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FEATURES NEWS

8 LOCALS FIRST Some Asheville businesses prioritize community over tourists

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12 POLLUTION HUNT Enhanced French Broad monitoring highlights water safety issues

18 ‘WITH CONSPICUOUS SUCCESS’ The city hires its first Black police officers, 1946

22 HEALTH ROUNDUP MAHEC sees uptick in antibody infusion treatments

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26 TRENDING Nina Simone’s legacy and influence continue to inspire

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22 WELLNESS 24 ARTS & CULTURE 34 CLUBLAND

28 WHAT’S IN A NAME? New book by local author pairs WNC history with vintage postcards

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OPINION

Send your letters to the editor to letters@mountainx.com.

HAVE YOU EVER DONE ANYTHING ADVENTUROUS?

The big picture of being priced out of Asheville As a longtime (23 years) city of Asheville resident who finally threw in the towel and is in the process of moving, I appreciate your running letters in recent months from longtime residents expressing dismay over the changes Asheville has been undergoing in recent years. Not that any of the developers or monied millennials and retirees who have completely and irrevocably altered the area’s character will either notice or care.

The “housing boom” that has upended Asheville is the inevitable outcome of the same economic policies that have created historically unprecedented income inequality in this country — specifically the relentless tax cuts granted the rich since 1980. The people who have taken over Asheville — the slim and silver-haired retirees and their skinny-jeaned and tastefully tattooed millennial children — are, by and large, the generally oblivious beneficiaries of the giveaways begun under Reagan and either upheld or exacerbated by every subsequent president.

There are today over 20 million millionaires in the United States, representing over 10% of U.S. households, according to Credit Suisse. The overwhelming percentage of these mostly nouveau millionaires “earn” their money via financial transactions, a process I’ve seen described as “sleep capital.”

(The rich get richer without doing anything at all except being rich.)

While it’s no consolation to the priced-out (like me), it is worth noting that what is happening to Asheville is happening everywhere in the U.S. that is — or at least was until recently — desirable. An opinion piece in The New York Times on July 13 — “Here’s Who Will Be Left Behind in the Housing Boom” — sums things up pretty well. (Spoiler alert: The answer to the question is everyone who’s not already rich.)

— Don Howland ex-West Asheville

Xpress is looking for true stories of how our readers have shaken things up here in WNC — anything from a hair-raising camping trip to a daring new career path, pursuit or project.

C A RT O O N B Y R AN DY M O L T O N I must take issue, however, with the screaming cover headline, “Out-oftowners …” That phrase is blamed for housing, traffic, education, hotels, the homeless, the price of golf and other recreation, and on and on and on.

Please remember, unless you are of Cherokee descent, everyone here at one time was an “out-of-towner.”

That phrase leads to contentious, unproductive conversations. It is a convenient excuse to not tackle whatever is in front of us. How long has the “future I-26” signage been here? How much longer will it be here? And, yes, I am an “out-of-towner,” twice.

— Les Vann Asheville

Who has seniority in Asheville area?

I am writing about the cover of the July 21 issue, which I think is

funny and was wondering if that was ever different when this area was booming [“Money Moves: Out-oftowners Drive Housing Price Surge,” Xpress]. When investors came, and Biltmore was built back in the day, was that any different than today?

A bit off topic, but I also have a hard time to see the point of people complaining about the change that the influx of people bring and call upon their seniority. Who has seniority? You lived here X amount of years? You were born here? Your parents were born here? You are Native Americans? The ones before the Native Americans?

Everyone or their ancestors came here from somewhere and brought change to this area. Change is constant, and it did not start nor will stop with the change each of us who live or lived here brought to this area.

— Jan Lange Candler

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‘Out-of-towners’ label leads nowhere Thank you for your coverage of the continuing problem of housing affordability and the current price surge in Asheville [“On Demand: Out-of-town Interest Drives Local Real Estate Market,” July 21, Xpress]. The piece was factual and thought-provoking.

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Send your letters to the editor to letters@mountainx.com.

Who needs education on police interaction?

I was left dumbfounded by a letter to the editor last week in which the author opposes teaching police critical race theory, preferring instead that children simply be taught “police are not their enemy unless they are doing something illegal” [“Youths Need Education on Interacting With Police,” July 28, Xpress]. As someone who works with children, I would like to highlight some elements of human nature that prove such a solution to be myopic and ineffective.

All children are raised within a certain sphere of norms and thus imprinted with an acceptance that those norms encompass all reality.

Many privileged children are raised learning that speeding is OK as long as you don’t go too fast or get caught.

They have probably witnessed their parents check a text while driving or have one too many before getting behind a wheel. Yet still, the fear of police is beyond their scope.

Children of undocumented immigrants, on the other hand, witness a deep fear of the police in the adults in their lives and probably know from a very young age that the only option for them is to run if an officer enters their life for any reason.

Likewise, many underprivileged children live in homes where the presence of police only means bad news. Police take away their family members and friends. Sure, a law must have been broken, or money owed or a court date missed, but again, the events and actions leading to an arrest are all within the realm of “normal” for the children.

Now before we judge the families of these kids, claiming they should know better, might I remind that everyone breaks some law(s) to a degree that is in line with its sphere of norms. So, to just teach kids to trust officers, to not panic and to not break laws blatantly ignores how children learn to define and navigate reality. Sure, we can add that to our school programs, but the kids who will learn to trust cops and not panic are the ones who are already in line to do so.

It seems that the author, probably of no fault of their own, didn’t even begin to fathom that children of different populations may experience reality differently. That they may react differently if facing the pressure of a police encounter. This inability to instantly know the other side of things isn’t limited to folks who write letters to the Xpress but is present everywhere. Knowledge of this naiveté and how it shapes 4

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our actions is at the center of critical race theory. And who to better teach than the officers who, upon responding with wisdom and understanding, could improve community safety and still “go home to their own families, too.”

— Kat Taylor Black Mountain

Excellent care and professional service from Mission Hospital I recently had an outpatient hernia surgery followed by an unexpected return to the emergency room, both occurring at Mission Hospital. During my time there, I was in contact with about two dozen people, from the person at checkin to my surgeon, all with varying degrees of skills.

From each person, I received excellent care and was treated with respect and dignity, and it was refreshing to be with professionals doing their work to the best of their capabilities. I was quickly able to relax with confidence that my comfort and the success of the surgery were of paramount importance to everyone involved.

Despite the transitional hardships inherent in changes as large as what Mission Hospital has been experiencing, I found no evidence of any impact “on the street” where the care is given, and we are very fortunate to have the professional staff currently working at Mission. I give them my sincerest thanks and highest recommendation.

— Chris Abell Asheville

A shoutout to leaders returning to in-person only meetings [Regarding “Local Governments Nix Remote Public Comment,” July 14, Xpress:] Here at Earthaven Ecovillage, we’ve had a similar experience since the pandemic brought Zoom participation into our Council meetings. For a while, (mostly elder) members were able to participate in a limited way in our biweekly meetings, which entailed a longer setup process for the (volunteer) meeting organizers, the inability of the Zoom participants to see (and sometimes hear well) the people in the Council circle, and a significant shift in the energy of the circle, which is quite personal and sometimes includes physical activities like standing and stretching together during a

CARTOON BY BRENT BROWN break in the agenda, as well as the opportunity to connect personally during breaks.

We also have decided to discontinue regular virtual participation in meetings unless someone is ill or traveling and has a decisive role to play in that meeting’s agenda content. Similarly, those who feel “shut out” are unhappy and, because of how decisions are made, probably are going to have to flow with the restored “live” attendance policy unless they want to spend a lot of time arguing their points.

Why has this become important to us out here, and how much of that is similar to what motivates county officials to raise their bar again? We are more than simply thinking beings!

What we do and decide, what we express, listen to and engage with in our meetings involves more than our thinking apparatuses, even if we tend to ignore these other human and psychic gifts. We are hearts and bodies, spirits too, and all those functions, whether we map them much in our minutes or not, play into who we are as a group, what we decide to do together and why.

Making decisions about our future from only a mental (in this case, left-brained) viewpoint is a hazard of limited connection. When people are not in the same physical

space, experiencing all the facial expressions, body postures and subtle tones of voice that others in the room are privy to, we don’t have a level playing field. At Earthaven, we don’t want a community that functions at that minimal level, and maybe the county doesn’t want that or the other complications virtual meetings bring, either.

This is a shoutout to those who have the courage to set the bar in the county to real — if not explicit — multilevel communication between citizens that affects the development of their crucial procedures: thank you! It’s also a reminder, to those who were enjoying remote participation, that their access to input has not been excised, only their ability to respond in the moment.

That’s some kind of limitation, but compared to the impact on the intention to run things as humanly (as opposed to technologically) as possible, it just doesn’t measure up out here or, apparently, in there.

I’m not sure if members of the local government are aware of the losses and dilutions technological communication, no matter how useful, is costing, but their decision to hold this line is encouraging to those of us who do see the dangers of those impacts.

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Through a glass darkly

Secrecy surrounding Pratt & Whitney deal raises critical issues

BY CYNTHIA HEIL

As many know, Pratt & Whitney, a Raytheon Technologies subsidiary, has been courted by Biltmore Farms as well as state and local governments to build a plant in Buncombe County on Biltmore Farms property that was “sold” for $1. In addition, the developer is building a bridge across the French Broad River, from N.C. 191 to the plant site. The western end of the bridge is adjacent to The N.C. Arboretum and Blue Ridge Parkway entrances. The company is also seeking to have a new interchange built on Interstate 26 to improve access to the plant site.

My reason for writing is not to ask Mountain Xpress to investigate whatever environmental impacts this may create at the site or to inform the paper that the future occupant is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of weapons and

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weapons delivery systems. I am sure Xpress writers and editors are quite aware of how much the U.S. Department of Defense and the wars it wages contribute to climate change. Neither am I writing to ask the paper to investigate the moral and ethical aspects of bringing a weapons manufacturer to the Asheville area, nor to inform Xpress about the people this particular weapons manufacturer is laying off in other states in order to close plants and move to North Carolina, a so-called “right-towork” state.

Rather, my reason for writing is to request that Mountain Xpress investigate the cumbersome, secretive processes involved in this deal. A story in the Hendersonville Lightning some months ago revealed that this deal had been in the works for over a year before the public was even made aware of

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it. Reject Raytheon Asheville members have been advised by several Buncombe County commissioners that board members had to sign nondisclosure agreements and were not, themselves, made aware of what the deal was until the 11th hour. In addition, a state legislator told us off the record that state law supports keeping local officials out of the loop about such deals.

Taken together, these facts raise a number of significant questions: 1) Does this mean the county commissioners were dealing in the dark, even down to the $27 million tax incentive package they gave Pratt & Whitney, a $20 billion company? Did the commissioners explore the potential for other forms of county funding that might have benefited far more county residents?

2) The commissioners have already tossed in $5 million for a building at the plant site where A-B Tech will offer job training.

Now it seems the state may kick in another $5 million for the project.

Whatever happened to the days when employers took responsibility for training their employees themselves?

3) What happened to real capitalism — when someone scrimped and saved in order to build their own business, rather than seeking a government/taxpayer payout?

4) Reject Raytheon Asheville is grateful to those local elected officials at both the county and state levels who have met with us and given us some insight into the processes behind this deal, but many questions remain — including some that even they can’t answer. We have an immense amount of talent in our group, ranging from young adults in the Sunrise Movement to the elders from Veterans for Peace. Those younger members are completely on top of environmental/social/ economic/political issues; there are also retired career bureaucrats, engineers and executives, as well as teachers and college professors who conducted research for a living, but even they have found it nearly impossible to disentangle the labyrinth of permitting processes and Chamber of Commerce/ Economic Development Coalition tentacles in this deal because of

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“Does this mean the county commissioners were dealing in the dark?”

— Cynthia Heil the way everything has been buried. Why is that?

5) Bottom line, how much do the citizens/taxpayers/residents/voters whom elected officials are supposed to be representing in this and other such deals really matter when our hard-earned money is being given away to billionaires by those we entrusted with it? What are the environmental toxins associated with these projects likely to do to our future health and well-being?

6) Lastly, there are many who favor this deal and will, perhaps, want others like it because they are blinded, made giddy by the glitzy bling of jobs, and our elected officials want to make their constituents happy. To them, let me say that maybe this deal works for you, but what about the next one that might not work so well?

Don’t you want access to all the pertinent information? Don’t you want transparency?

Cynthia Heil is a retired federal noncriminal investigator who’s lived in Asheville for 21 years. For more background about the Pratt & Whitney project and Reject Raytheon Asheville, or to learn more about the group’s present and future plans, please check the group’s website at rejectraytheonavl.com and our Facebook, Instagram and Twitter pages under RejectRaytheonAVL. X

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NEWS

Locals first

Some Asheville businesses prioritize community over tourists

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EXCLUSIVE VIEW: Under Smoky Park Supper Club’s new membership model, only North Carolina residents and their invited guests are allowed to dine at the restaurant along the banks of the French Broad River. Photo by Cindy Kunst

BY BEN WILLIAMSON bdwilliamson1919@gmail.com The Smoky Park Supper Club boasts a front-row view of the French Broad River, a menu of wood-fired, farm-to-table cuisine — and as of July 8, far fewer tourists than other Asheville restaurants.

