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CONTENTS On the Cover Fireworks are the big-ticket fare on Fourth of July. They draw a crowd and set the tone for America’s birthday. Jackson County scuttled its fireworks this year, but other areas in the region are not so quick to let loose the tradition. (Page 6)

News Haywood Regional Medical Center is now partially reopened . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Macon and Jackson debate SCC funding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Non-profits secure funding from Waynesville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Sylva leaders look to lessen left-lane issues on Main Street . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Swain’s farmers market is moving across the Tuckasegee River . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Verizon comes calling as Jackson revises cell phone tower ordinance . . . . . . 11 Local legislators work to revive Lake Junaluska merger bill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Boom-year buyups of sewer allotments clog pipes in Cashiers . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Big names head to Waynesville for “Loomis Fargo” filming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Haywood Helps taps into the bottled water business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Gibsontown residents fight proposed gun range in Canton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

A&E It’s still legal to lose your mind in the woods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Outdoors Archery store targets area’s bow hunting enthusiasts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

CORRECTION An article in last week’s edition said the Cruso Community Center is owned by Haywood County. In fact, the Cruso Community Development Corporation owns the Cruso Community Center.

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Fireworks: the economics of the intangibles BY J EREMY MORRISON N EWS E DITOR his Fourth of July there will be plenty of places from which to watch a fireworks display. North Jackson County will not be among them. “I understand Sylva’s not having them this year,” said Cindy Cavender, marketing director with the Franklin Chamber of Commerce. Jackson County officials decided not to fund fireworks this year. Money’s tight and can be put to other uses. “Based on what we’ve done the last couple of years,” said Jackson County Manager Chuck Wooten, “I don’t think the north part of the county is going to be missing out.” Jackson officials made the fireworks funding decision on the heels of a few off years. After restoring the old courthouse overlooking Sylva’s Main Street, it was discovered that fireworks could potentially damage the building. The fireworks display was then moved to the rock quarry in nearby Dillsboro for a couple of years, before being rained out last year. This year the county is putting money it would have spent on fireworks toward other festivities — concerts and festivals throughout the summer. In the southern part of the county — where Jackson also previously funded a fireworks display — the Village Green, a community group in Cashiers, has stepped up to provide the July 4 fireworks. “Last year it was about $11,000,” said Ann Self, of the Village Green. “We added a few more bells and whistles this year, so we’re in the same ballpark, but a little more.” That’s a lot of money for a privately funded, donor dependent, group to pay. Even in Cashiers. “It’s costly to have a fireworks show, but at the same time we know it’s the Village Green’s responsibility to provide those services to the community. And it’s what our donors expect when they make their donations,” Self said. In other communities in the region, this conversations was not had. “There was never any discussion about not having fireworks,” said Maggie Valley Town Manager Nathan Clark. Fireworks were a Fourth of July foregone conclusion. “I think the people of Franklin would be dispirited if we didn’t have’em,” said Cavender. The fireworks in Franklin cost $10,000. The holiday event is funded through sponsorships from entities like the Macon County Recreation Park, Franklin Tourism Commission and the Biltmore Baptist Church. In Swain County, the firework display runs about $17,000. The Swain Tourism Development Authority, which funds the event with money generated by occupancy taxes, never considered cutting back. “It’s very visible, they look really great when you’re anywhere downtown,” said Karen Wilmot, executive director of the Swain TDA. “We look at that as one of the ways to bring people in.” Wilmot estimates downtown Bryson City 6

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alone gets trafficked by 3,000 Fourth of July revelers. “Even last year, when it rained, Everett Street was completely lined,” she recalled. In Franklin, Cavender estimates even higher draws. “The numbers that we got, and I think they’re fairly conservative, is 6,000,” she said. “Another couple thousand outside the park.” The fireworks display put on by Lake Junaluska in Haywood County traditionally attracts throngs of people. Ken Howle, the conference center’s director of advancement, pegs the number in “excess of 10,000.” “It’s definitely the largest event that Lake Junaluska puts on on an annual basis,” Howle said.

“I will say we’re big fans of fireworks. Us being a destination market as we are, it’s important to us to keep our visitors very happy.” — Skooter McCoy, Cherokee destination marketing manager

The display at the lake this year is costing $12,500, split between the conference center and a $4,500 Haywood County Tourism Development Authority grant. “I think everybody certainly expects to see fireworks on the Fourth of July holiday,” said Lynn Collins, executive director of the Haywood TDA. “It’s part of the whole package.” Down the road in Maggie Valley, town officials have put up $10,000 for a fireworks show at the festival grounds. The half hour

Bang for your buck How much do fireworks displays cost in WNC? Bryson City .....................................$17,000 Lake Junaluska...............................$12,500 Cashiers Village Green ...................$11,000 Franklin ..........................................$10,000 Maggie Valley ................................$10,000 Canton..............................................$7,500 show will top off a more modest July 4 than in previous years. “We’ve kind of reenvisioned our Fourth of July celebration,” said Maggie Valley Town Manager Nathan Clark, explaining that some of the costly frills of year’s past had been nixed. “The vision behind this is to kind of strip down Fourth of July and kind of get back to celebrating with our friends and neighbors. Bring your own entertainment, your own cornhole board, your own Frisbee to toss around.” In Canton, Mayor Mike Ray and a collection of sponsors is providing a July 5 fireworks display. “This is a way to give people in the area an encore fireworks celebration,” said Canton Town Manager Seth Hendler-Voss, putting the cost of the display at about $7,500. In Cherokee, Fourth of July celebrations are again being bundled with the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indian’s Pow Wow event. “It’s a big weekend for us,” said Skooter McCoy, destination marketing manager for Cherokee. For a while, the tribe tried splitting the Pow Wow and the fireworks, but it split a good thing — the summer spike in visitor draw — and triggered a return to packaging the events. “We decided to kind of spike the spike, as

some people say,” McCoy said. An estimated 3,000 people watch the fireworks in Cherokee from Harrah’s Cherokee Casino Resort parking lot. More are viewing from vantage points surrounding the site. “It’s gonna be a lot of people,” McCoy said. The amount of money expended on the Fourth of July fireworks display in Cherokee is a mystery. Suffice it to say, it’s enough. “I will say we’re big fans of fireworks,” McCoy assures. “Us being a destination market as we are, it’s important to us to keep our visitors very happy.” In Franklin, Cavender said they’re expecting to likely get a few more visitors this year. “We’ve had a number of calls from folks from Dillsboro just in the last couple of days,” she said. “So, yeah, I think we well get some folks from Sylva.” The obvious attraction to fireworks for elected officials and tourism authorities and community groups is a display’s ability to draw a crowd. That crowd spends money before and after the “oooohhhs” and “ahhhhs.” But a fireworks display is also about a something a little deeper for some people. When money is put on the table for fireworks it’s because of something bigger than a standard stab at putting more heads in beds and diners in restaurants “Our mission is a little bit above that,” said Clark. “It’s about a time when people can get together and celebrate the true American spirit.” “It celebrates the community in which we live,” said Wilmot. That’s why the Village Green stepped up in Cashiers, even with a number of smaller displays already scheduled for the holidays in the area by private neighborhood groups. “For us to be able to come together at least once a year to celebrate our freedom in a public place is important,” said Self. Such freedom will still be celebrated in Sylva on July 4, just not with fireworks. Dixie Brendle is a downtown business owner in Sylva. She’s about to open up an ice cream parlor, called Remedy, on Main Street. It’s a spot that would have had a nice view of the fireworks show. “We were hoping to get open on the third, but if there’s not a real big deal on the Fourth of July we may not rush it,” Brendle said, looking toward a mellow holiday. Wooten will be out of town for July 4. He plans to enjoy some fireworks. “I’m going to be in Holden Beach,” Jackson’s county manager said. “And I suspect, on the Fourth of July, there will be somewhere on the coast where there will be fireworks.”

Partial reopening at Haywood hospital

es and lost revenue from the closure will affect its bottom line. “We have excellent insurance, and that’s all we know at this point,” Sinacore-Jaberg said. At the time the fire and subsequent closure hit, the hospital was in the final stages of a buyout from Duke LifePoint Healthcare, based in Brentwood, Tenn. Initially, Duke LifePoint’s purchase of the Haywood hospital and WestCare in Sylva and Bryson City was It looks like a trailer on the outside, but on the inside Carolinas slated to be official by late MED-1 is a full-functioning emergency department. Holly Kays photo March, but that timeline had since been moved to open, slated for mid- to late July. call for a late July or early August closure. Carolinas MED-1, the emergency Now, it’s looking like the timeframe will get response team that set up shop with a mobile pushed back a little further — though emergency room in the hospital parking lot, because of some paperwork issues, not will stay on site for a short while following the because of the fire and closure, Sinacoreemergency department’s reopening, just in Jaberg said. case any issues arise with the transition. When the deal closes, Haywood County “This is another measure we’re taking out will receive the buying price of $26 million, of an abundance of caution,” Deidesheimer less any outstanding debts or expenses. said. “We’re in our facility and we’re clear to Before the fire, that had been expected to do so and we’re so excited to be back in our work out to $8 million or so. Depending on emergency department.” what portion of the fire-related loss insurance The hospital closure marked the first covers, that number could go down. time that MED-1, a mobile hospital owned by Carolinas HealthCare System, had responded to an event at one of the hospitals in its own system.

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BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER aywood Regional Medical Center is on its way to recovery after a small fire in its power room earlier this month knocked out the electrical system, closing the hospital and causing its 62 patients to be shuttled to hospitals in neighboring counties. As of Monday, the hospital’s emergency department, outpatient services and many of its supporting offices are open, slightly ahead of its original early July goal. Meanwhile, discussions with the insurance company mean that employees won’t have to skip paychecks or benefits while inpatient facilities remain closed. “We are very pleased with how the recovery process has proceeded and we look forward to reopening all services in our main hospital very shortly,” said Janie SinacoreJaberg, HRMC’s president and CEO. In order to open back up, the Emergency Department had to have functional redundant power, meaning that it have both a main source of power and a secondary one that would kick on immediately in the case of an outage. This ensures that patients undergoing treatment that depends on electrically-powered supports wouldn’t be harmed due to an outage. Once HRMC determined it had its double power source up and running, the hospital completed its own technical review and then called the N.C. Department of Health Service Regulation in to inspect and authorize the partial re-opening. That inspection included numerous tests over a 24-hour period. “It’s perfectly, 100 percent safe and we’ve been inspected to run these outpatient services off these two generators,” said Christina Deidesheimer, the hospital’s marketing and strategy director. The hospital can’t yet open its inpatient facilities, though, because treating inpatients requires that one energy source is non-generator, i.e., Duke Energy. Once a new transfer switch is installed, HRMC will be able to start the inspection process for a complete re-

Regardless, Duke LifePoint intends to go ahead with the acquisition. “They said this didn’t make them nervous about the partnership,” Dr. Henry Nathan, a gastroenterologist at the hospital, said at the June 26 board meeting. “It made them feel even better, it made them feel so impressed about who they were going to be working with.” Until the hospital is fully up and running, though, it’s all hands on deck. Hospital administrators and responders from Carolinas MED-1 have been working around the clock since the fire happened, and the neighboring hospitals that are accepting Haywood’s inpatients in the meantime have also stepped up to the plate. At Med-West Harris in Sylva, which accepted about 30 of the 62 evacuated patients, 70 of the hospital’s 86 beds were full when the hospital was first evacuated. That’s upwards of 80 percent occupancy, far above Harris’ average census of 50-some. But Harris procured emergency credentials for Haywood doctors and went on treating patients. “Without WestCare and that medical staff and that team, we would not be nearly as successful, and we are successful,” SinacoreJaberg said. But the ordeal isn’t over, and until the hospital is fully reopened and patient services completely restored, there will still be plenty of work to do. “Were running full-bore,” Mike McKnight, the hospital’s chief financial officer, said ahead of the partial reopening. “We have everyone on it that we can run to test it and make sure it is safe for patients to come back.”

MOVING ON WITH THE BUYOUT HRMC determined last week that its insurance policy would allow it to continue paying its employees the salaries and benefits they would have received had the hospital been open, but it’s still working through how the damages, consultation and inspection expens-

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The Carolinas MED-1 crew isn’t your standard medical team. They’re a crew of folks, mostly part-time, who deploy to give needed medical care in emergency situations, with crises ranging from the hospital fire at Haywood Regional Medical Center to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The seven-vehicle unit contains all the medical equipment and staff accommodations necessary to offer a range of medical services, even in the absence of water and electricity. “We have to be completely self-sufficient,” said Sarah Walsh, a paramedic on the team. The unit carries enough to supply a 72-hour period, and a military-grade water purifier means that MED-1 has drinkable water anywhere H2O can be found. Supporting vehicles carry medical supplies, tools and showers, living space and bunks for the crew. It’s a converted NASCAR trailer, though, that houses the emergency room. Inside, responders have a 12-bed capacity, including a dental chair, two operating room suites and four intensive care unit beds. They can do X-rays, and up to six patients can be on ventilators. And, if necessary, they can set up the tent and folded-up beds in the roof compartment to transform the trailer into a 150-bed hospital. “We can be up and running with the hospital in right around four, four-and-a-half hours,” said MED-1 nurse Jim Slone, adding that the tent would take a while longer to set up. Response time can indeed be quick. Within 18 hours of getting a call from hospital president and CEO Janie Sinacore-Jaberg, the Charlotte-based unit had a team assembled, the unit deployed and the hospital set up and accepting patients in Haywood County. “We had some really serious cases,” Sinacore-Jaberg said. “That’s all we can say from a confidentiality standpoint, and we saved them.”

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conditioning specialist, whose should be careful, even in tight budget cycles, salary is charged to the Jackson to cut community colleges too much. “The worst thing we could do would be to campus, but that person works on systems at all three campus- cut budgets to the community college on the es. Same goes for the college level that the services we expect to be providpresident, his administrative ed cannot be provided,” he said. That’s not to say Macon County has cut to staff and other positions that don’t need to be tripled within that extent — educational spending, includa single organization. Macon ing K-12 and community college, accounted County took care of some of for 18.5 percent of its 2014-15 budget. In recent years, Jackson County has fundthose expenses with the $39,400 it added onto its budg- ed SCC at a level about $350,000 lower than et at the end of the process, but the college’s budget request. The county is a thorough true cost account- trying to boost those funding levels, Wooten ing would likely reveal a larger said, to get them back on track. This year, Jackson County closed the gap by $170,000, number. Part of the confusion is though a $200,000 drop from Macon County borne of the fact that SCC’s cancels their increase out. The goal is to close local funding comes from an the gap between request and receive cominformal agreement between pletely in the next budget year. But all that’s happening with the backcounties that was made nearly 20 years ago. The college has drop of county revenues that haven’t much grown since then, and that recovered from the recession. And both growth increases the complex- Jackson and Macon counties are likely to take a beating next year, when they make a budget ity of funding questions. “I think we’re looking at based on newly re-evaluated property values. something that’s over 20 years Typically, a revaluation means dollar signs to SCC began expanding its Macon County presence in 2007 with the Cecil L. Groves Center. File photo old, that it’s time to be updated a county, but because property values fell so anyway,” said Jack Debnam, much during the recession, the revaluation BY HOLLY KAYS cussion, that number was down to 39-4.” chairman of the Jackson County commission- will likely mean that property tax rates will STAFF WRITER Macon commissioners voted unanimous- ers. “It may be that this is what brings around have to increase just to keep a flat budget. budget-trimming effort in Macon ly to support the budget that included the some new ideas about funding the campuses. That increases the incentive to shed extra County has leaders in multiple counties $200,000 reduction. With low post-recession Do you fund them based on the number of costs, and that’s why Roland zeroed in on the talking about what’s fair when it comes property values meaning less tax revenue classes? Do you fund them based on the num- SCC line item in the first place. to community college funding. Charged with when new property valuations go into effect ber of graduates? How do you fund it? What’s “I know he’s taken some shots from folks proposing an as-small-as-possible budget in next year, the county is cutting where it can the rule? I think that’s all what we’ll have to that think he doesn’t support Southwestern, advance of expected hard times ahead, ahead of the valuation so that it will only have take a good look at over this next year.” and I can tell you that’s not the case,” Corbin Macon County Manager Derek Roland eyed a to raise taxes the minimal amount when the Of SCC’s $27 million 2013-14 budget, $2.3 said. “That’s not where his heart is. He was $200,000 line item for Southwestern new numbers come out. million was county-funded. Jackson County taking our directive that we wanted to cut Community College. The funds were to go While the college would obviously like to provided $1.8 million, Macon County kicked in anywhere we could.” toward the Jackson campus, not the Macon have as large a budget as possible, it bears no $448,000 and Swain County funded $120,000. Just last year, Macon County paid $17,500 one, and as Roland looked into it he deter- hard feelings. Though Macon County actually has the to develop a 30-year plan for SCC’s Macon cammined that it wasn’t a $200,000 that Macon “We’re just excited about the possibility most overall students in the SCC system — pus. So, Roland said, the county is supportive County needed to spend. that we have for growth and expansion in an average of 836 of the average 2,293 cur- of SCC; it just wants to use what funds it has for “In doing the research on that and talking Macon County,” said SCC President Don riculum students between to board members and talking to Don Tomas Tomas. “Budget is budget, and we all have to 2011 and 2013, compared In recent years, Jackson County has with SCC,” Roland said, “it was brought to make tough decisions and we move forward. to an average 784 from my attention that was initiated about 19 years We’re just grateful and thankful [for the fund- Jackson — most classes funded SCC at a level about ago, prior to Macon County having the cam- ing we get from Macon County].” and facilities are in $350,000 lower than the college’s pus here.” Jackson County. That SCC opened its first building in Macon gives Jackson an advanOW IT BREAKS DOWN tage beyond the educa- budget request. The county is trying to County 24 years ago in 1990, when the Jerry boost those funding levels, according Sutton Public Safety Training Center opened its Of course, it’s not just Jackson students tional resource the college doors. But that was a more limited enterprise, who go to the Jackson campus. The Jackson provides, Macon County to County Manager Chuck Wooten. and the campus began expanding with the campus, the largest of the three SCC campuses Commission Chairman opening of the Cecil L. Groves Center in 2007. in Jackson, Macon and Swain counties, had Kevin Corbin pointed out. Macon County has been paying the 1,592 students seeking a degree, certificate or “Our students do benefit from that higher education to go toward strengthening $200,000 it had originally been contributing diploma in 2013, compared to 496 in Macon Jackson campus and have for years,” Corbin SCC’s presence in Macon County. to the Jackson SCC campus plus additional County and 67 in Swain. But of those 1,592 said. “By the same point, Jackson County ben“It’s clear that we’re going to continue funds for the growing Macon campus. In students in Jackson, 353 were from Jackson efits because our kids are driving across the growing here,” Roland said. “We felt like we 2013-14, Macon County contributed a total of County, about 22 percent. Meanwhile, only 24 mountain, spending money there they needed to start investing in Macon County.” $448,563 to SCC, a jump from the 2012-13 of the 496 Macon students came from Jackson. wouldn’t spend if the campus wasn’t there.” Crafting how best to do that, though, will amount of $431,063. The 2014-15 approved “At this point they [SCC] never have done require some conversation going forward. budget allots $270,463. That includes true cost accounting on positions and supall the entities involved have their 2014WORTHWHILE INVESTMENT Once $39,400 to go toward Jackson campus port services,” said Chuck Wooten, Jackson 15 budgets put to bed, there will be some expenses that benefit Macon County. County manager. “I guess if counties are Having a nearby college campus benefits a effort to do just that. “Macon County was providing funding to going to start funding only for those activities county in innumerable ways, Wooten agreed, “I’m sure we’ll have those kinds of discusJackson County to cover the cost associated that take place in their county, it’s going to and community colleges are mainstays of sions,” Tomas said. “As we grow, I think with what Jackson County was giving to require them going back and doing some true strong communities. Though he said he did things always evolve and change, and we Macon County,” Roland said. “Originally that cost accounting.” not blame Roland at all for making the deci- need to be in that opportunity to change and For instance, SCC has one heating and air sion that he did, he cautioned that counties have those kinds of discussions.” 8 was $200,000. At the end of the budget dis-

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Haywood Arts Council, the Waynesville Public Art Commission or the N.C. Handicrafts Museum at the Shelton House.

CAPITAL CAMPAIGNS Along with its standard suite of nonprofit funding, the town set aside money for a trio of new grants totaling $75,000 in the coming year. All involve capital campaigns for building projects, including: • $25,000 for a second theater venue for Haywood Regional Arts Theater. • $25,000 toward renovating the old Hazelwood school to serve as a community civic center under the auspice of Folkmoot International Folk Festival. • $25,000 to convert an old, shut-down state prison into a homeless shelter, soup kitchen and half-way house spearheaded by a faith-based community coalition. “You can’t disassociate these from the economic benefit that is derived from it,” Alderman Leroy Roberson said. Only HART was awarded funding outright. The other two grants will be held in contingency, to be released if and when the projects reach a more definitive stage.

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Folkmoot, a signature international folk festival based in Waynesville. Folkmoot plans to renovate the former Hazelwood Elementary School that serves as its headquarters. The site provides critical lodging for 250 performers during Folkmoot’s two-week festival run in July, but it is old and run down. If renovated, it could realize untapped potential as a year-round civic venue, which would in turn transform Folkmoot’s role and presence in the community. But Mayor Gavin Brown questioned a $25,000 allocation in the absence of a clear vision for the facility. “They haven’t come forward with a plan other than try to make the building functional. After we rehabilitate it, then what are we going to do?” Brown asked during a town budget workshop two weeks ago. “To say we are willing to contribute $25,000 to whatever plan they come up with — I would rather take it out.” Tom Eizell, a Folkmoot volunteer in atten-

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Economic impact was a key component of the pitch by HART for a capital contribution toward a second theater venue, which carries a total price tag of more than $1 million, coming primarily from private donations. “We are the number one attraction in Waynesville,” Steve Lloyd, HART’s director, told the town during a funding pitch earlier this year. “This is one of our community’s assets, and this is an investment in the growth of that asset.” With a second venue, HART can run shows in a more continuous fashion, with one in rehearsal while another is in production. “This makes it possible for us to be going all the time,” Lloyd said. “It turns us more into what Flat Rock Playhouse is for Flat Rock.” The new Fangmeyer Theater, named for its biggest donors, is designed as a flexible event space, hosting not just plays but also dances and receptions. It will have an outdoor amphitheater for concerts, a café bistro and public restrooms that will be open during the bustling Historic Haywood Farmer’s Market, which is held in HART’s parking lot twice weekly. The HART project easily won approval, unlike the other two capital requests that were met with slightly more pause. That’s because HART’s project is further along, aldermen said. HART has architectural plans in hand, has already met 75 percent of its fundraising goal, and has a bank loan in place to fund construction, which is slated to start in coming weeks, according to Lloyd.

