OUR 28TH YEAR OF WEEKLY INDEPENDENT NEWS, ARTS & EVENTS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA VOL. 28 NO. 2 AUGUST 11-17, 2021
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FEATURES 6 FARMLAND TO FARMHOUSE ALES New exhibit chronicles South Slope and Southside history
12 GREEN ROUNDUP Cherokee establish framework for medical marijuana cultivation, sales
PAGE 20 HELP NEEDED Despite a statewide drop in the unemployment rate, many local restaurant owners are having a difficult time attracting new hires. Staff shortages are forcing some to restructure their operations. Meanwhile, other owners say they can’t compete with signing bonuses and other financial incentives that have lured employees away.
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16 COMMUNITY CALENDAR 22 HANDS-ON CREATIVITY Asheville Printmakers unite for inaugural Invitational Group Show
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26 CLUBLAND 23 WHAT’S NEW IN FOOD Noble Cider reimagines its downtown location and other culinary updates
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Public should support educators in job of guiding students “Is school enough?” Do our schools create vigorous, compassionate, loving people participating in our democratic society — sharing, healing our wounds, accepting and forgiving each other? One might also ask, “Is economic, military power and wealth enough to unite our country and bring peace and prosperity, bringing us together in a truly United States of America?” Despite gaining the world of wealth and military supremacy, our country is troubled, measured by political stagnation, violence and polarization. The Mountain Xpress article regarding critical race theory is important in regard to the values of our society [“Menace or Red Meat? Critical Race Theory Debate Comes to Buncombe,” July 21, Xpress]. Pauline Orban’s worry about schools’ handling racism is important. However, framing the term as “racism” is misleading. Perhaps it’s unintentional, but conservatives make this a political, not educational issue. I prefer to trust educators, psychologists
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C A RT O O N B Y R AN DY M O L T O N and those who have devoted their lives to childhood development. And, I respectfully disagree with the Erwin High School teacher’s statement, “I always smile and provide the exact same answer for the past 16 years: ‘It doesn’t matter what I think, it matters what you think.’” Ouch! We can and must provide students the opportunity to explore through Socratic-type discussions, brainstorming, personal journaling and creativity coupled with the arts, such as music, dancing and storytelling as well as visual arts. Educators have a duty to educate and guide students. It’s no easy task and deserves public support. By Socratic discussions, I do not mean debates. It is exploring questions and problems and “practicing how to respond” respectfully to each other and be open to understanding other points of views. Thus, the goal is a win-win climate that learns from our differences. Adults would also do well in practicing how to respond rather than simply defend our own partial truths. I am very positive about this because I have met so many thoughtful and sincere people, including our local youths, who are struggling with compassion, empathy and kindness to make our small corner of the world a better place. Teachers or home-schoolers who want to know more about this can contact me: esacco189@gmail.com. I taught 29 years in our public schools. I constantly expressed my opinions regarding matters of prejudice, respect for others, our responsibilities to each other and the common good demanded by a democratic society. This requires the human pursuit in something far bigger than stated in “The Rules from Raleigh.” We must
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reframe our stories that have led us to the place we are right now. We must gather our courage and learn from the evidence of our failures. It is hard work and takes practice. The Republican and wealthy elites have made this a political problem rather than a humanitarian attempt to support families in their struggle for jobs and raising children. The Republican Senate leader, Mitch McConnell, actually wrote a letter to the Education Department in effect suggesting that we do not tell the truth to our children. (This was reported on television news and the internet.) Would you not want our nation to “form a more perfect union” by educating our children in American history? “The Constitution was framed in order to form a more perfect union, not to establish mass confusion.” It is a sign of health and courage to want to include and integrate what is hard, uncomfortable and deeply painful. I have faith that our students can handle this when done with loving, compassionate care. As Reid Chapman, UNCA instructor said, “I don’t see any place for limiting those conversations within a freedom-loving democracy.” … — Ed Sacco Asheville Editor’s note: A longer version of this letter will appear at mountainx. com.
Charlotte Street project will actually help Asheville Where were the cries for the preservation and restoration of the properties at 101 Charlotte St. prior to the proposed development? These
buildings have been neglected into utter disrepair and for years have been an eyesore. There are ample examples of this period of architecture that have been preserved. The neighborhood is replete with examples of homes that have been cared for and justify further preservation. For 101 Charlotte St., however, this is simply not the case. Those trying to dam the current of progress are acting like petulant children. When told that a toy they never use is going to be donated, it is all of a sudden their favorite toy, and the greatest of tantrums ensue. The proposal at 101 Charlotte St. will actually help some of Asheville’s most pressing problems: almost 200 residential units, including sanctioned affordable housing; retail stores to provide jobs; office space to provide alternative tax revenue to a city dependent on tourism; and who hasn’t had trouble finding parking (there are 400plus off-street parking spaces in the development plans)? Preservation at all costs is not the answer. It is even likely people protested the development of these big, rich-people, Craftsman homes in the early 1900s because it came at the expense of Asheville’s forests. Progress is inevitable; what a nice bonus that it can help our fair city. Just let the toy that you weren’t even playing with go. — Derek Husar Asheville
Protect Crab Creek community from storage facility My husband and I moved to Hendersonville from South Florida a few years ago to escape the city life and to settle down in the country, where the people are friendly and life is just more relaxed and simple. After surviving a stroke and being told by doctors that I needed to make a lifestyle change, we thought this was the perfect move toward a healthier lifestyle and an overall happier existence. We found our dream home in the tranquil area of Crab Creek. ... Now fast-forward to April of 2021, and our future as well as the future of the Crab Creek community is in jeopardy, all based on the decision of five individuals who serve on a board called the Zoning Board of Adjustment with Henderson County. A decision that may potentially open the door to more commercial overdevelopment into a rural community. A decision that will be impossible to reverse if we allow yet another industrial enterprise to be built into a beautiful, pristine, natural environment.
CARTOON BY BRENT BROWN In April of this year, a barely visible public notice with special use marked off and the words “SUP-21-02 Crab Creek Mini Storage” written was posted across our neighborhood. This notice triggered a chain of events that has united the Crab Creek community in a campaign to keep Crab Creek forever rural! Countless hours from volunteers such as myself and my husband have been spent on bringing awareness to the community and nearby areas to prevent a megasized, 125,758-square-foot storage facility spanning across close to 10 acres with 1,000 storage units from being built on 547 Crab Creek Road. Since becoming aware of this notice, we have united a community; shared in a vision of the preservation of the Crab Creek community; created a nonprofit by the name of the Crab Creek Preservation Society; held a bluegrass music fundraiser; posted many PINKtastic signs from Hendersonville all the way to Brevard; held a rally; and have managed to raise $60,000 to help us pay for legal representation and to pay for expert witnesses to present to this Zoning Board of Adjustment at a hearing that took place on July 28. So much work went into this hearing; however, we were only given enough time to have just one of our expert witnesses testify because the board members wanted to continue the hearing at a later date. ...
As a result of this delay in the hearing, we have to raise more money to get us through the second hearing date of Aug. 11. Is it worth it? Absolutely, because it’s not just our rural community that is at stake, it’s every rural community in the county that is just one vote away from being taken over by overdevelopment. ... Unfortunately, there is nothing currently in place to stop this exact situation from recurring in other rural communities within Henderson County. We need to have legislation put in place; a comprehensive plan needs to be put in place for the Crab Creek community and other rural communities so that something like this does not happen
again. It should be the responsibility of our planning department at the county level to protect and enhance the rural and small-town character of Crab Creek and not diminish it. ... I plead with the board members of the Zoning Board of Adjustment, the decision-makers on Aug. 11, to take a drive on Crab Creek Road before the hearing. ... Crab Creek Road and its surrounding areas such as Holmes Educational State Forest, DuPont Forest, and the Penrose and Flat Rock areas are treasures that deserve to be preserved and protected. ... As you drive down Kanuga Road, which then converts to Crab Creek Road, you can visibly see the signs of support through
the bright PINKtastic signs. We ask that you do as the signs read: Stop Crab Creek Storage Facility. — Rocio Borghini Hendersonville Editor’s note: A longer version of this letter will appear at mountainx. com.
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Farmland to farmhouse ales New exhibit chronicles South Slope and Southside history
BY EDWIN ARNAUDIN earnaudin@mountainx.com Every day, locals and tourists alike traverse Asheville’s South Slope, visiting its numerous breweries and restaurants. But few are aware of the district’s rich past. In an effort to enlighten both visitors and residents on the area’s history, the South Slope Neighborhood Association has created an exhibit of six weatherproof panels that chronicle important topics and people from far before the current food and beverage boom. The 3-by-2-foot printed aluminum sheets will first be displayed at Rabbit Rabbit in late August and then move to a permanent home in the neighborhood.
REALITY CHECK
The project was spearheaded by SSNA President Heath Towson. The 32-year-old senior staff accountant for the Gould Killian CPA Group — located in the historic Sawyer Motor Co. Building on Coxe Avenue — is an Asheville native, but he says he wasn’t taught much of the city’s past while growing up. “This was something I had to seek out as an adult, which was surprising, because you would think there would be an emphasis on that in school since it’s just down the road,” says Towson, a graduate of nearby Asheville High School. “And even what’s been written has been hard to find.” To develop content for the panels, Towson dug through old Citizen
COMMUNITY HUB: The Southland Drive-In on McDowell Street, next to Rabbit’s Motel, was a staple of the Southside neighborhood. The business is one of many people and places highlighted in the South Slope Neighborhood Association’s new history exhibit. Photo by Isaiah Rice, Isaiah Rice Photograph Collection, Special Collections, Ramsey Library, UNC Asheville Times issues and consulted former special collections librarian Zoe Rhine at Pack Memorial Library. Pat Kappes, director of community engagement for the Buncombe County Tourism Development Authority, also recommended several individuals from the Southside neighborhood for Towson to interview, including Olympia Garrett. The $1,800 project was fully funded by SSNA members, including Green
Man Brewery and City Transmission Service, all of whom were seeking a productive project during an otherwise trying 2020. “Everybody was pretty upset last summer — just everything politically and economically and with COVID,” Towson says. “We wanted to do something positive and also dig into our history a little bit further to understand who we really are as a neighborhood.”
EVOLUTION OF A NEIGHBORHOOD
The panels’ chronological presentation begins with the South Slope’s farmland origins and how the large ravine formerly running down its middle was filled in with dirt from the Battery Park Hotel’s 1924 construction to form Coxe Avenue. The first panel also explores the Rev. Jarvis Buxton’s North State Fitting School, one of the neighborhood’s first structures, which Thomas Wolfe attended as a boy and immortalized in his 1929 novel Look Homeward, Angel. The exhibit’s second panel introduces the impact of the automobile 6
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industry and Coxe Avenue’s transition in the 1920s to “The Motor Mile,” the nickname it received for its numerous car dealerships, parts suppliers and repair shops. “When the new models came out, it was really an event — like an opening night gala,” Towson says. “People would get dressed up and go to dinner at [the] S&W [Cafeteria], then they’d come down here and there’d be bands. They had Dinah Shore come in when they introduced the new Chevrolets. It was just totally different because they changed the car every year.” The third panel covers the district’s prominent churches, focusing on Central United Methodist Church, First Presbyterian Church and Trinity Episcopal Church, which converge at the intersection of Church and Aston Streets. Towson felt it was important to highlight these institutions, each of which have been in the neighborhood for 150-200 years and continue to support Asheville at large through their work with the city’s elderly and homeless populations.