Following its recent conversion into a private, members-only club, only North Carolina residents and their invited guests are permitted to dine at the River Arts District eatery.

Smoky Park General Manager and co-owner Kristie Quinn acknowledges that the move voluntarily excludes a sizable percentage of her former customers: Since the restaurant’s opening in 2015, she estimates, about 40% of its clientele has been tourists. But she says the new membership-based model prioritizes local community and helps staff, operating at reduced levels due to the COVID-19 pandemic, better serve repeat customers.

“It allows us to provide a higher level of service. Both of our businesses are very relationship-based,

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and we host so many people as regulars, but also with birthday parties, engagements, weddings,” says Quinn, who also owns 5 Walnut Wine Bar in downtown Asheville.

“It’s hard when you see those people and you can’t take care of them because you don’t have a spot.”

The policy has raised eyebrows both inside and outside the service industry. Comments on Smoky Park’s Instagram and Facebook pages mostly support the decision, but many out-of-state patrons and even some locals have pledged to no longer support the business.

And the move flies against the marketing of Explore Asheville, which manages the occupancy tax collected by the Buncombe County Tourism Development Authority and describes Asheville as “one of the most welcoming, vibrant cities in America.”

IN THE CLUB

While Smoky Park’s policy may discriminate based on where some-

one lives, says attorney Derek Allen of the Asheville-based firm Allen Stahl + Kilbourne, it follows established state laws for private clubs.

“It is perfectly legal to have requirements for membership to a club, provided that the requirements do not discriminate based on any characteristics that are part of a ‘protected class,’” he explains. “Examples of protected classes include race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex and disability.”

Other membership-based entities such as country clubs, Allen continues, do employ residency requirements. But to Quinn’s knowledge, Smoky Park is the first restaurant to enact such a policy in North Carolina.

Quinn emphasizes that the restaurant has long focused on local community, noting how Smoky Park has opened its outdoor space to The Magnetic Theatre, yoga teachers and the Shelter Dog Transport Alliance. But she says the decision to adopt a membership model was also influenced by multiple negative interactions with tourists, which she claims prevented her staffers from

providing the best experiences they could for other patrons.

“If someone comes in and they are not your neighbor, and they don’t feel compelled to be part of the neighborhood, sometimes the behavior is not the best. We had that behavior,” Quinn says. “We want to have a business that we’re proud of and where everyone wants to work together and enjoy what they do.

If you come to work every day and people feel like they have the ability to abuse you, I can’t get behind that.”

Some in Asheville’s hospitality industry are wary of placing the blame for staff abuse squarely on the shoulders of nonlocals. “I think it’s a big mistake to target our visitors with being the bad guys,” says Executive Director Jane Anderson of the Asheville Independent Restaurant Association, which represents over 130 locally owned eateries.

Anderson suggests that North Carolina’s COVID-19 policies, which she says were stricter than those of neighboring states, led both locals and tourists to act out against service workers. “People trying to enforce the governor’s guidelines put up with a lot of baloney. Can we say they were all from out of state?

Absolutely not,” she says. “North Carolina doesn’t have the market cornered on being kind and decent and treating others with respect.

People here are people, too.”

Regarding Smoky Park specifically, Anderson doesn’t see the restaurant’s approach as heralding a larger turn away from tourists. “[Smoky Park] has a right to do what they see fit to do. I think they are also addressing the challenge of limited capacity due to the fact that our restaurants can’t hire the amount of staff that we need,” she says.

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When asked if tourism leaders have concerns about Smoky Park’s policy or are aware of other businesses taking a locals-only stance, Explore Asheville spokesperson Kathi Peterson says she has “not heard from other local businesses concerned about or limiting their services to only certain guests.

Explore Asheville and the BCTDA respect the rights of business owners to make decisions they feel are important to their success and within their own unique circumstances.”

But while Smoky Park may be the only area restaurant to explicitly bar out-of-state residents, other Asheville establishments are positioning themselves as locally focused in more subtle ways. “We purposely don’t have a website and don’t have a phone,” says Amber Arthur, owner of Olde London Road. The soccer bar, previously located downtown, also moved to the River Arts District during the COVID-19 pandemic to better serve locals.

At least 90% of the pub’s business is local, Arthur says, and the results of that patron mix have been positive. “Everyone who comes in here knows each other. As staff, you get to know your customers, know their names and what they like to drink.

The business and employees are making almost 100% more [revenue] than when we were downtown,” she says. “We have a more consistent clientele, are busier Tuesday to Thursday, and locals tip infinitely better than tourists.”

Like Smoky Park, Olde London Road operates as a private club, but

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WHERE EVERYBODY KNOWS YOUR NAME: At least 90% of patrons at Olde London Road are local, estimates owner Amber Arthur, allowing the soccer bar’s staff and clientele to develop stronger relationships. Photo courtesy of Arthur tourists from out of state are permitted to buy memberships. However, some strategic policies keep local access at the forefront. For the bar’s biggest events, like July’s Euro 2020 soccer tournament watch parties, $5 advance tickets must be bought in person (with ticket revenues donated to local nonprofits).

“We’re not hating on tourists,” Arthur says, adding that visitors who do make their way to the space to watch games are often excited to find an authentic soccer bar. But as a private club, the bar can ask tourists to leave to preserve the experience for other patrons.“If a big group comes in that might cause a ruckus, we just let them know it’s a private bar [and restrict entry]. We like to keep the vibe the way it is,” she says.

And Brouwerïj Cursus Kĕ mē is hidden from tourists, literally, behind a nondescript, vine-covered gate. Visitors won’t even find a sign directing them around the gate to the brewery’s Thompson Street location, which reopens for on-site service Friday, Aug. 6. Jeff Horner,

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owner and brewer, says that’s all part of the plan.

“We’re an organically grown business trying to build community. Part of that is having a strong, loyal following with folks that live around the brewery,” Horner says.

The taproom, which opened in 2018, does attract some persistent tourists, but Horner prioritizes relationship-building with local customers.

Cursus Kĕmē’s clandestine location and word-of-mouth marketing may restrict revenue — the BCTDA notes that 4.2 million visitors spent $2.2 billion at local businesses in 2019 — but Horner claims there are other benefits. “I didn’t start this project to flip it and see it go through the roof. My kids play down here every day. It’s a family affair and experience for the locals,” he explains. “They know when they come down to Cursus, they’re not going to be sitting between two bridesmaids’ parties. It’s rewarding for me personally that our patrons are our friends. My employees feel the same way.” X

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GREEN SCENE

Pollution hunt

Enhanced French Broad monitoring highlights water safety issues

BY CARMELA CARUSO

group to investigate problem areas and identify sewer leaks.

Stormwater runoff from farmland is the biggest source of E. coli in the French Broad. Education and funding are available to farmers through the state’s Soil and Water Conservation Districts, Agriculture Cost Share Program and Agricultural Water Resource Assistance Program.

Structures such as fencing to keep cattle away from streams, and buffers that keep runoff out of creeks, can help reduce pollution levels. Demand for such assistance far exceeds availability, however, and MountainTrue is pushing for increased funding for these programs, which the group’s website says “could drastically reduce bacterial pollution in WNC waters.”

Ann Marie Traylor, executive director of the Black Mountain-based Environmental Quality Institute, stresses that these programs are there to assist, not punish, farmers. “They’re working without passing blame or imposing fines,” she explains.

carmela.caruso@yahoo.com “As busy as it gets” is what Google Maps has to say about Hominy Creek River Park, a popular launch point on the French Broad River. On the first Saturday of summer, cars line the road for a half mile on either side.

People slather on sunblock and push off from the sandy shore in inner tubes, kayaks, canoes and paddleboards. Tubers drift downstream at a lazy pace while the hot sun glints across the murky green-brown water.

A few swimmers submerge themselves to cool off, perhaps unaware or unconcerned that this particular stretch of river has failed to meet the Environmental Protection Agency’s standard for E. coli bacteria, even though that ranking is readily accessible via Swim Guide. The online resource partners with affiliated nonprofits and governments to provide free water quality information about beaches, lakes and streams around the world.

One of those affiliates is French Broad Riverkeeper Hartwell Carson of MountainTrue. Between Memorial Day and Labor Day, the nonprofit’s staff conducts weekly E. coli testing at 41 sites in the French Broad watershed. The samples are collected on Wednesday, and the results are published on Swim Guide and on the U.S. Geological Survey’s National Water Information System website.

But as Carson explains, “Statistics can change, potentially dramatically, whether it’s through the rains or some pollution source,” placing possibly significant limits on the data’s usefulness at any given moment. E. coli is found in the feces of warm-blooded animals,

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IN THE BAG: MountainTrue regularly samples 41 sites across the French Broad River watershed for E. coli. Photo courtesy of Hartwell Carson including humans, and high levels can pose health risks for swimmers.

The local nonprofit is working to remedy that lack. A $25,670 grant from The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina is helping MountainTrue continue testing begun last year; eventually, the group wants to be able to give rivergoers up-to-theminute information about E. coli levels.

“The only thing better than what we’re currently doing,” says Carson, “is to set up a correlation between something you can measure in real time and E. coli, which requires an 18- to 24-hour processing time.”

The group hopes that turbidity, the amount of cloudiness and sediment in the water, might prove to be an accurate predictor of E. coli levels, but it’s too soon to tell. The current system uses seven strategically placed gauges that provide turbidity readings every 15 minutes. Besides providing recreational river users with more up-todate information, the testing gives MountainTrue a better sense of when and where the pollution is occurring.

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quality in the area for decades, wasn’t satisfied with simply knowing that the French Broad was polluted: It wanted to find out why. Thanks to a $100,000 grant from the N.C. General Assembly last year, MountainTrue has been able to conduct DNA analysis of water samples to determine the source of the bacteria. “What our sampling showed,” notes Carson, “is that it was largely from cow. Human definitely still was prevalent, but cow was the most predominant sample indicator we got.”

Human waste enters waterways via sewer overflows, which Carson says can be reduced by “upgrading infrastructure, improving pipe sizes, reducing leaks and reducing the ability for rainwater to get into the system.” The final report and recommendations from Asheville’s Stormwater Task Force, he says, should be coming to City Council soon.

In addition to DNA testing, the state grant enabled MountainTrue to begin infrared imaging of the Asheville and Hendersonville sewer systems.

Photos are taken at night in the winter, when the temperature differential makes sewage stand out against the colder river water, enabling the

TACKLING THE PROBLEMS

According to state Sen. Chuck Edwards, “The state is making monumental investments to improve soil and water quality.” He says that S105, the Senate version of the proposed state budget for the fiscal year that began July 1, would add “two full-time soil-and-water engineers,” one of whom would be “dedicated to the western region and based in Fletcher.” Permanent funding for recreational water testing would be transferred to the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality, which he hopes will provide “more consistent and reliable data.”

Edwards cautions, however, “The jury is still out on the feasibility of real-time bacteria reporting for a river that carries as much water as the French Broad, and at the rate it flows.” The Senate bill includes additional allocations for stream debris removal and water and sewer infrastructure. The state has been operating without a budget since July 1, when the new fiscal year began, and the House version is not expected until sometime in August.

A CHANGING CLIMATE

Meanwhile, MountainTrue has charted a dramatic shift in water safety levels over the past four years.

SNAPSHOT “We’re getting more, harder rain events, and all of our pollution is triggered by runoff.”

— French Broad Riverkeeper Hartwell Carson At Pearson Bridge, for example, river water met the EPA’s safe swimming threshold 81% of the time in 2016 but failed 81% of the time in 2020. New weather patterns driven by climate change, says Carson, are to blame.

“We’re getting more, harder rain events, and all of our pollution is triggered by runoff,” he explains. “If you have a dry year or a year where you get a normal amount of rain, you’re going to have less runoff, less pollution in the river and fewer sewer overflows. If you look at last year, there were a lot of really heavy, hard rain events that increased runoff.”

Still, the fact that there’s some level of pollution in river water doesn’t necessarily mean avoiding it altogether. “What we encourage folks to do,” Carson says about Swim Guide, “is to use it as a way to help them decide how they want to recreate and where. If one area is clean and one is dirty, then maybe they want to go paddle there, or maybe

they want to go canoeing instead of tubing.”

Away from urban centers, says Traylor, the region’s waterways tend to do a much better job of meeting the EQI’s Stream Monitoring Information Exchange standards.

“We’re fortunate in Western North Carolina to have protected national forest areas,” she points out, which results in less development, erosion and urban runoff. That undeveloped land, notes Traylor, also helps protect the headwaters, further boosting the overall quality of French Broad River water.

And with or without access to test results, she says, there’s a relatively easy way for those hoping to get out and play on the water this summer to make on-the-spot decisions about how to stay safe.

“Generally, if water looks muddy, if it looks curdled, I wouldn’t put my head under and I wouldn’t put any open wounds in.” X

SUMMER FUN: “I love capturing scenes in photos that depict beauty in its flawed, humble simplicity,” says photographer Nina Snoddy. The image, taken at the Asheville Outlets’ SummerFest Carnival on July 28, occurred after lingering clouds parted, allowing “the late afternoon sun to highlight the joy on the faces of the children riding the merry-go-round.” Often, Snoddy adds, “I look at my photos and learn so much about accepting what is, staying in the moment and appreciating the simple, transient stages of life.”

