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FLYING LOW 8 IT TAKES ONE TO KNOW ONE Formerly homeless residents discuss path toward self-sufficiency

10 FIELD OF THEIR DREAMS Memorial Stadium improvements excite soccer community

In recognition of Bat Week, an international celebration that runs through Halloween, Xpress looks at the scary situation for Western North Carolina’s flying mammals.

White nose syndrome and climate change together pose big threats to local bat populations.

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14 Q&A WITH TADD MCDIVITT Local occult researcher shares his thoughts on the supernatural

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WNC Scary Stories With Halloween just around the (darkened) corner, we asked readers to share the scariest things they’ve experienced in our area.

Readers came through with shivery accounts of mysterious occurrences that may have you turning on all the lights, just in case. Check out their true tales throughout the issue and online at mountainx.com.

Vote for good government in Woodfin As someone who has lived in Woodfin since 2014, I have been trying to become informed about our local government, meet some of our elected officials and get better acquainted with my neighbors. I have attended many of the meetings of the various boards and participated in expressing my opinion at a few public forums, but I must admit that I have come away with the perception that Woodfin’s elected officials do not much care what the community has to say. Again and again, instead of welcoming new voices and fresh opinions from concerned citizens, the current commissioners seem to resent any form of constructive criticism.

I believe that Woodfin should embrace transparency and develop strategies to listen and learn about the needs and concerns of the people who live and work in this town.

We’ll never have good government unless elected leaders can build a foundation of trust concerning the issues of vital interest, such as public safety, smart/sustainable development, affordable housing and concern for preserving our forests and environmental assets.

I’d like to think that our leaders would want to develop a vision going forward that would take into account the enormous forces that are bearing down on us in Western North Carolina as our population soars and as pressures mount to sell the remaining open spaces, bringing the inevitable problems of construction, traffic and the added burden of thousands of cars.

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C A R T O O N B Y R AN DY M O L T O N I had planned to run for a seat on the Woodfin Board of Commissioners, and my name may still appear on the ballot. Unfortunately, I have had to withdraw because of unexpected personal hardships. I would respectfully encourage everyone to cast your votes for Hazel Thornton, Jim McAllister and Eric Edgerton.

Each of them seems to share my philosophy of good government.

— Ellen Brown Woodfin

and Hazel Thornton are endorsed by the Sierra Club and committed to open government practices and protecting our environment in Woodfin.

Make your three votes count on Nov. 2 and choose E-M-T. Visit www.electhazelthornton.com for more information.

— Holly Millsaps Woodfin voter Asheville Editor’s note: Millsaps reports volunteering on Hazel Thornton’s campaign.

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Thanks for Meadow Road fix

If you’d like to pass a much-needed steep slope ordinance, curb predatory development and expand opportunities for public input, vote E-M-T. Woodfin town commissioner candidates Eric Edgerton, Jim McAllister

N.C. Department of Transportation road workers, I am grateful to you.

We all are. That curve of Meadow Road near the Norfolk Southern

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Though I personally haven’t experienced anything supernatural at the Smith-McDowell House Museum, l do know some of our docents refuse to go into the basement, which functioned as the old winter kitchen and laundry space in the latter half of the 19th century.

For those unfamiliar with the home’s history, it was built around 1840 as a summer retreat for the James Smith family and operated as one of their two plantations. Not long after its construction, the McDowell family married into the Smiths and occupied the house and plantation from 1854-80. Together, the two families enslaved over 100 individuals.

The property went through several subsequent owners and architectural changes. In 1951, it operated as a classroom and dormitory for the Asheville Catholic high school for boys. Three decades later, in 1982, the Western North Carolina

Historical Association took over the site and transformed it into the museum that operates today.

Some visitors have also reported feelings of unease, or some kind of “presence,” when they tour the basement. One guest once told me, essentially: “Something is weird down there. I don’t really believe in any of that stuff, but that room just feels heavy.”

The Asheville paranormal group also recorded “mists” or some type of phenomenon in that space when they toured the house in 2015. That is the area that would have been occupied almost exclusively by enslaved people and later free servants. With our interpretation, it is a space of pretty heavy emotions and history regardless of anything supernatural.

— Trevor Freeman, public programs director at the Smith-McDowell House Museum

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railroad entrance is so nice to drive on now!

I know there are other roads more and less ridden upon around town, but that one has needed attention for a while now. All better! I just wanted to say thanks!

— Michael Harney Asheville

Ullman offers qualifications and experience Maggie Ullman has announced her Asheville Council candidacy, and I want to be one of the first to offer endorsement.

Maggie was Asheville’s first Sustainability Officer—fundamental to greening progress we made during my two terms on Council. If you like Big Blue recycling, credit Maggie. If you think saving hundreds of thousands of dollars annually on electric bills with LED streetlights is nifty, ditto. If you like the idea that Asheville’s firetrucks get significantly better fuel mileage now than they did in 2007, ditto again. City building energy retrofits? Yep. Asheville having the second rechargeable police car in the nation? Been there, done that.

But, while the environment has been Maggie’s chief focus, her dedication to community has been no less significant. She’s served on boards including Blue Ridge Public Radio, Asheville on Bikes, Asheville’s Multimodal Transportation Commission, the Buncombe County Environmental and Energy

Stewardship Subcommittee; is a member of CoThinkk (an Asheville social change philanthropy); and completed Racial Equity Institute training.

In my years as a reporter, a Council member and a city voter, I’ve not seen a more qualified and experienced entrant to the Asheville political scene.

Maggie has more than earned your vote. She’s definitely got mine.

— Cecil Bothwell Asheville

Where are government’s priorities?

I would like to know why North Carolina, Buncombe County and the city of Asheville don’t help people with disabilities.

North Carolina says it has shortand long-term disability for their employees. I spent almost 21 years with NCDOT maintenance before I got sick. Now I get about $120 a month from the state. I get food stamps, but I live in a house that is 48 years old, and I don’t make enough to fix it. I’m having to fight to get the money so I can have a place to live. Why? Buncombe County gives money to beer companies to build a factory but can’t help people. They give drunks and drug addicts a free place to live.

People who work for a living don’t have a chance. The crooks in North Carolina, Buncombe County and Asheville are trying to steal everything we have.

— Gary Simpson Asheville

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Flying low

Threats challenge local bat populations

FACING THE PROBLEM: White nose syndrome, seen here on the snout of a tricolored bat, has reduced some local bat populations by as much as 95%.

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It sounds like a horror story appropriate for the Halloween season: A strange white fuzz appears on someone’s face, causing the infected to act unnaturally before dying a gruesome death.

But that tale describes the reallife issue of white nose syndrome, a fungal disease that has affected millions of bats across the country.

The ailment gets its name from the telltale white fuzz that coats the bats’ faces during hibernation.

WNS kills by burning up the bats’ body fat, crucial to their survival through the winter, and can cause scarring and holes in their wings.

The infection can also make bats behave erratically, exhibiting odd behaviors like flying outside during the winter in daytime — which, if there are no insects outside, could lead to them starving or freezing to death.

Since the disease was initially discovered in New York caves in 2007, it has killed millions of bats across North America. In North Carolina, WNS was first confirmed in Avery County in 2011 and has since spread to at least 19 other counties, including

Buncombe and all of its surrounding counties except Henderson.

Kendrick Weeks, western wildlife diversity program supervisor with the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission, has some good news: WNS might finally be plateauing in Western North Carolina, and local bat numbers are on the rise overall.

Yet stabilization of the disease has come only after steep population declines, with some species showing local losses of up to 95%.

WINGING IT

Three species in particular have been most affected: the northern long-eared bat, tricolored bat and little brown bat. All three have seen WNC population reductions of at least 81%, Weeks says, with the little brown bat suffering the most.

Katherine Etchison, a mammologist with the NCWRC, says those numbers are based on counts of bat populations in different hibernacula, or overwintering sites, every two to three years. One hibernaculum in Haywood County, she notes, went from 3,567 tricolored bats in 2011 (the highest count on record) to just 45 as of the last count in January 2020.

So many bats have already gotten WNS, Weeks explains, that the disease has started to weed itself out and show lower transmission rates in many communities. And as fewer bats return to the same cavernous spaces, some have been able to raise their survival chances by hibernating away from others, lessening their risk of infection.

“There might be some immunity.

And maybe it’s where they pick to hibernate, or they’re reproducing and getting the traits to survive to the next generation,” Weeks suggests. “So the population will increase.”

There are ways to help bat populations recover — including by making bats fatter. Weeks points to research by the nonprofit Bat Conservation International, including some being conducted in McDowell and Avery counties, in which scientists are using ultraviolet lights to draw more insects to the areas where the bats live. The resulting “bug buffet” is designed to give the bats an extra serving of food before hibernation starts and thus extra resilience against WNS. Another approach, Weeks says, is to reduce habitat disturbances, which are common in WNC’s caves and abandoned mines. He notes that bats sometimes wake up from hibernation and use up their fat reserves when people enter their habitats, an issue made even worse when WNS is present. They may also abandon those sites for future hibernation altogether.

The NCWRC does set up gates at some caves to prohibit humans from breaking in, leaving just enough space for the bats to enter. That’s the case with a retired iron mine in Avery County used as hibernaculum by several threatened and endangered species — many of which are susceptible to WNS. “Every year we spend thousands of dollars to repair the fencing and/or gating due to vandalism,” Weeks says.

more than a month longer by 2100 if greenhouse gas emissions continue on their current trend.

“They might emerge too soon, and there would be no food available,” Prater says, referring to the dearth of insects in winter. “It’s a potential death sentence.”

Temperature changes might also affect the availability and quality of habitat, as well as food choices for bats if insects die off. And while WNS generally thrives under cooler conditions, other diseases could expand into the region or occur more frequently due to changing temperatures as well, he says.

In terms of what can be done specifically for bats beyond general efforts to reduce carbon emissions, Prater says people can reduce other pressures on their populations. Limiting the use of pesticides, for example, can help preserve insects so bats can eat them.

Prater says Defenders of Wildlife is also working to minimize habitat changes. That means preserving intact mature forests and protecting streams and wetlands from development and pollution, along with continuing to protect the ranges of endangered bats.

“We want to preserve as much habitat as possible so they can have food and shelter they need and survive,” he says. “This will allow the species to be more resilient to changes in their environment.” X

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Visitors often ask about hauntings in the Old Kentucky Home, the historical boardinghouse located at the Thomas Wolfe Memorial.

I sense the house is now at peace, though it hasn’t always been.

In his 1929 debut novel, Look Homeward, Angel, Thomas Wolfe reflects on his early experiences living in his mother’s boardinghouse, located in downtown Asheville. He writes, “A very quiet despair was in his heart, a weary peace that brooded too upon the house of death and tumult, that flowed, like a soft exploring wind, through its dark halls, bathing all things quietly with peace and weariness.”

Was it a house of death and tumult or a peaceful place?

In his 1935 follow-up, Of Time and the River, which is the sequel to Look Homeward, Angel, Wolfe describes Oliver Gant on his deathbed. (Oliver, it should be noted, was based on the author’s father, William Oliver.) Startled from a dream, Oliver exclaims, “Did someone come into the house?”

His wife, Eliza (inspired by Wolfe’s mother, Julia Elizabeth), looks at Oliver with troubled eyes and says, “Hah? What say? Why, no, I think not … unless you may have

heard Gilmer come in an’ go up to his room.”

We know Wolfe’s father died in a back room of the boardinghouse in June 1922. It is a regular stop on the guided tour. But who was Gilmer?

Wolfe based Gilmer on the reallife Theodore Salmer, who lived at Julia’s boarding house from about 1921-33. Tragically, Salmer died one Sunday morning in November 1933 from a pulmonary hemorrhage. At the time, Julia was preparing tea in the kitchen, when she discovered Salmer standing in the hall. He collapsed on the floor, his hand to his mouth with blood spilling everywhere. Julia hurriedly made her way to the front porch, calling for her neighbor across the street. The neighbor was Ed Dunn of the Brownell-Dunn Funeral Home — exactly whom Salmer needed. When Dunn entered the house, Salmer was already gone.

But does his spirit still linger?

To this day there is one place in the historic house where staff rarely goes — the tragic hallway where Salmer met his demise.

— Tom Muir, historic site manager at the Thomas Wolfe Memorial

TOO HOT TO HANDLE

Although the threat of WNS may be leveling off, another challenge may loom even larger for bat populations: climate change. Ben Prater is southeast program director for the national conservation nonprofit Defenders of Wildlife and manages the region including WNC. He says that bats, like many other animals, are very sensitive to environmental changes like rising temperatures and heavier rains.

Prater says hotter temperatures might confuse bats, throwing off their hibernation schedules and convincing them it’s OK to fly outside during the winter. According to the federal Global Change Research Program, WNC’s freeze-free season could be

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Formerly homeless residents discuss path toward self-sufficiency

BY LINDA RAY lindarayaccess@gmail.com Food, clothing, a roof to sleep under and access to financial, mental health and medical resources are vital services that area nonprofits do a good job at providing. But to move clients from reliance on those services to self-sufficiency, homeless advocates say, community support and permanent affordable housing are key — and their lack is the main barrier to reducing the homeless population in Asheville.

Kat Douglas and Ashley Lung were homeless residents addicted to drugs who ended up in prison after living on the streets. Both now work full time for Sunrise Community for Recovery and Wellness and have their own homes. Lung is the director at the temporary homeless shelter at the Ramada Inn in East Asheville, which the city of Asheville is under contract to purchase as a permanent low-barrier shelter; Douglas is a peer support specialist who goes wherever she’s needed.

Both say the support they got (and continue to get) from their peers has helped them make better choices.

“Example is so important,” Lung says.

And both are happy to be self-sufficient and working with others whom they call peers. “I’m happy for the first time in my life,” says Douglas.

And Sunni Morgan has become a full-time intake case manager at Homeward Bound’s AHOPE Day Center in downtown Asheville after living on the streets four years ago.

