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We affectionately refer to them as our annual spoof awards, but in essence it’s our way of paying homage to the newsmakers and important events of 2013. So this week’s news pages are dedicated to all of you who show up on our pages each week, for better or worse, til death do us part.

Or something like that. Enjoy. (Page 4)

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Opinion If one had only one book shelf, what would fill it? Here’s one list . . . . . . . 11

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A&E My Highway slips into the fast lane on the road to success . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Scott McLeod. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . info@smokymountainnews.com Greg Boothroyd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . greg@smokymountainnews.com Micah McClure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . micah@smokymountainnews.com Travis Bumgardner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . travis@smokymountainnews.com Emily Moss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . emily@smokymountainnews.com Whitney Burton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . whitney@smokymountainnews.com Amanda Bradley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . jc-ads@smokymountainnews.com Hylah Smalley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . hylah@smliv.com Scott Collier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . classads@smokymountainnews.com Becky Johnson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . becky@smokymountainnews.com Garret K. Woodward. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . garret@smokymountainnews.com Melanie Threlkeld McConnell Amanda Singletary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . smnbooks@smokymountainnews.com Scott Collier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . classads@smokymountainnews.com Jeff Minick (writing), Chris Cox (writing), George Ellison (writing), Gary Carden (writing), Don Hendershot (writing), Jake Flannick (writing), Paul Clark (writing).

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2013 IS BEHIND US NOW, and all the news reported over the last 12 months is headed for the history books or perhaps a less-lofty final resting place.

But lest we all forget, here’s our annual tongue-in-cheek awards, a tribute to those who played some small part in the events that held our interest for at least a few moments during the past year.

Doghouse award This one goes to the Washington numnuts who couldn’t get their act together on a budget and caused the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Blue Ridge Parkway and the national forests to fold up and pull in their shingle just as the fall tourism season arrived. The national parks and forests happen to be pretty darn important drawing card for WNC’s tourism economy, and consequently pretty darn important to all the people who make a living off those tourists.

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Cesspool of Sin award Asheville might be the original cesspool of sin, an unofficial tagline the city has wittily embraced after being labeled such by a conservative state senator two years ago, but Franklin could soon be horning in on the action.

Franklin’s town leaders lifted a decades-old ban this year that outlawed the co-existence of booze and pool tables.

A 1948 law on the town’s books had declared pool and alcohol consumption mutually exclusive pastimes. Both beer and pool tables couldn’t be housed under the same roof.

The law also prohibited swearing in pool halls, as well as trap doors and hidden stairs. Pool halls couldn’t face back alleys and had to have glass windows, too. And they couldn’t be run by anyone of “immoral character” or habitual users of intoxicating liquor.

That’s all the in the past now, however, after the town board voted 5-to-1 this year to do away the restrictions on pool halls.

So look out Asheville, here comes Franklin!

By the way, Asheville owes its ‘Cesspool of Sin’ slogan to former N.C. Sen. Jim Forrester, who died in 2011 just six weeks after using the line, which is now seen around town on T-shirts and bumper stickers

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To the manager of the Pisgah Inn on the Blue Ridge Parkway, who defied orders to close his doors during the partial government shutdown in October.

His last stand was short-lived, because in just a few hours rangers showed up and told all his guests to leave and cordonned off his parking lot entrance with their vehicles.

Not easily deterred, he tried to reopen the Pisgah Inn again a few days later, and rangers were once again sent to barricade it. Manager Bruce O’Connell became the darling of the Tea Party, and a few dozen protestors showed up at the inn to support O’Connell for standing up to the federal government. He was also flown to Dallas to appear on an episode of Fox News.

The Parkway then decided to make an exception and let him reopen before the shutdown was officially lifted.

Paul Bunyan award The Haywood County commissioners chopped down the large sugar maple trees on the lawn of the historic courthouse this year.

Commissioners complained the trees dropped dead

The Haywood County courthouse after the beloved maple trees were removed. File photo limbs, kept grass from growing on the lawn, and obscured the stately courthouse from view. But the final death blow was an arborist’s report concluding the trees were in poor healthy and posed a risk. The loss of the beloved trees — and their shade during street festivals — was mourned by the Main Street community.

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Spencer Bolejack (left) and Eugene Runkis are the stars of “Hillbilly Blood: A Hardscrabble Life.” Garret K. Woodward photo

“Candy” Camera award

In case you hadn’t noticed, reality shows aren’t, in fact, reality.

Nonetheless outdoor survival experts Spencer Bolejack and Eugene Runkis in Haywood County jumped at the chance to star on a reality show purportedly showing America the ingenuity of modern mountain men practicing real-world survival skills.

Soon they found themselves in front of a camera being told to feign impending doom, then use their Appalachian wit to scrape by.

Like using the belt from an old truck to fix a saw mill band to split their wood just in time to keep from freezing to death come winter.

While those of us here in Haywood County know that the Dollar General in Bethel is just downstream of the scene of the life-raft episode, and that they were never really in danger of starving to death with discount soda and chips so close at hand, “Hillbilly Blood: A Hardscrabble Life” has been a hit.

Though some are perturbed over the program’s premise and its stereotyping of locals, com’on folks, it’s television. Sit back, relax, and enjoy it for what it is.

This goes to Hugh Simpson, who reacted to statistics about obesity in Macon County by taking covert videos of people he deemed overweight going into restaurants, working on computers at the library and just going about their daily life — complete with personal commentary.

He posted the fat stalker videos on You Tube, and some went viral and attracted up to 10,000 views. Complaints poured in, prompting a call from the sheriff asking Simpson to take the videos offline. Simpson did indeed take the videos down, but claimed he was just “hoping it would be a wake-up call.”

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Good Samaritan award This elk had to be euthanized after it lost its fear of humans. Vince M. Camiolo photo

“It’s all fun and games until …” award To those visitors to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park who feed the elk and otherwise try to get too close to them, which gets them acclimated to humans. Approaching or getting closer than 50 yards to the elk or other wildlife is against park rules.

An elk who was caught on video playfully sparring with a photographer eventually had to be euthanized because it had grown accustomed to handouts — chips were apparently

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John Clinton Cathy, known to his friends as “Cat Hair,” told Waynesville police he was just trying to do a good deed after he was found with a homemade pipe bomb in the back of his truck.

Cathy claimed he found the pipe bomb near the Sunburst Recreation Area along the Pigeon River earlier that day. Fearing for the safety of families in the area, he had picked it up and taken it with him, intending to bring it to the sheriff ’s office, but then forgot all about it.

Cathy, 37, ran in the same circles as known meth users, according to police reports. He was behaving erratically, including shaking and sweating profusely, when apprehended by police. He was charged with felony possession of a weapon of mass destruction.

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his Achilles’ Heel — and was thus considered dangerous to humans.

The lesson: getting too close to the elk or feeding them may lead to the animals being killed.

sidewalk performers to keep a lid on guitartoting vagabonds crooning from the street corners. Before any crooning in public, a street performer must submit a detailed description of their act, two color headshots, go through a background check, and pay $25 for an annual license.

Oh, and they have to wear a town-issued photo ID badge while performing. And they need the blessing of merchants along the stretch of sidewalk they’re playing on.

To be clear, performers couldn’t play on the streets of Waynesville for money previously, because they fell under the same category as panhandlers in town codes.

So the new rules at least open the door for street performers, but not at the expense of offending the good graces of Waynesville’s tourists.

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A Lifetime Supply of Tide … … goes to the town of Maggie Valley to wash all that dirty laundry.

In fact, Maggie had so much laundry to air out this year, extra clotheslines had to be strung up behind town hall.

The year got off to a bang after aldermen couldn’t agree who to appoint to an empty seat on the board. So they appointed no one, and spent the rest of the year locked in a 2-to2 stalemate with the wheels of town governance locked up and not moving.

One meeting got so heated two men from the audience had to be separated and calmed down by the police chief and spectators. And one of the town’s most vocal critics was banished from town hall except under police escort after harassing town employees.

Another group of critics tried to get law enforcement to press criminal charges against the mayor for the unauthorized used of town letterhead.

The epitome of gridlock was when the town board was split on whether an inquisition — a verbal equivalent of a public lashing — should be launched against the mayor, allowing the public to air grievances and criticisms of him. But after the mayor refused to recuse himself from a vote on whether to stage such a crucifixion, the board tied on the matter and the issue died.

Come to think of it, we’ll throw in some Clorox action and odor elimination with that lifetime supply of Tide.

Carrot is better than the Stick award Contractors hired to clean up a major landslide that closed U.S. 441 through the Great Smoky Mountains National Park finished the work four weeks ahead of schedule.

What, pray tell, could actually motivate road crews to finish a job early for once? The company earned a $500,000 bonus for cleaning up the debris early — a pot sweetener ponied up the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians.

The tribe wanted to ensure the crucial route through the Smokies — and the main way into Cherokee from Tennessee — would be open by May 15, the unofficial start of the summer tourist season.

Feast or Famine award

To Mother Nature for this year’s record rainfall. Just a few short years after the entire state was mired in a drought, heavy rains began last January and lasted pretty much all year, setting records in many parts of the country. The torrential rains wreaked havoc on farmers, led to hazardous landslides, and were detrimental to the tourism industry — 6 especially commercial rafters since rivers

Only Game in Town award Floods washed out the land under these mobile homes in Bryson City. File photo were too rough to run trips. However, extreme kayakers — who live for big water — were ecstatic, with some reporting waves as high as eight feet on the Nantahala River and others taking advantage of the opportunity to boat on creeks that normally don’t have enough water.

Million Dollar View award That was the price tag on the 60-acre abandoned golf course in the small, residential community of Forest Hills. The shortlived golf course hasn’t been managed as one in more than two decades, and is now covered in overgrown bushes. The owner of the tract declared his intentions to build houses on it, but gave Forest Hills the first right of refusal.

Keeping this green space at the center of their community ultimately wasn’t worth the $1 million asking price from the developer, town residents and town leaders concluded.

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time from the store’s profits — hopefully.

Whether the store indeed profits depends on the volume of liquor sales, which is merely guesswork right now.

Cashiers residents and vacationers currently have to venture to Sylva or Highlands to buy liquor. The county’s new liquor store in Cashiers will no doubt siphon customers away from Sylva’s store, but it won’t be a pure boon to the county. The town of Sylva splits 50 percent of its ABC profits with the county.

So the county will see its cut of revenue from Sylva decline, partially offsetting gains at its new store in Cashier.

The new ABC store is currently under construction by a private developer, who will lease it to the county for $32,000 a year.

Simon Cowell award The “American Idol” judge who was notoriously brutal in his critiques of performers and a stickler for stage do’s and don’ts was apparently on retainer with the town of Waynesville this year.

The town rolled out a suite of rules for

The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians have expressed “concern” — the wording used in a press release from Chief Michell Hicks — about a pitch by the Catawba Indian tribe to stick a casino in North Carolina.

South Carolina won’t even consider the bid for a Catawba casino despite being the tribe’s primary geographic territory, so Catawba leaders started querying North Carolina lawmakers about putting their casino on this side of the stateline, namely near Kings Mountain.

Fortunately for those of us in Western North Carolina who like the jobs, tourists and economic boon that come with being the only game in town, it appears the Catawba effort is not gaining much traction.

Boehner award

While it’s not quite the federal budget impasse, a solution to Sylva’s Main Street parking conundrum is nearly as elusive as a budget deal was for House leader John Boehner.

And, kind of like the national debt, everyone agrees the diagonal parking configuration is a problem, but no one can figure out how to fix it.

Trucks, vans and SUVs often hang over

Cherokee youth are now able to text in Cherokee thanks to a mobile app that converts smart phones to communicate in the Cherokee syllabary. The efforts to save the Cherokee language have taken many paths among the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, but many believe that keeping it relevant for youth is the key to the language’s survival.

Wild Card award Jackson County leaders say it’s impossible to know for sure how much demand there is for a liquor store in Cashiers, but they’ll soon be finding out.

Jackson County will front $200,000 in start-up costs for a new ABC store in Cashiers. The county will be paid back over

Buskers in Waynesville have to get town approval or risk performing illegally. Becky Johnson photo

made them.

The overzealous marking job was the work of a telecommunications contractor. But the blame also rests with an environmental groundwater contractor who was digging a test well and called in an unusually wide berth of utility markings in a two-block radius around the one spot where digging was actually going to occur.

The paint is supposed to wear off after a few months, but seven months later, the remnants, while faded and muted, are still visible.

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“Let’s Make a Deal” game show was famous for derailing players with the allure of mystery prizes behind hidden doors that turned out to be worthless “zonks.”

That’s the conundrum Jackson County leaders faced when deciding whether to give the railroad $750,000 in exchange for the promise of prosperity in Dillsboro.

Dillsboro merchants clamored for the county to come up with the dough in hopes of reviving its train tourist traffic. Dillsboro, once the hub of the railroad, was left high and dry by the train when it relocated its main operation to Bryson City several years ago.

The train disembarks in Dillsboro only occasionally these days for short layovers.

But skeptics questioned whether the railroad would live up to its end of the deal, or whether the $750,000 could be better spent on another economic development initiative.

For now, county commissioners have declined to “make a deal” with the train, but the heat is still on from train supporters.

The sweepstakes machine industry must have an unlimited supply of these, and they stand to make a might bit more than $200 each time they pass ‘Go.’ Sweepstakes are somehow back The two cents of Maggie Valley in the game despite being outWhen it comes to courting the Great moteliers derailed a two-cent lawed, more than once, by the Smoky Mountains Railroad, Jackson County increase on the overnight lodging General Assembly and N.C. may have been first out of the gate, but Swain tax — two cents that would have Supreme Court.