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Revised noise ordinance clears Council in 5-2 vote Members of Asheville City Council got an earful during their July 27 meeting as roughly 175 people representing Asheville’s music industry, neighborhood groups and others packed into the Harrah’s Cherokee Center - Asheville. Much of the crowd, one of the largest in recent memory, had come to weigh in as the governing body considered revisions to the city’s noise ordinance.

In a 5-2 vote, with members Kim Roney and Sage Turner opposed, Council approved new rules for commercial and residential noise complaints, including specific decibel levels for downtown, commercial areas and industrial districts. The decision brought a conclusion to a contentious process, stretching more than two years, that saw various community factions seek to redefine the ordinance, which was last updated in 2012.

The new rules will take effect Wednesday, Sept. 15. Decibels will be measured at the sound receiver’s property, and the effectiveness of the ordinance will be evaluated by a soon-to-be established noise advisory board.

New downtown sound limits start at 72 decibels during the day, with lower limits beginning at 11 p.m.

Those limits were recommended by city staff and mark a middle ground between those advocated by the Coalition of Asheville Neighborhoods, which pushed for a 65-decibel daytime limit, and those supported by Asheville Music Professionals, which favored a 75-decibel limit.

Outdoor music venues and other event organizers can apply for sound exceedance permits to allow as many as 30 events per year to be louder than those limits. Violations would

JAM SESSION: Roughly 175 people representing Asheville’s music industry, neighborhood groups and others packed into Harrah’s Cherokee Center – Asheville July 27 to weigh in as Asheville City Council considered revisions to the city’s noise ordinance. Photo by Stephen Evans primarily be reviewed by the city’s Development Services Department and punished through civil penalties.

The city’s Public Safety Committee, which consists of Vice Mayor Sheneika Smith and Council members Sandra Kilgore and Roney, voted unanimously to approve the 75-decibel daytime limit on June 1.

But of the three committee members, only Roney supported the higher decibel limits during the Council meeting.

Smith did not provide an explanation for her stance, while Kilgore said she had changed her opinion in light of months of data collection by city staff. That research, she suggested, had given staff more balanced insight into what limits were appropriate for the city.

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“If you look at what staff has put forward, it’s really not that much different than what [the] Public Safety [Committee] had decided earlier. You’re looking at 3 decibels,” she added.

Council members listened to more than an hour of public input as commenters debated how changes to the ordinance might impact the community and the city’s music industry. Musician and Asheville Downtown Commission board member Andrew Fletcher, who spoke on behalf of AMP, said imposing lower decibel limits would harm music professionals, which make up a significant portion of Asheville’s economy.

“The music and live events industries were the first to get hit by the pandemic and the last to come back.

We simply can’t survive another blow,” he said.

“Where is the evidence that 75 decibels is necessary for great music to be heard all around town?” countered Rick Freeman, president of CAN. Sources of sound other than music also drew concern. Kenilworth resident Julie Snyder noted how ongoing construction at Mission Hospital creates constant noise for the neighborhood’s residents, while speaker John Smith, who lives in a neighborhood near Planned Parenthood at 68 McDowell St., said that amplified anti-abortion protesters have become unbearable.

Several Council members, including Mayor Esther Manheimer, said that if aspects of the ordinance cause

unforeseen consequences, the city is prepared to reconsider the matter.

“I do think that this is going to be one of those things that we end up revisiting in six months and say, ‘We’ve got to tweak this, we’ve got to tweak that.’ I think that there’s going to be, unfortunately, things that can’t be addressed and we’ll have to continue to work through,” Manheimer said. “But I do appreciate the attempt to modernize our noise ordinance and adapt to who we are as Asheville today, because we’re very different than the last time that we adopted a noise ordinance.”

COUNCIL ALLOCATES $2 MILLION TO HOUSING FOR HOMELESS RESIDENTS

Council also approved using $2 million of the city’s $26.2 million in federal American Rescue Plan Act funds to help Homeward Bound of WNC purchase a Days Inn at 201 Tunnel Road. The nonprofit will convert the hotel into 85 units of permanent supportive housing for people experiencing homelessness in Asheville and the surrounding area.

Homeward Bound is also expected to receive $2 million in funding from both Buncombe County and the Dogwood Health Trust for the project. The organization anticipates closing on the property on or around Saturday, Aug. 14.

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Council debates COVID relief spending plans Getting money is one thing.

Spending it is another.

Members of Asheville City Council faced the latter challenge during a July 27 work session aimed at narrowing a list of priorities for spending roughly $26.2 million in federal funding from the American Rescue Plan Act, a COVID-19 relief package passed by Congress in March.

Patricia Rosenberg, the city’s internal auditor, explained to Council that the money could be spent on a range of uses, including COVID-19 mitigation and prevention, infrastructure, community investment, housing and crime prevention. But concerns quickly arose as Council members disagreed on what Asheville’s top priorities should be.

The discussion revolved around a list of 24 focus areas that had been assembled based on previous public input and ranked by city staff. Highest on staff’s list were affordable housing, public engagement, homelessness, public and mental health, small-business recovery and workforce development. The lowest-ranked items included arts, child care and environmental protection. Some potential funding categories, such as education, transit and rental assistance, were downgraded due to already receiving other coronavirus-related funds elsewhere, explained Rosenberg.

Council member Sandra Kilgore voiced a desire for more workforce education while arguing that the available money would not put a dent in Asheville’s affordable housing crisis. Vice Mayor Sheneika Smith disagreed with the low ranking for food security. Council member Kim Roney said cutting the list before the public could provide additional input would be premature.

ON THE MONEY: Patricia Rosenberg, the city’s internal auditor, explained to Council that the remaining federal funding from the American Rescue Plan Act could be spent on a range of uses, including COVID-19 mitigation and prevention, infrastructure, community investment, housing and crime prevention. Screen capture courtesy of the city of Asheville Council member Gwen Wisler also flagged the potential pitfalls of overlapping efforts with the county, which will receive nearly $51 million in ARPA funds. “You’ve got the county to do the same kinds of processes. … How are we going to coordinate all that funding to make sure we’re going to spread it out and make sure some people aren’t getting too much and others aren’t going to get left out?” she asked.

And Mayor Esther Manheimer noted that, while the money presents an opportunity for the city to delve into new projects, staff resources are limited. She suggested that the city may lack the ability to take on new types of projects by the end of 2024, the deadline for using the funds.

“I guess I just worry a little bit that it sounds like, ‘The world is your oyster.

Come up with all the bright ideas you

could possibly think of,’” Manheimer said. “But in reality, my understanding is that this funding needs to be spent within a certain amount of time. It’s not supposed to be a 10-year project.”

Around $3.85 million of the ARPA money has already been allocated to fund emergency noncongregate homeless shelters, support public restrooms and assist Homeward Bound of WNC in purchasing a hotel, which the nonprofit will convert into 85 units of permanent supportive housing for local people experiencing homelessness.

Another $2.75 million has tentatively been earmarked for administering the funds and replacing city parking revenue lost during the pandemic.

Council is also scheduled to vote on spending another $9.2 million to purchase another hotel and operate it as a low-barrier homeless shelter on

Tuesday, Aug. 24. Should that project be approved, roughly $10.45 million would be left for other initiatives.

After nearly two hours of discussion, Council made no decisions about how to allocate that remaining funding.

But City Manager Debra Campbell urged members to consider whether they would fund several small initiatives or create fewer, larger projects before their next discussion.

The next scheduled work session on the ARPA funding plans will take place at 2:30 p.m. Aug. 24 at Harrah’s Cherokee Center – Asheville, 87 Haywood St. After that session and input from the community, city staff members are expected to develop requests for proposals for specific projects, on which Council will ultimately vote.

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The authority’s board meetings, which pre-pandemic were frequently streamed and recorded by local governmental transparency project Sunshine Request, have been held virtually during the last year and a half due to COVID-19. The quasi-governmental body will continue to make its proceedings available via Zoom or another virtual platform, and recordings will be posted to the BCTDA’s website.

And unlike Asheville and Buncombe County governments, which ended the practice of live remote comment after their return to in-person meetings, the BCTDA will continue to allow members of the public to call

BACK IN ACTION: The Buncombe County Tourism Development Authority held its first in-person meeting in over a year on July 28. The authority plans to continue streaming its proceedings as well as taking remote public comment.

Photo by Max Hunt into live meetings to comment — an option that was not offered before the pandemic. In-person comment will also be accepted.

“We had a discussion at the board meeting last month that, as we returned to in-person meetings, there was a desire to keep the transparency and openness for virtual meetings. So the team worked on the operational logistics of that,” said Vic Isely, president and CEO of the Explore Asheville Convention and Visitors Bureau, which manages the county’s occupancy tax on behalf of the BCTDA. “This is our first meeting working in-person and virtual, so we’ll test the waters through this session and make adjustments accordingly.”

Members of the public wishing to call in their comments must sign up to speak no later than noon the day before the scheduled board meetings, which typically fall on the last Wednesday of each month, by emailing LiveComment@ExploreAsheville. com. Commenters can also speak in person if they sign up at the beginning of the meeting.

No members of the public signed up for either in-person or remote public comment during the July 28 meeting.

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BCTDA board after six years of service, including the past year as board chair. John Luckett, chief operating officer of the Grand Bohemian Hotel, will also leave the board at the end of August. Board member James Poole, who had represented the Foundry Hotel Asheville, resigned from his seat earlier this month after changing his role at the hotel.

All three of those seats are appointed by Asheville City Council, which plans to keep applications for new board members open until Monday, Aug. 9. Council will conduct interviews with potential candidates and select new members on Tuesday, Sept. 14.

Terms are also set to expire Tuesday, Aug. 31, for board members Gary Froeba, executive director at the Omni Grove Park Inn, and John McKibbon of McKibbon Hospitality.

Both positions are appointed by the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners. Applications for those seats are closed, and commissioners are expected to consider applicants and make appointments in a meeting on Tuesday, Aug. 24.

Kathleen Mosher, who works as the vice president of communications for The Biltmore Co., began her tenure as chair of the BCTDA board July 1. Brenda Durden, chief operating officer for the Asheville Hotel Group, took Froeba’s place as vice chair.

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Q&A with Demp Bradford, president of the Asheville Buncombe Regional Sports Commission Certain activities are closely associated with Asheville: sampling local craft brews, tubing down the French Broad River, eating one’s own weight in barbecue. If Demp Bradford, president of the Asheville Buncombe Regional Sports Commission, has his way, professional sports will become quintessentially Asheville, too.

Bradford, a native of the North Carolina Piedmont, became interested in sports management through an internship at the N.C. High School Athletic Association during his senior year at UNC Chapel Hill.

After 25 years working in various sports management roles, he joined the Asheville Buncombe Regional Sports Commission five years ago.

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county’s occupancy tax on behalf of the Buncombe County Tourism Development Authority.

Bradford spoke with Xpress about the relationship between sporting events and tourism in Asheville, the city’s newish LGBTQ sports league and who he’ll be rooting for during the Summer Olympics.

This interview has been condensed for length and lightly edited for clarity.

What does the Asheville Buncombe Regional Sports Commission do, exactly?

The sports commission was created in 2011 to service the Southern Conference basketball tournament.

The tournament was here for an extended period of time; it left, and the leaders of Asheville wanted it back. The sports commission was created to head up the local organizing committee, sell sponsorships, sell tickets, work with the arena, do the signage. From there, other events began to be recruited, and the staff expanded.

What originally brought you to Asheville?

I was in Greensboro for 16 years in three capacities, one of them the vice president of the Greensboro Sports Commission. When the opportunity came at the Asheville Buncombe Regional Sports Commission, I thought Asheville had a lot of potential.

What do you mean by that — “Asheville had a lot of potential?”

It’s a place people want to come to. With any sports, you have to have somewhere people want to go. I remember trying to sell in Greensboro sometimes and saying, “OK, we don’t have a beach. We don’t have a mountain. What are we going to sell?” A lot of times, it was the facilities. In Asheville, we’re selling a great opportunity to come to a beautiful community.

We are in a great location with Interstate 40 and Interstate 26 kind of intersecting here, within five hours of a lot of places. So we’re easily drivable.

Our airport has grown incredibly, and it’s very easy for people to get in and out. Our Harrah’s Cherokee Center – Asheville is a good venue. We also have a good venue at UNC Asheville.

We have soccer fields, baseball fields.

Do we have everything we need?

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No. If I could have an aquatic center tomorrow, a natatorium — that’s the biggest thing Asheville needs. But that hasn’t happened.

What impact do sporting events have on the local economy?

Let’s look at a small event — we just had a lacrosse tournament. Families are going to come into town, stay in the hotels, eat, need gas; they’re probably going to go to a grocery store, and they’re hopefully going to the Asheville Outlets. So they’re spending. The lacrosse tournament had an event value calculation, over two weeks, of over $3 million dollars for our local economy. Tourism creates a constant cash flow into our economy.

We also look for exposure events.

We were able to host the Maui Invitational [basketball tournament] here as a relocation. We’ve had two Fed Cups [tennis tournaments] here.

We had Serena and Venus Williams here during the 2018 Fed Cup. We’ve got a lot of notoriety in the past couple of years with what we’re hosting. And the Southern Conference is on ESPN, so people see it. It’s one of the first tickets punched for the NCAA tournament.

Which sport brings in the most visitors?

