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CONTENTS On the Cover: Last week Riley Howell was a college student at UNC-Charlotte about to complete his junior year. This week he is a hometown hero who will forever be remembered for the bravery he showed when a gunman opened fire in his classroom. (Page 6) This past weekend, Haywood County paid homage to native son Riley Howell, the hero who gave his life to protect others during the UNCC shooting. But why Howell did what he did is as much about who he was, as where he was from. Joe Pellegrino photo

News Franklin transfers ownership of Nikwasi Mound ........................................................3 Audit finds accounting issues at Cherokee schools ................................................4 Mass shootings linked to multiple factors ....................................................................9 Congressional hearing explores Catawba casino bill ............................................10 Nonprofit will help fund proposed HCC facility ......................................................11 Sylva budget features less spending, level taxes ..................................................12 Planning underway for Cullowhee’s future ..............................................................14 Health News ......................................................................................................................17

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group of partners broadly represented,” said Dr. Gordon Mercer, a retired Western Carolina University professor. “They’ve been working for some time on this. At least it’s a plan for our future.”

While the town has met its obligation to preserve and maintain the mound, Ken Murphy, former chairman of Mainspring, said the Initiative and its partners have the resources to take it a step further by offering

Councilmember Barbara McRae had a conflict of interest as the co-chairwoman of the Nikwasi Initiative and should abstain from voting on the issue.

“Town Council represents the town of Franklin — you don’t represent any other entity or the parties involved in this proposed transaction,” Robert Siler told the board. “If you are, you’re not doing your job as a council member and in my opinion

Franklin Town Council approved transferring ownership of Nikwasi Mound to nonprofit Nikwasi Initiative after months of debating the controversial decision. Jessi Stone photo

have a conflict of interest.”

Henning said McRae did not have a conflict of interest because she had nothing to gain financially from the transferring of the deed and was therefore compelled to vote in the issue. Even if she hadn’t voted, the measure still would have passed.

Henning then explained the new proposed deed he had drawn up for the board’s consideration. He said the new deed contains the same restrictions found in the 1946 deed to the town. Nikwasi Initiative won’t be able to sell, limit access or develop the property and must keep it maintained for all residents.

“I think we have honored the deed,” he said.

Henning said those against the transfer were “cherry picking” parts of the old deed to meet their argument, but there’s one section of the deed that hasn’t been brought up.

It states that any new deed that conflicts with the 1946 deed would be considered null and void. Henning said that meant there could be a deed that doesn’t conflict with the 1946 deed, which is what he thinks he accomplished.

Most importantly, Henning said, ownership of the mound would automatically revert back to the town if the nonprofit ever dissolves. If the town ever felt like Nikwasi Initiative wasn’t living up to its obligations, he said there would be a process for the town to take back over the deed.

“Any other failures of Nikwasi Initiative to follow through on its obligation, we’d have a due process and could hold a hearing to prove our case. I think that’s only fair,” he said. “Everything I’ve researched about

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an educational component while also improving the appearance of East Franklin.

“I think Nikwasi Initiative is uniquely positioned to accommodate redevelopment around the mound and they are a nonprofit with a public purpose — not private — and it does represent the interest of its stakeholders,” he said. “I know all the directors — they are thoughtful and reasonable.”

He also addressed another major questions opponents have been asking — why does the Initiative need to have the deed in order to move forward with the projects planned for the adjacent properties? A collaborative effort and a more permanent ownership agreement is what funding agencies look at when awarding grant money.

“It puts us in a better position to seek funding,” Murphy said. “Nikwasi Initiative’s vision for the gateway of Franklin will benefit the town tremendously.”

Opponents also tried to argue that the Cherokee people didn’t build the mound and therefore shouldn’t be a stakeholder in the future of the mound even though EBCI has showed interest in taking over the deed and maintenance. That point was quickly shot down. Even if the mound predates Cherokee inhabitants, whatever tribe constructed the mound was closer related to the Cherokee than the white settlers.

“It’s called Nikwasi for some reason — maybe the Cherokee didn’t build it but it was probably their cousins,” said Councilmember Joe Collins. “And this gives them skin into a game I think they’re deserving of — this opportunity may not come along very often.”

Lastly, opponents argued that

Nikwasi Initiative gives me no pause about their ability to maintain a historic property.”

Once everyone had their say on the controversial issue, council members had a chance to weigh in and justify their pending vote.

Mayor Bob Scott — who doesn’t get a vote on the board unless there is a split vote among the council — said he was opposed to the transfer and wanted the council to delay the decision.

“I have questions about this deal from an ethical and moral standpoint of my own,” Scott said.

Originally Scott said he didn’t want to put his signature on the deed conveyance document and had asked Henning if someone else could sign the agreement.

He thought another councilmember could sign it, but it would have to be Town Manager Summer Woodard.

Not wanting to put that burden on her, Scott said he would sign it himself.

“I will sign the deed but it will be under duress because I can’t throw a town employee into this,” he said.

“This is probably the most contentious issue I’ve seen within the town since 1967.”

Henning said the mayor’s signature was simply a symbolic act signifying that the council approved it.

Collins said he didn’t think the community was as divided on the issue as it appeared to be based on opposition at the meeting and on social media forums.

“There are divisive people in the community that are vocal,” he said. “We should go forward with this conveyance because of the educational opportunities. The town has kept it alive but we haven’t done anything to educate the public and we have the opportunity to do so,” he said.

Collins then made the motion to approve the deed transfer — it was seconded by McRae. Councilmember David Culpepper said he’s examined the issue from every angle and can’t find a downside to transferring the deed to Nikwasi Initiative. Even though the nonprofit is only three years old, he said the people on the board have been working in the community for many years and have good intentions for Franklin’s future.

“The bottom line is the people in Nikwasi Initiative are good people and they’re smarter than me,” he said. “Now let’s play devil’s advocate — let’s say we get conned — the protections are still there in the new deed. Public access can’t be limited.

The town of Franklin isn’t expunged of it’s duty to oversee it and make sure Nikwasi Initiative complies with those restrictions. If they break the deed it automatically reverts back to the town.”

The motion passed unanimously.

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BY J ESSI STONE N EWS E DITOR fter months of debate, Franklin Town Council voted unanimously Monday night to transfer the deed for Nikwasi Mound over to nonprofit Nikwasi Initiative.

Applause broke out in the boardroom from those who have been pushing for the deed transfer, but others wanted the town to keep the deed and left the meeting feeling like their concerns and questions had fallen on deaf ears.

Several people who spoke during the public comment portion of the meeting pleaded with the council to at least delay the vote and take more time to consider the impact. The town acquired the deed in 1946 when county residents pulled enough money together to purchase the property and save it from being privately developed.

The language of the deed states that the mound “shall be preserved for the citizens of Macon County and for posterity” and some community members interpret that to mean the town has to keep the mound indefinitely.

Town Attorney John Henning Jr. assured council and residents that’s not the case.

While it must be maintained for posterity, the deed does not require the town to keep the property forever.

Nikwasi Initiative is a locally based public nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving Nikwasi Mound and expanding access and educational activities. It is a collaborative effort a board of directors made up of representatives of Franklin, Macon County, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and Mainspring Conservation Trust.

Though the Initiative has intentions to preserve the mound and utilize the adjoining properties in East Franklin for interpretation and educational projects to highlight Native American history, opponents say they don’t trust the nonprofit and that the town is the only rightful owner under the 1946 deed.

Betty Wallace, who is one of five Macon County residents who filed for an injunction against the town, said the town council was trying to give away something that doesn’t belong to them.

“You are caretakers of historic property that belongs to me and 34,000 other citizens of our county, public property bought by us and placed in your hands for protection and safekeeping on our behalf, forevermore,” she said. “It would behoove you to reconsider your actions in a less aggressive manner toward the rightful and legal owners of the mound and to respect the trust placed in you by lifelong citizens of our county.”

On the other hand, proponents of the deed transfer said they were excited about all the possibilities that could come out of the partnership. Though opposition tried to build a case against the nonprofit — calling them a “private entity” with no track record — others said they believed the board of directors had nothing but good intentions for the sacred mound.

“I can’t think of a better nonprofit group than what’s been put together — it’s a good

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Audit finds issues with Athletic Department accounting at Cherokee schools Report release coincides with director’s firing

BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER recently completed report commissioned by the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians’ Office of Internal Audit and Ethics has concluded that financial policies in Cherokee Central Schools’ Athletic Department are inadequate.

The report, done by Arizona-based Veriti Consulting LLC, originated from an investigation Internal Audit began on Aug. 27, 2018, probing financial transactions within athletics. Veriti submitted the resulting report to Internal Audit on Jan. 11, and Internal Audit then reviewed it and did follow-up research to verify information, according to the report’s cover letter signed

by Chief Audit and Ethics Executive Sharon Blankenship.

The file was submitted to CCS Superintendent Michael Murray March 11 and released to The Smoky Mountain News

by Internal Audit April 16 in response to a public records request.

“Veriti’s opinion is CCS’s and the Booster Club’s entity internal controls are inadequate, resulting in unreliable financial reporting and safeguarding of assets … Veriti’s opinion is CCS’s and the Booster Club’s transactional internal controls are inadequate and provide the opportunity for misappropriation of assets and theft,” reads the report’s overview section.

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THE FINDINGS The investigation’s Aug. 27 initiation came less than three weeks after an Aug. 6, 2018, school board meeting in which $195,658.83 in over-expenditures from the Student Activity Account was written off in the general ledger to bring accounts to zero.

The Student Activity Account holds funds raised from athletic events, fundraisers and donations.

Cherokee Central Schools serves about 1,200 elementary, middle and high school students. Holly Kays photo

Veriti’s investigation concluded that the accounting system between the athletic department and Booster Club is inefficient and lacking in internal controls; that internal controls are lacking for vendor payments and employee reimbursements; that the purchasing and procurement process is inadequate; and that there are deficiencies as it relates to the safeguarding of cash.

The report pointed out a lack of financial training among athletic employees, as well as lack of communication between athletics, the Booster Club and CCS as it relates to accounting. It was unclear, the report said, how often or by whom athletics accounts were reconciled and reviewed for accuracy — though Booster Club President Donna Armachain, who had only recently taken on that position, told Veriti accounts are now being reconciled monthly.

Veriti also took issue with the way vendor payments and employee reimbursements are handled, deeming the filing system inadequate.

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“Veriti requested complete copies of particular vendor files and employee expense reports and they were not provided,” the report said. “Veriti is unsure if they exist or were not readily located within CCS.” Vendor files, the report said, should include an approved purchase order, requisition, vendor invoice or completed expense report along with a copy of the check and all other receipts. Athletic Director Carroll “Peanut” Crowe told investigators that no reimbursements are made unless there’s a receipt documenting the business purpose, the report states.

“However, per review of Crowe’s and other employees’ expense reimbursements, receipts were not always evident, and those that were included did not adequately state the business purpose, participants and other requisite data,” the report said.

Veriti selected certain vendors and employees for whom it wished to review payment and supporting documentation but reported that in most cases it did not receive

the supporting documentation it requested.

“Employees charge items allegedly related to CCS business on their personal credit cards and receive reimbursement in the form of check payments,” the report says. “This practice is used extensively when sports teams travel, wherein a coach or chaperone will pay for the entire team’s meal and get reimbursed. However, in most cases those reimbursements did not include receipts or a list of team members and coaches who received the meals. Therefore, there is no means of verifying that the proper amount is being reimbursed.”

The reimbursement process suffers from security issues as well, the report said. At the time of Veriti’s visit, the blank checks kept for the Student Activity Account were in an “unlocked, unsecure area” at the Cherokee Booster Club office, providing opportunities for “fraudulent activities such as forged maker schemes” in which employees steal unsigned checks. While the blank checks should have been returned and accompanied by W-9 forms and check copies when cleared, the report said, the checks and W-9s were not attached. Veriti did receive various W-9s in the course of its investigation but did not reconcile them to payees due to scope limitations.

Investigators found issues with the way vendors are selected and items purchased.

“Personnel interviewed stated that there was no rhyme or reason as to which vendor was used and no solicited quotes were requested … A bid process should be implemented to ensure uniforms, supplies, equipment, etc., are purchased at the best price. This process will also help prevent kickbacks, collusion or other fraudulent activity,” the report said.

CCS also needs to tighten up the process for making purchases and collecting deliveries, Veriti said.

“According to personnel interviewed, allegedly anyone with access to a CCS computer and CCS’ credit card numbers can make online purchases and then retrieve items in the warehouse when merchandise is delivered,” the report said. “Allegedly, there is no one in the receiving area who verifies merchandise received is for CCS operations.”

That system makes it possible for people to make personal purchases with CCS funds and pick them up without detection. In two cases, Veriti noted, purchases made with CCS credit cards were delivered to individuals’ homes.

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Crowe said he was terminated from his job with the school but for nothing involving money. He said he lost his job due to not following policy and procedure but declined to be more specific. Crowe was adamant that he did nothing wrong, especially not as it relates to money.

“I had a finance person to handle all the money,” he said. “I never dealt with any kind of money whatsoever.”

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Murray declined to give an interview about the findings but released a statement. s “Anytime the Board of Education receives r confidential documents from another branch of Tribal Government the matter is taken s very seriously and appropriate actions are - taken,” he said. “However, the Board will not discuss documents which are provided to it as confidential or relate to potential personnel - matters.” n In response to a request for Board of e Education meeting minutes from dates surs rounding the initiation of the investigation and s its conclusion, Murray said that minutes “can- not be released to non-enrolled members.”

At the time of the investigation and dure ing the 2016-2018 timeframe Veriti was invess tigating, Crowe was director of CCS’ athletic o department and as such responsible for managing the athletics budget and making reports to Murray.

As of April 5, Crowe no longer holds that position. Murray would not comment as to the nature of Crowe’s separation from CCS. Blankenship said that Internal Audit has not done any follow-up investigation or audit to the Veriti report but said she could not speak to whether another agency may do so.

As to the $195,000 that the school board had to write off, Crowe said that money accumulated because employees who were with the school system prior to his employment in 2016 failed to reconcile expenses.

“It had nothing to do with myself because I know how to balance a budget,” he said.

“I’ve done it forever.”

CCS doubtless needs to upgrade its policies and procedures, Crowe said, but that’s a task that would be outside his purview as athletic director. He said he’d been logging 3,500 hours at work each year already — an average of 67 hours over 52 weeks— and pointed out, as Veriti did in its report, that the athletic department did not have any CPAs among its employees.

While Veriti did interview him when compiling the report, there was a lot investigators didn’t ask him about, said Crowe. For instance, the report notes “instances of oceanfront rooms or other deluxe accommodations reserved in Crowe’s name,” saying that “if this type of lodging is considered excessive for CCS business travel, it is problematic and provides an opportunity for employees to unnecessarily spend CCS funds.”

Crowe said that there’s a simple explanation for that expenditure.

The cheerleaders would typically take a trip down to Myrtle Beach, where hotels ran $300-$400 per night. It ended up being cheaper to reserve a four- or five-bedroom condo and house all the girls in one place, he said. The reservation was in his name because he would go ahead and pay for it and have the school reimburse him.

“Stuff like that they would never come ask me,” he said. “They just want to make it look like I was doing all this stuff.”

Crowe, a candidate for principal chief, said in a statement to The Smoky Mountain News about his candidacy sent before he was contacted about the audit that his top priority if elected would be to establish an openbook policy wherein tribal members “will never have to speculate about spending by my office. They will have direct access to my financial records.”

In Crowe’s view, the investigation and its focus on the athletic department in particular is mostly due to his decision to run.

“Someone’s trying to eliminate all the competition,” he added, “and I’m definitely competition.”

The candidate list has seen substantial change in the campaign season so far. The election board declined to certify Teresa McCoy and Mary Crowe to run for principal chief, with the Cherokee Supreme Court later overturning the board’s decision in McCoy’s case. Superior Court Judge Brad Letts sent a letter to N.C. Governor Roy Cooper in February resigning his position so he could run for principal chief, but he never filed for office and later rescinded his resignation.

Crowe said he first stated publicly that he planned to run for chief around Aug. 24, 2018, just days before the investigation was initiated Aug. 27. Internal Audit released the document to CCS and elected leaders of the tribe’s executive and legislative branches March 11, amid the March 1-15 filing period.

“You would never be talking to me if I hadn’t been running for chief,” said Crowe.

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“While it is unknown if there were unusud al circumstances, this should not be permitt ted,” the report said. “This internal control m weakness could be indicative of misappropris ation of funds.” s Finally, Veriti found, current practices e mean that “skimming, or taking cash before t submitted to accounting personnel, could e easily occur.” a While the safe has recently been moved to o accounting offices — four employees now o have codes — it was previously located in the s athletic director’s office or in his assistant’s office, with only those two employees having m access, the report said. It contains start-up e cash for athletics as well as funds that have r been collected but not yet deposited. n Veriti found recordkeeping of cash e received to be insufficient, with very few s deposit slips or accompanying documents r recording the sequential number of tickets d sold — lack of such documentation makes it e impossible to ensure that the cash received is accurate, the report said. Deposit slips had e “scant detail” and there were “no written polit cies and procedures for handing cash and e expenditures.” Booster Club statements could - not be located “with ease,” taking months to receive, and when the report was completed y in January the Booster Club’s cash register had not been updated since March 8, 2018. e r

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HAYWOOD’S HERO: The life and legacy of Riley Howell

BY CORY VAILLANCOURT STAFF WRITER t this time last week, few knew of him and most all those who did were of the home — Waynesville, in Haywood County.

The first time I heard his name roll off the tongues of these Western North Carolinians on that bright morning, it was Howl. Riley Howl. Like Ginsburg’s Howl, the “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness” Howl.

Later I learned it was Howell, but by then it didn’t matter. By then, I’d wished I never heard it at all.

As the story of the shooting at the University of North Carolina’s Charlotte campus quickly evolved into the story of a Waynesville native who gave his life to protect others, I, like his high school soccer coach told members of the media days later, simply wished he were still just a college student.

Celestial machinations though — the cranks and pulleys and levers that operate behind the veil in mysterious ways — put him in that place, in that time, to sing his death song for reasons known only to Him, our Creator.

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can know why he did what he did, in that classroom, on that day. aywood County native Riley Howell was born to Thomas and Natalie HenryHowell a few weeks before Christmas, in 1997. Apparently, it didn’t take him long to make an impact on others; he’d learned to communicate by sign language with a deaf uncle by the age of 3, and apparently cut quite a striking figure even before kindergarten.

“The first time I met Riley I think I was about 4 years old,” said his best friend, Logan King. “I met him at first United Methodist Church in Waynesville. We were in the same Sunday School class, and I thought he looked really cool because he was kind of dressed like a cowboy and he was wearing a snakeskin leather belt that I thought was really neat. He asked if I wanted to be his friend and I said yes, and from there, it was lifelong friends.”

King is a nursing major at Appalachian State University in Boone, which is where he was when he first learned the news. Shortly after King heard from fellow nurses that there were two fatalities in a shooting at UNCC, he received a curious text from his father.

“It said, ‘I need to call you.’ And then he texted and said that my mom was coming up

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to Boone to meet me and I thought that was very strange,” said King. “And then I received a text from one of my friends that said, ‘Did you hear about Riley?’”

The pieces were coming together in an unsettling way for King, who phoned his dad.

“He told me that Riley had attempted to stop the shooter by jumping on him and he tackled him to the ground,” said King. “He said that Riley was dead.”

King was driving at the time and admits to “pretty much coming apart” at that moment. Like a cinder block through plate glass, the blow crackled outwards casting sharpened shards through this small, tightknit community.

“Just … shock. Shock is the only way I can describe it,” said Michael Blackburn, of Waynesville’s First United Methodist Church.

“Almost unbelief. It reminds me of being at an accident scene.”

Blackburn’s known Howell for just about as long as King has, serving as his youth group leader and supervisor during a variety of church functions and trips; former Haywood County schoolteacher Susanna Shetley first met Howell a few years later, when she had him in her seventh-grade class.

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She remembers the young Howell as a tall, g lanky, athletic boy with messy curly blond p hair who was incredibly intelligent, to the H point of dishevelment — distracted by deep i thoughts, unable to find his papers.

“Seventh-grade boys are really awkward, a and I can probably name on one hand the five d seventh grade boys that impacted me, and he m was definitely one of them,” she said.

Growing up where the Smokies meet the “ Blue Ridge Mountains means lots of opportu- f nities for outdoor activity, and King and o Howell formed a tight connection hiking the e area’s rugged trails, swimming at Fontana l Lake and snowboarding at Cataloochee.

A product of the Haywood County School n system, Howell attended Waynesville’s e Tuscola High School for one year until moving s to Asheville, where he graduated from T.C. H Roberson High School. From there, it was on f to Asheville-Buncombe Technical College. r “I know he wanted to be in the military at p one point,” said King. “The last I heard, he t was studying environmental science and wanted to be in some type of forestry job, b either game warden or park ranger, some- H s thing where he could be outdoors.”

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“He didn’t question it, he didn’t hesitate, he instantly ran at someone who was trying to hurt other people, and he attempted his best to stop the person — to save lives, without considering his own.”

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Crowds lined Waynesville's streets to welcome Riley Howell home on Thursday, May 2. Jessi Stone photo

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Flowers and mementoes began piling up outside Lake Junaluska’s Stuart Auditorium — where Riley Howell’s memorial service was held — shortly after news of his death reached Waynesville.

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n many ways, Riley Howell had been a hero for a long time, but less than 48 hours after thoughts became deeds and mortal became immortal and legend became lore, Riley Howell was returned to his community by elements of the Haywood County Sheriff ’s office, along with many other state and local police, fire and public works agencies.

“He would probably think it was kind of neat to have all the fire trucks and police and everything driving around,” King said, “but I think he would ultimately not want to be praised, the way he is. He wanted to remain humble, I think.”

Blazing their way west, down Interstate 40, the motorcade made the 150-odd miles from Charlotte to Wells Funeral Home, in downtown Waynesville. As they arrived around noon, a formidable olive-drab military helicopter throbbed through the clear blue 200 feet off the ground, in a steeply banked turn that thumped the chests of those not already thumping.

Riley’s ROTC membership had played a part in the military customs that would be observed during his formal services, and was readily apparent as hundreds gathered at the intersection of Walnut and North Main streets, waving American flags.

A young Riley Howell (left) and best friend Logan King catch some serious air while sledding.

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s the world came to know more about who he was and what he did, a number of claims about Riley Howell became repetitive to the point of preponderance — namely, that it surprised absolutely no one to hear of his heroism.

