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The one way forward is Medicare for all In response to Rebecca Crandall’s recent letter regarding Rep. Patrick McHenry’s 10th Congressional District town hall meetings [“Brown Will Help Middle- and Lower-Class Families,” Aug. 22, Xpress]: I agree with her assessment — the Buncombe County venues are usually scheduled at inconvenient times for those who work (10 a.m.-2 p.m.) and in limited spaces. I went to his Shelby town hall meeting at the historic Don Gibson Theatre. Compare this to the Riceville fire station for his recent August meeting in Buncombe. Nobody had to wait outside at the Shelby venue. On a positive note: Rep. McHenry allows constituents to ask their own questions, in stark contrast to Rep. Mark Meadows (District 11), where all questions are screened by his staff as a way to control the process. I find this violates the “spirit” of a town hall, which allows for the “voice” of the people, as in We the People. My comments for Rep. McHenry addressed the current health care crisis in the U.S. He proposes that recent legislation in the House to modernize and improve access to health savings accounts will reduce the costs of health care but fails to explain these accounts are short-term, to be renewed annually; may not cover pre-existing conditions or the cost of drugs. Nor does it save us from the “hell” of choosing the best “deal” from the maze of constantly changing health insurance plans. Health savings accounts will not fix our broken health care system or slow the rising costs of health care. In 2017, Americans spent $3.5 trillion on health care. According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, health care costs will rise 5.5 percent annually through 2026. Americans are tired of paying too much for health care. We are fed up with politicians pursuing partial and incremental solutions, such as health savings accounts. For many of us, it looks like health insurers, drug manufacturers and highly paid lobbyists corrupt our democracy. I could go on: how the U.S. spends over twice as much per capita on health care as any 6
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C A R T O O N B Y I R E NE O L DS other developed country; that 62 percent of all personal bankruptcies are due to medical expenses, etc. There is only one way forward: Medicare for All. For the first time a majority of Americans now support an Expanded Medicare for All, which was introduced in the House in 2016 (HR 676) and now has 123 co-sponsors. David Wilson Brown, the Democratic challenger to McHenry, supports this legislation. I hope this will be part of any public debate between the candidates and before early voting starts on Oct. 17. Lastly, for anybody interested in health care for all, there will be a screening of “FIX IT: Healthcare at the Tipping Point,” on Sept. 11 at Habitat Tavern & Commons [174 Broadway] in Asheville at 7 p.m. This will be followed by a discussion, led by local physician members of the national organization, Physicians for a National Health Program (pnhp.org). — Roger Turner Asheville
‘Inconsiderate protest’ accomplished goal Chris Carter’s letter titled “An Inconsiderate Protest” [Aug. 22, Xpress] regarding the small assembly of activists in a Biltmore Village restaurant during Charles Lee’s “whole hog butchery” cuisine highlights exactly why disruptive tactics are needed in the animal rights movement in the first place. If he had any knowledge of social justice movements, he would understand that most successful ones have used these forms of
protest. What about the sit-ins of the civil rights movement? You will probably say this was a worthier cause, because by now our society accepts it as such and merits their courage and their bravery. But these activists were criticized in their day and labeled as extreme, rude and even inconsiderate. Who are we to tell someone the time, place and manner to speak up about oppression? And what better place than right where it is happening. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote from a Birmingham jail, “Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored.” As one of the protesters that day, I can say that we had no intention that the patrons of that restaurant would suddenly put down their fork and say, “You’re right.” We believe when your personal choice involves a victim, it should no longer be your choice. We also believe the violence toward animals and our planet that animal products produce is inconsiderate. All of the activists there that night are also involved in activism that is intended to engage in conversations on the streets or fight for legislative change, but this was a different strategy intended to force people choosing to ignore violence to think about it and open dialogue. The fact that Mr. Carter went home and continued to think about our bold action, then took the time to write a letter about it proves that we accomplished our goal. — Sarah Windle Clyde
I moved here from Philadelphia 18 months ago. I fell in love with the mountains and the surrounding communities. I’m a 55-year-old white guy who is “semiretired.” I made a lot of money up North. Due to some unfortunate circumstances, I now find myself living among the general population in a hotel room for a short period of time. What a rude awakening. Good people working hard every day unable to enjoy their lives. I can’t even tell you how many $50 and $20 bills I have handed out in the last month to some real deserving folks. And how much they appreciated it and how it changed their lives. For a day. The crisis here is deeper than anybody knows. This is ridiculous and borders on criminal. Housing, wages, you guys tax food and clothing. Absolutely absurd. Something down here has to change. The situation here is ridiculous. If your government can’t solve the problem, and they probably never will, it’s time you take matters into your own hands. I go to the Goodwill here, and they always ask me if I want to round my purchase up. It’s only a few cents, and I always do. I’m an outof-towner, and I have the money. So sure. Why not? America is the most giving and affluent country in the world. And I’m proud of that. All you have to do — is ask. Start a campaign in all these restaurants and hotels that all these “out-of-towners” come to and ask them to do the same thing that the Goodwill does — to support the homeless and provide some rental assistance to folks in need. I think you will find more money than you know what to do with. I have faith. We are good people and a great country. It all starts with the individual doing his share to help those less fortunate, and we as Americans have a proud history of doing so. This ain’t rocket science, folks. It’s as plain as the nose on your face. Ask and you shall receive. God bless, — Glen Firn Hendersonville
Electric cars drive future of transportation There are those who make it happen, those who let it happen and those who say, “What happened?” Who do you want to be?
C A R T O O N B Y B R E NT B R O W N The future of transportation is being driven by a silent group of electric-car enthusiasts who will be displaying the latest and greatest in electric vehicles on Sunday, Sept. 9, at the Asheville Outlets. This is Asheville’s fifth annual Drive Electric Show! It will start at noon and run until 4 p.m. Come out to the show and be part of the future. For more information see: [avl.mx/59g]. — Rudy Beharrysingh Asheville
We must learn how to talk to each other again As [I reflect on the tragedy of the Parkland, Fla., school shootings], several things came to my mind. First and foremost was our current president and his incessant bleating about a wall across the southern border of the U.S.; his constant drumbeating about the need to secure our borders from drug dealers, rapists and murderers coming out of Mexico to get us all. But as a former resident of public housing in Asheville, I, along with the majority of residents who also lived there, were beset by gun violence from the few, and I stress few, of our neighbors and their friends who choose to kill and maim because of idiotic disagreements or a few dollars owed. No Mexicans were involved, to my knowledge. I’ve watched
the news as schools, nightclubs, concerts and churches were attacked and people were slaughtered. All done by the hands and minds of our fellow Americans. Somehow our country has devolved into a land that when we disagree with one another’s politics, race, gender preference or religious choice, some of us feel it’s all right to kill them. I missed the meeting when this was agreed on as a rational form of dissent. I always vote, but I never voted for this madness. The second thing that stood out for me was that in every school shooting, at the concert in Las Vegas and the church in Texas and on and on, these were perpetrated by white men, yet not one was reported as a “white on white” crime. When there is so much fuss about how disgusting “black on black” crime is — is there some distinction between the two? I think not, yet we hear how we who are black “kill each other” often as a justification for a victim of police violence against often unarmed black people. A fact in point is I have no animosity against the police who do their job in a lawful and professional manner. They are an asset to our community and definitely needed. I will always maintain that if America ever wants to get a handle on this death and destruction by guns, then be fair about how it’s reported. ... We have to learn how to talk again even if we disagree. We have to be real about issues of race and see how America
is losing its moral standing in the world. When I hear cries of “Make America Great Again,” my thoughts go to history. From all the thousands of books I have read, the only conclusion I can reach is America was only great before it was discovered by some white men who killed as many of the people who were here long before they came. America might have been great before these same men finished their slaughter of the indigenous people and the bison and kidnapped millions of people from their homeland in Africa to do what they obviously could not do without my ancestors. The thanks they got was hatred, which has been passed down to me and the rest of the Americans of African descent. But I know no other land. This is my home. I have the right to live and prosper according to my works like every white man who walks this land with me. My three daughters have the same right to go to school with the children of white America without the fear of death or miseducation. I pray to the Source of All Things for sanity to reign again in this country because, as I see it, madness now rules. — Robert White Leicester Editor’s note: A longer version of this letter will appear at mountainx.com. MOUNTAINX.COM
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Soil = health New Dogwood Health Trust board needs agricultural advocates BY LEE WARREN The recent announcement about the proposed sale of Mission Health to forprofit hospital empire HCA Healthcare has the community abuzz with questions and concerns. The focus of attention on the Dogwood Health Trust, a newly formed foundation, has been understandably significant. The fact that the mission of the trust is to “dramatically improve the health and well-being of all people and communities in Western North Carolina” — primarily through funding partnerships with the local nonprofit community — provides remarkable opportunity. But how do we think about this strategically and from a systems perspective? First, we’ll need to ask ourselves about the causes of ill health and the less-thanideal well-being of our people and our community. Due to the overwhelming needs around us, we tend to throw money at solutions that deal with the symptoms instead of the causes. For example, we feed the hungry and shelter the homeless, which are crucial services in times of crisis and stress, but rarely solve the root causes of hunger and homelessness. Complex social issues are wicked problems that involve wealth disparities, lack of education, racial injustice, unresolved and historical trauma, corporate agendas and the disintegration of community. But we can probably all agree that at least some of the causes of ill health in our community have to do with our food choices and our challenged food system. And as you’ll see, this all boils down to our relationship with soil. By way of example, let me tell you the story of Rain Parker. Eight years ago, Rain weighed 300 pounds, suffered from numerous ailments, including anxiety and depression, and felt desperate and stuck. Her life consisted of working as a teacher, watching television and eating junk food. Worrying about her weight added to the cycle of depression, which added to the ill health, which added to the weight. It was a no-win cycle. Rain tells her story and the evolution of her farm on her blog, Eight Owls Farmstead, where she shares her journey toward becoming a farmer and, in the process, achieving better health. She now owns nearly 10 acres of land in Rosman, grows much of her own food, spends much of her life outside and has
LEE WARREN stabilized her weight to between 155 and 165 pounds over the past four years. She says, “The last eight years have been the very best ones of my whole life. I know exactly where the food on my dinner plate came from because I usually put it there. I go to the garden instead of the gym or the grocery store.” Once crushed by a lack of self-confidence, her faith in herself becomes stronger every year that she farms. “I’m still working through complex health issues,” she says. “But overall, my muscles and smiles grow bigger every day.” What’s going on here? Certainly Rain got more exercise, but that’s not all. Research is showing that contact with soil helps release serotonin and other positive neurotransmitters in the brain that are responsible for feelings of happiness, joy, bliss and euphoria. Specifically the microbe Mycobacterium vaccae, which is nonpathogenic and lives naturally in soil, has been known to stimulate neurons that provide mind-altering effects, much like natural antidepressants. Apparently, even 10 minutes of gardening can effectively raise our mood. Another explanation for Rain’s health turnaround may be related to improved gut health. Gut health, we’re learning, is a top indicator of overall health, both mental and physical. The organisms in our gut form a microbi-
ome, a living ecosystem that is teeming with microbes (bacteria, fungi, viruses and others). The problem is that we’ve been destroying our microbes through processed foods, overuse of antibiotics, stressful lifestyles and a myriad of chemicals compounds found in our air, food and water. We have decimated our internal ecosystems, thus leading to disease and disharmony. As Rain disengaged with microbekilling activities such as a sedentary life and a junk-food diet and engaged with healthy food and direct contact with soil, she saw her health improve. Research is showing a causal link — the deterioration of our gut health mirrors the destruction of microbes in our soil. Through the ongoing use of fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, mechanized tillage and a lack of nutrient replacement, we are squandering the inheritance that took millennia to build: healthy soil. Our soil is like the digestive system of the planet: Its microbes process nutrients in order to produce plants. Soil is our largest ecosystem, with one teaspoon of healthy soil containing up to 50,000 species of organisms. This “living” soil helps regulate climate, sequester carbon, filter water, mitigate pollution and damage, and basical-
ly make life possible. Unless it doesn’t. Because it can’t. We’re at a point now where we’ve reduced or eliminated the life of the soil so much that we have significant microbe and organic matter depletion the world over. According to Dan Kittredge from the BioNutrient Food Association, the iron content of one apple in 1950 was equivalent to 26 apples in 1998. This means that plants struggle to grow because the soil lacks the elements they need to survive and thrive. Therefore, when we eat them, we struggle as well. At Organic Growers School, where I serve as executive director, we teach people about growing and about soil. We want more farmers on the land using organic practices and a system in which family farms can flourish. We also want a garden, an orchard and chickens in every yard. We want a pot of herbs on every apartment windowsill. And we want the average person to populate their daily life with homegrown food. In short, we want to reclaim agriculture. And we believe this reclamation will transform the health crisis. We are certain that this very act, repeated by every person in every space in our community, will raise the health and well-being in a long-term and sustainable way.
As the Dogwood Health Trust forms its board, I urge its founding members to address the underlying determinants of our failing health by investing in a local food system with soil-building at its core. From all sectors, research is showing that sustainable agriculture, in the form of agroecology and resilient local food systems, offers promise for addressing these failed food systems. The United Nations Human Rights Council is calling for the world’s food system to be “radically and democratically redesigned,” and it recommends “mosaics of sustainable regenerative production systems.” To optimize the significant funding that will likely be infused into the community through the creation of the Dogwood Health Trust, we need to invest in systemic solutions. Specifically, that means we need a strong advocate and active voice for soil health and foodsystem reform on the Dogwood Health
Trust board. I see a coalition of regional agricultural organizations as central, dynamic and vital partners in realizing this vision. I want to see this coalition come together to nominate these board members who can advocate for real solutions and long-term health. Further, I want to see this coalition act as allies who advocate for, invest in and create living soils as the best possible strategy for ultimate well-being. Together, we can both imagine and create thriving farms, living soils, healthy people and engaged communities. X Lee Warren is the executive director of Organic Growers School, which provides practical and affordable organic education in the Southern Appalachians and aims to build a vibrant food and farming community by boosting the success of organic home growers and farmers in our region.
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dents interested in jobs in software and web development. A new coding class — Creative Coding Through Games and Apps — is already full for the fall semester, says Wendy Frye, the director of high schools for Henderson County Public Schools. “As you might imagine, that class filled up very quickly,” she says. The course, targeted for freshmen and sophomores, will position students to enroll in game design classes offered through Blue Ridge Community College, which the school system hopes to offer on its high school campuses.
dfloyd@mountainx.com Once you learn the basics of coding, you’re free to build whatever you want, says rising seventh-grader Samuel Feinberg — even a 20-foot robot. “But you probably wouldn’t do that because it’s too expensive,” he explains. Feinberg is part of a generation of students who have had access to coding classes from an early age — an advantage over students who graduated from high school as recently as five years ago. “Learning all this stuff gives you a lot of creativity,” says Feinberg’s classmate Oliver Morris. The technological concepts serve as the building blocks for automating actions that most people take for granted — like using a remote to turn on the TV or flipping a motionactivated light switch. Morris and Feinberg participated in an August camp at the Asheville Museum of Science on the fundamentals of programming. Rising sixth- and seventh-graders at Montford North Star Academy learned to build a complete circuit and illuminate a small bulb using a “breadboard,” a simple device used to experiment with different circuits. Funded in part by a grant local school systems received from the N.C. Department of Public Instruction, the camp points to a broader trend to expand programming education across the state. Thanks to a second round of grant funding announced in early August, area students will have access to a series of coding programs and courses at the high school and middle school levels. Local employers and economic development boosters say tech skills are vital to securing good jobs now and in the future. Jeffrey Kaplan, director of the startup incubator Venture Asheville, compares coding to learning a new language — a skill that fits naturally into today’s tech-saturated environment. “I’m a millennial, so I’m a digital native,” Kaplan says. “I always grew up with some kind of tech or something in the house, so I was always comfortable picking up something new and figuring out how it works. But kids today are even doing it faster and more naturally, so they know at such an early age, even toddlers, what devices are and what they do.” 10
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BUILDING SOMETHING: Rising seventh-grader Oliver Morris uses basic tools to illuminate a small light on his breadboard during a programming class at the Asheville Museum of Science in August. Photo by David Floyd
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NOTHING FOR GRANTED In a single year, Asheville City Schools saw total enrollment almost double for the two coding classes it offers at the middle school level, from a combined 106 students in the 2017-18 school year to 182 in 2018-19, according to a report the system submitted to the state. “The kids are fighting to get into these classes right now,” says Taylor Baldwin, the director of career and technical education at Asheville City Schools. Asheville is one of four local school systems that have benefited from the most recent round of tech education grant funding from the state — Henderson County Public Schools received $40,000 this year and the Asheville City, Buncombe County and Madison County school systems received a combined $80,000. The trio of Asheville, Buncombe and Madison received a $40,000 grant last year, almost a third of which ($12,000) paid for teacher training for the new middle school coding classes offered during the last school year. Thanks to the new funding, the middle school classes offered through Asheville City Schools will lead to more advanced
courses in high school. Baldwin says the system also hopes to offer a cybersecurity course if it receives a third year of grant funding. The classes offered at the middle school level, Baldwin says, act as basic primers on the fundamentals of coding. The classes go on to explore more sophisticated concepts once students reach high school. “When they get to the high school, they get a little taste of everything,” Baldwin says. Buncombe County Schools will also be offering a new high school IT course beginning this year — Computer Science Essentials — and the system hopes to add three more courses at the high school level in the near future. Coding, says Will Thrasher, the career development coordinator at Buncombe County Schools, is a part of students’ everyday lives. “Just some of the things that they do on their phones … they’re doing a little coding without even knowing it.” Meanwhile, the $40,000 received by Henderson County schools this year will help boost the system’s Community of Code program, a partnership involving the school system, local businesses and Blue Ridge Community College that aims to increase opportunities for stu-
Mike Proffitt, the president and chief operating officer of AvL Technologies in Asheville, remembers a time when a “computer lab” was a huge office occupied by a single IBM computer. Inputting information meant sliding punch cards into a slot in the massive machine. “That computer now is not as powerful as your laptop or even your cellphone,” Proffitt says. Proffitt learned how to program software in the early ’80s after he got a job as an engineer. “Software and computer-driven devices weren’t used as much until the ’80s,” he says. “But now everything takes software: your cellphone, your car — probably your lawn mower.” AvL Technologies, which owner Jim Oliver started in 1994, began through an incubator program at A-B Tech. The company had a workforce of six people back then but has since grown to 208 employees. Today, it manufactures satellite communications equipment for commercial, civil and military customers. And with growth has come an increased demand for qualified employees — most of whom come from four-year universities like Georgia Tech and Western Carolina University, Proffitt says. REGIONAL NEEDS Across North Carolina, 18,000 open jobs in computer science offer an average salary of $87,000, according to a report completed by several state organizations and education groups. Preparing students to access those well-compensated positions is a primary goal of the state’s technology education funding initiative.
LIGHTBULB MOMENT: Middle schoolers from Montford North Star Academy use a basic prototyping tool called a breadboard to illuminate a small light. Photo by David Floyd The grants awarded by the Department of Public Instruction have allowed almost 1,800 students and 125 teachers across North Carolina to take a coding or app development course, says Drew Elliot, communications director for NCDPI. “Providing North Carolina students with access to tools and knowledge in the fastest-growing career field in the nation will translate into more jobs and a growing economy for our state,” he says. Even though enthusiasm is strong among local school systems, regional growth in certain computer-driven fields has been slower over the past several years than state growth, according to data provided by the Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce. Between 2015 and 2018, the total number of jobs in 12 statewide computer-oriented fields, including web development, computer programming and database administration, has increased 12 percent across North Carolina. The number of jobs in these fields has increased only 6.4 percent in the 24-county Western North Carolina region. Although some job categories employ proportionately more workers in WNC than in other parts of the state — user support specialists, for example — the region does lag in several significant sectors. WNC has a lower proportion of app and systems software developers, as well as a lower percentage of computer systems analysts, who hold 20 percent of the tech jobs statewide but 12 percent of the regional tech jobs.
JOB MARKET DEMANDS Local school systems meet with local tech companies to keep tabs on the employers’ needs. Most of the companies originated as networking, cybersecurity or programming startups about five years ago, Baldwin says. “There was a huge push of them coming to Asheville,” Baldwin recalls, but “they could not fill the jobs here because nobody was coming out with programming degrees and security degrees.” Even though local growth in tech jobs might be slower than elsewhere in North Carolina, local educators see strong demand for qualified graduates. Business owners have told school officials they look for new hires with a solid base of knowledge along with a willingness to meet employer expectations. “[Businesses] want them to have the problem-solving skills, they want them to understand the language of the computer science, and then they want them to follow their protocols and their company,” Buncombe County Schools’ Thrasher says. Drake Thomas, a security instructor in the computer technologies department at A-B Tech, says his students have found work or internships at Pardee Hospital, Mission Health and Epsilon, a tech company based in Weaverville. Fundamentally, he says, employers look for two traits. “I think every company is eager to hire employees who can be nice and fix things,” Thomas says. “That’s kind of my trademark statement.”
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NEWS Local educators have also seen increased demand for people who can work efficiently from a remote location — a skill that is uniquely valuable in an industry where the only tool many employees need is a computer. “These employers are looking for people who can work from home, log on in the morning, do what they need to get done in the day, log off in the afternoon,” Baldwin says, “and when they’ve got to get their projects done, they’re done.”
BUILDING SOMETHING If enthusiasm is a predictor for success, many of the kids in the programming class at AMOS are on track for promising careers. Hands shoot up, responses to questions come quickly, and one student even jumps up and starts dancing when he manages to get his light bulb to glow. Even though they’re still several years away from college, Feinberg and Morris have both thought about what
NEW SKILLS: Christa Flores, the STEM lab manager at the Asheville Museum of Science, teaches rising sixth- and seventh-graders from Montford North Star Academy about breadboards. Photo by David Floyd they want to do when they grow up. Morris leans toward acting, but he’s also inspired by the stories he’s heard about Steve Jobs and the founding of Apple. “I really want to try that sometime and build something that nobody has ever built,” Morris says.
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Local educators keep tabs on November elections On Aug. 24, just 48 hours before returning to the classroom, concerned teachers across the state gathered outside government buildings, pressing for more investment in public education. The teachers, who make up the nonprofit Red4EdNC, are also looking ahead to the November elections. “We have to elect people who will support public schools, who have a track record of supporting public schools and who are going to listen to teachers,” LeAnna Delph, a Red4EdNC advisory board member who teaches in the Buncombe County Schools system, said while facing the Buncombe County Courthouse. In Asheville, about two dozen teachers and supporters donned red T-shirts and rallied outside the courthouse in solidarity. The press conference-style event, one of six statewide, echoed frustrations heard during a massive teachers march in May. Crowd estimates from that event range between 19,000 and 30,000 marchers on the state Capitol. The long list of grievances put out by Red4EdNC includes outdated textbooks and inadequate support for students with special needs. Collectively, the problems largely stem from the state’s per-pupil spending, according to the advocacy group. Total state funding per student in North Carolina is still lower than levels seen before the Great Recession, a decade ago. The latest figures from the National Education Association show total spending per student is about $9,528, compared with $11,934 nationally. STAGNANT WAGES, RISING COSTS The majority of school funding goes toward compensation. That’s one reason teachers say they’re feeling squeezed. “While living and health costs have risen, my health care doesn’t cover what it needs to,” Angie Cathcart, a digital lead teacher at Asheville Middle School, said. Cathcart has taught in the public school system for nearly three decades but said she hasn’t seen a raise in six years. She said she often faces difficult choices, like whether to get her two cracked teeth fixed or to take her car in for repairs.