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BY B ECKY JOHNSON STAFF WRITER o some, they might seem like pet projects, budgetary fat in tough times, or frivolous earmarks. But Waynesville leaders are defending $100,000 in annual contributions to a slate of 30 nonprofit organizations as a form of economic development, community advancement and social uplift. The contributions come in spite of budget shortfalls prompting a 3-cent property tax increase by the town. “Even in times when we are having to make these very difficult decisions, I think it is important we support those good things in our community,” said Alderman Wells Greeley. “As town leaders we have an obligation to support and recognize their valuable contributions.” The vast majority of nonprofits helped by the town provide social welfare services, including REACH domestic violence agency, KARE child abuse task force, Meals on Wheels, Open Door Soup Kitchen, Good Samaritan Clinic, the Red Cross and the Salvation Army. “These are needs in the community that the government would have to address as problems and challenges if the nonprofits weren’t doing it,” Greeley said. Despite the social and civic role of nonprofits, Haywood County commissioners summarily cut all nonprofit contributions across the board when the recession first hit in 2008. Targeted as low-hanging fruit during tight budget times, commissioners have yet to restore the nonprofit funding stripped from the county budget. But that’s not a philosophy shared by Waynesville leaders. “We could say we aren’t going to give anything and just hunker down. But these groups are striving to make the quality of life better,” Greeley said. The town was asked for $150,000 in nonprofit contributions this year but only had $100,000 to go around. Alderman Gary Caldwell takes on the annual task of putting pencil to paper and recommending what the town should give out. “I try to spread it around since a lot of nonprofits are struggling with losing money from other sources,” Caldwell said. “The county doesn’t give anything anymore. We are about the only ones around that do what we can to try to help the nonprofits. It’s not a lot, but it does it help.” Alderwoman Julia Freeman, who is also the executive director of the REACH domestic violence nonprofit, said her agency saw $24,000 in annual funding cut by the county several years ago. “These services sometimes aren’t very pretty. They are dealing with child abuse and domestic violence or homelessness and people who are hungry,” Freeman said. “They provide central services in our communities.” Only a few of the town’s nonprofit contributions fall into the cultural category, like the

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dance at the budget workshop, stepped forward to defend the request. “Folkmoot is moving from what had been a two-week summer festival into a year-round community center for a variety of yet-to-bedetermined activities, events, speakers, you name it,” he said. “There is no better time to invest in Folkmoot than now.” A master plan will be shaped in coming months through a community input and visioning process. “We don’t have the plan yet,” Eizell admitted. “That needs refinement. But they have the brains to put together a plan that will make a definable difference in this community.” Libba Feichter, a former alderman, supporter of the arts and retired teacher, also spoke up, citing the importance of saving the old school that would otherwise become an abandoned, run-down eyesore and liability. “What would happen to that building if not for Folkmoot? It would become derelict,” Feichter said. “It is a building that should be treasured and secured for the use of the community.” Folkmoot has put nearly $1 million into renovations, repairs and maintenance of the old school over the past decade already, but there is still a long way to go — from the dire and immediate need for a new roof to restoring the old auditorium into a functional performance space. Waynesville Alderman Leroy Roberson suggested the town include the Folkmoot grant as a contingency budget item. “Not just cast it aside and think about it later. Let’s put it in there as favorable toward Folkmoot. Once we get the plan and see something definitive, then we can act on it,” Roberson said. As other aldermen nodded in agreement, Brown acknowledged he was outnumbered. “OK, let’s see if they can earn their way toward that $25,000,” Brown said. The town was paid a visit at its meeting the following week by Rose Johnson, the president of the Folkmoot board, to articulate and expound on Folkmoot’s idea for the facility. “You are starting to see a plan develop to utilize a building that would otherwise be empty for many, many years,” Freeman said. But, “They are still in the infancy stage and figuring out what this will entail.” The town ultimately awarded Folkmoot a $5,000 grant to aid with a design plan, with the rest parked in contingency.

The third project seeking a $25,000 grant from the town is an initiative to convert a closed-down state prison in Hazelwood into a halfway house and homeless shelter under the auspice of Haywood Helps. A coalition of churches have joined forces to pull off the project, aimed at transforming and rebuilding lives of the down-trodden. “That is going to be a plus for our community,” Alderman Caldwell said. But as with Folkmoot, town leaders questioned whether the project was far enough along to warrant cutting a check yet. The board decided to set aside the money “in holding,” Caldwell said. 9

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Sylva addresses Main Street traffic concerns The one-way stretch of Main Street running through the heart of downtown Sylva has a new traffic pattern. The left lane now sports turn arrows and solid white lines. “Yeah, people do speed in the left lane here. I see people come down here 40 miles per hour,” said Sandy Cooper, owner of It’s By Nature, a store located on the strip. “Backing out here, I mean, people risk life and limb.” Sylva officials recently gave North Carolina Department of Transportation officials the go-ahead to paint arrows and install turn lights at intersections on the downtown state road in an attempt to address safety and traffic concerns — drivers tend to speed in the left lane, making parking a dangerous prospect on that side of the one-way street. “It’ll hopefully help slow down traffic,” said Sylva Town Manager Paige Roberson. “It keeps the left lane from being a passing lane.” With the arrows still freshly painted in the left lane, traffic hummed along in the right in late June. The solid white stripes stared awkwardly at the passing drivers as Roberson walked down Main Street on a mission — she didn’t have a read on the traffic-pattern change yet. “It’s only been a day, so I really don’t know,” she said. The new paint on the pavement is a change from plans laid in early June. Originally, town board members decided to install bumpouts — or sections of protruding curbage — along Main Street’s left side. “Bumpouts would be permanent and the arrows will be temporary to see if it slows down traffic,” Roberson said. The more recent decision to paint the left lane and forego the bumpouts — which DOT suggested — will allow time to see if the measure works before installing anything permanent on the street. There’s also another reason to take it slow on the bumpouts. Town leaders are currently using a $10,000 Southwestern Development Commission grant to study downtown traffic issues and look at the possibility of taking Main Street back to the 1950s with a change to two-way traffic — which would render left-lane fixes moot. “I don’t want to put money toward bumpouts until I’m sure two-way traffic isn’t going to work out,” Roberson said. — Jeremy Morrison, News Editor

be lured off the downtown thoroughfare and over to the market’s new spot by the river. “When people get on Everett Street they have a purpose,” Glover said. “We’ve got to get these walkers back over to the market.” The Island Street property is a few blocks off of Everett, past a rundown stretch, in a collection of apartments, mobile homes and scrap yard expanses full of rusting relics of industrial history. “It’s kinda dumpy back here,” said Christy Bredenkamp, extension agent with the North Carolina Cooperative Extension in Swain, as she piloted her Tacoma toward the barn. The property sits across the street from an idyllic stretch of the Tuckasegee. An old house near the barn is slated for demolition to make more room for the market. “Aesthetically, we thought this could be a great site for the long term, but the main problem is visibility.” Bredenkamp said. “I love the river and I love the sound of water. And I love being near the barn. If there was a main road going past it it’d be even better.” That’s the main concern of market vendors in Swain. They’re afraid they’re about to be hidden from their regular customers, as well as visitors who may have happened upon them on the main road. “The thing is we get a lot of tourist traffic,” said Wendellv Davis, sitting at a booth offering jewelry, goat milk and soap. “They’re not even going to know we’re here.” A passing customer agreed. She said she found the market by chance after purchasing a cabin in the area. “Just riding by one day we saw it and stopped in,” said Nancy Butler. Glover concedes that the visibility and traffic issues are formidable “downsides.” But he’s hoping the market can overcome those hurdles. “It’s going to be fine,” Glover said, watching over his stand of gourds and vegetables. “We have no choice, we have to.” And at least the Swain vendors’ last day at their Main Street station was looking good. Customers made the rounds, picking up pastries and fruit and honey. They cruised the tents, finding muffin mix and macramé pot holders. And eggs from chickens, ducks and guineas. Glover’s stand was swarmed early on. “That was full of cucumbers,” the market president pointed to an empty basket. “They’re gone.”

Down by the river Swain farmers market makes a move BY J EREMY MORRISON N EWS E DITOR he Swain County Farmers Market recently enjoyed its final Friday alongside Main Street in Bryson City. After taking a break for the Fourth of July holiday, it will reopen on the other side of the Tuckasegee River. “In the middle of the season it’s probably going to be a little tough,” said market president Mike Glover. Vendors are not entirely enthused about the move. “Did you see the twitch in my eye,” said Audrey Ellington, as she pondered the transition. Ellington regularly works a table full of gluten-free goodies at Swain’s market. She enjoys the traffic the market sees on U.S. 19 and doesn’t relish the relocation. “We’ve got to do it, but I don’t prefer it because we’re doing really well here,” Ellington said. “I guess over time it will work out, but to get to that time there’s business we’re going to miss.” Swain’s market is moving due to space and safety concerns. It currently takes up real estate in the parking lot of the newly opened historic courthouse museum and also has to contend with traffic generated by a nearby ATM machine. “It’s nothing that’s new,” said Swain County Manager Kevin King, explaining that the move has been in the works for two years. “We’re so crowded over there most of the time and you’ve got safety risks and that kind of thing.” The market is being relocated to property across the river on Island Street. It’s a large grassy lot, home to an old barn. “It’s going to be aesthetically, I think, better,” King said. “It will take a little bit more signage, but once they get the word out I think it’ll be good.” That’s what Glover is hoping for. He’s hoping foot traffic can

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Catherine Cranston Whitham, another nearby neighbor to the proposed tower, requested that the county consider the “potential intrusion on the rural and ‘unspoiled’ character of the mountain landscape.” “This character is the very source of both conservation pride and economic value to the county due to the desirability of the mountain experience for visitors and homeowners alike,” she wrote. During the most recent planning board meeting, members discussed how cell phone towers were undesirable but necessary for reception purposes. “The role of this board is challenging,” Green told the board. “You know they are ugly and hideous, but you need them.” In Cashiers, Robertson is one of the people who would benefit from the expanded reach of a new tower. But that potential luxury doesn’t do the trick when he thinks about the view from Whiteside. “I don’t have cell phone service at my house,” Robertson said, “and this tower would provide it, but I would just as soon not have it if it’d affect other people in the county this way.”

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BY J EREMY MORRISON N EWS E DITOR he Jackson County Planning Board has of late been engaged in a discussion about the revision of the county’s ordinance governing cell phone towers. That discussion is likely to attract additional voices soon, as the board also prepares to weigh in on Verizon Wireless’ request to construct a new tower in the Whiteside Cove area. “Do you know what room the meeting will be held in? Last I heard was that due to the number of people likely to attend the meeting, we will not meet in the usual meeting room,” wrote Verizon attorney Chris Kinchen in an email to Jackson County Planning Director Gerald Green. Green has also received a slew of emails from Jackson residents. Specifically, residents of the Whiteside Cove proximity. They urge the planning director and members of the planning board to consider various aspects of Verizon’s request. They raise concerns about pollution to the viewshed and the amount of square footage the tower will require on the ground. They beg that the board require that the pole be camouflaged or “retire into the landscape.” “We are thrilled to be getting more cell towers, but it seems like a no-brainer to elect to have the less intrusive tree-like towers up here rather than the big white monstrosity Verizon is proposing,” wrote Carole Stork. “Since Jackson County has the power to regulate what goes up, let’s try not to wreck the beauty we all take for granted.” Tom Robertson also wrote in to the county. He lives a mile and a half from the site where Verizon is hoping to locate a tower and suggested a “mono-pine” construction. “I think Verizon ought to do the right thing,” Robertson later explained, adding that the right thing would be to attempt to hide the tower as much as possible and assure that it had as little impact as possible. Verizon’s proposed tower, a mono-pole, is planned at 115 feet in height. The company is snubbing the “request for a stealth design.” “[It] would limit the number of antennas that can be mounted that are needed to handle the capacity in the area, including voice and high speed data,” Kinchen wrote Green. Issues such as height, placement and appearance of cell phone towers are currently on the planning board’s plate. They began discussing the issue recently after tabling revisions to the county’s steep slope ordinance. Currently, the ordinance lays down such requirements as a 120-foot maximum. But no towers have been constructed since the current ordinance’s passage. Towers in the

county, for instance, were built pre-ordinance and stretch to 180 feet. The planning board is still early in its revision discussion for the tower ordinance. So far, it looks to be sticking with a loose 120-foot limit (unless companies can prove a need for more) and a case-by-case judgment when it comes to ridgetop placement. The board has shown interest in the potential to camouflage a tower. And members are thinking long term, asking questions about a tower’s inevitable abandonment as technology evolves. The planning board, next meeting July 10, won’t be taking up Verizon’s request until August. After that the issue goes before Jackson County commissioners for an up or down vote. Robertson has some concerns about the possibility of a tower near his property and in the viewshed of Whiteside Cove. “In a setting such as Whiteside Cove, in which you have a lot of public lands, you can see right down on it,” Robertson said. Other residents contacting the county have voiced the same concern about a tower being built in a heavily used recreation area valued for its beauty.

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“When he told me about it I said ‘Good legislating.’ He said ‘I hate games but that’s where we are at,’” Queen recalled. Specifically, Davis attached the Lake Junaluska merger to an obscure, hyper-local bill from Pender County deannexing a tract from the town limits of Watha. It had previously passed the House, prior to the amendment being tacked on. Whenever the Senate and House pass differing versions of a bill, they have to be reconciled. The new version of the Watha bill, now saddled with the Lake Junaluska amendment, was shipped back to the House for concurrence. That could have gone one of two ways. “It could go straight to the floor to be voted on. Or it can be sent to a committee to check it over,” Queen said. Chances of a merger between Lake Junaluska and Waynesville are better than they were a Rather than slide straight to the finish week ago thanks to legislative wrangling in Raleigh. Margaret Hester photo line, it was sent for a pit stop in committee — essentially sending it back to the same starting gate where BY B ECKY JOHNSON the original Lake Junaluska STAFF WRITER merger bill has been sitting ake Junaluska’s bid to merge with the for the past year. town of Waynesville flickered to life in 2013 But it’s still better off than the state legislature last week after • March 13: Sen. Jim Davis introduces a bill in the N.C. before, according to Buddy languishing in political purgatory for the Senate to merge Lake Junaluska with Waynesville. Young, public works director past year. • April 3: Bill passes Senate local government committee. for Lake Junaluska Assembly. A last-ditch political maneuver by N.C. • April 10: Bill passes Senate finance committee. “We certainly raised Sen. Jim Davis, R-Franklin, revived the merg• April 13: Bill passes full Senate unanimously. awareness,” Young said of er. Davis tacked an amendment onto an • April 15: Bill referred to the N.C. House. the flurry of attention the unrelated bill moving through the General • May 22: Bill assigned to the House finance committee. merger as gotten. “It was Assembly. • May-July: Bill sits in House finance committee. Lake demonstrated once again By lassoing another bill headed for pasJunaluska and Waynesville representatives make trips that Senator Jim Davis is sage, the Lake Junaluska merger would preto Raleigh to advocate for the bill to no avail. working this as hard as he sumably tag along for the ride. The plan met can.” a hitch, however, and it is unclear whether it 2014 Still, the strategy isn’t a will come off as hoped. • March-May: Still no movement in the House finance shoe-in. Theoretically, the But chances are certainly better than they committee on the bill. legislator that introduced were a week ago — when the bill appeared all • June 23: Looking for a vehicle to carry the Lake the Watha bill — namely but dead as the General Assembly headed Junaluska merger forward, Sen. Davis tacks an amendN.C. Rep. Chris Millis, a into its final throes before dismissing for the ment onto a random local bill from Pender County. freshman Republican — year. • June 26: The bill bearing the Lake amendment passes would want his own bill to Davis had successfully ushered the Lake the Senate. pass badly enough that he Junaluska merger through the Senate last • June 26: The new version of the Pender County bill, now would become the newest year. But it failed to gain traction in the saddled with the Lake Junaluska amendment, goes fan and best ally of the Lake House. It was shunted off into a House comback to the House for concurrence. Junaluska merger, whose mittee, where it languished. • June 26: The amended bill is sent to House finance fate was now intertwined The bill needed a champion in the House committee once again. with Watha. to move it forward. The bill had a wingman in But instead, Millis N.C. Rep. Joe Sam Queen, D-Waynesville, but jumped ship on his original as a Democrat in a Republican-controlled leg- the subject of so much political wrangling. islature, Queen couldn’t pilot it. “This was a local bill and she interjected bill. Not wanting to see his bill slowed by the At least not in light of opposition from herself into it. That is a no-no in the legisla- Lake Junaluska amendment, he sought out another bill to hitch the Watha language to. N.C. Rep. Michele Presnell, R-Burnsville. ture,” Davis said of Presnell’s opposition. Presnell represents part of Haywood County Davis said finding another bill to serve He tacked an amendment of his own onto yet — but not that part that includes Lake as a vehicle for the Lake Junaluska merger another unrelated bill being passed by the Junaluska. Lake Junaluska falls in Queen’s was the only option left. While not rare, the House, allowing it to advance independently geographic territory. Nonetheless, Presnell tactic isn’t exactly common either. And it from the original bill that now bears the Lake stymied the merger from sailing through in runs the risk of miffing the legislator whose Junaluska merger. The Lake Junaluska merger is once again the House as it had in the Senate. bill got saddled with an unrelated amendQueen called it “absolutely ridiculous.” ment, potentially gumming up the works left on its own. But there is hope it could now finally Legislators have an unspoken code to support for their own bill. each other’s so-called local bills — routine “Is there a chance they would be miffed? get an airing in the House committee. bills dealing with a chiefly local issue that Possibly. But that doesn’t address the fact it According to third parties, Presnell has simply need a legislative rubber stamp. has been sitting in committee for a year with- said she will drop her opposition. “Rep. Presnell has told me personally “You don’t monkey with another legisla- out being heard,” Davis said. tor’s district. There should be no objection Queen said the bill was destined to “die on she has lifted her objections to it and is not from other members,” Queen said. the vine” if not for Davis’ creative move to going to fight it any longer and if we want to move it, to go ahead Davis was disappointed the issue had been advance the bill.

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and do it. We can move forward without her objection,” Queen said. Davis said he couldn’t predict the chances it has in the House committee. But, “the chances of me giving it my all are 100 percent,” Davis said. The large majority of homeowners and registered voters at Lake Junaluska — twothirds according to both a petition and mailin survey — have voiced support for merging with the town of Waynesville.

NEW GAME PLAN In preparation for developments in the future, however, the water authority is looking to expand in the Cashiers area, where most people are on well water and septic tanks. TWSA and Jackson County are embarking on a $20,000 study of expanding the area’s water system. And Harbaugh is a proponent of a new sewer treatment plant on the Horsepasture River — a notion still in the environmental permitting and property purchasing stage — that could eventually offer the capability to handle an additional 496,000 gallons per day. But that’s long term. In the short term, TWSA has come up with a stop-gap solution to allow for some breathing room when it comes to capacity. “We’re trying to be as flexible as we can in our policy,” Harbaugh. TWSA spent more than a year exploring options for changing its policy, including public meetings. The TWSA board finally approved changes to its sewer allotment policy last month.

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BY J EREMY MORRISON N EWS E DITOR ack when the land market was hot, so were sewer allotments in southern Jackson County. And the while the market has since cooled, sewer’s primed to keep getting hotter. “Sewer’s liquid gold in Cashiers,” said real estate broker John Hale. It’s a classic case of supply and demand. The sewer capacity is finite. But luxury resorts, vacation condos and second-home developments were seemingly infinite during the height of the building boom. Developers were eager to stake claims to the limited sewer capacity during the 2000s, buying up allotments and calling dibs on the volume they would one day need. But one day, it turns out, hasn’t come. And for some developers, it may never come. Now, they are sitting on sewer allotments they don’t need or want. “Most of the ones that are held are for developments that were proposed for the future and just didn’t happen,” said Dan Harbaugh, executive director of the Tuckasegee Water and Sewer Authority. They can forfeit them, but they can’t cash them in for a monetary value. So they keep sitting on them, hedging their bets that one day the market will come back and they’ll want the allotments earmarked for their sidelined developments after all. But that’s causing problems for potential legitimate projects that could use a piece of the sewer allotment pie. Those looking for a sewer hook-up in Cashiers these days are rather summarily turned away. “My answer to them is, if you’re not holding allocations we have none available,” explained Harbaugh, which operates the sewer system and plant in Cashiers. TWSA’s limited-reach operation in Cashiers has a capacity of just 200,000 gallons per day, constrained by the size of the sewer treatment plant. On paper, the sewer capacity is maxed out, due to all those untapped allotments sitting

on TWSA’s books. But in reality, average daily flows were 73,000 gallons per day last year. Hale represents a developer who owns a chunk of sewer allotments in Cashiers. His client bought up 30,600 gallons worth of them with plans of developing in the area. “That works out to 85 three-bedroom units,” Hale said. But then the market tanked, and the recession set in. The developer decided to hold off. “Look at what happed to the economy,” Hale said. “That would have been a suicide mission.” But the developer held onto the sewer allotments. To give them back meant giving them up and he still hopes to develop when the market improves. Holding onto the capacity comes at a cost to developers — Hale estimates his client pays about $4,000 in monthly fees. But it is also strangling TWSA’s capacity, which has the potential to stymie future growth in the Cashiers area. “We can’t accept any more flows from any developments,” Harbaugh said, adding that the issue hasn’t been as pressing since the bust, with most building on hold anyway. “Since I’ve been here for two years there has not been any development in full to go forward in Cashiers.”

restrictions is intended to prevent profiteering,” Harbaugh wrote in an email. While Harbaugh said he would like to see capacity opened up, he wants to avoid a situation in which sewer allotments are tossed into the free market, onto the auction block and sold to the highest bidder. But Harbaugh said the TWSA board left the door open to revisit the issue later, perhaps loosening the allotment transfer policy further. “Those discussions will be starting up this summer,” the TWSA director said, adding that high-capacity sewer-allotment players will be contacted soon. “We need some input from the community before we start that discussion.” Hale’s not sure what changes might be made to satisfy his client and other allotment holders, who have been paying sizable fees for sitting on their reserved sewer capacity — “They would really have to come up with one heck of a plan” — and scoffs at the notion of TWSA trying to prevent profiteering. “Define profit,” the broker said. “Some of these folks are paying thousands of dollars a month even if they’re not using it. So, can they get that money back?” But whatever happens with the sewer allotments, it’s just a short-term fix for Cashier’s capacity quandary. Whenever the market hits the right mood, developers will want to use those allotments and more, and the comforting on-paper aspect of the issue will evolve. “I think the market’s getting there, and the minute it does my client’s going to break ground,” Hale said. “There’s no doubt that TWSA’s going to have to expand in Cashiers one day and prepare for the future.”