“Not at all,” said Shetley. “Riley would do something like that.”

“Not at all,” said Blackburn. “That sounds like something Riley would do.”

“I just think he’s a strong person,” said King, who still often speaks of Howell in the present tense. “He was born strong. He was raised in the church. His parents raised him to have really good morals. He was the oldest of his family and he always protected his siblings and he was just a natural leader that wanted to look out for others.”

A protector of friends and strangers alike, a giver who cared about others, a natural leader mature for his age — that’s how Howell was known around Haywood County even before he became known around the world as a hero.

“You had to let him lead,” King said. “You had to let him go the path he was going to go.

He was very intelligent. His mom’s a teacher and his dad’s a nurse, and so he was very intelligent. Yeah. Great common sense, and great logical sense as far as test-taking and things like that were concerned.”

King said Howell was “always kind of the captain” of their group, taking charge during expeditions out in the woods, or games on the athletic field.

“I would say he’s a free spirit and he could not be chained or shackled,” he said. “You couldn’t hold him down, you had to let him go. He was not hesitant. If something happened, he went ahead and jumped right on it.

He got it done.”

Blackburn recounted a camping trip during which Howell was more a help to the adults chaperoning the expedition than a hindrance, as some of his more mischievous agemates may have been.

“He was a leader and a great kid,” he said.

“Just someone who always seemed mature for his age. He was a kid that both people his own age and elders … he just got along with everybody. Everyone respected him and liked [him].”

Leadership, it has been said, is earned and not commanded. In Riley’s case, it was earned through acts of devotion that demonstrated his giving nature; King said that Howell attempted to become an Asheville firefighter — the core duties of which include running headlong towards that which most people run from — but was rejected for being too young.

Shetley recalled an example of how, years before, the outdoorsy, rough-and-tumble Howell made what must have appeared a strange choice to some of his peers.

“We had a class of students with severe disabilities and he was one of their peer helpers,” Shetley said. “That was really telling right there. They could choose to do folk art, or PE, or chorus or whatever, and he chose to be a peer helper in that developmental delay class.”

Howell had a sense of himself most men twice his age still don’t — he stood tallest when stooped in service to others because of his caring nature, and was cut down because of it.

“I think that he’s a protective person,” King said. “I’ve seen him protect his siblings, I’ve seen him protect me, I’ve seen him just unconditionally give, and care for others, and I think in a split-second, he responded to a problem.”

A problem, just like when King and Logan played football together. In a game against an Asheville school, the slight King — a kicker — found himself in the unenviable position of having to tackle the enormous kick returner. King latched on and was dragged down the field.

“Out of nowhere, Riley comes across the field and jumps headfirst into both of us and laid both of us out,” King laughed. “I think he hit me a harder than he hit the other player, but he hit us both really hard and knocked the guy straight on his back. He was like, ‘I got you, Logan. I got you.’”

His community — shocked but unsurprised, grieving but grateful — can count itself as one of the reasons Riley Howell did what he did, which was as much about who he was as, where he was from.

“I think this community supported him and loved him and loved on his family through their whole lives,” King said. “I just think the unconditional support and love that Waynesville and Haywood County has to offer, for everyone, was evident in his life, too.”

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That’s exactly what Howell was doing at UNCC, where he was finishing up his junior year, when the events of April 30 transpired.

“I think he exhibited all the attributes that a hero should,” King said. “He didn’t question it, he didn’t hesitate, he instantly ran at someone who was trying to hurt other people, and he attempted his best to stop the person — to save lives, without considering his own.”

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Foundation established in Riley Howell’s honor

BY CORY VAILLANCOURT STAFF WRITER t’s barely been a week since Riley Howell’s heroic acts at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte, but a group of people who knew him best have already established a charitable foundation that will ensure that his heroism did not end on the day he died.

“Unfortunately we’ve all had the opportunity to think about people in the family — us — we’re going to need help getting through this,” said Kevin Westmoreland, the father of Riley Howell’s girlfriend, Lauren. “Grief is one thing when your uncle dies and he’s 94, but traumatic grief is completely different. So we looked at the family’s needs when this happened, and a lot of those things cost money. We want to be able to help other families get the help they need without worrying about, ‘OK where’s the $100 dollars for the hour of counseling going to come from?’ that sort of thing.”

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Others held signs, like those that had sprung up a day earlier on billboards at mom-and-pop hotels, distilleries, chicken joints around town — “RIP Riley,” and “Haywood’s hero.”

Already, the parking lot of the funeral home was full, and traffic signage directed media to a designated parking area, away from the intersection still clogged with folks and flags; perhaps never before have so many television camera tripods been set upon these streets at any one time.

Five hours later, the family opened Wells Funeral Home to the public. I spent 90 minutes in a line that stretched from the main reception hall through the lobby out the side door under a covered portico into and out of another chapel and through that lobby out onto the streets, and I may have been fortunate because I arrived early.

As I progressed through the procession, there was a curious mix of reverent silence and joyous reunification; people who obviously hadn’t seen each other in a while smiled, hugged and chatted. How’s your mom? Still at the mill? Been fishin’?

Lining the walls were flatscreens flashing sentimental slideshow photos of a smiling family that could never know that one day, all too soon, he’d be gone, way too soon.

You kind of want to reach out, reach back through time, through the photos, and tell them, tell them all, tell Riley, tell 5-year-old Riley grinning in front of an old-timey train, to watch out and watch out for himself but you know by now it wouldn’t make much difference to him.

Tables set out along the route of the line 8 held heaps of memorabilia connected to

sion is already clear, according to the foundation’s website.

“On April 30, 2019, Riley Howell was in class at UNC Charlotte. Seven minutes in, shots rang out and in a split-second decision, Riley chose to fight. He would not live to know that his actions saved others,” reads the website. “Riley died as he lived — selflessly, bravely and in service to others.

In memory of his courageous act and to honor a remarkable young man, The Riley Howell Foundation Trust will support and advocate for families affected by violence.”

Right now there are no specific group affiliations listed on the website, but Westmoreland said that probably by the end of summer, they will have identified a few other nonprofits that they will work through, while also making direct donations to families and individuals.

“That is very specific, and it’s a very particular piece of work we want to do.

And that came from Riley’s mom,” he said. “She was sitting there on Wednesday or Thursday and she said, ‘I want to help other people who are going through this.

I’m going to make it my life’s work to help other people that are going through this.’”

For more information on the Riley Howell Foundation, visit www.rileyhowellfoundation.org or email rileyhowellfoundation@gmail.com.

Riley’s life. A raggedy cap from Riverbend Elementary. A buck knife. A Star Wars poster.

A Mother’s Day card drawn in the hand of a child that just said “HMD! HMD!” a few dozen times.

You want to see them worn again, used again, held again by the person you wish was still just a college student whose name you never knew whose life was really just beginning and was full of such promise and was so much more than an assemblage of objects on a table, but you know by now that that wouldn’t make much difference to him, either. he next day, bluegrass supergroup and Haywood County natives Balsam Range loaded into the George R. Stuart Auditorium at the Lake Junaluska Conference and Retreat Center, a place they’d played many times before, but probably never like this.

“At this time last week, none of us would have imagined this moment,” said Reverend Dr. Robert M. Blackburn, who officiated Riley Howell’s service.

He was speaking to more than 1,500 people — a community united in faith, in grief and in triumph — and after praying for the dead and wounded he would be the only person I heard all week utter the name of the alleged gunman.

“O God, in this moment we seek to offer a prayer that our hearts, our hearts might not be ready to pray,” he said. “But out of your great love, we know we are called to pray for the perpetrator of the violence. We pray for Trystan Terrell, and his family. May they be touched by your mercy and grace.”

Blackburn also paraphrased Psalm 121, which he called a mountain psalm, for mountain people.

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Dozens of businesses across Haywood County remembered Riley Howell by posting roadside messages of thanks. Cory Vaillancourt photo “I lift up my eyes to the Blue Ridge — where does my help come from? My help comes from the Lord,” he said. “The maker of heaven and earth.”

The father of Howell’s girlfriend Lauren, Mark Westmorland, then took a few moments to compose himself before trying to

“He was a leader and a great kid. Just someone who always seemed mature for his age. He was a kid that both people his own age and elders … he just got along with everybody.

Everyone respected him and liked [him].”

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make sense of what most here consider utterly senseless.

“Maybe it was that God that moved the levers that put Riley in that classroom, on that day, at the exact time, for the purpose of saving others,” Westmorland said. “It was not out of character for him, and maybe someone in that room is here for a greater purpose, and it was Riley’s destiny to sacrifice himself for them.”

Howell’s obituary listed his surviving siblings, all of whom were present and spoke at the service; in a curious turn of phrase, they

were not listed as being “of Haywood County” or “of Waynesville,” but instead “of the home.”

Before Lauren Westmoreland took her chance to address Riley directly with heartrending tenderness, Riley’s sister, Juliet, encapsulated his life perhaps better than anyone by offering a quote from the Shawnee warrior-chief Tecumseh.

“When it comes your time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way,” she said. “Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.”

Near the conclusion of the service came a sobering moment that reminded us all why we were there; a soldier marched on stage and faced the American flag displayed there, slowly drawing his right arm to the bill of his cap. He held it there for what seemed like an eternity in deafening silence until a gunshot rang out.

The 21-gun salute — performed outside, near a set of doors that had been swung open during the service — caught many unawares.

Some of us flinched. Others, mostly law enforcement, didn’t. I couldn’t help but think that was the first sound many in that UNCC classroom heard. I also couldn’t help but think that was the last sound Riley Howell heard.

Balsam Range, who played Riley Howell in to the somber strains of “Amazing Grace,” played Haywood’s hero out to a more rollicking version of the classic southern hymn written in 1929 by Albert Brumley: Some bright morning when this life is over I’ll fly away To that home on God’s celestial shore I’ll fly away.

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While it’s important for law enforcement to try to identify a motive for prosecution purposes, psychiatric experts say society needs to move away from trying to search for a motive and toward recognizing the warning signs before a shooting occurs.

In a Jan. 14 Psychiatric Times article, Dr. James Knoll, director of forensic psychiatry at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, says society needs to focus more deeply on recognizing the major risk factors that increase the risk of violence, being able to identify the red flags and reducing the likelihood of these offenders obtaining lethal weapons.

Knoll said a previous history of violence is the most obvious risk factor, but to also look for a history of substance abuse, a history of child abuse or bullying, witnessing violence between parents, a preoccupation with death or weapons, poor control of anger and social isolation.

“Unfortunately, these risk factors are far too prevalent in the general population to be of practical use in identifying would-be shooters and may not apply to mass shooters,” he said. “For example, there is often no history of serious past violence in these individuals. Furthermore, neither the Secret Service nor the FBI has found a specific psychological profile or checklist of personality traits that can be used to predict who will become a mass shooter.”

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BY J ESSI STONE N EWS E DITOR senseless tragedy. Those words are repeated over and over again in the aftermath of mass shootings in the United States.

These violent acts are even more disturbing when society isn’t able to pinpoint a motive for such a crime. The unknown entices fear and makes people hyper aware that something so tragic could happen anywhere at anytime to anyone. There was a time not so long ago most parents didn’t have to worry about their children’s safety at school. There was a time when small businesses didn’t think they needed to train their employees on what to do if an active shooter walks through the door. And there was a time when rural America thought it was safe from random gun violence.

Those days are over, and nothing has made that more apparent than the recent shooting at UNC-Charlotte that left four injured and two dead — including 21-yearold Riley Howell of Waynesville. While many mass shooting victims will remain strangers that are all-too-soon forgotten as the news cycle moves on to the next tragedy, Howell’s face and heroic acts will never be forgotten by the small community he called home.

While still mourning the loss of Howell and 19-year-old classmate Reed Parlier on April 30, there have been another 10 mass shootings — five more dead and 39 injured — in the U.S., according to Gun Violence Archive.

When it hits too close to home, the questions of “Why?” and “How do we stop it?” come to the forefront of everyone’s mind. As Kevin Westmoreland commented during Howell’s funeral service at Lake Junaluska, “When someone you love dies traumatically, you immediately look for an answer as to

why. The pain is so acute, it’s so strong, you want it to go away as quickly as possible.”

Many people believe stricter firearms regulations should be in place to prevent guns from getting into the wrong hands, while opponents say criminals will find a way to get a gun no matter what the law says. Others blame the increase in mass shootings on changes in society, a younger generation’s inability to deal with life’s failures and disappointments or an increase in substance abuse and mental illness.

cize the shooter’s name, picture and motives.

“There is reason to believe that such notoriety may encourage copy-cat killers, bent on outdoing the previous shooter,” he said. “Surely, proactively uncovering homicidal plots and removing the lethal means of carrying them out makes far more sense than retroactively speculating on a shooter’s motives.”

Dr. Linda Woolf, a professor of psychology at Webster University, wrote a 2018 article for Psychology Today discussing mass shootings and gun control. While she acknowledges all the aforementioned factors — mental illness, bullying, violent video games, bigotry, the role of masculinity and power in our society — she said the core of the issue is that people are being killed by guns.

“The key feature that separates the U.S. from other nations around the globe is the availability and access to guns, particularly highly destructive semi-automatic weapons of war,” she said.

The U.S. represents 5 percent of the world’s population but makes up between 35 and 50 percent of the world’s gun ownership — that’s 88 guns per 100 people.

“In the hands of someone who is influenced by any of the other factors described above, we have a recipe for tragedy,” Woolf said. “Until the U.S. deals with the role of guns in mass shootings and establishes common sense restrictions, we will continue to be plagued by mass shootings. Thoughts and prayer will not end the violence impacting people wherever we gather for fun, support or learning.”

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As for the role mental illness plays, Knoll said the correlation between mental illness and violence is weak, but an untreated serious mental illness can be a risk factor for violence. A recent FBI report on 63 active shooters between 2000 and 2013 found that only 25 percent, or 16, of them had ever had a mental illness diagnosis. Of those 16, only three had a psychotic disorder diagnosis.

“With regard to mass shooters specifically, there is little documented clinical evidence linking these perpetrators to major mental illnesses like schizophrenia or bipolar disorder,” Knoll said. “On the other hand, some evidence suggests that many mass shooters have been preoccupied with feelings of social persecution and fantasies of revenge for some type of perceived injustice.”

The FBI report identified various grievances in 79 percent of the shooters — mostly in regard to interpersonal or employment actions they perceived against them. The FBI report also found that shooters often intentionally or unintentionally reveal their violent intent to others beforehand or make threats of violence, especially with perpetrators 18 and younger.

“While solid, evidence-based methods of preventing mass shootings are still lacking, we believe that progress will come through work on a number of fronts,” Knoll said.

He emphasized the importance of threat assessment teams working inside the schools to help identify planned attacks. He also talked about the important role the media can play in reducing the number of mass shootings in the country by refusing to publi-

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Congressional hearing explores Catawba casino Cherokee leaders optimistic following D.C. lobbying trip

BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER olitical leaders in the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians are optimistic following a recent congressional hearing on legislation that would pave the way for the Catawba Indian Nation to open a casino in Cleveland County’s Kings Mountain, an effort that the EBCI opposes.

“I think this is going to turn out alright,” Principal Chief Richard Sneed told Tribal Council Thursday, May 2. “We’re going to continue to press on this issue because it’s what’s right.”

Sneed and seven members of Tribal Council traveled to Washington, D.C., last week and visited the offices of all 13 members of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs to speak against the bill in advance of the May 1 hearing.

The hearing, a video of which is posted at www.indian.senate.gov, lasted over an hour and dealt with two other bills in addition to S.790, which affects the casino issue.

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Introduced by South Carolina Sen. Lindsay Graham, the bill is co-sponsored by North Carolina senators Thom Tillis and Richard Burr. It would authorize the Catawba — a federally recognized tribe with a reservation in South Carolina — to own a gaming facility on a 16.5-acre piece of land in North Carolina’s Cleveland County and authorize the Secretary of the Interior to take that land into trust for the tribe. The bill states that the facility would comply with the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act but be exempt from Section 20 of that law.

Section 20 relates to gaming on lands acquired after Oct. 17, 1988. No gaming can occur on such lands unless they are contiguous to the boundaries of the reservation or if the tribe had no reservation on that date, the law says — but the prohibition can be lifted. One way that happens is when the Secretary of the Interior determines that a gaming establishment on newly acquired lands “would be in the best interest of the Indian tribe and its members, and would not be detrimental to the surrounding community.” In that case, however, the governor of the state where gaming is to occur must agree with the secretary’s decision.

About 30 percent of the customers who visit Harrah’s Cherokee Casinos in Cherokee and Murphy live closer to Kings Mountain than to the Qualla Boundary, meaning that a new casino in Kings Mountain would likely hurt Harrah’s bottom line. The casino is an economic powerhouse in Western North Carolina, employing 5 percent of the far western counties’ workforce, forming the 10 lion’s share of the tribe’s annual budget —

which tops half a billion dollars — and providing revenue for the twice-yearly per capita disbursements tribal members receive.

Haywood County, Swain County, Jackson County, Waynesville, Bryson City, Sylva, Dillsboro, Webster, Clay County, Graham County and Murphy have all passed resolutions stating the casinos’ importance to the regional economy and their opposition to the proposed legislation.

Sneed has said that S.790 would unfairly create a special exemption from the rules, hurting Cherokee and WNC in the process.

The Catawba, meanwhile, say the bill would merely clarify the Catawba tribe’s land rights in North Carolina, which Chief Bill Harris said were understood to exist when the tribe’s 1993 land claims agreement was drafted but were left unclear in the document’s actual language.

The tribes also disagree about the history of the land in question. Sneed said that the Cleveland County area is part of Cherokee’s aboriginal territory — an 1884 map in the Library of Congress showing the tribe’s former territorial limits includes what is now Cleveland County — but the Catawba contend that the area is their ancestral land, citing information on the Charlotte Museum of History’s website stating that the tribe settled in the Piedmont area 10,000 years ago.

THE HEARING “Our government has promised a bright future for the Catawba people, but they have been deprived of that future through a tortured legal process that has left them with little to show for giving up their land claims and treaty rights, and they did give it up,” Graham said as the May 1 Senate Committee on Indian Affairs hearing opened. “They didn’t get what we promised them in return. S.790 will right that wrong.”

In his testimony, Harris said that when the tribe’s land claims settlement agreement was reached in 1993, it was understood that the tribe would have rights as a “fully restored tribe” in North Carolina — among other understandings. A quarter-century later, the tribe’s land base is much smaller than promised, South Carolina has not allowed it to pursue gaming and policies surrounding educational opportunities for Catawba children have left the tribe deep in debt, he said.

“Obviously, we never (would) have agreed to this settlement with South Carolina if we knew it meant federally enforced poverty,” he said.

Under the bill, the proposed casino site in Cleveland County would be considered off-reservation gaming and a discretionary rather than a mandatory acquisition, said John Tahsuda, principal deputy assistant secretary of Indian Affairs.

“Does the Department of the Interior support S.790?” asked Committee Chair Sen. John Hoeven, of North Dakota.

“In general I would say that the department supports the equal application of laws

to federally recognized tribes such as the Catawba Indian Nation,” said Tahsuda. “It’s clear that the benefits Congress intended for the tribe through the settlement act have not been realized and this has resulted in disparate treatment for this tribe as compared to other federally recognized tribes.”

Hoeven asked Harris why the tribe doesn’t pursue land in South Carolina instead of looking to North Carolina, and whether he had reached out to the EBCI to address their concerns.

Harris replied that, while there was gam-

How many other tribes have we waived Section 20 for?”

In response, Tahsuda outlined the process that would be followed if Section 20 were not waived. In that case, he said, the Catawba would move forward by engaging N.C. Gov. Roy Cooper in the discussion and going through the two-part determination process laid out in the law. That process would begin with a decision on whether to take the land into trust and involve “extensive discussions with the local community” and consideration of the acquisition’s effect

Catawba Chief William Harris.

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ing in South Carolina when the 1993 agreement was signed, South Carolina ended gaming afterward, which meant that the tribe could not pursue it either. The tribe has tried to change that, since South Carolina does allow gaming on boats in federal waters, but has been turned down twice by the state’s Supreme Court.

Harris also told the committee that he has spoken to the three most recent chiefs of the EBCI about a possible gaming partnership but that the tribe is “resistant” to the Catawba’s efforts.

Vice Chairman Sen. Tom Udall, of Nevada, asked about the ownership of the property. Harris said the tribe does not own the land but has power of attorney over it.

Tahsuda said the ownership situation doesn’t affect the land-to-trust process.

QUESTIONS FROM NEVADA The most pointed questions came from committee member Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, of Nevada.

“Why are we waiving Section 20?” she asked. “Why don’t we keep Section 20 in and let you go through your process?”

“In my opinion it would just add an additional administrative hurdle,” replied Tahsuda.

“Well every other tribe has to go through that hurdle, so why would we waive that for them, that’s what I’m trying to understand,” Cortez Masto replied. “What’s the distinction here? Why don’t we allow them to go through that process like everyone else, because we’re setting a bad precedent here.

on property tax rolls and jurisdictional conflicts. Then, the Department of the Interior would complete a gambling analysis to determine if the land is appropriate for gaming — if the verdict was yes, the governor would have to agree before gaming could occur. The bill as written would allow the department to skip over that process.

“So why don’t we just go through that process?” Cortez Masto asked.

“At the risk of divining Congress’ intent, it would seem that Congress in 1993 determined that the tribe had a strong historical connection to the area that’s called the service area,” said Tahsuda.

Cortez Masto questioned Harris as well, asking whether he’d had conversations with North Carolina’s state leaders. Harris said that, while he has letters of support from leaders in the Cleveland County area, he does not have a letter of support from Cooper.

According to Sneed, Cortez Masto’s questions were the result of a detailed meeting EBCI leaders had with her staff.

“Some of the exact points and questions that we posed to her staff were the exact questions that her staff asked to the BIA representative John Tahsuda,” said Sneed. “She hit it hard and she hit it with the truth and law and policy. And that is a direct result of the work we did this week.”

The next step for S.790 would be a markup session, in which committee members can make changes to the bill and ultimately vote for or against it. A favorable vote would allow it to advance to the Senate floor for a vote from the entire body.

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was sold to Duke LifePoint in 2014, HHF found itself unable to fundraise for the forprofit Duke hospital. In October 2017, commissioners voted to allow HHF to administer $20 million in restricted funds resulting from the sale.

“Our goal is to not use the principal on the money we received from the sale of the hospital,” said Sutton, “but we will fund the debt service [on the HCC building] by using interest from a portion of those funds.”