County was first across the finish line. generated $450,000 annually to Lawmen pulled the plug on Swain came out of nowhere with a wheelhelp build up Haywood County The Smoky Mountain News followed the orange brick trail and sweepstakes-style video gambling barrow of cash to help the tourist rail line tourist attractions and venues.

Despite support from the discovered the markings were made to locate underground utility machines in the first part of the restore an old steam locomotive. Jackson lines. Becky Johnson photo year, but they soon cropped back tourism interests had been mulling the very tourism industry as a whole, a handup in the corners of gas stations, same idea — with vigorous debate on both ful of Maggie motel owners camsides — for more than a year, but never inked paigned against the tax. The extra two cents the public was right? A DOT study concluded openly flaunting the bans against them.

When local cops dutifully enforced the a deal. on the room tax would have created a funding that the Southern Loop would not make much of a dent in congestion on N.C. 107 state’s sweepstakes ban by arresting the defiSwain tourism leaders are banking on the pool for new or improved tourism amenities.

But opponents feared it might have the anyway, and money would be better spent ant operators, the police unwittingly served restored steam engine — compared to the allopposite effect — instead of building up redesigning N.C. 107 to improve traffic flow up just what the industry wanted: a day in diesel fleet the train runs now — to bring attractions to lure tourists, the marginally — which is exactly what the public had been court to make a renewed pitch for why the lat- even more riders pouring through Bryson est incarnation of their electronic betting City, the current hub for the railroad. Swain higher tax rate might deter them from com- saying for the past decade. machines were exempt from the standing ponied up $600,000 to land the steam engine, ing. ban. to be paid for out of tourism tax dollars on The same Maggie moteliers also said they Another day, another loophole, overnight lodging. would only support the tax increase if Maggie had the majority control on the committee The beloved musical sons of Western that decides what projects got funded.

North Carolina, Balsam Range, keep on climbing.

They won the 2013 International Jackson County commissioners could Bluegrass Music Association award for have used this guy in their corner when trying “Album of the Year” for their 2012 release to hammer out a deal with the Great Smoky To all the organizers and participants in “PAPERTOWN” — an enormous honor in Mountains Railroad. The original host of the the International Canoe Federation’s Really? The highway department actually the music industry. Their unique and cherlistened to the public and altered its road ished blend of mountain music, bluegrass, folk and gospel has landed them in the limebuilding plans accordingly?

Opponents of the Southern Loop in light. But they’ve been steadfast in staying Jackson County had to pinch themselves true to their roots, lending their talents genwhen they heard the controversial bypass erously to local street festivals, shindigs and they’d been fighting for more than a decade charity benefits. was back-burnered this year.

The cross-county Southern Loop was supposed to “loop” around or bypass the main commercial drag of N.C. 107 in Sylva. But it He just kept going, and going, and going was dogged by public opposition for years, … downtown Waynesville merchants and including from local elected leaders. And shoppers were shocked, astounded and persomehow, it finally took. plexed when the quaint downtown sidewalks “We felt like it was the best idea to go with fell victim to a slap-happy spray-paint job by the wishes of the people and what they want,” a utility marker.

Zahid Baloch, a DOT project engineer in A pair of double orange lines marred up Raleigh told The Smoky Mountain News ear- the lovely brick sidewalks throughout four lier this year. blocks of downtown, including a portion of But did the daddy-knows-best Main Street. Their origin was a mystery and Department of Transportation actually cater the source of many rumors for days until The to public sentiment? Or did it finally realize Smoky Mountain News tracked down who The Great Smoky Mountains Railroad will get $600,000 from Swain County. Mark Haskett photo

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the back of the diagonal spaces, their bumpers jutting into traffic lanes. And backing up from the diagonal spots into oncoming traffic takes a leap of faith.

After years of complaining about the problem, town leaders tried to tackle it this year with help from the N.C. Department of Transportation. But every solution — softening the angle of the spaces, reversing the direction of the spaces, drawing a “do-not-protrude-past” stripe across the rear of spaces, adding traffic islands, restoring two-way traffic — was like poking a balloon. Another problem just bulges up somewhere else — like sacrificing the number of spaces or causing confusion, which merchants fear could deter shoppers.

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money and effort is worth it. Only a handful of properties are likely to switch county allegiances to — and thus which county they have to pay property taxes in. But from either the county’s standpoint, it would likely be a wash. And from the property owners’ standpoint, too, since the tax rate in both counties is almost identical.

Cody said the mapping employees in both counties have done just fine in the past putting their heads together to sort it out.

But Macon Commissioner Jimmy Tate, a champion of good walls between neighbors, wanted an objective and definitive survey once and for all.

Waynesville Town Clerk Phyllis McClure and Sylva Mayor Maurice Moody came back to take their old jobs. File photos Freestyle World Championships, which were held in the Nantahala Gorge in September.

The event brought hundreds of athletes to Western North Carolina and the competitions were streamed live around the world.

ICF President Lluis Rabaneda of Spain told a reporter just before opening ceremonies that “the Nantahala River has that outdoor soul, which is what we love ….” That’s what a lot of people who live around here also love.

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Full Circle award Sylva Mayor Maurice Moody had already taken his pictures off the wall of his office in town hall in preparation of turning over the gavel to incoming mayor-elect Chris Matheson.

But the changing of the guard never came to pass. At Matheson’s swearing-in ceremony, she handed the gavel right back to Moody.

Matheson decided at the 11th hour to take a job as an assistant district attorney. It’s a state job, and state law prohibits state employees from holding elected offices.

Moody had intended to step down — he chose not to run for the seat again this year — but he agreed to resume the mayor’s post for another two years with the endorsement of the rest of the town board.

Mending Wall award The famous poem by Robert Frost ponders the adage that “Good fences make good neighbors,” but when it comes to keeping Jackson County on its side of the fence, Macon County isn’t taking any chances.

Macon County commissioners called in the N.C. Geodetic Survey to do an official boundary line survey between the two counties. Where the exact boundary line falls is apparently murky in a few spots, particularly along the ridgeline separating the Cashiers and Highlands areas.

Jackson County commissioner Doug Cody — like Frost in his poem “Mending Wall” — questioned whether the time,

Architect of the Brink award To Rep. Mark Meadows, R-Cashiers, our congressman, who earned the “architect of the brink” moniker from CNN for his role in the October government shutdown.

Meadows, a freshman, wrote a letter in August to fellow GOP members of Congress asking them to tie fundMark Meadows ing the federal government to defunding Obamacare. Seventy-nine other congressmen signed on, and the House and Senate leadership were at loggerheads on a budget for almost three weeks as government operations

shut down. Jane Bilello, head of the Asheville tea party, proclaimed to media inquiring about Meadows that he was “turning out to be our poster boy.”

Meadows, however, downplayed his role in the shutdown and said that was never his intention, claiming the media hyped his actual role in it.

One Size Fits All award

Is it bumper sticker-worthy? That was the question that finally tipped the scales for the winning slogan “Play On” in the quest for a brand that captures the essence of Jackson County.

“Play On” is a theme tourists of all persuasions can hopefully identify with, from country club golfers to white-water paddlers, from golden-year retirees to adventuresome families, from casino gamblers to trophy fly-fishermen.

Jackson’s new tourism authority hired a branding firm for $50,000 to capture in a single phrase what about Jackson County appeals to tourists. The creation of the ‘Play On’ slogan was the first step in a crafting a cohesive tourism marketing message for the county.

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Nothing says “fun” like standing around in a field with 300 other people drinking beer in the middle of the day — except of

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Phyllis McClure had barely blown out the candles on her retirement cake before she was called back to duty as Waynesville’s town clerk once more.

For 22 years, McClure had kept the gears of the town humming, making her the longest serving town clerk. Her record to beat will now be 23 years, however, after resuming the most this winter after just a month of shortlived retirement. The town had a replacement for McClure lined up, but that person ended up moving away, so McClure agreed to come back and pinch hit, and now a year later, is finally ready to make her second exit with a replacement once again lined up.

Nicknamed Mayor Phyllis, The Smoky Mountain News gave her a send-off article early in the year, quoting Mayor Gavin Brown as saying, “We were fortunate to have her for as long as we did.”

Little did he know, they would have her a 8 while longer yet.

Biceps and beer were featured at the first Waynesville Craft Beer Festival. Garret K. Woodward photo

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course when the sky opens up and there’s no shelter to be had. Now that’s some good times.

The deluge that defined the sold-out, inaugural Waynesville Craft Beer Festival quickly weeded out the fair-weather beer drinkers, leaving more to go around for the hardy and dedicated. Spirits weren’t dampened by the rain pouring from the sky, however, thanks to the brews pouring from the taps of a dozen microbreweries from across WNC. In fact, the downpour brought the crowd together, literally, as they crammed under the tents of the microbrewers, cheek to jowl with the kegs to keep out of the rain.

WCU football coach Mark Speir won two games this season. File photo January 1-7, 2014

Two is Better Than One award Western Carolina University football fans have learned to relish the positive when it comes around, however small or fleeting.

Coach Mark Speir posted only one win against Mars Hill his first year on the job in 2012. This year, WCU once again took down Mars Hill, but also beat Elon during the WCU Homecoming. It’s a 200 percent improvement on the team’s record when Speir took over. So, maybe finally, “The Legacy Starts Now” is beginning to take shape. Onward to three in the win column for 2014.

To Paula Dean and the controversy over her admitted use of racial slurs. Once she admitted to an interviewer that she had used the “N” word, “Yes, of course … (but) it’s been a very long time,” Dean had a precipitous fall from grace. The fall included getting the boot from Harrah’s Cherokee Casino, where the Paul Dean’s Kitchen restaurant was promptly scrubbed and rebranded with a new restaurant in its place.

Perhaps if the Southern icon had heeded the words of the famous Southern author, she would have known better than to admit having ever used

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124 miles per hour — just before he lost sight of him. Two other officers picked up the chase where Phillips left off.

Eventually, with two cops on his tail, the man crashed his motorcycle in a field, uninjured.

It’s puzzling what made David Ridao flee in the first place when Phillips tried to pull him that day for a simple speeding ticket — Ridao was going 74 in a 55, which rather shortly became the least of Ridao’s concerns.

Ridao had no outstanding warrants, wasn’t suspected of anything, and had an almost non-existent rap sheet.

The only crimes he was guilty of were the charges he racked up in the process of running from cops. Oh, and having a concealed weapon — which is child’s play compared to the charges he ended up with for fleeing.

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This “bear” protested against the conditions at the bear zoos in Cherokee. File photo the word, or to think that the past was indeed past.

Double Down award The Eastern Band of Cherokee have shored up plans to open a second, smaller casino on satellite tribal land near Murphy.

Tribal leaders say the casino will help provide jobs for ECBI members who live in the area, which is more than an hour from Cherokee.

And it will help the tribe tap new markets they aren’t able to lure all the way to their main property in Cherokee. Construction has begun on the $110 million project, which could open by the spring of 2015.

“If you do something stupid, it will show up on the internet” award To at least nine students at Swain County High School who were suspended last winter after videos of their “fight club” went viral, showing the ninth-graders boxing in the locker room when they were supposed to be changing clothes for PE class.

One mom told WLOS that the whole incident was blown out of proportion and it was just boys being boys. It was never revealed if any teachers know about the roughhousing but didn’t do anything to stop it. At least one student did tell the TV station that a teacher knew, but told them not to make videos.

Guess they weren’t listening.

DB Cooper award The Haywood County Republican Party got hijacked this year by far-right conservative purists, and just like the saga of Cooper’s great mid-flight heist, no one knows just where this story will end up.

The party clearly erred by letting everyone on board, and now can’t figure out just how to eject the trouble makers.

Will the hijackers be the root of their own demise, or walk with the gold — in this case having their very own political party at their disposal?

Longwinded award How many Methodist preachers does it take to arrive at a consensus on the future of Lake Junaluska?

The answer remains elusive, thanks to the uncanny ability of Methodist preachers to keep talking, and talking, and talking.

The year-long debate over whether Lake Junaluska should merge with the town of Waynesville was marked by some of the most poignant, eloquent, nostalgic — and lengthy — public hearings that ever been held in Haywood County.

The polite decorum of the Methodist ministers who populate Junaluska in extraordinary numbers ensured that everyone was allowed to say their piece, however long it took.

While there was a majority opinion favoring a merger, it stopped short of a consensus, delaying further action until next year.

Matt Kenseth award He was so close to pulling off the NASCAR title this year, but came in second place after bombing out in one of the key Sprint Cup races of the season.

That’s something Macon County Sheriff ’s Deputy Jonathan Phillips could probably relate to.

Phillips came out of the gate strong, and hung in for a while, but was left in the dust by a 23-year-old on a yellow Suzuki motorcycle who had the audacity to flee as Phillips tried to pull him over.

At one point Phillip’s clocked the biker at

Like the oil leak that just wouldn’t quit, the ongoing saga of Cherokee bear zoos has been parked in the public limelight for years with no signs of abating — at least not until the animal rights activists get their way.

Two bear zoos that kept bears in barren concrete pits for tourists to gawk at have been incessantly hammered by the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

They picketed, sought face time with tribal leaders, put up billboards, mounted negative PR campaigns — even went undercover and got a job at one of the bear zoos, capturing video footage behind-the-scenes with hidden cameras.