She started volunteering with nonprofit BeLoved Asheville when she was still homeless and found a room

BETTER TOGETHER: Sunrise Community for Recovery and Wellness workers Kat Douglas, left, and Ashley Lung, right — both formerly homeless — agree with Ramada Inn shelter resident Eric Hall that peer support is critical for people to reach self-sufficiency. Photo by Linda Ray to share with another volunteer. Once she started getting peer support from Sunrise and taking advantage of the services provided by Homeward Bound, she too began making better choices.

“People get discouraged because everything is so slow,” Morgan says. “It took about 3 1/2 years, but I snatched [every opportunity] I could. I went through a kind of forced patience. I still have friends on the street, and it gets frustrating sometimes that they don’t take advantage of the services available.”

WHAT COMES FIRST?

Leaders in the homeless services community say that support from people who have lived through hard times and come out the other side makes all the difference in helping folks move from homelessness to permanent, self-supporting housing.

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engagement with community drives fundamental change in people’s lives.

“Homelessness creates isolation.

And unresolved traumas make folks vulnerable to abuse,” says Rogers, ABCCM’s executive director. “Being around people who aren’t abusive breaks the isolation. Then they can learn about healthy choices others have made.”

Kate Caton, homeless services director at Homeward Bound, agrees.

“As we provide the wraparound services necessary to get people into stable housing, we build relationships,” she says. “At AHOPE, it’s a place to be recognized. We try to get to know as many people as we can by name.”

Visitors to the day center are more open to hearing their options, she adds, when they feel accepted and not judged. That comfort puts them in a better place to consider housing, work and medical and mental health services.

THROUGH THE CRACKS

When Lisa Tucci-Caselli got out of the Western Correctional Center for Women in Swannanoa, she landed on a friend’s sofa for a year or so while she picked up part-time jobs. As someone who formerly abused drugs, she knew

she couldn’t go back to familiar people and places or she’d end up using again and land back in prison. Two years later, she’s now couch surfing with extended family in Sylva.

Tucci-Caselli describes shelters as a “Catch-22”: While the environment encourages better behavior, she says, “It’s tough to be confident when you have a mirror held up to you every day, feeling like you’re in active addiction again.”

She worked part time with Homeward Bound in 2020 and often slept in her car between shifts.

Despite that employment, TucciCaselli says, she wasn’t able to find permanent housing. “Even if I got more hours, there’s nothing I could afford in Asheville,” she explains.

Tucci-Caselli says she would move into the Ramada Inn, but the shelter is currently full. She tries to keep positive and appreciates the support that’s available, but doesn’t know where to turn next.

Mark Czarnecki has lived at the Western Carolina Rescue Ministries for three years. He says he gets food, a place to sleep, community involvement and spiritual support at the Asheville shelter. And he has plenty of part-time jobs. “There’s just no place in Asheville that I can afford,” he says.

BREAD AND BARRIERS

Food and shelter are generally available for those who get connected through their fellows on the street or organizations offering services. But a lack of affordable, long-term housing is a main barrier to ending the plight that poverty too often brings.

Caton from Homeward Bound says that her organization works with landlords to accept federal housing vouchers, which provide rent assistance for disabled, elderly and low-income people. Yet many are reluctant to accept them, even when the nonprofit provides continued case management

and helps with rent when needed.

“There’s a stigma to being homeless and a negative connotation to vouchers. But given a chance, most people can make it,” she says.

Caton argues that such judgment is misplaced because many people receive subsidized housing in some form or another, at least for a while.

“I wouldn’t be able to live in the house I have if I wasn’t married,” she says. “For most people, if they didn’t have roommates, partners, family or government funds to help, they might be homeless too.”

Lung at Sunrise says people staying in shelters often have vouchers in hand but still can’t find a place to live.

Another big barrier she encounters when trying to get folks into permanent housing is the criminal background that many people without homes have.

That’s why she feels so strongly about the need for low-barrier shelters, landlords and peers who don’t hold a person’s past against them.

“We all make mistakes,” she says.

“And there are so many great agencies that we partner with to provide the different services people need to get back to being self-supporting. But when people without homes can’t get an ID, don’t have a phone where they can take calls about jobs and then don’t have anyone willing to rent them an apartment, it’s no wonder people get frustrated.”

Most people without stable housing want to find a place to live, a job that pays the bills and a place within a supportive community, says Caton.

“Only a very small percentage aren’t interested.” When asked which comes first — a job or a home — the overwhelming consensus is that housing must be the priority.

“It’s hard to find a job if you don’t have a place to live,” says TucciCaselli. “And it’s almost worse if you have some work, but not enough to pay rent. If I had a safe place to live in Asheville, I know I could make it with support from my peers.” X

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Field of their dreams

Memorial Stadium improvements excite soccer community

BY PAT BARCAS pbarcas@gmail.com Over $900,000 in improvements to Asheville’s Memorial Stadium are now underway. And while the recreational facility is host to a wide variety of sporting events, area soccer players are particularly excited about the prospect of a nicer field and more functional amenities.

AstroTurf Corp., based in Dalton, Ga., began work in late August, with construction aimed for completion by the end of the year. Planned improvements to Memorial Stadium, located just east of the Asheville Tourists’ McCormick Field, include new artificial turf with improved drainage, new stormwater infrastructure, the installation of sidewalks and access to existing concrete bleachers in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. The field has always been intended to accommodate multiple sports and provide equitable athletic programming space for Asheville athletes, according to Christy Bass, program and operations manager for Asheville’s Parks and Recreation Department. She says games played at the facility include, but are not limited to football, lacrosse, flag football, Ultimate frisbee and field hockey.

But soccer dominates Memorial Stadium, with users including the semipro Asheville City Soccer Club and recreational Asheville Buncombe Adult Soccer Association. The current changes, says Eric Usher, are set to make an already good facility even better.

UPGRADE: New artificial turf with improved drainage, new stormwater infrastructure, the installation of sidewalks and access to existing concrete bleachers in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act are among the planned improvements to Memorial Stadium now underway. Photo courtesy of the city of Asheville “Playing at Memorial Stadium — it’s the type of atmosphere that soccer players dream of,” says Usher, a co-director of the Beer City Cup. The national tournament, which bills itself as the country’s largest adult soccer event, holds its finals at the stadium over Labor Day weekend every year.

Usher, who also referees in a number of Southern soccer conferences, credits the field with some of the Beer City Cup’s growth. “It’s a great arena. It overlooks the city, it’s centrally located, and the sun sets over the mountains,” he says.

“It’s just incredible. When you play there, it feels like more than just a kick around. You feel like people are actually watching.”

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finally taking place. It will be a huge upgrade for us and all of the many users of the stadium,” he says.

Beyond the new playing surface for the field, Bass says that addressing stormwater drainage is a major element of the stadium project. Looking toward future patterns of extreme weather driven by climate change, as outlined in Asheville’s 2018 climate resilience report, the city believes it is important to address drainage as the frequency of heavy rainstorms picks up.

“While we are replacing the turf, it is a great opportunity to replace the aging stormwater infrastructure and move it out from under the field. As important as it is, the improvements will largely be unnoticed by the general public,” she says.

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improved over time; its most recent turf renovation took place in 2000.

The 2009 Parks and Recreation Master Plan flagged the current batch of improvements as important “to support the need for multiple athletic uses, improve safety and enhance neighborhood park space.”

Asheville voters approved funding for the project in November 2016 as part of a referendum on $17 million in bonds to make improvements to the city’s parks and recreation facilities. Planning and design for renovations to Memorial Stadium and nearby Mountainside Park began in 2017, with multiple community and stakeholder meetings taking place since 2019 to collect feedback on the work’s scope.

Ryan Kelley, co-owner and past president of Asheville City Soccer Club, says he was able to engage with the city about the improvements on different levels over the past few years. “The turf replacement is long overdue, and we are thrilled that it is

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Kelley says the impact of an excellent venue on his club and the larger soccer community cannot be overstated. “It is an essential part of Asheville City Soccer Club’s culture, and it provides one of the best atmospheres in minor league soccer.

Our players and visiting players alike have called playing under the lights at Memorial in front of thousands of local fans one of the best experiences of their careers,” he says. “I have yet to encounter a better downtown stadium experience anywhere in minor league soccer.”

Those who play the sport at an amateur level are also eager to get their feet on the new facility. Soccer is huge in Asheville, despite the city’s relatively small size. Frank Balentine, who played at UNC Asheville and has since moved onto an adult league, says there isn’t another soccer community in the state that rivals Asheville’s.

“There are more than 1,000 participants [in the adult league]. When you include their families that play in the youth leagues, that’s 3,000-4,000 people playing,” he explains. “The renovations to Memorial Stadium are giving the soccer community the space it deserves.”

Usher with the Beer City Cup says that soccer might fly under the radar in terms of Asheville sports, but it shouldn’t. He says the sport is a good cultural fit for the city: It attracts people from many cultural backgrounds, creeds and orientations. It also fits in with the beer scene.

“Soccer’s history is intertwined with pubs, and the breweries sponsor the Beer City Cup and also show top-level pro games from around the world,” he says. “People here are active and love the outdoors. It just fits.” X

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Buncombe EMS seeks $2.5M boost amid slow response times When Buncombe County residents have an urgent problem, they call Emergency Medical Services.

When EMS has an urgent problem, it calls the county Board of Commissioners.

As presented by Rafael Baptista, Buncombe’s director of performance management, in an Oct. 19 briefing to the board, the county’s EMS is requesting over $2.5 million to address several daunting challenges. A combination of increased demand due to the COVID-19 pandemic and low staffing levels, he explained, has led to emergency response times well above national standards.

Over the past year, Baptista said, Buncombe’s emergency call volume has grown by 18%, with more than 1,000 of those calls pandemic-related. He estimated that meeting those calls in a timely fashion would require 13 ambulances. However, the county only funds personnel for 11 ambulances, and due to staffing issues, the full fleet has been operating on just 29 days of the past 92.

For 90% of calls, the county’s “chute time” — the interval between when an ambulance is dispatched to an emergency and when it actually heads toward the location — is 195 seconds or less; the goal for the same metric set by the National Fire Protection Association is 80 seconds, more than twice as fast.

Of Buncombe’s emergency calls, 90% see an ambulance on-scene within 18 minutes of dispatch, while the NFPA standard is about nine minutes.

At the same time, Baptista continued, the county’s 911 call center is also understaffed; the percentage of calls answered within the state

HELP WANTED: A Buncombe County Emergency Medical Services staffer shows off an ambulance to Enka Middle School students in 2019. The county’s EMS is requesting $2.5 million in new funds to address staffing shortages and slow response times. Photo courtesy of Buncombe County standard of 10 seconds has dropped from 96.2% to 90.5% over the last year. And Buncombe personnel are covering some dispatches for the city of Asheville, which has staffed only 10 of its 20 budgeted call center positions.

In response, Baptista suggested that Buncombe adopt several new pay incentives for EMS and 911 staff, including bonuses for overtime, night shift work and on-call duties. He also said the county should fund positions for two additional ambulances, as well as purchase two “quick response

vehicle” SUVs to give EMS staff greater flexibility.

A formal budget and personnel request is expected to go before the board at its next regular meeting Tuesday, Nov. 2. Money would come from the county’s current cash reserves.

County tax revenues beat projections Regardless of COVID-19’s public health impacts, the pandemic does

not appear to have done any damage to the county’s balance sheet over the past year. According to Don Warn, Buncombe’s finance director, general fund revenues for fiscal year 2020-21 exceeded $351 million — nearly 5% more than the projected $334.6 million.

The biggest driver of the surplus, Warn explained, was higher-than-expected collection rates for property taxes. While the county had expected 99% of taxes to be paid, it actually collected 99.65%, netting an additional $7.3 million.

By percentage, however, sales taxes generated the biggest windfall. Budgeted at $30.1 million, those revenues came in at $37.1 million, or more than 23% higher than expected. “Consumer spending just came back a lot stronger than we thought it would,” Warn said about the difference.

Combined with low county spending (about 5%, or $17.7 million, less than budgeted), the revenues have created a sizable reserve of cash. County Manager Avril Pinder estimated that between $17 million and $19 million could be available for currently unbudgeted expenses throughout the year while still leaving a reserve of $49.8 million, the minimum allowed by county policy.

“Our community’s coming out of the past 18 months in a lot better position than we all thought we would,” said board Chair Brownie Newman. “There’s a number of different obligations that are likely going to be showing up at our door, where some of these available funds will be requested. But there are some good opportunities.”

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Q&A with Tadd McDivitt, occult researcher, ghost story extraordinaire On any given day in downtown Asheville, tour guides snake through the streets pointing out the home where Thomas Wolfe lived or the park where drum circles gather on Friday nights.

Tadd McDivitt’s tour is different. As he leads groups of as many as 80 people through the streets and alleyways, he shares the dark and sometimes humorous stories of the city, and how history, culture and rituals weave together into imaginative folklore.

McDivitt works as a guide for Haunted Asheville, which offers two walking tours — one supernatural tour and one ghost tour — to historic sites in Asheville. The eerie legends and hair-raising tales come from a book of the same name by Joshua P. Warren, Asheville native and paranormal investigator.

McDivitt has lived in Asheville since 1988, and his love of the unknown developed as a young boy with a passion for superheroes, tabletop role-playing games and sci-fi/fantasy.

He has led ghost tours for 10 years here, and his other job is writing storylines for Dungeons and Dragons games.

Despite October being a busy month for spookiness, Xpress managed to catch up with McDivitt to discuss theories of the supernatural, dodging tear

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In October 1980, my daughter, Marcia, and I were traveling down Beaverdam Road in Asheville to visit my parents, John and Betty Knight.

As we approached the curve at the cemetery on the hill at the Baptist church, imagine my surprise when 2 1/2-year-old Marcia exclaimed from the backseat, “Look at all the people!”

I looked in the rearview mirror to see a huge smile on her little face!

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gas while working and his background as a barbershop quartet singer.

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

Do you believe in ghosts?

