Mary Elizabeth Ellis) buy a mansion with their ill-gotten wealth and dispatch overzealous hit man Mike McKinney (Jason Sudeikis) to Mexico to kill David. Once David discovers the betrayal, he returns to North Carolina on a mission to rescue his true love and expose Steve to the heist’s real “mastermind.”

loved trick-or-treating. I still do.

Most of the time, I dressed up as a witch. One year, my boyfriend’s mother helped me make a ghost costume out of white tulle.

I found the directions in one of my Martha Stewart Halloween magazines that I collected every year. It was a billowy white cape with a wide hood that hid much of my long red hair and framed my face. My face was already pale, so a bit of smoky purple eyeshadow smudged on my lips and beneath my eyes gave me that perfect shade of Death.

Throughout the night, the neighborhood children stopped me during my Halloween march and asked in whispered awe, “Are you a bride?” “Yes,” I replied. “A dead bride.”

My costume was so much fun! It trailed behind me as I walked and bunched around me when I turned. I left little pieces of me all over the neighborhood. As the tulle caught on twigs and bushes, it tore pieces of my wispy cape and held them within their grasp. Leaves gathered beneath my costume as I walked, announcing my presence with a rustling sound. The dirt I churned up stained the bottom of my costume and only made me spookier. For a holiday of death, I felt so alive!

No matter how many years go by, I still greet the Halloween season with the anticipation of a child. The air grows cooler, the leaves change to bright, bold colors, everything around me takes on a sharper focus and feels more real than any other time of the year. The smell of wood smoke and decaying leaves fills my nostrils and I breathe it in deeply.

For those of us who love exploring creepy places, especially during the Halloween season, remember that you have more fun if you know you’re safe. That’s one of the first rules in any haunted attraction and I’d say it holds true in your personal explorations as well.

Always get permission from the owner to investigate, never investigate alone and always be respectful of the location, whether it’s a house, a field, a graveyard or Aunt Sally’s bathroom.

Recognize the limitations of yourself and the spectres you came to communicate with and know that if you have an accident, the spirits that inhabit that place probably won’t be able to set that broken leg, give you CPR or call for an ambulance. So don’t go alone and always let friends and family know where you’re going and when you’ll be back.

Another practical reason to get permission is that many of these creepy places have hidden dangers like asbestos or rotten floorboards. I can’t tell you the number of fabulously haunted places that owners have torn down because people kept breaking in and got hurt.

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The Hot Club of San Francisco will perform at 8 p.m. Oct. 1 during Cinema Vivant at the Tryon Fine Arts Center in Tryon.

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LGBTQ PRIDE FESTIVAL, 11 a.m.-7 p.m., Pack Square Park, downtown Asheville. Local LGBTQ activists will host the annual LGBTQ Blue Ridge Pride Festival. “Color Our World With Pride and Love” is this year’s theme. “This positive stand of ‘Love triumphs over hate’ will show all the diversity and welcoming atmosphere of Asheville’s proud LGBTQ community and allies,” the board of directors reported in a statement to the news media recently. Features will include continuous music, dancing and entertainment on the main stage in front of City Hall. Surrounding the outdoor venue will be more than 100 booths and vendors. CNN named Asheville as one of the best places in the world to celebrate pride in 2012. Past festivals have drawn between 10,000 and 12,000 visitors, but the organizers are predicting that this year will attract even a bigger turnout, as the LGBTQ community — and its friends — want to show solidarity.

WNC History Talk, 2 p.m., Reuter Center, UNC Asheville. “Kiffin Rockwell: Asheville’s Celebrated WWI Fighter Pilot” will be addressed by Marc McClure, who has produced the documentary film, “Valor,” about Kiffin Rockwell, known for his bravery against German aviators during WW I. McClure is associate professor of history at Walters State, the Great Smoky Mountains community college. The talk is sponsored by the WNC Historical Association and OLLI at UNCA. Admission is free, but a $5 donation will be requested.

CHARLEY PRIDE CONCERT, 7:30 p.m., Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts, Franklin.

Country music star Charley Pride will perform in concert. “ With 36 No. 1 hits under his belt, Charley Pride, who is black, “has helped prove how little race matters to the majority of country music fans,” a flyer said. For tickets, which are $48, $53 and $58, visit greatmountainmusic.com.