Sutton said he expects HHF’s financial involvement to last about 10 years, and that the new building will not only help provide better health care for residents of the county and the region, but will also help drive economic development.

“With the changing demographics in our community, we will definitely have a demand for these positions,” he said; Haywood’s population trends older than average, and is only becoming more so, meaning a steady supply of RNs and LPNs will be needed for years to come.

“It’s imperative that we have additional nurses in the community. I think they average about $50,000 a year, so they are very good-paying jobs,” Sutton said. “These individuals are in the community and will go

involvement began to circulate.

“I think we would have had some [budget] room,” Ensley said. “It would have been tight for four or five years, but now we don’t have to worry about that.”

Ensley said that HHF’s backing would free up money at the county level that could be used for some of the other improvements Parker requested on “I think we would have had some [budget] room. the school’s aging infraIt would have been tight for four or five years, structure.

According but now we don’t have to worry about that.” to Sutton, — Kevin Ensley, Haywood County Board of Commissioner HHF will continue to raise money to support the endeavor, and that ongoing EMTs each year as well. community support of HHF will be crucial.

“This will be good,” said Kevin Ensley, “We are going to be looking at grants chairman of the Haywood County Board of and all other avenues where funds come Commissioners. “It’s good to see the comfrom, but we are going to do fundraising in munity college getting back to its vocational our community, because RNs and nurses roots. This new building will create lots of affect every individual in the county,” said good jobs.”

Sutton. “They touch every person in the Ensley, along with other commissioners, county, and this will be a project that will seemed supportive of Parker’s request inigive benefit to the community for generatially, and were trying to work out a funding tions to come.” scheme until news of HHF’s potential back into the community. It will be a great boost to the medical facilities in the area.”

Upon completion, the new building will churn out 50 RNs a year, 12 more than at present, and 15 more LPNs. Additionally, by 2023 the EMS program must become a twoyear degree program, so the new building will give HCC the ability to produce 30

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BY CORY VAILLANCOURT STAFF WRITER ast month, Haywood Community College President Dr. Barbara Parker told Haywood commissioners that HCC wanted a new $7.2 million facility that would augment the school’s ability to train and produce badly-needed medical professionals.

It was a tall order, for sure, but Parker brought to the table $2.8 million from the Connect NC Bond passed in 2015, which will be forfeited if not used by 2021. With the clock ticking and a tight county budget that would swell considerably if the building is funded in that way, the Haywood Healthcare Foundation stepped in to save the day.

“That window is fast closing, so someone had to step up and make that commitment,” said Anthony Sutton, chairman of the HHF board of trustees executive committee. “The foundation board takes as its primary project and its main activity through funding the creation of the Health and Human Services building at Haywood Community College.

That’s a commitment of between $4.5 and $5 million for construction of the building.”

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BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER t $4.06 million, Sylva’s proposed budget for 2019-20 will be nearly $200,000 lower than the adopted budget for 2018-19.

The lower number is due largely to a decreased need for large capital and equipment purchases in the upcoming year, as well as higher-than-expected revenues allowing for reduced appropriations from fund balance.

In the initial version of the budget Town Manager Paige Dowling presented commissioners during a March 28 work session, $65,000 was to come from the town’s fund balance — $50,000 for sidewalks along N.C. 107 in coordination with the upcoming road project and $15,500 for repairs to the pool.

But upward changes to revenue allowed incoming revenues to fund the pool repairs.

“Everything is better with the revenue than it was when we met in March,” said Dowling during a May 2 work session.

Commissioners were happy to hear that the pool repairs no longer had to come from what is equivalent to the town’s savings account, as pool maintenance is an expense the town expects to bear each year — during the March meeting, Commissioner David Nestler had expressed his reservations about continually using fund balance dollars for that purpose.

“I don’t mind the transfer from fund balance for the sidewalk, but the pool — it’s an infrastructure repair but it’s a regularly recur-

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ring repair,” he said. “But I understand this coming year there doesn’t seem to be much other options.”

In January, the board held an initial budget planning meeting in which commissioners voiced their priorities and projects for the year ahead, voting for their preferred priorities using pads of stickers. Most of the top vote-getters were personnel-based expenditures — a part-time clerk for the police department, a director for the Main Street Association, additional police officers and a new public works employee — but Dowling didn’t include those positions in her proposed budget. It’s not advisable to pay for recurring expenses like salary from fund balance, she said, and the board hadn’t indicated a willingness to raise taxes this year. The money wasn’t there to commit to new hires.

“It’s a tight budget, and I don’t see us being able to afford additional personnel in the upcoming budget,” she said March 28.

“I say if the priorities cannot be funded, you just don’t do the priorities,” said Commissioner Harold Hensley. “That’s simple.”

“I agree,” said Mayor Lynda Sossamon.

However, Dowling said, she was going to recommend $6,000 to pay a consultant for the N.C. 107 project — someone who could act as a liaison between the town and affected businesses, answering questions and concerns on the town’s behalf.

The proposed budget will also include $2,750 to place a pair of interior cameras at

Police Chief Tammy Hooper discusses her budget needs with the board during a March 28 budget work session. Holly Kays photo Town Hall. In the future, the town hopes to add exterior cameras as well.

During the March 28 meeting the board also explored ways to alleviate some of the burden placed on Dowling, who serves as the Main Street Program coordinator in addition to her duties as town manager.

“Everything has increased through the years,” said Sossamon. “I’m glad we’re doing all

this stuff for the town, but I don’t think she (Dowling) can really keep up with all her work.”

The town already pays someone to coordinate the town’s biggest annual event, Greening Up The Mountains, and this year the proposed budget will include $1,000 to pay a coordinator for the Christmas Parade.

Nestler suggested not filling a vacant police officer position and

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“Over the past several months as I have reflected upon this awesome opportunity and honor, my family and I have made the decision that it is time for me to transition to a new segment of my life and to allow a new Chief to lead the Waynesville Police Department. It is my intention to retire on June 30, 2019.”

Brown praised Hollingsed for the important role he has played in the police department’s history, including his extensive work related to the opioid crisis and the STOP Act legislation.

Captain Brian Beck will serve as the Interim Police Chief beginning July 1. A state-wide search will be completed and an assessment center held to determine the next chief.

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Longtime Waynesville Police Chief Bill Hollingsed will retire in June after more than 20 years at the helm of the Waynesville Police Department.

On May 1, Waynesville Mayor Gavin Brown and Town Manager Rob Hites were presented a letter from Hollingsed indicating his intent to retire on June 30. Hollingsed wrote, “Since Feb. 1, 1999, I have had the distinct privilege of being the Chief of Police for the Town of Waynesville. Throughout that time, I have served with a remarkable group of men and women who daily demonstrate their dedication and commitment to the residents and visitors of Waynesville.

Through their devotion to duty and sense of service, our town is, beyond a doubt, one of the greatest places to live and work.”

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May 2 that the nearest crosswalk decoration organization that does the type of faux brick painting the town was interested in is located in New Jersey and wouldn’t travel to Sylva for such a small project.

“My department can repaint thermoplastic with additional glass beads, which I know is not what anybody wanted, but it is something,” he said.

The proposed budget will include a 1.9 percent cost-of-living raise for employees and up to a 2.5 percent merit raise, as well as a $150,000 contribution to post-retirement benefits and $100,000 for the separation allowance fund.

Dowling noted that while revenues are healthy this year, that is likely to change next year as work on N.C. 107 gets underway. The project will deliver a one-two punch to town revenues — the tax base will decrease as right-of-way is acquired, and sales tax will suffer during the construction period since most commercial businesses within city limits are located along the corridor, which will be harder for customers to access during construction. In addition, a significant number of businesses will need to relocate. They won’t necessarily find a new location in Sylva.

Commissioners didn’t suggest any changes during the May 2 work session, so Dowling said she would present the same document to them when she delivers the proposed budget during the next regular meeting, 5:30 p.m. Thursday, May 9, at town hall.

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instead hiring a fulltime position. The position would serve as the part-time clerk the police department needs to answer its phones and keep the restrooms open to the public, and could also act as the part-time Main Street director.

Town residents pay county taxes too, Nestler said, and should be entitled to equal service from county deputies as that enjoyed by other county residents. The town should push for more service from county law enforcement to make up for the officer position, he said.

That idea didn’t gain much traction, with Police Chief Tammy Hooper saying that the sheriff ’s office is always willing to help when they’re needed but that town taxes ensure that residents receive a three-minute response time when they call — something the county can’t provide.

The town is also exploring water quality improvements at Bridge Park and crosswalk enhancements on Main Street. However, it’s unlikely those projects will be completed in this budget year to the extent discussed in earlier planning meetings.

The Bridge Park project, which stems from a report Equinox Environmental recently completed for the town, could proceed independently of the budget year, as it would be paid for largely through Fisher Creek Fund dollars earmarked for water quality projects.

The town wants to explore grant funding as well to better leverage the fund money.

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BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER evelopment of a plan to guide Cullowhee’s future is now underway, with a three-day marathon of activities held April 22-24 gathering feedback from the community toward a draft small area plan for the community.

“I think it’s safe to say we touched 250 to 300 people,” said Jake Petrosky, a consultant from the Raleigh-based firm Stewart working on the project. “I’m really happy with it.”

The first two days featured the fullest schedule of public input opportunities, with residents, Western Carolina University students and university employees stopping by to share their dreams for Cullowhee on large sheets of paper hung on the walls of a room in WCU’s Ramsey Center, and on sticky notes affixed to maps and project boards. The effort also included a walking tour of old Cullowhee, which about 30 people attended.

Frequent comments included a desire for more nightlife and dining options, expanded housing opportunities for families, more bike and pedestrian pathways, more parking and protections for green space.

“One of the things that we’ll be talking about at our next meeting is just a little bit more detail on some of these recommendations,” Petrosky told the Cullowhee Planning Council, which also serves as the steering committee for the plan, during an April 23 meeting to discuss public input results. “A key piece of that is going to be a future land use map.”

A land use map can include zoning but also looks to the future, anticipating Cullowhee’s future development patterns and discussing what regulatory tools can be used to guide them.

In discussing the results of the public input, committee members focused heavily on housing.

“Back in the old days there was a feeling of community in Cullowhee and the university because people could live here, and now that’s different,” said committee member Myrtle Shrader.

Most new housing in Cullowhee is focused on students, so university employees often find themselves driving over from Franklin or Waynesville. Mike Byers, vice chancellor for administration and finance at WCU, said that fixing the housing issue has long been a focus for the university.

Ideally, WCU would like to see the private sector take care of it, but that’s proven challenging.

“It just doesn’t happen because the student housing is so much more lucrative and lower-hanging fruit,” said Byers.

Developers can build student-housing units with multiple bedrooms and rent them out for $750 per bedroom — but university employees who have families and are looking for three- and four-bedroom homes can’t 14 afford that rate. There’s little incentive for a

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Sticky notes cover Cullowhee with suggestions from community members. Holly Kays photo

Take the survey A survey open through the end of May is seeking input on what people who live and work in Cullowhee would like to see for the area’s future. It is available at www.surveymonkey.com/r/cullowhee.

For more information about the Cullowhee Small Area Plan, visit www.planning.jacksonnc.org/cullowhee-small-area-plan. developer to build housing geared toward families when, for the same investment, they can build student housing that promises a much higher return.

There are various options for helping to fill the gap, said Petrosky — zoning, publicprivate partnerships, land trust options — but figuring it out will take time and effort.

“This is not a problem that is unique to Cullowhee,” said committee member Jack Debnam. “It’s every university across the state and probably the nation. I doubt everybody that works at N.C. State can get on a bicycle and ride to N.C. State. They live in Apex, they live in Fuquay, they live in Wake Forest if they’re lucky. We can’t cure that problem.”

In Cullowhee, there’s the added issue of limited buildable land.

“If you start netting out everything that’s built and not likely to change, and if you start netting out steep slopes and floodplains, then what you’re left with is a very

small amount of buildable land that’s not already spoken for,” said Petrosky.

Revitalizing Old Cullowhee was another focus of discussion, especially in light of ongoing efforts by the organization CuRvE to establish a river park along the Tuckaseigee River where the Cullowhee Dam is now.

“They have a game plan for what they want to do in the river and immediately adjacent to the river,” said Petrosky. “What we want to do is think about how does that relate to Old Cullowhee? How does that relate to redevelopment and what could happen in Old Cullowhee?”

Old Cullowhee used to be the front door to the university, but when the four-lane N.C. 107 was built all the traffic was rerouted and the businesses languished. The river park could help by creating a new attractor for Old Cullowhee — as Petrosky said, “replacing traffic with people.”

“I’m a process person,” said Committee

Chair Scott Baker. “So for those abandoned houses, for that to be a park someone is going to have to buy and demolish those and develop it. The motivation to pay to have stuff torn down doesn’t seem to be very high, so how do we get there?”

Having a plan is the first step, said Planning Director Mike Poston. With a plan in place, the county’s economic development director will be better equipped to connect with people who might be interested in making the vision a reality.

“If the regulatory framework is sufficient to create that vision, that’s one less thing he has to tell people — ‘Well, we might be able to work with you on the regulatory end.’ If it’s already worked out it’s one less hurdle in the way,” said Poston. “Then they can concentrate on site development costs.”

Stewart is now working to distill the public input down into workable items to include in the draft plan, which will be released in September, and comment is still being accepted through an online survey. At that point, it will be put out for additional public comment. After that comment is incorporated, Poston will present it to county commissioners for adoption, likely sometime in the fall.

“We had a lot of great participation in the last couple days,” said Poston.

“Hopefully we’ll get that much participation when the draft plan comes out.”

was an investment in the future.”

The campaign resulted in 12,368 unique donors making 51,787 gifts, with 46 percent of those participating first-time donors. The funds will provide 176 endowed scholarships and 24 annual scholarships.

“To think, we finished our campaign more than two-and-a-half years ahead of the original schedule, and we blew far past the original goal of $50 million,” said Interim Chancellor Alison Morrison-Shetlar.

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“Because that’s just how we do things in The Whee. As I conclude my time at the helm of our university, I leave you with this challenge: Keep it up. Don’t stop. Keep the momentum going. Climb higher mountains.

Lead the way.”

Morrison-Shetlar will be returning to her role as provost when Chancellor-elect Kelli R. Brown takes over on July 1.

Representing scholarship recipients, Claire Lemke, who received the Susan Brummell Belcher Scholarship while an undergraduate student and is now studying toward a master’s degree, thanked all those who have made contributions during the campaign.

“To those who have given to students like me, please know that, while your gift may come in the form of financial support, you are also providing positive affirmation,” Lemke said. “Your confidence in us gives us the confidence within ourselves to succeed.”

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More than 12,000 donors contributed over a five-year period to raise over $60 million for scholarships at Western Carolina University.

The total figure of $61,883,018 — announced Thursday, May 2 — surpassed the original goal in both dollars and timeframe.

“Lead the Way: A Campaign Inspired by the Belcher Years” kicked off on July 1, 2014, aiming to raise $50 million by December 2021.

When fundraising accelerated at a rate that surpassed expectations, the campaign raised its goal to $60 million in January 2018.

“If David were here, no one would be more proud than he at this moment of stupendous achievement,” Susan Belcher, wife of former Chancellor David O. Belcher, told those attending the May 2 event. “In 2012, David said at his installation address that Western’s No. 1 philanthropic priority will be raising funds for endowed scholarships to make a university education accessible for capable students in perpetuity. In 2017, David said that students are our reason for being. They are our job. They are our success stories. They are a testament to the power of higher education to change lives.

This is what makes our support and gifts worthwhile.”

Belcher died June 17, 2018, after a nearly two-year battle with brain cancer, but his legacy lived on.

Lori Lewis, WCU vice chancellor of advancement, said the success of the comprehensive campaign — only the second in WCU’s history — was an historic event that was more than four years in the making.

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Health

Smoky Mountain News

HRMC Names 2019 Mercy Award winner Haywood Regional Medical Center recently announced that Johanna Dewees, RN, has been recognized as the hospital’s 2019 Mercy Award winner. The Mercy Award recognizes one employee from each of LifePoint Health’s hospitals who profoundly touches the lives of others and best represents the spirit and values on which the company was founded.

The Mercy Award is an annual recognition program established in 2001 to honor the life and contributions of Scott Mercy, LifePoint’s founding chairman and chief executive officer. The award is the highest honor a LifePoint employee can receive.

“We are extremely proud to recognize Johanna for her efforts on behalf of our patients and our community. She goes above and beyond each and every day to ensure that every person she encounters receives the highest level of care and compassion,” said Rod Harkleroad, CEO of Haywood Regional.

During her time here, Dewees has assisted in the development of the Breast Cancer Nurse Navigator Program, assisted in building the Vein Program and most recently has helped coordiStephanie Adamavich, RN, (from left) nate the Lung Cancer Navigator Program. During 2018, she Johanna Dewees, RN, and Ann Ottum, assisted in building a playground for the Pigeon Community director of imaging at HRMC. Donated photo Multicultural Child Development Center and went on mission trips to West Virginia to build homes. She taught Sunday School at the First United Methodist Church in Waynesville and has been a volunteer for Relay for Life and Power of Pink since 2009.

Get tested for hepatitis In honor of Hepatitis Awareness Month in May, the Jackson County Department of Public Health recommends that residents learn more about viral hepatitis as well as determine if they should get tested or vaccinated against this chronic disease.

The most common types of viral hepatitis in the United States are hepatitis A, hepatitis B and hepatitis C. While each can produce similar symptoms, each hepatitis virus affects the liver differently, has different transmission routes, and has different populations that are commonly affected.

Currently, JCDPH, as well as other Health Departments, offers free hepatitis B & C testing for patients who are uninsured and fall into additional categories. To find out if you are eligible for free testing, call 828.586.8994.

Free sports physicals offered Haywood Regional Medical Center and Haywood Sports Medicine will host their annual sports physicals for area middle and high school student-athletes inside the schools.

Physicals for Canton Middle School and Bethel Middle School will be held from 4 to 7 p.m.

Monday, May 13, at Bethel Middle School Gymnasium, 630 Sonoma Rd., Waynesville.

Physicals for Waynesville Middle School and Tuscola High School will be held from 4 to 7 p.m.

Thursday, May 23, at Tuscola High School gymnasium, 564 Tuscola School Rd., Waynesville.

Rising sixth-grade student athletes need to attend the date for the representing school they will be attending this coming school year.

Participants must have all required forms with

them signed by parents and completed to receive their physical. No appointment needed. Contact your school’s front office for registration paperwork and further information or questions.

Macon receives Mighty Oak award Macon County Public Health’s Communicable Disease staff recently received the Mighty Oak Award during a state conference.

The honor was given to highlight a local communicable disease program that has exemplified the strength, flexibility and expertise in responding to a significant public health event. Macon was selected for this award because of their efforts in managing a large contact investigation in response to a meningococcal outbreak in the community.

“We are very sorry for the loss of life in this situation, and we will work hard to prevent illnesses like this one from occurring in the future,” said Carine Rocco, Macon County’s public health director. “I am very proud to work with such dedicated, hard-working staff who work to protect Macon County residents day after day.”

Hazelwood Family Medicine wins award Hazelwood Family Medicine was recently awarded the “2019 Rural Independent Practice Award” at the quarterly meeting of Mission Health Partners.

This award is given to a small, independent rural practice with limited resources that demonstrates excellence in provision of quality, highvalue health care to their patients. Hazelwood

• The Macon County Cancer Support group will hold their monthly meeting at 7 p.m.

Thursday, May 9, in the cafeteria of Angel Medical Center in Franklin. Sallie Taylor, wife of Mayor of Highlands, Patrick Taylor, will speak on the Blue Zones project. There will be light refreshments. Everyone is welcome.

• The North Carolina Harm Reduction Coalition is partnering with Haywood County Health & Human Services Agency to conduct overdose recognition and opioid overdose reversal training from noon to 2 p.m. Tuesday, May 14, at Health and Human Services Agency, room 301 in Waynesville. This is a drop-in program.

Participants will receive free naloxone, harm reduction resources and information on substance use services.

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• The International Essential Tremor Foundation (IETF) support group will meet at 2 p.m. Wednesday, May 15, at the Jackson County Senior Center Room #135 in Sylva.

Learn coping skills and available products to help. The group serves individuals in Jackson, Macon, Swain and Haywood Counties.

Family Medicine achieved the highest level of quality (Tier 3) possible within the ACO plan by closing care gaps for their patients in areas like vaccinations, preventive screenings and annual wellness visits.

“We were particularly impressed with the practice’s use of Pre-Visit Planning as a way to address patient needs, and hope that other practices can follow Hazelwood’s example,” said Amy Russell, medical director of Mission Health Partners.

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Jackson offers free retinal screenings According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), diabetes is the leading cause of new cases for blindness in adults. To help raise awareness of this issue and prevent blindness, the Jackson County Department of Public Health has partnered with Prevent Blindness North Carolina to provide free retinal screenings to those that qualify from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on May 22 at the Health Department, 154 Medical Park Loop in Sylva.

Those who wish to participate should call 828.587.8289 to make an appointment.

Personal approach to memory care The Hermitage Assisted Living and Memory Care in Sylva is taking a wholistic, personalized approach to caring for those with Alzheimer’s or related dementia.

“We developed The Journey, our memory care program, as a framework we can use to build tailored, individualized care plans for our residents suffering from Alzheimer’s or other dementia,” said Sandra Korzeniewski, senior vice president of quality assurance and regulatory compliance and a key developer of The Journey program for Affinity Living Group, which manages The Hermitage. “Every moment is an engagement opportunity.”

The Journey, ALG’s comprehensive memory care program, is a baseline meant to teach caregivers to focus not just on the disease, but the person.

The program focuses on four key areas to provide meaningful care to residents living with dementia: Days with Dignity, A Team Approach, Engaging the Senses and Culinary Experiences.

To learn more about The Journey, memory care or other services, call The Hermitage at 828.586.9070 or visit www.affinitylivinggroup.com/sylva.

Safety technicians recognized Every May, the Jackson County Department of Public Health and Safe Kids Jackson County recognize Child Passenger Safety Technicians in honor of CPS Technician Month.

CPS Technicians are a valuable community resource, working to educate families at checkup events; answer questions and make referrals; provide community presentations; participate in health and safety fairs and provide current, culturally-sensitive materials and information.

Six CPS Technicians are available at the health department to assist with child safety seat checks, provide educational information on child safety seats, and assist with the purchase and installation of a new child safety seat.

