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Conservation easement for Swannanoa Superfund site?

tHe road to reMedIatIoN: Since the early 1980s, the old Chemtronics facility at 180 Old Bee Tree Road in Swannanoa has been the site of an extensive remediation project to contain and reduce contaminants disposed of on the 1,027-acre property from the 1950s to the 1970s. In September of this year, the United States Environmental Protection Agency will issue a new record of decision for the property, outlining the course of upcoming remediation efforts and providing a glimpse of what the future may hold for the property. Photo at left photo by Max Hunt; photo at right courtesy of Altamont Environmental Inc.

BY max hunt mhunt@mountainx.com Decades after the furor over a Swannanoa weapons plant introduced many residents to the term “Superfund site,” the focus is shifting toward potential future uses for a portion of the Chemtronics property. Remediation efforts have gradually reduced contamination levels, and an upcoming decision by the Environmental Protection Agency, due out in September, is seen as a starting point for proposals to turn a portion of the site into something that might benefit the community.

Apart from some warning signs, there’s little indication that a Superfund site slumbers in the midst of a community in transition. Residential subdivisions, small farms and several businesses butt right up against the property line, in the shadow of the Black Mountains.

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1990s, the facility produced chemicals, propellants, explosives and, at one time, top-secret chemical weapons. Many toxic byproducts were disposed of on the 1,027-acre site, releasing dangerous pollutants into the groundwater and soil (see sidebar, “Chemtronics timeline”).

In 1982, the EPA included Chemtronics in the first National Priorities List of sites posing substantial risk to their surrounding communities. Since then, extensive containment and remediation efforts financed by the several companies involved and overseen by EPA officials have gradually reduced the threat posed by those wastes, which are concentrated in a small portion of the property. No offsite contamination has been found.

In September, the EPA will release a new “record of decision” for the site, officially spelling out the future remediation strategy and what uses will be allowed. Anticipating this, elected officials, EPA representatives and area residents are weighing in with their concerns and ideas for transforming the property.

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eCoNoMIC developMeNt The site’s post-World War II history reflects both Cold War tensions and differing visions of community development.

First settled in the 1790s by one A.N. Alexander, the property — tucked away in a remote corner of the Swannanoa Valley at the end of Old Bee Tree Road — remained in the family until the early 1950s, says Swannanoa resident Bill Alexander, a direct descendant.

“Charles Alexander had a construction company at the time,” he explains.

“He figured selling the land would be a great investment for his business,” and it was — he got the contract to build the plant.

At the time, the coming of the Oerlikon Tool & Arms Corp. of America, whose parent company was based in Switzerland, was hailed as a great step in the community’s development. A 1951 article in the Black Mountain News said the property’s transformation “has been so complete that it’s hard to imagine the era before electricity.”

In a June 1952 article, Time magazine called the construction of the $3.5

million plant a victory in America’s “snail-paced arms buildup.”

According to the article, 4,000 workers would eventually be hired to produce air-to-ground rockets and 30 mm automatic cannons.

When the first workers arrived, Alexander recalls, “They were mostly outsiders, many from Germany. I still knew all the trails back there, and I’d walk through the property with my friends.”

In 1959, Oerlikon sold the plant to the Celanese Corp., which in turn sold it to Northrop Carolina Inc. in 1965.

Chemtronics, now a subsidiary of Halliburton, took possession in 1971.

Cold War seCrets Information about plant operations in the early days is scarce.

In a 1983 deposition for the EPA, Naman Radford, who handled materials disposal for both Northrop and Chemtronics from 1965-71, said Northrop management would “tell you whatever went on in here, don’t

tell nobody. They said it was government work and highly confidential.”

But employee depositions reveal that in addition to rocket engines, a vast array of chemicals and explosives was produced on-site, including CS (tear gas), Mark 24 flares and the top-secret BZ, a powerful hallucinogen meant to be used to subdue enemy populations. Many employees had minimal knowledge of the chemicals they were dealing with, and worker safety standards were crude at best. In 1965, a fire broke out in one of the buildings and threatened to ignite 3,000 pounds of explosives. Neighbors within a mile of the plant were evacuated.

Disposal methods read like an environmental horror story: drums of BZ and CS buried on-site; liquid chemicals dumped down a drain feeding into a nearby stream; explosives incinerated in what the EPA calls the “acid pit area.” On several occasions, hazardous materials were trucked off-site to nearby landfills.

In a 1983 deposition, former Buncombe County landfill operator Tony Plemmons recalled being exposed to CS powder while burying material dumped by Northrop employees. “It like to smothered me to death and blinded me. It all just boiled right up in my face and up my pant legs. I didn’t even know what it was.”

The secrecy surrounding the plant also sparked many rumors, notes Jon Bornholm, remedial project manager for the EPA’s Region 4. For example, rockets fired during testing were said to have sometimes ended up escaping the property and “going over the mountain.” But Bornholm dismisses those reports “and all sorts of other stuff” as legends, adding, “Information prior to 1970 is hard to know for certain.”

Three off-site areas were part of the EPA’s original 1980s investigation, he explains. “This included the current Ingles location, the Walnut Cove area and the Tandy Corp. property. No chemicals were found at these sites that could be linked to Chemtronics.”

Vicki Collins, a retired Warren Wilson College chemistry professor who’s studied the site extensively and currently serves on the Swannanoa Superfund Community Advisory Group, says, “There have been lots of colorful rumors about Chemtronics, a few of which are probably true.” And while off-site dumping is certainly a possibility, she notes, “The general procedure was just to dump the stuff out on the ground nearby. My opinion is that they just wouldn’t bother to load the stuff up and take it out to hide.”

CoNtaINING tHe Mess Matters came to a head in 1979, when a neighboring resident complained to

state officials about foul odors emanating from the site. Investigations revealed possible groundwater and soil contamination, and in 1980, the state Department of Environment and Natural Resources ordered the company to stop dumping and incinerating wastes in the open pits that had been dug, filled and redug for at least a decade. Further soil and groundwater tests identified a host of toxic chemicals at several disposal sites.

Two years later, the property was designated as a Superfund site and, over the next decade, contractors hired by the designated “potentially responsible parties” (Northrop, Celanese and Chemtronics) conducted tests to determine the location and extent of the contamination.

Some residents, Bornholm noted in 1988, likened those companies’ involvement to “letting the fox guard the henhouse.”

The EPA divided the property into two main areas: the “front valley,” where most manufacturing activity took place and wastes were dumped, and the “back valley,” where hazardous materials were incinerated. The lowland disposal areas cover less than 10 acres; about half the site consists of rugged upland terrain.

“The major pollutants are chlorinated hydrocarbons like TCE — the chemical contaminating the CTS site,” says Collins.

CTS, a Superfund site in South Asheville, formerly housed an electroplating facility (see “Fail-Safe?” July 11, 2007, Xpress at http://avl.mx/2dk). At both sites, these chemicals “were used as solvents and cleaning agents. They sink into pools deep in the groundwater and very slowly dissolve in small amounts,” Collins explains.

Small amounts of heavy metals, explosives residues, perchlorate (a water-soluble component of rocket fuel), volatile organic compounds and decomposed BZ byproducts were also found in soils on the Chemtronics property.

Meanwhile, as public awareness of the extent of the contamination grew, community members were outraged.

Residents and elected officials alike expressed concerns about the secrecy, potential hazards, the EPA’s alleged lack of transparency and a proposal to burn all contaminants in a giant incinerator on-site (which was later rejected).

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tHe loNG road to reMedIatIoN In 1988, the EPA settled on a containment strategy. Each of the six disposal areas was capped with an impermeable cover made of clay and concrete, topped with several feet of soil to encourage vegetation growth. They were fenced to keep people out and tracked via monitoring wells. “The caps and fences are regularly

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1790s: A.N. Alexander starts farming the future Chemtronics property.

1951: Charles Alexander sells property to Oerlikon Tool & Arms Corp., which manufactures rocket components and other weaponry.

1959: Oerlikon sells property to Celanese Corp., which produces plastics.

Possible on-site dumping.

1965: Celanese sells property to Northrop Carolina, which makes explosives, flares and secret chemical agents. On- and off-site disposal of hazardous materials later documented.

1971: Chemtronics buys property, manufactures chemicals and explosives.

1979-80: First reported complaint about on-site disposal. N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency investigate. Chemtronics ordered to discontinue on-site disposal; tests reveal toxic chemicals on-site.

1982: Property included in first National Priorities List of contaminated sites.

1984: EPA asks public to help identify both on- and off-site disposal areas; 13 off-site residential and industrial wells tested, no contaminants found.

Periodic testing has continued ever since.

1982-88: Chemtronics and Northrop sample contaminants, study remediation options.

Feb. 23, 1988: Public meeting to discuss draft EPA decision. Residents and elected officials voice concerns about health risks, remediation plans, request greater voice in decisions.

Feb.-April 1988: EPA receives hundreds of citizen letters seeking greater transparency, more time to review decision. Public comment period extended to April 1; additional extensions denied, citing necessity to start site work.

April 1988: EPA decides to cap disposal areas, install monitoring wells and groundwater extraction system. EPA and DENR share oversight.

1991-94: Remediation systems installed.

1994: Chemtronics plant shuts down.

2000: Altamont Environmental hired to handle evaluation and remediation.

2002-06: EPA assumes full oversight. In response to community concerns, most buildings demolished.

2009-12: Altamont Environmental studies alternate methods, including bioremediation. Community wants say in re-evaluating strategies.

Dec. 2012: At community’s urging, EPA hosts informational meeting, presents Altamont’s initial findings.

2013: Swannanoa Superfund Community Advisory Group formed as intermediary between community and EPA/company officials.

2013: Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy begins discussions with community and Chemtronics ownership about potential conservation easement on 530 acres of uncontaminated land. Community response mixed; questions raised about public access.

2013-14: Six households connected to city water system as precautionary measure.

2015: Altamont Environmental releases report finding no off-site contamination. Bioremediation proposed to replace extraction system.

2016: New EPA decision on future remediation efforts and possible site reuse expected in September. X

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The final Remedial Investigation report, released late last year, found “no unacceptable risks for human health,” apart from a few hypothetical scenarios concerning potential future water usage and excavation efforts. There were also said to be no adverse effects on wildlife, although three soil areas and 11 groundwater areas were said to warrant further investigation. Overall, on-site exposure risk for humans was deemed “relatively low.”

And though several of the monitoring wells deep within the property continue to show contamination at hundreds of times the federal limits for drinking water, “These levels drop as the water moves downgradient,” says Collins. “All wells and surface waters near the property boundaries meet drinking water standards, [and] Bee Tree Creek and wells in surrounding properties are clean.”

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NeW BoUNdarIes: Part of the EPA’s 2016 record of decision on the Chemtronics Superfund site will consider redefining the property boundaries held under Superfund designation. The redefined boundary would place approximately 530 acres where no contaminants have been found under a conservation easement overseen by the Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy. Map reproduced from maps included in Altamont Environmental’s 2015 Remedial Investigation maintained, and groundwater around each disposal area has been monitored at least annually since the early 1990s,” says Stu Ryman of Altamont Environmental, an Asheville consulting firm hired in 2000 to oversee evaluation and remediation efforts.

Beginning in 1993, each valley had an extraction system installed.

“Groundwater was pumped over screens where air evaporated the solvents, and cleaner water was sent to the MSD treatment plant,” Collins explains. But the pumps are prone to clogging, and progress was slow.

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Meanwhile, as public awareness of the situation grew, “Chemtronics became an attractive nuisance,” notes Bornholm.

Manufacturing operations ceased in 1994, and all remaining structures not essential to remediation efforts were torn down between 2004 and 2006.

MaKING HeadWaY In December 2012, after a three-year investigation that analyzed 541 soil samples and water samples from 175 monitoring wells on the property, Altamont Environmental released its initial

Altamont also began exploring alternative remediation methods. In 2009, the firm launched a pilot study that involved introducing an emulsion of vegetable oil to promote bacteria growth. This approach, Ryman explains, “encourages bacteria to … convert the contaminants to nontoxic end products.”

The early results have been “very encouraging,” says Collins, with contaminant levels in the back valley down about 90 percent within the first few months. Results of the pilot study will be evaluated in the forthcoming EPA report.

Nonetheless, the federal agency estimates that remediation efforts will continue for at least the next couple of decades, particularly in the front valley. “It would be many years before the owners would contemplate any use for the [valley] property,” notes Collins.

“This is a big site with big problems, and it’s unreasonable to expect cleanup to happen in a few years.” evolvING vIsIoNs In 2013, the community advisory group was formed to officially represent the residents. “We serve as the voice of the community in this process,” says founding member Amy Knisley, a professor of environmental law and policy at Warren Wilson. “We’re the intersecting point between the EPA, Altamont and the community.”

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Besides disseminating information and fielding questions through its website, the group holds quarterly meetings at the Bee Tree Fire Department at which speakers report on progress and address community concerns. Besides representatives of Altamont and the EPA, “Politicians like Ellen frost, Mike fryar and John Ager have made occasional appearances,” says co-founder Grant Millin, a local management consultant. “Only a proper assessment from a collaboration of experts and citizens can determine the risks.”

One proposal being floated calls for dramatically reducing the size of the Superfund site. Roughly 530 acres of steeper terrain where no contaminants have been found would be exempted from Superfund restrictions and placed under a conservation easement through the Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy.

“It’s something we’ve wanted to work on since the ’90s,” says Michelle Pugliese, the nonprofit’s land protection director. “Now we’re trying to gear up and get more involved in talking to the property owners about doing the conservation easement. They’re very much on board with that.”

Both EPA officials and the advisory group have publicly expressed support for the idea. And state Rep. John Ager, whose 115th District includes the site, says, “As a longtime land preservationist, I have promoted this solution, and I believe we have consensus.”

Some residents, however, have expressed concerns. “If it’s removed from that legal designation, then it comes out from under the watchful eye of the EPA,” explains Knisley, who’d like an easement to include limited public access to the property. “It doesn’t have to be unfettered: It could be twice a year wildlife walks, and our ecology faculty could help lead them,” she points out.

To date, though, Chemtronics ownership hasn’t had much to say about the idea, notes Knisley. “I understand that reservation,” she continues, “but I think it can be dealt with. I think it’s in everybody’s long-range benefit.”

Pugliese, meanwhile, says the conservancy has tried to allay residents’ concerns by attending advisory group meetings and explaining how a conservation easement works. “I think it’s been an educational process for everyone involved,” she says. “The public access part is a very complicated issue. Chemtronics really just wants to make sure it’s safe.”

Attorney Robert fox, who represents Chemtronics, declined to

Chemtronics and its parent companies have yet to express any long-term vision for the contaminated portions of the site.

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828.620.1844 “This is a critical juncture, because the 2016 record of decision will stand for a long time,” says Millin.

lessoNs learNed: Retired Warren Wilson chemistry professor Vicki Collins says the chemtronics site offers an example of how communities relate to Superfund sites in their neighborhood, as well as the value of regulatory bodies like the EPA. Photo courtesy of Vicki Collins comment, saying he doesn’t discuss ongoing matters.

Formal discussions concerning an easement could get underway later this year, Pugliese reports. “This is an exciting project for me, because it’s very innovative. It’s the first time the conservancy has ever worked on anything connected with a Superfund site. There’s all of these steps, regulatory and legal, that make the time frame a little hard to predict.” lIfe after reMedIatIoN Millin, whose professional work focuses on sustainability issues, hopes that both Chemtronics and government officials will eventually consider utilizing the site for the community’s benefit. He points to other revamped former Superfund sites, such as the South Carolina Aquarium in Charleston, or Charlotte’s ReVenture Park, a 667-acre Superfund site along the Catawba River that was transformed into the nation’s largest eco-industrial park in 2012.

Millin believes the Chemtronics property could serve a similar purpose. As a first step in shifting the thinking, he’d like to see a name change. “I want everyone to start calling it simply ‘180 Old Bee Tree Road’ in order to help visualize a new direction,” he explains.

“If the site can have some cool reuse like a sustainability think tank on it, that means it’s been cleaned up pretty well.” But so far, he continues, the property owners have been reluctant to consider that possibility.

The EPA has argued against allowing future residential development, and

lessoNs learNed In Buncombe County alone, there are dozens of inactive hazardous waste sites that could pose risks to neighboring residents (see “Hidden Hazards,” Jan. 11, 2011 Xpress, http://avl.mx/2dl).

Meanwhile, at the CTS site, residents whose wells were tainted have faced major health problems and, decades later, are still waiting for the contamination to be adequately addressed.

Against that backdrop, the Chemtronics site presents a somewhat different picture.

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Collins, who’s been involved with the site for decades, takes the long view.

“It’s easy to forget that Superfund was not in existence until 1980,” she points out. “A lot of the dumping occurred long before that, when there was no real concern about the environment, so there just weren’t any records. The secrecy probably exacerbated the public outrage in the mid-’80s. … It’s easy to get frightened of the unknown, and there had been some very nasty stuff there.”

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The site, she continues, “is a difficult and complicated one to explain, and federal and state regulations can seem very confusing. EPA is charged with preventing risk to people and the environment, not simply with totally removing contamination.”

Asked what might be learned from the Chemtronics experience, Collins said: “First, the site manager is very important. … Running a meeting of worried citizens is a very difficult task for an engineer like [Bornholm], but he always showed patience. Second, it definitely helps when the responsible parties cooperate. ... Those big corporations can certainly afford the cleanup. Third, patience is important on all sides. The pace of EPA bureaucracy can seem glacial, and it just takes a long time to clean up a big mess like this one. Fourth, science is getting better: The new cleanup process sounds quite promising at this point. We’ve come a long way since 1980!”

Pugliese, too, sounds a positive note.

Despite the many remaining questions, she believes the property could become a good example of fruitful collaboration. “I think you’re taking a very unfortunate situation — no one wants to see this beautiful landscape contaminated — and turning that around into something positive,” she says. “It’s really an example of how we can take lemons and make lemonade.”

Collins, though, also notes the fluctuating nature of community involvement with the site.

“Public attention did die down as cleanup proceeded in the ’90s. … I think the community mostly just forgot. I remember an important meeting in 2003 which was attended by fewer than 10 local residents.” And in 2012, when the EPA “got serious about inviting the community to set up an advisory group, the former pattern repeated itself: a big meeting with lots of questions and some anger directed at Bornholm, followed by lots of community meetings to set up the advisory group, with steadily declining participation. Now we often have less than 20 people show up.”

And looking ahead, Collins adds a cautionary note: “I think people should think very carefully when presidential candidates talk about abolishing the EPA. Dealing with the bureaucracy can be trying, but think of what the site would be like now if the EPA weren’t there!”

To learn more about the Chemtronics site, the Superfund process and possibilities for community involvement, contact the advisory group at swannanoasuperfund@gmail.com. X

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by Thomas Calder

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deVoted Democracy North Carolina volunteers safeguard voters’ rights “I don’t recognize our country anymore,” Ruby warren declared on March 15, standing in the parking lot of West Asheville’s Calvary Baptist Church, clipboard in hand.

“Without voting, we have no democracy.” A bright yellow Democracy North Carolina T-shirt announced her purpose. This was the 30-year Asheville resident’s first time volunteering with the organization, and her job was to engage voters exiting the polls, ask about their experiences and connect those who’d had problems with the nonprofit’s voter hotline.

Over 700 Democracy North Carolina volunteers fanned out across the state that day. They were helping ensure that no one was illegally turned away from the polls as a result of North Carolina’s 2013 voter ID law, which took effect this year.

“If you have a birthday, a Social Security number and a reason for not having an ID, you have the right to vote,” notes Darlene Azarmi, the nonprofit’s organizer for Western North Carolina.

Alice weldon, a poll monitor stationed outside Isaac Dickson Elementary, emphasized, “We are absolutely nonpartisan. Our importance is simply to document if there are any issues.”

According to the law, an individual’s vote will count if the voter provides a “reasonable impediment” explaining why they lacked an acceptable ID. The recognized impediments include things like family obligations, transportation problems, work schedule and illness or disability. Once a valid impediment is offered, voters need only provide a birth date, the last four digits of their Social Security number and proof of residency (such as a utility bill, bank statement or pay stub) in order to cast a provisional ballot.

This crucial information may not have reached all affected parties, however. In a survey conducted by Democracy North Carolina during last fall’s election, half the respondents said they hadn’t been informed about the upcoming changes in voting requirements.

Accordingly, in the weeks leading up to the primary, the organization’s staff

hosted two dozen “vote protector” training sessions across the state.

The Asheville session, held Feb. 25 at Hill Street Baptist Church, had “one of the largest turnouts, drawing dozens of engaged citizens to help local voters make their ballots count during the March primary,” Communications Manager Jen Jones reports.

Executive Director Bob Hall, who led the session, “was a great speaker,” said Warren. “He was very enthusiastic, easy to listen to and very knowledgeable.”

In Buncombe County alone, more than 88 volunteers covered 18 precincts on primary day, handing out pamphlets that spelled out voters’ rights, Azarmi explains. They worked in shifts, beginning at 6:15 a.m. and continuing until the polls closed at 7:30 p.m.

Meanwhile, volunteer lawyers and election experts staffed a hotline that voters could call to get help dealing with more complex issues. “The hotline is great, because it means I don’t have to be an expert about everything,” said Warren. “I just need to recognize when to tell somebody to call the number.”

There were some technical difficulties early on, but they were quickly resolved. “Dozens of attorneys and election experts took calls, with countless other attorneys handling overflow from the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights in Washington, D.C.,” notes Jones.

INforMatIoN GatHerING Martha Kropf, a political science professor at UNC Charlotte, says she and Hall “worked together to craft questions” for the exit survey. Half concerned basic information: age, income, ethnicity and gender. Others asked whether election officials had checked and accepted photo IDs, and how voters felt about the changes in the voting rules.

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left the polls on March 15. Photo provided by Democracy North Carolina voters can feel confident,” Kropf explains.

Is the ID requirement, she continues, “the best use of scarce resources, given public goals for elections?”

Weldon, meanwhile, said most voters at Isaac Dickson seemed “completely agreeable with the short exit survey. I think maybe three in the last hour told me no.”

Laura Eshelman, stationed at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church on North Liberty Street, said her team had had a fairly uneventful day. “A few people had to go to different precincts; otherwise, we didn’t hear any negative experiences. I am curious to hear how things went in some of the more rural areas, where people are probably more affected by the law.”

Democracy North Carolina is still gathering and processing the data, and Hall expects it will be several more weeks before the organization can provide specifics about the results in indi-

vidual counties. To date, however, the hotline has received more than 1,000 calls from voters seeking information or requesting assistance with problems such as incorrect application of the law, failure to provide provisional ballots and last-minute changes of polling places. Many voters also faced long lines due to understaffing and inadequately trained election workers.

Some volunteers made no bones about their dissatisfaction with the voter ID law. “I’m a veteran, and to me, the right to vote is one of the things we fought for,” said Jeff Israel, who helped monitor the Calvary Baptist Church polling station.

“We should be encouraging people to vote rather than discouraging it.”

JUrY’s stIll oUt Various organizations, including the NAACP, the League of Women Voters and Common Cause, are challenging the

voter ID law in both federal and state courts, and the law’s ultimate fate is not expected to be determined for some time.

But the results of the surveys, the hotline and the incident reports filled out by folks who did have problems voting will be factored into an independent report

by Kropf that’s due out later this year.

Some of those findings, notes Hall, “may be used in the current legal challenges.”

In the meantime, Jones encourages people to keep up with the issues. The nonprofit’s training sessions, she notes, will continue until the November general election, covering the voter ID law as well as voter registration and other issues.

And despite her deep concerns, Warren remains optimistic. “My hope is that we’re able to compile a significant amount of documented information to help the state get rid of gerrymandering and voter suppression, so we can make voting as easy as possible for everyone and ensure that all votes count.” X

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by Virginia Daffron

vdaffron@mountainx.com

networked democracy Asheville launches new online platform for public engagement Move over, Facebook — there’s a new online platform for sharing views and opinions on public matters in town, and this one has a direct line to city staff and elected officials.

The city of Asheville launched its new public engagement website, Open City Hall, on Thursday, March 17. The Internet-based platform is the creation of Berkeley, Calif.-based Peak Democracy, a technology company currently providing cloud-based online services to more than 100 government agencies in the United States. According to the company’s website, some of Peak Democracy’s clients have been using the platform for more than five years.

The platform’s inaugural topic asks Ashevilleans whether the city should allow accessory dwelling units (also known as ADUs, garage apartments or in-law suites) to be used for short-term rental purposes under the city’s Homestay ordinance, and what impacts that use might have on neighborhoods. At press time, over 150 responses had been submitted on the issue during the three days following the system’s launch.

City Communications Specialist Polly McDaniel will serve as the primary liaison for the platform. “The City of Asheville places a high value on participation in the decisionmaking process,” says McDaniel.

“This tool will make it easier for many people to participate — and have a voice — in Asheville city government initiatives.”

In the near future, the online platform will be used to gather public input on the city’s upcoming effort to update its comprehensive-plan and on the future of the Haywood Street and Page Avenue properties. According to McDaniel, the city plans to follow best practices by posting no more than one or two topics in any month.

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McDaniel says the results of surveys, polls and open-ended questions will be compiled and presented to City Council members in staff reports.

Anyone can view all responses on any question online, and the results will be archived and retained indefinitely.

This method of gathering feedback and input, McDaniel says, will be used in addition to — and not instead of — other forms of public engagement such as community meetings, public hearings and constituent email communications to elected officials.

After getting the go-ahead from City Council’s Governance Committee last year, McDaniel explains, Director of Community and Engagement (CAPE) Dawa Hitch led an effort to identify the best service provider for an online public engagement tool. Over a sixmonth period, CAPE staff researched several platforms, eventually concluding that Peak Democracy’s Open Town Hall product had most of the desired features in one platform.

Peak Democracy will provide a comprehensive service contract, which includes monitoring for civil and on-topic comments, as well as support to help the city craft effective discussion topics and surveys. The cost of the contract is $9,500 per year, which covers an unlimited number of users, topics and cloudbased data storage. The city signed a three-year contract for the service.

Chris Joyell, executive director of the Asheville Design Center, says his organization plans to make use of the platform during the upcoming public visioning process to determine the community’s preferred use of city-owned properties on Haywood Street and Page Avenue.

“We have a volunteer looking at the capabilities of the system, and we are looking forward to using it to increase public engagement in the visioning process.”

“The hope is that, in the future, we will be able to use the platform in real time during meetings, so that citizens can participate remotely,” McDaniel explained. “Though we need a little

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The city’s new Open City Hall public engagement tool can be reached from the city’s website at www.ashevillenc.gov. more time to work with the system before we roll that out, the platform has that capability.”

Local technology entrepreneur Ty Hallock, who is working with a partner to develop Trusted Sharing, another online collaboration tool, thinks the new platform has the potential to increase public participation.

“Now, people sometimes feel like they have tried to be heard and it hasn’t worked,” he comments. “A lot of people are disenfranchised in their efforts to connect with local government. If this is a medium for helping them, I think it’s going to be very successful.”

Though registration is not required, it is encouraged. McDaniel says registration allows the city to identify which commenters actually live in Asheville and are true stakeholders in the local community.

The platform limits each participant to one comment or response per issue. The company’s website explains: “Blogs are frequently dominated by bullies that post multiple comments. This intimidates constituents and gives bullies an unfair advantage. We use in-house software and staff to authenticate every participant, and restrict each participant to only one comment per topic so they can’t dominate, argue or attack each other.”

“This tool gives residents the opportunity to participate in the decisions that shape our community from the privacy and convenience of their own home,” Hitch said in a press release. “We want the public to be part of the process and they’re online.” X

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We’re excited to share part two of Xpress’ 2016 Kids Issue, a lively annual feature that offers local K-12 students an opportunity to share their art, poetry and prose in these pages. This year, we asked kids to focus on the theme of “Who am I?” We received about 300 submissions from local public, private and charter school teachers and students that showcase the wide-ranging imaginations and thoughtful reflections of our area’s young people.

Contributions ranged from self-portraits and personal essays to depictions of those interests and things that local youths hold most dear. (No surprise: We live in a community of young nature and animal lovers.) Though we could not include all of the wonderful submissions we received, we hope you’ll enjoy this sampling of local creative expression.

And while spring has barely sprung, it’s not too early to think about summer camp options for kids. Be sure to check to check out the variety of area summer camp listings offered in these pages as well.! X

eCHoes of pICasso: Christopher

Vasquez, third-grade, Sand Hill-Venable Elementary School

BeING MYself: Alex Piper, first grade,

Sand Hill-Venable Elementary School

In my own wordS I have hope My name is Maeve. I live in a small house in Asheville. On the weekdays, I go to school. When I am home, I play piano for my parents. I don’t have any siblings but I have a gray tabby cat. On the weekends, I love to lie around and draw.

Like other children, I like to do many other things, but one thing I protest is Earth and animal abuse.

I hope that scientists can find a way to stop global warming, and if they can’t stop it, then just help it.

I’m thinking of becoming a naturalist, a pianist, a scientist or an artist. I also think about writing a book about the Earth or from an animal’s point of view.

Sometimes I get scared. I get scared that Earth will just collapse,

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but I hope that it never will, at least not when I am alive.

However, I have hope. I have hope that one day, scientists will finally find a way to stop global warming or discover a new Earth. I have hope that doctors will find a cure for cancer and other diseases that are incurable. I know that if we use cooperation and community, these hopes will become a reality.

— Maeve German, Rainbow Community School

Beginning an adventure When you ask a person who they are, what do you really expect? Awkward chuckles, hair-tucked-behind-the-ear shy smiles, and a simple answer like, “Oh, me? I’m nothing much.” Perhaps you’ll

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hear a hobby, like drawing or singing or reading. And, sure, those answers are good for some things, like a Kindergarten Initiation questionnaire, but there’s certainly more than that. Right?

Hello! I’m transgender, which means my brain and my body identify as different genders. I’ve just begun the adventure of transitioning from female to male, and it’s going quite well so far.

My family is, and has been, very supportive and loving. They have kept working to make me feel as comfortable in my skin as I can possibly feel. I only have one brother, but I have a few good friends that are basically my siblings — they’re accepting, too.

One of my best qualities is how eloquently I put my feelings onto a page.

The compliments I receive on my writing are often my favorites, as I’m more proud of my prose than anything else.

As for my ability to talk — well, I should probably work on that.

Most of the obstacles I’ve had to persevere through have been through my quest to find out which gender identity (male, female, etc.) best fits me. Although it took a while, I found that reaching out to others who were sharing the same doubts was very beneficial. I’ve been able to voice to/ bounce ideas off of people I could trust, and such experiences have sanded the sharp edges of the small, insecure person I used to be and helped me half-metamorphose into the larger, less-insecure person I am now.

I want to be a writer; I want to inspire and encourage people to reach out to others, and to feel things they’ve never felt before, and as long as I do that, I’ll be fine. As long as I make a difference, I will be happy.

— C.T., Buncombe County

Favorite things

Me and my pets

Hello, my name is Elizabeth, and this is my family. Their names are Jeremy, Deanne, Zachary and Meredith. My family and I like to camp and go skiing; also we like to bike-ride.

Now let me tell you about myself: I’m 9 years old; my favorite food is pizza. Also, my favorite subject is math. When I was 3, I started to ski.

When I come home, I like to play with my sister and brother. I like to play soccer and swim; one time, I got a ribbon for getting fourth place.

Another fact: I like to dance and jump rope; I’m on the jump rope team at school. Those are most of my hobbies.

My teacher this year is Mr. Walsh.

My dad works at Emma Elementary School, and my mom works at North Windy Ridge. My brother goes to North Windy Ridge and my sister goes to North Buncombe, just like me. One day when I’m older, I want to be a teacher like my mom.

My favorite hobby out of them all is dance; also, I hope I become a good dancer like my dance teacher, Mr. Steven. I love to go on camping trips, and maybe one day I’ll go out West with my family. My dad is on ski patrol, and I want to do that to when I’m in high school.

— Elizabeth Stowe, North Buncombe Elementary, third grade

My name is Madelynne. I have had a lot of pets through my life and had a special relationship with all of them. Here are the stories of me and my pets.

When I was born, my parents already had two cats, Maxwell and Zamboni. (Maxwell’s nicknames were Max or Maxie; Zamboni’s nickname is Zammie.) They were both domesticated, short-haired cats. They were also both black and white; however, Maxie had more white than Zammie. They were both very lovable. Maxie even used to sit by my parents’ bed, like she was waiting for me to pet her each morning! However, Maxie died at 16 years old, when I was 4 years old (I’m 8 now).

Zammie is still alive today at a whopping 20 years old!

After Max died, we got a new kitten. Her name was Cupcake, and she was a calico. She may have been mean, but boy, she was cute!

She also did strange (but funny) things. They included dunking her toys in her water dish and stepping in her water dish. However, she was a lovable cat overall. She loved playing with me and was a cuteness overload. Sadly, though, Cupcake died from a heart attack when she was 2. I was 6. I was very sad to lose my cat, but I recovered.

Over all the time I had Cupcake, I had fish, too! My first fish was a goldfish named Katie Jean. She only lived for two days! I’ve had many fish since Katie Jean died.

Most of them were GloFish. I’ve also had a few cleaner fish. My favorite fish was a pinkish-red GloFish named Ruby. She liked to chase the other GloFish around the tank! The fish that are currently in the tank are a green GloFish named Nora and a cleaner fish named Tori.

As you can see, I loved all of my pets and still love them. They are all very special to me.

— Madelynne Wechtel, North Buncombe Elementary, third grade

I am Sarah I love to go camping when it is the right temp. It is more fun when I go with my church. My favorite campground is Lazy Daze. It was sooooooo fun: They had a pool, creek, playground, place to eat within biking distance, and Cades Cove was not even a minute away.

The swimming hole was cool, too.

One of the camping trips we went on was miserable: The wind was blowing; everybody had tents. I knew we were not going there during winter ever again. And that is all I know.

— Sarah Ball, North Buncombe Elementary, third grade

sHades of BlUe: Sydney

White, Erwin Middle School

In my life Hi, my name is Meredith. I have one sister, a brother and mom, dad. When I was born, I had an angel kiss.

I really love to camp; I started to camp when I was 3. In the camper, my sister Elizabeth and I sleep in the same bed. Well, my brother Zachary sleeps on the couch bed. When we camp, we like to go swimming. When we left, it would be a long way home.

In kindergarten, I had Mrs. Willse and Mrs.Taylor. In first grade, I loved to read. In second grade, I had an awesome teacher. Well, now I’m in third grade, and I love it. My dad taught me how to ski. Now I can ski without poles.

My dad likes that I like to ski. Skiing is my favorite sport.

I don’t like to type poems. I have shared a room with Elizabeth. I really like to write stories. I know I have an angel kiss, but you can’t see it anymore. When I grow up, I want to be a nurse. My brother sometimes likes to snowboard. That is my life.

— Meredith Stowe, North Buncombe Elementary, third grade

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at rest: Megan Mayer’s ‘Fat Bird,”

North Buncombe Middle School

Just the facts I am Ivan. I like pizza. I like soccer.

I like TV. I like my computer. I like water. I like my Dad and Mom. I like to read. I like to clean. I like to play games. I like the Panther. I like to play.

— Ivan Curbelo-Mendez, North Buncombe Elementary, third grade

Games people play Who am I? I am Ayda. I go to a school called North Buncombe Elementary; I’m in the third grade, and I am 9 years old. I have three sisters: Kendal, Lexi and Laney.

My favorite game to play outside is kickball. I also like playing other games, like catch the ball or basketball. I also love to make videos on YouTube. I also really like to play “Minecraft” and play “Build Battle” on Hypixel. Hypixel is one of my favorite servers; my most favorite server is LuckyPrison.

— Ayda Dillingham, North Buncombe Elementary, third grade

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Why? My name is Birch, I used to go to church, I used to see the birds fly down and perch.

In my yard I look for an egg, An egg that I paint blue, like the sky up ahead.

I sometimes run, Just for fun, And when I’m done, I’m done.

I feel like, one day, I could fly, Very high in the sky, And I don’t know why.

vIsIoN: Ben Lavrenyuk, Sand Hill-Venable Elementary School

a sMIle for YoU: Katelyn K., Claxton Elementary School

who am I as a global citizen?

Editor’s note: Evergreen Charter Elementary School teachers took up the challenge of the Kids Issue theme of “Who am I?” with a twist to fit their curriculum focus. Teachers asked students to reflect on the idea of “Who am I as a global citizen?”

I AM PART Of THIS wORLD Who am I? I am a 13-year-old boy who lives in Asheville, N.C. I attend Evergreen Community Charter School as a typical seventh-grader. I have a mom and dad, a sister and a cat. I play soccer and basketball, compete in Science Olympiad and Mathcounts, and I like to play Dungeons & Dragons and read The Legend of Drizzt. But am I a global citizen?

First, let’s review what a global citizen is. A global citizen is someone who influences someone else with a kind deed. It is someone who takes responsibility and action to help our world. It is someone who is blind to prejudice and racism, and embraces diversity. It is someone who supports their community. A global citizen is someone who promotes peace.

So, am I a global citizen? I believe that we all should have friends and be treated with respect, regardless of skin color, religion or gender. I am someone who serves my community, such as visiting the elderly at the nursing homes and working at MANNA FoodBank. I try to get along with people and do kind things, such as compliment them or do something nice for them.