The pressure tactics are starting to payoff. One of the bear zoos closed due to persistent federal violations, and the bears were relocated to a sanctuary out West thanks to an anonymous donor.

Now their sights have turned on the remaining bear zoo, with not one but two federal lawsuits targeting its operation and petition federal inspectors to shut the second bear zoo as well.

Some Cherokee tribal members have gotten in on the action, signing on to one of the lawsuits, and petitioning tribal council to intervene by shutting down the zoo.

The campaign against bear zoos has attempted to smear Cherokee for allowing the bear pits in its midst. Ask BP, there’s only one way out of this PR nightmare.

“Here We Stand” Award

To the Moral Monday protestors in Raleigh and throughout the state. Their actions weren’t exactly as transformational as the words spoken by Martin Luther that helped spark the Protestant Reformation, but those taking part were in many cases no less outraged at the status quo. The protestors showed up every week at the General Assembly to condemn actions taken by the GOP leadership that they believed hurt the poor, the elderly, the unemployed and children. Many taking part were arrested, but most were so outraged by the legislature’s actions that they gladly paid their fines and kept showing up.

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If the shelf was small, these are the books I’d fill it with

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us a hero as a protagonist. Here is a book which, unlike so many others, somehow calls us to be better than we are. It is a sweeping novel of war, love, and death.

Florence King’s With Charity Toward None: A Fond Look at Misanthropy. King, who has written openly of her affairs with men and women, and who is a self-described “old maid,” is herself a misanthrope with a barbed-wire wit and a lacerating style. Also worth reading is Stet, Damnit!: The Misanthrope’s Corner, which is a 400-page collection of essays she wrote for National Review. Her Columnist ability to drive a dagger of words into unctuous people and stupid ideas always makes me smile.

Judith Martin’s Miss Manners Rescues Civilization. This book, always close-at-hand on my desk, is the volume I turn to whenever I need to create a character or a column with an elevated prose style. Ten minutes of Martin’s crisp prose and withering comments bring the same sensibility to my own writing.

Gregory Wolfe’s Beauty Will Save The World: Recovering the Human in an Ideological Age. Wolfe’s reflections on literature, art, and beauty have continued to influence my own thinking. This book, too, sits within an arm’s length on my desk, reminding me of the importance of beauty and wonder, and how we are so often blind to their great gifts.

Michael Dirda’s Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life.

In this slim volume, Dirda, a long-time literary critic for the Washington Post, covers the influence of books on our lives from our early education to our final hours. Along the way he offers readers valuable lessons, ranging from the importance of books to children to books on love. In addition, the numerous — and unusual — quotations that accompany each chapter should delight anyone who in turn delights in such things.

Jeff Minick

ach new year brings out the list-makers, pundits and critics who catalogue everything from the year’s best movies, books, and music to predictions regarding politics and the economy for the next 12 months. With the exception of composing my own personal lists from the past year — “Ten Things I Would Have Done Differently” would be easily written — I lack the qualifications to compose any sort of compendium, including one for books, for 2013.

Yet I do find myself compelled to make a list of favorite books. Several readers of this column, and many of my students, have over the last years asked for such a list, and I would send them three or four recommendations, selections often plunked down without any real effort or thought. Having pondered the matter this week before the new year, I found myself wondering what I would put on such a list if I was, say, limited to a small shelf of favorite books.

Here, for better or worse, is that shelf, with the titles all higgledy-piggledy and in no particular rank: Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited. Set in England between the wars, this story of Charles Ryder and his involvement with the wealthy Flyte family gives us Waugh, one of the great English novelists of the twentieth century, writing at the peak of his power. Ryder’s insights on the English upper class, on Catholicism, and on the passions are entertaining and instructive.

Graham Green’s The End of the Affair. Here too is another book with a religious theme, yet Greene’s Catholicism is very different than Waugh’s. Greene’s protagonist is a non-believer who ends up battling God for the soul of Sarah, the woman he loves. The novel explores the secret chambers of the human heart — in this case, the vehicle for this exploration is adultery — and exposes the reader to another modern master of style.

This is a book which offers new revelations with each reading.

Mark Helprin’s A Soldier of the Great War. Not all of Helprin’s novels appeal to me, but this is a book that again and again has demanded my attention. Helprin’s Alessandro gives

Peter Bowler’s The Superior Person’s Book of Words. This book, and the subsequent two volumes, always amuse. Here, for example, is the entry for “Gorgonize: to petrify or paralyze, as if by the gaze of the Gorgon Medusa. ‘Mormons at the door, Charlotte—up you get and gorgonize them, quick, before they get started!’”

Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of Synonyms. More than just a thesaurus, this excellent resource distinguishes between synonyms, helping careless writers select the exact word for a passage. To paraphrase Mark Twain: “The difference between the almost right word and the right word is the difference between the lightning bug and lightning.” This dictionary helps you find the lightning.

Alan Loy McGinnis’s Bringing Out The Best In People: How to Enjoy Helping Others Excel. Two years ago, I read this book during the summer, hoping I might find a tip or two to help my teaching. What I discovered were many excellent ideas and plans that work in a variety of settings and which have brought many positive results.

Shelby Foote’s The Civil War. Though I read these three volumes straight through more than 20 years ago, I have dipped into these books frequently over the years. Here are history, biography, and philosophy, all couched in wonderful language.

Though I have read a good many history books over the years, these stand apart. Foote is the Homer of historians: he stands on Olympus and looks down on what he calls “America’s Iliad.”

Anthony Burgess’s Earthly Powers. This book, and not A Clockwork Orange, was surely Burgess’s greatest novel. Here he creates a writer loosely based on Somerset Maugham, and then uses him as a vehicle for investigating issues and incidents of the twentieth century from World War I to our current age: the preoccupation with sex, the horrors of war, the unhinging of faith. Burgess’s love of language and words together with his scintillating wit make every page of this story a delight.

(Jeff Minick is a writer and a teacher. He can be reached at minick0301@gmail.com.)

Education reform effort is like a slap in the face

Looking for opinions The Smoky Mountain News encourages readers to express their opinions through letters to the editor or guest columns. All viewpoints are welcome. Send to Scott McLeod at info@smokymountainnews.com., fax to 828.452.3585, or mail to PO Box 629, Waynesville, NC, 28786.

To the Editor: This move by the state to “reward” 25 percent of the state’s teachers (and I’m not even focusing here on all of the far-from-minimal strings attached to those “rewards”) while at the same time dismissing 75 percent of the state’s teachers as unworthy of even a scintilla of recognition is probably the single most underhanded and potentially devastating action ever designed and implemented by anyone in this state who claims the title of elected representative. Make no mistake, this is a finely choreographed divide and conquer strategy intended to strike at the heart of education — the teachers, the administrators, the support personnel, the parents — by creating a system of “incentives” that will literally force the stakeholders to take sides, so to speak, and disregard and dismiss past efforts at teamwork, collaboration, and consensus.

I firmly believe that it is the unstated but very genuine goal of some of our so-called “education reformers” in Raleigh to dismantle our constitutionally mandated public education system and replace it with a taxpayer subsidized, privatized

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mishmash of unstandardized and unaccountable educational services that will absolutely ensure ongoing inequity and inequality of opportunity for North Carolina’s youth (but that will, at the same time, provide a wonderful investment opportunity for corporate educational profiteers who will gladly offer their services to our “failing” school systems).

This is a formula for educational disaster ... but such a great opportunity for the profiteers. Those who dreamed up this scheme knew that, though, and they still know it. The public now needs to do its part and call them out on what they are trying to do.

Our “representatives” need to be shamed for supporting such a willfully divisive and potentially harmful scheme — a scheme, by the way, that is nothing less than a slap in the face to professional educators in this state (i.e., “75 percent of you are unworthy”) — and then disingenuously boasting that this is part of their effort to “reform” and “strengthen” education in North Carolina. I urge everyone to contact your legislators and let them know what you think of this “reform effort.”

John Sanderson retired principal, Waynesville

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Taste the Mountains is an ever-evolving paid section of places to dine in Western North Carolina. If you would like to be included in the listing please contact our advertising department at 828.452.4251 AMMONS DRIVE-IN RESTAURANT & DAIRY BAR 1451 Dellwwod Rd., Waynesville.

828.926.0734. Open 7 days a week 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Celebrating over 25 years.

Enjoy world famous hot dogs as well as burgers, seafood, hushpuppies, hot wings and chicken. Be sure to save room for dessert.

The cobbler, pie and cake selections are sure to satisfy any sweet tooth.

ANTHONY WAYNE’S 37 Church St, Waynesville. 828.456.6789.

Open for lunch Monday-Friday 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.; open for dinner Thursday-Saturday 5 to 9 p.m.; and Sunday brunch 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Exceptional, new-American cuisine, offering several gluten free items.

BLUE ROOSTER SOUTHERN GRILL 207 Paragon Parkway, Clyde, Lakeside Plaza at the old Wal-Mart. 828.456.1997. Open Monday through Friday. Friendly and fun family atmosphere. Local, handmade Southern cuisine. Fresh-cut salads; slow-simmered soups; flame grilled burgers and steaks, and homemade signature desserts. Blue-plates and local fresh vegetables daily. Brown bagging is permitted. Private parties, catering, and take-out available. Call-ahead seating available.

BOGART’S 35 East Main St., Sylva. 828.586.6532.

Sunday through Thursday 11 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. Serving classic American food and drink in a casual environment. Daily lunch and dinner specials. Children’s menu available.

Call for catering quotes. Private room available for large parties. Accepts MC/Visa, Discover and American Express.

BOURBON BARREL BEEF & ALE 454 Hazelwood Ave., Waynesville, 828.452.9191. Dinner nightly from 4 p.m.

Closed on Sunday. We specialize in hand-cut, all natural steaks, fresh fish, and other classic American comfort foods that are made using only the finest local and sustainable ingredients available. We also feature a great selection of craft beers from local artisan brewers, and of course an extensive selection of small batch bourbons and whiskey. The Barrel is a friendly and casual neighborhood dining experience where our guests enjoy a great meal without breaking the bank.

BREAKING BREAD CAFÉ 6147 Hwy 276 S. Bethel (at the Mobil Gas Station) 828.648.3838 Tuesday through Friday 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. (takeout only 5 to 6 p.m.) Saturday 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Serving Mediterranean style foods; join us for weekly specials. We roast our own ham, turkey and roast beef just like you get on Thanksgiving to use in our sandwiches. Try our chicken, tuna, egg and pasta salads made with gluten free mayo. Enjoy our variety of baked goods made daily: muffins, donuts, cinnamon buns and desserts.

CATALOOCHEE RANCH 119 Ranch Dr., Maggie Valley.

828.926.1401. Mile-high mountaintop dining with a spectacular view. Join us for plentiful buffet-style dinners on Fridays and Saturdays, and long winter holiday weekends. Dinner is served from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. in winter and includes pot roast, Virginia ham or herb-baked chicken, complemented with an assortment of seasonal vegetables, homemade breads, jellies and desserts. We also offer a fine selection of wine and beer. Lunch is served on the same days from 12 to 2 p.m.

CHEF’S TABLE 30 Church St., Waynesville. 828.452.6210.

From 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday dinner starting at 5 p.m. “Best of” Award of Excellence from Wine Spectator Magazine. Set in a distinguished atmosphere with an exceptional menu. Extensive selection of wine and beer. Reservations honored.

CITY BAKERY 18 N. Main St. Waynesville 828.452.3881.

Winter hours: Sunday-Thursday 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., Friday & Saturday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Join us in our historic location for scratch made soups and daily specials. Breakfast is made to order daily: Gourmet cheddar & scallion biscuits served with bacon, sausage and eggs; smoked trout bagel plate; quiche and fresh fruit parfait. We bake a wide variety of breads daily, specializing in traditional french breads. All of our breads are hand shaped. Lunch: Fresh salads, panini sandwiches. Enjoy outdoor dinning on the deck.

Private room available for meetings.

CITY LIGHTS CAFE Spring Street in downtown Sylva.

828.587.2233. Open Monday-Saturday 7:30 a.m. to 9 p.m., Sunday 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Tasty, healthy and quick. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, espresso, beer and wine. Come taste the savory and sweet crepes, grilled paninis, fresh, organic salads, soups and more.

Outside patio seating. Free Wi-Fi, pet-friendly. Live music and lots of events. Check the web calendar at citylightscafe.com.

BRYSON CITY CORK & BEAN A MOUNTAIN SOCIAL HOUSE 16 Everett St.,Bryson City. 828.488.1934.

Open Monday-Friday 8 a.m. to 9 p.m., Saturday and Sunday brunch 9 a.m. to 3p.m., Full Menu 3 to 9 p.m. Serving fresh and delicious weekday morning lite fare, lunch, dinner, and brunch. Freshly prepared menu offerings range from house-made soups & salads, lite fare & tapas, crepes, specialty sandwiches and burgers. Be sure not to miss the bold flavors and creative combinations that make up the daily Chef Supper Specials starting at 5pm every day.

Followed by a tempting selection of desserts prepared daily by our chefs and other local bakers. Enjoy craft beers on tap, as well as our full bar and eclectic wine list.

CORK & CLEAVER 176 Country Club Drive, Waynesville.

828.456.7179. Reservations recommended.

4:30-9 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. Tucked away inside Waynesville Inn, Cork & Cleaver has an approachable menu designed around locally sourced, sustainable, farm-to-table ingredients. Innovative and unique Southern fare from local, organic vegetables grown in Western North Carolina. Full bar and wine cellar. www.waynesvilleinn.com.