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parts of Western North Carolina,” was all Seymour could say. Advantage West, a regional economic development agency that also has a film recruiting arm, likewise could not confirm the production of a movie in the area. One of the “Loomis Fargo” stars, Galafianakis, is from North Carolina. Danny McBride, a writer and executive producer for

ever in America — more than $17 million. The Loomis Fargo vault manager teamed up with a former female employee he had a crush on, and a married couple she was friends with. It’s easy to see why the plot lends itself to a comedy. The crooks are all novices and their get-away is laced with foibles and doublecrosses. The stolen money was nearly all in

not yet list the fee. Another clue: the movie producers contacted the Waynesville Police Department to inquire about hiring off-duty officers to manage the area around the filming location. “It would basically be for standing by while they are filming in case any traffic control is needed,” said Waynesville Police Chief Bill Hollingsed. Officially, however, the production company has not confirmed plans to film in Waynesville. Movie industry web sites report the movie will be filmed in the “Asheville area” Actors (from left) Owen Wilson, Zach Galifianakis and Kristen Wiig will star in a comedy heist caper to be and Wilmington. filmed at an undisclosed location in Haywood County. Donated photos Publicists for the production did not reply to messages. small bills, mostly $20s — an unwieldy stash Movie industry web sites list the release the movie, went to the North Carolina to make off with, so unwieldy they had to date as August 2015. School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, as did The Haywood County Tourism one of the other writers, Jody Hill. The direc- abandon some of it. The married couple in on the deal trade in their trailer for a mansion in Development Authority has a film initiative tor is Jared Hess. nearby Gastonia and begin living extravagantthat courts the production of movies, docubut are lousy at laundering the loot. They mentaries, reality shows, commercials and HAT S OOMIS ARGO ly, quickly recant on their end of the deal to wire video projects here. But Becky Seymour, the the vault manager his cut in Mexico, and marketing manager for the Haywood Film An inside job, the Loomis Fargo heist in begin plotting his murder instead. Commission, could not confirm the movie Charlotte in 1997, pulled off by an armored The suspects were all eventually caught was being filmed in Waynesville specifically. car driver and vault superintendent, went by the FBI. “I can confirm that it is being filmed in down as the second biggest bank robbery

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BY HOLLY KAYS & B ECKY JOHNSON STAFF WRITERS hat began as a vision to convert a shutdown state prison in Waynesville into a halfway house, homeless shelter and soup kitchen has spiraled into a larger vision of transforming society one life at a time. It’s being fueled by an outpouring of community members willing to give their time and energy to help those in need, said Patsy Dowling, director of Mountain Projects, a human services agency. Under the name Haywood Helps, more people are joining the effort, bringing a wide array of skill sets to the table in a response that Dowling said is overwhelming. “The beauty is we have so many retired people who are giving us their time and expertise, and they are moving 100 miles a hour,” Dowling said. “It is amazing when you put a group of people at a table what kinds of ideas you can come up with. All sorts of things have taken off. Our dream is coming true at a fast pace.” Haywood Helps began as a support organization to help a trio of Christian ministries turn the old state prison in Hazelwood into a center housing a soup kitchen, homeless shelter and halfway house for people newly released from jail or prison. The group is calling itself Haywood Pathways Center and consists of Haywood Christian Emergency Center, which currently runs a homeless shelter that is operational for half of the year; Open Door Ministries, which operates a soup kitchen in Frog Level and Next Step Ministries, a fledgling organization looking for ways to help people recently released from jail or prison re-enter society. All three groups would get to expand their service to the community by operating the Hazelwood campus together. But Haywood Helps evolved into an explosion of subcommittees tackling affordable housing, a living wage, job and vocational training, life skills, faith ministry, substance abuse counseling and more. Marty Bowen, a retired banker, is part of the volunteer network. Bowen and her husband retired to Haywood County from south Florida in 2010. “Our dream was to live out our lives and play golf and travel,” Bowen said. But her husband died from cancer eight months after moving here, and her son died from cancer two years later. “I have really been trying to find a focus, something else to focus on,” Bowen said. She tried going back to work selling insurance, but it didn’t fill the emptiness she felt inside. On a whim, she came to a Haywood Helps meeting a few months ago after seeing an announcement for it. “I was so impressed and amazed with the number of people here that are interested in helping others,” Bowen said.

Bowen joined the social enterprise committee of Haywood Helps and is now spearheading a project to sell bottled water as a sustainable revenue stream. Initially, the idea was to create a bottledwater production facility, tapping the stellar drinking water of Waynesville’s city water supply. Proceeds from the water bottling operation would fund charity work and also give people escaping poverty, or getting back on their feet after incarceration, a place to work. “We believe one of the greatest problems Haywood County faces is providing jobs with a livable wage,” Honerkamp said. On top of that, “It’s hard for those getting out of jail or prison to make a livable wage.” But the start-up costs of a bottled water production line were insurmountable in the short-term, Bowen found. For now, the project will purchase wholesale bottles of water from Mountain Valley

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But volunteers only go so far. The effort also needs money — and more than just the estimated $300,000 that’s needed to renovate the old prison site. “What we’re trying to do right now is to not only raise money to remodel the prison and move in, but we’re going to need longterm money to sustain the operations,” said Nick Honerkamp, founder and director of Haywood Christian Emergency Center, one of the organizations looking to occupy the old prison. “The easiest time to raise money is when something is brand new. What do you do two years from now when people move on to another project?” Enter the concept of social enterprise. “That is creative ways to build a community, create jobs and fund our human service efforts,” Dowling said. Social enterprise pursues a business plan or moneymaking venture to generate profits for a social mission. If the enterprise can

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The Canton Town Board’s 2014-2015 budget passed unanimously last week, but not without controversy. The budget includes a $3,500 earmark for the possibility of relocating the town’s police firing range to an old landfill property in the Gibsontown neighborhood. Garret K. Woodward photo

BY GARRET K. WOODWARD STAFF WRITER t was suppose to be Canton’s wrap-up budget meeting. But community members showed up to voice concerns about a specific item tucked within that budget: a proposed firing range in the Gibsontown neighborhood. “Our presence here clearly states that we’re probably not for this,” said Wanda Walker. Walker represented a group from Gibsontown, a predominantly AfricanAmerican community within the Canton town limits. She stood up to speak to the town board as the group, numbering almost two dozen, sat in the audience in solidarity. “Our primary concern is the safety, noise concerns and traffic patterns with this range,” Walker said. “Please consider our concerns, these people live a few steps from this proposed range.” For the past 30 years, Canton police officers have used a firing range located on property owned by Evergreen Packaging for yearly qualification training. The need for a new range arose when the paper mill decided to build a new landfill cell on the current location. The proposed range would be built on the town’s old landfill on Dutch Cove Road,

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a busy thoroughfare for the Gibsontown community. The range would consist of five lanes, allowing five officers to train simultaneously. Although the Canton board looked at the new proposed property as the most logical place for the range, based on possible modern uses for the old landfill, residents of Gibsontown viewed it as another community problem again pushed onto their neighborhood — an area already buffered by two landfills. “How come we are the last people to know about what’s going on in our neighborhood?,” said Gibsontown resident Ken Davis. “There are families that have been there for 100 years, and now you want to throw a firing range in our front yard?”

FINDING A SOLUTION In response, the board pointed out that the $3,500 firing range item on the budget was only an earmark for a proposed site, with no official plans set in stone. The earmark would be used to conduct a feasibility study, apply for permits and materials for construction of a backdrop. The board continually stressed it was just money put aside for future options, and that no site 247-65

would be built near Gibsontown until all the proper steps and public input hearings were completed. “[Firing ranges] can be loud, they can be dangerous and there are lots of negative connotations,” said Town Manager Seth Hendler-Voss. “But we will have to find a long-term solution to find a place for our officers to qualify — that is the end goal and we are exploring all options.” Hendler-Voss later explained that Canton officers currently use ranges in nearby areas for qualification training. Using outside ranges costs the town $250 annually. The first phase of the proposed range would run $3,500, with a second phase to be completed later for an additional $3,000. Despite reassurances that the town was only in an exploratory phase, and not locked into any plans on the proposed range, Gibsontown residents remained skeptical. Hendler-Voss then referred to the property as “undesirable,” in that it currently has no other use for the town. But, those words caused an uproar with Gibsontown residents in the audience, who angrily asked the board if that meant their neighborhood was also looked upon as “undesirable.” “The voice of this community is going to heard. We’re not going to sit back and take it anymore,” Gibsontown resident Ken Smith said. “This ain’t the 1960s, you can’t do this to us anymore. You bring this [firing range] to a white neighborhood and see what will happen — they won’t let it happen.” Amid protest from the audience, which included personal stories from elderly people and a military veteran suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, the board continued to stand its ground. Board members maintained that the firing range was not a race issue, but rather a town issue that needed to be addressed. Once the meeting room calmed down, Alderman Zeb Smathers stood up to speak. “We will not do anything until we address the concerns from the Gibsontown community and other stakeholders,” Smathers assured the group. Mayor Mike Ray noted that he appreciated residents bringing their concerns to the board.

“It’s better to have this before rather than after and we thank you for your comments and concerns,” Ray said.

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A few days after Gibsontown residents confronted officials about the proposed firing range, a press conference was scheduled by the town to address the issue. The press conference was announced around 1 p.m. on June 30, then scuttled an hour later when it was scheduled to commence. “It was called in anticipation of a rally, which we were not even sure was going to be taking place,” said Hendler-Voss. The town manager explained that WLOS television station had called earlier and informed officials that the Gibsontown community was planning to hold a rally that afternoon pertaining to the proposed firing range. The press conference was scheduled in response to the rally — “we’re just trying to be responsive” — but then cancelled when officials figured the “rally” to be a meeting about the planned community center at the old Reynolds High School within Gibsontown. There did not appear to be any new information planned for presentation at the press conference. The town’s position — that the firing range conversation is in its “infancy” — remained the same. “We are considering all options,” Hendler-Voss said, “And we take very seriously the feelings of our taxpayers and other community members.”

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At the Reynolds High School, however, a rally did transpire. William McDowell and his wife, legendary Motown/R&B singer Gladys Knight, were present to kickoff renovations of the abandoned school. The couple recently bought the structure and are currently in the beginning stages of transforming it into a community center that will include a library, media center, movie theater and music studio. McDowell attended the all-black school until third grade in 1965, when segregation in the district ended and all of the town consolidated into what is now Pisgah High School. And though it was a time of celebration for Gibsontown, the recent firing range controversy bubbled to the surface of event. Mayor Mike Ray and local media were there for the discussion. “We tried to get the ball rolling, the NAACP was there and they were behind us, and they could, from their own observations, see the inequality in the [firing range] issue,” said Gibsontown resident Ken Davis, who was at the budget meeting. “But every time we tried to bring it up the mayor didn’t really want to talk about it — everyone was pushing their agenda and the firing range kept being overshadowed.” Contacted after the meeting, Haywood County NAACP President Chuck Dickson said the group was not taking an official position on the issue. Davis said the next course of action for the fight against the firing range would be to get the Environmental Protection Agency involved, suggesting studies needed to be conducted concerning the possible hazardous nature of the landfill property and what effects the range could have. When asked by WLOS if there was any indication of racism in the issue of the range, Ray once again reiterated that wasn’t the case. “None whatsoever,” he said. “This was [just] property the town owned.”

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[from the USDA], this citizen’s suit is not an appropriate procedure for enforcement and must be dismissed.” Finally, the defense argues, the bears in question are not, in fact, grizzly bears. Thus, they are not protected by the Endangered Species Act. “The veterinarian who has cared for the bears at the Cherokee Bear Zoo for the last 16 years has testified by Affidavit, unequivocally, that the bears that are the subject of this action are not grizzly bears,” the support document reads. The document does not name the actual species of the bears in question. Roadside zoos showcasing bears have been an attraction in Cherokee for decades but have come under fire in recent years. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has relentlessly targeted two bear zoos in Cherokee with myriad federal complaints, negative ad campaigns, an undercover video sting and protests. Cherokee leaders have occasionally found themselves in the middle of the issue, as critics called on tribal council to ban the bear zoos. One of the bear zoos closed down last year after failing to rectify repeated federal violations. That turned PETA’s sights on the Cherokee Bear Zoo. PETA filed a lawsuit last year against the USDA, claiming its regulations and oversight of the zoos are inadequate. USDA is addressing that charge by reviewing its policies and regulations, including a public comment period. The bear zoo was also charged a $3,120 fine this winter for allowing its workers to have “unprotected contact with bears while feeding, cleaning cages and assisting in mating activities,” according to documents from the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Cherokee Bear Zoo did not return a phone call requesting comment. — Becky Johnson contributed to this report

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BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER herokee Bear Zoo hoped a federal civil lawsuit alleging it mistreats grizzly bears in its care would be tossed out. But U.S. District Court Judge Martin Reidinger recently denied a motion to dismiss the suit, allowing it to move forward. The suit, brought by two Cherokee tribal members, alleges that the zoo is violating the Endangered Species Act by keeping grizzly bears in conditions that cause them psychological damage, including living in concrete pits where they beg for food from zoo visitors. “The bears languishing in atrocious living conditions at Cherokee Bear Zoo have won this round in the courts,” says Cheryl Ward, a consultant in the lawsuit. “The bears suffer every day at this despicable socalled ‘zoo’ and will continue to do so until they get moved to a sanctuary.” The zoo’s representation, however, doesn’t agree with that assessment. Their motion to dismiss was three-fold. First of all, the defense claimed that the tribal members bringing the suit didn’t have a stake in the zoo’s treatment of the bears and thus did not have legal standing to bring a suit. Secondly, the motion to dismiss argues, keeping bears is a government-regulated activity, so any concerns about an Endangered Species Act violation must be addressed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which issues permits for keeping bears, not in a lawsuit brought by private individuals. “The Plaintiffs have alleged only one prior visit to the Cherokee Bear Zoo and only conjectural future plans to visit, stating only that they ‘would like to’ visit in the future, a happening that is fully within their own control,” the defense’s support of the motion to dismiss reads, later continuing, “Because the Defendants have a permit

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The Tillis-Berger-McCrory axis hoping that N.C. ain’t like Kansas

BY MARTIN A. DYCKMAN G UEST COLUMNIST lthough Kansas is among the reddest of red states, its Republican governor, Sam Brownback, is in big trouble. Current polls show his Democratic challenger ahead, 47 to 41. Are pigs flying? The reasons should strike fear into the Tillis-BergerMcCrory axis in Raleigh and encourage citizens who yearn to be rid of their reign of error. Above all, they should inspire North Carolina’s voters. In Sunday’s New York Times, economist Paul Krugman explained what’s the matter with Kansas. Two years ago, Brownback demanded and got the largest one-year tax cut any state has ever enacted. Taking his cue from Arthur Laffer, the discredited Wizard of Oz of supply-side economics, Brownback predicted an economic boom and boasted, “Look out, Texas.” It didn’t happen. The Kansas economy is trailing its neighbors, the budget is in deficit, its debt has been downgraded, and citizens are horrified at the damage to the public schools. If that sounds familiar to North Carolina eyes and ears, it should. The Tillis-Berger-McCrory gang did the same thing, for

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To the Editor: Actions speak louder than words. North Carolina residents need to pay attention. The loud, false, words of the Republican legislators in Raleigh attempt to drown out the truth. Republicans claim to be the party of less big government and more local control. Their actions tell a different story. The Republican dominated legislative seized power from local governments to regulate environmental issues. Now, local municipalities’ environmental ordinances are void. State law dominates. Big government in Raleigh attempted to take over both the Asheville water system and the Charlotte airport. Who benefits if the state takes over locally controlled facilities? Republicans would turn these facilities over to private corporate ownership to be run for a profit. In truth, residents would pay more for these services. The Republican led legislature has repealed the franchise tax. This profits corporations and big businesses that support legislators’ election campaigns. The loss of this revenue, and other state tax dollars, is forcing local municipalities to increase local taxes, cut local services and funding for public schools. Who benefits from big government’s power grab? Not local municipalities and North Carolina citizens. Our Republican-dominated state government serves for the benefit of private corporations and big businesses. Gas companies will make millions from fracking North Carolina as a result of a new state law. State Sen. Jim Davis, R-Franklin, supports fracking, claiming it will create jobs, benefitting the economy without harming the environment. In truth few local jobs would be cre-

the same reasons, to North Carolina’s taxes, budget and public schools. Now, they’re quarrelling about how to hype the lottery to fund a pay raise to stop the brain drain of good North Carolina teachers leaving en masse for South Carolina, Georgia, and even Texas. The Kansas agenda, Krugman points out, “closely followed a blueprint laid out by the American Legislative Exchange Council.” That’s ALEC, the public face of the right-wing conspiracy. ALEC is to public policy as Typhoid Mary was to public health. Thom Tillis sits on its board of directors. According to a newspaper that got a peek at ALEC records, more than a third of North Carolina’s state legislators are ALEC members. “While ALEC supports big income-tax cuts, it calls for increases in the sales tax — which fall most heavily on lowerincome households — and reductions for tax-based support for working households,” Krugman wrote. “So its agenda involves cutting taxes at the top while actually increasing taxes at the bottom, as well as cutting social services.” That describes the carnage in North Carolina as well as Kansas. It was timed here so that most people won’t notice how badly they have been hurt until they file this year’s income

LETTERS ated. Gas companies employ their own trained people and move them from job to job. Gas removed from North Carolina will not benefit our state. Have you noticed prices for movies, live performances, shows, guided tours, etc., have increased? Beginning Jan. 1, the state imposed a 4.75 percent “privilege” tax on most entertainment activities. Are you pleased to know Raleigh has reduced taxes on the purchase of corporate yachts and private jets? State government is shifting the tax burden to North Carolina’s citizens while creating greater profits for corporations and big businesses. Republicans claim that providing added profit incentives will lure business to North Carolina and create jobs. What corporations would be attracted to our state where public education ranks near the bottom and North Carolina’s beautiful treasured environment is endangered? Margery Abel Franklin

Let’s stop yellow journalism politics To the Editor: I am a politician — a local one — and while I make jokes about politics, I take the work seriously because it’s an opportunity to make changes that benefit people. To get elected, I talked about ideas and walked all over my community, knocking on doors and dodging the occasional dog that figured I was invading its territory. Four other people were in the race with me. Not once did I say any-

tax returns, after this year’s election. Unlike Brownback, McCrory has another two years before facing his voters. But Tillis is on the ballot this year, hoping to replace our distinguished U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan. He’s the reason behind the nearly $20 million that has already been spent on political ads attacking her. Although the precise sources are concealed, the Koch billionaires and Karl Rove are responsible for most of it. There’s no way that a decent senator like Kay Hagan can compete dollar for dollar against forces like that. She will win, however, if the voters of North Carolina ask themselves two questions: • Do they want a senator who used his power in Raleigh to make a Kansas-like shambles of North Carolina? • Why are shadowy plutocrats spending so much to elect him? Martin A. Dyckman lives in Waynesville and can be reached at dyckmanm@bellsouth.net. He is a former journalist and the author of Reubin O'D Askew and the Golden Age of Florida Politics; Floridian of His Century: The Courage of Governor LeRoy Collins; and A Most Disorderly Court: Scandal and Reform in the Florida Judiciary.

thing negative about them. They were all good people and had their own ideas. What we had was a contest of ideas. That’s what politics should be. But the political landscape in Western North Carolina has turned nasty. To get elected, a few candidates are willing to say almost anything about their opponent. Truth has become a victim, and in that way so are voters who are often forced to hold their nose and choose between candidates who would prefer to slam each other with personal attacks rather than be responsible for their own ideas. Those of us who live in the N.C. 50th Senatorial District, however, have a much clearer choice this year. Sen. Jim Davis, RFranklin, the incumbent, got elected with outsider’s money paying for literature that said that his last opponent, John Snow, favored abortion. John Snow did not favor abortion, but the truth got smothered with last-minute mailings and we got Jim Davis in Raleigh. This year, Davis is at it again. This time he’s even sneakier. His outside money is paying for a telephone “political survey” that is designed to paint a negative picture about his opponent, Jane Hipps. If you get a call from these people, they will ask you if you would vote for someone who is quoted as saying that she will raise taxes and cut funding to schools. Saying that Jane Hipps will raise taxes and cut funding to schools is about like saying Thomas Wolfe couldn’t write. This absurdity is mind numbing. Jane has spent almost 40 years as an educator in North Carolina. The absurdity becomes ridiculous when we know that it was Jim Davis who raised taxes (on 137 items and services that we use) and cut the school budget to where it is one of the lowest in the nation. Should you get a call from Jim Davis’ bogus pollsters, be prepared to tell them that

you won’t be led by lies and half-truths. Tell them that when Jim Davis learns to tell the truth and talk about ideas, then you will listen … but by then the election will be over. Rick Bryson Bryson City

Litter in Sunburst was just heartbreaking

To the Editor: I am writing today with a heavy heart. I am saddened, frustrated and embarrassed. We live in one of the most beautiful parts of the world, and the fact that I have to pick up garbage everywhere I go has become nauseating. I am a firm believer in the motto “bring back more that you take” when going into our forests — or anywhere for that matter. However, it has gotten to the point that I have to bring gloves and take hefty bags with me every time I visit the Sunburst area. I am from the mountains and Sunburst has always been one of my favorite places to visit. This past weekend, my fiancée and I decided to take some out-of-town guests for an adventure. Our adventure quickly turned into a litter-collecting extravaganza. Dirty diapers, broken glass, plastic, bottles full of tobacco spit, old clothes, cigarette butts and fastfood bags were all over. We were humiliated to tell our friends not to let their children go barefoot for fear of getting cut. I won’t be going back to Sunburst for a while. And, if I go back again and see that much trash, I’ll break down in tears. We need to respect Mother Nature. Let’s try and keep North Carolina beautiful. Michelle and Robby Railey Haywood County

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BLUE ROOSTER SOUTHERN GRILL 207 Paragon Parkway, Clyde, Lakeside Plaza at the old Wal-Mart. 828.456.1997. Open Monday through Friday. Friendly and fun family atmosphere. Local, handmade Southern cuisine. Fresh-cut salads; slowsimmered soups; flame grilled burgers and steaks, and homemade signature desserts. Blue-plates and local fresh vegetables daily. Brown bagging is permitted. Private parties, catering, and take-out available. Call-ahead seating available. BOGART’S 303 S. Main St., Waynesville. 828.452.1313. Open 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Carry out available. Located in downtown Waynesville, Bogart’s has been long-time noted for great steaks, soups, and salads. Casual family atmosphere in a rustic old-time setting with a menu noted for its practical value. Live Bluegrass/String Band music every Thursday. Walking distance of Waynesville’s unique shops and seasonal festival activi-

BOURBON BARREL BEEF & ALE 454 Hazelwood Ave., Waynesville, 828.452.9191. Lunch served 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Dinner nightly from 4 p.m. Closed on Sunday. We specialize in handcut, all natural steaks, fresh fish, and other classic American comfort foods that are made using only the finest local and sustainable ingredients available. We also feature a great selection of craft beers from local artisan brewers, and of course an extensive selection of small batch bourbons and whiskey. The Barrel is a friendly and casual neighborhood dining experience where our guests enjoy a great meal without breaking the bank. BREAKING BREAD CAFÉ 6147 Hwy 276 S. Bethel (at the Mobil Gas Station) 828.648.3838 Monday-Thursday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday & Saturday 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. closed Sunday. Chef owned and operated. Our salads are made in house using local seasonal vegetables. Fresh roasted ham, turkey and Roast Beef used in our hoagies. We hand make our own Eggplant & Chicken Parmesan, Pork Meatballs and Hamburgers. We use 1st quality fresh not pre-prepared products to make sure you get the best food for a reasonable price. We make Vegetarian, Gluten Free and Sugar Free items. Call or go to Facebook (Breaking Bread Café NC) to find out what our specials are. We are now open for dinner on Friday and Saturday nights by

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was supposed to do. He played well with others, he got good grades, he played sports, and mostly stayed out of trouble. There were three of us Cox children. I was the black sheep (jet black, midnight black, bottom-ofthe-well black), Lisa was kind of a gray sheep and Jeff was the white sheep, the mature sheep. By the age of 12, he was more mature than Lisa and I combined. But there were a few signs of rebellion. He got a motorbike. He dipped a little snuff. He grew out his hair. Then, he and his mullet joined up with Cousin Stan to form the unforgettable rock and roll powerhouse, Eastern Thunder, the very mention of which to this day sets middle-aged hearts aflutter from Glade Valley to Piney Creek. Jeff was the lead singer, I guess you would call it, primarily because he was the only member in the band who could not play an instrument. Luckily, you don’t have to be Frank Sinatra to sing Molly Hatchett songs. You just have to be able to growl and grumble like a constipated lumberjack. “I’m travelin’ down the road and I’m flirtin’ with disaster.” Jeff could do that. Unfortunately, before the band could get a million dollar record deal, it broke up due to “creative differences” — their parents made them go to college. Jeff had to give up his dreams of rock and roll glory — he had to give up that awesome mullet as well. In fact, he’s pretty much given up on hair in general, though now that he’s an actual PRESIDENT, maybe he’ll get one of those Donald Trump do’s that looks like you’ve got a dead orange cat lying in state on your head. Then again, maybe he won’t. One of the first questions Jeff asked me when he was considering putting in his application was, “What exactly does a community college president actually DO?” Well, that’s the beauty of it. I’ve been through four community college presidents, and as far as I can tell, they do just about whatever they want. What do they do? Well, they shake a lot of hands. They cut a lot of ribbons. They show up in a lot of pictures. When they want to decide, they decide. When they don’t want to decide, they delegate. When they want to go somewhere, they go there. When they don’t want to go somewhere, they send a vice president. When they want to pay their brother an exorbitant consultancy fee, they pay it. Sorry, did I just say that? Strike that. Yes, community college presidents are sort of like kings, though my brother would do well to remember this. Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown. You know what they say, half of your subjects will think that they can do your job better than you can. The other half will think that anyone can. And all of them will want him to get them tickets to Merlefest. But only ONE of them is his brother, and only one of them has a picture of him wearing a dress. (Chris Cox is a writer and teacher. He can be reached at jchriscox@live.com.)