So who am I? I am Robert Humphrey, a young global citizen. I am

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learning the importance of what it means to grow as a global citizen for the rest of my life.

— Robert Humphrey, Evergreen Community Charter School, seventh grade wHO AM I? I honestly don’t know if I’m a global citizen. I don’t think I’ll ever make that big of an impact on this planet, either. I have so much cultural baggage and don’t know enough about other cultures to act like I understand them. I need to learn much more about other cultures and places to even start to consider myself a global citizen.

On the other hand, I think the concept that everyone should be indifferent is ridiculous. I simply cannot believe all of the ideas of being a “global citizen.” Fair is not always equal. It is human nature to disagree with one another. Having an opinion will always mean that you will anger another.

However, I do agree with many of their ideas. I do not believe in discriminating based on appearance, or assuming that someone is “good” or “bad” simply because of their background or beliefs. I agree with gender equality and environmental sustainability, too. I do not know if I am a global citizen or not, but I do know that I am a citizen of Asheville, and that is enough for me.

— Willow Hall, Evergreen Community Charter School, seventh grade ACTING LOCAL The planet we all live on now is far from perfect. Wars are fought, battles won, hundreds of soldiers dead and forgotten

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on the battlefield. The natural resources are disappearing, and the few we have left are grabbed and quickly destroyed. Soon, the population will double, and Earth will be unfit to sustain us all.

It is up to us, the citizens of the planet, to initiate the building of a better world.

We, the people, need to give up dreams of power. We need to give up the hopes that someday we, as individuals, will surpass everybody else. We need to throw those selfish fantasies into a place where they will never surface again.

Then we need to become united with the rest of the world. We need to build a global community, a place where everyone is equal, everyone has their place.

Where worldwide corporations will not look down upon us as inferiors. A place where all prejudices and stereotypes are forgotten.

I will play my part as a global citizen by trying my hardest to build a better world. Even though I am too young to accomplish anything huge, I can start with the small things. I can start by working at a local animal shelter, volunteering at a food pantry or picking up trash at the park. If I act to make the Asheville community a better place, then it will affect the surrounding area, and hopefully, the rest of the world.

Acting local will help make the planet a better place to live, because if we all clean up our towns, the world will be cleaner.

I can take these small steps in my local community, and eventually, I can make a difference in the world.

— Frances Covington, Evergreen Community Charter School, seventh grade

— Birch Bodenheimer, North Buncombe Elementary, third grade

Food for thought I like dogs I like toys I like race cars I like stars I like to play soccer I like to play hide-and-seek I like to play cars I like to go to the zoo I like to eat pizza I like to eat ice cream I like to eat egg I like to eat hot dogs I like to eat corn I like to eat popcorn I like to eat ham I like to eat meat I like to eat rice I like to eat fries I like to eat fish I like to swim — David Bernal, North Buncombe Elementary, third grade

BodY IN MotIoN: Antonio

Arias, Erwin Middle School

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The fight

speedING toWard tHe fUtUre: Ross Briden, Reynolds High School

I am a global citizen Together as a community we fight We stand together in the streets marching for what is right The streets are where we are equal no matter what, fighting for the same goal We do it with our minds and words NOT with our troops and guns For rights, Peace, Equality, Freedom

But before any of this We MUST save the Earth Save the ice caps, the ozone, the oceans We can do this if we help each

Once we have won these fights Then we will have Peace, Freedom, Equality everywhere Racism, War, Segregation nowhere

The Earth is what gives us life Our food Our water The things we need

Then and only then Will we be able to be a global community This is what we strive for What we need To become United as one

The Earth is our mother We must treat her with respect But we are failing: All she has done for us And we have yet to give back

This is what we need To go to space The bottom of the sea And the center of the Earth

Other no matter the government, the people, the religion We are here together, let’s stand together, in the same room, the same streets

We must start now Before it is too late

— Zach Stanley, Evergreen Community Charter School, seventh grade

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ACADEMY AT TERPSICORPS SUMMER EDUCATIONAL DAY CAMPS & DANCE WORKSHOPS

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Co-Ed • Ages 3-10 • 9 a.m.-1 p.m. • M-F Camps run weekly from June 6-July 22, visit website for details and to register.

1501 Patton Ave, Asheville 28806 • 761-8618 Dance is an excellent form of exercise and a scientifically proven way to improve learning and concentration skills. This summer, the Academy at Terpsicorps is offering two types of camps to give your child a unique opportunity to learn about dance. The weekly, themed educational day camps for students ages 3-5 offer children the opportunity to learn about the world around them through dance, music, crafts, story time and more.

The Young Dancer’s Summer day camp for students ages 6-10 is a great way to introduce your child to the fundamentals of ballet, jazz, tap and choreography. Receive $25 off registration if you sign up before May 1. terpsicorps.org/summer-programs/ terpsicorpsacademy@gmail.com

ASHEVILLE BUNCOMBE YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION FUNDAMENTALS SUMMER CAMPS

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Co-Ed • Ages 5-14 • Weekly • Half-Day/ Full-Day • June 15-Aug. 14 PO Box 895, Asheville 28802 • 299-7277 ABYSA’s FUNdamentals Soccer Camp offers a games-centered teaching approach to soccer education, creating an exciting and entertaining environment designed to boost player learning. The FUNdamentals teaching method is designed to enrich players’ passion for soccer while teaching them the proper techniques for future soccer success.

Campers will be placed in proper age groups and skill levels to ensure all players benefit from developmentally appropriate activities, teaching and competition.

Lunch and early bird options available. abysa.org/camps/fundamentals shane@abysa.org

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ASHEVILLE COMMUNITY THEATRE TANGLEWOOD SUMMER CAMP

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Co-Ed • Ages 5-17 • Session One: June 1324, ages 8-12; Advanced Camp (veteran campers ages 13-17 by permission only): June 13-24, ages 13-17 • Session Two: July 11-22 35 East Walnut St., Asheville • 254-1320 Tanglewood Youth Theatre has long been a successful and inspirational part of children’s creative education in Western North Carolina. The theatre camp has been extremely popular and is well-suited for any child interested in exploring the exciting world of theatre. The faculty represents some of the finest talent in the area. Tanglewood is also proud to have been voted the “Best Visual or Performing Arts Camp.” ashevilletheatre.org chanda@ashevilletheatre.org

ASHEVILLE MUSIC SCHOOL SUMMER CAMPS

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Co-Ed • Ages 4-18 • June 13-17 (Rock Camp), June 20-24 (Pop Rock Camp, Ages 8-13), June 27-July 1 (Pop Rock Camp, Ages 13-18), July 11-15 (Jazz Camp), July 18-22 (Suzuki Splash Camp), July 25-29 (Chamber Music Camp), Aug. 1-5 (Music Exploration Camp) 126 College St., Asheville • 252-6244 Asheville Music School’s summer camps offers something for every musical palate.

Campers will learn and perform different styles of music in team-oriented, fun and supportive ensemble environments. Some camps are for students with experience, and others, like the Music Exploration Camp, are great for young beginners. A placement audition or interview may be required and will be on Saturday, April 9. Students will be placed in ensembles based on skill level. Price includes recording experience (for most camps), field trip and showcase performance. Cost: $175-$335. ashevillemusicschool.org outreach@ashevillemusicschool.org

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DAY CAMP OVERNIGHT CAMP ART CAMP

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sereNItY: Cameron Wait, fourth grade, Sand Hill-Venable Elementary School.

Students created portraits in the style of North Carolina visionary artist Minnie Evans with imagery that was personal to them or represented their inspirations.

I am a global citizen I live in Black Mountain Where the air is fresh and crisp The forests are alive with the sound of chirping birds And the ponds are full of fish I live in WNC Where the woods are full of trees swaying in the wind The tired and determined AT hikers walk through town And the land is home to countless flora and fauna I live in N.C. Where the first plane lifted off the ground The ocean waves crash against the salty sand And the lush mountains can be seen above the fog I live in the USA Where we are all uniquely different, from our appearance to our personalities The state lines don’t act as boundaries And we are all responsible for the world’s pollution I live in the world Where we all live together as one big family The earth is our home So let’s conserve the world’s resources and live together, all as global citizens of this world — Sophia Fairbairn, Evergreen Community Charter School, seventh grade

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ASHEVILLE SCHOOL APP DEVELOPMENT CAMP

.ASHEVILLE PARKS AND RECREATION BEYOND-THE-PAGE COMIC CAMP

Co-Ed • Ages 13-18 • July 25-29 • Full-Day 360 Asheville School Rd, Asheville • 254-6345 Focuses on teaching kids how to write code and make apps using Apple’s new programming language, Swift. Led by experienced app developers Charles Long and Bob Williams, Asheville School’s new summer camp will teach what’s involved in creating basic apps for the iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and even Apple TV. Register online by visiting ashevilleschool. org/appdevcamp. Cost $525 includes breakfast, lunch and digital coding textbook. ashevilleschool.org/appdevcamp • williamsb@ashevilleschool.org

Co-Ed • Ages 8-12 • Weekly • Full-Day • June 27-July 1 Dr. Wesley Grant Sr. Southside Center, Asheville • 253-3714 Explore the world of comics, cartooning and creating characters and adventures. Participants will focus on comics as an art form and learn about character and story development through creative games and activities. Youth should bring a water bottle, swimsuit and towel each day for water activities. Early drop-off available between 8:30-9 a.m. for an additional $10. Fee: $50, $40 City of Asheville Residents, $25 participants enrolled in Asheville Parks and Recreation 2015/16 Afternoon Adventures or currently enrolled in the Playground Program or Outdoor Camp Program. ashevillenc.gov/parks sjackson@ashevillenc.gov facebook.com/APRCA

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ASHEVILLE PARKS AND RECREATION ACTIVE KIDS ASHEVILLE

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Ages 7-9 • June 20-24 Dr. Wesley Grant Sr. Southside Center, Asheville • 259-5483 An exciting camp designed to keep your child active with fun activities both indoors and outdoors. Campers will experience some of the best activities the Asheville area has to offer, including soccer, hiking and swimming. Youth will experience the active side of Western North Carolina like never before.

Early drop-off available between 8:30-9 a.m. for an additional $10. Fee $90. ashevillenc.gov/parks sjackson@ashevillenc.gov

ASHEVILLE PARKS AND RECREATION ADAPTED THERAPEUTIC TENNIS CAMP

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Co-Ed • Sundays, March 6-April 3 (no games March 27) 34 Pearson Drive, Asheville • 259-5483 The Therapeutic Recreation Program is offering a non-competitive, introductory tennis program designed for ages 6 and up with various disabilities. Players will learn basic tennis skills while building strength, confidence and social skills. Fee $45, Asheville residents receive a $5 discount. ashevillenc.gov/parks llong@ashevillenc.gov

ASHEVILLE PARKS AND RECREATION ADVENTURE CAMP

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Co-Ed • Ages 8-12 • Weekly • Full-Day • Session 1: June 13-17; Session 2: July 18-22 749 Fairview Road, Asheville • 828-251-4080 A five-day camp with activities that include hiking, swimming, rafting, tubing, games, environmental education and camping. Camp runs 9am-5pm, Mon.-Wed., with an overnight campout on Thurs. night, and pickup is at noon on Friday. Campers must bring lunch & water bottle each day, and provide their own sleeping bag/pad for the campout. Each session will break into two groups for age-based activities; ages 8-10 and 10-12. Space is limited. Fee: $210, City of Asheville Residents receive a $10/ session discount. Registration is open until filled. ashevillenc.gov/parks outdoorprograms@ashevillenc.gov facebook.com/APRCA

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ASHEVILLE PARKS AND RECREATION BIG ADVENTURE CAMP

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Co-Ed • Ages 12-14 • Weekly • Full-Day • July 12-15 749 Fairview Road, Asheville • 251-4080 The camp spends four days adventuring in Western North Carolina & Eastern Tennessee.

Activities include tubing at Deep Creek, caving, the chance to climb a ropes course or mountain bike and rafting the Ocoee (class IV) river. Camp runs 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Tuesday-Wednesday, with an overnight campout on Thursday night, and pickup is at 5 p.m. on Friday. Campers must bring lunch & water each day, and provide their own sleeping bag/pad for the campout. Space is limited. Fee: $270, City of Asheville Residents receive a $10/session discount. ashevillenc.gov/parks outdoorprograms@ashevillenc.gov facebook.com/APRCA

ASHEVILLE PARKS AND RECREATION ECO-EXPLORERS CAMP

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Co-Ed • Ages 6-8 • Full-Day • June 20-22; June 29-July 1 749 Fairview Road, Asheville • 251-4080 A three-day camp focused on environmental education. Activities include hiking, stream investigation, climbing at the Montford Wall and a field trip to Grandfather Mountain. Campers must bring lunch and water bottle daily. Space is limited. Fee: $110, City of Asheville residents receive a $10/session discount. ashevillenc.gov/parks outdoorprograms@ashevillenc.gov facebook.com/APRCA

ASHEVILLE PARKS AND RECREATION FIVE STAR SPORTS CAMP

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Co-Ed • Ages 10-12 • Full-Day • Aug. 8-12 285 Livingston St., Asheville • 259-5483 A fun, fast-paced experience in various sports, learning skills and playing organized games of flag football, basketball, tennis, soccer, volleyball and more. Youth will participate in daily clinics designed to develop a deeper skill set in some of the fastest-trending youth sports today. Camp will be at the Grant Center. Fee: $90. Early drop-off available between 8:30-9 a.m. for an additional fee of $10 for the week.

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Me and my monkey I like I like basketball I like to be weird I like ice cream I like pizza I like Aiden, my brother I am I am silly I am awesome I am funny I am cool I am a tomboy

I love I love Kestin, my friend, I love my family I love my dog I love school I love my monkey — Gracie King, North Buncombe Elementary, third grade

Where I am from

Word GIrl: Abbey Farlow, Asheville Middle School

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I am from the covers of books to the bark of pine trees I am from the rising and falling of the ocean’s waves I am from the dreams in my head to the blocks that I build with I am from the blasts of lasers of the cartoons that I watch I am from hiking up the side

of a mountain to swimming in the lake that I like I am from the window of the airplane that flew to St. Lucia I am from the robbers that robbed me there that is what I am from — Edan Love, Odyssey Community School

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ASHEVILLE PARKS AND RECREATION GOLF CAMP

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Co-Ed • Tuesdays, April 5-May 10 • Session 1: 4:30-5:30 p.m.; Session 2: 5:30-6:30 p.m.

226 Fairway Drive, Asheville • 232-4526 A six-week introductory program based on the popular SNAG golf system and taught by a golf professional. New players will learn fundamentals while having fun playing a modified game that reinforces skills. There are two different session times to fit your schedule. The program is designed for youth ages 10-14 and will be at the Asheville Municipal Golf Course. Fee $75. ashevillenc.gov/parks kturner@ashevillenc.gov facebook.com/APRCA

ASHEVILLE PARKS AND RECREATION KIDVENTURE CAMP

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Co-Ed • Ages 9-11 • Weekly • Full-Day • Aug. 2-4 749 Fairview Road, Asheville • 251-4080 New this year, a three-day camp with an outdoor living skills focus. Activities include hiking, geocaching, shelter and fire building, raft making, swimming and climbing at the Montford Wall. Campers must bring lunch and water bottle daily. Space is limited. Fee: $135. City of Asheville Residents receive a $10/session discount. ashevillenc.gov/parks outdoorprograms@ashevillenc.gov facebook.com/APRCA

ASHEVILLE PARKS AND RECREATION LEAF ARTS AND PARKS CAMP

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Co-Ed • Rising 1st-5th graders • July 18-22; July 25-29 • Full-Day Dr. Wesley Grant Sr. Southside Center., Asheville • 259-5483 Campers will have the opportunity to participate in endless recreational and cultural arts activities, while working with instructors specializing in a variety of performing arts genres. At the end of the camp, each young artist will showcase their talents during a final performance for their friends and families.

Each week is structured as a separate camp.

Fee: $90. Special discount $40 for City of Asheville Residents enrolled in Asheville Parks and Recreation Afternoon Adventures/ Vance Program for the 2015/16 school year. ashevillenc.gov/parks facebook.com/APRCA

ASHEVILLE PARKS AND RECREATION LIL FIN FRIDAYS

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Co-Ed • Ages 5 and under • Session 1: June 17, 24, July 1, 8; Session 2: July 22, 29, Aug. 5, 12 350-2058 Toddlers will learn water safety and fundamental skills in a safe and fun environment.

Parents are encouraged to participate with their toddlers in several guided practice sessions that will help them learn elementary swimming skills. Space is limited to 15. Camp will be at Recreation Park Pool. Fee: $20. City of Asheville residents receive a $5 discount. ashevillenc.gov/parks

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ASHEVILLE PARKS AND RECREATION MALVERN HILLS LITTLE DIPPERS CAMP

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Co-Ed • Rising 1st-5th graders • June 13Aug. 12, Monday-Friday, 8:30-5:30pm 75 Rumbough Place, Asheville • 254-1942 Youth will swim at the Malvern Hills pool and participate in exciting water activities, as well as experience enrichment activities and field trips.

The week of June 14-17, there will be swim lessons and water safety for all participants.

Weather permitting, youth will swim most days.

Camp registration is on a weekly basis. Program will run rain or shine; there are no refunds or credits if participants are not able to swim due to inclement weather. Camp will be at the Malvern Hills Pool/Shelter. Fee: $70/week, City of Asheville Residents receive a $10 discount. ashevillenc.gov/parks slenoir@asheville.gov facebook.com/APRCA

Kids’ Bike Trade-Up Program!

Bring in this ad for a FREE kids’ helmet A $40 value

with kids bicycle purchase; 24-inch and smaller Expires 4/10/16

ASHEVILLE PARKS AND RECREATION MESSY MONDAYS

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Co-Ed • Ages 5 and under • Session 1: June 13, 20, 27 July 11; Session 2: July 18, 25, Aug. 1, 8 350-2058 Dress for mess and artistic success. Toddlers are free to smear, squeeze, splatter and otherwise explore artistic possibilities that might be too big to try at home. Get ready to have a messy good time. Space is limited to 15. Camp will be at the Recreation Park Shelter. Fee: $20. City of Asheville residents receive a $5 discount. ashevillenc.gov/parks jjohnston@ashevillenc.gov facebook.com/APRCA

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ASHEVILLE PARKS AND RECREATION PLAYGROUND PROGRAM

Co-Ed • Ages 10-14 • May 5, 12, 19 • 5:306:30 p.m.

Memorial Stadium, Asheville • 232-4526 This spring there are three Ultimate Frisbee clinics. This is a great way to learn a new game and get the basics you need to play in the future.

The clinics are free, but you must pre-register. ashevillenc.gov/parks kturner@ashevillenc.gov facebook.com/APRCA

ASHEVILLE PARKS AND RECREATION SKATEBOARD ADVENTURE CAMP

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Co-Ed • Ages 12-17 • Aug. 15-19 30 George Washington Carver Ave., Asheville • 350-2058 Asheville Parks and Recreation has teamed up with Push Skate Shop to offer five days of skateboarding and adventure. Live the life of a touring skateboarder. Each day will bring a different skate park paired with a unique adventure.

Skate parks will include: Cherokee, Knoxville, Asheville, Hendersonville and The Hot Spot in Spartanburg. Adventures will include swimming, tubing, mountain biking, etc. This is not an instructional camp; participants must display proficient skill in skateboarding and swimming. There are no refunds based on ability. Fee: $160. City of Asheville residents receive a $10 discount. ashevillenc.gov/parks rseymour@ashevillenc.gov facebook.com/APRCA

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When I look in the mirror

ENTHUSIASM: Charlie Edwards, The Learning Community School

I climbed up a tree To think, “How do I identify me?”

I brought with me a mirror I wanted the picture to be clearer I refused to leave Till the question I asked was achieved “How do I identify me?”

“When I look in the mirror, what do I see?”

Here are the answers I found When no one else was around I’m smart, beautiful, strong If someone says otherwise, they’re wrong I choose my identity No one can tell me differently I don’t care what others say They can’t tell me to be a certain way I went back inside It was time for me to decide “When I look in the mirror, what do I see?”

I see smart, beautiful, strong, perfectly imperfect me — Cayden Lee, A.C. Reynolds Middle School, eighth grade

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ASHEVILLE PARKS AND RECREATION TEEN ADVENTURE CANOE CAMP

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Co-Ed • Ages 12-15 • June 21-24; June 27-30 749 Fairview Road, Asheville • 251-4080 During this four day overnight canoeing camp, participants will learn canoe skills and paddle roughly 25 miles on the New River. Campers will help setup and breakdown primitive camps, cook meals and follow all safety rules.

Participants must be able to swim 50 meters and be comfortable in the water. Campers must bring lunch and water for the first day of camp and provide their own sleeping bag and pad. Maximum of 10 campers per session. Camps meet at the Oakley Recreation Center. Fee: $320. City of Asheville residents receive a $10 discount. Fee includes all equipment, meals, instruction and transportation. ashevillenc.gov/parks outdoorprograms@ashevillenc.gov facebook.com/APRCA

ASHEVILLE PARKS AND RECREATION SUMMER TEEN PROGRAM

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Co-Ed • Rising 6th-9th graders • June 13Aug. 26 • Monday-Friday, 8:30-6 p.m.

121 Shiloh Rd. & 30 George Washington Carver Ave., Asheville • 350-2058 Looking for a cool and enriching alternative to regular teen summer camps? This program offers creative activities, diverse projects, field trips and more. Fee: $50/week for first child, $40/week for siblings. City of Asheville Residents receive a $10 discount. ashevillenc.gov/parks tcrudup@ashevillenc.gov facebook.com/APRCA

ASHEVILLE PARKS AND RECREATION TEEN WATER ADVENTURE CAMP

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Co-Ed • Ages 11-14 • July 5-7; July 26-28 749 Fairview Road, Asheville • 251-4080 This three-day camp is perfect for campers who like to spend their summer splashing around. Activities include tubing, canoeing, hiking to waterfalls and whitewater rafting on the Pigeon river (Class II-IV). Camp runs from 9-5 p.m. Campers must bring lunch and water daily. Space is limited. Fee: $170, City of Asheville Residents receive a $10/session discount. Registration is open until filled. ashevillenc.gov/parks outdoorprograms@ashevillenc.gov facebook.com/APRCA

ASHEVILLE PARKS AND RECREATION TENNIS CAMP

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Co-Ed • Ages 8-14 • Beginner/Intermediate: June 20-23; June 27-30; July 18-21; July 25-28; Aug. 1-4 • Intermediate/Advanced: Aug. 8-11 336 Hilliard Ave., Asheville • 251-4074 Camp focuses on progressive skill development and play. All camps are conducted by a certified tennis professional of the United States Professional Tennis Registry (USPTR). The camp will be held at Aston Park Tennis Center. Fee: $125/week, City of Asheville residents receive a $25 discount. lloftis@ashevillenc.gov facebook.com/APRCA

ASHEVILLE PARKS AND RECREATION THERAPEUTIC RECREATION

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SUMMER CLIMBING CAMPS FOR ALL AGES & ABILITIES

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Co-Ed • Ages 6-13 • Weekly • June 13-Aug. 19 • Monday-Friday, 9:30-6 p.m.

970 Haywood Road, Asheville • 259-5483 An inclusive summer recreation camp designed for youth ages 6-12 with or without mild to moderate cognitive or developmental delays who meet eligibility requirements. Activities include group games, arts and crafts, nature exploration and field trips. Camp will be located at West Asheville Recreation Center. Fee: $50/ week for first child, $40/week for siblings. City of Asheville residents receive a $10 discount. ashevillenc.gov/parks llong@ashevillenc.gov facebook.com/APRCA

ASHEVILLE PARKS AND RECREATION TRACK CAMP

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Co-Ed • Ages 9-13 • Wednesdays, April 6-May 11 1 University Heights, Asheville • 232-4526 This introductory program focuses on building fundamental skills such as starts, acceleration, pacing and finishes. The program lasts six weeks and will be at UNC-Asheville’s Track. Fee $25. ashevillenc.gov/parks kturner@ashevillenc.gov facebook.com/APRCA

ASHEVILLE PARKS AND RECREATION ULTIMATE FRISBEE CAMP

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Co-Ed • Ages 10-14 • May 5, 12, 19 • 5:306:30 p.m.

Memorial Stadium, Asheville • 232-4526 This spring there are three Ultimate Frisbee clinics. This is a great way to learn a new game and get the basics you need to play in the future.

The clinics are free, but you must pre-register. ashevillenc.gov/parks kturner@ashevillenc.gov facebook.com/APRCA

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ASHEVILLE PARKS AND RECREATION VANCE SUMMER DAY CAMP

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Co-Ed • Ages 5-12 • Weekly • Full-Day • June 15-Aug. 23 98 Sulphur Spring Road, Asheville • 747-1345 An N.C.-licensed child care program. Funpacked summer full of creative adventures and group play, along with special activities and field trips for rising first-fifth graders. Camp will be at Vance Elementary School gym. Lunch and afternoon snack provided. Registration fee: $25/ child or $40/family. $115/week. City of Asheville residents receive a $10 discount. No registrations will be taken online for this program. ashevillenc.gov/parks facebook.com/APRCA

In the United States, Canada and Europe, boys ages ten and older are fully immersed in the breathtaking, scenic areas where they experience the best of both worlds: outdoor summer camp activities during the days combined with comfortable hotel living at night.

Trips in 2016 include: June: 8 days in the West Virginia-Tennessee Mountains June: 5 days in the North Carolina Mountains July: 14 days in Wyoming and Montana

ASHEVILLE PARKS AND RECREATION WILDERNESS WEDNESDAYS

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Co-Ed • Ages 5 and under • Session 1: June 15, 22, 29, July 6; Session 2: July 20, 27 Aug. 3, 10 350-2058 Come discover the great outdoors. Toddlers will experience hands-on environmental education and wilderness activities.

Space is limited to 15. Camp will be at Recreation Park Shelter. Fee: $20. City of Asheville residents receive a $5 discount

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I am ...

I am kind and funny I wonder if my dearest wish will come true I hear the dragon’s roar I see pegasi in flight I want power I am kind and funny I pretend that I am a wolf howling at the moon I feel that I am loved by everyone I touch the softest petals of flowers I worry that the world will end I cry when I feel pain I am kind and funny I understand that there are good things and bad things I say that narwhals are the unicorn of the sea.

I dream of being the greatest artist on earth I hope to make a difference in other people I am kind and funny evolUtIoN of stYle: Julie Briden, Reynolds High School

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BLACK MOUNTAIN SPORTS CAMPS

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Soccer Camp • Co-Ed • Ages 6-11 • Full-Day • Ages 6-11 • Half-Day • Dates: TBD Tennis Camp • Co-Ed • Ages 6-11 • Full-Day • Ages 8-14 • Half-Day • Dates: July 25-29 Basketball Camp • Co-Ed • Ages 6-11 • FullDay • Ages 6-11 • Half-Day • Dates: TBD 101 Carver Ave., Black Mountain Black Mountain Recreation and Parks also provides full- and half-day sports camps available during the summer. Call or visit the website for more information. blackmountainrec.info recreation@townofblackmountain.org

BLACK MOUNTAIN SUMMER ADVENTURES

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Co-Ed • Ages 6-11 • Full-Day June 13-Aug. 5 101 Carver Ave., Black Mountain Have a summer adventure filled with fun and friends. Black Mountain Summer Adventure Camp is a day camp for rising 1st-6th graders. Campers will participate in park hopping, hiking, creek walking, waterfall finding, swimming, journaling, playing games, arts and crafts, going to museums, letterboxing and much, much more. blackmountainrec.info recreation@townofblackmountain.org

BLUE RIDGE YOUNG FILMMAKERS CAMP

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Co-ed • Rising 9th-12th graders (including 2016 graduating seniors) • Full Day • 8-5 p.m. w/flexible drop-off/pickup times • Lunch and snacks provided • Cost: FREE TEDC Building, Blue Ridge Community College, 180 W Campus Dr, Flat Rock, NC 28731 • 828-694-1855 Young Filmmakers Camp is a week-long filmmaking program in June for rising high school freshmen through recent graduates.

Campers, mentored by Blue Ridge and HCPS faculty, as well as BRCC student and alumni volunteers, will work together to write, direct, shoot, edit and design sound for a short film.

Each day, students will be introduced to a new area of filmmaking by a professional filmmaker. Students will also participate in workshops on film history, technology 101 and equipment safety, as well as soft skills workshops including team building, interpersonal communication, and set etiquette. Students

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will have access to exclusive film screenings and Q&A sessions with professional filmmakers daily. At the end of the week, student work will be celebrated during a public screening. blueridge.edu ce_taylor@blueridge.edu facebook.com/events/518493351670728/

BRICKS 4 KIDZ LEGO CAMPS

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Co-Ed • Ages 3-5 and 6-14 • Weekly • Half-Day/Full-Day • June 13-July 29; 9 a.m.Noon or 1-4 p.m.

Held upstairs in classroom space at Asheville’s Fun Depot • 606-4827 Bricks 4 Kidz offers LEGO-based camps all summer. Campers may sign up for one or both camps and stay and eat lunch/play with a teacher. To stay all day, registration for both camps is required. Some themes include Minecraft, Star Wars, Jurassic Park, Pokemon, Robotics, movie making and more. bricks4kidz.com/asheville wland@bricks4kidz.com facebook.com/Bricks4KidzAsheville

CAMP CEDAR CLIFF

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Co-Ed • Ages 5-15 • Weekly • Overnight/ Full-Day • June 11-July 29 5 Porters Cove Rd., Asheville 28805 • 450-3331 Nestled in the mountains of Western North Carolina, our camp offers kids an experience that lasts an eternity. We have tons of great activities that your child will remember for a lifetime, such as horseback riding, high ropes course, archery, swimming, hiking, camping, adventure ball, rafting, climbing and much more. The camp’s goal is to provide campers with the premier summer camp experience, while also nurturing their relationship with Jesus Christ through worship time, Bible studies and group discussions. campcedarcliff.org camp@campcedarcliff.org facebook.com/CampCC

CAMP CHOSATONGA FOR BOYS

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Boys • Ages 8-18 • Overnight/Full-Day 2500 Morgan Mill Road, Brevard • 884-6834 Chosatonga is a traditional summer camp nestled deep in the Blue Ridge Mountains, providing a rustic and tranquil environment untouched by the busy life of urban America.

The camp values Christian ideals while offering in-camp and mountain adventure programs such as rock climbing, mountain biking, whitewater paddling, backpacking, hiking, climbing wall, marksmanship, guitar, swimming, horseback riding, crafts and much more.

Chosatonga has a sister camp, Kahdalea for Girls. Call or visit the website for specific dates.

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Bee colony Who are we?

Global citizens?

Who am I? The words ring through my head like bells.

Their slight hum of metal radiating around my skull.

Who am I? I am a global citizen.

Who are they?

I care…

I care about my future.

I care what will happen if I don’t act.

Does my community?

Are they willing to adjust?

Who are we?

We are a colony of bees, Constantly working together Making new opportunities Reaching every goal.

We are global citizens.

What is a global citizen?

Someone leaving an impression?

Someone who devours resources?

A community?

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CAMP CRESTRIDGE FOR GIRLS

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Girls • Ages 7-17 • Other • Overnight/FullDay • June 12-Aug. 12 PO Box 279, Ridgecrest 28770 • 669-2613 Crestridge Summer Camps — Impacting lives for God’s glory through discipleship and adventure. Located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of N.C., the camp is designed for individual attention, maximum fun and the safety of each child. Programs facilitate camper growth by offering more than 25 activities taught by solid Christian role models. ridgecrestcamps.com rscamps@ridgecrestcamps.com facebook.com/campcrestridge @campcrestridge

CAMP HENRY

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Co-Ed • Ages 5-18 • Weekly • Overnight/ Full-Day • June 19-Aug. 3 25 Wormy Chestnut Lane, Canton • 225-6656 Camp Henry is a co-ed summer camp located at the scenic Lake Logan Episcopal Center.

Campers enjoy a mix of games, leadership activities, environmental education and exploration, arts and crafts, singing, dancing, swimming, boating, fishing on the river and lake, worship, community building and fun. Camp Henry is a ministry of the Episcopal Diocese of WNC welcoming all persons to experience God’s love and Christian fellowship. An ACAaccredited camp. Camp Henry also offers a wilderness expedition program called the Camp Henry Outdoor School (CHOS). Participants spend one or two weeks learning how to safely and enjoyable travel in the wilderness. Each trip includes a day of rafting, a day of rock climbing and a multiple-day backpacking excursion. camphenry.net director.camphenry@gmail.com facebook.com/groups/218503761508229 @camphenrync

CAMP KAHDALEA FOR GIRLS

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Girls • Ages 7-18 • Other • Overnight/FullDay 2500 Morgan Mill Road, Brevard • 884-6834 Kahdalea is a traditional summer camp nestled deep in the Blue Ridge Mountains, providing a rustic and tranquil environment untouched by the busy life of urban America. The camp values Christian ideals while offering wonderful incamp and great mountain adventure programs such as rock climbing, mountain biking, whitewater paddling, horseback riding, crafts, drama, guitar, marksmanship, swimming, camping, backpacking, hiking, fun and much more. Kahdalea has a brother camp, Chosatonga for Boys. Call or visit the website for specific dates. twofuncamps.com office@kahdalea.com facebook.com/KahdaleaChosatonga

CAMP MUDDY SNEAKERS

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Co-Ed • Ages 6-13 • Weekly • Half-Day/FullDay • June 15-Aug. 14 PO Box 146, Brevard 28712 • 862-5560 Camp Muddy Sneakers is an exciting day camp that seeks to educate campers on the natural world through hands-on exploration. Day camps are focused on getting kids outdoors to inspire

curiosity, connect with nature, stay active and cultivate a sense of stewardship. There are week long, full day sessions for rising 4th-7th graders (Trail Blazers) and week-long, half-day sessions for rising 1st-3rd graders (Nature Explorers). campmuddysneakers.org info@campmuddysneakers.org facebook.com/pages/MuddySneakers/111538488887198

CAMP PISGAH - GIRL SCOUTS CAROLINAS PEAKS TO PIEDMONT

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Girls • Ages 6-18 • Weekly • Overnight/FullDay • June 5-Aug. 6 570 Girl Scout Camp Road, Brevard • 336-3697427 At Camp Pisgah campers can enjoy a newly built rock climbing wall, a low-ropes challenge course, a junior Olympic-sized swimming pool, a freshwater lake for boating or fishing, lush fields for sports, a petting farm and horse stables. The camp also has acres and acres of nature therapy perfect for trail rides, hiking and natural art projects. In addition, Camp Pisgah is renowned for its spirited weekly themes and innovative program sessions. camplikeagirl.org pisgah@girlscoutsp2p.org facebook.com/camppisgah @Camp_Pisgah

CAMP RIDGECREST FOR BOYS

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Boys • Ages 7-17 • Other • Overnight/FullDay • June 12-Aug.12 PO Box 279, Ridgecrest 28770 • 669-8051 Ridgecrest Summer Camps — Impacting lives for God’s glory through discipleship and adventure. Located in the Blue Ridge Mountains, the camps are designed for individual attention, maximum fun and the safety of each child. Programs facilitate camper growth by offering more than 25 activities taught by solid Christian role models. ridgecrestcamps.com rscamps@ridgecrestcamps.com facebook.com/campridgecrest @campridgecrest

SUWS of the Carolinas is a therapeutic wilderness program in Old Fort, NC. It is an integrated strengths based program that addresses the biological, psychological and social needs of adolescents with mental health, substance abuse and behavioral challenges.

2nd Annual Southeast Conference on Autism Tuesday, April 12, 2016 8am-3pm • Asheville, NC The Approach Program for Social Learning at SUWS of the Carolinas is proud to host our 2nd Annual Southeast Conference on Autism featuring keynote speaker Dr. Lauren Kentworthy, Director of the Center for Autism Spectrum Disorders at Children’s National Medical Center. This full-day presentation--appropriate for professionals, parents and graduate students--is designed to equip attendees with the latest information on Autism Spectrum Disorders and provide simple strategies to promote cognitive and behavioral flexibility with students on the Autism Spectrum.

Join us for a full-day conference. Breakfast and Lunch included.

Six CE Clock Hours will be awarded for full participation. NBCC Provider# 6617 $100 for Professionals $25 Parents, Teachers, & Students (with promo code)

For more information or to register, please contact Deara Ball Marketing Director, at dball@suwscarolinas.com

CAMP ROCKMONT

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Boys • Ages 6-16 • June 5-Aug.5 375 Lake Eden Road, Black Mountain • 6863885 Located on 600 acres in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina, Camp Rockmont is an interdenominational Christian summer camp for boys ages 6-16.