COUNTRY VITTLES: FAMILY STYLE RESTAURANT 3589 Soco Rd, Maggie Valley.

828.926.1820 Open Daily 7 a.m. to 8:30 p.m., closed Tuesday. Family Style at Country Vittles is not a buffet. Instead our waitresses will bring your food piping hot from the kitchen right to your table and as many refills as you want. So if you have a big appetite, but sure to ask your waitress about our family style service.

FRANKIE’S ITALIAN TRATTORIA 1037 Soco Rd. Maggie Valley.

828.926.6216 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Tuesday-Saturday. Father and son team Frank and Louis Perrone cook up dinners steeped in Italian tradition. With recipies passed down from generations gone by, the Perrones have brought a bit of Italy to Maggie Valley. frankiestrattoria.com FRYDAY’S & SUNDAES 24 & 26 Fry St., Bryson City (Next To The Train Depot). 828.488.5379. Frydays is open; but closed on Wednesdays. Sundaes is open 7 days a week. Fryday’s is known for its Traditional English Beer Battered Fish & Chips, but also has burgers, deep fried dogs, gyro, shrimp, bangers, Chip Butty, chicken, sandwiches & a great kids menu. Price friendly, $3-$10, Everything available to go or call ahead takeout. Sundaes has 24 rotating flavors of Hershey's Ice Cream making them into floats, splits, sundaes, shakes. Private seating inside & out for both locations right across from the train station & pet friendly.

FROGS LEAP PUBLIC HOUSE 44 Church St. Downtown Waynesville 828.456.1930 Serving lunch and dinner from 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, Sunday lunch and dinner from 11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m., closed Mondays. Frogs Leap is a farm to table restaurant focused on local, sustainable, natural and organic products prepared in modern regional dishes.

Seasonal menu focuses on Southern comfort foods with upscale flavors. Come for the restaurant’s 4 @ 4 when you can choose a center and three sides at special prices.

Offered Wed- Fri. from 4 to 6. frogsleappublichouse.org.

GUADALUPE CAFÉ 606 W. Main Street, Sylva. 828.586.9877.

Open 7 days a week at 5 p.m. Located in the historic Hooper’s Drugstore, Guadalupe Café is a chef-owned and operated restaurant serving Caribbean inspired fare complimented by a quirky selection of wines and microbrews. Supporting local farmers of organic produce, livestock, hand-crafted cheese, and using sustainably harvested seafood.

HERREN HOUSE 94 East St., Waynesville 828.452.7837.

Lunch: Wednesday - Saturday 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday Brunch 11 a. m. to 2 p.m.

Enjoy fresh local products, created daily. Join us in our beautiful patio garden. We are your local neighborhood host for special events: business party’s, luncheons, weddings, showers and more. Private parties & catering are available 7 days a week by reservation only.

J. ARTHUR’S RESTAURANT AT MAGGIE VALLEY U.S. 19 in Maggie Valley. 828.926.1817.

Lunch Sunday noon to 2:30 p.m., dinner nightly starting at 4:30 p.m. World-famous prime rib, steaks, fresh seafood, gorgonzola cheese and salads. All ABC permits and

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JUKEBOX JUNCTION U.S. 276 and N.C. 110 intersection, Bethel.

828.648.4193. 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Saturday. Serving breakfast, lunch, nd dinner. The restaurant has a 1950s & 60s theme decorated with memorabilia from that era.

LOS AMIGOS 366 Russ Ave. in the Bi-Lo Plaza.

828.456.7870. Open from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. for lunch and 5 to 10 p.m. for dinner Monday through Friday and 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Enjoy the lunch prices Monday through Sunday, also enjoy our outdoor patio.

LUCIO'S RESTAURANT 313 Highlands Road, Franklin.

828.369.6670. Serving Macon County since 1984. Closed Sunday, Monday, Tuesday.

Lunch Wednesday-Friday 11:30 a.m. until.Dinner Wednesday-Saturday 5 p.m. until. Owned and operated by Tanya and Dorothy Gamboni. Serving authentic Italian and continental cuisine including appetizers, pastas, poultry, veal, seafood, steaks and homemade deserts. Selection of wine and beer. Lunch and Dinner menus. Wednesday and Thursday nights only. 1 appetizer and 2 selected entrées with unlimited salad and Lucio’s famous garlic rolls for $24.95.

Winter Special: half-off house wines, Friday and Saturday only. luciosnc.com

MAGGIE VALLEY CLUB 1819 Country Club Dr., Maggie Valley.

828.926.1616. maggievalleyclub.com/dine.

Open daily for lunch and dinner. Fine and casual fireside dining in welcoming atmosphere. Full bar. Reservations accepted.

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MOUNTAIN PERKS ESPRESSO BAR & CAFÉ 9 Depot St., Bryson City. 828.488.9561.

Open Monday through Thursday, 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Friday 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturday 8 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. With music at the Depot. Sunday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Life is too short for bad coffee. We feature wonderful breakfast and lunch selections. Bagels, wraps, soups, sandwiches, salads and quiche with a variety of specialty coffees, teas and smoothies. Various desserts.

NEWFOUND LODGE RESTAURANT 1303 Tsali Blvd, Cherokee (Located on 441 North at entrance to GSMNP).

828.497.4590. Open 7 a.m. daily.

Established in 1946 and serving breakfast, lunch and dinner seven days a week. Family style dining for adults and children.

PASQUALE’S 1863 South Main Street, Waynesville. Off exit 98, 828.454.5002. Open for lunch and dinner seven days a week. Classic Italian dishes, exceptional steaks and seafood (available in full and lighter sizes), thin crust pizza, homemade soups, salads hand tossed at your table. Fine wine and beer selection.

Casual atmosphere, dine indoor, outside on the patio or at the bar. Reservations appreciated.

PASQUALINO’S ITALIAN RESTAURANT 25 Everett Street, Bryson City.

828.488.9555. Open for lunch and dinner everyday 11:30 a.m.-late. A taste of Italy in beautiful Bryson City. Exceptional pasta, pizza, homemade soups, salads. Fine wine, mixed drinks and beer selection. Casual atmosphere, reservations appreciated.

PATIO BISTRO 30 Church Street, Waynesville.

828.454.0070. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Saturday. Breakfast bagels and sandwiches, gourmet coffee, deli sandwiches for lunch with homemade soups, quiches, and

desserts. Wide selection of wine and beer.

Outdoor and indoor dining.

RENDEZVOUS RESTAURANT AND BAR Maggie Valley Inn and Conference Center 828.926.0201 Bar open Monday thru Saturday; dining room open Tuesday thru Saturday at 5 p.m. Full service restaurant serving steaks, prime rib, seafood and dinner specials.

SOUL INFUSION TEA HOUSE & BISTRO 628 E. Main St. (between Sylva Tire & UPS).

828.586.1717. Tuesday-Friday 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Saturday noon -until. Scrumptious, natural, fresh soups, salads, sandwiches, wraps and desserts. 60+ teas served hot or cold, black, chai, herbal. Seasonal and rotating draft beers, good selection of wine. HomeGrown Music Network Venue with live music most weekends. Pet friendly and kid ready.

SPEEDY’S PIZZA 285 Main Street, Sylva. 828.586.3800.

Open seven days a week. Monday-Friday 11 a.m.-10 p.m., Saturday 3 p.m.-11 p.m., Sunday 4 p.m.-10 p.m. Family-owned for 30 years. Serving hand-tossed pizza made to order, pasta, subs, gourmet salads, calzones and seafood. Also serving excellent prime rib on Thursdays. Dine in or take out available.

TAP ROOM SPORTS BAR & GRILL 176 Country Club Dr. Waynesville 828.456.5988. 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. seven days a week. Enjoy soups, sandwiches, salads and hearty appetizers along with a full bar menu in our casual, neighborhood grill.

THE WINE BAR 20 Church Street, downtown Waynesville.

828.452.6000. Underground cellar for wine and beer, served by the glass all day. Cheese and tapas served Wednesday through Saturday 4 p.m.-9 p.m. or later. info@classicwineseller.com. Also on facebook and twitter.

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Hailing from Robbinsville, country/rock act My Highway is fronted by Josh Lane (left) and Josh Beasley (right).

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BY GARRET K. WOODWARD STAFF WRITER The real deal is hitting the airwaves.

Blasting out of the backwoods of Robbinsville, My Highway is a crossroads for country, rock-n-roll and mountain music.

Led by Josh Beasley and Josh Lane, the quintet has been making names for itself around Western North Carolina and beyond. Performing a variety of original and cover material, the band keeps one foot firmly planted in Appalachia, one stretching to the bright lights of Nashville.

And at the center of it all are Beasley and Lane. The duo brings forth a notion of legitimacy to the country genre. These folks didn’t grow up in a big city or the suburbs like many of today’s radio stars. Nope, they were raised in rural Graham County. It was a place where they learned music from their elders while soaking in the essence of country living — from moonshine to hunting, community pride to the simple joy of front porch pickin’.

The Smoky Mountain News recently caught up with Beasley and Lane. They spoke of their childhood in Robbinsville, the songwriting process, and why a recent record deal may just be the perfect recipe to bring My Highway into the mainstream.

Smoky Mountain News: How did 2013 wrap up for My Highway?

Josh Lane: We had our best year so far. From playing sold out after-parties at Harrah’s Cherokee for Little Big Town, Jamey Johnson, and even The Black Crowes, to our “Carolina Moonshine” music video filming — it has been a great year.

SMN: When was the first time you realized you wanted to play music?

JL: The first time I played the Graham County Heritage Festival in 1992, with the Carolina Bluegrass Boys. I knew the music business was what I wanted to do.

Josh Beasley: I’ve always loved country music. I pretty much knew every word of every song on the radio through high

school and college. But, when I turned 23, I got my first guitar and I was hooked.

SMN: Growing up in Robbinsville and Western North Carolina, how did that influence your musical ambitions and talents?

JL: I always grew up around gospel and bluegrass, and have played both. I like the spirit in gospel, and like the heart and heritage in bluegrass. It’s who we are as people in Western North Carolina.

JB: It seems like everybody plays or sings around here.

Seriously, I think some of the most talented musicians I’ve ever met are from right here at home. Music was something I connected with and I was fortunate to grow up in an area it was so prominent. A lot of the bluegrass and gospel carries over into what I do.

SMN: How did My Highway come about?

JB: I actually came to Lane with a song I had written, just for an opinion. I had been asked to play a wedding reception, where Lane and I performed. We started playing restaurants, private parties and a dance hall called Jimmy’s Pick N Grin in Andrews. We basically kept going, forming a full band, and started branching out in Western North Carolina, which eventually led to playing the Southeast. We believe, “If your goin’ do it, do it, don’t talk about it — make it happen.”

SMN: What’s your songwriting process like?

JL: We basically will have a line or hook, then will add a melody. Occasionally, we’ll have a melody and try to add lyrics, but usually the words come first. We never know what the final product will sound like. Sometimes it’s pretty creative what we come up with, but we just focus on keeping the songs personal, meaningful to us, our stories and experiences.

SMN: You just signed a record deal with a Sony subsidiary.

What are the parameters of the deal and what does it mean for My Highway?

“I always grew up around gospel and bluegrass, and have played both. I like the spirit in gospel, and like the heart and heritage in bluegrass. It’s who we are as people in Western North Carolina.”

— Josh Lane, My Highway

JL: We’re excited for everyone to hear our music. We’ll have a professional product, based on our music and style. We’re finally getting to play our music as a career, and it feels great.

We signed a 360 deal with Mizay Music Group based in Atlanta. Our distribution will be through Sony RED, which works with big names like Jason Aldean, Mumford & Sons.

We feel at home with Mizay Music Group and are excited to be the first country artist signed to a mostly hip-hop/rap label. We’re also proud to have our music career managed by Debra Antney. She has managed and been influential to the careers of artists like Nicki Minaj, Waka Flocka and French Montana. We’ve been currently working on an EP record, produced by Josh Cross, who has worked with Justin Bieber and Carley Ray Jepsen. We’re also being co-produced by Scott Patton of Sugarland.

SMN: What do you want someone to feel leaving your show?

JL: We just want the people to see and feel the passion and energy we put into our show. The fans are always the focus. We just like to put on a performance that makes the people forget the world, and have the best time they’ve ever had at a live show. We feel this is what we are meant to do — we can feel it.

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Mountains of Upstate New York, Lucid is a collage of rock, blues, jazz and reggae.

Road warriors for the better part of the last decade, the sextet finally captured their hardships, determination and pure talent on record. Bouncing between Parisian serenades and grab-you-by-thethroat roadhouse blues, each song stands on its own, teasing you endlessly to press “replay” when it comes to a completion.

Key Tracks: “Armchair Prophet,” “Came and Went – Silhouettes,” “Despots”

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Pearl Jam once again proves why they’ve endured for decades as a political and societal watchdog, onstage and off. Lead singer Eddie Vedder only gets better with age, as do the words and chords. This album represents a turning point for the band, that now has its 25th anniversary on the horizon. The

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Futurebirds — “Baba Yaga”

The Athens, Ga., hard rock/Americana group has finally stepped out of the shadows of their musical cohorts Dead Confederate and the Drive-By Truckers (both also from Athens) with this superb album. The sound is filled with razor-sharp guitar riffs layered with three/four-part harmonies and a keen lyrical perception, which

cultivates the struggles of not only what it means to be a musician, but also a southerner in the fast-paced modern world. In essence, if you took The Beach Boys, The Band, Hank Williams and Nirvana, and threw them into a blender, you’d have Futurebirds.