SCOTT MCCREERY CONCERT, 7:30 p.m., Niswonger Performing Arts Center, Greeneville, Tenn. Country singer-guitarist Scott McCreery will perform in concert. He won the 10th season of television’s “American Idol” in 2011.

CINEMA VIVANT, 8 p.m., Tryon Fine Arts Center, 34 Melrose Ave., Tryon. The Hot Club of San Francisco will present Cinema Vivant, an event of vintage silent films, accompanied by live gypsy swing. The HCSF has been praised by the San Francisco Chronicle as “one of the most cohesive and entertaining gypsy swing bands in the United States.”

FLEETWOOD MAC TRIBUTE CONCERT, 8 p.m., Playhouse Downtown, 125 N. Main St,, downtown Hendersonville. Flat Rock Playhouse’s Music on the Rock series will present “The Music of Fleetwood

Mac.” For tickets, call the Playhouse box office at 693-0731, or visiting flatrockplayhouse.org.

Tuesday, Oct. 4

WORLD AFFAIRS LECTURE, 7:30 p.m., Reuter Center, UNC Asheville. “International Finance Today” will be addressed by Donald Mayer, chairman of the Department of Business Ethics and Legal studies and professor-in-residence at the University of Denver’s Daniels College of Business. Mayer will discuss the problems and promises of international finance. Admission is $10 for the public and free for member of the WNC World Affairs Council and UNCA students.

Wednesday, Oct. 5

POVERTY FORUM, 7 p.m., Thomas Wolfe Auditorium, downtown Asheville. Pisgah Legal Service’s sixth annual poverty forum will feature Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president of the Children’s Defense Fund. A graduate of Spelman College and Yale Law School, Edelman was the first black woman admitted to the Mississippi Bar Association. She later directed the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund office in Jackson, Miss. Edelman will share the results of a new Children’s Defense Fund study, “Ending Child Poverty Now.” She will argue that by making investments in existing programs and policies, the nation could reduce child poverty by 60 percent and lift 6.6 million children out of poverty. A panel of local representatives will follow her address to discuss child poverty in Western North Carolina.

For tickets, which are $15, visit www.pisgahlegal. org, or call Brent McKnight at 210-3405.

Thursday, Oct. 6

PUBLIC TALK, 7 p.m., Humanities Lecture Hall, UNC Asheville. A talk will be given by Keith Woods, director of diversity in news and operations at National Public Radio. Woods leads the development of NPR’s vision and strategy for diversity and writes regularly on race and the media. His talk will be free and open to the public.

Friday, Oct. 7

HUMANITIES LECTURE, 11 a.m., Humanities Lecture Hall, UNC Asheville. “Women and Equality” will be addressed by Lyndi Hewitt, a UNCA assistant professor of sociology. Admission is free and open to the public.

Humanities Lecture, 11 a.m., Lipinsky Auditorium, UNC Asheville. “Music in the Modern World” will be addressed by Mike Ruiz, pianist and UNCA professor of physics. Admission is free and open to everyone.

Fab Friday Panel DISCUSSION, 11:30 a.m.1:15 p.m., Reuter Center, UNC Asheville. A panel will discuss Asheville’s status as “Beer City USA.” The discussion will feature some of Asheville’s leading craft brewers, including Oscar and Leah Wong of Highland Brewing, Tim Schaller of The Wedge Brewing Company and Alex Dwoinen of New Belgium Brewery. Attendees may buy lunch at the Reuter Cafe — or bring their own. The Fab Friday lunch-and-learn is free and open to everyone.

DARLINGSIDE CONCERT, 8 p.m., Diana Wortham Theatre, Pack Square, downtown Asheville. The folk-pop fusion band Darlingside will perform in concert. For tickets, visit www. dwtheatre.com.

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“Beehive: The Musical,” shown in performance elsewhere, will open at 2 and 7 p.m. Oct. 13 — and run through Oct. 30 — at Flat Rock Playhouse in Flat Rock.

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Niswonger Performing Arts Center, Greeneville, Tenn. The Motown soul group The Temptations will perform in concert.