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few weeks ago, my brother called me to ask if I thought he should apply for the job as president of Wilkes Community College. I have been teaching in the community college system for 23 years and was a dean for several years, so he thought I might have some special insight. He said, “My entire background is K-12. I don’t have ANY experience in the community college system. Do you think it’s possible that I would even have a chance?” “Jeff,” I said. “Do Columnist you remember a man named George W. Bush? Do you remember his resume when he ran for president? You wouldn’t have hired him to house-sit for you while you were on vacation. If you did, by the time you got home he would have declared war on Mount Airy and took out a second mortgage on your house to pay for it.” “And you’re asking me if you should apply for the job of President of Wilkes Community College? This is America, man. ANYTHING is possible.” So he applied, and now he is the new president of Wilkes Community College. Of course, Jeff did put together a pretty impressive record as superintendent of the Alleghany County school system — in fact, according to his colleagues, he is one of the most respected school superintendents in the state. When I heard that he got the job, I was not the least bit surprised. My brother, in spite of his relative youth among community college presidents, has that certain “gravitas” that a good president needs. The truth is, he has always had it. I have always believed that he was actually 35 years old when he was born. In our Nana’s house, there used to be framed photographs of me, Jeff, and our sister Lisa, right across from photos of my mom, her sister, and her brother. The photos of me and Lisa are exactly what you would expect of baby photos. We are smiling and absolutely clueless. I mean, it is obvious we don’t know what’s going on. Most likely, our mother is making a funny face to get us to grin long enough to snap the picture. And then there’s Jeff. In his baby picture, he is not smiling, not even a little. He is scowling. He is fuming. He is plotting. He doesn’t look like a baby. He looks like a tiny, pink, wrinkled man who’s about to foreclose on your home. You look at me and Lisa, and our expressions say nothing other than, “Goo goo, ga, ga.” Jeff ’s expression says, “Pay me what you owe me … and give me some damn applesauce!” To be fair, Jeff did mellow out a bit later on in his childhood. He did everything he

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wine and beer. The evening social hour starts at 6 p.m., and dinner is served starting at 7 p.m. So join us for mile-high mountaintop dining with a spectacular view. CHEF’S TABLE 30 Church St., Waynesville. 828.452.6210. From 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday dinner starting at 5 p.m. “Best of” Award of Excellence from Wine Spectator Magazine. Set in a distinguished atmosphere with an exceptional menu. Extensive selection of wine and beer. Reservations honored. CITY BAKERY 18 N. Main St. Waynesville 828.452.3881. Monday through Friday 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Join us in our historic location for scratch made soups and daily specials. Breakfast is made to order daily: Gourmet cheddar & scallion biscuits served with bacon, sausage and eggs; smoked trout bagel plate; quiche and fresh fruit parfait. We bake a wide variety of breads daily, specializing in traditional french breads. All of our breads are hand shaped. Lunch: Fresh salads, panini sandwiches. Enjoy outdoor dinning on the deck. Private room available for meetings. CITY LIGHTS CAFE Spring Street in downtown Sylva. 828.587.2233. Open Monday-Saturday 7:30 a.m. to 9 p.m., Sunday 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tasty, healthy and quick. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, espresso, beer and wine. Come taste the savory and sweet crepes, grilled paninis, fresh, organic salads, soups and more.

Outside patio seating. Free Wi-Fi, pet-friendly. Live music and lots of events. Check the web calendar at citylightscafe.com. THE CLASSIC WINESELLER 20 Church Street, Waynesville. 828.452.6000. Underground retail wine and craft beer shop, restaurant, and intimate live music venue. Kitchen opens at 4 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday serving freshly prepared small plate and tapas-style fare. Enjoy local, regional, or national talent live each Thursday, Friday and Saturday night at 7 p.m. www.classicwineseller.com. Also on facebook and twitter. HERREN HOUSE 94 East St., Waynesville 828.452.7837. Lunch: Wednesday - Saturday 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday Brunch 11 a. m. to 2 p.m. Enjoy fresh local products, created daily. Join us in our beautiful patio garden. We are your local neighborhood host for special events: business party’s, luncheons, weddings, showers and more. Private parties & catering are available 7 days a week by reservation only. JUKEBOX JUNCTION U.S. 276 and N.C. 110 intersection, Bethel. 828.648.4193. 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Saturday. Serving breakfast, lunch, nd dinner. The restaurant has a 1950s & 60s theme decorated with memorabilia from that era. MAD BATTER FOOD & FILM 617 W. Main Street Downtown Sylva. 828.586.3555. Open Tuesday 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Wednesday-Saturday 11 a.m. to 11

p.m. Hand-tossed pizza, steak sandwiches, wraps, salads and desserts. All made from scratch. Beer and wine. Free movies with showtimes at 6:30 and 9 p.m. with a Saturday matinee at 2 p.m. Visit madbatterfoodandfilm.com for this week’s shows. MAGGIE VALLEY CLUB 1819 Country Club Dr., Maggie Valley. 828.926.1616. maggievalleyclub.com/dine. Open daily for lunch and dinner. Fine and casual fireside dining in welcoming atmosphere. Full bar. Reservations accepted. MOUNTAIN PERKS ESPRESSO BAR & CAFÉ 9 Depot St., Bryson City. 828.488.9561. Open Monday through Thursday, 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Friday 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturday 8 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. With music at the Depot. Sunday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Life is too short for bad coffee. We feature wonderful breakfast and lunch selections. Bagels, wraps, soups, sandwiches, salads and quiche with a variety of specialty coffees, teas and smoothies. Various desserts. ORGANIC BEANS COFFEE COMPANY 1110 Soco Road, Maggie Valley. 828.668.2326. Open 7 days a week 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Happily committed to brewing and serving innovative, uniquely delicious coffees — and making the world a better place. 100% of our coffee is Fair Trade, Shade Grown, and Organic, all slow-roasted to bring out every note of indigenous flavor. Bakery offerings include cakes, muffins, cookies and more. Each one is made from scratch in Asheville using only the freshest, all natural

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An Appalachian Fourth BY GARRET K. WOODWARD • STAFF WRITER

othing says summer more than the Fourth of July, and in Western North Carolina, we celebrate Independence Day with gusto. Between majestic fireworks, sizzling hot dogs and hamburgers, cotton candy, games, live music and craft demonstrations, there’s a little of bit of everything for any and all. So, grab your lawn chair, sunglasses and adventurous spirit and enjoy America’s birthday in Southern Appalachia.

BRYSON CITY

• FREEDOM FEST begins at 8 a.m. in downtown with the Rotary International Firecracker 5K. Riverfront Park will hold the Strut Your Mutt pet show and the Explore Kids’ Street children activities will run from 6 to 9 p.m. Also at the park will be the Smoky Mountain Rollergirls dunking booth from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Bridge Stage on Everett Street will have live music throughout the day, with the fireworks show beginning at 10 p.m. Free. www.greatsmokies.com/freedomfest. • NOC’S SIZZLIN’ 4TH OF JULY will run July 4-6 and the NRC Family Whitewater Weekend will run July 5-6 at the Nantahala Outdoor Center in the Nantahala Gorge. Nantahala Racing Club’s adventure race will be at 4 p.m. July 5, with live music at 7 p.m. at Big Wesser BBQ. Slalom races will be at noon July 6. Free. 828.232.7238 or www.noc.com. • SINGING IN THE SMOKIES INDEPENDENCE WEEKEND FESTIVAL will run July 3-5 at Inspiration Park. Hosted by Appalachian/gospel group The Inspirations, the event features live music from The Kingsmen, Troy Burns Family, Dixie Echoes,

Chris Smith, Daron Osbourne, Evidence of Grace, and many more. $20 per day, per adult. Children ages 12 and under free. www.theinspirations.com. • FREEDOM TRAIN at the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad will depart at 7:30 p.m. July 4 at the Bryson City Depot. The trek will head to the Fontana Trestle and return just in time for the fireworks in downtown Bryson City. First Class, Crown Class and Coach Class seating available. All ticket purchases of any class include a meal. 800.872.4681 or www.gsmr.com.

CANTON • THE TOWN’S 4TH OF JULY CELEBRATION begins at 6 p.m. July 5 at Sorrells Street Park. Live music, dancing, food and craft vendors. Watermelons will be provided for free, with children’s watermelon rolls and seed spitting contests to commence. Fireworks at dusk. Free. www.cantonnc.com.

CASHIERS • FIREWORKS EXTRAVAGANZA ON THE GREEN begins at 6:30 p.m. July 4 at the Village Green

Commons. Live music will be provided by rhythm and blues band The Extraordinaires. The Cashiers Farmers’ Market and numerous food vendors will be onsite. There will also be moonshine margaritas, beer and wine available. Fireworks begin at dusk. Free, with VIP packages available. www.villagegreencashiersnc.com or 828.743.3434.

CHEROKEE • 4TH OF JULY FIREWORKS will be held at dusk on July 4 at the Acquoni Expo Center. The Sunset 5K Run will also be held at 5 p.m. The Cherokee bonfire will be at 7:30 p.m. at the Oconaluftee Islands Park Bonfire Pit. www.cherokeesmokies.com. • THE 39TH ANNUAL EASTERN BAND OF CHEROKEE POW WOW begins at 5 p.m. July 4, 10 a.m. July 5 and 7 a.m. July 6 at the Acquoni Expo Center (formerly Cherokee High School). The event features world-champion dancers and drummers competing for prizes. Vendors from across the country will offer food and arts and crafts items. $10 per day with a weekend pass for $25. www.visitcherokeenc.com.

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LAKE GLENVILLE • LAKE GLENVILLE FIREWORKS, 8:30 p.m. July 5 over the lake. www.cashiersareachamber.com.

LAKE JUNALUSKA • THE 4TH OF JULY CELEBRATION will be July 36 at the Lake Junaluska Conference and Retreat Center. A fish fry will be at 5:30 p.m. July 3 next to Stuart Auditorium. The Star Spangled Salute kicks off with a parade at 11 a.m. July 4, with a barbecue at noon and fireworks at 9:30 p.m. There will also be an array of children’s activities from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. July 5 at the pool, with a performance by the Carolina Water Ski Show at 1 p.m. on the lake. Live music will be performed by the Lake Junaluska Singers at 7:30 p.m. July 3-4 and by Balsam Range at 7:30 p.m. July 5. Tickets for each show are $17.50 general admission and $20 for reserved seating. www.lakejunaluska.com/july4th or 800.222.4930. • DOUG STANFORD MEMORIAL RODEO, Ram Rodeo Series will be 8 p.m. July 4-5 at the Haywood County Fairgrounds in Lake Junaluska.

MAGGIE VALLEY

• 4TH OF JULY AT FONTANA VILLAGE RESORT will be July 2-5. The event features cornhole and Pac Man tournaments, a sunset cruise, documentaries, games and children’s activities. Performances will include the Larry Barnett Duo at 7 p.m. July 2, Unit 50 at 7 p.m. July 3, Fast Gear at 6 p.m. and The Chillbillies at 9 p.m. July 4, and Old Red Schoolhouse at 7 p.m. July 5. Fireworks will be at 10 p.m. July 4. www.fontanavillage.com.

• BACKYARD 4TH CELEBRATION will be from 6 to 11 p.m. July 4 at the Maggie Valley Festival Grounds. Fireworks at dusk. Free. 828.926.0866 or www.townofmaggievalley.com. • WHEELS THROUGH TIME MUSEUM’S 12TH ANNIVERSARY in Maggie Valley Fourth of July celebration will be 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Rare and unique machines spanning more than 110 years of transportation history, dating back to the very roots of motorized travel. www.wheelsthroughtime.com or 828.926.6266.

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SAPPHIRE VALLEY

• 4TH OF JULY PARADE AND CELEBRATION, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. July 4, in downtown. Parade starts at 10 a.m. The Fireworks in the Park will be held at 3 p.m. until dark at the Macon County Veterans Memorial Recreation Park. The park features a cornhole tournament at 3 p.m. (registration begins at 1:30 p.m.), famous plunger toss at 7 p.m. and bull’s eye ball drop at 9:15 p.m., with fireworks at dusk. Live music will be provided by Miss Kitty & The Big City Band at 7 p.m., with the Presentation of the Colors at 9:15 p.m. and the singing of the national anthem at 9:30 p.m. Food vendors will also be onsite. www.franklin-chamber.com.

• 9TH ANNUAL YANKEE DOODLE DANDY DAY, will be held 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. July 4 at the Sapphire Valley track and recreation center areas. Swimming, outdoor games and contests, inflated bouncy toys, live music, sports contests, food, pony rides and the Horsepasture River Ducky Derby.

HIGHLANDS

• STARS AND STRIPES CELEBRATION, will run from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. July 4 in downtown. Shops, galleries and restaurants open, with live music and entertainment. Kids on Main Patriotic Parade will be at 11 a.m. The Main Street Cookout, featuring local craft beer, barbecue, burgers and hot dogs will be from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at United Community Bank. The Haywood Community Band performs at 2 p.m. on the courthouse lawn. Free. www.downtownwaynesville.com.

• JULY 4TH FIREWORKS, 11 a.m. until dusk July 4, in downtown. Cookout begins at 11 a.m. at the baseball field, with the 3rd annual Rotary Rubber Ducky Derby at 3 p.m. at Mill Creek, live music at 6 p.m. at Town Square and Pine Street Park, and patriotic sing-along at 8 p.m. at the Presbyterian Church. Fireworks at 9 p.m. Free. 828.526.2112 or www.highlandschamber.org.

SYLVA • 4TH OF JULY CONCERTS ON THE CREEK with Dashboard Blues will be at 7:30 p.m. July 4 at Bridge Park. Free. www.mountainlovers.com.

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Screw it all. There have been days, many days, where I’ve found myself sitting in traffic, standing in line, waiting on the phone, Appalachian string band Town Mountain will ordering something I really perform at 7:30 p.m. July 5 at the Stecoah don’t want (or need), drinking Valley Cultural Arts Center in Robbinsville. and eating something that Magician Trey Sheehan will perform at 6 p.m. probably isn’t good for me, and July 3 at the Jackson County Public Library in think to myself, “Screw it all, I Sylva. don’t want any part of this — no more.” Country rockers The Joe Lasher Jr. Band will And that’s usually the snap perform at 6:30 p.m. July 11 at the Groovin’ on in my subconscious where I the Green in Cashiers. yank my truck off the next exit, step out of the line, hang up the The Summer Jazz Series will kickoff with phone call, cancel the order, Serpentine Jazz at 7 p.m. July 5 at The Classic dump out the drink and spit Wineseller in Waynesville. out the food. It’s when I take off The “Ultimate Elvis Tribute Artist Contest” will be to the woods and try to rememJuly 10-12 at Harrah’s Cherokee. ber what it’s like to truly be human again. I lace up my running shoes it be downsizing all the crap I own, making and head down one of the innumerable dirt more time for creative endeavors, and also trails winding into the deep woods of distancing myself more from being sucked Southern Appalachia. Once I can’t hear cars driving, people talking and the buzz of socie- down a hole of technology and instant gratification. Real gratification in life isn’t ty, I can finally hear the most important instant, it comes with patience, like reaching thing — my soul interacting with the costhe top of a mountain after hours of hiking mos of nature. or putting the finishing touches on a cover The problem, perhaps ironic bullshit on story after working on it all day. my end, resides in the fact that once I get my This column comes as a result of a recent fill of wandering the woods, I return to town. Outside magazine article I came across. It I never have lost track of my true intent in was about Paul D. Paur. Without any indicalife, my interaction with mankind that is tion of leaving or telling anyone, the 50-yearamplified by my appreciation for the woods. old construction worker knew where he was But at the same time, I want to slap myself when I return to society and an hour later I’m going and took off a few weeks ago from his home in the suburbs of Milwaukee. He went frustrated because my smart phone won’t let to a bank, withdrew $5,000 and headed for me use my voice activated texting and I say the beginning of the Appalachian Trail in under my breath, “Damn you, Google,” or I northern Georgia. He handed an employee await how many Facebook “likes” I’ll get $200 at the nearby interpretive center to when I post that I went for a hike. watch his car, and then he hit the trailhead. Every year that passes, I find myself A few days later, Paur’s pack of brand new thinking of ways to simply my life, whether

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gear and $3,000 were found in the middle of between Paur and the late Christopher the trail. Soon after, a man fitting Paur’s McCandless (the 24-year-old who died in the description was seen sporadically by hikers. Alaskan wilderness after leaving it all Reportedly, he was wearing just a T-shirt, behind, and who was the subject of the shorts, flip-flops and sleeping in a trash bag. book/film “Into The Wild”), but the basis Family back in Wisconsin were concerned for each is striking similar. They, like others about Paur’s mental health. Rangers and before and after them, are folks who want to authorities alike said they’re keeping their drop out of society. And I applaud that sentieye out for him but will not do anything until ment. I myself feel I’m one traffic jam or one Paur appears to pose a threat to other hikes lost cell-phone connection away from pack— a notion not evident by the encounters ing up whatever essentials fit in my backtold to officials about a harmless man simply pack and disappearing into the woods like walking the AT. baseball players into Iowa cornfields. Now, of course, if Paur does indeed need By his timeline of sightings, Paur is most medical attention and if he does pose a threat likely somewhere on the AT in Western to other hikers, he should be found and North Carolina right now, and I’d like to helped. But, and I say think he’s perhaps this with an optifinding what he was Real gratification in life mistic realism, what if looking for. Maybe, he just wanted to isn’t instant, it comes with just maybe, Paur is eliminate the noises the sanest one of us patience, like reaching surrounding him, the all, heeding the call to manual labor job he return to the basics of the top of a mountain went to everyday, and being a human — just wanted to hear relying on yourself, after hours of hiking. himself — a voice being grounded with maybe not heard Mother Nature, and since childhood, like for most of us out there. learning how to stretch a moment of time in I don’t want to draw comparisons the woods into an infinite portal of existence.

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Summer Jazz Series returns to Waynesville The Summer Jazz Series returns for the month of July at The Classic Wineseller in Waynesville. The series takes place at 7 p.m. July 5, 12, 19 and 26. The series includes Serpentine Jazz on July 5, with performances of songs recorded by Billy Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald and Nina Simone; the Jesse Junior Quartet on July 12; Rockell Scott and Bill Bares on July 19, with standards performed from the Great American Songbook; and the Radiance Quartet on July 26, with Latin Jazz. Each night includes a lavish four-course dinner with live jazz for $39.99 per person. To reserve your table call 828.452.6000 or email requests to info@classicwineseller.com.

Acclaimed musicians Laura Boosinger and Josh Goforth will open the Songcatchers Music Series at 4 p.m. Sunday, July 6, at the Cradle of Forestry in America. Boosinger and Goforth will present a varied set of old-time favorites, originals, a little swing and duet harmonies. Boosinger has won glowing reviews wherever she appears. Laura Boosinger She possesses an essence of the mountains spirit that takes you back to the old days when folks huddled around the radio. Goforth is an acclaimed fiddler, guitar picker and mandolin player from Madison County. He has already garnered a Grammy nomination and established himself as a one-

to-watch musician. Local old-time musicians are often onsite to play informally by the Cradle’s Moon Tree at 3 p.m. before the concert. The series continues with Dana and Susan Robinson on July 13, Elizabeth LaPrelle and Anna Roberts-Gevalt on July 20, and the Palmetto Gravel Scratchers on July 27. Admission for all Josh Goforth shows is $6 for ages 16 and older, $3 for youth 15 and under and America the Beautiful and Golden Age pass holders. The series is sponsored by Morrow Insurance Agency, Inc. 828.877.3130 or www.cradleofforestry.org.

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The Dancing Through the Decades REACH fundraiser will be from 6:30 to 11 p.m. Friday, July 11, at the Laurel Ridge Country Club Pavilion in Waynesville. This dance party, featuring a sit-down dinner and dessert bar, will provide party goers a chance to dress up and dance to music from the big-band era through 1950s and 1960s rock ‘n roll and every decade of music since including current hip hop. All proceeds from Dancing Through the Decades will be used to support REACH of Haywood’s services for victims/survivors of domestic violence, dating and elder abuse, and sexual assault and programs, including an emergency shelter. Tickets are $75 per person and VIP tables for eight next to the dance floor are $1,000. Contact Patti Denson at 828.454.5824 for tickets and information. 828.456.7898.

A “neo-tribal hootenanny” workshop with musician Billy Jonas will be at 4 and 7:45 p.m. Thursday, July 10, at The Strand at 38 Main in Waynesville. The original voice-and-percussion show bases songs with a generous dose of audience participation. The music mixes conventional instruments (guitar, bass, marimba) with homemade creations, using buckets and barrels, keys and cans, bells and body percussion. Jonas tailors both his song selection and its presentation to uniquely suit each audience. It is spirited, straightforward music that is accessible to anyone and everyone, regardless of age or cultural background. The big-tent festival quality of Jonas’ music facilitates connection and community while fostering inspiration. www.38main.com.