Technicians are on duty from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. every Thursday. To make an appointment, call 828.587.8289.

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Opinion

Smoky Mountain News

Remembering Riley as a seventh-grader, during Teacher Appreciation Week

Susanna Shetley

The thing I miss about teaching is human connection, being part of something bigger than myself.

When I was in the classroom, I bemoaned the exhaustive red tape that is public education. It’s an antiquated system when it comes to encouraging teachers to do better, be better.

During my time as a middle school language arts teacher, I worked to develop hands-on lessons with cooperative learning strategies, technology, higher-order questioning, stations based on learning styles and all the other suggested bells and whistles of a great lesson plan.

The teacher down the hall had kids sit in rows and silently complete workColumnist sheets for 55 minutes, but if that teacher had worked more years than I, he would have the larger salary. Unlike most other professions, increases in pay and incentives are based on longevity not skill.

There is zero external or monetary reason to achieve excellence as a teacher. But yet, teachers continually rise to the occasion.

What’s the reason? Why do teachers persevere, run, walk, crawl, scream, whatever it takes to do a great job?

They do it for their students.

For an entire year, a teacher has the chance to make a difference in a person’s life, to impact humanity. There aren’t a lot of careers that offer a direct way to do something so important and altruistic.

This is Teacher Appreciation Week and even though I haven’t been in the classroom for a number of years, this week remains special to me and makes me think of former students who impacted or affected me as a person.

Since Tuesday, April 30, our community has been crushed by the senseless death of Waynesville native Riley Howell, the slain UNC Charlotte student killed while tackling a deranged

Diversity strengthens our community To the Editor: A letter to the editor in The Smoky Mountain News (Let’s All Embrace God’s Healing, March 27, 2019) indicated that members of the LGBTQ+ community are “broken” and in need of “healing and reconciliation.”

This editorial essentially attempted to shame a high school student in our community for speaking her mind and having the courage to express her opinion (My Church Embraces LGBTQ Members, March 6, 2019).

I don’t have a problem with freedom of the press or for anyone speaking their mind, regardless of their faith or orientation.

However, when a person of faith believes they can determine who is broken and separate from the Divine, simply based on their interpretation of the Bible, well that is a different story.

It is not those who Mr. Onder deemed

gunman on the final day of his anthropology class. Another student, Reed Parlier, was also killed.

When I think of Riley, I don’t think of the strong, brave man who stole the universe’s heart with his act of heroism.

When I think of Riley, I think of a tall, lanky seventh grader with messy blonde hair and a sweet humble demeanor.

Riley was bright but quiet and would often offer a witty comment out of the blue. He wasn’t the student who sat up front excitedly raising Riley Howell during his his hand to seventh-grade year. Donated photo speak before others.

Instead, he chose to sit towards the back, sometimes doodling on notebook paper or clicking his binder rings to get out some energy.

Sitting in the classroom could be boring for someone like Riley who loved being outside. Even as a 12-year-old, he was probably dreaming of a Blue Ridge mountain hike or running on family land with his dogs.

He often had to re-write essays a second time to make his handwriting legible and would get so lost in his Lord of the

LETTERS broken that create the divisions in our communities and culture. The separation in our communities is caused by divisive, hateful rhetoric which attempts to shame and silence those who believe differently. It is the rhetoric that creates potentially threatening learning environments for students, and hostile work environments for employees.

It is the rhetoric that creates tension between community members. It is the rhetoric of hate speech which minimizes the voice of a loving, articulate high school student whose article indicated simply that she believed in her community and that she has hope for the future. On this note, Ms. Dove provided us all with a true example of faith.

I would like to believe Mr. Onder’s intent was not to threaten or harm anyone.

However, in a world where language can unite or divide a community, I hope we would choose to honor all members of our community, regardless of faith or lifestyle. It is often

Rings books during library time, he didn’t notice the rest of the class lining up to leave.

Riley’s looks, personality and abilities could have easily put him in the position of “most popular” but I could tell, even then, that wasn’t his goal in life. He was reflective, clever, and mature for his age. He wasn’t trying to be the golden boy.

He just was.

I was a new mother when I taught Riley. My little Brooks had curly blonde hair too, and I fully remember thinking, “I hope Brooks grows up to be like Riley Howell.”

Seventh grade boys are awkward. Girls go through the cumbersome pubescent years earlier so by the time they reached my classroom, they were already young women. Meanwhile, male development takes a little longer, so seventh grade boys are hyper, silly and pretty obnoxious. They aren’t yet self-aware and are unsure how to converse with adults. They spend most of their time horse playing or trying to be funny.

But not all seventh grade boys fit this mold.

There are a handful of male students who stand out in my mind, boys who exemplified characteristics I wanted my own two boys to develop. Riley was top on the list.

Sitting in Riley’s memorial service this past Sunday, I was grief-stricken, along with everyone else in the packed auditorium. How could such a beautiful, wonderful person be torn away in a horrific act of nonsense? It just doesn’t make sense.

But as I listened to those who loved and knew him best, I learned what he did was inevitable. Over and over, his loved ones said, “That’s just who he was.”

His girlfriend of five years, Lauren, spoke to Riley directly as opposed to talking about him. Watching this lovely young woman talk to her soul mate is something I will never forget.

Although he has gone into the great mystery, she’s confident he will visit her. She said these words, “From now on, when the sun shines warm and gently on my face I will know that it’s you, holding me in spirit just as you did in our life.”

As I think back to Riley’s seventh grade year, I feel honored to have known him, to have read books with him and share a space with him every day. And now, as I ponder that thought I had many years ago, the poignancy is magnified. If either or both of my boys grow up to be like Riley Howell, I will be beyond proud.

(Susanna Barbee wears several hats for The Smoky Mountain News, Smoky Mountain Living and Mountain South Media. susanna.b@smokymountainnews.com)

stated, “unity does not imply uniformity.” As Joel Goldsmith (1998) states, “you are no more outside of God’s government than the stars, than sun, the moon, the tides, the fish swimming in the sea or the birds flying in the air.”

If we are all children of God, then the diversity surrounding us is a gift to be appreciated, not feared.

Rev. Dr. Katherine R.B. Greysen Canton

Jesus, health care and a fair system To the Editor: On Saturday I went to the Jackson County Recreation Center for a workout. I was guided into the parking lot by some very nice young people and greeted by a number of vendors selling food and gifts. What is the celebration, I wondered, and learned that a well-known young lady, suffering from cancer, was being

honored by a fundraiser to help with her health care expenses. What a wonderful example of our community pulling together to help one another.

Several years ago I witnessed in Haywood County a similar event with a BBQ sale for another person suffering from cancer. There are times I see a jar on the counter in a restaurant asking for donations for a person needing an operation.

While these examples are to be honored and celebrated, they dramatically point out the insanity causing these events to take place. For every person fortunate to have someone raise funds for their healthcare calamity, there are countless other loved ones who are not so fortunate, who suffer needlessly and are indebted to the health care industry for life. A friend of mine was run off the road on his bicycle and seriously injured. He was rushed to Mission Hospital and is now fully recovered but owes the hospital over $24,000.

No one is raising funds for him. Isn’t it regrettable so many lack adequate

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We need to stop senseless violence

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To the Editor: Doubtless, most of you know about the tragic death of Riley Howell, and if you are like us, you are heartbroken for his family and friends and extremely frustrated and angry that another senseless tragedy has occurred. And this one hit very close to home.

Riley grew up participating in the youth activities at First United Methodist Church in Waynesville and he and his family are thought of as part of our church family.

He was remembered as a hero at the memorial service for him. It is fitting that his service was held at Lake Junaluska, in Stuart Auditorium, because Lake Junaluska has a tradition of offering the facility to families of fallen heroes for their services.

In Riley’s obituary, March for Our Lives is named as one of the organizations suggested for memorial gifts — which seems appropriate but so sad, a reminder that here we are again, mourning another young life taken too soon, but at the same time, recognizing that apparently this was a cause that had meaning for him. Riley sought to protect people. We must do the same.

Just as we have said about all the young people who have died violent deaths, we cannot let his death — or the others — be in vain.

Our obligation is to continue the good fight — working to make our world a less violent place where hate is not rampant.

How we do that is the most pressing issue.

Sarah and Bob Hunter Lake Junaluska

May 8-14, 2019

To the Editor: Imagine that you go to your general practitioner and she reminds you that it’s time for a colonoscopy. You have the colonoscopy and the doctor tells you that you have colon cancer. The surgery is scheduled. You get a CAT scan to see whether there is any obvious spread to the cancer.

The surgery is completed and you are home two days later, missing about 11 inches of your colon.

While you are recuperating, the bills start rolling in: • Colonoscopy office visit, colonoscopy, pathology: $6,624 • Pre-Op CAT scan: $2,080 • Physician office visit, surgery, pathology: $10,749 • Hospital: $45,288 The total is $64,741. This happened to me. I am on Medicare and have supplemental coverage. Of the total, Medicare paid $15,027 and my supplemental insurance paid $2,391. My out-of-pocket cost was about $200.

If I were under 65 and had no insurance, I would be liable for the entire $64,741. Few families can afford this kind of a financial shock. News reports claim that almost half of households cannot afford a $400 financial surprise.

I also looked at my drug costs. A 90-day supply of my four generic prescriptions has a list price of $905. I paid $92. Again, without the price reductions negotiated by my insurance company, I would be liable for the entire $905 — or I would do without.

My point is that an increasing number of people are one medical diagnosis away from financial disaster. This should not be the case in the wealthiest country in the world. After all, every other developed country in the world has figured it out.

There are numerous ways to solve this problem. With the exception of the millions of citizens who have poor or no insurance, our current mostly private system works, although it is the most expensive in the world and provides only mediocre outcomes.

The first, and most important issue, is to cover the approximately 80 million Americans with inadequate or no insurance. Simply expanding Medicaid would cover several hundred thousand people just in North Carolina. Most states have done this. Modifications to existing programs (e.g. ACA, Medicare, Medicaid) could probably accomplish most of the rest.

Ultimately, however, we must provide universal coverage and address the outrageous costs and mediocre outcomes of our current system. Not addressing this problem condemns millions of Americans to premature death and/or financial disaster.

Is that who we are?

John Gladden Franklin

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coverage with a health care system considered to be the highest cost system in the industrialized world?

Other wealthy countries spend about half as much per capita on health. Quality health care metrics ranks our country the worst. The U.S. experiences higher rates of medical, medication and lab errors versus other countries at 19 percent while Canada’s error rate is 15 percent and the United Kingdom’s error rate is 11 percent.

Why do our representatives oppose health care for everyone? Why do others call such ideas communistic or socialistic? I have looked and looked but cannot find in the New Testament any story of Jesus Christ asking sick, lame or blind persons about their insurance provider, copay, deductible and number of hours worked before healing them. Was Jesus practicing socialism? Was he a communist?

Enough. Isn’t it time to advocate for quality healthcare for everyone, not just a fortunate few? Jesus did. Isn’t that what religious leaders of all beliefs have advocated for centuries? What about billboards, social media, letters and social action to encourage discussion and solutions for creating an efficient and cost effective healthcare system that serves everyone and helps our local economies. No strings attached.

Ron Robinson Sylva

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BOOJUM BREWING COMPANY 50 N Main Street, Waynesville.

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BOURBON BARREL BEEF & ALE 454 Hazelwood Ave., Waynesville, 828.452.9191. Lunch daily 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.; dinner nightly at 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. Closed Sunday and Monday. Wine Down Wednesday’s: ½ off wine by the bottle. We specialize in hand-cut, all natural steaks from local farms, incredible burgers, and other classic american comfort foods that are made using only the finest local and sustainable ingredients available.

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

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CHURCH STREET DEPOT 34 Church Street, downtown Waynesville.

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THE CLASSIC WINESELLER 20 Church Street, Waynesville.

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FIREFLY TAPS & GRILL 128 N. Main St., Waynesville 828.454.5400. Simple, delicious food. A must experience in WNC. Located in downtown Waynesville with an atmosphere that will warm your heart and your belly! Local and regional beers on tap. Full bar, vegetarian options, kids menu, and more. Reservations accepted. Daily specials. Live music every Saturday from 7 to 10 p.m. Open Mon.-Sat. 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday brunch from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

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

828.926.1820 Winter hours: Wednesday through Sunday 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. 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.

FROGS LEAP PUBLIC HOUSE 44 Church St., Downtown Waynesville 828.456.1930 Serving dinner 5 to 9 p.m.

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HARMON’S DEN BISTRO 250 Pigeon St., Waynesville 828.456.6322. Harmon’s Den is located in the Fangmeyer Theater at HART. Open 5:309 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday (Bistro closes at 7:30 p.m. on nights when there is a show in the Fangmeyer Theater) with Sunday

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ESPRESSO YOURSELF /// Orchard Coffee opens in Waynesville

Cabell Tice. Brindley Faile photos

BY GARRET K. WOODWARD STAFF WRITER alfway up a steep hill in downtown Waynesville, and just a stone’s throw from the Haywood County Historic Courthouse, sits Orchard Coffee.

“I love coffee because I love people,” said Cabell Tice, co-owner of Orchard Coffee. “I’ve always really enjoyed connecting with people.

Coffee is a vessel for reaching people — there’s nothing like a conversation over coffee.”

Sitting in front of the large bay window in the shop last week, Tice, 28, gazes out onto Depot Street. It’s day three of having the doors open, and another sunny day in this mountain paradise. Natural light streams into the cozy space. Though the three-story 1938 art deco building has been an architectural fixture of Waynesville, it’s remained empty for the better part of a decade.

“This place has been all kinds of things — a photo studio, stained glass studio, law office,” Tice said. “But, nobody ever renovated it because it was never owner-operated.”

Tice, his wife (Sophie), three kids (ages 5 and under), his mother (Maria, a co-owner) and little brother (Ephraim) all took over the structure once it was purchased, the shop on the first floor and the family living upstairs.

Their presence immediately added a muchneeded sense of place, warmth and beauty to

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a building many have forgotten about in passing.

“This shop is everything to us,” Tice smiled.

“After seeing this building and getting acquainted with this town, it was a no-brainer to come here.”

Tice has been on a long journey that has ultimately landed him and his family in Waynesville. Born and raised in Hawai’i (on Maui, then Kauai), he left for Astoria, Oregon, at age 14. When he was 18, he started working in a coffee shop at the base of a hotel in Astoria.

“I didn’t know if I wanted to go to college and study some things. I wasn’t really passionate about anything other than photography and music,” Tice said. “And I started working in a coffee shop because I wanted to find a way to pay for losing money on the road as a singersongwriter — touring was a lot of fun, but it was nothing you could put your hat on.”

From there, he headed to Boston, Massachusetts, to live with his brother and figure out the next step. After landing a job with Thinking Cup coffee shops there, he helped launched several locations for the popular company. He even won three World Latte Art Championships (designs created in the texture of the foam) during that period, too.

“I was enjoying it, but I wasn’t home very much. We just had our first child, and I had to make a decision — do I want to sit here and

“This shop is everything to us. After seeing this building and getting acquainted with this town, it was a no-brainer to come here.”

— Cabell Tice, co-owner of Orchard Coffee

chase a salary at this company or do something that’s better for my family? So, I left,” Tice said.

“I started consulting for a lot of different coffee companies and shot photos at weddings, did portraits and photographed businesses. I was based again out of Oregon and shooting fulltime — always somewhere cool and fun.”

After doing consulting work and launching stores for Revelator Coffee in Atlanta, Georgia, Tice became enamored with the Great Smoky Mountains of Western North Carolina. After wandering into Waynesville and finding the art deco building, he was sold on the idea of relocating his entire family and starting his own coffee shop in town.

Aside from the main use of Methodical Coffee (Greenville, South Carolina), Tice will

also have a different coffee company featured each month, all of which organic and sourced responsibly. There’s also a food component, with a commercial baking kitchen in the back, where Sophie creates made-from-scratch pastries each morning (small plates and lunch specials are planned for the future).

So, why the name Orchard Coffee?

“Orchards take a long time to cultivate. I grew up running around an orchard in Hawai’i picking guavas. All of my siblings and I grew up on that property,” Tice said. “So, what do I want to represent my journey to this coffee shop? It took 10 years to get to where I can have my own space and this is what I want to share with you.”

Alongside the rotating artwork from wellknown regional artists, there are also plans for pop-up acoustic concerts in the near future, which will feature old friends and new that Tice has crossed paths with over the years.

Within this wild and wondrous moment Tice and his family find themselves currently in, he looks at the shop as not only the end of one chapter, but also the fresh start of another.

“With an orchard, it takes about seven years before you get your fruit,” Tice said. “And then once you get there, you’re not done, you’ve only just begun when you start to bear fruit — we’ve created this space, and now we’re looking forward to welcoming people in.”

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There will be a special concert in memory of the late banjo great Steve Sutton at 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 10, at the Colonial Theater in Canton.

here has been a lot of deep thoughts and emoAcclaimed author Ron Rash will be the next tions running through installment of the The Southern Storytellers my mind this past week. And Supper Series on Thursday, May 9, at the I don’t think I’m alone in that Folkmoot Friendship Center in Waynesville. sentiment, either in The Smoky Mountain Rollergirls continue its Waynesville or Haywood roller derby season with a double header County, or across the globe Saturday, May 11, at the Swain Rec Center in for that matter.

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I stood on the sidewalk on Main Street in Waynesville Singer-songwriters Buddy Melton and Milan this past Thursday afternoon, Miller will perform at 8 p.m. Thursday, May 9, at surrounded by hundreds of Cataloochee Ranch in Maggie Valley. members of my community as the body of Riley Americana/alt-country act Grayson Jenkins will Howell was escorted by a couhit the stage at 9 p.m. Saturday, May 11, in The ple dozen law enforcement Gem downstairs taproom at Boojum Brewing in officers to the local funeral Waynesville. home: a 2.5-hour escort from the UNC-Charlotte, where he nearby neighborhood bar to sip some suds was shot and killed by a gunman he tackled and reflect, maybe clear my head, if possible. in an effort to stop the active shooter on En route to the bar, I walked by the Wells campus.

Funeral Home, the same place where Riley’s Standing on the corner of Main and casket was laid down before the memorial Walnut Street, I had chills running through my heart and soul — of sorrow and of pride. service on Sunday at Lake Junaluska. Earlier that day, during the escort, the building was Howell is a hero, and in every sense of the surrounded by hundreds of onlookers and word. And that evening, I strolled from my community supporters paying their respects downtown Waynesville apartment to the

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with American flags held high, dozens of law enforcement vehicles and national media attention.

That evening? Silence on Main Street. No people. No noise. And I strolled by, gazing over at the funeral home every so often, thinking about this tragedy, and how, right then and there, he was right there behind those doors. I walked along an empty Main Street. Signs everywhere giving thanks and love to Riley.

In my unrelenting thoughts about life and the grand scheme of things since the shooting, I keep circling back to the idea of death, and that timeless question — why do bad things happen to good people?

Riley was only 21, with so much life and moments ahead of him, so why did he perish and the rest of us keep on living our lives?

Though it’s one of those unanswerable questions, what can be stated is the legacy of Howell, one which has inspired folks the world over to take action and stand up for others in the face of evil run amuck.

A couple years ago, I was asked to give a eulogy at my uncle’s funeral. He died unexpectedly, with a shock wave rippling through my family. Behind the church podium, my Uncle Scott’s casket in the center of the room, I spoke of the idea of “time” and how we find ourselves grieving through the loss of a loved one.

For me, I have made amends with death a long time ago, due to countless friends and family members I’d lost too soon over the years. And with mourning someone close who is no more, I approach from the angle of celebration, of recalling great times with those we hope to see again someday — wherever and whenever that may be.

For many, there are three things that cause sadness through mourning — you feel cheated out of time, not telling that person you loved them enough, or you never righted the wrongs between the two parties. But, you must remember that we all have a finite amount of time on this earth and within the presence of those we couldn’t imagine living without.

So, what does one do? Well, if you make sure to wake up every day and are aware of those three things above, then you’ll be better equipped to not only reinforce or rekindle love with those you care about, you’ll also have a keen sense of your place in the cosmos we often ignore or don’t appreciate the grandeur of.

Life is not about winning, it’s about having the will each day to get up, get out the door, and compete — to ultimately make the world a better place than when you arrived on the scene. And Riley left this world a better place than he found it, and we are a better society for his selfless actions that not only saved lives, but also lit an eternal flame of hope and compassion in seemingly dark times.

Pictured above is The Strand, our downtown Waynesville movie theater, and what the marquee stated that day Riley was escorted back home. I, and everyone else around the world, echo the sentiments of that marquee. This small mountain town will never, ever be the same again.

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On the beat Cowee School welcomes Sierra Hull Renowned bluegrass singer/mandolinist Sierra Hull will hit the stage for a special evening of acoustic music at 7 p.m.

Saturday, May 18, in Franklin.

At 27, Hull has received the “Mandolin Player of the Year” award from the International Bluegrass Music Association the last three years in-a-row. Before that time, no other female musician had ever been given the honor in the decades-old history of the IBMAs. “I love the music itself, but getting to be part of that community and the spirit of it was such an exciting thing to be part of as a young musician,” Hull recently told The Smoky Mountain News. “I want the next generation, even if they what they’re playing isn’t the most traditional thing in the world, that they can be welcomed within the bounds of that word [‘bluegrass’].”

Tickets are $20 and $10 for children

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ages 6-16. Season tickets also available.

Tickets available at www.coweeschool.org, Franklin Chamber of Commerce or at the school on the day of the concert.

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Americana/alt-country act Grayson Jenkins will hit the stage at 9 p.m. Saturday, May 11, in The Gem downstairs taproom at Boojum Brewing in Waynesville.

A native of the rolling hills and coal mining communities of rural western Kentucky, Jenkins is a singer-songwriter who now calls Lexington his home. John Prine, Kris Kristofferson, Eagles, Sturgill Simpson, Jason Isbell, and many others have influenced his unique brand of Kentucky country music.

His lyrics are inspired by the words of Mark Twain, who always said, “Write what you know.” In keeping with this motto, Jenkins’ songs pay homage to the things most important to him — family, friends,

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and a life without regrets.

His latest studio album, “Cityscapes & Countrysides,” was released in April 2017 and has garnered attention from radio and press in the southeast.

For more information, visit www.graysonjenkins.com or www.boojumbrewing.com.

Folkmoot ‘Songwriters in the Round’ The Folkmoot “Songwriters in the Round” series will present Scott Miller, David Childers and RB Morris at 6 p.m. Saturday, May 18, at the Folkmoot Friendship Center in Waynesville.