.38 SPECIAL CONCERT, 9 p.m., Event Center, Harrah’s Cherokee Casino, Cherokee. The band .38 Special will perform in concert. For tickets, visit www.ticketmaster.com or call (800) 745-3000.

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Saturday, Oct. 8

OCTOBERFEST, 1-6 p.m., Pack Square Park, downtown Asheville. The annual Octoberfest celebration will feature beers from 20-25 breweries. The Stratton Mountain Boys of Vermont will return with a day of German music and yodeling songs. The gala will begin with a parade through the park, followed by a ceremonial tapping of the first keg. The event will include planet of games, such as a pretzel toss, stein hoist, relay race and key roll. There alos will be a costume contest and an “organic free-range chicken dance.” The gala is adult-oriented, so the organizers are urging that children be left at home, although they will be permitted to attend with a ticket. For tickets, which are $40 in advance, visit ashevilledowntown.org/oktoberfest. Tickets on the day of the event are $45.

SAWYER BROWN CONCERT, 7:30 p.m., Niswonger Performing Arts Center, Greeneville, Tenn. The country-music band Sawyer Brown will perform in concert.

CONCERT, 7:30 p.m., Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts, 1028 Georgia Road, Franklin.

The group Sidewalk Prophets will perform in concert.

The group is billed as living by the spiritual practice of integrating worship with real life. For tickets, which are $18 and $22, call (866) 273-4615 or visit www. greatmountainmusic.com.

NNENNA FREELON CONCERT, 8 p.m., Diana Wortham Theatre, Pack Square, downtown Asheville. Jazz singer Nnenna Freelon will perform in concert. She is the winner of the Billie Holiday Award from the Academie du Jazz, and the Uebie Blake Award from the Cultural Crossroads Center in New York City. For tickets, visit www.dwtheatre.com.

Monday, Oct. 10

STEM LECTURE, 4:30 p.m., Reuter Center, UNC Asheville. “Mathematics of Spirography” will be addressed by David Bates, of the OLLI College for Seniors faculty. Admission is free and open to the public.

Thursday, Oct. 13

“BEEHIVE: THE ‘60S MUSICAL” SHOW, 2 and 7:30 p.m., main stage, Flat Rock. “Beehive: The ‘60s Musical” will be performed through Oct. 30. Showtimes vary. The show is a celebration of the great female vocalists of the 1960s — from Lesley Gore to Aretha Franklin. Featured will be songs such as “It’s My Party,” “My Boyfriend’s Back,” “Where the Boys Are,” “Proud Mary” and “Respect.” Tickets, which are $15 to $40, may be purchased by calling the Playhouse box office at 693-0731, or visiting flatrockplayhouse.org.

THE TEMPTATIONS CONCERT, 7:30 p.m.,

FAMILY BUSINESS FORUM, 8-11 a.m., Mission Health Mountain View Room, Sherrill Center, UNC Asheville. A Family Business Forum on “Bridging the Personality Gap” will be led by Burt LohoffGaida, founder of Lohoff-Gaida Consulting LLC. Participants will be offered an online survey in advance from Professional Dynametric Programs to identify strengths, stresses, satisfaction, motivations, energy style and decision-making style.

Admission is free to Forum members and $49 for nonmembers. To preregister, which is required, visit fbf.unca.edu/register Humanities Lecture, 11 a.m., Lipinsky Auditorium, UNC Asheville. “Islam and the Modern World: From the Ottoman Empire to the Rise of the Republic of Turkey” will be addressed by Rodger Payne, UNCA associate professor and chair of religious studies. Admission is free and open to everyone.

HUMANITIES LECTURE, 11 a.m., Humanities Lecture Hall, UNC Asheville. “Sexuality and Gender” will be addressed by Karin Peterson, UNCA professor and chair of sociology. Admission is free and open to everyone.

Fab Friday TALK, 11:30 a.m.-1:15 p.m., Reuter Center, UNC Asheville. “Macular Degeneration & the Blue Light Danger” will be addressed by optometrist Kim Walters. Attendees will learn more about the impact of blue light, which is emitted in high concentration from our smartphones, tablets, computers, TVs, fluorescent lights and LED lighting.