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The exhibit’s fourth panel centers on the neighborhood’s Black residents and loops in the nearby Southside community. Towson interviewed 92-year-old Asheville native Matthew Bacoate, who shared memories of a thriving collection of streets full of self-sufficient homes with their own gardens and livestock. Bacoate also spoke of pioneering Black business owners, including Fred “Rabbit” Simpson and Southside Glenn, the respective owners of Rabbit’s Motel and Glenn’s Cab. “They started out in illegitimate business doing bootlegging, moonshining and running a numbers game that was called ‘Butter and Eggs.’ It was kind of like a community lottery game that was below the radar, and then later they called it ‘Bolita,’” Towson says. “They took the money from the illegitimate side — they didn’t have many opportunities, being minorities — and turned that into legitimate businesses.” The panel also includes information on such largely forgotten neighborhood staples as Oates Park (formerly located between McDowell Street, Choctaw Street
and Southside Avenue), home to the city’s first all-Black baseball team, the Asheville Royal Giants. The park closed in 1927 but later became home to the Six Points drive-in restaurant, a gathering spot for the area’s many street racers, 1965-69. The Asheville Colored Hospital at 185 Biltmore Ave., the city’s first such institution for its Black residents, is featured as well. The penultimate panel is dedicated to the impacts of Asheville’s urban renewal efforts between the 1950s and ’80s. Towson says that those who experienced the changes describe them as “a mixed bag.” While some interviewees see urban renewal as racially motivated displacement and a hinderance to building generational wealth, he explains, others are thankful for how the work upgraded substandard housing and added indoor plumbing and electricity. The panel also includes information on Isaiah Rice, who delivered Carling Black Label beer for the now-closed Linn’s Cash Grocery at 461 S. French Broad Ave. and was a talented photographer. The grand-
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PUBLIC HISTORY
Once complete, Towson ran his write-ups for each panel by the Southside interviewees to make sure he had accurately presented the neighborhood’s past. He then worked with graphic designer Elizabeth Mosher to unite the text
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GRAND SLAM: The Asheville Royal Giants, the city’s first Black baseball team, hosted Atlanta in 1918 at Oates Park. Photo courtesy of Buncombe County Special Collections, Pack Memorial Library with photos, pulling images from the Pack Library and UNCA’s Ramsay Library. Former SSNA member Bill Steigerwald is building the wood surrounds for the panels and also helped with copy editing. Towson hopes to keep the display at Rabbit Rabbit for a year, after which the panels may find temporary homes at the project’s various sponsors. He suggests that a good
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final destination might be 11 Collier Ave., where the Ravenscroft Reserve Initiative and Asheville GreenWorks hope to establish a park in a stand of urban forest. The SSNA’s exhibit could then provide a quick education for park visitors on their way to enjoy the South Slope’s current charms and help fill a void in people’s understanding of Asheville’s storied past.
“I don’t think we’re very good custodians of our own history in Asheville, for whatever reason,” Towson says. “Other places do a much better job of having a town center where there’s information and history and little booklets. And there’s tons of great books — Malaprop’s has an incredible regional section where you can learn a lot, but it’s kind of on you to seek it out.” X
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Buncombe County Homeowner Grant Program accepting applications Eligible homeowners in Buncombe County can now apply for the Buncombe County Homeowner Grant Program. The new initiative, funded by the county, city of Asheville and town of Woodfin, offers up to $500 in relief tied to the increase on a homeowner’s property tax bill. Grants are available to residents who have owned and lived in their property as a primary residence for at least five years and who earn less than 80% of the area median income ($60,100 for a family of four). All Buncombe homeowners meeting those criteria can receive up to $300 depending on their county property tax bill; residents of Asheville and Woodfin can receive up to an additional $200 to cover the increase in municipal property taxes. “With rising property values in Buncombe County and the most recent reevaluation, certainly it could help low-income homeowners,” Phillip Hardin, economic services director for Buncombe County Health & Human Services, tells Xpress. The county Board of Commissioners has approved $300,000 for the initiative, with Asheville and Woodfin allocating $150,000 and $15,000, respectively. Grants will be awarded on a first-come, first-served basis until all funds are spent; the application deadline is Monday, Nov. 15. Homeowners can start an application by calling 828-250-5500 or submitting an inquiry at BuncombeCounty. org/HomeownerGrant. Phone support is available in any language. Income documentation is required for enrollment. If the homeowner is enrolled in a means-tested benefits program through Buncombe’s Health & Human Services office, such as Medicaid or food assistance, the county will use the currently listed income.
session. This decision is based on an extension of an order issued by Gov. Roy Cooper allowing cities to legally hold virtual meetings. However, the August meeting for Historic Resources Commission on Wednesday, Aug. 11, has been legally published as an in-person meeting in the newspaper, so it will remain in person for this meeting. Virtual meetings will continue to be streamed live to the city of Asheville virtual engagement hub and the city YouTube Channel. Instructions on how the public can participate via virtual public comment will be posted on the city of Asheville website, each City Council meeting agenda and the virtual engagement hub as well.
Pandemic Electronic Benefits Transfer Program. Children are eligible for the P-EBT program if they received free or reduced-price meals as of the last month of the 2020-21 school year. Children age 6 and under are also eligible if they receive Food and Nutrition Services (food stamps) through the federal food assistance program administered by NCDHHS. More information about P-EBT benefits is available at NCDHHS. gov/PEBT. More information about eligibility for EBT in Buncombe County and an application for food assistance is available at avl.mx/a6i.
MISSION RESTRICTS VISITORS DUE TO COVID-19
The city of Hendersonville has designated $1 million of its $4.5 million in funding from the federal American Rescue Plan Act for nonprofits serving the area. Applications are now open for organizations to seek grants from the $250,000 that will be allocated this year. Projects must use the money for COVID-19 mitigation or recovery efforts. This includes making necessary improvements to water, sewer or broadband infrastructure; supporting public health expenditures; or addressing negative economic impacts caused by the pandemic. Organizations must submit an application by Sunday, Sept. 19, to be considered for funding. To apply, visit avl.mx/a6v. For more information, call city budget analyst Adam Murr at 828-233-2879 or email amurr@hvlnc.gov.
ASHEVILLE RETURNS TO VIRTUAL MEETINGS
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Mission Health updated its visitor restrictions on July 27. The system’s hospitals now allow one visitor per person per day; one visitor is allowed overnight. The COVID-19 units at Mission hospitals continue to forbid all visitors. All system facilities have a universal masking policy for public and patient care areas. “The health and safety of our patients and team members is our top priority, and we are taking the rising number of COVID cases very seriously,” said spokesperson Nancy Lindell in a press release. “We realize this may be difficult for some patients and wish the situation were different, but we are taking every precaution to protect those in our care and our colleagues by reducing the risk of exposure to the virus.” More information about visitation at Mission Health can be found at avl.mx/a6l. SUMMER FOOD ASSISTANCE AVAILABLE FOR CHILDREN
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has approved North Carolina’s plan to provide $413 million in food assistance to an estimated 1.1 million children throughout the summer. The N.C. Department of Health and Human Services has begun issuing one-time payments of $375 per child through the Summer
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BUNCOMBE COUNTY ELIMINATES LIBRARY FEES
Buncombe County Public Libraries permanently eliminated late fees for overdue library materials effective July 1. All previous overdue fines were also forgiven. BCPL changed its policy in response to research showing that late fees discourage patrons from using the library, according to a Buncombe County press release. The system will continue to send a reminder when materials are due and another reminder when materials are past due. Any library mate-
EVERY LITTLE BIT COUNTS: Phillip Hardin, economic services director for Buncombe County Health & Human Services, says the grants may help address rising property values in Buncombe County. Image courtesy of Buncombe County rial that is overdue for 45 days or more will be considered lost, and the borrower will be charged for its replacement. More information about BCPL and the new policy can be found via email at library@buncombecounty.org or by calling 828-250-4700.
MARK YOUR CALENDARS:
• The Blue Ridge Pride Festival will take place on Saturday, Sept. 25, in Pack Square Park from 11 a.m.7 p.m with the theme “Inclusion Y’all.” A week of Pride festivities will lead up to the festival, with more information available at BlueRidgePride.org/calendar. • Splasheville, the interactive water feature in Pack Square Park, has reopened to the public for the remainder of the summer. Splasheville is open seven days a week, 10 a.m.-8:30 p.m., except during special events. The feature underwent a rebuild during the spring and has been updated with new spray patterns and synchronized water jets in multicolor lighting patterns. For more information, visit AshevilleNC.gov/Parks. • Asheville Parks & Recreation is now registering for fall events, including daytrips, an aerobics class, a low-impact hiking club for adults age 50 and older and an ESPN fantasy football league. More information and registration available at AVLRec.com.
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Cherokee establish framework for medical marijuana cultivation, sales Growers in the Qualla Boundary, the sovereign nation controlled by the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in Cherokee, Graham, Haywood, Jackson and Swain counties, will soon be allowed to legally cultivate and sell medical marijuana. The EBCI Tribal Council passed an ordinance on Aug. 5 establishing a framework for production and use of the crop, which the body had voted to decriminalize on May 6. The tribe will establish a Cannabis Control Board that will license all cultivation, processing, dispensary and laboratory locations. The first dispensary is slated for Cherokee; qualified patients over 21 years old, including people outside the tribe, will be able to purchase up to 1 ounce of medical cannabis per day and 6 ounces per month. Kituwah Medical LLC, an entity wholly owned by the EBCI, will have exclu-
GREEN LIGHT: Per an ordinance passed by the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians on Aug. 5, qualifying patients will be able to buy up to 6 ounces of marijuana per month from tribal-owned dispensaries. Photo by Skalle-Per Hedenhös sive rights to grow and sell marijuana for three years. “The Council’s approval of a medical marijuana ordinance is a testament to the changing attitudes toward legal marijuana and a recognition of the growing body of evidence that supports cannabis as medicine, particularly for those with debilitating conditions like cancer and chronic pain,” said Richard Sneed, principal chief of the EBCI, in a press release announcing the move. “I applaud the Council for their thoughtful consideration, exhaustive research and consultation with experts to develop a system that balances compassionate care for patients with preserving safety and security in our community.” Marijuana remains illegal for both medical and recreational use elsewhere in North Carolina. However, the N.C. General Assembly is currently considering Senate Bill 711, which would permit patients with a limited set of “debilitating medical conditions” to access cannabis. As of press time, the bipartisan bill was awaiting approval by the Senate Judiciary Committee and has not yet been scheduled for a vote by the full Senate or House. The full EBCI ordinance is available at avl.mx/a7l.
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Cooperate WNC launches membership program
More than two years since its launch (see “Mutual Feeling,” April 24, 2019, avl.mx/a7d), mutual aid nonprofit Cooperate WNC has opened a membership program for individuals and households in Western North Carolina. Zev Friedman, the organization’s founder and creative director, says this new participatory network represents a “middle level between family and strangers” that aims to build the region’s resilience against stresses such as climate change and COVID-19. The most immediate benefit for members is access to the WNC Purchasing Alliance, a bulk-buying program that has previously worked with area businesses. Initial goods available for discount purchase include organic oats, nuts and cocoa powder, with plans to expand offerings into biodegradable cleaning products, solar energy equipment and farming supplies. By directing bulk demand toward local businesses, Friedman suggests, the program can strengthen the region-
al economy and support regenerative agriculture. Other member perks include unlimited attendance at Cooperate WNC learning circles, coaching in the creation of mutual aid pods and savings pools, a private Facebook group and help preparing mutual aid requests. Members can also attend public Cooperate WNC events for free; the next offering is an acorn doughnut tasting and agroforestry discussion in Mars Hill at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 25, hosted in partnership with the Nutty Buddy Collective and Hole Doughnuts. Memberships are offered on a sliding-scale basis, with fees starting at $9 per month. More information and registration are available at CooperateWNC.org.
Community kudos • The N.C. Wildlife Federation honored two WNC residents as part of the Governor’s Conservation Achievement Awards announced July 14. Jonathan Marchal, director of education at The N.C. Arboretum, was named environmental educator of the year, while Black Folks Camp Too, founded by Brevard-based entrepreneur Earl B. Hunter Jr., was recognized as conservation organization of the year. • Waynesville Middle School received a solar educational package valued at $42,000 from NC GreenPower, a Raleigh-based renewable energy nonprofit. The grant includes a 5-kilowatt solar array, as well as training and curriculum resources to help educators use the solar panels as a teaching tool. • For the third consecutive year, UNC Asheville was recognized as a Tree Campus USA by the national Arbor Day Foundation. The school was also recertified as a Bee Campus USA by The Xerces Society. • The Southeastern Hellbender Conservation Initiative, an effort of the national nonprofit Defenders of Wildlife, completed its first habitat restoration project on private lands at North River Farms in Mills River. Large rocks were placed in the river to provide cover and nesting spaces for the giant salamander, which is considered a species of special concern by the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission.