My take is more observations and theories and less faith or conviction.

Perhaps the concept of time gets slippery? What if that’s where ghosts are?

What if for one weird, naturally occurring reason, the past can be seen for a second? And we don’t understand the science yet, much like at one point we didn’t understand the bacteria causing the plague. Conceivably, it might be an aspect of nature — specifically the fluidity of time.

Wow, that’s really heady.

One of my favorite ways of looking at [the afterlife] ... is the way that the ancient Greeks perceived it: They had a prototype understanding of matter and energy. They weren’t all the way to Einstein and E=mc2 yet, but the early alchemists had a concept that there is matter and there is energy. So they believed that the land of the dead is made of something different. On the other side, memory replaces matter, and form and shape are held together by memory. They believed energy is replaced by raw emotion, and want makes the memory move. So they believe that there is a universe that is made of nothing but memory and emotion, and it has similar properties to matter and energy in its movement and form. But it’s not matter and it’s not energy.

Pivoting away from theories about the afterlife, what makes a good ghost story?

When you look at folklore, ghost stories exist cross-culturally. The one common element is a theme of regret and unfinished business. It’s based on the idea that not everyone who dies becomes a ghost. There is always a reason. They couldn’t let go of whatever thing is left undone, whatever pile of money, whatever child is left without being told ‘I love you.’ And that’s where the variation in the stories comes from.

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One thing that people notice on my Friday supernatural tour [is that] it’s not so much me scaring them. I’m giving the cultural context of where these stories, rituals, gestures and beliefs came from. It ends up being more heady and fascinating than spookyscary, per se. But that’s where my passion is—anthropology and storytelling.

How did you become interested in the occult?

I grew up an ‘80s kid with a passionate love for supernatural fantasy and supernatural horror. I was right at that age to be watching Clash of the Titans; I discovered Narnia and Middle-earth. Right about that time is when I was exposed to Latin in seventh grade. I discovered the Iliad and the Odyssey, and realized the parallels with the fantasy stories I like, even my superhero stories.

You were less interested in the scary bits and more interested in their source.

I realized that these classical ideas are rooted in real-world legends and cultures. I was looking at Lord of the Rings and [thought] “You know, the Scandinavians actually believed in elves and dwarves.” That’s where it started. It was just this digging — where did it come from? Everything from the fantasy, the horror and even the sci-fi stuff is built on the bones of the old stories. Even the Starship Enterprise has some of the Argonauts quality to it.

What do you think makes you a good storyteller?

I have a background in stage performance in music. My dad arranges and conducts barbershop quartets and choirs. I was raised singing; it was a way to get away from my mom and my little brother and to just be me and my dad singing together. Not only did I get a really great experience from my dad in a mentorship capacity, but early on voice control, voice projection and comfort in a group of people became baked into my skill set.

Music is what I did in school, and then when I got to college ... I dis-

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HAUNTED HISTORY: Tour guide Tadd McDivitt’s love for folklore, rituals and culture help him craft eerie tales of Asheville’s dark history.

Photo by Brooke Randle covered how cool the anthropology classical languages classes were. So I end up at the cross section of being comfortable with a group of people and projecting my voice and really knowing my stuff of where all these creepy details come from and the finer points of the history.

What’s a memorable experience you’ve had while giving a tour?

Missing the tear gas by 10 minutes.

Wait, you were doing tours during the racial justice protests downtown in 2020?

Yes. My tour was out of the way right where the tear gas flew. I had my tour group on to a different spot within 15 minutes. It was awkward, because I’m very happy to be working but I also feel like the man playing the fiddle while Rome burns. I’m entertaining these guests and trying to keep them happy while real-life tension is happening around me. It was incredibly challenging to keep the tone, keep the mood, to try to get everyone distracted from reality while stark, intense reality is coalescing around me. Part of me was screaming inside, like, “I can’t believe I’m powering through this!”

But yeah, the show must go on.

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ASHEVILLE ARCHIVES

by Thomas Calder | tcalder@mountainx.com

‘Those who were burned’ In 1918, amid the deadly flu pandemic, Asheville’s health officials banned Halloween gatherings.

(For more, see “Asheville Archives: The 1918 Influenza Changes Social Norms,” Oct. 31, 2020, Xpress.)

A year later, the city was eager to celebrate. “Denied the opportunity of making a mundane visit last year by reason of the prevalence of influenza, the ghosts doubtless will be here in large numbers this evening,” The Asheville Citizen reported on Oct. 31, 1919. “Mothers will see soiled sheets and damaged pillow cases.”

The youths, the paper continued, were eager to get out on the special holiday to perform pranks “that may be staged with impunity whereas any such behavior at any other time would prompt unpleasant sessions with parents.”

But the holiday was not “exclusively staged by juvenile exemplars,” the article added. “Many older persons will participate in the program of the evening. Especially interesting is the day of those who wish to ascertain some information as to the characteristics of future mates.”

Unlike today’s Halloween, past iterations focused more on romance than candy. One act, the paper reported, originated in Ireland and was performed to settle love affairs.

Blindfolded, participants would pull

Halloween celebrations return after the 1918 influenza the husband or wife would be wealthy while clean roots indicated no less surely that poverty was imminent.

The disposition of the mate could be ascertained by tasting the cabbage.

A sweet taste denoted sweet disposition; a sour taste augured evil.”

Another unusual Halloween ritual involved an apple and a candle, the paper reported: “In the old days, young people used to put a lighted candle on one end of a stick, an apple on the other and a string in the middle, suspending the stick, perfectly balanced, from the ceiling so that it might be whirled around.

These participants in the game who could catch the apple in their mouths without being burned by the candle were to entertain no further doubts as to their chances of being married. Those who were burned were sure to remain single, it was believed.”

BACK AT IT: In 1918, Asheville city officials prohibited Halloween gatherings due to influenza. A year later, residents were eager to celebrate. Illustration by Irene Olds cabbage from the patch as the clock struck midnight.

According to the article, “characteristics of husband or wife were

discernible in the shape and outline of the cabbage stalks.” Furthermore, “The clinging of much earth to the roots was regarded as a sure sign that

Untold in this article is how the candle remains lit as the stick spins.

But alas!

For more former traditions, see our 2019 Halloween edition of Asheville Archives, “Halloween Superstitions Near the Start of the 20th Century.”

Happy hauntings, Asheville!

Editor’s note: Peculiarities of spelling and punctuation are preserved from the original documents. X

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Online Events = Shaded HALLOWEEN EVENTS Scarecrow Festival Created by Buncombe County community members.

WE (10/27), TH (10/28), FR (10/29), SA (10/30), SU (10/31), Free, Lake Julian Park, 37 Lake Julian Rd, Arden Mountain Frights: Ghost Stories w/Adam Booth A program of traditional Appalachian spooky stories made contemporary, told by the campfire.

WE (10/27), 8pm, Ramsey Center for Appalachian Studies at Mars Hill University, Mars Hill Halloween Bingo Dress up in your best costume, prizes will be awarded.

TH (10/28), 3pm, Free, Harvest House, 205 Kenilworth Rd Haunted Hendo Blue Ridge Community College’s Theatre Department will host a full series of 10 short films about local myths and legends.

TH (10/28), 7pm, avl.mx/al7 Eliada Fall Festival Hay rides, straw mazes, face painting, story tellers, and more. 100% of proceeds go to benefit the children of Eliada.

FR (10/29), 3pm, SA (10/30), SU (10/31), 9am, $10, Eliada, 2 Compton Dr 2nd Annual Halloween Drive-Through This event is open to all ages and abilities, and will feature edible and non-food related items.

FR (10/29), 6pm, Free, Asheville Parks and Recreation, 70 Court Plaza Sixth Annual Pumpkin Fest Lighted pumpkin trail, music, live music, food trucks, storytelling, face painting and white squirrel scavenger hunt.

FR (10/29), SA (10/30), 6-9pm, $5, Silvermont Park, Brevard Haunted Chilling Tales A spooky evening of storytelling works by WNC playwrights. Costumes encouraged. Not suitable for young children.

FR (10/29), SA (10/30), 7:30pm, $15, Hendersonville Community Theatre, 229 S. Washington St, Hendersonville Rocky Horror Picture Show In-person screening of the cult classic. Free.

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FR (10/29), 7:30pm, WCU Bardo Arts Center, 199 Centennial Dr, Cullowhee 38th Annual Halloweenfest Activities inclue the annual costume and pet costume competition and parade, live music, pumpkin carving contest and downtown trick or treating.

SA (10/30), 10am, Downtown Brevard Academy School of Comedy Club Halloween Show A ten minute performance followed by a 20 minute magic show, in the park gazebo.

SA (10/30), 10:30am, 175 East Main St, Brevard Monster Market Featuring local vendors, music, blood donation, costume contest and more.

SA (10/30), 12pm, Highland Brewing Co., 12 Old Charlotte Hwy Trunk-or-Treat Costumed children of all ages from Henderson and Buncombe Counties are invited.

SA (10/30), 2pm, Mills River Presbyterian Church, 10 Presbyterian Church Rd, Mills River Fall-O-Ween A community event aimed at families with kids 10 and under with games, craft vendors, a pumpkin patch, food trucks, and live music.

Costumes encouraged.

SA (10/30), 3pm, Free, Lake Julian Park, 37 Lake Julian Rd, Arden Fines Creek Halloween Carnival 25 cent games and bingo.

SA (10/30), 5-7pm, Fines Creek Community Center, 190 Fines Creek Rd, Clyde Halloween Fun Night and Bingo Dress up and play bingo.

Food will be provided.

SA (10/30), 7pm, Free, Burton St Community Center, 134 Burton St Haunted School Must be 13 years or older to enter without an adult. All proceeds support local scholarship funding and community needs.

SA (10/30), 7pm, $10, Fines Creek Community Center, 190 Fines Creek Rd, Clyde The Venardos Circus Spooky Spectacular

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A unique Broadway-style circus. TH (10/28), FR (10/29), 7pm, SA (10/30), 1pm, 4pm & 7pm, SU (10/31) 1pm & 4 pm, $17-27, Asheville Outlets, 800 Brevard Rd Halloween Lore & Legend A kid-friendly event with spooky music, mask making, snacks and a cookie decorating table.

SU (10/31), 11am, Continuum Art, 147 ste C, 1st Ave E, Hendersonville Annual Boo Bash Halloween Event Children are encouraged to dress in costume and bring a goodie bag to fill.

SU (10/31), 2pm, Asheville Outlets, 800 Brevard Rd Autistic United Halloween Ball Costume fashion show, dancing, open mic/ karaoke, and games.

Donation requested.

SU (10/31), 2pm, $3, Asheville Mall, 3 S. Tunnel Rd Howl-O-Ween Dog Party Benefiting Charlie’s Angels Animal Rescue.

Featuring yoga, dog costume contest, complimentary dog portraits, raffles and more.

SU (10/31), 2pm, $5, Aloft Asheville Downtown, 51 Biltmore Ave Treat Street Carnival The family-friendly event will include a costume contest, Monster Mash Sound Extreme DJ party, a variety of inflatables as well as performances in the spirit of Día de Los Muertos.

SU (10/31), 4pm, Historic Downtown Hendersonville Halloween Boo Fest Come say trick or treat as you walk through the path of goblins and goons.

SU (10/31), 6pm, Free, Shiloh Community Center, 121 Shiloh Rd WNC Nature Center Virtual Costume Contest Take a picture of your child and/or family in their Halloween costume and email it to intern@ wildwnc.org by Wednesday, Nov. 3. Voting will start on Nov. 7 on the WNC Nature Center Facebook page for the spookiest, most creative, and animal/nature themed costumes.

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WELLNESS Free COVID-19 Vaccine Clinics FEMA's mobile vaccine center will administer up to 250 vaccines each day. First and second doses, as well as booster vaccines will be provided.

WE (10/27), MO (11/1), TU (11/2), WE (11/3), TH (11/4), 7am-7pm, Asheville Outlets, 800 Brevard Rd

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WE (10/27, 11/3), 8:30am, free, Asheville Yoga Center, 211 S Liberty St Exoskeleton Demo Day Learn about robotic exoskeleton therapy.

Outdoors.

FR (10/29), 1pm, Physio Physical Therapy and Wellness, 660 Merrimon Ave, Ste C Queer Trans Body Love: a Yoga class in the Park All people across the LGBTQIA+ spectrum and allies are welcome.

Meet at the bridge to the picnic pavilions.

SA (10/30), MO (11/1), 11am, Carrier Park, 220 Amboy Rd Yoga in the Park Asheville An all-level Hatha/Vinyasa flow taught by certified yoga instructor beside the French Broad River.

SA (10/30), SU (10/31), 1:30pm, Carrier Park, 220 Amboy Rd Hip Hop Fitness in the Meadow Outdoors.

SU (10/31), 10am, Highland Brewing Co., 12 Old Charlotte Hwy Ben's Friends A local meeting of the national support group for people in the hospitality industry struggling with addiction.

MO (11/1), 10am, Free, AB Tech Culinary Arts & Hospitality School, 30 Tech Dr, Asheville

Rise and Flow Yoga Outdoors.

TU (11/2), 9am, One World Brewing West, 520 Haywood Rd Parkinson’s Support Group of Asheville Opportunity for persons with Parkinson’s and their caregivers to meet, socialize, and share experiences.

TU (11/2), 10am, Groce United Methodist Church, 954 Tunnel Rd Steady Collective Syringe Access Outreach Free naloxone, syringes and educational material on harm reduction.

TU (11/2), 2pm, Firestorm Books & Coffee, 610 Haywood Rd Bereavement Support Group This group is for those over 21 who have lost an adult loved one. Peer-led and coordinated by a trained and certified facilitator. RSVP is required by calling Will at 412-913-0272.

TU (11/2), 6pm, Woodfin YMCA, 40 N Merrimon Ave, Ste 101 Quest4Life 5Rhythms Waves Class Weekly instructional classes based on Gabrielle Roth's work.

No dance experience necessary.