Camp Rockmont’s focus is male development in an intentional Christian community. Activities include camping, hiking, kayaking, blacksmithing, homesteading, canoeing, crafts, guitar, Bible study and more. Campers live in a cabin of 8-12 boys their age, select four skills to learn and develop, and participate in large-group activities. Rockmont seeks to foster a better understanding and respect for self and others through group living and shared experiences; an appreciation and concern for the environment; greater self-reliance, self-respect, self-confidence and self-esteem; stronger Christian values; and a greater understanding of the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. Established in 1956, Camp Rockmont offers a big dose of naturebased challenge, inspiration and rejuvenation. rockmont.com info@rockmont.com

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Who Am I? I am a global citizen I am a person that stands for gender equality I am part of a community around the whole globe I plant trees instead of cutting down forests I am a global citizen because I CARE I care about pollution The pollution killing thousands of animals daily I care about the trash flowing through rivers I care about the Earth

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When I speak I am outspoken I cannot speak without a stronger voice overpowering me I only have so much voice in this world Borders should not separate humans Stepping a few feet over an invisible line does not mean

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you are in a whole different world I cannot go around the globe freely I cannot be treated equally because of my age Everyone needs to take care of the Earth There will be no future if we do not start solving problems globally We all have to come together Country to country, person to person Together To save the Earth To end racism To end pollution To start a new Earth A clean, peaceful home Our home Planet Earth — Sam Fleming, Evergreen Community Charter School, seventh grade

rEflEcTiOns: Lily Trembeczki, third grade,

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CAMP RUACH

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Co-Ed • Ages 6-14 • Weekly • Full-Day • June 13-Aug. 12 236 Charlotte St., Asheville • 253-0701 Camp Ruach is an extraordinary community that is created and blossoms each summer at the Asheville JCC and is a unique camp experience open to all 1st-8th graders. Each weekly session is an adventure filled with swimming and sports, creativity and crafts, nature and gardening, dance and music and ending with the celebration of Shabbat. Here, campers learn about friendship, caring and positive values to bring to the world. The energetic staff works and plays with campers to ensure they have the time of their life. jcc-asheville.org/youth/camp-ruach seth@jcc-asheville.org facebook.com/campruach

CHRIST SCHOOL’S REVOLUTION LACROSSE CAMP

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Boys • Ages 9-17 • July 5-9 500 Christ School Rd., Arden • 684-6232 MLL (Professional) and college coaches headline the best instructional lacrosse camp in the Southeast. Celebrating 11 years of success. Day $395, overnight $465. revolutionlaxcamp.com laxcamp@christschool.org

CLIMBMAX CLIMBING CAMPS

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Co-Ed • Ages 6-18 • Daily • Full-Day • June 13-17; June 20-24; July 11-15; July 26-29; Aug. 1-Aug. 5 43 Wall St., Asheville • 252-9996 Climbmax Climbing is offering a series of five different indoor and outdoor rock climbing camps. These fun-filled camps start at the downtown location, or the Amboy Road location, as part of the Smoky Mountain Adventure Center, where campers work on specific skills and techniques, and then travel outdoors to the Pisgah Forest to enjoy outdoor rock climbing. Downtown days will be broken up with urban activities, including pottery painting and going to local parks.

The days at the SMAC will be filled with climbing, parks, biking and river activities. climbmaxnc.com/summer-camps stuart@climbmaxnc.com facebook.com/climbmaxnc

CROSSFIRE BASKETBALL SUMMER CAMP

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Co-Ed • Ages 6-17 • June 13-17; June 20-23; June 27-July1; July 18-21; July 17-21 255-9111 The goal of the camps is to provide a Christian, fun-filled, learning experience. The camps are designed to teach the fundamentals of basketball through stations, drills, lectures and individual instruction, while giving campers game experience. Campers will hear the Gospel of Jesus Christ and Christian principles that will help them deal with the pressures they face in everyday life. For more specific dates and locations visit the website. crossfireministry.com/summer-camp-brochure/ karenjohnson17@charter.net

DEEP WOODS CAMP FOR BOYS

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Boys • Ages 9-14 • Monthly • Residential • June 12-Aug. 20 848 Deep Woods Road, Brevard • 885-2268 Founded in 1970, Deep Woods continues to provide a unique summer emphasizing hiking and backpacking, whitewater canoeing and rafting (as river levels allow), and minor activities of mountain biking and rock climbing.

Maximum enrollment is 14 campers, ages 9-14, and five assistant counselors ages 15-18. deepwoodscamp.com deepwoods@citcom.net

EAGLE’S NEST CAMP

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Co-Ed • Ages 6-18 • Overnight/Full-Day • June 11-Aug. 14 43 Hart Road, Pisgah Forest • 877-4349 Located in Pisgah Forest, Eagle’s Nest Camp encourages boys and girls to live and grow simply, rooted by intentional experiences and connection to community. There is an emphasis on developing the whole child in a compassionate, encouraging environment filled with activities that promote self-expression, personal growth, skill building and fun. One-, two- and three-week sessions available. enf.org info@enf.org facebook.com/pages/EaglesNest-Camp/326641027256 @eaglesnest_hanteadv

EMMANUEL LUTHERAN SCHOOL SUMMER ROCKS

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Co-Ed • Ages 1-12 • Weekly • Half-Day/FullDay • June 13-Aug. 12 51 Wilburn Pl., Asheville • 281-8182 Emmanuel Lutheran School offers a variety of day camps that include: field trips, arts and crafts, sports, cooking, tae kwon do, a Broadway experience camp and so much more. The camp is held on a beautiful eight-acre campus, which includes: three playgrounds, a large air-conditioned gymnasium, nature trails, a soccer field and a large media center. There are two camps per week to choose from. In the drama camp production, rising ninth-12th graders can participate in “Into The Woods,” the school version. Auditions will be held on June 1 and 2 from 6-8 p.m., in the gymnasium. There are also a variety of activities for preschoolers which include water day, field day, music and special theme days. Space is limited, so please call to reserve your spot today. summerrocks.org cmarino@elcsmail.org

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Now enrolling Pre-K Through 8th Grade

FARM AND FOREST DAY CAMP AT SACRED MOUNTAIN SANCTUARY

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Co-Ed • Ages 5-15 • Weekly • Full-Day • July 4-29 96 Rocky Cove Rd., Candler, NC 28715 • 6656966 The Farm and Forest Camp offers an experience of deep communion with the living community of Earth. Working within the impulse of inter-being, skilled guides provide immersive, hands-on work and play experiences with gardening, horses, sheep, chickens, bees, rabbits and other farm animals and wildlife. Children learn through connective activities, including Secure Seat horseback riding, grooming, sheering, cleaning, care and playful engagement with their animal friends. Sliding scale fees and extended day options available. sacredmountainsanctuary.org/camp-programs

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I am ...

I am curious and quiet I wonder how the stars and the universe got made I hear the wind and the river I see the moon and stars rise I want a star I am curious and quiet I pretend I have magic and a shapeshifter I feel a blue bird’s wings I touch a moonbeam and a star I worry about my friends and my life I cry when a life is sick or lost I am curious and quiet.

i dream aBout HavinG a Pet unicorn: Mia

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Check with us for your Summer Reading Books Large Selection of New and Used Children and Young Adult Books at Great Prices!

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I understand love and animals and friendship I say fairies and dragons are real I dream about fairies and dragons and blue birds and snowy owls.

I try to be a good friend and be helpful and kind and awesome I hope I am a writer and an artist when I grow up I am curious and quiet — Dylan Catinella Odyssey Community School

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FIERCEFLIX

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Girls & Gender Minorities • Ages 8-16 • Full Day • 9-4 p.m. w/flexible drop-off/pickup times • Lunch & Snacks Provided • Scholarships available Asheville Art Incubator, 207 Coxe Ave, Asheville FierceFlix is a summer film camp open to girls and gender minorities ages 8-16. No experience is necessary and we supply all the video equipment. No student will be turned away due to lack of funds. Over the course of a week, campers will work in groups to write, direct, shoot and edit music videos for the bands at Girls Rock! Asheville. The music videos will premiere at a public screening at the end of the camp. Each day, campers will attend video shoots, filmmaking instruction, workshops and a mini-screening and Q&A with a female filmmaker. Throughout the week, campers are encouraged to work together, support each other and foster one another’s unique creative abilities through positive reinforcement. Check website for dates. mechanicaleyecinema.org/fierceflix fierceflixcamp@gmail.com facebook.com/fierceflix/

FIREFLY GATHERING KIDS CAMP

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Co-Ed • Ages 6-12 • Daily • Overnight/FullDay • June 16-19 715 N. Fork Road, Burnsville • 777-8777 The camp aims to evoke a sense of wonder and curiosity in kids by building a greater connection to self, others and nature. The kids program provides a comprehensive learning experience using the “8 Shields Cultural Mentoring Model,” a system that follows the cardinal directions to deepen connections with nature and each other.

There are morning and afternoon classes taught by primitive skills instructors. The program is part of the Firefly Gathering, the premier primitive and natural skills gathering in the country.

In between classes there will be plenty of time to experience the fun and magical communaltribe experience of swimming, music, dancing, active games, playing in the creek and more. fireflygathering.org marketing@fireflygathering.org

FOREST FLOOR WILDERNESS PROGRAMS RUN WILD! SUMMER CAMP

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Co-Ed • Ages 6-13 • Weekly • Overnight/ Full-Day • June 20-July 22 79 Maney Branch Rd., Weaverville • 338-9787 Trained nature-connection mentors will inspire campers to fully engage with the natural world.

With a low child-to-instructor ratio, activities ignite an innate curiosity about nature and stoke that ember as it becomes fully alive through a rich connection to the Earth and its myriad denizens. Curriculum includes outdoor safety and awareness, animal tracking, edible and medicinal wild plants, wilderness survival skills, bird language, ancient crafts, ecology, community and self-discovery. ontheforestfloor.org forestfloorwp@gmail.com facebook.com/ForestFloorWildernessPrograms

GIRLS ROCK CAMP

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Girls • Ages 8-16 • Weekly • Full-Day • June 20-25

PO Box 7304, Asheville Asheville’s Girls Rock Camp is a week long summer camp open to girls and trans youth ages 8-16. No experience is required, and all instruments and gear are provided. At camp, participants form bands, write original music and perform it in a showcase for the public on the last day. Each day, campers attend band practice, instrument instruction, empowering and fun workshops and a lunchtime concert and Q&A session with local female musicians.

This year, Girls Rock Camp will be held at Carolina Day School from June 20-24 with a showcase on June 25. Online registration open. girlsrockasheville.org girlsrockasheville@gmail.com facebook.com/www.girlsrockasheville.org @girlsrockavl

GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE AT TREMONT - DISCOVERY, EXPLORATION AND SCIENCE CAMP

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Co-Ed • Ages 5-17 • Other • Overnight/FullDay • June 13-July 31 9275 Tremont Road, Townsend, TN 37822 • 865-448-6709 Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont hosts overnight discovery, exploration and science camps for ages 9-17 in June and July. Located inside Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tremont Institute uses a 500,000acre classroom to provide transformative experiences that awaken senses and encourage action. We create space for discovery, personal development and opportunities to unplug and explore. New this year: Firefly Camp Overnight for ages 5-8. Tremont Institute has a dormitory that houses 135 and a kitchen staff that provides hot meals and snacks. gsmit.org heather@gsmit.org facebook.com/GSMITremont @GSMITremont

Science Camp Camp Science Science Camp

Faerie and Earth Festival

Weeklong sessions sessions 9am-5pm 9am-5pm for Weeklong for rising rising Weeklong sessions 9am-5pm for rising 2nd-7th graders graders on on UNCA’s UNCA’s campus!

2nd-7th campus!

2nd-7th graders on UNCA’s campus!

Saturday & Sunday, May 21-22, 2016 10 AM -5 PM Highland Lake Cove Retreat Center

With sessions for six weeks in

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$15/Adults $10/Seniors $5 Children (5-15)

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HANGER HALL CODING CAMP

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Girls only • Rising 5th-9th grade • June 1317; 9:00am-1:00pm 64 W.T. Weaver Blvd., Asheville • 258-3600 Learn what is possible with technology and develop your own website. Fee: $230 hangerhall.org/summercamp info@hangerhall.org

HANGER HALL CRAFTY HOOPLA

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Girls only • Rising 5th-9th grade • Aug. 8-12; 9:00am-4:00pm 64 W.T. Weaver Blvd., Asheville • 258-3600 Spend the week getting crafty and playing outside. Fee: $285 hangerhall.org/summercamp info@hangerhall.org

HOMINY BAPTIST CHURCH PRAISE MAKERS MUSIC AND ART DAY CAMP

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Co-Ed • Ages 5-12 • Daily • Full-Day • June 13-Aug. 26 135 Candler School Road, Candler • 667-4541 PraiseMakers is a weeklong day camp for children entering grades K-6 which focuses on worship arts, creative activities and performance with a team. The week consists of art projects, mini-workshops in drama, singing, instruments, liturgical dance and scenery painting, as well as daily outdoor recreation,

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Haiku My two muddy shoes leave a small groove on the earth, a huge step.

My voice is not heard, Though it echoes between lines, words become actions.

Each step is a mark that marks my short existence, we’re almost like sharks.

They are powerful, the words leap off the pages, they change others’

We “eat” everything, disregarding the future, making ourselves King.

thoughts.

My opinions count,

hEllO, hEllO: Jeremy B., Franklin School of Innovation

To victory now!

Toward equality and change, for a better world.

I have the power to change

I give and receive, I let all my thoughts be free, I am a human.

We all have a voice,

Thoughts, feelings, actions.

we’re all global citizens, WE can change the world.

— Michaela Tse,

I care for the world, and all the colors that live, I am one with earth.

Evergreen Community

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Pat’s School of Dance Buddy Camp for Children with Down Syndrome Ages 6-14 Lutheridge daily • July 11-15 • 9am-3pm No Cost to the families Contact: Kathy Emory • Kathleen.emory@yahoo.com

The WNC Down Syndrome Alliance is pleased to offer camp and/or enrichment scholarships for people with Down Syndrome, ages 1-18, in the 17 western counties. We are doing more than ever before, to reach Western North Carolina, please contact us and see.

For more information, please contact: Alice Miller, President - 828-777-2514 alicemillerdsa@charter.net wncdsa.org

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2016-2017 dance year!

Specializing in 2 year olds, pre-school, Tap, Jazz, Ballet, Hip Hop & Lyrical.

All ages - all levels

Please come meet the staff and visit a class anytime in April or May

For more information call 828-692-2905 patsschoolofdance.com

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PLAYBALL ASHEVILLE SPORTS CAMP

spiritual formation and team-building. Camp runs from 9-3 p.m. $40 fee includes T-shirt and crafts. Friday evening concert at 7 p.m. hominybaptist.com hominy@bellsouth.net

must bring their own lunch. Fee: $300/week. http://sacredcelebrationsproductions.com/Summer_camp.html hcpearl1333@gmail.com

KOLO FLOW BIKE CAMP

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Co-Ed • Ages 6-12 • Weekly • Half-Day/FullDay • June 13-Aug. 12 1 Resort Dr., Asheville • 707-4876 Campers will ride on purpose-built mountain bike trails and skill elements designed for all levels of rider to experience flow on a bicycle. culminate in classroom showcase for friends and family. Camp meeting times: TuesdayFriday 10a.m.-2 p.m. Campers will need to pack a bagged lunch. Camp tuition: $100. parkwayplayhouse.com/education/performing-arts-camps mksmith@parkwayplayhouse.com facebook.com/parkwayplayhousejunior @PHHJunior

LEARN TO PLAY ULTIMATE CLINIC

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Co-Ed • Ages 7-14 • Session 1: April 10, 3-5 p.m.; Session 2: April 17, 3-5 p.m.; Session 3: April 24, 3-5 p.m.

30 Buchanan Ave., Asheville, NC 28806 • 2256986 The Asheville Community is excited to bring the Learn to Play Ultimate Clinic to Asheville.

These sessions are for all active boys and girls ages 7-14. No previous ultimate or disc throwing experience necessary. Campers will learn: catching and throwing; safety and the spirit of self-officiating; passing and getting open; marking and defense; team offense and team defense. Cost $20 or all three sessions for $50. auc.usetopscore.com/e/learnto-play-ultimate-clinic learn-to-play-ultimate-clinic@ auc.ultimatecentral.com

LIONESS SELF DEFENSE FROM WITHIN: THROUGH THE ARTS AT ODYSSEY COMMUNITY SCHOOL

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Girls • 11-14 • June 6-10; 9-4 p.m. daily 90 Zillicoa St., Asheville • 273-8448 Girls will learn to connect to their movement, posture, breathing, personal space and verbal and nonverbal communication skills through the arts, to ensure their continued safety in the great world. The arts will include drumming, singing, dance, yoga, theater, martial arts and visual art.

Instructors include local performing arts teachers River Guerguerian, Kristin Luna Ray and more.

Camp will be at Odyssey School and participants

music; build characters and props and learn all the elements of what it takes to put on a live production. Students will then perform their final product onstage at the historical Parkway Playhouse. Meeting time: MondayFriday 9-noon (ages 4-10), and 9-3 p.m. (ages 10-18). Camp tuition is $180 for ages 4-10 and $220 for ages 10-18. Performances for this camp will be on July 22 and 23 at 6 p.m. parkwayplayhouse.com/education/performing-arts-camps mksmith@parkwayplayhouse.com facebook.com/parkwayplayhousejunior @PPHJunior

MINDSTRETCH TRAVEL ADVENTURES Boys • Ages 9-15 • Overnight/Full-Day • June 12-July 30 3124 Landrum Road, Columbus • 863-4235 Founded in 1978, MindStretch Travel Adventures is not your typical summer camp. While campers participate in activities during the days, the activities vary based on our adventure location. There are different destinations each year and trips vary from 5-18 days. Boys experience camp activities during the days but get to enjoy the luxuries of “home” at night with hotel beds and evening restaurant meals. Upcoming trips include West Virginia and Tennessee mountains; Wyoming and Montana; and the North Carolina mountains. mindstretchadventures.com marklevin@windstream.net

NORTH CAROLINA STAGE COMPANY THEATRE PRODUCTION CAMP

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Co-Ed • Ages 6-18 • June 6-10, June 13-17, July 25-29 • Full-Day 15 Stage Lane, Asheville • 239-0263 There are three camps offered. Improv: Create a scene on the spot. Explore the techniques of improvisation through a variety of games and group exercise designed to ignite quick thinking, bold choices and support for your fellow improvisers. FUNdamentals of Theatre: Discover the building blocks of drama through games, group work, and basic theatre techniques.

Campers will learn how to use the body and voice to create a character and transport into the world of the play. The week concludes with a small performance. Stories to Stage: Explore the fun and creativity of storytelling. Campers delve into the skills of storytelling through personal story and traditional tale work that draws from acting, movement, comedy and more. Campers become the playwright, director, and star. For age requirements and costs visit the website. ncstage.org/blog/nc-stage-summer-camps-2015 education@ncstage.org

PARKWAY PLAYHOUSE JUNIOR PRODUCTION CAMP

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Co-Ed • Ages 4-18 • Half-Day • July 11-22 113 Green Mountain Dr., Burnsville • 682-4285 Parkway Playhouse directors take students through the process of putting on a professional production. Campers will audition and cast a musical; learn blocking, choreography and

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Co-Ed • Ages 3-6 • July 4-Aug. 12 223 Hillside St., Asheville At Playball camp, experienced teachers use positive coaching methods to guide children through a world of sports with high-energy, creative lessons. Staff creates countless opportunities to learn new skills, make friends and gain confidence. Each game and lesson focuses on something new like balance, coordination, speed and how to have fun while playing team sports like soccer, football, baseball, tennis, hockey and volleyball. Monday-Friday, 9-1 p.m. Cost: $34 - $40 per day. Check website for specific dates for various age ranges. playballasheville.com

RIVERLINK’S FRENCH BROAD RIVER CAMP

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Co-Ed • Ages 8-14 • Weekly • Full-Day • Session 1: Rising 3rd-5th, June 13-17; Session 2: Rising 6th-8th, June 27-July 1; Session 3: Rising 3rd-5th July 4-8; Session 4: Rising 3rd-5th, July 18-22 170 Lyman St., Asheville • 252-8474 x18 Educating and empowering the next generation of watershed stewards.

Activities include tubing, swimming, rafting, environmental education lessons, river cleanups, art and crafts and field trips.

Price: $275, full scholarships available. riverlink.org/learn/educationprograms/summer-camps/ laura@riverlink.org

ROCKBROOK CAMP FOR GIRLS

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Girls • Ages 6-16 • Overnight/Full-Day • June-Aug 11 3460 Greenville Hwy., Brevard • 884-6151 Located near Brevard, Rockbrook offers a diverse program of horseback riding, outdoor adventure activities, whitewater rafting, ceramics, crafts, sports and many other activities. Rockbrook provides a friendly and noncompetitive environment designed to help girls better understand themselves and their relationship with other people and the natural world. Girls ages 6-16 attend for 2-, 3- or 4-week sessions. Rockbrook is accredited by the American Camp Association. rockbrookcamp.com office@rockbrookcamp.com facebook.com/rockbrook @rockbrook

ROOTS + WINGS SCHOOL OF ART AND DESIGN SUMMER CREATIVITY CAMPS AND DESIGN STUDIOS

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I want to witness appreciation of races and religions, not see them shamed.

I want to see people take responsibility for themselves and have equal opportunities for everyone.

I want to see people not be separated by borders guarded by heavy weaponry created out of millions of dollars put to “good use.”

I want a world that cares about the well-being of humans and not just about power, money and maintaining their status.

I want to live in a place that shifts our focus from bombing countries to prove a point, to focusing on the dying, starving, dehydrated people and families.

I want a government that decides what’s in the best interest of the people and makes it happen.

My naME is ... Gavin Gentry, first

grade, Roots + Wings Community Design Lab at Vance Elementary School

Make it happen I am a consumer.

As I sit at the restaurant, eating fresh greens and tender meat, I think about how lucky I am.

We watch the waiter throw away our leftovers and drive away in our truck, leaking oil into the polluted night in search of a better future.

I take for granted what I have, whining and complaining about everything that doesn’t go my way.

I have a home, a good education, and even pets. I have a loving family.

But I want to make a change.

I want to travel the world freely, I want to not be underestimated as a girl.

Co-Ed • Ages 3-18 • Weekly • Full/Half-Day • June 13-Aug. 1 Asheville • 545-4827 The new Roots + Wings Creative Campus offers exceptional summer creativity camps and design studios. There are programs for all ages, exploring a multitude of artistic mediums and chances for collaborations with other artists and art forms, including dance, music, film and more.

Roots + Wings programs develop innovative problem solving skills, creative and critical thinking skills, confidence, collaboration and more. Daily schedules and fees vary. Sibling Discounts. rootsandwingsarts.com info@rootsandwingsarts.com facebook.com/pages/Roots-Wings-Schoolof-Art-and-Design/119836738634 38

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I am willing to help make this happen.

I am a global citizen. What I do affects the planet, and the planet affects me.

I am someone who contributes to the community and accepts people for who they are.

I believe I have achieved this, but I still have a long way to go.

In order to be a global citizen, you have to decide what you need and make it happen.

I will try to make it happen.

— Olivia Hennon, Evergreen Community Charter School, seventh grade

sElf-POrTraiT: Christian Obremski, North Buncombe Middle School

What I like My name is Owen I love my family My sister is a good person My favorite TV show is “Power Rangers” My favorite food is pizza My mom is awesome My dad is cool My cat is 19 years old I like to dance I do not like to clean my room I like to sleep I love my toys I like to go to church I am cool I like to play video games I like to play “Animal Jam” I play baseball — Owen Rice, North Buncombe Elementary, third grade

i likE TO sing: Lorelai Sernack, Odyssey Community School

SHAMAN HILL PEACEFUL WARRIOR CAMPS

15 minutes down river from Asheville. Fee: $250. shamanhill.com shamanhillclasses@gmail.com

Co-Ed • Ages 7-14 • Weekly • 9-5 p.m. • Session 1: June 20-24; Session 2: June 27-July 1; Session 3: July 4-8 70 Fletcher Martin Rd., Asheville • 775-1736 Shaman Hill invites children and teens to use the ancient wisdom practices of archery, horsemanship, meditation and swordsmanship to develop the skill of meeting Life in a heart-centered way. Hungarian archery, horses, medieval weapons, centering, artifacts, craft and foam weapon Boffing with The Wandering Swordsman play into epic gamings of myth and history across our beautiful, 30-plus acre learning center,

STAGE COMBAT SUMMER INTENSIVE

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Co-Ed • Ages 12-18 • Half-Day • July 5-8 113 Green Mountain Dr., Burnsville • 682-4285 Students will learn the basic principles of stage combat and the proper ways to effectively use basics without causing injury. Students will also learn how to use characterizations to make fights more realistic. Camp will culminate in classroom showcase for friends and family. Camp meeting times: Tuesday-Friday 10a.m.-2 p.m. Campers will need to pack a bagged lunch. Camp tuition: $100.

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STEM SUMMER CAMPS

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Co-Ed • Grades 1-12 • June 27-July 1; July 11-15 1000 Brevard Road, Asheville • 877-584-8315 Camps include: Engineering Excitement; Programming and Robotics; Minecraft Mods; App Development; Build Your Own Computer and Minecraft; Build An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle; Virtual Reality Experience; Laser Tag With Arduino; Web Game

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I’m made of the Breyer horse running in me and the power like a lion.

I have the little snaps and growls from my jaw every once in awhile when I get frustrated.

I love the warm hugs and kiss my mom gives me every night, then crawling into my warm bed.

I am made of the rushing Mississippi

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River running through me and the puppies and kitties I see and love.

Athletics helps me stay in shape for whatever comes my way. Animals make me happy no matter what they look like, and I love the whipping of the wild wind in my ears.

I’m made of laughing monkeys in the trees, I love the feeling of dirt between my toes.

I love the feeling of a soft paintbrush making the canvas even smoother.

I’m made of the speed of the cheetah.

I love the green-and-blue-colored mountains that I live in.

I’m made of the best community school ever.

That’s what makes me be how I am today.

No matter what comes my way I know this: Never give up on my dreams.

— Sophie Murphy, The Learning Community School seventh grade

Creation. See website for more information. stembususa.org info@STEMbusUSA.org

SUMMER MUSIC ADVENTURES AT PIANO LAB

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Co-Ed • Ages 5 & up (Kids will be split up into age & level-appropriate groups, beginners thru intermediate) • June 13-17 • June 20-25 • July 11-15 • July 18-22 • 9-3 p.m.

40 Westgate Parkway, Asheville • 273-5420 Led by an award-winning team of some of the best pianists and teachers in WNC, Piano Lab’s Summer activities include learning the basics of musical creativity and piano technique through classes with age-appropriate games (MusicNote Hopscotch!), music from all styles (classical, world, pop, etc.), field trips, performances and recordings. From learning ensemble skills to how a piano is made—there’s a little of everything for every kid. Sign up for just one or multiple sessions (discounts available). Early drop-off and extended pickup available upon request. piano-lab.com info@piano-lab.com

TRANSYLVANIA COMMUNITY ARTS COUNCIL MOUNTAIN ROOTS POTTERY CAMP

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Co-Ed • Ages 6-15 • Daily • Half-Day • July 11-15 ; July 25-29 349 S. Caldwell St., Brevard • 884-2787 During this week of pottery camp, students will have the opportunity to learn and practice basic hand-building skills including the pinch, coil and slab techniques. Morning session: 9-noon, ages 6-10. Afternoon session: 1:30-4:30 p.m., ages 10-15. Cost: $225 per camper. tcarts.org tcarts@comporium.net

TRANSYLVANIA COMMUNITY ARTS COUNCIL SUMMER ARTS CAMP

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Co-Ed • Ages 5-12 • Daily • Half-Day • June 27-July 1 349 S. Caldwell St., Brevard • 884-2787 The Transylvania Community Arts Council invites youth ages 5-12 to explore visual arts, pottery and dance. Morning session goes from 9-noon and the afternoon session is 1-4 p.m. Cost for the week-long art camp is $125 per child. tcarts.org tcarts@comporium.net

ULTIMATE FRISBEE SUMMER CAMP

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Co-Ed • Ages 11-17 • Weekly • Half-Day • 3rd9th grade • June 26-July 1; 9-1 p.m.

60 Ridgelawn Ave., Asheville • 225-6986 Campers will learn the sport of Ultimate Frisbee in a fun, exciting and nurturing environment. Campers will learn important fundamentals and techniques to help each camper improve their skills and understanding of Ultimate Frisbee. Campers will understand “The Spirit of the Game,” which is a governing rule in Ultimate Frisbee based on self-officiating. Campers will learn the game from current National and World Ultimate Frisbee Champion and 2006 North Carolina Middle School Coach of the Year, Mark Strazzer, and other local players. ashevilleultimate.org/e/ultimatefrisbee-summer-camp ultimate-frisbee-summer-camp@ auc.ultimatecentral.com facebook.com/UltimateFrisbeeSummerCamp

WNC NATURE CENTER EARLY CHILDHOOD CAMP

WNC NATURE CENTER CATALOOCHEE ELK CAMPOUT

Co-Ed • Ages 3-5 with a parent/guardian • Session 1: June 20-24; Session 2: July 4-8; Session 3: July 18-22 75 Gashes Creek Rd., Asheville • 259-8082 A camp designed for younger children with at least one parent or guardian accompanying the child throughout the experience. The three weeks include basic animal themes, early childhood discovery of shapes, numbers and colors, socialization and group dynamics throughout the program. Fee: $100. Friends of the WNCNC Members receive a $15 discount. wncnaturecenter.com kmastin@ashevillenc.gov facebook.com/APRCA

Co-Ed • All ages • Other • Overnight/Full-Day • Sept. 10-11 75 Gashes Creek Rd., Asheville • 259-8082 This campout is afternoon and evening of food, crafts, activities, an Elk Ecology program and bonfire in historic Cataloochee Valley’s Group Campground. Includes a BBQ dinner, snacks, camping fees, programs, crafts and continental breakfast. Any grade level and all family members welcome. $35/person Members of the Friends of the WNCNC receive a $5 discount per person. Pre-registrations required. wncnaturecenter.com kmastin@ashevillenc.gov facebook.com/APRCA

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WNC NATURE CENTER KINDERGARTEN CAMP

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Co-Ed • Age 5 • Session 1: June 27-July 1; Session 2: July 11-15; Session 3: July 25-29 75 Gashes Creek Rd., Asheville • 259-8082 Designed for rising kindergartners, this is a great way to engage your 5-year-old in the wonders of camp life, social interaction, communication skills and self-expression through the arts.

Camp meets at the WNC Nature Center. Fee: $200. Friends of the WNCNC Members receive a $25 discount. Pre- and post-care available. wncnaturecenter.com kmastin@ashevillenc.gov facebook.com/APRCA

WNC NATURE CENTER WILD WEEK CAMP

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Co-Ed • Rising 1st-3rd graders • June 13-17; June 27-July 1; July 4-8; July 11-15; July 18-22; July 25-29; Aug. 1-5 75 Gashes Creek Rd., Asheville • 259-8082 Youth will have fun while learning about nature through crafts, lessons and exploratory activities. 20 campers/week. Camp meets at the WNC Nature Center. Fee: $200. Friends of the WNCNC Members receive a $25 discount. Pre- and post-care available. wncnaturecenter.com kmastin@ashevillenc.gov facebook.com/APRCA

WNC NATURE CENTER ALL TAXA BIODIVERSITY INDEX (ATBI) CAMP

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Co-Ed • Grades 4-7• Weekly • Full-Day • June 20-24 75 Gashes Creek Rd., Asheville • 259-8082 This advanced camp is for those with a strong drive to be outdoors, in the woods, in the river and in the fields doing research. This camp promotes critical thinking and citizen science as a means of collecting and analyzing aspects of our wild heritage. Topics include plants, animals, various ecosystems, fungi and much more. Youth will have fun while learning about nature through crafts, lessons and exploratory activities. Pre- and post-care available. wncnaturecenter.com kmastin@ashevillenc.gov facebook.com/APRCA

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XPLORE USA INTERCULTURAL DAY CAMP

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Co-Ed • Ages 8-18 • Weekly • Full Day • June 27-Aug. 11 1 Town Square Blvd., Asheville • 651-8502 Intercultural day camp with foreign language classes and local educational and adventure activities with international teens. Activities include hiking and swimming at waterfalls, a trip to Carowinds, scavenger hunts, ropes course, tubing, rafting, cross-cultural team competitions, community service projects, cultural workshops and more. $240-$300 per week. Free week and 50% discount available for host families. Xplore USA also offers an overnight, cultural week long trip to Orlando, FL and overseas international summer camps. Visit the website for more info. xploreusa.org info@xploreusa.org

YWCA SUMMER CAMP

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Co-Ed • Ages 6-12 • Full-Day • June 13-Aug. 19 185 S. French Broad Ave., Asheville • 254-7206 The 2016 Summer Camp theme will be a different theme every week, including health and wellness, ooey gooey and the magic school bus. Activities will include yoga, tennis, basketball and dance.

There will also be arts and crafts, a cooking demo and swimming. Field trips include a trip to Chimney Rock, Asheville Gymnastics, LaZoom Tour Bus, Asheville Pizza, a campus visit to UNC Asheville, Tarwheels and more. We are gearing up to partner with Asheville City Schools, and summer learning loss is one of our main focuses. We are planning to bridge the gap for summer learning loss for youth in the Primary Enrichment Program. ywcaofasheville.org joshua.mcclure@ywcaofasheville.org

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Co-Ed • Ages 5-12 • March 28-April 1 185 S. French Broad Ave., Asheville • 254-7206 Activities include USTA tennis, yoga, dance, basketball, swimming, arts and crafts and cooking. There will be field trips to Asheville Pizza Co. and a trip on the LaZoom Comedy Bus. Fee: $165/week; $40/day. ywcaofasheville.org pep@ywcaofasheville.org

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And we’re supposed to make this world better for us, you and them.

Small words build a poem, small words build our world, small words coming straight from a small girl.

— Elisa Randazzo, Evergreen Community Charter School, seventh grade

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I Am

Heart’S direction: Chloe T.,

Just a girl, her feet in the dirt, her head in the clouds on some random street in a little city in a Southern state in a monstrous country in a massive continent on a large sphere that spins around.

And she looks up at a wispy cloud And she wonders...

Who am I? Why am I here?

I am a human, a citizen of the place they call Earth Where people debate, and our words stray.

The population grows greater and greater each day.

The smog thickens And the buildings go up And we chop down the trees and we bicker and complain about our needs but what we really need is change.

We are young we have no worries.

I’ve got a lot of years ahead of me

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All in the family

my WordS, mySelf: Mirna Olivares-Chavez, Valley Springs Middle School

My name is Caylee I love my family My favorite thing to do is play outside I love cats and dogs My favorite TV show is “Full House” My favorite food is pizza Me and my family love camping and going on trips I love playing on computers I love to sleep I am in a lot of school activities I have lots of friends I go to church at Calvary Worship Center I love to go to the lake with my family and swim My teacher is Mr. Walsh I have two brothers, named Cameron and Coleman My favorite subject is math Coleman is in 11th grade Cameron is in ninth grade My mom teaches math in eighth grade And my dad is a pastor — Caylee Smart, North Buncombe Elementary, third grade

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cool dude: Gabe McCarson, fourth grader at Sand Hill-Venable Elementary School, used watercolors to paint a portrait in the style of North Carolina artist Minnie Evans

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community calendar marcH 23 - 31, 2016

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animalS Blue ridGe Humane Society 692-2639, blueridgehumane.org • SATURDAYS, 10:30am - Yoga with cats. Proceeds benefit the Blue ridge humane Society. Free Held at Sanctuary Brewing Company, 147 1st Ave., Hendersonville • SA (3/26), 3pm - “Pup crawl,” puppy adoption event. The event moves to Southern Appalachian Brewing at 5 pm.

Free to attend. Held at Sanctuary Brewing Company, 147 1st Ave., Hendersonville BrotHer Wolf animal reScue 505-3440, bwar.org • WE (3/23), 6pm - “Pints for Pets night!” pet adoption event.

Free to attend. Held at Sanctuary Brewing Company, 147 1st Ave., Hendersonville

BenefitS Bike & rod niGHt Benefit goo.gl/Ogd1IG • WE (3/30), 6pm - Proceeds from this bike night with bike games, refreshments, live music

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by Wyze Guys, and live auction benefit aBccm’s services for homeless veterans. $10. Held atThe Regeneration Station, 26 Glendale Ave. center for cultural PreServation 692-8062, saveculture.org • WE (3/30), 7:30pm- Proceeds from this folk and storytelling concert with f David Holt and Josh Goforth benefit the center for cultural Preservation. $20. Held at Bo Thomas Auditorium, Blue Ridge Community College, Hendersonville duPont 12k trail race goo.gl/EFTcne • SA (3/26), 10am - Proceeds from this trail race benefit DuPont State Forest. Registration required: imathlete.com/events/EventOverview. aspx?fEID=36295. $35. Held at DuPont State Recreational Forest, Entrance: 1400 Staton Road, Cedar Mountain friendS of tHe lake 5k lakejunaluska.com/events • SA (3/26), 9am - Proceeds from this 5k race & walk benefits recreation opportunities at Lake Junaluska. $30/$25 advance/$15 students. Held at Lake Junaluska

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Conference & Retreat Center, 91 North Lakeshore Drive, Lake Junaluska morninG of HoPe 5k racesonline.com/events/morning-ofhope-5k-and-sunrise-service • SA (3/26), 8am - Proceeds from this 5K and Easter communion service benefit casting for hope. $25.