Soccer, and maybe baseball and softball, are our biggest draws. The other thing we are known for is basketball. When you look at what sports does, it fills some critical times where we don’t have guests in town.

The Southern Conference is the first weekend in March. A restaurant may not be open or have limited hours during that time. But when you have a basketball event in town, then all of a sudden your hotels are able to have higher occupancy and restaurants are fuller and open longer.

We have a very successful gymnastics tournament called The Gala. It is a great event for the first full weekend of January because things have slowed down after New Year’s. We don’t get a lot of snow here in Asheville, and that allows us to recruit events for winter.

Bringing events to town, especially in January, February and March, really helps our community in a time when it’s a little bit slower.

How many local sporting events do you attend every week? And do you play any sports yourself?

SPORTS CENTER: Demp Bradford, president of the Asheville Buncombe Regional Sports Commission, wants the city to be a sporting destination.

Photo courtesy of Bradford It fluctuates. On average, I’m probably at two sporting events a week.

But when we have events, the schedule is kind of crazy.

In fall 2019, we helped establish a chapter of the Stonewall Sports League here in town. It’s a national organization that focuses on providing safe spaces for the LGBTQ community and their allies — so you don’t have to be a member of the LGBTQ community — to go out and play sports. It’s fun to get out, meet different people and sometimes get the frustrations out by kicking a kickball. It’s the game I played in elementary school every day for physical education.

What Summer Olympic sport are you most excited to watch?

Swimming will be my main focus during the Olympics. And this is the Summer Olympics, so there won’t be any figure skating, but I was involved with bringing the U.S. Figure Skating Championships to Greensboro. It’s become one of those sports that I really like to watch. So Nathan Chen, who is an Olympian now, was 10 years old skating in a cowboy outfit in 2010 in Spokane, Wash. — he’s the first time I ever saw someone participate in figure skating. When the Winter Olympics come up, that’ll be the one.

It’s interesting to watch people grow up and become Olympians. You never know who’s going to be getting that gold medal later in life!

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‘With conspicuous success’ The city hires its first Black police officers, 1946

SAFETY PATROLS: Asheville police officer Gilbert Sligh poses with student safety patrols at Mountain Street School. Sligh was among the first Black officers to serve on the city’s police force. Photo courtesy of Special Collections, D.H. Ramsey Library, UNCA On Sept. 13, 1945, a group of citizens led by Eugene Smith, publisher of Asheville’s Black-owned newspaper The Southern News, addressed City Council. In the following day’s issue of The Asheville Citizen, the paper reported that Smith had proposed to the council “that the city of Asheville employ Negro policemen for the policing of the Negro section[.]” (The Southern News may have also reported on the event, but unfortunately, digital copies of the publication are not readily available online.)

Smith went on to point out to Council that “26 cities in the South and practically every city in North Carolina have tried out the plan with conspicuous success,” the paper wrote.

Mayor L. Lyons Lee informed Smith and his delegation that Council would take the matter under consideration.

Five months later, on Feb. 4, 1946, Chief of Police Charles W. Dermid announced the city’s plan to hire its first two Black officers: DeLaney A. Horne and Gilbert Sligh. In the following day’s paper, The Asheville Citizen reported that Horne currently worked as a teacher and coach in the city school system; meanwhile, Sligh was employed by the PublixBamford theaters.

“A recent report from the North Carolina League of municipalities shows that Negro policemen are being used with good results in Charlotte, which has 6; Greensboro, which has 4; High Point, which has two,” the article continued.

Interest in the topic continued in the Feb. 6, 1946, edition of The

Asheville Citizen. An editorial deemed it “a mature judgment,” on the part of city leaders and contended “that this decision will meet with wholehearted community approval.” Furthermore, the paper emphasized the shared role that both Black and white residents played in proposing the new hires.

“The innovation should make for greater efficiency in law enforcement and for better cooperation between the races,” the editorial concluded.

“Respect for law and order suffers collectively when in any single instance it deteriorates or is ignored. The City administration has made a wise move which is certain to yield permanent gain.”

Horne and Sligh officially donned their new uniforms on April 4, 1946.

Subsequent headlines over the new hires soon receded from print. Both men were occasionally noted for their involvement in arrests.

Of the two officers, Horne’s time with the force is less clear. Sligh, however, retired from the Asheville Police Department on Nov. 24, 1962, due to a back injury sustained on the job and other health-related issues.

In addition to his time with the police, Sligh was a World War II veteran who served as a corporal in the Army. He died May 5, 1972, from a heart attack at Oteen Hospital (today’s Charles George VA Medical Center). He was 60 years old. In his obituary, The Asheville Citizen noted that Sligh had been “one of Asheville’s first two black policemen.”

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Swinging the Pendulum: From Patriarchy to Empowerment Multi-medium exhibition featuring works of local artist Jenna Jaffe.

WE (8/4, 11), TH (8/5, 12), FR (8/6), SA (8/7), MO (8/9), TU (8/10), 9am, Free, The Refinery, 207 Coxe Ave Olympics-themed Art Exhibitions Three exhibitions drawn from the Museum’s Collection in conjunction with the 2021 Summer Olympics.

WE (8/4, 11), TH (8/5, 12), FR (8/6), SA (8/7), SU (8/8), MO (8/9), 11am, Asheville Art Museum, 2 S. Pack Square First Friday at Aurora Studio w/Kyley Shurrona Shurrona is the resident artist at Aurora Studio & Gallery and is the featured artist for August.

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SA (8/7), 4pm, Momentum On Broadway, 52 Broadway St The Nature of Summer Group art show featuring 21 artists.

TU (8/10), 11am, Asheville Gallery of Art, 82 Patton Ave Unearthing Our Forgotten Past Exhibit exploring the Spanish occupation of Fort San Juan and the native people who lived in the Joara area of WNC. Sponsored by the Western NC Historical Association.

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Thursday Night Live w/ Jeremy Loeb (piano) Durham native provides musical background as patrons stroll through the gallery.

TH (8/12), 6pm, Asheville Art Museum, 2 S. Pack Square

An in-person launch of the author's debut crime novel. Presented

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TH (8/12), 6pm, Bhramari Brewhouse, 101 S. Lexington Ave

SPOKEN & WRITTEN WORD

Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi Performed by the Janiec Opera Company of the Brevard Music Center.

Sung in Italian with English subtitles.

WE (8/4), TH (8/5), FR (8/6), 7:30pm, Brevard Music Center, 349 Andante Ln, Brevard

Malaprop's Book Club Participants will discuss While We've Still Got Feet, by David Budbill.

WE (8/4), 7pm, avl.mx/9s5 Crime and Politics Book Club Malaprop’s bookseller Patricia Furnish discusses a range of books across true crime and public affairs.

TH (8/5), 7pm, avl.mx/a3t In-store Signing with Ben Beard The author of The South Never Plays Itself will sign copies of his book.

SA (8/7), 1pm, Malaprop's Bookstore and Cafe, 55 Haywood St Malaprop's Mystery Book Club Participants will discuss These Women, by Ivy Pochoda.

MO (8/9), 7pm, avl.mx/7jn Miss Malaprop's Storytime Children's event.

Recommended for ages 3-9.

WE (8/11), 10am, avl.mx/a3s Steven Tingle presents Graveyard Fields

THEATER

The Magnetic Theatre presents Sketches! Or it Didn’t Happen Directed by Tom Chalmers, the comedy revue takes a look at the ups and downs of the new normal.

TH (8/5, 12), FR (8/6), SA (8/7), 7:30pm, $23, The Magnetic Theatre, 375 Depot St The Sword in the Stone Local production of King Arthur legend.

FR (8/6), 7:30pm, Free, Hazel Robinson Amphitheatre, 92 Gay St Magnetic in the (Smoky) Park Weekly outdoor variety show.

TU (8/10), 7pm, $15-18, Smoky Park Supper Club, 350 Riverside Dr

CLASSES, MEETINGS & EVENTS Ann Willoughby: What I Learned from Milton

Glaser Sponsored by American Institute of Graphic Arts Asheville.

WE (8/4), 6pm, $15-20, Highland Brewing Co., 12 Old Charlotte Hwy #200 Fairy Trail Stroll the Fairy Trail, which extends about 300 yards and includes tiny doors.

WE (8/4, 11), TH (8/5, 12), FR (8/6), SA (8/7), MO (8/9), TU (8/10), 9:30am, Bullington Gardens, 95 Upper Red Oak Trail, Hendersonville Laurel Chapter of the Embroiderers' Guild of America Meeting First of a two-part class on creating a felted wool needle keeper.

Contact Mary Ann Wyatt at 828-681-0572.

TH (8/5), 9:30am, Cummings United Methodist Church, 3 Banner Farm Rd, Horse Shoe Money Visioning & Goal Setting Focuses on creating realistic savings goals.

Presented by OnTrack Financial Education & Counseling.

TH (8/5), 5:30pm, Free, avl.mx/a34 Art Travels: Museum Of Bad Art Michael Frank, curatorin-chief of the Asheville Art Museum, introduces Boston's Museum of Bad Art and presents a selection of works from its collection.

TH (8/5), 7pm, $15-20, Registration required, avl.mx/a14 BMC-TV: A Multidisciplinary Community Art

Event & Screening Party Premier episode connecting area performers, musicians, artists and craftspeople. In-person and online.

TH (8/5), 7pm, Free, Black Mountain College Museum & Arts Center, 120 College St Sierra Club: Electric Vehicles – The Time is Now Dave Erb, automotive engineer and professor, discusses the electric vehicle market.

TH (8/5), 7pm, Registration required, avl.mx/a37 Arbor Evenings Stroll through the Arboretum’s gardens and experience the Wild Art outdoor sculpture showcase as live music plays.

TH (8/5, 12), FR (8/13), 5:30pm, Free-$16, NC Arboretum, 100 Frederick Law Olmsted Way Light Up the Night 5K Benefits the Western Carolina Rescue Ministries.

FR (8/6), 7pm, Registration required, Carrier Park, 220 Amboy Rd Slow Art Friday: Celebrating Olympians Doris Potash, master docent, will lead conversation about three artworks in the Asheville Art Museum's exhibitions Golden Hour and Artistic Tribute. Suggested donation for non-members.

FR (8/6), 12pm, $10, avl.mx/a15

Fun Friday for Families: Jewelry-Making Use a variety of materials to create jewelry.

FR (8/6), 1:30pm, Asheville Art Museum, 2 S. Pack Square Aurora Studio & Gallery's Fun on Friday Arts/fundraising activity for Asheville visitors.

To register, text Lori Greenberg at 828335-1038. Suggested donation.

FR (8/6), 2:30pm, $20, The Refinery, 207 Coxe Ave. Fridays at the Folk Art Center: A History of Appalachian Music A ranger leads a discussion of Appalachian folk music from the Cherokee through European and African immigration to the present.

FR (8/6), 7:30pm, Folk Art Center, MP 382, Blue Ridge Parkway Annual Sidewalk Yard Sale All sellers are welcome, by reservation only. Call Marion Business Association at 828-652-2215.

SA (8/7), 7:30am, $10, Marion Business Association, 58 Depot St, Marion WNCHA Outdoor Experiences: The Buncombe Turnpike Lauren May of the Vance Birthplace State Historic site leads a hike and shares the history of the turnpike.

SA (8/7), 10am, $10-20, Palmetto Trail, Anders Rd, Zirconia Back-to-School Day The conclusion of a four-week school supply drive, the event features a live remote with Ariel from Star 104.3.

SA (8/7), 11am,

Asheville Outlets, 800 Brevard Rd Online Baha'i Sunday Devotional A virtual gathering with readings, music, prayers and conversation. A Zoom link will be sent in advance to those who register.

SU (8/8), 10am, avl.mx/a4t Better Together Discussion Group Matthew Bacoat leads talk about Historic Asheville and the Black Community. Group meets the second and fourth Sundays of each month.

SU (8/8), 12:30pm, Center for Spiritual Living Asheville, 2 Science Mind Way Social Contract Bridge Group For more info, contact Stefano 727-481-8103.

MO (8/9), 12:30pm, Free, Senior Opportunity Center, 36 Grove St Appalachia's Emancipation Day Presentation on the history and evolution of East Tennessee emancipation celebrations.

Presented by the Swannanoa Valley Museum & History Center MO (8/9), 6:30pm, $8-12, Registration required, avl.mx/a5f Kids' Snorkeling in the Stream Class for ages 8–16. Call 828-877-4423.

TU (8/10), 9:30am, Registration required, Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education, 1401 Fish Hatchery Rd, Pisgah Forest WCCA Job Fair Western Carolina Community Action is

hiring early childhood education teachers in Henderson, Polk, Transylvania and Rutherford counties .

TU (8/10), 5-8:30p.m, Depot Railroad Avenue Park, 390 Railroad Ave, Brevard Introduction to Fly Fishing Class for ages 12 and older. Call 828-8774423.

WE (8/11), 9am, Registration required, Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education, 1401 Fish Hatchery Rd, Pisgah Forest PechaKucha Night Asheville V29: Craft Edition The Center for Craft has teamed with PechaKucha AVL to present a program centered on craft. Featuring performances produced by Asheville’s downtown arts nonprofits.

WE (8/11), 7pm, $10, Rabbit Rabbit, 75 Coxe Ave Friends of Polk County Public Libraries Last Chance Sidewalk Sale In the Community Room. 4 items for $1.