TU (11/2), 7pm, $12-22, Terpsicorps Academy, 1501 Patton Ave Us TOO Prostate Cancer Support Group A forum for men, caregivers, family members, and partners. This month’s speaker will be Catherine Rudolph, Adult Oncology Dietitian with Duke Cancer Center.

For info 828-419-4565 or wncprostate@gmail.com.

TU (11/2), 7pm

Eco-Grief Circles Seven-week online session will explore grief and sorrow, anxiety and fear, guilt and shame, anger and despair. Sponsored by the Creation Care Alliance.

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ART Gallery Group Show: Haec Culti Through Nov. 9.

WE (10/27, 11/3), TH (10/28, 11/4), F (10/29), SA (10/30), Continuum Art, 147 ste C, 1st Ave E, Hendersonville A Dance of Images and Words: The Nancy Graves/Pedro Cuperman Tango Portfolio Exhibition presents Graves’ eight prints alongside the portfolio frontispiece and a page of Cuperman’s text to immerse visitors in the collaborative dance of the tango.

WE (10/27, 11/3), TH (10/28, 11/4), FR (10/29), SA (10/30), SU (10/31), MO (11/1), Asheville Art Museum, 2 S Pack Square Zoe Schumaker and Sue Dolamore, October AOM: In Kinship with the Land WE (10/27, 11/3), TH (10/28, 11/4), FR (10/29), SA (10/30), SU (10/31), MO (11/1),TU (11/2) Asheville Gallery of Art, 82 Patton Ave Gestures: Mid-Century Abstraction from the Collection Explores works in a variety of media that speak to the vibrant abstract experiments

in American art making during the middle of the 20th century.

WE (10/27, 11/3), TH (10/28, 11/4), FR (10/29), SA (10/30), SU (10/31), MO (11/1), Asheville Art Museum, 2 S Pack Square Modernist Design at Black Mountain College Highlights the collection of design from Black Mountain College and situates it in the context of its influences and surroundings at BMC. WE (10/27, 11/3), TH (10/28, 11/4), FR (10/29), SA (10/30), SU (10/31), MO (11/1), Asheville Art Museum, 2 S Pack Square Grounded Flow Exhibit featuring works by apprentices Caroline Woolard and Keira Peterson.

WE (10/27, 11/3), TH (10/28, 11/4), FR (10/29), SA (10/30), SU (10/31), MO (11/1), TU (11/2), The Village Potters, 191 Lyman St, #180 Rural Avant-Garde: The Mountain Lake Experience Showcases a selection of collaborative creative works that emerged from nearly four decades of the Mountain Lake Workshop series, a program sited in rural southwestern Virginia.

WE (10/27, 11/3), TH (10/28, 11/4), FR (10/29), SA (10/30), SU (10/31), MO (11/1), Asheville Art Museum, 2 S Pack Square The Price of Progress: Remembering the WNC Railroad and the People Who Built It An exhibit focusing on the builders of the

Western North Carolina Railroad, the first rail line to penetrate the state’s mountain region and open it for trade and tourism.

WE (10/27, 11/3), TH (10/28, 11/4), FR (10/29), SA (10/30), SU (10/31), TU (11/2), Mountain Gateway Museum and Heritage Center, 102 Water St, Old Fort Unearthing Our Forgotten Past Exhibit exploring the Spanish occupation of Fort San Juan and the native people who lived in the Joara area of WNC. Sponsored by the Western NC Historical Association.

TH (10/28, 11/4), FR (10/29), SA (10/30), 10:30am, Smith-McDowell House Museum, 283 Victoria Rd 4th Annual Beaverdam Studio Tour Self-guided tour of artist studios in North Asheville's Beaverdam Valley.

SA, (10/30), SU (10/31), Beaverdam Studio Tour, Beaverdam Rd

ART/CRAFT STROLLS & FAIRS Midweek Market Weekly vintage arts and crafts market.

WE (10/27), 4pm, Fleetwood's, 496 Haywood Rd Aurora Studio & Gallery’s Fun on Friday Arts/fundraising activity for Asheville visitors. To register, text Lori Greenberg at 828-335-1038.

Suggested donation.

FR (10/29), 2:30pm, $20, The Refinery, 207 Coxe Ave

Ooh La La Curiosity Market Showcasing the work of more than a dozen local artists.

SA (10/30), 10am, Pritchard Park, 4 College St

COMMUNITY MUSIC Autumn at the Opry Showcasing bluegrass to honky-tonk, tin pan alley to pop standards, and the blues to rock-n-roll, at the Playhouse Barn.

SA (10/30), 8pm, Flat Rock Playhouse, 2661 Hwy 225, Flat Rock

SPOKEN & WRITTEN WORD Christy Alexander Hallberg presents Searching for Jimmy Page: in conversation w/ Lee Zacharias The authors discuss Hallberg's book. Sponsored

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WE (10/27), 6pm, Registration required, avl.mx/amf Fiction Workshop Learn the essentials of writing an engaging story or novel. Students may bring up to five pages to the class for review. In person or online.

SA (10/30), 10am, The Writers’ Workshop, 387 Beaucatcher Rd Big Shot Drive-Thru Tour w/Jeff Kinney Meet and take a photo with Diary of a Wimpy Kid author.

TU (11/2), 5:30pm, $14.99, NC Arboretum, 100 Frederick Law Olmsted Way Malaprop's WILD (Women in Lively Discussion) Book Club Participants will discuss Memorial Drive by Natasha Tretheway.

TU (11/2), 6:30pm, Registration required, avl.mx/9or Annual Fall Book Sale By the Friends of the Madison County Library.

WE (11/3), 10am, Marshall Public Library, 1335 N Main St, Marshall Miss Malaprop's Storytime Recommended for ages 3-9.

WE (11/3), 10am, avl.mx/7b9 The World We Need: Stories and Lessons from America’s Unsung Environmental Movement Editor Audrea Lim and contributor Nick Mullins discuss the book. Sponsored by Malaprop's.

WE (11/3), 6:30pm, Registration required, avl.mx/aoh Malaprop's Book Club Participants will discuss Coming into the Country

by John McPhee.

WE (11/3), 7pm, Registration required, avl.mx/9s5

WNCHA Presents: Adventures in Mountain By-Ways: 1874 Illustrations for The Land of the Sky Mike McCue will share his research, reading passages from The Land of the Sky and describing how these historic images came about.

TH (11/4), 6pm, avl.mx/9bn Malaprop's Crime and Politics Book Club Participants will discuss Death in Mud Lick by Eric Eyre.

TH (11/4), 7pm, avl.mx/ahj Reader Meet Writer: Frankie & Bug with Gayle Forman The author of Frankie & Bug discusses her book. Sponsored by Malaprop's.

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THEATER Bloodbath: Victoria's Secret Directed by Jamieson Ridenhour.

TH (10/28, 11/4), FR (10/29), SA (10/30), 7:30pm, SU (10/31), 2:30pm, The Magnetic Theatre, 375 Depot St Live from WVL Radio Theatre: The Word Exchange A world premier play based on the novel The Word Exchange by Alena Graedon. In-person and virtual tickets available.

TH (10/28, 11/4), FR (10/29), SA (10/30), 7:30pm, SU (10/31), 2:00pm, $25, North Carolina Stage Co., 15 Stage Ln Things That Go Bump in the Night Closing Reception Current First Draft Resident, Gina Cornejo, will be performing nine autobiographical tales.

Costumes encouraged.

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BENEFITS Everything Asheville Art Show & Fundraiser Local artist Christine D. Page's donated photographs will be for sale, with proceeds going to Homeward Bound of Asheville.

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jwakeman@mountainx.com When Elizabeth learned that she was pregnant, she cried tears of joy. “I heard his heartbeat, and that was it,” she says. (Xpress is using her middle name to protect her privacy.) It was then that she decided to get clean.

Elizabeth learned of her pregnancy while incarcerated for crimes she committed to support her addictions to methamphetamines and opioids, she tells Xpress. After eight months at the N.C. Correctional Institution for Women in Raleigh, she left prison in early 2019.

Three days later, she had an appointment at Project Care that Advocates Respect, Resilience and Recovery for All, an outpatient clinic for people with substance use disorder at Asheville’s Mountain Area Health Education Center.

Project CARA seeks to address the “intersection of reproductive health, substance use disorders as chronic diseases and the needs that are unique when those two things intersect,” says Melinda Ramage, the clinic’s medical director. Since 2014, Project CARA has served over 800 pregnant and parenting patients like Elizabeth; 2020 saw 290 patients, the most yet.

In addition to continuing the prenatal care Elizabeth received in Raleigh, Project CARA prescribed her Suboxone, a medication that reduces opioid withdrawal symptoms and cravings, at her first appointment.

Today, she is the proud mother of a 2 1/2-year-old boy who loves NERF guns, watching Blaze and the Monster Machines and dinosaurs. “He can

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TEAMWORK: Claire Austin, left, and Susan McDowell discuss a Project CARA patient in the team room at Asheville’s Mountain Area Health Education Center. Image courtesy of MAHEC name T-rex, triceratops, stegosaurus — he’s very smart,” she says.

A SAFE SPACE

A common misunderstanding about mothers with substance use disorders is that “these women don’t love their children — if they did, they would stop,” says Tammy Cody, a social worker with Project CARA. “All of the women love their children and care for them, and that’s why they’re seeking care. Often the substance use is a result of the trauma they’ve experienced in their history.”

Project CARA creates a safe space for patients’ openness and honesty, explains Ramage. Elizabeth struggled after losing someone close to her due to an overdose. “I didn’t know how to deal with that grief without turning back to the same thing I always had,” she says.

The clinic revives the Mountain Area Perinatal Substance Abuse Program, a 1990s MAHEC effort that primarily treated cocaine and heroin use disorders, Ramage says. Current patients are 24-27 years old on average, primarily white and use Medicaid health insurance, according to Sedona Koenders, a research project coordinator for UNC Health Sciences at MAHEC. Project CARA patients represent 23 counties in North Carolina, plus Tennessee and South Carolina, she continues; 50% of the patients are from Buncombe County. They arrive, like

Elizabeth, through self-referrals, or via OB-GYNs and substance use treatment facilities.

According to the Guttmacher Institute, 19 states, including North Carolina, have created drug treatment programs for pregnant women.

But in 23 states and the District of Columbia — including several with treatment programs — substance use during pregnancy is considered child abuse. (In 2020, the General Assembly passed House Bill 918, which would have classified substance use during pregnancy as child abuse in North Carolina, but Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed the legislation.)

Substance use experts say that such laws can undermine trust in the doctor-patient relationship. A January 2020 article in North Carolina Medical Journal says “reducing barriers to care for women is essential, because if a woman does not show up or stay for treatment, she, her children and her family will not reap the benefits of treatment.”

Adds Ramage, “Being punitive does not help people feel safe enough to tell you what’s hard about what they need.”

CONTINUITY OF CARE

Project CARA tries to provide everything a pregnant woman with a substance use disorder needs in one place: pregnancy and postpartum care, behavioral health, substance use

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care and help navigating social service agencies.

Elizabeth took advantage of all these services; her Project CARA therapist proved to be crucial. She hadn’t always felt that previous substance abuse counselors understood her, she says, but the clinic’s providers were nonjudgmental and didn’t show preconceived notions about people with addictions.

Social workers like Cody help patients develop individualized treatment plans and prepare for everything from nonnarcotic pain management during childbirth to involvement with the Department of Social Services up to a year postpartum. For Elizabeth, that preparation meant understanding that her son may be admitted to Mission’s newborn intensive care unit.

She anticipated that her son may be born addicted to Suboxone, but she says nothing could have readied her emotionally for the experience.

“That was one of the hardest things I think I’ve ever had to see, my son going through withdrawals,” she recalls, her voice cracking. “It almost makes me want to cry talking about it.”

Elizabeth was also prepared by Project CARA as to what might happen in a Child Protective Services investigation after the birth if there is evidence of illicit or illegal substance use. Hospitals are required to notify DSS if an infant is experiencing substance withdrawal.

“I felt like I was being looked at through a magnifying glass, because I’m sure I was,” Elizabeth says of the DSS meeting. “Which was fine; I have nothing to hide. But it was intimidating, because they had the power to take my kid away.”

Though these topics are heavy, Cody says, discussing them before delivery brings mothers-to-be great relief.

ASKING HARD QUESTIONS

Project CARA is participating in a nationwide study that seeks to

understand the best approaches for treating opioid abuse. In 2019, the Pew Charitable Trusts, a global nonprofit, selected the clinic as one of six initiatives to be funded for evaluation as part of its Community Opioid Response and Evaluation project.

“Understanding the most effective ways to prevent overdose deaths and provide treatment is critical to curbing the opioid crisis, as it can encourage state and local leaders to invest in evidence-based programs,” Beth Connolly, project director of Pew’s substance use prevention and treatment initiative, writes in a statement to Xpress. If Project CARA’s model is effective, it could be adopted across the country, she adds.

Researchers for the Pew study will ask respondents about patient experiences, the care they received, if they felt the care they received was respectful and other topics, Koenders with UNC Health Sciences explains.

Those findings will be supplemented

by Project CARA’s own data about maternal and newborn outcomes.

So far, the Pew study has collected 22 sets of information from surveys and interviews. Participants are being recruited on social media and with fliers placed at MAHEC, substance use treatment centers and obstetric clinics throughout WNC. The study will continue through at least December, says Koenders.

Although Project CARA has incorporated input from patients since it began, its leaders want to continually reassess the program. The staff is grateful that the Pew study is providing an opportunity to solicit more input from patients. Says Ramage, “We need to remain unafraid of those hard questions, because the answers are worth it.”

Elizabeth credits Project CARA with helping her adjust to parenthood and sobriety — “learning how to live life.”

She’s grateful that the program existed.

“Because I needed help,” she says. X

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ARTS & CULTURE

Scream queen

Stephanie Perkins celebrates film adaptation and new horror novel

BY EDWIN ARNAUDIN earnaudin@mountainx.com While Stephanie Perkins is a voracious reader of horror novels, it was her love of horror films that inspired her to, well, take a stab at writing scary stories.