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ADVOCATING FOR EDUCATION: LeAnna Delph, left, a language arts and social studies teacher in Buncombe County, opened the Red4EdNC town hall rally Aug. 24 outside the courthouse. She was joined by Angie Cathcart, center, a digital lead teacher at Asheville Middle School, and Shari Edmisten, right, a music teacher in Catawba County. Photo by Cass Herrington “The burnout is real,” she added. Shari Edmisten, a music teacher in Catawba County, described the bleak state of affairs as it pertains to her classroom supplies. “In 2004, the only textbooks in my class were from the 1980s. There were no funds allocated for my subject,” Edmisten said. So she spent $800 of her own money to purchase textbooks that she still uses today, Edmisten said. “I attended a meeting last week, where a social studies teacher from Hickory said her textbooks have Barack Obama listed as a senator. Yeah, that’s old.” As it turns out, teaching conditions are a strong predictor of teachers’ decisions about where to teach and whether to stay in their jobs. The teacher turnover rate in the U.S. has risen from 5 percent in 1990 to about 16 percent today, according to a report by the Learning Policy Institute. That survey found the majority of teachers decide to leave their jobs for voluntary, nonretirement reasons. More than half cite dissatisfaction with working conditions.
In Asheville City Schools, the turnover rate among elementary and middle school teachers has exceeded state figures for the past three years. Following the 201617 school year, more than a quarter of the district’s middle school teachers left their positions, compared with 14.7 percent of middle school teachers statewide. Edmisten says her own daughter is studying to become a teacher. But unlike her mother, she won’t be sticking around North Carolina. “She’s looking into moving elsewhere, like Tennessee or Virginia. That’s not good,” Edmisten said. “We need the brightest and the best teachers, so what are we doing to recruit them?”
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N EWS be heard playing in the fountains nearby, and small flocks of tourists drifted around Pack Square. Delph had invited local members of the N.C. General Assembly, but she said members of the House declined due to the last-minute special session on state constitutional amendments. The Senate was called to meet on Aug. 27. Nevertheless, Delph took attendance, calling each local lawmaker by first and last name. “If you are present, would you please answer with your favorite subject in school,” Delph said. She went through the list. Democratic Reps. Susan Fisher, John Ager and Brian Turner all were given “excused absences,” due to the special session. Delph said Sen. Chuck Edwards, R-Henderson, responded to her invitation by email saying he had a prior commitment. Edwards, who was recently appointed to the state Joint Legislative Task Force on Education Finance Reform, did not return requests for comment on this story but said in a statement released Aug. 13, “In the short time that I have had the privilege to serve the citizens of District 48, it has
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lacks transparency, is convoluted, and it is exceedingly outdated.” After a pause, Delph continued. Terry Van Duyn? “English,” Van Duyn, D-Buncombe, the lone North Carolina lawmaker, responded. She blended in with the group, wearing a red shirt bearing a slogan supporting Asheville’s teachers across the front. The Buncombe County state senator said she’s worried the lack of investment could undermine the region’s economic future. “The companies I talk to, they tell me about the need for quality education because they say they want a well-trained, educated workforce,” Van Duyn said. “I’ve never had a business come to me and say, ‘My priority is cut my taxes.’” POLITICAL CALCULATIONS
LONE LAWMAKER: N.C. Sen. Terry Van Duyn, D-Buncombe, joined teachers urging for more state spending on K-12 education. Photo by Cass Herrington
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quickly become evident to me that the current method used to distribute funds to our education system needs work. It
North Carolina Republicans are quick to point out that they’ve consistently passed increases to teacher pay. Just last week, Senate Leader Phil Berger’s office put out a statement touting the Republican-led General Assembly’s approval of teacher pay increases since 2011, when the GOP took control of both
the House and Senate. The most recent budget includes an average 6.5 percent pay increase. “This is a success story, and we’re going to stay the course moving forward,” Sen. Majority Leader Phil Brown said in the statement emailed to media on Aug. 28. Teachers with Red4EdNC dispute the efficacy of those raises, considering factors like inflation and higher costs of living. Teacher pay in North Carolina still ranks 37th in the country. The average salary this school year is an estimated $50,861, according to the NEA. Regardless of how you measure success, it appears that school funding is at front and center of this year’s election. While teachers have returned to the classroom, they don’t plan on keeping quiet. In addition to backing candidates who support increases to K-12 spending, Delph says, some teachers have their sights set on the statehouse. She wouldn’t name specific candidates, but she gave a thinly veiled endorsement to those with teaching experience. “There are very few teachers working in the General Assembly. We hope to elect a few more, so they know what they’re talking about,” Delph said. X
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unlimited contributions from individuals and businesses. According to paperwork submitted to the county Board of Election Services, the PAC had raised $4,500 as of Aug. 20. The donor list, which in the PAC’s initial filing lists six contributors, includes prominent local Republicans Chris Peterson and Chad Nesbitt. So far, Summey says, the organization has been spending its funds on signs, which most recently made an appearance at the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners meeting on Aug. 21. About a dozen activists attended the meeting and sat in the front few rows, holding the signs high enough for commissioners to see. “Stop Democrat Corruption,” read one. “Drain the Swamp in Buncombe County.” Although the organization explicitly calls for residents to vote for Republicans, the PAC has attempted to strike a collaborative tone with Democrats.
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NEWS “There are many good Democrats, Republicans and Independents who are upset with the corruption that has been exposed by numerous federal indictments of county administrators,” the PAC says on its website. “What makes our anger seem so partisan is the fact that this has all occurred while Democrats controlled the county.” PARTISAN POLITICS Democrats hold a 4-3 majority on the board, and although three seats are on the ballot this fall, District 1 Commissioner Al Whitesides, a Democrat, is running unopposed. One of the contested seats is held by a Democrat and the other by a Republican. To upset the Democratic majority, Republicans have to win both of those races. Commissioner Robert Pressley, R-District 3, is defending his seat against Democratic challenger Donna Ensley. Meanwhile, Commissioner Ellen Frost, D-District 2, will vacate her seat at the end of her term. Two newcomers, Democrat Amanda
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Edwards and Republican Glenda Weinert, will square off in November to replace her. “If you want to sit there and point fingers at a party, it has been a Democrat majority for many, many years,” Pressley says. “Can it be better with the Republican Party? You know, you’d hope that no matter what it’s a better party, but we need to look back at what brought this on.” Pressley gives Commissioner Mike Fryar credit for calling attention to irregularities in county finances before the federal investigation began — irregularities that Pressley says went deeper than Fryar originally expected. “I knew things was wrong four years ago,” Fryar said during a Board of Commissioners meeting on Aug. 21, “but I didn’t have a clue that they were stealing money from inside the county or doing what they were doing or going on trips. I knew that money was being moved around. I couldn’t figure out where it went.” Fryar was re-elected to a fouryear term by 307 votes against Democratic challenger Nancy Nehls Nelson in 2016. Buncombe County Republican Party Chair Carl Mumpower believes “with certainty” that the alleged corruption in county government is a partisan issue. “The party that’s been in total control blew their fiduciary responsibilities in a major way over a major period of time,” he says. “The long-standing Democratic dominance of our county formed a governance culture ripe for predatory action.” Buncombe County Democratic Party Chair Jeff Rose sees it differently. “I don’t think that it’s fair to say that it was on any one commissioner or any particular party,” Rose says. “I mean, this is something that was more of a structural issue with the way that oversight of the county manager position was conducted.” It’s an issue Rose believes would have come up regardless of the party in control of the board. “When you look at what systems were in place to act as a check on the county manager and on the county officials, I don’t see a different outcome based purely on partisanship,” he said. THE COUNTY’S RESPONSE Commissioners have been fielding a lot of questions about the federal investigation of Greene during public
sessions held to gather input on the county’s search for a new manager. “We changed and took away a tremendous authority away from the manager so that the manager, whoever they are, will never have that much power,” Frost said during an input session on Aug. 24. Before Greene’s retirement, Frost said, she and Fryar had been asking hard questions about some county spending choices — questions that Frost said led to attempts by Greene to tarnish their reputations. “People believed her, people thought she was great and … she was very clever at picking people to help with the cover-up,” Frost said. “She was a Svengali. She could get people to do things.” Board Chair Brownie Newman said that, among other changes, the county has limited the ability of the manager to transfer money between different county funds, capped manager-initiated employee bonuses at $1,000, and insulated the internal auditor from retaliation by the manager. The county has also set up a whistleblower hotline operated by an outside agency. Charges that Greene, former County Manager Mandy Stone, and former Planning Director and Assistant County Manager Jon Creighton awarded contracts to companies associated with Joseph Wiseman Jr. in exchange for lavish vacations have also raised questions about the county’s purchasing policies. “You had a process in place where some of the people that were doing the negotiating of contracts … also had the authority to approve them,” said interim County Manager George Wood during the session on Aug. 24. “And that was not a good process.” Wood said the county is reviewing all purchasing policies. The initiative to shore up internal controls, however, doesn’t satisfy Angry Taxpayers supporters. Summey believes these changes should have been implemented far sooner. “Why wait until you’re already caught with your hand in the cookie jar before you figure out how to lock the lid on it?” he asks. WORKING TOGETHER Mumpower believes Democratic control of the Board of Commissioners has contributed to the alleged corruption in county government. “Monopolies are always vulnerable to rust and Brand-X – what we call the Democrats’ liberal-progressivesocialist movement – has been in con-
trol of county and city governance for decades,” he says. “We’re naturally geared to restraint and realism in governance,” he says of the Republican Party. “The opposition is naturally geared to extravagance and opportunism.” Weinert, the Republican candidate in District 2, says a Republicancontrolled board would have done things differently. “Republicans tend to view taxpayer dollars and budget responsibilities from the perspective of operating like a business,” she says. “As we move forward beyond the corruption, Republicans will manage differently, provide better [oversight] and will always work to protect taxpayer dollars.” Pressley, meanwhile, points to the value of current commissioners’ knowledge of the investigation and teamwork in addressing the scandal to this point. “We all want to make sure that what happens to taxpayer dollars are spent wisely, not sitting here what’s best for one party or the other party,” he says. “We’re all very glad that this has been brought out, and it’s just going to make the county a better county once the investigation is over.” Pressley, the only board incumbent to face a challenger in this year’s election, doesn’t favor starting over with a clean slate of commissioners. “There is so much information that the commissioners know right now that we have not been able to share that shows that we’re all working toward the same thing,” he says. “We might have different priorities that we look at, but at the end of the day, if new commissioners come in, it’s going to be a new learning experience for them.” Although he frequently hears concerns about the Greene investigation, Rose doesn’t think it’s the top concern among voters this election cycle. “Especially with kids going back to school right now, one of the bigger concerns we’ve been hearing about from voters is education funding,” Rose says, “and I think more of that ties to the state level.” Rose says kitchen table issues, like pay and affordable housing, also top voters’ list of concerns. That being said, Rose believes the alleged corruption in Buncombe County government does have a direct impact on voters, especially when one considers how the allegedly embezzled money could have been invested in Buncombe County. “People aren’t just frustrated that it occurred,” he says, “they’re frustrated at what it actually meant in terms of impact to the community.” X
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TIPS OF THE HATS: Commissioned in April by Asheville City Council, the 21CP Solutions report called the Asheville Police Department’s response to an excessive force incident “timely” and “within the limitations of North Carolina law.” Screenshot from the 21CP report Nearly a month after an anticipated release in late July, Asheville City Council heard the final report from Chicago-based 21CP Solutions at its Aug. 28 regular meeting. Since April, the consulting firm has been reviewing the beating of black Asheville resident Johnnie Jermaine Rush by white former Asheville Police Department officer Chris Hickman during a stop for alleged jaywalking, which took place last August. 21CP also examined APD and city responses in the wake of the incident. Early in his presentation, consultant Sean Smoot praised police and city staff for the “cooperation we received — frankly, the candor and the recognition of mistakes being made.” To reach its conclusions, 21CP interviewed key personnel such as Chief Tammy Hooper, interim City Manager Cathy Ball and City Attorney Robin Currin; the consultants did not include any City Council members or Mayor Esther Manheimer in their list of interviewees. The first key finding Smoot shared was that the APD “responded to the incident in a timely manner, and within the limitations of North Carolina
law.” Hooper revoked Hickman’s law enforcement authority and began an internal investigation within 24 hours after Rush filed an excessive force complaint. That decision, as noted in the report, “largely mitigated” the threat of “additional negative contacts between Officer Hickman and the public.” Smoot also said that the Asheville Citizen Times release of leaked body camera footage on Feb. 28 was “very suspicious from a timing standpoint.” The 21CP report said the release may have interfered with formal criminal investigations or impeded future legal action against Hickman, but neither that document nor Smoot’s presentation mentioned any specific impacts the video may have had. The APD had already completed its internal investigations by the time of the release, with Hickman resigning on Jan. 5 and Sgt. Lisa Taube accepting corrective and disciplinary action on Jan. 18. As his final key finding, Smoot backed up the city’s claim that Council members, Manheimer and former City Manager Gary Jackson were
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City Manager Jade Dundas, who told WLOS in a March 8 interview that Hooper informed him directly. At the time, Hooper also mentioned reporting directly to Dundas. The 21CP report, in contrast, said Hooper first informed Assistant City Attorney John Maddux, who in turn told Currin about the incident. The report continued to say that Dundas was then informed by Hooper “within days.”
Currin announced her resignation on July 5, nearly a month before the 21CP report was scheduled for completion. In an interview with the Citizen Times following that announcement, Currin said the timing was for “personal and professional” reasons and was not tied to the Rush incident in any way. She is currently slated to serve as Raleigh’s city attorney after her resignation becomes effective on Thursday, Sept. 27.
Smoot wrapped up his report with further praise of the APD, saying it was “a high-functioning agency” that generally follows and implements best practices. “This is a very good police department, one you should be proud of and one the citizens should be proud of,” he added.
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Transit management draws criticism at City Council meeting A bus driver stuffing paper towels around her fare box to soak up leaking coolant. An engine alert alarm beeping constantly on a crowded route. Two buses towed in a single day not for mechanical issues, but because they ran out of fuel during service. None of those problems, reported by transit advocates in remarks to Council member Julie Mayfield after Council’s regular Aug. 28 meeting, made their way into the presentation on the state of the transit system given earlier in the evening. But city Transit Planning Manager Elias Mathes, as well as ART General Manager Joe Brooks, did acknowledge that the buses incurred major service interruptions that totaled 539.5 missed hours of service in July. Mathes blamed the majority of those problems on the age of the city’s fleet and a lack of bus purchases in previous years. When multiple buses require extensive engine repairs, a process Brooks said can take two to three
CREATIVE LOAFING: Resident James Gambrell explains that, just like bread, the Asheville bus system doesn’t function without dough. Transit advocates called for the city to enforce contractual penalties on ART management company RATP Dev for missed service hours in July. Photo by Daniel Walton
Elected officials to meet The next formal meting of the Asheville City Council will be held Tuesday, Sept. 11, at 5 p.m. Prior to the meeting, City Council will hold a work session at 3 p.m. to review the 2019-20 budget process. Both meetings are open to the public and will be held in the council chamber on the second floor of City Hall, 7 Court Plaza. An agenda for the Council meeting will be posted online at avl.mx/3xb. The Buncombe County Board of Commissioners is tentatively scheduled to meet Tuesday, Sept. 18, at 5 p.m. at 200 College St., Suite 326, in downtown Asheville. An agenda will be posted online at avl.mx/4a8.
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weeks, ART doesn’t have enough spare vehicles to serve all routes. The city is expecting five new electric buses to arrive in November, roughly a month ahead of schedule, and ART management has leased a 12-passenger van to provide emergency transit capacity during vehicle breakdowns. Meanwhile, Brooks said he’s hiring mechanics for a third maintenance shift to accelerate repairs on existing vehicles. “How do you rate your level of confidence that we won’t have another month like July? High, medium or low?” asked
Mayfield after the presentation. “High,” Mathes responded, echoed by Brooks with “Definitely high.” But Vicki Meath, executive director of Just Economics and representative of the Better Buses Together campaign, said the city could be doing more to hold RATP Dev, the independent company that manages the ART, accountable for service improvements. She pointed out that transit activists had worked closely with the city to develop a management contract that penalized missed hours and other problems.
“That management contract isn’t worth anything if we aren’t enforcing it,” Meath said. “We didn’t enforce liquidated damages; we didn’t enforce the management company having the correct number of mechanics. We haven’t pressed the company, and we need to do that.” During the presentation, Mathes said that the management company “is making a good-faith effort to work with us.” While the city has withheld RATP Dev’s pay for the missed hours, he explained that city staff has been more lenient on other contract provisions due to the status of the buses that management inherited. Joined by local bus driver’s union head Diane Allen and city Transit Committee member Kim Roney after the meeting, Meath called for Mayfield and other Council members to toughen up the city’s stance. Mayfield, however, said Council’s influence was limited, citing recent controversy over policy directions to the Asheville Police Department. “Have you been watching what we can’t say to [Chief Tammy Hooper]? We can’t tell staff what to do,” Mayfield explained. “We can say to [interim City Manager Cathy Ball], it is our preference that you enforce the contract, but we don’t get to tell her that she has to do it.”
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Meadows confirms no FEMA aid for region at CIBO power lunch U.S. Rep. Mark Meadows was bullish about the nation’s prospects in his remarks during the Council of Independent Business Owners “power lunch” at Highland Brewing
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Federal Emergency Management Agency support. Gov. Roy Cooper had requested a federal major disaster declaration on July 30, which would have qualified
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LUNCH AND LEARN: U.S. Rep. Mark Meadows shares his thoughts on immigration, the economy and other issues at the Council of Independent Business Owners “power lunch.” Photo by Daniel Walton WNC for funds to repair damage from storms, landslides and mudslides during the month of May. Meadows said he joined Sens. Thom Tillis and Richard Burr earlier in August to support Cooper’s request and had reached out to FEMA directly on several occasions. However, Meadows noted that FEMA Administrator Brock Long’s letter on Aug. 20 denying the disaster declaration was likely the final word on the matter. “I think that decision has been made,” he said. “Obviously, that’s a decision that they didn’t feel met the threshold [for supplemental federal assistance].” During the lunch itself, Meadows focused on economics and immigration, as well as the intersection between the two. One question from the audience, for example, concerned local construction companies that can’t find sufficient workers to fill their positions and want immigration reform to ease their recruitment of foreign labor. “There are a lot of very good ideas on immigration that not only give us a secure border but actually work for a guest worker program,” Meadows responded. “That breaks down over building of a wall, to be frank, and amnesty on the other side. Everybody kind of retreats to those two areas.” Based on his experience in the district, Meadows recognized that Hispanic and Latino workers are often filling “very hard jobs that other people won’t
do” and becoming important parts of local communities. Nevertheless, he estimated that Washington wouldn’t make any significant move on immigration reform until after the midterm elections in November. “Quite frankly, [Senate members] have not shown the intestinal fortitude” to vote on politically contentious immigration measures, Meadows added. “The Senate takes more naps than they do votes.” Meadows also opined on development of the domestic workforce. He said that the administration of President Donald Trump hopes to promote vocational training for skills such as high-tech manufacturing. Those skills are in high demand regionally: In Buncombe County, the manufacturing sector added 1,100 jobs between April 2017 and last April. But perhaps more important than training, suggested Meadows, is the work ethic of prospective employees. “In my district, we’ve got thousands of jobs that could be filled tomorrow if someone was willing to do two things: pass a drug test and show up to work. Now that’s a pretty low bar,” he said. In reference to the aforementioned drug tests, however, Meadows offered no suggestions on issues such as combating the region’s opioid crisis or reforming national marijuana legislation.
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Asheville-based Green Built Alliance will celebrate the recent certification of the 1,500th Green Built Home at its annual party on Thursday, Sept. 13, 5:30-8 p.m. at Highland Brewing Co., 12 Old Charlotte Highway. The nonprofit invites the public to share in free food, live music and a cash bar. Formerly known as NC HealthyBuilt Homes, the statewide certification program has had more than 250 builders participate in certifying houses since its inception in 2004. With multiple levels of certification, the program offers guidelines for green building, workshops, consultation services, technical and marketing assistance, field consultation and design reviews. As the program’s largest certifier, Asheville Area Habitat for Humanity has been involved in Green Built Homes since 2008, certifying 141 homes. The program continues to evolve as building codes change and new technologies emerge. In 2016, the program added a Net Zero Ready and Net Zero Energy Certification to encourage and reward builders that push the envelope even further. So far, the program has certified five Net Zero Ready and 17 Net Zero homes. A MODEST PROPOSAL FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING Urban designer Jim Kumon of the Incremental Development Alliance will present a free session on affordable housing development on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 5:30-7:30 p.m. The nonprofit alliance advocates for a return to a model of development common before World War II: duplexes and small apartment buildings and bungalow courts, some-
HOW GREEN IS MY HOUSING? Green Built Alliance invites the community to its annual party, held this year on Thursday, Sept. 13. The organization will celebrate the recent certification of the 1,500th Green Built Home. Photo by Steven Freedman times in the same block as single-family homes and located close to shopping and other amenities. A press release for the event asks: “Wouldn’t it be great if that was a choice for renters again? And even better if there was a chance for local folks to build them and earn the revenue for adding to neighborhood housing options?” On Thursday, Oct. 11, Kumon will return to Asheville for a full-day workshop on the same topic. Sponsors including the city of Asheville, financial institutions and regional real estate and building associations are helping offset expenses for the events and will provide scholarships to the workshop for some who might otherwise not be able to afford the $200 registration fee. Both events will take place at the U.S. Cellular Center, 87 Haywood St., Asheville. For more information on the Oct. 11 workshop, see bit.ly/2N00e7z. For more information on the alliance, visit www. incrementaldevelopment. org. CITY TO LAUNCH COMMUNITY EMT PROGRAM The city of Asheville has announced a six-week pilot
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MEDICAL HELP: The Asheville Colored Hospital opened on Oct. 21, 1943. Amenities included delivery and emergency rooms, operating and sterilizing rooms, and six bathrooms. Photo courtesy of the North Carolina Collection, Pack Memorial Public Library, Asheville In the late 1930s and early 1940s, The Asheville Citizen featured a weekly Monday column titled “Excerpts From Sermons Preached Here Sunday.” On Feb. 10, 1941, the paper highlighted the Rev. C. Grier Davis’ sermon at First Presbyterian Church. Davis’ talk focused on race relations in Asheville and the urgent need for greater medical access for the city’s African-American residents. Davis declared: “Recently the editor of The Asheville Citizen has called our attention to the criminal neglect of our community with respect to the negroes in our city. There are about 14,500 negroes in Asheville. For them we have provided 21 hospital beds. This means that there is one hospital bed for every 700 negroes. This deplorable condition is seen in its true light when we are reminded that we have provided one hospital bed for every 120 of the white population.” On March 30, 1941, the Sunday edition of the Asheville Citizen-Times offered further details on the limited medical options for the city’s black population. The paper noted, “Many times physicians with negro patients have to wait for months to get a hospital bed for a major operative case.” Meanwhile, no beds
were available in the city for AfricanAmerican women in need of obstetric care. The article continued: “The community has been astir about this problem for years, but nothing seemed to get done about it. Among other reasons for this are deep racial prejudice and the negro’s amazing willingness and capacity to put up with trouble and survive under the worst possible conditions.” While issues remained bleak, the article’s main focus was on a “novel group medicine plan,” created by Dr. Mary Frances Shuford. For 25 cents a week, the city’s African-American population would be covered by an in-house insurance policy. According to the paper, Shuford had been working with the city’s African-American population for over three years amid “criticisms and difficulties galore.” More recently, the paper continued, Shuford had been asked to leave her previous downtown office because “too many negroes were hanging around and the other tenants didn’t like that.” The new facility, the paper continued, would offer health services, as well as educational courses and lectures for its patients. In May 1941, Shuford opened the site at 269 College St. By the summer
of 1942, the facility was reorganized into the Asheville Colored Hospital. Capacity, however, remained limited with only 12 beds. On Dec. 27, 1942, the Sunday edition of the Asheville Citizen-Times reported on a potential new location for the hospital at 185 Biltmore Ave. If funds could be raised to purchase the site, the facility would triple the total number of beds currently allotted. “That money should come swiftly and spontaneously from the white people of this community,” the paper declared. “Negro citizens should not be denied the privilege of contributing but we of the white race should accept it as our job and our opportunity.” Over the next year, donations gradually came in. By April 1943, Merchant Construction Co. was awarded the contract for renovating the space at 185 Biltmore Ave. The hospital would open on Oct. 21. A year later, The Asheville Citizen recognized the hospital’s one-year anniversary, noting its 37 beds had been filled since the hospital’s opening. Amenities included delivery and emergency rooms, operating and sterilizing rooms, and six bathrooms. The paper went on to proclaim: “The opening of the hospital was an event of keen interest not only to the negroes of Asheville; it was a community-wide project, to which scores of organizations, groups and individuals of both races contributed time, work and money. Charles A. Webb headed the campaign which raised the $25,000 fund that made the purchase of the hospital building possible. … “After a year of operation the hospital has taken its place among the public-serving institutions to which the community points with pride.” According to Ann Wright, North Carolina Room librarian, the hospital was transferred to Mission Hospital on Jan. 10, 1951, as part of a consolidation. That same year, notes Drew Reisinger, Buncombe County Register of Deeds, the hospital’s former property at 185 Biltmore Ave. was sold to Jesse Ray Funeral Home. It would later serve as Eugene Ellison’s law office before being razed in 2015 after Julia Ray sold the building to a limited liability company based out of Florida. The location now stands as a parking lot. Editor’s note: Peculiarities of spelling and punctuation as well as antiquated and offensive language are preserved from the original documents. X
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ANIMALS RECREATION PARK POOL 65 Gashes Creek • SU (9/9), noon-5pm - "Doggie Dip," swimming event for dogs. Dogs 35 pounds and under swim from noon2pm. Dogs 36 pounds or more swim from 2:30-5pm. Bring proof of spay/neuter and vaccinations. $10 per dog & handler/$1 spectators.