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• The Treasured Trees program of nonprofit Asheville GreenWorks will recognize six trees at Flying
Cloud Farm in Fairview at 11 a.m. Friday, Aug. 13. The oldest of those specimens is estimated to be 275 years old and is included on a plan drawn by Chauncey Beadle, the original nursery director of the Biltmore Estate. • Conserving Carolina, a Hendersonville-based environmental nonprofit, holds a virtual Conservation Celebration at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 24. The event’s keynote speaker is Jay Erskine Leutze, an attorney and author of Stand Up That Mountain, who led efforts to protect Belview Mountain in Avery County. More information and registration are available at ConservationCelebration.org. • As a benefit for the nonprofit Utopian Seed Project, Bhramari Brewing Co. hosts its third annual Above the Clouds Festival at Franny’s Farm in Leicester on Saturday, Sept. 18. The nonprofit works to create regional food security in the face of climate change by trialing new crops and varieties. More information and registration are available at avl.mx/a6y. • The Pisgah Forest-based nonprofit FIND Outdoors hosts the Cradle to Grave 30K and 10K trail races on Sept. 18. All proceeds support the Cradle of Forestry in America, an interpretive site in the Pisgah National Forest. More information and registration are available at avl.mx/a5t.
Comings and goings • Sarah Ogletree has taken over from the Rev. Scott Hardin-Nieri as director of the Asheville-based Creation Care Alliance, the faithbased initiative of MountainTrue. Emma Childs, Enrique Sanchez and the Rev. Anna Shine also joined the program’s steering committee. • The Grandfather Mountain Stewardship Foundation named Landis Taylor as the organization’s assistant vice president of marketing and communications. The move comes as the nonprofit plans to open its Wilson Center for Nature Discovery, a new museum and education space, in June 2022. • Barney, a popular coyote resident who came to Asheville’s WNC Nature Center as an orphaned pup in 2006, died July 22 at age 15. “As a lifelong resident of the Nature Center, tens of thousands of visitors had the opportunity to get to know him and to learn more about coyotes. He was a great ambassador,” said Chris Gentile, the center’s director, in a press release. X
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Asheville floats zoning changes to boost dense development Like a gangly teenager, development in Asheville is set to grow up and fill in. That’s the goal of proposed zoning changes outlined by Vaidila Satvika, a city urban planner, in an Aug. 6 presentation to the Council of Independent Business Owners. Satvika told the Asheville-based trade group that the city’s urban centers initiative, as well as updates to open-space requirements for new projects, were both meant to encourage denser development patterns. Such approaches, he suggested, would help preserve Buncombe County’s farmland and undeveloped areas while supporting less car-dependent communities and increasing the city’s tax base. The first of the two efforts would rezone about 122 acres in three parts of the city: the intersection of Merrimon Avenue and Beaverdam Road in North Asheville, the area surrounding the Innsbruck Mall on Tunnel Road and the shopping center that includes the Walmart store on Mountain Xpress 27th Annual
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TRADING PLACES: Asheville’s proposed urban center zoning would require new development to break up large surface parking lots and encourage taller buildings. Graphic courtesy of the city of Asheville Bleachery Boulevard. (Eight more areas, including a portion of the Asheville Mall site on Tunnel Road, could also be targeted for urban center zoning in the future.) Under the updated rules, Satvika explained, new development in those areas would have to be placed along a street — a move that would break up large surface parking lots and structure blocks similar to those in a city core. While developers would not be required to build housing as part of new urban center projects, Satvika emphasized, they would be heavily incentivized to do so. New commercial buildings could not exceed 20,000 square feet without including some residential units; those that included affordable housing could be built larger and taller by right. That requirement, he added, will likely be applied only to development on larger parcels, in response to feedback already received from business owners.
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The open-space changes, Satvika said, would correct what he called a “significant flaw” in the current zoning code. Existing regulations, he explained, require new multifamily developments to include at least 500 square feet of open space per unit, which often makes dense housing on smaller infill parcels economically infeasible. Asheville’s open-space requirements for other types of development are also higher than those of other North Carolina cities such as Raleigh and Charlotte. Under the new rules, developers could include significantly less open space if it were of higher quality, such as a picnic area on flat ground with included seating. Developments on more than 1 acre, Satvika said, could also cut their required space if they included stormwater control measures such as rain gardens and vegetated runoff channels.
During the Q&A session that followed his presentation, Satvika was asked for his response to property owners who felt that the city was making big changes without their consent. He said that Asheville had consistently listened to businesses’ concerns, but that ultimately, the city had the authority to align zoning regulations with its long-term vision and goals as outlined in the Living Asheville Comprehensive Plan. More city information on the proposed changes is available at avl.mx/a7m. The urban centers zoning is scheduled to go before Asheville’s Planning and Zoning Commission on Wednesday, Sept. 1, followed by Asheville City Council on Tuesday, Sept. 28. No timeline had been set for approval of the openspace revisions as of press time.
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Q&A with Phyllis Lang, founding member of Friends of Buncombe County Special Collections The statute of limitations long ago expired on the small misdemeanor Phyllis Lang may or may not have committed as a teenage volunteer at the small library in her hometown of Elgin, S.C. “There was a locked case of books that were deemed not appropriate for the average audience — books like Marjorie Morningstar and Gone With the Wind, anything that had any kind of sex,” she recalls. “I knew where the key was, so I could get into the case and read the ones young people weren’t supposed to see.” Chalk her inquisitiveness up to being a skilled researcher — an endeavor many find tedious‚ but not Lang. “I’m happiest doing research, less happy trying to find a home for it,” she says. Yet it seems she has always found homes for her interests. She has co-written three documentaries about local history with filmmaker Chanse Simpson: one about Thomas Walton Patton, a founding resident of Asheville, one about Asbury Memorial United Methodist Church and one about Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church. She and her late husband moved to Asheville in 1979, when he received a position at UNC Asheville. She “tagged along,” quickly discovering the North Carolina Room at Pack Library’s rich archives of the region’s political and cultural history. Lang is a longtime volunteer with at the North Carolina Room and a founding member of the Friends of the North Carolina Room Board; both were renamed the Buncombe County Special Collections earlier this year. Lang spoke with Xpress about teaching at UNCA, her gift to the Buncombe County Special Collections and why she wishes she could experience Asheville’s art deco architectural heydey. This interview has been lightly edited and condensed for clarity. Was 1979 a good time to arrive in Asheville? I don’t think we realized all the things that happened in the 1980s that led to what we see now. Asheville was not then the city it is today. It took a long time for downtown to become a vibrant place. We were sitting in the middle of it but didn’t realize it was happening. No one then would have forecast Asheville becoming so popular. How did you use the Buncombe County Special Collections as a professor? In the ’90s I was director of the honors program at UNCA. Every fall
I taught a class of about 15 freshman and always assigned a research project related to 100 years prior to that particular year. For example, in 1998 they did a project based in 1898. We’d go to the Buncombe County Special Collections, and the staff would introduce them to the microfilm, city directories, clip files and photo collections. One student did all the programs for the Grand Opera House in 1898. One took the corner where the restaurants Rhubarb and Posana are now and researched what was there 100 years ago. Clearly you are someone who loves doing research. Yes. If I’m researching diaries and letters, seeing the handwriting of someone who was alive in a previous time, I can read those words and understand a little bit about that person. The Patton video began with letters he wrote to his family during the Civil War. I love primary resources research, diaries, letters — things directly connected to a person or event. Whatadvicewouldyougivesomeone who finds research overwhelming? Pick a point and start! It doesn’t matter where, just get started and then the whole thing starts to roll along. If you look up the obituary of a person to know their dates, that obituary will give you information about occupations, family, church. That leads you in other directions and then be amazed at where that leads you! How do you organize your research? I use three-ring spiral binders, with sections for categories. It’s probably not the most efficient way, but it works for me. What appeals to you about making documentaries? I have always been intrigued by how we can tell the story of the past in ways that are interesting to people now. The Patton video used photographs primarily from the photo collection from North Carolina Room. Earlier this year, you bequeathed the Buncombe County Special Collections a two-part gift of $15,000. Part of the gift has already been used used to create a Buncombe County timeline, spanning 10,000 B.C. to the present, which is located on a mural on the back wall of the Special Collections room. Did you stipulate what you wanted the gift to be used for? The gift was a way to give back, with no strings attached, just to be used in the best possible way. I think the
TIME TRAVELER: Phyllis Lang’s gift to the Buncombe County Special Collections at Pack Memorial Library funded a timeline wall spanning over 10,000 years of regional history. Photo courtesy BCSC timeline is wonderful. If you want to know quickly the history of Asheville, you can look at that timeline and see how it fits things in. Is there a period in Asheville’s history that you would like to go back in time and visit for a week? I would have liked to have gone back when E.W. Grove was building the Grove Park Inn — I think around 1913. That was a very lively time in the history of Asheville, into the ’20s, when Douglas Ellington was designing and overseeing the building of City Hall, First Baptist Church and the S&W Cafeteria. The architecture being created then in Asheville was so exciting. It would have been fun to be there and watch those buildings being constructed. Are there particular libraries you love? My husband and I did quite a bit of traveling, and wherever we went, we visited the libraries. One of the most interesting we saw was in Reno. They had a lot of gambling money and built this wonderful modern library with trees growing up in the middle of it. I thought it was the most wonderful thing that you could take your book and go sit under a tree and read. Do you have any books you’d recommend about libraries? The Library Book by Susan Orlean! It’s the story of the fire in the Los Angeles Public Library in 1986. It’s a great book, all about libraries.