TH (8/12), 11am, Columbus Library, 1289 W. Mills St, Columbus Dwayne Patterson, director of N.C. Division of Parks and Recreation The Friends of Gorges State Park hosts event for public to learn about North Carolina state parks.

TH (8/12), 2:30pm, Transylvania County Library, 212 S. Gaston St, Brevard

Shiloh, Past and Present A discussion of Asheville’s historic Shiloh community.

Sponsored by Western North Carolina Historical Association.

TH (8/12), 6:30pm, $3-7, avl.mx/9yb

FOOD & BEER RAD Farmers Market Weekly farmers market featuring more than 30 local farmers, makers, bakers and craft artisans.

WE (8/4, 11), 3pm, Pleb Urban Winery, 289 Lyman St Flat Rock Farmers Market Weekly farmers market.

TH (8/5, 12), 3pm, Flat Rock Farmers Market, 1790 Greenville Hwy, Hendersonville Westside Creative Market Local handmade goods and artwork.

SA (8/7), 11am, Haywood Quick Stop, 495 Haywood Rd Jackson Arts Market Every Saturday through Dec. 18.

SA (8/7), 1pm, 533 W Main St, Sylva Meadow Market A rotation of local bakers, makers, and artisans.

SU (8/8), 12pm, Highland Brewing Co., 12 Old Charlotte Hwy #200 Les-ter Farmers Market Recruiting Leicester-area vendors for farmers market. Please contact lesterfarmersmarket@ gmail.com.

WE (8/11), 3:30pm, Leicester Community Center, 711 New Leicester Hwy, Leicester

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MAHEC sees uptick in antibody infusion treatments The Asheville-based Mountain Area Health Education Center has experienced an increase in patients receiving antibody infusion treatments — the antibody cocktail called REGEN-COV — in recent weeks.

During the week of July 19, the center’s infusion team served 21 people, says Keelan Dorn, a family medicine nurse practitioner at MAHEC. From January through April, she estimates that the health center performed 10-20 infusions per week, but only five infusions took place during all of June.

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STICK IT TO ME: Keelan Dorn, a family medicine nurse practitioner at MAHEC, says there has been an increase in COVID-19 patients receiving antibody infusion treatments. Photo courtesy of MAHEC MAHEC had initially offered infusions of bamlanivimab, a different monoclonal antibody produced by Eli Lilly and Co. Dorn says the center switched to REGEN-COV, produced

by Regeneron, in early July due to the medication’s greater effectiveness against the more transmissible delta coronavirus variant, which is predominant in North Carolina.

Unlike previous treatments, REGEN-COV can be used on people with asthma or high blood pressure over the age of 12 and people with a body mass index of over 25. “The criteria for infusion has changed, so we’re able to reach a broader patient base,” says Dorn.

The medication can prevent a mild case of the virus from becoming worse, Dorn continues. In a phase 3 outcomes trial, REGEN-COV reduced the risk of hospitalization in patients with mild to moderate COVID-19 symptoms by 70% and reduced the risk of death in that same group by 71% compared to a placebo, according to a March press release from Regeneron.

To be eligible for REGEN-COV treatment, patients must have been exposed to the coronavirus within the past 10 days; MAHEC recommends infusions be received as early in the illness as possible. “Usually during days six through 10 [of COVID-19], historically, the symptoms get a little worse,” Dorn explains. “If we can catch it early

and get patients infused earlier, there are generally better outcomes.”

For a patient to receive REGENCOV, a referring physician should fax the referral form located at www.

MAHEC.net/infusion with a copy of a positive COVID-19 test to 828-4072218. Under the federal CARES Act, the government is covering the cost of antibody infusions, and the medication is free for all regardless of insurance coverage. Dorn says the intravenous infusion, which is given in a tent on the MAHEC Biltmore campus, takes 20 minutes. Patients are monitored for one hour for side effects and then released.

AdventHealth Hendersonville, which previously provided REGENCOV in its emergency department, has since partnered with MAHEC to provide the treatment at its specially-designed facility, says spokesperson Victoria Dunkle. REGEN-COV is also offered at Harris Regional Hospital in Sylva, says CEO Steve Heatherly. Health care providers can call in a referral at 828-586-7988.

Pardee Hospital in Hendersonville is administering REGEN-COV in its emergency department, says Greg McCarty, department medical director. Providers can call 828-696-4270 to discuss eligibility for transfusions.

For more information about REGEN-COV treatment at MAHEC, call 828-589-9750.

NCDHHS expands COVID-19 wastewater monitoring The N.C. Department of Health and Human Services announced an expansion of its COVID-19 wastewater monitoring program on July 22.

The expansion increased the number of wastewater treatment plants across the state where samples are tested for the coronavirus from 10 to 19.

Among the newly added monitoring sites is the Buncombe County Metropolitan Sewerage District wastewater treatment plant in Woodfin, interim NCDHHS spokesperson Amy Dominello Braun told Xpress.

The monitoring program seeks to identify trends and locate areas where COVID-19 is spreading. These samples are tested for viral particles, which are shed through the stool of infected people.

NCDHHS and University of North Carolina researchers began testing wastewater in January as part of a larger surveillance program by the N.C. Wastewater Monitoring Network. Findings from the state COVID-19 wastewater monitoring program can be found at avl.mx/a2l.

Unvaccinated drive Buncombe COVID spread About 92% of new COVID-19 cases in Buncombe County are among

people who are unvaccinated, said Stacie Saunders, the county’s public health director, on July 21.

As of July 29, according to NCDHHS data, 52% of Buncombe County’s population is fully vaccinated, and 55% of the population is partially vaccinated. The county’s COVID-19 test positivity rate was 6.6%, up from less than 2% several weeks ago.

On the same date, North Carolina had a 9.3% test positivity rate and recorded 3,268 new cases of COVID19 as reported by NCDHHS.

Vaccination options • Buncombe County Health and Human Services administers the COVID-19 vaccine at Buncombe County Health Department, 40 Coxe Ave., Asheville. Walk-in vaccines are available between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m., Monday through Friday. Appointments can be scheduled online at www. buncombeready.org. Additional vaccine providers can be found by visiting https://covid19.ncdhhs. gov/vaccines.

• The NCDHHS has partnered with the Piedmont Triad Regional Council Area Agency on Aging to vaccinate residents across the state with limited mobility.

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Hardscrabble legacy

The Mountain Dance and Folk Festival celebrates its 94th year

BY EDWIN ARNAUDIN earnaudin@mountainx.com As the Mountain Dance and Folk Festival closes in on its 100th annual event, organizers mark the countdown with a giant, centrally located photo of founder Bascom Lamar Lunsford and a sign noting the shrinking number of years left until the centennial. In 2020, when the gathering shifted online to comply with restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, Lunsford’s visage appeared shrouded with a mask and the message, “See you in 2021!”

One year later, the celebration of Southern Appalachian music, dance and storytelling indeed returns to an in-person format, ThursdaySaturday, Aug. 5-7 at UNC Asheville’s Lipinsky Hall. And Lunsford’s uncovered face will be there to greet attendees as they stream into the auditorium.

BRINGING IT ALL BACK HOME Though Carol Peterson, co-vice chair of the nonprofit Folk Heritage Committee, is elated to resume traditional operations, she says it was important for her and fellow board members to adapt in 2020 — not merely to keep the festival’s streak going, but to maintain strong ties with its network of performers.

For the pivot, the FHC dug into its collection of archival footage and invited area musicians to submit video performances or record at Asheville’s First Baptist Church, which set up a pandemic-appropriate studio for the occasion. WWNC radio host John Roten emceed the three nights remotely, and the FHC

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SMILES FOR DAYS: After pivoting to a digital presentation in 2020, the Mountain Dance and Folk Festival returns to an in-person event for its 94th annual edition Aug. 5-7 at UNC Asheville’s Lipinsky Hall. Photo by Angela Wilhelm kept the performances online for two months for people to view for free.

“It was really a great coming together of the music, dancing and storytelling folks,” Peterson says.

“We were pretty proud of that.”

And while the 2020 digital edition was a success, getting the festival back to an in-person event remained at the forefront of Peterson’s mind — and those of many others in the community. Peterson says wherever she and her husband, Bruce, went last year, people would ask about the future of both the festival and Shindig on the Green, the organization’s other major event. She credits this interest to area residents’ commitment to Southern Appalachian art forms, as well as the welcoming nature of the disciplines themselves.

“This type of music and dance is such a communal thing,” Peterson says. “Anybody can square dance.

Anybody can get a guitar or sing in the background or raise their voice and tell a story or be involved in some way.”

In planning the 2021 festival, the FHC had the good fortune of UNCA’s commitment to hosting. Long before statewide indoor gathering restrictions were lifted, the university reserved Lipinsky Hall for the orga-

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nization’s traditional opening weekend of August in case conditions improved. Once Gov. Roy Cooper allowed for full-capacity events, the festival was officially back on.

Peterson notes that prior hosts, including the Diana Wortham Theatre and A-B Tech, have been wonderful; with UNCA, however, the FHC feels as if it has found its “forever home.” Strengthening that bond is the fact that UNCA’s Ramsey Library houses the FHC’s archives and will create a display for the festival.

The FHC’s loyalty to its performers in 2020 was also rewarded as numerous acts agreed to be “on call” as they awaited word of the event’s return to UNCA. The lineup for this year’s gathering includes such highlights as Jim Lauderdale and Songs From the Road Band; storytellers Connie Regan-Blake and Michael Reno Harrell; and a number of dance groups, among them the J. Creek Cloggers and the Little River Cloggers.

RELEVANCY AT THE CENTURY MARK

In addition to these performers, the bill features the inaugural Youth

Talent Celebration on Aug. 7, 4-5 p.m., wherein students from the nonprofit Junior Appalachian Musicians program and the Academy for the Arts will showcase their skills. An educator by trade, Peterson oversaw square dance teams at Ashevillearea high schools, taught lessons at UNCA and learned the craft from her parents, who founded the area’s first square dancing team, the Valley Springs Dancers. Though Peterson is not currently teaching, these experiences have made her well aware of the importance of keeping these traditions alive for future generations.

Peterson also hopes that the addition helps continue the spirit of the Mountain Youth Jamboree which local folklorist and promoter Hubert Hayes founded in 1948. Following his death in 1964, Hayes’ widow, Leona, sustained the popular event through 1973, but opportunities for local young people to share traditional music and dance have largely been absent in the interim.

Along with the Youth Talent Celebration forging a strong connection across generations, Peterson sees a powerful link between the struggles during the pandemic and the origins of the festival’s performance arts, which should make the 2021 edition even more meaningful.

“It really came from hardscrabble people who had to find a way to entertain themselves, and they did it through this music and dance. And when you listen to the words of the songs that are sung and the stories that they tell, it speaks to the people’s lives,” she says.

“Many of our people make their living or supplement their livelihood by jamming around at the different venues in town and in Western North Carolina,” Peterson continues.

“That’s been cut out to them, so that’s coming from an area of hardship, too.” X

WHAT 94th annual Mountain Dance and Folk Festival WHERE Lipinsky Hall, UNC Asheville WHEN Thursday-Saturday, Aug. 5-7, nightly at 6:30 p.m. $25 adults, $10 students, $5 children ages 6-12 years, or $50 adults for a full-festival pass

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Nina Simone’s legacy and influence continue to inspire

GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN: Jazz great Nina Simone performs onstage in 1976.

A series of new projects honors the WNC native. Photo by Georges Braunschweig

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Nearly two decades after her death, Nina Simone’s music continues to inspire new audiences. And with a recent string of projects tied to the late singer and civil rights activist, it doesn’t seem like a stretch to say that Simone is currently trending.

May 1 marked the groundbreaking ceremony at the Nina Simone Archive in her hometown of Tryon.

The following month, Montreux Jazz Festival and BMG released Nina Simone: The Montreux Years, a double album of rare and never-before-released live performances.

Meanwhile, the singer’s stunning performance at the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival is a major highlight in Questlove’s new documentary, Summer of Soul, available on Hulu.

And earlier this month, acclaimed jazz/R&B singer Ledisi revisited some of Simone’s catalog with her latest album, Ledisi Sings Nina.

If that’s not enough, in August, Simone’s debut LP, Little Girl Blue, will be reissued on vinyl.

With all this in mind, Xpress recently caught up with local and national musicians, as well as Simone’s younger sister, to discuss the singer’s ongoing influence and legacy.

HONORING A LEGEND

In the mid-’90s, a then-unknown Ledisi Anibade Young was contemplating suicide. “I was a young, 20-something-year-old, and I was depressed and didn’t really want to live anymore,” the Grammy Awardwinning artist reveals. But her outlook changed upon hearing Simone’s “Trouble in Mind.”

The song’s wailing piano, Ledisi says, “woke me out of this daze of thinking about not being here on Earth anymore. It woke my whole body up. [It] just said everything I was feeling. And that’s the power of her music for me.”

In her latest album, Ledisi Sings Nina, the singer pays homage to the musician who helped change her life.

Featuring U.S. and European orchestras, the project took eight years to complete. And as Simone did when she interpreted the music of others, Ledisi puts her own stamp on the selection of songs from her idol’s catalog, including a reference to former first lady Michelle Obama in her version of “My Baby Just Cares for Me.” Yet Ledisi endeavors to be respectful. “Anytime I’m rediscovering a song that’s not mine, the goal is to say, ‘Thank you,’” she says. “Always to honor the legend.”