BENEFITS 103.3 ASHEVILLEFM ashevillefm.org • TH (9/13), 6-8pm Proceeds from "Nine Years In Your Ears" fundraising event with local cuisine, local beer and live music featuring April B & The Cool, DJ Kutzu and DJ Devyn Marzoula benefit 103.3 Asheville FM. $30/$25 advance. Held at Ambrose West, 312 Haywood Road BOUNTIFUL CITIES bountifulcities.org • SA (9/8), 5-7:30pm - Proceeds from the Community Garden Network Celebration Dinner featuring a catered locally grown foods dinner, adult beverages, live music and spoken word, benefit Bountiful Cities. $30/$25 advance/$10 children 4-16. Held at Pearson Community Garden, 408 Pearson Drive BUTI YOGA BENEFIT primalstudiosasheville. com • SU (9/9), 10:30am - Proceeds from donations at this Buti yoga class benefit the Carolina Resource Center for Eating Disorders. Register online. Free. Held at One World Brewing
West, 520 Haywood Road CHARITY GOLF TOURNAMENT 828-298-7647 • SA (9/8), 7:30am Proceeds from this charity golf tournament benefit the ABCCM Transition Village Project, the East Asheville Welcome Table and the Groce Methodist Pastors Discretionary fund. Registration required. Held at Asheville Municipal Golf Course, 226 Fairway Drive DOGWOOD ALLIANCE 828-251-2525, dogwoodalliance.org • SA (9/8), 7-11pm Proceeds from "Woods and Wild," storytelling and live music event benefit Dogwood Alliance. $20. Held at The Grey Eagle, 185 Clingman Ave. FARM TO VILLAGE BENEFIT historicbiltmorevillage • TH (9/6), 6pm Proceeds from this “Farm to Village: Farming Under the Stars,” farm-to-table dining event benefit Manna Foodbank. Register online. $100. Held outside on Boston Way in Biltmore Village FRIENDS OF THE SMOKIES 828-452-0720, friendsofthesmokies.org, outreach.nc@ friendsofthesmokies.org • TU (9/11) - Proceeds from this guided, 6.5mile, moderate hike to Albright Grove Loop. Registration required. $35/$20 members. RUN/WALK FOR AUTISM wncrunwalkforautism • SA (9/8), 8:30am Proceeds from the Run/
Walk for Autism 5K run and 1K walk event benefit the Autism Society of North Carolina. Register online. $25. Held at Fletcher Community Park, 85 Howard Gap Road, Fletcher RIVERLINK'S RIVERMUSIC 8282-528-4741, dave@riverlink.org • FR (9/7), 5-9:30pm - Proceeds from this family-friendly, outdoor, live music event featuring The Jayhawks, Cris Jacobs Band and Dave Desmelik benefit RiverLink. Free to attend. Held at New Belgium Brewery, 21 Craven St. YOUTH OUTRIGHT 866-881-3721, youthoutright.org • TH (9/13), 7-10pm - Proceeds from the annual Young Voices event featuring young talent within the LGBTQIA+ community benefits Youth OutRight. $20/$5 youth. Held at Isis Music Hall & Kitchen 743, 743 Haywood Road
BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY A-B TECH SMALL BUSINESS CENTER 1465 Sand Hill Road, Candler, 828-3987950, abtech.edu/sbc • FR (9/7), 11am12:30pm - "Intentional Networking for the Entrepreneur/Small Business Owner," seminar. Registration required. Free. • SA (9/8), 9am-noon "SCORE: Making Your Business Legal/Tax Compliance," seminar. Registration required. Free. • TU (9/11), 3-6pm "An Entrepreneur's Guide to Bridging the Digital Divide," seminar. Registration required. Free. • WE (9/12), 10am - "Starting a Better Business," seminar. Registration required. Free. • TH (9/13), 6-9pm - "Do I Need an
able. Free. Held at North Asheville Recreation Center, 37 E. Larchmont Road
MAKE AMERICA CAMP GREAT AGAIN: Buncombe County Recreation Services celebrates the end of summer with the Great American Campout. The night of camping and outdoor adventures takes place Saturday, Sept. 8, at the Buncombe County Sports Park in Enka. On-site check-in begins at 4 p.m., and campers will need to be packed up by 9:30 a.m. the following morning. Preregistration is required and costs $20 per campsite, which includes an evening meal of camping classics that participants can cook over the fire and a light breakfast. Each site will be about 20 by 20 feet and will be limited to six people per campsite. Attendees should bring their own tents and sleeping bags. There will also be a free screening of Pixar’s Up at 8:30 p.m. that’s open to the public. For more information, visit campout.buncombeoutdoors.org. Photo courtesy of Buncombe County Recreation Services (p. 23) Online eCommerce Presence?" Seminar. Registration required. Free. FLOOD GALLERY FINE ART CENTER 850 Blue Ridge Road, Unit A-13, Black Mountain, 828-3579009, floodgallery.org • THURSDAYS, 11am5pm - "Jelly at the Flood," co-working event to meet up with like-minded people to exchange help, ideas and advice. Free to attend.
TAYLOR GUITARS ROAD SHOW AT MUSICIANS WORKSHOP (PD.) Factory experts demonstrate the new V-class bracing. Play rare and unusual models.. All welcome for a fun informative event. September 19th 7 p.m. Free VILLAGERS... (PD.) ...is an Urban Homestead Supply store offering quality tools, supplies and classes to support healthy lifestyle activities like gardening, food preservation, cooking, herbalism, and
more. 278 Haywood Road. www.forvillagers.com AMERICAN LEGION POST NC 77 216 4th Ave. W, Hendersonville • 2nd THURSDAYS, noon - Korean War Veterans Chapter 314, general meeting. Free. ASHEVILLE CHESS CLUB 828-779-0319, vincentvanjoe@gmail.com • WEDNESDAYS, 6:30pm - Sets provided. All ages and skill levels welcome. Beginners lessons avail-
ASHEVILLE HOUSING FAIR ashevillehousingfair. com • SA (9/8), 10am-2pm - Family-friendly fair for those seeking to learn more about affordable housing options. Includes workshops and one-on-one assistance from nonprofit organizations regarding buying, lending, property management and credit repair. Event includes bounce house, free hot dogs, raffle and door prizes. Free. Held at First Baptist Church of Asheville, 5 Oak St. ASHEVILLE NEWCOMERS CLUB ashevillenewcomersclub.com • 2nd MONDAYS, 9:30am - Monthly meeting for women new to Asheville. Free to attend. ASHEVILLE ROTARY CLUB rotaryasheville.org • THURSDAYS, noon1:30pm - General meeting. Free. Held at Renaissance Asheville Hotel, 31 Woodfin St. ASHEVILLE TAROT CIRCLE meetup.com/AshevilleTarot-Circle/ • 2nd SUNDAYS, noon - General meeting. Free to attend. Held at Firestorm Books & Coffee, 610 Haywood Road
ASHEVILLE WOMEN IN BLACK main.nc.us/wib • 1st FRIDAYS, 5pm - Monthly peace vigil. Free. Held at Vance Monument, 1 Pack Square BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE 180 W Campus Drive, Flat Rock, 828-4125488, phoenixrisinghealing. com • TU (9/11), 5:307:30pm - College Night for prospective students featuring representatives from over 50 colleges and universities. Free to attend. BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/ library/ • WE (9/12), 4:305:45pm - Beginner's Spanish class for adult beginners. Registration required. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. LEICESTER COMMUNITY CENTER 2979 New Leicester Highway, Leicester, 828-774-3000, facebook.com/ Leicester.Community. Center • 2nd TUESDAYS, 7pm - Public board meeting. Free. ONTRACK WNC 50 S. French Broad Ave., 828-255-5166, ontrackwnc.org • WE (9/5), noon-1:30pm -
CLASSES, MEETINGS & EVENTS GUITAR LEAGUE (PD.) TUES (9/11), 6-8 PM. Amateur guitarists meet monthly to share guitar techniques. All skill levels (Rookies, Minors & Majors). First meeting always free. Location: Ambrose West (312 Haywood Road). Details: www. guitarleague.com. 941-786-8137 Jim
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BIRTHDAY GENEROSITY: Saturday, Sept. 8, is Eric Congdon’s birthday. To celebrate, the Ashevillebased Americana artist is recruiting some of his friends for a Birthday Slam Autism Jam at Southern Appalachian Brewery in Hendersonville to raise money for St. Gerard House, a local nonprofit that serves people touched by autism. In addition to Congdon’s band, Raphael Morales from Strange Avenues, Howie Johnson, Crystal Bray and others will share their musical talents from 6-10 p.m. $10 suggested donation. For more information, visit sabrewery.com. Photo by Carrie Eidson
"Understanding Credit. Get it. Keep it. Improve it." Seminar. Registration required. Free. • WE (9/5), 5:30-7pm "Budgeting and Debt," class. Registration required. Free. • SATURDAYS (9/8) until (9/15), 9am-12:30pm "Money Management and Credit," class series. Registration required. Free. • MO (9/10), 5:30-7pm "Understanding Credit. Get it. Keep it. Improve it." Seminar. Registration required. Free. • THURSDAYS (9/13) until (9/27), 5:30-8pm "Money Management and Credit," class series. Registration required. Free. PATRIOT’S DAY OBSERVANCE • TU (9/11), noon Weaverville’s Patriot’s Day observance with live bagpipe music and presentation by Weaverville Police Chief Ted Williams. Free. Held at Lake Louise, Doan Road, Weaverville PUBLIC EVENTS AT WCU wcu.edu • 2nd MONDAYS, 7pm - Western North Carolina Civil War Round Table, club meeting. Social meeting at 6:30pm. Free. Held at H.F. Robinson Administration Building, Cullowhee
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RISE FOR THE CLIMATE, JOBS & JUSTICE 350.org • SA (9/8), 3-5pm - Public gathering with presentations by faith leaders and city and county officials who are leading the call for climate justice. Free. Held at Pritchard Park, 4 College St. VFW POST 9157 165 Cragmont Road, Black Mountain • WE (9/5), 7pm & 9pm Poker night. Free.
FOOD & BEER APPALACHIAN SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE PROJECT 828-236-1282, asapconnections.org, robin@asapconnections. org • TH (9/13), 6-8:30pm Proceeds from ASAP’s Local Food Experience with small plates, local food tastings, silent auction and raffle benefit ASAP. $30. Held at New Belgium Brewery, 21 Craven St.
FESTIVALS GOOMBAY FESTIVAL ashevillegoombayfestival. com • FR (9/7), 6-9pm & SA (9/8), noon-9pm Outdoor festival celebrating African & Caribbean heritage. Event features speakers, spoken word,
live music and dance performances and vendors. Free to attend. Held at Pack Square Park, 121 College St. MOUNTAIN STATE FAIR 828-687-1414, mountainfair.org • FR (9/7) through SU (9/16) - NC Mountain State Fair celebrates the people, agriculture, art and regional tradition with rides, exhibits, performances, animals and food and drink vendors. See website for full schedule and admission fees. Held at WNC Agricultural Center, 1301 Fanning Bridge Road
GOVERNMENT & POLITICS BLUE RIDGE REPUBLICAN WOMEN’S CLUB facebook.com/BRRWC • 2nd THURSDAYS, 6pm - General meeting. Free to attend. Held at Gondolier Restaurant, 1360 Tunnel Road. BUNCOMBE COUNTY DEMOCRATIC HEADQUARTERS 951 Old Fairview Road, 828-274-4482 • 2nd MONDAYS, 6:308:30pm - Progressive Democrats of Buncombe, monthly meeting. Free. BUNCOMBE COUNTY SENIOR DEMOCRATS 828-274-4482
• TH (9/13), 4:30pm - Potluck and general meeting with presentation by congressional candidate David Wilson Brown. Free. Held at Buncombe County Democratic Headquarters, 951 Old Fairview Road CITY OF ASHEVILLE 828-251-1122, ashevillenc.gov • 1st WEDNESDAYS, 5pm - Citizens-Police Advisory Committee meeting. Free. Meets in the 1st Floor Conference Room. Held at Public Works Building, 161 S. Charlotte St. • TU (9/11), 5pm Asheville City Council public hearing. Free. Held at Asheville City Hall, 70 Court Plaza FRANNY'S FARM 22 Franny's Farm Road, Leicester, frannysfarm.com/ • SU (9/9), 2-5pm Leicester Democrats and local Democratic politicians community potluck with live music and art raffle. Free/Bring a dish to share (entree provided). INDIVISIBLE COMMON GROUND-WNC Indivisible-sylva.com • 1st WEDNESDAYS, 6:30-8pm -General meeting. Free. Held at St. David’s Episcopal Church, 286 Forest Hills Road, Sylva
C OMMU N IT Y CA L EN D AR MOVING TO CONSERVORS Indivisible-sylva.com • FR (9/7), 3-5pm “Growing Our Local Community and Economy,” presentation by Benji Taylor Jones, attorney and proponent of the crowdfunding investment law. Free to attend. Held at Peaks & Creeks Brewing Company, 212 King Street, Brevard PROGRESSIVE WOMEN OF HENDERSONVILLE pwhendo.org • FRIDAYS, 4-7pm Postcard writing to government representatives. Postcards, stamps, addresses, pens and tips are provided. Free to attend. Held at Sanctuary Brewing Company, 147 1st Ave., Hendersonville
KIDS APPLE VALLEY MODEL RAILROAD & MUSEUM 650 Maple St, Hendersonville, AVMRC.com • WEDNESDAYS, 1-3pm & SATURDAYS, 10am-2pm - Open house featuring operating model trains and historic memorabilia. Free. ASHEVILLE ART MUSEUM 175 Biltmore Ave., 828253-3227 • 2nd TUESDAYS, 11am-12:30pm - Homeschool program for grades 1-4. Registration required: 253-3227 ext. 124. $4 per student. ASHEVILLE COMMUNITY THEATRE 35 E. Walnut St., 828254-1320, ashevilletheatre.org • SA (9/8), 10am Saturdays at ACT: The Pirate of Bully Bay, performance by Bright Start Touring Theatre. $7. ASHEVILLE TENNIS ASSOCIATION avltennis.com/ • Through SA (9/15) - Open registration
for beginner plus and intermediate tennis clinics for ages five to 17 from SU (9/9) to SU (9/30) at Aston Park Tennis Center. Registration required: avltennis.com. $30-$40. BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty. org/governing/depts/ library • WE (9/5), 4-5pm - After school art activities for ages five and up. Registration required: 828-2504738. Free. Held at East Asheville Library, 902 Tunnel Road • SA (9/8), 10am - "Gardening with Children," hands on workshop. Sponsored by The Sowing Circle. Free. Held at Black Mountain Library, 105 N Dougherty St, Black Mountain • 2nd SATURDAYS, 1-4pm - Teen Dungeons and Dragons for ages 12 and up. Registration required: 828-2504720. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. • MONDAYS, 10:30am - Spanish story time for children of all ages. Free. Held at EnkaCandler Library, 1404 Sandhill Road, Candler
by Abigail Griffin MALAPROP'S BOOKSTORE AND CAFE 55 Haywood St., 828-254-6734, malaprops.com • WEDNESDAYS, 10am - Miss Malaprop's Story Time for ages 3-9. Free to attend. SWANNANOA VALLEY MUSEUM 223 W State St., Black Mountain, 828-669-9566,
Send your event listings to calendar@mountainx.com history.swannanoavalleymuseum.org • 2nd & 4th SATURDAYS, 2-4pm - Historically oriented crafts and activities for children. Free to attend.
OUTDOORS CHIMNEY ROCK STATE PARK (PD.) Enjoy breathtaking views of Lake Lure, trails for all levels of hikers, an Animal
Discovery Den and 404foot waterfall. Plan your adventure at chimneyrockpark.com BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY HIKES 828-298-5330, nps.gov • FR (9/7), 9am - Easy to moderate, 2-mile, rangerled hike on the Mountainsto-Sea trail. Free. Meet at MP 397.3, Blue Ridge Parkway
BUNCOMBE COUNTY RECREATION SERVICES buncombecounty.org/ Governing/Depts/Parks/ • SA (9/8), 4pm through SU (9/9), 9:30am - "Fall Family Campout," outdoor camping event. Registration required: buncombeoutdoors.org. $20 per campsite. Held at Lake Julian Park Marina, 406 Overlook Extension, Arden
JEWEL OF THE BLUE RIDGE 828-606-3130, jeweloftheblueridge.com • SA (9/8) - "Utensilless Cooking Over an Open Fire," workshop. Registration required. $35. PISGAH CHAPTER OF TROUT UNLIMITED pisgahchaptertu.org/ New-Meeting-information. html
• 2nd THURSDAYS, 7pm General meeting and presentations. Free to attend. Held at Ecusta Brewing, 49 Pisgah Highway, Suite 3, Pisgah Forest
PARENTING BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF WNC 828-253-1470, bbbswnc.org
FLETCHER LIBRARY 120 Library Road, Fletcher, 828-6871218, library.hendersoncountync.org • WEDNESDAYS, 10:30am - Family story time. Free. GRANDFATHER MOUNTAIN 2050 Blowing Rock Highway Linville, 828-733-4337, grandfather.com • SA (9/8) - "Junior Ranger Day," badge earning event for ages 5-12. Activities include acavenger hunt, trail exploration and plant and animal identification. Admission fees apply.
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A PLACE TO CALL HOME: Alyce Knaflich founded the nonprofit Aura Foundation to serve homeless women veterans in Buncombe, Haywood and Henderson counties. The group is working to renovate a building on Meadowbrook Terrace in Hendersonville to provide women veterans a home while they find the resources to regain independence. Photo by Paula Easton to a temporary halt last fall as several board members quit. Ever the phoenix, though, Knaflich kept going. “When somebody says I can’t do something, it’s just a bigger challenge to me,” she explains. “I dig in and get it done.”
Having determined that the building is repairable, the Aura Foundation’s reconstituted board is now working on getting a design for the renovation.
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WORK TO BE DONE: Previously an assisted living facility, Aura Foundation’s Hendersonville property needs significant improvements to achieve the organization’s vision of creating a haven for homeless women veterans. Photo courtesy of Aura Foundation
say they’ve experienced sexual trauma in the military. These experiences can severely undermine a person’s ability to trust. Aura hopes to earn and rebuild that trust. “We’re helping people who’ve served our country,” says Knaflich. “All veterans deserve respect.” To that end, she’s assembled a cadre of dedicated volunteers who are willing to do the heavy lifting, whether it’s cleaning up the building, collecting donations or educating the community. Betty Sharpless, who began volunteering with Aura three years ago, says, “I have taken over 15 loads of debris to the Hendersonville dump, provided refreshments at the dance benefits, cut grass, mopped floors, worked the booth at [gay pride] events and rounded up clothes for incoming women vets,” many of whom have only the clothes they’re wearing. “Just recently,” continues Sharpless, she “hosted an outdoor music event. I’m looking forward to working my first veteran stand-down.” STANDING UP FOR WOMEN VETS During the Vietnam War, a standdown was a time when troops could
get a break from combat, receiving care and enjoying camaraderie. Today, the National Coalition for Homeless Veterans helps organize and publicize these annual events across the country. The Charles George VA Medical Center administers the Asheville Stand Down for Veterans each year in conjunction with many other local entities, including FIRST at Blue Ridge, the Asheville Buncombe Community Christian Ministry, Homeward Bound, the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the American Legion. The next such event will happen Friday, Sept. 7 (see box), providing information about education, housing, legal resources, health care, mental health options and more. Eligible veterans who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless may also receive services such as meals, haircuts and medical screenings at the event. Still, that doesn’t begin to address the needs. “There’s not enough for homeless women veterans,” says Aura board member Deb Love. “Some of them don’t realize they qualify for benefits. We help them get self-supporting.” Aura’s work isn’t limited to the proposed shelter facility, however. One homeless woman was given a donated
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for coordinating veteran resources and rebuilding shattered self-confidence, says Knaflich. Still, the goal is always “to give women a hand up, not a handout, so they can give back once they’re better,” notes Love. X
NEXT STEPS The next local Stand Down for Veterans is slated for Friday, Sept. 7, 9 a.m.-noon, at the Stephens-Lee Recreation Center, 30 George Washington Carver Ave., Asheville. To learn more about the Aura Foundation, visit www.aurahomewomenvets.org. To make a donation to help renovate the Hendersonville property, visit www.gofundme.com/2ak9uqs.
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BY LIZ CAREY lizcarey@charter.net Life in the armed forces has always been a matter of discipline — “willingly doing what is right,” in the words of the U.S. Army. But in the modern military, according to 1st Sgt. Todd Lingerfelt of the N.C. National Guard’s Field Maintenance Station No. 1 in Asheville, that commitment includes doing right by the planet. “We promote environmental standards even for soldiers in basic training,” Lingerfelt says. “If, for instance, we go in and leave boot prints in the mud, we might have engineers come in after us and make sure that we leave no tracks behind.” Lingerfelt’s station has drawn national praise for enthusiastically embracing the environmental ethos. On Aug. 3, Jordan Gillis, acting assistant secretary of the Army for installations, energy and environment, presented FMS No. 1 with the Secretary of the Army Environmental Award, given annually to just nine individuals, teams or installations from Army operations across the country. Gillis commended the station, which maintains and rehabilitates
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over 900 vehicles, weapons systems and pieces of communications equipment for Guard members, for its work to prevent pollution and increase sustainability. Through its programs to “reduce, reuse and recycle,” he said, FMS No. 1 staff members had set a strong example for their comrades throughout the armed forces. “I’m extremely proud of FMS No. 1 and the N.C. Army National Guardsmen, soldiers and civilians alike, who have taken an active role in environmental stewardship getting you where you are now, reducing our blueprint in the environment,” Gillis said during the award ceremony at the station. “Your efforts today position the Army to do great things from 2025 and beyond. I applaud your dedication, all your efforts and hard work.”