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• The Week of Rock celebration will continue through July 4 at Nantahala Brewing Company in Bryson City. Performers include The Get Right Band on July 2 (rock/reggae), with Mangas Colorado July 3 (newgrass/Americana) and Jordan Hallquist & The Outfit July 4 (singer/songwriter). All shows are free and begin at 8 p.m. www.nantahalabrewing.com.

• The “Summer Live Music Series” will continue with Ron Neill, Playing on the Planet, Red Honey, Corn Bread Fred, Paul Constantine and Jamunkatrons at the Nantahala Outdoor Center in the Nantahala Gorge. Neill will play July 3, with Playing on the Planet July 4, Red Honey July 5, Corn Bread Fred July 6, Constantine July 11 and Jamunkatrons July 12. Live music, barbecue and craft beer. All performances are free and begin at 6 p.m. www.greatsmokies.com.

• Country-rocker Todd Allen Herendeen will perform as part of Concert on the Slopes at 7 p.m. Tuesday, July 8, at the Sapphire Valley Ski Area. Herendeen will play his number-one country hit “My Name Is America” among other country and rock classics. $20 in advance, $25 day of show. 828.743.7663 or www.sapphirevalley.com.

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• The Big Bang Boom Band will perform as part of the summer reading program at 11 a.m. Thursday, July 10, at the Jackson County Public Library in Sylva. The threepiece power pop band play an array of melodies for children of all ages. Free. 828.586.2016 or www.fontanalib.org.

• The Rough and Tumble will perform as part of the Outdoor 76 concert series at 7 p.m. July 3 in downtown Franklin. $5 per person. 828.349.7676 or www.outdoor76.com.

• Friday Night Jazz! with The Kittle & Collings Duo will be from 6 to 9 p.m. July 4, 11 and 18 at Lulu’s on Main. www.mountainlovers.com.

• The Lisa Price Band (variety) and country artist Earl Cowart will perform as part of Pickin’ on the Square at the gazebo in downtown Franklin. Price will play July 5, with Cowart July 12. All shows begin at 6:30 p.m. Free. 828.524.2516 or www.franklin-chamber.com.

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• Appalachian/modern country group The Buchanan Boys will perform as part of the Western Carolina University summer concert series at 7 p.m. Tuesday, July 8, at the Central Plaza in Cullowhee. Free. www.wcu.edu.

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• Country-rockers The Johnny Webb Band and the Macon Grass Band will perform as part of the Friday Night Live concert series at Town Square in Highlands. Webb plays July 4, with the Macon Grass Band July 11. All shows begin at 6 p.m. Free.

11am on the Courthouse lawn Registration at 10am Parade from Courthouse to First Baptist Church Parade participants under age 17 receive free ice cream.

• Oldies group The Elderly Brothers and Elvis impersonator Chris Monteith will perform at the Bryson City Train Depot. The Elderly Brothers play July 5, with Monteith July 12. Both shows are free and begin at 6:30 p.m. www.greatsmokies.com. • Singer/songwriter Shane Bridges and the Hobohemians will perform as part of the Saturdays on Pine concert series at KelseyHutchinson Park in Highlands. Bridges plays July 5, with the Hobohemians July 12. All shows begin at 6 p.m. Free. • AM Superstars, Amazing Grace Ministries and the Running Wolf Band will perform as part of the Music on the River concert series at the Oconaluftee River Stage in Cherokee. The AM Superstars play July 3 and 12, with the Amazing Grace Ministries July 4-6 and the Running Wolf Band July 11. All shows begin at 8 p.m. Free.

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• Country-rockers The Joe Lasher Jr. Band will play Groovin’ on the Green at 6:30 p.m. July 11 at the Village Commons in Cashiers. Free. www.mountainlovers.com.

• The Dashboard Blues Band and Emporium will perform at Concerts on the Creek at Bridge Park in Sylva. The Dashboard Blues Band plays July 4, with Emporium July 11. All shows begin at 7:30 p.m. Free. 828.586.2155.

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• Americana group The Old Guard and The Spontaneous Combustion Jam will be at BearWaters Brewing Company in Waynesville. The Old Guard will play at 7 p.m. July 12. The jam runs from 8 p.m. to midnight every Monday, with all players welcome. 828.246.0602 or www.bwbrewing.com.

• Singer/songwriter Eric Hendrix & Friends, Americana act Tina & Her Pony and dulcimer player Larry Conger will perform at City Lights Café in Sylva. Hendrix will play July 5, with Tina & Her Pony July 11 and Conger July 12. Free. www.citylightscafe.com or 828.587.2233.

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• Hang Dog Hearts, Tony Poole and Dustin Martin & The Ramblers will perform at No Name Sports Pub in Sylva. Hang Dog Hearts plays July 5, with Poole July 6 and Martin July 11. All shows begin at 9 p.m. Free. 828.586.2750 or www.nonamesportspub.com.

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On the wall • The Mad Batter Food & Film is now showing featured films at their location in downtown Sylva. Films are screened at 6:30 and 9 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, with a special kids matinee at 2 p.m. Saturday. Free. For listings, check www.madbatterfoodandfilm.com. 828.586.3555. • The Come Paint with Charles Kidz Program will be at 5 p.m. July 8, 10, 15 and 17 at the Charles Heath Gallery in Bryson City. $18 per child. Materials and snacks included. 828.538.2054. • The film “Grand Budapest Hotel” will be screened July 4-6 at The Strand at 38 Main in Waynesville. Screenings are at 7:45 p.m. on Fridays; 2, 5 and 7:45 p.m. on Saturdays; and 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $6 per person, $4 for children. Saturday morning cartoons will also be shown at 10 a.m. 828.283.0079 or www.38main.com.

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• The films “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” and “Need for Speed” will be shown in the Central Plaza at Western Carolina University. “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” will be screened July 3, with “Need for Speed” July 10. All films begin at 9:30 p.m. Free. corelli@wcu.edu or 828.227.3618.

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• The Cullowhee Mountain Arts Summer Faculty Exhibition will run through July 25 in the Fine Arts Museum at Western Carolina University. The exhibit features the work of over 23 artists, from ceramics to printmaking, painting to mixed media. www.wcu.edu. • A hula-hooping class for children will be on Wednesday, July 9, at the Marianna Black Library in Bryson City. A hula jam will also be held for the general public. 828.488.3030 or aplatt@fontanalib.org. • Seamstress/fabricator Debbie Neeley will be demonstrating her craft from 1 to 4 p.m. July 5 at Tunnel Mountain Crafts in Dillsboro.

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• The Outdoor Movie Night summer series will run at 9 p.m. July 10 through Aug. 21 at Bridge Street Park in Sylva. Sponsored by the Jackson County Parks and Recreation Department and the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce. For movie listings, call 828.293.3053.

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The Jackson County Genealogical Society’s July program will be “Old Tools, Implements, and Knives” at 7 p.m. Thursday, July 10, at the Jackson County Courthouse in Sylva. A demonstration and explanation of traditional craft objects will be provided by JCGS members James Monteith, Bill Crawford, Jason Gregory, Marion Jones, R.O. Wilson, and Rick Frizzell. The public is encouraged to bring old instruments and tools to share with the group. Free. 828.631.2646.

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Uptown Gallery to host ‘Art on Main’ The Uptown Gallery will host the First Saturday — Art on Main from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. July 5 in downtown Franklin. There will be art and activities on the sidewalk, with the Farmer’s Market happening nearby. Local artists and artists from the surrounding towns have been invited to participate. The event is in part to help support the Uptown Gallery, which, after 52 years of operation, is at risk of closing. The gallery is overseen by the Macon County Art Association (MCAA), a 501c3 organization

In addition to instruction, all tools needed are supplied for the students. Students are responsible for buying glass, solder and copper foil. There are eight classes, with a cost of $100 per person. www.appalachiaartglass.com or appalachianartglass@gmail.com or 828.367.7610.

Stained glass classes in Dillsboro Appalachian Art Glass will teach the Tiffany method of making stained glass through August at the Jackson County Green Energy Park in Dillsboro. There will be two teachers, Moya O’Neal and Robert Estep, who have a combined 30-plus years of stained glass experience. Day and evening classes are available.

Haywood Community College Professional Crafts Fiber students and recent graduates recently won awards in the national juried student fiber exhibition Spotlight on Student Fiber Trends 2014 at the Lamar Dodd School of Art Galleries at the University of Georgia in Athens. Student Clara Schulte and 2014 graduates Dana Claire and Deanna Lynch were each recipients of awards. Entrants included students in leading four-year universities and private art schools. Schulte was the recipient of the Edwina Bringle Award for her work titled “Wrapped in Smiles.” Schulte was also awarded Merit Prize for her piece called “Winter Trail.” “Spring Kimono” by Lynch was also awarded Merit Prize. The prize sponsor for both Merit Prizes was Georgia Yarn Company. www.haywood.edu.

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The Sylva Art Stroll continues from 5 to 9 p.m. Friday, July 11, in downtown. Galleries will feature art exhibits, some hosting artist receptions. The event is a night of dining and local shopping, enjoying art and exploring historic downtown Main Street, as well as a concert in Bridge Park. The Jackson County Visual Arts Association is dedicated to enriching the arts community and presenting visual arts. Membership is open to the public and new members are always welcome. The Sylva Art Stroll occurs every second Friday of the month. Free. www.mountainlovers.com.

Art After Dark continues from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, July 11, in downtown Waynesville. Enjoy a stroll through working studios and galleries on Main Street and Depot Street. Festive Art After Dark flags denote participating galleries. Painter Jenny Buckner will be demonstrating her vibrant style of various animals at the Twigs and Leaves Gallery. The gallery will also have piano music by Bill Stecher and hors d’oeuvres. Gallery 86 will present its artist members’ “Summer Celebration Show.” Grace Cathey will also be demonstrating her metal crafting onsite. www.downtownwaynesville.com. 247-78

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Events Bryson City • Freedom Fest begins at 8 a.m. in downtown with the Rotary International Firecracker 5K. Riverfront Park will hold the Strut Your Mutt pet show and the Explore Kids’ Street children activities will run from 6 to 9 p.m. Also at the park will be the Smoky Mountain Rollergirls dunking booth from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Bridge Stage on Everett Street will have live music throughout the day, with the fireworks show beginning at 10 p.m. Free. www.greatsmokies.com/freedomfest. • NOC’s Sizzlin’ 4th of July will run July 4-6 and the NRC Family Whitewater Weekend will run July 5-6 at the Nantahala Outdoor Center in the Nantahala Gorge. Nantahala Racing Club’s adventure race will be at 4 p.m. July 5, with live music at 7 p.m. at Big Wesser BBQ. Slalom races will be at noon July 6. Free. 828.232.7238 or www.noc.com.

• Freedom Train at the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad will depart at 7:30 p.m. July 4 at the Bryson City Depot. The trek will head to the Fontana Trestle and return just in time for the fireworks in downtown Bryson City. First Class, Crown Class and Coach Class seating available. All ticket purchases of any class include a meal. 800.872.4681 or www.gsmr.com.

Canton • The town’s 4th of July Celebration begins at 6 p.m. July 5 at Sorrells Street Park. Live music, dancing, food

Cashiers • Fireworks Extravaganza on the Green begins at 6:30 p.m. July 4 at the Village Green Commons. Live music will be provided by rhythm and blues band The Extraordinaires. The Cashiers Farmers’ Market and numerous food vendors will be onsite. There will also be moonshine margaritas, beer and wine available. Fireworks begin at dusk. Free, with VIP packages available. www.villagegreencashiersnc.com or 828.743.3434.

Cherokee • 4th of July Fireworks will be held at dusk on July 4 at the Acquoni Expo Center. The Sunset 5K Run will also be held at 5 p.m. The Cherokee bonfire will be at 7:30 p.m. at the Oconaluftee Islands Park Bonfire Pit. www.cherokeesmokies.com. • The 39th annual Eastern Band of Cherokee Pow Wow begins at 5 p.m. July 4, 10 a.m. July 5 and 7 a.m. July 6 at the Acquoni Expo Center (formerly Cherokee High School). The event features world-champion dancers and drummers competing for prizes. Vendors from across the country will offer food and arts and crafts items. $10 per day with a weekend pass for $25. www.visitcherokeenc.com.

Fontana Village Resort • 4th of July at Fontana Village Resort will be July 2-5. The event features cornhole and Pac Man tournaments, a sunset cruise, documentaries, games and children’s activities. Performances will include the Larry Barnett Duo at 7 p.m. July 2, Unit 50 at 7 p.m. July 3, Fast Gear

Franklin

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• 4th of July Parade and Celebration, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. July 4, in downtown Franklin. Parade starts at 10 a.m. The Fireworks in the Park will be held at 3 p.m. until dark at the Macon County Veterans Memorial Recreation Park. The park features a cornhole tournament at 3 p.m. (registration begins at 1:30 p.m.), famous plunger toss at 7 p.m. and bull’s eye ball drop at 9:15 p.m., with fireworks at dusk. Live music will be provided by Miss Kitty & The Big City Band at 7 p.m., with the Presentation of the Colors at 9:15 p.m. and the singing of the national anthem at 9:30 p.m. Food vendors will also be onsite. www.franklin-chamber.com.

• Backyard 4th Celebration will be from 6 to 11 p.m. at the Maggie Valley Festival Grounds. Fireworks at dusk. Free. 828.926.0866 or www.townofmaggievalley.com.

Highlands

• 9th annual Yankee Doodle Dandy Day, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. July 4, Sapphire Valley track and recreation center areas. Swimming, outdoor games and contests, inflated bouncy toys, live music, sports contests, food, pony rides and the Horsepasture River Ducky Derby.

• July 4th Fireworks, 11 a.m. until dusk July 4, in downtown Highlands. Cookout begins at 11 a.m. at the baseball field, with the 3rd annual Rotary Rubber Ducky Derby at 3 p.m. at Mill Creek, live music at 6 p.m. at Town Square and Pine Street Park, and patriotic sing-along at 8 p.m. at the Presbyterian Church. Fireworks at 9 p.m. Free. 828.526.2112 or www.highlandschamber.org.

• Wheels Through Time Museum’s 12th anniversary in Maggie Valley Fourth of July celebration, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. July 3-7, Maggie Valley. Rare and unique machines spanning more than 110 years of transportation history, dating back to the very roots of motorized travel. www.wheelsthroughtime.com, 828.926.6266.

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Sylva • 4th of July Concerts on the Creek with Dashboard Blues will be at 7:30 p.m. July 4 at Bridge Park. Free. www.mountainlovers.com.

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• Lake Glenville Fireworks, 8:30 p.m. July 5, over the lake. www.cashiersareachamber.com.

• Stars and Stripes Celebration, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., July 4, in downtown Waynesville. Shops, galleries and restaurants open, with live music and entertainment. Kids on Main Patriotic Parade will be at 11 a.m. The Main Street Cookout, featuring local craft beer, barbecue, burgers and hot dogs will be from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at United Community Bank. The Haywood Community Band performs at 2 p.m. on the courthouse lawn. Free. www.downtownwaynesville.com.

Lake Junaluska • The 4th of July Celebration will be July 3-6 at the Lake Junaluska Conference and Retreat Center. A fish fry will be at 5:30 p.m. July 3 next to Stuart Auditorium. The Star Spangled Salute kicks off with a parade at 11 a.m. July 4, with a barbecue firing up at noon and fireworks at 9:30 p.m. There will also be an array of children’s activities from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. July 5 at the Lake Junaluska Pool, with a performance by the Carolina Water Ski Show at 1 p.m. on the lake. Live music will be performed by the Lake Junaluska Singers at 7:30 p.m. July 3-4 and by acclaimed bluegrass/gospel group Balsam Range at 7:30 p.m. July 5. Tickets for each show are $17.50 general admission and $20 for reserved seating. www.lakejunaluska.com/july4th or 800.222.4930.

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• Singing In The Smokies Independence Weekend Festival will run July 3-5 at Inspiration Park. Hosted by Appalachian/gospel group The Inspirations, the event features live music from The Kingsmen, Troy Burns Family, Dixie Echoes, Chris Smith, Daron Osbourne, Evidence of Grace, and many more. $20 per day, per adult. Children ages 12 and under free. www.theinspirations.com.

and craft vendors. Watermelons will be provided for free, with children’s watermelon rolls and seed spitting contests to commence. Fireworks at dusk. Free. www.cantonnc.com.

• Doug Stanford Memorial Rodeo, Ram Rodeo Series, 8 p.m. July 4-5, Haywood County Fairgrounds, Lake Junaluska.

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On the street Ammons Family Reunion in Franklin The Ammons Family Reunion will be from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. July 12 at the Holly Springs Church in Franklin. Please come out and visit with your kinfolks, for there are Ammons relatives all over Western North Carolina. All kinfolk and friends are invited — bring pictures, records and stories. Featured speakers will be Larry Ammons, Jim Ammons and Sue Hirsch. There will be a catered lunch, door prizes, musical entertainment and storytelling. The Holly Springs Church is located at 366 Holly Springs Church Rd. in Franklin. 828.631.4587 or catchthespirit@icloud.com.

Bingo to benefit literacy in Highlands

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The Rotary Club of Highlands and the Literacy Council of Highlands will join forces to present Literacy Rotary Bingo at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, July 10, at the Highlands Community Building. The event’s theme, “Changing lives…one mind at a time,” helps drive the Literacy Council’s mission to enrich lives and expand the knowledge of children, adults and fami-

• Rumi Kakareka, a certified yoga instructor with 20 years of experience, will offer a drop-in gentle yoga class for beginners at 10 a.m. on Mondays in the Fitness Center at the Kern Building at the Lake Junaluska Conference & Retreat Center. Kakareka also offers Fitness Yoga, a more rigorous form of yoga at 4 p.m. on Wednesdays. No registration is required and each class is $10 per person. 703.966.7138 or rkakareka@me.com.

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• The Way Back When dinner will be held at 5:30 p.m. July 11 and 18 at the Cataloochee Ranch in Maggie Valley. The dinner showcases a recreation meal, music, storytelling and atmosphere of a 1930s Appalachian trout camp. $31.95 per person, which includes food and beverage. 828.926.1401 or 800.868.1401 or www.cataloocheeranch.com.

lies in the greater Highlands community through diverse educational programs that advance literacy in its many forms, promote lifelong learning, and result in an informed and empowered community. Fifteen games will be played, with a brief intermission halfway through the evening. Each bingo card is $1 per game, and you may play as many cards as you like. The last game of the evening is a full-card bingo with the winner getting a surprise jackpot. Half of all Bingo card money will go to the Literacy Council and half will be awarded to lucky bingo players.

Belly-dancing workshop at WCU

A belly-dancing workshop led by Lisa Zahiya will be held from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 9, in the A.K. Hinds University Center at Western Carolina University. Working in the genres of belly dance, Indian dance and hip-hop dance, Zahiya is an internationally recognized performer, choreographer and instructor. She earned the title “Tribal Fusion Belly Dancer of the Universe” in 2008. The workshop is sponsored by the Office of Intercultural Affairs. It is free and open to the public. sacarter@.wcu.edu or 828.227.2617.

• A street dance will be held from 6:30 to 9 p.m. July 11 in downtown Waynesville. Live music by Whitewater Bluegrass and The Trantham Family, with clogging by the Dixie Dar-lin’s. Dancing led by Joe Sam Queen. All skill levels welcomed to participate. www.downtownwaynesville.com. • A food and wine pairing will be held at 7 p.m. July 8 at Papou’s Wine Shop in Sylva. Chef Van Kennedy will lead the tasting for the Cellar Club. $10 per person. 828.586.6300. • The BBQ and Brews Dinner Train will be at 7 p.m. July 12 at the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad Depot in Bryson City. Slow-cooked barbecue and craft beer tastings by Heinzelmannchen Brewery. $69 per person. 800.872.4681.

On the stage Magic show in Sylva Magician Trey Sheehan will perform at 6 p.m. Thursday July 3, at the Jackson County Public Library in Sylva. Sheehan lives in Waynesville and has been doing magic shows for many years. He is going to perform some magic tricks

and is also going to show the attendees how to do some tricks of their own. This event is co-sponsored by the Friends of the Jackson County Public Library. The program is for children ages 12 and up. Free. 828.586.2016 or www.fontanalib.org.

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A story of Jackson County’s Hooper-Watson feud ince I happen to love folklore and storytelling, I have always felt blessed to be a resident of Jackson County. Sitting on my front porch, I can see Black Rock, where a local law officer vanished 80 years ago while on a fox hunt. He has not been found to this day. I can see the Pinnacle, which in my childhood was supposed to be Judaculla, the slanteyed giant of Cherokee folklore who is sleeping now. You can still make out his profile from the parking lot of the new library. A short drive down U.S. 441 toward Cherokee, I pass the place where I saw Writer Nance Dude with a load of firewood on her back (circa 1948), and not far from that is the spot where 19 chain-gang members drowned in 1882. When I drive through the WCU campus, I am reminded of Robert Madison who made a fateful journey to Jackson County more than a century ago. Just a short distance up N.C. 107 going toward Cashiers, I pass “Aunt Sally’s monument,” erected by Dr. John R. Brinkley, the “goatgland man,” shortly after he rose to national fame with his radio station, XERA, “the station between the nations.” My point is, Jackson has a rich past that combines history with folklore. It is a deep well where historians, writers and storytellers can draw endless tales (true and embellished) and they will never exhaust the supply. However, like all of the counties in this region, Jackson has a few tales that may give the tellers and writers “pause.” In other words, we may hesitate to discuss ancient tales that touch on our history and heritage in a personal way. Such a tale is the “HooperWatson Feud,” which began in the years before and following the Civil War. It is a story so drenched in blood and horror that

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storytellers often hesitate to explore it. signs,” although the technique for planting Which brings us to a new novel, Revenge, potatoes is unusual (cut the eye out of the by Ann Robbins-Phillips, which is based on seed and plant only the eye). Appalachian the aforementioned feud. In fact, the author superstitions regarding warnings and porclaims ties to both families. In addition, tents that are present in dreams are abundant Revenge is the first of a trilogy based on a sur- in this novel. In Revenge, the spirits of the vivor of the original massacre and his stubdead are not only with us but are sometimes born search for visible— in fact, one revenge/justice. The secbenevolent spirit repeatond novel, Sorrow, and edly cautions the prothe third, Bad Blood, are tagonist, Nathe Watson, sequels and technically to give up his plans for have nothing to do with revenge. He does this the infamous massacre while the two (mortal since they follow the lives and spirit) are sharing and travails of the descencoffee and stew by a dants in places outside of campfire. our region (Tennessee and The “spirit” (named South Carolina). Amps) also has a habit The author’s attempts of “hoiking and spiting” to use dialect and/or that I found endearing. “mountain language” are Occasionally, the author inconsistent, contradictory describes aspects of the and often unintentionally weather in order to add comical. The author calls atmosphere, but when potatoes, “taters,” and the protagonist then, in later dialogue, she describes a water often calls them “potamocassin swimming in toes.” She illustrates a misthe icy waters of a winunderstanding of such ter creek, I must note Revenge by Ann Robbins-Phillips. mountain expressions as that I have never seen a CreateSpace Independent Publishing, “they” as an explanation of snake in winter, much 2014. 289 pages. surprise, as in “They! I less swimming in an icy can’t believe it,” or “they” creek. as my grandmother used it “They’s a man at As for the details of the Hooper-Watson the door that wants to speak to you.” There massacre, the author gives one of the most are also instances in which “wandered” is con- credible accounts. The two families had lived fused with “wondered,” and there is an incon- together along the Tuckasegee River for a censistency in the use of the words “drug” and tury prior to the Civil War. However, with the “dragged,” which has nothing to do with coming of strife, animosity developed largely mountain speech. The same speaker who says due to the fact that the Hooper family, which “skeered” in one sentence used the word had an allegiance to the Confederacy, owned “scared” in the same scene. and operated a large and highly profitable Revenge contains an impressive amount of lead mine. The conflict between the two famifolklore and folkways. The author has lies erupted in 1863. researched items such as “planting by the Allegedly, a band of drunken Hoopers

Senehi to showcase latest work

Stepp to present new drama

Author Rose Senehi will present her new novel Dancing on Rocks at 2 p.m. Saturday, July 12, at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva. The fourth book in her Blue Ridge series, Dancing on Rocks weaves through the network of memories, secrets, and mutual dependencies holding together Chimney Rock, an isolated community of 112 people tucked into Hickory Nut Gorge. Thousands of visitors stream through the tourist destination every week. But in reality, the people in the town have only each other. The author of seven books, Senehi’s previous novel, Render Unto the Valley, was awarded a 2012 IPPY Gold Medal as the Best Fiction Southeast. In the Shadows of Chimney Rock was nominated for the 2009 SIBA Book Award as the Best in Southern Literature. Senehi moved from Upstate New York in 1996 to Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, where she wrote Pelican Watch, Windfall and Shadows in the Grass. 828.586.9499.