Held at Catawba Meadows Park, 701 Sanford Drive, Morganton Paint tHe toWn red Benefit eventbrite.com/e/paint-the-townred-tickets-20432238375 • TU (3/29), 5:30 - Proceeds from this celebrity tip competition at Pack’s Tavern, The Social Lounge, Scully’s, Sovereign Remedies, Storm Rhum Bar and Twisted Laurel benefit the asheville-mountain area american red cross. $40.

PamPer yourSelf! raffle usampm.com/event/PamperYourself/468731 • SA (3/26), 10am-6pm - Proceeds from the raffle at the Pamper Yourself! skin care fair benefit the american Diabetes association. Held at Fairview Community Center, 1357 Old Charlotte Highway, Fairview

PiGeon community multicultural develoPment center 450 Pigeon St., Waynesville, 452-7232 • FR (3/25), 11am - Proceeds from this eat-in or carry-out fish fry dinner benefit the Pigeon community multicultural Development center. Call ahead to place large orders. $8.

BuSineSS & tecHnoloGy

a-B tecH Small BuSineSS center 398-7950, abtech.edu/sbc Registration required. Free unless otherwise noted. Held at A-B Tech Enka Campus, 1459 Sand Hill Road, Candler.

• TH (3/24), 6-9pm - “Increasing Cash Flow in Your Business,” seminar.

• SA (3/26), 9am-noon - “SCORE: How to Lead Marketing & Sales Conversations,” seminar.

• WE (3/30), 6-9pm - “Small Business Bookkeeping,” seminar.

mountain area Workforce develoPment Board

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mountainareaworks.org • WE (3/23), 8am-7pm “#GreatJobsWNC2020 Hackathon,” to brainstorm strategies to meet the workforce needs of this region. Free. Held at WCU at Biltmore Park, 28 Schenck Parkway, Suite 300

(pd.) Learn to make beautiful Ukrainian Easter eggs: Pysanky workshops in the River Arts District or your location. AshevilleStudioA. com • (828) 423-6459 • AvlStudioA@gmail.com for signup + more info.

one million cuPS of coffee 1millioncups.com/asheville • WEDNESDAYS, 9am Presentations by local high-growth startup businesses for entrepreneurs. Free. Held at RISC Networks, 81 Broadway Suite C

claSSeS, meetinGS & eventS HandS on culinary claSSeS at tHe farm (pd.) You want to, but you’re not sure how to go about cooking local, organic produce and meats. Chef Ferrari will awaken the Chef within you! The Farm, 215 Justice Ridge Road, Candler, NC 28715. 828-6670666. info@thefarmevents.com www.thefarmevents.com

aSHeville timeBank 348-0674, ashevilletimebank.org • TUESDAYS, 4-5:30pm Orientation session. Reservations required: help@ashevilletimebank. org or 348-4160. Free to attend.

Held at Firestorm Cafe and Books, 610 Haywood Road BiG ivy community center 540 Dillingham Road, Barnardsville, 626-3438 • 4th MONDAYS, 7pm Community center board meeting.

Free. fireStorm cafe and BookS 610 Haywood Road, 255-8115 • FR (3/25), 2pm - “Get Out Mama Couponing Night.” Free to attend. marine corPS leaGue aSHeville 273-4948, mcl.asheville@gmail.com • Last TUESDAYS - For veterans of the Marines, FMF Corpsmen,

and their families. Free. Held at American Legion Post #2, 851 Haywood Road OnTrack Wnc Held at 50 S. French Broad Ave., unless otherwise noted. 255-5166, ontrackwnc.org Registration required. Free unless otherwise noted.

• WE (3/23), 5:30-7pm “Understanding Credit. Get it.

Keep it. Improve it.” Seminar.

• TH (3/24), 6-7:30pm “Understanding Credit,” seminar. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. • WE (3/30), 5:30-7:30pm “Discover Your Money Vision and Flip Your $ Switch,” seminar.

Public EvEnTs aT unca unca.edu • TH (3/31), 4-5:30pm - “The Tribal Spirit: Indian Identity in the 21st Century,” workshop by Perry Horse, leadership coach in the community college national reform movement. Free. Held in the Ramsey Library Whitman Room.

DancE sTuDiO Zahiya, DOWnTOWn DancE classEs (pd.) Monday 5pm Ballet Wkt 6pm Hip Hop Wkt 7pm Bellydance Drills 7:30pm Bellydance 8pm Tap • Tuesday 9am Hip Hop Wkt 6pm Intro to Bellydance 7pm Bellydance 8pm Bellydance 8pm Hip Hop Choreo 2 • Wednesday 9am Latin Wkt 5:30pm Hip Hop Wkt 6:30 Bhangra 8pm Contemporary • Thursday 9am Hip Hop Wrkt 4pm Kid’s Dance 5pm Teens Hip Hop 7pm West African 8pm West African 2 • Saturday 9:30am Hip Hop Wkt 10:45am POUND Wkt • Sunday 3pm Tap 2 • $13 for 60 minute classes, Wkt $5. 90 1/2 N. Lexington Avenue. www.studiozahiya.com :: 828.242.7595 ashEvillE MOvEMEnT cOllEcTivE ashevillemovementcollective.org • FRIDAYS, 7:30-8:30pm - Noninstructional, free-form dance within community. $8-$20. Held at NYS3, 2002 Riverside Drive Studio 42-O Loft I • SUNDAYS, 9am & 11am- Noninstructional, free-form dance within community. $8-$20. Held at Asheville Masonic Temple, 80 Broadway JOyful nOisE 649-2828, joyfulnoisecenter.org Held at First Presbyterian Church of Weaverville, 30 Alabama Ave., Weaverville • MONDAYS, 7:30-8:15pm -

Intermediate/Advanced clogging class. Ages 7 through adult. $10 • MONDAYS, 6:45-7:30pm Beginner clogging class. Ages 7 through adult. $10. sWing ashEvillE swingasheville.com • THURSDAYS, 7:30pm Beginner & intermediate swing dance lessons. 8:30-11pm - Open dance. Live music regularly. $7/$5 members. Held at Club Eleven on Grove, 11 Grove St.

fEsTivals PhOTO+crafT photocraftavl.com, info@photocraftavl.com • TH (3/31) through SU (4/3) Three-day arts event throughout Asheville exploring intersections between photography and craft.

See website for full schedule and locations. Free to attend.

fOOD & bEEr DOWnTOWn WElcOME TablE haywoodstreet.org/2010/07/ the-welcome-table • SUNDAYS, 4:30pm Community meal. Free. Held at Haywood Street Congregation, 297 Haywood St. fairviEW WElcOME TablE fairviewwelcometable.com • THURSDAYS, 11:30am-1pm - Community lunch. Admission by donation. Held at Fairview Christian Fellowship, 596 Old Us Highway 74, Fairview lEicEsTEr cOMMuniTy cEnTEr 2979 New Leicester Highway, Leicester, 774-3000, facebook.com/Leicester.

Community.Center • WEDNESDAYS, 11:30am-1pm Welcome Table meal. Free. living WEb farMs 891-4497, livingwebfarms.org • TH (3/24), 6pm - “Soups and Small Plates for Spring: Cooking Class.” $10. Held at French Broad Food Co-op, 90 Biltmore Ave.

gOvErnMEnT & POliTics buncOMbE cOunTy Parks anD rEcrEaTiOn • TH (3/24), 4-7pm - Public information session regarding sections of the Bent Creek Corridor Greenway. Free.

ciTy Of ashEvillE 251-1122, ashevillenc.gov • WE (3/23), 4-7pm - Central business district drop-in meeting about downtown development issues. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library - Lord Auditorium, 67 Haywood St.

kiDs anaM cara ThEaTrE 545-3861, anamcaratheatre.com • TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS, 10-noon - Tiny Tots Circus Playtime with aerials, clowning, balance and acrobatics. Children up to 6 years old. $5. Held at Toy Boat Community Art Space, 101 Fairview Road Suite B ashEvillE ulTiMaTE club ashevilleultimate.org, ashevilleultimateclub@gmail.com • Through TU (4/5) - Open registration for the Asheville Youth Ultimate Frisbee League. See website for full guidelines. aTTic salT ThEaTrE cOMPany 505-2926 • SA (3/26), 10am - Newly Grown Tales. $5. Held at The Magnetic Theatre, 375 Depot St. EasTEr On ThE grEEn ashevilledowntown.org • SA (3/26), 2-5pm - Easter egg hunt, inflatables, kid’s karaoke, and kid’s crafts. Full schedule here: ashevilledowntown.org/ node/4101. Free to attend. Held at Pack Square Park, 121 College St. flETchEr library 120 Library Road, Fletcher, 687-1218, library.hendersoncountync.org • WEDNESDAYS, 10:30am Family story time. Free. grOcE uniTED METhODisT church 954 Tunnel Road, 298-7647 • SA (3/26), 2-4pm - “Spring Fling,” with Easter egg hunt, activities and crafts for children. Free. hanDs On! a chilDrEn’s gallEry 318 N. Main St., Hendersonville, 697-8333 • Through FR (3/25) - “Nano Days” with science demonstrations and experiments focused on nano sized science. $5 admission/ Free for members.

• THURSDAYS & FRIDAYS through (3/31), 2-5pm - “Makerspace,” using toys to design and build bridges. $5. hEnDErsOnvillE sisTEr ciTiEs hendersonvillesistercities.org

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muSic of aGeS: David Holt, left, and Josh Goforth exemplify the Center for Cultural Preservation’s mission to protect Appalachian heritage from obsolescence. An upcoming benefit for the nonprofit will feature their songs and stories. Photo courtesy of the artists WHAT: Music and storytelling

by David Holt and Josh Goforth to benefit the Center for Cultural Preservation WHEN: Wednesday, March 30, at 7:30 p.m.

WHERE: Blue Ridge Community College’s Bo Thomas Auditorium WHY: “I think 104 was the [age of the] oldest person I’ve interviewed so far,” says David Weintraub, the Center for Cultural Preservation’s executive director. With volunteer help, he’s collecting oral histories from seniors in 12 counties under the Mountain Elder Wisdom Project.

More than just documenting colorful tales, the initiative seeks to inspire youths to keep Appalachian heritage — the connections to agriculture, community, sustainable living, family and faith, in addition to artistic traditions — an active presence in modern life.

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“So many of the solutions to our problems today could be found not by wringing our hands and staring at our portable electronic devices from thousands of miles away, but by asking those folks who have faced difficult times how they survived and thrived. ... The problem is these people are rapidly disappearing.”

CPP has produced several documentaries using the 70 stories collected thus far and is inviting Henderson County students to gather additional oral histories for an inaugural youth contest.

Winning short films will be screened at the nonprofit’s annual Culture Vulture Film Festival.

“That’s one of the things we’re hoping this concert coming up will help fund,” Weintraub says, “in addition to the continuance of our oral histories and documentary films.”

The benefit show’s multigenerational entertainers — David Holt and Josh Goforth — exemplify cultural continuance, according to Weintraub. While Holt, a Texas-born folk musician and storyteller, learned Appalachian culture through decades of immersion, his protégé Goforth has a blood connection to Madison County elders that influenced both men musically.

“So there’s this incredible reciprocity that goes on between the two,” Weintraub says. “They bring to life not the just music, but the stories of people who came before. And you can just see why it’s so important that this history and knowledge goes on.”

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See website for full guidelines: sistercities.org/YAAS. Free/$25 for film entries.

JOyful nOisE 649-2828, joyfulnoisecenter.org • MONDAYS, 6-7:30pm - Capriccio String Orchestra for intermediate players. $10. Held at West Asheville Presbyterian Church, 690 Haywood Road • MONDAYS, 6:15-6:45pm “Movement and Dance,” class for 5 and 6 year olds. $10. Held at First Presbyterian Church of Weaverville, 30 Alabama Ave., Weaverville lakE JaMEs sTaTE Park 6883 N.C. Highway 126, Nebo, 584-7728 • SU (3/27), 1pm - “Frogs magnified,” presentation by ranger about frogs. Magnifying tools are provided. Reservations required. Free. lakE Junaluska cOnfErEncE & rETrEaT cEnTEr 91 North Lakeshore Drive, Lake Junaluska, 452-2881, lakejunaluska.com • SA (3/26), 11:30am-12:30pm Children’s Easter egg hunt. Free. n.c. arbOrETuM 100 Frederick Law Olmsted Way, 665-2492, ncarboretum.org • MONDAYS & TUESDAYS through (5/24), 10-11:30am - Wee Naturalists program for ages 2-5 with crafts, exploration, stories.

Registration recommended. $7 per child/$3 per additional child/ Parking fees apply. sPEllbOunD chilDrEn’s bOOkshOP 640 Merrimon Ave. #204, 708-7570 spellboundchildrensbookshop.com • SATURDAYS, 11am - Storytime for ages 3-7. Free to attend.

WEavErvillE EasTEr cElEbraTiOn facebook.com/ events/1717003678585915 • SA (3/26), 11am - Easter egg hunt, food, painting, balloon twisting, and bounce house. Free. Held at Lake Louise Park, Doan Road, Weaverville

OuTDOOrs yMca Of Wnc 210-2265, ymcawnc.org • WE (3/23), 8:45am - 4 mile easy hike at the Jackson Park Nature Trail and Oklawaha

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Greenway along the Mud Creek in Hendersonville. Registration: 6580047. Free/$3 optional carpool fee. Held at YMCA - Woodfin, 30 Woodfin St.

ParEnTing Public lEcTurEs aT unca unca.edu • WE (3/30), 6-7:30pm - “How to Raise a Money-Smart Child,” by Molly Coffey of OnTrack Finance.

Free. Held in Robinson Hall room 210. vErnEr cEnTEr fOr Early lEarning 2586 Riceville Road • Through MO (4/18) - Open registration for parenting workshop for parents and caregivers who are military veterans and/or family members of veterans. Classes take place TUESDAYS (4/19) through (5/10), 5:30-7pm. Free.

Public lEcTurEs firEsTOrM cafE anD bOOks 610 Haywood Road, 255-8115 • WE (3/23), 8pm - “Earth Liberation Not Mass Incarceration,” presentation by Panagiotis Tsolkas of the Prison Ecology Project. Free to attend.

• TH (3/24), 3pm - Presentation

by Iyad Burnat, Palestinian activist.

Free to attend.

Public lEcTurEs aT brEvarD cOllEgE 884-8251, raintrlh@brevard.edu • WE (3/23), 9:30am - Alumna Toni Kiser speaks about her position as assistant director for collectiwons management at The National World War II Museum in New Orleans. Free. Held in the Jones Library.

Public lEcTurEs aT unca unca.edu Free unless otherwise noted.

• WE (3/23), 7:30pm - “Cleopatra: An Archaeological Perspective on Egypt’s Last Pharaoh,” lecture

by John Hale. Held in the Sherrill Center.

• TH (3/24), 7-8pm - “God Is on Our Side: The Sanctification of Civil Rights in the United States,” lecture by Dr. Jane Dailey. Held in Karpen Hall, Laurel Forum.

• FR (3/25), 6:30pm - “Free Speech on Campus: The Future of Academic Freedom,” lecture

by Professor of Law, Geoffrey Stone. Held in the Humanities Lecture Hall.

• MO (3/28), 12:30-1:30pm “Math and Poetry: A Match Made in Math,” by Patrick Bahls, associate professor of mathematics.

Held in Karpen Hall, Laurel Forum.

• TU (3/29), 4:30-6pm - “Statistics and the Environment: Using Flexible Statistical Models to Model a Variety of Scientific Data,” lecture by by Steve Patch, UNC Asheville professor of mathematics. Held in the Reuter Center.

• TH (3/31), noon-1pm - “The Tribal Spirit: Indian Identity in the 21st Century,” lecture and workshop

by Perry Horse, leadership coach in the community college national reform movement. Held in the Intercultural Center.

• TH (3/31), 7-8pm - “Chaos Games and Fractal Images,” lecture by Bob Devaney, professor of computer science, mathematics and statistics at Boston University.

Held in Lipinsky Auditorium.

• TH (3/31), 7pm - “This American Jewish Life,” presentation by Hal Lewis, president and CEO of Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership. Held in the Sherrill Center Mountain View Room.

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ThE blOck Off bilTMOrE 39 South Market St., 254-9277, theblockoffbiltmore.com • SA (3/26), 3-5pm - Presentation

by Cindy Heil regarding the “Code Pink: Women for Peace” delegation to the 4th International Seminar for Peace and Abolition of Foreign Military Bases in Guantanamo. Free to attend.

sEniOrs lEicEsTEr cOMMuniTy cEnTEr 2979 New Leicester Highway, Leicester, 774-3000, facebook.com/ Leicester.Community.Center • MONDAYS, 4:30pm - Christian based yoga for seniors. Free.

Olli aT unca 251-6140, olliasheville.com • TH (3/24), 4:30pm - “Prevention of Elder Investment Fraud and Financial Exploitation,” presentation by Lauren Benbow. Free. Held in the Reuter Center.

• FR (3/25), 11:30am - Fab Friday Lecture: “A Resource in Your Back Pocket: Geriatric Care Managers,” presentation by Amy Fowler, owner and care manager with WNC Geriatric Care Management.

Free. Held in the Reuter Center.

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Learn how to get a Mindfulness Meditation practice started. 1st & 3rd Mondays. 7pm – 8:30. Asheville Insight Meditation, 29 Ravenscroft Dr, Suite 200, (828) 808-4444, www.ashevillemeditation.com. asTrO-cOunsEling (pd.) Licensed counselor and accredited professional astrologer uses your chart when counseling for additional insight into yourself, your relationships and life directions.

Readings also available. Christy Gunther, MA, LPC. (828) 258-3229.

OPEn hEarT MEDiTaTiOn (pd.) Experience and deepen the spiritual connection to your heart, the beauty and deep peace of the Divine within you.

Increase your natural joy and gratitude while releasing negative emotions. Love Offering 7-8pm Tuesdays, 5 Covington St. 296-0017 OpenHeartMeditation.com. ashEvillE cEnTEr fOr TranscEnDEnTal MEDiTaTiOn 165 E. Chestnut, 254-4350, meditationasheville.org • THURSDAYS, 6:30-7:30pm - Introductory talk on the Transcendental Meditation technique. Online registration. Free to attend.

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ashEvillE nOrTh sEvEnTh-Day aDvEnTisT church 364 Broadway St., 281-0410 • Through SA (3/26), 6:30pm - “The Last Day of Prophecy: Discover the Rest of the Story,” dinner and broadcast series. Free. ashEvillE sOunD hEaling 776-3786, ashevillesoundhealing.com, info@ ashevillesoundhealing.com • SATURDAYS, 11am & SUNDAYS, noon Healing concert with crystal bowls, gongs and chanting. Free to attend. Held at Skinny Beats Drum Shop and Gallery, 4 Eagle St. cEnTEr fOr arT & sPiriT aT sT. gEOrgE 1 School Road, 258-0211 • WEDNESDAYS, 3:30pm & 6:30pm - Sitting meditation and daily mindfulness practice.

Info: kenlenington@gmail.com. Admission by donation.

• FR (3/25), 7-8pm - Singing meditation with readings, harp, guitar, flute and drum.

Admission by donation.

• Last Tuesdays, 7-9pm - Aramaic, Hebrew and Egyptian vocal toning, breath work and meditation. Admission by donation. cEnTral uniTED METhODisT church 27 Church St., 253-3316, centralumc.org • WEDNESDAYS through (4/27), 6-7pm Christian yoga and meditation series. Free. lakE Junaluska cOnfErEncE & rETrEaT cEnTEr 91 North Lakeshore Drive, Lake Junaluska, 452-2881, lakejunaluska.com

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• SU (3/27), 11:30am-2:30pm - Easter lunch buffet. Registration required. $21.95/$11 for children 6-12/Free for children 5 and under.

• TH (3/31), 7:30pm - Listen to This Storytelling Series: “Airports and Airplanes,” stories and original songs from locals. $15.

MOunTain ZEn PracTicE cEnTEr mountainzen.org • TUESDAYS, 7:15-8:45pm - “Zen Awareness Practice,” weekly meditation followed by group discussion focused on selected readings of Cheri Huber. Orientation required, contact for details: mountainzen@bellsouth.net. Free.

baTTEry Park aParTMEnTs 1 Battle Square • FR (3/25), noon-2pm - RootsAction campaign coordinator David Swanson presents his book, War Is a Lie: Second Edition. Free to attend.

OM sancTuary 87 Richmond Hill Drive, 505-2300 • SATURDAYS, 11am-noon - Meditation session. Admission by donation. shaMbhala MEDiTaTiOn cEnTEr 60 N Merrimon Ave., #113, 200-5120, asheville.shambhala.org • WEDNESDAYS, 10-midnight, THURSDAYS, 7-8:30pm & SUNDAYS, 10-noon - Meditation and community. Admission by donation. urban DharMa 29 Page Ave., 225-6422, udharmanc.com • SU (1/24), 10am- Meditation for children with a Buddhist tale, contemplation, meditation and snack. Free.

sPOkEn & WriTTEn WOrD 35bElOW 35 E. Walnut St., 254-1320, ashevilletheatre.org

firEsTOrM cafE anD bOOks 610 Haywood Road, 255-8115 • Last THURSDAYS, 7pm - Liberty Book Club.

Free.

MalaPrOP’s bOOksTOrE anD cafE 55 Haywood St., 254-6734, malaprops.com Free unless otherwise noted.

• FR (3/26), 7pm - Dennis Covington presents his book, Revelation: A Search for Faith in a Violent Religious World.

Public EvEnTs aT unca unca.edu Free unless otherwise noted.

• TH (3/24), noon - “We Are Each Other’s Magnitude and Bond: Poetry’s Empathic Urge,” poetry readings by poet Sharon Strange. Presentation and workshop at 3:30pm. Held in Karpen Hall Laurel Forum.

• FR (3/25), 4pm - Poetry reading and presentation by Mike Ross, author of Small Engine Repair. Held in the Reuter Center.

• TU (3/29), 6-8pm - Poetry slam and open mic night with the theme “Word to Your Mother.” Held in Karpen Hall, Laurel Forum.

• WE (3/30), 7pm - Poetry reading by Cyrus Cassells. ForHeld in the Highsmith Union Grotto.

sPOrTs PEOPlE fOr bikEs peopleforbikes.org • WE (3/30), 7am - Public send-off for the 400-mile “Ride on Atlanta.” Free. Held at Pack Square Park, 121 College St. us cEllular cEnTEr 87 Haywood St. • WE (3/23), 7pm - The Harlem Globetrotters. $21.50 and up.

vOlunTEEring big brOThErs big sisTErs Of Wnc 253-1470, bbbswnc.org • TH (3/24), noon - Information session for those interested in volunteering to work with young people from singleparent homes twice a month and for those interested in mentoring elementary school students 1-hour per week after school. Free. Held at United Way of Asheville & Buncombe, 50 S. French Broad Ave. For more volunteering opportunities visit mountainx.com/volunteering

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Glaciers and Gender University of Oregon professor Mark Carey produced a 10,300word journal article in January proposing a new sensitivity to Earth's melting icecaps: a "feminist glaciology framework" to "generate robust analysis of gender, power and epistemologies" with a goal of more "just and equitable" "humanice interactions." The jargonized, densely worded tract suggests that melting icecaps can be properly understood only with more input from female scientists since, somehow, research so far disproportionately emphasizes climate change's impact on males. (The New York Post reported that the paper was funded by a National Science Foundation grant of $412,930.)

Chutzpah!

Trying to put (as a critic charged) "lipstick on a pig," Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder boasted in March that the lead-in-the-water crisis plaguing the city of Flint for months now had actually spurred job growth.

Though Snyder has been heavily criticized for tight-fisted budgeting that enabled the crisis, 81 temporary workers have been recently hired — to hand out bottled water so that residents would not have to hydrate themselves with poisoned municipal water.

Can't Possibly Be True • A senior federal administrative law judge recently claimed (and then, for good measure, repeated and emphasized) that, in his experience, "3-year-olds and 4-year-olds" do not need the help of lawyers to advocate for them in immigration proceedings. Teaching those kids their rights, Judge Jack Weil said, "takes a lot of time" and "a lot of patience," but there is no need for government to provide lawyers. (Weil, a U.S. Department of Justice employee, was contesting an American Civil Liberties Union claim at a recent deposition in an immigration case in Seattle.)

• Homeless people frequently store their few possessions in commandeered shopping carts, but New

Yorker Sonia Gonzalez, 60, became a legend recently on Manhattan's West Side by maneuvering a stunning, block-long assemblage of more than 20 carts' worth of possessions along the sidewalks. Among the contents: an air conditioner, a laundry hamper, shower curtain rods, a wire shelving unit, wooden pallets, suitcases and, of course, bottles and cans. She moved along by pushing carts two or three at a time, a few feet at a time, blocking entrances to stores in the process. (The day after a New York Post story on Gonzalez's caravan, Mayor DiBlasio ordered city workers to junk everything not essential, leaving her with about one cart's worth.)

Questionable Judgments Mexico's latest female accessorizing craze is shellacking tiny dead scorpions onto fingernails, using the second-most venomous species of the arachnid, selling briskly at the Miss Unas parlor in Durango.

In fact, while in town (according to a London Daily Mail dispatch from Durango), shoppers may check out the Raices restaurant, which pioneered tacos filled with stillwriggling scorpions (that had been soaked in surgical alcohol to neutralize the venom).

Latest Religious Messages Power of Prayer: (1) Businessman Induvalu Suresh cut off, and donated, the little finger of his left hand recently at the Hindu pilgrimage site Tirupati, India, as homage to the gods for the granting of bail to prominent India leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, who are charged with fraudulent business practices in a case heavily politically weighted. (2) In October, a regional court in Nizhegorodsky, Russia, decided that the Russian Orthodox Church could pay off part of a debt for its new boiler spiritually. According to an Associated Press dispatch from Moscow, the church can settle the remaining debt, equivalent to $6,585, to the boiler company by paying $2,525 in rubles and the remainder by prayer.

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From doulas to doctors New birthing center highlights Asheville-area services

by Kate Lundquist kvlundo@gmail.com Although New Dawn Midwifery closes at the end of March, safe and supported birthing options abound in the Asheville area, including hospitals with obstetricians, hospitals with midwives and the WNC Birth Center, which is set to open this spring on South French Broad Avenue. Professionals across the region continue to advocate for education and support as the keys to making choices during childbirth.

Jan Verhaeghe, founder and president of New Dawn’s board of directors, is retiring after 19 years because of a death in the family.

“We are making referrals for providers, and we are offering care up to [Thursday,] March 31,” she says.

“We have enjoyed every minute of our practice.”

Staffed by certified nurse midwives, New Dawn was the only legal practice for attending home births in Western North Carolina.

Judy Major, volunteer founder and current board president of the nonprofit WNC Birth Center, had been a doula for 13 years, with the dream of opening such a facility in the region. “We hope as New Dawn clients look for a new maternity provider, they will consider continuing their care with us and having their baby at our midwives’ ‘home,’ the WNC Birth Center,” Major says.

While rooms are still under construction, prenatal care will be available starting in April, but midwives won’t begin “catching babies” until July, Major says. Once construction is complete, three large rooms — each with a standard bed and private bath with large tub and shower — will be available. The center is currently looking to hire a certified midwife to work at the birthing center.

“We have never had a birth center of this magnitude in our region,” Major says. “The vision is for a free-standing, certified, nursing midwife staff facility where couples can have their

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birThDay gifT: Brad and Corina Cassinova use the support of Chama Woydak of HomeGrown Babies. Photo by Destinee Blau Photography, courtesy of HomeGrown Babies babies in a homelike setting right near the hospital.”

The center will be available to anyone regardless of income. Services are covered by insurance, including Medicaid, although only women with low-risk pregnancies will be accepted.

The biggest difference between the WNC Birth Center and a hospital is that the service is very mother-directed, Major says. The mother is calling shots on the birth, and her wishes will be honored unless there are safety issues.

Because the center offers prenatal and group classes during pregnancy, as well as meetings with midwives, the environment will be familiar to birthing women, she continues. No pain medication will be used in the WNC Birth Center. If a woman decides she needs it, she’ll be transferred to Mission Hospital.

“I have worked as a doula for 13 years,” Major says, “And I worked with close to 130 couples. Time and

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again they say, ‘How come there is not a birth center? I don’t feel quite safe at home, but I want that experience.’”

It’s important to provide options and make a safe space available to women who for one reason or another want to use a birth center, she says. “Birth is normal, and we shouldn’t be acting like it is something wrong unless in fact something is not right.”

A true emergency in a birth center is extremely rare, Major says. Chapel Hill’s birthing center had 500 births last year, with only one maternal transport and one infant transport, and both outcomes were fine, she notes.

EDucaTiOn EQuals EMPOWErMEnT Beginning Friday, April 1, an allinclusive center for education and support services, Homegrown Babies Health and Education Center, will

move into New Dawn’s Charlotte Street space. Chama Woydak, owner of HomeGrown Babies, says she’s sad to see New Dawn Midwifery go, but she continues to see Asheville as a gem in the birthing scene.

“Because I have perspective outside of the Asheville area with birth choices and options, I can say we live in a very special place for giving birth,” Woydak says. “The camaraderie, communication, respect and integrity between birth professionals across the board is stellar. There are not a lot of boxing gloves up between professionals, but instead there is collaboration. There are diverse opinions, but it is always with the families’ best interests in mind. We agree to disagree, and that is pretty special here.”

Homegrown Babies’ center will offer counseling, cranio-sacral work, massage, acupuncture and doula services, all focused on patients’ childbearing years. Woydak has been attending births as a certified birth doula since 1999 and teaching childbirth classes since 2002.

A professional doula, Woydak explains, doesn’t need a college degree, but the practice does take a commitment to a certain number of classroom hours (which she offers), attendance at a set number of births, continuing education requirements and recertification every three years. A certified birth doula must also get completed evaluation forms from nurses, doctors, midwives and families, Woydak explains.

“Certified doulas must research 40 different community resources for childbearing years,” she says, “in order to differentiate how and when to refer out services and who to refer to.”

“The role of a doula is to provide continuous physical and emotional support and assistance for women and their partners through birth and/or the postpartum period,” says Roxy Robbins, a doula employed by HomeGrown Babies and a member of Doula Association of the Mountain Area. Certified doulas are trained in pain-relieving

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measures, position changes, massage and movement to work with mothers during labor.

“A postpartum doula can provide a safe space,” says Robbins, “to process emotions [and provide] newborn care information, self care and guidance for mamas and partners to help set up a healthful, nourishing environment for you and your family.”

Whether getting an epidural or not, a lot of women benefit from hands-on comfort measures, Woydak explains. “We educate, support and empower,” she says. “It is really important that we stay evidence-based, that we give clients and families information; we are trained to know the difference between the gold standard study and bias study; and we allow clients to interpret the info however they want.”

Good education improves outcomes, says Cheryl Orengo, one of the founders and an instructor at Start from Seed, an Asheville nonprofit that provides childbirth education and is free to Medicaid patients.

“Years ago [North Carolina] had terrible infant mortality rate,” she says, “but with education and programs like [the Mountain Area Health Education Center], Start from Seed, and the Nurse Family Partnership, it has improved.”

Education and knowledge about childbirth options empower women, says Orengo, who has been a doula for 26 years and a trainer for 16 years. She advocates for the Nurse Family Partnership Program, a federal initiative in which nurses visit low-income, first-time mothers at their homes for the first two years after the arrival of their children — a measure that has proven to improve birth outcomes, she says.

Trish Hickling Beckman, coowner of The Women’s Wellness and Education Center in Asheville, agrees that education and support are key to mothers having the birth experiences they desire. The center offers health and sexuality education, massage and counseling.

Such services help women make better choices, she says, which in turn makes birth a positive and empowering experience.

“Birth can be the most amazing experience of your life or the most disturbing,” says Beckman, a nurse midwife since 1995. She has delivered about 2,000 babies at homes, hospitals and birthing centers. She currently delivers babies at Catawba Valley Medical Center

in Hickory, although she worked at New Dawn Midwifery for several years beginning in 2001.

One of the greatest things available in North Carolina, Beckman adds, is chiropractic adjustments for pregnant women, which is covered by some insurance, including Medicaid.

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CollABoRAtive CARe April Macary, co-owner of Awakening Heart, offers chiropractic adjustments to make room in the pelvis for delivery. If the sacrum is out of balance, birth will put tension in the uterus, Macary says. The adjustment helps the uterus relax and creates the best position for birth, she explains.

Another resource for WNC women is massage during pregnancy and the postpartum period. Kristina Berkeley, massage therapist at The Women’s Wellness and Education Center and owner of Sattva Massage, says she hears from her clients that receiving regular massage during their pregnancies helps them to get in touch with their bodies in ways they never have. In a study reported by the National Institute of Health, massage therapy was “demonstrated to be effective during pregnancy. Women who received massage therapy reported decreased depression, anxiety, and leg and back pain.

Cortisol levels decreased, and in turn excessive fetal activity decreased. The rate of prematurity was lower in the massage group.”

At times women make choices out of fear, Beckman says, so they end up having interventions they don’t need, which leaves them feeling unempowered. It is a natural biological function to have babies, she says, but risky cases occasionally require intervention.

“It is very important that we walk in the strength and knowledge that our bodies are made to do this. We have great science for when [birth] becomes complicated, but in the absence of that, you can do great things with great support,” she says. In her 20 years of practice, she notes that 10-20 percent of women required some kind of medical intervention, but 80 percent can have births safely without intervention and do not routinely need epidurals and pitocin. Many of those interventions are common and bring more risk when the woman doesn’t need them, Beckman says.

Amanda Murphy, certified nurse midwife at MAHEC and director of

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The center’s model is evidence-based, Murphy says, and the women who benefit the most are the ones who come from most toxic environments. “There is a decrease in pre-term delivery rate and decrease in low-weight babies, and the data supports breastfeeding and decreased smoking,” Murphy says. “The model is structured so that everything is intentional, so women can walk away feeling empowered."

MAHEC serves as the safety net for local midwives and doulas, as it provides the accepting team for anyone who needs more than a home birth.

And it allows women of all income levels to see midwives and doctors at its facilities for all their health needs, including pregnancy care.

Pregnancy and childbirth providers in WNC are unanimous about the ingredients for a safe, positive birth experience: education, support and empowerment. The Asheville area offers plenty of all three. X

MORE INFO WNC Birth Center wncbirthcenter.com The Women’s Wellness and Education Center ashevillewomenswellness.com MAHEC mahec.net/patient-information/ob-gyn-care/certifiednurse-midwives Start from Seed startfromseed.org Awakening Heart awakeningheartchiropractic. com HomeGrown Babies www.homegrownbabies.com DAMA www.wncdoulas.com National Institute of Health: scientific article www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/ articles/PMC2870995

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Asheville Community yoGA CenteR 8 Brookdale Road, ashevillecommunityyoga.com • SA (3/26), 12:30-2:30pm - “Twist Your Cares Away,” yoga workshop. $20.

BunComBe County puBliC liBRARies buncombecounty.org/governing/ depts/library • WE (3/30), 11:30am - “Laughter Yoga,” yoga class for adults. Free.

Held at Swannanoa Library, 101 West Charleston St., Swannanoa CounCil on AGinG of BunComBe County 277-8288, coabc.org • TH (3/24), 2-4pm - “Medicare Choices Made Easy,” information session. Registration: 277-8288 ext. 310.

Held at Pardee Signature Center, 1800 Four Seasons Blvd., Hendersonville fiRestoRm CAfe And BooKs 610 Haywood Road, 255-8115 Free unless otherwise noted.

• TH (3/24), 6:30pm - Transcendance: Meditation for queer/trans community. Free to attend. foCus on flexiBility 299-4844 • TUESDAYS, 2:15-3:15pm - Gentle exercise class with focus on flexibility, balance, body alignment and breathing. Includes standing, floor and chair exercises. Free.

Held at Harvest House, 205 Kenilworth Road hAyWood ReGionAl heAlth And fitness CenteR 75 Leroy George Dr., Clyde, 452-8080, haymed.org • Through MO (3/28) - Open registration for the Freedom from Smoking Group Clinic that runs (3/29) through (5/10). Registration: myhaywoodregional.com/iquit. $25.

• TH (3/24), 4-5pm - Tired leg and varicose vein educational program.

Registration required: 452-8346. Free. leiCesteR Community CenteR 2979 New Leicester Highway, Leicester, 774-3000, facebook.com/ Leicester.Community.Center • MONDAYS, 6pm - Christian based yoga. Free. puBliC leCtuRes At unCA unca.edu • TH (3/31), noon - “What You Don’t Know CAN Hurt You,” presentation by Lucille Adams-Campbell, professor of oncology at Georgetown University.

Free. Held in the Sherrill Center Mountain View Room.

Red CRoss Blood dRives redcrosswnc.org Appointment and ID required.

• FR (3/25), 2-6pm - Appointments & info.: 652-3608. Held at St. Mark’s United Methodist Church, 3149 US Highway 70 West, Marion

suppoRt GRoups Adult ChildRen of AlCoholiCs & dysfunCtionAl fAmilies adultchildren.org • Visit mountainx.com/support for full listings.

Al-Anon/ AlAteen fAmily GRoups 800-286-1326, wnc-alanon.org • A support group for the family and friends of alcoholics. For full listings, visit mountainx.com/support.