The Asheville-based author achieved New York Times bestseller status in 2014 with her third YA romance, Isla and the Happily Ever After, and landed back on that revered list in 2017 with her debut horror novel, There’s Someone Inside Your House. Recently, things have come full circle as the story of Makani Young attempting to figure out who’s behind a string of murders at her Nebraska high school has been adapted into a feature film. The movie premiered at Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas, on Sept. 23 and hit Netflix on Oct. 6, where it promptly vaulted to the streaming service’s most popular offering.

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Fifty years ago, when I was a teenager, two carloads of us went up to the Zealandia Mansion to see the legendary ghost. We were told not to turn the car off because if we did, it would not start again. My girlfriend, whom I was riding with, just by habit turned the car off.

We got out of the car and walked up to the gate. Big dogs were barking, so we ran back and got in the car. Lo and behold, it would not start! The battery was totally dead.

We all piled in our other friend’s car and left. The next day, my friend’s dad went and jumped her car. Needless to say, we never returned!

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DUAL THREAT: Asheville-based author Stephanie Perkins, right, has had a momentous autumn with the film adaptation of her novel “There’s Someone Inside Your House,” top left, and the release of her second horror novel, “The Woods Are Always Watching.” Author photo by Destinee Blau; film still by David Bukach, courtesy of Netflix Like many writers, Perkins has had a few of her books under contract with producers, only to see the deal fall apart for various reasons. So when Dan Cohen, an executive producer on “Stranger Things,” showed interest in There’s Someone Inside Your House, she tried not to get overly excited.

However, given the immense success of “Stranger Things,” Cohen had significant sway at Netflix and soon tapped Henry Gayden, screenwriter of the hit DC Comics adaptation Shazam!, to handle the script. Patrick Brice — whose The Overnight and two Creep films made a fan out of Perkins — then signed on to direct.

Yet the entire endeavor continued to seem too good to be true for the author.

“I didn’t believe it was happening for a really, really long time, until [Cohen] called me,” Perkins says. “He was in the middle of a cornfield with everyone else and was like, ‘Yeah, we start shooting here in six days.’ And that was when I realized it was actually happening.”

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she knows who’ve done so have felt somewhat unwanted on the film set, which she says is understandable. An author’s job, she believes, is done once the book is written; screenwriting and filmmaking, she adds, are “a totally separate thing.”

“The movie is very, very different plotwise from my book, but in a way that I’m really happy with,” Perkins says. “I think it makes for a better cinematic experience, and I’m glad they didn’t try to do a straight adaptation. That rarely works.”

The author’s lone request was to visit the Vancouver, B.C., set. That wish came true during production, resulting in what Perkins calls “the ideal experience.” “[The film] was just this perfect timing of everyone and all the right people. And [Cohen, Gayden and Brice] are very close in age to me, so we all had the same influences,” she says. “It was crazy that it happened, and then it was even more wild that they made a good [movie]. I’m really proud of it and excited for people to see it.”

EVERY TUMBLING LEAF A TERROR Along with the new film, Perkins is also celebrating the release of

her latest book, The Woods Are Always Watching — her first novel set in Western North Carolina.

The story is a tale of two teen girls who go backpacking in Pisgah National Forest. The simple storyline and small cast of characters, notes Perkins, was by design.

After There’s Someone Inside Your House — which takes place in two primary locations (Nebraska and Hawaii), and features nine very different points of view — simplicity was key.

“It was as stripped-down as I can make it. I wanted it to be this nice, tight, gruesome little book,” she says. “I think it is that thing, but the ridiculous thing, of course, is that it took me just as long to write as all the other books that are longer and more complicated. So, the joke is always on me.”

As part of her research for The Woods Are Always Watching, Perkins and her husband, Jarrod, hiked and camped on the Art Loeb Trail, undergoing the same outdoor experience as her young protagonists. “Which is to say ‘none,’” Perkins says, noting that the only way she could have written the book was “from the perspective of people who were also amateurs but who would try really hard.”

The author recalls having her journal and pen out the entire time on the trail, taking notes to capture the experiences. At that point, Perkins adds, her husband had been listening to her tell stories of serial killers in the woods and bear attacks for several months. As a result, he didn’t sleep particularly well that night.

“I’d filled his head with too many scary stories, and so every little leaf tumbling across the tent was a terror to him,” she says. “It was funny, but I felt a little bad about it, too.”

While WNC is rich in hair-raising folklore, Perkins says she purposefully avoided those traditions and instead delved into her strong interest in true crime. She stresses that the things that scare her “are less monsters and more men.”

“The deeper and deeper you go into true crime, the more and more you realize that nowhere is safe, and that includes nature,” Perkins says. “My husband and I moved here because it’s so beautiful. And now, unfortunately, I know all these terrible stories about things that have happened to people out there, and they did stick with me. I would never, ever go hiking in the woods alone anymore. I just know too much.” X

BEER

Holiday traditions

When competing in a 5K, participants are usually focused on achieving a personal best time — not surviving a zombie attack. But for athletes looking for something different in a city where road races are held nearly every weekend, the creative costumes and undead “threats” of Catawba Brewing Co.’s White Zombie 5K are here to serve.

The second edition of the race takes place Saturday, Oct. 30, 9 a.m., on a route that takes runners across the South Slope brewing district. The inaugural event was conceived as the brewery’s headline event for Asheville Beer Week 2019, and a fun, distinct alternative to the usual pint nights and beer dinners. Last year’s gathering was canceled due to COVID-19.

“Catawba has always been positioned as an active-lifestyle, outdoor-oriented craft beer brand, so a 5K was a natural fit,” says brewery marketing director Brian Ivey.

“And, most importantly, it was an opportunity to work with our friends at MANNA FoodBank to raise money for a great cause.”

The event is an extension of Catawba’s popular White Zombie brand, and Ivey describes its aesthetic as “5K meets haunted house.”

While he and his colleagues saw an abundance of amazing zombie costumes in 2019, they wisely didn’t limit the dress-up options to reanimated corpses.

“Any Catawba character was fair game,” Ivey says. “One guy dressed up in Evening Joe business casual, in honor of Catawba’s Coffee Blonde, and pulled a papier-mâché float modeled after our HOPness Monster.

Asheville’s creative spirit certainly didn’t disappoint.”

This year, Diamond Thieves Tattoo will be on-site as resident makeup artists for anyone who wants a zombie makeover. Additionally, all participants will receive a commemorative pint glass. COVID safety will be prioritized in the 5K’s organization and its afterparty.

“We’re really excited to do it again after missing last year,” Ivey says.

“It’s another big step toward a return of normalcy — if you can accept that, ironically, running from zombies represents ‘Asheville normal.’”

Ivey also stresses that fun, charitable events like the White Zombie 5K — and everything else about Catawba, especially in Asheville — will remain unchanged even with the Oct. 8 announcement that the brewery had

White Zombie 5K returns, Cold Mountain turns 25

HILL OF THE LIVING DEAD: The undead awaited runners on the White Zombie 5K course in 2019. The Catawba Brewing Co. event returns on Oct. 30. Photo by Peter Lorenz been sold to Made by the Water, LLC, the parent company of Florida-based Oyster City Brewing Co. “The announcement was all about growth and expansion.” he says.

“Outside of Asheville, the only notable change is that Catawba beers will soon be available in markets across the Southeast that we weren’t able to reach previously.”

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SILVER SPICE

And just like that, Highland Brewing Co.’s Cold Mountain Winter Ale is 25 years old.

Asheville’s first beer to gain a cult following, and which just so happens to be produced by the city’s longest-running craft brewery, has remained a seasonal favorite among beer fans, who flock to Highland from near and far each November to get the first sips of that year’s batch.

“It’s humbling,” says Nikki Mitchell, Highland’s hospitality director. “To have a beer like our winter ale be celebrated for this long is amazing, and it’s our favorite time of the year, too. Cold Mountain represents collaboration, not only for the flavor profile of the beer, but across our entire team.”

The process starts each April, and though the core beer recipe stays true to form, it’s tweaked every year with different notes of vanilla, hazelnut, cinnamon and other ingredients.

The speculation of how the latest batch will taste remains a favorite point of debate among devotees and inevitably invites comparisons to past editions.

Along with 2021 Cold Mountain (5.9% ABV), packaged offerings this year include the return of Imperial Cold Mountain (8% ABV) and Coconut Cold Mountain (5.9% ABV). Also in the mix is Super Spice Cold Mountain (5.9% ABV), a former small-batch collaboration with Spicewalla, featuring “an extra pinch” of the seasonal spice blend.

The 2021 celebration runs Friday, Nov. 12-Monday, Nov. 15, with events taking place all four days at Highland’s East Asheville brewery.

Multiple small-batch Cold Mountain variants will also be available there, as well as at the brewery’s new downtown taproom in the S&W Market.

Mitchell notes that the dual locations allows downtown visitors to more easily experience Cold Mountain festivities, while hopefully luring them to the brewery for the larger events. The downtown taproom will also host its own distinct ticketed happening on Sunday, Nov.

14, featuring curated small plates items from all five S&W Market food partners, paired with a Cold Mountain flight or two pints of different Highland beers.

At both locations, Mitchell notes that lessons learned from last year will be implemented, resulting in limited capacities and $10 access passes required for events at the brewery taproom. Those who desire that coveted first shot at this year’s Cold Mountain are encouraged to place preorders online for a streamlined experience, and after the brewery events conclude, the beer will be distributed to area grocery stores and bottle shops. But wherever fans of the seasonal brew acquire it, the excitement around its release seems destined to remain high for years to come.

“We’ve had people who’ve gotten engaged during Cold Mountain.

And we have a contest, usually while people are waiting in line, to see who’s traveled the farthest,” Mitchell says. “It’s just awesome to be able to engage with our guests that closely, and to have [brewery founder] Oscar [Wong] and [company President] Leah [Wong Ashburn] combing

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A R TS & CU LTU R E through the line, welcoming people, being a host and holding the door.

That’s really what makes Highland who we are, and it shines so brightly at Cold Mountain.”

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NUMBERS TO PROVE IT

Following up a 2016 study, the latest Asheville Metro Area Breweries Contribution Analysis — which examined the industry in 2019 — finds these local businesses thriving to the tune of 3,471 jobs created or supported, $168.4 million labor income and $935 million total output.

The findings were released Sept. 29

by Riverbird Research, a division of the Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce, and reflect the impact of breweries in Buncombe, Haywood, Henderson and Madison counties.

The analysis predates the pandemic, and though Clark Duncan, executive director of the chamber’s Economic Development Coalition, is confident that the global health crisis “will have a measurable impact on the industry,” he’s also quick to point out the creativity and adaptability of these businesses in trying times, resulting in the survival of nearly all such establishments.

“It’s important to note that the industry has seen growth in the Asheville Metro due to locally specific factors, not just the benefit of national trends,” Duncan says.

“Regional assets like our specialized workforce, a professional peer group like the Asheville Brewers

Alliance that encourages innovation and collaboration, educational amenities like A-B Tech’s Craft Brewing Institute, community reputation and visitors that support local brands as they pursue regional and national distribution all have contributed to the economic success of the industry in our region,” he continues.

The study found that these businesses account for one-third of the state’s breweries industry total output, value added gross regional product and employment, plus 24% of total labor income.

Echoing Duncan’s statements on a strong support network, Heidi Reiber, senior director of Riverbird Research, also notes the industry’s use of advanced manufacturing technologies, which attracts a younger, more stable workforce, and that its supply chain loops in crop farming, connecting it with the region’s growers. She additionally points out that these robust findings exclude addon effects, such as tourism or other partial industry presence, with the exception of beer wholesalers.

“The study is a real validation of the industry in terms of its economic value to our community,” Duncan says. “The growth and vitality of local manufacturing careers in beverage, life sciences, automotive and aerospace are often overlooked — and especially important to our goals of growing opportunity, wages and prosperity in Buncombe County.”

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I lived right off the Buck Spring Trail for seven months in 2017 while working at the Pisgah Inn. Tucked above the inn are the housing quarters for employees. I don’t like to go back there. After seven months on a mountain, a lot of the forest’s sounds become normal.

Not this night.

It was a brisk fall evening. I had walked back to my cabin after my shift. I had the main door to the inside of my room cracked open. I was still up, and as I went to wash

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my face, the screen door outside opened ever so slightly. I finished washing my face and walked back across the cold tile floor.

And that’s when I heard a presence. A young girl outside the door, softly crying, then a muffled whisper of words I couldn’t quite make out. And then a chuckle as the screen door opened gently, then closed shut. Silence followed. And the wind cries Mary.

— Eric Ivers Asheville

FOOD

Takeaway is here to stay

Restaurant owners reflect on the environmental impact of to-go orders

BY KAY WEST kwest@mountainx.com In 2012, Asheville became the first American city designated by the nonprofit Green Restaurant Association as a Green Dining Destination.

That year, the GRA, the Asheville Independent Restaurant Association and the Blue Ridge Sustainability Institute formed a coalition to encourage more environmentally sustainable practices within the city’s growing restaurant industry; they set a goal of 15 certified green restaurants and ultimately exceeded it by one.

Nearly 10 years later, Michael Oshman, CEO and founder of GRA, says, “Asheville is still doing a good job. But for obvious reasons, the past 18 months have seen a significant increase in the use of disposables.”

Like every small town and big city in America, Asheville faced unprecedented challenges when COVID-19 turned the entire restaurant industry upside down, sending many to a takeout-only model that required a dependence on food containers, bags and disposables. Unsurprisingly, that had a significant impact on waste and recyclable collections.

The city’s Sanitation Division paid particular attention to downtown as tourism began to pick up again in late spring and early summer. Street receptacles — intended to capture small waste items from normal pedestrian traffic — were emptied daily. But there was not enough staff to increase frequency, according to Asheville’s solid waste manager Jes Foster.