Author Dr. Lin Stepp will present Down By the River, the latest in her Smoky Mountain Series, at 3 p.m. Saturday, July 12, at Blue Ridge Books in Waynesville. The series is a linked series of upbeat, sentimental contemporary romance novels. Each novel is set in a different area of the Smoky Mountains so that the reader gets to experience a visit to a new area of the Smokies along with the rich pleasure of a good Southern story about memorable characters. Familiar characters and places tie the stories. Down By the River, the sixth book in the series, tells the story of Grace Conley. While on a visit to east Tennessee to pick up her youngest daughter at college, recently widowed Conley impulsively decides to buy a beautiful old bed and breakfast nestled along the Little River in the quiet mountain town of Townsend, Tenn. Her new plan to sell and leave her family home in Nashville and to renovate

broke into a Watson home and murdered three Watson brothers. Accounts differ on the number of victims, but Ann Robbins-Phillips’ version includes a brutalized wife and a raped and brutalized daughter who later died. An additional raped and brutalized 12-year-old cousin of the family was left brain-damaged and later wandered into the woods and “never returned.” The three male corpses were disemboweled, castrated and beheaded. Two of the heads were mounted on stakes near the Hooper home near the Tuckasegee River. The third head was never found. The single survivor of the massacre was a 12-year-old boy named Leander who escaped through a window and found his way to a neighbor’s home. Since he was being sought by the killers (he was the only credible witness), Leander was allegedly smuggled out of Jackson County and sent to live with relatives in Tennessee. In Revenge, it is here, a decade later, that the sole survivor chooses to return to Jackson County to bring justice/revenge to the people who murdered his family. He intends to kill them all. His name is Nathe Watson. Nathe’s road to justice is long and daunting. Along the way, he encounters some bitter knowledge regarding his own family and befriends a young widow who teaches him much about justice and forgiveness, loss and redemption. Be forewarned that there is an excess of grief in Revenge, and at times the emotional atmosphere (especially attending the death of children) becomes excessively sentimental and maudlin (it even has music) ... much like that wonderful old ballad sung by a child on its deathbed, “Put my Little Shoes Away,”... yet, I have have heard a dozen folks vow that this is the best book they ever read. Anyone desiring to do additional research, I refer you to the late Rev. Walter Middleton’s Trouble at the Forks. Then, there is a peculiar book by S. Van Epps Law entitled Status Quo. (The author illustrated the book herself and I especially liked the hand-drawn photos of the murdered Watsons.

and reopen an old Victorian inn in the Smokies simply shocks and scandalizes her family. 828.456.6000 or www.blueridgebooksnc.com.

Poetry series focuses on everyday objects The Conversations with Poetry series will continue with “Odes to Everyday Objects” from 4 to 6 p.m. July 10 at the Haywood Public Library in Waynesville. Too often, we think of poetry being only about lofty subjects such as love and death. Poetic language transforms the mundane into the sublime, regardless of the topic. The presentation will take a closer look at poets such as Pablo Neruda, who immortalized common objects with lyrical odes. The event is run by poet/educator Michael Beadle.

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BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER alk into Bowed Up Outdoors, and the first thing you’ll notice is the friendly banter moving back and forth between customers seated at the stools in front of the gun counter and the staff on the other side of it. Then, your eyes will wander to the lineup of rifles hung on the wall behind the counter and travel past the rows of shooting accessories to the back wall, hung with a variety of bows — compound, recurve and long. An eight-lane indoor shooting range is hidden behind that wall, giving the Maggie Valley shop a claim to fame among counties west of Buncombe. Over the coming weeks, though, the store will be expanding its offerings to cover even more territory, moving into the realms of fishing, camping and hiking. The goal? To give Haywood County a full-service outdoor supply shop. “A lot of outdoorsmen and the community has expressed to me that we need this type of store,” said Chad Muri, who co-owns the store with his wife and parents since they purchased it in April. In its first two-and-a-half years of business, the store had gone by the name of Bowed Up Archery. About two years ago, its inventory grew to include gun sales. Though he changed the name and would like to move more into the outdoor supply realm, Muri doesn’t see the store’s emphasis on hunting changing. That’s because, since its inception, archery and bow services have been Bowed Up’s flagship. The store sells a variety of recurve, compound and long bows, and they rent that equipment, too. Rental customers can then test their on-target skills at the store’s indoor range. It went from 16 lanes to eight to make way for camping and fishing inventory, but there’s still plenty of space to let the arrows fly. The store also offers shooting lessons, and a fulltime bow technician has a whole workshop at his disposal to set up new bows and fix up older ones. There’s a whole contingent of people who take advantage of those services. Some, like Muri and his store manager Keith Ledford, enjoy the hunting side of it. The quiet, the skill involved, and just the peacefulness of spending time outdoors all have their appeal. “It’s just a good time to be out, and I think bow hunting’s a little more challenging than a rifle,” Ledford said. With a bow, you’ve got to get closer to your target — inside 40 yards as

Following the arrow Bowed Up Outdoors expands offerings, serves growing archery community Bowed Up Outdoors offers an ample arrow selection. For Chad Muri, tending the store is one of the most enjoyable ways to spend time indoors. Holly Kays photos

opposed to 300 yards — and you’ve got to watch your aim more closely. Success, though, can give quite a feeling of satisfaction. And, there’s more time in which to achieve that feeling. While rifle season lasts for only three weeks, bow hunting is legal for more than three months out of every year. “If you enjoy hunting, you’ve got three-and-ahalf months of hunting versus three weeks,” Muri said. Muri got himself a deer last year, and his family enjoyed plenty of venison dinners from it. But hunting isn’t the only application of archery. “A lot of times you can’t shoot a gun, but you can shoot a bow in the backyard,” Ledford said.

ARCING INTEREST Even if you never intend to buy a hunting license, shooting a bow can be just plain fun. Whether target shooting or going on a 3D shoot, the name of an event in which competitors try to hit the target on a variety of foam animals ranging from deer to dinosaurs, the challenge of achieving accuracy is becoming increasingly attractive, especially among students. “The biggest thing in Haywood County are these sportsman clubs in the schools,” Muri said. “If you are in middle school or high school, you can join a sportsman’s club that has archery and shooting, so it’s a great activity for the kids that aren’t the basketball, football players to have

something to do to get them away from the computer.” When David Franklin took over as coach for the sportsman clubs at Pisgah High School and Canton Middle School five years ago, they were the only ones in the county. Then last year, Bethel Middle School got a team going, and by the time classes start up again in August, two more teams will be coming on board, with new clubs forming at Waynesville Middle School and Tuscola High School. “It’s gratifying to know that [we’re] being involved in something that’s going to build up and increase the interest, and not just in our schools but in other schools in Haywood County,” Franklin said. West of Haywood, Swain County also has teams for its middle and high schools, and Smoky Mountain High School in Sylva did have one until recently. Teams also exist in Graham, Clay and Cherokee counties. Sportsman clubs allow students to get experience in archery, rifle and trap shooting, as well as in hunter and orienteering skills. Then, the students have the chance to try out for the sportsman team. The top five students in each category make the team and earn the chance to travel for competitions. Franklin’s team has seen some success, both in interest and in results. They’ve gotten two state championships in archery over the last two years, one for the middle school team in 2013 and another for the high school team in 2014, and though numbers ebb and flow each year, the trend has been an upward one. When Franklin first began coaching, his clubs had about a dozen members. Recently, sign-ups have been in the 40 to 60 range. And, an increasing number of those club members are female. “I think as far as getting more to come out, it takes a couple to come out and spread the word that, hey, this ain’t just a guy thing,’” Franklin said. “It takes a little bit of confidence, I think, on their side as far as making the team.” Right now, the guy-to-girl ratio is about 8020, but interest is on the rise. As, Franklin said, it should be. “There’s nothing as far as physically about it that gives the guys the advantage over the girls in any of these [events],” Franklin said. “It’s just a

matter of lifting their confidence.” Confidence gets a lift when girls see their friends in the club, having fun; when they see other girls get their names in print for archery accolades; and also, when they watch movies featuring admirable female archers. Recently, movies such as “The Hunger Games” and “Brave.” As Karissa Black, who works at Bowed Up, said, “Everybody wants to be like Katniss from The Hunger Games.” “That’s drawn a lot of customers to the traditional, the recurve and longbows,” Muri said. “That’s what you saw in the ‘Hunger Games’ was the traditional.” “It’s growing,” Ledford added. “It’s growing a whole lot and, I mean, the movies helped it some.” Indeed, among the palette of brown and forest green that dominates the bow selection, a few brighter colors peek out. Most notably, some pinks and purples intended to target younger female archers. “There’s a lot of girls that shoot archery,” Ledford said. It’s not a cheap sport to get into, though. An entry-level bow will probably cost in the $300 to $400 range, with more expensive set-ups costing upwards of $2,000. That’s why, Franklin said, Bowed Up’s partnership with the school archery programs is so important. “It can get expensive, and it helps to have a local shop like that supporting you, giving you discounts on accessories and stuff like that,” Franklin said. “It helps kids out a lot.” Bowed Up gives young archers discounts on accessories and repair, and on lane shooting too, though the teams usually have their regular practices at school facilities. A regular grant from Friends of the NRA helps with those costs. The hope is that more and more youth will discover the satisfaction that comes from hitting a target dead-on. “They know that’s the future of their business,” he said. Muri concurs. Though his oldest son is, at age 10, too young to join a sportsman club, he’s already poised to join the future of archery. “I bring the kids down here on Saturdays,” Muri said. “My oldest son Isaac loves the bow shop. Loves to shoot the bow, interested in the type of people that come in. He has a great time.”

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Learn to make cordial from elderflower Botanist and author Mary Palmer Dargan will unlock the secrets to creating a cooling summer beverage from lemons and the native elderflower, Sambucus canadensis, in a free program 10 a.m. July 3 at Dovecote’s Porch & Gardens in Cashiers. Bring a bottle to take home a sample, or just come to learn. Feel free to forage your own elderflowers as well, though the plants will be provided. Group size is limited, so reserve a space at 828.743.0307. The event is part of a series of talks titled Thursdays at 10 a.m. in Dovecote’s Garden. www.dargan.com/dovecote-garden-porch.

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Ready, set, count: it’s the fungus Bio-Blitz in the Smokies Part contest, part festival, part education and part science, the 2014 Discover Life in America BioBlitz will bring citizens and scientists from across the country together in a race against time to see how many fungal species they can count in 24 hours in the Great Smoky Mountains

National Park. The event will take place from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday, July 12, at the Twin Creeks Science and Education Center on the Tennessee side of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Participants will have a chance to participate in scheduled hunts and presentations throughout the day while also observing scientists at work and interacting with them as they do it. As well as spreading public awareness of the variety of life that surrounds us, the event will excite kids about science and generate data that scientist will share to aid in park management. It is a collaboration between the national park, Discover Life in America and Illinois Natural History Survey. Free with no participation requirements. 865.430.4757.

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Nantahala Racing Club and North Carolina Wildlife Federation are in the running to receive $25,000 from The North Face in an online voting contest designed to fund projects that get youth outside and connected with nature. The Wildlife Federation and Nantahala Racing Club fit the bill, and The North Face selected the organizations as two of 10 nationwide for the contest. Criteria for selection were: creating more connections between youth and nature; providing inspiration to explore; increasing access to home-front and backcountry recreation opportunities and engaging a new and diverse audience.

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Forest service seeks input on habitat and ecosystem management The next public meeting in the forest plan revision process for Pisgah and Nantahala national forests is planned for 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. July 10 in Asheville. Wildlife habitat and managing for ecosystem integrity and diversity will be the main topics of discussion, and a comment station for Wild and Scenic Rivers will also be available. The meeting is just the next installment in a series of public forums leading up to development of a final management plan in August 2016. The new management plan will guide the ecological, recreational and economic management of the forest for the next two decades. The meeting will be held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel on Resort Drive in Asheville. Complete information on the planning process is available at www.fs.usda.gov/detail/nfsnc/home/?cid=stelprdb5397660.

A coalition of 17 organizations based in Western North Carolina is calling for a public hearing somewhere in the western part of the state on new oil and gas rules being developed the N.C. Mining and Energy Commission. Three public hearings are scheduled for August in Raleigh, Sanford and Reidsville, but these locations are four or more hours away from WNC. However, the western region could see the impacts of fracking, pending the results of a study of the area’s natural gas potential, slated to begin this summer.

“Now that seven counties in the west are being tested for potential shale gas, Western N. C. could be directly affected by these rules, and we demand a chance to participate in the public hearings,” said Garrett Lagan, of Swain County. The letter points out that the Mining and Energy Commission was charged with developing regulations for hydraulic fracturing for the entire state, and WNC residents should not be left out of the opportunity for public input to protect their communities. Geologic testing in WNC is in its preliminary stages, and results will not be known before the end of 2015. The rules are set to go into effect before that time, and these hearings are the only public hearings the commission is planning. “Even if exploration in the western counties proves that there will not be

hydraulic fracturing in the mountains, these rules still affect the state of the whole, and we still have right to have our voices heard,” said Sally Morgan of Clean Water for North Carolina. Groups that signed the letter include Appalachian Voices, The Canary Coalition, Clean Water for N.C., Coalition Against Fracking in WNC, Coalition Against Fracking (Swain County), Environmental and Conservation Organization, Frack Free Madison, Greenpeace N.C., League of Women Voters of Macon County, Mountain People’s Assembly, Mountain Voices Alliance, People Advocating Real Conservancy, People For Clean Mountains, Positive Changes Youth Ministries, Western N.C. Sierra Club, Pisgah Group of the Sierra Club, and the Western North Carolina Alliance.

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Biologist to talk about devastating loss of bat species A program on the severe population crash among bats due to white-nose syndrome will be held at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 8, at Lake Junaluska. The program is sponsored by the Great Smoky Mountains chapter of the Audubon Society. Susan Cameron of the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Asheville will give a presentation on different species of bats, the decline of bats due to whitenose syndrome and the attempts to save them. The Audubon chapter meets the second Tuesday of the month from May through October at the Paul Kern Youth Center at Lake Junaluska. All are welcome. gsmas.com.

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Volunteers are invited to help with a bird banding, monitoring and education program to run from now until August 4 in Macon County. The next dates are July 2 and 13 at Tessentee Preserve and July 3 and 15 at Cowee Mound. This is the fifth year of the sampling program, which is a partnership of the Land Trust for the Little Tennessee, Southern Appalachian Raptor Research and Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Fisheries and Wildlife Management. Volunteers will receive training and supervision from SARR biologists and technicians. A full calendar is available online at bigbaldbanding.org/calendar/ bigbaldbanding@gmail.com or 828.736.1217.

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The Lake Logan Multisport Festival is expanding its race offerings this year, and it’s calling on the community to supply the volunteers to make that happen. More than 1,300 athletes are expected to flock to Haywood County the first weekend in August as the Lake Logan multisport event continues its rise in popularity and prominence. The race has been a magnet for multisport athletes nationwide since its inception in 2006. The Lake Logan races, held Aug. 2-3, have grown in their lineup over the years to include various combinations: n a traditional swim-bike-run triathlon n a swim-run race known as the aquathon n a swim-bike race aptly called the aquabike. This year, the triathlon lineup will not only include a sprint distance and international distance, but also a half-iron distance. That race will consist of a 1.2-mile swim, 52-mile bike and 13.1-mile run. “The addition of the Half to the Lake Logan schedule is a natural progression of the event,” says Glory Hound Events president, Greg Duff. “The half-iron distance has become very popular and our position on the race calendar makes this a perfect prep race for those racing longer distances in the fall. It will bring a different type of athlete to Lake Logan and enhance the other four races as well.” To help fundraise, recruit volunteers or put down your name to help with the nittygritty of event preparation and race day, contact Duff at 828.400. 5868 or greg@gloryhoundevents.com. www.GloryHoundEvents.com.

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Take a guided hike in Deep Creek, with new museum tour A guided hike at Deep Creek in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park outside Bryson City will be led by naturalist Ila Hatter on Saturday, July 12. Hatter is an expert on edible and medicinal plants and Smokies lore. The outing is sponsored by the Great Smoky Mountains Association. The hike in Deep Creek will pass three separate waterfalls: Juney Whank Falls, Deep Creek Falls and Indian Creek Falls. To kick off the hike, the group will tour the new Swain County Heritage Museum in downtown Bryson City, which will also be home to an official Great Smoky Mountains Association bookstore. $10 GSMA members; $35 non-members with complimentary one-year membership. Registration required. 865.436.7318, ext. 222.

The stars above will be the stars of a telescope viewing at the Haywood County Library in Waynesville from 7 to 10 p.m. July 7. The program, which is part of the library’s summer reading program, will feature a brief presentation from Western Carolina University astronomers about how to identify summer constellations, followed by some time to enjoy them. Telescopes will be set up to view a conjunction of the moon and the planet Saturn. Mars and other summer astronomical objects will be shown. The event will be cancelled in the case of complete cloud cover. Dress warmly. 828.356.2511 or 828.227.2718.

Hike Mount Hardy An 8.5-mile hike to Mount Hardy and Green Knob will give hikers a chance to see some spectacular mountain views on a July 9 outing with the Carolina Mountain Club. The group will set out from the Blue Ridge Parkway near the Cold Mountain Overlook and take in snack and lunch spots

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Nantahala Racing Club’s Family Whitewater Weekend July 5-6 will give young paddlers and their families a chance to spend a weekend on the water in Nantahala Gorge, complete with races, lessons and just plain fun. Participants are encouraged to challenge themselves to develop and use new skills in a supportive

A boating safety course at Haywood Community College will be held from 6 to 9:30 p.m. July 14 and 15 through the HCC Natural Resources Division and the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission. To receive a certification, participants must attend both evenings. Free, but pre-registration required at www.ncwildlife.org.

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• Canary Coalition annual Gathering at the Public Library, 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 2, Jackson County Public Library, 310 Keener St., Sylva, featuring “WAKE UP! Time, a sing-a-long of Songs of the Movement.

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• Franklin Open Forum, topic: “What aspects of history are worth preserving and why?” 7 p.m. Wednesday, July 2, Rathskeller Coffee Haus & Pub, 58 Stewart St., Franklin. Franklin Open Forum is a moderated discussion group to exchange ideas (dialog not debate). 371.1020.

• American Red Cross Blood Drive, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday, July 10, MedWest Harris, 68 Hospital Drive, Sylva. Melissa Southers, 586.7130.

• Experimental Times: Teen Science Program, 3 p.m. Wednesday, July 2, Jackson County Public Library, Sylva. 586.2016.

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• Pottery wheel classes for kids, 6 to 8 p.m. Thursdays, July 3-24, Pincu Pottery, Bryson City. For children ages 10 and up. $113. Register, 488.0480 or email pincupottery@gmail.com.

• Superhero Night, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, July 3, Recreation Park Swimming Pool, Canton. Enjoy the new diving board and revamped Family Night every Thursday evening. $2 per person. • Indoor Flea Market, 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, July 12, Haywood County Fairgrounds, Highway 209 N., Lake Junaluska.

• American Red Cross Blood Drive, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, July 11, Angel Medical Center, 120 Riverview St., Franklin. Barbara Hall, 369.4166. • American Red Cross Blood Drive, 12:30 to 5 p.m. Thursday, July 17, Franklin Community at First Baptist Church, Iotla St., Franklin. 800.RedCross.

Swain • American Red Cross Blood Drive, 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 2, Cherokee Indian Hospital, 268 Hospital Road, Cherokee. Sally Penick, 497.9163 ext. 6498.

BUSINESS & EDUCATION • Free Student Success Seminars, 1 to 2 p.m. July 8-10, Building 300, Room 355, Haywood Community College, Clyde. Topics: July 8, Exam Preparation; July 9, Career Exploration/Planning; and July 10, Transition to College. 627.4646 or email drowland@haywood.edu. www.haywood.edu. • Basic introduction to Microsoft Word, 5:45 to 7:15 p.m. Wednesday, July 9, Jackson County Public Library, Sylva. Free. Limited to the first 16. 586.2016. • Business After Hours of Highlands Chamber, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, July 10, The Center for Life Enrichment at the Peggy Crosby Center, Highlands. RSVP to Visitor@highlandschamber.org, 526.2112. • Ribbon cutting, Gahagan, Black & Associates PLLC, 4 to 6 p.m. Friday, July 11, 143 Main St., Clyde. • Young Entrepreneurs Boot Camp, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. July 14-18, Haywood Community College, Clyde. $50 registration fee. For rising 6th, 7th and 8th graders. 627.4512, kgould@haywood.edu, SBC.Haywood.edu.

FUNDRAISERS AND BENEFITS • REACH Dance Party Fundraiser, “Dancing Through the Decades,” 6:30 to 11 p.m. Friday, July 11, Laurel Ridge Country Club Pavilion. Sit-down dinner and dessert bar. Tickets are $75 per person and VIP tables for eight next to the dance floor are $1,000. Patti Denson, 454.5824, for tickets. 456.7898, for information about REACH. • Barbeque Gospel Sing, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, July 12, Maggie Valley United Methodist Church, 4192 Soco Road, Maggie Valley. $8, take-outs available. All proceeds will support church missions. 926.9794.