Attendees may buy lunch at the Reuter Cafe or bring their own. The Fab Friday lunch-and-learn is free and open to everyone.

AUTHOR’S ADDRESS, 6-9 p.m., The Renaissance Hotel, downtown Asheville. Wiley Cash, a New York Times bestselling author and UNC Asheville graduate, will deliver the keynote address at the Literacy Council of Buncombe County’s ninth annual Authors for Literacy Dinner and Silent Auction. Cash will be joined by his brother, Cliff Cash, a comedian who will serve as the event/s master of ceremonies.

Wiley Cash’s debut novel, “A Land More Kind Than Home,” was a NYT bestseller. His second novel “This Road to Mercy,” was an O Magazine top 10 title. His stories have appeared in Crab Orchard Review and The Carolina Quarterly. The event will begin with a cocktail hour and silent auction. Then, the threecourse dinner will be accompanied by a presentation by a current Literacy Council student. At that point, Cash will give the keynote presentation and autograph guests’ books. Book sales will be managed by Malaprop’s Bookstore/Café. For tickets, which are $75, visit litcouncil.com.

Saturday, Oct. 15

STYX CONCERT, 7:30 p.m., Event Center, Harrah’s Cherokee Casino, Cherokee. The band Styx will perform in concert. For tickets, visit www.ticketmaster.com or call (800) 745-3000.

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Saturday, Oct. 15

COLLINGSWORTH FAMILY CONCERT, 7:30 p.m., Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts, Franklin. The Collingsworth Family will lead an evening of family worship and praise. For tickets, which are $20 and $25, visit greatmountainmusic.com.

KEB’ MO’ BAND CONCERT, 8 p.m., The Foundation Performing Arts Center, Isothermal Community College, Spindale. The Keb’ Mo’ Band will perform in concert. For tickets, which are $22, $27, $32 and $37, visit www.FoundationShows.org.

Monday, Oct. 17

Humanities Lecture, 11 a.m., Lipinsky Auditorium, UNC Asheville. “Encounters and Transmissions of Knowledge” will be addressed

by Grant Hardy, professor of history; and Gregory Lyon, adjunct lecturer in humanities. Admission is free and open to everyone.

LECTURE, 7 p.m., 237 Owen Hall, UNC Asheville. Hal Bonnette will address “Archaeology: What Is It and How Is It Done?” as part of the International Archaeology Day (Oct. 15) celebration.

Bonnette, an independent archaeologist, works with the University of Hawaii, supervising work at Tell Timai, the site of ancient Greco-Roman city of Thmuis in northeastern Egypt. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Tuesday, Oct. 18

PARSONS DANCE PERFORMANCE, 8 p.m., Diana Wortham Theatre, Pack Square, downtown Asheville.

Parsons Dance will feature exuberance and virtuosity.

For tickets, visit www.dwtheatre.com.

Thursday, Oct. 20

NATIONAL PARK HISTORY PROGRAM, 7 p.m., Humanities Lecture Hall, UNC Asheville. “History, the National Parks and Western North Carolina” will be addressed by a panel of historians, including Margaret Brown of Brevard College and author of “The Wild East: A Biography of the Great Smoky Mountains,” Tim Silver of Appalachian State University, author of “Mount Mitchell and the Black Mountains: An Environmental History of the Highest Peaks in Eastern America,” and Richard Starnes of Western Carolina University, author of “Creating the Land of the Sky: Tourism and Society in Western North Carolina.” The panel will discuss the roots of the national parks in this region, their impact on its economy and social life, and implications for its future as part of UNCA’s celebration of the National Park Service Centennial.

Admission is free and open to the public.

“VINTAGE HITCHCOCK: A LIVE RADIO PLAY,” 7:30 p.m., Playhouse Downtown, 125 N. Main St,, downtown Hendersonville. Flat Rock Playhouse will present “Vintage Hitchcock: A Live Radio Play” through Nov. 6. Showtimes vary. “This spooky and thrilling piece from the master of suspense, ‘Vintage Hitchcock: A Live Radio Play’ brings to life three tales in the style of a 1940s radio broadcast — complete with vintage commercials and the magic of live sound effects. Tickets, which are $15 to $40, may be purchased by calling the Playhouse box office at 693-0731, or visiting flatrockplayhouse.org.