Key Tracks: “Tan Lines,” “Heavy Weights,” “Virginia Slims”

sound seems stripped down, faster, with more urgency and potency. Pearl Jam is as fiery and pro-active as ever, and we the listener only benefit from their wisdom and nurturing aura.

Key Tracks: “Mind Your Manners,” “Sirens,” “Lightning Bolt”

Kacey Musgraves — “Same Trailer Different Park”

Like Futurebirds, Isbell has also taken a huge career leap. Formerly of the Drive-By Truckers, Isbell seemed to never be able to shake his storied work for the Truckers. But, all of that has changed with this album where southern rock takes folk music for a ride. After years of drugs and alcohol abuse, Isbell got clean and the result is some of the most poignant, heartbreaking words put to paper. He’s a man with a new sense of purpose, and this record hopefully the tip of the iceberg for one of the finest songwriters of this era.

Key Tracks: “Cover Me Up,” “Elephant,” “Live Oak”

The feisty, easy-on-the-eyes Texan blew onto the Nashville scene this year, seemingly almost from leftfield. Musgraves carries a 21st century torch of what it means to be a true female country star — a foundation set by the likes of Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton and Tammy Wynette. Country music has greatly needed this injection of culturally relevant lyrics, with Musgraves taking on the topics of poverty, homosexuality, marijuana, and just simply being a human being in a sometimes-confusing existence.

Key Tracks: “Blowin’ Smoke,” “Merry Go ‘Round,” “Follow Your Arrow”

Pearl Jam — “Lightning Bolt” The elder statesman of modern rock,

Jason Isbell — “Southwestern”

Lucid — “Home Is Where We Want To Grow” Hailing from the Adirondack

Justin Timberlake — “The 20/20 Experience” Always taking pop/R&B to new heights, Timberlake is a master at his craft.

Key Tracks: “Suit & Tie,” “Mirrors,” “Tunnel Vision” Shonna Tucker & Eye Candy — “A Tell All” Tucker and her southern rock group break new ground with this fine debut.

Key Tracks: “Since Jimmy Came,” “You Went All the Way,” “Arielle” The DuPont Brothers — “The DuPont Brothers” The string duo molds folk and Americana into mesmerizing selections.

Key Tracks: “My Friend,” “Skipping Stones,” “Tapped In” T. Hardy Morris — “Audition Tapes” Hard rocker Morris goes acoustic and shows why he’s one of the best.

Key Tracks: “Share the Needle,” “Audition Tapes,” “Disaster Proof”

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very Jan. 1, a clean slate arrives. It’s a chance to start over, to push into exciting pursuits where curiosity roams free. The past year is already in the history books.

Everyone has returned to square one — a level playing field where the possibilities are endless.

And with the New Year, comes fresh music. I’m always in awe of how each year it just seems to get better and better, while I explore further down the rabbit hole that is melodic innovation and harmonious change.

2013 came and went in the blink of an eye, and the soundtrack for the last 365 days is something to take a moment and reflect on.

A lot of unknown bands broke through, while old staples found new ways to bend and shape their tone.

The following are my picks for the Top 5 albums of 2013. Rock on, y’all.

Peter Rowan — “The Old School” The bluegrass legend comes into a new, bountiful phase of his career.

Key Tracks: “Doc Watson Morning,” “Keepin’ It Between The Lines (Old School),” “Drop the Bone”

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April 5. Balsam Range, winner of the 2013 IBMA Album of the Year for PAPERTOWN, will perform at each show.

Patrons can enjoy the added benefit of dinner with the members of Balsam Range before the concerts. Tickets for each concert are $20 at The Colonial Theatre box office or by calling 828.235.2760.

The Balsam Range Winter Concert Series is sponsored by Amy Spivey, Waynesville Inn and Smoky Mountain Roasters. www.balsamrange.com.

WCU Mountain Dulcimer Winter Weekend at Lake J The “Winter Concert Series” hosted by Balsam Range continues Jan. 4 at the Colonial Theatre in Canton.

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Balsam Range ‘Winter Concert Series’ welcomes John Driskell Hopkins Balsam Range’s annual “Winter Concert Series” will continue with John Driskell Hopkins at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 4, at the historic Colonial Theatre in Canton. Hopkins is a multiaward winner and founding member of the Zac Brown Band.

Vancouver Island Music Award winner The Sweet Lowdown perform Feb. 1; premier studio musicians Jeff Collins, David Johnson and Tony Creasman, March 1; and country and bluegrass masters Larry Cordle, Carl Jackson and Jerry Salley,

Dulcimer fans and aficionados will gather for the annual Mountain Dulcimer Weekend held Jan. 9 through 12 at Lake Junaluska, put on by Western Carolina University’s continuing education program.

The conference will offer more than 50 hours of instruction on the mountain dulcimer, hammered dulcimer, guitar and autoharp. Participants may take classes that focus on multiple instruments and a variety of topics will be presented, including music theory, tab reading/writing skills, improvisation and advanced dulcimer ensemble skills.

Winter Weekend instructors will include Tennessee natives Larry and Elaine Conger, Butch Ross, Sarah Morgan and Jim Miller, along with North Carolinians Steve and Ruth Smith and Anne Lough. Evening activities will include staff performances and a music-sharing session. Miller will lead jam sessions throughout the conference.

Registration for the conference is $159 and does not include meals or accommodations. www.dulcimeru.wcu.edu or 828.227.7397.

• One Leg Up, Bohemian Jean and Paul Cataldo will perform at The Classic Wineseller in Waynesville. One Leg Up plays Jan. 3, with Bohemian Jean, Jan. 10 and Cataldo, Jan. 11. All shows begin at 7 p.m. $10 minimum food, drink or merchandise purchase. 828.452.6000 or www.classicwineseller.com.

• SmokeRise and Mile High Band hit the stage at O’Malley’s Pub and Grill in Sylva. SmokeRise performs Jan. 3, with Mile High Band, Jan. 4. Both shows begin at 9 p.m.

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• The “Winter Pickin’ in the Armory” will be at 7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 3, at the Canton Armory.

Performance includes mountain music, vintage country, clogging and dancing.

The pickin’ is every first and third Friday of the month. www.cantonnc.com.

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• Country-rock/mountain music group SmokeRise will perform at 7 p.m. Jan. 4 at Lucky Jakes in Maggie Valley. Ghost In The Machine opens. $5. Advanced tickets can be purchased at Lucky Jakes at 2723 Soco Road or by calling 828.400.2414.

• Country-rock/mountain music group SmokeRise will play the Maggie Valley Rendezvous for New Year’s Eve. There will be hors d’oeuvres, champagne toast, party favors and a midnight breakfast buffet. 828.926.0201.

• Twisted Trail will ring in the New Year at 9 p.m. Dec. 31 at Alley Kats in Waynesville. $12 per person, $20 per couple, includes champagne, party favors and light snacks. Black and white attire requested, formal or casual. 828.226.7073 or www.twistedtrailband.com.

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On the street Gluten free baking class in Haywood A gluten free baking class hosted by Linda Arnold will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 8, at the Senior Resource Center in Waynesville.

A local food stylist, caterer and former inn owner, Arnold will teach new and innovative ways to cook gluten free.

The series is sponsored by the Haywood County Public Library and the Senior Resource Center. Class size is limited. Reservations strongly recommended.

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the world who are also members in CIOFF®, International Council of Organizations of Folklore Festivals and Folk Art. CIOFF® promotes the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage through dance, music, games and other arts in partnership with UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization).

Folkmoot USA, based in Waynesville, is a non-profit that relies upon donations, sponsorships, Friends of Folkmoot members, ticket sales and grants to put on the Folkmoot Festival and other programs each year. The Folkmoot Festival has held the title “Top 20 Event” by the Southeast Tourism Society for 22 years and was named a “Top 100 Event” by the American Bus Association.

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For more information, to make a donation or to purchase tickets to the 2014 Folkmoot Festival that runs July 18-27, go to www.folkmootusa.org or 877.365.5872.

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Folkmoot USA had a $9.2 million impact on Western North Carolina in 2013, according to an economic impact study conducted

by Tom Tveidt of SYNEVA Economics.

The economic study included the Western North Carolina region but focused on Haywood County, showing that Folkmoot’s overnight visitors spent $6.6 million during their visit. Outside day-trippers spent an additional $89,000 in Haywood County.

Only overnight and outside day-trip visitors were included in Folkmoot’s study.

“By tracking Festival spending as it moves through the local economy, we were able to measure the important role it plays in supporting jobs, adding income and generating tax revenues,” Tveidt said.

The economic activity generated from Folkmoot USA supports 101 jobs in Haywood as well as $1 million in additional tax revenues.

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Ellison to host watercolor, collage demo Painter and paper maker Elizabeth Ellison will demonstrate the use of collage in a landscape painting at the Art League of the Smokies meeting at 6:15 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 9, at the Swain County Center for the Arts in Bryson City.

Ellison will incorporate torn and manipulated papers, such as handmade, oriental or tissue wrapping paper onto watercolor paper and then paint a simple landscape using this textured surface. She primarily paints in watercolor, but often incorporates acrylics or gouache to get the desired effect.

Although known for her watercolor paintings, Ellison also does acrylic and oil paintings, pottery, and makes her own paper. She often paints directly on the paper she makes from native

Appalachian plants or uses her handmade papers to create texture collages in her watercolor or acrylic paintings. Local landscapes, native flowers and wildlife are among the subjects Ellison depicts in her unique impressionistic style that uses both traditional and oriental techniques along with American Indian motifs The demonstration is sponsored by the NC Arts Council, Swain County Center for the Arts and Swain County Schools. This program received support from the North Carolina Arts Council, a division of the department of Cultural Resources.

Free. www.elizabethellisonwatercolors.com or 828.488.7843 or www.swain.k12.nc.us/cfta.

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Painter Dominick DePaolo will be the featured artist for the month of January at the Mahogany House Gallery and Studios in Waynesville.

DePaolo creations include nostalgic drawings of classic cowboy heroes and fine art paintings in oil, acrylics and watercolors. His style is realistic and evokes a sense of America’s more innocent days.

Mahogany House is located at 240 Depot Street. The gallery and studios are open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and from noon to 5 p.m. on Sunday.

828.246.0818 or www.themahoganyhouse.com.

• The films “The Great Gatsby” and “Despicable Me 2” will be screened at The Strand at 38 Main in Waynesville. “The Great Gatsby” will be shown Jan. 3-4, with “Despicable Me 2”, Jan. 10-11. All shows begin at 7:45 p.m., with a Saturday matinee at 5 p.m. Tickets are $6 for adults and $4 for students. 828.283.0079 or www.38main.com.

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The remaking of a learned writer he new year is a time when many people, dissatisfied with some condition of their lives, resolve to make changes. Often these attempted transformations involve shedding weight or unwanted habits like smoking or drinking. Depending on all sorts of variables — the will power of the individual, support given or denied, circumstances beyond our control — we either keep the resolution and make an adjustment to our style of living, or we fail in our attempts and fall flat on our faces.

Writer These are remodeling jobs, efforts made to improve some corner of ourselves, yet occasionally we make changes — or we are changed — in ways that amount to a major job of reconstruction in which our old selves, like dilapidated buildings, are demolished and a new structure is painfully and painstakingly erected.

In Race With The Devil: My Journey from Racial Hatred to Rational Love (Saint Benedict Press, ISBN 978-1-61890-065-4, 2013, $22.95), Joseph Pearce, renowned Catholic biographer and a leading expert on J.R.R. Tolkien, takes readers back to his days as a young man, when he was a leading light in the National Front, a British whitesupremacist group. Though some of Pearces’s readers may have known of his early history of writing fascist screeds, street fighting, and serving jail time for race baiting, Race With The Devil will doubtless come as a major shock to those who know Pearce as the creator of fine literary biographies on figures ranging from Oscar Wilde to Alexander Solzhenitzyn.

Pearce credits his father, Albert Arthur Pearce, to whom he has dedicated the book, with having the greatest influence on him in his younger days. His father, a carpenter and

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autodidact, loved his country — he could quote reams of Shakespeare and other English poets — and lamented both the decline of the British Empire and the tide of immigrants that swept into Britain beginning in the 1950s. Arthur Pearce was the sort of man who could love individual Irishmen while loathing the Irish as a whole, and he passed this point

of view to his son.

As he moved beyond adolescence, Pearce became more involved in various protests against immigrants. He founded a magazine for young Britains of similar ilk, The Bulldog, and so began what seemed at the time a career as a radical right-winger. He was arrested for fighting in pitched battles and counterdemonstrations, rose in the ranks of the National Front as a spokesman for their nationalistic ideas, and organized various rock concerts involving skinheads and punk bands to raise money and to protest Britain’s left-wing politicians. Eventually, Pearce was arrested and jailed twice for exacerbating racism in Britain.

In his first stint in jail in 1982, Pearce remained defiant in his stance toward multiculturalism. He writes that “I was at war with Britain’s multi-racial society, working tirelessly to bring it to its knees through the incitement of a race war from which the National Front would emerge, phoenix-like, from the ashes.”

Both then and on his release, he saw himself as a “political soldier” and a “political prisoner.”

In 1985, when he was again sentenced to jail, Pearce began to undergo that massive transformation of the heart and mind which would eventually lead him into the Catholic Church and a vocaRace With The Devil: My Journey from Racial Hatred to tion for writing spiritual biogRational Love by Joseph Pearce. Saint Benedict Press, 2013. raphies.