AlCoholiCs Anonymous • For a full list of meetings in WNC, call 254-8539 or aancmco.org Asheville Women foR soBRiety 215-536-8026, womenforsobriety.org • THURSDAYS, 6:30-8pm – Held at YWCA of Asheville, 185 S French Broad Ave. AspeRGeR’s Adults united facebook.com/WncAspergersAdultsUnited • 4th SATURDAYS, 2-5pm - Occasionally meets additional Saturdays. Contact for details. Held at Earth Fare South, 1856 Hendersonville Road AspeRGeR’s teens united facebook.com/groups/ AspergersTeensUnited • For teens (13-19) and their parents.

Meets every 3 weeks. Contact for details.

Codependents Anonymous 398-8937 • TUESDAYS 7:30pm - Held at Asheville 12-Step Recovery Club, 370 N. Louisiana Ave. Suite G4 • WEDNESDAYS, 7-8pm & SATURDAYS, 11am – Held at First Congregational UCC of Asheville, 20 Oak St. • FRIDAYS, 5:30pm - Held at First United Methodist Church of Waynesville, 556 S. Haywood, Waynesville deBtoRs Anonymous debtorsanonymous.org • MONDAYS, 7pm - Held at First Congregational UCC of Asheville, 20 Oak St. depRession And BipolAR suppoRt AlliAnCe 367-7660, depressionbipolarasheville.com • WEDNESDAYS, 7pm & SATURDAYS, 4pm – Held at 1316-C Parkwood Road ehleRs-dAnlos syndRome suppoRt GRoup ednf.org/support-groups • 4th SATURDAYS, 10-11:50am - Monthly meeting. Free. Held at Mission My Care Plus, 310 Long Shoals Road, Arden food AddiCts Anonymous 423-6191 or 301-4084 • THURSDAYS, 6pm - Held at St. George’s Episcopal Church, 1 School Road

• SATURDAYS, 11am- Held at Asheville 12-Step Recovery Club, 370 N. Louisiana Ave. Suite G4 fouR seAsons CompAssion foR life 233-0948, fourseasonscfl.org • THURSDAYS, 12:30pm - Grief support group. Held at SECU Hospice House, 272 Maple St., Franklin • TUESDAYS, 3:30-4:30pm - Grief support group. Held at Four Seasons - Checkpoint, 373 Biltmore Ave. GAmBleRs Anonymous gamblersanonymous.org • THURSDAYS, 6:45pm - 12-step meeting.

Held at Basillica of St. Lawrence, 97 Haywood St. life limitinG illness suppoRt GRoup 386-801-2606 • TUESDAYS, 6:30-8pm - For adults managing the challenges of life limiting illnesses.

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• FRIDAYS, 7-8:30pm & SUNDAYS, 6-7:30pm - Held at Urban Dharma, 29 Page Ave. • TUESDAYS, 7pm - Held at Shambhala Meditation Center, 60 N Merrimon Ave. #113 s-Anon fAmily GRoups 258-5117, wncsanon@gmail.com • For those affected by another’s sexual behavior. Confidential meetings available; contact for details. sex AddiCts Anonymous saa-recovery.org/Meetings/UnitedStates • MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS & FRIDAYS, 6pm - Held at Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church, 789 Merrimon Ave. • SUNDAYS, 7pm - Held at First Baptist Church of Asheville, 5 Oak St.

683-7195 • MONDAYS, 6:30-8pm - Group-sharing for those in transition in careers or relationships. Contact for location.

nAR-Anon fAmily GRoups nar-anon.org • WEDNESDAYS, 12:30pm - Held at First United Methodist Church of Hendersonville, 204 6th Ave. West, Hendersonville • TUESDAYS, 7pm - Held at West Asheville Presbyterian Church, 690 Haywood Road

smartrecovery.org • THURSDAYS, 6pm - Info: 407-0460 Held at Grace Episcopal Church, 871 Merrimon Ave. • SUNDAYS, 7pm - Info: 925-8626. Held at Crossroads Recovery Center, 440 East Court St., Marion • SUNDAYS, 6-7:30pm - Held at Kairos West Community Center, 742 Haywood Road

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ReCoveRinG Couples Anonymous recovering-couples.org • MONDAYS 6pm - For couples where at least one member is recovering from addiction. Held at Foster Seventh Day Adventists Church, 375 Hendersonville Road RefuGe ReCoveRy 225-6422, refugerecovery.org

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Deconstructing renewable energy certificates

the distAnCe to CleAn: Arcadia Power partners with distant wind power generators, such as the Pioneer Prairie Wind Farm in Iowa near the Minnesota state line. They retire renewable-energy credits from facilities like this one on behalf of their customers all over the U.S., including Duke Energy customers here in Asheville. Some, though, question whether this is a good way to burn less coal in WNC. Photo courtesy of Arcadia Power

BY aBLE aLLEn aallen@mountainx.com If you live in Asheville, you may have received a mailer recently offering a $25 gift card at Green Sage Café if you signed up with Arcadia Power. Like a number of other local businesses, the eatery proudly proclaims its use of green energy. But apart from the solar panels glinting on some rooftops, there’s not a lot of green energy production in sight around here. So where’s that power coming from?

And how green is it really?

Arcadia sells renewable energy certificates. RECs are tradeable energy commodities, each one representing one megawatt-hour of electricity produced by wind turbines or some other green energy source. But the actual power is being paid for by someone living

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closer to where it’s produced; the certificate is merely an add-on. Legally, though, whoever holds the REC is considered the end user and can claim to be using that much green power.

Those enviro bragging rights, along with a sincere desire to support clean energy alternatives, have inspired such respected, well-intentioned local entities as Edna’s of Asheville, Green Sage Café, High Five Coffee, Limones, Patton Avenue Pet Co., Saffron Fine Foods (the parent of Homegrown), The Soapy Dog and the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Swannanoa Valley to partner with Arcadia, using wind-generated power to offset what they actually buy from Duke Energy. Some have also helped promote the company by publicizing their partnerships and incentivizing others to follow suit — even though it ends up costing a little more. Arcadia charges customers 1.5 cents per kilowatt-hour to cover the cost of buying the RECs.

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“We’re paying for the energy that’s put into the grid by green sources, by wind turbines and by solar,” says Edna’s owner Mike Zukoski. “It’s more expensive right now than coal energy, but we’d rather pay a little extra and have the energy come from green sources.”

If you’re literal-minded, however, you may find it hard to wrap your brain around the idea, since that green power is more likely being used by someone hundreds or thousands of miles away. And meanwhile, here in Asheville, you’re still getting your electricity is generated by Duke’s coal-fired plant in Skyland.

ConfliCtinG pRioRities Many Asheville residents are passionate about both sustainability and buying local, but when it comes to electricity, it can be hard to match up the two, at least in a literal sense.

In Western North Carolina, most folks are Duke Energy customers; most of the electricity the giant utility supplies comes from coaland nuclear-powered facilities.

Photovoltaics provide roughly 1 percent, says spokesperson Randy Wheeless. And since Duke’s closest solar farms are in Alexander, Cleveland and Cherokee counties, even their output probably doesn’t reach Asheville. A solar field planned for a site south of here, adds Wheeless, will supplement the natural gas-fired facility that’s slated to replace the Skyland plant.

Customers wanting to show more support for renewable energy may opt to sign up with companies like Arcadia Power.

But if they do, they’ll be paying a premium: Duke will get the same amount as before for the power actually used, and Arcadia will also get its cut.

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Duke Energy offers many programs that could save you money and help you consume less energy. But you may not know about them, even as a customer, because they can be difficult to navigate. Some of them are available at ow.ly/ZMoAx. Because many people have had trouble finding Dukes resources, MountainTrue has created a comprehensive resource guide to assist Duke Energy Progress and Duke Energy Carolinas customers which can be found at ow.ly/ZLPln. WNC Green Building Council also offers informational resources for new construction and for existing homes. They have a laundry list of energy efficiency resources at ow.ly/ZLOJ2. And they offer a new efficiency benchmarking program called Green Gauge. For more details visit ow.ly/ZLNff.

“We’re linking up to your Duke account to monitor your usage,” says Cliff Bernstein, Arcadia’s director of marketing. “The extra charge comes from us, and that’s to go procure the green power credits for you.” The company uses part of that money to buy RECs from wind farms, mostly hundreds of miles away in the Midwest, and “retire” those certificates on behalf of their customers. The ones Arcadia buys are certified by Green-e, an independent auditing company.

That’s important, says Bernstein, because “If you’re not Green-e certified, the accountability is a lot less. Things have happened in the industry such as double selling of certificates.” The certification also indicates that the RECs Arcadia procures for its customers are from wind farms built in the last 15 years.

This ensures that “People aren’t buying them from ancient renewable-energy projects, which doesn’t really do any good for anybody.”

In the grand scheme of things, RECs give the creators of renewable energy additional revenue beyond what they get from selling the actual power they produce.

And those producers count on that additional income, notes Bernstein, “when they either expand their current operations or set up a new wind farm somewhere. This is part of the deal for them.”

According to the EPA, this system is a legitimate way to offset the negative environmental impact of one’s power usage. In a video explaining the idea, the federal agency says, “When enough people buy RECs, these purchases promote growth in the green power marketplace and help avoid greenhouse gas emissions across the country.”

Nonetheless, supporting wind farms in the Midwest is unlikely to improve air quality in Asheville.

Meanwhile, NC GreenPower does something similar to what Arcadia

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offers, except the RECs it buys represent in-state solar, wind, smallscale hydro and biomass energy production. For every $4 donated, the Raleigh-based nonprofit will offset a 50 kwh block of energy and devote $2 to support the installation of new solar projects.

WiRed In North Carolina, only licensed utilities can sell energy. So unless you’re in a position to put solar panels on your roof, or install a small-scale wind or water turbine or invest in a geothermal system for your home, your options are limited.

The electricity Duke generates is delivered through a network known as a power grid. There are many such grids, loosely connected, all over the country. In our area, Duke is responsible for ensuring that power production is kept in line with demand.

And according to Wheeless, Duke isn’t looking to let other companies sell power to its customers.

“Third-party sales, if that’s the only issue you care about, then we’re not interested,” he says. But the utility, he adds, would be willing to talk about a broader spectrum of solutions. “If you could have a collection of issues, get a number of stakeholders at the table and deal with a number of solar-related issues, you may make more progress than just trying to fight it out over one issue.”

Green Sage owner Randy Talley, however, says, “Arcadia is providing a real opportunity for people in Western North Carolina to support renewable energy,” which he doesn’t see Duke doing. “I understand that a lot of people have what you might call a cynical view of Arcadia Power,” he concedes. But “Buying Arcadia puts a wrapper around Duke; it doesn’t change the

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dilemma with Duke. A renewable energy certificate is really something that’s trying to say to policymakers, ‘Change the system. People want green power; change the system and allow a green power company to grow side by side with Duke Energy.

Or incentivize or direct Duke Energy to provide sustainable and responsible energy.’” the e-WoRd In the end, whether buying RECs is a smart move may depend on what your goals are. Joan Walker, interim southern regional director of MountainTrue, an Asheville-based environmental group, isn’t necessarily against these certificates. But if you want to address the specific energy situation in WNC, there are other options to consider first. “As long as folks understand that it’s not building capacity here in the region and they still want to do it, that’s totally understandable,” she explains.

Zukoski, meanwhile, is a LEED-certified professional, and his commitment to sustainability doesn’t end with Arcadia. At Edna’s, he notes, “We’re now up to 100 percent LED lighting.

I wish our city would require all new buildings to meet LEED standards. It would make houses much more efficient, and they’ve shown over and over again that the difference in cost pays back in minimal time.”

Talley’s cafés reflect a similar approach. “The first strategy, before you buy an expensive energy-producing system like solar panels, is to implement all the energy-saving measures,” he says. Accordingly, his eateries are well-insulated, have almost all LED lighting, and one location uses the heat generated by its refrigeration system to heat water.

Walker agrees. “Before anyone considers putting a solar panel on their roof or buying a REC, they should make sure they’re getting the most out of their energy dollars now and do all of the energy efficiency that they can in their home.”

Bernstein of Arcadia doesn’t dispute that. Ask him what’s the single best thing you can do to burn less coal, and he’ll give you a two-word answer: “energy conservation.”X

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by Abigail Griffin

Learn to grow ginseng and goldenseal The Southern Appalachian School for Growing Medicinal Plants will host a ginseng and goldenseal workshop at Eagle Feather Organic Farm in Marshall on Sunday, April 10, from 1 to 4 p.m. The workshop will be facilitated by Robert Eidus, who operates Eagle Feather and owns the North Carolina Ginseng Company.

The workshop will take place within Eagle Feather’s Appalachian hardwood cove where these plants thrive. Participants will get hands-on training with newly sprouted “baby” ginseng plants as well as goldenseal. The workshop will also cover marketing strategies and identify marketing organizations that are associated with the cultivation of these plants.

For more information or to register call 649-3536 or visit ncgoldenseal.com. unC Asheville CeleBRAtes enviRonmentAl sustAinABility With GReenfest Spring is springing, and to celebrate, UNC Asheville is hosting its biannual environmental sustainability festival, Greenfest — a week of workshops and special events, many of which are free and open to the public.

The public events get underway Saturday, March 26, with the screening of Synthetic Forests, a film investigating the impacts of genetically engineered trees.

Monday, March 28 events include a “Skill Share Fair,” in which attendees will be able to share skills with each other, and a compost workshop covering a range of basic garden composting techniques.

Tuesday, March 29 events include a gourd birdhouse-making workshop, as well as the “Animal Agriculture World Café” panel discussion regarding animal-agriculture production practices and consumption. To round out the day, the UNCA Math Department will offer a session entitled “Statistics and the Environment.”

For those interested in how to “vote green,” on Wednesday, March 30, there will be a panel discussion with local elected officials and environmental advocates on how to consider candidates from an environmental perspective.

Wednesday sessions also include a “Garden Planning” workshop, an “Intro to Permaculture” workshop and a seminar on “Mindful Eating.”

The final public day of the celebration, Friday, April 1, brings the “Roots Garden” workshop, in which participants will learn about growing plants from seed. Later that day, the “Ecofeminism Panel” features UNC Asheville faculty and Asheville community members discussing the intersection of feminism and environmentalism.

For more information, including a full schedule with times and locations of events, visit sustainability.unca.edu/spring-greenfest-2016. X

CultivAtinG tRAditionAl mediCinAls: Eagle Feather Farm has been growing ginseng and goldenseal in their hardwood cove farm since 1993. Robert Eidus, owner of the farm and facilitator of an upcoming ginseng and goldenseal workshop, shows a raised ginseng and goldenseal bed that sits off his back deck. Photo by Carrie Eidson

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eCo mountAintRue 258-8737, wnca.org • WE (3/30), 6:30pm - NC WARN presentation regarding clean energy solutions. Free. Held at First Congregational UCC of Asheville, 20 Oak St. puBliC events At WARRen Wilson ColleGe 298-3325 warren-wilson.edu • WE (3/30), 7pm - “Duke Energy and the Climate Crisis,” presentation and panel discussion. Free. Held in Canon Lounge.

WnC GReen BuildinG CounCil 254-1995, wncgbc.org • TH (3/24), 5-6pm - “Green Edge,” casual networking event. Free to attend. Held at Catawba Brewing South Slope, 32 Banks Ave., Suite 105 • WE (3/30), 8am-4:15pm - “Building Green Real Estate Certification Course” for builders, realtors and general contractors. Registration required: bgrenc.com/courses/03112015/. Free.

Held at Land of the Sky Association of REALTORS, 37 Montford Ave.

fARm & GARden Get GRoWinG! oRGAniC GARdeninG 4-pARt seRies (pd.) April 5th, 12th, 19th, 26th. 7-9pm.

Hosted by Organic Growers School.

Location: 5th Season Garden Center, Tunnel Rd., Asheville. $20/per or $75/ series. OrganicGrowersSchool.org.

GReen oppoRtunities 398-4158, greenopportunities.org • SATURDAYS through (4/30), 1-5pm - Southside Community Garden volunteer workday. Free. Held at Arthur R. Edington Education and Career Center, 133 Livingston St. GReenfest At unCA sustainability.unca.edu All events are free unless otherwise noted.

• SA (3/26), 7pm - Synthetic Forests, documentary film regarding genetically engineered trees. Held in the Highsmith Union Grotto.

• TU (3/29), 1-3pm - “Gourd Birdhouse Workshop.” Held in the Sol Garden behind Brown Hall.

• TU (3/29), 7pm - March 29 - “World Cafe,” panel discussion regarding animal agriculture. Held in Highsmith Union rooms 221-222.

• WE (3/30), 7pm - “How to Vote Green,” panel discussion with local elected leaders and environmental advocates. Held in Karpen Hall, Laurel Forum.

• TH (3/31), 1:30-3pm - “Garden Planning 101,” basic techniques covered will include square-foot gardening, bio-intensive gardening, companion planting and successional planting. Held in the Sol Garden behind Brown Hall.

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WITH Foothills Brewery Saturday, April 23, 2016 • 6pm Hors d’oeuvres Ham & Pecan Crusted Cheese Ball beer mustard, pickled vegetables and assorted crackers Course 1: Hoppyum IPA Green Tomato & Citrus Crab Salad Soft goat cheese, tender greens, red onion marmalade & dehydrated jalapeno with charred lemon & mustard vinaigrette Course 2: People’s Porter Grilled Sunburst Farms Trout & Mascarpone Creamed Farro king oyster mushroom, nettles, crispy onion petals, roasted garlic cream & tomato chutney Course 3: Sexual Chocolate Mole Duck Confit Sopes & Sweet Plantain refried black bean, avocado crème fraiche, queso fresco, duck chicharrone, & salsa verde Dessert: Strawberry Ale Goat Milk Pana Cotta & Strawberries Six Ways Sponge cake, strawberry syrup, praline pecan & strawberry powder

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BY Jonathan ammonS jonathanammons@gmail.com It’s a cool, gray morning in Weaverville as we round the bend and pull into Barkley’s Mill on Southern Cross Farm, and its greens, grays and browns, highlighted by the dusting of snow on the mountains, seem to pop out like children’s book illustrations. The long, slow hills that ripple across the farm are where the family grows its Hickory King Dent, an heirloom corn varietal known for its giant white kernels, scarcely smaller than a dime.

“I grew up in the South, and what we grew up eating were this type of grit,” says Jim Barkley of Jim Barkley Toyota, who also happens to be the force behind Barkley’s Mill. To demonstrate, he serves us creamy grits with cheese, bacon, scallions and green peppers.

Established in 2012, the operation does everything on-site, from harvesting to dekerneling to the crush

at the 1900s-style water-powered mill.

At the top of the property, massive loads of harvested corn are stored in rustic wooden bins, shucked, picked, sorted, dried and piled eight feet high.

Because there are visitors, only three employees are at work. But more typically, six could be busy inspecting the cobs, tossing them onto the conveyor and feeding them into the separator, which drops the kernels into one bin, the naked cobs into another.

“When we started the gristmill, our intent was to just grow enough to give away as Christmas presents to friends and families,” Barkley explains. “But we got on the Internet looking for places to buy bags, and when I saw what some of these places were selling grits for, I thought, this may be the key: This may be how we make our farm sustainable, so that our families can be here for four, five or six generations.”

Down the hill, the picturesque waterpowered mill wheel churns rhythmically on an otherwise silent hillside.

Inside, however, it’s another story: The dual 1919 vintage Williams stone-burr gristmills are anything but quiet.

“We use vertical stones in our mill because the grits don’t get as hot,” says operations manager Micah Stowe. “As long as we can keep it below 120 degrees, it won’t cook the nutrients out during the milling process.”

One stone remains stationary while the one beside it rotates. “This one can move in and out to control the coarseness of your grind,” he explains. The one currently buzzing away beside us is running at about an eighth of an inch. “If you want to make flour, you have them almost touching, or you can run them out and just crack the corn.”

The 300-square-foot room can easily crank out 2,000 pounds in a day.

“When you’re milling, you’re getting different extractions through different screen setups,” says David Bauer, the mastermind behind Farm & Sparrow Bakery and All Souls Pizza. He also runs a gristmill just outside of Asheville. “You’re getting corn flour through your first shoot, polenta through the next shoot, and then grits through the next one. So

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oversees the cultivation of heirloom, non-GMO Hickory King Dent corn, which is stoneground into grits in the hydropowered mill. Photo by Cindy Kunst I’ll do a run of corn, and the polenta becomes the polenta crust pizza at the restaurant, the corn flour becomes our cornbread, and then the grits go to Buxton Hall, so they’re all being pulled in different directions.”

Farm & Sparrow is also widely recognized for its commitment to using heirloom grains and corns. Besides growing some itself, the bakery works with growers in Georgia, Tennessee, coastal Carolina and Madison County. Together, they’re helping revive an array of heirloom corns, including Tennessee Red Cob and Bloody Butcher Red Dent Corn.

“We do a whole variety of them,” notes Bauer, “and that allows us to blend to people’s taste. So, for instance, Elliott [Moss of Buxton Hall Barbecue] has a specific way he likes his grits milled, and a specific type, and when we first started working with him, we talked and worked our way through all the options.”

They’ve done the same with William Dissen of The Market Place and a number of other notable local chefs.

This focus on strains dating back to before the arrival of European settlers isn’t just a passing phase; it’s an activist effort to preserve varietals that would otherwise vanish. According to a recent National Geographic article, 70 percent of crop diversity has been lost since 1900, and between 1903 and 1983 the number of commercially available seed varieties of corn dropped from 307 to just 12. That’s a harrowing thought, should blight strike a few similar strains of seed.

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“It’s fun for us to take the approach of doing things like the Bloody Butcher Red Dent Corn here in the mountains, because it was an Appalachian varietal because it’s where it was supposed to grow,” Bauer points out. “And then having to match it on the plate, too. ... Otherwise you just get reductionist and say, ‘Well, it’s corn, so it’s good.’

There’s so much flavor there, but none of us know how to do it!

“All the varieties of corn that we’re growing out this year, they’re all Cherokee varieties,” he adds.

“Cherokee White Flower, which is used for skillet cakes, and Cherokee White Eagle, which is the original blue corn in this area ... they’re all from right here, and they are hard to get information about.”

Conviction and activism aside, restaurateurs often wind up using these varietals purely for their flavors. “I was doing an event about four or five years ago, and Farm & Sparrow was there,” remembers Mike McCarty, executive chef of The Lobster Trap. “They had this grit bread, and he makes amazing bread anyway, but I just kept eating it, and it was blowing my mind how good it was. I asked him where he got the grits from, and he gave me the number of John McEntire, and we’ve never looked back.” McEntire runs Peaceful Valley Farm and gristmill in Old Fort.

“I was using those grits that you get from your Sysco guy,” McCarty explains, “but I had just taken over as executive chef, and I was really trying

to think about the direction that I wanted to take the kitchen and restaurant.” Being a seafood restaurant in the mountains “really limited how local I could be,” since so many ingredients had to be shipped in daily from the Carolina coast, New Orleans or New England. “So I started looking at the grits and really wanted to change how we used them, and by happenstance I found these.”

Bauer, who worked in the restaurant industry for years before moving here, says, “It’s night and day.

We’d have grits on the menu, and I’d cook grits. And some of those were even coming from farms in the area, but they weren’t that great.

“The interesting thing with corn is that you have these complex root systems. And there’s so much diversity in the open-pollinated, heritage corns that it’s not just a matter of planting a good variety: It’s a matter of planting a variety that interacts with the soil. What will the roots take up from the soil? How will it interact with the weather that year? All these things combine to make corn flavorful or flat. There’s a whole culture around it that is largely forgotten.” X

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Patatas machismo at Bhramari Brewhouse: A fun bar riff on the classic Spanish tapas dish patatas bravas, this one involves hand-cut fries in a spicy sauce of charred tomatoes, carnitas, goat cheese, grilled onions and house-pickled veggies. It pairs well with the quite quaffable house brew Carolina Common.

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“It all has felt very serendipitous. It feels like the three of us, the way we fit together, is very puzzlelike. We all complement each other,” says co-owner Lindsey Pitman of her two friends and business partners, Brock Kehoe and Sarah Winkler.

The trio are launching Trade and Lore this week on Wall Street with the goal of creating a community hub that supports local nonprofit agencies and focuses as much on social justice as it does on excellent coffee.

Trade and Lore emerged as a positive byproduct of last fall’s nationally reported misogyny scandal at Waking Life Espresso. Winkler had been a barista at Waking Life for more than two years and quit when the news broke. In need of income, she accepted an offer from Pitman to work some guest shifts at Pitman’s Charlotte coffee shop, the Daily Press CLT. Pitman says she had previously bought an LLC for the name Trade and Lore (referring to the craftsmanship, science and history of coffee) in Charlotte, but had no idea yet of what she was going to do with it. When Winkler mentioned a desire to open a coffee shop dedicated to building community

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“It was such a serendipitous thing that I already had this name and this LLC,” says Pitman. “And now, just seeing the logo and name on the window out there, I know it was in hibernation just for this.”.

Winkler had been considering buying a van and traveling the U.S. doing coffee pop-up events, but, she says, “I knew that day that I wasn’t leaving Asheville.”

After a successful crowdfunding campaign that was featured in national publications including Cosmopolitan and Jezebel, they hoped to set up shop in the storefront at 89 Patton Ave., where a Waking Life expansion had been planned before the business folded.

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they eventually landing in the former tattoo shop at 37 Wall St. Winkler thought it was perfect. “The space felt right. It’s beautiful,” she says of the historic location with its uncovered brick walls and disheveled charm.

It has a rich background, too, Kehoe points out. Built in 1924, it served a stint as a dance studio, and much of the choreography for the movie The Last of the Mohicans was done within its walls.

Kehoe, who has years of experience opening restaurants, including West Asheville’s Buffalo Nickel, joined the project after seeing the crowdfunding campaign. His business experience and practical nature melded well with Winkler’s and Pitman’s creativity and coffee savvy.

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it.’” says Kehoe. “We were obviously on the same page about things.

Trade and Lore will feature two espresso machines and two point-ofsale stations to create a bar flow that encourages direct connection between baristas and customers. “You’ll place your order just like if you walk into a bar, and you’ll talk to the person who makes your drink,” explains Pitman.

“We want to create that interaction and make sure that we’re totally focused on each customer.”

Winkler says the coffee menu will be unconventional, eliminating confusing drink names that often conflict from shop to shop. “We want a menu that emphasizes accessibility and inclusivity,” she says. There will be a small menu for people who just want something easy and quick, “but if you want to dive deeper,” she adds, “we’ll have a specialty menu of crafted drinks, like in a craft cocktail bar but made with coffee.”

They plan to feature multiple roasters on a rotating basis, but Asheville’s Mountain Air Roasting will be a constant. Pitman and Winkler will make all flavored syrups in-house, sourcing herbs and fruit from local tailgate markets and a planned garden at Kehoe’s Leicester home.

A selection of looseleaf, fair trade teas from Dobra Tea, Rishi and Divinitea will be offered, plus, eventually, houseblended herbal teas sourced from the garden. All scraps and coffee grounds will be composted on a 1/4-acre plot on Kehoe’s property for use in fertilizing the garden.

A commercial kitchen is in the works in a downstairs space, where Pitman intends to do baking and cooking for the shop. In the meantime, the food menu will feature locally made Home Free bagels with cream cheese spreads, locally made jams and house-prepared toppings — think fig, ricotta and sesame seeds; plum, nut butter and flax seeds or classic smoked salmon with capers — that will be served open-faced on the bagels with fresh garnishes.

Items on the food menu will be listed with suggested coffee pairings.

Samantha Stumpf, the pastry chef from Wall Street neighbor Cucina 24, will prepare many of the baked goods along with Black Mountain gluten-free bakery Dolci di Maria. A grab-and-go cooler will be stocked with fresh, locally made sandwiches, fruit and other onthe-go meal and snack choices, including plenty of vegan and grain-free items. Coffee prices will start at $2.50 for an Americana or espresso, bagels will start at $3, all including tax.

There will be indoor seating for 49 at tables the owners repurposed

from old doors found in the building’s basement. Outdoors, 30 more seats will wrap around the corner of the building in a previously unused area that was rezoned by the city for that purpose.

In keeping with Trade and Lore’s mission to act as a community hub and support local nonprofits, a signature coffee will be featured each month with proceeds benefitting a selected Asheville-area charity.

Customers who buy the coffee will receive a flier with information about the organization and its mission. The inaugural nonprofit partner is local domestic violence agency Helpmate, which will have a turmeric ginger latte as its featured drink.

After closing in the evenings, the space will be dedicated to community organizing efforts and workshops on everything from the coffee industry to environmental issues. The owners are applying for Living Wage certification, and they all agree that a top priority is to create jobs where employees are compensated fairly and have their passions and skills valued.

Which leads to another perk of this coffee business: Following up on an idea Winkler had while working at Waking Life, the owners are negotiating trades with local businesses to provide amenities to employees, including regular massages for staff.

“That’s something I’m really passionate about, taking care of the people who work here,” says Winkler.

“I’ve always had ideas like this at places I’ve worked, but I’ve never been able to make them happen because it wasn’t my space.”

It seems, says Winkler, that with the spring weather, some wonderful things are sprouting up in the Asheville coffee community from the ruins of Waking Life. In addition to Trade and Lore, she mentions her roommate, former Waking Life barista John Linch, who will be running the coffee program at the soon-to-open OWL Bakery in West Asheville.

“Only in Asheville,” she says.

“Truly, only in Asheville, could … a business go down in a week, and [the community] supports everyone who works there to help them see where they need to be.

“It’s what created all this,” she adds.

“Yes, there’s coffee here, but community is what started it all; it’s what got us to this point.”

Trade and Lore is at 37 Wall St. At press time, a Wednesday, March 23, opening was planned. Hours will be 7 a.m.-8 p.m. daily. For updates, visit tradeandlore.com or look for Trade and Lore Coffee on Facebook. X

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stAyinG on the slope: Green Man Brewery owner Dennis Thies says that while it would have been considerably cheaper to expand his company in another part of town, he was committed to keeping the business near downtown in the South Slope neighborhood. Photo by Cindy Kunst After three years in planning and two in construction, Green Man Brewery’s nearly $6 million expansion facility finally officially opened to the public on St. Patrick’s Day, March 17. The affectionately nicknamed Greenmansion was built on the same field next to the brewery’s original tasting room where Green Man released its first bottles on St. Patrick’s Day 2013, keeping the brewery firmly in touch with its roots as it builds for the future.

The 20,000-square-foot space is expected to significantly improve the customer experience at Green Man by providing supplemental amenities, a new tour flow, more draft beer taps and a more visible retail outlet for to-go bottles and merchandise. Watched over by an impressive stone mosaic of the Green Man logo, the ground-level “Brewtique” grants customers easier access to Green Man branded clothing and glassware, six-packs and 22-ounce bottles of Green Man’s flagship and seasonal offerings along with 18 draft lines.

Another 18 taps can be found upstairs at an indoor/outdoor bar that features views of both the surrounding mountains and the production floor as well as ample seating and custom TVs. With space already at a premium

at Green Man’s existing South Slope taproom, Dirty Jack’s, the streamlined crowd control of the Greenmansion’s additional 400-person capacity (as well as its 10 additional toilets and outdoor seating) should help to keep the thirsty throngs happy and comfortable when tourist season arrives.

Dirty Jack’s, possibly the first brewery tasting room in the city, will not be relegated to being a footnote in the history of Asheville craft beer. The facility’s production equipment will be rededicated to brewing Green Man’s highly sought-after sours, and its bar will remain open seven days a week with hours corresponding to those of the Greenmansion.

While all tours will now be starting next door at Greenmansion, Dirty Jack’s will still be part of the tour experience as visitors learn more about the company’s lengthy legacy on the South Slope. According to director of public relations Elise Carlson, “There’s always a place in our hearts for Dirty Jack’s, and we’re happy to have room for everyone to spread out. … People can visit both places and have the whole experience of what Green Man is about, where we’ve come from and where we’re going.”

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three distinct phases, explains brewery owner Dennis Thies, with construction and the grand opening of the tasting room marking the completion of phase one. Phase two is already underway and will involve the installation of new tanks, which will expand the brewery’s fermentation capacity by more than 30 percent. This phase also entails getting the brewery’s new KHS packaging system online, which includes the company’s state-of-the-art CombiKeg keg wash/fill and a 25-head bottling line.

Phase three will see the installation of a custom-fabricated 10-barrel copper brewhouse from renowned manufacturer Kaspar Schulz, which is currently being handmade in Germany and should be in place on the Greenmansion’s production floor some time in early 2017. Thies is particularly enthusiastic about this piece of equipment. “If you think [the production floor’s] cool now, wait until you come back a year from now,” he says.

“It’ll be amazing.”

The KHS bottling line and keg wash/ fill will be about five times more efficient than those currently in use at the brewery. The new bottle filler will reduce the beer’s exposure to oxygen, thereby improving quality control and shelf life substantially. Similarly, the keg wash/fill is effectively five times as efficient as the brewery’s current system, with the capacity to fill one keg per minute as opposed to the current equipment’s rate of 12 per hour.

Customers visiting the Greenmansion will be able to watch the production floor develop organically over time, with the installation of the Kaspar Schulz brewhouse representing the crowning

achievement of the extensive buildout process. Many of the aesthetic touches in the tasting room were planned around this piece of hardware, with a patinated copper bar surface and pennies inlaid on stair landings and windowsills designed to match the copper of the new brew kettle. When everything is in place, it will be readily apparent to patrons where every cent went.

Green Man’s nearly two-decadelong history on the South Slope was a central consideration to Thies when deciding to build in the heart of downtown. “What’s important to me is the value we place on how important this is to [downtown] Asheville,” he says. “This would’ve been a hell of a lot easier to build out on Airport Road and get 50,000 square feet and spend a third of the money. … I didn’t cut any corners.”

Thies goes on to point out that Asheville’s first double IPA (Rainmaker, formerly known as The Truth) and first three sours (Maceo, Bootsy and Snozzberry) were all brewed next door at Dirty Jack’s.

In spite of the added expense that a construction project as substantial as the Greenmansion entails downtown, Thies takes pride in the fact that the entire operation was completed without accepting any outside investment or tax incentives from financial institutions or governmental entities.

He is similarly proud that no trees were removed in the construction process, highlighting his commitment to Green Man’s roots, both literal and metaphorical. X

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Downtown Welcome Table adds Sunday dinners Linen napkins, china plates, fresh flower centerpieces, made-fromscratch food and a sit-down experience set Haywood Street Congregation’s Downtown Welcome Table apart from the typical soup kitchen. Envisioned by the Rev. Brian Combs, the program brings individuals of all backgrounds and statuses together for a free weekly communal meal that’s undergone various transformations — ditching paper plates, swapping a food distribution line for a full waitstaff and more — since launching in 2009. The latest development: Downtown Welcome Table has added Sunday dinner to its previous Wednesday-only lunch schedule.

“Over time, both people of privilege and people struggling with poverty were just continually naming the desire to have this experience on the weekend, because they couldn’t be here on a Wednesday,” says Laura Kirby, the ministry’s executive director. “It was a long time before we felt ready for that.”

With the number of guests averaging 450 people per Wednesday (served over four separate seatings), the event requires considerable resources. That’s especially true since no corners are cut in the mission to “counter the notion often held by those living on the streets that handouts, hand-me-downs and leftovers are all I deserve,” according to the congregation’s website. Some weeks, the Haywood Street mission funds and staffs the gathering itself.

Other times, area restaurants volunteer to cater, crowdfunding the expenses by inviting customer donations for a month prior.

Liz Button, owner and CEO of Heirloom Hospitality Group, manages outside partnerships, and despite the lofty commitment, she says eateries are increasingly eager to lend time and effort. By her estimate, more than 30 businesses have met that challenge in the four years since she joined the Welcome Table, and most opt to cook more than once.

“It’s a huge undertaking for the restaurants, so I try and encourage them to just commit once per year,” she says. “Just think about the numbers: 450 servings of salad, a protein, vegetable, starch and dessert. It’s crazy for most restaurants.”

Haywood Street’s internal pool of volunteers (called “companions” at the Welcome Table in order to invite a deeper relationship with the congregation and “break away from the typical idea that only people of privilege are volunteers,” according to Kirby) served roughly 200 people on each of the first two Sundays in March. Warren Wilson College is the first partner organization to sign up for a Sunday shift, with plans to serve a meal on April 3.

Although the college is soliciting donations from students and dining hall visitors, the institution will absorb most of the cost of feeding attendees.

“The hope and expectation is that we’ll have new people come,” Kirby says, adding that the family-style service makes the occasion convivial for anyone who drops in. “Your conversation can just start with ‘Can you pass the green beans?’ and then it goes from there.”

The Downtown Welcome Table is held at Haywood Street Congregation, 297 Haywood St., Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m., 11:15 a.m., noon and 12:45 p.m., and

sundAy suppeR: Diners can now convene at the Downtown Welcome Table two days per week. “The addition of Sunday means another gathering of dignity,” says Haywood Street Congregation’s Rev. Brian Combs, who founded the program. “It also means that our street siblings can find nourishment when many services take the weekend off, that working professionals and students can partake in the subversive act of breaking bread and that more people can experience God through the intentional act of table.” Photo

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Center’s upcoming fish fry. The fundraiser offers eat-in or carry-out options and is being held to help cover general expenses associated with the nonprofit organization’s volunteer-run youth programs.