The timelessness of Simone’s music, Ledisi adds, is what makes the late singer so enduring. “What’s great about [Simone] is that she’ll always be for every moment, every mood,” Ledisi says.

LET THERE BE PEACE

Along with inspiring national acts, Simone continues to captivate Western North Carolina-based artists as well. An informal survey of performing musicians in and around Asheville turned up at least a dozen acts who regularly include songs written or popularized by Simone in their live repertoires.

For multigenre vocalist Peggy Ratusz, Simone’s innate skill at mixing jazz, folk, blues, pop and protest music is what makes her work stand out.

“Nina taught me to be fearless in marrying genres within my songwriting and mixing genres on my set lists,” she says. “Her emotional intensity, her brilliance, her no-nonsense band leading and especially the empowerment she instilled directly to her audiences were unstoppable forces coming together.”

And while Simone’s larger-thanlife public persona continues to grow, her sister Frances Waymon Fox says the Nina Simone she knew was a mom and grandmother. “People don’t always think of public figures as individuals, as human beings,” she says. “But they bleed, hurt and cry just like everybody else. And Nina was family-oriented, even though [the public] didn’t see that part of her.”

Fox recalls fond memories of joining her sister on tour. “Nina didn’t cook,” Fox says with a laugh. “When I traveled with her, we would go get some soul food from the grocery stores, and I’d cook wherever we were. She liked collard greens, ham hocks and cornbread.”

Such humble tastes, continues Fox, are in contrast to Simone’s urbane and assertive image. But her life and music synthesized those myriad qualities.

Like Ledisi, Fox believes Simone’s enduring popularity is due in part to the universality of her songs. “Her music is still relevant,” Fox says.

“People of all generations can relate to it.”

But greater still, adds Fox, is what she considers the central message of Simone’s music: “Let there be peace.” Fox believes that her sister’s ongoing quest for freedom was at the heart of Simone’s creative urge.

“And that’s what people are still crying out for [today],” she says. X

Little Girl Blue After graduating in 1950 from the Allen High School in Asheville, Eunice Waymon, later known professionally as Nina Simone, attended The Juilliard School in New York City. Her debut album, Little Girl Blue, released on Bethlehem Records, came out in 1959.

Featuring Simone on piano and vocals, and backed by bass and drums, the album is a landmark jazz recording.

Yale professor Daphne A. Brooks’ liner notes featured in a new remastered vinyl edition helps place the remarkable album into its historical context. Brooks remarks upon Simone’s “wide and robust, rich and varied knowledge of jazz, blues, American songbook, folk and spiritual standards and aesthetics.” X

The Montreux Years Simone would grace the stages of the Montreux Jazz Festival several times between 1968 and 1990, and a new compilation album, Nina Simone: The Montreux Years, draws from five of those performances. Her song selections at these concerts featured originals like “Backlash Blues,” a number she co-wrote with poet Langston Hughes. Meanwhile, her cover choices explored composers as varied as the Bee Gees (“To Love Somebody”) and Janis Ian (“Stars”). X

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New book by local author pairs WNC history with vintage postcards

BY BILL KOPP bill@musoscribe.com At the start of COVID-19, local historian Mary McPhail Standaert had no intentions of authoring her next book. But like many people, she felt cut off and isolated from most of her friends and family.

In response, the Montreat resident began sending out emails to a select group, featuring regional history and trivia.

As the pandemic dragged on, her project evolved, eventually finding a larger audience via Facebook.

Now, more than a year and a half later, Standaert’s digital endeavor has transformed into her newly self-published book, Buncombe County Name Game.

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LAND OF THE SKY

No stranger to the region’s past, Standaert is the co-author of two previous works: Montreat (2009) and Swannanoa Valley (2014). Using her background knowledge to inform her latest project, Standaert sent out her first pandemic email on March 19, 2020. In it, she traced the origin of the region’s slogan, “Land of the Sky,” to Frances Christine Fisher Tiernan’s 1876 romance novel, The Land of the Sky. Additionally, she explained how the call letters of Asheville-based television station WLOS are a nod to the phrase.

The email, she explains, “was just a way to keep people connected.”

Subsequent entries followed.

Each subject line was numbered, and each message included a notation marking how many days had passed since social distancing began.

Both features were in response to a common complaint Standaert heard in the early days of COVID. “People were saying that they couldn’t keep track of time.”

One of the project’s most endearing features came along within a few weeks of its launch: Along with her trivia tidbits, Standaert started scanning historical postcards she and her husband, Joe, have been collecting for over 40 years. The visual additions were a hit among her email recipients.

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SALUTATIONS: Local historian Mary McPhail Standaert recently celebrated the release of her latest book, Buncombe County Name Game. Photo by Joe Standaert “People like seeing vintage images,” she says.

Very quickly, these emails became as essential to Standaert’s well-being as wearing a mask and maintaining 6 feet of distance.

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Accomplished photographer Herbert Pelton, notes Standaert, photographed much of Western North Carolina in the early 1900s.

His images were subsequently used on postcards produced locally at Asheville Postcard Co., a former manufacturer established in response to the region’s enduring status as a tourist mecca. For many of the postcards’ original recipients, these images were the only way to see the region’s notable landmarks.

Today, many of the places featured in Buncombe County Name Game have either been razed or substantially changed. But thanks to the book’s tight focus on the Swannanoa Valley, Montreat, Black Mountain and Asheville, the publication stands as a time capsule, documenting a period when horsedrawn carriages, and subsequently trolley cars, lined the roads of WNC.

Standaert observes that the postcards’ heyday ran from roughly 1900-20. With a photograph on one side and space on the reverse for an address, stamp and short handwritten message, postcards combined communication with the sharing of something that had souvenir value.

Following the format’s lead, Standaert imposed restrictions on her own written entries, allowing herself only 170 words to describe each postcard — though the author emphasizes that the words and images complement each other, while also standing on their own.

SHARING IS CARING

Standaert’s final email (entry No. 197), was sent out on March 20, 2021. Soon thereafter, she began work transforming the posts into Buncombe County Name Game.

At one point, the author remembers, a friend asked her if she’d intended the online project to evolve into her latest publication.

“I did not,” she says, “but the joy has been in the sharing and connecting.”

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Music matters

Rock Academy and What’s Shaking? enrich young people’s lives

Subscribing to Whitney Houston’s belief that the children are our future, Asheville-area teaching artists work diligently to instill a love of music in local youths. While that mission was interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, forcing them to adapt their respective curricula, two local programs, Rock Academy Asheville and What’s Shaking?, have resumed in-person events and are again witnessing the immediate and long-term benefits of young people learning how to play musical instruments.

FOR THOSE ABOUT TO ROCK

“The social aspect of Rock Academy has helped countless kids and teens blossom and gain confidence, not only onstage but in their daily lives,” says Dena Clark, the music school’s director. “Playing in a band requires teamwork, kindness, acceptance and the ability to communicate clearly without judgment or blame.”

Among the students who’ve benefited from this curriculum is bassist Taylor Priola. Upon moving to Asheville in 2017, she sought a music program similar to the one she’d attended in New Jersey and gravitated to Rock Academy’s well-rounded offerings.

“What I admired most was the feeling of community and opportunities they provided,” Priola says. “Not only do they offer music classes, but I also got to learn about the music business, recording in a studio and the reality of being a musician, all from real musicians who have played shows all around the world.”

Through Rock Academy, Priola has also gotten to photograph various performers, hosted interviews with Rock Academy teachers, designed posters for events, directed music videos and booked her own gigs. Buoyed by this real-world experience, she’ll attend Columbia College Chicago this fall on a full-ride scholarship for photojournalism and plans to minor in music business. While unsure when she’ll play a gig in her future home, she’s already been hired to shoot 14 concerts.

In order for Priola and other students to have the tools to succeed, Rock Academy relies on its annual Give to the Music benefit concert. The organization’s largest fundraising event has been held at The Orange Peel since 2009 and has featured such performers as AC/DC bassist Cliff Williams, Roy “Futureman” Wooten 30

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LIFELONG LOVE: Rock Academy Asheville students perform at White Horse Black Mountain. In the organization’s 13 years, numerous graduates have gone on to pursue music degrees, and many more continue to perform. Photo courtesy of Rock Academy of Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, ’80s tribute band The Breakfast Club and singer-songwriter Patrick Dodd.

The 2021 edition takes place Saturday, Aug. 7, with a headlining set by DeCarlo. Fronted by Tommy DeCarlo, lead singer of the ’70s rock band Boston, the Charlotte-based rockers were booked for the 2020 benefit and committed to playing the event whenever it was rescheduled. A former YouTube sensation, Tommy DeCarlo nicely complements Rock Academy’s focus on hard work and determination through his own journey from Boston superfan to the group’s actual lead singer in 2008.

Prior to DeCarlo’s set, composed of songs from both of his bands, Clark says four Rock Academy youth bands and two adult bands will perform “a great mix of music, including ’80s favorites, blues, R&B, rock and some originals by talented student songwriters.” In addition to proceeds from ticket sales, funds will be generated from the annual raffle for an instrument.

“All of the profits from this fundraiser provide scholarships for private lessons, summer camps and instruments, as well as Rock Academy classes,” Clark says. “We are especially dependent on this year’s event because we are seeing a huge increase in students needing assistance, and we did not have any events, summer camps or live performances during 2020.”

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, MR. RYAN!

Asheville-based musician Ryan Glass is similarly dedicated to instill-

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ing a love of music in young people — particularly the very young.

The multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter moved to Asheville in 2011 from Brooklyn, where he taught Music for Aardvarks classes for AudraRox. His long-established and successful colleagues wanted Glass to start an Asheville chapter of their business, but after settling into his new home, it became clear that the NYC-centric curriculum didn’t translate to Western North Carolina.

“I wanted to teach the same kind of classes that they did,” Glass says.

“I liked their approach to working with music and dance, but I realized I needed to write my own songs.”

In 2013, he completed an album of original material and launched What’s Shaking?, which brings a music and dance program to local preschools and kindergartens. In these settings, Glass becomes “Mr. Ryan.” Each session starts with a call-and-response exercise to connect and activate the ears and voice. He then gives kids shakers, sticks and drums so they can experience music as a communal activity.

“I try to help them find as many different ways as they can to connect to music instead of just connecting to it through one instrument or one skill-building exercise,” Glass says.

The pandemic put a stop to this work in person, prompting Glass to make videos of his sessions. The recordings garnered plentiful positive feedback from parents and educators, and inspired Glass — who admits he’s prone to dabble in 15 projects at a time — to focus his energy on What’s Shaking? These efforts included devel-

oping an hourlong outdoor program and dance party to encourage greater participation this summer among families, who might be hesitant to gather indoors while children remain too young for COVID-19 vaccines.

He soon found a partner in Sweeten Creek Brewing, where he and percussionist/vocalist Elaine Scott — aka “Miss Elaine” — have performed free shows on the first Saturday of each month at 1 p.m. The next concert is set for Aug. 7 and will feature Glass’ band Record Prophets, whose members are well versed in his original children’s music and playing for a younger audience.

“The breweries here, there’s always kids running around, no matter what band is playing or no matter what’s going on,” Glass says. “And a lot of times, kids pay the most attention to the live music, even when the people aren’t singing to the kids or talking to them at all.”

Glass will return to schools this fall and is also working on collaborating with Head Start and other programs that serve families with limited incomes. He believes that all people deserve to experience the joy of playing music — and that adults could stand to learn a thing or two from the way their kids uninhibitedly react to songs.

“Sometimes, I don’t win over adult crowds at all like that. There’s nobody jumping up and down or screaming,” Glass says. “But 3-year-olds act like The Beatles just landed in New York.

I tell other musicians about that all the time: The best audience is 3-year-olds.”

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What’s new in food

Thirsty Monk reopens downtown location After being closed for over a year, Thirsty Monk recently celebrated the reopening of its flagship location downtown on the corner of Patton and Coxe avenues. CEO Barry Bialik says the downtime was well spent improving Monk’s award-winning Belgian-style beers, expanding its line of cocktail-inspired Holy Water Hard Seltzers, creating new craft cocktails and completing some sorely needed functional and aesthetic upgrades, including remodeling, repainting, reroofing and refinishing the century-old wood floors.

“We’ve been open there 13 years, and as our business model changed, our aesthetics didn’t keep up,” says Bialik. “It was past due, and we took advantage of the time we had.”

A three-floor boozy circus was staged July 21 — Belgian National Day — to welcome customers back.

At Top of the Monk, patrons bellied up to the bar to tipple the craft cocktails curated by newly promoted General Manager Kala Brooks. At street level, Thirsty Monk’s taproom offered the full lineup of the brewery’s Belgian-rooted modern ales and Holy Water seltzers.

Meanwhile, downstairs, Bialik and crew christened the new Delirium Bar, featuring internationally iconic brews from Belgium’s Huyghe Brewery and Averbode Abbey, such as Delirium Nocturnum, La Guillotine and the top pull of the night, Delirium Tremens, a golden strong ale. Other rare Belgian brews will rotate through Delirium’s repertoire as available. Cocktails are served on all three floors of the business.

“Thirsty Monk was historically a destination, and then as downtown changed, it became one of those places people intent on having a beer in every brewery checked off their list,” says Bialik. “We want to go back to being a destination again.”