A TIGHT SHIP Environmental consciousness takes on added importance at FMS No. 1 given the shop’s location on Minuteman Road northwest of downtown Asheville, close to the French Broad River. The station and its personnel must not only be cognizant of the impact any spills or contamination would have on the area, but also must adhere to federal and local regulations overseeing its operation. “Our efforts must be part of the operational battle rhythm to meet regulatory expectations,” Lingerfelt explains. “To meet these guidelines, we must be ever-vigilant to ensure we comply.” Three of the station’s nine staff members oversee a strict regimen of day-to-day compliance and quality assurance. Routines include weekly tracking and monitoring of hazardous materials, weekly “clean
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is switching all of FMS No. 1’s light fixtures to energy-saving LED bulbs, which will slash the shop’s energy use by 50.4 percent. At more than 12,540 mWh, that reduction is the equivalent of not running 10 window air-conditioning units every day for a year. The project is also calculated to eliminate 15,383 pounds of carbon dioxide, 301 pounds of lead compounds, 214 pounds of mercury compounds, 75 pounds of sulfur dioxide and 13 pounds of nitrogen oxides from the shop’s annual greenhouse gas emissions. Such totals have a similar impact as cutting 20,000 vehicle miles. Even the shop’s towel program has come under environmental scrutiny. FMS No. 1 collects, stores and cleans all of its towels instead of using disposable ones. While the contract for cleaning those towels accommodates up to 800 towels, the shop has dropped its usage from 315 per month in 2015 to approximately 90 per month last year.
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NUMBERS GAME The shop’s volume of activity means that its environmental efforts add up to impressive impacts. Beyond oil and antifreeze, FMS No. 1 also recycles plastic, metal, paper, cardboard, batteries and wood pallets: Altogether, those waste streams total over 39,000 pounds of material kept out of landfills annually. Scrap metal is the biggest contributor to that amount, with over 7,000 pounds sent for recycling each year, including aerosol spray cans that are punctured and then crushed for recycling. Other top recycled materials include more than 5,000 pounds of tires and roughly 3,800 pounds of paper. Lingerfelt adds that the shop has replaced nearly 10,000 pounds of lead-acid batteries with gel cells for both practical and environmental reasons. Although gel cells are a bit more expensive, they are sealed to prevent acid leaks, hold a charge for longer periods of time and can last almost indefinitely if recharged every six months — perfect for the National Guard, where vehicles may only get used once a month or for three weeks during a year. Other aspects of the shop’s efforts focus on reducing its needs. Working with Duke Energy, staff
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GR E E N S C E N E TAKING IT OUTSIDE Lingerfelt is proud of his shop’s environmental edge over other facilities throughout the armed services. To win the Secretary of the Army Environmental Award, he says, FMS No. 1 first bested 14 other stations across North Carolina, then competed at the national level. The shop also came in second in the 2018 Secretary of Defense Environmental Awards, which include entries from around the world, in the category of Sustainability, Industrial Installation. But collaboration is even more important to the shop’s mission. FMS No. 1 works in conjunction with other governmental agencies, such as Buncombe County’s Department of Emergency Services, to conduct spill training exercises. Staff members also regularly host facility environmental training for civilian contractors and military personnel, Lingerfelt says. Within the National Guard, the shop often sets precedent for other facilities. After FMS No. 1 instituted its on-site antifreeze recycling system, for example, the force’s state environmental manager purchased recycling machines for use at other maintenance shops throughout North Carolina.
WINNING HANDS: Asheville’s National Guard shop bested 14 other state facilities and competed at the national level to win the Secretary of the Army Environmental Award. Photo courtesy of the N.C. National Guard “Truly, any accolades we receive are shared throughout the organization as we strive to exceed regulatory expectations,” Lingerfelt says. “The recognition is acknowledged as a ‘job well-done,’ and this pursuit is
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PARTNERS IN HEMP: Hemp Magik owner Melissa Clark and farmer Aaron Dison are leveraging their shared interest in hemp to grow their independent small businesses. Photo courtesy of Dragon Gate Farm was already legal. From his website and a Woodfin storefront, he sells everything from culinary oils and cosmetics to coffee and energy drinks produced with hemp.
MOUNTAINTRUE 828-258-8737, mountaintrue.org • SA (9/8) - Volunteer to help clean up rivers around WNC as part of the NC Big Sweep River Clean Up. Contact for full guidelines. WNC SIERRA CLUB 828-683-2176, wenoca.org • TH (9/6), 7-9pm - “Protecting Our Environment: Who We Elect Matters,” presentation by Ken Brame, NC Sierra Club political chair. Free. Held at Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville, 1 Edwin Place
FARM & GARDEN MUSHROOMS OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA - A HANDSON FORAGING (PD.) Saturdays - 8/25, 9/1, 9/8, 10am1:30pm - Explore local forests in search of edible, medicinal and regional mushrooms with fungi forager Mateo Ryall. $30 per class or $75 for 3 classes. Meet at Westgate parking lot. Info: herbandroots.com, livinroots@gmail.com, or 413-6364401. ORGANIC GROWERS SCHOOL’S 5TH ANNUAL HARVEST CONFERENCE (PD.) Friday-Sat, Sept. 7&8 at Warren Wilson College. 2-day workshops with Jim Adkins (Sustainable Poultry), Monica Corrado (Gut Health
WNC hemp farmers and processors collaborate to evolve the industry
Today, business is booming, he says, thanks to North Carolina’s hemp trials. “When we had the opportunity to grow our own hemp, we started Kingdom Harvest LLC to consolidate growing, processing and retail,” Bullman says. Kingdom Harvest is a group of three interdependent local businesses, including Carolina Hemp Co., which handles sales and marketing. Asheville Botanicals is the processing arm of the operation; Kingdom of the Happy Land Farm is a 10-acre farm site in Henderson County where hemp is grown for products sold under the Kingdom Harvest brand. Later this fall, Bullman will move retail operations from his current storefront to a new location on Haywood Road in West Asheville, where he plans to continue expanding his stock of locally grown and processed hemp products. Similiar, albeit smaller, collaborations are also ramping up in WNC as a result of hemp’s emergence on the agricultural scene. Aaron Dison is currently cultivating his first crop of specialized industrial hemp at his Dragon Gate Farm in Alexander exclusively for processor Melissa Clark, an herbalist and owner of Mars Hill-based Hemp Magik. “I’ve got 600 hemp plants in the ground this season” says Dison, who estimates that he has a little under half of his 2-acre farm dedicated to growing two new varieties of hemp. Clark, who currently sources from four growers, encouraged him to apply for a grower’s license and try his hand at hemp when her expanding production needs forced her to seek more local growing partners. The pair selected seeds from an Oregon-based company based on Clark’s standards for her cannabidiol oil products, which she
& Cooking), and Tradd Cotter (Mushrooms). $90-165 organicgrowersschool.org. APPALACHIAN SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE PROJECT 828-236-1282, asapconnections.org, robin@asapconnections.org • FR (9/7), 9am-1pm - “Farm Succession Planning,” workshop with farmers, legal professionals and other professionals. Registration required: 828-236-1282. $20/$30 for two people. Held at Saint Paul Mountain Vineyards, 588 Chestnut Gap Road, Hendersonville BLUE RIDGE WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE craft.brwia.org • SU (9/9) - “Raising Meat Goats,” workshop. Register for location: 828386-1537. Free.
processes by extracting cannabinoids and terpenes from hemp flowers. This geographic proximity creates a unique opportunity whereby farmers and hemp processors can collaborate while still maintaining separate operations. So while Dison is excited about the possibilities hemp may hold for his farm, he continues to use other parts of his land to cultivate fruits and vegetables, he says, so he can “go with the flow, to see how this season goes.” X
HEMPX ASHEVILLE Five years ago, Blake Butler, director of the N.C. Industrial Hemp Association, founded HempX Asheville, an event offering hemprelated networking and educational opportunities along with music, vendors and more. HempX 2018 happens FridaySaturday, Sept. 21-22, at Franny’s Farm in Leicester. Owner Frances Tacy was the first woman to grow hemp in North Carolina and is set to open Franny’s Farmacy, a retail business collaborative featuring locally grown, processed and packaged hemp products, at 211 Ave. Merrimon Ave. this month. This year’s HempX includes discussion panels and seminars on everything from hemp laws to textiles to soil science. Tickets are $25-$200; visit hempxasheville.com. Details on Franny’s Farmacy are available at frannysfarmacy.com.
BULLINGTON GARDENS 95 Upper Red Oak Trail Hendersonville, 828-698-6104, bullingtongardens.org • FR (9/7) & SA (9/8), 9am-4pm - Fall plant sale. Free to attend. BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/governing/ depts/library • MO (9/10), 10-11:30am - “Garden Visits with Gina,” garden tour. Registration: 828-250-6488. Free. Held at Skyland/South Buncombe Library, 260 Overlook Road PUBLIC EVENTS AT UNCA unca.edu • TH (9/6), 6:30pm - “Culinary Justice: Defining a Theory of Gastronomic Sovereignty,” lecture by Michael Twitty. Public is invited to bring seeds
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to swap at 5pm. Free. Held at UNCAsheville Reuter Center, 1 Campus View Road PUBLIC EVENTS AT WWC 828-298-3325, warren-wilson.edu • SA (9/8), 9am-3pm - “Plow Day,” with crafts, farming demonstrations, farmers market, live old-time music and ice cream. $3/Free for children under 5. Held at Warren Wilson College, 701 Warren Wilson Road, Swannanoa WEST ASHEVILLE GARDEN STROLL westashevillegardens.com • SA (9/8), 11am-4pm - Self-guided walks through 13 West Asheville gardens. Free. Printed map guides may be picked up until 3:30pm at Asheville Primary School, 441 Haywood Road.
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REFRESH BUTTON
The Asheville Wine & Food Festival takes a break, and a brand-new local culinary event is in the works
BY JONATHAN AMMONS
the festival’s kickoff last year, adding that attempts have been made to relocate the event. “We were unsuccessful in finding another area that could accommodate the 5,000 festivalgoers and their parking needs either in the city or at the Ag Center, as we had done in the past,” he says.
jonathanammons@gmail.com For almost two decades, food and drink festivals have been a booming trend. It seems that now almost every city, town and village has its own version, providing an excuse for tourists and locals alike to swirl some wine, sip local liquors, sample bites from area restaurants and mingle. In smaller towns, the events often function as trade shows, featuring tastings where local restaurants and wineries can show off their flavors in phyllo cups, disposable plates and short pours. In bigger cities like Charleston and Atlanta, the festivals sprawl on for days, offering panel discussions, spirited dinners and chefs visiting from far afield in an attempt to capture the culinary culture of an entire region. After a decade of annual events, the Asheville Wine & Food Festival didn’t make its usual appearance this summer. Previously held indoors — mostly at the U.S. Cellular Center with a few years at the WNC Agricultural Center — last year’s festival transformed into an outdoor affair at Pack Square Park, with fewer restaurants represented and the Grand Tasting event spread out over two days instead of its usual one. The 2017 festival also happened to fall on the same day that
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WINE AND DINE: After a decade of events, the Asheville Wine & Food Festival didn’t make its usual appearance this summer. Founder Bob Bowles says difficulties securing a suitable location have put the event on hold. Meanwhile, a group of local chefs, farmers and foodindustry professionals are planning a new food and beverage festival to launch in September 2019. Photo by Kat McReynolds
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local protesters, in the wake of the deadly Charlottesville, Va., Unite the Right rally, gathered at Pack Square Park to express opposition to its monuments to Robert E. Lee, Zebulon Vance and Confederate Col. John K. Connally. Despite some reports earlier this year that the AWFF was finished for good, founder and director Bob Bowles says the rumors of the event’s death have been greatly exaggerated. “Not so much pulling the plug,” he says. “[It’s] just that the event space at the U.S. Cellular Center was not available this August due to major repairs, and the city park where we were at last year is still experiencing civic controversy, and we could not guarantee the safety of festival attendees.” While the protests have not deterred other recent festivals from taking place in the shadow of the Vance obelisk, including LEAF Downtown, Asheville Yoga Fest, Vegan Fest and others, Bowles insists security was a critical concern. He points to arrests made for vandalism to park monuments the morning of
There’s at least one event in its planning stages that won’t shy away from locating at Pack Square. On Aug. 29, the Buncombe County Tourism Development Authority awarded $75,000 to help launch a new food and beverage festival concept proposed by a group of local chefs, farmers and business owners operating under the incorporated name Asheville Culinary Festival. The actual name for the event is still undecided, says organizer Katie Button, executive chef and co-owner of Cúrate and Nightbell, but tentative plans call for a September 2019 debut using Pack Square Park as the center of activity. “What we presented [to the TDA] was a hub-and-spokes setup, with Pack Square as the hub and conference rooms in surrounding hotels used for smaller educational components,” she explains. That Pack Square hub, she adds, would potentially include demonstration and food-tasting areas and a makers market, while offsite experiences would be hosted at local restaurants, farms and other locations. The aim is to start off slowly with a goal of attracting 5,000 guests the first year, drawing from the Charlotte, Charleston and Atlanta markets as well as other metro areas that Explore Asheville targets with its media campaigns. “For year one, we’re keeping it small, and we’ll adjust that as we see what the demand is and how this grows,” says Button. Along with Button, the board leading coordination of the event includes Meherwan Irani of the Chai Pani Restaurant Group, Asheville Independent Restaurants Executive Director Jane Anderson, Jael Rattigan of French Broad Chocolates, Peter Pollay of Posana restaurant and Mandara Hospitality Group, John Fleer of Rhubarb, Kevin Barnes of Ultimate Ice Cream, Dodie Stephens and Stephanie Pace Brown of Explore Asheville, Connie Matisse of East Fork Pottery, Aaron Grier of Gaining
Ground Farm, Charlie Hodge of Sovereign Remedies and Jess Reiser of Burial Beer Co. “We’re trying to create something that is uniquely Asheville,” says Button. “We all have different ideas about what that is, but when you bring all these different people together and listen to all their ideas, I think we’ll end up with something pretty fun and awesome and interesting. There are plenty of unique festivals out there, and I think Asheville has a lot of potential to create something different that is representative of Asheville and our values.” The board plans to use the seed money from the TDA to develop branding and hire an event director. At press time, an oral agreement had been reached with Charleston Wine + Food Festival founder Angel Postell to fill that position. It’s worth noting that of the brands working to coordinate the new festival, only French Broad Chocolates participated in last year’s AWFF. “I would be hesitant to say that what we are talking about is a replacement for the [Asheville] Wine & Food Festival,” says Button. “I think we all felt like there was plenty of room for more than one festival, and we wanted to do that. Food festivals are changing. They are becoming more hands-on and experiential, and we want to do our own that makes sense for the city that we are in.” Hodge agrees. “People want more than chardonnay and crab cakes now,” he says, noting that the entire notion of a wine and food festival has evolved since such events became trendy. Which begs the question, has the idea played itself out? KEEPING IT FRESH “I do think that festivals have lost a little oomph,” says Colleen Minton, who runs the TerraVita Food & Drink Festival in Chapel Hill, which is often referenced as one of the South’s most innovative culinary events. “The popup [model] kind of makes the festival look less necessary for people that are looking for delicious food, travel or adventure,” she says, noting that the recent boom in low-cost, inventive popup dining events has captured a lot of attention from the same audiences that would otherwise be buying high-priced tickets to food festivals. In order to compete, keeping things fresh is imperative. “It’s important to make sure you have some aspect of reinvention every year, because people don’t want to just come back and see the same old thing every year,” she says. TerraVita’s four-day schedule of events features award-winning chefs
FOOD FOR THOUGHT: Omni Grove Park Inn chef James Lumley prepares samples at the 2014 Asheville Wine & Food Festival. Although culinary festivals have traditionally styled themselves as tasting events, many larger festivals now incorporate educational components focused on issues of social justice, culture and sustainability. Photo by Kat McReynolds and authors hosting classes that deal with deeper issues of culture and sustainability. Last year’s festival offered workshops that looked at topics such as social justice in the restaurant world, where our food really comes from — which dealt heavily with issues of race and class — and even an examination of how climate change is affecting the wine industry. Minton, who has been consulting with the planners for Asheville’s forthcoming new festival, continues, “What I notice about the Charleston [Food & Wine Festival] and some of the bigger festivals, they try harder and harder every year to try to venture beyond the norm. So what can we do to attract the wanderlust crowd?” Bowles says a reimagined version of the Asheville Wine & Food Festival will return next year. “We decided to take a year off and bring the festival back in 2019 with a fresh new footprint, new activities and a new loca-
tion, which we are in the process of acquiring,” he explains. He notes that the AWFF’s Elixir spirits event and Sweet & Savory dessert-focused event were held in 2018 and will be back in 2019 as well. And he expresses pride that the festival established Asheville Cocktail Week, which celebrated its third anniversary this spring. “We are fortunate to live and work in a culturally diverse and a rich food shed in Western North Carolina,” he says. “In cooperation with such groups as Blue Ridge Food Ventures, Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project, Slow Food Asheville, French Broad Vignerons, Asheville Independent Restaurants Association and the many breweries, wineries, distilleries and restaurants, we hope that we’ve in some small way contributed to the recognition of our community as a vital sustainable food resource for our region.” X
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A beautiful arrangement of dark red, dried sumac berries greets me every morning as I walk into my kitchen. Harvested almost two years ago from a roadside in Madison County, these pungent berries still have loads of flavor. The clusters form atop small to medium-sized trees lining highways and byways all over our region. As a matter of fact, the sumac tree is native to our state as well as every other state in the continental U.S., according to the University of Texas Plant Database. This time of year, local foragers don’t have to travel too far when looking for the fuzzy berries, which are used as a spice in Middle Eastern culinary traditions and, increasingly, in local cuisine. “It’s not something you’d go deep into Pisgah to look for, necessarily,” explains Noah Poulos, a local environmental scientist, arborist and invasive-plant management technician. “It thrives more along edges of forest and grassy or disturbed areas. I see it a lot in parking lots, going to trails, on the margins.” Poulos, who earned a bachelor’s degree in environmental science from UNC Asheville and has had special training in botany and plant identification. stresses that poison sumac is a completely different plant. While the edible sumac berries grow on trees, poison sumac does not have red berries, is more of a ground cover and is not common in our area. Forager and Asheville Wild Foods owner Ryan Milt uses sumac berries to make an Appalachian version of the popular Middle Eastern spice mix za’atar. To complement the flavor of the sumac, which he describes as tart and citrusy, he adds a wild bee balm in place of the traditional oregano. Milt says there are three different varieties of edible sumac that grow in our region. “The most used is smooth sumac — it’s got a nice, tart cranberrylike flavor,” he says. “Winged sumac has a flavor more
Edible wild sumac berries can add local tang to seasonings
APPALACHIAN INTERPRETATION: Ryan Milt, owner of Asheville Wild Foods, uses sumac berries to make a local version of Middle Eastern za’atar spice, which he sells along with other products at the West Asheville Tailgate Market. Photo by Luke Van Hine like rose hips, and staghorn sumac is kind of fuzzy; it doesn’t have as much flavor.” Spicewalla, a local spice company owned by Meherwan Irani of Chai Pani fame, also sells a sumac-laced za’atar blend. Irani
describes za’atar as a catch-all Middle Eastern seasoning. “It reminds me of garam masala in the sense that every version I’ve seen is unique. There is no one standard formula for it. Every family and every region in the Middle East has their own.” Irani and his chef de cuisine, James Grogan, both love the flavor of sumac, and as a result, the Spicewalla za’atar blend contains a good amount of the intensely flavorful red powder. Spicewalla imports its sumac powder from Turkey, and according to local ethnobiologist Marc Williams, it is not the same varietal growing so prolifically along our roadsides. But a side-by-side taste test with the red berries in my kitchen revealed a very similar flavor profile. Sumac berries are easy to harvest from August through December by simply cutting them off the tree at the base of the cluster, but Poulos emphasizes using good tools so the tree is not damaged. He also encourages moderation. “Something to be mindful of with this and any other wild harvesting is making sure you are taking enough to serve you but also leaving some behind for other wild foragers and not stripping away all the sumac from one area,” he says. Fresh sumac berries can be used right away to make a citrus-flavored tea. Milt recommends using cool or lukewarm water because hot water extracts tannic acid, which brings out a strong, bitter flavor. “If you put sumac in cold to lukewarm water in a Mason jar and shake it around, then you’re going to get a lot of flavor — it’s very water-soluble,” he explains. The tea can be used in a number of ways. Irani recommends cocktails, using it just as you would lime juice or other acidic ingredients. “Every time I’ve had a drink with sumac in it, I really like that sort of acerbic effect on the tongue,” he says. “It’s more than just sour; it’s activating all those puckering agents in your mouth.” As evidenced by the specimens in my kitchen, dried sumac berries will keep for a couple of years, and once dried they can be ground into a powder with a spice grinder. The berries do have a hard inner seed, but if your grinder is powerful enough, it will get pulverized along with the fruit. Another method involves rubbing dried berries in a fine mesh strainer, remov-
ing the dried fruit from the seed, and collecting the powdery pungent spice that falls through the mesh. According to Irani and Grogan, one of the best applications for the dried spice is combining it with meats for kabobs or roast chicken. Meanwhile, Poulos enjoys mixing it with sweet spices like cinnamon and nutmeg for zucchini bread and pumpkin pie. Milt uses it in his pickle brine to decrease the pH and brighten the flavor. Obviously, the uses for this flavorful native plant are numerous, and because sumac can be identified easily, it’s great for foragers of all skill levels. Plus it can double as a decorative arrangement in your kitchen until you’re ready to eat it. X
WILD HARVEST: Tangy sumac berries, like these found recently in Madison County, are plentiful in Western North Carolina August through December. Photo by Cathy Cleary
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Pat chicken legs dry and marinate with 2 tablespoons of olive oil, salt, olives and with brine, spices, lemon juice and pomegranate molasses. Let sit for a couple of hours. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Heat a Dutch oven or large cast-iron pan and add remaining oil. Add onions and cook until they just start to brown. Add the crushed garlic and continue to cook until just brown. Add chicken, skin side up, along with pine nuts and enough liquid to cover the bottom of the pan. Place in the oven for 45 minutes to one hour or until chicken is cooked to 165 degrees. Finish with a liberal amount of freshly chopped parsley. Serve with a bright-green salad, roasted potatoes and thick yogurt with za’atar.