Instead, additional street cans were installed downtown, and the city worked with restaurants still offering takeout to ensure they had appropriately sized trash containers of their own outside their businesses to capture waste.

“Often, we found people would be eating near the restaurant, including at chairs and tables provided by the restaurant, but placing waste in the city street receptacles,” Foster says.

“City staff encouraged those restaurants to provide their patrons with waste collection options.”

Takeout and at-home dining also impacted residential waste quantity, and Foster reports an uptick in requests for additional trash or recycling carts. “Since more people

Oyster Bar, says even with a headsup from his suppliers and a system in place, his restaurants still experienced challenges. “Vinnie’s was always structured so that to-go was a big part of our brand, and we stocked goods accordingly. But we ran through that quickly, so I had to make some changes of what we put our food in and scramble to find it.”

Others, like Biscuit Head owners Jason and Carolyn Roy, made multiple visits to Sam’s Club, Walmart, Ingles and elsewhere to secure products. “Everything to do with the restaurant business — from packaging to product to employees — was hard to come by,” Jason says.

Even so, Jason points out that Biscuit Head remained committed to compostable and recyclable materials. But the environmental impact of any type of to-go packaging still troubles him. “In the beginning, even the food we served outdoors on-site was in a box, and we were seeing four and five times the volume of waste.”

Cundiff says Rocky’s did its best to remain true to its eco-friendly product choices prior to COVID-19, as well.

“For the most part, we have been able to stick to our guns through this, but there were moments we couldn’t get it and had to use what we could.”

SHACKED UP: Rich Cundiff, owner of Rocky’s Hot Chicken Shack, built huts in front of his two restaurants to manage their busy to-go service. Photo courtesy Rocky’s Hot Chicken were at home, an increase is not surprising,” she says. “The trash weight — which differs from volume — did appear to be greater. Residential trash and recycling volume rose over the past year and a half; we don’t survey the contents of trash receptacles, so we don’t know if some also contained recyclable materials, but there was a rise in both.”

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Oshman points out that frequently a lack of clear information about the virus and an overabundance of caution led to extreme dependence on disposable items, even when limited in-house dining gradually resumed.

During this latter period, many

restaurants continued to use paper plates, plastic cutlery and single-serving packaged condiments. That usage was unnecessary, he believes, and could have been lessened by better in-house sanitization techniques.

“But some of it was unavoidable,” he acknowledges.

Rich Cundiff, owner of Rocky’s Hot Chicken Shack, says early on in the pandemic his restaurant increased its orders of eco-friendly products from distributors but was hit by a break in the supply chain.

“Then, we did what everyone else did which was scramble and buy from anyplace you could find product.”

Similarly, Eric Scheffer, owner of Vinnie’s Neighborhood Italian, Vinnie’s South and Jettie Rae’s

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Though in-house dining has returned to nearly normal levels, to-go remains a key component of the restaurant model and will remain so for the foreseeable future. Owners have adjusted accordingly, keeping in place many of the systems they initiated during the peak of the pandemic.

Cundiff used some Paycheck Protection Program funds and local grants to build small to-go shacks in front of his two Asheville restaurants

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“To-go remains a significant part of our business even now, and those shacks are permanent,” he says. “We had to learn how to simultaneously manage two businesses under one roof, which meant additional positions just for the to-go operations.”

Scheffer — who ended takeout at Jettie Rae’s this summer but plans to add it to Vinnie’s South by the end of October — launched what he calls a slot system. Using historical data combined with real-time adjustments, “We create models that tell us when to be careful or to stop taking to-go orders because it will affect the overall business,” he explains.

Meanwhile, Vinnie’s Neighborhood Italian still has a front-of-house employee working exclusively on to-go orders, consulting with the kitchen and determining best pickup times; in the kitchen, there is an additional staff member on expo dedicated to packing to-go orders.

Here to stay as well are challenges in stocking to-go materials, though currently, it is not a shortage of product driving the problem but transporting them from warehouse to restaurants. “All the stuff is sitting in a crate in a port, and we don’t have transport to get it here,” Scheffer reveals. “The trucking industry says they are down 60,000 truckers. That affects everything and everybody.”

At Rocky’s Hot Chicken Shack, Cundiff still orders as much of preferred products as he can when available, but he’s had to occasionally substitute one brand for another. “We remain very concerned about the impact all of this is having on the environment,” he says. “So, we continue to use recyclable and compostable products despite the additional costs.”

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unpredictable and ongoing challenges the restaurant industry faces.

The nonprofit has produced videos during the pandemic “encouraging consumers who order takeout for home to opt out of things like plastic cutlery, chopsticks, napkins and single-serving condiment packets,” he says. “At the office, you can keep your own cutlery to wash and reuse.”

He also urges restaurants to use software that requires online customers to request cutlery and paper products. Both Rocky’s and Vinnie’s ask customers if they need those extras and report that most customers say no.

Oshman also continues to look at the bigger picture to find new ways to reduce waste within the hospitality industry.

“Disposables are not sustainable,” he says. “For 30 years, the move we have been encouraging restaurants to go to is replacing disposable packaging with durable reusables and a deposit system. You get your food in one, return it for sanitizing, and the restaurant or delivery service reuses it. There are businesses trying it now.

It will take a lot of infrastructure, but there are smart things out there giving the benefit of takeout without the environmental costs.”

Scheffer applauds efforts to manage the waste but wonders how health departments would react.

He also contemplates the additional costs restaurateurs would face if they were responsible for sorting and sanitizing the reusable items.

Cundiff is intrigued. “It sounds like a good idea,” he says. “We’d be open to trying it.”

Meanwhile, Oshman insists it is the future. “This industry will transform regarding takeaway and delivery when the right company comes along to figure out the products and software to make it convenient for them and their customers,” he says.

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What’s new in food

Radha Indian Grocers opens in West Asheville Radha Indian Grocers celebrated its grand opening Oct. 7, just in time for Navratri and Dussehra, annual Hindu festivals occurring in October.

Accordingly, owners Gaurav Kumar and his wife, Juhi Patel, had two items significant to the observations — fresh jalebi and fafda — stocked and ready for purchase at the counter. “You eat them together,” says Patel. “It is ritual.”

The small store’s shelves, freezers and cooler cases are stocked with plenty more items integral to Indian cooking, diet, culture and lifestyle.

Some are as familiar to Americans as basmati rice, while others might be less so. For example, bags of rice flakes, says Kumar, are a breakfast staple in India. “You soak them in water until they become soft, then you cook that with potatoes, onions, mustard seed, curry leaves, green chilis — whatever you prefer.”

As Asheville’s only grocery dedicated to Indian food, the couple are happy to answer questions and share recipes with customers, many of whom they know from their Greenville, S.C., store, which launched in 2010 and is still operated

by Gaurav’s brother.

To date, Kumar says, the store’s most popular items in the store are the frozen and ready-to-eat curries, paneer, chutney, naan (and newly added naan pizzas), pakoras and samosas. But fresh produce is also available, including banana flower, round eggplants, gourds, cluster beans and karela (which resembles a large okra pod with a terrible skin condition but is packed with antioxidants, vitamins and minerals).

According to Patel, karela can be sautéed in hot oil with cumin seed, ginger, garlic and green chilis. The member of the gourd family is great in curries, though she warns, “It is bitter, so add a little sugar at the end.”

Kumar notes they are getting in new products every day as shipping options improve and they are happy to special order any item. Gluten-free options are also available.

“These days so many people want to try all kinds of food,” he says.

“Asheville people are very open to trying new things. We say don’t be afraid, be curious.”

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Farmer’s daughter In September, Cane Creek Valley Farm launched Farm Kitchen, which uses produce grown on the Henderson County farm for its menu of sandwiches, salads, entrees and sides.

Orders can be made online and taken to go or enjoyed al fresco on one of the covered picnic tables on-site.

Farm Kitchen also has a take-and-bake family meal option available to order each Sunday, with available pickup the following Tuesday or Wednesday.

“We want to help create a love for fresh food and feel like the Farm Kitchen completes that circle for the community,” says co-owner Amanda Sizemore.

Cane Creek Valley Farm is at 1448 Cane Creek Road, Fletcher. For more information, visit avl.mx/ane.

Meat and three

Miss Mary’s Meatloaf is one of the most popular dishes at Haywood Street Congregation’s Downtown Welcome Table. Now, for one day only, the public can enjoy the hearty staple and all its fixings (mac and cheese, green beans and smashed potatoes) in the comfort of their own home.

On Wednesday, Nov. 3, chefs from Cúrate, Rhubarb and 12 Bones will prepare ready-to-go dishes, with all proceeds benefiting the Downtown Welcome Table, which serves hot meals to those in need. Servings are available for one, six, or 12 people.

Pickup is 3-6:15 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 3, at Haywood Street Congregation, 297 Haywood St. Orders can be placed at avl.mx/anf.

Five by five

The Fall Harvest Revival brings together five chefs creating five courses to benefit Bounty & Soul, a nonprofit providing free produce markets and wellness education in Black Mountain. “Our dinner theme is centered around ‘reviving’ misfit or often overlooked ingredients,” says Jill Wasilewski, chef and owner of Ivory Road Café & Kitchen. “Our five courses will feature lesser-known or often discarded food items and elevate them to five creative and unique courses. Think kudzu, collards and a crabapple dish.”

Get ready, get set… is returning this fall — look for the guide inserted in next week’s Mountain Xpress Or get started early by visiting GIVELOCALGUIDE.ORG We are happy to announce 2021’s outstanding list of 46 nonprofit partners: MARKET PLACE: Gaurav Kumar and Juhi Patel stand at the counter of their newly opened market, Radha Indian Grocers, on Patton Avenue. Photo by Kay West The other four members of the culinary quintet are Brett Suess, Ryan Kline, Duke Kroger and Paul Cressend Jr. Tickets are $75 (with an optional wine pairing for an additional $20); 15% of all ticket and bar sales will go directly to Bounty & Soul.

The Fall Harvest Revival takes place Saturday, Nov. 13, 6:30-9:30 p.m. at The Laurel Room at High Vista, 88 Country Club Road, Mills River. To purchase a ticket, visit avl.mx/ang.

BOO-tee call

Trade that KN-95 mask for something more frightful and help Halloween make a comeback this year. While not quite up to pre-COVID levels of mischief, there are several celebrations to costume up for.

The S&W Market, 56 Patton Ave., hosts its inaugural Halloween party Friday, Oct. 29, 5-9 p.m. The food hall will be decorated for a spooky time, and costumes are encouraged.

Pumpkin painting for the kids begins at 6 p.m. Meanwhile, all the vendors will have treats and Halloween specials. For more information, visit avl.mx/aoo.

Ginger’s Revenge Craft Brewing is making it a Hallo-weekend at its tasting room, 829 Riverside Drive, starting at 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 29, with ongoing celebrations beginning at 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 30 and 31. Tarot card readings, fairy hair, live music and food trucks are part of the festivities. For schedule and details, visit avl.mx/prwb.

Back downtown, the North Carolina Wine Academy, 58 Wall St., is hosting

its first Hallo-wine Wine Scavenger Hunt on Saturday, Oct. 30, 4-6 p.m.

Five wine stations will be set up throughout the property, with each station having two or more “disguised” wines: One will be an inexpensive trick wine, and the other will be a more expensive treat. Participating guests will sample all wines and try to determine which is the trick and which is the treat. Prizes will be awarded for the right calls. To purchase a $10 ticket in advance, visit avl.mx/anh.

On the trail

There’s still time to attend the ninth annual Haunted Trail at The Adventure Center of Asheville. For every ticket sold, the Haunted Trail donates four meals to MANNA FoodBank through its Boo to Hunger effort. Last year’s event secured 16,000 meals. The no-contact outdoor trail is a walk-through Halloween play with live actors portraying classic characters. The happening features spooky sounds but no blood or gore and is suitable for children ages 3-12.

Additionally, adults and kids ages 4 and older can climb on the Treetops Adventure Park Aerial Glow Trail, two aerial trails illuminated with thousands of colored twinkle and laser lights.

The grand finale takes place Wednesday, Oct. 27, to Saturday, Oct. 30, 6:30-9 p.m. at The Adventure Center of Asheville, 85 Expo Drive.

Trail tickets are $15; combined tickets including the aerial trails are $35. To purchase, visit avl.mx/ani.

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The Montford Moppets bring screams, thrills and laughs with horror film series Ashleigh Goff doesn’t want to give away too much about the second Horror Anthology film series, but she promises there will be blood.

“We have one [film] with a bloody babysitter, one with bloody body parts in the mail and one with a bloody housewife,” says Goff, artistic director of The Montford Moppets Shakespeare Youth Theater Company, which will present the series on Friday, Oct. 29, and Saturday, Oct. 30, 5:30 p.m., at Attic Salt Theatre.

The Horror Anthology features six short films written, directed, filmed by and starring students in the company, which started in 2009 as a theater class for home-schooled students. It now offers year-round classes, shows and workshops for students. The age range for participants varies depending on the course.

In addition to the aforementioned blood, this year’s films include a warehouse that may be haunted, a jealous lover and a group of kids who encounter a horrifying beast in the woods.

The horror film series was born last year when the group had to cancel its live fall performance due to COVID-19. This year, the group

explored how horror and comedy blend together by studying such films as Shaun of the Dead, Beetlejuice and The Cabin in the Woods.

“My hope is that each student who tackles even a small part of the process takes away a feeling of ownership and pride,” Goff says. “Each student director is taking on writing/ adapting, casting, directing and editing their film. It’s a lot of work.”

Attic Salt Theatre Co. is at 2002 Riverside Drive, Studio 42-O. For more information or to buy tickets, go to avl.mx/an5.

Dark Corners

For three years, David Allen Voyles transported folks to Asheville’s spookiest sites in a 1972 Cadillac hearse. Dark Ride Tours is no more, but the retired Buncombe County teacher still finds ways to share spine-tingling tales through his podcast, “Dark Corners.”