Begun in Balsam in 1996 and modeled after similar performances at Nashville’s Bluebird Café, the “Songwriters in the Round” series, now hosted by Folkmoot, presents signature in-the-round shows featuring Nashville area songwriters who pen the lyrics performed by country’s biggest stars.

Many performances feature Grammy and CMA award winners, and all include writers of many top-ranked songs.

Miller’s songs reflect his degrees in American History and Russian Studies, with references to his home, family, history, geography, writers and Appalachia. As of 2011, Miller was based in Staunton, Virginia, having moved back

Steve Sutton Memorial Concert There will be a special concert in memory of late banjo great Steve Sutton at 7:30 p.m.

Friday, May 10, at the Colonial Theater in Canton.

Performers include Marc Pruett Band, Crowe Brothers, Whitewater Bluegrass Company, Bill Kaman, Larry Barnwell, Darren Nicholson Band, and more.

A longtime member of the Darren Nicholson Band and Whitewater Bluegrass Company, Sutton was 60 years old when he passed away in his sleep on May 13, 2017, one day shy of his 61st birthday.

“I basically owe my musical career to him,” said mandolinist Darren Nicholson of International Bluegrass Music Association “Entertainer of the Year” bluegrass act Balsam Range, who was Sutton’s best friend and longtime collaborator. “He got me my first professional job, which led to all the relationships that are still relevant in my current career. Steve believed in me so much that he took me to Strains of Music in Waynesville and paid cash for a Gibson mandolin. Steve was kind to everyone he met and helped countless people — he just had a good heart.”

A Grammy-nominated, multiple IBMA award-winner himself, Sutton graduated from Tuscola High School in Waynesville.

Upon graduation, he was simultaneously offered gigs with the “Godfather of Bluegrass” Bill Monroe and bluegrass legend Jimmy Martin.

“But, Jimmy offered me something like $10 more a week, so I took it,” Sutton chuckled in a 2015 interview with The Smoky Mountain News.

In 1974, Sutton joined Martin on the road, kicking off a career that took him across the globe, ultimately gracing the Grand Ole Opry stage numerous times. Sutton also had stints with Alecia Nugent and Rhonda Vincent. And through his lifelong pursuit of bluegrass and mountain music, Sutton also remembered where it all began, alongside

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home to help manage the family cattle farm. Miller collaborated with filmmaker James Weems and photographer Glen Rose on mini-documentary “Going Home” which explores Miller’s personal and musical journey in returning to the family farm.

banjo great and Bluegrass Hall of Famer Raymond Fairchild. “[Steve’s] talent and free-flowing sense of humor constantly fed that professional effort to the highest levels,” said Marc Pruett, Grammy-winning banjoist of Balsam Range.

“Steve was a valued, respected member of a heritage-schooled, living culture. He was ‘the

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real deal,’ and his warm smile and largerthan-life talent leaves a void in our mountains that can’t be filled.”

Admission is $30 per person. Tickets are available at the Colonial Theater, Strains of Music (Waynesville), Eaglesnest Barber Shop (Hazelwood) or by calling 828.235.2760.

Proceeds will go to Tuscola Scholarship and IBMA Trust Fund. www.cantonnc.com/what-to-do.

Childers’ latest album, “Run Skeleton Run,” on Ramseur Records, is filled with the kinds of songs that have made him a favorite of fans and fellow artists including neighbors The Avett Brothers. Scott Avett contributes to four tracks, and Avetts bassist Bob Crawford co-executiveproduced the effort with label head Dolph Ramseur.

(Crawford and Childers, both history buffs, have recorded and performed together in the Overmountain Men).

Morris is a poet and songwriter, solo performer and band leader, and a sometimes playwright and actor from Knoxville, Tennessee. Morris served as the Jack E. Reese Writer-in-Residence at The University of Tennessee from 2004-2008, and was inducted into the East Tennessee Writers Hall of Fame in 2009.

Tickets are $25 per person, $12 for students, and $29 at the door. For more information and/or to purchase tickets, visit www.folkmoot.org, email info@folkmoot.org or call 828.452.2997.

Folkmoot’s year-round programs are supported by the Cherokee Preservation Foundation and Community Foundation of Western North Carolina.

On the beat

• Balsam Falls Brewing (Sylva) will host Jim & The Giant Jam May 10. All shows start at 8 p.m. Free and open to the public. www.balsamfallsbrewing.com.

• Blue Ridge Beer Hub (Waynesville) will host an acoustic jam with Main St. NoTones from 6 to 9 p.m. May 9 and 16. Free and open to the public. www.blueridgebeerhub.com.

• Boojum Brewing Company (Waynesville) will host a bluegrass open mic every Wednesday, an all-genres open mic every Thursday, Grayson Jenkins & The Resolutions (Americana/alt-country) May 11 and ‘Round the Fire (folk/jam) May 18. All shows begin at 9 p.m. unless otherwise noted. www.boojumbrewing.com.

• Firefly Taps & Grill (Waynesville) will host Lindsay Meyers (singer-songwriter) May 18 and June 1, Two Armadillos (Americana) May 25 and June 8, and Bryce Denton (singersongwriter) May 29. All shows begin at 7 p.m. Free and open to the public.

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• Franklin First United Methodist Church will host the Brasstown Ringers 7 p.m. May 10.

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Hubby Jenkins (old-time/folk) 8:30 p.m. May 8, Whistlepig (outlaw country) lawn show 5:45 p.m. May 9, Acoustic Eidolon (acoustic) 7 p.m. May 9, Brian Ashley Jones w/Richie Jones (Americana) 7 p.m. May 10, Josephine Country (Americana) 8:30 p.m. May 10, Ellis Dyson & The Shambles (jazz/swing) 9 p.m.

May 11, Krista Shows & Drunken Prayer (Americana) 6 p.m. May 12, Bill Staines (folk) 7:30 p.m. May 12, Tuesday Bluegrass Sessions w/Unspoken Tradition 7:30 p.m.

May 14, Queen Bee & The Honeylovers (jazz/swing) lawn show 6 p.m. May 15 and Monica Rizzio (Americana) 7 p.m. May 15.

For more information about the performances and/or to purchase tickets, visit www.isisasheville.com.

• Lazy Hiker Brewing (Franklin) will host an open mic night at 6:30 p.m. every Thursday, Frog & Owl Revival May 10, Frogtown (bluegrass) May 11 and Twist of Fate May 18. All shows begin at 8 p.m. unless otherwise noted. For more information and a complete schedule of events, visit www.lazyhikerbrewing.com.

All shows are free and begin at 8 p.m. unless otherwise noted. www.nantahalabrewing.com.

• Nantahala Outdoor Center (Nantahala Gorge) will host Red Clay Revival 2 p.m. May 11 and Scott James Stambaugh (singersongwriter) 6 p.m. May 11. All shows are free and open to the public. www.noc.com.

• Pub 319 (Waynesville) will host an open mic night from 8 to 11 p.m. every Wednesday.

Free and open to the public. www.pub319socialhouse.com.

• Salty Dog’s (Maggie Valley) will have Karaoke with Jason Wyatt at 8:30 p.m. on Tuesdays and Fridays, Mile High (classic rock) 8 p.m. Wednesdays and Saturdays, and a Trivia w/Kelsey Jo 8 p.m. Thursdays.

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• Satulah Mountain Brewing (Highlands) will host “Hoppy Hour” and an open mic at 6 p.m. on Thursdays and live music on Friday evenings. 828.482.9794 or www.satulahmountainbrewing.com.

• Mad Anthony’s Taproom & Restaurant (Waynesville) will host The Turbos 5:30 p.m.

May 12. All shows are free and open to the public.

• Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church (Dillsboro) will host a community drumming session from 3 to 5 p.m. May 18. All are welcome.

• The Maggie Valley Pavilion will host the Haywood Community Band at 6:30 p.m. May 19. Free and open to the public.

• Southern Porch (Canton) will host Bryce Denton 7 p.m. May 10. All shows are free and open to the public. 828.492.8006.

• Innovation Station (Dillsboro) will host Geoff McBride (singer-songwriter) May 11 and Intergalactic Propulsion Module Music May 18. All events are free and begin at 7 p.m. unless otherwise noted. www.innovationbrewing.com.

• Mountain Layers Brewing (Bryson City) will host the “Stone Soup” open mic night every Tuesday, Shayler’s Kitchen Band May 10 and 17, JR Junior May 11 and Somebody’s Child (Americana) May 18. All shows are free and begin at 7 p.m. www.mountainlayersbrewingcompany.com.

• The Strand at 38 Main (Waynesville) will host an “Open Mic” night from 7 to 9 p.m. on Saturdays. 828.283.0079 or www.38main.com.

• Isis Music Hall (West Asheville) will host Woven Green (folk/world) 7 p.m. May 8,

• Nantahala Brewing (Bryson City) will host Jesse, The Tree May 10 and Cosmic May 18.

• Innovation Brewing (Sylva) will have an Open Mic night May 8 and 15, and a jazz night with the Kittle/Collings Duo May 9 and 16. All events are free and begin at 8 p.m. www.innovation-brewing.com.

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• The Water’n Hole Bar & Grill (Waynesville) will host an “Open Mic Night” on Mondays, karaoke on Thursdays, semi-regular music on Fridays and Saturdays. All events at 10 p.m. unless otherwise noted. 828.456.4750.

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• Frog Level Brewing (Waynesville) will host Hunter Grigg (singer-songwriter) May 10, Joey Fortner & The Universal Sound (Americana/folk) 12:30 p.m. May 11, Marc Keller (singer-songwriter) 5:30 p.m. May 16, Atari Safari May 17 and Nikki Forbes (singersongwriter) May 18. All shows begin at 7 p.m. unless otherwise noted. Free and open to the public. www.froglevelbrewing.com.

Singer-songwriters Buddy Melton and Milan Miller will perform at 8 p.m. Thursday, May 9, at Cataloochee Ranch in Maggie Valley Melton is the lead singer and fiddler for acclaimed bluegrass act Balsam Range, a Haywood County group who has seemingly been awarded every honor in recent years from the International Bluegrass Music Association, including Buddy Melton and Milan Miller.

“Entertainer of the Year” in 2014 and 2018. Melton also has won the IBMA for “Male Vocalist of the Year” twice.

And when one peels back the curtain of Balsam Range, you are introduced to singersongwriter Milan Miller, a Waynesville native who moved to Nashville in hopes of lyrical success, which he found, especially with his numerous songs covered by Balsam Range atop his two IBMA nominations for “Song of the Year.”

Tickets are $15 per person. There is also a pre-show dinner option available separately for $29.95 per person. For more information, call the ranch at 828.926.1401.

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• Currahee Brewing (Franklin) will host Dustin Martin (singer-songwriter) 8 p.m. May 17.

Free and open to the public. www.curraheebrew.com.

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• Andrews Brewing Company (Andrews) will host the “Lounge Series” at its Calaboose location with Jerry Boonstra (singer-songwriter) May 10, Trailer Hippies (Americana) May 11 and Scott Stambaugh (singer-songwriter) May 18. All shows are free and begin at 6 p.m. unless otherwise noted. www.andrewsbrewing.com.

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On the street Rollergirls return to the rink The Smoky Mountain Rollergirls continue its roller derby season with a double header Saturday, May 11, at the Swain Rec Center in Bryson City.

The junior team takes on the Savannah Derbytaunts with the SMRG taking on the Knoxville Brawlers. Doors open at 3 p.m. and the first whistle blows at 4 p.m. to start the Lil’ Nemesisters’ game. The adults play at 6 p.m.

Purchase tickets presale from your favorite skater for $5 or get them at the door for $7 (ages 7 & under are free). Meet both teams at a family friendly after party located at Nantahala Brewpub.

Proceeds from the ticket sales for this event benefit Together We Raise of Swain County. Together We Raise is a nonprofit organization that funds items foster children and senior citizens in state custody need to improve their quality of life.

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‘Mother’s Day Gemboree’ in Franklin The “Mother’s Day Gemboree” will be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. May 10-12 at the Robert C. Carpenter Community Building in Franklin.

Rough and cut gems, minerals, fine jewelry, supplies, beads, door prizes, dealers, exhibits, demonstrations, and more.

For more information, call 828.369.7831. Sponsored by the Franklin Chamber of Commerce and the Macon County Gem & Mineral Society. www.franklin-chamber.com.

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The Jackson County Public Library will be hosting local Bigfoot researcher Jeff Carpenter at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 14, in the Community Room at the library in Sylva.

Join Carpenter, a field investigator for the BFRO (Bigfoot Field Investigators

Organization) as he shares his knowledge and experience from his 15 years of research into the Bigfoot (Sasquatch) legend.

He is also a member of East Coast Expeditions and KBRO (Kentucky Bigfoot Research Organization). During this twohour multimedia presentation, he will present witness reports, audio clips, video clips, footprint casts, and his own experiences.

The presentation is free and open to all ages. Several door prizes will also be given.

The event is co-sponsored by the Friends of the Jackson County Public Library.

For more information, please call the library at 828.586.2016. The Jackson County Public Library is a member of Fontana Regional Library (www.fontanalib.org).

Cherokee Heritage Day

The monthly “Cherokee Heritage Day” will continue from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, May 11, at the Museum of the Cherokee Indian.

All day hands-on activities and fun for the whole family. Different activities each month that incorporate Cherokee culture. May include storytelling, painting, corn shuck doll making, making clay heart-shaped medallions, stamped card making, dance or music.

Free and open to the public. The “Cherokee Heritage Day” is the second Saturday of 26 every month (except June). www.visitcherokeenc.com.

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Hook, Line & Drinker Festival The Jackson County Chamber of Commerce will present the third annual Hook, Line and Drinker Festival from 3 to 7 p.m. Saturday, May 18, at the Bridge Park Pavilion in Sylva.

The festival features fly fishing guides and fishing industry vendors; food trucks; children’s activities; music by two bands (Another Country and Lyric); clean water, outdoor activity and wildlife advocates; and WNC craft beer vendors.

The second annual pre-festival Tuck Trout Trot will be held at 9 a.m. at the Jackson County Greenway. This is a self-timed, 2.2mile fun run/walk along the paved trail adjacent to the Tuckaseigee River. A portion of net proceeds from the Tuck Trout Trot benefit Jackson County Parks & Recreation’s annual “Fishing With Kids Day.” Each paid participant will receive a cool commemorative Tshirt, while supplies last. To register, visit https://runsignup.com/race/nc/cullowhee/tucktrouttrot or sign up at the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce or Jackson County Parks and Recreation office in Cullowhee.

The progressive bluegrass band Another Country will perform from 3 to 4:45 p.m., fol-

lowed by Leeda “Lyric” Jones, who will close out the festival from 5:15 to 7 p.m., with a sizzling set of soul/R&B/rock originals and favorites.

Admission to the family friendly Hook, Line and Drinker Festival is free, with donations encouraged. Reusable Hook, Line & Drinker souvenir cups will be available for purchase, along with commemorative Tshirts. Souvenir cups are required for craft beer vendor purchases. A portion of net proceeds from the festival will benefit Trout Unlimited’s “Trout in the Classroom” programming for 2019-2020.

The festival is a celebration of Jackson County being the proud home of the WNC Fly Fishing Trail and the NC Trout Capital.

The WNC Fly Fishing Trail features 15 hot fishing spots that run from the northern end of the county to the southern end along the Tuckaseigee River. Jackson County is stocked with more trout than any other county in the state and is home to the largest recorded rainbow trout caught in N.C. For more information, visit the festival website at www.hooklinedrinkerfest.com, call 828.586.2155 or visit the festival’s Facebook page.

Whole Bloomin’ Thing festival The 17th annual Whole Bloomin’ Thing festival will take place from 9 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Saturday, May 11, in the Historic Frog Level District of Waynesville.

Children’s activities, local growers and artisans/crafters, flowering baskets, herbs, outdoor decor, live music, and more. Businesses in the district will also be open, including a coffee cafe, brewery and art gallery.

Service animals only. Rain or shine. Free to attend. Sponsored by the Historic Frog Level Merchants Association.

For more information, click on www.historicfroglevel.com.

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The Strawberry Jam festival will be held from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday, May 18, at Darnell Farms in Bryson City.

The Darnell family celebrates their locally grown strawberry crop. Enjoy local music, local food, fresh fruits and vegetables, craft vendors, plow demonstrations, childrens play area, hayrides, fishing, camping, and much more.

Admission is free. Donations accepted for the upkeep and maintenance of the farm. For more information, call 828.488.2376.

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This program is free of charge. This class is limited to 20 participants. For more information or to sign up for the class, call 828.586.2016 or stop by the Reference Desk.

This event is co-sponsored by the Friends of the Jackson County Public Library. The Jackson County Public Library is a member of Fontana Regional Library (www.fontanalib.org).

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Dog friendly patio and front garden open, weather permitting. For more information and/or to RSVP, call 828.452.0120 or visit www.waynesvillewine.com.

• The “Uncorked: Wine & Rail Pairing Experience” will be held from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturday, May 11, at the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad in Bryson City. Full service all-adult first class car. Wine pairings with a meal and more. For more information and/or to register, call 800.872.4681 or visit www.gsmr.com.

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• A free wine tasting will be held from 2 to 5 p.m. May 11 and 18 at Papou’s Wine Shop in Sylva. www.papouswineshop.com or 828.631.3075.

• Free cooking demonstrations will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. on Saturdays at Country Traditions in Dillsboro. Watch the demonstrations, eat samples and taste house wines for $3 a glass. All recipes posted online. www.countrytraditionsnc.com.

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Now under new management with Stephanie Strickland and Genevieve Bagley, Bosu’s Wine Shop in Waynesville will continue to host wine tastings and small plates.

• Mondays: Free tastings and discounts on select styles of wine that changes weekly.

• Thursdays: Five for $5 wine tasting, with small plates available for purchase from Chef Bryan’s gourmet cuisine in The Secret Wine Bar. • Fridays: The Secret Wine Bar will be open for lunch from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and open for drinks and small plates from 5 to 9 p.m.

• Saturdays: Champagne cocktails from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The Secret Wine Bar will be open for lunch from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

There will also be a free wine tasting from 1 to 5 p.m.

Mother’s Day Brunch will be from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. May 12, with the Italian Wine Dinner from 7 to 9 p.m. May 15, Paint & Sip from 3 to 5 p.m. May 18 and the South of the Border Seated Wine Tasting from 7 to 8:30 p.m. May 22.

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The monthly Creating Community Workshop will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, May 18, in the Atrium of the Jackson County Public Library in Sylva.

In this class, attendees will learn key herbs for everyday use, tonics, infusions, teas, herb strengths and specific uses, tea blending, and each person will create their own personal tea blend to take with them.

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• “Paint & Sip” with visual artist Genevieve Bagley will be held from 3 to 5 p.m.

Saturday, May 18, at Bosu’s Wine Shop in Waynesville. Cost is $45 per person. Ticket includes materials and gourmet snack. Wine and beer menu available. To RSVP, call 828.452.0120.

• The Weekly Open Studio art classes will resume from 2 to 4 p.m. on Wednesdays at the Haywood County Arts Council in Waynesville, Instructor will be Betina Morgan.

Open to all artists, at any stage of development, and in the medium of your choice.

Cost is $20 per class. There will also be a Youth Art Class from 4 to 5 p.m. on Wednesdays. Cost is $10 per class. Contact Morgan at 828.550.6190 or email bmk.morgan@yahoo.com.

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• The Macon County Art Association and Uptown Gallery will host its next monthly meeting from 6 to 7 p.m. Monday, May 13, at the gallery in Franklin. Jeff Norman of Franklin Picture Framing will be the guest speaker. He will discuss the right way to frame and wire your artwork for display. Free.

• The next meeting of the Western North Carolina Woodturners Club Inc. will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, May 11, at The Bascom in Highlands. Drive across the covered bridge into the parking lot and come into the main entrance near the covered patio. There will be directions on how to get to the woodturning studio. Visitors are always welcome. The club meets in Highlands the second Saturday of every month. This month’s presenter will be Don Marks demonstrating how to make a large box for the “Beads of Courage.”

• The “Floral Alcohol Ink Class” with Nick DePaolo will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Wednesday, May 15, at the Haywood County Arts Council in Waynesville. All supplies are provided and you take home your painting.

Fee is $55 for non-HCAC members, $50 for HCAC members. To RSVP, call 828.452.0593.

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• Art by Sarah Tess Kunkleman is on display during the month of May in the Macon

• The “Artist Coffee & Chat” will be from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Thursday, May 9, at the Haywood County Arts Council in Waynesville.

Conversation includes updates on all things art locally and regionally. Guest artist will be Sarah Altman. www.haywoodarts.org.

• The Museum of the Cherokee Indian has recently opened a major new exhibit, “People of the Clay: Contemporary Cherokee Potters.”

It features more than 60 potters from the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and Cherokee Nation, and more than one hundred works from 1900 to the present. The exhibit will run through next April.

• There will several local artisans on display at the Waynesville and Canton libraries through March. Artists at the Waynesville Library will include Patty Johnson Coulter (painter), Linda Blount (painter), Jason Woodard (painter) and Mollie HarringtonWeaver (painter). Artists at the Canton Library will include Russell Wyatt (photographer) and Ashley Calhoun (painter). For more information, click on www.haywoodarts.org.

• A “Beginner Step-By-Step” adult painting class will be held at 6:30 p.m. on Thursdays at Frog Level Brewing in Waynesville. There is also a class at 6:30 p.m. on the last Wednesday of the month at Balsam Fall Brewing in Sylva. Cost is $25 with all supplies provided. For more information on paint dates and/or to RSVP, contact Robin Arramae at 828.400.9560 or

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• The Haywood County Arts Council will offer its latest exhibit, “Elemental: Wood, Metal, Glass & Clay” through June 1 at the HCAC Gallery & Gifts showroom in downtown Waynesville. Participating artists from around Western North Carolina include potter, wood workers, glass artists, metal workers and fiber artisans. For more information, call 828.452.5362 or visit www.haywoodarts.org.

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County Public Library Meeting Room in Franklin. Stop by or call ahead for available viewing times. For more about Sarah’s art and her processes visit her Instagram at www.instagram.com/sarahtess_studioart.

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The “Airing of the Quilts” will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m Saturday, May 11, around downtown Franklin.

See quilts displayed as businesses and homeowners will be hanging quilts from storefronts and porches that will create an unbelievable burst of spring color.

In addition, the celebration will feature quilting vendors, arts and crafts vendors, quilting demonstrations, giveaways and more. www.franklin-chamber.com.