BLOOD DRIVES Haywood • American Red Cross Blood Drive, 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 9, Senior Resource Center, 81 Elmwood Way, Waynesville. 800-REDCROSS. • American Red Cross Blood Drive, 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, July 12, Crabtree United Methodist Church, 5405 Crabtree Road, Clyde. David Woody, 627.3666. • American Red Cross Blood Drive, 3:30 to 8 p.m. Monday, July 14, High Street Baptist Church, 73 High St., Canton. 800-REDCROSS. • American Red Cross Blood Drive, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday, July 15, Longs Chapel Church, 175 Old Clyde Road, Waynesville. Carol Honeycutt, 627.2808.

RECREATION & FITNESS • Register through July 29 for Jackson County Parks and Recreation Department fall golf league at Smoky Mountain Country Club. Open to everyone. League is 10 weeks with a fee of $10 to enter and $20 each round. League plays at 5:30 p.m. Tuesdays, starting July 29. 293.3053. • Drop-in yoga: beginners, 10 a.m. Mondays; beyond beginners, 4 p.m. Wednesdays, Lake Junaluska Kern Building Fitness Center. $10 per person, per class. 703.966.7138 or rkakareka@me.com. • Summer tennis clinics. Rumi Kakareka, certified tennis instructor, 703.966.7138, rkakareka@me.com, or www.lakejunaluska.com/tennis. • Stand Up Paddle Board YOGA, 9 to 10:30 a.m. Saturdays, Fontana Lake. 342.6444, www.brysoncitystandup.com/sup-yoga. • Weekly yoga classes, Maggie Valley Wellness Center. All classes (except chair) are $12 per drop in or $40 for four classes.

THE SPIRITUAL SIDE • The Rev. Dr. James Howell, guest preacher, 10:45 a.m. Sunday, July 6, Summer Worship Series, historic Stewart Auditorium, Lake Junaluska; Holy Communion, 9 a.m., Sundays, Memorial Chapel. 800.222.4930, www.lakejunaluska.com/summer-worship. • Taize Service of Prayer and Song, 8 p.m. Monday, July 7, Memorial Chapel, Lake Junaluska, 800.222.4930, www.lakejunaluska.com/summer-worship. • Pope Francis and His Chosen Patron, St. Francis of Assisi Retreat with Fr. John Quigley, Sunday, July 6 – Friday, July 11. Living Waters Catholic Reflection Center, Maggie Valley. 926.3833, catholicretreat.org. • The Rev. Dr. Timothy Bias, guest preacher, 10:45 a.m. Sunday, July 13, Summer Worship Series historic Stewart Auditorium, Lake Junaluska; Holy Communion, 9 a.m. Sundays, Memorial Chapel. 800.222.4930, www.lakejunaluska.com/summer-worship. • Taize Service of Prayer and Song, 8 p.m. Monday, July 14, Memorial Chapel, Lake Junaluska, 800.222.4930, www.lakejunaluska.com/summer-worship.

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• Candy science experiments, Monday, July 7, 3rd -5th graders; build beaver lodges, Tuesday, July 8, K-2nd graders; and Wednesday, July 9, hula hoop jam for everyone, Marianna Black Library. Amber Platt, 488.3030 or by email aplatt@fontanalib.org. • Summer Science Fun: Chemical Reactions, 3 p.m. Tuesday, July 8, Haywood County Public Library, Canton branch. Test chemical reaction between Mentos candy and various soft drinks and make coasters with Sharpies and rubbing alcohol. 648.2924, www.haywoodlibrary.org. • Rocks and Minerals, 1:30 p.m. Thursday, July 10, Haywood County Public Library, Waynesville branch. Learn about rocks and minerals from retired geologist Lyndon Dean. Hands-on activities. 452.5169, www.haywoodlibrary.org. • Children’s author Dawn Cusick will discuss animal eating habits and digestion, 11 a.m. Thursday, July 10, Haywood county Public Library, Canton branch; and 11 a.m. Thursday, July 17, Waynesville branch. www.haywoodlibrary.org.

Visit www.smokymountainnews.com and click on Calendar for: n Complete listings of local music scene n Regional festivals n Art gallery events and openings n Complete listings of recreational offerings at regional health and fitness centers n Civic and social club gatherings and girls in third through ninth grades. $150, $25 registration deposit to Kevin Cantwell, academy7@live.com. • British Soccer Camp, full-day, half-day, July 21-25, Waynesville Recreation Center. Boys and girls ages 3 to 14. Register, www.challengersports.com, 456-2030 or email dhummel@waynesvillenc.gov.

Literary (children) • Magic Show with Trey Sheehan, 6 p.m. Thursday, July 3, JCPL, Sylva. Ages 12 and up. 586.2016. • Friday July 4, JCPL Library Closed. 586.2016. • Children’s Story time 2 p.m. Saturday, July 5, JCPL. 586.2016. • Big Bang Boom Band, 11 a.m. Thursday, July 10, Community Room, JCPL, Sylva. 586.2016. Only 150 tickets available starting at 10 a.m. • Children’s Story time, 11 a.m. Tuesday, July 8, JCPL. 586.2016. • Children’s Craft Time, 1 p.m. Tuesday, July 8, JCPL. 586.2016. • Lego Club, 4 p.m. Tuesday, July 8, JCPL. 586.2016.

SCIENCE & NATURE • Telescope viewing, 7 to 10 p.m. Monday, July 7, Haywood County Public Library, Waynesville, with astronomers from Western Carolina University. Lisa Hartzell, 356.2511 or Dr. Enrique Gómez, 227.2718.

SUMMER CAMPS • Lake Junaluska and Roots in Education Day Camp, 7:45 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, through Aug. 15, Wilson Children’s Complex, 21 Shackford Hall Road, Lake Junaluska. Fullday and halfday, drop-in. Angel Benson. 400.4841, rootsineducation@gmail.com or stop by Wilson’s Children’s Complex, 21 Shackford Hall Road (near the pool) at Lake Junaluska. • Cullowhee Mountain ARTS Summer Youth ARTS Series, 2, 4 and 5-day art camps for ages 5 – 12, Western Carolina University’s Bardo Arts Center and the School of Art and Design. Details at www.cullowheemountainarts.org or 342.6913. • Innovative Basketball Training Summer Basketball Camp, 9 a.m. to noon, July 7-9, Waynesville Recreation Center, Waynesville. For boys and girls ages six to 13. Space is limited. Directed by Coach Derek Thomas. $125 per person. Full payment can be made or a $50 deposit can be made to reserve a spot. Balance due at registration. Register from 8 to 9 a.m. July 7 at the Waynesville Recreation Center. 246.2129 or 456.2030. • Puppet-making camp, July 14-18, Highlands Playhouse, for children ages 9 to 12. $250. 526.2695. • Summer Soccer Day Camp, July 14-18, Swain County Recreation Park, for players age 5 to 18. Half day or full day sessions. scline@sclinesoftware.com, 736.0455, or www.ncsoccer.org/recreation/recCamps/. • Waynesville Recreation Center Basketball Camp with instructor Kevin Cantwell, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. July 14-17, Waynesville Recreation Center, Waynesville. For boys

• Children’s Science Program: Soda Bottle Green Houses, 11 a.m. Wednesday July 9, JCPL. 586.2016. • Experimental Times: Teen Science Program, 3 p.m. Wednesday, July 9, JCPL. 586.2016. • Marianna Black Library’s “Read With Me,” 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Thursday, July 10 and July 24, Swain Middle School Cafeteria. Program to encourage parents and caregivers of children birth through age 9 to read actively with children each night. • “It’s Sense-sational” Story time for children ages 0-7, 10 a.m. Thursday, July 3, Macon County Public Library, Franklin. • Friday, July 4, Macon County Public Library closed. • Kindergarten Readiness Story time, 6 to 6:30 p.m. Monday, July 7, Macon County Public Library. 524.3600. • Cold-blooded Curiosities, for children ages 0-7, 10 a.m. Tuesday, July 8, Macon County Public Library. 524.3600. Balsam Mountain Nature Trail present amphibians and reptiles. 524.3600. • Ew! Eek! Wow! 10 to 11 a.m. Wednesday, July 9, Macon County Public Library, Franklin. For children in grades 3 through 5. Adventures in hands-on science experiments. 524.3600. • Wild Weather Story time, for children ages 0-7, 10 a.m. Thursday, July 10, Macon County Public Library, Franklin. 524.3600. • “Air Is All Around Us,” a hands-on story time for all ages presented by the NC Division of Air Quality, 10 a.m. Friday, July 11, Macon County Public Library, Franklin. 524.3600.

ECA EVENTS Extension and Community Association (ECA) groups meet throughout the county at various locations and

• 4th of July at Fontana Village Resort, July 2-5. www.FontanaVillage.com.

• 9:30 a.m. Thursday, July 3 – Christmas in July and White Elephant Gift, Potpourri ECA, Conference Room of Community Service Center, Sylva.

• “Singing In The Smokies” Independence Weekend Festival, July 3-5 at Inspiration Park, Bryson City. www.theinspirations.com.

• 6 p.m. Tuesday, July 8 – Christmas in July, Kountry Krafters ECA, Tuckasegee Wesleyan Church, Tuckasegee.

• Lake Junaluska Singers, 7:30 p.m. July 3 and 4, Stuart Auditorium, Lake Junaluska. $20 reserved ticket or $17.50 general admission for both Lake Junaluska Singers concerts and Balsam Range concert at 7:30 p.m. July 5, at historic Stuart Auditorium. Three concerts for one price of $17.50, general admission. www.lakejunaluska.com/july4th, 800.222.4930.

• Noon Thursday, July 10 – Nuts and Seeds, Lunch and Learn ECA, Conference Room of Community Service Center, Sylva.

POLITICAL GROUP EVENTS & LOCAL GOVERNMENT GOP • State Line Young Republicans Independence Weekend Pig Pickin’ and Meet the Candidates, July 5, Clyde. Details on Facebook. • State Line Young Republicans, formerly Haywood Young Republicans, 6 p.m. Monday, July 7, Organic Beans Coffee, Maggie Valley. • Mountain High Republican Women’s Club’s (MHRWC) annual Celebrate America luncheon, 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, July 8, Wildcat Cliffs Country Club. Burke McKinney is the featured speaker. Details and reservations, 743.6491 or email mtnrepublicanwomen@yahoo.com. Inquiries to MHRWC, P.O. Box 126, Cashiers, NC 28717.

Others • OccupyWNC General Assembly, 7 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 8, Room 246, Jackson Justice Center 401 Grindstaff Road, Sylva. • Libertarian Party of Haywood County, 7 p.m. Tuesday, July 8, Organic Beans Coffee, 1010 SoCo Road, Maggie Valley.

FESTIVALS, SPECIAL & SEASONAL EVENTS • Mountain Street Dance, 6:30 to 9 p.m. Friday, July 11, Haywood County Courthouse, Main Street, Waynesville. • Old-fashioned Country Fair, 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday, July 12, grounds of the Albert Carlton- Cashiers Community Library, Cashiers. 743.0215. • Where Shadows Walk (ghost stories) with Gregg Clark, 6 p.m. Thursday, July 10, Meeting Room, Macon County Public Library, Franklin. whereshadowswalk.com, www.fontanalib.org.

• Tribute Artist Contest, Elvis Presley, July 10-12, Harrah’s Cherokee Casino Resort, Cherokee. Tickets at Ticketmaster.com, 800.745.3000. • 15th annual Dulcimer U Summer Week, July 13-18, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee. Mountain dulcimer virtuosos and students gather for six days of classes and concerts. Register, 227.7397. • Bingo, 5:45 p.m. Thursdays, through Sept. 5 in the Pavilion next to Maggie Valley Town Hall. Cash prizes.

FOURTH OF JULY EVENTS • 4th of July fireworks extravaganza with The Extraordinaires, 6:30 p.m. Groovin’ on the Green at the Village Commons, Cashiers. www.mountainlovers.com.

• 4th of July Celebration, July 3-6, Lake Junaluska. www.lakejunaluska.com/july4th, 800.222.4930. • 4th of July Parade and Celebration, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday, July 4, downtown Franklin. www.VisitFranklinNC.com, 524.3161. • Stars & Stripes Celebration and Kids Patriotic Parade, 11 a.m. Friday, July 4, Main Street, downtown Waynesville. Decorate bicycles, tricycles, scooters, strollers and wagons. Haywood Community Band, 2 p.m., Haywood County Courthouse. Parade starts at 11 a.m. at the courthouse. Food, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. 456.3517, info@downtownwaynesville.com. • 9th annual Yankee Doodle Dandy Day, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, July 4, Sapphire Valley track and recreation center areas. • Freedom Train at the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad, 7:30 p.m. Friday, July 4, departure from Bryson City Depot to the Fontana Trestle and back just in time for the fireworks at Bryson City’s Freedom Fest. 800.872.4681 • Freedom Fest, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday, July 4, downtown Bryson City. www.greatsmokies.com. • Dunk tank featuring Smoky Mountain Rollergirls and their junior league girls, The Lil’ Nemesisters, during Freedom Fest, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, July 4, Bryson City. www.smokymountainrollergirls.com. • Doug Stanford Memorial Rodeo, Ram Rodeo Series, 8 p.m. July 4-5, Haywood County Fairgrounds. www.coyneclients.com/chrysler/ram_rodeo_smpr_0314/. • 39th annual Eastern Band of Cherokee Pow Wow, 5 p.m. Friday, July 4, 10 a.m. Saturday, July 5; and 7 a.m. Sunday, July 6, Acquoni Expo Center (formerly Cherokee High School), Cherokee. $10 per day with a weekend pass for $25. visitcherokeenc.com/events/detail/39th-annual-4thof-july-powwow/#sthash.ZlXc1zSj.dpuf. • Balsam Range, 7:30 p.m. July 5, Stuart Auditorium, Lake Junaluska. $20 reserved ticket or $17.50 general admission for Balsam Range and two Lake Junaluska Singers concerts, 7:30 p.m. July 3 and 4, at historic Stuart Auditorium. Three concerts for one price of $17.50, general admission. www.lakejunaluska.com/july4th, 800.222.4930.

LITERARY (ADULTS) • Author Rose Senehi, 3 p.m. Saturday, July 5, Blue Ridge Books, 152 S. Main St., Waynesville. 456.6000, www.blueridgebooksnc.com. • Literacy Rotary Bingo, 6:30 to 10:30 p.m. Thursday, July 10, Highlands Community Building, to benefit the Literacy Council of Highlands.

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• Jackson County Genealogical Society’s July program, “Old Tools, Implements, and Knives,” 7 p.m. Thursday, July 10, Community Room, Jackson County Courthouse, Sylva. 631.2646.

• Wheels Through Time Museum’s 12th Anniversary in Maggie Valley Fourth of July celebration, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. July 3-7, 62 Vintage Lane, Maggie Valley, North Carolina. www.WheelsThroughTime.com, 926.6266.

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• Author Lin Stepp, 3 p.m. Saturday, July 12, Blue Ridge Books, 152 S. Main St., Waynesville. 456.6000, www.blueridgebooksnc.com.

ON STAGE & IN CONCERT • Pippin, 8 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, and 2 p.m. Sunday Matinee, July 3-20, Highlands Playhouse.

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$32.50 for adults, $15 for children. 526.2695 or stop by Box Office, 362 Oak St., Highlands. • Unto These Hills outdoor drama, 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday, through Aug. 16, Mountainside Theater, Cherokee. 866.554.4557 or www.visitcherokenc.com. • Haywood Community Band performs a Musical Salute to America, 2 p.m. Friday, July 4, Haywood County Courthouse, downtown Waynesville. • “Grand Night for Singing,” featuring the music of Rogers and Hammerstein, 7:30 p.m. July 5; and at 3 p.m. July 6, HART Theater, 250 Pigeon St., Waynesville. Tickets, 456.6322 or www.harttheatre.org. • Oklahoma!, 7:30 p.m. July 5, and 4 p.m. July 4 and July 6. Broadway-scale production directed by Robert Ray. 866.273.4615, GreatMountainMusic.com. • Lake Junaluska Singers, 7:30 p.m. July 3 and 4, and Balsam Range, 7:30 p.m. July 5, Stuart Auditorium, Lake Junaluska. Tickets at Bethea Welcome Center, www.lakejunaluska.com, or 452.2881 • Laura Boosinger and Josh Goforth open Songcatchers Music Series, 4 p.m. Sunday, July 6, Cradle of Forestry in America, Pisgah National Forest. 877.3130 or www.cradleofforestry.org. • Swannanoa Chamber Music Festival, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, July 6, Performing Arts Center, 250 Shelton St., Waynesville, featuring the Enso Quartet and the Jasper Quartet. • Town Mountain, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, July 5, Stecoah Valley Cultural Arts Center, Robbinsville. $15 for adults, $10 for students. Dinner, 6 p.m., Schoolhouse Café. www.stecoahvalleycenter.com, 479.3364. • The Freight Hoppers, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, July 12, Stecoah Valley Cultural Arts Center, Robbinsville. $15 for adults, $10 for students. Dinner, 6 p.m., Schoolhouse Café. www.stecoahvalleycenter.com, 479.3364.

• Concert on the Slopes featuring Todd Allen Herendeen, 7 p.m. Tuesday, July 8, Sapphire Valley Ski Slopes, behind the Sapphire Valley Community Center. Bring a chair or blanket. $20, advance ticket; $25 at the door. 743.7663, www.SapphireValley.com. • Billy Jonas, 4 p.m. workshop, 7:45 p.m. performance, Thursday, July 10, The Strand, 38 Main, Waynesville. $12. Neo-tribal hootenanny. www.38main.com. • Elvis Tribute Artist Competition, July 10-12, Harrah’s Cherokee Casino Resort, Cherokee. 877.811.0777, Ticketmaster.com • Songcatchers Music Series with Dana and Susan Robinson, 4 p.m. Sunday, July 13, Cradle of Forestry in America, Pisgah National Forest. 877.3130 or www.cradleofforestry.org.

MUSIC JAMS • Community music jam, 6 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, July 3, Marianna Black Library, downtown Bryson City, 488.3030.

DANCE • Belly dancing workshop led by Lisa Zahiya, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 9, Illusions Room of the A.K. Hinds University Center. Sarah Carter at sacarter@.wcu.edu or 227.2617.

FOOD & DRINK • Food and wine pairing, 7 p.m. July 8, Papou’s Wine Shop, Sylva. Chef Van Kennedy will lead the tasting for the Cellar Club. $10 per person. 586.6300. • “Way Back When,” dinners at Cataloochee Ranch to celebrate its 80th anniversary: July 11, July 18, Aug. 1 and Aug. 15. Reservations, 926.1401 or 800.868.1401. www.cataloocheeranch.com.

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• First Saturday – Art on Main, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, July 5, The Uptown Gallery, Franklin. Benefit to save The Uptown Gallery. Artist wanting to participate, Carol Rollick, 369.6552. • Summer Celebration show, an exhibition of works by members of the Haywood County Arts Council, opening reception, 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, July 11, Gallery 86, 86 N. Main St., Waynesville. 452.0593, www.waynesvillegalleryassociation.com. • Art After Dark, 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, July 11, Main Street, Depot Street and Frog Level, Waynesville, www.waynesvillegalleryassociation.com. • Waynesville artist Jenny Buckner featured artist at Twigs and Leaves Gallery, 98 N. Main St., 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, July 11, during Art After Dark, downtown Waynesville. 456.1940, twigsandleaves.com. • “North Carolina Art Educators” exhibit, through July 18, Fine Art Museum, John W. Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center, WCU. Features works of art by educators throughout North Carolina who link children with the world of art. 227.3591 or fineartmuseum.wcu.edu. • “A Lasting Legacy,” a new exhibit featuring the creative work of local women from the late 19th century, Jackson County Historical Society’s display area in the Jackson County Public Library Complex in Sylva. Through July. 227.7129. • Cullowhee Mountain Arts Summer Faculty Exhibition through July 25 in the Fine Arts Museum at Western Carolina University. Features 23 artists, from ceramics to printmaking, painting to mixed media. www.wcu.edu.

CLASSES, PROGRAMS & DEMONSTRATIONS • Appalachian Art Glass will teach the Tiffany method of making stained glass starting in July at the Jackson County Green Energy Park, 100 Green Energy Park Road, Dillsboro. AppalachianArtGlass.com, 367.7610 or AppalachianArtGlass@gmail.com.

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• Seamstress/fabricator Debbie Neeley demonstrate her use of repurposed, salvaged fabric, 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday, July 5, Tunnel Mountain Crafts, 94 Front St., Dillsboro. • Demonstrations by potters Ed McElvaine, 1 to 4 p.m., and silversmith Allyson Gernandt, 2 to 5 p.m. Saturday, July 12, Tunnel Mountain Crafts, 94 Front St., Dillsboro. • Summer ARTS Series, through July 26, Western Carolina University in the Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center. Details, www.cullowheemountainarts.org or 342.6913. • Macon County Art Association, 6:30 p.m. Monday, July 14, meeting room, Fontana Regional Library. Program: “Mixed Media” by Camille Tuttrup.

FILM & SCREEN • Transformers: Age of Extinction (PG-13); Think Like a Man Too; (PG-13) 21 Jump Street (R); How to Train Your Dragon 2 (PG); Edge of Tomorrow (PG-13); and Maleficent (PG), July 2-3, Cherokee Phoenix Theatres, Cherokee. 497.7384 • “Captain America: The Winter Soldier,” 9:30 p.m. Thursday, July 3, Central Plaza at Western Carolina University. Free. corelli@wcu.edu or 828.227.3618. • “Grand Budapest Hotel,” 7:45 p.m. Friday, July 4 and 2 p.m. 5 p.m. and 7:45 p.m. Saturday, July 5. Tickets are $6 per person, $4 for children. 283.0079 or www.38main.com. • Children’s movie, Frozen, 1 p.m. Monday, July 7, Macon County Public Library. 524.3600.

• Family movie, 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 8, Marianna Black Library, Bryson City. Sequel to last week’s animated adventure with inventor Flint Lockwood. 488.3030. • New movie starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus, James Gandolfini and Catherine Keener, 4:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. Wednesday, July 9, Macon County Public Library Meeting Room. PG-13 for crude and sexual content, comic violence, language and partial nudity. www.fontanalib.org. • Children’s movie, 1 p.m. Monday, July 7, JCPL. Call library for movie title. 586.2016. • Teen Movie, 3 p.m. Monday, July 7, JCPL. Call library for movie title. 586.2016. • “Outdoor Movie Night” summer series, 9 p.m. July 10 through Aug. 21, Bridge Street Park, Sylva. Movie listings, 293.3053. • Classic 1939 romantic comedy starring Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche and John Barrymore, 2 p.m. Friday, July 11, Macon County Public Library Meeting Room. www.fontanalib.org. • The Mad Batter Food & Film now showing featured films, 6:30 p.m. and 9 p.m., Thursdays through Saturdays, downtown Sylva location. Special kids’ matinee at 2 p.m. Saturdays. Free. Movie listings and information, www.madbatterfoodandfilm.com. 586.3555.