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Sparkle Time - Holistic Senior Exercise Aerobic, strengthening, balance, flexibility. $5 per class, ongoing. WE (8/11, 18), MO (8/16), 10:30am, Avery's Creek Community Center, 899 Glennbridge Rd SE, Arden Zumba Gold Low-impact dance, multiple styles. Suggested donation. WE (8/11, 18), 12pm, $5, Stephens Lee Recreation Center, 30 George Washington Carver Ave Yoga in the Park Outdoor yoga group meets every Saturday and Sunday. SU (8/14), SU (8/15), 1:30pm, Carrier Park, 220 Amboy Rd
Steady Collective Syringe Access Outreach Free naloxone, syringes and educational material on harm reduction. TU (8/17), 2pm, Firestorm Books & Coffee, 610 Haywood Rd
ART Swinging the Pendulum: From Patriarchy to Empowerment Multi-medium exhibition featuring works of local artist Jenna Jaffe. WE (8/11, 18), TH (8/12, 19), FR (8/13), SA (8/14), MO (8/16), TU (8/17), 9am, Free, The Refinery, 207 Coxe Ave The Nature of Summer Group art show featuring 21 artists. WE (8/11, 18), TH (8/12, 19), FR (8/13), SA (8/14),
IT’S OFFICIAL: Pink Dog Creative will host Artificial/Art Official, a solo exhibition by Asheville contemporary artist James Love Friday, Aug. 13-Sunday, Sept. 12. The studio is open to the public Fridays and Saturdays, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Pink Dog will host an opening reception Friday, Aug. 13, 7-9 p.m. Pictured is Love’s mixed media “Happy Birthday,” canvas on wood. Photos courtesy of James Love SU (8/15), MO (8/16), TU (8/17), 11am-6pm, Asheville Gallery of Art, 82 Patton Ave Olympics-themed Art Exhibitions Three exhibitions drawn from the Museum’s Collection in conjunction with the 2021 Summer Olympics. WE (8/11, 18), TH (8/12, 19), FR (8/13), SA (8/14), SU (8/15), MO (8/16), 11am, Asheville Art Museum, 2 S. Pack Square 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. Reservation recommened. TH (8/12, 19), FR (8/13), SA (8/14), 10:30am, Smith-McDowell House Museum, 283 Victoria Rd Artificial/Art Official opening reception Opening reception for exhibition by local artist James Love. FR (8/13), 7pm, Pink Dog Creative, 348 Depot St Artificial/Art Official Solo exhibition of paintings and sculptures by contemporary artist James Love. FR (813), SA (8/14), 11am-5pm, Pink Dog Creative, 348 Depot St Reception & Pickin’ in the Parlor A reception marking the official opening of Unearthing Our Forgotten Past: Fort San Juan, with refreshments, live old-time music, yard games and more. Sponsored by WNC Historical Association. WE (8/18), 5:30pm, Free, Smith-McDowell House Museum, 283 Victoria Rd Conversations with Phil Sanders, Master Painter Sanders, curator of the gallery's Picture That
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summer printmaking exhibition, will discuss his various printmaking processes and experiences helping artists. TH (8/19), 5pm, Free, Momentum Gallery , 24 N. Lexington Ave Studio 46 Grand Opening Reception Artist and gallery owner Nan Sherry debuts her work in portrait, figure, landscape and nature. Light refreshments. TH (8/19), 5pm, Free, Studio 46, 46 South Main St, Marshall
ART/CRAFT STROLLS & FAIRS The Black Wall Street MarketPlace Supporting local Blackowned businesses. SA (8/14), 10am, Grind AVL, 346 Depot St
COMMUNITY MUSIC 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 A Parisian Tango on Broadway Annual music festival presented by Hendersonville Symphony Orchestra featuring clarinet, piano, flute, double bass and drums. SA (8/14), 2pm, Free, Bo Thomas Auditorium, Blue Ridge Community College, 180 W. Campus Drive, Flat Rock The Music of Queen The Flat Rock Playhouse sponsors a performance highlighting the songs of Freddie Mercury & Co. SA (8/14), 8pm, $20-40, West Henderson High School, 3600 Haywood Rd, Hendersonville
SPOKEN & WRITTEN WORD Miss Malaprop's Storytime Recommended for ages 3-9. WE (8/11), 10am, avl.mx/a3s Jeff Zentner presents In The Wild Light in conversation with Stephanie Perkins The authors discuss Zentner's new book. Sponsored by Malaprop's. FR (8/13), 6pm, Free, Registration required, avl.mx/a6t Poetry Night Open mic poetry. Presented by the Dark City Poets Society. TU (8/17), 6pm, BAD Craft, 128 Cherry St, Black Mountain Terry Roberts Launches My Mistress' Eyes Are Raven Black, in conversation with Wayne Caldwell The authors discuss Roberts' new book. Sponsored by Malaprop's. WE (8/18), 6pm, Registration required, avl.mx/a09 Author Shannon Hitchcock and Illustrator Sophie Page launch She Sang for the Mountains Hitchock and Page discuss their new book. Sponsored by Malaprop's. TH (8/19), 7pm,Registration required, avl.mx/a6u Notorious HBC (History Book Club) Sponsored by Malaprop's. Meets the third Thursday of every month. TH (8/19), 7pm, Registration required, avl.mx/9s9
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 (8/12), FR (8/13), SA (8/14), 7:30pm, $23, The Magnetic Theatre, 375 Depot St Calliope Shorts: Firsts! Ten regional stories from local writers. Outdoors. Food and beverage available. TH (8/12), SA (8/14), 8 p.m., FR (8/13), 9pm, $9-25, Loading Dock Stage, 73 Landis St, Sylva The Sword in the Stone Local production of King Arthur legend. FR (8/13), SA (8/14), SU (8/15), 7:30pm, Free, Hazel Robinson Amphitheatre, 92 Gay St Black Box Dance Theatre Presents Patriot A performance of true stories from U.S. veterans and active-duty military and their families. SA (8/14), 7pm, $35, Wortham Center for the Performing Arts, 18 Biltmore Ave Magnetic in the (Smoky) Park Weekly outdoor variety show. TU (8/17), 7pm, $15-18, Smoky Park Supper Club, 350 Riverside Dr Summer Soundtrack Broadway hits, presented by the Asheville Area Arts Council. FR (8/19), 7:30pm, Free, Hazel Robinson Ampitheatre, 92 Gay St
CLASSES, MEETINGS & EVENTS 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
Arbor Evenings Stroll through the Arboretum’s gardens and experience the Wild Art outdoor sculpture showcase as live music plays. TH (8/12. 19), FR (8/13), 5:30pm, Free-$16, NC Arboretum, 100 Frederick Law Olmsted Way 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
Brews and Bears Featuring drinks, music and food vendors. FR (8/13), 5:30pm, WNC Nature Center, 75 Gashes Creek Rd It’s for What Ails You (Or How a Chihuahua Won’t Cure Phthisic) A Parkway ranger will discuss how and why certain traditional medicines developed in the Southern Appalachians. FR (8/13), 7:30pm, Folk Art Center, MP 382, Blue Ridge Parkway Sourwood Festival A celebration of sourwood honey with craft demos, acoustic music, pony rides and petting zoo. 100+ artisan vendors. SA (8/14), 8am, SU (8/15), 12pm, Downtown Black Mountain
American Red Cross Blood Drive Donors are asked to register in advance by visiting RedCrossBlood.org/give and entering the sponsor code AshevilleOutlets. FR (8/13), 1pm, Asheville Outlets, 800 Brevard Rd
School Supplies Drive-Thru Organizers are seeking backpacks, pencils, pens, crayons, markers, paper, glue and more. SA (8/14), 10am, First Congregational UCC of Hendersonville, 1735 5th Ave W., Hendersonville
Nature Nuts: Salamanders Classes for kids ages 5-11. Call 828-877-4423. FR (8/13), 9am, Registration required, Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education, 1401 Fish Hatchery Rd, Pisgah Forest
Sowing Circle Presents: Seed Saving with Bevin Cohen Author and seed farmer Bevin Cohen discusses the importance of saving garden seeds. SA (8/14), 10am, Registration required, avl.mx/a67
Autogas Answers Learn how to reduce costs and emissions with propane vehicles. Includes lunch and Biltmore sustainability tour. FR (8/13), 9:30am, Free$25, The Biltmore Estate, 1 Lodge St
Touch-A-Truck The city of Hendersonville offers chance for folks to get a close-up look at the city’s fire engines, police motorcycles, recycling trucks and other vehicles. Part of the LoveHendo downtown event. SA (8/14), 10am, Historic Downtown Hendersonville
Online Baha'i Sunday Devotional Virtual gathering with readings, music, prayers and conversation. A Zoom link will be sent in advance to those who register. SU (8/15), 10am, avl.mx/a4t Bike Clinic I: Basic Maintenance Matty of The Bike Shop leads a workshop in Firefly’s ongoing series on maintaining and repairing bicycles. SU (8/15), 2pm, $20-65, Asheville ReCyclery, 90 Biltmore Ave Social Contract Bridge Group For more info, contact Stefano 727-481-8103. MO (8/16), 12:30pm, Free, Senior Opportunity Center, 36 Grove St Nutrition & Joint Care: Does it Matter? Charlotte Walters, PT, leads a discussion on
Money Visioning & Goal Setting Focuses on creating realistic savings goals. Presented by OnTrack Financial Education & Counseling. TH (8/19), 5:30pm, Free, avl.mx/a34
FOOD & BEER Flat Rock Farmers Market Weekly farmers market.
TH (8/12, 19), 3pm, Flat Rock Farmers Market, 1790 Greenville Hwy, Hendersonville Westside Creative Market Local handmade goods and artwork. SA (8/14), 11am, Haywood Quick Stop, 495 Haywood Rd Jackson Arts Market Weekly event every Saturday through Dec. 18. SA (8/14), 1pm, 533 W Main St, Sylva, Sylva
Fines Creek Fish Fry Includes live music from Hill Country and River Town. All proceeds and donations go to FCCA to support community needs. SA (8/14), 5pm, $10, Fines Creek Community Center, 190 Fines Creek Rd, Clyde
RAD Farmers Market Weekly farmers market featuring more than 30 local farmers, makers, bakers and craft artisans. WE (8/18), 3pm, Pleb Urban Winery, 289 Lyman St
Meadow Market A rotation of local bakers, makers, and artisans. SU (8/15), 12pm, Highland Brewing Co., 12 Old Charlotte Hwy #200
Les-ter Farmers Market Weekly event. WE (8/18), 3:30pm, Leicester Community Center, 711 New Leicester Hwy, Leicester
Bereavement Support Group Peer-led grief support coordinated by trained and certified facilitator, Will Weintraub. RSVP is required, 412-913-0272. 21+. TU (8/17), 6pm, Woodfin YMCA, 40 N. Merrimon Ave, Suite 101 In Conversation with: A Conservation Conversation Hilary Schroeder, assistant curator for the Asheville Art Museum, discusses art and science of environmental change with Benjamin Dimmitt, artist, and Matthew McCarthy, PhD, research associate scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. TU (8/17), 7pm, $5-10, avl.mx/a17 Introduction to Fly Fishing Class for ages 12 and older. Call 828-877-4423. WE (8/18), 9am, Registration required, Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education, 1401 Fish
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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
Aurora Studio & Gallery's Fun on Friday Arts/fundraising activity for Asheville visitors. To register, text Lori Greenberg at 828-335-1038. Suggested donation. FR (8/13), 2:30pm, $20, The Refinery, 207 Coxe Ave
Glass on the Go! Sponsored by the the North Carolina Glass Center. A glass artist crafts handmade items that will be available for purchase. SA (8/14), 5pm, Wedge Brewing Co., 125 B Roberts St
Using Natural Materials in Unnatural Ways Lynn Forbes and Patti Quinn Hill of the Ichiyo School will give a demonstration of various ways to use natural materials and incorporate them into flower arrangements. TU (8/17), 10:30am, Folk Art Center, MP 382, Blue Ridge Parkway
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Introduction to Medicare - Understanding the Puzzle Sponsored by the Council on Aging of Buncombe County in conjunction with the N.C. Department of Insurance’s Seniors’ Health Insurance Information Program. TH (8/12), 2pm, avl.mx/a6x
Fun Friday for Families: Jewelry-Making Use a variety of materials to create your own jewelry. Fridays in August. FR (8/13), 1:30pm, Asheville Art Museum, 2 S. Pack Square
Raising Hatchery Trout Open to all ages. Call 828-877-4423. SA (8/14), 2pm, Registration required, Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education, 1401 Fish Hatchery Rd, Pisgah Forest
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Friends of Polk County Public Libraries Last Chance Sidewalk Sale In the Community Room. Four items for $1. TH (8/12), 11am, Columbus Library, 1289 W. Mills St, Columbus
Annual McDowell County Junior Livestock Show Open to North Carolina residents who had not turned 18 by Jan. 1. FR (8/13), 1pm, Registration required, McDowell Agricultural Center, 188 Agricultural Services Dr, Marion
Second Saturday: Movement Experiment with a variety of movement-based art-making techniques. All ages. SA (8/14), 1pm, Asheville Art Museum, 2 S. Pack Square
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Fairy Trail Stroll the Fairy Trail, which extends about 300 yards and includes tiny doors that can be opened and closed to reveal fairy life scenes. WE (8/11, 18), TH (8/12, 19), FR (8/13), SA (8/14), MO (8/16), TU (8/17), 9:30am, Bullington Gardens, 95 Upper Red Oak Trail, Hendersonville
Slow Art Friday: How I Spent My Summer Vacation Kay Dunn and Ruth Shedwick-Bryant, touring docents, lead an interactive conversation about three artworks in the Asheville Art Museum’s Collection. FR (8/13), 12pm, $10, avl.mx/a16
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Blue Cross NC expands transgender health care coverage BY JESSICA WAKEMAN jwakeman@mountainx.com Facial feminization surgery and voice lessons for transgender people are now covered by the largest health insurance provider in the state. On July 1, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina updated its policy to recognize these gender-affirming health care procedures as medically necessary. The national nonprofit Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund led advocacy for the change on behalf of two employers, Equality North Carolina and the LGBTQ Center of Durham, as well as two transgender women who were denied pre-authorization for services by Blue Cross NC. One of the women, Kathryn Vandegrift, lived in Asheville until June. Blue Cross NC’s updated policy is welcome news to transgender North Carolinans who are among the insurer’s 357,000 members in Western North Carolina, as well as health care providers who serve the LGBTQ population. Although the U.S. census does not ask about gender identity, a 2016 report by The Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law estimated that 0.6% of North Carolina’s population identifies as transgender. “It’s a human right that people have access to health care, so insurance companies should not discriminate against trans people,” says Jennifer Abbott, a physician with the TRANSition Assistance Program at Western North Carolina Community Health Services, an Asheville community health clinic. Facial surgery and voice therapy are “essential care for people who are trans,” she says.