Thirsty Monk, 92 Patton Ave. avl.mx/a2x .

Boxing match

A.J. Gregson, chef and co-owner with Autumn Pittman of Black Bear BBQ, has a wall full of awards from various culinary competitions he has participated in over the years, including Asheville Wing War, the Epic Tempeh Reuben Challenge and Asheville Food Truck Showdown.

But he is happy to participate in — and hopeful about bringing home another accolade from — the inaugural Out of the Box: Community Supported Agriculture Challenge.

The Iron Chef-redolent contest is one of 10 Chow Chow events scheduled for August, the penultimate month of the redesigned Asheville Culinary Festival that debuted in 2019 and was COVID-canceled in 2020.

Out of the Box will take place Thursday, Aug. 12, 5:30-8:30 p.m., under one of the covered open-air sheds at the WNC Farmers Market, 570 Brevard Road. Gregson, cooking with Matt Kovitch, will compete against chefs Jeremy Salig from No Evil Foods and Jay Medford of Storm Rhum Bar; Paul Cressend of Paulie Boy Enterprises with an assist from Don Palerno of DJ’s Pickles; Luis Martinez, most

RAISING THE BAR: Thirsty Monk General Manager Kala Brooks celebrates the reopening of Thirsty Monk in the subterranean Delirium Bar with a Glenlivet Founders Reserve Highball. Photo by Joanna Postlethwaite recently of El Gallo, with local food writer Mackensy Lunsford.

“I’m a big fan of Jay’s flavors so he’ll definitely keep me on my toes for this,” Gregson says.

Each team will receive two CSA boxes with ingredients to cook three items for tasting. Produce will be supplied by Mountain Food Products; Hickory Nut Gap Meats will provide the protein. Teams also have access to products from Spicewalla and Sunburst Trout.

Additionally, chefs are encouraged to forage products from vendors inside the WNC Farmers Market buildings. Students from A-B Tech’s culinary program will be on hand to assist each team. The winners will be determined by popular vote.

As another component of the event, Meghan Bosley of Mountain Food Products, Annie Louise Perkinson of Flying Cloud Farm, Ali Casparian of Bounty & Soul, Jenn White of Hickory Nut Gap Meats and April Jones of Pinehurst Farmers Market will lead a discussion about the CSA model.

Tickets are $50 and include bites and a beverage flight. For tickets, visit avl.mx/a2y. For details on additional Chow Chow events occurring in August, visit avl.mx/99f.

Bake Off

Old Europe Pastries moved into its location at 13 Broadway on Friday, Aug. 13, 2010. No bad luck ensued. Now, 11 years later, classically European-trained pastry chef and founder Melinda Ventro, along 32

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with her son and business partner, Bence Ventro, have announced plans to move across the street to 18 Broadway.

“We were not able to get a longterm lease with our current landlord but really loved where we are downtown, so when the building across the street came up for sale, it was a stroke of luck,” says Bence. “We will more than double our square footage and build a real kitchen, and not the converted hallway we have now.”

Renovation is already underway at the new location. Bence says they hope to be open in the new space by spring 2022.

Old Europe Pastries, 13 Broadway, avl.mx/a2z.

In good taste

Taste of the South magazine recently named Well Seasoned Table, a Candler-based seasoning company, to its 2021 Taste 50 list.

“We were thrilled to be selected as one of the South’s most influential tastemakers,” says Sarah Wickers, the company’s CEO and founder.

“Food plays such an important role in Southern culture that to be part of this list is such an incredible honor.”

In addition to its paw paw sugar, Taste of the South magazine commended Well Seasoned Table’s bloody mary seasoning and toasted okra sea salt.

The entire Taste 50 list is in the July/August issue of Taste of the South magazine. WST products can be found at avl.mx/a35.

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Around Town

Local creator uses art to fight injustice Asheville-based creatrix Jenna Jaffe presents her latest art exhibition, Swinging the Pendulum: From Patriarchy to Empowerment, at The Refinery AVL Creator Space and Gallery in the city’s South Slope. The multimedia exhibition features work that addresses a range of topics, from the opioid epidemic to the divine feminine. An opening night reception will be held Friday, Aug. 6, 5-8 p.m., and will include light refreshments and live music by the artist.

“After two bouts of cancer and surviving bipolar depression, I have been focusing on my art career seriously for the last few years,” Jaffe says. “I decided I needed to use my voice by creating art and music to fight the injustices in the world.”

The mixed-media show includes The United States of Addiction, which won first place in the 2021 A-B Tech Creative Studio Show. Additionally, the artist shares works exploring immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border and several pieces celebrating her experience battling breast cancer.

“I interweave nature and sensuality through my work,” Jaffe explains.

“Many pieces represent the yoni, the great portal of the universe.”

The Refinery AVL Creator Space and Gallery is located at 207 Coxe Ave. Swinging the Pendulum can be viewed through Monday, Aug. 30.

Hours are Monday-Saturday, 9 a.m.- 7 p.m., and Sundays by appointment.

More information on the artist can be found at avl.mx/a3c.

Sixty-four years strong After a pandemic-induced pause, the long-standing Mount Mitchell Crafts Fair returns to Burnsville’s Town Square Friday-Saturday, Aug. 6-7, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Christy Jones, new executive director of the BurnsvilleYancey Chamber of Commerce, says she is dedicated to bringing a fresh perspective to the event in the hope of making it “one of the best ever.”

“We work very hard to bring in a diverse and unique selection of one-of-a-kind, handmade items,” says Jones.

Over 200 artists and vendors are participating at this year’s happening. Pottery, woodwork, handmade candles, jewelry, leather goods, furniture and stonework are just some of

MOVIE LISTINGS Bruce Steele’s and Edwin Arnaudin’s latest critiques of new films available to view in local theaters and via popular streaming services include:

the mediums that will be represented.

The fair also features live music, food vendors and craft demonstrations.

Additional information can be found at avl.mx/a3b.

THE GREEN KNIGHT: David Lowery’s Sir Gawain adaptation delivers consistently beautiful imagery in the service of thrilling Arthurian lore. It’s the year’s best narrative film thus far.

Grade: A-minus. Rated R

Paying homage to Asheville

New York Times bestselling author Allison Larkin may be based in the Bay Area, but her latest book, The People We Keep, is partially set in Asheville. Taking place in the mid’90s, the novel details the song-filled crusades of protagonist April Sawicki, a young woman on a daring journey of self-discovery and fulfillment.

The book took 15 years to write, says Larkin. In earlier drafts, April wound up in Durham rather than Asheville. But a chance visit to WNC inspired the author to reroute April’s fictional road trip.

“When I finally had the chance to visit, I loved everything about it,” she says. “I was in Asheville, watching someone busk in Pritchard Park, and I knew April would be able to find a sense of belonging in the city.”

To learn more, visit avl.mx/a3a.

Taking local festivals for granted Buncombe County Tourism Development Authority announces the return of the Festivals & Cultural Events Support Fund after a yearlong, COVID-related pause. Revenue earned during the break was contributed to the One Buncombe COVID relief fund.

The grant program, launched in 2016, provides financial support to events geared toward the preservation of cultural identity within the local community. Past grant recipients include Blue Ridge Pride Festival, Shindig on the Green and Hola Asheville, among others.

Applications for $1,000-$5,000 grants will be accepted through Tuesday, Sept. 28 and grants will be dispersed after the successful completion of events.

Find the application form at avl.mx/a49.

A new folk art exhibit American Folk in downtown Asheville announces a new exhib-

JUNGLE CRUISE: Cobbling together the best parts of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl; The Mummy (1999); and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, this Disney theme-park-ride adaptation is an unexpected delight. Grade: B-plus. Rated PG-13

THE POWER OF THE YONI: Local artist Jenna Jaffe celebrates the divine feminine in an upcoming exhibition. Photo courtesy of Jaffe

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it featuring the work of 77-year-old Alabama folk artist James Snipe.

Alabama Visionary Folk Artist: James ‘Buddy’ Snipe includes a collection of sculptures created from found objects. Snipe began making sculptures at a young age, creating toys for his 11 siblings, notes a recent press release. Over time, his craft evolved, and in the 1970s, Snipes’ work — then displayed on his front lawn — began to be noticed.

The exhibit at American Folk, 64 Biltmore Ave., can be viewed Aug. 5-19, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. daily. More information can be found at avl.mx/9fc.

... and a new photography exhibit

Tracey Morgan Gallery hosts Make/ Shift, a new exhibit featuring the work of Asheville-based photographer James Henkel. The show combines images from two of the artist’s ongoing projects: Botanicals and Books. The former combines real and fabricated elements photographed in unexpected arrangements; the latter captures images of deconstructed books.

The exhibit runs through Saturday, Sept. 11, and can be viewed TuesdaySaturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., and Sunday by appointment at 188 Coxe Ave. For more information on the exhibit and the artist, visit avl.mx/a39.

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FBO AT HOMINY CREEK Old Timey Jam by the River (musical collaboration), 6pm

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4 185 KING STREET Trivia Night, 7pm

FLEETWOOD'S Hickoids w/Viva Le Vox (cow punk), 8pm

305 LOUNGE & EATERY Mark Fisher (solo acoustic), 1pm

HIGHLAND BREWING Well Crafted Wednesdays w/Kevin Smith, Keith Miguez and Amanda Anne Platt (Americana) 6pm

ASHEVILLE BEAUTY ACADEMY • Queer Comedy Party w/Trumaine Bradley, 7pm • Move On Up: Soul/R&B Night, 9pm ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Stand-Up Comedy Open Mic, 8pm BEN'S TUNE UP Big Blue (jam), 8pm BLACK MOUNTAIN BREWING Jay Brown (roots), 6pm BOLD ROCK HARD CIDER Trivia Night, 6pm CASCADE LOUNGE Open Bluegrass Jam, 12am CATAWBA BREWING SOUTH SLOPE Bingeable Trivia, 7pm

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ICONIC KITCHEN & DRINKS Marc Keller (acoustic), 6pm MILLS RIVER BREWING Open Mic Night, 6pm

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MYSTIC DOME STUDIO Open Jam in the Dome (open mic), 6:30pm

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OKLAWAHA BREWING CO. French Broad Valley Mountain Music Jam, 6pm

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THURSDAY, AUGUST 5 131 MAIN Aaron LaFalce (soul, rock, pop), 6pm 305 LOUNGE & EATERY Bob Sherill (singer-songwriter), 1pm ASHEVILLE BEAUTY ACADEMY Salsa Night, 9:30pm ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Bread & Circus (retro rock), 7:30pm ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL The Space Cowboys and the Cosmic Girls (Jamiroquai tribute), 9pm BEN'S TUNE UP Offended! Open Mic (comedy), 9:30pm BLACK MOUNTAIN VETERANS PARK Park Rhythms w/Victoria Victoria (indie pop), 6pm CASCADE LOUNGE Team Trivia, 7:30pm

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SWEETEN CREEK BREWING Open Mic Night, 6pm THE GREY EAGLE Rami Feinstein (folk, world), 6pm THE GROCERY Jay Brown (roots), 6:30pm THE JOINT NEXT DOOR Rod Sphere (rock), 5:30pm TRISKELION BREWING CO. Open Mic Night, 7pm WHISTLE HOP BREWING CO. Jazz and Wine Night w/ Adi the Monk, 6pm WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Zoh Amba and Michael Jefry Stevens (jazz), 7:30pm

FRIDAY, AUGUST 6 ASHEVILLE BEAUTY ACADEMY Everybody Free Dance Party, 10pm ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Sicard Hollow (progressive bluegrass), 7pm ATTIC SALT THEATRE Seven Minutes to Kill (comedy), 8pm BEN'S TUNE UP DJ Kilby Spinning Vinyl (throwback dance party), 10pm BRIDGE PARK Concerts on the Creek w/Shane Meade & the Sound (rock), 7pm

BURNTSHIRT VINYARDS CHIMNEY ROCK Roots and Dore (blues, folk), 5pm CONTINUUM ART Riyen Roots (blues, soul, roots), 5pm DRY FALLS BREWING CO. Lazrluvr ('80s), 7pm FLEETWOOD'S Guy Roswell, Bombay Gasoline, Connor Kelly and The Time Warp (rock, psychedelic rock), 8pm

SAWYER SPRINGS VINEYARD Myron Hyman (classic rock, blues), 2:30pm SILVERADOS Jimmie Allen w/Lathan Warlick (country), 7pm SLY GROG LOUNGE Fifty Year Flood (rock, soul), 8pm SWEETEN CREEK BREWING Circus Mutt (rock jazz, bluegrass), 6pm THE GETAWAY TIKI BAR Jono Zalay (comedy), 8pm

HENDERSONVILLE VISITOR CENTER Music On Main, 7pm

THE GREY EAGLE Dark City Kings (outlaw country, rock), 6pm

HIGHLAND BREWING CO. The Get Right Band (psychedelic, indie rock), 6pm

THE ORANGE PEEL The Mountain Goats (indie folk, indie rock), 8pm

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WICKED WEED BREWING Menage-a-Freak Beer Release and carnival, 6pm WILD WING CAFE SOUTH Commodore Fox (rock, dance), 8:30pm