MY MORNING JACKET CONCERT, 8 p.m., Thomas Wolfe Auditorium, downtown Asheville.

The band My Morning Jacket will perform in concert. Tickets, which are $46, may be purchased at TWA’s box office or online at uscellularcenterasheville.com or at ticketmaster.com.

Friday, Oct. 21

FAITH IN LITERATURE PROGRAM, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., Laurel Forum, Karpen Hall, UNC Asheville. The two-day “Faith in Literature: A Festival of Contemporary Writers of the Spirit” will open with readings by a number of the featured authors.The two-day event, comprising writers from several faith traditions, will include readings, panel discussions, guided conversations that include audience members, and two open productions of “On Being.” The Faith in Literature program continues from 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

Oct. 22 in Laurel Forum, with evening activities from 7:30 to 9 in the Humanities Lecture Hall.

Humanities Lecture, 11 a.m., Humanities Lecture Hall, UNC Asheville. “Race and Poverty” will be addressed by Dwight Mullen, UNCA professor of political science. Admission is free and open to the public.

Humanities Lecture, 11 a.m., Lipinsky Au-

ditorium, UNC Asheville. “Humanities Lectures — Modernity and Instability in 19th Century China; and Indian Feminists and Modernity” will be addressed

by Grant Hardy, UNCA professor of history; and Keya Maitra, associate professor and chair of philosophy. Admission is free and open to everyone.

Fab Friday PROGRAM,11:30 a.m.-1:15 p.m., Reuter Center, UNC Asheville. Jim McDowell, who calls himself “The Black Potter,” will bring samples of his pottery and present a historical perspective on face jugs from African traditions. Essentially a self-taught potter, McDowell creates face jugs based on both his family traditions and the sacred ancestral tradition of using face jugs as gravemarkers. Attendees are urged to either buy their lunch from the Reuter Center or to bring their own.

The Fab Friday lunch-and-learn program is free and open to the public.

Symphony Talk, 3 p.m, Reuter Center, UNC Asheville. The monthly Symphony Talk series will feature Daniel Meyer, music director of the Asheville Symphony Orchestra; Conductor Daniel Meyer and WCQS music host Chip Kaufmann. They will discuss the symphony’s upcoming concert with soloists, concertmaster Jason Posnock and cellist Alistair MacRae. Admission is free and open to the public.

“ON BEING” INTERVIEW, 7:30- 9 p.m., Humanities Lecture Hall, UNC Asheville. Host Krista Tippett will tape an “On Being” episode with poet Marilyn Nelson” during the Faith in UNCA’s Literature Festival with those in attendance serving as the live audience. Tippett is a broadcaster and New York Times best-selling author. Her public radio broadcast, “On Being”, airs on more than 400 public radio stations across the United States. Locally, “On Being’ airs on WCQS-FM (88.1)

Saturday, Oct. 22

MARTINA MCBRIDE CONCERT, 7:30 p.m., Event Center, Harrah’s Cherokee Casino, Cherokee.

Martina McBride, who is on her “Love Unleashed” tour, will perform in concert. For tickets, visit www. ticketmaster.com or call (800) 745-3000.

JASON BISHOP SHOW, 7:30 p.m., Niswonger Performing Arts Center, Greeneville, Tenn. The Jason Bishop Show will feature performances of state of the art magic and illusion. Each show features “amazing sleight of hand, exclusive grand illusions and even close-up magic,” NPAC noted.

“ON BEING” INTERVIEW, 7:30- 9 p.m., Humanities Lecture Hall, UNC Asheville. Host Krista Tippett will tape an “On Being” episode with Pulitzer Prize-winner Isabel Wilkerson, who reads earlier that day — at 4 p.m. during the Faith in UNCA’s Literature Festival with those in attendance serving as the live audience.

Sunday, Oct. 23

LIVING TREASURES CEREMONY, 1:30 p.m.,Reuter Center, UNC Asheville. The Asheville Living Treasures Recognition Ceremony will honor elders ages 70 or older from all walks of life living in Asheville and Buncombe County who have greatly contributed to making the community a better place to live. This ceremony is free and open to the public.