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Psychiatric Association. Some gender-dysphoric individuals undergo medical procedures to align their body with their gender identity. Blue Cross NC’s initial policy recognized hormone therapy, breast augmentation surgery and mastectomy as medically necessary procedures under some benefit plans. It did not give the same status to facial feminization surgery or voice lessons, and members who submitted pre-service authorizations for these procedures were routinely denied. That’s what happened when Vandegrift applied for pre-service authorization for facial feminization surgery last year. In April 2020, she had started a new job in Asheville as a field organizer for the N.C. Democratic Party. The full-time position came with the option of health insurance benefits through Blue Cross NC, but she soon learned that her policy would not cover the procedure. “The word I use to describe this denial of my self-care is ‘devastating,’” she says. “Seeing that and finding out this is how they regarded our health care, it made the day very unpleasant.” Vandegrift’s experience is not uncommon. According to North Carolina data from the 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey conducted by the National Center for Transgender Equality, 21% of respondents reported a problem with their insurance in the past year related to being transgender, such as denial of coverage for care relating to gender transition. Both national and global health care organizations, however, hold that such care is critical. The American Medical Association recognizes gender-affirming care as medically necessary and evidence-based. And the World Professional Association for Transgender Health wrote in a 2016 statement that such medical procedures “are not optional in any meaningful sense, but are understood to be medically necessary for the treatment of the diagnosed condition.” WPATH’s statement continued that, in some cases, gender-affirming surgery can be the only effective treatment for gender dysphoria — and therefore, can be “lifesaving.” Of respondents to the 2015 NCTE survey, 40% had attempted suicide
COMPREHENSIVE CARE: Western North Carolina offers more gender-affirming health care providers today than it used to, says Dr. Jennifer Abbott, physician at Western North Carolina Community Health Services. Photo courtesy of WNCCHS in their lifetime, roughly nine times over the U.S. rate of 4.6%.
MAKING CHANGE
Vandegrift received Blue Cross NC’s denial in July 2020; she appealed the denial shortly thereafter and received the insurer’s denial of that appeal in September 2020. During this time, Vandegrift was referred to Noah Lewis, the trans health project director at TLDEF, who has led the nonprofit’s initiative advocacy for health insurance policy changes since early 2020. Along with pro bono lawyers and law students from the Health Justice Clinic at Duke University School of Law, TLDEF “approached Blue Cross NC to resolve this in a collaborative process,” Lewis says. Vandegrift also filed a civil rights complaint with the insurance company. Lewis says the insurer was initially unreceptive to expanding its covered services. “But as we continued to provide them with legal and medical information, they did a number of rounds of review of their policy” and made some incremental changes, he continues. “Ultimately, their review committee made the bigger change of covering facial surgeries and voice therapy.” When asked for clarification on how procedures are reviewed, Blue Cross NC spokesperson Jami Sowers wrote in a statement, “As part of an ongoing review process that includes practicing physicians both employed by and independent of Blue Cross NC, Blue Cross NC has made updates to its gender affirmation surgery and hormone therapy policy.”
Alcohol and teen parties don’t mix. Even if an adult is present, Vandegrift learned of the policy change when she received pre-service authorization for facial feminization surgery in May. In the days leading up to the procedure on July 29, she was disbelieving. “My immediate reaction was to worry that it looked too good to be true and that it wouldn’t actually happen in some way,” she says. Although Vandegrift is glad to have gotten the care she needed, she calls the past year “a long and an emotionally draining process.” She still struggles with the insurance company’s initial rejection that her surgery was a necessity. “It gets under your skin and in a way makes you doubt yourself,” she explains. “It makes you doubt your own existence of who you are, and that’s when the feelings become really bad.”
But the WNC medical community is improving at providing gender-affirming care, Abbott says. Best practices include using the correct name and pronouns while talking to patients, providing mammograms when needed and prescribing affirming hormones. WNC offers more affirming health care providers today than when Abbott began seeing transgender patients at WNCCHS 14 years ago, she says. But other areas have gaps in coverage. The clinic’s TRANSition Assistance Program serves 400 to 500 transgender patients, some of whom travel from as far as Gastonia — over 100 miles to the southeast. Gender-affirming surgeries are on the rise nationwide. Data from the American Society of Plastic Surgeons shows that from 2019 to 2020, facial surgeries for trans female patients rose 14%, from 964 to 1,102. Sex reassignment surgeries for transgender women rose during that time as well. But surgeries could be more accessible in North Carolina. Abbott’s one patient who sought facial feminization surgery went out of state for the procedure. The UNC Chapel Hill School of Medicine provides numerous gender affirming services out of its urology department; Abbott has referred a patient there for top surgery. Abbott hopes that reconstructive surgeons will get more training on how to address the needs of transgender patients in the state. “There are still barriers that need to come down so trans people can access everything they need,” she says. X
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More can be done in North Carolina to promote health care access for transgender patients, says Abbott of WNCCHS. For example, insurers could lift prior authorization requirements for some medications, especially injectable hormones. This would prevent a prescription from being denied at a pharmacy without an additional form from the prescribing physician verifying that the medication is required. Several insurance providers, including Blue Cross NC, have required her to issue prior authorization for this care, she says.
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Staffing shortages continue to plague local restaurants
BY CAYLA CLARK caylaclark73@gmail.com Editor’s note: Local restaurants continue to adjust operations based on health guidelines. Check individual websites for the latest updated requirements. Despite Gov. Roy Cooper’s May 14 executive order lifting all mandatory capacity and gathering limits, Sean Piper, owner of West Asheville’s Jargon, has kept his restaurant’s seating capacity at 50%. The decision is unrelated to ongoing health concerns. “The staffing shortage is unprecedented,” he exclaims. “In the past, we’d receive a dozen responses for a job posting. Now we’re lucky if we get even one.” Along with limited seating, Piper is currently not accepting parties larger than six. “Groups are difficult with such a limited staff,” he explains. If staffing issues persist, Piper continues, “We’ll consider closing a day or two a week.” Piper, of course, is not alone in his dilemma. Despite current state unemployment numbers showing over 230,000 without work, many in the local restaurant industry say job openings continue to go unfilled. This, paired with a growing demand from eager diners, has some in the industry reconsidering their approach and wondering what the long-term impact of the present staffing shortage will have on Asheville’s food scene.
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GLASS HALF FULL: Servers at Blue Mountain Pizza adjust to a new, postCOVID closure schedule. The Weaverville eatery will now be closed Mondays and Tuesdays; the latter is a direct result of staff shortages. Restaurant owners across WNC are being forced to adjust their hours so as to not burn out existing staff. Photo courtesy of Blue Mountain Pizza new employees — especially with the lingering financial impact of COVIDrelated closures. “The news keeps saying if restaurants paid more, more people would apply,” says Matt Danford, owner of Blue Mountain Pizza in Weaverville. Yet even with his servers making over $20 an hour, Danford notes, staffing remains a challenge. “Sign-on bonuses are taking good people away from us,” he laments. In some instances, he continues, the pizzeria has lost employees who have worked at the Weaverville restaurant for nearly a decade, lured by additional pay. “They left to get a dollar more an hour,” he says. “It’s a sticky situation because we don’t want to get in a bidding war. We have to maintain our business model. If we give one person a raise, we have to give everyone a raise, and we can’t afford to keep doing that.” On the subject of hiring bonuses, Piper adds, “We’ve chosen not to go down that road. Instead, we’ve done our best to offer competitive starting wages and raises after 90 days of employment.” Like Piper, Eric Scheffer, owner of Vinnie’s Neighborhood Italian and Jettie Rae’s Oyster House, also offers bonuses to staff members once they complete their 90-day trial period, as well as a living wage, tip share and free primary care. But such incentives, he notes, were in place before COVID-19.
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For others in the industry, the pernicious puzzle of the current staffing shortage goes beyond dollars and cents. “We’ve run into a lot of issues, like not having enough qualified applicants or having people apply, set up an interview and not show up,” says Peter Pollay, owner of Asheville eateries Posana, Bargello and District 42 George Frangos, the founder and owner of Farm Burger, echoes Pollay’s claim. “For every 10 people that apply and schedule an interview, only one shows up,” he says. “The biggest issue is that there are fewer people in the workforce.” Explanations for the shortage vary. Some restaurateurs who spoke with Xpress believe many members of the city’s younger workforce simply left the area during the pandemic and have not returned. Others expressed concern that ongoing unemployment benefits have discouraged former employees from rejoining the workforce. Current federal benefits provide $300 per week, though assistance is set to expire in September. Additionally, notes Pollay, many former workers have moved on from the food and beverage industry. “They took the time off to explore their passions and work on their personal goals, and now they’re branching out into other things,” he says.
REDUCED HOURS
Local restaurant owners note that long wait times caused by understaffing, inexperienced employees and other pandemic-related factors can lead to disgruntled and poorly behaved guests. “Most of our customers have been understanding and supportive,” Danford says. “But when we asked customers to wear a mask, servers would get berated by angry customers at least once a day. No one wants to deal with that.” Piper adds, “Many service industry employees simply got exhausted by the cruel treatment displayed by some guests.” For these reasons, restaurateurs are also navigating how to make life bearable for the dedicated employees they still have. One solution has been cutting hours, not because they can’t afford to stay open, but because they can’t afford to burn out their staff. Blue Mountain Pizza is among this group. Prior to COVID-19, the pizzeria operated six days a week; however, due to current staffing issues, it’s now closed an additional day. “We’ve had no choice,” Danford says. Farm Burger is in a similar situation. “Everyone is working hard, and extra time off is needed,” Frangos says. “Our employees need a mental and physical break. Last month we were closed for three full days so our staff could recoup. Right now, we’re about 70% staffed, and we need twice as many employees as we did six months ago.”
THE END OF AN ERA
According to Piper, one silver lining is a widespread movement toward competitive starting wages and regular raises. “I feel it’s a good thing,” he says. “There are too many places that don’t pay their employees a living wage, and folks working in the industry have had enough.” Frangos concurs. “This is an unprecedented labor issue, but it’s helping wages grow.” Scheffer, however, warns that the shortage could lead to a crashand-burn scenario and a subsequent wake-up call. “We have a responsibility to each other and to our community,” he says. “We need to work together and help one another. The moment the engine stops, the moment people stop contributing to their community and to society and start relying on someone else for their daily bread, that’s when society crumbles.” X
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VISUAL ART
Hands-on creativity
Asheville Printmakers unite for inaugural Invitational Group Show BY EDWIN ARNAUDIN earnaudin@mountainx.com Denise Markbreit has been busy. In addition to her individual artistic pursuits, the owner of Asheville Print Studio has organized a pair of group shows for the Asheville Printmakers — the first taking place at Ananda Hair Studio, 22 Broadway, and the second at her own studio inside Riverview Station, 191 Lyman St., Suite 224. “Bringing together interested members into local spaces, both commercial and art-related, has had its challenges,” says Markbreit. “But on the whole, the group embraced the prospect of showing our work in not one, but two spots in Asheville concurrently.” Both exhibitions will run through late September, and the latter — the inaugural Invitational Group Show — includes an opening reception on Saturday, Aug. 14, 4-7 p.m. Following the event, the public is invited to view the exhibit on Mondays and Thursdays-Sundays, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., or by appointment. Based on the flurry on interest, members are optimistic about introducing more people to print-based creations through these shows and via the wealth of hands-on offerings from local studios.