Even before entering 264 pages. prison this second time,

Pearce, like so many others who have undergone spiritual conversions, fell under the spell of books and writers. He began reading G.K. Chesterton’s essays on “distributism,” which advocates an economy based on many small businesses rather than on corporations. As he read more, Pearce realized that this idea was in harmony with another economic idea found in the Catholic Church, the idea of subsidiary which links distributism with the importance of the family. Intrigued, Pearce proceeded to pick up other Chesterton books, and found there a man of wit and wisdom who had found joy in his faith. Like C.S. Lewis, who once wrote of Chesterton that “a young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading,” Pearce found himself drawn closer and closer to Christian beliefs.

The final third of Race With The Devil outlines Pearce’s time in prison and his break with the National Front in the year after his release. He continued his reading — Chesterton, Lewis, and Tolkien were some of his favorites — and deepened his prayer life.

After years of struggle, he gained a foothold as a Catholic biographer. He also met his wife, an American, Susannah, and began teaching at various Catholic colleges to make the money needed for children and a marriage.

Today Pearce is a highly-respected author and teacher living near Greenville, S.C. He serves as guest lecturer at various schools — his courses on Tolkien and The Lord of the Rings are especially popular — continues to write books, and has created a series of televised talks for mass distribution. He has gained a good amount of renown for his biographies of authors like Belloc, Shakespeare, Chesterton, and Tolkien.

But perhaps his best biography and great gift to the world is the one he wrote about himself.

(Jeff Minick is a writer and teacher who lives in Asheville. He can be reached at minick0301@gmail.com.)

Sylva Library begins adult creative writing group An adult writing group will run from 6 to 7:30 p.m. every second and fourth Thursday of the month starting Jan. 9 at the Jackson County Public Library in Sylva.

The group is facilitated by Stephanie Wooten, an adult services assistant I. This class will consist of exercises/prompts, group reading and responding, and mechanics (making time for writing, inspiration, etc.).

It is open to all, and participants can join at any time. The group will meet upstairs in the Genealogy Room. Attendees can write anything they want, whether it’s fiction, nonfiction, poetry, short stories and more.

The classes are co-sponsored by the Friends of the Jackson County Public Library.

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Seed exchange locations Sylva Sprouts Seed Lending Library

Trading seeds is at root of effort to save crops urvey your supermarket and you’ll see pretty much the same stuff anywhere in the country: oranges from Florida, onions from Georgia, potatoes from Idaho.

Some variety has crept in recently — with artful displays of mountain-grown produce paying homage to the local food movement — but generally the corn we eat in North Carolina is the same corn they’re eating in Iowa and Utah.

Lee Barnes finds that scary.

“We have become dependent on 10 to 15 crops for our food.

That’s dangerous,” said Barnes. Dependence on just a few species leaves everyone vulnerable if one of those mega-crops fails, whether due to a newly pest, a drought or blight.

A 25-year Haywood County resident, Barnes has spent much of his life trying to counteract this trend by encouraging the spread of neglected plant varieties. On the front line, it comes

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There’s more than survival at stake, of course. Barnes pointed out that many of the varieties available in supermarkets are bred to be transported hundreds of miles and to last on supermarket shelves. They are not bred for taste. In addition to requiring a lot of fossil fuel for transportation, many of our fruits and vegetables are bland, tough and flavorless.

Take tomatoes. The better they taste, it seems, the more fragile they are.

APPALACHIAN RICHES In this region there’s little reason to settle for generic food. In a 2011 publication titled Place-Based Foods of Appalachia, Appalachia is lauded for “the highest documented levels of agrobiodiversity in the U.S., Canada and northern Mexico.”

Located at the NC Cooperative Extension Service Center in the Jackson Community Service Building, 538 Scotts Creek Road, Sylva. www.jacksoncountyfarmersmarket.org/sylva-sproutsseed-lending-library-2/

Buy Haywood Local nonprofit supporting Haywood County farmers. The web site contains a directory for Haywood County growers and their products. www.buyhaywood.com

Seed Savers Exchange The official seed saving source. Their Seed Saving Resources page contains a concise description of how to save seeds of individual plant types. Seed Savers Exchange also offers webinars that are archived and available from this page. www.seedsavers.org

Sustainable Mountain Agriculture Center Preservation group in Berea, Ken. Haywood County native Bill Best promotes heirloom tomato and bean seeds. Many of their seeds come from Western North Carolina. www.heirlooms.org

Center for Cherokee Plants Master gardener Kevin Welch of the Big Cove community is helping Cherokee growers save old-time varieties of Cherokee heirloom vegetables from extinction. www.cherokeepreservationfdn.org/cultural-preservationconnect/success-stories/99-putting-culture-back-in-to-agriculture

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down to one gardener at a time — planting, saving and passing along seeds, ensuring they will live again to see another day.

At a “Seeding Saving 101” workshop at the Haywood County library in Waynesville last month, Barnes was a happy man. His goal that day was to teach gardeners how to participate in a new “seed lending” library that distribute packets of heirloom seeds to anyone who wants to grow them.

“We’re all in this together,” he said. “We all need to save seeds and share with others. There are people who don’t want to share — but they got their seeds from somebody.”

Barnes was there to do more than preach: over a couple of hours he gave a highly condensed course in heirloom horticulture, showing an audience of interested gardeners how to harvest, save and store seeds.

“My purpose in life is to spread seeds and then become food for plants,” he said.

Waynesville’s seeding lending library will be patterned after one in Sylva. The Sylva Sprouts Seed Lending Library is housed in the N.C. Cooperative Extension Service office there.

Strictly speaking, the seeds are not lent. When gardeners “borrow” the seeds, they plant them and then harvest seeds from the resulting plants, bringing some back to restock the seed library. It’s a virtuous circle. Incidentally, the old card catalog drawers, which the library no longer uses, will be used to store the seed library.

A botanical garden featuring the largest collection of native Appalachian and Chinese medicinal herbs in the Eastern US, organically grown at the foot of the Black Mountains in Burnsville. Specialties include Southern Appalachian and oriental medicinal herbs, wild foods, perennial vegetables, craft plants and other ethnobotanicals. They sell seeds, plants, fresh and dried herb material, tinctures and other preparations. www.mountaingardensherbs.com

“We are an extremely biologically rich area. We have at least 1,400 rare and endangered varieties of fruits and vegetables.”

— Lee Barnes

“Appalachia is the longest continuously inhabited mountain range in the United States, and it has an extensive history of indigenous agriculture by the Cherokee and other American Indian peoples,” the article states.

But, Barnes pointed out, our heritage isn’t the only factor in making this region so important to the movement to save these forgotten plants. In recent years, the area has become a magnet for people interested in organic farming, farm-to-table restaurants, farmers’ markets and niche crops.

Other speakers at the seed workshop last month echoed this trend. Tina Masciarelli, project coordinator with Buy Haywood, pointed out that in Haywood County alone there are close to 700 working farms, adding up to more than 56,000 acres. The

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No Taste Like Home Foraging tours for wild foods leave Asheville from midApril to mid-October every Saturday and the third Wednesday of the month from 9-12:30. Pre-registration required. www.notastelikehome.org

Southeastern Permaculture Gathering Annual event in Celo featuring classes and workshops on agriculture and rural, sustainable living. www.southeasternpermaculture.org

WNC Slow Foods Promotes and preserves the food culture of the region through the relationships between farmers, families and the community. Programs include fresh and sustainable cooking classes and heritage foods education. www.slowfoodasheville.org

Jackson County Farmers Market See what seeds are available in the Sylva Sprouts Seed Lending Library and get monthly planting advice and chore checklist from the Jackson and Swain Master Gardeners or find out what is happening at the market each Saturday. www.jacksoncountyfarmersmarket.org

BY DON H ENDERSHOT

Time to rejoin the “battle outside”

A talk on winter fishing techniques will be held at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 6, in the conference room of United Community Bank in Sylva.

Curtis Frisbee, manager of Rivers Edge Fly

Shop in Cherokee, will share cold weather flyfishing tips during the monthly Tuckaseigee Chapter of Trout Unlimited meeting, held the first Tuesday of the month.

A meal will be served starting at 6:30 p.m.

You don’t have to be a member of Trout Unlimited to attend.

Located on N.C. 107.

Learn about Smokemont’s history

NPS photo

A program on the old Smokemont community before the coming of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 9, in the historic courthouse in Sylva.

Jackson County native Dick Sellers will give a talk titled “The History of Smokemont and Luftee Baptist Church” in conjunction with the Jackson County Genealogical Society’s monthly meeting. Sellers, whose ancestors lived in the Qualla area, is a volunteer with the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and is interested in the history of the park and the surrounding communities.

Free. Held in the community room of the Jackson County courthouse. 828.631.2646.

WNC Beef Cattle Commission honors champion Waynesville cattleman Tony McGaha was honored recently by the WNC Beef Cattle Commission with the Happy Hollow Award for his efforts to promote and support the beef cattle industry.

The winner is selected by past recipients based on the person’s involvement with the WNC Beef Cattle Commission activities over the years.

“We are pleased to be presenting this award to Tony McGaha in appreciation for his dedication to the beef industry. Over the past 30 years, Tony has worked diligently to improve the agriculture for the future and farm families not only in Haywood County but many other parts of N.C.,” said Neal Stamey, a cattleman from Haywood who nominated McGaha.

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This appears especially true in the Old Home State where the (first in over 100 years) Republican triad used the 2013 session of the General Assembly to lay waste to decades of progressive environmental policy and programs that produced a state that was a leader in outdoor tourism, retirement destination, second-homes, environmental policy and protection, quality of life and — prior to 2013 — ranked number 4 on CNBC’s “America’s Top States for Business.”

North Carolina has since been relegated to number 12 on CNBC’s list because of its declining “Quality of Life.”

The Republican majority wasted no time setting the tone for their environmental agenda, passing Senate Bill S-10 in January, a bill that would fire all the members of the state’s environmental commissions and replace them with appointees. This particular bill was not signed into law but parts (firing all sitting Environmental Management Commissioners and most members of the Coastal Resources Commission and the Coastal Resources Advisory Commission, as per Senate Bill 10) were included in the state budget that did pass.

This was a tactic used throughout the session — bills that didn’t pass were chopped up and parts were inserted in different more favorable bills. House Bill 74, which was finally signed into law in August, is one that comes to mind as it including all or large chunks of SB-612, SB-112 and HB– 94. This bill, among other things, shortens the time a third party has to challenge air or water permits from 60 days to 30; combines the Division of Water Quality and the Division of Water Resources; reduces air quality protections; eliminates the Mountain Resources Commission; and creates a complicated process for readopting any state rules, with the perceived intent of repealing such rules and designating surface water quality and wetlands regulations as the first rules to be reviewed.

Other casualties of the budget include the Clean Water Management Trust Fund, which McCory had hoped to eliminate altogether and some think may still be in his sights. But at this point McCory has lumped the Natural Heritage Trust Fund with the

CWMTF and budgeted both at only $10.4 million for next year, about a tenth of CWMTF’s pre-recession funding.

One only has to take a quick glance at CWMTF’s impact in WNC to see what a huge loss to environmental stewardship this is: $727,000 for Needmore expansion in 2005; $725,000 for Mill Creek septic hookups in Highlands in 2007; $1.2 million for Tuckasegee wastewater collection in 1997; $1.6 million for the acquisition of Beaver Creek, the Andrews Watershed water supply; and the list goes on and on.

I recently saw a short description of environmentalism over the past decades. It is broken down into two schools of thought: • Pragmatic Environmentalism — Pragmatic environmentalism seeks to protect the environment because it is in our species best interest to do so in the long term,” according to the Kenyon College Department of Biology.

• Ideal Environmentalism — “The rejection of an exclusively subjective (anthropocentric) value system is necessary for ideal environmentalism, which endeavors to preserve and defend the natural landscape, for its own sake. They [ideal environmentalist] reject economic ‘necessity’ as a viable human motivation in the face of excessive natural value destruction,” according to the Kenyon College Department of Biology.

I admit, I thought we had reached a kind of post-pragmatic environmentalism where people could see that defending the natural landscape for its own sake is the same as protecting what’s in our best interest as we are not separate from our landscape.

Regrettably when it comes to shortsighted politicians and corporate interests, the lure of profit and/or power rends the dualism asunder like a ship slipping anchor, leaving us once again on the seas of public opinion and political whim. The only thing left to do as environmentalists is to gird our loins and march back into the fray and tell our politicians: “Come senators, congressmen/Please heed the call/Don’t stand in the doorway/Don’t block up the hall/For he that gets hurt/Will be he who has stalled/There’s a battle outside/And it’s raging/It’ll soon shake your window/And rattle your walls/For the times they are a-changing.”

(Don Hendershot is a writer and naturalist. He can be reached a ddihen1@bellsouth.net.)

group is working on an agri-tourism guide that will direct visitors to farms they can visit, as well as pick-your-own operations and roadside stands.

Among those in the audience were John and Jane Young, Haywood County residents since the late 1990s and growers of heritage corn. John demonstrated some of the corn he grows — very different from the supermarket varieties — to be milled for flour. The dried yellow rows of kernels are sparse.

John Young was among the first participants in a Master Gardener class held at the county agricultural extension in 1997.

He was asked to judge a garden contest in Cherokee and soon met Cherokee gardener Russ Bradley, who had been growing heritage corn and saving the seeds for many years. The two became friends.