The podcast just wrapped up its 13-part third season, “Wraiths of the Appalachian,” which tells the story of a young man who encounters various supernatural creatures and characters from Appalachian lore

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After that night, many times we would be sitting in the same room and suddenly smell a waft of perfume, as if someone just walked by.

The drape never billowed out again, but the perfume scent would pass by periodically the whole time we lived there.

It was as if the woman came through the door in a billow of curtain and stayed with us through the years.

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as he travels aimlessly in a 1966 Volkswagen bus.

“Many people will be familiar with some of the stories, like the legend of the Brown Mountain lights of Western North Carolina, the Kentucky goblins and maybe the moon-eyed people, whose existence is referenced in old Cherokee lore,” Voyles says.

The stories also reference lesser-known creatures, including the Flatwoods monster, the Bell Witch of Tennessee and Sheepsquatch, who terrorized people in West Virginia in the 1990s.

“Dark Corners” is available on all the major podcast apps. For more information, go to avl.mx/an7.

Mountain ghosts

STORIES

Back in 1987, my husband and two boys moved to a small subdivision in Weaverville. Houses were still being built when we moved in, so these were not old, scary places!

During our first winter there, my husband and I were back in the den watching TV. It was a very cold night.

Suddenly, the full drape on the sliding glass door billowed way out and then settled back into place. We looked at each other, and he remarked that I must have left the door open.

It was freezing outside, and that door was shut tight.

SCARY MOVIES: Phoenix Skinner, left, and Aidan Short work on a short film based on the 1910 horror story “August Heat” by W.F. Harvey. The film will be part of the Horror Anthology film series presented by The Montford Moppets Shakespeare Youth Theater Company. Photo courtesy of The Montford Moppets Shakespeare Youth Theater Company.

— Carol Ball Weaverville

Author Alan Brown includes two spooky local stories in his new book for young readers, The Ghostly Tales of the Haunted South. In his North Carolina chapter, Brown recounts the legends of “The Flying Spirits of Chimney Rock” and “The Wealthy Spirits of the Biltmore Estate.”

Brown, an English professor at the University of West Alabama, chose the Chimney Rock story because of its visual appeal to young readers who have to use their imagination to “see” the humanlike figures in white gowns flying to the top of the rock formation.

As for the Biltmore, Brown calls it a “classic haunted house” that’s in the book because the home’s spirits

made their their presence known through sound instead of sight.

“Guests and staff members have heard disembodied voices around the swimming pool and the clopping of horses’ hooves in the gift shops, which originally housed the stables,” he says.

For more details or to buy the book, visit avl.mx/aig.

A time for remembering

In a period of increased racial violence in the decades after the Civil War, three African American men were lynched in Buncombe County: John Humphreys (1888), Hezekiah Rankin (1891) and Bob Brachett (1897).

The Buncombe Community Remembrance Project will hold an installation ceremony for a marker recognizing and remembering the three on Saturday, Oct. 30, at 10 a.m. at Pack Square Park.

“Before we can move to reconciliation and transformation, we must first have truth telling and acknowledgment of our history, as well as the trauma that our violent racial past has caused,” says Joseph Fox, vice president of the Martin Luther King Jr. Association of Asheville and Buncombe County and chairman of the Remembrance Project steering committee.

The project originated in 2018 when the Martin Luther King Jr.

MOVIE LISTINGS Association and other groups reached out to the Equal Justice Initiative, a Montgomery, Ala.-based nonprofit that uses newspaper archives, court records and other historical records to document known lynching in the United States from 1877 to 1950.

Organizers hope the monument will provide opportunities for healing from the trauma surrounding racial violence and foster local conversations and reflections concerning community healing, Fox says.

For more information, go to avl.mx/8cl.

Heading toward the summit

The Asheville Area Arts Council’s annual Creative Sector Summit will be held Wednesday, Nov. 3, at the Wortham Center for the Performing Arts and online. Check-in for those attending the conference is 9 a.m., and the first of four panel discussions begins at 10 a.m.

The summit seeks to address major issues affecting the local creative arts community through panels on arts equity, sustainable tourism, pandemic impacts and creative wages.

Tickets are $50. For more information or to buy tickets, visit avl.mx/anj.

Closing the funding gap

Pisgah Legal Services, in partnership with ceramic studio East Fork, is having a raffle through Sunday, Oct. 31, to support its free legal aid services for survivors of domestic and sexual violence.

“Pisgah Legal staff and volunteers are taking more than a thousand phone calls each week for help,” Ally Wilson, director of development, says in a press release. “To make matters more challenging, we recently lost more than $1 million for two years of federal grant funding for our domestic violence and child abuse prevention program. All proceeds from this raffle will help replace this funding gap.”

People can buy an unlimited number of $5 tickets to enter a drawing to win one of three hand-thrown vases featuring stoneware clays dug from the Southeast. The pieces are adorned with glazes no longer available from East Fork. Winners will be announced Monday, Nov. 1.

For more information or to enter the raffle, go to avl.mx/ano.

Bruce Steele’s and Edwin Arnaudin’s latest critiques of new films available to view in local theaters and via popular streaming services include: DUNE: Director Denis Villeneuve’s long-awaited adaptation of Frank Herbert’s sci-fi novel is very much one-half of a film — for better and for worse. Though the two-part structure allows for a clearer, more purposeful telling of young Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) fulfilling his messianic destiny on the spice-mining planet Arrakis, the minimizing of key characters (for presumed larger roles in a concluding film) mute some of the drama. Even so, Dune’s stunning production design and special effects largely compensate for the narrative head-scratchers, and there’s plenty of action and adventure — just not on a Star Wars level. It’s all certainly strong enough to warrant a part two, Grade: B. Rated PG-13

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RENDEVOUS Albi (vintage jazz), 7pm SILVERADOS Open Mic Night, 7pm SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BREWERY Jazz Night w/Jason DeCristofaro, 5:30pm SWEETEN CREEK BREWING Witty Wednesday Trivia, 6:30pm THE 2ND ACT Round Robin Open Mic w/Letters to Abigail, 6pm THE DUGOUT Open Bluegrass Jam w/ The Well Drinkers, 8pm THE GREY EAGLE • Pimps of Pompe (jazzedup pop & hip-hop)k 5pm • The Districts (indie rock) k 8pm THE OMNI GROVE PARK INN The B's (jazz, standards), 7pm THE ORANGE PEEL Tennis (indie pop)k 8pm TRISKELION BREWING CO. TriskaTrivia, 7pm WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Irish Music Circle, 7pm

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OKLAWAHA BREWING CO. Michael "Country" Carver (country, blues), 7pm ONE WORLD BREWING WEST Spooky Halloween Warm Up w/Magenta Sunshine (rock, jam band), 6pm PISGAH BREWING COMPANY The Paper Crowns Electric Band (rock, blues, folk), 6:30pm

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RYE KNOT KITCHEN BREWERY DISTILLERY Chris Flanders (acoustic), 6pm

DOUBLE CROWN Gospel Night w/Chosen, 8pm

SALVAGE STATION Drake White (country), 7pm

FLEETWOOD'S Terroroke Halloween Spooktacular (karaoke), 6pm

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GINGER'S REVENGE CRAFT BREWERY & TASTING ROOM Gluten-Free Comedy, (open mic), 6pm HIGHLAND DOWNTOWN TAPROOM Drag Music Bingo w/ Divine the Bearded Lady, 6pm

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131 MAIN Aaron LaFalce (soul, rock, pop), 6pm

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

185 KING STREET Shawn Lane and Richard Bennett (bluegrass, Americana), 7pm

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ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Free Anesthesia (psychedelic power trio), 9pm

305 LOUNGE & EATERY Bob Sherill (singer-songwriter), 1pm

JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Bluegrass Jam w/Drew & the Boys, 7pm

THE FOUNDRY HOTEL The Foundry Collective (jazz, acoustic), 8pm THE GREY EAGLE • Lo Wolf w/Bonny Dagger (country)k 6pm • Neal Francis (New Orleans r&b, rock & soul) k 9pm THE JOINT NEXT DOOR Rod Sphere (rock), 5:30pm THE ODDITORIUM Carve & Cackle (Halloween-themed music), 4pm THE ORANGE PEEL Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real (country) k 8pm

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29 185 KING STREET 5th annual Thunderween w/High Flying Criminals (funk, soul), 7:30pm ALLEY CAT SOCIAL CLUB Latin Dance Nite, 9pm ASHEVILLE BEAUTY ACADEMY Everybody Free Dance Partyk 10pm ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Mr Jimmy (blues), 7:30pm ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Concert for Duane (Allman Brothers tribute), 10:30pm BEN'S TUNE UP DJ Kilby Spinning Vinyl (throwback dance party), 10pm BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Acoustic Swing (acoustic duo), 7pm BURNTSHIRT VINEYARDS Everydays (Americana), 3pm BURNTSHIRT VINYARDS CHIMNEY ROCK J. Stephens (singer-songwriter), 5pm DIRTY JACK'S Carpal Tullar (rock), 8pm DRY FALLS BREWING CO. Folkadelic Jam (rock, folk), 7pm

EXPERIENCE MUSIC Seven Lemonz (rock), 7pm HARRAH'S CHEROKEE CENTER Billy Strings Halloween Run (bluegrass), 8pm FLEETWOOD'S Bombay Gasoline, Raygun Superstar & Safety Coffin (rock), 8pm GETAWAY RIVER BAR Getaway Comedy w/ Caitlin Peluffo, 8pm GINGER'S REVENGE CRAFT BREWERY & TASTING ROOM Will Franke (folk, world, hip-hop), 7pm GUIDON BREWING Craggy Blues (blues), 6pm ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 • The Resonant Rogues (world)k 7pm • Erin McKeown w/ Jennifer Knapp (blues, folk, jazz, pop)k 8:30pm JACK OF THE WOOD PUB The Reflectors (r&b), 8pm MAD CO. BREW HOUSE Hope Griffin (acoustic, folk), 6pm OKLAWAHA BREWING CO. Blake Ellege and The Country Resonators (country), 8pm ONE WORLD BREWING WEST My Man Henry (jam band), 6pm SALVAGE STATION Lyric w/Electro Lust (soulpop), 6pm SAWYER SPRINGS VINEYARD Myron Hyman (classic rock, blues), 2:30pm SILVERADOS Kameron Marlowe (country), 7pm SLY GROG LOUNGE The Widdler w/ Chief Kaya, Audio Goblin, Lavier, King Shotta, Menace, & Exiszt (bass therapy)k 7pm ST. PAUL MOUNTAIN VINEYARDS IN FLAT ROCK Friday Night Jams w/ Wiregrass (bluegrass), 6pm STATIC AGE RECORDS From Overseas, Steven Kemner, Dark Sines, Knives & Daggers (postpunk, rock), 7pm SWEETEN CREEK BREWING Jukebox Jumpers (country blues), 6pm THE BLACKBIRD RESTAURANT Rotatations w/DJ Arieh & DJ Otto Maddox, 10pm THE DUGOUT Ricky Gunter Band (country), 8pm THE GREY EAGLE Liz Cooper w/Pearl Charles (country)k 9pm TRISKELION BREWING CO. The Roving (Americana, roots), 7pm

WNC OUTDOOR COLLECTIVE Truck Stop Cuties (country, blues, rock), 6:30pm WILD WING CAFE SOUTH Commodore Fox (rock, dance), 8:30pm

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30 185 KING STREET Prince-O-Ween w/Stops Out (Prince, Ween covers), 8pm ALLEY CAT SOCIAL CLUB Club Nite Masquerade Ball (DJs), 10pm ASHEVILLE BEAUTY ACADEMY Beauty Parlor Comedy w/ Kyle Ayersk 7pm ASHEVILLE CLUB Kyle Corbett (acoustic), 6:30pm ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Vince Junior Band (blues, surf, reggae), 7:30pm BATTERY PARK BOOK EXCHANGE Dinah's Daydream (jazz), 5pm BURNTSHIRT VINEYARDS Roots and Dore (roots), 2pm BURNTSHIRT VINYARDS CHIMNEY ROCK Jonathan Calhoun (acoustic), 2pm CANE CREEK VALLEY FARM Mr Jimmy Trio (blues), 4:30pm DIRTY JACK'S Halloween and Costume Party w/The Jones Cove Band (jam rock), 8pm DRY FALLS BREWING CO. Halloween Party w/The Lads avl (classic rock, blues), 7pm GETAWAY RIVER BAR Slasher: Hard Dance (techno), 10pm GINGER'S REVENGE B Forrest (singer-songwriter), 4pm GUIDON BREWING Halloween Dance Party, 7pm HARRAH'S CHEROKEE CASINO Billy Strings Halloween Run (bluegrass), 8pm HOME GROUND COFFEE BAR & DELI Bluegrass Brunch/Billy Things Art Show w/Bald Mountain Boys & Supper Break, 11am ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 • Fwuit (indie, r&b, soul) k 7pm • The JackTown Ramblers (bluegrass), 8:30pm JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Supper Break (bluegrass), 8pm JIMMY'S ON THE RIVER Lucky James (Americana), 7pm MAD CO. BREW HOUSE Hucksters and Harlots Halloween Hoedown, 6pm

OKLAWAHA BREWING CO. The World’s Greatest Party Band (rock), 8pm

HARRAH'S CHEROKEE CENTER Billy Strings Halloween Run (bluegrass), 8pm

ONE WORLD BREWING WEST Room Twenty-Seven (rock, folk, blues, punk), 6pm

GETAWAY RIVER BAR • Sissy Sunday Drag Show, 9pm • Outdoor Halloween Sacrilege Dance Party, 10pm