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Markbreit describes Asheville Printmakers as “an independent alliance of artists who express themselves through the medium of the print.” Membership encompasses experi-
TAKE ME TO THE RIVER: Local print-based artist Martha Johnson’s “Drifting Along” is one of the featured pieces in the Asheville Printmakers’ inaugural Invitational Group Show at Asheville Print Studio. Photo courtesy of the artist enced and emerging artists, who she says define “the print” broadly to encompass a wide range of processes and content, using creative approaches both traditional and experimental. “Members’ printing methods vary from relief printing, such as wood-
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block, linocut and wood engraving, to intaglio methods, such as drypoint, etching, collagraph and photogravure,” Markbreit says. “A common thread is a hands-on involvement in making prints.” She adds that group members are self-identified, with the only requirements being an interest in printmaking, the motivation to create with artistic intent and payment of a $10 annual due. Prior to the COVID19 pandemic, Asheville Printmakers met on the fourth Tuesday of every month at the Covenant Reformed Presbyterian Church, 281 Edgewood Road, but quickly adopted Zoom to keep the sessions consistent. Whether meeting in person, which resumed in July, or online, activities include sharing recent work, critiques, exhibit planning and printmaking demonstrations. Most importantly, Markbreit notes, the “gatherings and discussions inspire and energize [the artists] to create on a regular basis.”
SHOWTIME Black Mountain-based artist and Asheville Printmakers member Martha Johnson views the group as a means of “getting to know a part of the local art scene and some of its artists.” After more than 45 years of working, teaching and talking print, she prefers the term “print-based practice” to define the medium and considers it a limitless field. “I enjoy the problem-solving, the mark-making, the pauses between the physical work and the actual printing, and the peculiar logic of making art through print media,” Johnson says. Asked to identify some aspects about the craft that might surprise people, she points to its history (“Think cave art,” she explains), as well as the time involved and its indirectness. “Spend enough years in it, and you will think and write backwards with ease,” she says. Johnson will be one of over 20 artists exhibiting at the Invitational Group Show, in which the Asheville Printmakers were asked to create or share pieces no larger than 12 inches by 12 inches. She sees the collection as an opportunity for the artists to get going again after a year-plus of being apart, as well as a great excuse to see one another in person and share ideas. For attendees, she hopes that the prints instill a sense of curiosity in a discipline to which she and her colleagues have dedicated themselves. “This is a show with size constraints, so this work is a result of playing with woodblocks and metal etching plates from an ongoing series focused on environmental issues in these mountains,” Johnson says. “These are all water-themed, since I happened to be working on large works about the area where the Swannanoa River joins the French Broad.” In addition to spotlighting the Asheville Printmakers’ creations, the Invitational Group Show also serves as a potential recruiting tool for aspiring artists looking to join their ranks. Though Johnson no longer teaches, Markbreit and other participating artists provide educational opportunities in their spaces. Asheville Print Studio, which has been in operation for nearly four years, offers classes, workshops, one-to-one instruction and press rental, all within what Markbreit calls “a greener, safer working environment, using soy-based inks and no solvents for cleanup.” By passing along these long-standing approaches, she and her colleagues aim to grow Asheville Printmakers’ membership base and turn the Invitational Group Show into an annual event. For more information, visit avl.mx/a51. X
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Noble Cider’s Greenhouse Bar and Bistro on Rankin Avenue closed to the public in March 2020. During the downtime, management reconceived its year-old restaurant as Noble Cider Downtown Taproom, which celebrated its official opening on July 28. The Greenhouse’s birds-of-paradise wallpaper is gone, and the pale green and flamingo-pink walls have been repainted blue and gold. “We wanted the cidery’s mission statement — true to the core — consistent through the kitchen, with good-quality pub fare staying as local as possible to support our community,” explains retail manager Thyra Folkard. In June, Folkard hired executive chef Cindy Norman, most recently of Jettie Rae’s Oyster House. Along with carrying out the company’s locally focused mission, Norman is incorporating ciders into the menu’s food recipes and creating dishes complementary to cider pairings. “We collaborated as a team to work on the menu, but Cindy crafted everything,” Folkard says. Local purveyors featured on the new menu include Hickory Nut Gap Farm, Joyce Farms, Annie’s Bakery, Sandy Bee Mine Honey, Spicewalla and Lusty Monk. In addition to cider, the drinks menu features several local beers and jun from Shanti Elixirs. And diners shouldn’t skip dessert: Folkard and Norman tested many versions of apple cider doughnuts and determined that doughnut holes with bourbon hard cider sauce for dipping hit the sweet spot. Noble Cider Downtown Taproom, 49 Rankin Ave. Learn more at avl.mx/a48.
Family values
Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project launched Appalachian Farms Feeding Families program in 2020 in response to hardships experienced by community members and farmers impacted by COVID-19. Thanks to a $500,000 grant awarded in late June by the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina Foundation, AFFF will double food purchasing through the program and be able to add more food relief sites as need is identified. The program pays farmers to grow and deliver fresh fruits and vegetables directly to food relief sites within their communities. Currently, the AFFF program serves 56 feeding sites, purchasing products from 47
Noble Cider reimagines its downtown location up with the goal of giving Leicester vendors foremost an affordable place to sell their goods and for people in our community to have access to local, fresh-grown and freshly made products.” Vendors will offer produce, eggs, goat cheese, honey, flowers, fresh meat, herbs and bread. Leicester Community Center, 2979 New Leicester Highway. Learn more at avl.mx/a4c .
BOARD MEETING: Noble Cider Downtown Tap Room executive chef Cindy Normand, left, and retail manager Thyra Folkard show off the newly reopened restaurant’s charcuterie board. Photo by Steven Bivens farms in 22 Western North Carolina counties. Last growing season, the program provided fresh, local food to 3,000 to 4,000 families. “Farms are directly able to serve the communities they call home,” notes David Smiley, ASAP’s Local Food Campaign program manager. “The program allows them to deliver higher volumes and greater diversity.” For more information, visit avl.mx/a52.
Growing community The Lester Farmers Market began as a front porch conversation among four Leicester women who reached out to other people with their idea, eventually connecting with the Leicester Community Center. “They made a request to our board to use our facility, we granted it, and it just grew from there,” recalls Marie Whitener, president of
Leicester Community Center, where the new tailgate market debuted Aug. 4. Nearly 20 local vendors are participating rain or shine every Wednesday, 3:30-6:30 p.m. “There are a lot of markets in the region,” Whitener says. “This was set
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Raising the bar
In July, Garden & Gun’s list of Best Cocktail Bars of the South included Asheville bar Little Jumbo, which opened in Five Points in November 2017. Owners Lucia and Chall Gray and Jay Sanders got the big news from the magazine’s spirits editor, Wayne Curtis, in April, just as they were reopening the bar to on-site guests. As Garden & Gun notes in its write-up, Little Jumbo spent much of the 387 days it was closed (not that the owners were counting) conducting research and development. The bar’s latest beverage, Whiskey Daisy — a combination of bourbon, Punt e Mes, yellow chartreuse, lemon, sugar and strawberry — has already established itself as a favorite among popular originals like Hello Friday, Paloma Brillante, Foxyhot and the 1870s Old Fashioned. “We are incredibly honored to be on this list,” says Chall Gray. “We are in the company of some of our absolute favorite bars in the South.” 241 Broadway. For more information, visit avl.mx/a4b .
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Women and Wine, a networking group created in 2019 by sommelier and owner of the now-closed Rustic Grape, Melissa Ward, has resumed monthly in-person meetings at rotating locations. The next gathering takes place 5:30-7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 17, at Urban Orchard and will highlight ciders made by co-owner Josie Mielke, as well as women-made wines. Beverages must be purchased but complimentary snacks will be available. Laura Webb, a certified financial planner, will speak at the event. Urban Orchard, 24 Buxton Ave. Admission is free, but guests must register in advance at avl.mx/a4d.
On Aug. 1, chef Hayette Bouras cooked the final vegan Cuban, Philly cheesesteak and Westside hot mess in the tiny kitchen of Sunflower Diner, the breakfast and lunch café she opened in the West Village Market in fall 2019. Like every other hospitality-based business, Sunflower struggled to navigate COVID-19 restrictions and protocols, but a commitment to go 100% vegan in October 2020 was a tremendous success. Business surged with implementation of a takeout model, carrying over into the reopening of onsite dining earlier this year. That’s the good news, and for the legion of Sunflower regulars, the bad. “We have grown so much it’s just not practical to be in the market any longer,” says Bouras. “It has lived its life in this spot.” Though she is not sure what the future holds other than a vacation and her September wedding, Bouras intends to resume hosting the popup events she did before opening Sunflower. She will also do more vegan baking as she looks for another spot. The Sunflower Diner, says West Village Market owner Rosanne Kiely, will be sorely missed. But Kiely notes that there are positive plans for the space. “We look forward to spreading out to make the market easier to navigate,” she says. “Some of the things we’re planning are amping up our grab-and-go deli options with many vegan selections and possibly a hot bar, [as well as] growing our vegan refrigerated and frozen options and expanding out bulk section of food and nonfood to maintain our focus on shopping sustainably. There’s lots to look forward to.” West Village Market, 771 Haywood Road. Learn more at avl.mx/a58.
Garden party
On Saturday, Aug. 14, at 10 a.m., neighborhood cooks will tie on their aprons and use produce fresh-picked from the Fairview Road Resilience Garden to demonstrate easy, onepan healthy meals that can feed a family of four for less than $20. The demo stage will be set up on the perimeter of the garden. The garden was established in spring 2020 when Oakley residents transformed 4,000 square feet into 15 garden plots with the purpose of providing fresh produce to neighbors facing food insecurity. Volunteers water, maintain and harvest the vegetables that are distributed by Bounty & Soul nonprofit. Home cooks interested in sharing their one-pan recipes can contact organizers in advance for more information at fairviewroadresiliencegarden@gmail.com. The public is invited to attend, taste the dishes and tour the garden at 461 Fairview Road. To learn more, visit avl.mx/a4e.
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Asheville Contemporary Dance Theatre returns to indoor shows For nearly a year and a half, members of the Asheville Contemporary Dance Theatre couldn’t perform inside due to COVID-19 restrictions. So they headed outdoors. Members danced in creeks, parking decks, parks, factories, forests and numerous other places. “We decided to start showing up in places all over town and just improvise, not necessarily for other people to watch, but for us to move and connect as a group and experiment,” says choreographer Sharon Cooper. “Some days we had live music, some we used the background noises, some days we made our own sound.” The ACDT now is preparing to greet live audiences again. Its new show, Inside, Not Out, will mark the first performances at the BeBe Theatre since March 2020. The show, which includes separate pieces choreographed by Cooper, Melissa Wilhoit and Susan Collard, will run Friday-Sunday, Aug. 27-29, at 7:30 p.m. “During the shutdown, I had so many inspirations, ideas and thoughts for new work and felt like I needed to create a piece,” Cooper says. “When this opportunity came up, there was no way I could say no. The entire rehearsal process has been wonderful. I missed it so much.” Each part of the show will address social issues, including Cooper’s piece, which expresses her feelings about the experience of living through a pandemic. The theater is limiting seating to 27 people per performance, and it has put multiple high-quality air filters in place. “I hope this return to the theater makes people appreciate the performing arts and how important they are to our community,” Cooper says. The BeBe Theatre is at 20 Commerce St. For more information, visit avl.mx/a5i.
Living history
For many older residents, the name Shiloh evokes two distinct Asheville communities. There is new Shiloh, located between Hendersonville and Sweeten Creek roads, bounded on the north by Interstate 40 and on the
south by Rock Hill Road. Then there is old Shiloh, the community formed by newly freed slaves after the Civil War and later mostly displaced by construction of the Biltmore Estate and I-40. Both communities will be discussed during Shiloh, Past and Present, a virtual panel presented by the Western North Carolina Historical Association and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute on Thursday, Aug. 12, 6:30-8 p.m. “I think Shiloh, being one of the oldest historically Black communities in Asheville, has fostered a strong sense of place for many residents,” says Trevor Freeman, public programs director for the historical association. “Its status as a community for many African Americans after the Civil War to live and connect, its changes over time, its connection with the Vanderbilts and Biltmore, and its modern identity all reveal more about Asheville, and specifically the people who have contributed greatly to the city and region whose presence and stories have not always been widely documented.” Panelists for the event include Anita White-Carter, who grew up in Shiloh and has spent most of her adult years in the community, and Maria “Ria” Young, a Shiloh native who is an activist, director, writer, author, screenwriter and playwright. The panelists represent different generations with unique insights and thoughts on Shiloh’s past and future, Freeman notes. JeffersonEllisonofJAWBREAKING Creative will moderate the panel. To register, visit avl.mx/a5m.