“Russ gave him some corn for seed corn, and that’s how we got our start,” said Jane Young. “John has grown it every year since then and he really cherishes that corn.”

Every year the Youngs take their corn to a neighbor’s farm to be milled.

“They power this big stone with a Ferguson tractor,” Jane said. “We put our shelled corn in a pillowcase and go down there. Afterwards we put [the flour] in the

pillowcase and take it back home. It’s such fun.”

Jane says she hopes the new interest in the seed library will lead more people to grow heritage corn. They are happy to share.

Waynesville Librarian Kathy Olsen first heard about seed libraries last summer in a story on NPR. “I thought it would help make the library a relevant part of our community,” Olsen said.

Olsen got in touch with the organizer behind the Sylva seed library, Jenny McPherson, who also manages the Jackson County Farmers Market.

“I asked her how hard it was, how she got her funding. She came to the library and met with me. She’s been a great resource,” Olsen said.

Barnes said the seed library only works if people save and contribute seed back to the program.

He encourages growers to divide their seeds by three: plant a third, save a third, and give a third away.

“Go out and get your fingers dirty,” he advises. “Those seeds are dependent on us, and we’re dependent on them.”

The seed library will be open March 3, 2014. There will be an open house at the library March 2.

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Pigeon River Fund grant to help fix failing septic systems

January 1-7, 2014

Slide on U.S. 441 will not disrupt traffic A landslide in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park was recently discovered along Newfound Gap Road, but is not blocking the road and is not considered a safety threat.

Contractors will begin shoring up the slide this week, however, to keep it from eventually destabilizing the roadbed above.

The slide is on the downhill slope about 50 feet below the road. It is in North Carolina, about a mile from the stateline before reaching the Newfound Gap parking area.

Crews will reinforce the slope to stabilize the road embankment and to prevent slope failure or erosion along the road shoulder. The restoration work will include retaining wall construction, road reconstruction, stone masonry guardwall construction, guardrail placement, shoulder reconditioning, installation of culverts and inlets, and site restoration.

Traffic lanes will be temporarily shifted onto the road shoulder throughout the duration of the project to maintain two-way traffic. However, single lane closures will be required intermittently. The parking area adjacent to this slide area will be closed, but the small pull off for the Deep Creek trailhead will remain open. www.nps.gov/grsm or 865.436.1200.

A $30,000 grant to repair failing septic systems in Haywood County will help reduce bacteria contamination in local waterways.

The grant was received by Haywood Waterways and the Haywood County Environmental Health Department from the Pigeon River Fund of the Community Foundation of Western North Carolina.

If a septic system fails, everything dumped in sinks and flushed down toilets can leak into groundwater and streams, including human waste, laundry detergents, cleaning chemicals, and pharmaceuticals. Bacteria and viruses from the human digestive tract can cause ear infections, typhoid fever, hepatitis A, viral and bacterial gastroenteritis, dysentery, and other serious health problems.

Clues of a failing system include slow plumbing, foul odors, excessive grass growth, soggy soil, and standing ground water near the system. The most common cause of problems is excess water use.

Recommendations for keeping a system in good working order are: ■ Don’t flush household chemicals, such as

bleach, disinfectants, paints, solvents, pesticides, antifreeze, antibiotics, and medications. Also, limit the use of anti-bacterial soap and drain cleaners. Chemicals in these products kill the bacteria that purify sewage.

■ Don’t flush hanging toilet cleaners, coffee grounds, cooking oils, and feminine hygiene products. These can clog the system and cause raw sewage to back up into the house.

■ Direct roof drains and sump pump drains away from septic drain fields. Oversaturation of soil keeps soil from absorbing and cleaning wastewater.

■ Don’t park automobiles or other heavy items over a system. They can crush the drain lines.

■ Plant only grass over and near your septic system; roots from trees or shrubs may clog and damage the absorption field.

■ Pump the septic tank regularly; it’s the best preventative maintenance a homeowner can do. A typical 1,000 gallon tank for a family of four should be pumped about every three years. Pumping prevents solids from clogging the drain lines and extends the life of the system.

Haywood Waterways and the Haywood County Environmental Health Department will continue the septic repair program as long as grant funds are available. Interested homeowners should contact the

Environmental Health Department at 828.452.6682.

Sewage spills into Richland Creek tributary during rains About 200,000 gallons of untreated wastewater spilled from a manhole and made its way into a small tributary that feeds Richland Creek outside Waynesville last week.

The sewer overflow began during a period of intense rainfall at about 1 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 22, and lasted about 28 hours, ending when the rain and stream flows subsided.

The overflow emanated from a sewer manhole at the county fairgrounds off N.C. 209.

The affected areas were cleaned and limed, according to a notice sent out by the town as required by state statute in the event of untreated sewer spills.

The rainfall total for the period was 4.3 inches. Waynesville Public Works Director Fred Baker said maintenance activities and sewer system rehabilitation are being performed to identify and correct infiltration and inflow sources connected to the sewer system to prevent overflows in the event of future heavy rains.

828.456.4410.

Lighten UP 4 Life kick-off in Franklin Jan. 6 The annual Lighten Up 4 Life weight loss challenge in Macon County has arrived in time to give your New Year’s Resolution the extra nudge it needs.

The kick-off event will be at 5 p.m. Monday, Jan. 6, at Angel Medical Center’s dining room.

The free, web-based initiative invites four-person teams to compete against each other for the most weight lost. The top three teams to lose the highest percentage of their combined weight receive prizes, including a Kindle Fire for each member of the first-place team.

“Having Lighten Up for Life become a program here in our community gives our neighbors and friends the chance to take a few minutes during the week to ‘weigh in’ and get the support they need to help in shedding unwanted pounds on-line,” said James Bross, Angel’s CEO. “With no cost and a total online program, this is a healthy choice that makes getting healthy a lot easier for busy folks.” 828.349.6639.

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WNC Calendar COMMUNITY EVENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS • Macon County Beekeepers Association meeting, 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 2, Cooperative Extension Office on Thomas Heights Road, Franklin. Everyone welcome.

524.1203.

• Smoky Mountain Model Railroaders work session, 7 to 9 p.m. every Tuesday and public viewing session from 2 to 4 p.m. the second Sunday of the month, 130 Frazier St., in the Industrial Park near Bearwaters Brewery, Waynesville.

The group runs Lionel-type 3rail O gauge trains. http://smokymountainmodelrailroaders.wordpress.com.

BUSINESS & EDUCATION • Computer Class: Editing Digital Photos with PIXLR, 5:45 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 8, Jackson County Public Library. 586.2016.

• Retirement party for Marty Stamey, 4 to 6 p.m.

Thursday, Jan. 9, Senior Resource Center, 81 Elmwood Way, Waynesville.

• Drop in retirement reception for Ron Fisher, M.D., palliative care pioneer, at 4:30 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 14, Mountain Trace Nursing Center.

• Nominations being accepted for The Duke Power Citizenship and Service Award, Citizen of the Year and Club/Organization of the Year. Deliver nomination letters to Franklin Chamber of Commerce, 425 Porter St. or email to LindaH@Franklin-Chamber.com. Nomination deadline is 5 p.m. Tuesday, Jan.14. Awards presented at annual Awards Banquet and Chamber annual meeting at 6:15 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 21, at Tartan Hall., First Presbyterian Church in Franklin. $25. Seating limited and advanced tickets are required.

• Jackson County needs volunteers to provide free basic tax forms preparation and counseling for individuals.

No previous tax preparation experience is required.

Training and certification by local mentors using IRS and AARP Foundation training materials and guidelines provided. Donald Selzer, 293.0074.

• Business plan competition through spring 2014, offered by Macon County Certified Entrepreneurial Community (CEC) Leadership Team. Grand prize is $5,000. www.maconedc.com, SCC’s Small Business Center, 339.4211 or t_henry@southwesterncc.edu.

• Substance abuse treatment certificate, one semester, Southwestern Community College. Registration deadline, Jan. 6; classes start Jan. 7. Sarah Altman, saltman@southwesterncc.edu. 339.4319.

• Nursing Assistant I class, 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. Fridays and 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturdays, starting Jan.17, Haywood Community College. http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-nursing-assistant.htm. 565.4145 or email sfischer@haywood.edu.

• Business plan competition for entrepreneurs in Dillsboro, through spring 2014. Winner will receive a $5,000 grand prize. Finalists will be announced during the week of March 31, winners the week of April 7.

Tiffany Henry, 339.4211 or t_henry@southwesterncc.edu or Tommy Dennison, 227.3459.

BLOOD DRIVES Jackson • MedWest Harris Sylva Blood Drive, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Thursday, Jan. 9, 68 Hospital Drive, Sylva. www.redcrossblood.org, keyword: Harris, or call 800.RedCross.

All phone numbers area code 828 unless otherwise noted.

800.733.2767 or visit www.redcrossblood.org.

• Senior Resource Center Blood Drive, 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 8, 81 Elmwood Way, Waynesville.

800.733.2767 or visit www.redcrossblood.org.

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Room, Waynesville. 627.9666 or riggs_sandi@msn.com or 627.0227.

• National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) chapter, 7 p.m., third Thursday of each month, Asbury Sunday School Room, First United Methodist Church in Waynesville. 400.1041.

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• Longs Chapel Church Blood Drive, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Monday, Jan. 13, 175 Old Clyde Road, Waynesville. In honor of Don Merrell. 627.2808.

• Recovery from Food Addiction, a 12-step recovery program for individuals suffering from food addiction, 5:45 p.m. Wednesdays, Friendship House, Academy St. beside Waynesville’s First United Methodist Church, 400.7239.

• Evergreen Packaging Blood Drive, noon to 4:30 p.m.

Monday, Jan. 13, 34 Park St., Canton. 800.733.2767 or visit www.redcrossblood.org and enter Sponsor Code Evergreen.

• Single Parents Networking Group, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., Wednesdays, First United Methodist Church, 566 S. Haywood St., Waynesville, free, dinner and child care provided in fun, informal setting. 456.8995 ext. 201.

Macon Co. Department on Aging. 369.5845.

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• WNC Grief Support Group is for families who have lost a child. 7 p.m., third Thursday of each month, Clyde Town Hall. 565.0122 or e-mail hotstraitcountry@aol.com.

• Healthy eating/weight control classes are held every Tuesday at noon at the N.C. Cooperative Extension Service Office, 193 Thomas Heights Rd. 349.2048.

• Angel Medical Center Blood Drive, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Friday, Jan. 3, 120 Riverview St., Franklin. 369.4166 or www.redcrossblood.org, keyword: Angel.

HEALTH MATTERS • Kick off for Lighten Up 4 Life, 5 p.m. Monday, Jan. 6, Angel Medical Center hospital dining room, Franklin.

The LU4L program is a free web-based weight loss challenge.

SUPPORT GROUPS Haywood • Recovery educational support classes for those with substance abuse/co-occurring disorders, 6 to 7:30 p.m., Tuesdays, 1210 South Main St., Waynesville. $50 fee for book and materials payable at the first class attended. Scholarships available. Jane, 400.5851.

• Support classes for friends and family of those with substance abuse/co-occurring disorders, 6 to 7:30 p.m.

Mondays, 1210 S. Main St., Waynesville. $50 fee for book and materials payable at the first class attended.

Scholarships available. Jane, 400.5851.

• Men’s Only Grief Support Group, 9 to 10:30 a.m. the second Tuesday of each month, First Presbyterian Church, 305 Main St., Waynesville. John Woods, facilitator. 551.2095 or jhwoods55@yahoo.com.

• WNC Lupus Support Group 7 p.m., first Tuesday of each month, Home Trust Bank in Clyde. 421.8428 or countrygirl351@bellsouth.net.

• New chapter of Co-Dependent’s Anonymous, 6 to 7 p.m. Mondays, Dogwood Wellness, Dillsboro. Connie, 477.4380 or e-mail seascat@gmail.com.

• Harris Monthly Grief Support Group, 3 to 4 p.m. every third Tuesday of the month, Chaplain’s Conference Room, MedWest-Harris, Sylva. 586.7979.

• TOPS (Take off Pounds Sensibly) support group meets 5:30 p.m. every Monday at Bethel Methodist Church.

Weigh in begins at 4:30 p.m. 369.2508 or 369.5116.

• Al-Anon Family Group meets every Monday evening from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m., Sylva Methodist Church. A support group for family and friends whose lives are affected by someone else’s drinking.

• Weight Watchers meet each Tuesday at the Peggy Crosby Center in Highlands. Weigh in is at 5:30 p.m. with the meeting beginning at 6 p.m.

• Breastfeeding support group, 9:30 to 11 a.m., first Monday of each month at the First United Methodist Church (park in back and use rear entrance) Sylva. smokeymtnmamas@yahoo.com or 506.1186.

• Women’s 12-Step Medicine Wheel Recovery Group meets Tuesdays at 5 p.m. at A-Na-Le-Ni-S-Gi in Cherokee.

• Men’s discussion circle, 7 p.m. Mondays, The Center in Sylva. $5. Chuck Willhide, 586.2892 or e-mail chuckwillhide@hotmail.com.

• Al-Anon Meetings are held at 4 p.m. Tuesdays at Grace Community Church. The meetings bring hope for families and friends of alcoholics. 743.9814.

• Look Good, Feel Better is for women dealing with the appearance related side effects that occur with cancer treatments. 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at Harris Regional Hospital. Sessions are offered bimonthly on the first Monday. RSVP required, 586.7801.

• Haywood County Aphasia Support Group, 1:30 to 2:30 p.m., second Monday of each month in the Haywood Regional Medical Center Fitness Center classrooms.