SATURDAY, AUGUST 7 ASHEVILLE BEAUTY ACADEMY • Beauty Parlor Comedy w/Jono Zalay, 7pm, • Hip Hop Night: Vinyl Timetravelers, 10pm

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ASHEVILLE CLUB Kyle Corbett (acoustic), 6:30pm

SALVAGE STATION Big Something Strikes Brass w/Unihorn (rock, pop, funk), 10:30pm

ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Dark City Kings (outlaw country, rock), 7:30pm

ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Red Clay Revival (bluegrass), 10:30pm BATTERY PARK BOOK EXCHANGE Dinah's Daydream (jazz), 5pm BURNTSHIRT VINYARDS CHIMNEY ROCK Johnnie Blackwell (classic rock), 2pm DRY FALLS BREWING CO. David Payne (acoustic), 7pm HOME GROUND COFFEE BAR & DELI Bluegrass Brunch Shindig w/Supper Break, 11:30am ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Scott Ainslie (acoustic blues, slide guitar), 7pm JACK OF THE WOOD PUB The Saturday Old-Time Jam (musical collaboration), 2pm JIMMY'S ON THE RIVER Lucky James (Americana), 7pm ONE WORLD BREWING WEST Joker's Trade (jam), 1pm PACK SQUARE PARK Shindig on the Green, 7pm SALVAGE STATION Big Something w/The Mantras (rock, pop, funk), 10:30pm SLY GROG LOUNGE Gutter Princess, Green Slime, Sonic Forza, The Half That Matters (rock, punk rock), 8pm SWEETEN CREEK BREWING Knotty G's (blue grass, modern mountain music), 5pm THE BARN AT PAINT FORK The Outlaws (Southern rock), 6:30pm THE BLACKBIRD RESTAURANT Working Holiday (acoustic), 10pm THE GREY EAGLE • Widespread Panic Pre-Show Patio Party: Jazz is Phsh, 1pm • Joni Mitchell Tribute: Ruth Cooney Sextet (folk, rock), 9pm THE ORANGE PEEL 13th Annual Give To The Music Benefit Concert w/DeCarlo and Rock Academy, 6pm TRISKELION BREWING CO. Pleasantly Wild (alt rock), 7pm WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Ska City (ska, two tone), 8pm

SUNDAY, AUGUST 8 ASHEVILLE CLUB Vaden Landers (country blues, honky tonk), 3pm

ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Mark's House Jam, Beggar's Banquet (rock), 3pm BEN'S TUNE UP Good Vibes Sunday (reggae), 6pm BLACK MOUNTAIN BREWING Dark City Kings (rock), 2pm BURNTSHIRT VINYARDS CHIMNEY ROCK Letters to Abigail (acoustic, Americana), 2pm CONTINUUM ART ALR Trio (blues, rock), 3pm

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CASCADE LOUNGE Bill and Swanny (rock, jam band), 6pm

HIGHLAND BREWING CO. Music Bingo, 6pm

DOWN DOG AVL Tacos and Trivia, 7pm

MILLS RIVER BREWING Weekly Trivia Night, 6pm

GETAWAY RIVER BAR Turntable Tuesday, 10pm

ONE WORLD BREWING WEST Inside Out Stand-Up Comedy Showcase, 6:30pm

GREEN MAN BREWERY Old Time Jam (musical collaboration), 3pm GROVEMONT PARK • Mountain Sam Wheelock (singer, storyteller), 4pm • Groovin' on Grovemont w/The Datrian Johnson Band (R&B, soul), 6pm

SWEETEN CREEK BREWING Trivia Night, 6:30pm WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Open Mic at White Horse, 7pm

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ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Stand-Up Comedy Open Mic, 8pm

185 KING STREET Trivia Night, 7pm

BEN'S TUNE UP Big Blue (jam), 8pm

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THE GREY EAGLE Travis Book Happy Hour featuring Jeff Sipe, Mike Ashworth & Tommy Maher (Americana), 7pm THE OMNI GROVE PARK INN The B's (jazz, standards), 7pm THE ORANGE PEEL Cold War Kids (indie rock), 8pm THE SOCIAL Karaoke w/DJ Lyric, 8pm TRISKELION BREWING CO. TriskaTrivia, 7pm WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Irish Music Circle, 7pm

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NOTICE OF UNCLAIMED PROPERTY The following is a list of unclaimed and confiscated property at the Asheville Police Department: electronic equipment; cameras; clothing; lawn and garden equipment; personal items; tools; weapons (including firearms): jewelry: automotive items; building supplies; bikes and other miscellaneous items.

Anyone with a legitimate claim or interest in this property has 30 days from the date of this publication to make a claim.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Filmmaker Federico Fellini had an unexpected definition of happiness.

He said it was “being able to speak the truth without hurting anyone.” I suspect you will have abundant access to that kind of happiness in the coming weeks, Aries. I’ll go even further: You will have extra power to speak the truth in ways that heal and uplift people. My advice to you, therefore, is to celebrate and indulge your ability. Be bold in expressing the fullness of what’s interesting to you.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “Look for a long time at what pleases you, and longer still at what pains you,” wrote the novelist Colette. What?! Was she making a perverse joke? That’s wicked advice, and I hope you adopt it only on rare occasions.

In fact, the exact opposite is the healthy way to live — especially for you in the coming weeks. Look at what pains you, yes. Don’t lose sight of what your problems and wounds are. But please, for the sake of your dreams, for the benefit of your spiritual and psychological health, look longer at what pleases you, energizes you and inspires you.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): If you deepen your affection for butterflies and hummingbirds, I will love it. If you decide you want the dragonfly or bumblebee or lark to be your spirit creature, I will approve. You almost always benefit from cultivating relationships with swift, nimble and lively influences — and that’s especially true these days. So give yourself full permission to experiment with the superpower of playful curiosity. You’re most likely to thrive when you’re zipping around in quest of zesty ripples and sprightly rhythms.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Life is showing you truths about what you are not, what you don’t need and what you shouldn’t strive for. That’s auspicious, although it may initially feel unsettling.

I urge you to welcome these revelations with gratitude. They will help you tune in to the nuances of what it means to be radically authentic. They will boost your confidence in the rightness of the path you’ve chosen for yourself. I’m hoping they may even show you which of your fears are irrelevant.

Be hungry for these extraordinary teachings.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The next two months will be a propitious time for you and your intimate allies to grow closer by harnessing the power of your imaginations. I urge you to be inventive in dreaming up ways to educate and entertain each other. Seek frisky adventures together that will delight you. Here’s a poem by Vyacheslav Ivanov that I hope will stimulate you: “We are two flames in a midnight forest. We are two meteors that fly at night, a two-pointed arrow of one fate. We are two steeds whose bridle is held by one hand.

We are two eyes of a single gaze, two quivering wings of one dream, two-voiced lips of single mysteries. We are two arms of a single cross.”

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Virgo spiritual author Don Miguel Ruiz urges us not to take anything personally. He says that if someone treats us disrespectfully, it’s almost certainly because they are suffering from psychological wounds that make them act in vulgar, insensitive ways. Their attacks have little to do with what’s true about us. I agree with him, and will add this important caveat. Even if you refrain from taking such abuses personally, it doesn’t mean you should tolerate them. It doesn’t mean you should keep that person in your life or allow them to bully you in the future. I suspect these are important themes for you to contemplate right now.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “People who feel deeply, live deeply, and love deeply are destined to suffer deeply,” writes poet Juansen Dizon. To that romanticized, juvenile nonsense, I say: NO! WRONG! People who feel and live and love deeply are more emotionally intelligent than folks who live on the surface — and are therefore less fragile. The deep ones are likely to be psychologically adept; they have skills at liberating themselves from the smothering crush of their problems. The deep ones also have access to rich spiritual resources that ensure their suffering is a source of transformative teaching — and rarely a cause of defeat. Have you guessed that I’m describing you as you will be in the coming weeks?

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Professor of psychology Ethan Kross tells us there can be healthy, creative forms of envy. “Just as hunger tells us we need to eat,” he writes, “the feeling of envy could show us what is missing from our lives that really matters to us.” The trick is to not interpret envy as a negative emotion, but to see it as useful information that shows us what we want. In my astrological opinion, that’s a valuable practice for you to deploy in the coming days. So pay close attention to the twinges of envy that pop into your awareness. Harness that volatile stuff to motivate yourself as you make plans to get the very experience or reward you envy.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Poet Walt Whitman bragged that he was “large.” He said, “I contain multitudes.” One critic compared him to “a whole continent with its waters, with its trees, with its animals.” Responding to Whitman, Sagittarian poet Gertrud Kolmar uttered an equally grandiose boast. “I too am a continent,” she wrote.

“I contain mountains never-reached, scrubland unpenetrated, pond bay, river-delta, salt-licking coast-tongue.” That’s how I’m imagining you these days, dear Sagittarius: as unexplored territory: as frontier land teeming with undiscovered mysteries.

I love how expansive you are as you open your mind and heart to new self-definitions. I love how you’re willing to risk being unknowable for a while as you wander out in the direction of the future.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Poet Ezra Pound wrote a letter to novelist James Joyce that included the following passage: “You are fucking with my head, and so far I’ve been enjoying it. Where is the crime?” I bring this up, Capricorn, because I believe the coming weeks will be prime time for you to engage with interesting souls who fuck with your head in enjoyable ways. You need a friendly jolt or two: a series of galvanizing prods; dialogs that catalyze you to try new ways of thinking and seeing; lively exchanges that inspire you to experiment.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Blogger Mandukhai Munkhbaatar offers advice on the arts of intimate communion. “Do not fall in love only with a body or with a face,” she tells us. “Do not fall in love with the idea of being in love.” She also wants you to know that it’s best for your long-term health and happiness if you don’t seek cozy involvement with a person who is afraid of your madness, or with someone who, after you fight, disappears and refuses to talk. I approve of all these suggestions. Any others you would add? It’s a favorable phase to get clearer about the qualities of people you want and don’t want as your allies.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I gave my readers homework, asking them to answer the question, “What is your favorite rule to break?” In response, Laura Grolla sent these thoughts: “My favorite rule to break is an unwritten one: that we must all stress and strive for excellence. I have come up with a stress-busting mantra, ’It is OK to be OK.’ In my OKness, I have discovered the subtle frontier of contentment, which is vast and largely unexplored.

OKness allows me not to compete for attention, but rather to pay attention to others. I love OKness for the humor and deep, renewing sleep it has generated. Best of all, OKness allows me to be happily aging rather than anxiously hot.” I bring this to your attention, Pisces, because I think the coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to investigate and embody the relaxing mysteries of OKness.

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LEGAL NOTICES NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, HAYWOOD COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Cecil Devoe Lee and Claudia Lee dated May 5, 2008, recorded on May 15, 2008 in Book RB 736, Page 651 of the Haywood County Public Registry (“Deed of Trust”), conveying certain real property in Haywood County to Paradise Settlement Services, Trustee, for the benefit of World Alliance Financial Corp. Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on August

17, 2021, at 11:00 AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Haywood County, North Carolina, to wit: A certain tract or parcel of land in Town of Clyde, Clyde Township, Haywood County, State of North Carolina, and bounded as follows, viz: Beginning at stake in the South margin of U.S. Highway 19-23, corner between Lots 20 and 21, and runs thence S. 77 deg.

W. 109 feet to a stake at the intersection with the East margin of Morgan Street (formerly known as Smathers Lane); thence with the East margin of said street S. 1 deg. E 150 feet to a stake, the Northwest corner of Lot No. 25; thence with the line of said lot N. 88 1/2 deg. E. 109 feet to a stake, corner between Lots Nos. 20 and 21; thence with the line between said Lots N. 1 deg. W. 163.3 feet to the beginning, being Lots 21 to 24 inclusive of the Smathersville Annex to the Town of Clyde, as per survey and map of Henry C. Duncan, made August, 1941, and recorded in Map Book “D”, Page S-6, Haywood County Registry.

APN: 8637-42-6383 Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record. Said property is commonly known as 2934 Broad Street, Clyde, NC 28721; A.P.N.: 8637-42-6383 A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, payable to Bell Carrington Price & Gregg, PLLC, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing. Pursuant to N.C. Gen. Stat. § 45-21.30, if the highest bidder at the sale, resale, or any upset bidder fails to comply with its bid upon the tender of a deed for the real property, or after a bona fide attempt to tender such a deed, the clerk of superior court may, upon motion, enter an order authorizing a resale of the real property. The defaulting bidder at any sale or resale or any defaulting upset bidder is liable for the bid made, and in case a resale is had because of such default, shall remain liable to the extent that the final sale price is less than the bid plus all the costs of any resale. Any deposit or compliance bond made by the defaulting bidder shall secure payment of the amount, if any, for which the defaulting bidder remains liable under N.C. Gen. Stat. § 45-21.30. Third party purchasers must pay the excise tax and THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any

physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to any and all superior liens, including taxes and special assessments. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are the Heirs of Cecil Devoe Lee. An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C. Gen. Stat. § 45-21.29, in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination. The notice shall also state that upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination [N.C. Gen. Stat. § 45-21.16(b)(2)]. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination. If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy. Cape Fear Trustee Services, LLC, Substitute Trustee ______________________________ ____, Attorney Aaron Seagroves, NCSB No. 50979 5550 77 Center Drive, Suite 100 Charlotte, NC 28217 PHONE: 980-201-3840 File No.: 20-47317

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