Raku workshop at Cowee Pottery School Cowee Pottery School’s Master Potter series continues with Joe Frank McKee as he demonstrates his unique process with clay and the great world of alternative raku firings and effects from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Saturday, May 18, at the school in Franklin.

Originally from Abilene, Texas, McKee opened Tree House Pottery in Dillsboro in 2003. He continues to enjoy being a studio potter as well as teaching the art of clay as a part-time instructor at Southwestern Community College, yet one of his greatest professional accomplishments has been to cofound and co-organize the Western Carolina Pottery Festival, an annual event in Dillsboro.

During this one day demonstration and workshop, McKee will take you on a journey through his history and experience with clay, and share how he makes, fires and finishing. If you’re considering exploring Raku, this workshop will expose you to a

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variety of firing techniques.

Participants should bring three bisque fired pieces to the workshop. For more information or to register, visit www.coweepotteryschool.org.

Balsam Arts & Craft Show The spring Balsam Arts & Craft Show will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, May 11, at the Balsam Fire Department.

With a great selection of local handmade arts and crafts, items available include: baskets, chair caning, crocheted and hand-sewn items, wood-burned gourds, hand-stitched and stamped greeting cards, oil paintings/prints, framed photos, baked goods, homemade fudge, small hand-painted tiles, wooden spoons, jewelry and woodcarvings among many other items.

A portion of the entry fees will benefit the Balsam Fire Department.

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To celebrate its 35th season, the Haywood Arts Regional Theatre will present “The Foreigner” at 7:30 p.m. May 9-11, and at 2 p.m. May 12 inside the Daniel and Belle Fangmeyer Theatre in Waynesville.

The play tells the tale of two travelers to the deep South, Charlie and Froggie. Charlie is depressed over situations back home in England and doesn’t feel like being sociable, so his friend tells their host that he is from an exotic country and speaks no English.

This leads to many comic turns as those who encounter Charlie assume he can’t understand a thing they say.

The play is considered to be one of the funniest ever written and helped launch playwright Larry Shue into the limelight.

Shue was heralded as the new Neil Simon, but he was tragically killed in a plane crash at the age of 39.

HART originally produced the play in 1990 and that production featured Jeff Messer who is now taking on the role of director leading a cast that includes: Tom Dewees, Douglas Dean Savitt, Maggie Rowe, Clara Ray Burrus, Adam Welchel, Scotty Jones Cherryholmes and Maximillian Koger.

HART will be spending the year looking back on its 35 years. Since its founding in 1984, HART has produced 217 main stage plays and musicals, 115 studio shows and

The theatre has helped numerous young people pursue careers in the arts and currently has numerous alumni performing professionally around the country.

In addition, Harmons’ Den Bistro will be open for pre-show dining before all performances. To make reservations for the show or the Bistro call 828.456.6322, Tuesday through Saturday from 1 to 5 p.m. or visit www.harttheatre.org.

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For more information, contact Roberta Pipitone at 828.332.2837 or Savannah DeHart at the Macon County Public Library at 828.524.3600.

• “Calendar Girls” opens at Highlands Performing Arts Center on May 23. There will be eight performances over two weeks: Thursday, Friday, and Saturday evenings at 7:30 and two Sunday matinees on May 26 and June 2 beginning at 2:30 p.m. Tickets will not be available until the Thursday before the play opens. Call 828.526.8084 or visit www.cashiersplayers.org.

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• The “Triple Threat Musical” will be held at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 18, at the Bardo Arts Center on the campus of Western Carolina University in Cullowhee.

• There is free comedy improv class from 7 to 9 p.m. every Thursday at Frog Level Brewing in Waynesville. No experience necessary, just come to watch or join in the fun.

Improv teacher Wayne Porter studied at Sak Comedy Lab in Orlando, Florida, and performed improvisation with several groups.

Join Improv WNC on Facebook or just call 828.316.8761.

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The Theatre at the Library announces auditions for “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” to be performed on the weekends of Aug. 9-11 and 16-18.

Auditions will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, May 11, and at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 14, at the Macon County Public Library in Franklin.

The inclusive community theatre group is seeking actors and actresses for this summer’s show. Ages ages 10 and over are welcome.

Those under 12 must be accompanied by an adult for the duration of the production.

Whether you are a seasoned thespian or just curious about theatre, this is the group for you.

Director Roberta Pipitone is a Shakespeare fanatic (and retired drama teacher of 30 years).

After writing and directing last fall’s Theatre at the Library production “Murder by the Book,” Pipitone is ready to teach our troupe about the greatest playwright that ever lived. “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” will be about the process; those who participate will have a deeper understanding of Shakespeare’s style, language, and intention.

Specifically, this summer’s show will require an acting cast of at least two young men, twothree mature men, two young women, one-two mature women, and five-ten children/teens.

They are also looking for volunteers to help with costumes, props, lights and sound.

Monologue packets can be picked up at the Macon County Public Library Reference

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The theatre has made its home in the Strand Theater, the HCC Auditorium, the Balsam Mountain Inn, Maggie Valley Country Club, and the Performing Arts Center at the Shelton Campus.

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Still jazzy after all these years first discovered Lawrence Ferlinghetti in high school and his book Starting From San Francisco and have read everything he’s ever published. I wrote my junior thesis paper for my English major in college on the light and dark imagery in his poetry.

In his new book, Litte Boy, practically the whole narrative is concerned with light and dark imagery — in all their guises.

Apparently he is still working all that out. I Writer also had the good fortune to be his neighbor in the North Beach community of San Francisco in the 1970s and to spend valuable time with him, first as a member of my generational entourage, then as a friend and collaborator on protest and benefit events and publishing projects during that decade. So, I know Lawrence Ferlinghetti and much of his life story. And his memoiristic “novel” Little Boy, which was just published on his 100th birthday in March, is a stream of consciousness portrayal of those 100 years.

In what is a mirror into contemporary history and human evolution, Little Boy reads like an agnostic’s Book of Revelations all woven into a lyrically prophetic voice that is almost verse. In fact, it reads like an epiphany, a prophecy, a caleidoscopic rondo of words and ideas — all in “the 4th person singular” as Ferlinghetti describes the omniscient voice he writes in.

The dark side of the narrative of Little Boy starts with the line “... the last thunderous gasp of our civilization passed down from the Greeks really all gone now down the drain.

And shall we tally it up now and see what’s left after capitalism hits the fan.” Ferlinghetti has always been overtly and honestly political, and Little Boy doesn’t pull any literal or

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metaphorical punches. It’s all Ferlinghetti.

From his student years in Paris to his World War II years in the U.S. Navy, and then to San

Francisco and the creation of City Lights Bookstore & Publishing Company, all the way to his centennial year in 2019. We get intimate glimpses of where he’s been, the lives he’s lived and the ideologies he’s embraced as he downloads his remembrances onto the pages of this book.

“And it’s the portrait of the artist as an old man and it’s still the same old story of the young buck who leaves his home and his mother and father and brothers and sisters to find his own solitary way in a world of his

Ron Rash comes to Folkmoot Acclaimed author Ron Rash will be the next installment of the The Southern Storytellers Supper Series from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, May 9, at the Folkmoot Friendship Center in Waynesville.

Folkmoot, Blue Ridge Books and the Haywood County Public Library are continuing to bring The Southern Storytellers Supper Series, bringing southern culture and our region’s authors and musicians together for a unique night of food, fun and discussion.

Doors open at 5:30 p.m. and dinner is served at 6 p.m. Authors and Blue Ridge Books will be on hand to offer books for purchase.

Rash will discuss stories of the historical events of our area that have found their way into his novels and poetry. Some of the events Rash has written about include the local logging industry, the Shelton Laurel Massacre during the Civil War, and the World War I German Internment camp in Hot Springs that housed “detained immigrants.”

own imagining which is not necessarily the real world as it exists and so off into the wild blue yonder to find oneself with pants down to the Folies Bergere or through the archipelagos and uplands of thinking where I love to roam and stumble or swim with or against any current as wild winds blow arks made of thoughts,” he writes of his own life’s journey.

Reminiscent of James Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake, Ferlinghetti’s book is filled with cliches, aphorisms, favorite literary quotes and references, phrases of poetry, lines from famous tv ads, painters, paintings, book titles, song lyrics, an emptying of the mind to get back to Square One. Or as Ferlinghetti writes: “And this ain’t no novel but a kind of extended epiphany to pin down extempore thinking like a butterfly pinned on a board a hoard a treasure trove of words spread out like wings aflutter in the eternal breeze the sneeze of time the wind of consciousness filling the sail the spinnaker ballooning and there is no plot and there is none in life there is only the stutter of wording between waking and sleeping I am merely speaking my mind such as it is and that’s all there is to it.” In this free-form style, Ferlinghetti may have created a new genre of fiction. If so, what would we call it? A “memel”? A “novoir”? Whatever we might call it, Ferlinghetti’s genre is more accessible, enjoyable and with much fewer trips to the dictionary and the university reference library than Joyce’s Finnegan.

Sometimes told from the perspective of his scattered childhood and sometimes from the reflective mind of an adult, we get all of Ferlinghetti, inside and out. We get to walk in his shoes. “I flung out into the grey light of

Tickets are $20 for adults, $10 for students. Tickets can be purchased in advance at www.folkmoot.org or by calling 828.452.2997.

Limited seating is available. Parking is encouraged in the back of the Folkmoot building for year-round events.

Folkmoot’s year-round programming initiatives have been made possible by the Community Foundation of Western North Carolina and the Cherokee Preservation Foundation.

Family rates available call 828.452.2997 (Ext. 101) for more information.

Folk School ‘Literary Hour’ The John C. Campbell Folk School and NC Writers’ Network-West will sponsor The Literary Hour at 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 15, at the Keith House on the JCCFS campus in Brasstown.

The Literary Hour is held on the third Thursday of the month unless otherwise indicated. This reading is free of charge and open

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Paris,” he writes of those early Paris years, “every day with a hunger in my step down along the quays thinking I was some sort of wild poet or artist, and I was Apollinaire and I was Rimbaud and I was Baudelaire and all the damned poets, the mad ones with the rage to live.” A similar journey that I would make some years later to haunt those same Parisian streets in search of my favorite French poets and, like Ferlinghetti, in search of myself.

True to his Beat literary roots, in Little Boy Ferlinghetti references all the usual suspects of the Beat canon and writes about everything from love and sex to human evolution to overpopulation to God and the Christian religion to deep space and the universe. Yet always coming back to the chorus at the core of his “arks made of thoughts” is the idea of “changing the world” and the question of “what are we here for?” In what he refers to as his “divine arguments” and after ranting about the Industrial Age, he focuses on the light imagery as he imagines a more perfect world.

“What would a world be like if life on earth reaches a condition in which there would be no further need for the left to continually dissent, when there would be no further need to dissent And one swallow does not make a spring but two swallows winging together with one consciousness make a full summer so that if enough people could wing together with one consciousness — and that consciousness being truly enlightened — would we not then bring peace and social justice to all the world?”

At age 100, Lawrence Ferlinghetti has seen and experienced a lot as he reminisces about his “gone life” and the possibility of a “gone world.” A sage for our age, he concludes: “Life goes on, and us with it, and there is no end of it, eternal creation, birthing and dying, dust into dust, as my fantasy dies, as this present fantasy fades, in this eternal moment .....”

Thomas Crowe is a regular contributor to The Smoky Mountain News and the author of Starting From San Francisco — The Baby Beat Generation and the Second San Francisco Renaissance. He lives in the Tuckasegee community of Jackson County and can be reached at newnativepress@hotmail.com

to the public. This month’s featured readers will be Carol Lynn Jones, Kanute Rarey and Rosemary R. Royston.

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New Horace Kephart biography Acclaimed writer and historian George Ellison will present the biography he and Janet McCue collaborated on, Back of Beyond: A Horace Kephart Biography, at 3 p.m. Saturday, May 11, at Blue Ridge Books in Waynesville.

Charles Frazier, author of Cold Mountain, said of the biography, “This meticulously researched and carefully considered book is a great contribution to the history and culture of the Southern Appalachians.”

To reserve copies of Back of Beyond, please call Blue Ridge Books at 828.456.6000.

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Make way for elk (and trout) Haywood, Jackson counties seek designation as state’s elk and trout capitals The reintroduced elk have caused a surge in visitation to Cataloochee Valley over the last 18 years. @lookout_photo Photo

BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER f you want to see an elk, the Elk Capital of North Carolina would probably be a good place to look. Pretty soon, that could mean a trip to Haywood County.

“I think it’s a wonderful opportunity to promote unique things in our area, our national parks and our beautiful mountains in general,” said Rep. Joe Sam Queen, DWaynesville. “It’s a way to use really a symbol of North Carolina to promote our region.”

Queen, along with Rep. Michele Presnell, RBurnsville, has introduced a bill in the General Assembly that would officially designate Haywood County as the elk capital of North Carolina. The bill was filed April 9, referred to the Committee on Wildlife Resources April 10 and reported favorable from that committee May 2. It’s now sitting in the Committee on State and Local Government. If favorable, it will be scheduled for a vote.

Queen said he’s optimistic the bill will pass the House this week and go to the Senate ahead of the crossover deadline May 9.

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market research report that Magellan Strategy Group prepared for the TDA in August 2018, 82 percent of 792 survey respondents said that they would like or like a great deal new attractions in the area focused on wildliferelated activities. When asked to pick a favorite among the 10 choices given, 18 percent chose the wildlife option, just below the 19 percent that selected the number one pick, outdoor recreation activities.

However, in the same report just 5 percent of 389 respondents said they viewed elk on their recent trip to the Smokies.

Building awareness is key.

“Even people in surrounding areas don’t realize what we have available,” said Collins.

The TDA has already been working on elkrelated marketing, even without the Elk Capital designation. An elk is prominently featured in the organization’s logo, and Collins’ staff is currently working hard to organize the inaugural Smoky Mountain Elk Fest, which will be held Sept. 13-15 at the Maggie Valley Festival Grounds.

Before Haywood County could pursue the Elk Capital designation, however, it first had to consult with the reigning Elk Capital titleholder, Maggie Valley.

“They had the designation but they weren’t really using it, where the county sees it as they want to take it more seriously and move forward,” said Queen. “Maggie’s going to be part of that for sure, but I think it makes it a stronger designation from leaving a city to becoming a county designation.”

After all, said Queen, the elk don’t confine themselves to city limits.

“They do wander about,” he said.

Maggie’s title was not claimed through an act of law, as Haywood’s will be should it pass.

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we’ll get it to you,” he said.

If successful, the title would spur Haywood’s ability to market itself as a destination for wildlife viewing and to better tell the story of the elk’s extirpation, reintroduction and resurgence.

“I actually think it will be a very strong message for us to put out for a number of reasons,” said Lynn Collins, executive director of the Haywood County Tourism Development Authority. “I think it will create more awareness for us, for the elk and consequently I think that will make people want to see them.”

Elk were reintroduced to North Carolina in 2001 after 300 years of absence from the state, with the initial herd of 52 released in the Cataloochee Valley area of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park — Cataloochee is located in Haywood County — multiplying to now include an estimated 150 animals living in Cataloochee, Cherokee, Harmon’s Den and Maggie Valley. Visitation to Cataloochee exploded after the reintroduction, rising from 65,400 visitors per year in 2000 to nearly 100,000 in 2018.

Wildlife viewing is certainly a driver for visitation to Western North Carolina and to Haywood County in particular. According to a

The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission stocks more fish in Jackson County each year than in any other county, releasing more than 92,000 fish to Jackson’s 4,600 miles of waterways. File photo

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Crews conquer fire in Linville The Brushy Ridge Trail near Linville Gorge reopened last week following successful containment of a 3-acre fire there April 30.

The fire was reported April 28 in a remote area on the northeast side of the Linville Gorge Wilderness Area, with 52 firefighters working to contain it. The trail

remained closed for three days afterward but reopened May 3.

The blaze was caused by an abandoned campfire. As summer camping season begins, the U.S. Forest Service reminds visitors to ensure all flames are extinguished with water and soil, and coals are out cold before leaving a campsite.

Earn a boating safety certification A boating safety course will be offered 6 to 9 p.m. May 15-16 at Haywood Community College in Clyde, giving participants a shot at a certification required to operate vessels propelled by a motor of 10 horsepower or greater.

Participants must attend both sessions and pass a written exam. The free course is offered as a partnership between HCC and the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission. The class will be offered again June 26-27.

Register at www.ncwildlife.org by selecting the “Learning” tab.

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Event sponsored by Waynesville Parks & Recreation and held at the Waynesville Rec Center

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“Receiving the designation will serve as an enhancement to our existing successful WNC Fly Fishing Trail, now in it’s 11th year, and would further complement the branded tourism efforts county-wide,” said Spiro.

“We partner with the Jackson County TDA to market a variety of fishing experiences for anglers of all abilities with our map and trail, Mountain Heritage Trout Waters, professional guide services and weekly fishing reports. We feel that the designation would be attractive for the entire western region of N.C., as it would only continue to build upon the outdoor recreational offerings and natural resources that are here.”

Sylva’s Hook, Line and Drinker Festival celebrating the fishing and craft beer scenes will be held for the third year running on Saturday, May 18, at Bridge Park. The free festival features fishing guides, fishing vendors, live music, food trucks, kids activities, craft beer vendors and a pre-festival walk/run at the Jackson County Greenway.

The Jakson County TDA also worked to federally trademark the “Trout Capital” term, an effort at which it was successful.

The county’s trout-related amenities are espoused on the website created for that purpose, www.nctroutcapital.com.

“It’s an incredibly valuable tourism product for us to market,” said Jackson County TDA Director Nick Breedlove. “It drives thousands of visitors here a year.”

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“This is where the elk were reintroduced, so rightfully so we feel like Haywood County should be the elk capital of North Carolina, and if we didn’t claim it someone else would,” Collins said.

Haywood County isn’t the only county in Western North Carolina seeking legislative action to formalize the importance of its non-human residents.

On April 1, Sen. Jim Davis, R-Franklin, filed a bill to declare Jackson County the Trout Capital of North Carolina. The bill touts Jackson’s “longest contiguous stretch” of N.C. Mountain Heritage Trout Waters, status as the location of one of the three largest rainbow trout ever caught in North Carolina, and claim as home to the nation’s first fly fishing trail, among other attributes.

Jackson County has been trying to claim the Trout Capital title for years, with county commissioners passing a resolution giving itself the title in 2016 as a bill to the same effect worked its way through the legislature. Then-Rep. Mike Clampitt, R-Bryson City, had introduced the bill on the House side in February 2017, and it passed 112-0 on April 20 of that year. However, when it traveled to the Senate it was referred to the Committee on Rules and Operations of the Senate but never received a vote.

Julie Spiro, director of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce, has spearheaded efforts to gain Jackson the designation.

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Farm Bill causes changes for loan limits The 2018 Farm Bill resulted in higher farm loan limits from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, among other changes. n The Direct Operating Loan limit increased from $300,000 to $400,000, and the Guaranteed Operating Loan limit increased from $ 1.429 million to $1.75 million.

Operating loans help producers pay for normal operating expenses, including machinery and equipment, seed, livestock feed and more. n The Direct Farm Ownership Loan limit increased from $300,000 to $600,000, and the Guaranteed Farm Ownership Loan limit increased from $1.429 million to $1.75 million. Farm ownership loans help producers become owner-operators of family farms as well as improve and expand current operations. n Producers can now receive both a $50,000 Farm Ownership Microloan and a $50,000 Operating Microloan. Previously, microloans were limited to a combined $50,000.

Microloans provide flexible access to credit for small, beginning, niche and non-traditional farm operations. n Producers who previously received debt forgiveness as part of an approved Farm Service Agency restructuring plan are now eligible to apply for emergency loans. Previously, these producers were ineligible. n Beginning and socially disadvantaged producers can now receive up to a 95 percent guarantee against the loss of principal and

interest on a loan, up from 90 percent. www.fsa.usda.gov.

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New mapping program available for farmers A new program will allow growers to map crops by herbicide-resistant traits.

CropCheck allows the farming community to be aware of specific herbicide-resistant traits in neighboring fields and then adjust their spray program to minimize the effect of herbicide drift to small grain crops. Labels for new herbicide products containing dicamba require growers to monitor nearby susceptible crops through a state-sponsored program like CropCheck.

CropCheck joins existing online mapping program DriftWatch and BeeCheck. DriftWatch allows producers of high-value specialty crops to map their sites and provide contact information about their operation, while BeeCheck allows beekeepers to map their hives online using pins and half-acre circles.

The programs were developed by FieldWatch Inc. To date, 21 states and a Canadian province use FieldWatch, with CropCheck offered in three states for 2019. A grant from the N.C. Pesticide Environmental Trust Fund paid to purchase the program as part of the department’s ongoing efforts to protect and increase valuable pollinators in the state.

All three programs are available at www.ncagr.gov/pollinators, along with detailed instructions for use.

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Flower sale to support the visually impaired Hanging flower baskets and brooms will be abundant May 11-12 from the Maggie Valley Lions Club during a sale at the Maggie Valley Inn. Hours will be 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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Proceeds will support various charities,

Swap out starter plants If you’ve got extra starter plants and nowhere to grow them, swap the seedlings at the fourth annual Start Plant Exchange, slated for 11:30 to 3:30 p.m. Friday, May 17, at the Waynesville Public Library.

Bring flower, herb and vegetable seedlings to give away, and leave with new varieties you’ve never tried before.

Do not attend if you have no plants to share. Clearly label all plants. Event is drop-in format.

Kathy Olsen, 828.356.2507 or kathleen.olsen@haywoodcountync.gov.

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Dispose of pesticides Haywood County Pesticide Collection Day is Thursday, May 9, with all pesticides accepted from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Haywood County Cooperative Extension Center at 589 Raccoon Road in Waynesville.

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but especially the Haywood Blind Fund, a countywide program that provides eyeglasses and exams to those who can’t afford them and supports Brighter Visions’ summer camp for the visually impaired.

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tion of the label to help identify the material. Unknown materials cannot be accepted.

For pressurized pesticide gas cylinders or containers larger than 5 gallons, contact the Extension Office before collection day for special instructions.

The Collection Day is offered in collaboration with the N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services’ Pesticide Disposal Assistance Program.

Contact Cooperative Extension or event manager Bill Skelton at 828.456.3575.