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Local Food Experience returns to New Belgium Brewing Co. Chefs, farmers and artisan food producers will join forces at the Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project’s third annual Local Food Experience, which returns to New Belgium Brewing Co. on Thursday, Sept. 13. ASAP’s events coordinator, Robin Lenner, describes the gathering as a casual, end-of-summer affair with plenty of local bites to sample and possible prizes to win. The evening also offers attendees a deeper look at the connections among the local agriculture, restaurant and brewing industries. “We try to bring to this event Appalachian Grown partner restaurants and artisan producers who work regularly with farmers,” she explains. “It’s a way to showcase people who are really doing the work to cultivate ongoing relationships with farmers.” Asheville Tea Co. owner Jessie Dean agrees. “Farmers and businesses are able to connect through the Local Food Experience because it is a wonderful networking platform and a way to experiment with local ingredients to get creative and see what could be possible,” she says. Along with Asheville Tea Co., participating restaurants, organizations and farms at this year’s get-together include: Cecilia’s Kitchen, The Culinary Gardener, Dark Cove Farm, Eliada Farms, English Farmstead Cheese, Gan Shan Station, Guadalupe Cafe, Gypsy Queen Cuisine, Hickory Nut Gap Farm, Ingles Markets, The Montford Rooftop Bar, Rayburn Farm, Sovereign Remedies and Sunshine Sammies. For the first time, attendees will have a chance to vote for favorite dishes in the following categories: People’s Choice, Most Creative and Best Use of Local Ingredients. A silent auction will also offer a number of food- and farm-related prizes. And chef Dan Silo, who is partnering with Eliada Farms, will provide samples of possible future menu items for his forthcoming New Leicester Highway restaurant, Sawhorse, which is set to open this fall (see, “Digging Deep: Some WNC Restaurants are Rooted in Family Heritage,” July 5, Xpress). 38
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CONNECTING THE DOTS: Jessie Dean, left, of Asheville Tea Co., says ASAP has been “a fundamental part of our business getting off the ground by connecting [us] with local farms,” such as Rayburn Farm. Also pictured is Michael Rayburn of Rayburn Farm. Both will participate in this year’s Local Food Experience. Photo by Chelsea Lane Photography
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“Come with an appetite,” says Lenner. “And feel free to ask lots of questions. This is an opportunity to get to have conversations with local chefs and producers and to make new connections.” On top of that, she notes, it’s an excellent way to support ASAP’s ongoing mission to help local farms thrive and to build healthy communities through access to local food. The 2018 Local Food Experience runs 6-8:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 13, at New Belgium Brewing Co., 21 Craven St. Tickets are $30. To purchase, visit avl.mx/594. NEW COLLABORATIVE PIES AT ASHEVILLE PIZZA & BREWING CO. September marks the start of a new food collaboration series at Asheville Pizza & Brewing Co. Each month, the pizzeria’s North Asheville location will partner with another local restaurant to create a specialty pizza. For the inaugural dish, Asheville Pizza chef Nick Izzo has partnered with chef Brian Crow of Chestnut. The Chestnut Pie, available throughout September, is an olive oilbased pizza topped with local heirloom tomatoes, hickory-smoked bacon from Benton’s Country Ham and Looking Glass Creamery’s fromage blanc. The pizza is finished with roasted garlic-andbasil aioli and fresh watercress. The coming months will feature collaborations with Bouchon, Strada Italiano and AUX Bar. In a press release, Mike
Rangel, Asheville Pizza president, says, “We’re so honored to have some of these local culinary superstars work with us. We’ve gotten a great response, and we plan to continue the fun with new restaurants in 2019.” Asheville Pizza & Brewing Co.’s North Asheville location is at 675 Merrimon Ave. For more, visit ashevillebrewing.com. OAK AND GRIST DISTILLING CO. CELEBRATES RELEASE Oak and Grist Distilling Co. will celebrate the release of its first bottling of whiskey at its Black Mountain distillery on Thursday, Sept. 6. According to a statement from the company, this will be the first in a series of products to be released over the next two years. “Each whiskey in this series was brewed, fermented, distilled and aged at the distillery using 100 percent malted barley from Riverbend Malt House in Asheville,” the announcement says. The limited release will not exceed 2,500 bottles. Oak and Grist Distilling Co.’s inaugural release celebration runs 1-9 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 6, at 1556 Grovestone Road, Black Mountain. For more information, visit Oakandgrist.com. ASHEVILLE COMMUNITY GARDEN NETWORK ANNUAL DINNER For a second consecutive year, Bountiful Cities will host a benefit dinner
for its Community Garden Network, a free member network that offers support and resources to over three dozen local community gardens. The menu will be prepared by chef Gene Ettison, founder of Build a Better Salad food truck and partner in the revival of the Ujamaa Freedom Market initiative. Ingredients will be sourced from area community gardens. Along with dinner, the event will feature live music by Miles Boone, spoken word by Siyah, children’s activities, door prizes and a 50/50 raffle. The Community Garden Network dinner runs 5-7:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 8, at the Pearson Community Garden, 408 Pearson Drive. Tickets are $25 in advance or $30 at the door. Tickets for children ages 4-16 are $10. Children age 3 and younger eat free. Sliding scale and scholarship tickets are also available. To purchase tickets, visit avl.mx/593. FERMENTING FOR HOME, HEALTH & HAPPINESS On Sunday, Sept. 9, Fermenti will host an introductory fermentation class, Fermenting for the Home, Health & Happiness. In addition to fermenting basics, the class will cover ways to eliminate food waste, reduce food costs and discover the health benefits of fermented goods. Fermenting for the Home, Health & Happiness runs 2-4 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 9, at the Hendersonville Food Co-Op, 60 S. Charleston Lane, Hendersonville. Tickets are $33. To purchase, visit avl.mx/595. WEAVERVILLE TAILGATE MARKET APP The Weaverville Tailgate Market now offers the FarmFreshWeb Consumer app for Apple and Android phones. The app allows vendors to update patrons on special deals, new products and other news. Some vendors will also offer advance orders to customers who use the app. In a press release, market board member Brenda Dillingham notes, “We’ve got a great market here on Wednesdays, with the freshest local food, so we want to help more people know in advance what’s available and when.” The Weaverville Tailgate Market runs 2:30-6 p.m. Wednesdays through Oct. 31 at 60 Lakeshore Drive. The app is available for Apple phones at avl.mx/591 and for Android users at avl.mx/592. X
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GET WELL SOON Pedro Esqueda curates an exhibition of works by artists in recovery
BACK ON TRACK: During his own process of recovery, local artist Pedro Esqueda benefited from creative work. “Since I’ve gotten sober, I’ve reconnected with all the things I was interested in [before],” he says. Esqueda is curating New Vision, New Hope: Asheville Artists in Recovery, an exhibition of works by more than 20 local creatives who are navigating their own paths through rehabilitation. Photo by Cindy Kunst
BY ALLI MARSHALL amarshall@mountainx.com Through the process of recovering from addiction, Asheville-based artist Pedro Esqueda has received a number of gifts — “Tools, if you will, for life,” he says. “Like acceptance.” He’s not talking about acceptance in the sense that those around him aren’t judging him too harshly, but that he’s less critical of himself: something that he’s finding helpful in the creative process. “The only thing I have control over is what I’m going to do,” says the painter and animator. “My part is to show up and do the thing.” Esqueda is curating New Vision, New Hope: Asheville Artists in Recovery, an exhibition of works by more than 20 local creatives who are navigating their own paths through rehabilitation. The show opens at the Asheville Area Arts Council’s Thom Robinson 40
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and Ray Griffin Exhibition Space on Friday, Sept. 7. Esqueda discovered his own artistic skill when kids in his middle school left sketches they made of comic book characters lying around. Thinking the drawings looked cool, Esqueda started teaching himself to replicate the form — only later to realize the kids whose talents he’d admired had been tracing the characters. “I wanted to be that good,” he says, “And in the process, I got that good.” He went on to school for animation and film in Long Beach, Calif., but an alcohol and drug habit, which started in high school, caught up with him. Attempting to escape legal and personal troubles, he came to the Asheville area for a brief stint, a pattern he repeated off and on for a decade and a half. This time, Esqueda has been in Asheville for five years, partly because he’s now a co-owner of his mother’s business, Nelly’s Upholstery — and partly because a series of events led him to finally get sober.
“A lot of [creating the art show] had to do with keeping myself busy,” he says. “The program I’m in has connected me with people and made me feel of use.” And, while he admits the role of curator has been more work than he’d initially imagined, personal meetings with many of those submitting work has been a great experience. “They’re all really excited,” Esqueda notes. “They said they hadn’t worked on anything in a long time and this art show has lit a fire under their ass.” In the description of New Vision, New Hope, Esqueda writes, “Coming into sobriety, I thought I would never create again or that my art would never be as good.” That was then: “I was afraid that I was going to become this boring square and start wearing a suit,” he admits. “But when I was drinking and doing drugs and not creating, I just know if I stopped … I could do stuff. … When I drank, that was all I did.”
And this is now: “The life I knew I could have is happening,” he says. “Since I’ve gotten sober, I’ve reconnected with all the things I was interested in [during] high school,” such as rebuilding his animation career and creating a recovery comic. This new chapter for Esqueda also includes improv comedy. He’s been taking classes with Asheville Improv Collective for more than a year and performs with his troupe, Skipping to the Good Parts, which recently opened for Reasonably Priced Babies. “Ever since I’ve started improv, I walk through the fear of creating a lot easier,” he says. “With improv, I’ve given myself permission to create stuff that’s terrible.” But he’s also creating work that’s decidedly not terrible, including a 4-foot-by-5-foot acrylic-on-canvas painting, one of three that he hopes to hang in the exhibition at the Asheville Area Arts Council. The response from those interested in being part of the show has been so enthusiastic that Esqueda expects there will be more exhibits with a recovery theme. And, for the initial group showcase, “There’s something I like about everyone’s work,” he says. “I think it will all go well together.”
If the curator sounds at all surprised, it might be because the call for artists was fairly broad. “If you’ve gotten sober and are creating now, that was the only stipulation” for inclusion in New Vision, New Hope, Esqueda says. “If you’re making stuff now and you weren’t making stuff before, or your work is much better now, or your work is more consistent now, then that’s the story I wanted to tell.” He adds, “Because that’s my story.” X
WHAT New Vision, New Hope: Asheville Artists in Recovery WHERE Thom Robinson and Ray Griffin Exhibition Space Asheville Area Arts Council 207 Coxe Ave. ashevillearts.com WHEN Friday, Sept. 7, to Saturday, Sept. 29. Opening reception Sept. 7, 5-8 p.m. with an artist talk at 6:30 p.m. Free
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NATURAL NARRATIVES Now in its 22nd year, Dogwood Alliance is working to make U.S. forest protection a national priority in the fight against climate change. The Asheville-based nonprofit is also championing wetland forests as an important resource against extreme flooding and storms caused by rising global temperatures. Bringing attention to these causes and uniting the community through storytelling and music is the organization’s third Woods & Wilds event, which takes place this year on Saturday, Sept. 8, at The Grey Eagle. Kimala Luna, advancement outreach and recruitment manager for Dogwood Alliance, says the decision to use these art forms to spotlight environmental causes came about organically. Noting that “fearmongering isn’t a sustainable way to reach people,” she and her colleagues instead strive to build community through shared values, specifically “the fact that forests support us.” To achieve those results, they’ve found storytelling to be the most effective means. In addition to past Woods & Wilds, Dogwood Alliance has organized other successful storytelling events, such as the Durham-based Stories Happen in Forests. The organization also has a video series by the same name that’s featured inspirational personal narratives from John Darnielle of the band The Mountain Goats and internet hiking sensation Daniel White, aka the Blackalachian. For the Asheville gathering, Luna sought out people who combine activism with the ability to spin an engaging yarn. “Everyone has a connection to the forest, so our philosophy is pretty much anyone could get up and tell a
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Woods & Wilds encourages forest protection through storytelling
FRIENDS OF THE LORAX: From left, electronic musician Anthony Thogmartin, aka EarthCry, and storytellers Alison Fields and Robert Zachary are among the eight performers at Dogwood Alliance’s Woods & Wilds event on Sept. 8 at The Grey Eagle. Photos courtesy of the artists
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story that could reach us all about this inherent connection that we have,” she says. “What I was looking for was compelling storytellers, but also people who had experience with the biodiversity of our region.” Among those fitting that description are Gary Sizer, a thru-hiker on the Appalachian Trail; poet and activist Robert Zachary; LGBTQ advocacy group Southerners on New Ground organizer Nicole Townsend; and Sizwe Herring, founder of the nonprofit Earth education organization EarthMatters Tennessee, under whom Luna once worked as a junior camp counselor in his Kids to the Country summer program. The lone musical act will be EarthCry, the experimental electronic side project of Anthony Thogmartin from self-described Asheville “space rock” group — and past Dogwood Alliance collaborators — Papadosio. Luna notes that Thogmartin donates earnings from his solo endeavors to various environmental nonprofits. Also on the program is storyteller Alison Fields, who grew up in Asheville with environmentally minded parents and graduated from UNC Asheville. Now based in Carrboro, the Asheville Moth Grand Slam winner says she spent plenty of time as a child “wandering in both the literal wilderness (semisupervised) and the wilderness of interconnected North Asheville parks and backyards, sometimes accompanied by friends and usually with a stack of novels and/or a
bicycle,” but wasn’t what people might call “traditionally outdoorsy.” “I liked the woods because the woods were fertile ground for making up stories about things and pretending I could see imaginary things out of my peripheral vision,” Fields says. “And if you got deep enough in a thicket, down in the dry leaves of a narrow ravine, the odds were good that you wouldn’t be spotted acting out things in your own pretend universe by the other sixth-graders.” After wandering back into the woods about 10 years ago, after “a couple decades of spotty attendance,” Fields found the same solace that greeted her when she was a 12-year-old. However, she says communing with the natural world has become less about finding a place to make up new stories and more about paying attention to the stories happening around her. She finds such tales in things “as simple as a current in a stream, a rustle of leaves, a kerfuffle of birds and squirrels, and that wind that blows in during the late spring and smells almost like you could ride it all the way out to sea.” To help encourage the sustainability of that source of creativity, she’s excited for her first Woods & Wilds and playing what she feels is a small personal role for “an unimpeachable cause.” “Protecting our environment and preserving our wild spaces is of paramount importance. We have one planet. We don’t get a do-over. It is such a great privilege that we even get to enjoy the spectacular diversity, the sublime
beauty and the gorgeous clamor of life that we have,” Fields says. “We don’t have nearly as much left as we should. We lose more — far more than we can afford — every day. The smart people at Dogwood Alliance are doing the hard work of protecting forests and pursuing environmental and social justice. I just talk loud and have a lot of words.” Along with the new venue, veterans of past Woods & Wilds will find many changes this year. The previous two events were all-day happenings at Salvage Station with kids activities, yoga, storytelling and a full lineup of musical acts. Though they were enjoyable experiences, Luna admits they also felt a little chaotic. “This year, I really wanted to scale it back,” she says. “Because so much was going on, not everyone in attendance was listening to the stories being told, and I felt like that was the most important part.” X
WHAT Woods & Wilds WHERE The Grey Eagle 185 Clingman Ave. thegreyeagle.com WHEN Saturday, Sept. 8, 7-10 p.m. $20
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BOOK SMART Southern Women Authors series takes place in West Asheville WITH THE ASHEVILLE SYMPHONY
WOMEN OF WORDS: Author Lillian Smith, left, penned the first celebrated novel that portrayed a sympathetic interracial romance. Caroline Miller, right, won a Pulizer Prize for her novel of female empowerment before moving to Waynesville. Photo of Smith by C.M. Stieglitz from the Library of Congress, New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection; photo of Miller courtesy of Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Georgia Libraries “She stood at the gate, waiting; behind her the swamp, in front of her Colored Town, beyond it all, Maxwell.” So begins Lillian Smith’s groundbreaking 1944 novel Strange Fruit. Its story focuses on Nonnie Smith and Tracy Deen, a couple in tiny Maxwell, Ga., who have fallen deeply in love but cannot possibly be together. Nonnie, we know by the end of the first page, is college-educated and highly respected, but she is a black woman in rural Georgia, and Tracy Deen is a white man. Indeed, Strange Fruit was the first celebrated novel that portrayed a sympathetic interracial romance. Released during the Second World War — Tracy is not only white but also a veteran — it was met with a great deal of controversy, which led to roaring sales but also to the book being banned in a number of locations.
Its banned-book status is perhaps part of what has earned Smith a place in this year’s Southern Women Authors: Writing America Between the Wars series, set to take place on 10 evenings between September and December, starting Wednesday, Sept. 12, at the West Asheville Library. The other authors on the docket are Caroline Miller (Lamb in His Bosom), Mildred Haun (The Hawk’s Done Gone) and Elizabeth Madox Roberts (The Time of Man). As for Strange Fruit, it would be 1967 before anti-miscegenation laws were tossed with the Loving v. Virginia Supreme Court decision, making Lillian Smith remarkably ahead of her time and also keenly aware of what sto-
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[being] progressive. They were not all bad, but they went from the gradualist stance, which was basically a dressedup segregationist stance — what’s the difference between ‘Segregation now, segregation forever’ and ‘I believe in integration, we just can’t go too fast’? You’ll never go fast unless you’re going to push for it. Gradualist means you’re not going to push for it. That was the whole deal. They were in that camp. “McGill was also, early on, for lynching and everything else,” he adds.
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“Smith had really let him have it early on, and just … probably called him out. Pushed him. He probably, out of shame as well as indignation, said, ‘To hell with her.’” Smith wasn’t the only one who was pushed aside by male critics and others in the position of championing great women authors of that era. A decade earlier, the year 1934 saw the publication of some highly celebrated works of fiction. F. Scott Fitzgerald published what was arguably the finest work of his career with Tender Is the Night. Fellow bearer of testosterone Henry Miller published Tropic of Cancer. But the Pulitzer Prize went to Caroline Miller for her portrayal of private matters — and female empowerment — in the rural antebellum South, via her stunning debut, Lamb in His Bosom. You would be forgiven for wondering who Caroline Miller was. Born in 1903 in Waycross, Ga., Miller wrote prolifically and published on occasion, yet Lamb in His Bosom was the only work for which she was celebrated in her lifetime. It earned her such success, in fact, that her marriage could not survive the attention. She eventually remarried and moved to Waynesville, where she wrote a number of other manuscripts and died in 1992. This fall, her life and work will be given renewed interest when series attendees are treated to a lecture by Dr. Emily Powers Wright, followed by a book club discussion the following week. Indeed, the series will feature lectures, documentary films, book clubstyle discussions and a “text-based musical performance” — all to cele-
brate and explore the work of these remarkable authors. Stokely notes part of his motivation is based on the fact that his mother, Wilma Dykeman, “swam in gender discrimination” during her career, so he wanted to dedicate an event to other authors whose names — and perhaps also their work — have been forgotten. Last year’s inaugural series focused on works by Zora Neale Hurston, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Ellen Glasgow, Julia Peterkin and Olive Tilford Dargan, and each week saw attendance grow. Stokely is hoping for the same this year. He’s also hoping the series will encourage people not only to think more about these authors but also to read their books. To that end, used copies of each of the texts will be available for sale during the lectures, so folks can attend the lecture, go home and read the book, then return a few days later for discussion. “My mother used to say there’s no greater compliment you can give to a writer than to read what they wrote,” Stokely says, adding that this series is “all about correcting the imbalance.” X
WHAT Southern Women Authors Writing America Between the Wars WHERE West Asheville Library 942 Haywood Road WHEN Wednesday, Sept. 12Wednesday, Dec. 19, 7 p.m. wilmadykemanlegacy.org
SCHEDULE • Wednesday, Sept. 12 — Screening of Today in Georgia History: Lillian Smith and Miss Lil’s Camp • Thursday, Sept. 13 — Lecture by Margaret Rose Gladney, professor emerita at the University of Alabama, on Lillian Smith and her novel Strange Fruit • Wednesday, Sept. 19 — Discussion of Strange Fruit • Thursday, Oct. 11 — Lecture by Emily Wright, professor of English at Methodist University, on Caroline Miller and her novel Lamb in His Bosom • Wednesday, Oct. 17 — Discussion of Lamb in His Bosom
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• Wednesday, Nov. 7 — Katie Hoffman and Hannah Harvey present a text-based musical performance about author Mildred Haun • Thursday, Nov. 8 — Lecture by Katie Hoffman, founder of Appalworks, on Mildred Haun, and her short-story cycle The Hawk’s Done Gone • Wednesday, Nov. 14 — Discussion of The Hawk’s Done Gone • Thursday, Dec. 13 — Lecture by Victoria Barker, professor of English at Carson-Newman College, on Elizabeth Madox Roberts and her novel The Time of Man • Wednesday, Dec. 19 — Discussion of The Time of Man
by Bill Kopp
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FLEXING THE SONGWRITING MUSCLE Jamie McLean returns to Asheville with a collection of new songs Throughout the first decade of this century, Jamie McLean played guitar in beloved New Orleans institution Dirty Dozen Brass Band. For the last several years, he has served as guitarist for another Crescent City legend, Aaron Neville. But alongside those duties, McLean has long since established himself as a singer and songwriter in his own right. Touring in support of One and Only, the latest album from the Jamie McLean Band, the guitarist plays Isis Music Hall on Wednesday, Sept. 12. Partly through his work with the Dirty Dozen, McLean has connections to the jam band scene. But the thread that runs through his work — especially on his studio albums — is an emphasis on concise songwriting. “More than anything, I feel that the songs are the strongest part,” he says. “I always want to focus my energy on that.” One and Only is a varied collection of songs; the title track features an arrangement that’s very much in the Nashville tradition, while other tunes lean more in a rock direction. McLean laughs when he’s asked if he’s trying to confound those who would try to pigeonhole him into one style of music. “When I sit down to write, I don’t consciously think, ‘I’m going to write a rock song now,’” he says. “These things just sort of present themselves.” He does allow that several of the new album’s songs are related in their subject matter. “There are a few new New Orleans-style funky numbers,” he says, “but there are a lot of, for a lack of a better word, love songs.” He adds, “But I like having a couple different little things to keep interest. Especially in the era of the short attention span.” But the main objective, as McLean puts it, is, “trying to focus on writing great songs.” He offers the example of one of his favorite acts, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. “They’re a prime example of a really great band with great songs,” McLean says. “They could be concise on an album, and then go rock the songs onstage. And that’s something we’re shooting for.” In pursuit of that goal, the guitarist tries to create music that feeds listeners three ways. “The saxophone player for the Dirty Dozen used to say the band gives you something for the mind, for the body and the soul,” McLean
“But then last year, we played the Diana Wortham Theatre with Marc Broussard,” McLean recalls. “That was a sold-out show. People came up to the merch table afterward and asked, ‘When’s the next one?’ So we quickly turned around and booked a show at Isis in May of this year.” And, this month, he’s headed back again. X
WHO The Jamie McLean Band WHERE Isis Music Hall 743 Haywood Road isisasheville.com WHEN Wednesday, Sept. 12, at 8:30 p.m. $15 advance/$18 day of show
KEEP IT SHORT: Even though he’s a fixture of the jam band scene, singer and guitarist Jamie McLean puts strong emphasis on concise songwriting for his studio albums. The former Dirty Dozen Brass Band guitarist plays Isis Music Hall Sept. 12. Photo by Evan Felts says. “And the biggest part of that is the soul.” He notes that he hasn’t always fully appreciated those values. “When I first joined the Dirty Dozen, I had been studying a lot and playing a lot. A big part of my plan was trying to be flashy, playing a lot of notes and showing off all the stuff that I had been working on.” He laughs when he remembers how that went over: “After my big long solo with all these notes, the baritone sax player would come out and play one note over and over and over and over. And the place would go crazy! I quickly realized that it’s not the number of notes; it’s the feeling that you put into it.” And that feeling is something McLean tries to convey with his songwriting as well. Though he typically writes alone, in the months before making One and Only, he decided to try a different approach: co-writing. So he headed to Nashville. “There’s a different creative thing that can happen when you get more than one person in the room,” he says.