The fish fry is at PCMDC, 450 Pigeon St., Waynesville, starting at 11 a.m. Friday, March 25. Plates are $8, with fish available separately for $1.50 per piece. Look for Pigeon Community Multicutural Development Center on Facebook igeonCommunityMulticulturalDevelopmentCenter or call 452-7232 for more information. mills RiveR fARmeRs’ mARKet ReloCAtes For its 2016 season, the Mills River Farmers Market is moving to Mills River Elementary School. A press release from the nonprofit says it hosts up to 30 vendors with items including “high quality, local, and sustainable produce, dairy, meat and handmade goods.” The market also accepts SNAP/EBT benefits.

The Mills River Farmers’ Market is at Mills River Elementary School, 94 School House Road, Mills River.

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Tunisian Spring singer-songwriter Emel Mathlouthi performs at UNCA

BY aLLi marShaLL amarshall@mountainx.com Singer-songwriter Emel Mathlouthi says she’ll always feel a connection to protest songs. She’s long been inspired by the likes of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan and Argentine singer Mercedes Sosa. But for her new album, due out in September, “I took a very different turn,” she says.

It’s a bold move for the musician known as the “Voice of the Tunisian Spring.” Mathlouthi’s songs were banned from the radio in her home country, so she relocated to Paris where she recorded her debut studio album, Kelmeti Horra (My Word is Free). “We are free men who are not afraid / we are the secrets that never die / and we are the voice of those who resist / in their chaos, we are the flash of light,” she sings on the title track. That song and “Ya Tounes Ya Meskina” (Poor Tunisia) were adopted as anthems during the Tunisian revolution.

Mathlouthi performs at UNC Asheville’s Lipinsky Auditorium on Thursday, March 24. The 1 Million Stars to End Violence project exhibition, an initiative aimed at ending all forms of violence, opens in the Lipinsky Hall lobby before the concert. Earlier that day, Mathlouthi will discuss her work, the music of Tunisia and the electronic sounds that inspire her during a free, public master class — including performances from her band — at the Humanities Lecture Hall.

On Mathlouthi’s forthcoming album, while her cinematic aesthetic is intact, she took inspiration from her contemporaries, such as Norweigan singer-songwriter Susanne Sundfør and Icelandic band Samaris. “I wanted to explore modern forms,” she says. “I didn’t want my album to sound nostalgic or old. I wanted to be able to [create] an album that’s partly North African but could also share [space] with what’s new in the music sphere.”

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home AWAy fRom home: Though best-known for penning anthems for the political revolution in her homeland, Tunisia, singer-songwriter Emel Mathlouthi is interested in more than protest songs. Tapping electronic sounds and contemporary inspirations, she says, “I don’t feel limits, I feel very creative. I feel very big vibes.”

Photo courtesy of the artist with her husband. While the musician jokes that it didn’t take much to talk her into the relocation, she also points out that the change in environment has meant she, too, needed to evolve.

“I don’t feel limits, I feel very creative,” she says. “I feel very big vibes.”

Mathlouthi describes a similar sense of freedom when she first settled in Paris. “I was very prolific,” she says.

She remembers using her city guide to suss out free concerts and listening to music from all over the world.

Since then, the singer-songwriter has traveled the globe, performing at the

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3alganoob Music Festival in Cairo, the Sfinks festival in Boechout and opening for Dead Can Dance at Les Nuits de Fourvière in Lyon. Her Twitter account documents tours around the U.S. and a trip to New Zealand, where she played international arts festival WOMAD and bonded with Atlanta hiphop collective Arrested Development.

More recently, Mathlouthi performed at the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize Concert. “People told me my song gave them hope, and that was my biggest reward,” she says. “Although [I played] the same songs people know

from before, it gave me definite recognition.” This is important because, as an international artist, the media in her home country don’t report on her accomplishments unless they’re on the scale of a Grammy win or, say, playing the Nobel Peace Prize Concert.

For Mathlouthi, an ongoing challenge is to be able to succeed as someone who sings in Arabic in the Western world. She says it’s equally hard to further her career in the Arab countries as an artist who pushes boundaries of creativity, music and free speech — and that makes all of Mathlouthi’s work political. “If I succeed internationally, I’ll have more power to come back to the Arab world,” she says.

Despite those hurdles, and the admission that she’s pushing barriers of race, language and conservatism, the singer-songwriter still approaches her work with an open mind and a delight in the process.

Even her past success as a purveyor of political songs doesn’t haunt her with a need to repeat those efforts.

“The only pressure I feel is to create very rich and deep music,” she says.

“It scares me if I’m not able to be creative anymore [so], I let myself be inspired and be as true to myself as possible. If I can do that, I don’t really worry about how the audience is going to see me.”

Mathlouthi adds, “I’m not interested in just writing music. I’m interested in making art.” X

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listen Closely: The Larry Keel Experience includes Keel’s wife Jenny, left, on bass and banjo player Will Lee, center, with whom Keel has been playing for about 30 years. “With that, it’s easy; we just know what each other is going to do,” Keel says.

Photo by Forever Young Photography “I grew up playing bluegrass; it’s in my blood like crazy,” says guitarist, singer and songwriter Larry Keel.

“But these days when I’m writing, I don’t hear bluegrass anymore. I’ve written and performed music that is, I think, unclassifiable. And that’s where I want to be.” Keel continues to defy pigeonholing with Experienced, his 15th self-released album. Keel and his band will perform at Asheville Music Hall on Friday, March 25, for an event he describes as “a CD celebration and a family reunion at the same time.”

That reunion commemorates a musical connection to Western North Carolina. “I was playing with a group

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called Magraw Gap, and we started playing in the Asheville area about 20 years ago.” Keel says. He has fond memories of shows at storied — albeit long-gone — venues like Be Here Now. “The first place Magraw played was Barley’s Taproom. We played about every venue in town. And man, we had great success right off, meeting people and having wonderful musicians from the area coming out and playing music with us. It truly felt like a family.”

Keel says that his band has been “sort of loosely based out of Asheville for a while.” But he hasn’t relocated here, preferring instead to remain in his Virginia home. “I definitely like

the mentality, the surroundings and all the progressive thinking that goes on,” Keel says. “But I’m sort of rooted up here in the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia. I’ve got family up here.”

Still, he keeps his options open on the prospect of eventually moving to Asheville. “It’s quite an epicenter for the whole East Coast, for acoustic music, for original music. And the arts in general. So, who knows?

Maybe one day.”

Keel also endeavors to keep his options open with regard to the business end of his music. That’s why, as far back as the start of his

professional career, he made the decision to self-release his songs.

While it’s a common strategy for musicians in 2016, two decades ago, it was revolutionary. “When we started self-releasing, the music industry was totally different,” Keel says. “You didn’t have the Internet, and [with it] the capability to promote yourself as you do now. I just wanted to keep the big industries and big companies out of my music.

Self-producing something, I kept all the money.”

But it wasn’t only about the money: “Just seeing the way that other bands had their record deals structured with record companies, I didn’t want to go that way. And I didn’t want anything interfering with my musical vision,” he says. “It was sort of an instinct issue with me.”

His musical instincts are also characterized by a collaborative approach with like-minded artists.

The Larry Keel Experience includes Keel’s wife Jenny on bass — they’ve been married for 20 years — and banjo player Will Lee. Keel has been playing with Lee for about 30 years, since they were kids. “With that, it’s easy; we just know what each other is going to do,” Keel says. He believes that connection “leaves a lot of room for the music to grow. If somebody’s not in the same groove as you, there’s all kinds of blockage that doesn’t let the music come to fruition. And with this combo, it really does come to fruition.”

Experienced includes an impressive, all-star list of guest players (Del McCoury, Sam Bush, Peter Rowan, Keller Williams and many others) who augment and complement the core trio. “I like to showcase their talents while creating something unique and very special for the combo,” Keel says. “I try to take a little bit of everybody’s art with me, keep it stored up and then release it when it’s the proper time.”

That proper time is both on Experienced and at the upcoming album launch party. “We just really wanted to draw everybody out of the mountains and have a celebration after all these years,” Keel says.

“We can’t quite coordinate all of the guests who are on the CD, but we definitely have some surprises up our sleeves, and we’re looking forward to getting wild and crazy.” X

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WHERE Asheville Music Hall 31 Patton Ave. ashevillemusichall.com WHEN Friday, March 25, 9 p.m. $12 advance/$17 day of show

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NOW FOR SOMETHING NEW Chapel Hill’s Mount Moriah filters Southern roots through a singular vision

sounds of home: Despite unorthodoxy, Jenks Miller, left, sees Mount Moriah’s music as true to who he and his bandmates are. “Heather [McEntire, center] and I both grew up in North Carolina. ... And we were both exposed to Appalachian music, bluegrass music and country music as kids. It’s part of who we are, and we’ve always loved it.” Photo by Lissa Gotwals There’s something primal, even elemental, about the sound Heather McEntire and Jenks Miller make together in Chapel Hill-based Mount Moriah.

Although the Southern-inflected indie-rock music the two musicians conjure is often sophisticated and restrained, the blend of McEntire’s weary vocals and Miller’s meandering guitar lines are permeated by the North Carolina landscape, all gnarled roots and lonesome highways. It’s an evasive sound, one that feels more like a whispered cry of anguish than a declaration of inten-

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tion. It’s a music fully invested in the richness of the soil it comes from.

The group, which also includes bassist Casey Tolls, returns to Asheville on Friday, March 25, for a headlining gig at The Mothlight. Mount Moriah is touring in support of the recently released LP (the band’s second on Merge Records), How to Dance, a record that seems to both expand and deepen the musicians’ singular, progressive vision of what roots-rock can be.

Still, Miller is quick to place Mount Moriah in the context of his region’s music history. “I think we are, by any definition, a Southern rock band,” he

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says. “I think there’s always been a very progressive element in the South. ... Although it’s stereotyped as backwards, redneck music, there’s always been a very strong progressive undercurrent in folk music, country music and in Southern rock.”

But McEntire and Miller both come from unlikely musical places.

The singer previously fronted the post-punk renegade Bellafea, while the guitarist crafted sprawling, often droning compositions in the heavy-psych/metal band Horseback.

Those backgrounds can be felt in Mount Moriah’s music, particularly on How to Dance. The band’s latest effort often tries on more propulsive arrangements and grittier, cagier guitar lines that feel worlds away from what an Allman Brothers cover band would come up with.

For all of their unorthodoxy, though, Miller sees the music as true to who he and his bandmates are. “There’s nothing false about what we’re doing,” he says. “Heather and I both grew up in North Carolina. Heather grew up in the mountains, and I grew up in the Piedmont. And we were both exposed to Appalachian music, bluegrass music and country music as kids. It’s part of who we are, and we’ve always loved it.”

He continues, “That being said, we also have a lot of space for other sounds. Heather was in a punk band for a long time. I have a metal band that’s still active. Neither one of us is interested in just one sound or one approach to writing or music-making. We are totally comfortable being unorthodox, but that’s not to say it’s an affectation.”

Mount Moriah, which Miller started before he became close friends with McEntire, began as an alter-ego for the heavier and more experimental music he was making in Horseback. “It was this impulse,” he says. “We were getting some of our creative needs met with some more aggressive or confrontational stuff, but we also love the craft of music and the conversation around Southern music and folk music.” When he and McEntire realized they shared a love of traditional American music, “We decided we wanted to investigate that more and wanted to have an outlet for that kind of writing.”

What began as a needed creative outlet quickly became something more. Miller recalls the band’s first performance with a bit of awe in his voice. “There are so few times in my life where I’ve actually been totally transported when playing music,” he says. “It happens, but it’s rare.

The first phrase we played in that show was electrifying, and it felt so much bigger than what any one of us was contributing. Something clicked, something moved. So it was like, how do we nurture that spark?

How we make it grow?”

There’s a palpable current in the group’s sound. It hangs in the air, in between the words and notes as McEntire uses her pliable voice to bend her enigmatic, spiritsearching lyrics toward ineffable possibility. “Heather’s really great at taking real places and injecting them with a kind of magical or supernatural significance, finding new ways to look at places or memories of places,” Miller says. “Take the song ‘Calvander’ [the opening track on How to Dance]. Calvander is a real place, a tiny place — it’s really just one intersection [outside Chapel Hill]. But Heather connects it to this experience, some of which is imagined and tweaked a bit, of a trip that originated from that intersection and took her to the coast. So now that place has a heightened sense of reality — and I really love that about the song.” X

WHO Mount Moriah with Elephant Micah WHERE The Mothlight 701 Haywood Road themothlight.com WHEN Friday, March 25 9:30 p.m. $10

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As festival season draws closer, RiverLink offers an enticing preview.

The annual series of free concerts, held monthly, May through October, raises funds for the nonprofit’s programming while drawing attention to the French Broad River.

This year’s lineup, scheduled by Jeff Whitworth of Worthwhile Sounds (he’s a former owner of The Grey Eagle and books for Downtown After 5, among other events) includes a danceable mix of funk, soul, rock, bluegrass and more — and many of the acts are locally based.

“We feel like we have a good formula for success,” says Dave Russell, director of volunteer services. Building on past years, RiverMusic — which is powered by Sundance Solar and depends on the efforts of 80 volunteers per event — aims to attract more people (a previous high number was about 2,800 attendees for Orgone). “And continue our record of no injuries and no arrests,” Russell adds.

Outside food and beverage are not allowed, nor are dogs. Kayaks, however, are: “This is a multimodal event,” says Russell. Festivalgoers are invited to arrive by bicycle, trolley (catch a free shuttle ride leaving from and returning to the Visitors Center on Montford Avenue) or by water — the location has a boat landing and “we love it when people paddle up,” says Russell.

Drawing visitors to the banks of the French Broad River is part of RiverLink’s mission. The nonprofit, founded in 1987, also works to provide public access to the river, reclaim contaminated land for public use and develop greenways and campsites, according the RiverLink website.

This year marks the sixth iteration of the outdoor music event. Its seasonal run includes one Saturday date, aka RiverFest — a day of live music, local beer, vendors and the Anything That Floats parade.

The first four RiverMusic concerts take place at the RiverLink Sculpture and Performance Plaza in the River Arts District; the last two will be held at Carrier Park. Gates open at 5 p.m., and music kicks off at 5:30 p.m. Admission is free. Info at riverlink.org; to volunteer, contact volunteer@riverlink.org. X

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festive mood: The Broadcast is among eight local bands on the RiverMusic roster. The season kicks off on Friday, May 6, with monthly free concerts (including one Saturday showcase held during River Fest in August). Photo courtesy of the band

2016 RiverMusic schedule • Friday, May 6 — Greyhounds (funk and soul) headline, with Les Amis (members of Toubab Krewe and Zansa) and Major and The Monbacks(rock, psychedelic).

• Friday, June 10 — Friends of Widespread Panic Day, with jams to follow at The Grey Eagle. Bloodkin (rock) headlines, with Jerry Joseph and The Jackmormons (rock) and the Randall Bramblett Band (rock, soul).

• Friday, July 8 — Patrick Sweany (blues) headlines, with Aaron Lee Tasjan (indie-folk) and Tim Easton (rock, folk).

• Saturday, Aug. 13 — Happening along with RiverFest, it’s a night of local music. Floating Action (indie-rock, dub, Caribbean) headlines with Sirius.B (absurdist, Gypsy, folk) and Grits & Soul (country).

• Friday, Sept. 9 — Love Canon (bluegrass) headlines with Tellico (Americana) and Buncombe Turnpike (bluegrass).

• Friday, Oct. 7 — Blitzen Trapper (indie-rock) headlines, with The Broadcast (rock, soul) and The Get Right Band (funk, reggae).

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Camp David Basia Bulat Canadian singer and multi-instrumentalist Basia Bulat told NPR that writing sad content for pleasant sounds is her “favorite trick.” That dynamic is at play on her new album, Good Advice, and producer and musical contributor Jim James (My Morning Jacket) helps usher her along a new pop path with celestial keys. The RMI electric piano, one instrument from Bulat’s ever-growing arsenal, features prominently on her breakup song, “Fool.” It comes from the defunct North Carolina company Rocky Mount Instruments. “It was a popular prog-rock keyboard in the ’70s,” she told NPR, “so it’s kind of fun to get [it] into a completely different context.”

Another Carolina connection: Local musician Seth Kauffman of Floating Action plays bass on Good Advice, and he’ll sit in for part of Bulat’s performance at The Grey Eagle on Saturday, March 26, at 8 p.m. $15/$18. thegreyeagle.com. Photo courtesy of the artist

When presented with the chance to play at The Orange Peel, Camp David frontman (and sometimes soloist under the same name) Steven Brett recruited two of his favorite local bands — Doc Aquatic and Fashion Bath — to round out the lineup. “I feel this is a great opportunity to show The Orange Peel and venues like it that there are Asheville bands good enough to be showcased on a big stage,” Brett says. Indeed, when IamAVL captured a live performance by Camp David, the full band’s ultramoody rock filled Echo Mountain Studios from floor to high ceiling with a heavy and hauntingly satisfying dissonance. The Orange Peel hosts the free night of homegrown music, including Camp David’s release of single “The Poison,” on Friday, March 25, at 9 p.m. theorangepeel.net.

Photo by Adam Wolesgale

Andy Ferrell

Gold Light

Following the footsteps of many roots and country predecessors, singer-songwriter Andy Ferrell traveled to Music City to record half of his new album, At Home and In Nashville. The remaining songs, as the title implies, were captured in his hometown at The Jones House — just down the street from downtown Boone’s statue of folk hero Doc Watson, a major influence throughout Ferrell’s Appalachian upbringing.

The content, like the backstory of the young musician’s songs, invokes the plight of a Southern rambler. “I almost always have to be traveling to write good songs,” he says. “It doesn’t matter where — anything other than being in the town I live in usually works.” Local act Jackson Emmer opens Ferrell’s album release party at the Isis Restaurant & Music Hall’s upstairs lounge on Thursday, March 24, at 7 p.m. $10. isisasheville.com. Photo courtesy of the artist

Gold Light, the musical project of guitarist and singer Joe Chang, achieves the look and feel of a high-vibing retro daydream in the new music video for “Arm’s Length.” Along with seven other silky-edged rock tunes penned during a temporary move to South Carolina, the song appears on Gold Light’s first full-length album, Visions. While previous writings mulled over romantic woes, the new collection “rummages through the heartache of existence, trying to make some sense of it,” according to an online bio. Now that Chang has moved back to Asheville, he and bandmates Andy Woodward (bass), Casey Ellis (drums), Dane Smith (keys) and Josh Carpenter (guitar) — all also alumni of Kovacs and the Polar Bear — play a homecoming release show at The Mothlight on Thursday, March 24, at 9:30 p.m. South Carolina acts Grace Joyner and Dear Blanca open. $5. themothlight.com. Photo by Reba Fraser

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Send your event listings to calendar@mountainx.com

Convention Center, 1960 13th Ave. Drive, Hickory

auditions & Call to artists anam Cara theatre 545-3861, anamcaratheatre.com • MO (3/28) & WE (3/30), 7-9pm - Open auditions for And Everything Nice: A Purity AntiManifesto for the Stage. Contact for full guidelines. Held at Toy Boat Community Art Space, 101 Fairview Road, Suite B blaCk mountain College museum & arts Center 56 Broadway, 350-8484, blackmountaincollege.org • Through TH (6/30) - Submissions accepted for the 8th Annual ReVIEWING Black Mountain College conference. See website for full guidelines. hendersonville Community theatre 229 S. Washington St., Hendersonville, 692-1082, hendersonvillelittletheater.org • Through WE (3/23) - Submissions accepted for potential directors to submit plays that they would like to direct in the 2017 season.

Contact for full guidelines. montford Park Players 254-5146, montfordparkplayers.org • Through WE (3/23) - Applications accepted for directors for The Asheville Shakesperience, opening Friday, May 13.

See website for full guidelines. riverlink 252-8474, riverlink.org • Through (3/25) - Submissions accepted for the “Voices of the River: Music, Art and Poetry Contest.” See website for full guidelines.

‘stone in love’: An exhibition of poetry and photography, Stone in Love: Seduction of the Orphan Past, by Oguz Erdur, is on exhibition in UNC Asheville’s Ramsey Library Blowers Gallery through Friday, April 1. Erdur, who is an assistant professor of anthropology at UNC Asheville, “based the works on his ethnographic research on archaeological knowledge production in Turkey,” according to the press release from UNCA. The exhibition features a collection of poems, photographic montages and prose reflections on the themes of love, existential angst and the quest for meaning.

Photo of Erdur’s work courtesy of UNC Asheville (p. 70) art

grovewood gallery 111 Grovewood Road, 253-7651,

asheville area arts CounCil 1 Page Ave., 258-0710, ashevillearts.com • TH (3/24), 4-7pm - Advanced business class with Jodi Rhoden, exploring startup, overhead, and variable costs, and break even point.

Registration required: johanna@ashevillearts. com. Free.

strates surface design on bisque fired bowls and cups. Free to attend.

• SA (3/26), noon-4pm - Krista Skrede demonstrates paper cutting used in 2D and 3D compo-

Comedy 35below 35 E. Walnut St., 254-1320, ashevilletheatre.org • WE (3/23), 7:30pm - The SuperHappy Trivia Challenge. Local comics and personalities take part in a 1970’s style panel show. $12. hendersonville Community theatre 229 S. Washington St., Hendersonville, 6921082, hendersonvillelittletheater.org • FR (3/25) & SA (3/26), 8pm - Gutbusters Comedy Club presents comedy hypnotist Steve Meade. $15.

musiC art/Craft fairs

asheville eye assoCiates 8 Medical Park Dr., 258-1586 • WE (3/24), 5:30 - 7 pm - With These Hands: An Appalachian Barn Photography Exhibit by Bonnie Cooper and Don McGowan. Free to attend.

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• FR (3/25), noon-4pm - Helen Purdum demon-

sitions. Free to attend.

asheville art museum 2 N. Pack Square, 253-3227, ashevilleart.org • FR (3/25), noon-1pm - “Vault Visible: Photographs,” presentation by curators.

Admission fees apply.

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the Center for Craft, Creativity & design 67 Broadway, 785-1357, craftcreativitydesign.org • Through MO (3/28) - Open call for emerging curators to take part in the Curatorial Fellowship. See website for full guidelines.

Catawba valley Pottery and antiques festival catawbavalleypotteryfestival.org • SA (3/26), 9am-5pm - Juried pottery and antiques festival. $6/$2 children. Held at Hickory Metro

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an evening of CeltiC musiC goo.gl/4FIYeV • SA (3/26), 7pm- “Helping to Heal the Heart of Humanity,” folk, Americana, & Celtic music featuring Tuatha Dea, Carolina Ceili, and The Dave Desmelik Trio. $15-20. Held at WNC Agricultural Center, 1301 Fanning Bridge Road

diana wortham theatre 2 S. Pack Square, 257-4530, dwtheatre.com • FR (3/25), 8pm - Dervish, Irish music. $32/$27 students/$20 children. musiC at unCa 251-6432, unca.edu • TH (3/24), 7pm - “Voice of the Tunisian Revolution,” concert by Emel Mathlouthi. $20/$8 local students/$6 UNC Asheville students. Held in Lipinsky Auditorium.

• TH (3/24), noon - Emel Mathlouthi master class. Free. Held in the Humanities Lecture Hall. musiC at wCu 227-2479, wcu.edu • MO (3/28), 12:20-2:15pm - Master class by Thomas Jostlein, associate principal horn with the St. Louis Symphony. Free. Held in the Coulter Building Recital Hall.

• MO (3/28), 7:30pm - Recital by Thomas Jostlein, associate principal horn with the St. Louis Symphony. Free. Held in the Coulter Building Recital Hall. transylvania Community arts CounCil 349 S. Caldwell St., Brevard, 884-2787, tcarts.org • THURSDAYS through (3/24), 2-3pm - Irish song workshop offered by Aoife Clancy.

Not held on Thursday, Mar. 17. Registration required. $20.

theater 35below 35 E. Walnut St., 254-1320, ashevilletheatre.org • FRIDAYS & SATURDAYS through (3/27), 7:30pm - Next to Normal. $20. anam Cara theatre 545-3861, anamcaratheatre.com • FR (3/25) & SA (3/26), 8pm - Accordion Time Machine presents Pass the French Fries, Freida. $15/$12 advance. Held at Toy Boat Community Art Space, 101 Fairview Road, Suite B b4PeaCe b4peace.net, info@b4peace.net • TH (3/24), 7pm - War is a Racket 2016, one person show based on the book “War is a Racket.” Discussion after the show. $10.

Held at Asheville Friends Meetinghouse, 227 Edgewood Road montford Park Players 254-5146, montfordparkplayers.org • TH (3/24) & FRIDAYS & SATURDAYS (3/25) until (4/9), 7:30pm - Dark Lady of the Sonnets and The Upstart Crow. $15. Held at Asheville Masonic Temple, 80 Broadway the magnetiC theatre 375 Depot St., 279-4155 • THURSDAYS through SATURDAYS (3/24) until (4/9), 7:30pm - The Improbables (An Unlikely Comedy). $24/$21 advance. theater at unCa 251-6610, drama.unca.edu • FR (3/25), 1:30pm - “NC Stage Behind the Scenes” with Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf. Free. Held in the Reuter Center.

GallEry d irEctory aPPalaChian Pastel soCiety appalachianpastelsociety.org • TH (3/24) through FR (5/13) - Appalachian Pastel Society member exhibition.

Reception: Sunday, May 1, 10am. Held at Grace Community Church, 495 Cardinal Road, Mills River art at asu 262-3017, tcva.org • Through SA (6/4) - The Waterworks, sculptures

by Jennifer Hecker. Held in the Turchin Center. art at brevard College 884-8188, brevard.edu/art • Through (3/24) - Juried student art exhibition. Held in the Spiers Arts Gallery. art at mars hill mhu.edu • Through FR (4/15) Exhibition of the sculptures of Michael Neil Jacobsen and the drawings of Michael Anthony Riesch. Held in Weizenblatt Gallery. art at unCa art.unca.edu • Through FR (3/25) - The Tragedy of War: Japanese American Internment, exhibition on display from Kennesaw State University’s Museum of History and Holocaust Education. Held in the Karpen Hall lobby.

• Through TH (3/31) Women’s History Month Art Exhibition: The Struggle of Everyday Living, paintings

by Sahar Fakhoury. Held in the Highsmith Building Intercultural Gallery.

• Through FR (4/1) - Stone in Love: Seduction of the Orphan Past, photography and poetry by Oguz Erdur. Held in Ramsey Library Blowers Gallery.

• Through FR (4/1) - Annual juried student exhibition featuring works by members of Art Front, UNC Asheville’s student art organization.

Held in the Tucker Cooke Gallery in Owen Hall.

• Through FR (4/1) - Open Hearts Art Center exhibition, curated by Curatoria, an interdisciplinary collective of UNC Asheville students, faculty, and other scholars. Held in the Second Floor Gallery of Owen Hall.

asheville art museum 2 N. Pack Square, 253-3227, ashevilleart.org • Through TU (5/31) - Vault Visible, exhibition of photographs from the extensive museum collection. asheville bookworks 428 1/2 Haywood Road, 255-8444, ashevillebookworks.com • Through FR (4/22) - The Elegant Statement, exhibition of 27 book artists and letterpress printers from across the US. asheville gallery of art 82 Patton Ave., 251-5796, ashevillegallery-of-art.com • Through TH (3/31) - New Horizons, painting exhibition by Anne Bonnyman, Cathyann Burgess and Johnnie Stanfield. basCom Center for the arts 323 Franklin Road, Highlands, 526-4949, thebascom.org • Through SU (5/22) Exhibition of the paintings of Lucien Harris. Reception: Saturday, April 30, 5-7pm. blue sPiral 1 38 Biltmore Ave., 251-0202, bluespiral1.com • Through FR (4/29) PhotoCRAFT, photography and object exhibition.

• Through FR (4/29) - Kreh Mellick exhibition.

• Through FR (4/29) - Southeast Contemporary Textile exhibit.

Chestnut 48 Biltmore Ave. • Through TU (5/31) - Pastels in Nature, exhibit of the work of Elise Okrend. firestorm Cafe and books 610 Haywood Road, 255-8115 Free unless otherwise noted.

• Through TH (3/31) Posada: Marigolds & Skulls, exhibition of the prints of Jose Guadalupe Posada. grand bohemian gallery 11 Boston Way, 877-274-1242, bohemianhotelasheville.com • FR (3/25) through SA (4/30) - The Last Magician, exhibition of the paintings of Chris Sedgwick. Reception: Friday

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Penland sChool of Crafts 67 Doras Trail, Bakersville, 765-2359, penland.org • Through SA (5/1) This Is a Photograph: Exploring Contemporary Applications of Photographic Chemistry, exhibition.

Opening reception: Saturday, Mar. 26, 4:30-6:30pm.

Pink dog Creative 342 Depot St., pinkdog-creative.com • Through SU (5/22) Orthogonal Convergence, exhibition of the photographs of Steve Mann.

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Push skate shoP & gallery 25 Patton Ave., 225-5509, pushtoyproject.com • Through TU (3/29) - First Thoughts, multi medium group exhibition to benefit the foundation in the river arts district. satellite gallery 55 Broadway St., 305-2225, thesatellitegallery.com • Through TH (3/31) - Jeremy Phillips painting exhibition. tryon arts and Crafts sChool 373 Harmon Field Road, Tryon, 859-8323 Tryon Arts and Craft School • Through WE (4/20) - Mixed media show. tryon fine arts Center 34 Melrose Ave., Tryon, 8598322, tryonarts.org • SA (3/12) through FR (4/8) - Showcase of Excellence, juried high school art exhibition. Opening reception: Saturday, Mar. 12, 10-11:30am. uPstairs artsPaCe 49 S. Trade St., Tryon, 8592828, upstairsartspace.org • Through FR (4/22) - Have A Seat: Eight Designers of Contemporary Chairs, exhibition of contemporary chairs. zaPow! 21 Battery Park Suite 101, 575-2024, zapow.net • Through (5/2) - Girls On The Run of WNC, multimedia art exhibition.

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root of the matter: For 25 years, Rusted Root has brought its blend of acoustics, rock and world music to audiences spanning the globe. In celebration of a quarter-century of delivering “peace, love, and great grooves,” as High Times magazine put it, Rusted Root founder Michael Glabicki and company have hit the road to promote their latest album The Movement and test the waters with some new material. You can catch the four-piece ensemble at the Orange Peel on Tuesday, March 29 for an 8 p.m. show.

wednesday, marCh 23 185 king street Vinyl Night, 7pm 5 walnut wine bar Patrick Fitzsimons (jazz, blues, world), 5pm Les Amis (African folk), 8pm 550 tavern & grille karaoke, 6pm altamont brewing ComPany Kate and Kinney Barber (blues), 6:30pm asheville musiC hall Geeks Who Drink Trivia, 7pm ben’s tune-uP Honky Tonk Wednesdays, 7pm blaCk mountain ale house Play to Win game night, 7:30pm blue mountain Pizza & brew Pub Open mic, 7pm bywater Westend Trio (soul), 9pm

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dark City deli Pool Tournament, 7:30pm

JaCk of the wood Pub Old-time session, 5pm

double Crown Honky-Tonk, Cajun, and Western w/ DJ Brody Hunt, 10pm

lazy diamond Killer Karaoke w/ KJ Tim O, 10pm

Beginning swing dance lesson w/ Bobby Wood, 7:30pm 3 Cool Cats (vintage rock), 8pm one stoP deli & bar Geeks Who Drink Trivia, 7pm

foggy mountain brewPub Kevin Fuller (folk), 9pm

lex 18 Andrew J. Fletcher (barrel house style stride piano), 7pm

funkatorium John Hartford Jam (folk, bluegrass), 6:30pm

lobster traP Ben Hovey (dub-jazz, trumpet), 6:30pm

room ix Fuego: Latin night, 9pm

good stuff Karaoke!, 6pm

mountain moJo Coffeehouse Open mic, 6:30pm

sCully’s Sons of Ralph (bluegrass), 6pm

grind Cafe Trivia night, 7pm

noble kava Open mic w/ Caleb Beissert, 9pm

highland brewing ComPany Woody Wood Wednesdays (rock, soul), 5:30pm

o.henry’s/the underground “Take the Cake” Karaoke, 10pm

sly grog lounge Sound Station open mic (musicians of all backgrounds & skills), 7:30pm Cards Against Humanity Game Night, 10pm

iron horse station Kevin Reese (Americana), 7pm

odditorium Vivian K (punk), 9pm

sol bar new mountain ADBC presents Axiom Wednesdays (drum ’n’ bass), 9pm

isis restaurant and musiC hall Tim Grimm & The Jackson Grimm Band (folk), 7pm Italian night w/ Mike Guggino & Barrett Smith (acoustic, world music), 8:30pm

off the wagon Piano show, 9pm

southern aPPalaChian brewery Marc Yaxley (jazz, flamenco guitar), 6pm

olive or twist Intermediate swing dance lessons w/ Bobby Wood, 7pm

tallgary’s at four College Open mic & jam, 7pm Wu-Wednesdays (’90s hip-hop experience), 9pm

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PulP Free The Optimus (hip hop), 9pm

ThE blOck Off bilTMOrE Jordan Okrend (rock, jazz, soul), 7:30pm ThE JOinT nEXT DOOr Bluegrass jam, 8pm ThE MillrOOM Flamenco nights w/ Juan Benavides Group, 9pm ThE MOThlighT Emily Easterly w/ Divine Circles & Adrienne Ammerman (rock), 9:30pm

highlanD brEWing cOMPany 2016 Fly Fishing Film Tour, 5pm Amy & Mike (acoustic), 5:30pm isis rEsTauranT anD Music hall Andy Ferrell CD release w/ Jacson Emmer (singer-songwriter), 7pm Jack Of ThE WOOD Pub Bluegrass jam, 7pm laZy DiaMOnD Heavy Night w/ DJ Butch, 10pm

ThE naTiOnal Naked Scholar (groove, neo soul, R&B), 9pm

lEX 18 Ray Biscoglia Duo (jazz standards), 7pm

ThE PhOEniX Jazz night, 8pm

lObsTEr TraP Hank Bones (“The man of 1,000 songs”), 6:30pm

ThE sOcial lOungE Phantom Pantone (DJ), 10pm ThE sOuThErn Disclaimer Comedy open mic, 9pm TiMO’s hOusE “Spectrum AVL” w/ DamGood & rotating DJs, 9pm TOWn PuMP Open mic w/ Billy Presnell, 10pm TrailhEaD rEsTauranT anD bar Acoustic jam w/ Kevin Scanlon & Andrew Brophy (bluegrass, old-time, Americana), 6pm TrEssa’s DOWnTOWn JaZZ anD bluEs Blues & soul jam w/ Al Coffee & Da Grind, 8:30pm

ThursDay, March 24

Specializing in 40s-60s Vintage Clothing, Repro Dresses, Housewares, Vintage Jewelry & More 46 Commerce St, Asheville

www.rockdollvintage.com

lOOkOuT brEWEry Red Leg Husky (Americana), 6:30pm MarkET PlacE Ben Hovey (dub jazz, beats), 7pm nEW MOunTain ThEaTEr/ aMPhiThEaTEr Scarface Icon Tour (hip-hop), 9pm O.hEnry’s/ThE unDErgrOunD Game Night, 9pm Drag Show, 12:30am

March - April

ODDiTOriuM The Art of War w/ Advocate, Wicked World & Abhorrent Deformity (metal), 9pm Off ThE WagOn Dueling pianos, 9pm OlivE Or TWisT Dance lesson w/ Ian & Karen, 8pm DJ Mike (eclectic mix, requests), 8:30pm

alTaMOnT brEWing cOMPany Kate and Corey (pop), 9pm alTaMOnT ThEaTrE Cliff Cash (comedy), 8:30pm barlEy’s TaPrOOM AMC Jazz Jam, 9pm black MOunTain alE hOusE Bluegrass Jam w/ The Big Deal Band & Blue Plate Special, 8pm bluE MOunTain PiZZa & brEW Pub Matt Sellars (Americana, blues, roots), 7pm club ElEvEn On grOvE Tango lessons & practilonga w/ Tango Gypsies, 7pm All-Star DJ Night (swing), 8:30pm

THEATER

FRIDAY

YHETI + CONRANK

3.24 SCARFACE ICON TOUR 9PM SHOW

185 king sTrEET Jim Lord (singer-songwriter, folk, rock), 9pm 5 WalnuT WinE bar Pleasure Chest (blues, rock, soul), 8pm

THURSDAY

THEATER

3.25

9PM SHOW

MEDISIN + SELECTOR CLEOFUS

WEDNESDAY

THEATER

3.30

TWIDDLE

+ UNIVERSAL SIGH

9PM SHOW

THEATER

SATURDAY

COSMIC CHARLIE PRESENTS

4.2

9PM SHOW

DARK SIDE OF THE DEAD

FRIDAY

THEATER

THE MANTRAS

4.8

+ JAHMAN BRAHMAN

9PM SHOW

THEATER

FRIDAY

DOPAPOD

4.15

+ THE FRITZ

8PM SHOW

crEEksiDE TaPhOusE Singer-songwriter night w/ Riyen Roots, 8pm

THEATER

SATURDAY

DOPAPOD

4.16

+ TURKUAZ

crOW & Quill Carolina Catkins (gritty ragtime jazz), 10pm

8PM SHOW

DirTy sOuTh lOungE Luzius Stone music video release party (hip hop, electronic, future rock), 7pm