Monday, Oct. 24

NATIONAL PARKS ECONOMICS TALK, 7 p.m., Laurel Forum, Karpen Hall, UNC Asheville. “The Economics of National Parks: Issues and Opportunities — How Does Economics Inform the National Park Experience?” will be addressed by Carolyn Ward, chief executive officer of the Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation. She will discuss the need for nonprofit support of parks. In addition, Steve Morse, director and economist of the Hospitality and Tourism Program at Western Carolina University, will discuss the economic impact of park visitation on gateway and surrounding communities. Audience perspective on the values that people assign to parks will be solicited as part of the discussion which will continue during the reception following the panel. The program is part of UNCA’s celebration of the National Park Service Centennial.

Admission is free and open to everyone.

Tuesday, Oct. 25

THE BEATLES LISTENING SESSION, 7 p.m., Lipinsky Hall Lobby, UNC Asheville. “The Beatles in ‘3’” will be led by Brian Felix, UNCA assistant professor of music. The Beatles, like most rock/pop bands in the 1960s, composed most of their music in 4/4 meter. Unlike their contemporaries, however, the band incorporated triple meter — 3/4, 6/8 and 12/8 — into a relatively substantial amount of their tunes. The guided listening session will explore the sub-section of the Beatles’ music that is in “3.” By looking at this body of tunes, attendees are expected to gain insights into the band’s compositional process, musical output and place in 1960s musical culture. Admission is free and open to everyone.

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The Beatles (above) will be the focus of a music-listening program, “The Beatles in ‘3,’” at 7 p.m. Oct. 25 in the Lipinsky Hall Lobby at UNC Asheville. The free program will be led by Brian Felix, a UNCA assistant professor of music.

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Friday, Oct. 28

Humanities Lecture, 11 a.m., Lipinsky Auditorium, UNC Asheville. “Drawing Lines: WW II and the Postwar Revolutions” will be addressed by Eric Roubinek, UNCA assistant professor of history.

Admission is free and open to everyone ZZ TOP CONCERT, 7:30 p.m., Niswonger Performing Arts Center, Greeneville, Tenn. The band ZZ Top will perform in concert.

CAPITAL STEPS SHOW, 8 p.m., Diana Wortham Theatre, Pack Square, downtown Asheville. The Capital Steps will perform a show billed as “providing much-needed comic relief from election season mania.” The show also will be performed at 3 and 8 p.m. Oct. 29. For tickets, visit www.dwtheatre.com.

Tuesday, Nov. 1

WORLD AFFAIRS LECTURE, 7:30 p.m., Reuter Center, UNC Asheville. “Pirates, Anarchists and Cowboys” will be addressed by Donald Puchala, Byrnes Professor Emeritus of International Studies at the University of South Carolina. Puchala will examine the growth and strength of ISIS Admission is $10 for the public and free for member of the WNC World Affairs Council and UNCA students.

Friday, Nov. 4

“FIDDLER ON THE ROOF” SHOW, 7:30 p.m., Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts,

Franklin. The Overlook Theatre Company will present the Broadway musical classic “Fiddler on the Roof.” The show also will be performed at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 5, 11 and 12. “Rich in historical and ethnic detail, ‘Fiddler on the Roof’s’ universal theme of tradition cuts across barriers of race, class, nationality and religion, leaving audiences crying tears of laughter, joy and sadness,” an SMCPA promotion noted. For tickets, which are $17 for adults and $12 for students, visit greatmountainmusic.com.

Saturday, Nov. 12

3 DOORS DOWN CONCERT, 7 p.m., Event Center, Harrah’s Cherokee Casino, Cherokee.

The band 3 Doors Down will perform in concert benefiting The Better Life Foundation. For tickets, visit www.ticketmaster.com or call (800) 7453000.

BOB DYLAN CONCERT, 8 p.m., Thomas Wolfe Auditorium, downtown Asheville. The mostly folk legend Bob Dylan will perform in concert.

Dylan, now 75, is on the road fresh after releasing his 37th studio album, “Fallen Angels,” in May. The album follows in the jazzy direction of his other, most recent work, 2015’s “Shadows in the Night,” and, like “Shadows,” this album is a vocal improvement over 2012’s “Tempest.”