McLean feels he learned a great deal in his Nashville songwriting sessions. He says that the regimen — one cowriting session in the morning, another in the afternoon — was something like a gym workout. “Whether those songs would ever end up on an album is irrelevant,” he says. (Ultimately, most tracks selected for One and Only were the product of writing solo.) “It was more a matter of getting the repetitions in, flexing that muscle.” McLean is a regular visitor to Asheville. With the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, he performed at the Bele Chere festival in 2005; with his own band, he played that festival twice. When the Dirty Dozen returned in 2010 for that year’s Warren Haynes’ Christmas Jam, McLean was in the group as well. “I remember playing The Orange Peel a lot with them, too,” he says. “Asheville was always a regular stop.” But he notes that, for whatever reason, there was a gap of a few years when he didn’t find himself on an Asheville stage. MOUNTAINX.COM
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‘IN A CLEARING’ AT THE MAGNETIC THEATRE
CAN’T SEE THE FOREST: Mark is struggling to figure out the past that haunts him as he navigates his newly sober life. From left, Jered Shults, Thomas Traugaer and Emily Tynan McDaniel star in In A Clearing. Photo by Tempus Fugit Design Addiction, tragedy, failure and loneliness all collide in the world premiere of the play In A Clearing by Karen Saari. The rural Wisconsin setting is as desolate as the emotions of its characters in this rumination on lost lives, now onstage through Sunday, Sept. 9, at The Magnetic Theatre. Andrew Gall directs this new play. From the casting choices to its casual tempo, the show embodies a sliceof-life approach. The characters are all somewhat unremarkable, flawed and resigned to just exist within
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their seemingly inescapable failings. In their world, the trivial can become fodder for epic personal trauma, while the more serious aspects of their actions are treated casually. Gall helps the cast walk the razor’s edge of realism versus melodrama. Emily Tynan McDaniel plays Pam, who had long ago escaped this north woods town but has returned to help her parents cope with the death of her younger brother. The circumstances of his death are purposely made vague. A lot of denial fills the lives of the people inhabiting this
world. McDaniel is a strong performer who keeps Pam real and relatable to the audience. As Mark, Thomas Traugaer is the character we spend the most time with. He has been on the wagon for three months and is struggling to stay sober. He is also haunted by dreams that keep dragging him back to a night that he can’t remember. Along the way, clues present themselves, and as he and Pam slowly find solace in each other, it becomes obvious that his lost memory and her family tragedy are on a collision course. An always-solid Kay Galvin trades her British dialect for a subtle northern Midwest accent that never slips into parody. For that, we have Jered Shults’ tragic comedy-relief character Roger. He’s a relentlessly happy-golucky-yet-sad drunk who brings a bit of the Makenzie brothers from the film Strange Brew to his character. In fact, the characters and plot in general make us think that this could all be happening in the next town over from the Coen brothers movie Fargo. Anyone who grew up anywhere in rural America knows these characters. The world writ large is nowhere
on their minds, and just making it through a day without a drink or without having to accept responsibility for bad life choices, is so allconsuming that they have little time for anything else. Ironically, the show opens with Pam and Mark engaged in a game of Trivial Pursuit, showing that they have knowledge of something more than their own misery. But they don’t go beyond it being knowledge within a game — it somehow never translates to making their lives better in reality. X
WHAT In A Clearing WHERE The Magnetic Theatre 375 Depot St. themagnetictheatre.org WHEN Through Sunday, Sept. 9 Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. Sunday at 3 p.m. $16
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The Prevarigator and the Swamp Subtitled “A dance theater satire for liberals and their progeny,” The Prevarigator and the Swamp takes aim at the current political climate under President Trump. The evening-length performance is choreographed by local dance artist and educator Caroline Althof Salas in collaboration with Asheville Contemporary Dance Theatre. The work incorporates the script from the 1986 National Geographic documentary Realm of the Alligator and features transforming costume pieces by puppeteer Edwin Salas Acosta. It also draws parallels between modern political figures and the animals examined in the film, including woodpeckers, otters, corn snakes, carnivorous plants, turtles and alligators. Shows take place at The Bebe Theatre on Fridays and Saturdays, Sept. 7 and 8 and 14 and 15, at 7:30 p.m., and Sundays, Sept. 9 and 16, at 6:30 p.m. $15 students and seniors/$18 adults. acdt.org. Photo of Gillian Maurer by Caroline Althof Salas
DJ Honey A lover of music, DJ Honey has been showcasing her artistic passions in the Asheville community for just shy of a year. Playing gigs ranging from benefits to birthday parties, her mission is to get people dancing by spinning old-school house, funk and hip-hop. She also owns and operates the online clothing store Different Wrld, a “lifestyle brand that is focused on reworking and curating collections of vintage apparel and accessories.” Through the brand, she additionally hosts fashion, art and music events “with the intention of encouraging inclusive community spaces, creator collaboration and personal empowerment.” Back on the musical side, DJ Honey performs at LaZoom Room 10 p.m.-2 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 8, and every Saturday through Sept. 22. Free. lazoomtours.com. Photo courtesy of the artist
The Dragon and The Unicorn For a new series of group shows masterminded by local curator Justine Briggs, selected artists are invited to create works that correspond with the current exhibition’s title. In The Dragon and The Unicorn, Zach Briggs, Kaysha Siemens, Bonnie Currie, Grace Engel, Fian Arroyo, Madalyn Mcleod, Esteban Gonzalez, Zachary Sarvis, Mars Pell and the organizer herself will each make two pieces — one The Dragon and the other The Unicorn. “The idea is to foster healthy competition and a format for really putting the focus on conceptualization and technical followthrough,” Briggs says. With the series, she also strives to “highlight how incredible and varied the talent and creativity is in this town.” The show hangs at the downtown Izzy’s Coffee Den throughout September with an opening reception Saturday, Sept. 8, 5-7 p.m. izzyscoffee.com. Pictured, “The Dragon” by Justine Briggs
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The Human Side In mid-October last year, Asheville-based poet Kevin Evans began hosting and assembling The Human Side, a recurring event he created “to bring people together to enjoy a mutual human experience of art, communication and community.” On Sunday, Sept. 9, at 4 p.m., the latest edition takes place at The BLOCK Off Biltmore. Titled Old School/New School: History of People and Their Ways, it includes music and spoken word by Evans, Aaron Price, Caleb Beissert, Meta Commerse, Dagmar Stansova, Kelly Hoyer, Joe Shelton, Abby Young, Mildred K. Barya, Justin Blackburn, Gary McCracken and Justin Lawlor, Robert Zachary and Sol Esperanza Roja. Vegan dishes will be served, and the scheduled performances will be followed by an open mic and jam. $10 suggested donation. Half of the evening’s proceeds will be donated to Youth OUTright WNC, a nonprofit dedicated to empowering area LGBTQIA+ youth. theblockoffbiltmore.com. Photo of Evans courtesy of the artist
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WAKANDA WEAR: Western Carolina University kicks off its Arts and Cultural Events series Monday, Sept. 10, at 7 p.m. in the Bardo Center with a talk by Academy Award nominee Ruth E. Carter. She is the first African-American woman to be nominated for an Oscar for costume design (Malcolm X; Amistad) and has a legitimate shot of a third nomination for her work on Black Panther.Tickets are free for WCU students, $10 for all non-WCU students and WCU faculty/staff and $15 for general admission. For more information, visit bardoartscenter.wcu.edu. Photo of Carter courtesy of WCU (p. 49)
ART APPALACHIAN PASTEL SOCIETY appalachianpastelsociety.org • SA (9/8), 10am-noon - "The Photography of 2-Dimensional Art," presentation by Mac Read, of Black Mountain Photo Arts, and general meeting. Free. Held at Grace Community Church, 495 Cardinal Road, Mills River ASHEVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL 828-258-0710, ashevillearts.com • WE (9/5), 5:30-6:30pm - Regional Artist Project Grant information session. Free. Held at Black Mountain Public Library, 105 N. Dougherty St., Black Mountain • WE (9/12), 4-5pm Regional Artist Project Grant information session. Free. Held at The Refinery, 207 Coxe Ave. ASHEVILLE DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION ashevilledowntown.org • TH (9/6), 5:30pm Installation ceremony for the Lexington Avenue Art Project’s newest sculpture. Free. Held outside at 65 N. Lexington Ave.
BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • TU (9/11), 5-7pm Drawing class for adults. Materials supplied. Registration required. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. CALDWELL ARTS COUNCIL 828-754-2486, caldwellarts.com • SA (9/8), 9am-4pm 33rd annual Sculpture Celebration. Awards presented at 3:30pm. Free. Held at Broyhill Walking Park, 945 Lakewood Circle, Lenoir HAYWOOD COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL 828-452-0593, haywoodarts.org • TH (9/6), 5:30pm Regional Artist Project Grant information session. Free. Held at Jackson County Public Library, 310 Keener St., Sylva • TH (9/13), 5:30pm Regional Artist Project Grant information session. Free. Held at Haywood County Arts Council, 86 N Main St., Waynesville PUBLIC EVENTS AT WCU 828-227-7397, bardoartscenter.edu • MO (9/10), 7pm Public lecture by Ruth E. Carter, costume creator and member of the Academy of
Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for more than 25 years. $15. Held at The WCU Bardo Arts Center, 199 Centennial Drive THE CENTER FOR CRAFT, CREATIVITY & DESIGN 828-785-1357, craftcreativitydesign. org, info@craftcreativitydesign.org • SA (9/8), 4-6pm - Salon Series Book Discussion: The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability, Designing for Abundance, by William McDonough and Michael Braungart. Free to attend. Held at The Center for Craft, Creativity and Design, 67 Broadway TRYON FINE ARTS CENTER 34 Melrose Ave., Tryon, 828-859-8322, tryonarts.org • WE (9/5), 10am "Great Courses: Art," lecture & discussion on contemporary art. Free.
ART/CRAFT STROLLS & FAIRS DOWNTOWN ASHEVILLE FIRST FRIDAY ART WALKS downtownashevilleartdistrict.org. • 1st FRIDAYS, 5-8pm - Downtown Asheville First Friday Art Walks with more than 25 galleries within a half mile radius of historic
downtown Asheville. Free to attend. Held at Downtown Asheville, Biltmore Ave/College St. MOONLIT ART MARKET burialbeer.com • 2nd WEDNESDAYS, 8-11pm - Art and craft fair. Free to attend. Held at Burial Beer Co., 40 Collier Ave. ODYSSEY COOPERATIVE ART GALLERY 238 Clingman Ave., 828-285-9700, facebook.com/ odysseycoopgallery • 2nd SATURDAYS, 11am-5pm - “Second Saturday Celebration,” event with food, music and artist demonstrations. Free to attend. RIVER ARTS DISTRICT SECOND SATURDAYS Depot St. • 2nd SATURDAYS, 10am-8pm - Gallery walks along a mile-long cluster of working artist studios, galleries and eateries with live demonstrations, live music and wine tastings. Free trolley rides available every hour. Free to attend. THE VILLAGE POTTERS 191 Lyman St., #180, 828-253-2424, thevillagepotters.com • SA (9/8), 1-4pm - Horsehair firing demonstration event to raise funds toward the
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AUDITIONS & CALL TO ARTISTS ASHEVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL 828-258-0710, ashevillearts.com • Through FR (10/12) Submissions accepted for the Regional Artist Project Grant with the N.C. Arts Council. Contact for full guidelines. FLAT ROCK PLAYHOUSE STUDIO 52 1855 Little River Road, Flat Rock, 828-693-3517, frpstudio52.org • FR (9/7), 4-8pm & SA (9/8), 11am-1pm & 2-4pm - Open auditions for three upcoming productions. See website for full guidelines: frpstudio52.org. HAYWOOD COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL 828-452-0593, haywoodarts.org • Through FR (9/7) Applications accepted for upcoming monthly shows in the gallery. Contact for full guidelines. • Through FR (10/12) Submissions accepted for the Regional Artist Project Grant with the N.C. Arts Council. Contact for full guidelines. HOT WORKS FINE ART SHOW ASHEVILLE hotworks.org • Through MO (10/1) Submissions accepted
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for the Hot Works' Asheville Youth Art Show. See website for full details. MISSION HEALTH 509 Biltmore Ave. • Through TH (9/20) Submissions accepted for artwork to be permanently displayed in the Mission Hospital for Advanced Medicine. More information: missionfutureready.org. OUR VOICE HEART WORKS SURVIVORS ART SHOW 828-252-0562, ourvoicenc.org • Through WE (10/31) - Submissions accepted for the 17th annual Survivors' Art Show. Information: arts@ourvoicenc.org. THE AUTUMN PLAYERS 828-686-1380, ashevilletheatre.org, caroldec25@gmail.com • TU (9/11), 10:30am2:30pm - Auditions for the production of The Wisdom of Eve. Contact for full guidelines. Held at Asheville Community Theatre, 35 E. Walnut St. TRYON LITTLE THEATER 516 S. Trade St., Tryon, 828-859-2466, tltinfo.org • SU (9/9), 3pm & WE (9/12), 6pm - Open auditions for Dancing at Lughnasa, play by Brian Friel. Contact for full guidelines.
DANCE COUNTRY DANCE W/ TWO-STEP LESSON (PD.) Friday, September 14th, 7-10:30pm. • Presented by Dance For Life. Theme “Rhinestone Cowboy”. Asheville Ballroom. Two-step lesson 7pm-8pm. Prizes, Showcase performance by the Starr Dancers. Dance to Waltz • ECS • WCS • Cha-cha • TwoStep • Nightclub-two. Admission includes Dance and Lesson, $12. 828-333-0715, naturalrichard@mac.com • www.DanceForLife.net EXPERIENCE ECSTATIC DANCE! (PD.) Dance waves hosted by Asheville Movement Collective. Fun and personal/community transformation. • Fridays, 7pm, Terpsicorps Studios, 1501 Patton Avenue. • Sundays, 8:30am and 10:30am, JCC, 236 Charlotte Street. Sliding scale fee. Information: ashevillemovementcollective.org INTRO TO FLOOR WORK 4 WEEK SERIES (PD.) Starts Sunday September 9th 3:30pm at EMPYREAN ARTS! This series is perfect for anyone curious about floorwork/low flow dance. No experience needed. More information and Sign up at empyreanarts.org.
POLE ENSEMBLE 6 WEEK SERIES (PD.) Starts Saturday September 8th 3:45pm at EMPYREAN ARTS! This series is for folks who have a lil bit of pole experience and would like to perform this ensemble routine in our upcoming Halloween Show on October 27th. More information and Sign up at empyreanarts.org. ASHEVILLE MONDAY NIGHT DANCE 828-712-0115, oldfarmersball.com • MONDAYS, 7:3010:30pm - Community contra dance. $7. Held at Center for Art & Spirit at St. George, 1 School Road OLD FARMER'S BALL oldfarmersball.com • 2nd SUNDAYS, 3-5pm - Family contra/square dances for families with children ages 6-12. All ages welcome. Free. Held at Harvest House, 205 Kenilworth Road
MUSIC AFRICAN DRUM LESSONS AT SKINNY BEATS DRUM SHOP (PD.) Wednesdays 6pm. Billy Zanski teaches a fun approach to connecting with your inner rhythm. Drop-ins welcome. • Drums provided. $15/ class. (828) 768-2826. skinnybeatsdrums.com
BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE MUSEUM & ARTS CENTER 828-350-8484, blackmountaincollege. org • SA (9/8), 8pm - Theo Bleckmann and Ben Monder, jazz concert. Free. Held at Black Mountain College Museum & Arts Center, 120 College St. CITY OF ASHEVILLE 828-251-1122, ashevillenc.gov • FRIDAYS, 6-9:50pm Asheville outdoor drum circle. Free. Held at Pritchard Park, 4 College St. FLAT ROCK PLAYHOUSE DOWNTOWN 125 S. Main St., Hendersonville, 828-693-0731, flatrockplayhouse.org • THURSDAYS through SUNDAYS (9/6) until (9/16) - "British Invasion," concert featuring British rock from the 1960s. Thurs.: 7:30pm. Fri. & Sat.: 8pm. Sat. & Sun.: 2pm. $35. HENDERSONVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 828-697-5884, hendersonvillesymphony.org • SA (9/8), 7:30pm - "Rhythm & Reins," equestrian themed symphony concert featuring works by Liszt, Gould and Rossini. $40. Held at Blue Ridge Community College, 180 W Campus Drive, Flat Rock PAN HARMONIA 828-254-7123, panharmonia.org • FR (9/7), 1:30pm - “Midday Music: It doesn’t fit in a box!,” chamber music concert. $25/$20 advance. Held at The Reuter Center at UNC Asheville, 1 University Heights • MO (9/10), 6:308:30pm - "Baroque and Beyond," chamber concert featuring flute, viola de gamba and harpsichord and the music of Bach, Telemann and Wilhelmine von Bayreuth. $25/$20 advance. Held at The Haen Gallery, 52 Biltmore Ave. PUBSING 828-254-1114 • 2nd SUNDAYS, 4-6pm - Gospel jam and sing-along. Free to attend. Held at Habitat Tavern & Commons, 174 Broadway TRYON FINE ARTS CENTER 34 Melrose Ave., Tryon, 828-859-8322, tryonarts. org • WE (9/5), 7:30pm - Community Choir concert featuring six local choirs. $20. • TH (9/6), 6:30pm "An Evening in the Amphitheater," fea-
turing Pacolet Junior Appalachian Musicians, Phil, Gaye Johnson and the Tryon Summer Youth Theater. $20. • FR (9/7), 7:30pm - Jim Peterman Quartet, concert. $20. • SA (9/8), 7:30pm - "Showtunes & Standards," performances by Chris Tinkler, Dean Trakas and the Cigarette Holders, Diane Nelson, Jackie Marston, Mark Morales, Warren Carson and Wade Morgan. $20. WOMANSONG OF ASHEVILLE womansong.org • MONDAYS, 7-9pm - Community chorus rehearsals open to potential members. Free. Held at Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville, 1 Edwin Place
SPOKEN & WRITTEN WORD ASHEVILLE WRITERS' SOCIAL allimarshall@bellsouth. net • 1st WEDNESDAYS, 6-7:30pm - N.C. Writer's Network group meeting and networking. Free to attend. Held at Battery Park Book Exchange, 1 Page Ave., #101 BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • TU (9/4), 7pm or WE (9/5), 3pm - Book discussion of Death of a Salesman by Authur Miller. Free. Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville • TH (9/6), 6:30pm - East Asheville Book Club: Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko. Free. Held at East Asheville Library, 902 Tunnel Road • SA (9/8), 1-3pm Fairview Friends of the Library open house presenting information about library programs. Free. Held at Fairview Library, 1 Taylor Road, Fairview • SA (9/8), 2pm - ""Tales From and Beyond The Red Rocker," storytelling by Gwenda Ledbetter. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. • TU (9/11), 7pm Discussion of Death of a Salesman by Authur Miller with retired literature professor Nancy Lewis. Free. Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville • WE (9/12), 7pm "Southern Women Authors: Writing America Between the Wars," film screening of two short films about Lillian Smith. Free. Held at West Asheville Public Library, 942 Haywood Road
CAROLINA MOUNTAINS LITERARY FESTIVAL 828-208-4731, cmlitfest.org • TH (9/6) through SA (9/8) - Carolina Mountains Literary Festival. See website for full schedule. FLETCHER LIBRARY 120 Library Road, Fletcher, 828-687-1218, library.hendersoncountync.org • 2nd THURSDAYS, 10:30am - Book Club. Free. • 2nd THURSDAYS, 1:30pm - Writers' Guild. Free. FOLKMOOT USA 828-452-2997, folkmootusa.org • TH (9/6), 6pm - Dinner and storytelling performance with songwriters Buddy Melton and Milan Miller. $25. Held at Folkmoot Friendship Center, 112 Virginia Ave., Waynesville FRIENDS OF HENDERSON COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY 1940 Spartanburg Highway, Hendersonville • SA (9/8), 10am-4:30pm & SU (9/9), 1-4:30pm Large used book sale. Free to attend. MALAPROP'S BOOKSTORE AND CAFE 55 Haywood St., 828-254-6734, malaprops.com • WE (9/7), 7pm Malaprop's Book Club: The Selected Poems of Donald Hall. Free to attend. • TH (9/6), 6pm - Eric Gaddy presents his book, Retire Early: What Are You Waiting For? Free to attend. • FR (9/7), 6pm - Randy Bell presents their book, Conversations with America: Confronting the Divisive Challenges of Our Time. Free to attend. • SA (9/8), 6pm Thomas Rain Crowe presents his book, Starting From San Francisco: Beats, Baby Beats & The 1970s San Francisco Renaissance. Free to attend. • SU (9/9), 3pm - Carol Anderson presents her book, One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy. Free to attend. • MO (9/10), 6pm Anne Bogel presents her book, I’d Rather Be Reading. Free to attend. • MO (9/10), 7pm Mystery Book Club: Garden of Lamentations: A Novel by Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James. Free to attend. • TU (9/11), noon Discussion Bound Book Club: Autumn: A Novel by Ali Smith. Free to attend.
• TH (9/13), 6pm - Phil Hudgins presents his collection of essays, Travels with Foxfire: Stories of People, Passions, and Practices from Southern Appalachia. Free to attend. NEW DIMENSIONS TOASTMASTERS 828-329-4190 • THURSDAYS, noon1pm - General meeting. Information: 828-3294190. Free to attend. Held at Asheville Area Habitat for Humanity, 33 Meadow Road THE WRITER'S WORKSHOP 828-254-8111, twwoa.org • Through SU (9/30) Submissions accepted for the Literary Fiction contest. See website for full guidelines. Held at The Writer's Workshop, 387 Beaucatcher Road
THEATER 35BELOW 35 E. Walnut St., 828-254-1320, ashevilletheatre.org • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS (9/7) through (9/23) - Five Women Wearing the Same Dress, produced by UNC Asheville’s Alpha Psi Omega (APO) Drama Honors Society. Fri. & Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 2:30pm. $15. FLAT ROCK PLAYHOUSE 2661 Highway 225, Flat Rock, 828-693-0731, flatrockplayhouse.org • Through SU (9/9) Always a Bridesmaid, comedy. Wed., Thurs., Sat. & Sun.: 2pm. Wed. & Thurs.: 7:30pm. Fri. & Sat.: 8pm. $20-$52. HART THEATRE 250 Pigeon St., Waynesville • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS until (9/8) Ghost, the musical. Fri. & Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 2pm. J.E. BROYHILL CIVIC CENTER 1913 Hickory Blvd SE. Lenior, broyhillcenter.com • THURSDAYS through SATURDAYS (9/6) until (9/8) - Drinking Habits. Thurs. through Sat.: 7pm. Sat.: 2pm. $14/$12 students. MONTFORD PARK PLAYERS 828-254-5146, montfordparkplayers. org • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS (9/7) until (9/29), 7:30pm - Hamlet, tragedy. Free. Held at Hazel Robinson Amphitheatre, 92 Gay St.
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GALLERY DIRECTORY ALLGOOD COFFEE 10 S Main St, Weaverville • Through WE (10/3) -Walking Through WNC 3.0: An Exhibit of Images by Vagabond Photo Walks Group. APPALACHIAN PASTEL SOCIETY appalachianpastelsociety.org • SA (8/25) through MO (10/1) - Reception for the Appalachian Pastel Society 2018 juried member exhibition. Reception: Saturday, Aug. 25, 1-2:30pm. Held at Grace Center, 495 Cardinal Road, Mills River ART AT BREVARD COLLEGE 828-884-8188, brevard.edu/art • FR (9/7) through FR (9/28) - Brevard College art faculty show. Reception: Friday, Sept. 7, 5:307pm. Held in the Sims Art Center at Brevard College, 1 Brevard College Drive, Brevard ART AT MARS HILL UNIVERSITY mhu.edu • Through FR (9/14) - MHU faculty biennial art exhibit. Held at Weizenblatt Art Gallery at MHU, 79 Cascade St, Mars Hill
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• Through FR (10/26) - It’s Alive, book and printmaking exhibition showing artistic interpretations of Frankenstein. ASHEVILLE GALLERY OF ART 82 Patton Ave., 828-251-5796, ashevillegallery-of-art. com • Through SU (9/30) Life is Art, exhibition of encaustics by Michelle Hamilton. Reception: Friday, Sept. 7, 5-8pm. BENDER GALLERY 29 Biltmore Ave., 828-505-8341, thebendergallery.com • TH (9/6) through SA (10/20) - Linear Angularity, exhibition of glass art by Toland Sand. Reception: Thursday, Sept. 6, 5-8pm. BLACK MOUNTAIN CENTER FOR THE ARTS 225 W. State St., Black Mountain, 828-669-0930, blackmountainarts.org • FR (9/7) through FR (10/5) - Lux and Lumen, exhibition of photography by Lynette Miller. Reception: Friday, Sept. 7, 6-8pm. FOLK ART CENTER MP 382, Blue Ridge Parkway, 828-298-7928, craftguild.org • Through (9/30) - Wabi Sabi, Embracing the Art of Imperfection, exhibition featuring 60 objects from Southern Highland Art Guild members. GALLERY 1 604 W. Main St., Sylva • Through SA (9/8) Exhibition of the photos of Wanda Davis-Brown and the glass works of Judy McManus. HAYWOOD COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL 86 N Main St., Waynesville, 828-4520593, haywoodarts.org/ • Through SA (9/29) - Exhibition of work by Bee Sieberg and her students. Reception: Saturday, Sept. 8, 1-4pm. MARK BETTIS STUDIO & GALLERY 123 Roberts St., 941-587-9502, markbettisart.com • SA (9/8) through SA (9/29) - Inspiration, curated group show. Reception: Saturday, Sept. 8, 5:30-8pm. MOMENTUM GALLERY 24 North Lexington Ave. • Through WE (10/31) - Exhibition of mixed media paintings and textile works by Samantha Bates.