Oust pests organically An in-depth seminar on organic pest management will be offered on two dates next week: n 6 to 8 p.m. Monday, May 13, at the Swain County Extension Center in Bryson City. n 10 a.m. to noon Tuesday, May 14, at the Jackson County Extension Center in Sylva.

A whirlwind of topics, including companion plants, farmscaping, soil amendments, organically approved sprays and a plethora of tips will be covered. Participants will receive handouts and the opportunity to ask questions as they seek to learn how to organically control insects, diseases and weeds that plague their vegetables.

Free. Register with Chrisy Bredenkamp, clbreden@ncsu.edu or 828.586.4009/828.488.3848.

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Be a scientist for a day during a lichen collection day 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday, May 18, at the Appalachian Highlands Learning Center in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Participants will take a short hike that’s moderate to strenuous in difficulty guided by a National Park Service expert on lichens. Participants 8 and older are invited, with adult supervision required for minors.

Lichens are an important tool for determining the health of an ecosystem, with an estimated 13,500 species worldwide. Lichen is formed through a symbiotic relationship between a fungus and an algae or cyanobacteria.

The event is part of Haywood Waterways’ Get To Know Your Watershed series of outdoor recreation excursions. Free for Haywood Waterways members and $5 for nonmembers. Space limited. RSVP by May 16 to Christine O’Brien at christine.haywoodwaterways@gmail.com or 828.476.4667, ext. 11.

Search for blue ghosts For a short time each year, blue ghost fireflies hover over the forest floor with a lingering bluish glow, and a series of twilight tours at the Cradle of Forestry in America this month will offer a chance to see the show firsthand.

The “In Search of Blue Ghosts Twilight Tour” will be held 8:30 to 10:30 p.m. on Tuesday through Saturday evenings, May 14 to June 1. The evening will begin with an educational presentation in the outdoor amphitheater and end with a walk along the

paved Forest Festival Trail beginning at 9:30 p.m. A variety of habitats along the trail host several firefly species in addition to blue ghosts. Gates to the Cradle of Forestry close at 10:30 p.m.

Tickets are $10 for children ages 4 to 12 and $20 for those over 12. Participation limited to 150 each night. Register by selecting a date at cradleofforestry.com/event/blue-ghosttour.

The Cradle of Forestry is located along U.S. 276 in the Pisgah National Forest, about 35 miles south of Waynesville.

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all participants will receive a free lunch. Children must be accompanied by an adult. n 9 a.m. Saturday, May 11, at Boone Fork Pond on the Grandfather Ranger District. Matt Eldridge, 828.652.2144 or meldridge@fs.fed.us. n 9 a.m. Saturday, May 18, at Cherokee Lake on the Tusquitee Ranger District. Todd Sharkey, 828.837.5152 or tasharkey@fs.fed.us. n 9 a.m. Saturday, May 18, at Max Patch Pond on the Appalachian Ranger District. Registration starts at 8 a.m. David McFee, 828.689.9694 or davidmcfee@fs.fed.us. n 9 a.m. Monday, May 27, on Long Creek at Old

Test your strength, agility and endurance at the inaugural Canton Lions Urban Assault, on Saturday, May 18, starting in Canton’s Sorrell Street Park.

Participants will face obstacles designed

by Shane Pope, owner and operator of the Urban Athletic Training Center. The 3.1-mile race will feature more than 20 obstacles testing mind, body and spirit — including a cargo net climb, rope swing, pipe crawl, couch jumps, tire flip and more.

Register individually or as a two-person team. Participants are asked to arrive no later than 9:15 a.m. Registration is $50 or $25 for students. Register at www.active.com and contact Ryan Jacobson with questions at rjacobson05@gmail.com.

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Jason Farmer, 828.479.6431 or jfarmer@fs.fed.us. n 9 a.m. Saturday, June 1, at Cliffside Lake on the Nantahala Ranger District. Richard McClure, 828.524.6441 or rmmcclure02@fs.fed.us. n 9 a.m. Saturday, June 1, at Lake Powhatan on the Pisgah Ranger District. Crowds expected; additional age and creel limits may be in place for this event. Lorie Stroup, 828.877.3265 or loriestroup@fs.fed.us. n 9 a.m. Saturday, June 1, at Carolina Hemlocks on the Appalachian Ranger District. David McFee, 828.689.9694 or davidmcfee@fs.fed.us.

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The Learning Center at PARI will offer two new residential summer camp programs this year focused on hands-on science, technology and astronomy. n Astro Camp is open to boys and girls ages 11 to 14 Aug. 4-9. Campers will explore, map and 3D print the locations that Neil Armstrong took his “one giant leap for mankind” and the mammoth Martian volcano Olympus Mons using actual data from NASA satellites. n Camp Above and Beyond is an in-depth experience for high school students offered June 16-28.

Campers will get to work with the Learning Center’s historic instruments from NASA as they explore the multi-faceted world of space science and research through astronomy, physics and astrobiology.

Camps take place on the Learning Center’s 200acre mountaintop campus near Brevard. Scholarship opportunities are available. www.pari.edu or 828.862.5554.

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Run for kids The second annual Broyhill BBQ 5K Race will kick off at 9:15 a.m. Saturday, May 11, at Broyhill Children’s Home in Clyde.

Runners and walkers of all skill levels are invited to come out, with strollers allowed as well. The race is one of many events planned for the Broyhill BBQ festival. All proceeds support Broyhill Baptist Children’s Home.

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COMMUNITY EVENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS • Haywood Community College will hold its graduation ceremonies at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 9 (College Transfer, Haywood Early College and Natural Resources) and at 4:30 p.m. (Health & Human Services) and 7:30 p.m. (Business & Industry Department) on Friday, May 10, in Clyde. www.Haywood.edu or 627.2821.

• Western Carolina University will hold its spring commencement ceremonies on Friday and Saturday, May 10-11, in the Ramsey Regional Activity Center in Cullowhee. www.wcu.edu.

• Lake Junaluska will host a Mother’s Day Buffet from 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. on Sunday, May 12, at historic Lambuth Inn. $23.95 for adults; $12 for ages 4-11; free for 3-under. Reservations required: 454.6662. Info: www.lakejunaluska.com/dining.

• Planning for End of Life, a community workshop, is set for 5:30-6:30 p.m. on Monday, May 13, at The Gathering Place, St. David’s Episcopal Church in Cullowhee. Local attorney Diane Sherrill will cover wills, estate planning and related topics.

• The Haywood County Arts Council is accepting submissions for a Studio Tour Logo Contest through Aug. 1.

Info and application: haywoodarts.org/logo-contest.

BUSINESS & EDUCATION • Registration is underway for a “Jump-Start Series” offered by Haywood Community College’s Small Business Center from 4:30-6:30 p.m. on Tuesdays, through May 14. SBC.Haywood.edu or 627.4512.

• Haywood Community College’s Small Business Center last events during Small Business Week are: a “Drive Business Results with Google Ads, Google Live Stream” from noon-1 p.m. on Wednesday, May 8, at the Lake Junaluska Bethea Welcome Center; and a “WordPress for Small Business, Build Your Small Business Website” from 5-8 p.m. on Thursday, May 9, at HCC in Clyde.

SBC.Haywood.edu or 627.4512.

• Make and Take Business/Contact Card Class is set for 5:45 p.m. on Wednesday, May 15, at the Jackson County Public Library’s Computer Lab in Sylva. Led by Cynthia Gallinger and Laura Chapman. Register: 586.2016.

• Registration is underway for Boating Safety Courses that will be offered from 6-9 p.m. on May 15-16 at Haywood Community College, Building 3300, Room 3322, in Clyde. Preregistration is required: www.ncwildlife.org. Additional offerings: June 26-27.

• The “Eggs and Issues” business forum is scheduled for 7:45 a.m. on Thursday, May 16, at the Franklin Chamber of Commerce. Guest speaker is Ben Laseter, Deputy Director of Main Spring Conservation Trust.

Admission: $10. Preregister: www.VisitFranklinNC.com or 524.3161.

• Registration is underway for a workshop entitled “Communicating Change Effectively in the Workplace” that will be offered by Western Carolina University from 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. on Friday, May 17, at WCU Biltmore Park in Asheville. Taught by WCU Communications Professor Betty Farmer. Advance registration: $139 (through May 1). Pdp.wcu.edu or 227.7397.

• Registration is underway for Southwestern Community College’s High School Equivalency Boot Camp, which prepares participants to complete their high school credentials in less than a month (May 28-June 26).

Classes run from 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. on Monday through Friday. Those who complete will participate in a graduation ceremony on July 11. Info: 339.4272.

• Haywood Community College is holding registration

All phone numbers area code 828 unless otherwise noted. for its summer and fall semesters. 627.4500, haywood.edu or hcc-advising@haywood.edu.

• Haywood Community College’s Workforce Continuing Education Department is offering a wide variety of courses in May. For a complete listing: www.haywood.edu. Info: 627.4669 or rgmassie@haywood.edu.

• The Small Business Center at Southwestern Community College will offer a wide variety of seminars for aspiring and existing entrepreneurs throughout Jackson, Macon, Swain Counties and the Qualla Boundary through May. For a complete listing: tinyurl.com/y46uqeo9.

• Registration is underway for a Bone ID course that will be offered June 3-5 at Western Carolina University.

Registration fee: $199. For info or to register: bones.wcu.edu or 227.7397.

• Registration is underway for a workshop on organizational change entitled: “Pathways, Ideas and Tips for Effective Organizational Change” that will be offered by Western Carolina University’s Office of Professional Growth and Enrichment from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. on Monday, June 17, at WCU Biltmore Park in Asheville.

Registration: $279 (includes catered lunch). 10 percent discount through May 10 with promo code: EC2019. Info and to register: pdp.wcu.edu or 227.7397.

FUNDRAISERS AND BENEFITS • REACH is seeking donations of gently used accessories for its silent auction at the “Spring into Fashion” Social and Luncheon, which is on Thursday, May 9, at Laurel Ridge Country Club. 456.7898.

• Ticket reservations are being accepted for two fundraisers that will benefit the Cashiers-Highlands Humane Society this summer: Bark, Beer & Barbeque on Thursday, June 20, at The Farm at Old Edwards; and Pawsitively Purrfect Part on Monday, Aug. 19, at Country Club of Sapphire Valley. Cost for each event: , $195 per person, $390 per couple or $1,800 for a table of 10. To request an alert once tickets are available, call 743.5769 or write shannon@CHhumanesociety.org.

VOLUNTEERS & VENDORS • A volunteer opportunity to root out invasive plants is set for 1-2:30 p.m. on Friday, May 10, at the Vance Street Park Pavilion in Waynesville. Organized by Haywood Waterways Association. RSVP: 476.4667 or info@haywoodwaterways.org.

• Volunteers are needed on May 18 to be Citizen Scientists for a day and collect lichen data for the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. $5 for nonmembers of the Haywood Waterways Association; free for members.

Lichens can be a great bioindicator of poor air quality.

RSVP by May 16: Christine.haywoodwaterways@gmail.com or 476.4667, ext. 11.

HEALTH MATTERS • The Macon County Cancer Support Group meets at 7 p.m. on Thursday, May 9, in the cafeteria of Angel Medical Center in Franklin.

• The Creative Thought Center hosts a meditation at 10:30 a.m. and a celebration service at 11 a.m. on Sundays at 449 Pigeon Street, Suite D, in Waynesville.

456.9697, waynesvillectc@gmail.com or www.creativethoughtcenter.org. Spiritual message on May 12 is

“Ancient Aramaic Secrets of Mary Magdalene” presented by Dale Allen Hoffman. Bring your own lunch, followed by a workshop on the same topic from 1:30-3:30 p.m.

• Overdose recognition and opioid overdose reversal training is set for noon-2 p.m. on Tuesday, May 14, at the Health and Human Services Agency, Room 301, in Waynesville. Presented by the N.C. Harm Reduction Coalition and Haywood County’s Health & Human Services Agency. Info: jeledu@me.com, 476.1465 or 356.2292.

• The International Essential Tremor Foundation support group meets at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, May 15, at the Jackson County Senior Center, Room No . 135, in Sylva.

736.3165 or teddyk1942@gmail.com.

• Understanding the Difference Between Alzheimer’s and Dementia is the topic of a program from 2-3 p.m. on Thursday, May 16, at Waynesville Library Auditorium.

• In recognition of National Mental Health Month, a drama starring Dakota Fanning will be shown at 2 and 6 p.m. on Thursday, May 16, in the Macon County Public Library’s Meeting Room. PG-13; 1:33. NAMI Appalachian South Members will be available to share Community Resources and answer questions.

• “Inside Out”, will be shown at 6:30 p.m. on May 17 at Mad Batter Food & Film in Sylva. Conversation on mental health will follow the showing of the movie, hosted

by Down Home. Free. 586.3555.

• Registration is open for the 2019 Walk to End Alzheimer’s, which is Sept. 21 at Pack Square Park in Asheville. http://act.alz.org/Asheville or 800.272.3900.

RECREATION AND FITNESS • The Smoky Mountain Rollergirls will host the Savannah Derbytaunts and Knoxville Brawlers for a doubleheader on Saturday, May 11, at Swain County Recreation, 240 W. Deep Creek Road, in Bryson City.

Tickets: $5 in advance or $7 at the door (7-under free).

Juniors play at 4 p.m.; adults at 6 p.m.

• Waynesville Yoga Center will host a “Mother & Daughter Belly Dance Through Yoga” from 1-2:30 p.m. on Saturday, May 18, in Waynesville. $50 per couple.

Register: 246.6570 or WaynesvilleYogaCenter.com.

• Waynesville Yoga Center will present “Cultivating an At-Home Restorative Yoga Practice” from 1-2:30 p.m. on Sunday, May 19, in Waynesville $30. Register: 246.6570 or WaynesvilleYogaCenter.com.

• Waynesville Yoga Center will present “Make Your Own Mala Jewelry” from 2-4 p.m. on Saturday, May 25, in Waynesville. $45. Register: 246.6570 or WaynesvilleYogaCenter.com.

• Waynesville Yoga Center will present “Relax and Restore: Sound Healing and Meditation” from 6:30-7:30 p.m. on Sunday, May 26, in Waynesville. $20. Register: 246.6570 or WaynesvilleYogaCenter.com.

SPIRITUAL • Abraham’s Table Dinner is set for 7:30-9:30 p.m. on Monday, May 19, at Cullowhee Baptist Church in Cullowhee. Second in a series exploring the commonalities and shared heritage of Jews, Christians and Muslims.

• Registration is underway for Lake Junaluska’s Summer Youth Events, which run from June 15-July 14.

Morning and evening sessions with worship, guest preachers and workshops for sixth-through-12th graders. www.lakejunaluska.com/summeryouth or 800.222.4930.

• Registration is underway for Music & Worship Arts Week, which is from June 23-28 at Lake Junaluska.

Visit www.smokymountainnews.com and click on Calendar for: ■ Complete listings of local music scene ■ Regional festivals ■ Art gallery events and openings ■ Complete listings of recreational offerings at regional health and fitness centers ■ Civic and social club gatherings Multi-generational educational event including arts, praise and renewal. For ministry leaders or those who want to sing, dance or act all week.

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• Registration is underway for Native American Summer Conference, which is June 28-30, at Lake Junaluska.

Speakers, Bible study and workshops.

Lakejunaluska.com/sejanam or 800.222.4930.

AUTHORS AND BOOKS • Southern Storytellers Supper Series will feature local poet, short story writer and novelist Ron Rash at 6 p.m. on May 9 at Folkmoot in Waynesville. $20 adults; $10 students; $25 at door.

• Don Hendershot will present his new book “A Year from the Naturalist’s Corner Volume I” from 6-7 p.m. on Friday, May 10, at Blue Ridge Beer Hub, 21 East St. in Waynesville.

• The North Carolina Writers' Network-West will sponsor The Literary Hour at 7 p.m. on the third Thursday of the month. at the Keith House on the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown. This reading is free of charge and open to the public.

SENIOR ACTIVITIES • RSVPs are being accepted for an estate-planning seminar that will be held at 11:30 a.m. on Wednesday, May 29, in room 102D of the Burrell Building on Southwestern Community College’s Jackson Campus in Sylva. Local attorney Diane Sherrill will offer a comprehensive view of wills, will substitutes and trusts. RSVP: denisew@wnctrustlawyer.com.

KIDS & FAMILIES • Strive Beyond and Folkmoot USA will offer “Open Streets” and a Bike Skills Rodeo from 3-8 p.m. on Saturday, May 11, on Brook Street in Waynesville. Live music, bike raffles, anything-that-rolls races, 9 square, food, drinks and more. Folkmoot.org or openstreetsproject.org.

• “Nature Nuts: Stream Investigation” will be offered to ages 4-7 from 9-11 a.m. on May 13 at the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission’s Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education in Brevard. Online registration required: https://tinyurl.com/y5o3owwp.

• “Eco Explorers: Compass” will be offered to ages 813 on May 13 at the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission’s Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education in Brevard. Online registration required: https://tinyurl.com/y5o3owwp.

• Mad Batter Food & Film will be hosting a video game night from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Wednesday May 15 and 22 with Game On. Play Smash Bros & Mario Cart on the big screen for FREE. 586.3555.

• Vine of the Mountains will be hosting a parent workshop from 9 a.m. to noon on May 18 by Dr. Megan Clunan titled “Are Parents Still Relevant: We think so”.

• The Haywood County Arts Council will hold a JAM (Junior Appalachian Musicians) for fourth through sixth graders from 3:30-5 p.m. on Tuesdays through May at Shining Rock Classical Academy. Cost: $85.

452.0593 or bmk.morgan@yahoo.com.

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• The 16th annual “Salamander Meander” is scheduled for 9 a.m. on May 24 at the Highlands Nature Center. For ages 7-up. Short presentation and nighttime search for salamanders. Bring a flashlight.

Advance registration required: 526.2623.

• The “Mother’s Day Gemboree” will be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. May 10-12 at the Robert C. Carpenter Community Building in Franklin. Rough and cut gems, minerals, fine jewelry, supplies, beads, door prizes, dealers, exhibits, demonstrations, and more.

369.7831. Sponsored by the Franklin Chamber of Commerce and the Macon County Gem & Mineral Society. www.franklin-chamber.com.

• Registration is underway for summer youth swim programs that will be offered in June and July at Reid Gym on Western Carolina University’s campus in Cullowhee. Led by retired WCU professor Mike Creason. Info: swim.wcu.edu, 227.7397 or 293.5364.

• The 17th annual Whole Bloomin’ thing Spring Festival is set for 9 a.m.-4 p.m. on Saturday, May 11, in Frog Level of Waynesville. Activities, gardening vendors, local produce, organic been, local crafts and food. www.historicfroglevel.com.

SUMMER CAMPS • Registration has begun for the new Creative for a Purpose camp being led by Vine of the Mountains and hosted by Providence Church from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

August 5-9. This day camp is designed for campers to realize that they are created by God for a unique purpose. Each day campers will make quality objects in five categories – cooking, sewing, sculpture, painting and paper. Cost of the camp is $150, coving materials & food. Scholarships are available. Registration will end May 15, apply at www.vineofthemountains.com/CFAP. Donations are also being accepted toward scholarships, contact julie@thevine.cc • Registration is underway for the Cashiers-Highlands Humane Society’s Critter Camp, which is offered from June 17-21, July 15-19 and Aug. 5-9. Camp hours: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Fun, immersive experiences with animals at no-kill shelter for rising first-graders through sixthgraders. $300 per child for each week. 743.5752 or info@CHhumanesociety.org.

• Registration is underway for a summer volleyball camp that will be offered to rising third-through-12th graders from 9 a.m.-noon on June 17-20 at the Waynesville Recreation Center. Cost: $85 before June 1 or $100 after. Register or get more info: amymull@bellsouth.net.

• Registration is underway for two basketball shooting and dribbling camps that will be offered from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. on June 24-27 and July 15-18 at the Waynesville Recreation Center. Led by former Appalachian State University coach Kevin Cantwell.

Cost: $150 per person; deposit of $25 required.

Register or get info: 456.2030 or academy7@live.com.

KIDS FILMS • “Avengers: Engame”, will be shown at 7 p.m. on May 8-15 and 11:30 a.m. & 3:15 p.m. on May 11-12 at The Strand on Main in Waynesville. See website for times & tickets. 283.0079.

• “Lego Movie 2: The Second Part”, will be shown at 7 p.m. on May 18 at Mad Batter Food & Film in Sylva.

Conversation on mental health will follow the showing of the movie, hosted by Down Home. Free. 586.3555.

• The Strawberry Jam festival will be held from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday, May 18, at Darnell Farms in Bryson City. The Darnell family celebrates their locally grown strawberry crop. Enjoy local music, local food, fresh fruits and vegetables, craft vendors, plow demonstrations, children’s play area, hayrides, fishing, camping, and much more. Admission is free.

Donations accepted for the upkeep and maintenance of the farm. 488.2376.

• The Jackson County Chamber of Commerce will present the third annual Hook, Line and Drinker Festival from 3 to 7 p.m. Saturday, May 18, at the Bridge Park Pavilion in Sylva. The festival features fly fishing guides and fishing industry vendors; food trucks; children’s activities; music by two bands (Another Country and Lyric); clean water, outdoor activity and wildlife advocates; and WNC craft beer vendors. Free event, with donations encouraged. A portion of net proceeds from the festival will benefit Trout Unlimited's “Trout in the Classroom” programming for 2019-2020. www.hooklinedrinkerfest.com, or 586.2155 or visit the festival's Facebook page.

FOOD & DRINK • The “Uncorked: Wine & Rail Pairing Experience” will be held from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturday, May 11, at the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad in Bryson City. Full service all-adult first-class car. Wine pairings with a meal and more. 800.872.4681 or www.gsmr.com.

• The Waynesville Lions Club will have a Poor Man’s Supper from 4:30-7:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 16, at the Family Life Center, First Baptist Church in Waynesville. $8 for adults; $5 for ages 9-under. Carry out available.

ON STAGE & IN CONCERT • Singer-songwriters Buddy Melton and Milan Miller will perform at 8 p.m. Thursday, May 9, at Cataloochee Ranch in Maggie Valley Melton is the lead singer and fiddler for acclaimed bluegrass act Balsam Range. Tickets are $15 per person. There is

• Franklin First United Methodist Church will host the Brasstown Ringers 7 p.m. May 10. 837.8822.

• Aaron Price will perform selections from his new album “Hymn Improvisations Vol. 1” at 6 p.m. on Saturday, May 11, at First Baptist Church of Waynesville. www.cdbaby.com/aaronprice.