Tickets, which start at $59.50 for balcony seating and $89.50 for floor seats, as well as $127.50 for limited seats in the first three rows, may be purchased — if still available — by visiting uscellularcenterasheville.com, bobdylan.com or

ticketmaster.com.

Saturday, Nov. 19

3 DOORS DOWN CONCERT, 7 p.m., Event Center, Harrah’s Cherokee Casino, Cherokee.

Bret Michaels with Warrant and FireHouse will perform in concert. For tickets, visit www. ticketmaster.

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I have been attacked three times in my bed, each time was different and much more violent than the last. And, oddly, it was always around 7:30 in the morning on a bright, sunny day!

While I always got away and pretty much decimated whatever came at me, I wanted to head any other visitors who meant me harm, off at the pass. I have my talisman loosely wound around the base of my lamp on my nightstand and I haven’t

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Anyway, however you choose to spend your Halloween, may it be delightfully spooky and may all your darkest desires come true!

• Shelley Wright, an Asheville native, is a paranormal investigator. She owns and runs Nevermore Mystical Arts shop and works at Wright’s Coin Shop, both in Asheville. Wright also is a weekly participant in the “Speaking of Strange” radio show from 9 p.m. to midnight on most Saturdays on Asheville’s WWNC-AM (570).

There is simply no one else better qualified to serve Buncombe County’s citizens as Register of Deeds than Pat Cothran √ Native-born – Pat’s ancestors settled in Buncombe County in the early 1800s. She and her family have been your friends and neighbors for decades.

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The costume worn by Nicole Kidman in “The Portrait of a Lady” will be on display beginning Feb. 10 in Biltmore House in the exhbition “Designed for Drama: Fashion from the Classics.”

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Continued from Page B1 The exhibition features elaborate costumes from recent films that bring literary characters to life, including “Sherlock Holmes,” “Finding Neverland,” “Anna Karenina” and “Pride and Prejudice.”

Costumes from 13 movies are dramatically staged in the magnificent rooms of Biltmore House. The fashions on display reveal the attention to detail involved in period costume design, and represent the work of costume de-

signers at the highest level of their profession.

Admission to “Designed for Drama: Fashion from the Classics,” is included in the general admission ticket price. For more information, visit www.biltmore.com/designedfordrama.

The most recent exhibit at Biltmore was “Fashionable Romance: Wedding Gowns in Film,” featuring 41 wedding gowns and groom’s attire from major motion pictures.

That exhibit, held at The Biltmore Legacy in Antler Hill Village, ran Feb. 12 through July 4.

Above is a page from George Vanderbilt’s journal, “Books I Have Read.”

Vanderbilt was an avid reader all of his life. By the time of his death at the age of 51, he had listed 3,159 books in his journal. “Books I Have Read” will be on display in Biltmore House as part of an exhibit that opens Feb. 10, 2017.

√ Experience & Drive – Pat’s successful 30-year career with Fortune 500 companies and the real estate title business drives her ability to improve the services provided by the Register of Deeds and to reduce the bloated operating costs of that office. √ Education – Pat possesses unparalleled education credentials for the position of Register of Deeds, including a B.S. in Real Estate, Master of Business Administration, and Master of Entrepreneurship degrees. √ Community – Pat spearheaded a project at the historic Brick Church in Leicester to locate 418 unmarked graves of African Americans and Northern Europeans whose headstones were long gone, culminating in the placement of markers at each site. √ Leadership – Pat will apply her superior leadership skills to bring superlative service to the Buncombe County Register of Deeds office, and give priority to protecting and preserving our life’s most important legal documents. √ Responsibility – Pat’s duty to our citizens is to put an end to the use of the Register of Deeds office as a platform for political persuasion. She will transform it into one of service to all our citizens without regard to their political affiliations, origins, creeds, etc. √ Respect – Pat will ensure that the Register of Deeds will always faithfully adhere to the laws and Constitution of NC and respect the rules of Buncombe County without regard to personal political opinions. √ Integrity – Pat will implement changes to return integrity to our valuable documents by correcting the numerous errors that are present in the indexed files.

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