4.16 BLUE WHEEL DRIVE 8PM SHOW

DOublE crOWn Sonic Satan Stew w/ DJ Alien Brain, 10pm

Coming Up:

ElainE’s DuEling PianO bar Dueling Pianos, 9pm fOggy MOunTain brEWPub Ashley Heath (folk), 9pm frEnch brOaD brEWEry Band of Lovers (folk), 6pm grEy EaglE Music hall & TavErn The David Mayfield Parade w/ Ian Thomas & Band Of Drifters (roots, rock, Americana), 9pm

SATURDAY

SOL BAR

THU - 4.21: FRI - 4.22:

SAT - 4.23: 5.20 - 5.22

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Thur• March 24 Mike & Amy acoustic duo @ 5:30pm / Check website

OnE sTOP DEli & bar Streaming Thursdays (live concert showings), 6pm Chamomile & Whiskey (gypsy folk, Americana), 9pm

for details about Costa Fly Fishing Film Tour

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Oskar bluEs brEWEry Bad Popes Duo (country rock), 6pm

Fri• March 25 Grandpa’s Cough Medicine @ 7pm

Pisgah brEWing cOMPany The Screaming J’s (honky-tonk, ragtime), 6pm PulP Slice of Life Comedy Open Mic w/ Chase McNeil, 9pm

Sat• March 26 Patrick Dodd @ 3pm/

PurPlE OniOn cafE Michael Reno Harrell (singer-songwriter), 7:30pm

Come Back Alice

aThEna’s club Dave Blair (folk, funk, acoustic), 7pm DJ Shy Guy, 10pm bEn’s TunE-uP Woody Wood & the Asheville Family Band (acoustic, folk, rock), 5pm black MOunTain alE hOusE Wheelin’ and Dealin’, 8pm bluE MOunTain PiZZa & brEW Pub Acoustic Swing, 7pm bOilEr rOOM Meana Shyy, Ugang, Ponkinhead, Colston, Alpha Lee & TruLoyalty (hip-hop), 10pm caTaWba brEWing sOuTh slOPE Albi and The Lifters (jazz), 5:30pm

@ 7pm

rEnaissancE ashEvillE hOTEl Evan Swink (country, bluegrass), 6:30pm

Sun• March 27 Reggae Sunday

club ElEvEn On grOvE Hot Bachata Nights (monthly social), 9:30pm

rOOM iX Throwback Thursdays (all vinyl set), 9pm

cOrk & kEg Old Time Jam, 7:30pm

sancTuary brEWing cOMPany Emily Bodley (jazzy singer-songwriter), 8pm

crEEksiDE TaPhOusE Roots and Dore (blues), 8:30pm

scanDals nighTclub DJ dance party & drag show, 10pm

crOW & Quill DiTriani Brothers (gypsy jazz), 9pm

sOuThErn aPPalachian brEWEry Carrie Morrison & Ellen Trnka (folk, Americana), 7pm

DOublE crOWn DJ Greg Cartwright (garage & soul obscurities), 10pm

Hosted by Dennis Berndt of Chalwa @ 1pm

Tues• March 29 Team Trivia with Dr. Brown @ 6pm

sPring crEEk TavErn Open Mic, 6pm Tallgary’s aT fOur cOllEgE Open jam night w/ Jonathan Santos, 7pm ThE blOck Off bilTMOrE Open mic night, 7:30pm ThE MOThlighT Gold Light w/ Grace Joyner & Dear Blanca (rock ’n’ roll, R&B, post-punk), 9:30pm

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SAT 3.26

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TUE 3.29 FRI 4.1

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OPEN AT NOON DAILY

SATURDAY Parker & Smith (old-fashioned blues), 2-4pm SUNDAY Celtic Irish session 3-9pm MONDAY Quizzo! 7:30-9pm • WEDNESDAY Old-Time 5pm SINGER SONGWRITERS 1st & 3rd Tuesdays THURSDAY Scottie Parker (old-fashioned blues) 2-4pm, Bluegrass Jam 7pm

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252.5445 • jackofthewood.com

march 23 - march 29, 2016

TOWn PuMP Serra Gisondo (jazz), 9pm TrailhEaD rEsTauranT anD bar Open Cajun & swing jam w/ Steve Burnside, 7pm

8PM $5 (Donations Encouraged)

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ThE PhOEniX Bradley Carter & John Looney (grit & soul, Americana), 8pm TiMO’s hOusE Spring UP Tour w/ Quanstar, DJ Coach K & DJ Whistleblower (hip-hop, rap), 9pm

FRI 3.25

w/ COMMANDER X SPORK

ThE naTiOnal The Jonathan Santos GlocalSoul Revival (open mic, jam), 9pm Soul Power! w/ Nex Millen (hip hop, funk, soul), 11:55pm

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TrEssa’s DOWnTOWn JaZZ anD bluEs Jesse Barry & Friends (blues, soul), 9pm

ElainE’s DuEling PianO bar Dueling Pianos, 9pm fOggy MOunTain brEWPub Neon Tetra (bluegrass), 10pm frEnch brOaD brEWEry Alarm Clock Conspiracy (indie, pop), 6pm gOOD sTuff Band Of Lovers (Americana, chamber pop), 7pm grEy EaglE Music hall & TavErn New Orleans Suspects w/ The Captain Midnight Band (funk, swamp hoodoo, jazzy R&B), 8pm highlanD brEWing cOMPany Grandpa’s Cough Medicine (bluegrass), 7pm irOn hOrsE sTaTiOn Barb Turner (R&B), 7pm isis rEsTauranT anD Music hall An evening w/ The Sweet Lillies (Americana, jamgrass, bluegrass), 7pm Flood: Electric Herbie Hancock tribute, 9pm Jack Of ThE WOOD Pub Under The Willow (bluegrass, folk), 7pm JErusalEM garDEn Middle Eastern music & bellydancing, 7pm

TWisTED laurEl Karaoke, 8pm

laZy DiaMOnD Totes Dope Tite Sick Jams w/ (ya boy) DJ Hot Noodle, 10pm

WhiTE hOrsE black MOunTain The Michael Jefry Stevens Electric Band (jazz), 7:30pm

lEX 18 Ray Biscoglia Duo (jazz standards), 7pm

friDay, March 25 5 WalnuT WinE bar Empire Strikes Brass Combo (brass funk), 9pm alTaMOnT brEWing cOMPany Paul Edelman & Jangling Sparrows & Rustics (roots, rock), 9:30pm alTaMOnT ThEaTrE An Evening w/ The Grascals (bluegrass), 8pm ashEvillE Music hall Larry Keel CD Release Show (Americana, newgrass), 9pm

lObsTEr TraP Calico Moon (Americana), 6:30pm MarkET PlacE The Sean Mason Trio (groove, jazz, funk), 7pm nEW MOunTain ThEaTEr/ aMPhiThEaTEr Yheti w/ Conrank, Medisin & Selector Cleofus (electronic), 10pm O.hEnry’s/ThE unDErgrOunD Drag Show, 12:30am ODDiTOriuM 4th Qtr (rock), 9pm Off ThE WagOn Dueling pianos, 9pm

OnE sTOP DEli & bar Free Dead Fridays w/ members of Phuncle Sam (jam), 5pm Fat Cheek Kat (funk, roots), 10pm OrangE PEEl Camp David w/ Doc Aquatic & Fashion Bath (post-rock), 9pm

saTurDay, March 26

5 WalnuT WinE bar Andrew J. Fletcher (stride piano), 6pm Eleanor Underhill & Friends (Americana, soul), 9pm

Pack’s TavErn DJ MoTo (dance, pop hits), 9pm

alTaMOnT brEWing cOMPany West End Trio (blues, jazz), 9:30pm

Pisgah brEWing cOMPany The Everydays w/ Paper Crowns (Americana), 8pm

alTaMOnT ThEaTrE An Evening w/ Mike Farris (Americana, roots), 8pm

sancTuary brEWing cOMPany Alison Self, Maggie Carter & Raising Cain (country, blues, Americana), 7:30pm

ashEvillE Music hall Evening w/ Colonel Bruce Hampton & The Madrid Express (rock, blues), 8:30pm

scanDals nighTclub DJ dance party & drag show, 10pm

aThEna’s club Michael Kelley Hunter (blues), 6:30pm DJ Shy Guy, 10pm

sly grOg lOungE Richmond Hill Gang (original tunes), 8pm sOuThErn aPPalachian brEWEry Copernicus (bluegrass, Americana), 8pm sPring crEEk TavErn Hunter Grigg (Americana), 8:30pm

bEn’s TunE-uP Gypsy Guitars (acoustic, Gypsy-jazz), 2pm Savannah Smith (southern soul), 8pm bhraMari brEWhOusE Bend & Brew (yoga), 11am black MOunTain alE hOusE The Mug (blues, rock, boogie), 9pm

ThE aDMiral Hip-hop dance party w/ DJ Warf, 11pm

bluE MOunTain PiZZa & brEW Pub Ben Phan (indie, folk, singer-songwriter), 7pm

ThE blOck Off bilTMOrE Clouds of Reason (indie, rock), 8pm

caTaWba brEWing sOuTh slOPE Jordan Okrend Band (rock, Americana), 6pm

ThE DugOuT The Landers Effect (rock), 9pm

cOrk & kEg One Leg Up (jazz, latin, swing), 8:30pm

ThE MOcking crOW NC 63 (house band, rock), 8pm

crOW & Quill West of Roan & Rusalka (puppetry, music), 8pm

ThE MOThlighT Mount Moriah w/ Elephant Micah (rock, country, folk), 9:30pm

DOublE crOWn Pitter Platter w/ DJ Big Smidge, 10pm

ThE naTiOnal Michael Smith & Datrian Johnson (acoustic, soul, R&B), 8pm DJ dance party w/ AJMAKNBEATS & Costardamus, 11pm

ElainE’s DuEling PianO bar Dueling Pianos, 9pm

ThE PhOEniX Hogtown Squeelers (old-time string band), 8pm

frEnch brOaD brEWEry The Maggie Valley Band (folk, bluegrass), 6pm

ThE sOcial Steve Moseley (acoustic), 6pm

gOOD sTuff Cortez Garza (Americana), 7pm

ThE sOcial lOungE Rooftop Dance Party with DJ Phantom Pantone (electronic), 10pm

grEEn rOOM cafE & cOffEEhOusE Lake & Moore (folk, Americana), 5:30pm

TigEr MOunTain Dark dance rituals w/ DJ Cliffypoo, 10pm TiMO’s hOusE DJ Fame Douglas (R&B, dance, hip-hop), 9pm TOWn PuMP Loose Hinges (eclectic roots), 9pm TrEssa’s DOWnTOWn JaZZ anD bluEs Mark Shane (blues, singer-songwriter), 7:30pm The Shane Gang (classic American pop), 10pm TWisTED laurEl Live DJ, 11pm

Tues-Sun

5pm–12am

Full Bar

12am

185 king sTrEET Rivers & Rust (singer-songwriter), 9pm

Oskar bluEs brEWEry West End String Band (bluegrass), 6pm

scully’s DJ, 10pm

Dinner Menu till 10pm Late Night Menu till

fOggy MOunTain brEWPub Third Nature (experimental groove), 10pm

grEy EaglE Music hall & TavErn Basia Bulat w/ Penny & Sparrow and Twin Limb (folk), 8pm highlanD brEWing cOMPany Patrick Dodd (singer-songwriter), 3pm Come Back Alice (Southern Gypsy funk), 7pm irOn hOrsE sTaTiOn Luke Wood (R&B), 7pm isis rEsTauranT anD Music hall An evening w/ Amy Steinberg (pop, singersongwriter), 7pm Jeffery Broussard & the Creole Cowboys (acoustic, zydeco, Cajun), 9pm

WhiTE hOrsE black MOunTain Yes The Raven (folk, indie, alternative), 8pm

Jack Of ThE WOOD Pub Grandpappy & The Mystical Astronaut Boombox w/ Commander X Spork (acoustic, punk), 9pm

WilD Wing cafE sOuTh A Social Function (acoustic), 9:30pm

JErusalEM garDEn Middle Eastern music & bellydancing, 7pm

ZaMbra Zambra Jazz Trio, 8pm

laZy DiaMOnD Sonic Satan Stew w/ DJ Alien Brain, 10pm

COMING SOON

WED 3/23 – 7:00 PM AN EVENING WITH TIM GRIMM 8:30 PM – ITALIAN NIGHT WITH MIKE GUGGINO AND BARRETT SMITH THU 3/24 7:00 PM – ANDY FERRELL CD RELEASE PARTY WITH JACKSON EMMER FRI 3/25 – 7:00 PM AN EVENING WITH THE SWEET LILLIES 9:00 PM – FLOOD:

ELECTRIC HERBIE HANCOCK TRUBUTE

SAT 3/26 – 7:00 PM AN EVENING WITH AMY STEINBERG 9:00 PM – JEFFERY BROUSSARD

AND THE CREOLE COWBOYS SUN 3/27 5:30 PM – THE GERSHWIN SONGBOOK WITH CHARLOTTE SOMMERS AND HARRY SHULZ 7:30 PM – MOJO ANTON JUMP SWING BLUES TRIO THU 3/31 7:00 PM – RAY CHESNA 8:30 PM – FRANK SOLIVAN

AND DIRTY KITCHEN CD RELEASE CELEBRATION FRI 4/1 8:00 PM – AN EVENING WITH

JAY UNGAR AND MOLLY MASON

SAT 4/2 – 7:00 PM AN EVENING WITH WISEWATER 9:00 PM – SATURDAY NIGHT DANCE PARTY WITH JIM ARRENDELL SUN 4/3 5:30 PM – AN EVENING WITH HEATHER MALONEY 7:30 PM – ETTA JAMES: MUSE OF THE BLUES WITH PAULA HANKE AND PEGGY RATUSZ Every Tuesday

7:30pm–midnite

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lEX 18 The Resonant Rogues (Gypsy, old-time, swing), 6:30pm

DOWNTOWN ON THE PARK Eclectic Menu • Over 30 Taps • Patio 13 TV’s • Sports Room • 110” Projector Event Space • Shuffleboard Open 7 Days 11am - Late Night

lObsTEr TraP Sean Mason Trio (jazz), 6:30pm MarkET PlacE DJs (funk, R&B), 7pm

MARCH MA

ODDiTOriuM Mischief Brew w/ Everymen & Carolina Catskins (punk), 9pm

D Catch your favorite g NESS! ame at Pack’s!

FRI. 3/25 DJ MoTo

(dance, pop hits)

black MOunTain alE hOusE Sunday Jazz Brunch w/ James Hammel and Friends, 11:30am

OnE sTOP DEli & bar Earphorik (rock, jam, funk), 10pm

byWaTEr Cornmeal Waltz w/ Robert Greer (classic country, bluegrass), 6pm

Pisgah brEWing cOMPany Phuncle Sam (Grateful Dead tribute), 9pm PurPlE OniOn cafE Joseph Hasty & Centerpiece (jazz), 8pm rOOM iX Open dance night, 9pm scanDals nighTclub DJ dance party & drag show, 10pm scully’s DJ, 10pm siErra nEvaDa brEWing cO. Bend & Brew (yoga), 11am sPring crEEk TavErn Fritz Beer & the Crooked Beat (alternative), 8:30pm ThE aDMiral Soul night w/ DJ Dr. Filth, 11pm

3/23 wed emily easterly

ThE blOck Off bilTMOrE Jazz Neptune (jazz, pop), 8pm

w/ divine circles, adrienne ammerman

3/24

thu

3/25

fri

mount moriah w/ elephant micah

sun

supersuckers w/ jesse dayton

bongzilla

w/ black cobra, kings destroy, lo-pan

3/28 mon 3/29

North Carolina’s First Cider Bar Family Owned & Operated Seasonal, craft-made hard ciders and tasting-room delights from local farmers & artisans.

w/ grace joyner, dear blanca

3/26 sat 3/27

gold light (album release!)

tue

onj.

w/ gláss, the francis vertigo

free!

mr. mange

ThE DugOuT Dandy Rabbit (rock, blues), 9pm ThE MOcking crOW NC 63 (house band, rock), 8pm ThE MOThlighT Supersuckers w/ Jesse Dayton (Southern rock, cowpunk), 9:30pm ThE naTiOnal Live groove, 7pm Base First DJ Audio (house, EDM, dance), 10pm

w/ the blots, those lavender whales, fashion bath

Details for all shows can be found at

themothlight.com

march 23 - march 29, 2016

210 Haywood Road, West Asheville, NC 28806

(828)744-5151

www.urbanorchardcider.com

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gOOD sTuff Laura Thurston (Americana, folk, singersongwriter), 2pm grEy EaglE Music hall & TavErn The Yawpers & Blackfoot Gypsies w/ Dirty Soul Revival (rock), 8pm isis rEsTauranT anD Music hall Sunday Classical Brunch, 11am Sunday Jazz showcase, 5:30pm Jack Of ThE WOOD Pub Irish session, 5pm laZy DiaMOnD Tiki Night w/ DJ Lance (Hawaiian, surf, exotica), 10pm lObsTEr TraP Cigar Brothers (“y’allternative”), 6:30pm ODDiTOriuM My Brother My Sister, Pictures of Vernon, Comfort Creatures & Alarm Drum (indie), 9pm Off ThE WagOn Piano show, 9pm OnE sTOP DEli & bar Bluegrass brunch w/ Woody Wood, 11am Sundays w/ Bill & Friends (Grateful Dead tribute, acoustic), 5pm Oskar bluEs brEWEry Bend & Brew (yoga), 12pm Pisgah brEWing cOMPany Sunday Travers Jam (open jam), 5pm

sly grOg lOungE Sunday Open Mic (open to poets, comedians & musicians), 7:30pm

TOWn PuMP The Devyl Nellys (funk, soul), 9pm

TWisTED laurEl Indoor & Outdoor Dance Party w/ DJ Phantome Pantone (electronic), 10pm

good english

DOublE crOWn Killer Karaoke w/ KJ Tim O, 9pm

TiMO’s hOusE Dance Party w/ DJ Franco Nino, 9pm

w/ lunar creature, aloonaluna

3/31 thu

cOrk & kEg Sparrow & Her Wingman (vintage jazz, swing), 7pm

scanDals nighTclub DJ dance party & drag show, 10pm

TrEssa’s DOWnTOWn JaZZ anD bluEs The King Zeros (blues), 7:30pm The Free Flow Band (funk, soul), 10pm

retribution body

caTaWba brEWing sOuTh slOPE Bend & Brew (yoga), 2pm

ThE PhOEniX Caroline Morrison & Ellen Trnka (soultry singer-songwriter), 9pm

w/ nomadic, kingdoms & classes

3/30 wed

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3 New Seasonals on Tap Huge Deck and Greenspace!

5 WalnuT WinE bar Ryan Oslance (only time will tell), 7pm

OlivE Or TWisT 42nd Street Band (big band jazz), 8pm Dance party (hip-hop, rap), 11pm

Pack’s TavErn The Big Deal Band (bluegrass, popular covers), 9pm

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185 king sTrEET Sunday Funday (open jam), 12pm

bEn’s TunE-uP Reggae night w/ Dub Kartel, 8pm

Oskar bluEs brEWEry Roots and Dore (blues), 6pm

(bluegrass, popular covers)

sunDay, March 27

Off ThE WagOn Dueling pianos, 9pm

OrangE PEEl Abbey Road Live! (Beatles tribute), 4pm

SAT. 3/26 The Big Deal

ZaMbra Zambra Jazz Trio, 8pm

WhiTE hOrsE black MOunTain Akira Satake and Duncan Wickel (world, jazz, Celtic, Appalachian), 8pm WilD Wing cafE Karaoke, 8pm

sOuThErn aPPalachian brEWEry Further To Fly (Americana, rock), 8pm Tallgary’s aT fOur cOllEgE Jason Brazzel (acoustic), 6pm ThE blOck Off bilTMOrE Critical Aftermath w/ Teso & friends, 8pm ThE iMPErial lifE Ultra Lounge Listening Party w/ projections DJ Phantone Pantone, 10 pm ThE MOThlighT Bongzilla w/ Black Cobra, Kings Destroy & Lo-Pan (metal, sludge rock), 9pm

The National Spring patio party /w live funk band, 1pm The Omni Grove Park Inn Lou Mowad (classical guitar), 10am Bob Zullo (pop, rock, blues), 7pm The Social Get Vocal Karaoke, 9:30pm The Social Lounge DJ Kyusi on vinyl (old school trip-hop, deep house, acid jazz), 8pm The Southern Yacht Rock Brunch w/ DJ Kipper, 12pm Timo’s House Bring Your Own Vinyl (open decks), 8pm Wedge Brewing Co. Vollie McKenzie & Hank Bones (acoustic jazzswing), 6pm

Monday, March 28 185 King Street Open mic night, 7pm 5 Walnut Wine Bar What It Is (jazz, funk), 8pm Altamont Brewing Company Old-time jam w/ Mitch McConnell, 6:30pm Bywater Open mic w/ Rick Cooper, 8pm Courtyard Gallery Open mic (music, poetry, comedy, etc.), 8pm Creekside Taphouse Trivia, 7pm Dark City Deli Trivia Night, 7:30pm Double Crown Country Karaoke, 10pm Good Stuff Open mic w/ Laura Thurston, 7pm Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern Contra dance (lessons, 7:30pm), 8pm Jack of the Wood Pub Quizzo, 7pm Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB) Kipper’s “Totally Rad” Trivia night, 8pm Lobster Trap Bobby Miller & Friends (bluegrass), 6:30pm O.Henry’s/The Underground Geeks Who Drink trivia, 7pm Odditorium Ben Phan, Pony Kicks, Ryan Furstenberg & Endymion (indie, folk), 9pm Olive or Twist 2 Breeze Band (Motown), 6pm Oskar Blues Brewery Mountain Music Mondays (open jam), 6pm PULP The Great American w/ Holden & Luke (funk, rock), 8pm Southern Appalachian Brewery Easter Sunday Gospel Brunch w/ Redneck Mimosa (gospel), 12pm Sovereign Remedies Stevie Lee Combs (acoustic), 8pm The Mothlight Onj. w/ Glass & The Francis Vertigo (singersongwriter, ambient rock), 9pm The National Monday open mic, 7pm 80s DJ service industry night, 10pm The Omni Grove Park Inn

Bob Zullo (pop, rock, blues), 7pm The Valley Music & Cookhouse Monday Pickin’ Parlour (open jam, open mic), 8pm

Tuesday Night Blues Dance w/ The Remedy (dance lesson at 8), 8:30pm One Stop Deli & Bar Turntable Tuesdays (DJs & vinyl), 10pm

Tiger Mountain Service industry night (rock ’n’ roll), 9pm

Orange Peel Rusted Root w/ The Get Right Band (rock), 8pm

Timo’s House Movie night, 7pm

Sanctuary Brewing Company Team trivia & tacos, 7pm

Urban Orchard Old-time music, 7pm

TallGary’s at Four College Jam night, 9pm

Tuesday, March 29

The Block Off Biltmore Jazz-n-Justice w/ Alison Zopel & Tim Winter, 7:30pm

Old-time session, 5pm Lazy Diamond Killer Karaoke w/ KJ Tim O, 10pm Lex 18 Andrew J. Fletcher (stride piano), 7pm Lobster Trap Ben Hovey (dub-jazz, trumpet), 6:30pm Mountain Mojo Coffeehouse Open mic, 6:30pm New Mountain Theater/Amphitheater Twiddle (jam), 10pm Noble Kava Open mic w/ Caleb Beissert, 9pm

5 Walnut Wine Bar The John Henrys (hot jazz), 8pm

The Mothlight Mr. Mange w/ Nomadic & Kingdoms and Classes (indie-rock, alternative), 9pm

Altamont Brewing Company Open mic w/ Breadfoot, 8:30pm

The National Live Jazz, 9pm

Asheville Music Hall Tuesday Night Funk Jam, 11pm

The Phoenix Singer-songwriter Night, 8pm

Back Yard Bar Open mic & jam w/ Robert Swain, 8pm

The Social Lounge Phantom Pantone (DJ), 10pm

Black Bear Coffee Co. Round Robin acoustic open mic, 7pm

Town Pump Friendship (alt-Country), 9pm

Black Mountain Ale House Trivia, 7pm

Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues Funk & jazz jam w/ Pauly Juhl, 8:30pm

Blue Mountain Pizza & Brew Pub Larry Dolamore (acoustic), 7pm

Urban Orchard Billy Litz (Americana, singer-songwriter), 7pm

One Stop Deli & Bar Geeks Who Drink Trivia, 7pm

Buffalo Nickel Trivia, 7pm

White Horse Black Mountain Irish sessions & open mic, 6:30pm

Orange Peel Duncan Trussell (comedy), 9pm

Catawba Brewing South Slope Reverend Finster (R.E.M. covers), 6:30pm

Wild Wing Cafe South Tuesday bluegrass, 6pm Trivia w/ Kelilyn, 8:30pm

PULP Slice of Life Comedy Duncan Trussell After Party, 10:30pm

Cork & Keg Old time jam, 5pm Creekside Taphouse Old School Low Down Blues Tues. w/ Matt Walsh, 6pm Crow & Quill Champagne Wilson & the Corkscrews (rowdy hot jazz), 10pm Dark City Deli Ping Pong Tournament, 6pm Double Crown Honky-Tonk, Cajun, and Western w/ DJ Brody Hunt, 10pm Good Stuff Old time-y night, 6:30pm Highland Brewing Company Dr. Brown’s Team Trivia, 6pm Iron Horse Station Open mic, 6pm Isis Restaurant and Music Hall Tuesday bluegrass sessions, 7:30pm Jack of the Wood Pub Nosedive (rockin’ Appalachian slide guitar, vintage), 7pm Lazy Diamond Classic Rock ’n Roll Karaoke, 10pm Lex 18 Bob Strain & Bill Fouty (romantic jazz, jazz standards), 7pm

O.Henry’s/The Underground “Take the Cake” Karaoke, 10pm Odditorium In the Presence of Wolves, Verse Vica, Fogwalker & The Art of (metal), 9pm Off the Wagon Piano show, 9pm Olive or Twist Intermediate swing dance lessons w/ Bobby Wood, 7pm Beginning swing dance lesson w/ Bobby Wood, 7:30pm 3 Cool Cats (vintage rock), 8pm

Room IX Fuego: Latin night, 9pm

Wednesday, March 30

Scully’s Sons of Ralph (bluegrass), 6pm

5 Walnut Wine Bar Sean Gaskell (world), 5pm Les Amis (African folk), 8pm 550 Tavern & Grille karaoke, 6pm

Sly Grog Lounge Sound Station open mic (musicians of all backgrounds & skills), 7:30pm Word Night (trivia-ish), 8pm Cards Against Humanity Game Night, 10pm

Altamont Brewing Company Ben Phan, Chris Titchner & Dave Desmelik (songs in the round), 8:30pm

Sol Bar New Mountain ADBC presents Axiom Wednesdays (drum ’n’ bass), 9pm

Asheville Music Hall Geeks Who Drink Trivia, 7pm

TallGary’s at Four College Open mic & jam, 7pm Wu-Wednesdays (’90s hip-hop experience), 9pm

Ben’s Tune-Up Honky Tonk Wednesdays, 7pm Black Mountain Ale House Play to Win game night, 7:30pm Blue Mountain Pizza & Brew Pub Open mic, 7pm Dark City Deli Pool Tournament, 7:30pm Double Crown Honky-Tonk, Cajun, and Western w/ DJ Brody Hunt, 10pm Foggy Mountain Brewpub Billy Litz (Americana), 9pm Funkatorium John Hartford Jam (folk, bluegrass), 6:30pm

The Joint Next Door Bluegrass jam, 8pm The Millroom Flamenco nights w/ Juan Benavides Group, 9pm The Mothlight Retribution Body w/ Lunar Creature & Aloonaluna (immersive ambient), 9pm The Phoenix Jazz night, 8pm The Social Lounge Phantom Pantone (DJ), 10pm The Southern Disclaimer Comedy open mic, 9pm

Good Stuff Karaoke!, 6pm

Timo’s House “Spectrum AVL” w/ DamGood & rotating DJs, 9pm

Market Place The Rat Alley Cats (jazz, Latin, swing), 7pm

Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern Laura Gibson w/ Michael Nau (folk), 8pm

Town Pump Open mic w/ Billy Presnell, 10pm

Odditorium Odd comedy night, 9pm

Grind Cafe Trivia night, 7pm

Off the Wagon Rock ’n’ roll bingo, 8pm

Highland Brewing Company Woody Wood Wednesdays (rock, soul), 5:30pm

Trailhead Restaurant and Bar Acoustic jam w/ Kevin Scanlon & Andrew Brophy (bluegrass, old-time, Americana), 6pm

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Lobster Trap Jay Brown (acoustic-folk, singer-songwriter), 6:30pm

Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues Blues & soul jam w/ Al Coffee & Da Grind, 8:30pm

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Sally Field and Max Greenfield in the surprisingly warm, funny and perceptive Hello, My Name Is Doris.

Hello, My Name Is Doris HHHHS dirEctor: Michael Showalter

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PlayErs: Sally Field, Max Greenfield, Beth Behrs, Tyne Daly, Stephen Root romantic comEdy drama Rated R thE story: An older woman falls in love with a co-worker who is at least half her age. thE lowdown: A touching, charming, often funny (with an undercurrent

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Michael Showalter’s Hello, My Name Is Doris takes a premise — the love of a somewhat frumpy 60-something woman for a 30-something hipster co-worker — that could have been a recipe for disaster, flirts with that disaster at every turn, and makes it work. What could have been 90 minutes of cringe-inducing comedy and

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debatable drama is instead a work of wit, delicacy and warm humanity.

It would be easy to place the accolades for why it works on Sally Field’s nuanced creation of the lovestruck Doris Miller. (This is exacerbated by the fact that it’s so startling to be reminded of how good she can be, and that there’s more to her than occasional supporting roles and doing awkward introductions to movies with Robert Osborne on TCM.) But the reasons this odd little movie works go

far beyond a single performance, no matter how good.

It isn’t just Field who is good. The entire cast is close to perfect, especially Max Greenfield as the object of her affection and Tyne Daly as her best friend. Greenfield has perhaps the most difficult role, but manages to be at once likable and somewhat thoughtless, while possessing the casual, unconscious cruelty of youth. Daly’s role is also tricky, since it requires her to be encouraging,

supportive, concerned, jealous and protective over the course of the film. But, really, everyone is good — and they benefit to no end from Showalter and Laura Terruso’s screenplay and Showalter’s precise, but not showy, direction.

Field plays Doris Miller, a woman “of a certain age,” whose mother — to whom she devoted most of her life — has just died. She faces a future of being a kind-of crazy cat lady (although she only has one) living in her cluttered Staten Island house, with bizarre rationales for saving things like empty shampoo bottles. But Doris does have a job in Manhattan. She is, in fact, the oldest employee there — in both senses of the term. It’s there that she meets new employee John Fremont (Greenfield). Were Doris not at least twice his age, they’d even have a “meet cute” — but here it’s more of a “meet awkward.” It is still enough to leave her totally besotted.

What starts out as foolishly tentative flirting takes a new direction when Doris’ friend Roz (Daly) takes her to a self-help seminar. The primary attraction for Roz is the free cheese, but Doris buys into the spiel and becomes dedicated to making a serious bid for John’s affection.

At first, Roz is all for this. When Doris starts taking romance advice from Roz’s 13-year-old granddaughter (Isabella Acres) and creates a fictitious Facebook account in order to find out what John’s interests are, she’s less sure this is a good idea. And perhaps it isn’t, as Doris makes a valiant attempt to share in his interests and get to know John better. This actually works — in its way, for a time — but pitfalls are everywhere, and we know that this is unlikely to end well.

That’s as much as I’ll say about the plot — in part because the plot is secondary to the carefully and slowly revealed character of Doris, and, to some extent, John. Doris’ layers peel away as we watch and she more and more feels tragically lovable, not a figure of fun as a foolish old woman.

Part of the reason for this is that John kind of leads her on — with or without meaning to. (And I’m not sure he knows; the film clearly doesn’t). It’s so easy to see how Doris misreads things — if, indeed, she is entirely misreading them. That’s something the film handles with grace and elegance — stopping at just the right moment and preserving the dignities of the characters.

I am not calling Hello, My Name

Is Doris a perfect film. The tendency (established early on) to cut to Doris’ various fantasies about the way John responds to her can be a little too much, though I’m willing to concede their function — especially since they highlight the actual romance of the two characters. (And, make no mistake, it is something of a romance, however untraditional.) The earlier scenes also tend to make Doris more awkward than necessary, but these are minor things. This is a sweet, sincere, deeply human film that ought to be seen by the broadest possible audience. Rated R for language.

Starts Friday at Carolina Cinemas and Fine Arts Theatre. reviewed by Ken Hanke khanke@mountainx.com

Miracles from Heaven H Director: Patricia Riggen (The 33) Players: Jennifer Garner, Kylie Rogers, Martin Henderson, Queen Latifah, John Carroll Lynch fact-and-faith-based drama Rated PG The Story: A young girl with an incurable gastro-intestinal disorder inexplicably recovers after falling into a tree.

The Lowdown: You can spare yourself two hours of Jennifer Garner grimacing by watching the trailer, as it covers nearly every significant story beat.

Whether serving God or Mammon, it’s no miracle that TriStar Pictures, along with Sony’s evangelical marketing and distribution arm, have gone back to the formulaic font of faith-based funds from whence sprang Heaven is for Real (2014). With Miracles, we have yet another rote melodrama, also based on a true story, capitalizing on the same built-in market of true believers as the previous film. However, this film propagates its faith-conquers-all message from a slightly different angle, with a different cast and with two entirely different words in the title.

Clearly innovation in Christian cinema has not yet passed into the afterlife.

It should not come as a shock that the producers responsible for Heaven is for Real, Joe Roth and televangelist T. D. Jakes, would hope to follow up their prior success with a film in precisely the same vein. The only surprise here is that the film seems so at odds with itself, as though it were having its own internal crisis of faith about what sort of movie it is supposed to be.

Miracles has already grossed its budget according to weekend ticket sales, albeit thanks in part to a Wednesday release, practically ensuring the revisitation of its formula in months and years to come. That the film will most assuredly be bumped out of the top three by Batman v. Superman next weekend does little to bolster my faith in any chance of not having to sit through another film of its ilk.

While the target demographic for this film may be appeased by its saccharine sentimentality alone, Miracles ultimately fails as a narrative on the basis of its tonal dissonance, styleless direction and abominable script.

The premise plays like Cronenbergian body-horror aimed at helicopter parents, at least until the third act is subsumed in more traditional biblethumpery. Moreover, it is in this third act that the script sells its characters short, as the titular divine intervention robs them all of a character arc that might be completed through their own volition. For a film based on living people, the characterization is shockingly thin, and as with last year’s 90 Minutes in Heaven, showing footage of the real-life family in question as the credits roll does nothing to mediate this shortcoming.

The cast must be on the outs with the almighty, as no one is given anything interesting to do here. The Beam daughters are paint-by-number caricatures of female youth, depicted by child actresses dragging each others’ performances down with mutually assured ineptitude, Queen Latifah is utterly wasted in this film’s subtle variation on Spike Lee’s “Magical Negro,” and Martin Henderson seems overwhelmingly content to play his one-note cornpone Texas dad with no sense of selfawareness. Jennifer Garner glowers competently, but that’s really all the creative freedom the role allows her over nearly two hours. The most egregious offender in the cast would have to be the tree into which Anna Beam (Kylie Rogers) falls, which looks like it was sculpted by an eighth-grade drama club. I refer to the tree as a cast member, because its performance is no

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THE AT E R LISTINGS Friday, march 25 Thursday, march 31 Due to possible scheduling changes, moviegoers may want to confirm showtimes with theaters.

Asheville Pizza & Brewing Co. (254-1281) Star Wars: The Force Awakens (PG-13) 12:00, 3:30, 7:00, 10:15

Carmike Cinema 10 (298-4452) Carolina Cinemas (274-9500) 10 Cloverfield Lane (PG-13) 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice 3D (PG-13) 1:30, 4:45, 8:00, 11:15 Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice 2D (PG-13) 11:30, 12:30, 2:45, 3:45, 6:00, 7:00, 9:15, 10:15 Deadpool (R) 12:05, 2:40, 5:05, 7:40, 10:25 The Divergent Series: Allegiant (PG-13) 11:05, 12:15, 1:50, 3:00, 4:35, 5:45, 7:20, 8:30, 10:05, 11:15 Hello, My Name Is Doris (R) 11:55, 2:10, 4:20, 7:15, 9:25 The Lady in the Van (PG-13) 11:35, 1:55, 4:25, 6:55, 9:35 London Has Fallen (R) 10:20 Miracles from Heaven (PG) 11:25, 2:00, 4:35, 7:10, 9:45 My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 (PG-13) 12:20, 2:35, 4:50, 7:05, 9:20 Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (R) 2:20, 7:25 The Witch (R) 11:50, 4:55, 10:10 Zootopia 2D (PG) 11:20, 12:50, 2:05, 3:25, 4:40, 6:00, 7:35, 8:35

Co-ed Cinema Brevard (883-2200) The Young Messiah (PG-13) 1:00, 4:00, 7:00

Epic of Hendersonville (6931146) Fine Arts Theatre (232-1536) Embrace of the Serpent (NR) 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, Late Show Fri-Sat 9:40 Hello, My Name Is Doris (R) 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, Late Show Fri-Sat 9:15

Flatrock Cinema (697-2463) (R) My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 (PG-13) 4:00, 7:00 (Closed Monday)

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more wooden than any other actor featured herein, even if it can’t be bothered to act much like an actual tree in its pivotal scene.