227.3834.

• WestCare Hospice Bereavement Support Group meets at 3:30 p.m. the third Tuesday of each month in the Chapel Conference Room at Harris Regional Hospital.

586.7410.

• AA meetings, 7 p.m., Saturdays, Maggie Valley United Methodist Church, 4192 Soco Road. 926.8036.

• Weight Watchers meets at 8:30 a.m. every Monday at Grace Christian Church in Cashiers. 226.1096.

• Al-Anon, a support group for families and friends of alcoholics, 8 p.m., Tuesdays, Grace Episcopal Church, 394 N. Haywood St. Use Miller St. entrance. 926.8721.

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• Diabetes Support Group, second floor classroom, MedWest Health & Fitness Center, 4 p.m. on the second Monday of each month. 452.8092

• Overeaters Anonymous meets at 5 p.m. on Sundays at First United Methodist Church at 86 Harrison Ave in Franklin. 508.2586 • NAMI Appalachian South (National Alliance on Mental Illness), the local affiliate of NAMI NC, meets on the first and third Thursdays of each month at 7 p.m. at the Community Facilities Building, Georgia Road Contact Ann Nandrea 369.7385.

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• Grief and Beyond, a grief support group, 4:30 to 6 p.m. Thursdays, room 210, Long’s Chapel UMC, Waynesville. Facilitated by Jan Peterson, M.S. 550.3638 or Long’s Chapel UMC, 456.3993, ext. 17, Tim McConnell.

• Alzheimer’s Association, 4:30 p.m., fourth Tuesday of each month, First United Methodist Church, Waynesville and 2:30 p.m., third Thursday of each month, Silver Bluff Care Center in Canton. 254.7363.

• Angel Medical Center’s Diabetes Support Group meets at 6 p.m. the fourth Monday of each month in the Center’s dining room.

• Angel Medical Center offers a monthly Diabetes Support Group the last Monday of each month. The group meets in the Angel Medical Center dining room beginning at 4 p.m. Pre-registration is required by calling 369.4181.

• Anxiety, nervousness and/or panic disorders support group meets at 7 p.m. on Fridays in the basement of Highlands United Methodist Church. 526.3433.

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• Grandchildren/Grandparents Rights of N.C., 7 p.m., first Thursday of each month, Canton Library. 648.5205.

• Al-Anon meetings are held at noon every Thursday at the First Presbyterian Church at Fifth and Main in the community room in Highlands. All are welcome.

• First United Methodist Church Blood Drive, 1 to 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 2, 566 S. Haywood St., Waynesville.

• HOPEful Living: Women’s Cancer Support Group, third Tuesday of each month from 5:30 to 7 p.m., Haywood

• Alzheimer’s Caregivers Support Group meets at 1:30 p.m. on the second Tuesday of each month at the

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• Circle of Parents, support group for any parent, meets at noon on Thursdays at the Swain Family Resource Center.

• Grief Support Group meets from 7 to 8 p.m. each Monday night at the Cherokee United Methodist Church on Soco Road. 497.4182.

RECREATION & FITNESS • The Health & Fitness Center at MedWest Haywood will waive the initiation fee for all new members who join through Jan. 10. 452.8080.

• Learn to Ski/Snowboard class, Jan. 12 and 26 and Feb. 2, 9 and 23. Ages 8 years old and older. Cost is $170 for lift, rental and lesson; $135 for lift and lesson, or $85 for a season pass holder with own equipment.

456.2030 or email recathletics@townofwaynesville.org.

• Learn to Ski/Snowboard class, Jan 12 and 26 and Feb. 2, 9 and 23. Ages 8 and older. $170 lift, rental, lesson; $135 for lift, lesson; $85 for a season pass holder with own equipment. Ages 8 and older. Jackson County Recreation Department, 293.3053.

SENIOR ACTIVITIES • Cooking with Linda Arnold, 2 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 8, Senior Resource Center, 81 Elmwood Way, Waynesville.

Sign up at 452.2370.

KIDS & FAMILIES • Registration open for Jackson County Junior Appalachian Musicians (JAM) classes. Semester II classes will run January through May 2014, Thursdays

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at Cullowhee Valley School. $100 per student. Dusk Weaver, JAM director, 497.4964 or weaverdusk@gmail.com or Heather Gordon, 4-H Agent, at 586.4009 or heather_gordon@ncsu.edu.

• Waynesville Parks and Recreation Department open house for home school parents for the new Base Camp Waynesville, 1 to 3 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 2, Waynesville Recreation Center. Tim Petrea, 456.2030 or email recprogramspecialist@townofwaynesville.org.

A&E FESTIVALS, SPECIAL & SEASONAL EVENTS • Jackson County Genealogical Society program, “The History of Smokemont and Luftee Baptist Church,” by Jackson County native, Dick Sellers, 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 9, Community Room, Jackson County Courthouse, Sylva. Sellers, whose ancestors lived in the Qualla area, is a volunteer with the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and is interested in the history of the Park and the surrounding communities. 631.2646.

• 9th annual Mountain Dulcimer Winter Weekend Jan. 9-12 at the Lambuth Inn at Lake Junaluska Conference and Retreat Center. Sponsored

by Western Carolina University’s Office of Continuing and Professional Education. $159, does not include meals or accommodations. Information on accommodations and meal packages at Lake Junaluska reservations, 800.222.4930. www.dulcimeru.wcu.edu or 828.227.7397.

• Western Carolina University will host events including panel discussions this spring on social and cultural issues of the 1960s and is searching for community members to take part by sharing their experiences during that time on topics such as voting rights, abortion and the environment and energy. Contact Amy Cherry, assistant professor of music and chair of the 1960s theme steering committee, at 227.3725 or acherry@wcu.edu.

Saturday, Jan. 4, The Strand, 38 Main, Waynesville. Tickets, $4-$6.

283.0079, www.facebook.com/38main.

• Family movie, 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 7, Marianna Black Library, Bryson City. The world’s most famous tap-dancing penguin, Mumble, and the love of his life, Gloria now have a son of their own, Erik. 488.3030.

• Despicable Me 2, 7:45 p.m. Friday, Jan. 10, and at 5 p.m. and 7:45 p.m.

Saturday, Jan. 11, The Strand, 38 Main, Waynesville. Tickets, $4-$6.

283.0079,www.facebook.com/38main.

LITERARY (ADULTS) • Adult writing group, 6 to 7:30 p.m. every second and fourth Thursday of the month, starting Thursday, Jan. 9, Jackson County Public Library, Genealogy Room. Led by Stephanie Wooten, adult services assistant. Open to all. 586.2016.

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• “Land Of The Crooked Water” works by artist Joshua Grant will be on display through January at Macon County Public Library, Franklin.

CLASSES, PROGRAMS & DEMONSTRATIONS

• Mile High Band, 9 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 4, O’Malley’s, Sylva.

• Smoke Rise, 7 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 4, Lucky Jake’s, Maggie Valley. $5.

• 8 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 2, Julie’s Kickin’ Karaoke; 9 p.m. Friday, Jan. 3, Dance Night with DJ KO, and 8 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 4, Julie’s Kickin’ Karaoke, Alley Kats, 154 Hemlock St., Waynesville. 456.9498 or 734.6249.

• Pub Theology, 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 7, City Lights Café, Sylva.

ON STAGE & IN CONCERT • Auditions for the 2014 season of Unto These Hills, the long-running, outdoor drama in Cherokee, 2 to 6 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 11 and Saturday, March 22, 564 Tsali Blvd, Cherokee, across from the museum. Come prepared with a monologue, a headshot and a song (if you sing). Marina Hunley-Graham, 497.3652 or Linda Squirrel, 497.1125.

• Community music jam, 6 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 2, Marianna Black Library, downtown Bryson City. Anyone with a guitar, banjo, mandolin, fiddle, dulcimer - anything unplugged - is invited to join. 488.3030.

Outdoors

DANCE • Western Style Square Dance Lessons, 7 to 8:45 p.m. Wednesdays, Jan. 8 through April 16, Jackson County Recreation Department. $65 for 15-week session. 296.3053.

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• Pisgah Promenaders “Snowflake” Square Dance, 6:45 to 8:45 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 11, Old Armory Recreation Center, 44 Boundary St., Waynesville. Plus and Mainstream dancing with caller Ken Perkins.

586.8416 or 586.6995.

FILM & SCREEN • The Great Gatsby, 7:45 p.m. Friday, Jan. 3, and 5 p.m. and 7:45 p.m.

• Join North Carolina park rangers and volunteers for First Day Hikes, Wednesday, Jan. 1. All state park facilities will remain open on the holiday. More than 40 scheduled hikes ranging from short “leg-stretchers” to four-mile treks will be available. Details at www.ncparks.gov, “Education.”

• Franklin Bird Club bird count, Jan. 4, to count birds for annual Audubon Christmas Bird Count.369.1902 to participate.

• Tuckaseigee Chapter of Trout Unlimited, 6:30 p.m. dinner, 7 p.m. program, Tuesday, Jan. 6, conference room of United Community Bank on

• Great Smoky Mountains National Park is operating on its winter schedule. For details, go to www.npswww.nps.gov/grsm, call 865.436.1200 and follow the prompts, or Twitter at SmokiesRoadsNPS. • Sons of the American Legion turkey shoot, 9 a.m. Saturdays through April, 171 Legion Drive, Waynesville. Cost is $2. Refreshments provided.

Bring your own gun; a few house guns are available.

• Haywood County Waterways is looking for volunteers for its Volunteer Water Information Network (VWIN) program. Volunteers are needed to take water quality samples from creeks and streams in Crabtree and Jonathan Creek and send the samples to a water quality lab. haywoodwaterways.org/monitoring or contact Dave Dudek, DDudek@haywoodnc.net or phone (late afternoon), 926.1308.

• The Gorges State Park is looking for volunteers to assist in maintaining existing trails and campgrounds in the park on Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., weather permitting. Bring gloves, water and tools supplied.

Participants need to be at least 16 years old and in good health.

Registration not required. Meet at 17762 Rosman Highway (US-64) in Sapphire. 966.9099.

• Being a Hospitalero on the Camino, 7 to 8:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 6, REI, 31 Schenck Parkway, Asheville. 687.0918. www.rei.com/asheville. Join WNC chapter of American Pilgrims’ January meeting to learn about how working in an albergue as a volunteer hospitalero (warden) adds another dimension to the Camino experience.

• National Park Service wants your thoughts on how the Appalachian Trail should be managed. Submit your feedback to www.parkplanning.nps.gov/appafoundation by Jan. 9.

• Bike Maintenance Basics, 7 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 9, REI, 31 Schenck Parkway, Asheville. 687.0918, www.rei.com/asheville.

• Hands-On Bike Maintenance: Drive Train, 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 29, REI, 31 Schenck Parkway, Asheville. 687.0918, www.rei.com/asheville. $20 REI members/$40 non-members.

COMPETITIVE EDGE • Run in 2014 5K Run, Walk, & Fun Run, 11 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 1, Jackson County Recreation Center. $20, pre-registration; $25, race day.

First 100 registered receive a long sleeve, wicking shirt. www.imathlete.com, (search Run in 2014).

• 4th annual Assault on Black Rock (ABR), 9 a.m. Saturday, March 22, Jackson County. A 7-mile trail race from the parking lot of Sylva’s Pinnacle Park to the 5,810-foot Black Rock summit on the spine of the Plott Balsam Mountains. Proceeds to benefit the Community Table. Register at www.CommunityTable.org, “event calendar.” Online registration at Active.com, but an extra $3.25 fee is included. Brian Barwatt, 506.2802 or barwatt@hotmail.com.

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• Nantahala Hiking Club, 4.5-mile hike Saturday, Jan. 18, to Round Mountain. Meet at 10 a.m. at Cashiers Recreation Center parking lot.

Leaders Mike and Susan Kettles, 743.1079. Visitors welcome; no pets.

PROGRAMS & WORKSHOPS

• Music Jam every Thursday night from 6 to 8 p.m. at Frog Level Brewery on Commerce St.in Waynesville. First and third Thursday are mostly Celtic; second and fourth are mostly Old Time; fifth Thursday anything goes. All acoustic instruments are welcome. Newcomers welcome. besscrider@gmail.com or aviancm@gmail.com.

• Painter and paper maker, Elizabeth Ellison, will demonstrate the use of collage in a landscape painting at 6:15 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 9, Art League of the Smokies meeting, Swain County Center for the Arts in Bryson City. www.elizabethellisonwatercolors.com.

• Nantahala Hiking Club, seven-mile hike, Saturday, Jan. 11, Chasteen Creek Cascades on Bradley Fork-Smokemont Loop, Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Meet at 9 a.m. at Oconaluftee Visitor Center just outside Cherokee. Leader, Keith Patton, 456.8895. Visitors welcome; no pets.

• Local Audubon Society weekly Saturday birding field trips. 7:30 a.m.

Highlands Town Hall parking lot near the public restrooms, or at 8 a.m. behind Wendy’s if the walk is in Cashiers. www.highlandsaudubonsociety.org or 743.9670.

• Smoke Rise, 9 p.m. Friday, Jan. 3, O’Malley’s, Sylva.

MUSIC JAMS ART/GALLERY EVENTS & OPENINGS

Highway 107 in Sylva. Program on winter fly fishing techniques presented

by Curtis Frisbee, manager of Rivers Edge Fly Shop in Cherokee. Everyone welcome to attend. dick.sellers@frontier.com.

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