• Haywood Arts Regional Theatre has “The Foreigner” in the Daniel and Belle Fangmeyer Theatre in Waynesville. Performances at 7:30 p.m. on 9-11; and at 2 p.m. on May 12. Reservations: 456.6322 or www.harttheatre.org.

• Theatre at the Library will hold auditions for “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” at 2 p.m. on May 11 and at 5:30 p.m. on May 14 at the Macon County Public Library in Franklin. Shows will be performed on Aug. 9-11 and 16-18. Director is Roberta Pipitone. Info: 332.2837 or 524.3600.

• The “Triple Threat Musical” will be held at 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, May 18, at the Bardo Arts Center on the campus of Western Carolina University in Cullowhee.

• Songwriters in the Round will feature Scott Miller, David Childers and RB Morris at 6 p.m. on Saturday, May 18, at Folkmoot in Waynesville. Craft beer, food trucks and social time. Music starts at 7:15 p.m.

• Pyramid Brass will perform a wide repertoire of music, from sacred to secular and romantic era to jazz age, at 3 p.m. on Saturday, May 18, at the Waynesville Library. HaywoodArts.org.

• Renowned bluegrass singer/mandolinist Sierra Hull will hit the stage for a special evening of acoustic music at 7 p.m. Saturday, May 18, in Franklin. Tickets are $20 and $10 for children ages 6-16. Season tick-

• The Haywood Community Band kicks of its 2019 season with a concert at 6:30 p.m. on Sunday, May 19, at the Maggie Valley Open Air Pavilion. Program is “By the Numbers.”

• Tickets are on sale now for a concert featuring Paul Saik at 7:30 p.m. on Aug. 3, at Lake Junaluska.

Tickets: $18. Lakejunaluska.com/associates or 800.222.4930.

• Highlands Performing Arts Center will have the fulllength play “Calendar Girls” by Tim Firth on May 2326 and May 31-June 2. Highlandscashiersplayers.org.

CLASSES AND PROGRAMS • The Weekly Open Studio art classes will resume from 2 to 4 p.m. on Wednesdays at the Haywood County Arts Council in Waynesville, Instructor will be Betina Morgan. Open to all artists, at any stage of development, and in the medium of your choice. Cost is $20 per class. There will also be a Youth Art Class from 4 to 5 p.m. on Wednesdays. Cost is $10 per class.

550.6190 or bmk.morgan@yahoo.com.

• “MakerTools May: Audio Video Conversion Equipment” is the topic of a program scheduled for 6 p.m. on Thursday, May 9, in the Macon County Public Library Reference Area in Franklin. VHS-DVD, LP-CD, Cassette tape-CD and film conversion equipment.

• An artist coffee and chat is set for 10-11:30 a.m. on Thursday, May 9, at Haywood County Arts Council, 86 N. Main Street in Waynesville. 452.0593.

• A “Make Your Own Lotion” class is scheduled for 910 a.m. on Friday, May 10, at Waynesville Library. Led

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• Registration is underway for a pair of two residential camp programs scheduled for this summer at Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute in Rosman: Astro Camp, for ages 11-14, from Aug. 4-9; and Camp Above and Beyond, for grades 9-12, from June 16-28.

For info, scholarship opportunities and to register: www.pari.edu or 862.5554.

• The “Airing of the Quilts” will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m Saturday, May 11, around downtown Franklin.

See quilts displayed as businesses and homeowners will be hanging quilts from storefronts and porches that will create an unbelievable burst of spring color.

In addition, the celebration will feature quilting vendors, arts and crafts vendors, quilting demonstrations, giveaways and more. www.franklinchamber.com.

• There will be a special concert in memory of the late banjo great Steve Sutton at 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 10, at the Colonial Theater in Canton.

ets also available. Tickets available at www.coweeschool.org, Franklin Chamber of Commerce or at the school on the day of the concert. 369.4080.

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• Registration is underway for Discovery Camp with weekly camps available June 10-Aug. 16 at the N.C. Arboretum in Asheville. Open to pre-K through rising eighth graders. Register: www.ncarboretum.org/education-programs/discovery-camp.

• Haywood Square Block Party is May 11 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Plenty of activities for the kids including a obstacle course. Raffles, music truck, food, vendors and the celebration of the re-grand opening of The Dog House. First 150 customers receive a goody bag.

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• Sylva Photo Club will meet at 2 p.m. on May 11 at the Cullowhee United Methodist Church on Western Carolina University’s Campus. Longtime journalist and photographer Quintin Ellison will present a program on the choice between shooting black and white or color, lens selection, camera settings, photographer’s legal rights and her experience as a reporter.

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• Cowee Pottery School’s Master Potter series continues with Joe Frank McKee as he demonstrates his unique process with clay and the great world of alternative raku firings and effects from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Saturday, May 18, at the school in Franklin.

Participants should bring three bisque fired pieces to the workshop. For more information or to register, please visit www.coweepotteryschool.org.

• The Western North Carolina Woodturners Club meets at 10 a.m. on Saturday, May 11, at the Bascom in Highlands. Presenter Don Marks will demonstrate how to make a large box for the “Beads of Courage.”

• The monthly Creating Community Workshop will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, May 18, in the Atrium of the Jackson County Public Library in Sylva. In this class, attendees will learn key herbs for everyday use, tonics, infusions, teas, herb strengths and specific uses, tea blending, and each person will create their own personal tea blend to take with them. This program is free of charge. This class is limited to 20 participants.

For more information or to sign up for the class, call 586.2016.

• The monthly “Cherokee Heritage Day” will continue from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, May 11, at the Museum of the Cherokee Indian. All day hands-on activities and fun for the whole family. Different activities each month that incorporate Cherokee culture.

May include storytelling, painting, corn shuck doll making, making clay heart-shaped medallions, stamped card making, dance or music. Free, open to the public and on the second Saturday of every month (except June). www.visitcherokeenc.com.

• A comic book illustration class with James Lyle is scheduled for 2-4 p.m. on Saturday, May 11 at Haywood County Arts Council, 86 N. Main Street in Waynesville. 452.0593. Backgrounds and perspective drawing. Class fee: $25 for nonmembers; $20 for members.

• Registration is underway for “Bladesmithing: Forging a Kukri” class that will be offered from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. on May 18-19 at the Jackson County Green Energy Park in Dillsboro. Cost: $380; includes materials. Pregistration required: 631.0271 or www.JCGEP.org.

• The spring Balsam Arts & Craft Show will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, May 11, at the Balsam Fire Department. A portion of the entry fees will benefit the Balsam Fire Department.

• Friends of the Library will hold their annual meeting at 7 p.m. on Thursday, May 23, at First United Methodist Church of Waynesville. Tickets: $10; available from board members, the Waynesville and Canton Libraries and Blue Ridge Books at 428 Hazelwood Avenue in Waynesville.

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• The MCAA/Uptown Gallery’s monthly meeting is at 6 p.m. on Monday, May 13. Jeff Norman, co-owner of Franklin Picture Framing, will demonstrate “The Right Way to Frame and Wire Your Artwork for Display.”

301.8776 or 349.1699.

• The Western NC Civil War Roundtable will welcome Michael C. Hardy for a presentation on Kirk’s raids in Western N.C. in the latter part of the Civil War at 7 p.m. on May 13 at the Waynesville Inn Golf Resort and Spa. Meet and greet at 5 p.m. at the Tap Room; Dinner at 6:30 p.m. wnccwrt.blogspot.com.

• Mad Batter Food & Film will be hosting a video game night from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Wednesday May 15 and 22 with Game On. Play Smash Bros & Mario Cart on the big screen for FREE. 586.3555.

• An Alcohol Ink Art Class will be offered from 10 a.m.4 p.m. on Wednesday, May 15, at the Haywood County Arts Council, 86 N. Main Street in Waynesville. Cost: $55 for non-members; $50 for members. 452.0593.

• Haywood County Arts Council will present a “Fused Glass Wind Chime Art Class” from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. on Saturday, May 18, at 86 N. Main Street in Waynesville.

Learn to cut and snip glass to the preferred size and shape, and add layers to your pieces to create color and interest. Cost: $60 for nonmembers; $55 for members. 452.0593.

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• A Comic Book Illustration Class will be offered from 2-4 p.m. on Saturday, May 18, at the Haywood County Arts Council, 86 N. Main Street in Waynesville. Figure construction. 452.0593.

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GALLERIES • Art by Sarah Tess Kunkleman is on display during the month of May in the Macon County Public Library Meeting Room in Franklin. Stop by or call ahead for available viewing times. For more about Sarah’s art and her processes visit her Instagram at www.instagram.com/sarahtess_studioart.

• Grace Church in the Mountains is hosting “Icons in Transformation,” a traveling exhibition of icons by artist Ludmila Pawlowska, from 1-3 p.m. on Wednesdays and from 3-5 p.m. on Saturdays from through June 16.

• The Museum of the Cherokee Indian has recently opened a major new exhibit, “People of the Clay: Contemporary Cherokee Potters.” It features more than 60 potters from the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and Cherokee Nation, and more than one hundred works from 1900 to the present. The exhibit will run through April 2020.

• The Haywood County Arts Council will have an Elemental: Wood, Metal, Glass, Fiber & Clay Exhibition through June 1 at the gallery, 86 N. Main Street in Waynesville. 452.0593.

• Haywood Community College’s Professional Crafts Students will have a “Graduate Show” to exhibit their best work through June 23 at the Southern Highland Craft Guild Folk Art CenterInfo: 627.4673 or creativearts.haywood.edu.

• "Compose | Decompose” – a new exhibition at Penland Gallery is on display through May 12. near Spruce Pine. Combines mixed-media sculpture and sound installations in one space. Musical performance by Make Noise artists Walker Farrell, Meg Mulhearn and Jake Pugh. 765.6211 or penland.org/gallery.

• Registration is underway for a Bladesmithing Basics class that will be offered from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. on Saturday, June 1, at Jackson County Green Energy Park in Dillsboro. Cost $200. Led by Brock Martin from WarFire Forge. Preregistration required: www.JCGEP.org or 631.0271.

• Photographer and Clyde dentist John Highsmith presents “Breathless,” a metal-print series of underwater people and waterborne fabrics. The photo exhibit will run through July 15 at Green Sage Café Westgate in Asheville. 734.6301.

• Registration is underway for a Viking Round Shield Class, which will be offered from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, June 15-16, at Jackson County Green Energy Park in Dillsboro. Led by Brock Martin of WarFire Forge. Choose between different sizes and make your own. Cost: $370; includes all materials.

Preregistration required: 631.0271 or www.jcgep.org.

• Registration is underway for a Viking Spear Class scheduled for 9 a.m.-4 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, June 29-30, at Jackson County Green Energy Park in Dillsboro. Led by Brock Martin of WarFire Forge. Walk

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• Submissions are being accepted through May 10 for the sixth annual “Birdhouse Bash” that will be auctioned by silent bids during the Whole Bloomin’ Thing festival on May 11 in the Frog Level area of Waynesville. Birdhouse creations can be delivered to Second Blessing Thrift Store in Waynesville. Proceeds benefit Daydreamz’ community art projects and the Open Door ARTS program. Info on DayDreamz: 476.4231; info on Open Door Community Garden: 734.1570.

• Great Smoky Mountains Association will have a birding expedition on Saturday, May 11, at the Deep Creek Waterfall Hiking Loop. Look and listen for a wide variety of migrating birds. Registration required: 865.436.7318, ext. 349 or smokiesinformation.org/Events.

• Fines Creek Community Association will host beginner wild edibles walking tours with instructor David Grasty at 1 p.m. on May 11 and at 1 p.m. on May 18 at the Fines Creek Community Center. $15 per person.

For ages 16-up. 400.5790.

• “Backyard Birding by Ear: For Beginners” will be offered to ages 10-up from 9 a.m.-noon on May 11 at the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission’s Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education in Brevard. Online registration required: https://tinyurl.com/y5o3owwp.

• The N.C. Arboretum will celebrate World Bonsai Weekend from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, May 11-12, in Asheville. $14 parking fee.

• Franklin Bird Club meeting is at 7 p.m. on May 13 at the Macon County Public Library in Franklin.

Presentation of “Protecting Birds and the Places They Need Today and Tomorrow” by Kim Brand. 524.5234 or franklinbirdclub.com.

• The Franklin Bird Club will meet at 7 p.m. on May 13 at the Macon County Public Library in Franklin.

Topic is “Audubon’s Bird-Friendly Communities Program and You.” • Bigfoot researcher Jeff Carpenter will present “Bigfoot: When Myth Turns Into Reality” at 6:30 p.m. on May 14 in the Jackson County Public Library in Sylva. 586.2016.

• Franklin Bird Club will have a Bird Walk along the Blue Ridge Parkway on May 14. Led by John and Cathy Sill. Meet at 8 a.m. at Bi-Lo Franklin. Sign up: 524.5234.

Outdoors • Highlands Biological Foundation will hold a Wildflower Wander from 9:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 9, at Pond Hollow Garden. Led by Sonya

• A program entitled “On the Water: Green River” will be offered to ages 12-up from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. on May 14 at the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission’s Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education in Brevard.

Online registration required: https://tinyurl.com/y5o3owwp.

• “In Search of Blue Ghosts Twilight Tour” is set for 8:30-10:30 p.m. on Tuesday through Saturday evenings,

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• Haywood County Arts Council will host “Gallery Talk” with local author Charley Pearson from 2-4 p.m. on Saturday, May 25, at 86 N. Main Street in Waynesville.

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• “Fly-Tying for the Beginner” will be offered to ages 12-up from 9 a.m.-noon on May 18 at the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission’s Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education in Brevard. Online registration required: https://tinyurl.com/y5o3owwp.

• A Birding Basics Workshop will be offered by the Great Smoky Mountains Association on Sunday, May 19, on the Oconaluftee River Trail. Registration required: 865.436.7318, ext. 349 or smokiesinformation.org/Events.

• An Outdoor Skills Series program entitled “Wild Edibles and Securing Water” will be offered to ages 12-up from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. on May 20 at the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission’s Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education in Brevard. Online registration required: https://tinyurl.com/y5o3owwp.

• A program on peregrine falcons will be offered to ages 10-up on May 22 at the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission’s Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education in Brevard. Online registration required: https://tinyurl.com/y5o3owwp.

• “Intro to Fly Fishing” will be offered to ages 12-up from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. on May 21 at the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission’s Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education in Brevard. Online registration required: https://tinyurl.com/y5o3owwp.

• Casting for Beginners: Level I will be offered to ages 12-up from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. on May 22 at the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission’s Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education in Brevard. Online registration required: https://tinyurl.com/y5o3owwp.

• Backpacking course, will be offered by Landmark Learning on June 24-28, Aug. 12-16 and Oct. 21-25. www.landmarklearning.org.

COMPETITIVE EDGE • The second annual Broyhill BBQ 5K Race is set for 9:15 a.m. on Saturday, May 11, at Broyhill Children’s Home in Clyde. Registration: $20 through May 10; late registration: $25. www.imathlete.com.

• The Canton Lions Urban Assault is at 9:15 a.m. on Saturday, May 18, in Canton’s Sorrell Street Park. It’s a 3.1-mile race featuring more than 20 obstacles that test mind, body and spirit. Register individually or as a two-person team. $50 or $25 for students. Register: www.active.com. Info: rjacobson05@gmail.com.

FARM AND GARDEN • The Haywood County Extension Office will hold a Pesticide Collection Day from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. on Thursday, May 9, at 589 Raccoon Road in Waynesville. www.ncagr.com/PDAP. 456.3575.

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• The N.C. Cooperative Extension Service will hold indepth Organic Pest Management Seminars for gardeners at the following times, dates and locations: 68 p.m. on May 13 at the Swain Extension Center on 60 Almond School Road in Bryson City; and 10 a.m.-noon on May 14 in the kitchen/conference room at the Jackson Extension Center in Sylva. 586.4009, 488.3848 or clbreden@ncsu.edu.

• The Seed Library of Waynesville is hosting its fourth annual starter plant exchange from 11:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. on Friday, May 17, at the Waynesville Library Auditorium. Info: 356.2507 or Kathleen.olsen@haywoodcountync.gov.

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FARMERS MARKETS • The Swain County Farmer’s Market is held from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. every Friday through October at the barn on Island Street in downtown Bryson City. 488.3848 or www.facebook.com/SwainCountyFarmersMarket.

• Jackson County Farmers Market runs from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturdays and 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Wednesdays at Bridge Park in downtown Sylva. jacksoncountyfarmersmarket@gmail.com or www.jacksoncoutyfarmersmarket.org.

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• The ‘Whee Farmers Market is held from 3-6 p.m. on Tuesdays through the end of October at the entrance to the village of Forest Hills off North Country Club Drive in Cullowhee. 476.0334 or www.thewheemarket.org.

• Haywood Historic Farmers Market is on Saturdays from 8 a.m. to noon at the HART Theater parking lot and Wednesdays from 3:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the First Baptist Church overflow parking lot beside Exxon. waynesvillefarmersmarket.com or haywoodfarmersmarket@gmail.com.

• The Original Waynesville Tailgate Market starts May 15 on Wednesdays and Saturdays from 8 a.m. to noon at 171 Legion Drive in Waynesville. 456.1830 or vrogers12@att.net.

• Franklin Farmers Tailgate Market runs 8 a.m. to noon from May to October, on East Palmer Street across from Drake Software. 349.2049 or www.facebook.com/franklinncfarmersmarket.

HIKING CLUBS • The Great Smoky Mountains Association will hold a hike on Friday, May 10, from Bradley Fork Trail to Cabin Flats. Registration required: 865.436.7318, ext.

349 or smokiesinformation.org/Events.

• Mike Kettles will lead a more strenuous hike to Elbow Falls beginning at 9:30 a.m. on May 11 from Cold Mountain Gap Trailhead. Hikes are for Friends of Panthertown members only and require an RSVP. Memberships start at $35 or $25 for students. www.panthertown.org or friends@panthertown.org.

• Carolina Mountain Club will have an 8.2-mile hike with a 1,500-foot ascent on Saturday, May 11, at Daniel Ridge Loop Trail and Shuck Falls extension. Info and reservations: 564.3662.

• The Nantahala Hiking Club will take a moderate-tostrenuous nine-mile hike, with an elevation change of 900 feet, on Saturday, May 11, to Deep Gap. 772.263.3478.

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• The second annual pre-festival Tuck Trout Trot will be held at 9 a.m. on May 18 at the Jackson County Greenway. This is a self-timed, 2.2-mile fun run/walk along the paved trail adjacent to the Tuckaseigee River. A portion of net proceeds from the Tuck Trout Trot benefit Jackson County Parks & Recreation's annual “Fishing With Kids Day.” Each paid participant will receive a cool commemorative T-shirt, while supplies last. To register, please visit https://runsignup.com/race/nc/cullowhee/tucktrouttrot or sign up at the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce or Jackson County Parks and Recreation office in Cullowhee.

• The Maggie Valley Lions Club will sell Hanging Flower Baskets and Brooms on Saturday and Sunday, May 11-12, at the Maggie Valley Inn. Hours are 9 a.m.-2 p.m. on Saturday and 11 a.m.-3 p.m. on Sunday. Supports various charities.

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• Tackle Rigging for Fly-Fishing will be offered to ages 12-up from 9 a.m.-noon on May 25 at the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission’s Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education in Brevard. Online registration required: https://tinyurl.com/y5o3owwp.

• A workshop entitled “Going Deep into Compost” will be presented by Adam Bigelow from 9-11:30 a.m. on Saturday, May 11, at the Macon County Public Library in Franklin. Windingstairfarm.com/nursery/events/compost.

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• Franklin Bird Club will have a bird walk along the greenway, starting at 8 a.m. on May 15 at Salali Lane.

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• “Treating Garden Pests and Problems Naturally” – a program about natural pest management and the difference between beneficial and nonbeneficial insects, will be offered from 2-3 p.m. on Friday, May 10, at the Waynesville Library. No registration required.

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Magnolia fraseri showing the auriculate leaves.

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BY DON H ENDERSHOT

Magnolia trifecta t’s May! That means my 2019 Forest Service bird survey has begun — another six weeks of roaming the wilds of the Nantahala and Pisgah national forests. It’s clearly a bird-centric six weeks but there is, of course, a lot more to see in our national forests. This past weekend I was fortunate enough to hit a magnolia trifecta. I found all three of the common magnolias — genus Magnolia — (just so you sticklers don’t throw Liriodendron in there) in flower.

I found two on Friday, Magnolia fraseri, Fraser or mountain magnolia, and Magnolia acuminata, cucumber tree. Fraser’s is probably the most common in the mountains of Western North Carolina but it can be found in the Piedmont and in the Blue Ridge area of South Carolina. It has also been recorded from West Virginia to northern Florida and to east Texas. The leaves of Fraser’s can grow to almost 2 feet, most common, however is probably 10 to 15 inches. It’s the leaves that make this species stand out. They are lobed or auriculate at the base. Fraser’s magnolia is named for Scottish botanist John Fraser.

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of the leaf attaches directly to the rachis or stem. The leaves are generally smaller than Fraser’s at 6 to 10 inches and the flowers tend to be smaller with a greenish-yellow tinge. The cucumber tree may be the “coldhardiest” of the magnolias and reaches all the way up to Southern Ontario. It is common throughout the Appalachians, including the Allegheny and Cumberland plateaus.

The cucumber tree gets its common name from the fact the unripe fruit is green and shaped (kinda-sorta) like a small cucumber.

I bumped into the third magnolia Saturday. Magnolia tripetala is known as umbrella-tree. Its large 10-to-24 inch leaves are clustered at the tip of the branch, creating an umbrella-like pattern. Umbrella-tree is found throughout the Appalachians and also in the Ozark and Ouachita Mountains.

The magnolias have been on the planet a long time. There are fossilized records of M. acuminata dating back 20 million years. The family, Magnoliaceae, dates back 95 million years. Magnolias may have pre-dated us, they surely pre-dated bees and the flowers are designed to attract beetles — and are still primarily beetle-pollinated today.

They retain their ancient-plant morphology. The outer part of the flower — the peri-

anth in more modern plants is composed of sepals and petals; in the magnolia and other “old” plants (like sweet shrub) there is no differentiation in these parts and they are referred to as tepals.

Now is a good time to find this flowering tree — search in the canopy for the

large white flowers; after finding one take a closer look and see if you can identify it from the leaves. Oh, and it’s totally OK to look at birds while you’re out.

(Don Hendershot is a naturalist and a writer who lives in Haywood County. He can be reached at ddihen1@bellsouth.net

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