• Through WE (10/31) - Transformation: Earth, Water & Wood, exhibition of works by Mariella Bison, David Ellsworth, Vicki Grant and Ron Isaacs. MONTREAT COLLEGE 310 Gaither Circle Montreat, 828-6698012, montreat.edu • TH (9/13) through FR (9/16) - Southerland Art: Seeing Things Backward Since 1978, exhibition of art by Professor Jim Southerland. Reception: Thursday, Sept. 13, noon-1:30pm & 6-7:30pm. MORA CONTEMPORARY JEWELRY 9 Walnut St., 828-575-2294, moracollection.com • Through SU (9/30) Exhibition of jewelry by Sarah West. Reception: Friday, Sept. 7, 5-8pm. MUSEUM OF THE CHEROKEE INDIAN 589 Tsali Blvd, Cherokee • Through SU (9/30) Renewal of the Ancient: Cherokee Millennial Artists, exhibition of over 60 works from 18 artists including traditional and contemporary media. OPEN HEARTS ART CENTER 828-505-8428, openheartsartcenter. org • Through SU (9/30) Exhibition of art work by artists from Open Hearts Art Center. Reception: Monday, Sept. 10, 6-8pm. Held at Farm Burger South Asheville, 1831 Hendersonville Road PINK DOG CREATIVE 348 Depot St., pinkdog-creative.com • WE (9/5) through SU (10/7) - Machinations, oil on wood paintings by Juan Benavides. Reception: Friday, Sept. 7, 6-9pm. SPRUCE PINE TRAC GALLERY 269 Oak Ave., Spruce Pine, 828-765-0520, toeriverarts.org • Through (9/22) - Not to be Toyed With; Exploring the Art of the Doll, exhibition featuring approximately 100 works from regional artists. THE BASCOM 323 Franklin Road, Highlands, 828-5264949, thebascom.org • Through SU (10/21) Homage, exhibition of ceramic work by Frank Vickery.
THE CENTER FOR CRAFT, CREATIVITY AND DESIGN 67 Broadway, 828-785-1357, craftcreativitydesign. org/ • Through SA (1/26) - In Times of Seismic Sorrows, exhibition of weavings, installations, sculpture and print by artists Rena Detrixhe and Tali Weinberg. THE COLORWHEEL GALLERY 175 King St., Brevard • Through MO (9/17) - For the Love of Art, exhibition of the work of Sandi and Tom Anton. THE REFINERY 207 Coxe Ave., ashevillearts.com • FR (9/7) through FR (9/28) - New Vision, New Hope: Asheville Artists in Recovery, exhibition curated by Pedro Esqueda. Reception: Friday, Sept. 7, 5-8pm. TRYON ARTS AND CRAFTS SCHOOL 373 Harmon Field Road, Tryon, 828-859-8323 • FR (9/7) through WE (10/24) Transcendence, Southern Highland Craft Guild exhibition. Reception: Friday, Sept. 14, 6-8pm. UPSTAIRS ARTSPACE 49 S. Trade St., Tryon, 828-859-2828, upstairsartspace.org • Through FR (9/21) - Bronze Constructs, exhibition of work by Fred McMullen. • Through FR (9/21) - HORSEscapes, exhibition of work by Monica Stevenson. • Through FR (9/21) Spontaneous Intention, exhibition of work by Barbara Fisher, Kenn Kotara and Rand Kramer. ZAPOW! 150 Coxe Ave., Suite 101, 828-575-2024, zapow.net • Through SA (10/13) - Go To Your Happy Place, group exhibition. • FR (9/7) through SU (9/30) - Exhibition of works by Cheryl Eugenia Barnes. Reception: Friday, Sept. 7, 7-9pm. Contact the galleries for admission hours and fees
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RIGHTEOUS BABE: In protest of House Bill 2, singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco removed North Carolina from her tour route. Her first trip back to the state in more than two years was for the LEAF festival in May. As if making up for lost time, she returns on Sunday, Sept. 9, in support of her 20th album, Binary. “An underlying theme in the songs, and in the feminism I want to engage society with, is the idea that autonomy is a fallacy — nothing exists except in relationship to something else,” says DiFranco. Peter Mulvey opens the 8 p.m. show at The Orange Peel. $36 advance/$40 day of show. theorangepeel.net. Photo by GMDThree
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5 185 KING STREET Vinyl Night, 6:00PM 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Les Amis (African folk music), 8:00PM BEN'S TUNE UP Open Bluegrass Jam w/ The Clydes, 6:00PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Open Mic hosted by Billy Owens, 7:00PM BYWATER Open Can of Jam, 8:00PM CORK & KEG 3 Cool Cats, 7:30PM DOUBLE CROWN Western Wednesdays, 9:00PM FLEETWOOD'S BEX, Mouton, I Wish I Could Skateboard (indie rock), 9:00PM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Woody Wood Wednesdays, 5:30PM ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Isis Lawn Series: Gypsy Guitar, 6:30PM Grace Pettis CD Release w/ Rebekah Todd & The Odyssey, 7:00PM
JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Old Time Jam, 5:00PM LAZY DIAMOND Killer Karaoke w/ KJ Tim, 10:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Cigar Brothers, 6:30PM LOCAL 604 BOTTLE SHOP Spoken Word Open Mic, 8:00PM MG ROAD Salsa Night, 8:00PM NOBLE KAVA Open Mic w/ Caleb Beissert (sign-ups at 7:30pm), 8:00PM ODDITORIUM Dawn Carol, Greg Cartwright & Lowlander (singer-songwriter), 9:00PM OLE SHAKEY'S Sexy Tunes w/ DJ's Zeus & Franco, 10:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Disclaimer Lounge Comedy Open Mic, 9:00PM ONE WORLD BREWING The Paper Crowns (alternative roots), 9:00PM
ONE WORLD BREWING WEST OWB West: TurnUp Truk (psychedelic reggae), 8:00PM OSKAR BLUES BREWERY PB&J (jazz fusion), 5:00PM PULP Shutterings, Shadow Show & Okapi, 9:00PM PILLAR ROOFTOP BAR Eric Congdon, 7:00PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY French Broad Valley Music Association Mountain Music Jam, 6:30PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Will Stewart (rock, country, Americana), 8:00PM Open Grateful Dead Jam , 10:00PM THE GOLDEN FLEECE The Tune Shepherds, 7:00PM THE GREY EAGLE Patio Show: Andy Ferrell, 5:00PM U.S. Girls w/ Michael Rault, 8:00PM THE IMPERIAL LIFE The Berlyn Jazz Trio, 9:00PM
THE MOTHLIGHT Deaf Wish w/ Nest Egg & Greg Cartwright, 9:30PM THE SOCIAL LOUNGE Tesia, 10:00PM THE WINE & OYSTER Robin Lewis (folk, soul), 7:00PM TOWN PUMP Open Jam w/ Billy Presnell, 9:00PM TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES JJ Kitchen All Star Jam (blues, soul), 9:00PM TWIN LEAF BREWERY Open Mic Night, 8:00PM WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Christ Community Church Youth Concert, 6:00PM Jazz Night, 7:30PM
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Pleasure Chest (blues, rock, soul), 8:00PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Will Ray & The Space Cooties, 7:30PM
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ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Mitch's Totally Rad Trivia, 7:00PM TUB , 10:00PM ONE WORLD BREWING Bald Mountain Boys & Kendall's 42nd Birthday Bash (bluegrass, Americana), 9:00PM ONE WORLD BREWING WEST OWB West: West Side Funk Jam ft. Shabudikah & Ted Marks on Drums!, 9:00PM OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Brother Oliver (psychic folk rock), 6:00PM PULP Slice of Life Comedy Open Mic w/ Cody Hughes, 9:00PM PACK'S TAVERN Jason Whitaker & Jeff Anders (acoustic rock), 8:00PM PILLAR ROOFTOP BAR Roots & Dore, 7:00PM PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Pink Floyd Laser Spectacular, 8:30PM PURPLE ONION CAFE Eleanor Underhill & Friends, 7:30PM SALVAGE STATION Tribal Hoose, 8:00PM
FUNKATORIUM Tyler Boone, 8:00PM
SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Todd Hoke & Jenny Reynolds, 7:00PM
HABITAT TAVERN & COMMONS Red Rover Thursdays, 7:00PM
SLY GROG LOUNGE Hullabaloo w/ Murkury, Zeplinn & More, 9:00PM
ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Isis Lawn Series, 6:30PM Cuddle In The Cosmos, 7:00PM
THE GREY EAGLE Big Sam's Funky Nation (funk, jazz, hiphop), 9:00PM
JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Bluegrass Jam, 7:00PM LAZY DIAMOND Heavy Vinyl Night w/ DJ Butch, 10:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Hank Bones, 6:30PM LOCAL 604 BOTTLE SHOP Vinyl Night, 8:00PM NEW BELGIUM BREWERY River Heroes Film Party, 7:00PM ODDITORIUM Party Foul: Drag Circus, 9:00PM OLE SHAKEY'S Karaoke w/ Franco, 10:00PM
THE IMPERIAL LIFE The Burger Kings (classic rock n' roll), 9:00PM THE MOTHLIGHT A Very Noisy Evening (electronic, 'booper' symphony, performance), 9:00PM THE SOCIAL LOUNGE Zapato, 10:00PM TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES Jesse Barry & The Jam (blues, dance), 9:00PM TWIN LEAF BREWERY Craft Karaoke, 9:30PM W XYZ BAR AT ALOFT WXYZ Unplugged: Lincoln McDonald, 8:00PM
WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Bill Gerhardt's Wave Cycle, 7:30PM
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 185 KING STREET Official Mountain Song After Party w/ Pretty Little Goat, Brett Bass & Melted Plectrum, 9:30PM 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Jesse Barry & The Jam (blues, funk), 9:00PM AMBROSE WEST Courtyard Show: Knotty G's, 5:30PM Gopal w/ Kelly White, 8:00PM ASHEVILLE COMMUNITY THEATRE 10th Annual Blue Ridge Pride Pageant, 5:00PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Vince Junior Band, 8:00PM ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Off w/ Your Radiohead Presents: Hail to the Thief, 9:00PM BATTERY PARK BOOK EXCHANGE Hot Club of Asheville, 5:30PM
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MAKE IT COUNT: Recorded locally at Echo Mountain as well as in Jackson Hole, Wyo., One Step Ahead of Your Past is the third full-length album by indie-Americana outfit Benyaro. The record was co-produced by Danny Kadar (The Avett brothers and Band of Horses). Multi-instrumentalist Ben Musser composed the 13 tracks as an exploration into fatherhood and marriage. The band renamed their tour ‘The Get Out & Vote’ tour to build momentum for voter turnout during the upcoming midterm elections, and will provide voter registration at shows. Benyaro plays the Funkatorium on Thursday, Sept. 13, 8:30 p.m. Free. avl.mx/59h. Photo Courtesy of Promoters
SLY GROG LOUNGE As Sick As Us and Gravitation w/ LWB, DJ G3ms, & Shutterings, 9:00PM THE GREY EAGLE Patio Show: Laura Blackley & The Wildflowers, 6:00PM Real Estate, 9:00PM THE IMPERIAL LIFE Select DJ Sets, 9:00PM THE WINE & OYSTER Jesse Junior & The Asheville Jazz Quartet (jazz jam & open mic), 7:00PM TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES Bill Mattocks & The Strut (blues, funk, soul), 10:00PM W XYZ BAR AT ALOFT Bell Hop Bop Karaoke w/ Abu Disarray, 8:00PM WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Stereo Spread & Solomon Shapes, 8:00PM WICKED WEED FUNKATORIUM JJ Hips & The Hideaway, 8:30PM
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AMBROSE WEST Courtyard Show: Doss Church, 5:30PM Somewhat Petty- a Tribute to Tom Petty, 8:00PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Swing Step Swing Jam & Jody Carroll Roots & Blues, 4:30PM
FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREWPUB Scoundrel’s Lounge (jam, soul), 10:00PM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Blue Dragons, 7:00PM ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Chasing Jonah, 7:00PM Holly Bowling, 9:00PM
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BLACK MOUNTAIN ALE HOUSE Eleanor Underhill (Americana fusion), 7:30PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Ben Phan, 7:00PM CAPELLA ON 9@THE AC HOTEL Capellas on 9 w/ Special Affair, 9:00PM CATAWBA BREWING SOUTH SLOPE Nikki Talley, 7:00PM CHESTNUT Jazz Brunch, 11:00AM CORK & KEG The Barsters, 8:30PM DISTRICT WINE BAR Saturday Night Rock Show, 10:00PM DOUBLE CROWN Soul Motion Dance Party w/ DJ Dr. Filth, 10:00PM
ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Opposite Box w/ EGi, 10:00PM ONE WORLD BREWING OWB Downtown: Grass to Mouth (trashgrass, rock), 9:00PM ONE WORLD BREWING WEST OWB West: Armidilla (indie rock), 9:00PM ORANGE PEEL KICK: The INXS Experience, 9:00PM
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THE MOTHLIGHT Hovvdy w/ Alfred & Wednesday, 9:00PM W XYZ BAR AT ALOFT WXYZ Live: The Lefties, 8:00PM WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN The Lost Chord: A Moody Blues Tribute, 8:00PM
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 9 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Eleanor Underhill & Friends (Americana fusion), 7:00PM ARCHETYPE BREWING Post-Brunch Blues, 4:00PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Classical Guitar Society Meeting, 1:00PM Musicians Jam & Pot Luck, 3:30PM BEN'S TUNE UP Good Vibe Sundays w/ DJ Oso Rey (reggae), 3:00PM Live Reggae, 6:00PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Paul Defatta, 7:00PM BYWATER Bluegrass Jam w/ Drew Matulich, 4:00PM CATAWBA BREWING SOUTH SLOPE Mill Train, 6:00PM DOUBLE CROWN Country Karaoke w/ KJ Tim O, 10:00PM FUNKATORIUM Bluegrass Brunch w/ Gary Macfiddle, 11:00AM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Reggae Sundays w/ Chalwa, 1:00PM ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Bob Sinclair & The Big Deals, 5:30PM
ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Bluegrass Brunch w/ Woody & Krekel & Bald Mountain Boys , 10:30AM ONE WORLD BREWING OWB Downtown: Soul Jam w/ Special Affair, 8:00PM ORANGE PEEL Ani DiFranco w/ Peter Mulvey, 8:00PM OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Chris Jamison Duo (singer-songwriter), 3:00PM Trivia Night, 5:00PM PACK'S TAVERN Sunday Social Club, 4:30PM PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Pisgah Sunday Jam, 6:00PM PURPLE ONION CAFE Big Sound Harbor, 7:30PM SALVAGE STATION Ace Hood, 8:00PM SLY GROG LOUNGE Sly Grog Open Mic, 7:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE The Human Side: Kevin Evans (spoken word), 4:00PM
JACK OF THE WOOD PUB QUIZZO Trivia & Open Mic, 7:30PM LOBSTER TRAP Bobby Miller & Friends, 6:30PM NOBLE KAVA Ladies "Work in Progress" Night, 7:00PM ODDITORIUM Risque Monday Burlesque w/ Deb Au Nare, 9:00PM OLE SHAKEY'S Live Band Honky Tonk Karaoke, 9:00PM ONE WORLD BREWING WEST OWB West: West Side Jazz Monday (TV Tunes Opening Set!), 8:30PM
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REVIEWS & LISTINGS BY SCOTT DOUGLAS, FRANCIS X. FRIEL & JUSTIN SOUTHER
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Writer/director Aneesh Chaganty’s Searching delivers a passably suspenseful thriller, at least for a movie that takes place entirely on computer screens.
Searching HHHS DIRECTOR: Aneesh Chaganty PLAYERS: John Cho, Debra Messing, Michelle La THRILLER RATED PG-13 THE STORY: A widower searches for his missing daughter by delving into her digital life to retrace her steps before she disappeared. THE LOWDOWN: Yet another entry in the “takes place entirely on a computer screen” genre, somewhat slight in the character and story departments and hamstrung by its gimmick but more suspenseful and affective than one might expect. Let’s get this out of the way: Shooting a movie as though it were taking place on a computer screen is a stupid, stupid conceit. I didn’t like it when I saw Unfriended, and I don’t like it now. As
someone who stares at a computer monitor for way too much of his life, I certainly have no interest in paying to do so on a giant scale. So I was prepared to hate writer/director Aneesh Chaganty’s lowbudget psychological thriller Searching a priori, only to be pleasantly surprised that it wasn’t complete and utter garbage. True, I wasn’t convinced of that fact until the second half of the film, but in the post-blockbuster, pre-award-bait dumping ground that is September, I’ll take whatever modicum of optimism I can get. Although Searching doesn’t hit its stride until about an hour in, there is one early indication that establishes Chaganty as a competent filmmaker off the bat. The first 10 minutes of Searching’s running time is a master class in efficient exposition, generating backstory, character development and emotional identification without belaboring any of its points through extraneous
dialogue or wasted directorial flourishes. But it’s hard to have a flourish of any sort when your frame is limited to the confines of diegetic camera placements, and Chaganty’s use of FaceTime as his primary means of putting a camera on his actors’ faces is, for the most part, more effective than it has any right to be. Aside from that initial push, Searching runs painfully slowly for a thriller — not unlike the Windows PC that provides the proscenium for the entirety of its action. Chaganty’s narrative hinges on recently widowed father David (John Cho) and his teen daughter Margot (Michelle La) — more specifically, the crux of the story is Margot’s unexplained disappearance and David’s efforts to unravel, with the help of a sympathetic detective (an almost unrecognizable Debra Messing), the mysteries of his daughter’s life through the trail of digital breadcrumbs left on her laptop. Once the plot threads start to come together, Searching is a remarkably adept little thriller with a significant twist that Chaganty protects through a subtle narrative feint, but the buildup to that point is nothing short of ponderous. It’s difficult to make any real judgment calls on Chaganty’s direction considering the limitations he’s chosen to accept through his computer screen conceit, but he does at least find creative ways of disseminating story around that obstruction. Pacing is the film’s greatest flaw, but Cho and Messing carry the dramatic tension admirably and develop a disproportionate amount of emotional resonance given the extent to which their characters are underwritten. It’s a surprisingly well-constructed film, even if it strains credulity in places and seems a bit thin overall. Is Searching a great film? Of course not. Is it something that I’ll continue to think about — or even remember having seen — by this time next week? Again, the answer is probably no. But it doesn’t overstay its welcome, it boasts a pair of relatively strong performances, and it never tries to punch above its weight class. Movies are an inherently escapist medium, and I can’t imagine a scenario in which I’ll ever be willing to fully accept films that drag me away from my computer just to look at another — but if you can get past the gimmick, Searching is about as successful as it could be given
MAX RATING the circumstances. Rated PG-13 for thematic content, some drug and sexual references, and for language. Now Playing at Carolina Cinemark. REVIEWED BY SCOTT DOUGLAS JSDOUGLAS22@GMAIL.COM
Xpress reviews virtually all upcoming movies, with two or three of the most noteworthy appearing in print. You can find our online reviews at mountainx.com/movies/reviews. This week, they include: JULIET, NAKED KIN
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DIRECTOR: Jesse Peretz PLAYERS: Rose Byrne, Ethan Hawke, Chris O’Dowd, Azhy Robertson ROMANTIC COMEDY RATED R THE STORY: After breaking up with her boyfriend, a woman enters a relationship with her ex’s favorite (yet reclusive) musician. THE LOWDOWN: Despite touches of intelligence and commentary on art and artists, the rest of the movie is awash in romantic comedy semantics that are light on the romance and uneven on the comedy. Jesse Peretz’s Juliet, Naked seemingly wants to revitalize the rom-com genre while still existing firmly inside the cliches these types of movies trade in. It wants to be a touching romantic comedy while gently reaching out toward more morally complex topics and straying away from more traditionally crowdpleasing-type stuff while still having the quirky best friend and the precious child. That it’s based on a Nick Hornby novel — the same person who wrote the source material for Stephen Frear’s very untraditional rom-com High Fidelity (2000) — makes complete sense. Each inhabits the complicated lives of its characters while dabbling in the world of rock music. The problem with Juliet, Naked, however, is that it never quite has a grasp on its characters or rather why its characters ever want to be in the same room, let alone the same movie. The star of the film is Annie (Rose Byrne), who’s been stuck in the same lit60
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tle British seaside town in the same functional, yet withering relationship with Duncan (Chris O’Dowd) for a huge chunk of her life. She’s yearning for a change (including children, which Duncan is opposed to on principle) while her boyfriend stays in a sense of stasis, pontificating about the importance of his favorite TV shows and particularly his favorite musician, the reclusive Tucker Crowe (Ethan Hawke). After an argument over a demo of Tucker’s most famous album that ends up in the couple’s house, Annie starts a sudden, surprising and secretive email correspondence with Tucker, who’s living out his post-fame life living in his ex’s garage and avoiding his numerous illegitimate children. After Duncan cheats on Annie and they split up, most of the movie revolves around Tucker and Annie’s burgeoning relationship, especially when Tucker ends up in England and decides to stay with her briefly. In some ways, the sudden romantic entanglement makes sense. Duncan is stunted emotionally and ignores Annie’s wants and needs, while the intimacy of Annie and Tucker’s penpal relationship makes practical sense in creating a close bond between the two. However, it comes off as disingenuous. The problem here is that there’s nothing appealing about Tucker, either. He’s just as dismissive of Annie, while also being a total screw-up, a slob and a boor. The idea that he’s some great musical artist goes out the window when you hear his mopey, proto-Bright Eyes pap and is demolished when he caterwauls his way through The Kink’s “Waterloo Sunset.” Annie is constantly in the background, with no one, including herself, ever really being concerned about what’s right for her. There’s no attraction, no chemistry here between Annie and Tucker, and while you can see them being friends, sexual partners is entering the realm of science fiction. It’s a romantic comedy without the comedy. This doesn’t mean that the film is a complete dud; it just has some deeply faulty structural issues. Juliet, Naked is on much stronger footing when it wants to discuss the role of the artist and the fan. The dinner scene where Tucker and Duncan argue over the importance and quality of Tucker’s work, with the latter hating it and the former telling him that art isn’t for the artist, the film touches on something much more thoughtful and intelligent than its rom-com DNA wants to get into. There are hints of a smarter, more interesting film in here, but the romance it wants to force on its characters does it no favors. Rated R for language. Now playing at Fine Arts Theatre, Carolina Cinemark. REVIEWED BY JUSTIN SOUTHER JSOUTHER@MOUNTAINX.COM
by Edwin Arnaudin | earnaudin@mountainx.com • Montreat College lacrosse freshmen Brendan Riney and La’warren Hall, sophomores James Verdier III and Jacari Roberts and junior Brandon Duncan, along with Brevard College sophomore Evan Francois, are featured in the new ESPN Films documentary Crossroads. Ron Yassen’s film chronicles the story of at-risk North Carolina teens who are introduced to lacrosse and use the sport to become part of a family, build life skills and find a path to college. The film debuted on Aug. 23 and is available to view online through select cable providers. avl.mx/597 • Nineties Movie Month kicks off Thursday, Sept. 6, at 7 p.m. at Asheville Pizza & Brewing Co., 675 Merrimon Ave., with Romeo + Juliet. The series continues Thursday, Sept. 13, at 7 p.m. with Fight Club. The selections for the final two Thursdays in the month will be determined by an online audience vote between Austin Powers: The Spy who Shagged Me, Boogie Nights, Seven, Singles, Forrest Gump, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, Clueless, Office Space and Thelma & Louise. All tickets are $3 and may be purchased online or at the venue’s main bar. ashevillebrewing.com • The 2018 Asheville Film Festival takes place Saturday, Sept. 8, 8 a.m.-9 p.m. at Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College, 340 Victoria Road. According to the event’s Facebook page, the festival’s goal is to “showcase thoughtprovoking films and offer a venue where movie lovers who appreciate independent vision can celebrate this unique art form.” All-inclusive VIP tickets are $15 in advance online and $25 at the door. ashevillencfilmfestival.com • The Leicester Library, 1561 Alexander Road, launches its Fall Film Series — featuring the films of director Michael Curtiz — on Tuesday, Sept. 11, at 6:30 p.m. with The Adventures of
FILM BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • TU (9/11), 6:30pm - Fall Film Series: The Adventures of Robin Hood, film screening with discussion by Chip Kaufmann. Free. Held at Leicester Library, 1561 Alexander Road, Leicester • WE (9/12), 7pm "Southern Women Authors: Writing America Between the Wars,"
film screening of two short films about Lillian Smith. Free. Held at West Asheville Public Library, 942 Haywood Road HABITAT TAVERN & COMMONS 174 Broadway, habitatbrewing.com • TU (9/11), 7pm - Fix It: Healthcare at the Tipping Point, film screening and discussion led by Physicians Ellen Kaczmarek and Marsha Fretwell. Sponsored by Healthcare for All WNC and East Asheville
CINEMATIC STICKS: Charlotte Secondary lacrosse player Isaiah Lott is featured in the new ESPN Films documentary Crossroads. Several of Lott’s teammates in the film currently play for Montreat College and Brevard College. Photo courtesy of ESPN Films Robin Hood. Local film historian Chip Kaufmann will serve as host and provide commentary. Complimentary popcorn will be provided. Free. avl.mx/54f • Habitat Tavern and Commons, 174 Broadway, hosts a screening of the documentary Fix It: Healthcare at the Tipping Point on Tuesday, Sept. 11, at 7 p.m. Following the film, there will be a Q&A session with a local physician and member of Physicians for a National Health Program. Free to attend. habitatbrewing.com • The Fine Arts Theatre, 36 Biltmore Ave., hosts the world premiere of One Hell of an Angel on Thursday, Sept. 13, at 7 p.m. The local production is directed by Katie Damien and follows a demon who, after asking too many questions in hell, is banished to heaven and forced to work with an angel to help a washed-up rock star write a song that will save the world. The comedy stars Matthew Shepard, David Dietrich and Kipper Shauer. The filmmakers will participate in a post-screening Q&A. Tickets are $10 and available online and at the Fine Arts box office. fineartstheatre.com X
Democratic Cluster. Information: hcfawnc@gmail.com. Free. PUBLIC EVENTS AT WCU 828-227-7397, wcu.edu • TH (9/13), 7pm Reel Appalachia Film Screening: Look & See: A Portrait of Wendell Berry, film screening and discussion. Free. Held at The Ramsey Center in Renfro Library, 100 Athletic St,, Mars Hill
THE CENTER FOR CULTURAL PRESERVATION 828-692-8062, saveculture.org • TH (9/6), 7pm - Proceeds from the film screening of Come Hell or High Water, Remembering the Great Flood of 1916 and live music by David Wiseman benefit The Center for Cultural Preservation. Free. Held at New Belgium Brewery, 21 Craven St.