That the sanctimony-shilling Sony subsidiary tasked with selling Miracles from Heaven is called Affirm Pictures should provide some indication of the intention behind the products they push; these films are designed to corroborate the world-view of an evangelical audience, not to win new converts or entertain the uncommitted. I’m beginning to wonder if there is some nefarious script-generating algorithm out there that simply plugs the word “Heaven” into a title with a rotating repertoire of characters based on the statistical mean of the middle-American religious bellcurve. If not, perhaps I’ve just been graced with the secret to selling a screenplay or two every year. Rated PG for thematic material, including accident and medical images.

Playing at Carmike 10, Carolina Cinemas, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande.

The Divergent Series: Allegiant Part 1 S dirEctor: Robert Schwentke (Insurgent) PlayErs: Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Naomi Watts, Jeff Daniels, Miles Teller dystoPian tEEn action Rated PG-13 thE story: Traveling through a post-apocalyptic wasteland, our heroine Tris discovers more about the dystopian world she lives in.

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thE lowdown: More self-serious, noisy, sci-fi nonsense, only with no proper ending and more big-name cast members wasted.

Allegiant, or The Divergent Series: Allegiant, or The Divergent Series: Allegiant — Part 1 (depending on where you look) is the almost-climax to that sad dystopian teen series that’s not The Hunger Games. Based on Veronica Roth’s YA books, the series started with Divergent (2014), was followed by Insurgent (2015) and will end with — thanks to the HarryPotter-style money grab of splitting the final book into two films — Ascendant, or The Divergent Series: Ascendant, or The Divergent Series: Allegiant — Part 2, again, depending on where you look. I bring this up because there’s no reason a bunch of movies this listless should be this damn complicated.

The great failing of this franchise is believing that it’s much more heady than it actually is. Taking a lot of ideas from Kurt Vonnegut, Philip K. Dick and the Wachowskis (among many other sci-fi stalwarts) without building on them in any real thoughtful way does not make your film intelligent. Playing every scene with the utmost gravity, when your real appeal involves things exploding and hunky beefcake dudes, is a grave miscalculation, one that severely damages every film in this series.

But no one is able to stop it now — there’s no turning back. Instead, there’s this incredibly superfluous, consistently underwhelming — both financially and creatively — series of films that honestly feel like they may never end.

Allegiant is no different from the rest of the films in the Divergent franchise. Our heroine, Tris (Shailene Woodley, thankfully shorn of the mom hair in the last film), and her beefy manbro, Four (Theo James, who looks like someone drew James Franco’s face on a thumb), set out to learn more about the secretive, hierarchical society they exist within.

The film is split into two narratives — a small blessing since it thankfully keeps the film moving along. Tris meets the stodgy bureaucrat David (a wasted Jeff Daniels) and learns more about her genetic history, something that allows Allegiant to pontificate on social stratification in a wholly dull, monotonous fashion. At the same time, Four and his mother (Naomi Watts) — who wants to wage war in rundown Chicago — match wits.

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The basic tenants of cinematic storytelling are disposed of in exchange for a whole lot of explaining and loud noises. The film has low expectations for its audience’s ability to understand subtlety, so it does away with it entirely. A dumb movie — with its half-baked thoughts on the human condition — that thinks it’s smart enough to talk down to its audience is a bad combination. That there’s only one more of these things left is a small consolation. Rated PG-13 for intense violence and action, thematic elements and some partial nudity.

Playing at Carolina Cinemas, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande, UA Beaucatcher. reviewed by Justin souther Jsouther@mountainx.Com

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by Wiswell • The 2016 Fly Fishing Film Tour makes a stop at Highland Brewing Co. on Thursday, March 24. The 10th annual tour features nine films with footage from across the globe of notable characters, intriguing storylines and elite fishing adventures. Subjects include the hunt for the world’s largest brook trout, the pursuit of billfish on the fly, giant pike, nimble golden dorado, fearsome giant trevally and incredibly strong British Columbia steelhead.

A pre-party with gifts, live entertainment and food available from local food trucks begins at 5:30 p.m., and the show begins at 7:30 p.m.

Tickets are $13 and may be purchased in advance at Hunter Banks Fly Fishing. If space remains the night of the event, tickets will be $15 at the door. Proceeds from the event benefit the environmental and conservation projects of the Land O’ Sky Trout Unlimited Chapter throughout the region. flyfilmtour.com • Asheville Brewing Co. hosts a pair of 25th anniversary screenings of The Silence of the Lambs on Thursday, March 24, at 7 and 10 p.m. Directed

by Jonathan Demme, the adaptation of Thomas Harris’ novel was only the third film to win the “Big Five” Academy Awards, taking home Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (Anthony Hopkins), Best Actress (Jodie Foster) and Best Adapted Screenplay (Ted Tally). Tickets are

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The program is ideal for teenagers. Students will direct, shoot and edit a short three- to five-minute script of the group’s choosing, gain experience in filmmaking through professional guidance and the use of high-quality equipment and learn about the numerous career opportunities available in the film industry. The course costs $275 and includes access to all equipment. ashevilleschooloffilm.com X

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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Summer (according to the studios) arrives this week with the Next Big Thing — Batman (Ben Affleck) and Superman (Henry Cavill) punching the crap out each other in “visionary director” Zack Snyder’s superhero grudge match. Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot) is somehow involved, since the whole thing is meant to lead to her own movie and a Justice League of America extension of the brand.

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My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 Considering that Nia Varadalos’ career following the first film didn’t do much, producer-pals Tom Hanks and Ruth Wilson have allowed her to create a sequel 14 years after the fact. Everyone is back — older, but presumably doing all those things that made the original an incomprehensible hit. (PG-13)

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direCtor: Henry Koster Players: Deanna Durbin, Robert Stack, Eugene Pallette, Helen Parrish, Leatrice Joy, Kathleen Howard musiCal Comedy romanCe Rated NR The name Deanna Durbin may not be immediately familiar to today’s audiences, but she practically carried Universal Pictures single-handedly between 1936 and 1941 — and she remained one of their biggest stars until she retired from movies in 1949. She had an operatic voice and was that rarest of things: a completely appealing and noncloying child star. First Love was a huge deal in 1939, presenting Durbin in her first adult role and getting her first screen kiss, from newcomer Robert Stack. It also turned out to be one of her best — possibly the very best — films. The story is a modern variant on Cinderella told in terms of a screwball romantic comedy. And it’s amazingly adept at being a screwball comedy while being

almost giddily romantic, striking just the right note in both capacities. Perhaps no child star ever made such a seamless transition to adult movies, but then Durbin was no ordinary child star. It helped immensely that Universal surrounded her with seasoned players who knew the ropes when it came to comedy, especially Eugene Pallette, who had played a similar role to the one he has here in My Man Godfrey (1936). Also on hand is the great Kathleen Howard — a former opera star best known to movie fans as W.C. Fields’ loud and domineering wife in It’s a Gift (1934) and The Man on the Flying Trapeze (1935) — as Durbin’s sharp-tongued but sympathetic music professor. If you’ve never seen a Deanna Durbin movie, there’s no better place to start. The Asheville Film Society will screen first love Tuesday, March 29, at 8 p.m. in Theater Six at The Carolina Asheville, hosted by Xpress movie critic Ken Hanke.

Simon of the Desert HHHHH direCtor: Luis Buñuel Players: Claudio Brook, Silvia Pinal, Enrique Alvarez Félix, Hortensia Santoveña, Jesus Fernandez surrealist allegoriCal Comedy-drama Rated NR What once made Luis Buñuel’s Simon of the Desert (1965) a favorite of university film classes — its 45-minute running time being perfect for one class session — has since conspired to make it one of the filmmaker’s more obscure works. After all, 45 minutes is an awkward fit for just about anything other than a classroom.

That’s unfortunate, because this singular story of Simon Stylite (Claudio Brook), the fifth-century Christian ascetic who spent a large portion of his life communing with God from atop a pillar, is one of Buñuel’s richest and most complex films. The film that we have — the final one Buñuel made in Mexico — isn’t quite the film the director intended. This was to have been a more elaborate

feature, but when the money ran out during production, Buñuel was forced to end the movie in a rather abrupt manner. For some people, this ending doesn’t work — I’ve never subscribed to that view. To me, it feels like Buñuel’s period piece was deliberately blindsided by the “swinging 1960s.” What started out as a playful rumination on religion became a comment on modern times, complete with the implication that what was happening wasn’t just outside the realm of Simon, but also outside the comprehension of the Beat Generation. In any case, it is what we have — however, you feel about it. Classic World Cinema by Courtyard Gallery will present simon of the desert Friday, March 25, at 8 p.m. at Phil Mechanic Studios, 109 Roberts St., River Arts District (upstairs in the Railroad Library). Info: 828-273-3332, www.ashevillecourtyard.com

The Ghost of Frankenstein HHHH direCtor: Erle C. Kenton Players: Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Ralph Bellamy, Lionel Atwill, Bela Lugosi, Evelyn Ankers, Lon Chaney Jr. horror Rated NR In what is perhaps the greatest line of ballyhoo ever penned, the trailer for Erle C. Kenton’s The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942) assures us, “Here is drama completely strange!” Unfortunately, there’s not much all that strange about it — unless you’ve never seen a Frankenstein movie. This is the movie where the once-great series dropped into the realm of the B picture, but it’s a solid little B movie and the last of the Universal Frankensteins that can be taken reasonably seriously. It picks up where Son of Frankenstein (1939) leaves off — but with some notsubtle rewritings. Ygor (Bela Lugosi) has somehow recovered from being pumped full of lead in the previous film. The boiling sulfur pit the Monster fell into has inexplicably hardened over. The happy villagers at the end of the preceding film have gotten all grumpy and torch-happy, as villagers in these movies are wont to do,

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and decide that dynamiting the castle — which has inexplicably changed dramatically from the expressionist oddity of Son — will set things to rights. Well, what it really does is free the Monster from the dried sulfur (where he somehow got a different jacket and turned into Lon Chaney) so that he and Ygor can wander off to Vasaria and get Frankenstein’s heretofore unmentioned other son, Ludwig (Sir Cedric Hardwicke), to fix up the rundown Monster.

Naturally, things don’t go quite as planned, and mayhem, murder, duplicity and brain-swapping follow. But it’s agreeable enough, thanks to solid production values, Lugosi’s amusingly wicked Ygor, Chaney’s interesting take on the Monster, and the terrific Hans J. Salter music. Just don’t expect the brilliance of the two James Whale films or the scope of Son of Frankenstein. The Thursday Horror Picture Show will screen Ghost of frankenstein Thursday, March 24, at 8 p.m. in Theater Six at The Carolina Asheville, hosted

by Xpress movie critics Ken Hanke and Scott Douglas.

MARKETPLACE REAL E S TAT E | R E N TA L S | R OOM M ATES | SERV ICES | JOB S | A N N OU N CEMENTS | M I ND, BO DY, SPI R I T CL AS S E S & W OR K S HOP S | M U S I CIA N S’ SERV ICES | PETS | A U TOMOTIV E | X C HANG E | ADULT Want to advertise in Marketplace? 828-251-1333 x111 tnavaille@mountainx.com • mountainx.com/classifieds If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Remember the Russian proverb: “Doveryai, no proveryai,” trust but verify. When answering classified ads, always err on the side of caution. Especially beware of any party asking you to give them financial or identification information. The Mountain Xpress cannot be responsible for ensuring that each advertising client is legitimate. Please report scams to ads@mountainx.com RENTALS COMMERCIAL/ BUSINESS RENTALS SMOOTHIE/ JUICE/ COFFEE BAR SPACE FOR RENT 325 SQ FT inside existing Nature's Vitamins and Herbs at 752 Biltmore Ave. in Asheville. Excellent start up opportunity. Call Bill or Mike at 828-251-0094 UNIQUE WAYNESVILLE DOWNTOWN SPACE Above Beverly-Hanks Realtors at 74 N Main. Impressive open 3rd floor of 4000+ sqft., high ceiling, wonderful natural light, separate HVAC, elevator from entrance on Wall St. Many uses: storage/office/showroom but ideal for loft apartment. Available soon, but view now to see if it fits your needs.

Bill: 828-216-6066.

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EMPLOYMENT GENERAL CLEANING SERVICE HIRING IMMEDIATELY Locally owned cleaning service hiring. Part & full time. We service vacation homes in and around the Asheville area. Flexible hours & great pay. Send reply to ecocleanofasheville@gmail. com.

GHOST TOUR GUIDE Seeking paranormal enthusiast, with excellent storytelling and customer service skills; Non-Driving Position; Seasonal Part-Time; Evenings; 1-3 days a week; www.GrayLineAsheville.com; Jonathan@GrayLineAsheville. com LANDSCAPERS NEEDED Landscape Maintenance Crew members.

Arden/Asheville.

Year round positions for the right people. Fast paced, high quality maintenance (O turn mowing, Line Trimming, Pruning) - Experience preferred, good attitude considered.

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SKILLED LABOR/ TRADES ACCESS CONTROLS SUPERVISOR Warren Wilson College is recruiting for an Access Controls Supervisor. This position oversees the master key system matrix, provides locksmith services for the campus, oversees the card key access program and maintenance of door hardware and locks (electronic and manual) for buildings and structures on campus. Additionally, the supervisor provides guidance and leadership

to work crews. Requirements include an Associate’s degree of Science in Integrated Technologies or related degree, Bachelor’s degree preferred.

Candidate must have a minimum of seven years of directly related experience and hold a current NC Locksmith License.

Electronic Access Control Certification is also preferred. To learn more, visit http://www. warren-wilson.edu/about/hr/ employment-opportunities.

To apply, submit a resume, cover letter, and three professional references to hr@warren-wilson.edu.

ASHEVILLE AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY SEEKS FT CONSTRUCTION MANAGER Must have experience in construction management, land acquisition and development, and be a Licensed NC General Contractor or a current qualifier. Competitive salary and benefits. Complete details at ashevillehabitat.org/about/ employment. EOE AUTOMOTIVE TECHNICIAN For auto dealership. Applicant must have a background in auto mechanics, be reliable, a self-starter and multi-tasker.

Position is part-time, MondayFriday, with the possibility for advancement to full time.

Applicant must have their own tools, a valid NC Driver’s License, be 19 years or older and provide references.

A background check will be done on all applicants. Call 828-707-0513 for more information or apply in person at 1473 Patton Avenue.

ELECTRICAL CREW SUPERVISOR Warren Wilson College is recruiting for an Assistant Supervisor of Electrical Services. This position is responsible for planning, supervising, and coordinating repairs and installation of telephone, fire alarm, direct digital control, card access controls and VOIP systems, and appliances.

This position is second in command for electrical services on campus, including supervision and training of a student work crew. Candidates must have at least three years’ electrical experience, a valid NC Driver's license, previous supervision experience, and hold or obtain an NC Electrical Contractor’s License within one year. Bachelor’s degree preferred. To learn more, visit http://www. warren-wilson.edu/about/hr/ employment-opportunities.

To apply, submit a resume, cover letter and three professional references to hr@warren-wilson.edu MANNA FOODBANK IS SEEKING A FT VOLUNTEER PROJECT ASSOCIATE The Volunteer Project Associate will train and oversee individuals and groups in the inspection, sorting, repacking and boxing of products to be distributed to our partner agencies in Western North Carolina. This position is responsible for safe product movement within the warehouse and other outside special projects and events. This position is responsible for adhering to

AIB standards as well as standards set by Feeding America and MANNA FoodBank. This is a very hands-on, physical position working alongside our volunteers. Qualified candidates should possess - • High school diploma or equivalent • Valid Driver's License • Prior experience or proven ability to direct others in achieving the goals of the day-to-day operations. • Outstanding customer service abilities and a positive attitude. • Comfortable in speaking in front of large groups and enjoys working with people. • Prior experience working in a warehouse or with warehouse equipment is preferred. • Knowledge of food bank operations is a plus. Visit www. mannafoodbank.org/careers/ to view full job description and application process.

ADMINISTRATIVE/ OFFICE ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT Full-time, telecommute, flexible hours. Description: Oversee content development (articles, videos, etc.), research/ acquire effective inbound links.

Help us develop strategies for digital marketing, generate reports. Qualifications: good PC skills, superb grammar, creative, ability to follow directions.

Net Site Marketing – Since 1996. Resume to: careers@ netsitemarketing.com www.netsitemarketing.com FULL-TIME OPERATIONS ADMINISTRATOR For Presbyterian church in Asheville.

Description: Administer overall operations of church facilities; perform other organizational roles as defined. Qualifications: Excellent communication and organizational skills, Outstanding knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel and Publisher; 2 years’ experience working in administration or office environment. Email resume to: resumes@gcpcusa.org

INFORMATION CENTER ASSISTANT A-B Tech is seeking a part-time Information Center Assistant to provide customer service in an inbound/outbound call center environment supporting students over the phone. For more details go to www.abtech.edu/jobs

SALES/ MARKETING AUTO SALES PROFESSIONAL Sales person needed for auto dealership. No experience is required for this fulltime position, we will provide training. Candidate should enjoy interacting with clients, be motivated as well as a selfstarter, have a positive attitude as well as being a team player.

Position requires attention to detail, willingness to learn, problem solving and the ability

to multi-task. Must be able to work Saturdays, possess a valid NC Driver’s License, be 19 years or older and provide references. A back ground check will be done on all applicants. Call 828-7070513 for more information or apply in person at 1473 Patton Avenue.

RESTAURANT/ FOOD APOLLO FLAME • WAITSTAFF Full-time. Fast, friendly, fun atmosphere. • Experience required. • Must be 18 years old. • Apply in person between 2pm-4pm, 485 Hendersonville Road. 274-3582.

LINE COOK - SIERRA NEVADA BREWING CO. Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.’s Taproom & Restaurant has an opening for an experienced full-time Line Cook. Please visit our website: http://www.sierranevada. com/careers to learn more and apply!

Applications accepted until midnight Pacific Time on April 8, 2016.

DRIVERS/ DELIVERY TROLLEY TOUR GUIDES If you are a "people person," love Asheville, have a valid Commercial Driver's License (CDL) and clean driving record you could be a great TOUR GUIDE! FULL-TIME and seasonal part-time positions now available. Training provided. Contact us today! www.GrayLineAsheville.com; Info@GrayLineAsheville.com; 828-251-8687.

equivalent. Medical Assistance certification is strongly considered. Bilingual Spanish preferred. This is a 9-month grant-funded position that will end in January 2017. If you are interested in this opportunity, please submit your resume to: hr@ccwnc.org or fax to: 828348-2757 and reference Job Code: CHW.

level Licensed Professional.

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RHA HEALTH SERVICES Is seeking qualified applicants for its new Behavioral Health Urgent Care in Asheville. Resumes are accepted for the following positions: Registered Nurses to work shifts from 8am-8pm on Saturdays and 8pm-8am Thursdays through Sundays; LCSWs or LCASs to work shifts 12pm12am Fridays and Saturdays and flexible Sundays. • Please send your resume to candace.burton@rhanet.org and kengels@rhanet.org

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FULL-TIME AND PART-TIME RESIDENTIAL COUNSELORS Eliada Homes is looking for caring, patient individuals who are motivated to work with children and teens. Positions are considered entry level. Working as a team and the ability to handle a high pressure environment are essential. Previous experience working with children preferred.

New counselors are required to complete two weeks of paid training and observation including First Aid/CPR and de-escalation techniques. To apply visit www.eliada.org/employment/ current-openings

$2000 SIGN ON BONUS RHA Health Services is accepting applications for its Intensive In-Home Team Leader opening in its Madison County location. Eligible candidates must be at least an Associate

HELPMATE SEEKS INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE HEALTHCARE PROJECT MANAGER Helpmate, a domestic violence agency in Asheville NC, seeks an Intimate Partner Violence

Healthcare Project Manager.

Strong communication, organizational, and time management skills required. This position will coordinate the efforts of a county-wide advisory council working under a federal grant award. Key responsibilities include: meeting facilitation, organizing training events, data collection, and stakeholder communication. Candidates must have a Bachelor’s degree and 2 yrs experience with domestic violence victim advocacy, public health or related work.

Helpmate is an EOE. Fluency in Spanish, Russian, Moldovan or Ukrainian is incentivized. Email resume and cover letter by 5pm on March 31 to helpmateasheville@gmail. com. Please specify the title of the position you are seeking in the subject line of your email. No phone calls or email inquiries, please. www.helpmateonline.org MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELOR Mental Health Counselor (LCSW/LPC) with Substance Abuse Credentials (CSAC/LCAS) "Established Counseling Center seeking licensed therapist looking to establish private practice.

While building your client base, you'll be conducting Assessments and leading groups. Experience and work background in substance abuse highly desired. Please contact Bruce directly at (828) 777-3755 and email resume to trcbruce@gmail.com

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CONTROLLER A-B Tech is seeking full-time Controller, for our Business and Finance Department. Position plans, manages and directs the activities related to financial reporting, general ledger systems and general ledger training.

For more details and to apply: www.abtech.edu/jobs IRL PROGRAM DIRECTOR, ASHEVILLE CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ACSF is seeking a program director to lead In Real Life (IRL), the largest after-school program for

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MEDICAL/ HEALTH CARE A NEW HOPE HOME CARE - CNAS, LPNS, RNS A New Hope Home Care is hiring CNAs, LPNs, and RNs to work with our growing family of pediatric and adult clients.

If you are a CNA, LPN, or RN looking for rewarding work that makes a daily impact on another's life, please contact us today. 828-255-4446 or info@ anewhopehomecare.com www.anewhopehomecare. com COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKER Community Care of Western North Carolina is looking for a Community Health Worker. Nine month contract of employment in a medical or community-based setting, providing direct services to patients or clients is required.

Dependable transportation, a good driving record, valid automobile insurance and a valid NC drivers’ license is required.

Knowledge of community services and resources, both medical and social, favorably considered. Comfort with computer software such as Microsoft Office preferred.

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Fully-licensed North Carolina Clinical Social Workers MBHS is partnering with Mission Hospital in Macon County to provide brief MH assessments, interventions and services in a family practice setting.

This unique opportunity will place the LCSW in a traditional primary care setting with regular business hours.

Meridian offers a wide array of benefits: Health • Life • Dental • Vision • Retirement • Paid Time Off Cell Phone Stipend • Paid Holidays Salary range starts at $42K

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aries (march 21-april 19): When Orville and Wilbur Wright were kids, their father gave them a toy helicopter powered by a rubber band. The year was 1878. Twenty-five years later, the brothers became the first humans to sail above the earth in a flying machine.

They testified that the toy helicopter had been a key inspiration as they worked to develop their pioneering invention. In the spirit of the Wright Brothers' magic seed, Aries, I invite you to revive your connection to a seminal influence from your past. The coming weeks will be a favorable time to feed a dream that was foreshadowed in you a long time ago. taurus (april 20-may 20): "The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly," said Russian writer Anton Chekhov.

Whether or not you're a writer, Taurus, that is also your special task in the coming weeks. The riddle that has begun to captivate your imagination is not yet ripe enough for you to work on in earnest. It has not been defined with sufficient clarity. Luckily, you have the resources you need to research all the contingencies, and you have the acuity to come up with a set of empowering questions.

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gemini (may 21-June 20): The good news is that if you eat enormous amounts of chocolate, you will boost your memory. Science has proved it. The bad news is that in order to get the full effect of the memory enhancement, you would have to consume so much chocolate that you would get sick. I propose that we consider this scenario as a metaphor for what may be going on in your life. Is it possible you're doing things that are healthy for you in one way but that diminish you in another? Or are you perhaps getting or doing too much of a good thing -- going to unbalanced extremes as you pursue a worthy goal? Now is a favorable time to figure out if you're engaged in such behavior, and to change it if you are.

CanCer (June 21-July 22): When the young director Richard Lester got his big break, he took full advantage. It happened in 1964, when the early Beatles asked him to do their first movie, A Hard Day's Night. Lester's innovative approach to the project propelled his career to a higher level that brought him many further opportunities. Writing of Lester's readiness, critic Alexander Walker said, "No filmmaker . . . appeared more punctually when his hour struck."

That's what I hope you will soon be doing in your own chosen field, Cancerian. Do you understand how important it will be to have impeccable timing? No procrastination or hemming and hawing, please. Be crisply proactive. leo (July 23-aug. 22): As a young man, the poet Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) left his home in France and settled in Abyssinia, which these days is known as Ethiopia. "I sought voyages," he wrote, "to disperse the enchantments that had colonized my mind."

You might want to consider a similar strategy in the coming weeks, Leo. From an astrological perspective, it's going to be an excellent time both to wander free of your usual haunts and to disperse the enchantments that have colonized your mind. Why not find ways to synergize these two opportunities? virgo (aug. 23-sept. 22): At one point in his life, author C. S. Lewis had a rude awakening as he took stock of the progress he thought he had been making.

"I am appalled to see how much of the change I thought I had undergone lately was only imaginary," he wrote. I want to make sure that something similar doesn't happen to you, Virgo. You're in the midst of what should be a Golden Age of Self-Transformation.

Make sure you're actually doing the work that you imagine you're doing -- and not just talking about it and thinking about it. libra (sept. 23-oct. 22): "There are questions that you don't ask because you're afraid of the answers," wrote Agatha Christie. I would add that there are

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also questions you don't ask because you mistakenly think you already know the answers. And then there are questions you don't ask because their answers would burst your beloved illusions, which you'd rather preserve. I'm here to urge you to risk posing all these types of questions, Libra. I think you're strong enough and smart enough, and in just the right ways, to deal constructively with the answers. I'm not saying you'll be pleased with everything you find out. But you will ultimately be glad you finally made the inquiries. sCorPio (oct. 23-nov. 21): If you are enmeshed in a jumble that makes you squirm or if you are caught in a tangle that stifles your self-love, you have three choices. Here's how Eckhart Tolle defines them: 1.

Get out of the situation. 2. Transform the situation.

3. Completely accept the situation. Does that sound reasonable, Scorpio? I hope so, because the time has come to act. Don't wait to make your decision. Do it soon. After that, there will be no whining allowed. You can no longer indulge in excuses. You must accept the consequences. On the bright side, imagine the new freedom and power you will have at your disposal. sagittarius (nov. 22-dec. 21): Here's a proposed experiment. Sidle up to a creature you'd love to be closer to, and softly sing the following lyrics: "Come with me, go with me. Burn with me, glow with me.

Sleep with me, wake with me." At this point, run three circles around the creature as you flap your arms like a birds' wings. Then continue your singing: "Rise with me, fall with me. Work with me, play with me. Pray with me, sin with me." At this point, leap up into the air three times, unleashing a burst of laughter each time you hit the ground. Continue singing: "Let me get high with you. Laugh with you, cry with you. Make me your partner in crime." At this point blow three kisses toward the creature, then run away. (P.S. The lyrics I'm quoting here were composed by songwriter Fran Landesman.)

CaPriCorn (dec. 22-Jan. 19): In getting energy from food, we humans have at our disposal over 50,000 edible plants. And yet we choose to concentrate on just a few. Wheat, corn, rice, and potatoes make up two-thirds of our diet, and 11 other staples comprise most of the rest. Let's use this as a metaphor for the kind of behavior you should avoid in the coming weeks. I think it will be crucial for you to draw physical, emotional, and spiritual sustenance from a relatively wide variety of sources. There's nothing wrong with your usual providers, but for now you need to expand your approach to getting the nurturing you need. aquarius (Jan. 20-feb. 18): "We teach each other how to live." Poet Anne Michaels said that, and now I'm passing it on to you -- just in time for the phase of your cycle when acting like a curious student is your sacred duty and your best gift to yourself. I don't necessarily mean that you should take a workshop or enroll in a school. Your task is to presume that everyone you meet and every encounter you have may bring you rich learning experiences. If you're willing to go as far as I hope you will, even your dreams at night will be opportunities to get further educated.

Even your vigils in front of the TV. Even your trips to the convenience store to buy ice cream.

PisCes (feb. 19-march 20): In her poem "Time," Piscean poet Lia Purpura wonders about "not picking up a penny because it's only a little luck." Presumably she is referring to a moment when you're walking down a street and you spy an almost-but-not-quiteworthless coin lying on the concrete. She theorizes that you may just leave it there. It adds next to nothing to your wealth, right? Which suggests that it also doesn't have much value as a symbol of good fortune. But I urge you to reject this line of thought in the coming weeks, Pisces. In my astrological opinion, you'll be wise to capitalize on the smallest opportunities. There will be plenty of them, and they will add up.

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TECHNICAL LAB MANAGER AND LAB TECHS NEEDED Technical Lab Manager needed for ISO 17025 level testing facility in Brevard, NC. Several lab tech/production assistant positions are also available. Visit www.earthrenewable.com/ jobs for more information.

TEACHING/ EDUCATION ELEMENTARY TEACHER ArtSpace Charter School, a K-8 public school located in Asheville, North Carolina is seeking a full-time Elementary Teacher beginning August, 2016.​​•​Applicants​must​have​a​ current North Carolina teaching license in Elementary Education. Previous experience as a lead teacher is highly preferred. Candidate must be willing to work in a collaborative, integrated, experiential environment. Knowledge of the arts and arts integration strategies is preferred, but not​ required.​ •​ Please​ send​ resumes and cover letters to: resumes@artspacecharter.org with the subject heading “Elementary Teacher”.

MATHEMATICS TEACHER WANTED The Academy at Trails Carolina, a year-round experiential and adventure based therapeutic boarding school for boys grades 9-12 based in Henderson County North Carolina, is seeking a Licensed Mathematics Teacher to join its faculty. Interested applicants should email copies of their resume, NC teaching license, 3 letters of reference, and any pertinent wilderness certifications (WFR, CPR, etc.) to nduncan@trailsacademy. com. www.trailsacademy.com

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES PAID IN ADVANCE! Make $1000/week mailing brochures from home! No experience required. Helping home workers since 2001! Genuine opportunity. Start immediately! www.TheIncomeHub.com (AAN CAN).

ARTS/MEDIA EDITOR AND SOCIAL MEDIA SPECIALIST, THE AMERICAN CHESTNUT FOUNDATION The Editor and Social Media Specialist will be responsible for the production of TACF’s primary outreach publication, producing a monthly electronic newsletter, and maintaining TACF’s social media presence. The complete job description can be viewed at www.acf.org/jobs.php.

To apply, send a resume, references, and portfolio examples to ruth.goodridge@acf.org.

FEMALE VOCALIST FOR HIRE Female Studio Vocalist for Hire. One Song. $100.00 828-595-0717

GRAPHIC DESIGNER NEEDED Highly skilled designer needed for page layout and creating compelling advertising, The ideal candidate has excellent graphic design and layout skills for print publication, has experience working with style guides and adhering to brand structures, understands project management, can thrive in a fast-paced environment, is exceptionally organized and deadline-driven, and has excellent communication skills, strong attention to detail, an exceptional creative eye and a desire to ensure high quality output.

You must have the proven ability to create original, effective advertising and marketing materials, and to assist in the layout of our weekly print publication and guides.

Candidates​ must:​ •​ Be​ able to simultaneously handle multiple projects •​ Be​ proficient​ in​ Adobe​ CSC programs (inducing, InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, and Acrobat) •​ Be​ able​ to​ prepress​ and​ troubleshoot a variety of file types and to work interdepartmentally to organize, schedule and maintain workflows.

•​ Be​ fluent​ in​ the​ Mac OSX platform •​Be​able​to​interface​with​other​ departments in the company.

•​Have​a​minimum​of​2-3​years​ graphic design experience Newspaper, web-ad design and management experience a plus.

This is a full time seasonal position with potential for permanent employment.

Email cover letter explaining why you believe you are a good fit, your resume, and either a URL or PDF of your design portfolio to: design@mountainx. com. No applications or portfolios by mail, and no phone calls or walk-ins, please.

CAREER TRAINING AIRLINE CAREERS BEGIN HERE Get started by training as a FAA certified Aviation Technician. Financial aid for qualified students. Job placement assistance. Call Aviation Institute of Maintenance 800725-1563 (AAN CAN)

RETAIL SITE MANAGER - BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY VISITOR CENTER Non-profit retail sales.

This position is 5 days per week from Mar.-Nov. with a reduced schedule Dec-Feb. To find out more and apply online visit: easternnational.org

XCHANGE AUCTIONS ONLINE AUCTION TO SUPPORT LOCAL FAMILY AFFECTED BY CANCER Help Holly Heal is an organization founded in October 2015 to help Holly McHone and her family battle Colorectal Cancer. Missed work, co-pays and other costs (gas, childcare, etc.) have placed a burden on this local family. A silent auction will be held online starting May 1st and lasting until June 15th at www.32auctions. com/helphollyheal. All proceeds will be donated to the family of Holly McHone.

Donated items are currently being accepted. Contact Carla at (828)989-6908 or at helphollyheal@gmail.com to donate items for the auction. Current auction features include: * Wooden Adirondack Chair handmade by One

Legged Chairs. *$50.00 Gift certificate to Burlap Boutique. *3 x $100.00 gift certificates to Blue Ridge Taekwondo.

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YARD SALES CASH & CARRY MOVING SALE! Saturday, March 26th 9am-1pm. Beautiful Furniture, Original Paintings, Unique items! Woodberry Apts., 10 Alexander Dr., Unit 813, Asheville, NC 28801

SERVICES FINANCIAL ARE YOU IN BIG TROUBLE WITH THE IRS? Stop wage and bank levies, liens and audits, unfiled tax returns, payroll issues, and resolve tax debt Fast. Call 844-753-1317 (AAN CAN)

HOME IMPROVEMENT HANDY MAN HIRE A HUSBAND • HANDYMAN SERVICES Since 1993.

Multiple skill sets. Reliable, trustworthy, quality results. $1 million liability insurance. References and estimates available. Stephen Houpis, (828) 280-2254.

ANNOUNCEMENTS ANNOUNCEMENTS A-1 DONATE YOUR CAR FOR BREAST CANCER! Help United Breast Foundation education, prevention, and support programs. Fast free pickup, 24 hour response, tax deduction. 855-403-0215 (AAN CAN) PREGNANT? THINKING OF ADOPTION? Talk with caring agency specializing in matching Birthmothers with Families Nationwide. Living Expenses Paid. Call 24/7 Abby’s One True Gift Adoptions. 866413-6293. Void in Illinois/New Mexico/Indiana (AAN CAN) STRUGGLING WITH DRUGS OR ALCOHOL? Addicted to Pills? Talk to someone who cares. Call The Addiction Hope & Help Line for a free assessment.

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LEGAL NOTICES NOTICE OF SOLICITATION The Mountain Area Workforce Development Board is seeking proposals for the operation of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) NC Works Career Centers for Program Year 2016 located in Buncombe, Henderson, Madison and Transylvania Counties.

Request for Proposal (RFP) packages will be available for distribution at a Bidders Conference to be held at 9:30 a.m., Thursday, April 4, 2016 at the Land of Sky Regional Council offices located at 339 New Leicester Highway, Suite 140, Asheville, NC 28806. RFP’s may also be requested by emailing nathan@ landofsky.org no later than 4:00 p.m. Thursday, April 4, 2016.

The completed bid packages must be returned to the above address no later than 4:00 p.m., Monday, April 29, 2016. Late submittals will not be accepted.

QUITCLAIM DEED On March 08, 2016 THE GRANTOR(S), MARIO- ELLIOT: STOVER, a single person, for and in consideration of: One Dollar ($1.00) and/or other good and valuable consideration conveys, releases and quitclaims to the GRANTEE(S): MarioElliot: Stover, a single person, residing at 218 FAYETTEVILLE STREET, ASHEVILLE, North Carolina County, North Carolina 28806 the following described real estate, situated in ASHEVILLE, in the County of North Carolina, State of North Carolina: Legal Description: Single Family Residence: Sub Name Pearson Park: Sub Lot 4: Neighborhood Code R4FC: Township 06: Acreage 0.1: Class 100: Street Type (St.) A map showing the property is recorded in Plat Book 0009, Page 0035, North Carolina County. Derivation: This property was acquired by GLADYS STOVER by a Purchase, dated October 16, 1984 and recorded with the Buncombe recorder, in Book 1369, Page 0602, Buncombe County. MARIOELLIOT: STOVER does hereby convey, release and quitclaim all of the MARIO-ELLIOT: STOVER rights, title, and interest in and to the above described property and premises to the Mario-Elliot: Stover, and to the Mario-Elliot: Stover heirs and assigns forever, so that neither MARIO-ELLIOT: STOVER nor MARIO-ELLIOT: STOVER heirs, legal representatives or assigns shall have, claim or demand any right or title to the property, premises, or appurtenances, or any part thereof. Tax Parcel Number: 963847757500000.

LOST & FOUND FOUND • PURPLE BICYCLE Small, light purple bicycle, one speed, possibly kid's bike, by the train tracks in the Asheville River Arts district. Please call 828-337-0700 to claim it.

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