Fairy trails can come true
If you believe in fairies, clap your hands. If you don’t, take a journey to Hendersonville’s Bullington Gardens — you may change your mind. The Fairy Trail started about four years ago as a way to entice families to visit Bullington Gardens and cultivate an interest in gardening, says Annie Higgins, administrative director. The whimsical trail winds along a wooded path for about 300 yards and includes the homes and villages of fairies and gnomes, all prepared by volunteers. It is open through the end of August, Monday-Saturday, 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m. “The smaller you are, the easier it is to peek into the windows of each house to see what is going on inside,” Higgins says. “Is dinner being prepared? Is someone taking a nap? Is that a vegetable garden next to the house?”
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DANCE LIKE SOMEONE IS WATCHING: Angela Gorman and other members of the Asheville Contemporary Dance Theatre will perform at the BeBe Theatre for the first time since COVID-19 shut down performances in 2020. Photo courtesy of Jenbenmedia Visitors are sent through the trail in 10-minute intervals on a first-come, first-served basis, and short waits aren’t uncommon. This year’s trail includes four new installations: the Fairy Queens Castle, Ivy Patch Fun Park, the International Church of Peace and the Sponsor’s Fairy Doors. Bullington Gardens is at 95 Upper Red Oak Trail, Hendersonville. For more information, visit avl.mx/a5o.
Touch a Truck
Last year, Hendersonville city officials had an idea: What if they gave people a chance to get a close-up look at the city’s fire engines, police motorcycles, recycling trucks and other vehicles? After all, kids love that kind of cool stuff. And some people who are, ahem, no longer kids do as well. Unfortunately, COVID-19 put an end to plans to have such an event in 2020. Fast-forward a year, and Touch a Truck is a go. It will be part of the city’s LoveHendo downtown event on Saturday, Aug. 14, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., on Main Street. “Our HR coordinator, Lu Ann Welter, developed the idea for children to receive a passport and go on a scavenger hunt of sorts,” says Allison Justus, the city’s communications manager. “They will have the chance to visit and learn about each truck and receive a prize at the end of their journey.” Kids also will get to meet the police officers, firefighters and technicians who use the equipment.
Black Mountain’s annual Sourwood Festival, which was canceled in 2020, is back this year but with a new feel and look. “The focus is more on arts and crafts and less on manufactured products,” says Sharon Tabor, executive director of the Black Mountain-Swannanoa Chamber of Commerce. The downtown festival, which started in 1977, also has changed its vendor footprint and will have music on Black Mountain Avenue instead of Sutton Avenue. Organizers have added an Appalachian heritage component, with craft demonstrations, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., and music, starting at 2 p.m., in Town Square on Saturday, Aug. 14. Performers include Sorella Jack, Ashley Heath, The Circuit Rider and The Dashers. And during the festival’s second and final day, musicians Christina Chandler and Madelyn Ilana will perform on Cherry Street at 1 p.m. and 3 p.m., respectively. This marks the first time the festival has featured music on Cherry Street. About 100 craft and artisan vendors will be selling items on Sutton Avenue, Bank Drive, Black Mountain Avenue and SunTrust Bank, 200 N.C. 9, Black Mountain. Honey sellers will be prominently featured. The Sourwood Festival runs 9 a.m.8 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 14, and 9 a.m.-5 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 15. For more information, visit avl.mx/a5w.
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The Western Carolina University Fine Art Museum at Bardo Arts Center has received a rare distinction. The museum has been accredited by the American Alliance of Museums. “American Alliance of Museum accreditation signifies excellence to the museum community, to governments, funders, outside agencies and to the museum-going public,” WCU states in a press release. Only about 1,080 of the nation’s 33,000 museums are accredited, and out of that, only 16% are university museums, the press release continues. The WCU Fine Art Museum is one of only 28 museums accredited in North Carolina, and one of three accredited museums in the UNC system.
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11 185 KING STREET Trivia Night, 7pm 305 LOUNGE & EATERY Mark Fisher (solo acoustic), 1pm ASHEVILLE BEAUTY ACADEMY 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 FBO AT HOMINY CREEK Old Timey Jam by the River (musical collaboration), 6pm HANDLEBAR & GRILL Ladies Night Karaoke, 7pm HAZEL ROBINSON AMPHITHEATRE Sam Bush Band (bluegrass), 6pm ICONIC KITCHEN & DRINKS Marc Keller (acoustic), 6pm MILLS RIVER BREWING Open Mic Night, 6pm MYSTIC DOME STUDIO Open Jam in the Dome (open mic), 6:30pm OFF THE WAGON All Request Piano Show, 8pm OKLAWAHA BREWING CO. French Broad Valley Mountain Music Jam, 6pm ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Free Anesthesia (psychedelic power trio), 9pm
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
THURSDAY, AUGUST 12 131 MAIN Aaron LaFalce (soul, rock, pop), 6pm 305 LOUNGE & EATERY Bob Sherill (singer-songwriter), 1pm
DREW-GRASS: Asheville’s Drew Matulich will host local and nationally known musicians Thursday, Aug. 12, and Thursday, Aug. 19, 7-9 p.m. as part of Jack of the Wood’s weekly Bluegrass Jam. The jam is a long-standing tradition in downtown Asheville. Pictured, from left, are James Schlender, Matulich, Darren Nicholson and Derek Vaden. Photo by Andy Hall
ASHEVILLE BEAUTY ACADEMY Salsa Night, 9:30pm
RABBIT RABBIT Sunset Rooftop Comedy Show, 8pm
ASHEVILLE CLUB Mr Jimmy (blues), 7-9pm
RYE KNOT KITCHEN BREWERY DISTILLERY Chris Flanders (acoustic), 6pm
ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Will Ray & the Space Cooties (rock), 7:30pm BEN'S TUNE UP Offended! Open Mic (comedy), 9:30pm BLACK MOUNTAIN VETERANS PARK Park Rhythms w/Brad Faulkner (country, Americana), 6pm CASCADE LOUNGE Team Trivia, 7:30pm CATAWBA BREWING SOUTH SLOPE Weekly Trivia w/Billy Nesbit, 6:30pm GINGER'S REVENGE CRAFT BREWERY & TASTING ROOM Best Served Cold (open mic comedy), 6pm ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Marbin (jazz, funk, blues), 7pm
SALVAGE STATION Pleasure Chest (blues, soul, rock), 7pm SLY GROG LOUNGE Devastation at the Grog: Systemic Devastation, Nameless Anonymous, Digit, Black Market Currency (metal), 7pm SWEETEN CREEK BREWING Open Mic, 6pm THE GREY EAGLE Muscadine Bloodline (country), 9pm THE JOINT NEXT DOOR Rod Sphere (rock), 5:30pm TRISKELION BREWING CO. Open Mic Night, 7pm
FRIDAY, AUGUST 13 185 KING STREET Brushfire Stankgrass (bluegrass), 8pm
ONE WORLD BREWING Latin Night Wednesday, 9pm
MILLS RIVER BREWING Funky Ass Trio Jam (funk), 6pm
ONE WORLD BREWING WEST Blooming Bass w/DJ Ephcto (cultural bass), 6:30pm
OFF THE WAGON All Request Piano Show, 8pm
ASHEVILLE BEAUTY ACADEMY Everybody Free Dance Party, 10pm
SILVERADOS Open Mic Night, 7pm SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BREWERY Jazz Night w/Jason DeCristofaro, 5:30pm SWEETEN CREEK BREWING Witty Wednesday Trivia, 6:30pm
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JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Bluegrass Jam w/Drew & the Boys (bluegrass), 7pm
RABBIT RABBIT Trivia Night, 6:30pm
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ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL UCW Rap And Wrestling 6: Back to Business at AVL Music Hall, 6pm ATTIC SALT THEATRE Ritch Shydner’s History of Stand-up Comedy, Part 1, 8pm BEN'S TUNE UP DJ Kilby Spinning Vinyl (throwback dance party), 10pm BLACK MOUNTAIN CENTER FOR THE ARTS Pickin’ on the Porch w/ Laura Boswell (folk), 5pm
BLUE GHOST BREWING COMPANY Super 60s (oldies), 6:30pm
SLY GROG LOUNGE Cardinal Lake Album Release Show w/Armadilla & Shutterings, 7pm
ATTIC SALT THEATRE Ritch Shydner’s History of Stand-up Comedy, Part 2, 8pm
BRIDGE PARK Concerts on the Creek w/The Get Right Band (psychedelic, indie rock), 7pm
SWEETEN CREEK BREWING Jake Burns (acoustic, singer-songwriter), 6pm
BATTERY PARK BOOK EXCHANGE Dinah's Daydream (jazz), 5pm
THE DUGOUT The Loudes (punk, folk, rock), 8pm
BURNTSHIRT VINYARDS CHIMNEY ROCK Clay Johnson (acoustic), 2pm
BURNTSHIRT VINYARDS CHIMNEY ROCK LyriSmith (acoustic duo), 5pm DRY FALLS BREWING CO. Haphazard (oldies, classic rock, Southern rock), 7pm HENDERSONVILLE VISITOR CENTER Music On Main Concert Series, 7pm ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 • Carolina Story (acoustic, folk rock), 7pm • Amy Steinberg w/Ash Ruiz (singer-songwriter, comedy), 8:30pm JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Sons of Ralph (bluegrass), 7:30pm ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Free Dead Friday w/Gus & Friends (Grateful Dead tribute), 6:15PM POINT LOOKOUT VINEYARDS Too Much Sylvia (beach music), 7:30pm ROGERS PARK Summer Tracks w/ Amanda Anne Platt & The Honeycutters (Americana), 7pm SALVAGE STATION Manic Focus (EDM), 8pm SAWYER SPRINGS VINEYARD Myron Hyman (classic rock, blues), 2:30pm SILVERADOS The Lacs (country rap), 7pm
THE GETAWAY TIKI BAR Getaway Comedy w/ Joyelle Nicole Johnson, 8pm THE GREY EAGLE • Call The Next Witness (rock), 5pm, • Buck Ownens Tribute w/The Old Chevrolette Set, The Clydes (country), 8pm THE ODDITORIUM Bold Burlesque Presents SMUT, 8pm THE ORANGE PEEL Enrage Against the Machine (indie rock), 9pm TRISKELION BREWING CO. Andrew Thelston Band (rock, psychedelic, blues), 7:30pm WILD WING CAFE SOUTH Commodore Fox (rock, dance), 8:30pm
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185 KING STREET The Get Right Band (psychedelic, indie rock), 8pm
RYE KNOT KITCHEN BREWERY DISTILLERY Commodore Fox (rock, dance), 4pm
ASHEVILLE BEAUTY ACADEMY Getaway Comedy w/ Joyelle Nicole Johnson, 7pm
SALVAGE STATION Natti Love Joys (reggae), 6:30pm
ASHEVILLE CLUB Kyle Corbett (acoustic), 6:30pm
SWEETEN CREEK BREWING Perry Wing Combo (Americana, bluegrass, rock), 5pm
ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Kamani (funk), 9pm
THE DUGOUT Ricky Gunter Band (country), 6pm
THE GREY EAGLE • Will Easter & The Nomads w/Jon Charles Dwyer (folk, grunge grass), 5pm • Tribute: A Celebration of The Allman Brothers Band (Southern rock), 9pm THE ODDITORIUM Party Foul Outdoor Drag, 7pm THE ORANGE PEEL Minnesota (dubstep, trap), 9pm TRISKELION BREWING CO. Myron Hyman (classic rock, blues), 2:30pm TURGUA BREWING CO. Cynthia McDermott (jazz, r&b), 5pm
SUNDAY, AUGUST 15 ARCHETYPE BREWING Sunday Sessions w/Nick Colavito (folks, blues), 3pm ASHEVILLE BEAUTY ACADEMY • Life's a Drag Brunch in Downtown, 11:30am • Sunday Dance Party w/ DJ RexxStep, 10pm 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 Rush Morgan (folk rock, Americana), 2pm HOME GROUND COFFEE BAR & DELI Bluegrass Brunch Shindig w/Supper Break, 11:30am
RIVERSIDE RHAPSODY BEER CO. Drinkin' & Thinkin' Trivia w/Allie & Alex, 5:30pm SALVAGE STATION Phuncle Sam (Grateful Dead tribute), 7pm
HIGHLAND BREWING CO. Music Bingo, 6pm
MYSTIC DOME STUDIO Open Jam in the Dome (open mic), 6:30pm
ASHEVILLE BEAUTY ACADEMY Salsa Night, 9:30pm
MILLS RIVER BREWING Weekly Trivia Night, 6pm
ODDITORIUM EMO NIGHT w/Bumpin' Uglies
ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR The 40, 20, 10s (Americana), 7:30pm
OFF THE WAGON All Request Piano Show, 8pm
ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL VEIL B2B NotLö (edm), 7pm
OKLAWAHA BREWING CO. Team Trivia, 7pm
SLY GROG LOUNGE Open Mic w/Mike, 6pm
ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Early Tuesday Jam w/ The Trilateral Omission (funk), 8pm
SWEETEN CREEK BREWING Hot Club AVL (gypsy jazz, swing), 5pm THE DUGOUT Daisy Chain (country), 3pm THE GREY EAGLE Stephen Evans & The True Grits (folk rock), 6pm THE OMNI GROVE PARK INN Bruce Lang (guitar, vocals), 7pm THE ORANGE PEEL Shuffle Up! w/Nex Millen, Strongmagnumopus, Dayowulf (EDM), 9pm