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Action thriller from director Pierre Morel (Taken). According to the studio: “Young mother Riley North (Jennifer Garner) awakens from a coma after her husband and daughter are killed in a brutal attack on the family. When the system frustratingly shields the murderers from justice, Riley sets out to transform herself from citizen to urban guerrilla. Channeling her frustration into personal motivation, she spends years in hiding, honing her mind, body and spirit to become an unstoppable force – eluding the underworld, the LAPD and the FBI as she methodically delivers her personal brand of justice.” No early reviews. (R)
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Horror prequel to The Conjuring franchise. According to the studio: “When a young nun at a cloistered abbey in Romania takes her own life, a priest with a haunted past and a novitiate on the threshold of her final vows are sent by the Vatican to investigate. Together they uncover the order’s unholy secret. Risking not only their lives but their faith and their very souls, they confront a malevolent force in the form of the same demonic nun that first terrorized audiences in The Conjuring 2, as the abbey becomes a horrific battleground between the living and the damned.” No early reviews. (R)
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8 1/2 HHHHH
DIRECTOR: Federico Fellini PLAYERS: Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Anouk Aimee, Barbara Steele DRAMATIC FANTASY Rated NR One of the undisputed classics of modern international film, 8 1/2 (its title literally meaning that it was Federico Fellini’s eight-and-one-halfth film — seven full features and a couple short segments of omnibus films precede it). It is the movie in which the greatest of all Italian filmmakers moved completely away from traditional realism toward a more personal approach to cinema. Fellini’s goal was to reach a greater reality by eschewing reality in the conventional sense. The degree to which that approach succeeds probably depends more on the individual viewer than the filmmaker. Rich in detail, humor and humanity, it’s a deeply layered work that raises as many questions as it answers. Endlessly fascinating, brilliant even in its occasional flaws, 8 1/2 rewards first-time viewers and seasoned veterans alike with its introspection, invention and sheer joy of filmmaking. No one who genuinely cares about the art of film can afford not to see it. This excerpt was drawn from a review by Ken Hanke published on June 7, 2006. Classic World Cinema by Courtyard Gallery will present 8 1/2 on Friday, Sept. 7, at the new Flood Gallery location in Black Mountain, 850 Blue Ridge Road, Unit A-13, Black Mountain.
Messiah of Evil HHHHS
DIRECTOR: Willard Huyck, Gloria Katz PLAYERS: Michael Greer, Marianna Hill, Joy Bang, Anitra Ford, Royal Dano, Elisha Cook Jr. HORROR Rated R Have you ever wondered what would happen if the husband-and-wife screenwriting team that penned the scripts for American Graffiti, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Howard the Duck decided to co-write, produce and direct a movie about cannibalistic ghoul vampires inspired by H.P. Lovecraft and George Romero? Well they did, and the AFS will celebrate the return of its horror series at The Black Cloud by showing just that. The tragically overlooked 1973 cult classic Messiah of Evil bears the unmistakable influence of Robert Weine’s The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Carl Dreyer’s Vampyr and George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead (all of which we’ve shown recently), but that’s just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to this lost masterpiece. It’s not without its flaws, but it’s easily one of the strangest films we’ve ever programmed and a fitting homage to the sadly departed AFS member who suggested it in the first place. The Asheville Film Society’s Thursday Horror Picture Show moves to Mondays with a screening of Messiah of Evil at The Black Cloud on Monday, Sept. 10 at 8 p.m., hosted by Xpress movie critic Scott Douglas.
Spring Symphony HHH
DIRECTOR: Peter Schamoni PLAYERS: Nastassja Kinski, Rolf Hoppe, Herbert Gronemeyer, Anja-Christine Preussler, Edda Seippel BIOPIC Rated PG-13 Reasonably accurate account (with a modicum of subtext that’s so slight as to be almost nonexistent) of the early years of composer Robert Schumann (Herbert Groenemeyer) and Clara Wieck (Nasstassja Kinski). Spring Symphony (1983) is the sort of biopic that gives biopics a bad name. It runs no risks and is so intent not to offend anyone that it barely seems to exist as a movie in its own right — and ends up feeling like some sort of ephemeral TV special. Apart from Kinski, most of the cast is unlikely to be known to U.S. audiences. Herbert Groenemeyer, who plays Schumann, is, frankly, a puddingfaced bore and scarcely able to carry a film, much less convince us of either his genius or his passion for young Clara. It’s not sanitized exactly like a 1940s Hollywood biopic, but it’s certainly bland. Worst of all, though, is the fact that it has absolutely no feeling for the music. It’s sometimes nice to look at, and (I guess) it gets points as a safe thumbnail sketch, but that’s faint praise for this pedestrian movie. This excerpt was drawn from a review by Ken Hanke published on Jan. 5, 2016. The Hendersonville Film Society will show Spring Symphony on Sunday, Sept. 9, at 2 p.m. in the Smoky Mountain Theater at Lake Pointe Landing Retirement Community, 333 Thompson St., Hendersonville.
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Now is an excellent time to feel and explore and understand and even appreciate your sadness. To get you in the mood, here’s a list of sadnesses from novelist Jonathan Safran Foer: sadness of the could-have-been; sadness of being misunderstood; sadness of having too many options; sadness of being smart; sadness of awkward conversations; sadness of feeling the need to create beautiful things; sadness of going unnoticed; sadness of domesticated birds; sadness of arousal being an unordinary physical state; sadness of wanting sadness.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): When Warsan Shire was a child, she immigrated to the UK with her Somalian parents. Now she’s a renowned poet who writes vividly about refugees, immigrants and other marginalized people. To provide support and inspiration for the part of you that feels like an exile or fugitive or displaced person, and in accordance with current astrological omens, I offer you two quotes by Shire. 1. “I belong deeply to myself.” 2. “Document the moments you feel most in love with yourself — what you’re wearing, who you’re around, what you’re doing. Recreate and repeat.”
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Do you have any feral qualities lurking deep down inside you? Have you ever felt a mad yearning to communicate using howls and yips instead of words? When you’re alone, do you sometimes dispense with your utensils and scoop the food off your plate with your fingers? Have you dreamed of running through a damp meadow under the full moon for the sheer ecstasy of it? Do you on occasion experience such strong erotic urges that you feel like you could weave your body and soul together with the color green or the sound of a rain-soaked river or the moon rising over the hills? I ask these questions, Taurus, because now is an excellent time to draw on the instinctual wisdom of your feral qualities.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Once in a while came a moment when everything seemed to have something to say to you.” So says a character in Alice Munro’s short story “Jakarta.” Now I’m using that message as the key theme of your horoscope. Why? Because you’re at the peak of your ability to be reached, to be touched, to be communicated with. You’re willing to be keenly receptive. You’re strong enough to be deeply influenced. Is it because you’re so firmly anchored in your understanding and acceptance of who you are?
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “Close some doors today,” writes novelist Paulo Coelho. “Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere.” I endorse his advice for your use, Gemini. In my astrological opinion, you’ll be wise to practice the rough but fine art of saying NO. It’s time for you to make crisp decisions about where you belong and where you don’t; about where your future fulfillment is likely to thrive and where it won’t; about which relationships deserve your sage intimacy and which tend to push you in the direction of mediocrity. CANCER (June 21-July 22): To casual observers you may seem to be an amorphous hodgepodge, or a simmering mess of semi-interesting confusion, or an amiable dabbler headed in too many directions at once. But in my opinion, casual observers would be wrong in that assessment. What’s closer to the symbolic truth about you is an image described by poet Carolyn Forché: grapes that are ripening in the fog. Here’s another image that resonates with your current state: sea turtle eggs gestating beneath the sand on a misty ocean beach. One further metaphor for you: the bright yellow flowers of the evening primrose plant, which only bloom at night. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I want to make sure that the groove you’re in doesn’t devolve into a rut. So I’ll ask you unexpected questions to spur your imagination in unpredictable directions. Ready? 1. How would you describe the untapped riches in the shadowy part of your personality? 2. Is there a rare object you’d like to own because it would foster your feeling that the world has magic and miracles? 3. Imagine the perfect party you’d love to attend and how it might change your life for the better. 4. What bird most reminds you of yourself? 5. What’s your most evocative and inspiring taboo daydream? 6. In your past, were there ever experiences that made you cry for joy in ways that felt almost orgasmic? How might you attract or induce a catharsis like that sometime soon? VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): By volume, the Amazon is the largest river in the world. But where does it originate? Scientists have squabbled about that issue for over 300 years. Everyone agrees the source is in southwestern Peru. But is it the Apurímac River? The Marañón? The Mantaro? There are good arguments in favor of each. Let’s use this question as a poetic subtext as we wonder and meditate about the origin of your life force, Virgo. As is the case for the Amazon, your source has long been mysterious. But I suspect that’s going to change during the next 14 months. And the clarification process begins soon.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In 1928, novelist Virginia Woolf wrote a letter to her friend Saxon Sidney Turner. “I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading,” she confided, “since one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.” My usual inclination is to counsel you Sagittarians to focus on one or two important matters rather than on a multitude of semi-important matters. But in accordance with current astrological omens, I’m departing from tradition to suggest you adopt Woolf’s approach to books as your approach to everything. Your life in the coming weeks should be less like an acoustic ballad and more like a symphony for 35 instruments. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Not many goats can climb trees, but there are daredevils in Morocco that do. They go in quest of the delicious olive-like berries that grow on argan trees. The branches on which they perch may be 30 feet off the ground. I’m naming them as your power creature for the coming weeks. I think you’re ready to ascend higher in search of goodies. You have the soulful agility necessary to transcend your previous level of accomplishment. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): From 49-45 B.C., civil war wracked the Roman Republic. Julius Caesar led forces representing the common people against armies fighting for the aristocracy’s interests. In 45 B.C., Caesar brought a contingent of soldiers to Roman territory in North Africa, intent on launching a campaign against the enemy. As the general disembarked from his ship, he accidentally slipped and fell. Thinking fast, he exclaimed, “Africa, I have tight hold of you!” and clasped the ground, thus implying he had lowered himself on purpose in a ritual gesture of conquest. In this way, he converted an apparent bad omen into a positive one. And indeed, he won the ensuing battle, which was the turning point that led to ultimate victory and the war’s end. That’s good role modeling for you right now. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Below are sweet words I’ve borrowed from poets I love. I invite you to use them to communicate with anyone who is primed to become more lyrically intimate with you. The time is right for you to reach out! 1. “You look like a sea of gems.” — Qahar Aasi 2. “I love you with what in me is unfinished.” — Robert Bly 3. “Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born.” — E. E. Cummings 4. “Tell me the most exquisite truths you know.” — Barry Hannah 5. “It’s very rare to know you, very strange and wonderful.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald 6. “When you smile like that you are as beautiful as all my secrets.” — Anne Carson 7. Everything you say is “like a secret voice speaking straight out of my own bones.” — Sylvia Plath
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NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY Please take notice SmartStop Self Storage (locations listed below), intends to hold an auction of the goods stored in the following units to satisfy the lien of the owner. The sale will occur as an online auction via www.selfstorageauctions.com at the corresponding times. Contents include personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below. Purchases must be paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. SmartStop Self Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property. Please contact the property with any questions 197 Deaverview Rd, Asheville, NC 28806 • 828-221-2264 • 09/12/2018 @ 10:00am Unit 078, Jennifer McWhirt – Appliances, Bedding/Clothing, Boxes/Bags/Totes, Furniture Unit 313D, Sam Cook – Bedding/Clothing, Boxes/Bags/Totes, Furniture Unit 034, Melissa Borum – Bedding/Clothing, Books/Files/Cabinets, Boxes/Bags/Totes, Electronics/Computers, Furniture, Tools, Toys Unit 371, Albert Fleming AKA Albert Flemming – Bedding/Clothing, Boxes/Bags/Totes, Electronics/Computers, Furniture 75 Highland Center Blvd, Asheville NC 28806 • 828-202-5700 • 09/12/2018 @ 12:09pm Unit 532H, Alejandro Ramos – Electronics, Furniture, Toys, Bikes Unit 418H, Hubert Queen – Bedding, Clothes Unit 506, Margaret Hall – Appliances, Bedding, Books, Boxes, Furniture Unit 509H, Daniel Schindlebeck – Appliances, Bedding, Books, Boxes, Furniture, Tools 90 Highland Center Blvd, Asheville, NC 28806 • 828-221-0749 • 09/12/18 @ 2:30pm Unit 517, Ben Patterson – Clothing, Boxes/Bags/Totes, window a/c Unit 468, Ketura Capps – Art supplies, totes, clothing, misc. items 21 Sardis Rd, Asheville, NC 28806 • 828-221-2391 • 09/12/2018 @ 10:00am Unit 107, Ashley Wall – Couch/love seat, refrigerator, children’s clothes, vacuum cleaner Unit 124, Stephen McKinney – household items, dresser w/mirror, table and chairs, Jeep stroller, mattress and box spring, crib bedding, bags, luggage Unit 351, Donald Parham – Ladders, carpet samples, totes, round folding table, coolers, shelves, weed eater, outdoor furniture, metal cabinet, headboard, table, carts Unit 618, Joni Rogers – Bedding, laundry basket, luggage, totes, car seat, shoes purses Unit 466, Susan Cortes – Toys, totes, rug, safe, baker’s rack, rocking chair, bassinet, wall art, baby gates, outdoor chair, laundry baskets, clothes Unit 654, Susan Cortes – Crib, boxes, end table, rocking horse, clothes, luggage, armoire Unit 728, Joyce Freeman – Couches, box spring, boxes, books, granite pieces, tire, TVs, dresser, washing machine, jack, chairs, glass cabinet 1931 Spartanburg Hwy, Hendersonville, NC 28792 • 828-221-2310 • 09/12/18 @ 9:30am Unit 225, Jesus Mancillas – Household Items Unit 520, Kaitlyn Gordon – Furniture, Household Items
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RESTAURANT/ FOOD DISHWASHER We are looking for friendly, service oriented people who want to be a part of the brewery experience by serving as a part-time Dishwasher in our popular Taproom & Restaurant in Mills River, NC. Part Time - $12.00/hr. To apply: Please visit our website: https://sierranevada.com/ careers HOST We are looking for friendly, service oriented people who want to be a part of the brewery experience by joining our team as a parttime Host in our high-volume Taproom & Restaurant Previous restaurant experience is highly desired. https://www.sierranevada.com/ KITCHEN STAFF AND TAPROOM HELP Nantahala Brewing is opening a third location in West Asheville, NC and are looking for hardworking, outgoing and reliable individuals for our kitchen and taproom staff. jobs@nantahalabrewing.com TAPROOM SUPPORT We are looking for friendly, service oriented people who want to be a part of the brewery experience by joining our Front of House Taproom & Restaurant service team in a part-time Taproom Support role. •Offers assistance to guest by clearing away dishes and glassware. •Cleans and reset tables and the bar top once guests have left. •Delivers food to tables and beer to guests. This is a part time position. To apply: Please visit our website at https://sierranevada. com/careers
DRIVERS/ DELIVERY DRIVERS WANTED FOR BUNCOMBE AND HAYWOOD COUNTIES If you are friendly, responsible, courteous, reliable, people oriented, and have a clean driving record, then you may be the person(s) we are looking for to drive in either Buncombe or Haywood County. You will be driving non-emergency medical patients to their appointments. To apply, please call 828-351-3000 and answer the questions.
MEDICAL/ HEALTH CARE A NEW HOPE HOME CARE IS NOW HIRING RN'S AND LPN'S FOR IMMEDIATE NURSING NEEDS IN MULTIPLE COUNTIES A New Hope Home Care is actively hiring RN's and LPN's in multiple counties surrounding Asheville NC (Haywood, Jackson, Macon, Swain, McDowell, and Henderson counties). We provide In Home Skilled Nursing Services for Pediatric Clients with a variety of medical needs. We have an immediate need for a variety of shift times including day shifts, night shifts, evening shifts, and weekend shifts. A New Hope Home Care is a locally owned and operated home care agency that offers flexible scheduling,
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HUMAN SERVICES CLIENT NAVIGATOR AND RELIEF STAFF PRN Our VOICE is seeking to hire a full-time Client Navigator and contract, as needed Relief Staff. Full job descriptions can be found at https://www.ourvoicenc.org/ employment-opportunities/. Please send a resume and cover letter to rvoice@ourvoicenc.org CLUBHOUSE GENERALIST The Clubhouse is looking for a positive, dynamic, and compassionate individual to join the Thrive team in Hendersonville, NC. FTE position responsible for working with individuals with mental illness achieve individual goals. http://thrive4health.org/about-us/working-atthrive/ MENTOR / DIRECT CARE STAFF We are looking for adventurous, thoughtful role models for our students. Mentors at Montford Hall have great responsibilities and enormous impacts on the youth in our care. We value the personalized contributions and varied knowledge of our staff. Join our team of spirited high-caliber professionals! For the full classified visit https://www. montfordhall.org/employment.
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YOUTH COUNSELORS Youth Counselors are needed to provide assessment support to at-risk youth being served in our residential facility. We offer paid training, excellent benefits, and advancement opportunities. vsoles@ Mhfc.org. 919-754-3633. http:// www.mhfc.org.
TEACHING/ EDUCATION AFTERSCHOOL COUNSELOR • PART-TIME ArtSpace Charter School. Applicants must be available 3-6pm, Monday-Friday and/ or Wednesdays 12-6pm. • Qualified applicants must be creative, energetic, dependable and experienced with children, grades K-8. • Duties include planning and leading group games/crafts and homework assistance. Other schedules will be considered on a substitute basis. • Email resume to: tami. magidson@artspacecharter.org with the subject heading “AfterSchool Counselor.” SCHOOL COUNSELOR ArtSpace Charter School is accepting applications for the 2018-2019 school year for the position of School Counselor.This is a full-time, one year position. • Applicants must have a current North Carolina Professional Educator’s License in the area of School Counselor (K-12). Applicants must be willing to work in a collaborative, integrated, experiential environment. • Knowledge of the arts and arts integration strategies is preferred but not
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and Evidence Section, 828-2324576. NOTICE OF DISPOSITION The following is a list of unclaimed and confiscated property at the Asheville Police Department tagged for disposition: audio and video equipment; cameras; clothing; lawn and garden equipment; personal items; tools; weapons (including firearms): jewelry: automotive items; building supplies; bikes and other miscellaneous. All items will be disposed of 30 days from date of posting. Items to be auctioned will be displayed on www.propertyroom.com.
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BID NOTICE ADVERTISEMENT Adams Robinson Enterprises, Inc. is seeking bid proposals and quotes from HUB certified MBE subcontractors for the Metropolitan Sewerage District of Buncombe County High Rate Primary Treatment Improvements Project MSD Project No: 2015054 project which bids on Thursday, September 13th, 2018 at 2:00 P.M. Plans may be viewed at Adams Robinson Enterprises, 2735 Needmore Rd., Dayton, OH 45414. Call (937) 274-5318 or email. Online at, login: arco password: estimating; on file at and at CDM Smith, 4600 Park Road, Suite 240, Charlotte, NC 28209. Items of work to be subcontracted include, but are not limited to the following: Demolition, Precast Concrete, Reinforced Steel, Masonry, Roofing, Plumbing, HVAC, Electrical, Painting, Caulking, Excavation & Backfill, Landscaping, Site Grading, Asphalt Paving, Plumbing, Site Work, Instrumentation, Erosion Control, Trucking & Hauling, Doors & Windows, Glass & Glazing and Clearing & Grubbing. Adams Robinson Enterprises, inc is willing to review any responsible quote and will negotiate terms, if appropriate. We will assist
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