Outdoors OUTINGS, HIKES & FIELDTRIPS • Blue Ridge Parkway rangers easy evening stroll near Asheville, 7 p.m. Thursday, July 3, to learn about bear behavior and bear safety. Meet at the Blue Ridge Parkway Visitor Center at Milepost 384. 298.5330, ext. 304. • Nantahala Racing Club’s Family Whitewater Weekend July 5-6, Nantahala Gorge. www.NantahalaRacingClub.com • Blue Ridge Parkway rangers easy, 2-mile round trip hike back to Independence Day 1776, 10 a.m. Friday, July 4. Meet at the Sleepy Gap Parking Area at Milepost 397.3. 298.5330, ext. 304. • Highlands Plateau Audubon Society beginners birding walk, 7:30 a.m. Saturday, July 5, to Tessentee Preserve. Meet behind Highlands Town Hall public restrooms parking lot to carpool. • Nanatahala Hiking Club hike, easy 2-mile hike, 2 p.m. Sunday, July 6, to Mud Creek Falls. Meet at Smoky Mountains Visitors Center in Otto. Leader Kay Coriell, 369.6820. No dogs. • Friends of the Smokies overnight and hikes with guide Danny Bernstein: easy hike Tuesday, July 8, historic Little Greenbrier community, followed by a reception and dinner with park rangers, with overnight accommodations at The Buckhorn Inn near Gatlinburg, Tenn.; Wednesday, choose between a strenuous 12mile hike along Cove Mountain Trail and a moderate 6.5-mile hike around Albright Grove Loop. Details, outreach.nc@friendsofthesmokies.org, 452.0720. • Franklin Bird Club bird walk, 8 a.m. Wednesday, July 9, along the Greenway. Meet at the Macon County Public Library parking area. 524.5234. • Carolina Mountain Club hike, 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, July 9, Herrin Knob, Mt. Hardy, Green Knob. Hike 8.5 miles. Leader, Ashok Kudva, 698.7119, 674.1374, ashok.kudva@att.net. Meet at Westgate Shopping Center in Asheville to carpool. Limited to 10 hikers. • Nanatahala Hiking Club hike, easy 1-mile hike,

10:30 a.m. Friday, July 11, to Hemlock Falls west of Clayton, Ga. Meet at the Smoky Mountains Visitors Center in Otto. Bring lunch. Leader, Joyce Jacques, 410.852.7510. No dogs.

• Zahner Lecture Series presents “Temperate Mountain Grasslands: A Climate-Herbivore Hypothesis for Origins and Persistence,” a lecture by Travis Knowles, associate professor of Biology at Francis Marion University, and Director of Wildsumaco Biological Station in Ecuador, 6:30 p.m. Thursday, July 3, Highlands Nature Center, Highlands. Free. www.highlandsbiological.org or 526.2221.

• Carolina Mountain Club Hike, 10 a.m. Saturday, July 12, NC 215 to Haywood Gap. 6.5 miles. Leader, Marcia Bromberg, 505.0471, 798.9905, mwbromberg@yahoo.com.

• “Coyote Population Dynamics and Behavior in Urban-suburban Habitats,” 7 p.m. Monday, July 7, Highlands Civic Center, with Dr. Chris Mowry of Berry College. Presented by Highlands Plateau Audubon Society.

• Great Smoky Mountains Association event, Three Waterfalls and a Museum, 1 p.m. Saturday, July 12, with first stop at Swain County Museum. Register, 865.436.7318, Ext. 222, 254 or 325. $10 for GSMA members and $35 for non-member, which includes a complimentary personal or gift.

• Great Smoky Mountains Audubon Society, 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 8, Paul Kern Youth Center, Lake Junaluska. Program: “Saving the Bats,” by Susan Cameron of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Asheville Field Office. http://gsmas.com.

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• Zahner Lecture Series presents “Stand Up That Mountain: the Battle to Save One Small Community in the Wilderness Along the Appalachian Trail,” by author Jay Erskine Leutze, 6:30 p.m. Thursday, July 10, Highlands Nature Center, Highlands. www.highlandsbiological.org or 526.2221.

• Appalachian Trail Conservancy needs volunteers to help remove invasive exotic plants, 9:30 a.m. Saturday, July 12, Lemon Gap. Meet at 8 a.m. at 160 Zillicoa St. in Asheville to carpool. Rhys BrydonWilliams at rbrydon@appalachiantrail.org, 254.3708, www.appalachiantrail.org/events.

• Forest Service plan revision public meeting, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday, July 10, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Resort Drive, Asheville. Part of the Nantahala and Pisgah national forests management plan revision process. Meeting agenda will be posted online by July 1, www.fs.usda.gov/nfsnc.

• Register now for the Blue Ridge Breakaway, Aug. 16, and save $10 on registration fee. Enjoy scenic and challenging rides through areas near the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and Pisgah National Forest. Choose from four rides: Hawk (105.8miles), Trout (75 miles), Panther (50.8 miles), and Rabbit (26.5). Register at http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp.

• BioBlitz, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday, July 12, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Twin Creeks Science and Education Center. Free. Watch scientists from across the region race against time to see how many species they can count in a 24-hour biological survey of a fungal diversity in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. 865.430.4757.

• Nanatahala Hiking Club hike, moderate 1.5 mile hike, 2 p.m. Sunday, July 13, to Pickens Nose. Meet at Westgate Plaza in Franklin. Leaders, Diana Otero/Rudolph Buchholz, 765.318.9981. No dogs.

• Boating Safety Course, 6 to 9:30 p.m. July 14-15, Room 3322, Building 3300, Haywood Community College. Must attend two consecutive evenings to receive certification. Free, no age limit. Pre-registration, www.ncwildlife.org.

COMPETITIVE EDGE • Firecracker Bryson City 5K, 8 a.m. start, Friday, July 4, Swain County Administration Building/Riverfront Park, Mitchell Street. www.runbrysoncity.com. • 2014 Lake Logan Multisport Festival, Aug. 2-3, Lake Logan, Canton. Volunteers needed. Greg Duff, Glory Hound Events, 400.5868, greg@gloryhoundevents.com.

FARM & GARDEN • Learn to make an elderflower cordial with Mary Palmer Dargan, botanist, author, landscape architect, 10 a.m. Thursday, July 3, Dovecote’s Porch & Gardens, 35 Flash Point Drive, Cashiers. http://dargan.com/dovecote-garden-porch/. Free. 743.0307. • Registration is open through Friday, July 11 for the Cullowhee Native Plant Conference, July 16-19, Western Carolina University. Register at nativeplantconference.wcu.edu, Bobby Hensley, WCU associate director of continuing education, at hensley@wcu.edu. • Haywood County Plant Clinic, 9 a.m. to noon Monday-Friday, Haywood County Extension Center on Raccoon Road, in Waynesville. 456.3575.

Haywood Historic Farmers Market 8 a.m. to noon Wednesday and Saturday through midDecember at 250 Pigeon St, Waynesville, parking lot HART Theatre. Carol James, 280.1381 or haywoodfarmersmarket@gmail.com. Maggie Valley Farmers Market 8 a.m. to dusk Fridays and Saturdays through the first frost beside Organic Beans Coffee Co., 1098 Soco Road, Maggie Valley. Adam Capparelli, 209.8061 or adam@organicbeanscoffee.com. The Original Waynesville Tailgate Market 8 a.m. to noon, Wednesdays and Saturdays through Oct. 29 at 171 Legion Dr., Waynesville, behind Bogart’s restaurant. Judy West, 648.6323. www.facebook.com/pages/Waynesville-TailgateMarket/117024646020.

Jackson County Cashiers Tailgate Market 9 a.m. to noon Saturdays May through October. Anglican Church parking lot next to Macon Bank on U.S. Highway 64 East. Donna Few, 226.9988 or blueridgefarmers@gmail.com. Jackson County Farmers Market Family Art at the Market offered 10 a.m. to noon; Story time with City Lights at 11 a.m.; monthly fundraising brunches and occasional music given. 9 a.m. to noon April to October at Bridge Park in Sylva; 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. November to March at Community Table. Jenny, 631.3033 or jacksoncountyfarmersmarket@gmail.com.

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FARMERS & TAILGATE MARKETS Haywood County

Cowee Farmers Market 3:30 to 7 p.m. Tuesdays through Oct. 28, Old Cowee School, 51 Old Cowee School Dr., Franklin. Susan Ervin, info@coweefarmersmarket.com, 524.8369.

Canton Farmers Market and Heritage Crafts 3 to 7 p.m. Thursday through Oct. 31, municipal parking lot of downtown Canton. Robin Smith, 734.9071 or Michaelrobin07@yahoo.com.

Franklin Farmers Tailgate Market 8 a.m. to noon Saturdays through November on East Palmer Street across from Drake Software. 349.2049 or www.facebook.com/franklinncfarmersmarket.

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ONLINE ONLY 2-DAY AUCTION, Furniture Liquidation including Rugs, Tables, Household Items, Furniture & More, Jamestown, NC, Guilford Co. 7/11 at 8am to 7/18 & 7/21 at 1pm. Iron Horse Auction Co., Inc. 800.997.2248. NCAL3936. www.ironhorseauction.com

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MON-FRI 7:30-5:00 • WAYNESVILLE PLAZA

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PUBLIC AUCTION Saturday, July 12 @ 10am. 201 Elm St. Lancaster, SC. Large Industrial Machine Repair Company. High Quality Industrial & Commercial Grade Tools. 2011 24' Aluminum Enclosed Trailer & others. 704.791.8825 ncaf5479/scal2893r www.ClassicAuctions.com

BUILDING MATERIALS HAYWOOD BUILDERS Garage Doors, New Installations Service & Repairs, 828.456.6051 100 Charles St. Waynesville Employee Owned.

CONSTRUCTION/ REMODELING ALL THINGS BASEMENTY! Basement Systems Inc. Call us for all of your basement needs! Waterproofing, Finishing, Structural Repairs, Humidity and Mold Control. FREE ESTIMATES! Call 1.800.698.9217 DAVE’S CUSTOM HOMES OF WNC, INC Free Estimates & Competitive rates. References avail. upon request. Specializing in: Log Homes, remodeling, decks, new construction, repairs & additions. Owner/Builder: Dave Donaldson. Licensed/Insured. 828.631.0747 or 828.508.0316 SULLIVAN HARDWOOD FLOORS Installation- Finish - Refinish 828.399.1847.

AUTO PARTS DDI BUMPERS ETC. Quality on the Spot Repair & Painting. Don Hendershot 858.646.0871 cell 828.452.4569 office.

CAMPER/RV LOTS FOR RENT RV & LOT $37,500 36’ Coachman with 2 Slide-Outs. Sits under a Pole Barn - Provides Covered Porch & Back Patio. Deck with Mountain Views, 3 miles from Harrah’s Cherokee Casino, NC. In Campground with Amenities, $1074 per year. Includes Pool, Laundry Room, Water/Sewer etc. State Tax$94/yr 352.397.8531 or 352.293.6055

CARS - DOMESTIC DONATE YOUR CAR, Truck or Boat to Heritage for the Blind. Free 3 Day Vacation, Tax Deductible, Free Towing, All Paperwork Taken Care Of. 800.337.9038. TOP CASH FOR CARS, Call Now For An Instant Offer. Top Dollar Paid, Any Car/Truck, Any Condition. Running or Not. Free Pick-up/Tow. 1.800.761.9396 SAPA

TRUCKS/JEEPS/ SUV'S KING RANCH F-150, 2007 Black & Gold, Pristine! 60K Miles, All Extras, Including Bed Liner, Hard Cover & Tow Package. Female Owned, Garage Kept, All Service Records. $26,000 call for more info 828.200.1486.

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EMPLOYMENT APPALACHIAN COMMUNITY SERVICES Currently has full-time positions in Haywood & surrounding Counties for Clinicians. The open positions will include both Outpatient Therapist (regular hours) and Mobile Crisis Clinicians (shift work). Detailed information is available upon request. Candidates must have a master’s degree in human services with full or provisional clinical licensure in the State of North Carolina (LPC, LCSW, LPA) and a valid NC Driver’s license. Previous experience is required. Please contact: humanresources@acswnc.com $1,000 WEEKLY!! Mailing Brochures From Home. Helping home workers since 2001. Genuine Opportunity. NO Experience Required. Start Immediately. www.MailingMembers.com SAPA AIRLINE CAREERS BEGIN HERE Get FAA Approved Maintenance Training Financial Aid For Qualified Students - Housing And Job Placement Assistance. Call Aviation Institute Of Maintenance 1.866.724.5403 WWW.FIXJETS.COM. SAPA

AVERITT EXPRESS New Pay Increase For Regional Drivers! 40 to 46 CPM + Fuel Bonus! Also, Post-Training Pay Increase for Students! (Depending on Domicile) Get Home EVERY Week + Excellent Benefits. CDL-A req. 888.602.7440 Apply @ AverittCareers.com Equal Opportunity Employer - Females, minorities, protected veterans, and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply. DRIVERS: Need CDL A or B to relocate vehicles from area body plants to various locations throughout U.S. - No forced dispatch. We specialize in continuation trips to reduce deadhead! 1.800.501.3783 or www.mamotransportation.com under Careers.

MAD BATTER - IN DOWNTOWN Sylva is hiring for an experienced line cook. Call or come by between 2pm - 4pm. Tuesday - Friday. 828.586.3555. EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Responsible for organizational and fiscal management of wellestablished non-profit organization, grant writing, regulatory compliance, and advocacy. Master's degree and previous experience in non-profit management as well as experience with individuals with I/DD preferred. Send Resume and Letter of Interest to: The Arc, 407 Welch Street, Waynesville, NC 28786. FAYETTEVILLE TECHNICAL Community College is now accepting applications for the following positions: Associate Degree Nursing Dept Chair. Computer Programming Instructor. Dean of Health Programs. Director of College and Career Readiness. For detailed information and to apply, please visit our employment portal at: https://faytechcc.peopleadmin.com/ Human Resources Office. Phone: 910.678.8378 Internet: http://www.faytechcc.edu. CRC Preferred Employer. An Equal Opportunity Employer.

MAPLE TREE DOG CAMP Hiring part time camp counselor. Duties include attending to boarding animals and supervising day campers. Applicants, email cover letter & resume, for consideration to: campleader@mapletreevet.com NURSERY CARE GIVER At Grace Church in the Mountains, Waynesville, for Sunday services (10:00 - 11:30). Candidates will undergo background check, interview and diocesan training. Pay range $12 - $15 per hour, DOE. Contact Church office 828.456.6029. ATTENTION: Drivers Be a Name, Not a Number $$$ Up 50cpm $$$ BCBS. Pet & Rider. Full Benefits. 401K. Quality Hometime. Orientation Sign On Bonus. CDL-A Required 1.888.592.4752. www.addrivers.com SAPA ATTN: DRIVERS! Quality Home Time! Avg $1000 Weekly. $$$ Up to 50 cpm $$$ BCBS + 401k + Pet & Rider. Orientation Sign-On Bonus. CDL-A Req. 877.258.8782. www.addrivers.com

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EMPLOYMENT PART TIME DRIVER HAYWOOD PUBLIC TRANSIT Applicants are required to pass a DOT physical, drug test, criminal background check and have a clean driving record. A CDL license with a P-Endorsement will be required within 60 days of hire. Must be 21 yrs. of age to obtain a CDL license. Must be able to bend, lift and push a wheelchair, learn how to operate lift equipment, assist elderly and disabled passengers. High school diploma /GED required. Detailed paper work and good communication skills required. Must be available M-F, 6:00 am – 5:30 pm. Applications will be taken at Mountain Projects, Inc., 2251 Old Balsam Rd, Waynesville, or 25 Schulman St, Sylva, NC or you may go to our website www.mountainprojects.org and fill out an application. Pre-employment drug testing required. EOE/AA.

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NEED MEDICAL BILLLING TRAINEES Doctors & Hospitals need Medical Office Staff! NO EXPERIENCED NEEDED! Online Training gets you job ready! HS Diploma/GED & Computer needed. Careertechnical.edu/nc. 1.888.512.7122

WELDING CAREERS Hands on training for career opportunities in shipbuilding, automotive, manufacturing and more. Financial aid for qualified students. Job placement assistance. Call Tidewater Tech Norfolk 888.205.1735.

KHALEESI A ONE YEAR OLD PUREBRED FEMALE SIBERIAN HUSKY. KHALEESI IS FRIENDLY AND ACTIVE, LOOKING FOR SOMEONE TO ACCOMPANY HER ON NEW ADVENTURES. HER ADOPTION FEE IS $200.

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HIGHLANDS-CASHIERS HOSPITAL Positions now available: ER Registered Nurses, Clinical Informatics Specialist, Clinical Coordiantor, Certified Nursing Assistant, and Receptionist. Benefits available the first of the month following 60 days of full-time employment. PreEmployment screening required. Call Human Resources. 828.526.1376, or apply online at: www.highlandscashiershospital. org

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HAYWOOD BEDDING, INC. The best bedding at the best price! 533 Hazelwood Ave. Waynesville 828.456.4240 ONLINE ONLY 2-DAY AUCTION, Furniture Liquidation including Rugs, Tables, Household Items, Furniture & More, Jamestown, NC, Guilford Co. 7/11 at 8am to 7/18 & 7/21 at 1pm. Iron Horse Auction Co., Inc. 800.997.2248. NCAL3936. www.ironhorseauction.com

Hours: Tuesday-Friday, 12 Noon - 6 pm 182 Richland Street, Waynesville, NC.

REAL ESTATE ANNOUNCEMENT PUBLISHER’S NOTICE All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Fair Housing Act which makes it illegal to advertise “any preference, limitation or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin, or an intention, to make any such preference, limitation or discrimination” Familial status includes children under the age of 18 living with parents or legal custodians, pregnant women and people securing custody of children under 18. This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of the law. Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis.

REAL ESTATE ANNOUNCEMENT LEASE TO OWN 1/2 Acre Lots with Mobile Homes & Empty 1/2 Acre + Lots! Located Next to Cherokee Indian Reservation, 2.5 Miles from Harrah’s Cherokee Casino. For More Information Please Call 828.506.0578 BEWARE OF LOAN FRAUD. Please check with the Better Business Bureau or Consumer Protection Agency before sending any money to any loan company. SAPA

HOMES FOR SALE BRUCE MCGOVERN A Full Service Realtor shamrock13@charter.net McGovern Property Management 828.283.2112. MOUNTAIN HOME - F.S.B.O. Located in Sylva, NC. 3/BR 2/BA, Heat pump, Gas Fireplace, Oversized Double Garage & Finished Outbuilding. For more information please call 828.586.8242 or 561.386.7672

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SAFE, CLEAN & QUIET 2/BR 1/BA In Clyde. All Appliances, Large Eat-In Kitchen, Deck & Close to Elementary School. $690/mo. Lease & Deposit. No Pets/Smoke. For more information please call 828.246.0918 or 828.734.9419.

APARTMENT COMPLEX FOR SALE 14 - 2/BR Units. Excellent Rental History. Sylva Area. Call Broker, Robert A. Kent, NC Broker Lic. #274102, The R.A. Kent Co., LLC 828.550.1455

NICOL ARMS APARTMENTS NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS Offering 1 & 2 Bedroom Apartments, Starting at $400 Section 8 Accepted - Handicapped Accessible Units When Available

OFFICE HOURS: Tues. & Wed. 10:00am - 5:00pm & Thurs. 10:00am- 12:00pm 168 E. Nicol Arms Road Sylva, NC 28779

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Sourwood honey is a favorite among connoisseurs “Why I’d say sourwood is a pretty-looking honey of an extra-light to light-amber color that’s exceptionally aromatic with a subtle anise-like flavor and a sharp or tangy aftertaste. It can’t be beat.” — Sourwood Honey Connoisseur

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ow is sourwood time. From late June into mid-August sourwood trees will be flowering throughout Western North Carolina, from the lowest elevations to almost 5,000 feet. Here, then, more or less at random, are some notes from my sourwood file: • Nectar from the Columnist urn-shaped flowers is a favorite of honeybees. Stand under a sourwood in full bloom and you will hear their “summer song.” And the sourwood honey they produce is the favorite of honey lovers worldwide. • In Highlands Botanical Garden: A Naturalist’s Garden, WCU biologist James T. Costa — director of the Highlands Biological Station — notes that: “Bees know a good thing when they see it; ‘flower constancy’ describes the behavior of nectar-foraging bees focused on a single flower type, when profitable. Bees recruit one another to

BACK THEN good food finds, their waggle-dances indicating not only the location but also the perceived quality of the nectar source [which] is why beekeepers can reliably identify the honey produced by their bees as being derived from a particular species.” • Local beekeepers disagree on the ideal weather conditions for a sourwood honey flow. (Which isn’t surprising since they tend to have longstanding differences of opinion about many aspects of their intricate craft.) Most do agree that too much rain a year ago resulted in a poor honey flow. • You can easily identify this graceful member of our flora by its long, greenish, Sourwood. elliptical leaves and white, drooping tassels (“tags”) that remind some of lily-of-the-valley. The soft green leaves with their distinctively patterned veins are especially attractive. • The common name sourwood is derived from the acrid taste of the leaves. • Pioneer settlers used the wood for tool handles. They also observed that the trunk of a mature sourwood more often than not has a natural bend about mid-way to two-

thirds of the way above the ground, exactly the shape required for the runners on their ox- or mule-drawn sleds after the bend had sectioned and halved. • I have known about this use of sectioned sourwood for sled runners for years. But I could never figure out the reason for or cause of this natural bend. Every time I went out in the field with a botanist or nat-

uralist, I would ask about that natural bend. Finally, while leading a field trip with Murray Evans, now retired from the biology department at the University of Tennessee, where he was the resident taxonomist, I received the answer: “George, you’ve got to remember that sourwood is a member of the heath family, which is otherwise made up of shrubs and similar low-growing

plants. Sourwood ‘decided’ to be a tree, but it has retained some of the characteristic growth patterns of a shrub. See how the limbs tend to arch downward like a shrub. And that natural bend in the trunk is also shrub-like.” • In autumn, the brilliant red foliage of the sourwood tree contrasts with the showy dangling whitish fruit clusters. This aspect, combined with its graceful shape and showy flowers, makes it a striking ornamental. In Growing and Propagating Showy Native Woody Plants, (1992) WNC horticulture specialist Dick Bir observed that “In the landscape, few small trees can compete with the seasonal appeal of sourwood ... I suggest planting them where they can be seen from a distance rather than expecting sourwood to be the focus of your patio planting ... Sites at sunny woodland edges or in full sun are its favorites.” George Ellison wrote the biographical introductions for the reissues of two Appalachian classics: Horace Kephart’s Our Southern Highlanders and James Mooney’s History, Myths, and Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees. In June 2005, a selection of his Back Then columns was published by The History Press in Charleston as Mountain Passages: Natural and Cultural History of Western North Carolina and the Great Smoky Mountains. Readers can contact him at P.O. Box 1262, Bryson City, N.C., 28713, or at info@georgeellison.com. 246-86

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