ONE WORLD BREWING WEST Grateful Family Band (jam), 6pm
ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Free Anesthesia (psychedelic power trio), 9pm
THE GREY EAGLE Dustbowl Revival (American roots), 8pm
ONE WORLD BREWING Latin Night Wednesday, 9pm
TRISKELION BREWING CO. Irish Session w/Connell Sanderson (Celtic), 7pm
ONE WORLD BREWING WEST Blooming Bass w/DJ Ephcto (cultural bass), 6:30pm
WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Open Mic at White Horse, 7pm
TURGUA BREWING CO. Anya Hinkle (bluegrass, folk), 4pm
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WHISTLE HOP BREWING CO. Laura Thurston (acoustic folk grass), 6pm
185 KING STREET Trivia Night, 7pm 305 LOUNGE & EATERY Mark Fisher (solo acoustic), 1pm
MONDAY, AUGUST 16
ASHEVILLE BEAUTY ACADEMY • Beauty Parlor Comedy w/Hunter Roberts, 7pm • Move On Up: Soul/R&B Night, 9pm
ASHEVILLE CLUB Freshen Up (comedy, open mic), 7pm HENDERSONVILLE VISITOR CENTER Monday Night Live! w/ Picante (Latin), 7pm
ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Stand-Up Comedy Open Mic, 8pm
HIGHLAND BREWING CO. Mitch's Totally Rad Trivia, 6pm
ATTIC SALT THEATRE The SuperHappy Trivia Challenge, 7pm
OKLAWAHA BREWING CO. House of SYNth (electro), 6:30pm
BEN'S TUNE UP Big Blue (jam), 8pm BLACK MOUNTAIN BREWING Jay Brown (roots), 6pm
ONE WORLD BREWING WEST Trivia Night, 6pm
CASCADE LOUNGE Open Bluegrass Jam, 12am
TUESDAY, AUGUST 17
ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Peggy Ratusz (blues, oldies), 7pm
305 LOUNGE & EATERY Bob Sherill (singer-songwriter), 1pm
FBO AT HOMINY CREEK Old Timey Jam by the River (musical collaboration), 6pm
JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Bluegrass Brunch, 12pm
ANTIDOTE The Little Posey Trio (jazz, swing), 6pm
HANDLEBAR & GRILL Ladies Night Karaoke, 7pm
OFF THE WAGON All Request Piano Show, 8pm
ASHEVILLE BEAUTY ACADEMY • Drag Bingo w/Calcutta, 8pm • Aquanet: Goth Night, 9pm
HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Jenny Bradley, David Earl Tomlinson (singer-songwriters), 6pm
ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Shakedown Sundays (rock, jam band), 7pm ONE WORLD BREWING Jazz Jam Brunch (jazz), 1:30pm
GETAWAY RIVER BAR Turntable Tuesday, 10pm GREEN MAN BREWERY Old Time Jam (musical collaboration), 3pm
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BEN'S TUNE UP Offended! Open Mic (comedy), 9:30pm CASCADE LOUNGE Team Trivia, 7:30pm DOWNTOWN HENDERSONVILLE SOUTH MAIN STREET Rhythm & Brews Concert Series w/Jamie McLean Band (Americana, blues, soul), 5:30pm GINGER'S REVENGE CRAFT BREWERY & TASTING ROOM Best Served Cold Open Mic Comedy, 6pm ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Heather Pierson Acoustic Trio (folk), 7pm JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Bluegrass Jam w/Drew & the Boys (bluegrass), 7pm MILLS RIVER BREWING Funky Ass Trio Jam (funk), 6pm OFF THE WAGON All Request Piano Show, 8pm
ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Phursdays w/Gunslinging Parrots (Phish tribute), 9pm PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Hunter Begley & Eric Ledford (Americana), 6:30pm RABBIT RABBIT Sunset Rooftop Comedy Show, 8pm RYE KNOT KITCHEN BREWERY DISTILLERY Chris Flanders (acoustic), 6pm SWEETEN CREEK BREWING Open Mic, 6pm THE GREY EAGLE Morgan Geer (Americana), 6pm Scott H. Biram (rock, blues, classic country), 9pm THE GROCERY The Blushin' Roulettes (folk), 7pm THE JOINT NEXT DOOR Rod Sphere (rock), 5:30pm THE ODDITORIUM Yatra (Doom), Svbhollow, Cave Grave (metal), 9pm TRISKELION BREWING CO. Open Mic Night, 7pm WHISTLE HOP BREWING CO. Jazz and Wine Night w/ Adi the Monk, 6pm
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 19 131 MAIN Aaron LaFalce (soul, rock, pop), 6pm 185 KING STREET Alexa Rose (Americana), 7pm 305 LOUNGE & EATERY Bob Sherill (singer-songwriter), 1pm
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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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FREEWILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Consecrate” isn’t a word you often encounter in intellectual circles. In my home country of America, many otherwise smart people spurn the possibility that we might want to make things sacred. And a lot of art aspires to do the opposite of consecration: strip the world of holiness and mock the urge to commune with sanctified experiences. But filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922–1975) expressed a contradictory view. He wrote, “I am not interested in deconsecrating: that’s a fashion I hate. I want to reconsecrate things as much as possible, I want to re-mythicize them.” In accordance with astrological omens, Aries, I invite you to look for opportunities to do the same. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Anaïs Nin wrote, “I don’t want worship. I want understanding.” George Orwell said, “Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.” Poet Marina Tsvetaeva declared, “For as long as I can remember, I thought I wanted to be loved. Now I know: I don’t need love, I need understanding.” Here’s what I’ll add, Taurus: If you ask for understanding and seek it out, a wealth of it will be available to you in the coming weeks. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The English idiom “playing hard to get” means “pretending to be unavailable or uninterested so as to make oneself more attractive or desirable.” Psychologists say this strategy often works, although it’s crucial not to go too far and make your pursuer lose interest. Seventeenth-century philosopher Baltasar Gracián expressed the concept more philosophically. He said, “Leave people hungry. Even with physical thirst, good taste’s trick is to stimulate it, not quench it. What’s good, if sparse, is twice as good. A surfeit of pleasure is dangerous, for it occasions disdain even towards what’s undisputedly excellent. Hard-won happiness is twice as enjoyable.” I suggest you consider deploying these strategies, Gemini. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Painter John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) sometimes worked alongside painter Claude Monet (1840–1926) at Monet’s home. He sought the older man’s guidance. Before their first session, Sargent realized there was no black among the paint colors Monet gave him to work with. What?! Monet didn’t use black? Sargent was shocked. He couldn’t imagine painting without black. And yet, he did fine without it. In fact, the apparent limitation compelled him to be creative in ways he hadn’t previously imagined. What would be your metaphorical equivalent, Cancerian: a limitation that inspires? LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): According to Leo author Guy de Maupassant, “We are in the habit of using our eyes only with the memory of what people before us have thought about the things we are looking at.” That’s too bad. It causes us to miss a lot of life’s richness. In fact, said de Maupassant, “There is an element of the unexplored in everything. The smallest thing contains a little of what is unknown.” Your assignment in the next two weeks, Leo, is to take his thoughts to heart. In every experience, engage “with enough attention to find an aspect of it that no one has ever seen or spoken of.” You are in a phase when you could discover and enjoy record-breaking levels of novelty. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Poet Brigit Pegeen Kelly wrote a poem I want you to know about. She described how, when she was a child, she stayed up all night picking peaches from her father’s orchard by starlight. For hours, she climbed up and down the ladder. Her hands “twisted fruit” as if she “were entering a thousand doors.” When the stars faded and morning arrived, her insides felt like “the stillness a bell possesses just after it has been rung.” That’s the kind of experience I wish for you in the coming days, Virgo. I know it can’t be exactly the same. Can you imagine what the nearest equivalent might be? Make it happen!
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Ancient Greek philosopher Plato mistrusted laughter, poetry, bright colors and artists who used bright colors. All those soulful activities influenced people to be emotional, Plato thought, and therefore represented a threat to rational, orderly society. Wow! I’m glad I don’t live in a culture descended from Plato! Oh, wait, I do. His writing is foundational to Western thought. One modern philosopher declared, “The European philosophical tradition consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.” Anyway, I’m counseling you to rebel against Plato in the coming weeks. You especially need experiences that awaken and please and highlight your feelings. Contrary to Plato’s fears, doing this will boost your intelligence and enhance your decision-making powers. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): A biography of Nobel Prize-winning Scorpio author Albert Camus noted that he had two modes. They are summed up in the French words solidaire (“unity”) and solitaire (“solitary”). When Camus was in a solidaire phase, he immersed himself in convivial engagement, enjoying the pleasures of socializing. But when he decided it was time to work hard on writing his books, he retreated into a monastic routine to marshal intense creativity. According to my astrological analysis, you Scorpios are currently in the solidaire phase of your rhythm. Enjoy it to the max! When might the next solitaire phase come? October could be such a time. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): During the 76 years since the end of World War II, Italy has had 69 different governments. That’s a great deal of turnover! Is it a strength or weakness to have so many changes in leadership? On the one hand, such flexibility could be an asset; it might be wise to keep reinventing the power structure as circumstances shift. On the other hand, having so little continuity and stability may undermine confidence and generate stressful uncertainty. I bring this to your attention, Sagittarius, because you’re entering a phase when you could be as changeable as Italy. Is that what you want? Would it serve you or undermine you? Make a conscious choice. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Capricorn actor Nicholas Browne testifies, “My heart is too full; it overflows onto everything I see. I am drowning in my own heart. I’ve plunged into the deepness of emotion and I don’t see any way back up. Still, I pray no one comes to save me.” I’m guessing that his profound capacity to feel and express emotions serves Browne well in his craft. While I don’t recommend such a deep immersion for you 24/7/365, I suspect you’ll be wise to embark on such an excursion during the next three weeks. Have fun diving! How deep can you go? AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In accordance with current astrological omens, I’m calling on author Byron Katie to offer you a message. Is it infused with tough love or sweet encouragement? Both! Here’s Katie: “When you realize that suffering and discomfort are the call to inquiry, you may actually begin to look forward to uncomfortable feelings. You may even experience them as friends coming to show you what you have not yet investigated thoroughly enough.” Get ready to dive deeper than you’ve dared to go before, Aquarius. I guarantee you it will ultimately become fun and educational. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In August 1922, author Nikos Kazantzakis wrote this triumphant declaration: “All day today I’ve had the most gentle, quivering joy, because I’m beginning to heal. Consciously, happily, I feel that I am being born anew, that I am beginning once again to take possession of the light.” On behalf of the cosmic powers-that-be, I authorize you to use these words as your own in the coming weeks. They capture transformations that are in the works for you. By speaking Kazantzakis’ declarations aloud several times every day, you will ensure that his experience will be yours, too.
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