RABBIT RABBIT Shuffle Up Halloween Silent Disco Party, 7pm SALVAGE STATION Nightmare On Funk Street w/The Floozies (electronic), 8pm STATIC AGE RECORDS Halloween Party w/ Powder Horns, Rocky Mtn Rollers, & Usually (rock), 10pm SUNNY POINT CAFÉ Albi (vintage jazz), 6pm THE BLACKBIRD RESTAURANT In Flight (acoustic, roots), 10pm THE BURGER BAR Karaoke, 9pm THE DUGOUT Halloween w/28 Pages (rock), 8pm THE GREENHOUSE MOTO CAFE Halloween Howies House Party and Blues Revue, 6pm THE GREY EAGLE Amigo the Devil (alt-country)k 8pm THE ORANGE PEEL BoomBox feat. BackBeat Brass (house, blues, funk) k 9pm TRISKELION BREWING CO. Tap or Treat w/Mojomatic (blues, rock), 7pm URBAN ORCHARD CIDER CO. SOUTH SLOPE Across the Universe (DJs), 4pm WAGBAR Howloween Party w/Music Cubero (rock), 5pm

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 31 185 KING STREET Open Electric Jam w/ the King Street House Band ft. Howie Johnson, 6:30pm

HIGHLAND BREWING DOWNTOWN TAPROOM Mr Jimmy Duo Blues & Brews, 1pm HIGHLAND DOWNTOWN TAPROOM Blues and Brews Downtown w/“Hollywood” Johnny Cosgrove, 1pm HOME GROUND COFFEE BAR & DELI Happy Billy Strings Halloween Pre-Game Show w/JLAD (Doors tribute), 2pm ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Slaid Cleaves (Americana) k 7:30pm JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Bluegrass Brunch w/ Supper Break, 12pm OFF THE WAGON All Request Piano Show, 8pm OKLAWAHA BREWING CO. Ten Toe Turbo (rock), 4pm ONE WORLD BREWING WEST Sunday Jazz Brunch w/ The Fully Vaccinated Jazz Trio, 1pm RIVERSIDE RHAPSODY BEER CO. Drinkin' & Thinkin' Trivia w/Allie & Alex , 5:30pm SALVAGE STATION Empire Strikes Brass w/ Free Radio (funk), 6pm THE FOUNDRY HOTEL Daniel Shearin (acoustic), 6pm THE GREY EAGLE The Great Halloween Get Down w/Andrew Scotchie & the River Rats (rock, blues)k 8pm THE ODDITORIUM Halloween 5.0 w/Bleedseason (metal), 8pm

ASHEVILLE BEAUTY ACADEMY Sunday Dance Party w/DJ RexxStepk 10pm

THE OMNI GROVE PARK INN Bruce Lang (guitar, vocals), 7pm

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

WAGBAR Howloween Party w/2 Fontains & Emily Mussolino (rock), 2:30pm

ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Halloween 2021 w/lespecial & ElectroChemical (prog, dub, indie-rock), 10pm BEN'S TUNE UP Good Vibes Sunday (reggae), 6pm BLACK MOUNTAIN BREWING Dark City Kings (rock), 2pm BURNTSHIRT VINEYARDS Marc Keller (acoustic), 2pm BURNTSHIRT VINYARDS CHIMNEY ROCK Mary Norris (singer-songwriter), 2pm

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1 ASHEVILLE BEAUTY ACADEMY Beauty Parlor Comedy w/Brandie Posey & Friends, 8pm ASHEVILLE CLUB Freshen Up (comedy, open mic), 7pm HAYWOOD COUNTRY CLUB Open Mic Night, 7:15pm HIGHLAND DOWNTOWN TAPROOM Cheers to Chess!, 5pm

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CLU B LA N D JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Quizzo Pub Trivia w/ Jason Mencer, 7:30pm LITTLE JUMBO Fly Casual Organ Quartet (jazz)k 7pm OKLAWAHA BREWING CO. It Takes All Kinds Open Mic Night, 7pm ONE WORLD BREWING WEST Mashup Mondays (funk, soul, jazz), 6pm SILVERADOS Monday Bike Night w/ Contagious (rock), 6pm THE GOLDEN PINEAPPLE Robert's Totally Rad Trivia, 8pm THE GREY EAGLE Sheer Mag w/Soul Glo (rock, metal, punk)k 8pm

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2 185 KING STREET Tuesday Casual Collaborations Hosted By Travis Book w/Aaron Burdett (musical collaboration), 6pm 305 LOUNGE & EATERY Bob Sherill (singer-songwriter), 1pm ANTIDOTE The Little Posey Trio (jazz, swing), 6pm

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ASHEVILLE BEAUTY ACADEMY • Drag Bingo w/ Calcuttak 8pm • Karaoke w/Ganymedek 9pm FRENCH BROAD RIVER BREWERY Robert's Totally Rad Trivia, 7pm GETAWAY RIVER BAR Turntable Tuesday, 10pm GREEN MAN BREWERY Old Time Jam, 5pm HAYWOOD COUNTRY CLUB Grass at the Club (bluegrass), 8pm HOMEPLACE BEER CO. George Trouble (indie Americana rock), 6pm MAD CO. BREW HOUSE Team Trivia Tuesday, 6pm

MILLS RIVER BREWING Trivia Night, 6pm OKLAWAHA BREWING CO. Team Trivia, 7pm RABBIT RABBIT Buzz Radio Asheville (local music videos), 6pm THE GREY EAGLE Shane Smith & The Saints (country)k 8pm THE ODDITORIUM Puke Pop Up (punk), 5pm HARRAH'S CHEROKEE CENTER Caamp w/Molly Tuttle (indie folk, rock)k 8pm WHISTLE HOP BREWING CO. Trivia Tuesdays, 6pm

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3 12 BONES BREWERY Robert's Totally Rad Trivia, 7pm 185 KING STREET Trivia Night, 7pm ASHEVILLE BEAUTY ACADEMY • Queer Comedy Partyk 7pm • Aquanet: Goth Nightk 9pm ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Stand-Up Comedy Open Mic , 8pm BEN'S TUNE UP Big Blue (jam), 8pm BLACK MOUNTAIN BREWING Jay Brown (roots), 6pm BOLD ROCK HARD CIDER Trivia Night, 6pm CASCADE LOUNGE Open Bluegrass Jam, 6pm FLEETWOOD'S Kairos Creature Club w/ Smoky Mountain Sirens (indie, punk), 8pm

ICONIC KITCHEN & DRINKS Marc Keller (acoustic), 6pm

ASHEVILLE CLUB Mr Jimmy (blues), 5pm

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

ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Dying Fetus, Terror, Brand of Sacrifice & Vitriol (metal), 7pm

OFF THE WAGON All Request Piano Show, 8pm

BEN'S TUNE UP Offended! Open Mic (comedy), 9:30pm

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

BOLD ROCK HARD CIDER Robert's Totally Rad Trivia, 7pm

ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Free Anesthesia (psychedelic power trio), 9pm RENDEVOUS Albi (vintage jazz), 7pm SILVERADOS Open Mic Night, 7pm SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BREWERY Jazz Night w/Jason DeCristofaro, 5:30pm SWEETEN CREEK BREWING Witty Wednesday Trivia, 6:30pm THE 2ND ACT Round Robin Open Mic w/Letters to Abigail, 6pm THE GREY EAGLE John Mark McMillan (singer-songwriter)k 8pm THE OMNI GROVE PARK INN The B's (jazz, standards), 7pm THE SOCIAL Karaoke w/DJ Lyric, 8pm TRISKELION BREWING CO. TriskaTrivia, 7pm WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Irish Music Circle , 7pm

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THE JOINT NEXT DOOR Rod Sphere (rock), 5:30pm

HANDLEBAR & GRILL Ladies Night Karaoke, 7pm

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THE ORANGE PEEL The Record Company (rock)k 8pm

HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Songwriter Series w/Matt Smith, 6pm

305 LOUNGE & EATERY Bob Sherill (singer-songwriter), 1pm

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FREEWILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): Aries philosopher Emil Cioran wrote, “When I meet friends or people I know who are going through a difficult period, I usually have this advice for them: ’Spend 20 minutes in a cemetery, and you’ll see that, though your worry won’t disappear, you’ll almost forget about it and you’ll feel better.’” I don’t think you’re weathering a terribly difficult phase right now, Aries, but you may be dealing with more riddles, doubts and perplexities than you’re comfortable with. You could be feeling a bit darker and heavier than usual.

And I think Cioran’s advice would provide you with the proper stimulation to transform your riddles and doubts and perplexities into clarity, grace and aplomb. If you can do Halloween without risk from COVID-19, here’s a costume suggestion: the spirit of a dead ancestor.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): According to some spiritual teachers, desire interferes with our quest for illumination. It diverts us from what’s real and important. I know gurus who even go so far as to say that our yearnings deprive us of freedom; they entrap us and diminish us. I strongly disagree with all those ideas. I regard my longing as a primary fuel that energizes my drive to free myself from pain and nonsense. How about you, Taurus? In alignment with astrological omens, I authorize you to deepen, refine and celebrate the yearning in your heart. Your title/ nickname could be: 1. Yearning Champion. 2.

Desire Virtuoso. 3. Connoisseur of Longing.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Author Jessamyn West confessed, “I am always jumping into the sausage grinder and deciding, even before I’m half ground, that I don’t want to be a sausage after all.” I offer her testimony as a cautionary tale, Gemini. There’s no astrological reason, no cosmic necessity, that decrees you must become like a sausage anytime soon.

Such a fate can be easily avoided. All you must do is commit yourself to not jumping into the sausage grinder. Also: In every way you can imagine, don’t be like a sausage.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Our fellow Cancerian, author Franz Kafka, told us, “It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.” And yes, some of us Crabs go through phases when we crave safety so much that we tolerate, even welcome, being in chains. But the fact is that you’re far more likely to be safe if you are free, not in chains. And according to my reading of the astrological omens, that’s extra true for you now. If you can celebrate Halloween without risk from COVID-19, here are costume suggestions: runaway prisoner, escape artist, freedom fighter.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Some of us yearn for allies who can act like saviors: rescue us from our demons, free us from our burdensome pasts and transform us into the beauties we want to become. On the other hand, some of us do all this hard work by ourselves: rescue ourselves from our demons, free ourselves from our burdensome pasts and transform ourselves into the beauties we want to become. I highly recommend the latter approach for you in the coming weeks, Leo. If you can do Halloween without risk from COVID-19, here is a costume suggestion: your own personal savior.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “One of the reasons people are so unhappy is they don’t talk to themselves,” says author Elizabeth Gilbert. “You have to keep a conversation going with yourself throughout your life,” she continues, “to see how you’re doing, to keep your focus, to remain your own friend.” Now is a favorable time to try such an experiment, Virgo. And if you already have skill in the art of carrying on a vibrant dialog with yourself, now is a perfect moment to upgrade and refine it. Try this experiment: Imagine having a conversation with the Future You. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “In the absence of willpower, the most complete collection of

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virtues and talents is worthless.” Libran occultist Aleister Crowley wrote that, and I agree. But let’s phrase his idea more positively: To make full use of your virtues and talents, you must develop a strong willpower. And here’s the good news, Libra: The coming weeks will be a favorable time to cultivate your willpower, along with the assets that bolster it, like discipline, self-control and concentration. If you can do Halloween without risk from COVID-19, here are accessories I recommend for you to carry with you, no matter what your costume is: a wand, a symbolic lightning bolt, an ankh, an arrow, a Shiva lingam stone or crystal.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Mardi Gras is a boisterous festival that happens every February all over the planet. One hotspot is New Orleans. The streets there are filled with costumed revelers who enjoy acting in ways that diverge from their customary behavior.

If you want to ride on a float in the parade that snakes down Royal Street, you must, by law, wear a festive mask. I invite all of you Scorpios to engage in similar festivities for the next three weeks — even if you’re not doing much socializing or partying. It’s a favorable time to experiment with a variety of alternate identities. Would you consider adopting a different persona or two? How could you have fun playing around with your self-image?

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Jungian psychotherapist and storyteller Clarissa Pinkola Estés reminds us, “In fairy tales, tears change people, remind them of what is important, and save their very souls.” I hope you’re open to the possibility of crying epic, cathartic, catalytic tears in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. According to my analysis, you have a prime opportunity to benefit from therapeutic weeping. It could chase your fears, cure your angst and revivify your soul. So please take advantage of this gift from life. Be like a superhero whose superpower is to generate healing by crying.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Filmmaker Wim Wenders said, “Any film that supports the idea that things can be changed is a great film in my eyes.” I’ll expand upon that: “Any experience, situation, influence, or person that supports the idea that things can be changed is great.”

This is a useful and potentially inspiring theme for you to work with right now, Capricorn.

In accordance with astrological rhythms, I hope you will be a connoisseur and instigator of beneficial, beautiful transformations.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Fitness buff Jack LaLanne was still doing his daily workout when he was 95. He was also famous for performing arduous feats. At age 65, for example, he swam a mile through Japan’s Lake Ashinoko while towing 65 boats filled with 6,500 pounds of wood pulp. I think you’re currently capable of a metaphorically comparable effort, Aquarius.

One way to do it is by mastering a psychological challenge that has previously seemed overwhelming. So meditate on where your extra strength would be best directed, and use it wisely! If you can do Halloween without risk from COVID-19, here are costume suggestions: fitness buff, bodybuilder, marathon runner, yoga master.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): When birdwatchers describe a bird, they speak of its “jizz.” This term refers to the distinctive character of its habitual movements, flying style, posture, vocal mannerisms and coloring. One aficionado defines jizz as the bird’s “indefinable quality” or the “vibe it gives off.” I’ve got a theory that right now you’re as bird-like as you’ve ever been. You seem lighter and freer than usual, less bound to gravity and solemnity and more likely to break into song.

Your fears are subsiding because you have the confidence to leave any situation that’s weighing you down. If you can do Halloween without risk from COVID-19, here’s a costume suggestion: the bird that has your favorite kind of jizz.

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30 Skater Lipinski 31 Like the tone of a talking-to 35 1,003, in Roman numerals 36 “Thunderstruck” rock band 37 Sounds of disapproval 39 Sound of dismissiveness 40 Dweller east of the North Atlantic 41 All the ___ 42 Wisconsin city that’s home to Lawrence University 47 ___-hoo 48 You might put your stamp on it

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